Zombozo

Herbert J. Zomboni, known by the name of Zombozo, is one of Ben's first enemies. He is a cruel and creepy clown mastermind.

Appearance

Zombozo looks like a clown with red hair and pale skin. In the Original Series, he wore a grey and white jumpsuit with three buttons, a jacket which was dark blue and light blue, and cyan sleeves with black stripes and two cyan circles on each stripe. He also had a blue nose, a dark blue and black top hat with a big cyan ball, and black shoes and gloves.

Personality

Zombozo is portrayed as a grim and cruel clown with a dark sense of humor. He enjoys making dark jokes about his enemies and his feeding, even when acting, and cruelly taking pleasure in using Ben's fear of clowns against him. He displayed much more sadistic and psychopathic behavior, using lethal weapons, and tried to make Ben and his family suffer by killing his mother, but Gwen terrified him into defeat by showing her Anodite form. It was even suggested at the beginning of his comeback that he had buried someone. He was shown to be the only known person that Charmcaster fears besides her uncle Hex. Zombozo rarely attacks alone, always gathering together a crew to do his dirty work for him. Originally, this was his Circus Freak Trio, but later, Zombozo lead a coalition between Vulkanus, Charmcaster and SevenSeven (and several others who were all warded off by Max before he was injured fending off SevenSeven) and one with Trombipulor and Fistrick. Ironically, despite taking pleasure in scaring others, Zombozo himself is extremely cowardly, having been scared severely by Ghostfreak, Toepick, and Gwen's Anodite form.

History

Background Prior to the Original Series, Zombozo worked in a school lunchroom. At some point, Zombozo was bitten by a zombie, left for dead and rescued by a circus. In his first appearance, Zombozo staged shows to bring people in and then used a machine, which he called the "Psyclown", to drain the happiness and life energy from them for him to "eat", leaving them depleted and sad. This also seemed to age the victims, as Gwen was shown to be all wrinkly. During all this, his Circus Freak Trio robbed the town. He proved to be somewhat hard to defeat, as Ben was suffering of coulrophobia (the fear of clowns) at the time and so he couldn't fight him properly. Zombozo was eventually defeated when Ben overcame his fear of clowns after seeing the effect of the Psyclown on Max and Gwen and used Ghostfreak to fight Zombozo (while also destroying the Psyclown and freeing all the happiness inside it) and terrorize him by peeling back his skin, forcing him to escape by 'exploding' in a burst of confetti. It is unknown where Zombozo went. Zombozo's henchmen reappeared in later episodes such as Ghostfreaked Out and Ben 10 vs. Negative 10: Part 1, claiming that they had not seen Zombozo since his defeat.

Powers and Abilities

Zombozo has enhanced strength, as he was able to overpower Wildmutt with ease, although he can have trouble carrying his over-sized mallet. Zombozo is able to teleport in an explosion of smoke and confetti. Zombozo can terrorize his opponents by creating illusions. Zombozo can stretch his arms very far, and can shoot them forward with a spring to deliver fast punches. In addition to feeding on happiness, Zombozo can feed on fear as well. The more scared his enemies are, the stronger he becomes. Equipment Psyclown In his first appearance, Zombozo used a machine called the "Psyclown" to give him the ability to drain happiness from people when they're laughing. This left them depleted, weakened, and sad while also "feeding" Zombozo and making him stronger. The machine was connected to Zombozo by a line, giving him the ability to fly. Other Equipment Zombozo relies on various clown-based gadgets as weapons, including caltrops, an acid seltzer bottle, steel streamers, an extendable arm, an electric joy buzzer, an energy whip, dynamite, explosive bowling pins, balloons filled with gas, and an over-sized mallet.

Weaknesses

Even though he feeds on fear, Zombozo is not immune to being scared himself, seen when Ghostfreak and Anodite Gwen terrified him into defeat. He was even scared out of his wits by Toepick's nightmarish face.