Ghoul Slugs

​​Ghoul Slugs (aka Ghouls & Goons) are slugs that have been corrupted by one of the various forms of "ghouling" using Dark Energy. Ghoul Slugs can be turned back into regular Slugs by Healer Slugs or The Lightwell. Dr. Blakk uses a small machine that gases a slug and then transforms it. Some Slugslingers prefer Ghouls over slugs because they are more powerful than standard slugs, even though ghouls are hard to control and prone to running away once fired from a blaster.

While Ghouls are stronger than regular slugs, it has been seen that a highly trained slug can defeat them. This indicates that ghouls are not automatically stronger than slugs, as seen in "The Trade", where Blakk offers to give Eli his slug back in a stronger state. Overall, the strength of a ghoul is dependent on the overall strength of the slug's original power. A ghoul can probably get stronger through training like normal slugs, though this is unconfirmed.

A Ghoul usually has more powerful, damaging and longer lasting effects than their counterparts (Ex. Amperling, Nightgeist) while others have effects that are opposite to their original counterparts (Ex. Goon Doc, Vamparo) or gain additional abilities (Ex. Tempesto, Cryptogrif). Either way, a Ghoul is made to be more powerful and destructive than their original forms.

Ghouls are primarily feral and possess destructive tendencies. However, there are certain cases of a Ghoul behaves like regular slugs, as shown with Loki. When Burpy was ghouled, he remained loyal to Eli, though exhibited a slightly twisted personality due to the Dark Water's corruption. Additionally, in a Slugisode, an Amperling, Frost Fang and Tempesto acted as slug bullies towards Rookie.

When Ghouls are shot out of a blaster, they tend to run off and form wild packs but this does not seem to line up with the show where C.C. is seen calling his scattered Ghouls back by a whistling.  It is possible that the ghouling process makes slugs less likely to listen to their slinger, requiring a stronger bond in order to control them. In Ghoul from Beyond however, Kord states that many ghouls escaped in the battle.

It has been seen that the creation of Ghouls can cause devastating effects on slugs. One such case would be Burpy in the episode "Lightwell", whose power was quickly being drained by the dark energy of ghouls making him very sick and unable to transform when shot out of a blaster, forcing him to visit the Lightwell.

As seen in "Back to Blakk" a large number of ghouls can open a portal for the Darkbane, but only four can pass through. The first ghoul was long thought to be the Tempesto that sent Will Shane to The Deep Caverns, but it was actually a Greneater, as revealed in Back to Blakk and The Fall of the Eastern Champion.

List of Ghoul Slugs

There are 36 different kinds of Ghoul Slugs so far in the show:

• Note: Some Ghouls are never seen in the show: (NS)

1. Air Elemental ghoul
2. Amperling
3. Aquafreak
4. Attacknet
5. Barreto
6. Doomspiker-(NS)
7. Briardrill
8. Bubbalash
9. Cryptogrif
10. Cryscada
11. Dark Urchin
12. Darkfurnus
13. Disastiped
14. Earth Elemental ghoul
15. Fire Elemental ghoul
16. Flatulo Rex
17. Enigblind-(NS)
18. Frostfang
19. Goon Doc
20. Gorgemelter-(NS)
21. Geoshard ghoul
22. Greneater
23. Grimmstone
24. Harmashelt
25. Hop Jack
26. Hoverblade
27. Jollyfist
28. Lavamander-(NS)
29. Megabreaker
30. Negablade
31. Neurotox
32. Nightgeist
33. Photomo
34. Pyringo-(NS)
35. Quicksalvo
36. Sand Mangler-(NS)
37. Scariat-(NS)
38. Sirench-(NS)
39. Smugglet
40. Spazzer-(NS)
41. Tempesto
42. Terrarix
43. Thrasher
44. Transplitter
45. Vamparo
46. Water Elemental ghoul
47. Vexlet-(NS)

Trivia

• All Ghoul Slugs are Dark Shadow elements.
• When a Boon Doc unghouls a Goon Doc it cause severe sickness, instead of healing, and possibly even kill. However, this may just apply to the Goon, since he was created with so much dark energy.
• Ghouls tend to have longer arms than regular Slugs.
• Ghouls all have sharper and longer teeth than their normal slug counterparts.
• Ghouls were similar to Dark Spectrobes from Spectrobes and Dark Invizimals from Invizimals .
  • Dark Invisimals normally are like other Invisimal's requiring them to be corrupted, like Ghouls, except that the Dark Invisimals are already in a "Darker" form before being corrupted.
• In The Fall of the Eastern Champion, Junjie introduces other word for "Ghouls" and calls them "Goons", which was probably why they called The Goon, The Goon.
• Most Megamorph Ghouls lack the white markings regular Slugs have, instead having reddish markings akin to scars, as well as a slightly sharper look.
• Trixie states in Know your Ghouls! that Ghouls can smell fear.

Gallery

Tempesto's black hole

Tempesto

Loki in "No exit"

1st ghoul slug

Thrasher in a blaster

Early drawing of a Frostfang

Ghouls are shadow element slugs

Nightgeist

Jollyfist

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Possibly an illustration of a ghoul, dating from before Blakk discovered dark water.

A Ghoul tube, with the opening sealed.

Aquafreak

Aquafreak Megamorph Protofrom

Some Ghouls

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Slugs and Ghoul Slugs concept art

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Darkfurnus megamorph velocity

Darkfurnus (Slug It Out 2 Velocity)

Amperling (Slug It Out 2 Velocity)

Joules as an amperling in what lies beneath

Ghoul Machines

Slugs enter at the top.

A Hop Rock, in the Ghouling machine about to be turned into a Hop Jack.

Then are sealed inside the chamber..

Dark Water vapor filters up from the red lighted areas at the bottom.

The chamber fills with vapor. When the Slug becomes a Ghoul, it is dropped through the bottom of the chamber and into a Ghoul tube.

Ghoul machine being filled with Dark Water.

One Ghoul tube worth of Dark Water creates one Ghoul.

Energy moving through the Water vapor; most likely a visible form of Slug energy, since "What Lies Beneath" shows that only Dark Water, and no machines, are needed to Ghoul Slugs.

A freshly Ghouled Hop Jack.

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