How They Compare: Charmcaster (Ben 10)

Charmcaster is one of the longest standing villains in the Ben 10 franchise and essentially the arch nemesis to Gwen Tennyson, giving her a wide impact on the series overall. Charmcaster was born to a race of humans, living in a magical dimension called Ledgerdomain, under the name, Hope. This dimension is made entirely of Mana and is the source of all the magic power in the Ben 10 Multiverse. Unfortunately, it was ruled by a magical tyrant named Addwaitya, who sought to enslave or destroy all humans living there. Charmcaster’s father sacrificed himself in order to allow her to escape to Earth, alongside her uncle, Hex. Afterward, Charmcaster swore to master magic and become powerful enough to destroy Addwaitya, liberate Ledgerdomain and bring her father back to her, even if she had to destroy anything that got in her way. Charmcaster has grown into quite the powerful Witch over her 21 years. Even as a Teenager, she was more than capable of competing with some of Ben’s fastest and strongest aliens at the time like Stinkfly and Cannonbolt, as well as being skilled enough to cold cock martial artists like Gwen in just one punch. However after she defeated Addwaitya and took over Ledgerdomain, (yes she eventually pulled that off), she took the source of Addwaitya’s power, The Alpha Rune, which gave her a massive and permanent power increase. With her powers, Charmcaster was able to instantly kill Gwen in her Anodite form, this is the same Anodite form which would have been able to solo The Hybreed’s fleet of hundreds of warships, each one capable of violently shattering planets in one shot and tanking the impact, which would come out to Dwarf Star Level in total. This is backed up by her energy manipulation being so strong it vaporized Chomastone when he tried to absorb it, and Chromastone’s energy manipulation was strong enough to recreate the planet of Petropia and bring its entire population back to life. Also Chromastone couldn’t blitz her, and he’s so fast he once flew halfway across the galaxy in a short timeframe requiring speeds billions of times faster than light.

Charmcaster has a wide variety of powers, she is able to control numerous elements like Fire, Water and all kinds of plant life to use in a wide variety of attacks. She can summon large explosions, bind people in magical chains and toss people around and crush them with telekinesis. Although Magical attacks are her bread and butter, able to fire magic projectiles, Danmaku attacks, large focused magic beams and even magical force fields that shield her while still allowing her attacks to pass through. That said Charmcaster’s greatest defense is her ability to dispel opposing magic attacks, or even charm herself and others to totally nullify the magical attacks of her foes. Charmcaster can fly, cast cloaking fields over herself, cast illusions for disguises, and has vast super senses able to spy on the hero’s knowing everything they do from another dimension with her all seeing eye as well as use her eyes to scan someone for magical power. Charmcaster also can both teleport to and open portals to other dimensions and attack from there in a wide variety, heck she literally stated she went to The Generator Rex universe off screen. Charmcaster also uses a wide variety of hax, she was able to Mind Control Kevin, as well as force Ben and Gwen’s minds to swap bodies. She can bring inanimate objects to life and manipulate technology to fight for her, she can even simulation summon fictional characters into existence like she did Mr. Smoothie. Charmcaster also has pretty advanced Transmutation, able to turn projectile attacks into flower petals and make her foes into helpless stone statues she keeps in her purse. That said her deadliest ability is by far her Energy Manipulation.

Charmcaster is able to completely control and redirect all energy that comes her way, as well as absorb the life energy of all that stand in her way to grow even stronger. Charmcaster was able to drain Gwen, Kevin and Ben down to lifeless husks in seconds, as well as drain away the life force of every living thing in the Ledgerdomain dimension. Her energy draining resistance is so great that attempts to drain her by Darkstar were completely unable to affect her, and Darkstar is theorized to be able to Drain Alien X by Ben himself. Also Speaking of Ledgerdomain, That place is now Charmcaster’s...well...domain. Within this dimension she is essentially a goddess who is completely immune to all magic in the Ben 10 Universe and manipulates the laws of reality. She also uses it as a sort of Dimensional trap, as none can exit or leave Ledgerdomain without knowing its True Name, including dimensional travelers, so Charmcaster cast a spell so that Ledgerdomain’s true name changes every few seconds, No one can enter or leave unless she allows it. Oh and also she can turn into a Fire Breathing Dragon.

Lastly Charmcaster has this magical bag of tricks, which is alive and obeys her every order. Within this bag is a pocket dimension containing numerous tricks she uses in combat like her Uncle’s powerful magic staff, ring projectiles she can change the size of, and a large army of different stone golems she can send forth to fight for her, including stone bats, chicks, dogs and monsters. Charmcaster’s primary weakness is her mental instability, likely caused by her father rejecting what a warped person she had become and returning to the afterlife, she is damaged and carries those that wronged her around in her purse as paperweights, leaving her very paranoid.

Name: Charmcaster

Origin: Ben 10

Classification: Extra-Dimensional Witch

Powers and Abilities: Flight, Energy Manipulation, Magical Blasts, Danmaku, Vast Super Senses, Telekinesis, Interdimensional Teleportation, Hydrokinesis, Pyrokinesis, Plant Manipulation, Chain Manipulation, Force Fields, Invisibility, Portal Creation, High Magic Resistance, Illusions, Mind Manipulation, Technopathy, Animacy Granting, Simulation Summoning, Transmutation, Anti-Dimensional Hax, Energy Manipulation Resistance, Pocket Dimension, Dragon Form.

Weaknesses: Mentally Unstable.

Destructive Capacity: Dwarf Star Level+

Range: Interdimensional

Speed: Massively Faster Than Light (Billions)

Durability: Atleast Country Level; Dwarf Star Level when magically amped

Stamina: Inexhaustible.

Intelligence: Very High, can manipulate several extremely intelligent characters and repeatedly matches wits with Gwen.

So how would she do in other verses?

In DC, Charmcaster would manage to be pretty powerful compared to the series’s own magical superheroes having physical Stats similar to Zatanna and a pretty advanced toolkit of hax and powers to start with, but her powers like Magical Resistance, Draining/Absorbing Magical Energy and trapping people in her domain would be some pretty Broken moves against characters like this and it would take a Very skilled Magician Like Zatanna to actually have a chance at stopping her. And if the battle ends up in Ledgerdomain her only shot would be to pull out her Metamagic. In general DC she would be above characters like Blue Beetle and Cyborg and an immediate threat to the planet.

In the Bayonetta series Charmcaster would place rather interestingly among that series’s Umbran Witches. She is significantly faster than them but they are stronger and much more skilled in physical combat. Charmcaster's Magic resistance is not as helpful, given that the witches relay much more on combat than spells, but Charmcaster's ability to Lock foes in her realm would completely nullify their dimensional manipulation defenses as they can no longer turn invisible and intangible by going to purgatorio, although given Charmcaster's senses that would not have worked anyway. The Witches do have an advantage however in their Witch Time ability, Charmcaster has NO Time manipulation abilities and because of that Could get overwhelmed and blitzed if she's not careful. That said while the umbran witches can protect their minds from her, they are still vulnerable to her energy draining so it would be imperative to take her down quickly.

In the Xiaolin Showdown series, Charmcaster would be among the most powerful characters in the verse, having similar powers to that of top tiers like Dashi and Unrestricted Wuya, with speed comparable to the greatest showings of the Shen Gong Wu. While her energy draining powers would be very hard for the verse to deal with, the characters can make it so she cannot fight them in Ledgerdomain as the Yinyang Yoyo would Still be able to work in that world, due to it bringing its world to where it's summoned rather than being a mere gateway, and Charmcaster with her mental instability would not fair well in the Yinyang world. There are also various Wu like the Sung Chi Lantern that could help mitigate her own energy draining, but ultimately this verse would need to be very careful.

  

In Darkstalkers, Charmcaster would place, interesting. Her power is superior to that of Donnavan and Bishamon, though still far below that of high tiers like Pyron, Jedah and Lilith. Than Being said her speed is comparable to that of those hightiers which means she cannot be blitzed by them and has potential to defeat them with hax. Energy Draining in particular is shown to be very effective on the likes of Pyron and all of that energy would immediately make Charmcaster a super powerful threat, able to beat anyone short of Anita and would essentially have to beat Jedah in a Hax Quickdraw.

Lastly in the Sailor Moon series Charmcaster would be a very notable threat within the first 2 arcs. She would be able to completely solo The Dark Kingdom including the weakened Metalia thanks to her godly superior energy draining and resistance to magical attacks, in addition to the fact she would see everything coming ahead of time with her vastly improved senses. In the 2nd Arc Charmcaster is much more balanced, actually being directly comparable to Black Lady, Black lady being stronger, and Charmcaster being faster but still able to compete with one another, these two would have a rather interesting fight that I am not quite sure who would win, as Black Lady could persist the energy draining of Charmcaster due to the Silver Crystal, and her ability to warp through spacetime would be extremely Useful.