Gourmand

* Perk
* Murk

**Gourmands** are a species from the planet Peptos XIV.

## Appearance

Perk Gourmands are green all over, with a darker shade of green on the top of their head, and the same colour all over their backs and hands. They have very crooked teeth that appear outside the top of their mouth, forming an overbite.

Perk Gourmands wear metal cups on their heads like helmets, and fight with spoons.

Murk Gourmands are swampy-green, have tan bellies and muzzles, black digits and black-green spots on their tails, limbs, hips and back. Their eyes are sharper and pupil-less. Also, their teeth are now more aligned with visibly sharp canine teeth that appear outside the bottom of their mouth, an under-bite.

Murk Gourmands wear metal saucers to protect their heads and fight with forks.

## Abilities

* **Solid Matter and Energy Ingestion-** Gourmands can ingest solid matter such as steel, and rocks as well as energy. Their bladders are connected to a trans-space bladder dimension, which stores everything they've ingested.
* **Explosive Vomit-** The items Gourmands ingest can be released and converted into explosive liquid balls which they can expel with great accuracy.
* **Enhanced Durability-** Gourmands can take a surprising amount of damage for creatures their size.
* **Space Survivability-** Gourmands can survive in the vacuum of space.
* **Propulsion Flight-** By breathing air through their mouths, Gourmands can fly by expelling their breath downward, allowing them to make planetary travel.
* **Slime-** Gourmands can spit slime, which can be very slippery.
* **Gourmand Danger Detection-** The transspatial bladder of a Gourmands is connected to the entire Gourmand species and can detect any danger to their species through their stomachs.
* **Expandable Mouth-** Gourmands can enlarge their mouths, allowing them to swallow objects larger than themselves.
* **Prehensile Tongues-** Gourmands have four strong, adhesive tongues that he can stretch and be used to latch on to objects and reel them in.
* **Strong Teeth-** Gourmands' teeth are strong enough to break steel and stone.

## Weaknesses

* **Excessive Eating-** Gourmands can become slow if they eat too much and can become fat. In addition, if Gourmands do not spit out what they eat, they can become fat and render themselves immobile.
* **Earth Food-** Gourmands cannot consume Earth food.
* **Ingestion Limit-** Gourmands hasve a limit to how big the pieces of matter can be in order to digest them.

## Notable Gourmands

* Upchuck
* Queen Voratia Rumbletum
* Sergeant Cookmeister
* Sergeant Cast Iron
* Private Brownbag
* Murk Gourmand Actor
* Gourmand Ramsey

#### Alternate Universes

* Vomit Man (Dimension 23)
* Upchuck (Mad Ben's Universe)

## History and Society

Perk Gourmands and Murk Gourmands do not normally get along with each other, due to their differing mindsets, though normally every Gourmand will obey and protect the Queen Gourmand without question.

Perk Gourmands are considered more thought-oriented and defense-minded, while Murk Gourmands are considered more action-oriented and attack-minded.

Generally speaking, Gourmands are not an aggressive race regardless of subspecies as their main thoughts revolve around eating.

The mere mention of food is enough to distract Gourmands.

Given the chance, a Gourmand will begin snacking on any kind of material in its vicinity.

During times of war, the Gourmands have a plan (known as Plan Omega) to eat their entire planet as a last resort, which can only be enforced by their Queen. Their way of thinking is that a planet cannot be conquered if there is no planet to conquer. Plan Omega has been executed thirteen times in the past.

## Etymology

Named after "Gourmand", a French word meaning that you like to eat a large part of good meal.

Perk is a corruption of "Tom Perkins", who designed Upchuck in the original series.

Murk is a corruption of "Glen Murakami", who was an executive producer for Alien Force and Ultimate Alien and redesigned Upchuck for those shows.

## Trivia

* There are three sub-species of Gourmands named Gourmand Perk, Gourmand Murk, and their Queen.
	+ Both Perk Gourmands and Murk Gourmands have the same abilities; neither of them have abilities exclusive to any one subspecies.
* Gourmands have their own written language called "Gourmand" in which some signs in Omnitrix City were written in.
* Gourmands do not have a natural predator because they are at the top of the food chain.
* Gourmands share a pocket dimension as a stomach.
* Gourmands do not wear clothes because they are considered to be a primitive species that does not interact with other aliens.