| “ | Do you know why they started calling me "the First Thinker?" It wasn't because I'd achieved a perfect score on my GATs as a tadpole. [...] Oh, I did. But I'm the First Thinker because I always plan for every contingency. After I designed the Omnitrix, the most powerful technology in five galaxies, my first thought was "Gee I should probably invent a failsafe, in case some interstellar headcase ever gets a hold of one of these things." So I did. | „ |
| ~ Azmuth explains why he's "The First Thinker". |
| “ | Tennyson! Pay attention! This is important!" "No it isn't. You're yelling at us and telling us how stupid we are. That's not helping us find Aggregor, so it's not important." "Ben Tennyson, you are... absolutely correct. |
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| ~ Azmuth admits if briefly that his own ego got the better of him; rather than focus on the threat. |
| “ | Perhaps for your 18th birthday. | „ |
| ~ Azmuth when giving Ben the master control of his new Omnitrix until he turns 18 |
Azmuth is the overarching protagonist of Cartoon Network's Ben 10 franchise.
He is the creator of the Omnitrix, along with numerous other inventions and creations. He is a Galvan from the planet Galvan Prime.
He was voiced by Robert David Hall in the Original Series, by Jeff Bennett in Alien Force and Ultimate Alien, and by René Auberjonois in Omniverse.
Personality
When he debuts in Secret of the Omnitrix, Azmuth was shown to be very paranoid, as evidenced by the amount of work he puts into hiding his home from the rest of the universe. He is a bit impolite. He originally refused to repair the Omnitrix, and was willing to let the universe get destroyed, as he didn't believe the universe was worth saving. This is because he invented the Omnitrix so the aliens of the universe would have a better understanding of each other, but people like Vilgax only wanted to use it as a weapon of war.
From Alien Force onwards, Azmuth has become less pessimistic and more serious, showing a no-nonsense personality in War of the Worlds. This is especially apparent in Map of Infinity, where he was dealing with a disaster of intergalactic proportions, and when the universe or galaxy is being threatened.
But despite everything, Azmuth is good at heart and always thinks about the betterment of society.
According to Maltruant, no matter the alternate dimensional timeline, Azmuth is always too smart to be evil, meaning he would not help in evil acts anywhere in space-time.
Powers and Abilities
Azmuth's mental prowess is considered worlds apart from the rest of his species. He is well-regarded as the smartest being in five galaxies. His genius, particularly his ability to always plan for every scenario and contingency, caused him to be awarded the title of "First Thinker" by his species. He even is aware of and often thinks in regard to the Omniverse, as demonstrated by Ultimate Albedo when he absorbed Azmuth's intelligence.
Azmuth is excellent at engineering. He is a skilled inventor, having created an incredibly wide breadth of inventions, some of which are incredibly powerful and capable of bending reality, such as the Omnitrix and Ascalon, respectively. He is also capable of improvising, as shown when he fashioned a spaceship out of a large Mechadroid's head and a whistle out of a bone with the help of the Proto-Tool.
Azmuth possesses a vast scientific and technological knowledge of alien paraphernalia. As the creator of the original Omnitrix, and the catalyst for all future Omnitrices to be created, Azmuth knows all the functions of those he created, and thus has the potential to utilize any Omnitrix model more effectively than anyone else. He can also discern the functions of devices he did not create, as he demonstrated with the Nemetrix and recreated Ultimatrix.
Azmuth can jump high in the air.
Equipment
Azmuth has a spacesuit, allowing him to survive in unsuitable environments.
Azmuth's preferred tool for emergency contingency plans is his personal teleporter. He can use it to teleport himself to avoid death, teleport the user of the Omnitrix to him, or even set the Omnitrix to teleport itself to him.
Azmuth has a spaceship. He also has a device that can disable Omnitrix technology.
Additionally, Azmuth temporarily used the Mechamorph Armor to repair the Rustbucket. He formerly wielded a DNA Repair Gun, which he used to revert the DNAliens back to human.
History
Background
As a tadpole he achieved a perfect score on his GATs before he became the first thinker.
In his youth, Azmuth enjoyed a relationship with a female Galvan named Zennith, and while on a date with her witnessed a planetary alignment. The sight inspired Azmuth to create a powerful sword, which sadly brought his romance with Zennith to an end as she disapproved of his creation. Later realizing for himself the dangers of the sword, Azmuth began to dedicate himself to peaceful science, eventually creating the Omnitrix, hoping to create a means for the races of the galaxy to live in harmony. He also hoped that it might redeem him in Zennith's eyes.
In Trouble Helix, Azmuth appeared in a flashback, where it was revealed that he was involved in Galvan B's transformation and the creation of the Galvanic Mechamorphs.
Ben 10
In Secret of The Omnitrix, Azmuth was found in his lab on Xenon by Cannonbolt, Tetrax, and Myaxx, where he is eventually convinced to turn off the Omnitrix's self-destruct. He also unlocked Way Big so Ben could defeat Vilgax. Azmuth modified one of Vilgax's drone's heads to be able to leave Xenon in it, taking Myaxx with him. When Ben asked Azmuth if he wants the Omnitrix back since he created it, Azmuth refused to take back the Omnitrix and let Ben keep it because his invention has caused him many troubles, always has been.
Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens revealed that Azmuth, inspired by Ben's obvious concern for his family, decided to reunite with his own after a long absence. After detecting a strange signal coming from the Omnitrix (caused by Gwen casting a deconstruction spell on Upgrade), he contacted Tetrax and arranged to meet the Petrosapien on Earth. Traveling to Earth using his drone-head ship, Azmuth disguised it as a semi-truck and headed for his rendezvous with Tetrax. He was then contacted by his concerned father, who watched as a strange light-coming from the malfunctioning Omnitrix-shone over Azmuth and his ship crashed.
When a malevolent looking To'kustar appeared on the video feed following Azmuth's disappearance, his father came to believe that Azmuth had perished at the hands of the giant alien. Donning a set of Mechamorph Armor created by Azmuth, his father traveled to Earth, where he ran into Ben. At first unaware that Ben was transforming between different alien forms-unable to revert to human due to Tetrax activating a feature of the Omnitrix-he demanded to know the whereabouts of the To'kustar. Ben had fought the giant alien only for it to disappear; he and Azmuth's father would later discover that the being had been downloaded into the Omnitrix.
Following the To'kustar's escape from the Omnitrix, the Tennyson family realized that the giant being was Azmuth himself, mutated by the malfunctioning device and so disturbed by the change that he was unable to recognize his own father or friends. Eventually they brought him out of it, and Azmuth used the Mechamorph armor to repair the Omnitrix and revert himself back into his normal Galvan form. Azmuth's father then revealed his own Galvan form, which was younger than that of his son-this was due to Azmuth transferring his father's mind into a clone body.
Father and son forgave each other for their misdeeds, with Azmuth confessing that he should have warned his father about the armor's tendency to increase aggression. Azmuth also helped restore Ben's parents, who had likewise been transformed into aliens, to normal. He commented on the Omnitrix's malfunction being caused by a Mana overload, confusing Gwen, who was ignorant at the time of her Anodite lineage. Azmuth and his father then returned home.
Five years prior to OmniverseEdit In a flashback in Trouble Helix, Azmuth was working on a second Helix with Albedo, where Max comes in, asking him to fix the malfunctioning Omnitrix, to which he refuses. XLR8 comes and makes him by breaking one of his machines. Azmuth later revealed his hand in the creation of the Galvanic Mechamorphs through his experiment called the Helix, in the intent of making Galvan B habitable. He also revealed he had been working for many years on trying to heal Malware, a Galvanic Mechamorph whose life code is corrupted and incomplete.
In a flashback in Showdown: Part 1, Azmuth warned Ben to not overuse Feedback, but Ben did not heed his warning and Feedback was lost from the Omnitrix.
During a flashback in Showdown: Part 2, Azmuth helps comfort and advises Ben, after Ben lost Feedback.
Alien Force
Azmuth returned in Good Copy, Bad Copy. Azmuth revealed that Albedo used to be one of his assistants, and that he had came to take the Omnitrix copy from Albedo. Azmuth states that only one Omnitrix is allowed in the universe (though later on, Azmuth began to create an improved version).
In War of the Worlds, Azmuth and Paradox warn Ben that the Highbreed are conquering and destroying planets, and their fleet was heading towards Earth. Galvan Prime has already been destroyed and its destruction would be the beginning of the end. Although he doesn't want Ben to fight, Azmuth realizes that there's no stopping him and activates the Master Control for the sake of the battle. When the Omnitrix was reset by the DNA wave Ben used to stop the Highbreed (locking the Master Control), Azmuth left to help rebuild Galvan Prime without reactivating it, telling Ben to "have fun figuring it out."
In The Vengeance of Vilgax, when Ben and Kevin tried to hack the Omnitrix, Azmuth contacts Ben telling him not to tamper with it, stating that he will learn how to activate the Master Control when the time is right. When an accident unleashes Chromastone, Goop, Spidermonkey, and Way Big from the Omnitrix, Azmuth instructs Ben to reabsorb the alien forms into the Omnitrix. Dissatisfied with what happened, Azmuth also tells Ben that he won't help him again.
In Primus, Azmuth wields the Omnitrix in order to protect Primus from Vilgax, but is defeated and Vilgax takes the Omnitrix from him. Azmuth himself attributes his defeat to his "skills being a little rusty." He is saved by Ben, who manages to trick Vilgax by showing him how to use the Omnitrix. Ben gets Vilgax to transform into Goop, allowing Ben to get the upper hand and remove the Omnitrix from Vilgax. In the end, even though Azmuth hasn't forgiven Ben for damaging the Omnitrix, he allows him to keep it anyway.
In The Final Battle, Myaxx informs Azmuth that the Ultimatrix was stolen. Myaxx also shows security footage of Ben, or someone who looks exactly like him, stealing the Ultimatrix; Albedo, to which Azmuth replied "No! Not him! Anyone but him.". In the later half of the episode, Azmuth answers Ben's plead for help. He explains to Ben that the Omnitrix was originally meant for Max. When Ben says he let Azmuth down, he agrees. Azmuth tells Ben that "winning isn't so easy without the Omnitrix", making Ben realize that the only way to defeat Vilgax would be to destroy the Omnitrix. Azmuth reveals he thinks that Earth has lovely weather.
Ultimate Alien
Azmuth returned in Map of Infinity, right after Ultimate Aggregor defeated Ben and his team. He told them about the Map of Infinity, an item Ultimate Aggregor was planning to steal to go to a place called the Forge of Creation. He also commented on the pathetic workmanship of the Ultimatrix, stating that the evolutionary feature was begging for trouble. He revealed that he was constructing a third Omnitrix. He refused to let Ben have it, because he is too reckless and requires much patience. He teleported the team to Galvan Mark II, Galvan Prime rebuilt. where he elaborated on the Map of Infinity. He later put Max in a tube to replace his nervous system, which was damaged Ultimate Aggregor.
In Perplexahedron, Azmuth was angry with Ben for losing three pieces of the Map of Infinity. After Ben stated that yelling at him was not helping, Azmuth teleported the team to Perplexahedron to retrieve the final piece of the map.
In The Forge of Creation, Azmuth lashed out at Ben and his team for letting Ultimate Aggregor beat them each time when they had four opportunities to stop him. After Professor Paradox reverted Alien X back to Ben, Azmuth argued with Paradox about the team's ability to save the universe this time. Azmuth also said that trusting Ben with the Omnitrix was a "grave mistake" though Paradox had said that it was not a mistake at all, and that he and Azmuth knew the reasons why all too well. Azmuth resentfully began to reveal that Paradox had told him that Ben was a legendary being born with incomprehensible, immeasurable power, and that he would someday do something amazing, as it was his "grand destiny", but Paradox interrupted him, saying that there must be "no spoilers".
In The Transmogrification of Eunice, Azmuth appeared during Sunder and Ben's battle for the Unitrix and saw Ben and Sunder fighting in a muddy area. It was revealed that he was the one who hired Sunder to retrieve the Unitrix. He told Ben and his team about the Omnitrix prototype called the Unitrix and argued with Ben about putting Eunice back in storage, but after being impressed by Ben's strong defense over Eunice and his belief about his aliens, he agreed to a compromise and allowed her to live a free life as one of his assistants. He stated that he always needed help tending to Primus.
Omniverse
In Showdown: Part 1, Azmuth was ambushed by Dr. Psychobos, Khyber, and his dog. They turned Khyber's dog into Omnivoracious to kill Azmuth. When she was busy battling Ben, Azmuth made a whistle out of a bone and turned Omnivoracious into Vicetopus to hold Dr. Psychobos captive.
In Showdown: Part 2, Azmuth devised a plan to stop Malware from taking over Galvan Mark II. He, along with Gwen and Rook, traveled to the remains of Galvan to find a solution while Ben and Kevin kept Malware busy. Azmuth eventually found the Helix, which he believed could be beneficial. Azmuth later brought Feedback the Helix so he could use its powers to defeat Malware. Azmuth also revealed that he brought the Galvanic Mechamorphs back to life and watched as Feedback finally defeated Malware for good. Azmuth also appeaered in 16-year-old Ben's subconscious, telling 11-year-old Ben that Ben never learns anything just from winning and says that Ben could learn something from losing Feedback.
In The Frogs of War: Part 2, it was revealed that Azmuth saved Ben and unlocked Bullfrag for him so he could sneak aboard an Incursean ship.
In OTTO Motives, Azmuth had Ben teleported to Khoros, which took some convincing.
Azmuth made an appearance at the end of A Fistful of Brains, as he was kidnapped by Albedo and Khyber, and was trapped within a machine.
In For a Few Brains More, Albedo drained Azmuth's intelligence, causing Azmuth's "pre-brain" to take control. As a result, Azmuth exhibited childish behavior. After Azmuth was turned back to normal, he modified the Ultimatrix to turn Albedo into an 11-year-old clone of Ben as punishment. He also said that Ben needs to stop hitting the Omnitrix so hard, because whenever he transforms into an alien, the impact of his hit sets the timer to random.
Gallery
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Quotes
| “ | I created the Omnitrix to help all beings in the universe to grow closer together. If an Earthling can make that happen, then I see there is no reason why you shouldn't have it. Besides, that thing is nothing but trouble, always has been. You keep it. Good riddance. | „ |
| ~ Azmuth when letting Ben keep the Omnitrix and never wanted it back. |
Trivia
- When talking about his intelligence in the Ultimate Alien Force era, he repeatedly says "three, arguably five galaxies" as to how smart. Curious as to why he never settled at four until he could confirm for sure.
- He's called the First Thinker because he always plans ahead for safety measures against "interstellar headcases" who might use his inventions for evil.
- Azmuth was like Old George in his youth, just like how Ben is a reflection of them in the present.
- There's no version of Azmuth in the multiverse who is evil; they are too smart to waste their time on it.
- Doesn't mean there aren't univeres where he messes up in some way. For example in one universe he has gambling issues and sold his Omnitrix to Argent.
- His appearance has changed repeatedly due to Celestialsapiens messing with the Prime reality; which Chadzmuth pointed out in Universe vs Tennyson.
- Azmuth made a few goofs when designing the second Omnitrix; despite having designed it for Ben exclusively.
- He failed to take into account Ben's habit of slamming his palm down on the device; this causes the time for the transformation to become random due to the core being more sensitive.
- It's a touch screen with holograms, rather than a turn dial; additional making Ben mistransformation due to his fingers touching the screen when he slams his hand down.
- He created Galvanix Mechamorphs purely by accident.
- Azmuth seems to delight in tormenting Albedo, with keeping him from reverting to his true Galvan form.
- He kept Albedo as teen Ben even after the prototype Omnitrix was destroyed.
- He turned Albedo into 10 year old Ben after the theft of Azmuth's mind briefly.
- He disable Albedo's Ultimatrix to keep him in human form due to Azmuth placed a fail-safe.
- Azmuth can clone bodies and transfer minds into them, such as he did for his father and possibly his old pupil who named Horde Prime. This medical savvy is how he could replace Max's damaged nervous system over a period of weeks.
External Links
- Azmuth on the Ben 10 Wiki
- Azmuth on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
