Vulkanus
General Information
Species	Detrovite
Affiliations	Sixsix (formerly) Zombozo (formerly) Charmcaster (formerly) Pickaxe Aliens Psyphon
Occupation(s)	Criminal
Powers and Abilities
Abilities	Heat Resistance
Equipment	Mechanical Suit
Relationships
Alias	Baby Man (Rath) Tubby (Argit)
Details
Voice Actor	John DiMaggio
First Appearance	The Galactic Enforcers (episode)

Vulkanus is a Detrovite criminal who utilizes a large mechanical suit to make up for his small size.

Contents 1 Powers and Abilities 2 Original Series 3 Alien Force 4 Ultimate Alien 5 Omniverse 6 Appearances 6.1 Ben 10 6.2 Ben 10: Alien Force 6.3 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien 6.4 Ben 10: Omniverse 7 Video Games 7.1 Ben 10: Protector of Earth 7.2 Ben 10: Alien Force The Video Game 7.3 Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction 8 Trivia 9 References 10 See Also

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

While inside his mechanical suit, Vulkanus has superhuman strength and durability. It is durable enough to easily shrug off lasers, can stand up to Four Arms, and it has a drill hand-built into it. He is also naturally resistant to extreme heat.

Vulkanus is usually equipped with a hand blaster that can shoot blasts of energy. He has his mining workers and admits that he is "stinkin' rich" in Greetings From Techadon.

Original SeriesEdit

In the original series, Vulkanus partnered up with Sixsix in order to build a weapon capable of destroying a solar system using element X. He is stopped by Ben and the Galactic Enforcers in The Galactic Enforcers.

Vulkanusre-appears in Ben's dream world in Perfect Day, working alongside Sixsix again.

In the start of the future episode Ken 10, where he was defeated by Ben 10,000 and was transported to the Null Void.

Alien ForceEdit

Vulkanus makes a brief appearance in Ben 10: Alien Force in Kevin's Big Score. From this appearance on, he now has a chrome-purple suit. According to himself, he was betrayed by Kevin during a "counterfeit isotope" scam a few years earlier. Kevin left him holding the merchandise when The Plumbers arrived, and though he managed to escape, the Plumbers destroyed his ship. Unable to leave Earth, he resorted to trading level three alien technology to get by. When Kevin arrives looking to obtain an important item (a holo-viewer from Grandpa Max), Vulkanus decides to get back at him for the betrayal by forcing Kevin to absorb a small piece of Taydenite, the rarest living gem in the galaxy. This causes Kevin's body to mass-produce the gem, thus giving Vulkanus an endless supply. However, he is foiled by Big Chill who literally freezes off his suit, revealing that Vulkanus is really nothing more than a minuscule alien in a giant suit. Rather than attempt to arrest him, however, Kevin leaves Vulkanus with the Taydenite he had managed to chip off beforehand, considering it payment for his past actions.

In Inferno, it's revealed Vulkanus had used the Taydenite he gathered from Kevin to purchase the Earth and turn it into his home by pumping the magma out of the mantle in order to detonate a bomb which will raise the Earth's surface temperature to 800 degrees. The bomb is stopped by Ben and Kevin is happy that Vulkanus wasted his money.

In Con of Rath, when Rath, Gwen, Kevin discover they need Taydenite to power their ship, Gwen tells Kevin that every time they come across Taydenite they run into Vulkanus. Kevin says their imagining things only to be confronted by Vulkanus. Kevin tries to negotiate with Vulkanus using a gold credit cube(an alien form of currency with no spending limit) but Vulkanus holds firm saying that the three of them were on his planet without any other transactor in viscinity. He is defeated by Rath who ruined most of his Taydenite. Beaten, Vulkanus is forced to hand over his remaining Taydenite.

Ultimate AlienEdit

Vulkanus also appears as one of the villains after Ben in Hit 'Em Where They Live, teaming up with Zombozo and Charmcaster and is beaten at the end by Ultimate Big Chill.

In Absolute Power: Part 1, Vulkanus was being beat up by Humungousaur because he wanted answers about where Kevin was.

In Greetings From Techadon, Vulkanus bought a Custom Techadon Factory to destroy Ben, only for Ben to discover how the Techadon were tracking him and prevent them from doing it. This angered Vulkanus and he states that he wasted "enough to buy a whole solar system" for the defunct factory. Ben then uses Kevin's old ID Mask to put a fake Ultimatrix symbol on his back, causing one of the Techadon to begin chasing him instead of Ben. He flies away screaming that he wishes he could hate Ben to death.

OmniverseEdit

Vulkanus returns in Special Delivery where he tries to be the first to gather the dwarf star that was unintentionally in Ben's possession. However he was defeated, alongside Fistina, by Humungousaur.

AppearancesEdit

Ben 10Edit

• The Galactic Enforcers (first appearance)
• Perfect Day (dream)
• Ken 10 (Ben 10,000 timeline)

Ben 10: Alien ForceEdit

• Kevin's Big Score (first re-appearance)
• Inferno
• Con of Rath

Ben 10: Ultimate AlienEdit

• Hit 'Em Where They Live (first re-appearance)
• Absolute Power: Part 1
• Greetings From Techadon

Ben 10: OmniverseEdit

• Special Delivery (first re-appearance)

Video GamesEdit

Ben 10: Protector of EarthEdit

Ben 10: Alien Force The Video GameEdit

Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic DestructionEdit

Vulkanus appears in Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction. His role in the game is that of a minor antagonist. He is the mini-boss of the Catacombs level.

TriviaEdit

• Vulkanus's name probably derives from "volcanic", due to his heat-resistant abilities, and the name of his home planet, Vulcan, which, in itself, is named after the Roman god of smithery of the same name.
• Also Vulcanus is the Latin form of the Roman god Vulcan.
• In the original series, Vulkanus seemed to be at the same build as Technorg minus the mace hand, but from Alien Force onward, he is shown to have an infant-like body.
  • According to Dwayne McDuffie, Vulkanus and his species are naturally this size and his and Technorg's suits were merely colored in mimic flesh.
  • According to Derrick J Wyatt, Technorg and the rest of the species are normally large and muscular, but that he belives that at some point Ben blew up Vulkanus, requiring him to regenerate a new body using his suit. However, because of his suits constantly being destroyed by Ben, his body never has time to regenerate.^[1]
• It's revealed in Inferno that Vulkanus currently owns the planet Earth.
• In Absolute Power: Part 1, Vulkanus revealed that whenever his suit gets either damaged or destroyed; the arms are the hardest to repair because "They're always on back-order".
• In Kevin's Big Score, Vulkanus's suit was a greenish color but in his other appearances it is purple, and in Greetings From Techadon, it was more of a violet color.

ReferencesEdit

See AlsoEdit

• Gallery
• Pickaxe Aliens (Vulkanus' soldiers)

Ben 10 Villains
Main Villains
Aggregor • Diagon • Incursean Empire (Attea, Dr. Psychobos, Frolic, Lieutenant Rana, Milleous, Sang-Froid, Major Glorff), • Forever Knights (Connor, Driscoll, Enoch, Joseph Chadwick, Patrick, Red Knight, Sir Cyrus, Sir Dagonet, Sir Morton, Sir Reginald, Squire, Urian) • The Faction (Khyber, Malware) • Vilgax • Zs'Skayr
Secondary Villains
Albedo • Aloysius Animo • DNAliens • Elena Validus • Eon • Flame Keepers' Circle (Conduit Edwards, Esoterica) • Hex • Lucubra • Michael Morningstar • Negative 10 • Psyphon • The Sotoraggian Mercenaries (Sixsix, Sevenseven, Eighteight) • Vulkanus • Will Harangue • Xenocyte • Zs'Skayrs's Servants (King Viktor, Mummy, Yenaldooshi)
Minor Villains
Adwaita • Aggregor's Soldiers • Animo's mutant animals (Heatbat, Mutant Ant, Mutant Chicken, Mutant Cockatiel, Mutant Frog, Mutant Giraffe, Mutant Hamster, Mutant Hornet, Mutant Lepidopterran, Mutant Mammoth, Mutant Mosquito, Mutant Seagull, Mutant Squid, Mutant Tyrannosaurus) • Billy Billions • Camille's Ex-Boyfriend • Captain Kork • Carl Nesmith • Circus Freak Trio (Acid Breath, Frightwig, Thumbskull) • Clancy • Coach Finn • Computron • Computron's Minions • Evil Way Big • Fistrick's Gang (Fistrick, Corvo, Hoodlum, Unnamed Thug) • Garbage Monster • Gorvan • Highbreed Tree Monster • Howell Wayneright • Jarrett • Jennifer Nocturne • Kraab • Kolar • Ma Vreedle • Mayor Coleman • Mechaneers • Mizaru • Morgg • Mr. Mann • Mrs. Mann • Mutant Seagull (Ultimate Alien) • Mycelium • Nanochips • Nyancy Chan • Palorfang • Pickaxe Aliens • Plant Alien • Plant Clones • Psyphon's Gang (Bubble Helmet, Fistina, Liam, Thunderpig, Tummyhead) • R.E.D. • Ragnarok • Red Robot • Road Crew (Baron Highway, Road Rage, Turbine) • Rojo's Gang (Rojo) • Sublimino • S.A.M. • Seebik • Slix Vigma • Squires • Ssserpent • Sunder • Sunny • Synthroid • Techadon Robots • The Decoy Queen • The Great One • Trumbipulor • Violet Offenders • Vilgax's Drones • Zombozo
Frenemies
Argit • Baz-El • Bellicus • Blarney T. Hokestar • Hope • Hope's Stone Creatures • Mazuma • Mr. Baumann • Null Guardians • Pakmar • Raff • Serena • Simian • Vreedle Brothers (Octagon Vreedle, Rhomboid Vreedle)
Former Villains
Bivalvan • Cash • Dragon • Decka • Devlin Levin • Eon's Servants • Ester • Helen Wheels • Highbreed (Reinrassic III, Highbreed Commander, Highbreed Councilors) • J.T. • Kenko • Kevin Levin • Khyber's Dog • Manny Armstrong • P'andor • Prisoner 775 • Ra'ad • Retaliator • Sentient Ultimate Big Chill • Sentient Ultimate Cannonbolt • Sentient Ultimate Echo Echo • Sentient Ultimate Humungousaur • Sentient Ultimate Spidermonkey • Sentient Ultimate Swampfire • Sir George • Technorg • The Great One's Worshipers (Leader Alien, Enforcer Alien, Interpreter Alien) • Thomas Jingles • Vance Vetteroy • Victor Validus • Winston • Yeti
Generator Rex Villains
Alpha • Biowulf • Black Knight • Skalamander • I-Bol
Future & Alternate Villains
Albedo (Vilgax Attacks Timeline) • Albedo (Cosmic Destruction Timeline) • Crooks (Dimension 23) • Dr. Animo (PoE Timeline • Dr. Animo (Ben 10,000 Timeline) • Enoch (Cosmic Destruction Timeline) • Enoch (PoE Timeline) • Evil Way Big (Albedo) • Exo-Skull • Gorvan (Alternate Timeline) • Kevin 11,000 • Kevin Levin (PoE Timeline) • Khyber (Omniverse Game Timeline) • Malware (Omniverse Game Timeline) • Mot Snikrep • Psyphon (Cosmic Destruction Timeline) • Psyphon (Omniverse Game Timeline) • Sploot • Terracotta Army • Terracotta Dragon • Terracotta General • Vilgax (Ben 10,000 Timeline) • Vilgax (Gwen 10 Timeline) • Vilgax (Vilgax Attacks Timeline) • Vilgax (PTE Timeline) • Vilgax (PoE Timeline)

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