#mini omni essay

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Yooooo! We're so back! Ben 10 is getting a new comic series by Dynamite Comics!

I just hope the comic isn't based on the reboot tbh.

A continuation from Omniverse's ending would be fucking amazing but I'd also be completely down with them just taking the massive amount of world building and lore already present in the 4 series and making something new. Especially if it has stuff like the Secret Scientists integrated from the start and shit.

Regardless tho I'm so hyped. If it does well we could eventually get an Invincible/Samurai Jack season 5 style mature Ben 10 series.

One of the heads of MoA iirc already said he really really wants to do a mature Ben 10 series in said vein and I'd be absolutely down with that holy shit.

Set it when Ben is 18 and has just unlocked Master Control and you can go absolutely ham with that concept alone.

Let's see the start of Ben 10K and how the universe reacts to the beginning of the Hero of Heroes rise

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This is how I see the universal translators in Ben 10 working. They don't REALLY have accents (since not only would that be linguistically impossible but make zero sense for their various speech methods).

Like Cerebrocrustacean (Brainstorm's species), they literally think so fast and hard their thoughts create sound waves and grant them electrokinesis. Which is .... fucking ridiculous but something I wouldn't put past a species where an average specimen has a IQ of 1 Nonillion (aka 1 followed by 30 zeroes).

Universal translators don’t just translate words from one language to another. They match your culture’s linguistics to the closest cultural dialect/accent of the listener’s world. For example: aliens might not BE Irish, but if they’re Irish in SPIRIT, they’ll be translated with an Irish accent

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How do you feel about people who ship Ben with Rex Salazar? What is your general opinion on the ship? Personally it’s one of my favorite Ben 10 ships since Rex not only treats Ben well and understands what he goes through as a hero, but Rex is also one of the few characters to have legitimate real chemistry with Ben.

It's fucking poggers is what it is.

I also ship Rex with Noah lol.

Honestly you can ship Ben with most any hero and they'd go along well.

Honestly a thing that basically never gets notice in crossovers is just how nuts (in the best way possible) Ben is in his dedication to heroics. He's literally done multiple all nighters in a row and doesn't go on vacations for weeks at a time (and even when he does get a day off he'd gladly throw it away to save people, even if it's in another reality).

He's also legitimately tried to kill himself for real to save lives he didn't even know about 24 hours ago.

Like, I'm not saying he'd get along perfectly with EVERY hero, since he's absolutely fine with killing people or letting them die from the consequences of their actions (which would rub every hero with a no kill rule wrong and he'd in turn hate them and see them as part of the problem).

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While I've never written any posts about their relationship in length... imo I don't need to when this one shot shows what makes their relationship utterly fascinating.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11985065/1/Weaker-Than-Starlight

Mana energy of Gwen Tennyson, meet black hole, Kevin Levin. And again and again, for the rest of your lives.

Ben 10, T, English, Romance, words: 3k+, favs: 43, follows: 12, Jun 6, 2016, [Gwen T., Kevin]

Their relationship is fascinating and the potential of their possible Osmosian/Anodite kid both plot and power wise is basically incalculable.

Their relationship is easily the best one in the series, besides Verdona and Max... not that there was much competition of course given Ben's love interests being done for of toxic and abusive.

Maybe you talked about or maybe not. What do you think about gwevin. I saw your main post are about Ben’s relationships, so if you talked about it, I m sorry for bothering you again. I love the way you write and explain your pov, it’s really cool.

I've mentioned something about them before but I've never written like, an essay length thoughts on Gwevin post. And that's mostly cause (big surprise) the main reason I watched the show was for my favourite character. Which is Ben obvi :P

But that isn't to say I don't I understand the appeal of Gwevin. In fact as someone who didn't watch the show through the lens of a "hardcore shipper" or anything, I thought they were written believably enough that I never really questioned their chemistry, unlike a lot of Ben's romantic relationships. I think their relationship has been built well enough to where it's kind of accepted as an established relationship by the general viewer. And they do make each other better people, which cements a beautiful, mutually fulfilling sentiment. Love that for them.

That isn't to say there are no flaws, but those flaws really do stem from romance - and romantic conflicts specifically - not being the writer's strong suit. I have to agree that their feelings developed very quickly, and some of those episodes where they had Kevin be unfaithful, or have him say blatantly sexist things to his girlfriend's face (who would be smart enough to notice) really weren't the best choices for sources of plot conflict.

Any other posts I made regarding them should be under the tags I'll drop below, so click on those if you want.

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Btw in case you ever run into someone trying to downplay the Omnitrix's reaction speed by saying the Anhillargh was an artificial Big Bang and so couldn't be as fast/strong as the real thing...

They're RIGHT, it's not as fast, it's FASTER by several orders of magnitude.

when the Universe was only about 100,000 light-years in diameter, roughly the size of the Milky Way galaxy, the Universe was only ~3 years old

The unenhanced Big Bang literally created a infinitly big universe in less than a minute and travelled at least 14.9 million light years (14 trillion C) in only 5 seconds.

The one the Onmitrix reacted to had a Dwarf Star that EXPLICITLY enhances whatever it's attached to by a thousand fold.

Universe being infinitly big

The universe being made by the unehanced Anhillargh

2:43

Where it makes several galaxies in 5 seconds.

Aka AT LEAST 14,900,000 light years in 5 seconds or 14 trillion C.

Seeing as the watch very explicitly transformed him AFTER he was shrouded by the light of the Big Bang but BEFORE he got hit with it (and again being super generous) this is the reaction time you'd need to react to something going that fast if it was a meter away from you.

You would have about 35 yoctoseconds to react before it hit you. As in the shortest unit of time before Plank Length.

You can see it happen at 2:02 to 2:16 along with Ben outright stating the Onmitrix wouldn't let him die.

The watch is ridiculously fast and that's the LOWEST low ball considering the one the Omnitrix ACTUALLY reacted to got modified with a Dwarf Star that explicitly enhances any tech/person it's attached to by a thousand fold. It can literally grant people powers and shit, like teleportation/force fields and innate super strength.

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Hahahahaha! @abcleverun that's actually a funny joke. Oh wait, you're serious?

Ben would never date a racist self-proclaimed anarchist that thinks the Plumbers are secretly evil. Oh yeah and you ALSO think he's a womanizing psycho/sociopathic narcissist that only saves women to get in their pants.

Holy shit. Talk about delusional takes.

Also like you've made it abundantly clear you hate the poor boy from your delusional take on a kids narrative from not only his occupation but his skin color. Soooo why the absolute fuck would you date someone you hate everything about???

Like unless you're the world's biggest gold digger/attention whore (since he's obviously rich af from endorsements/in universe merchandise and anyone being his significant other would get stupidly famous from mere proximity) and value the former above all his negatives I don't get forcing yourself to be in a relationship with someone you despise. Like the whole point of a relationship is for both parties to be happy, support each other, and grow together as people.

Also I stipulated who in FICTION would nab him.

Jesus fucking Christ learn to read will you? This shit is painful at this point.

You wouldn't last a single date with him since he wouldn't even show up after the Plumbers do a background check on you for safety reasons. Lmaooo. Know what? I'm gonna have this be the first chapter of this fic. That shit was too funny.

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I'm so TIRED of seeing that same shit take that Omniverse disregarded Ben's character development

Full stop, no bullshit? That's wrong. Objectively so.

I don't know what it is about Omniverse but the people with those takes ALWAYS disregard context.

@xcatxgirlx has actually done a number of essays outlining these facts but I might as well reiterate it all here.

Context, as always, is king.

In AF he had to act as the leader since Max was missing than presumed dead right in front of him. In season 3 the Highbreed were not only dealt with but Max was alive and well. So he can finally let loose.

In UA he had to deal with a bunch of shit.

In Omniverse his previously held dedication to heroics was still as strong as ever (an episode even points out this was his first time off in WEEKS) but he's dealt with so much shit basically nothing phases him anymore so he's far more laid back. Though as seen multiple times in the series is able to get deadly serious whenever a situation calls for it.

Keep in mind that half of UA and all of Omniverse happens in less than a year since Ben is 16 throughout.

Is Ben far more laid back in Omniverse? Yes, but he has a whole organization at his back since the Plumbers are fully operational on Earth again and are fully staffed. He's also consistently been dealing with Galactic/Universal and in Omniverse multiple Multiversal level threats so, of course, most things he faces is looked at as being small potatoes in comparison, because they are.

Not even a giant ass worm monster popping out of the ground while he's getting food causes him to freak out, he literally just hands his bag to a stranger and gets to work.

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I mean all Excalibur symbolizes is that whoever lifts it is the rightful King of Britain.

Nothing says you can't be an absolute fucker as king. In fact history makes that abundantly clear.

Besides which Ben is literally first in line for any throne in the universe, being the origin point of basically every species due to the Omnitrix DNA being mixed randomly via the Slimebiotes at the beginning of time and being seeded.

He's also literally the king of the Forever Knights due to using Ascalon last and that shit literally destroys your mind if you aren't careful.

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....AMAs go through the ask box you absolute fools. Well wishes are fine in the notes because they aren't questions but this one is. I shouldn't expect anything less from racists tho.

First of all @strawberryoverlord and @abcleverun, why WOULD I? Me clogging up my blog with the countless charities out there would hardly give them more traffick. Anyone who WOULD donate (like I have to multiple of said charities) don't need a constant stream of "look at this cause!!!" to actually donate, since they'd search it out for themselves.

Secondly, most people don't even HAVE spare income to donate to the thousands of causes and GoFundMes out there. People wanting to donate but being unable to do so would just cause unnecessary harm (something entirely unneeded in the highest month of suicides), and those that wouldn't donate wouldn't be swayed by a geyser of posts about them.

3rdly, and most importantly, the only ones being performative here are you lot. Claiming to hate racism but being absolutely ok with being racist to white people and claiming they can't be targeted for their race or are flat out immune to racism since they're white.

Racism is racism no matter the skin color it's pointed at. Just like you can be sexist to any sex or ageist to both old and young people.

I've gone over this EXTENSIVELY months prior. No ism is discriminatory in it's application since otherwise it'd be the very thing it's defining.

Donating to a charity isn't a metric for actually caring about the cause in question, otherwise we wouldn't call the billionaires that do that performative. What matters is what you do day to day to stop isms, saying racism is bad and participating in it is the height of performativeism. It doesn't matter if you donate thousands of dollars to charities, if you contribute to what it's trying to stop than you're LITERALLY part of the problem.

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I keep seeing this misconception of Anodites so I'd thought I'd clear it up

First the relavent wiki page of the episode

This episode does multiple things. It introduces Verdona (Ben and Gwen's grandmother), Anodites (living beings completely made of Mana, the inherently multi dimensional life energy in most living things and heavily hinted at as being in stars and even planets, said energy status makes them lack DNA and thus a scan in the Omnitrix), and showcased where Gwen's powers come from and her mastery of magic.

Male Anodites are indeed things since Verdona didn't say it was impossible when Ben asked if he too had the Spark that grants Gwen her powers.

Ben lacks it, so like his father and said father's brother, Ben is completely Human. Being a Anodites is a binary state, you either have the Spark (or in the case of Charmcaster stole it temporarily like in In Charms Way) and thus Anodite powers or you don't.

There's no such thing as anything but 1/2 Anodite.

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You know what will ALWAYS annoy me? The fact Ben 10 never got a musical episode.

Imo all series should have at least one.

Because there's been some bangers.

Like Once More With Feeling. It's basically universally praised as the best episode of Buffy.

The absolutely great The Devil's Hands are idle playthings from Futurama

Psych the musical

Hell the Death Note musical is so fucking good.

Like can you imagine an episode going into how Ben views his fame or the fact everyone he knows is a clone with him having no real idea how much he got right? The weight of the Omnitrix? His defensive mask of arrogance he puts on?

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A post actually went into detail on making her a good character a while back.

Nuts it seems they deleted it for some reason.

If I ever get around to actually doing the Ben 10 2.0 remake novelization thing I've actually toyed around with making Kai a better character.

Fuck, you don't even have to change much. Just get rid of the love interest angle (her wanting Ben as a pet makes any romantic routes impossible since Ben certainly wouldn't forget it) and play up her Lara Croft bit. Maybe give her a bit of magic know-how via Shamenistic stuff and have her become a Secret Scientist consultant. Add in her Plumber training and she'd be ripe for a spin off series of her own exploring ancient mysteries and foiling equally ancient apocalypses.

Hell even let her keep Excalibur if you want and play up her destined rule of England.

Ben being Ben will still be perfectly willing to work with her and stuff (he'll they could even become friends) but absolutely no romance.

Y’know…Kai Green was pretty fucking great in concept.

Not gonna sit here and excuse the way she was written or go “but representation automatically makes her good” BUT. But. She had so much potential.

Native American rep is rare, even rarer to specify the tribe/area they come from. Was it wise to say it was her destiny to get with Ben? Not really. I’m a sucker for the trope of destined lovers, but I can see why it’s offensive that her destiny boils down to being a white dude’s wife just because. I feel like at very least, if the trope were to be pulled, it’s should’ve been a lot sweeter. Or, just avoid it all together, since the way it came off in canon was kinda like they were together purely because they were told they had to. It’s poor writing how this wasn’t framed as toxic, but there wasn’t really enough to show the romance. Still, I think it’s cool that Ben’s future wife is a Navajo woman. How common is that? Her not only being native, but a love interest interest too. How common is that in animation? Specifically how common was this for a 2000s-early 2010s cartoon? Fucking dope in concept.

She studied alien history, tracked artifacts, etc. I’m not gonna pretend that a role like this is uncommon, but it’s still cool. Also. In the possible future. Lady with a sword. Is it uncommon? No. Is it cool? Yes. I’m a sucker for swords. I don’t have a great defense here other than she is badass in concept when you consider what she does.

Of course, what makes her fall apart is how her personality was written and the aforementioned destiny shit. But IDK. I don’t get this fandom. I get why she’s hated, sure, but the few people I see who like her are romanticizing the way she treats Ben. That’s not right, “teasing” isn’t romance. Putting down your supposed lover excessively isn’t love. I can’t be the only one who looks at her and goes “okay but what about a fix-it fic.” She had so much untapped potential. Don’t get me wrong, I see the arguments for other characters being better for Ben’s endgame (Rook, Ester, Julie, mostly Rook), and yeah, true, can’t deny that they are better options in context of canon, but I don’t even mean give Kai a chance as a romantic option. Just give her a chance as a character. IDK, maybe it’s just me as someone who tries to stay in a very small fandom circle, but I feel like if a white character did the things she did they’d be met with “yasss queen,” (which isn’t right but still worth noting) and some people are so eager to justify similar characters or fix-it-fic them into not being terrible people, then there’s Kai who no one really seems to consider fixing regardless as to whether they love or hate her.

TL;DR Kai was a badass well of untapped potential that wasn’t written well, she is my very problematic fave for everything she could’ve been instead, and this fandom won’t dare touch her.

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So if Ben Tennyson were gay/bi what characters would you ship him with? (Said character needn't be canonically gay/bi).

Honestly I'd adore the hypothetical relationship Ben Tennyson and Danny Phantom could have (even if it'd pain me since Sam/Danny is great).

I've actually thought about actually writing the one shot where they meet and Danny is basically getting his mind blown 24/7 from everything to do with Ben's life and how he can basically explore the universe (and has even seen it be made!!!) whenever he wants. This isn't even getting into Sam jumping at the chance to learn magic and Tucker basically being camotose from excitement at all the Plumber tech/Rook's Proto Tool/the Omnitrix/the Extranet.

Hell if I ever make it more than a one shot Danny would JUMP at the chance to become a Plumber since he wanted to be a astronaut prior to his powers. Being a Plumber is >>>>>>>>>>>> an astronaut after all. Hell they'd see his powers as a asset.

Speaking of that last bit (I think I've touched upon it here once or twice?) but it's my headcanon that by the time Ben 10K is a thing inter dimensional travel is widespread and has a process akin to airports/space travel for regular people. This has basically set up a Multiversal branch of the Plumbers lead by a team of Omnitrix users/citadel of Azmuths/his intellectual peers and allows all the various alt Omnitrix users to meet up/hang out.

Kinda like this fic here tbh but more widespread

"In the most ordinary world imaginable, the Ben without an Omnitrix struggles to be something more."

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What the Omnitrix allows the user to turn into per canon

The only requirements for something to be in the watch is for them to be sapient, have DNA, and not being magic based entities (thus why it not having Anodite/Stone Creature transformations).

So the watch wouldn't allow the user to turn into a Gem from Steven Universe since they don't have DNA but it WOULD allow the user to turn into Galactus (since he not only has a kid but has been cloned) and a 5th dimensional imp (seeing as Superman 1 million has the powers of one since he has all the powers of his descendants somehow).

The magic portion would mean that it would allow the user to turn into magic users so long as they aren't powered/sustained by just magic. So various entities from Harry Potter are fair game (like House Elves/Mermaids etc).

As shown with Nanomech any species tied to a hivemind is made to be uninfluenced by said hivemind (so something like Prototype's Blacklight wouldn't have to worry about the viral hivemind for example).

As shown by Alien X esoteric DNA isn't a problem either seeing as Celestialsapiens are WoG to exist across time simultaneously being 5th dimensional entities. So afaik Time Lords from Doctor Who are likewise fair game.

Seeing as fictional exploration is predicated by the fictional golden rule (that is everything is like real life unless specified otherwise) any species that isn't explicitly said to have DNA but match all the other criteria are likewise fair game for being scanned and made a available transformation. Also as I've pointed out before in my debunk here, all transformations are based on the base state of the user and are in no way the peak of their species unless said user is also the peak of their own species.

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Where are all these bad takes of Ben Tennyson being a bad boyfriend coming from?

No, seriously.

As @xcatxgirlx has shown in various essays (and whose help really shouldn't be needed to see it since it's pretty clear in the series... but than again there are people who legitimately actually no bullshit believe Ben is a narcissistic womanizing sociopath/psychopath so maybe her amazing essays are needed after all) that Ben's longest relationship was only ok for like.... a couple episodes.

Julie straight up wanted shit from Ben he in good conscious couldn't do or he had no real control over, this isn't even getting into the fact the narrative bends over backwards to paint Ben as the bad guy in arguments arbitraryly.

What am I talking about?

Like them getting mad at him for prioritizing a hostage situation over being on time for Julie at the airport, or how in Duped Gwen STRAIGHT UP ADMITTED the Forever Knights are always trying to take over the world and them getting mad at him for stopping them instead of arriving on time for a match. Or the very same episode where Julie threw a bitch fit at Ben being a media magnet. He doesn't even LIKE IT in the first place.

You want to know what would have happened if the writers weren't forcing the drama? They'd have broken up looooooong before Omniverse once she made it clear she prioritizes her time/their date time above SAVING LIVES and there'd never be any OOC bs like Gwen prioritizing a tennis match over stopping the Forever Knights. Them braking up is honestly for the best since Julie has a boyfriend that can actually give her the attention she wants (who I should note she basically got behind Ben's back since he thought they were still together prior to them meeting again in Omniverse).

Contrary to Julie, Ben has never ONCE complained about Julie being gone for long stretches of time for tennis matches. All things considered and given the context of Ben's life... he's a fantastic love interest that has his priorities right. You can always have another date, all those lives lost during inaction? Gone forever. The Ben 10 setting isn't one that makes death cheap as I pointed out here, it sticks.

I don't know why it's so hard to give him a love interest that understands his life style. He literally goes WEEKS without a break, pulls multiple all nighters, and has constant nightmares. The only love interest that does so is Eunice and she unfortunately messes with the Omnitrix and thus Ben's lifestyle through no intentional fault of her own.

Every other love interest fails spectacularly.

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That's like... What the series has always been building up to?

Ben 10,000 has always shown us a future where aliens are (rightly) like humans and deserve no extra consideration/discrimination even with their natural powers.

I personally have always LOVED how the series kicked the Status Quo to the curb every chance it could. More series should follow in it's and the MCUs footsteps honestly.

Having natural consequences and reactions from past events basically forces you to skip most any creative stumbling block you could care to face.

Aliens successfully cohabitating with humans on Earth (or humans on other planets) is the realization of Azmuth's goal for cross species understanding.

i love ben 10 with my whole heart but aliens being so normalized by the end of the series makes me sad sometimes

i miss how weird everything was in the beginning. the aliens were totally unpredictable, often gross- nobody had any idea what they were gonna pull or what abilities they had. i miss that fascination