Charcoal Man (Ben 23: OV)

## Appearance

Charcoal Man looks exactly like Heatblast, except the colour of he fire is blue, and his rocks are tinted blue instead of brown.

The Hero Watch remains on his chest.

## Powers and Abilities

Being one of Ben 23's most versatile alien forms, Charcoal-Man is a pyrokinetic, meaning he has the ability to generate and manipulate intense heat and fire from his body. He can form fire into any shape that he chooses, commonly fireballs that he can project from his arms and eyes. He can also enhance the fire in his hands for flaming punches, and can breathe fire like a dragon. To top it all off, he can even absorb heat and fire from external sources, allowing him to put out flames in short amounts of time. Charcoal-Man also has the ability to pyrokinetically make objects catch fire from a small distance away, as seen when Heatblast set Gwen's shoe on fire.

Charcoal-Man's fire can become hot enough to melt a tank or a road, as Heatblast almost buried Vilgax in boiling tar when he was younger. Several years later, Heatblast was able to bury him in the ground up to his shoulders.

Charcoal-Man can make his flames explosive, explaining why his fire tends to cause explosions on a regular basis. On that note, he can even create fire fuses with the snap of his fingers. He can create a fire bomb, which Heatblast used to destroy the planetarium that the Nosedeenians were possessing. He can create fire spears shaped like crescents that can be used as piercing, slicing, or explosive weapons, as shown when Heatblast battled a swarm of Vilgax's Mechadroids. He can also create fire disks and throw them as slicing or explosive weapons as seen when Heatblast battled Dr. Animo's mutant hornet. Furthermore, he's able to create a fire dagger, which Heatblast used to slice through parts of S.A.M.'s water form.

Charcoal-Man can create a small fire-board on which he can ride at high speeds by launching fire backwards like an engine. On this board, Heatblast had enough skill to ride in a continuous circle. Charcoal-Man is also capable of high-speed flight by propelling himself forward in the air or covering himself in fire.

Charcoal-Man can transport others to safety inside by making fire pillars or tornadoes without burning them with his fire, as seen when Heatblast he saved a boy and his mother from a burning building, or transported himself on top of a subway train and when he transported Kangaroo Kommando down to safety.

Charcoal-Man is capable of greatly amplifying the heat he gives off, being hot enough to melt Vilgax's electrical nets, as well as being able to solidify slushy substances or creatures, such as Lenopans. Charcoal-Man is also capable of becoming extremely hot enough to flash vaporize the Fountain of Youth and destroy a large portion of the cave Heatblast was in. This was done by a 4-year-old Heatblast just having a temper tantrum. Similarly, Heatblast can increase the temperature of his heat and fire with his speed, as seen when he vaporized S.A.M.'s water form by racing around it until his fire became incredibly hot.

Charcoal-Man is capable of using terrakinesis, shown by Heatblast levitating a stone into the air. One result of this capability is the ability to surf through the air on a board of rock. This was first demonstrated when Ben taught Alan how to master his own flying abilities.

Charcoal-Man has enhanced strength, enough for Heatblast to hold his own against Viktor, making the latter stumble several steps backwards. Heatblast was also able to lift a broken portion of a house, rip off and buckle down the door of a car and stop the Wooden Bell from rolling, which was said to weigh heavier than 3,000 pounds.

Charcoal-Man has enhanced durability thanks to the rocks and plasma energy that makes up his body, as Heatblast was able to survive getting thrown through multiple buildings at high speed by Vilgax with no damage, as well as Malware's laser blasts. He also casually shrugged off multiple laser blasts from Rojo and survived the Chimeran Hammer's explosion.

Charcoal-Man is capable of jumping exceptionally high.

Charcoal-Man can swim and use his powers underwater, but with a lower intensity. Ironically, he can even breathe underwater despite being a fire-based alien.
Charcoal-Man is cold resistant and ice proof thanks to the high temperature he produces, allowing him to thaw his way out of ice, such as an Evolved Necrofriggian's ice flames.

Due to being made of plasma and charcoal-like crusts, Charcoal-Man glows in the dark like a candle.

Charcoal-Man is capable of generating smoke, shown off by Heatblast when he created a large cloud of smoke and used it to sike out the Nosedeenians before they were able to get to him.

Charcoal-Man is immune to being controlled by a Vladat via their Corrupturas as long as he can burn them off his body with a small flare.
Although the Hero Watch makes Charcoal-Man immune to being possessed by Ectonurites, he is also naturally immune to it because of his solar-like radiation.

When infected with a cold, Charcoal-Man's powers are completely inverted, making his pyrokinesis becoming cryokinesis (the ability to create and control cold and ice), and he is constructed of icy fire rather than regular fire. While in this state, he can shoot blasts of ice from his hands that could freeze and cool down a nuclear reactor, and create blue "ice-fire" balls to encase and trap his opponents in.

## Weaknesses

Charcoal-Man's fire attacks are useless against anything diamond-related or fireproof in general, such as Petrosapiens, Crabdozers, and weapons and/or armor made from their DNA.

﻿Because of his fiery body, on occasion, Charcoal-Man cannot hold anything without burning or melting it. He is also prone to burning the place where he sits. Similarly, he can leave scorch mark footprints on certain floors. Similarly, if Charcoal-Man isn't careful, he may cause a fire that will accidentally go out of control and spread in certain areas.

If exposed to enough water, wind or fire-extinguishing substances, Charcoal-Man's fire will be extinguished, though he can still heat up and reignite his fire in short amounts of time.

Being a Pyronite, Charcoal-Man is at a massive disadvantage against a Crabdozer due to their fireproof skin.

Charcoal-Man cannot breathe in space.

Despite having a body made of fire and resisting ice, Charcoal-Man can still be rendered immobile by ice until he melts it off.

Charcoal-Man can be knocked down by an Aerophibian's neuroshock blasts, as demonstrated with Alan.

Despite his fire resistance, Charcoal-Man can still be blasted away by a strong enough fire blast.

Charcoal-Man can get dizzy by flying around in a continuous circle at extremely high speeds.

When under the effects of a cold, Charcoal-Man's pyrokinesis is replaced with cryokinesis. Despite the new powers this gives him, Charcoal-Man works completely "nonfunctional" to his fiery nature and the cold still prejudiced his health.

Despite his Corruptura immunity, Charcoal-Man can still be controlled by Corrupturas unless they are burned off his body.

## History

* Charcoal-Man briefly makes his first appearance in A Wild Goose Chase, where he was briefly seen when Ben 23 was cycling through his aliens.

## Appearances

* A Wild Goose Chase (first appearance; cameo)