Albedo

Name: Albedo

Sex: Male

Species: Galvan (formerly) Human (Ben's DNA)

World of Origin: Galvan Prime (Escaped)

Age: Hundreds of Years

State: Prisoner

Height (human): 170 cm

Albedo is a character who first appears in "Good Copy, Bad Copy." He is a main antagonist in all Ben 10 series except the original. Originally a Galvan and assistant to Azmuth, he built an Omnitrix to seek Azmuth's approval and search for the original, which transformed him into a copy of Ben Tennyson. He played a significant role in introducing the Ultimatrix to the story.

He first appeared exactly like Ben, a perfect clone wearing the same clothes. But after his Omnitrix and Ben's reacted to each other, it sent out a pulse that damaged his DNA and, therefore, his form, inverting his colors. This turned his hair white, his skin slightly paler, his eyes red, his eyebrows black, and changed the colors of his jacket from green with white stripes to red with black stripes.

Albedo's current Galvanic form in Alien Supremacy was shown in Double or Nothing before he reverted to his human form. He resembled the other Galvans who had appeared previously, excluding Azmuth, but with red eyes, a red Galvan robe with black stripes, paler skin without tendrils or wrinkles, and wide-open eyes.

According to Dwayne McDuffie, the average Galvan has green eyes, so Albedo's form is damaged.

Albedo's original Galvan form was shown in Troublesome Helix. He wore a robe with the Omnitrix symbol on it and metal on his legs, neck, and most of his arms. He had a normal Galvan head, making him appear taller than Azmuth, and green eyes.

Albedo's current Galvan form in Omniverse was shown in the following episodes. It resembles his form in the flashback in "Troubled Helix," but the green was replaced with red, and he has an Ultimatrix symbol on his back. Albedo's human form hasn't changed much in Omniverse, although he now has shadows under his eyes and paler skin. The design of his jacket is reversed, with the black stripe with a 10 now on his right side, along with the 10s becoming 01s, plus additional pockets. He didn't change his clothes and let his hair grow long, just like Ben did. He wears the Ultimatrix on his right hand. In "The Ultimate Heist," he was also seen wearing a red 01 version of Ben's current shirt before changing into his older outfit, and in "For a Few More Brains," when he transformed into an 11-year-old version of Ben, he wears a version

Ben's old red and black shirt with grey pants, while he still has his red eyes and white hair.

Each time Albedo transforms, the color scheme of his alien forms reflects his current color combination, such as Goop or Armadillo turning red. In some cases, the aliens he transforms into are shown to have a reversed pattern in their outfits and/or lighter or completely different colors.

Before turning against Azmuth, Albedo was an eccentric genius who was very respectful of Azmuth and concerned for the safety of others. At the same time, he still displayed an arrogant sense of superiority toward others, primarily in terms of intelligence.

Currently, Albedo is portrayed as a rude, vindictive, and ambitious individual exhibiting sociopathic tendencies. He refuses to accept Ben's right to use the Omnitrix, believing Ben to be merely an unworthy human. He harbors animosity toward Azmuth, even claiming credit for the Omnitrix's creation. Originally a scientist, he speaks with a broader vocabulary, appearing more intellectual than Ben, albeit in a rather cold and condescending manner.

Having obtained Ben's DNA, Albedo acquired Ben's cravings and habits, which he finds utterly repulsive: he has the same taste in food, scratches himself in inappropriate places, and his left eye twitches whenever he lies. As a running gag in the series, he develops a craving for chili potatoes, even more so than Ben, calling it a "human weakness." He originally hated this habit, but develops a liking for them, though he denies it and blames it on his human DNA.

Albedo is suspicious and distrustful of others. During his brief team-up with Vilgax, he was skeptical and almost certain of Vilgax's betrayal from the start, which later proved correct after Vilgax defeated Ben and took his Omnitrix. After absorbing Azmuth's intelligence, he briefly gained an enlightened personality, leading him to realize that destruction was pointless, while creation was truly worthwhile. However, he soon reverted to his normal disposition after Azmuth extracted his mind.

Current Albedo is highly intelligent, even more so than a typical Galvan according to Dwayne McDuffie, and possesses extensive knowledge of the Omnitrix, which allowed him to create a copy of the recalibrated model. He is also capable of mutating his DNA at will, although due to Ben's interference in the experiment that granted him this ability, the transformations, including his Galvan form, only functioned for short periods.

In Omniverse, Albedo built a stabilizer that facilitates his control and access to his transformations. He later improved it with a part he obtained from the Weapon Master Techadon, turning it into a new Ultimatrix. From then on, he could transform into evolved versions of Ben's aliens, including Ultimate Albedo, an evolved galvan with a more developed brain. However, since Azmuth altered his device, he shares Ben's weakness of relying on having his watch available. So, if the core is covered in such a way that Albedo cannot press it, he will be unable to access his transformations.

Lost Albedo used a copy of the Omnitrix, which is only known to have the same transformation function as Ben's. Initially, it worked correctly, granting him access to all the alien forms Tennyson had unlocked. However, his copy had a serious malfunction that synchronized it with the original Omnitrix's database. And since the watch's default DNA was Ben's, he was turned into a clone of him. His core was removed by Azmuth after Albedo's visit to Earth and taken to Galvan Prime to reside in the body of the 15-year-old Ben. Since then, his human form has been deformed due to the bioenergy feedback his copy watch suffered. His hair turned white, his jeans darkened, and his eyes, along with the rest of his clothing and accessories, took on a permanent red hue.

At the beginning of the Final Battle arc, Albedo stole the core of the Superomnitrix, the successor to the prototype Omnitrix that Azmuth had discarded and which he completed on his own. Besides being able to transform into Ben's aliens, he could make them evolve into their Ultimate forms through a simulated evolution process. This, too, remained in his possession for long and was also taken from him, this time by Ben, to be used as a replacement for the Omnitrix.

Past

Albedo was a brilliant young Galvan scientist who served as Azmuth's assistant in the development of the Omnitrix project. Sometime after the "Troubled Helix" incident, he asked Azmuth if he could create a second watch for him. While Azmuth had previously had reservations about sending the watch to Max Tennyson, his misgivings had increased upon discovering that the current wearer was an 11-year-old boy. When his mentor refused, stating that only one Omnitrix could exist, Albedo was dismissed. Using his knowledge of the project, he constructed a copy that looked exactly like the original. However, when he tested it, it accidentally synchronized with the recalibrated Omnitrix, setting Ben's DNA as the primary one and causing him to lose his Galvan form.

Disgusted by what he had become, Albedo arrived on Earth in Good Copy, Bad Copy, attempting to find Ben to take his Omnitrix and use it to revert to his Galvan form. In his search, he savagely attacked a community of DNAliens and some of the Forever Knights' castles to gather information, leading Gwen and Kevin to believe that Ben was going on missions without them. When the two Bens finally met, Albedo tried to convince Tennyson to give him the Omnitrix, pretending to be the true creator and accusing Azmuth of being a liar. However, the group noticed he was deceiving them because of the eye twitch that Ben's body exhibits when he lies, and Albedo proceeded to obtain the Omnitrix by force. After the fight, their Omnitrixes passed very close to each other and attracted one another like magnets, emitting pulses of energy that warped Albedo's human form, inverting the colors of his body and replacing green with red. This caused a massive energy pulse that could have destroyed the universe, but it was averted when the watches separated. All of this caught Azmuth's attention, who arrived and punished Albedo by disabling his fake Omnitrix and sending him away.

to a prison in The Projector, condemned to be trapped in his human form forever and eager for revenge.

Albedo escaped from prison in The Final Battle: Part 1, when he stole Galvan Prime's Ultimatrix and completed it, also giving it the evolutionary function. However, since the aliens in the Superomnitrix were still linked to Primus's unlocked database, Grey Matter's DNA remained unavailable. Frustrated, he formed an alliance with Vilgax to set a trap for Ben, starting with the kidnappings of Gwen and Kevin using Diamondhead and Swampfire. Grandpa Max was the only one who managed to escape to warn his grandson of what had happened, stunning Spidermonkey during his attack. Albedo then challenged Ben to a fight in exchange for the lives of his friends, sending their coordinates to the Omnitrix so it could retrieve them.

Upon arriving, Ben transformed into Humungousaur, confident he would defeat him as he had last time. It was then that Albedo revealed the function of the Ultimates within the Omnitrix, demonstrating how he transformed into Ultimate Humungousaur and defeated Tennyson in hand-to-hand combat. Defeated, Ben handed the Omnitrix to Vilgax before being helped by Grandpa to escape with his friends. Vilgax seized this opportunity to betray his comrade and attacked him with his army of robots transformed into Vaxasauruses. Although Ultimate Humungousaur was stronger, he was outnumbered and subdued by Vilgax's army, who took him prisoner. Later, when Ben and his friends boarded Vilgax's ship, Albedo was threatened into handing over the Omnitrix by activating its self-destruct mode. Since Albedo was unable to deactivate it with voice commands, he had to give up the watch and escape empty-handed from the ship.

In the episode "The Forge of Creation," Ben reveals that he locked the Alien X transformation with two keys to prevent accidentally transforming into it, given what happened the first time he used it. He also mentions that he has this measure in place in case Albedo recovers the Ultimatrix or manages to access its database somehow. In "Ben 10,000 Returns," Professor Paradox states that there is an alternate reality where the former occurred, and he ended up trapped in the Alien X form for almost a year.

Albedo returned in Double or Nothing, performing a live show that was essentially a Ben 10 play. Since being stranded on Earth after the events of Alien Force, he capitalized on Tennyson's fame to create 'Ben 10: Live,' showcasing three of Ben's main aliens: Swampfire, Humungousaur, and Big Chill. After Albedo used a sonic bomb to distract him and a fight broke out on stage, Ben, Gwen, and Kevin discovered that Albedo didn't actually have an Omnitrix for the show, but instead used actors to portray the aliens: a Methanosian, a Vaxasaur named Hugh, and a Necrofriggian.

After forcing them to shut down the show, Hugh caught up with the team to warn them that Albedo had created a supposed bomb with the money raised on his tour. Ben and the others skeptically followed him to his lair, where they found him preparing a machine and wearing a disc with the Omnitrix symbol on his chest. Ben didn't stop to think and attacked Albedo, believing his bomb would turn everyone on Earth into a clone of him. Hugh and the other actors tried unsuccessfully to stop him, and while the two Bens struggled amongst themselves, the machine exploded. Among the rubble, they found Albedo back in his Galvan form, though still sporting the red coloration from his first encounter with Ben. It was then that he revealed that the device on his chest and the machine were meant to give him the ability to change his DNA at will.

which would allow him to return to his original body.

Albedo said he wouldn't attack Ben again, but when he transformed back into a human, he discovered that Ben's intervention had disrupted the process. No matter how many times he changed, all his transformations were temporary, and he would be trapped in his clone form forever. Hugh tried to take the blame, but Albedo preferred to attack Ben for ruining his chance to regain his body. The fight was brief, and Negative Rath was stunned unconscious and reverted back to his human form by Ultimate Echo Echo. Both Tennyson and the actors took pity on him, so they allowed Hugh and the others to care for Albedo until he awoke.

In "Night of the Living Nightmare," it was revealed that Albedo had separated from his actor friends and attempted to infect Ben with a Cassiopeian Dream-Eater parasite. Unfortunately, he hadn't accounted for the mess in his victim's room, and when he broke into the house that night, he tripped and infected himself. He became trapped in a dream starring Ben, being attacked by several of his enemies until Albedo himself appeared after Tennyson escaped from Gwen and Kevin. For the remainder of the dream, Albedo confronted him with some of the aliens he could use, but Ben always overpowered him. At that moment, Albedo became aware that he was the one trapped in a nightmare, in which his worst fear manifested: accepting that Ben was superior to him. Meanwhile, in the real world, Ben had awakened to the noise of Albedo writhing. The only way to remove the parasite was with the help of a Galvan doctor. And so, at the same time as the team was taking care of him, he was being confronted by the transformations of the Ultimatrix in his dream world.

He is seen during a flashback in "Troubled Helix" when Ben was 11 years old. In this episode, he is kidnapped by Malware to update him with the Helix Device located in

in Galvan B and the secondary Helix that he and Azmuth had developed to cure him. In the confrontation that followed Ben and Grandpa Max's arrival on the scene, Albedo finished configuring the Helixes to overload when Malware absorbed their energy and destroy him. However, far from dying in the explosion, the defective mechamorph managed to upgrade itself and continued the fight until he was stopped by Diamondhead.

Back in the present, Albedo was imprisoned at the Plumbers' base in Bellwood after the dream-eating parasite was removed. There, he was placed in a special cell until he managed to contact Khyber and arrange his escape. He switched places with Ben and disguised himself as him while the real Tennyson remained in his cell. In the episode "The Big Heist," he enlisted the help of Rook, Argit, Fistina, and Solid Plugg to capture Inspector 13, the only one who possessed the missing piece needed to carry out his plan.

Albedo had created a stabilizer that looked exactly like the Ultimate Omnitrix to maintain the duration of his transformations. And after intimidating Inspector 13 into giving him the last piece he needed, the real Ben arrived to stop him. Unfortunately, Albedo managed to insert the piece into his watch, and it became his new Ultimatrix.

Now that his stabilizer had been upgraded, he could use Ben's aliens' ultimate forms at will. Tennyson would have lost if not for Argit's intervention with his spines, which forced him to escape with Khyber's help.

This was only part of Albedo's plan. Now that he had complete control over his transformations, he was able to revert to his Galvan form, and then become the Mighty Albedo. He was ready to begin his revenge against Azmuth and Ben, which began with the kidnapping of Ben in "A Handful of Brains."

He used Ben's DNA in his new device to complicate Rook and Max's search, while simultaneously concealing his true intention of kidnapping Azmuth to steal his intelligence. Although he managed to extract all of Azmuth's knowledge and implant it into his ultimate body, he was stopped by Atomix, and the First Thinker recovered his brain in "For a Few Brains More." Albedo was taken back to the Plumbers' base, but not before Azmuth manipulated his Ultimatrix to trap him in his teenage Ben's body once more. The final straw was when Albedo complained about being turned human again, at which point his wristband reconfigured itself, transforming him back into an 11-year-old Ben, who broke down in tears of humiliation.

In "The Beginning of the Last," he is recruited by Vilgax and Eon to form a team of evil Bens with the goal of hunting down Benjamin. During the attack, he is shown to have restored the functionality of his stabilizer. However, its operation is now the same as the original Ultimatrix (requiring a core press to transform), and the default DNA is still Ben's. Vilgax betrays him again and erases him from existence along with Ben Prime, Eon, and their dimensional variants with a Chronozapian Bomb. This bomb erased all realities except for the dimension of the Ben without a watch and everything within it, which did not include Albedo. In "And Then There Was Ben," he is revived thanks to Benjamin and Paradox reversing the bomb's effects and returning him to his dimension.

In his last appearance in Malgax Attacks, he teamed up with Vilgax again, despite Vilgax having betrayed him twice before. Together they stole Malware's petrified remains from the museum and led an invasion of Galvan Prime. Albedo's intention was to overthrow Azmuth and establish himself as the planet's new leader. But his attempt to disintegrate Azmuth failed when Blukic and Driba managed to reconstitute his body in time.

The First Thinker seized this opportunity to use an Omnitrix deactivator he had built for emergencies. Albedo relied on his stabilizer to transform ever since Azmuth manipulated him into a child, so when it became unusable, he remained trapped in Ben's body forever. The last anyone heard of him was that he was sentenced to clean Galvan Prime for the next 30 galvanic years.

The color of his clothes is due to the fact that they are the opposite colors of Ben's clothes, as is his hair. It's strange that he wanted to get revenge on Rook or that he even knew his name, since he wasn't even with Ben in Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. The color red is the representative color of Albedo, the opposite of Ben, who is represented by the color green. Albedo could be an homage to several villains who are like "evil copies" of their enemies; especially Zoom (Reverse-Flash) because he has the same powers and a similar costume to Flash (DC Hero), only with inverted colors. He may also be inspired by Shadow the Hedgehog because Shadow is almost identical to Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic calls Shadow an "imposter," given that Sonic and Shadow are exactly the same power. And he could also be inspired by Bizarro (Superman's enemy) since he is an inexact copy. McDuffie confirmed that Albedo is too clever, even too clever for a Galvan, as he was able to create a copy of the Omnitrix that, apart from trapping him in a copy of Ben's body, worked perfectly. Albedo's worst nightmare is that he feels inferior, weak, and defeated by Ben. Albedo's true age is unknown, but Dwayne said it's at least a few hundred years old. Also according to Dwayne, he's a young adult in Galvan, which is the equivalent of about 20 or 25 years old in human years.

The book Double Negative reveals that he is in love with Julie Yamamoto. Albedo is the percentage of radiation that any surface reflects with respect to the radiation that falls on it. In nuclear physics, albedo is the ability of a substance to reflect neutrons. In Ben 10: Omniverse it is revealed that Ben knew Albedo before turning him into the same form as him, although he did not remember the events that occurred. If Albedo hadn't made a pact with Khyber, he wouldn't have hurt Ben and Rook. Derrick J. Wyatt confirmed that Albedo cannot transform into Feedback. In Ben 10: Omniverse, he wears a backwards 10 on his jacket and t-shirt. Albedo's English voice in Omniverse is done by Eric Bauza, who is the same one who does the English voice of Foop, an antagonist from the Nickelodeon series The Fairly OddParents. He does not have Ben's voice in Ben 10: Omniverse. He looks just like Ben except for his hair and eyes. When he became younger in For a Few Brains More, his clothes changed too. In theory, this shouldn't have happened. According to what Rook said in Something Zombozo is Coming, he and Billy Billions escaped from prison. It looks very much like Blukic (its Galvan form). In Omniverse, a part of him that constantly increases is noticeable: his stupidity; since he teamed up with Vilgax twice more, even though Vilgax betrayed him on more than one occasion. Despite having access to all seven Ultimate Aliens that Ben used in Alien Force, Albedo only used three of them. One possible explanation could be that these are the Ultimates he used, or saw, in the aforementioned series. Ultimate Humungousaur: He was the first ultimate alien he used with the first Ultimatrix, in the episode The Final Battle. Supreme Echo Echo and Supreme Spider Monkey: Ben used them against him in the episode Double or Nothing. Despite being smarter than Ben, Albedo doesn't know how to use the Ultimatrix's voice commands.

Albedo always seems to have a superiority complex. In his first appearance his name was pronounced as Albedo but in later appearances his name came to be pronounced as Albido, it would not be until Omniverse where it would be pronounced again as Albedo. Since he only has access to the aliens from the recalibrated Omnitrix and Ultimatrix, it is unknown why he can transform into Gravattack.

Albedo's Omnitrix is ​​an inferior copy of the original Omnitrix, designed by Albedo and later deactivated by Azmuth. This copy was first seen in the Ben 10: Alien Force episode "Good Copy, Bad Copy."

This Omnitrix was designed by Azmuth's former assistant, Albedo of Galvan, because he believed Ben wasn't worthy enough to use the original Omnitrix. After an argument with his master that resulted in his dismissal, Albedo created a copy of Azmuth's invention, gaining access to the same transformations Ben possessed. However, Albedo overlooked one crucial factor: the prototype Omnitrix's primary DNA was that of its human wearer. Therefore, when Albedo used it, the watch connected to the original's database and became a clone of Ben. Following this incident, Albedo decided to search for Ben in order to steal his Omnitrix and use it to revert to his original form.

Albedo's Omnitrix makes its debut in the episode "Good Copy, Bad Copy," in which Albedo arrives on Earth to find Ben and obtain his Omnitrix, attacking the castles of the Forever Knights and a community of DNAliens. In the latter encounter, Albedo meets Ben's team and tries to trick them by claiming to be the creator of the Omnitrix and that he needs it to return to his Galvan form. However, after realizing he can't convince them, he fights Ben and then escapes.

Albedo flees to a computer store, where he manages to incapacitate Gwen and Kevin. He then resumes his fight with Ben (using the transformations of Humungousaur, Big Chill, Echo Echo, and Spidermonkey). Ultimately, the two watches generate an energy surge upon contact, altering Albedo's DNA into a negative copy of the original Omnitrix wielder. Finally, Azmuth appears and, after witnessing the mistakes his assistant has made, deactivates his Omnitrix and sends him to a prison within the Projector as punishment for his actions (even in his human form).

In The Final Battle, Albedo escaped from prison and stole the Ultimatrix to finish its construction.

Unfortunately, his new copy of the Omnitrix still had the same alien package as the recalibrated Omnitrix, which delayed his plans because at that time Ben did not have access to Grey Matter's DNA.

Throughout the 3 series, Albedo has had different types of Omnitrix.

Omnitrix recalibrated In Good Copy, Bad Copy: Albedo uses a recalibrated Omnitrix just like Ben's.

Superomnitrix In "The Final Battle," Albedo returns, this time wielding the Ultimatrix, a device capable of transforming aliens into an evolved form. His symbol and eyes are red, but he loses it in the second part of the same episode after blackmailing Ben.

Omnitrix (Omniverse) He returns in the episode The Ultimate Heist, where he builds a stabilizer similar to the ultimate Omnitrix after escaping from the Plumbers' base.

Superomnitrix (Omniverse) In the same episode, he obtains a crystal that transforms his stabilizer into a new Ultimatrix, capable of re-evolving his aliens. In "For a Few Brains More," the device is hacked by Azmuth, causing it to function as the old Ultimatrix in its subsequent appearances.