Upgrade could still sustain damage from attacks on whatever object or technology he is merged with, this has also been demonstrated by Bootleg. As a toddler, Upgrade could not completely merge with technology but could if he was stretched long enough. Being inorganic, Upgrade was able to survive in the vacuum of space, as demonstrated by Bootleg.īeing living metal, Upgrade was vulnerable to electricity, such as that generated by a Fulminias demonstrated by Bootleg. Upgrade could launch a powerful purple energy blast from his eye. Upgrade was able to upgrade the Omnitrix to permanently enhance his other aliens. Due to being made of living metal, he was able to regenerate himself. Upgrade was capable of making certain technology he possessed explode. Possessing technology allowed him to transform it with seemingly no limit, such as merging with the Rustbucket and turning it into a space ship, while the moment he un-merged with it, it returned to normal. When he merged he upgraded the technology, making the technology he possessed far more advanced and futuristic and causing new features to form on it. The size of the device is not significant and he controls it as naturally as he would his own body. Upgrade could use his internal nanotechnology to merge with and possess any technology by encasing himself over it. Upgrade was not completely solid, as he could alternate between the forms of a liquid and a gelatinous being.ĭue to this, he can reshape himself to let projectiles or blows pass through him by creating a hole in his body at will.
As a toddler, Upgrade still looks the same but in smaller size, as well as having a younger voice. He had purple stripes that extend from his body, resembling circuitry the circle on the front of his head being his eye.
Upgrade had a predominantly plum-coloured exterior with a violet torso and thighs.