Technus

Nicolai Technus
General Information
Species	Ghost (Spirit)
Home World	Ghost Zone
Residence	Ghost Zone (formerly) Zim's Base
Status	Deceased (Ghost)
Powers and Abilities
Abilities	Technopathy
Equipment	Nanites
Relationships
Alias	Technus
Details
First Appearance	Chapter 4: The Fallen Gods
Designed by	Alex Gautreaux
Voiced by	Jonah Scott
Gallery

"That Multiverse is quite the trip! Now check this out!"

―Technus

Nicolai Technus 9.0, usually referred to as just Technus, is a villain in 5 Years Later. He first appeared in Chapter 4: The Fallen Gods. He is a Ghost from the Ghost Zone in the Danny Phantom Universe. Before joining the Alliance, he was a recurring foe of Danny Phantom.

Appearance

Technus is a ghost with green skin and white hair. He wears a pair of dark glasses and a silver cape. He has a mullet and a goatee. He wears a long black coat with yellow stripes and a glove with various circuits on his left hand.

Technus 2.0

Ecto-Ropes

Nanite Charged

Mecha Technus (Plumber Ship Fused)

Mecha Technus Base

Technus being fused with all the Alternatives Ben

Personality

"Yeah, I don't think so. You still haven't told us anything actually worth something to me. You think I'm just gonna stay in this lab and let you-!"

―Technus

Although a genius in his own right, Technus is very egotistical, with a habit to shout out his plans to his enemies before he has a chance to finish them. He uses outdated slang, such as “peace-out.” He is incredibly arrogant, arguing with both Eon and Aloysius Animo, believing himself to be better than both of them, and irritating Vlad Plasmius, who attempts to simply avoid him. He often demands to know what Eon's master plan is, being uncomfortable not knowing his goal. It has been stated that he hates emotions.

Abilities

• Intangibility- Technus has the ability to phase through solid objects
• Invisibility- Technus has the ability to turn invisible
• Flight- Technus has the ability to fly
• Overshadowing- Technus can take over a person's body and control their actions. He can also do this to machines.
• Technopathy- Technus is able to control all machinery and turn them into deadly weapons or make a battle suit.
  • Machine conjuring- Technus can conjure machines out of thin air. He summons his Lightning Rod that can generate electricity.
  • Telekinesis- Technus has the ability to move objects in a form of ecto-energy, He can also use this to immobilize opponents
  • Upgrading- Technus is able to upgrade machines or his body. Technus also used this power to give Vlad a new suit.
  • Hardware Fusion- Technus can alter his body into wires and cord, he could crack computer codes and transform himself into data.
• Electrokinesis- Technus able to control electricity, he can absorb the energy and make himself stronger and faster.
  • Ghost Ray- Technus can shoot a ray of ecto-energy.
  • Electric Ghost Shield- Technus can shield himself with ghost shields that resemble to a circuit board, he can also trap people with his shield and electrocute them.

Weaknesses

• Anti-Ghost Weapons- Technus is vulnerable to all anti-ghost devices, made by Fenton Works.
• Ecto-ranium- Technus is extremely vulnerable to ecto-ranium, as all ghosts are.
• Blood Blossoms- If Technus is in the presence of Blood Blossoms he will be rendered powerless and will suffer with great pain.

History

Technus was one of Danny's earliest foes. Danny first met him when he inadvertently caused the Fenton Portal to open up, releasing Technus momentarily. The two battled throughout Amity Park as Technus used his Ghost Powers to build a gigantic robotic body out of Fenton Works technology.

A few months later Technus returned to Amity Park where he became fascinated with one of Danny's video games. He traveled into the game in an attempt to take control over the internet. Danny and his friends found away to trap him in the game however but using a glitch to trap Technus in a softlock. Technus later escaped Danny's computer after Danny deleted his old copy of the video game. Danny followed Technus to an electronics store where he upgraded his body to Technus 2.0. After another huge battle across the city Technus was defeated by Danny and locked back into the Ghost Zone.

Much later on, Technus caused havoc in the Amity Park Mall until he slips away while Danny is busy hiding his identity from the onlookers, though he lingers long enough to spy on Danny's interactions with Valerie Gray to recognize their potential for romance... and therefore an opportunity to keep his opponent busy. He played match-maker with them to give him time to work on cracking a ten-thousand digit access code within a master computer in Axion Labs to gain control of a satellite computer in orbit that would in turn give him total control over the Internet. Even when Danny got close to discovering his scheme, Technus sent other obstacles his way, such as remotely hacking Valerie's original ghost-hunting battle suit, then going so far as to endowing her with an entirely new and improved battle suit to fight Danny in his Phantom persona, subtly predicting she would take an opportunity for revenge over reason. Despite all this, Danny defeated Technus once again before he could cause any lasting damage to the world.

While Vlad Masters was beginning his Disasteroid operation, Technus robbed an electronics store for extra parts. When confronted by Danny, he combines them with a nearby car to create the "Car-Puter", a battle suit too powerful for Danny to defeat by himself. Only Vlad's new team of ghost hunters the Master's Blasters were able to destroy his suit and capture him. Later on he appeared alongside all the other ghosts when Danny brought them all to Earth to help turn it intangible so the Disasteroid would not annihilate the planet- and by extension the Ghost Zone, both realms being the flipside of each other.

Prior to 5 Years Later

• Technus had evolved his body many more times over the years. Eventually becoming Technus 9.0 before meeting the time walker Eon.

5 Years Later

• In Chapter 4: The Fallen Gods (Page 4–23), Technus and Animo are in Zim's base building something for Eon, when he and Vlad teleport in. After Technus questions Eon of his motives, he tells the Alliance his backstory. Technus is not satisfied with this, however, and demands for answers, to which Eon responds by using his abilities to nearly kill him. Eon tells Technus that they will be stealing a Dwarf Star, and tells him to give Vlad a new suit, to which he does.
• In Chapter 6: Weightless (Page 4–37), Technus fought off Danny and Gwendolyn while Zim drained the power of a Dwarf Star.
• In Chapter 7: Fold (Page 50–54), Technus shows up right before the battle at Keshawn Desert starts to take control of a group of alternate versions of Ben Tennyson.
• In Chapter 8: Risen (Page 31- 42), Technus commanded his army of Alternative Ben Tennysons, and forced Fallout Ben to transform into Planet Buster.
• In Chapter 10: Again (Page 3-32), Technus and his Alternative Ben Tennysons have been entertaining themselves by laying waste to what remains of Earth and capturing The Orion Squad members in the process. Technus is later teleported to the Temporal Zone by Eon and fuses himself with the Alternative Ben Tennysons to create the monstrous fusion Big Ben.

Appearances

• Chapter 4: The Fallen Gods (first appearance)
• Chapter 6: Weightless
• Chapter 7: Fold
• Chapter 8: Risen
• Chapter 10: Again

Trivia

• Technus appeared on promotional material for the release of Chapter 1, despite not appearing until Chapter 4.
• His first name is a reference to Nikola Tesla
• Technus uses Nanites from Generator Rex in Chapter 7 to control the Alternative Ben Tennysons. This means that Technus has visited the Generator Rex Universe.