Psyphon

Psyphon was formerly Vilgax's servant and right-hand man. He is and will always be extremely loyal to Vilgax following his will completely.
However, he runs his own operations as of Omniverse.
==Appearance==
Psyphon has a skeletal appearance; he has a skinny build with paper-white skin, a shark-like fin on top of his head outlined with three black stripes, blood-red eyes outlined with black spots that match his lips and 4 fingers on each hand. He wears a sleeveless black robe that completely covers his legs and a brace-like armor that outlines and envelopes his lower jaw and covers his torso with a red keypad-looking device where the armor meets his chest. He wears fingerless gloves adorned with the same armor and two more of those keypads which he uses for programming devices and activating weapons.
In Omniverse, his overall body shape is much slimmer and even more skeletal. Overall, he is taller and much more nightmarish. His fin has become rounded, like a horn, with the black accents now covering half of it from the tip down, a large black stripe creating the illusion of a pattern with the whites, and two other stripes on his forehead that curve down towards each other and point to where his corrugator muscles meet. His blood red eyes now contain snake-like slits for pupils and matching sharp black lines that extend from the bottoms of the black spots that outline his eyes. He no longer has a visible nose, he has tan jagged-rock teeth, he has an underbite, and his fingers are now long and pointy, like claws. His robe is now more of a form-fitting armored suit that covers his arms and legs with the drapery only reaches to his knees, resembling a long coat. His armor has become bulkier in his shoulders and hips, the armor that circulates his jaw is equipped with two sharp curves on the chin (resembling a goatee), and the keypad thing on his chest now extends in length from the top of his sternum to his stomach. The drapery of his robe is equipped with a long loincloth-looking strip of red fabric decorated with black markings and three metal shell plates on each side. He has red markings on his shoulders, large horn-like spikes on the backs of his hands and tips of his toes, and 3 bolts on each side of his arms and legs, 2 on each side of his neck, and 2 on his clavicle.
When in his Pyronite hybrid form, Psyphon's fiery body is red, along with his black-brown rocks. His shoulders sport peaks. His head is the same as his Omniverse appearance. 
Pyrophon.png|Psyphon as a Pyronite hybrid in Outbreak
==Personality==
In Alien Force, Psyphon is shown to be a stoic person, eternally loyal to his master Vilgax, helping him conquer worlds and draining the powers of the heroes of said worlds. Even if Vilgax lost or died he will still be by his side. He has advanced knowledge of alien gadgetry being able to modify the power-draining machine to absorb Dagon.
In Ultimate Alien, Psyphon still had these traits but now more cunning and aggressive, willing to avenge Vilgax's "death" by going to Earth with R.E.Ds and had taken some of Vilgax's equipment.
As of Omniverse, Psyphon is more independent and hotheaded, bragging about going from a servant to the leader of a crime syndicate. However, he is still scared of/loyal to Vilgax to the point of doing anything for him (even if he mistakes someone who looks like him) like in Bengeance is Mine, he admitted he is not really a leader preferring to go back to being his servant.
==History ==
=== Background===
Psyphon helped Vilgax drain all the powers of the heroes from 9 unknown worlds he had conquered using a power-absorbing machine known as the Vox Peniculus. One of these worlds was allegedly Psyhon's home planet.
===Alien Force===
Psyphon first appears in Vengeance of Vilgax: Part 1, helping Vilgax absorb Ultimos' powers with the Vox Peniculus before accompanying to Earth with Vilgax so he could challenge Ben to a fight. Upon his arrival, he fended off some police officers using a ray shield on his wrist.
In Vengeance of Vilgax: Part 2, Psyphon threatened to activate a bomb if Ben would not show up to the fight. When Ben turned up as Jetray, he asked if Psyphon would work for him if he won. After Vilgax had seemingly killed Ben as Chromastone, Psyphon recovered the Omnitrix and presented it to Vilgax before Chromastone's remains suddenly reformed into Diamondhead. After Diamondhead defeated Vilgax, Psyphon left Earth alongside his master.
In Primus, Psyphon was seen on Vilgaxia giving Vilgax advice about how to take Ben down. This prompt Vilgax to remembers what Zs'Skayr told him earlier about Primus.
In The Secret of Chromastone, Psyphon was seen handing a tissue to Vilgax, who had caught Ben's cold.
During the events of The Final Battle, Psyphon was tending to Vilgax's empire while he was busy on Earth.
===Ultimate Alien ===
In Reflected Glory, Psyhon was used by Vilgax to avenge his master's defeat by destroying Cash and JT. But when they admitted that they had nothing to do with Vilgax, Psyphon realized that it was Ben who defeated his master and proceeded to battle him. However, Cash and JT shot an energy decoupler at him, allowing Ultimate Spidermonkey to knock him out with a single weak punch.
In The Flame Keepers' Circle, Vilgax revealed to Ben that he does not know where Psyphon was but will find him so the two can return to Vilgaxia, still believing his empire is thriving.
In The Ultimate Enemy: Part 1, Psyphon arrived near the end of the episode with the machine used to take the powers of Vilgax's enemies and insert them into Vilgax. Then, as he prepares to fight Ben and his team, Dagon is released.
In The Ultimate Enemy: Part 2, Psyphon uses the machine to absorb Dagon and transfers it to Vilgax.
===Omniverse===
Psyphon reappeared in The More Things Change: Part 2. He now runs his own operations, like a protection racket on alien markets in Bellwood and Undertown, threatening to blow them up with bombs and accepting only Taydenite as payment. He plots to expand the protection racket to the human stores in Bellwood and since they lack the Taydenite to pay him, this will result in dozens of bombs going off in Bellwood, which is his intent.
During the battle with Ben, he demonstrated a device designed to overload the nervous systems of aliens, thus causing them to lose control of their powers. Psyphon and Ben were separated by Buglizard and instead fought Ben's new partner, a Revonnahgander named Rook Blonko. During the resulting fight with Rook, Psyphon developed a lustful craving for Rook's Proto-Tech Armor, wanting its technology. He lost the fight because a scaffolding fell on top of him when he was trying to hit Rook with his eye beams. He and his gang are arrested by the Plumbers at the end of the episode and imprisoned inside the Plumber's base underneath Max's store.
He later appears in Outbreak, where after Dr. Psychobos steals a vital stabilizer chip from the Omnitrix, he is transformed into a half Pyronite creature along with his gang Liam, Fistina, and Bubble Helmet, who are transformed into half a Vaxasaurian, half a Galvanic Mechamorph, and half a Gimlinopithecus respectively.
He then devised a plan to escape from the Plumber's prison. First, he allowed his three superpowered minions to attempt a direct escape, buying him time to hack the base's Null Void gate and commit the full power of the base to it, thus threatening to suck Bellwood into the Null Void. He knew that the Plumbers would shut down the gate, and in doing so they also deactivated the secondary security field that was trapping him and his minions in the base.
Luckily, Blukic and Driba were able to fix Ben's Omnitrix, returning those affected by it back to normal, much to Psyphon's chagrin, and caused him and his minions to be re-imprisoned in the base.
In Special Delivery, he wanted to auction a package that contained the Dwarf Star in a containment sphere. He attached it to his own suit and defeated Ben as Humungousaur, but Ben later defeated him as Toepick.
In Mud is Thicker Than Water, he stole Plumber technology with the help of his spy, Gorvan. His plans were ruined when he realized that Liam, was actually Lucy Mann. He was quickly defeated by Crashhopper.
In Bengeance is Mine, he believed he had been reunited with Vilgax, though it was actually Bill Gacks. He did everything for him, even robbed a bank (what Bill never asked). He encounters some Squid Monsters and realizes that he can control them. He was fooled by Bill who, using an ID Mask pretended to be Vilgax. At the end of the episode, he was trapped in a pipe by Snare-Oh.
Three days before the events of Cough It Up, he tried to rob a truck that was transporting a dangerous weapon but was preceded by Argit. He hired bounty hunters to get Argit for him, with the retriever receiving double the reward. At the Black Hole, after SevenSeven took Argit, he threatened him to hand over the dehydrated Techadon army. Argit swallowed the cube, which made Psyphon incredibly desperate and angry. Argit wanted to get the cube out of his body and Psyphon was about to do it with pleasure. Ben, knowing Psyphon's weakness, transformed into Toepick, which made Psyphon faint. Soon after, he and his minions are banned from Undertown.
==Powers and Abilities==
The More Things Change, Part 2 (497).png|Optic Lasers
BIM (173).png|Laser Projectiles
The More Things Change, Part 2 (472).png|Flight
File:RG (477).png|Enhanced Strength/Levitation
The More Things Change, Part 2 (511).png|Enhanced Durability
OB (422).png|Pyrokinesis (as a Pyronite hybrid)
OB (424).png|Fireball Generation (as a Pyronite hybrid)
OB (629).png|Light Generation (formerly)
SD (525).png|Dwarf Star (via Dwarf Star empowerment)
SD (530).png|Telekinesis (via Dwarf Star empowerment)
SD (538).png|Force Field Generation (via Dwarf Star empowerment)
SD (550).png|Enhanced Laser Beams (via Dwarf Star empowerment)
SD (544).png|Teleportation (via Dwarf Star empowerment)
MITTW (392).png|Lighter
Despite his thinner appearance, Psyphon has enhanced durability and strength, and is even stronger than Ultimate Spidermonkey. He can create powerful beams of energy from both his hands and eyes, to either fire as blasts or create shields or a lasso from.Reflected Glory
He seems to be handy with lots of technology, often given the role of preparing and operating important machines when he was working for Vilgax (ignoring all the gadgets he himself personally uses).Vengeance of Vilgax: Part 1The Ultimate Enemy: Part 2
He is capable of levitation, though it is unclear if he can naturally or must use technology to do so.
He can control the Squid Monsters, in theory that he was Vilgax's servant.Bengeance is Mine
During the brief period when he was half-Pyronite, he had access to all the basic Pyronite abilities.Outbreak
===Equipment===
Psyphon holds many small controller devices on his body for various purposes. One on his right arm has a button which creates a force field to stop attacks. Both of his arm ones can fire different kinds of beams, such as one that can burn objects, one that causes nervous system damage, and many more unseen. He also had grenades.
Parallel to Vilgax, Psyphon commands his own army of droids known as R.E.D.s (Robotic Extermination Devices). They are durable, capable of flight, and are armed with a variety of high-powered firearms.
Psyphon once took control of the Dwarf Star. When he charged his suit with it, he gained the ability to create more powerful energy blasts and stronger force fields, along with the power of teleportation and the ability to jump higher.Special Delivery
==Weaknesses==
SD (574).png|Scared by Toepick
RG (384).png|Electricity Vulnerability
Psyphon's egomaniacal plans normally go astray when some unforeseen factor or missed detail comes into play.
Psyphon is terrified of Vilgax.Mud is Thicker Than Water His undying loyalty of Vilgax can be used against him. He has admitted to himself that he is no leader, as even his own gang makes fun of him, preferring to go back to Vilgax. This proves that he lacks foresight despite his high intellect.
Psyphon can be scared by Toepick's face.
Electricity can temporarily paralyze Psyphon.
When he was half-Pyronite, he had the same weaknesses as one.
==Appearances==
===Alien Force===
====Season 2====
*Vengeance of Vilgax: Part 1 (first appearance)
*Vengeance of Vilgax: Part 2
*Primus
*The Secret of Chromastone (cameo)
===Ultimate Alien===
====Season 2====
*Reflected Glory (first reappearance)
====Season 3====
* The Ultimate Enemy: Part 1
*The Ultimate Enemy: Part 2
===Omniverse===
====Season 1====
*The More Things Change: Part 2 (first reappearance)
====Season 2====
*Outbreak
====Season 3====
*Special Delivery
====Season 4====
*Mud is Thicker Than Water
====Season 5====
*Bengeance is Mine
====Season 6====
*Cough It Up
===Books===
====Chapter Books====
=====Alien Force=====
*Double Negative
===Video Games===
====Alien Force====
*Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks (boss)
====Ultimate Alien====
*Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction (boss)
====Omniverse====
*Ben 10: Omniverse (boss)
==Video Games==
Vlcsnap-2010-10-25-20h09m45s137.png|Psyphon in Vilgax Attacks
Psyphon CD Model.png|Psyphon in Cosmic Destruction
Psyphon video game.png|Psyphon in Omniverse
===Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks===
Psyphon made an appearance in the game Vilgax Attacks as a miniboss and is met by Ben on the rooftops in Bellwood. After being defeated, he brings the Mr. Smoothy sign to life. At the end of the game, he was sent into the Null Void with Vilgax by Alien X. At the end of the game, he also reveals that Vilgax beamed him back aboard his ship after Ben defeated him.
In the game, his abilities range from orbital lasers, force fields, energy attacks, and grenades.
===Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction===
Psyphon appears in Cosmic Destruction where he serves Evil Way Big/Albedo. He mentioned the reason why he decided to leave Vilgax, which was because he wanted to serve the most powerful, but he could just have been flattering Evil Way Big. He mentioned considering working for Aggregor, but Aggregor said he worked alone, and Psyphon said "and look where that got him". Evil Way Big interpreted Psyphon's comment that he couldn't be trusted and kept him around only because of his usefulness, first with his army of R.E.D.s, later by brainwashing Cooper to attack Ben and retrieve the Potis Altiare, and finally holding off Ben himself. In the DS Version, Ben encounters Psyphon at the Robotics Lab in Tokyo.
===Ben 10: Omniverse===
Psyphon appears in Omniverse as a boss. He once again takes the role of a lackey, having kidnapped Blukic and Driba to construct holographic converters for Malware. He was hunted down and defeated by Ben and Rook and his prisoners defeated.
==Etymology==
Psyphon's name is a corruption of the word siphon, meaning to draw out. This is because he is the one who controls the machine that siphons power out of Vilgax's enemies and into Vilgax. His name could also be a combination of siphon and psycho due to his somewhat unhinged personality.
==Naming and Translations==
==Trivia==
*Psyphon is the first villain in the franchise to defeat an Ultimate form, something not even his master could do.
*Dwayne McDuffie said Psyphon is from one of the planets Vilgax conquered, while Derrick J. Wyatt said he might be an android or cyborg Vilgax created.
==Notes==
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