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1. Shard Calculation

Query:

Response:

Calculated Shard: 172 (from laksa173)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa172.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10","crawl_time":1758592783,"first_indexed_time":1530518411,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,tvtropes!\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10 s443","src_root_hash":"4509341584884556972","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Ben 10 (Western Animation) - TV Tropes","meta_descriptions":["Ben 10 is an American action\/adventure series created by Man of Action Studios (a group of comic book writers consisting of Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe …"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"\n\t    The villain of the episode, Clancy, has the power to command arthropods. \t Report","attrs_markdown":"![](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tr?id=850567933835915&ev=PageView&noscript=1)\n\n![TVTropes Logo](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/images\/tvtropes_logo_180x180.png)\n\nTVTropes Now available in the app store\\!\n\n[Open](https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/6738365737)\n\n[Tropes](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Tropes) 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[Get Known](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/login.php?tab=register_account) if you don't have an account\n\nhttp:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10\n\n# **Western Animation  \/   Ben 10** [11]()   [Following](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#watch)\n[Go To](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#mobile-actions-toggle)\n\n- [Edit Page](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10?action=edit)\n- [Related](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/relatedsearch.php?term=WesternAnimation\/Ben10)\n- [History](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/article_history.php?article=WesternAnimation.Ben10)\n- [3 Reviews](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/reviews.php?target_group=WesternAnimation&target_title=Ben10)\n- [Discussion](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/remarks.php?trope=WesternAnimation.Ben10)\n- [To Do](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#todo)\n- [Page 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[YMMV](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/YMMV\/Ben10 \"The YMMV page\")\n- [![play](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/images\/play-button-logo.png) VideoExamples](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/VideoExamples\/Ben10 \"Video Examples\")\n- [More Less]()\n- [Create Subpage]()\n\n![Ben 10 (Western Animation)](https:\/\/mediaproxy.tvtropes.org\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/static.tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pub\/images\/ben10.png)\n\n*[One part kid, ten parts hero.](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TagLine \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TagLine\")* note Clockwise from bottom: [Ben Tennyson](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHero\"), [Grey Matter](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShorterMeansSmarter \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShorterMeansSmarter\"), [Wildmutt](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AngryGuardDog \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AngryGuardDog\"), [Fourarms](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MultiArmedAndDangerous \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MultiArmedAndDangerous\"), [Ghostfreak](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/OurGhostsAreDifferent \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/OurGhostsAreDifferent\"), [Stinkfly](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigCreepyCrawlies \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigCreepyCrawlies\"), [Heatblast](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlayingWithFire \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlayingWithFire\"), [Diamondhead](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GemstoneAssault \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GemstoneAssault\"), [XLR8](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperSpeed \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperSpeed\"), [Ripjaws](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FiendishFish \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FiendishFish\"), and [Upgrade](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MechanicalLifeforms \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MechanicalLifeforms\").\n\n*It started when an alien device did what it did And stuck itself upon his wrist with secrets that it hid Now he's got super-powers, he's no ordinary kid, He's Ben 10\\! So if you see him you might be in for a big surprise, He'll turn into an alien before your very eyes, He's slimy, creepy, fast, and strong, he's every shape and size, He's Ben 10\\! Armed with powers, he's on the case Fighting off evil from Earth or space. He'll never stop 'till he makes 'em pay, 'cause he's the baddest kid to ever save the day\\! Ben 10\\!*\n\n— **[Expository Theme Song](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExpositoryThemeSong \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExpositoryThemeSong\")**\n\n*Ben 10* is an American action\/adventure series created by [Man of Action Studios](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/ManOfActionStudios \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/ManOfActionStudios\") (a group of comic book writers consisting of Duncan Rouleau, [Joe Casey](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/JoeCasey \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/JoeCasey\"), [Joe Kelly](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/JoeKelly \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/JoeKelly\"), and Steven T. Seagle) that aired from 2005 to 2008. The show revolves around the adventures of Ben Tennyson, a 10-year-old boy who, while on summer vacation with his grandfather Max and cousin Gwen, he comes into the possession of The Omnitrix: a [mysterious alien device](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum\") [that allows him to change](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VoluntaryShapeshifting \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VoluntaryShapeshifting\") [into a multitude of alien heroes](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SwissArmyHero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SwissArmyHero\"). At first, there are only ten aliens (hence the name \"Ben 10\"), but Ben unlocked more aliens as the series went on.\n\nWhy isn't the device in more capable hands? Well, once it attached to Ben, it was stuck there. [It won't come off.](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin\") And with that problem established, Ben and his family decide to continue traveling the United States, [fighting off evil from Earth or space](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExpositoryThemeTune \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExpositoryThemeTune\"), all while slowly discovering that Ben getting the Omnitrix may not have been as much of an accident as previously thought and that [Grandpa Max may know far more about these alien threats than he lets on](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SecretLegacy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SecretLegacy\"). Also, don't worry about [Gwen](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HyperCompetentSidekick \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HyperCompetentSidekick\") being left out in all this: [she eventually gets her own skill set](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicalGirl \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicalGirl\").\n\nThe show is notable for including a substantial amount of [Character Development](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CharacterDevelopment \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CharacterDevelopment\") and universe-building, as well as two big [Plot Twists](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlotTwist \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlotTwist\") in the first and second seasons, respectively.\n\nThe beginning of the original continuity in the [franchise](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Franchise\/Ben10 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Franchise\/Ben10\"), three more series follow in this timeline: the [Darker and Edgier](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DarkerAndEdgier \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DarkerAndEdgier\") [Time Skipped](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TimeSkip \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TimeSkip\") sequel *[Ben 10: Alien Force](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10AlienForce \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10AlienForce\")* that follows Ben as a teenager, then *[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10UltimateAlien \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10UltimateAlien\")* (which immediately follows the events of *Alien Force*), and finally the [Lighter and Softer](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LighterAndSofter \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LighterAndSofter\") *[Ben 10: Omniverse](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10Omniverse \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10Omniverse\")* that immediately follows *Ultimate Alien*. The foursome who created the original series went on to create *[Generator Rex](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/GeneratorRex \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/GeneratorRex\")*, and later work on *[Ultimate Spider-Man](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/UltimateSpiderMan2012 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/UltimateSpiderMan2012\")*, before returning to [reboot](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ContinuityReboot \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ContinuityReboot\") this series with *[Ben 10 (2016)](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben102016 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben102016\")*.\n\nThe original series also has three television movies based on it; *[Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix\")*, an [Alternate Universe](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AlternateUniverse \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AlternateUniverse\") [Live-Action Adaptation](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LiveActionAdaptation \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LiveActionAdaptation\") *[Ben 10: Race Against Time](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Film\/Ben10RaceAgainstTime \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Film\/Ben10RaceAgainstTime\")* (notable for starring [Lee Majors as Grandpa Max](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Series\/TheSixMillionDollarMan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Series\/TheSixMillionDollarMan\")), and a 2012 all-CGI film called *[Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10DestroyAllAliens \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10DestroyAllAliens\")* that was later [Ret Canoned](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/RetCanon \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/RetCanon\").\n\nNot to be confused with the [Bren Ten.![](https:\/\/static.tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pub\/external_link.gif)](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bren_Ten)\n***\n## This show provides examples of:\n- [Aborted Arc](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AbortedArc \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AbortedArc\"): The episode \"Permanent Retirement\" ended with a Limax escaping in its spaceship and another remaining at large at the retirement resort, but nothing was made of it, not even in the three [Sequel Series](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SequelSeries \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SequelSeries\").\n  - The [Sequel Hook](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SequelHook \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SequelHook\") of \"Ben 10 vs the Negative 10\" hinted that the Forever King\/Driscoll would return, something never followed up on in the original series due it ending with the fourth season. Driscoll would return in *[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10UltimateAlien \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10UltimateAlien\")* under different circumstances.\n- [Abusive Parents](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AbusiveParents \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AbusiveParents\"):\n  - Kevin's, who apparently threw him onto the street. Later Kevin himself, using his son Devlin to get his revenge on Ben. Future retcons would only muddle this further.\n  - It's hinted that it's *not* the case with Kevin: he either ran away on his own and was thus lying, or his parents threw him out for being freaking *nuts* and not because of his powers, but in Kevin's mind, his \"freakish\" powers were the reason.\n  - Also, Hex serves as an abusive parental figure to Charmcaster, which [comes back to bite him in the ass.](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheStarscream \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheStarscream\")\n- [Actor Allusion](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ActorAllusion \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ActorAllusion\"): In the episode \"Game Over\", where Ben and Gwen get sucked into a video game, Grandpa Max ([Paul Eiding](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/PaulEiding \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/PaulEiding\")) notices their game console has been left on and complains, \"I thought I told you to turn the game console off!\". This is very similar to a line in [Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/VideoGame\/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/VideoGame\/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty\") spoken by Colonel Roy Campbell, also voiced by Eiding, where the game starts [breaking the fourth wall](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoFourthWall \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoFourthWall\"), and Campbell tells the protagonist, Raiden, to turn the game console off.\n- [Aesop Amnesia](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AesopAmnesia \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AesopAmnesia\"): The sheer number of times Ben has learned lessons about being nicer to Gwen and Max, using the Omnitrix smarter not harder, and respecting other people, only to promptly discard them by the next episode is truly staggering.\n- [Added Alliterative Appeal](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AddedAlliterativeAppeal \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AddedAlliterativeAppeal\"): Happens in \"Side Effects\":\n  **Max:** It's your hives. The cold must have turned them into pus-filled pockets of–\n  **Gwen:** Pure putridness\\!\n- [The Alcatraz](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheAlcatraz \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheAlcatraz\"): Incarcecon, the prison satellite.\n- [Aliens Speaking English](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AliensSpeakingEnglish \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AliensSpeakingEnglish\"): Most aliens are able to speak perfectly in English without the use of a translator, and not just the ones that Ben turns into.\n- [All Bikers Are Hells Angels](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllBikersAreHellsAngels \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllBikersAreHellsAngels\"): Rojo's gang.\n- [All-CGI Cartoon](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllCGICartoon \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllCGICartoon\"): Its 2012 film, *[Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10DestroyAllAliens \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10DestroyAllAliens\")*.\n- [All Myths Are True](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllMythsAreTrue \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllMythsAreTrue\"): On average, for every five or six that can be attributed to aliens, there's one *that can't*.\n- [All There in the Manual](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllThereInTheManual \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllThereInTheManual\"): Pop-up commentary during a *Ben 10* marathon revealed a lot of facts that aren't stated in the show, most notably an extensive backstory for Ghostfreak and even a true name for him: Zs'Skayr. They also spoke about certain characters that would appear in later series, like SevenSeven, older brother of SixSix.\n- [All Your Powers Combined](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllYourPowersCombined \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllYourPowersCombined\"): Kevin 11 to Ben's original 10 aliens.\n- [Alternative Foreign Theme Song](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AlternativeForeignThemeSong \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AlternativeForeignThemeSong\"): The show has a different ending theme for the Japanese version called [\"Ladybird Girl\"![](https:\/\/static.tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pub\/external_link.gif)](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tWajprtWpf8), a love song, which is not very fitting for a show about transforming into multiple aliens.\n- [Apocalypse How](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ApocalypseHow \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ApocalypseHow\"):\n  - In \"The Big Tick\", the [titular monster](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AntagonistTitle \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AntagonistTitle\") is a [Planet Destroyer](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer\") which has inflicted a [Class X](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ApocalypseHow\/ClassX \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ApocalypseHow\/ClassX\") on every world it visited by rooting into and feeding off [the core](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetaryCoreManipulation \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetaryCoreManipulation\"): the tick's influence first mutates the floral and fauna before the planet suffers an [Earth-Shattering Kaboom](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EarthShatteringKaboom \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EarthShatteringKaboom\"). It's responsible for destroying the homeworld of Cannonball's species just a week before this episode takes place.\n  - In \"Camp Fear\", the fungal [Monster of the Week](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterOfTheWeek \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterOfTheWeek\") intends to release billions of [Mushroom Man](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MushroomMan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MushroomMan\") spores into the atmosphere, which Gwen notes could spread over the whole state or country in a [Class 0](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ApocalypseHow\/Class0 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ApocalypseHow\/Class0\").\n  - In \"Dr. Animo and the Mutant Ray\", Animo threatened to cause a [Class 4](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ApocalypseHow\/Class4 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ApocalypseHow\/Class4\") or a [Class 6](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ApocalypseHow\/Class6 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ApocalypseHow\/Class6\") variant by mutating the Earth's entire biosphere into Omnitrix alien fusions, intending to use his [Doomsday Device](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DoomsdayDevice \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DoomsdayDevice\") in conjunction with a satellite.\n  - In Season 3, Zs'Skayr attempts to inflict [The Night That Never Ends](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheNightThatNeverEnds \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheNightThatNeverEnds\") on Earth as a form of [Hostile Terraforming](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HostileTerraforming \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HostileTerraforming\"), by covering the planet in a Corrodium shield. The fact the [Corrodium](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheCorruption \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheCorruption\") will effectively cause a Class 4 by mutating all animal life on the planet into monsters is thought to be merely a *side-effect*.\n- [Argument of Contradictions](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ArgumentOfContradictions \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ArgumentOfContradictions\"): What some of Ben and Gwen's conversations boil down to.\n- [Artifact Title](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ArtifactTitle \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ArtifactTitle\"): From the moment Ben discovered the eleventh alien in the Omnitrix, the title Ben 10, which mainly referred to the number of aliens he had at the beginning of the series (and to a much lesser extent, his age, and last name, *Ten*nyson), quickly became irrelevant.\n- [Artistic License – Biology](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ArtisticLicenseBiology \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ArtisticLicenseBiology\"): In an episode, some cows and a human were turned into mutant monstrosities due to exposure to an alien mutagen. Fortunately they were 'only briefly exposed', so the mutation reversed itself by the end of the episode. Needless to say, that's NOT how biology or radiation works\\!\n- [Asimov's Three Kinds of Science Fiction](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction\"): The show being [Space Opera](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SpaceOpera \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SpaceOpera\"), it falls squarely in the Adventure classification. [Kid Hero](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHero\") Ben Tennyson stumbles onto the alien-originated Omnitrix, a device that allows him to turn into a roulette of aliens, each with their own unique set of superpowers. The exact inner workings of the Omnitrix are spoon-fed to the audience, though never completely revealed and the social implications of such technology are never even glanced at. What the series cares about is Ben fending off extraterrestrial bad guys and sometimes going galaxy-trekking.\n- [Ax-Crazy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AxCrazy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AxCrazy\"): Kevin 11 is shown to have sadistic and violent tendencies.\n- [Badass Biker](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BadassBiker \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BadassBiker\"): Rojo a [Hot-Blooded](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HotBlooded \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HotBlooded\") (bordering on [Ax-Crazy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AxCrazy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AxCrazy\")) biker.\n- [Badass Family](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BadassFamily \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BadassFamily\"): Max Tennyson and his grandchildren travel the country fighting world-threatening aliens.\n- [Badass Normal](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BadassNormal \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BadassNormal\"):\n  - Max Tennyson has been fighting powerful aliens for years in spite of just being a human being with no powers.\n  - Ben himself in the episode \"Gwen 10\" where Ben loses his powers, Ben still proves to be pretty badass, even using Grandpa Max's [BFG](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BFG \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BFG\") with no problem.\n  - In \"Grudge Match\", Ben manages to defeat an alien robot even after his Omnitrix times out. Admittedly, he already weakened it as Diamondhead, but it was still more than capable of killing him.\n- [Baseball Episode](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BaseballEpisode \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BaseballEpisode\"): The episode \"The Unnaturals\" in which the Cannons (their hometown and Ben's school baseball team) and their opponents named Squires (disguised as baseball players but actually they are robots) had a baseball game in Philadelphia. One of its team are the school bullies named J.T. and Cash. During the game, XLR8 sabotages them before acting in favor of the team. Later in the episode, Ben sneaks into the Cannons and wears Cash's baseball t-shirt with the inscription \"23\" on the back of it. He failed to bat the ball two times but when he bats it successfully, he runs from his starting point up to the umpire or referee and from that part of the field, he turns into Four Arms.\n- [Be Careful What You Wish For](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor\"): The beginning of an episode has Ben easily thwart a robbery. At the end of the preview, he outright states if there's anyone who can give him a challenge. Just so happens, it was the Negative 10 episode.\n- [BFG](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BFG \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BFG\"): Some of Max's guns.\n- [Big Bad](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad\"): Vilgax in Season 1, Kevin 11 in Season 2, Ghostfreak in Season 3, and the Forever King in Season 4.\n  - Vilgax, being the [Arch-Enemy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ArchEnemy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ArchEnemy\"), *also* had the role of secondary [Big Bad](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad\") in Seasons 2 and 4.\n- [Big Damn Movie](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigDamnMovie \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigDamnMovie\"): *[Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix\")*, which [Man of Action Studios](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/ManOfActionStudios \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/ManOfActionStudios\") have stated to canonically be the finale of the original series. The universe is threatened by the Omnitrix's self-destruct mode, and its creator is introduced, who goes on to become a supporting character in future installments.\n- [Big Eater](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigEater \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigEater\"): Ben's alien form Upchuck can eat pretty much anything...[except human food](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Irony \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Irony\").\n- [Birthday Buddies](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BirthdayBuddies \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BirthdayBuddies\"): Cousins Ben and Gwen Tennyson share the same birthday, and since they are both 10 years old that means they were born on the same day. Since they are both spending the summer travelling with their grandfather Max, they get into an argument over whose birthday should be celebrated on the actual date of their birthday.\n- [Bizarre Alien Senses](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BizarreAlienSenses \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BizarreAlienSenses\"): As Wildmutt, Ben [lacks eyes](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EyelessFace \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EyelessFace\"), yet still experiences \"images\" of what's around him. This perception is probably scent-based, as the images grow sharper when he takes a breath and he had trouble navigating when Ben changed into him while having a cold.\n- [Black-and-White Morality](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlackAndWhiteMorality \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlackAndWhiteMorality\"): The show is mostly this trope, but the main hero's character flaws can push it slightly into [Black-and-Gray Morality](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlackAndGrayMorality \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlackAndGrayMorality\") at times.\n- [Black Box](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlackBox \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlackBox\"): The Omnitrix itself. Even its *creator* doesn't know exactly what he's made.\n- [Black Magician Girl](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlackMagicianGirl \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlackMagicianGirl\"): Charmcaster has magic powers.\n- [Body Horror](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BodyHorror \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BodyHorror\"): Quite a lot of it, in fact:\n  - Many of Ben's transformations involve this.\n  - Kevin after he is forced to be a conglomerate of Ben's original 10 forms.\n  - The way the flesh on Ben's wrist stretches like chewing gum when Vilgax removed the Omnitrix.\n  - The mutations inflicted by Corrodium in the episode \"Under Wraps\" were particularly unnerving; monstrous, twisted, black shadows with glowing purple lines gouged across them. Later on, in \"Be Afraid of the Dark\", when we actually see the mutations taking place  as the entire populace of Earth is subjected to them, it's even more disturbing.\n- [Brush-Off Walk-Off](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BrushOffWalkOff \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BrushOffWalkOff\"): Ben does this to Kevin in \"Framed”, which pisses him off and triggers a [Shapeshifter Mode Lock](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShapeshifterModeLock \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShapeshifterModeLock\").\n- [Came from the Sky](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CameFromTheSky \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CameFromTheSky\"): This is how Ben got the Omnitrix.\n- [Can't Live Without You](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CantLiveWithoutYou \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CantLiveWithoutYou\"): Ben and Kevin in the [Chained Heat](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ChainedHeat \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ChainedHeat\") episode — their shackle is set up so if one of them dies, so does the other.\n- [Can't Shift While Shifted](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CantShiftWhileShifted \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CantShiftWhileShifted\"): The Omnitrix as a [Transformation Trinket](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationTrinket \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationTrinket\") is only in an operable form to select aliens when Ben is human, meaning he can't pick another alien until he turns back into a human. This is later subverted when we learn about the Master Control, which allows Ben to change alien forms just by mentally wishing to - even if he is already in an alien form. And in the sequels, Ben learned how to change forms in alien form by touching The Omnitrix.\n- [Cape Busters](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CapeBusters \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CapeBusters\"): The Forever Knights often target Ben because of his Omnitrix enabling him to assume different alien forms.\n- [Captain Ersatz](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CaptainErsatz \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CaptainErsatz\"): There's a shocking number of comic book characters in \"Ready to Rumble\" getting the treatment: [Cyclops](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/Cyclops \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/Cyclops\"), [Wonder Man](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/WonderMan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/WonderMan\"), and [Killer Croc](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/Batman \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/Batman\").\n- [Capture Balls](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CaptureBalls \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CaptureBalls\"): In the future shown in [\"Ken 10\"](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S4E7Ken10 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S4E7Ken10\"), Ben captures defeated enemies inside thrown \"Null Void Containment Eggs\" until he can release them into the [Null Void](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PrisonDimension \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PrisonDimension\").\n- [Centrifugal Farce](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CentrifugalFarce \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CentrifugalFarce\"): [BenMummy and a Werewolf-esque alien fight](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ItMakesSenseInContext \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ItMakesSenseInContext\") next to one of these.\n- [Chained Heat](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ChainedHeat \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ChainedHeat\"): \"Grudge Match\" had Ben and Kevin chained together for most of the episode.\n- [Character Catchphrase](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CharacterCatchphrase \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CharacterCatchphrase\"): \"It's hero time!\" and variations, when Ben uses the Omnitrix; and \"Oh, man!\" when he does something stupid or realizes he did something stupid (the latter of which would carry over to his [teenage](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10AlienForce \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10AlienForce\") [years](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10UltimateAlien \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10UltimateAlien\")).\n- [Character Name Alias](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CharacterNameAlias \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CharacterNameAlias\"): In \"The Unnaturals\", the robot Little League team all have the names of famous dead MLB players.\n- [Christmas Episode](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ChristmasEpisode \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ChristmasEpisode\"): The episode \"Merry Christmas,\" which features the Tennysons visiting a holiday theme park. During the summer, no less.\n- [Circus of Magic](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CircusOfMagic \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CircusOfMagic\"): Implied. Zombozo is the head of a circus act that gets people to laugh before using a machine to suck all the happiness out of them to fuel his own health and abilities. However, their supernatural abilities are never attributed to alien activity, implying that they're somehow magical in nature, as Zombozo was bitten by a zombie prior to the series.\n- [Clingy MacGuffin](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin\"): The Omnitrix latches onto Ben's wrist and sticks there for the remainder of the series.\n- [Collector of Forms](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CollectorOfForms \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CollectorOfForms\"): The Omnitrix slowly acquires new alien species for Ben to transform into over the course of the series by a variety of methods, but most commonly by scanning DNA from new species Ben meets.\n- [Comic-Book Adaptation](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ComicBookAdaptation \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ComicBookAdaptation\"): Stories based on this show were featured in the earlier issues of *[Cartoon Network Action Pack](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/CartoonNetworkActionPack \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/CartoonNetworkActionPack\")*. As the comic book continued publication, it stayed up to date by switching to adaptations of *[Ben 10: Alien Force](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10AlienForce \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10AlienForce\")* and *[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10UltimateAlien \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10UltimateAlien\")*.\n- [Conveyor Belt o' Doom](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ConveyorBeltODoom \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ConveyorBeltODoom\"): \"Ready to Rumble\" — The mother of two mutant kids was tied to a conveyor belt in an old wood mill. She was heading towards a wood saw that's right between her legs.\n- [Cool Old Guy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CoolOldGuy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CoolOldGuy\"): Ben and Gwen's grandfather Max Tennyson is a retired member of an organization known as the Plumbers, who specialize in policing aliens.\n- [Cowardly Lion](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CowardlyLion \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CowardlyLion\"): Gilbert in \"Camp Fear\". When he's not running around screaming his head off, he's quite helpful fighting off the mushroom monsters and protecting the younger campers.\n- [Create Your Own Hero](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CreateYourOwnHero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CreateYourOwnHero\"): [Vilgax](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad\") trying to get the Omnitrix for his scheme was what eventually led the device to end up on Earth and stick itself on the wrist of Ben Tennyson.\n- [Creepy Child](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CreepyChild \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CreepyChild\"): Meet Kevin, eleven years old and willing to kill a subway load of people without a second thought.\n- [Cross-Dressing Voices](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CrossdressingVoices \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CrossdressingVoices\"): [Tara Strong](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/TaraStrong \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/TaraStrong\") as Ben and Upgrade.\n- [Cute Monster Girl](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CuteMonsterGirl \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CuteMonsterGirl\"): In \"My Big Fat Alien Wedding\" the majority of the shapeshifting aliens are very ugly non-humanoid sludge monsters in their true form. The non-evil one (who's marrying a human) oddly looks like a fairly attractive purple-skinned woman in her true form. Despite being the daughter of the episode's villains.\n- [Dark Magical Girl](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DarkMagicalGirl \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DarkMagicalGirl\"): [Played with](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlayingWithATrope \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlayingWithATrope\") in regards to Charmcaster. She does sincerely have the background of a normal DMG (raised and trained by an evil, abusive guardian,) but she actually chooses to be evil rather than [join her](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HeelFaceTurn \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HeelFaceTurn\") [Magical Girl](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicalGirl \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicalGirl\") counterpart.\n- [Description Cut](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DescriptionCut \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DescriptionCut\"): Vilgax, in the first episode, prattles on about how no one in the universe can stop him. Then the scene cuts to Ben, in school, throwing a paper airplane at his teacher before the bell rings.\n- [Doomsday Device](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DoomsdayDevice \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DoomsdayDevice\"): Animo's telescopic Transmodulator, the Loboan's makeshift receiver designed to spread Corrodium over the Earth, etc..\n- [Dream Intro](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DreamIntro \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/DreamIntro\"): An episode has Ben transform into Wildmutt (one of his aliens) in order to rescue a boy stuck up a tree. The viewer then notices something is wrong when Ben, as Wildmutt, an alien who can’t talk, starts talking, in regular Ben's voice nonetheless. The boy then transforms into Ghostfreak and then Ben wakes up.\n- [Early-Installment Weirdness](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness\"):\n  - Gwen is initially depicted as being a [Badass Normal](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BadassNormal \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BadassNormal\") for much of the series, before finally becoming the [Magical Girl](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicalGirl \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicalGirl\") she's known for being in the sequels. Her magic is also shown to have a blue-colored theme to it, whereas later installments (including *Destroy All Aliens*) give it a pink\/purple hue.\n  - Kevin's first appearance has him using his powers to absorb energy from machines rather than solid matter, a far cry from what he does in later shows. He also lacks a connection with anyone other than Ben, while other shows in the franchise establish his close connection to everyone else and his relationship with Gwen.\n  - Ben's alien forms all have a white version of the Omnitrix logo somewhere on their bodies, whereas later installments have it remain green.\n  - Bellwood, Ben and Gwen's hometown, is rarely featured in this series, due to the synopsis of the show being around Ben, Gwen and Max traveling the United States for a summer roadtrip.\n- [Earth-Shattering Kaboom](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EarthShatteringKaboom \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EarthShatteringKaboom\"): The [Storyboarding the Apocalypse](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StoryboardingTheApocalypse \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StoryboardingTheApocalypse\") shows that the titular [Planet Destroyer](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer\") in \"The Big Tick\" eventually does this to every planet it feeds off.\n- [Eating the Enemy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EatingTheEnemy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EatingTheEnemy\"):\n  - One of Ben's aliens, Upchuck, is a Gourmand, a species of [big eaters](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigEater \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigEater\") capable of devouring practically anything inorganic. In his first appearance, Ben uses him to eat a robot machine that hijacked his grandpa. Strangely, while he can eat inorganic things, he can't digest organic matter.\n  - Various aliens have tried to make a meal of the characters. A notable example being the [Mycelium](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ManEatingPlant \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ManEatingPlant\") who was a giant fungus brain who wanted to devour ever creature on Earth and take it over.\n- [Eldritch Abomination](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EldritchAbomination \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EldritchAbomination\"): The Great One from \"The Big Tick\".\n  - The Mycelium in \"Camp Fear\".\n- [Elemental Powers](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ElementalPowers \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ElementalPowers\"): Several of Ben's alien forms have powers based on a specific element, the most obvious one being Heatblast.\n- [Emerald Power](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EmeraldPower \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EmeraldPower\"): The Omnitrix glows green when active.\n- [Empathic Weapon](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EmpathicWeapon \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EmpathicWeapon\"): The Omnitrix.\n- [Enemy Without](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EnemyWithout \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EnemyWithout\"): Early on, Ghostfreak was implied to have a mind of his own and even secretly possessed Ben. In the second season, he finally escaped the Omnitrix.\n- [Evil Counterpart](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilCounterpart \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilCounterpart\"): Kevin 11 to Ben, especially after he copied the powers of Ben's original ten alien forms by draining the energy of the Omnitrix. Charmcaster to Gwen because they both have magic powers.\n- [Evil Sorcerer](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilSorcerer \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilSorcerer\"): Hex is a sorcerer and one of the show's recurring villains.\n- [Expository Theme Tune](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExpositoryThemeTune \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExpositoryThemeTune\"):\n  It started when an alien device did what it did\n  And stuck itself upon his wrist with secrets that it hid\n  Now he's got super powers, he's no ordinary kid\n  He's Ben 10! (Ben 10, Ben 10!)\n- [Expy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Expy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Expy\"): Zombozo demonstrates similar behavior to [Pennywise](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Literature\/IT \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Literature\/IT\"), he even turns into a giant spider in a hallucination(?)\\!\n- [Extra-Strength Masquerade](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExtraStrengthMasquerade \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExtraStrengthMasquerade\"): As a [Fantasy Kitchen Sink](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FantasyKitchenSink \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FantasyKitchenSink\") show borderlining on [World of Weirdness](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WorldOfWeirdness \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WorldOfWeirdness\"), it's *really* inconsistent with regards to whether the existence of aliens, robots, and mutants is commonly accepted knowledge, or whether such things are supposed to be regarded as myth by the general public.\n- [Face Fault](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FaceFault \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FaceFault\"): Look hard enough, Gwen in Charmcaster's body in \"A Change Of Face\" has these.\n- [Family-Friendly Firearms](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FamilyFriendlyFirearms \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FamilyFriendlyFirearms\"): Sometimes justified by the sci-fi setting, but really...where are ordinary gang members, mall cops, and other assorted armed [Muggles](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Muggles \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Muggles\") getting their sci-fi firearms?\n- [Family-Unfriendly Death](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FamilyUnfriendlyDeath \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FamilyUnfriendlyDeath\"): [Kevin 11](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilCounterpart \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilCounterpart\") killing sentient robot Slix Vigma by impaling him on his Diamondhead arm, and almost give the same fate to Ben. Another example includes villain Ghostfreak, who was burnt to ashes. Twice.\n- [Flanderization](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Flanderization \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Flanderization\"):\n  - Early on, the Omnitrix is fairly reliable, only transforming Ben into the wrong alien once every few episodes, and Ben is justifiably surprised when it happens. Fast forward to the Season 3 finale, and out of the four times Ben transformed in the first part, he only got the alien he wanted *once*, and he's reduced to frantically begging the Omnitrix to *please* cooperate with him this time...\n  - Ben himself also suffers from this. Is quite obvious in the 3-minute shorts that frequently appear on Cartoon Network.\n- [Flower Mouth](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FlowerMouth \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FlowerMouth\"): Ben's Blitzwolfer form has a snout that opens in four different directions.\n- [Foreshadowing](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Foreshadowing \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Foreshadowing\"):\n  - There are many hints that Max wasn't just a normal Plumber, such as knowing that Heatblast is not a monster but an alien, and mentions of Vilgax making him tense.\n  - In \"Kevin 11\", Kevin boasts that he's \"taking all of \\[Ben's\\] alien powers\". In \"Framed\", its revealed that he did. But by the end, [he bit off more than he can chew](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BodyHorror \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BodyHorror\").\n  - When Vilgax personally shows up in \"Secrets\", he has an [Imagine Spot](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImagineSpot \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImagineSpot\") of an army of Omnitrix users taking over the cosmos with him at the helm to showcase his evil. Notably, a Four-Arms changes in real-time into a Heatblast. This isn't an exaggeration, but a future ability of the Omnitrix that occasionally gets used in this series, is mastered by [Ben's older self](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FutureBadass \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FutureBadass\"), and learned properly by *[Ben 10: Alien Force](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10AlienForce \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10AlienForce\")*.\n  - When the Omnitrix first falls to Earth in \"And Then There Were Ten\", it doesn't just land near Ben; it actually *changes its path* to fly in his direction, as if personally seeking him out. This hints at a later reveal that the Omnitrix was sent for someone with the same DNA as Ben i.e. Grandpa Max.\n- [Foul Medicine](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FoulMedicine \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FoulMedicine\"): In \"Side Effects\", Ben catches a cold from getting inside an ice cream truck, which also affects the powers of his aliens. Grandpa Max buys him a medicine which both tastes and smells terribly.\n- [Fiery Redhead](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FieryRedhead \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FieryRedhead\"): Gwen has red hair and is often ill-tempered.\n- [The Freakshow](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheFreakshow \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheFreakshow\"): Source of the Circus Freak Trio.\n- [Freudian Excuse](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FreudianExcuse \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FreudianExcuse\"):\n  - Kevin being abandoned by his parents and mocked by peers for being a \"freak\". Once he couldn't take it anymore, he decided \"[to show them just how much of a freak he could be.](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ThenLetMeBeEvil \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ThenLetMeBeEvil\")\"\n  - Also, Charmcaster being raised by her [blatantly abusive](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AbusiveParents \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AbusiveParents\") uncle Hex. He did his job too well, and she [ends up betraying him for her own evil goals.](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheStarscream \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheStarscream\")\n- [Full-Contact Magic](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FullContactMagic \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FullContactMagic\"): Played perfectly straight; mixing a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and  ~~magic~~ alien energy-manipulation powers gives Gwen dynamic and fluid fighting scenes.\n- [Future Badass](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FutureBadass \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FutureBadass\"): Ben 10,000, Gwendolyn, and cyborg Max. That is all.\n- [Future Me Scares Me](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FutureMeScaresMe \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FutureMeScaresMe\"): When Ben and Gwen go to the future, Future Ben is pretty much a jerk.\n- [A Glitch in the Matrix](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AGlitchInTheMatrix \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AGlitchInTheMatrix\") \/ [Out-of-Character Alert](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/OutOfCharacterAlert \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/OutOfCharacterAlert\"): Ben realizes that the Forever Knights trapped him in a [Lotus-Eater Machine](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LotusEaterMachine \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LotusEaterMachine\") when he encounters a dream version of Vilgax who only tried to send him to the Null Void and wasn't even after the Omnitrix.\n- [Grand Theft Me](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GrandTheftMe \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GrandTheftMe\"): Charmcaster can't get the Omnitrix off Ben, so she's just going to do this instead.\n- [Green-Skinned Space Babe](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe\"): Xylene.\n  - With [Non-Mammal Mammaries](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NonMammalMammaries \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NonMammalMammaries\"), even after she states that her race does not take care of their young at all (\"On my planet, once you hatch, you're on your own.\")\n- [The Group](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheGroup \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheGroup\"): The Forever Knights' cover name is The Organization.\n- [Growing Up Sucks](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GrowingUpSucks \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GrowingUpSucks\"): *Ben 10,000* has Ben decide that being an adult isn't cool if he's going to be a jerk. This statement causes his future self to change his ways and become a better person.\n- [Halloween Episode](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HalloweenEpisode \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HalloweenEpisode\"): The episodes \"Last Laugh,\" \"Ghostfreaked Out,\" \"Benwolf,\" \"Under Wraps,\" \"The Return,\" and \"Be Afraid of the Dark\" are considered Halloween episodes, despite the fact that the series is supposed to take place during the summer.\n- [Hands Looking Wrong](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HandsLookingWrong \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HandsLookingWrong\"):\n  - In the pilot, looking at his hands is how Ben first realizes he has transformed into Heatblast, screaming before the transformation background dissipates.\n  - A couple of Ben's stock [Transformation Sequences](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationSequence \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationSequence\") have him observing his transformation starting at his arm. Justified, since the origin point is his wrist mounted Omnitrix.\n- [Height Insult](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HeightInsult \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HeightInsult\"): Gwen teases Ben several times about being too short un \"A Small Problem\": first after [being denied access to a water slide](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YouMustBeThisTallToRide \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YouMustBeThisTallToRide\") that Gwen is tall enough for, later after turning into Gray Matter (although he wanted to turn into the much larger Ripjaws) to try the water slide, and then at the end of the episode after Ben turns back to normal.\n- [Henshin Hero](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HenshinHero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HenshinHero\"): Ben has no superpowers as a human. He only gets them when he transforms into one of his alien forms.\n- [Hijacked by Ganon](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HijackedByGanon \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HijackedByGanon\"): A Season 3 episode introduced a werewolf-like alien who was seemingly killed at the end of his episode, but was revealed to have built a machine as a [Sequel Hook](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SequelHook \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SequelHook\"). A mummy-like alien is then introduced in a later episode. Both come back and are revealed to work for a new villain named Dr Vicktor in the first part of the season finale... and then it turns out Dr Vicktor himself was [The Dragon](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheDragon \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheDragon\") to Ghostfreak\/Zs'Skayr, a villain who had been introduced in a previous Season 2 episode.\n- [Hour of Power](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HourOfPower \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HourOfPower\"): The Omnitrix only allows Ben to be an alien for a limited time. After the time limit runs out, he returns to normal and has to wait for the Omnitrix to recharge before he can change into an alien again.\n- [Humanoid Aliens](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HumanoidAliens \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HumanoidAliens\"): Many of the aliens vaguely resemble humans.\n- [Hybrids Are a Crapshoot](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HybridsAreACrapshoot \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HybridsAreACrapshoot\"): Ben accidentally removes the faceplate from the Omnitrix, which results in his aliens being fused together, often with disastrous results, such as a combination of Fourarms and Stinkfly that is much weaker than Fourarms but too heavy to fly.\n- [Hypocritical Humor](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HypocriticalHumor \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HypocriticalHumor\"): A bit of it in \"Gwen 10\", where Ben keeps telling off Gwen for doing things he knows perfectly well he did in the past.\n- [I Am Not Left-Handed](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/IAmNotLeftHanded \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/IAmNotLeftHanded\"): A couple of occasions, but possibly the most awesome is in \"Grudge Match\", where Kevin 11 has Ben trapped, and boasts that he can handle any of Ben's 10 aliens, since he IS all those aliens combined. Ben then reveals that he's unlocked a new form since Kevin last saw him: Cannon Bolt. Kevin gets *hammered*.\n  - A similar, if more subtle version comes from \"Ben 10,000\", when Vilgax makes the same boast about all TEN THOUSAND of Future Ben's aliens, except that Future Ben has one form Vilgax overlooked: human.\n- [I'm Cold... So Cold...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImColdSoCold \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImColdSoCold\"): Happens in an episode when Ben offers another character a piece of chocolate, which turns out to be highly poisonous to his species.\n- [Implacable Man](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImplacableMan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImplacableMan\"): Vilgax. No matter what happens to him, he won't let it stop him from hunting down Ben and trying to get the Omnitrix.\n- [Imported Alien Phlebotinum](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum\"): The Omnitrix.\n- [In Case of X, Break Glass](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/InCaseOfXBreakGlass \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/InCaseOfXBreakGlass\"): [Inverted](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Inverted \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Inverted\") when a giant lightbulb containing and powered by a swarm of [Megawhatts](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShockAndAwe \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShockAndAwe\") is labeled with \"In case of emergency, do NOT break glass\".\n- [The Infested](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheInfested \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheInfested\"): The villain Clancy carries swarms of multiple insects inside his clothes. He possesses a [unique empathic connection](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheBeastmaster \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheBeastmaster\") to them, which allows him to direct them in battle.\n- [Instant Expert](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/InstantExpert \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/InstantExpert\"): Gwen when she gets the Omnitrix in an alternate timeline. Subverted with her magic, which she bumbles through for many episodes before getting good at it.\n- [Intangible Man](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/IntangibleMan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/IntangibleMan\"): Ghostfreak.\n- [I Owe You My Life](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/IOweYouMyLife \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/IOweYouMyLife\"): In \"Grudge Match\", a gladiator named Technorg offers Ben to be \"master\" after Ben spared his life in battle. Naturally, Ben refuses the offer and forces Technorg to get off the Mega Cruiser while he still can.\n- [Jade-Colored Glasses](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JadeColoredGlasses \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JadeColoredGlasses\"): Ben 10,000 has been wearing a set for years, apparently.\n- [Joker Immunity](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JokerImmunity \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JokerImmunity\"): Vilgax. Helps that he's [Nigh-Invulnerable](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NighInvulnerable \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NighInvulnerable\"), of course. It's a bit hard to kill somebody who survived being nuked. And has upgraded himself since then.\n- [Jumped at the Call](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JumpedAtTheCall \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JumpedAtTheCall\"): Ben was quick to accept the idea of using the Omnitrix to save the world.\n- [Jumping Off the Slippery Slope](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope\"): Kevin's \"crash a passenger train\" plan. Fastest partnership breakup ever.\n- [Kid Hero](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHero\"): Ben is only 10 when the show starts.\n- [Kid Hero All Grown Up](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHeroAllGrownUp \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHeroAllGrownUp\"): Every iteration of the series has featured at least an adventure with Ben meeting himself as an adult, usually going by \"Ben Ten Thousand\". Gwen as an adult is usually featured in such stories.\n- [Kill It with Fire](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KillItWithFire \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KillItWithFire\"): Present in the very first episode, Ben accidentally starts a fire, Grandpa Max tells Ben that in order to stop it, he should start another one.\n- [Knight of Cerebus](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KnightOfCerebus \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KnightOfCerebus\"): The series, at its heart, is about a kid who does heroic and stupid things with his Omnitrix, but when [Vilgax](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad\"), [Kevin](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilCounterpart \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilCounterpart\") and [Zs'Skayr](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EnemyWithout \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EnemyWithout\") appear, the episode's gonna take itself fairly seriously.\n- [Lamarck Was Right](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LamarckWasRight \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LamarckWasRight\"): Averted in \"Ken 10\"; Kenny needs his own Omnitrix to get his own powers.\n- [Laughably Evil](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LaughablyEvil \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LaughablyEvil\"): Many secondary villains such as Dr. Animo, Charmcaster, or the Circus Freaks are this, contrasting to the more serious Big Bads.\n- [Lawyer-Friendly Cameo](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LawyerFriendlyCameo \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LawyerFriendlyCameo\"):\n  - An alien version of [Billy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy\") in Ken 10. Even shares the same VA.\n  - Versions of Konohamaru and Team Ebisu from [Naruto](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Manga\/Naruto \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Manga\/Naruto\") in the Christmas episode.\n  - A Sakura Haruno near the end of \"Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures\".\n- [Legion of Doom](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LegionOfDoom \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LegionOfDoom\"): The Negative 10. Several of their members were villains Ben had previously fought, even ones that hadn't been seen since the first season like Clancy and Rojo.\n- [Leitmotif](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Leitmotif \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Leitmotif\"): Several, including ones for Ben's aliens and a one for the occasional instances of [Sky Surfing](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SkySurfing \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SkySurfing\") that happen a few times over the series.\n- [Light-Flicker Teleportation](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LightFlickerTeleportation \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LightFlickerTeleportation\"): In \"[Under Wraps](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S3E8UnderWraps \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S3E8UnderWraps\")\", after Diamondhead digs up the [Corrodium](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AppliedPhlebotinum \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AppliedPhlebotinum\"), Gwen realizes that they've just done [the Mummy's](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Mummy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Mummy\") job for him, and the Mummy suddenly appears at the end of the hallway. The lights flicker, and it gets closer each time. Notably, after the lights go out, it's [purple glowing marks](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PurpleIsImpure \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PurpleIsImpure\") stay visible for a brief moment, essentially letting the light flicker twice.\n- [Limited Wardrobe](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LimitedWardrobe \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LimitedWardrobe\"): A subtle nod to this in \"Gwen 10\": Ben throws several shirts identical to his own out of his suitcase while he's searching for a lost item.\n  - Subverted in the live-action movie of course. But Ben wore this very shirt later in the movie.\n- [Living Ghost](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LivingGhost \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LivingGhost\"): One of Ben's first transformations, Ghostfreak, is an alien that, like the name suggests, can turn invisible and intangible with little to no consequence, and in rare instances, possess others. Ghostfreak was sampled from an entire ghost-like race that live in a solar system filled with Halloween-themed aliens. Their entire conscience also exists in every strand of their DNA, which means that Ghostfreak [was trapped in the Omnitrix and fully aware](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AndIMustScream \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AndIMustScream\") until [he escaped and became one of Ben's villains](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EnemyWithout \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EnemyWithout\").\n- [Lotus-Eater Machine](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LotusEaterMachine \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LotusEaterMachine\"): \"Perfect Day\" had Enoch attempt to trap Ben in one so that he could easily remove the Omnitrix.\n- [Lovecraftian Superpower](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LovecraftianSuperpower \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LovecraftianSuperpower\"): The Omnitrix can turn Ben into a variety of things, some more disturbing than others.\n- [Magic Misfire](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicMisfire \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicMisfire\"): Gwen, too. She even figured out how to *use* the misfire to her advantage. Sort of.\n- [Magic Pants](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicPants \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagicPants\"): ANYTHING that Ben was wearing before he goes alien — no matter how badly it was ripped during the transformation sequence — will be back, in perfect condition, when the Omnitrix runs out of juice.\n- [Man Hug](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ManHug \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ManHug\"): When Max runs into his old plumber buddy Phil, the two greet each other with a hug.\n- [Merchandise-Driven](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MerchandiseDriven \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MerchandiseDriven\"): The show had a LOT of toys made for it, and the toyetic nature of Ben's alien forms would only get more obvious with each following series in the franchise.\n- [The Men in Black](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheMenInBlack \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheMenInBlack\"):\n  - The Plumbers, who are a [secret organization](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Masquerade \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Masquerade\").\n  - There is also the Special Alien Containment Team (SACT), who are more public than the Plumbers.\n- [Missed the Call](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MissedTheCall \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MissedTheCall\"): The Omnitrix was intended for Grandpa Max, not for Ben.\n- [Monster Clown](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterClown \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterClown\"): Zombozo.\n- [Monster of the Week](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterOfTheWeek \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterOfTheWeek\"): The show lives on this. Considering the strange varieties of trouble that tend to occur wherever Ben goes, one feels sorry for this kid's hometown if summer vacation ends.\n- [Mook Horror Show](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MookHorrorShow \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MookHorrorShow\"): Ben sometimes invokes this on criminals. This includes one time when he was fighting two robbers as Ripjaws. However, the most noteable time is when he literally scares Zombozo to death as Ghostfreak.\n- [Motive Decay](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MotiveDecay \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MotiveDecay\"): In his debut appearance, Dr Animo wanted to get a prize that was denied him. In the remainder of his appearances, he just wanted to either conquer or mutate the world.\n- [The Movie](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheMovie \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheMovie\"): Two of them — *[Secret of the Omnitrix](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix\")*, and the live action movie *[Race Against Time](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Film\/Ben10RaceAgainstTime \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Film\/Ben10RaceAgainstTime\")*. A third all-CGI film, *[Destroy All Aliens](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10DestroyAllAliens \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10DestroyAllAliens\")*, set during this timeframe was later released in 2012.\n- [Multiform Balance](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MultiformBalance \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MultiformBalance\"): Theoretically, each of Ben's alien forms have powers applicable to specific situations. In practice, due to [Ben's](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KidHero\") lack of tactical thinking and the Omnitrix's tendency to be uncooperative, whether an alien will be used in the appropriate role is never certain, forcing Ben to improvise.\n- [Mundane Utility](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MundaneUtility \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MundaneUtility\"): Sometimes Ben uses his alien forms to do something as ordinary as looking for a prize in boxes of cereal.\n- [Mushroom Man](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MushroomMan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MushroomMan\") \/ [Plant Mooks](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlantMooks \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlantMooks\"): The Tennysons face an army of them in \"Camp Fear\".\n- [My Friends... and Zoidberg](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MyFriendsAndZoidberg \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MyFriendsAndZoidberg\") \"...and leave the rest to the game pros... and Ben.\"\n- [Near-Miss Groin Attack](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NearMissGroinAttack \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NearMissGroinAttack\"): Happens to Grandpa Max, with crystal spikes landing all around his body as he keeps backing up to avoid it hitting his groin.\n- [Never Say \"Die\"](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NeverSayDie \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NeverSayDie\"): While there are occasions where this trope is averted, with characters explicitly mentioning death, being a kids’ show, there are still times where this trope is played straight.\n- [New Superpower](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NewSuperpower \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NewSuperpower\"):\n  - In \"The Big Tick\", Ben, to his surprise, discovers that the Omnitrix can turn him into more than ten aliens, and becomes Cannonbolt. Cannonbolt doesn't breathe fire or shoot freeze rays from his eyes, and is likewise devoid of magnetic blasts. In addition, he has problems balancing. The form can, however, curl up into an armored ball and roll, alternately ricocheting off of things or smashing through them. When all of Ben's other forms fail to stop the immense, world-destroying [Monster of the Week](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterOfTheWeek \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterOfTheWeek\"), Ben must, despite his initial misgivings, use this form to save the world. Cannonbolt is actually useful again a few episodes later against a recurring antagonist who had, in an earlier episode, absorbed the powers of Ben's original ten forms, and goes on to become one of Ben's more frequently-used alien forms.\n  - Cannonbolt also introduced the concept of Ben gaining\/discovering new alien forms, which would become a regular occurrence for the rest of the franchise. In a sense, the ability to gain new powers was a new power of its own.\n- [The Night That Never Ends](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheNightThatNeverEnds \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheNightThatNeverEnds\"): Zs'Skayr (to whom sunlight is fatal) tries covering the sunlit side of the Earth with a shell of radioactive material in \"Be Afraid of the Dark\", so he can rule it as his domain. (The fact that this will mutate the entire population of the Earth is an unfortunate side effect to him.)\n- [No Celebrities Were Harmed](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoCelebritiesWereHarmed \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoCelebritiesWereHarmed\"): \"Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures\" features an actor named Abel North, who played a television hero Ben grew up with called Kangaroo Commando. He's quite obviously a spoof of [Adam West](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/AdamWest \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Creator\/AdamWest\") and his role as Batman in [the 1966 television series](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Series\/Batman1966 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Series\/Batman1966\").\n- [No-Holds-Barred Beatdown](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoHoldsBarredBeatdown \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoHoldsBarredBeatdown\"): How Vilgax says hello.\n- [No Ontological Inertia](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoOntologicalInertia \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoOntologicalInertia\"): The episode \"The Big Tick\" features an [Eldritch Abomination](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EldritchAbomination \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EldritchAbomination\") which completely ravages much of the Earth in an attempt to destroy it. After the abomination is destroyed, the Earth returns to its former, unravaged state immediately.\n- [No Sense of Humor](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoSenseOfHumor \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/NoSenseOfHumor\"): Adult Ben, as seen in the episode \"[Ben 10,000](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S3E1BenTenThousand \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S3E1BenTenThousand\")\". He gets better in the end and continuing into \"Ken 10\".\n- [Oblivious Mockery](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ObliviousMockery \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ObliviousMockery\"): Early in the [What If?](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatIf \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatIf\") episode \"Gwen 10\", Gwen gets the Omnitrix stuck on her wrist and turns into [Heatblast](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagmaMan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MagmaMan\"). Ben, who remembers going through this before, warns her about the danger of using fiery powers in the middle of a forest. She immediately responds that only an idiot would set the forest on fire. Naturally, that's exactly what Ben did in the first episode.\n- [The Other Darrin](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheOtherDarrin \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheOtherDarrin\") invoked: Discussed in-universe in the episode \"Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures\", where Ben mentions that his favorite television hero Kangaroo Commando, usually played by Abel North, was instead played by Abel's brother Kane in one episode.\n- [Painful Adhesive Removal](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PainfulAdhesiveRemoval \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PainfulAdhesiveRemoval\"): In \"[Back With A Vengeance](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S2E13BackWithAVengeance \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S2E13BackWithAVengeance\")\", [the Omnitrix](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin\") is (temporarily) removed from Ben's wrist using a special device. He is clearly in pain and there are tears in his eyes as his skin begins stretching, until the device finally comes off. According to [Pop-Up Trivia](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PopUpTrivia \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PopUpTrivia\"), Ben would later describe this feeling as \"like ripping a really sticky band-aid off a sunburn\".\n- [Papa Wolf](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PapaWolf \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PapaWolf\"): Grandpa Max towards Ben and Gwen. Ben himself in the future, where his son Kenny is concerned.\n- [Parental Hypocrisy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ParentalHypocrisy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ParentalHypocrisy\"): Ben's future self Ben 10,000 becomes a hypocritical parent in the episode \"Ken 10\". When his son Ken is excited about getting his own Omnitrix for his 10th birthday, Ben tells his son that saving the world isn't kid's stuff, despite the fact that he himself first became a hero when he was his son's age. Later, Ben 10,000 asks where his son gets his attitude shortly after Ken gets angry with his father and acts the same way Ben did whenever he got into a disagreement with his grandfather Max. Both occasions hang a lampshade by having Grandpa Max give a scornful look at Ben whenever he makes his hypocritical statement.\n- [Parental Marriage Veto](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ParentalMarriageVeto \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ParentalMarriageVeto\"): In \"Big Fat Alien Wedding\", Joel's parents are pretty much against [his marriage to Camille](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/InterspeciesRomance \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/InterspeciesRomance\"), a [Sludgepuppy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlobMonster \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BlobMonster\"), which would cement a treaty between both human and Sludgepuppies. This is because both Gordon and Betty Jean (Joel's Parents) are Plumbers who have been fighting Sludgepuppies for the longest time, and are thus slow to trust a species that's, only until recently, been their mortal enemy. During the wedding itself, it's revealed that Camille's parents (who, up until this point, [seemed like nice people](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BitchInSheepsClothing \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BitchInSheepsClothing\")) hate the idea of the wedding uniting the enemy races. The end of the episode has Gordon and Betty Jean warming up to their daughter-in-law.\n- [Phantom Zone](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PhantomZone \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PhantomZone\"): The Null Void. Unusual in that things were let *out* before the viewer was let in on it.\n- [Planet Destroyer](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer\"): The tick monster from \"The Big Tick\" moves from planet to planet, mutating and ultimately destroying each one for sustenance.\n- [Planetary Core Manipulation](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetaryCoreManipulation \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetaryCoreManipulation\"): In \"The Big Tick\", the planet is attacked by a tick-like alien which destroys other planets. When doing so, The Great One injects its tentacles deeply in the planet to its core, devouring it from the inside out.\n- [Plant Aliens](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlantAliens \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlantAliens\"): Wildvine is an example of this.\n- [Post-Adventure Adventure](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PostAdventureAdventure \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PostAdventureAdventure\"): From the perspective of Grandpa Max, the events of the show are this for him. Max is a retired Plumber, an organization of humans and aliens sworn to defend Earth from alien attack. When Max was in his prime, he defeated [Vilgax](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilOverlord \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EvilOverlord\"), among many, many other things over the course of his career before eventually retiring and settling down. When Ben retrieves the Omnitrix, Max's former skills are put to good use in supporting his grandson's efforts to battle the neverending supply of alien bad guys looking to take it from Ben. Max alludes to his adventures fondly in flashbacks, but the viewer never gets to see all of them.\n- [Psycho for Hire](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PsychoForHire \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PsychoForHire\"): Kevin 11. As noted in \"Grudge Match\", while his main desire is revenge on Ben, he likes to seek any excuse to fight, brutalize, or even kill various opponents.\n- [Puny Earthlings](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PunyEarthlings \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PunyEarthlings\"): Humans are the only species that doesn't have at least one ability that would be classified as a superpower.\n- [Puppy Love](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PuppyLove \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PuppyLove\"): Ben and Kai.\n- [Purple Is Impure](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PurpleIsImpure \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PurpleIsImpure\"): All of the [Anur aliens](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterMash \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterMash\") have a purple motif which turns green when Ben uses those aliens. The mutagenic [Corrodium](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AppliedPhlebotinum \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AppliedPhlebotinum\") from that system also has a purple glow.\n- [\"Reason You Suck\" Speech](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ReasonYouSuckSpeech \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ReasonYouSuckSpeech\"): Tetrax berates Ben for relying on brute strength to solve every situation, and never using strategy. Ben takes this to heart and later uses Gray Matter to win against the last two bounty hunters.\n- [Retroactive Precognition](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/RetroactivePrecognition \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/RetroactivePrecognition\"): Ben has this in \"Gwen 10\" when he gets mysteriously transported to the past, and remembers everything that happened over the past several months, but nobody else does. Out of denial or disbelief though it takes Max a while to believe Ben despite the fact that Ben now knows about Vilgax (who only Max has met) and the Omnitrix, which is unknown to most people on Earth. Unfortunately for Ben, things have changed enough that his knowledge of future events is limited in its usefulness.\n- [Running Gag](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/RunningGag \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/RunningGag\"): The many, many times Ben tries to turn into one alien but ends up mistransforming as another one.\n- [Sadistic Choice](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SadisticChoice \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SadisticChoice\"):\n  - In \"The Return\", Vilgax has knocked out Gwen and Max and threatens to kill them if Ben doesn't surrender.\n  - In \"Back With A Vengeance\", Vilgax and Kevin 11 kidnap Gwen to force Ben to hand over the Omnitrix.\n  - In \"Ghostfreaked Out\", Ghostfreak possesses Gwen and threatens to make her fall to her death if Ben doesn't drop the sun gunnote the sun gun projects a beam of sunlight which is Ghostfreak's only weakness, at which point Ghostfreak will possess him and gain control of the Omnitrix.\n- [Schmuck Bait](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SchmuckBait \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SchmuckBait\"): \"It\" in \"Tourist Trap\".\n- [Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale\"): In Negative 10, the power source has \"as much power as the sun.\" Then Max goes on to say that if it goes off, it can blow up a continent the size of Texas to outer space. An energy source that powerful would blow up more than a continent, much less Texas. And then when the [Big Bad](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad\") finally absorbs this ultra-powerful energy source into his [Powered Armor](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PoweredArmor \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PoweredArmor\"), the most he can think to do with it is use it to shoot rather mediocre [eyebeams](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Eyebeams \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Eyebeams\").\n- [Sealed Evil in a Can](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SealedEvilInACan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SealedEvilInACan\"):\n  - Vilgax, tends to be put in a can of whatever sort between appearances, be it a healing chamber, a block of ice, or a pocket dimension. He's slightly unusual in that we see him *out* of the can first.\n  - Ghostfreak\/Zs'Skayr is an odd example of evil that got sealed in a can *accidentally*, his DNA sampled for the show's [Clingy MacGuffin](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin\") so that the wearer can turn into him, and the personalities of his species being encoded in their genes somehow. Eventually, he gets loose and becomes Ben's [Enemy Without](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EnemyWithout \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EnemyWithout\").\n- [Second-Person Attack](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SecondPersonAttack \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SecondPersonAttack\"): At least [Once an Episode](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/OnceAnEpisode \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/OnceAnEpisode\").\n- [Secret Legacy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SecretLegacy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SecretLegacy\"): Grandpa Max, who had had a long history dealing with aliens as the Plumbers.\n- [Self-Guarding Phlebotinum](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SelfGuardingPhlebotinum \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SelfGuardingPhlebotinum\"): The Omnitrix generates a small field around itself when someone who is not the person who it is currently attached to tries to touch it. However, it should noted that the Omnitrix is neither [Empathic](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EmpathicWeapon \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EmpathicWeapon\") nor [Loyal](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LoyalPhlebotinum \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LoyalPhlebotinum\") and only tries to protect itself; in fact, one way you can obtain it is to kill the current user and then take it for yourself.\n- [Shapeshifter Struggles](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShapeshifterStruggles \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShapeshifterStruggles\"): The series revolves around a kid with an alien [Transformation Trinket](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationTrinket \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationTrinket\") permanently attached to his wrist, so it should be no surprise that Ben's had just about every problem that a shapeshifter can run into. Sometimes the Omnitrix itself is as big a problem as whatever the current [Villain of the Week](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VillainOfTheWeek \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VillainOfTheWeek\") is.\n- [Shapeshifting Sound](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShapeshiftingSound \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShapeshiftingSound\"): Whenever Ben uses the Omnitrix to transform any alien he chooses, the transformations are accompanied with electronic sounds.\n- [Shout-Out](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShoutOut \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShoutOut\"):\n  - [\"I find your lack of faith disturbing.\"](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Franchise\/StarWars \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Franchise\/StarWars\")\n  - In \"The Visitor\", Max tells Xylene \"We'll always have Roswell\", which is a clear reference to the line \"We'll always have Paris\" from [Casablanca](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Film\/Casablanca \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Film\/Casablanca\").\n  - Grandpa Max piloting the space shuttle in \"Be Afraid of the Dark\"\n    **Grandpa**: Yeah. I still got [The Right Stuff](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Film\/TheRightStuff \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Film\/TheRightStuff\").\n  - In the first episode, Grandpa Max's RV, the Rustbucket, has the license plate \"[S81Z1M](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/Shazam \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/ComicBook\/Shazam\")\".\n  - At the very end of of \"Merry Christmas\", three children are shown whose designs are very similar to Konohamaru, Moegi, and Udon from [Naruto](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Franchise\/Naruto \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Franchise\/Naruto\").\n- [Spiked Wheels](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SpikedWheels \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SpikedWheels\"): In \"Ben 4 Good Buddy\", Turbine has wheel spikes as one of the weapons on her [Weaponized Car](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WeaponizedCar \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WeaponizedCar\").\n- [Status Quo Is God](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StatusQuoIsGod \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StatusQuoIsGod\"): Ben gaining mastery of the Omnitrix? [Reset Button](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ResetButton \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ResetButton\") time.\n- [Steven Ulysses Perhero](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StevenUlyssesPerhero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StevenUlyssesPerhero\"): Ben *Ten*nyson has access to ten alien forms from the beginning of the series.\n- [Storyboarding the Apocalypse](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StoryboardingTheApocalypse \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StoryboardingTheApocalypse\"): [The tick](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer\")'s worshippers in \"The Big Tick\" do this.\n- [Stumbling in the New Form](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StumblingInTheNewForm \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StumblingInTheNewForm\"): Ben sometimes has trouble figuring out how to move when the Omnitrix glitches and gives him a new alien form. When he first turned into Cannonbolt, he couldn't stand up straight and it took him an entire episode to discover how to curl up and become a [Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HyperDestructiveBouncingBall \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HyperDestructiveBouncingBall\"). The same was true for Snare-oh, since he had absolutely no idea how to stand on legs that are basically made out of strips of paper.\n- [Super Power Lottery](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperPowerLottery \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperPowerLottery\"): The Omnitrix essentially *embodies* this trope (in more ways than one). After gaining the Omnitrix, Ben had the abilities of [Super-Strength](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperStrength \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperStrength\"), [Super-Speed](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperSpeed \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperSpeed\") (and [reflexes](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperReflexes \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperReflexes\")), [Super-Intelligence](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperIntelligence \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperIntelligence\"), [pyrokinesis](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlayingWithFire \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlayingWithFire\"), [underwater breathing](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperNotDrowningSkills \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperNotDrowningSkills\"), [the ability to manipulate crystals](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GemstoneAssault \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GemstoneAssault\"), the power of [Flight](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Flight \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Flight\"), goo expulsion, [Technopathy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Technopathy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Technopathy\"), [regeneration](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GoodThingYouCanHeal \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GoodThingYouCanHeal\"), [invisibility](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Invisibility \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Invisibility\") and [intangibility](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Intangibility \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Intangibility\"). All of these powers are still just the first *ten forms*. Later forms would introduce [duplication](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MesACrowd \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MesACrowd\"), [super flexibility](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/RubberMan \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/RubberMan\"), a [sonic howl](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperScream \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SuperScream\"), [electrokinesis](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShockAndAwe \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ShockAndAwe\"), solid matter ingestion, [Eye Beams](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EyeBeams \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EyeBeams\") and [Way Big](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AttackofThe50FootWhatever \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AttackofThe50FootWhatever\") who can [swat battleships out of the sky](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StoryBreakerPower \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/StoryBreakerPower\"). This is downplayed as while, Ben does have access to all these powers, they are typically exclusive to certain forms and the Omnitrix tends to be unreliable most of the time.\n- [Surprisingly Realistic Outcome](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome\"):\n  - The [What If?](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatIf \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatIf\") episode \"Goodbye and Good Riddance\". After several weeks of crazy adventures, what brings it all to a halt is not Ben messing up and watching people die, or getting an alien unsuitable for the present situation, but simply his summer vacation ending. [Followed immediately by Vilgax thrashing his house](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AndTheAdventureContinues \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AndTheAdventureContinues\").\n  - When Enoch finally gets the ancient superweapon he and Grandpa Max were racing to find, it crumbles to dust in his hand. Five thousand years of age and neglect will do that to a sword, even a mythical superweapon.\n- [Sword over Head](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SwordOverHead \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/SwordOverHead\"): Ben to Kevin in \"Framed\".\n- [Synchronization](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Synchronization \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Synchronization\"): Ben's alien form Ditto.\n- [Tastes Like Friendship](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TastesLikeFriendship \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TastesLikeFriendship\"): Subverted. Feeding theobromine compounds to an extra-terrestrial may not be the best idea...\n- [The Teaser](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheTeaser \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheTeaser\"): Every episode of *Ben 10* has the intro play several minutes into the episode.\n- [Theme Naming](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ThemeNaming \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ThemeNaming\"): Ben **Ten**nyson is **ten** years old.\n  - Ben gives his alien forms extremely marketable names based on their appearance or powers.\n- [Third-Person Person](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ThirdPersonPerson \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ThirdPersonPerson\"): \"No-one boos Technorg! Technorg is champion!\"\n- [This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman\"): In \"The Big Tick\", the episode where Ben first unlocks Cannonbolt, he initially hates the alien form for being unwieldy and uncontrollable, and refuses to use it again. Guess which alien turns out to be the only one capable of defeating the [Eldritch Abomination](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EldritchAbomination \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EldritchAbomination\") threatening the Earth that episode?\n  - More than a little bizarre, given that the Great One's worshipers claim that it just recently \"cleansed\" an entire planet full of Cannonbolt's species.\n  - More literally, Ripjaws is completely awesome during underwater episodes, and (almost) completely useless otherwise.\n- [Token Adult](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TokenAdult \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TokenAdult\"): Grandpa Max, being the only adult of the group, and an [authority figure](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ParentalSubstitute \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ParentalSubstitute\") to Ben and Gwen.\n- [Transformation Conventions](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationConventions \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationConventions\"): Frequently, the Omnitrix overrides Ben's choice of Alien Hero to match plot or comedy requirements. In the [first episode](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S1E1AndThenThereWereTen \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S1E1AndThenThereWereTen\"), after Ben has been introduced as a temperamental slacker, the first extraterrestrial the Omnitrix picks for him is Heatblast, a magma-based alien.\n- [Transformation Exhilaration](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationExhilaration \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationExhilaration\"): The first time Kevin mutates after absorbing the Omnitrix' power in \"Kevin 11\", he clearly enjoys the experience, judging by his expression. At the end of \"Framed\", however, when he becomes an amalgam of Ben's aliens, he is very much in pain when doing so.\n- [Transformation Trinket](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationTrinket \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformationTrinket\"): The Omnitrix\n- [Transforming Conforming](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformingConforming \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TransformingConforming\"): The Omnitrix gives Ben amazing powers, but also the limitations to each alien he transforms into. Ripjaws cannot breathe out of water, Heatblast can burn things accidentally, Four Arms doesn't fit in small spaces, Grey Matter can be caught easily because of his small size, etc.\n- [Traveling at the Speed of Plot](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot\"): XLR8 is exactly as fast as the plot calls for, and no faster. Sometimes it's literally too fast to see, most of the time not so much. Thus, aliens with nowhere near its speed can still hit it.\n- [Tree Cover](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TreeCover \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TreeCover\"): In \"The Visitor,\" Ben eavesdrops on Max and Xylene by turning into Wildvine and merging with the tree.\n- [Tuck and Cover](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TuckAndCover \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TuckAndCover\"): Cannonbolt's function in a rescue operation.\n- [Ultraman Copy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/UltramanCopy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/UltramanCopy\"): Way Big is one, having a very similar design to Ultraman.\n- [The Unchosen One](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheUnchosenOne \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheUnchosenOne\"): It turns out that Ben, who obtained the Omnitrix, wasn't the intended recepient; it was Max who was supposed to obtain it.\n- [Unexplained Recovery](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/UnexplainedRecovery \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/UnexplainedRecovery\"):\n  - The third time Kevin shows up (despite apparently being killed previously), his explanation of how he survived boils down to this, as well as a recap of what happened last time. He doesn't actually use the phrase, but it's implied.\n  - At the end of *Tough Luck*, both Hex and Charmcaster's powers were sucked by the destruction of the Charm of Bezel. Yet, when we see them come back, their powers have come back without any clear explanation. Averted with Hex turning back into a child however, as it's specifically said that the Fountain of Youth's effect were temporary. Played straight in that we never see how Charmcaster retrieved her magic bag after the end of *A Change of Face*, though it's shown to have a level of sentience so it probably made its way back to her on its own.\n- [The Unintelligible](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheUnintelligible \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheUnintelligible\"): Wildmutt and SixSix speak in languages that aren't intelligible to humans, but are intelligible to other aliens.\n- [Vengeful Vending Machine](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VengefulVendingMachine \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VengefulVendingMachine\"): In a short episode, Ben tries to get a candy bar from a vending machine, only for it to fall against the glass. Ever the [Determinator](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Determinator \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Determinator\"), Ben decides to go Grey Matter to get the candy bar. The only problem is when the Omnitrix times out, leaving Ben's [entire body](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExaggeratedTrope \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ExaggeratedTrope\") trapped in the machine.\n- [Video Game Perversity Prevention](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VideoGamePerversityPrevention \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VideoGamePerversityPrevention\"): Crossing over with [Video Game Cruelty Punishment](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VideoGameCrueltyPunishment \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VideoGameCrueltyPunishment\"), in the online game \"Alien Device\", Ben says \"I don't need to do that\" when you try to do things such as throw objects at bystanders.\n- [Villain Forgot to Level Grind](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VillainForgotToLevelGrind \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VillainForgotToLevelGrind\"): Kevin 11 has [the powers of Ben's original 10 aliens](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllYourPowersCombined \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AllYourPowersCombined\"). However, by the time of their fight in \"[Grudge Match](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S2E5GrudgeMatch \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S2E5GrudgeMatch\")\", Ben has unlocked an 11th alien, Cannonbolt, who proceeds to give Kevin a [Curb-Stomp Battle](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CurbStompBattle \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CurbStompBattle\").\n  **Kevin:** Don't bother trying to dial in another alien. I know all your powers, inside and out.\n  **Ben:** *\\[transforms\\]* Oh yeah? I don't think you've been introduced to Cannonbolt\\!\n- [Villain Team-Up](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VillainTeamUp \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VillainTeamUp\"): Kevin finding Vilgax in the second season finale, and the Negative 10 later on.\n- [Voices Are Mental](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VoicesAreMental \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VoicesAreMental\"): At first averted in the [\"Freaky Friday\" Flip](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FreakyFridayFlip \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FreakyFridayFlip\") episode \"A Change of Face\", when Charmcaster and Gwen switch bodies, but then played straight when it happens to Ben and Gwen.\n- [Voluntary Shapeshifting](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VoluntaryShapeshifting \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/VoluntaryShapeshifting\"): Thanks to the Omnitrix, Ben can voluntarily change into a whole army of aliens — ten at first, and nine more canonically by the end of the series; his \"Ben 10,000\" incarnation has up to ten thousand transformations, including three new ones we see and five others mentioned in \"Ken 10\"; and *Race Against Time* adds Eon for that version of Ben. And that's just in *this* series.\n- [Webcomic Time](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WebcomicTime \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WebcomicTime\"): The summer road trip lasted nearly the whole of the original series, which was 50 episodes long, excluding non-canon episodes, which definitely was longer than just a few months.\n- [Weirder Than Usual](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WeirderThanUsual \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WeirderThanUsual\"):\n  - In \"Last Laugh\":\n  **Gwen Tennyson:** Ever since we decided to go to the circus, you've been acting weirder than normal. What are you scared of?  \n  **Ben Tennyson:** I'm not scared of anything.\n  - In \"A Change Of Face\" when Charmcaster was inhabiting Gwen's body.\n  **Ben Tennyson:** Grandpa have you noticed Gwen has been acting weird lately? I mean *weirder* than usual?\n- [Wham Episode](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhamEpisode \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhamEpisode\"): \"Secrets\", which resolves the [Myth Arc](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MythArc \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MythArc\") hinting at Max's past and formally introduces [Vilgax](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KnightOfCerebus \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/KnightOfCerebus\") to Ben's life.\n- [What If?](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatIf \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatIf\"): The out-of-mainstream-continuity episode \"[Gwen 10](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S2E4Gwen10 \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Recap\/Ben10S2E4Gwen10\")\".\n  - The show's last episode: \"Goodbye and Good Riddance\", which takes a look at what Ben's life would be like when summer vacation ended but is declared non-canon.\n- [What the Hell, Hero?](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatTheHellHero \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatTheHellHero\")\" In \"Kevin 11\", Max calls Ben out for the way he recklessly uses the watch, only for Ben to go as far as to tell Max that [he's not his father](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YoureNotMyFather \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YoureNotMyFather\"), which does shock him and *even* [Gwen herself.](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EveryoneHasStandards \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/EveryoneHasStandards\")\n  **Max:** How do you expect me to trust you if keep misusing the watch?\n  **Ben:** Excuse me, I use it 100 times for good. Why can't I use it just once for me?\n  **Max:** It's not *how* many times you use it, Ben. It's *how* you use it.\n  **Ben:** It was no big deal.\n  **Max:** To you. And that's all you care about. So, no more 'Sumo Slammers' stuff for 2 weeks! No comics, no trading cards, no-\n  **Ben:** Fair\\!\n  **Max:** Neither is getting booted from a 4-star hotel I already paid for\\!\n  **Ben:** Fine, take it out my allowance\\!\n  **Gwen:** You don't get an allowance...\n  **Max and Ben:** *(to Gwen)* **Stay out of this\\!**\n  *(Gwen lowers in her chair)*\n  **Ben:** This is my vacation, too! You can't always tell me what to do. **[You're not my dad\\!](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YoureNotMyFather \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YoureNotMyFather\")**\n- [Where's the Fun in That?](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WheresTheFunInThat \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WheresTheFunInThat\"): In the [What If?](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatIf \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhatIf\") episode where Gwen was the one the [Omnitrix](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ClingyMacGuffin\") attached itself to, [Vilgax](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BigBad\") has her restrained and selects from a range of sharp-looking tools to forcibly remove it from her.\n  **Gwen *\\[nervously\\]*:** Couldn't you just slip the watch off?  \n  **Vilgax:** And what fun would *that* be?\n- [Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes\"): In Ben's case, [clowns](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterClown \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MonsterClown\"). In the case of the clowns, [Ghostfreak](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HorrifyingTheHorror \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HorrifyingTheHorror\").\n- [The Worf Effect](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheWorfEffect \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheWorfEffect\"): *All* of the original aliens fail to put a scratch on [The Great One](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlanetDestroyer\") in \"The Big Tick\". It's only the newly-acquired Cannonbolt that's able to destroy it.\n- [Would Hurt a Child](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WouldHurtAChild \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WouldHurtAChild\"): Subverted in the sense that whenever Ben transforms and does battle, he gets beat up pretty graphically, which would look unsettling if it was happening in his human form. Played straight when he reverts back to Ben and his enemies don't hesitate to take advantage of his vulnerability.\n- [You and What Army?](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YouAndWhatArmy \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YouAndWhatArmy\"): Ben asks this Dr. Animo when the latter announces he will [Take Over the World](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TakeOverTheWorld \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TakeOverTheWorld\") with the mutated Lepidopterran he created out of Ditto's DNA. Animo's response is \"this one\" and the Lepidopterran clones itself into an army in a similar fashion to Ditto.\n- [You Must Be This Tall to Ride](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YouMustBeThisTallToRide \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YouMustBeThisTallToRide\"): In the episode \"A Small Problem\", Ben is told he's too short to go down a water slide, which he immediately decides to rectify by turning into Ripjaws. Maybe it's for the best that he ended up as the less-noticeable Grey Matter instead.\n- [You Won't Feel a Thing\\!](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YouWontFeelAThing \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YouWontFeelAThing\"): Ben defeats a cyborg Rojo by merging with her as Upgrade and says \"This won't hurt a bit\" before adding \"Okay, I lied\".\n- [Your Other Left](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YourOtherLeft \"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/YourOtherLeft\"): Totally played straight when Gwen is trying to ride on Ben (as Wildmutt)'s back after he is rendered \"blind\" from a cold.\n***\n\n[Feedback](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#feedback)\n\n### Video Example(s):\n\n## Clancy\nThe villain of the episode, Clancy, has the power to command arthropods.\n\nExample of:  \n[Pest Controller](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PestController)\n\n[Dr. Viktor](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[XLR8](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Sword of Ek Chuaj](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Animo's Transmo...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Eye Guy](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Time you saw th...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Gwen thanks Ben](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Ben calls out Max](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Bridge Cutting](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Ben 10 & th...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Three generatio...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Max Calls Ben Out](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Upchuck](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[\"Benjamin.\"](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Tetrax Shard](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Grey Matter vs ...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Vilgax nearly dead](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Wildvine](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Ben vs The Grea...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Finding the Árb...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Kevin 11](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Plumber-Lenopan...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[A MERE CHILD?\\!](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Myaxx](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Cartoon Network...](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Diamondhead](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Ben 10 theme](https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/WesternAnimation\/Ben10#video-link)\n\n[Charms of 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It started when an alien device did what it did And stuck itself upon his wrist with secrets that it hid Now he's got super-powers, he's no ordinary kid, He's Ben 10\! So if you see him you might be in for a big surprise, He'll turn into an alien before your very eyes, He's slimy, creepy, fast, and strong, he's every shape and size, He's Ben 10\! Armed with powers, he's on the case Fighting off evil from Earth or space. He'll never stop 'till he makes 'em pay, 'cause he's the baddest kid to ever save the day\! Ben 10\! — [Expository Theme Song](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExpositoryThemeSong "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExpositoryThemeSong") Ben 10 is an American action/adventure series created by [Man of Action Studios](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/ManOfActionStudios "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/ManOfActionStudios") (a group of comic book writers consisting of Duncan Rouleau, [Joe Casey](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JoeCasey "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JoeCasey"), [Joe Kelly](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JoeKelly "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JoeKelly"), and Steven T. Seagle) that aired from 2005 to 2008. The show revolves around the adventures of Ben Tennyson, a 10-year-old boy who, while on summer vacation with his grandfather Max and cousin Gwen, he comes into the possession of The Omnitrix: a [mysterious alien device](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum") [that allows him to change](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoluntaryShapeshifting "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoluntaryShapeshifting") [into a multitude of alien heroes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SwissArmyHero "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SwissArmyHero"). At first, there are only ten aliens (hence the name "Ben 10"), but Ben unlocked more aliens as the series went on. Why isn't the device in more capable hands? Well, once it attached to Ben, it was stuck there. [It won't come off.](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin") And with that problem established, Ben and his family decide to continue traveling the United States, [fighting off evil from Earth or space](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExpositoryThemeTune "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExpositoryThemeTune"), all while slowly discovering that Ben getting the Omnitrix may not have been as much of an accident as previously thought and that [Grandpa Max may know far more about these alien threats than he lets on](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretLegacy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretLegacy"). Also, don't worry about [Gwen](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HyperCompetentSidekick "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HyperCompetentSidekick") being left out in all this: [she eventually gets her own skill set](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirl "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirl"). The show is notable for including a substantial amount of [Character Development](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterDevelopment "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterDevelopment") and universe-building, as well as two big [Plot Twists](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotTwist "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotTwist") in the first and second seasons, respectively. The beginning of the original continuity in the [franchise](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Ben10 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Ben10"), three more series follow in this timeline: the [Darker and Edgier](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier") [Time Skipped](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeSkip "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeSkip") sequel [Ben 10: Alien Force](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce") that follows Ben as a teenager, then [Ben 10: Ultimate Alien](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien") (which immediately follows the events of Alien Force), and finally the [Lighter and Softer](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LighterAndSofter "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LighterAndSofter") [Ben 10: Omniverse](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse") that immediately follows Ultimate Alien. The foursome who created the original series went on to create [Generator Rex](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex"), and later work on [Ultimate Spider-Man](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012"), before returning to [reboot](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContinuityReboot "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContinuityReboot") this series with [Ben 10 (2016)](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben102016 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben102016"). The original series also has three television movies based on it; [Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix"), an [Alternate Universe](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternateUniverse "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternateUniverse") [Live-Action Adaptation](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiveActionAdaptation "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiveActionAdaptation") [Ben 10: Race Against Time](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Ben10RaceAgainstTime "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Ben10RaceAgainstTime") (notable for starring [Lee Majors as Grandpa Max](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan")), and a 2012 all-CGI film called [Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10DestroyAllAliens "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10DestroyAllAliens") that was later [Ret Canoned](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetCanon "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetCanon"). Not to be confused with the [Bren Ten.![](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bren_Ten) *** ## This show provides examples of: - [Aborted Arc](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbortedArc "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbortedArc"): The episode "Permanent Retirement" ended with a Limax escaping in its spaceship and another remaining at large at the retirement resort, but nothing was made of it, not even in the three [Sequel Series](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelSeries "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelSeries"). - The [Sequel Hook](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelHook "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelHook") of "Ben 10 vs the Negative 10" hinted that the Forever King/Driscoll would return, something never followed up on in the original series due it ending with the fourth season. Driscoll would return in [Ben 10: Ultimate Alien](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien") under different circumstances. - [Abusive Parents](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbusiveParents "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbusiveParents"): - Kevin's, who apparently threw him onto the street. Later Kevin himself, using his son Devlin to get his revenge on Ben. Future retcons would only muddle this further. - It's hinted that it's not the case with Kevin: he either ran away on his own and was thus lying, or his parents threw him out for being freaking nuts and not because of his powers, but in Kevin's mind, his "freakish" powers were the reason. - Also, Hex serves as an abusive parental figure to Charmcaster, which [comes back to bite him in the ass.](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStarscream "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStarscream") - [Actor Allusion](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActorAllusion "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActorAllusion"): In the episode "Game Over", where Ben and Gwen get sucked into a video game, Grandpa Max ([Paul Eiding](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/PaulEiding "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/PaulEiding")) notices their game console has been left on and complains, "I thought I told you to turn the game console off!". This is very similar to a line in [Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty") spoken by Colonel Roy Campbell, also voiced by Eiding, where the game starts [breaking the fourth wall](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoFourthWall "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoFourthWall"), and Campbell tells the protagonist, Raiden, to turn the game console off. - [Aesop Amnesia](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AesopAmnesia "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AesopAmnesia"): The sheer number of times Ben has learned lessons about being nicer to Gwen and Max, using the Omnitrix smarter not harder, and respecting other people, only to promptly discard them by the next episode is truly staggering. - [Added Alliterative Appeal](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AddedAlliterativeAppeal "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AddedAlliterativeAppeal"): Happens in "Side Effects": Max: It's your hives. The cold must have turned them into pus-filled pockets of– Gwen: Pure putridness\! - [The Alcatraz](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAlcatraz "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAlcatraz"): Incarcecon, the prison satellite. - [Aliens Speaking English](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AliensSpeakingEnglish "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AliensSpeakingEnglish"): Most aliens are able to speak perfectly in English without the use of a translator, and not just the ones that Ben turns into. - [All Bikers Are Hells Angels](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllBikersAreHellsAngels "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllBikersAreHellsAngels"): Rojo's gang. - [All-CGI Cartoon](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllCGICartoon "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllCGICartoon"): Its 2012 film, [Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10DestroyAllAliens "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10DestroyAllAliens"). - [All Myths Are True](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllMythsAreTrue "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllMythsAreTrue"): On average, for every five or six that can be attributed to aliens, there's one that can't. - [All There in the Manual](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllThereInTheManual "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllThereInTheManual"): Pop-up commentary during a Ben 10 marathon revealed a lot of facts that aren't stated in the show, most notably an extensive backstory for Ghostfreak and even a true name for him: Zs'Skayr. They also spoke about certain characters that would appear in later series, like SevenSeven, older brother of SixSix. - [All Your Powers Combined](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllYourPowersCombined "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllYourPowersCombined"): Kevin 11 to Ben's original 10 aliens. - [Alternative Foreign Theme Song](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternativeForeignThemeSong "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternativeForeignThemeSong"): The show has a different ending theme for the Japanese version called ["Ladybird Girl"![](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWajprtWpf8), a love song, which is not very fitting for a show about transforming into multiple aliens. - [Apocalypse How](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ApocalypseHow "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ApocalypseHow"): - In "The Big Tick", the [titular monster](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntagonistTitle "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntagonistTitle") is a [Planet Destroyer](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer") which has inflicted a [Class X](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/ClassX "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/ClassX") on every world it visited by rooting into and feeding off [the core](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetaryCoreManipulation "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetaryCoreManipulation"): the tick's influence first mutates the floral and fauna before the planet suffers an [Earth-Shattering Kaboom](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthShatteringKaboom "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthShatteringKaboom"). It's responsible for destroying the homeworld of Cannonball's species just a week before this episode takes place. - In "Camp Fear", the fungal [Monster of the Week](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterOfTheWeek "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterOfTheWeek") intends to release billions of [Mushroom Man](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MushroomMan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MushroomMan") spores into the atmosphere, which Gwen notes could spread over the whole state or country in a [Class 0](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/Class0 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/Class0"). - In "Dr. Animo and the Mutant Ray", Animo threatened to cause a [Class 4](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/Class4 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/Class4") or a [Class 6](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/Class6 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ApocalypseHow/Class6") variant by mutating the Earth's entire biosphere into Omnitrix alien fusions, intending to use his [Doomsday Device](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomsdayDevice "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomsdayDevice") in conjunction with a satellite. - In Season 3, Zs'Skayr attempts to inflict [The Night That Never Ends](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNightThatNeverEnds "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNightThatNeverEnds") on Earth as a form of [Hostile Terraforming](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HostileTerraforming "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HostileTerraforming"), by covering the planet in a Corrodium shield. The fact the [Corrodium](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCorruption "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCorruption") will effectively cause a Class 4 by mutating all animal life on the planet into monsters is thought to be merely a side-effect. - [Argument of Contradictions](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArgumentOfContradictions "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArgumentOfContradictions"): What some of Ben and Gwen's conversations boil down to. - [Artifact Title](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtifactTitle "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtifactTitle"): From the moment Ben discovered the eleventh alien in the Omnitrix, the title Ben 10, which mainly referred to the number of aliens he had at the beginning of the series (and to a much lesser extent, his age, and last name, Tennyson), quickly became irrelevant. - [Artistic License – Biology](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseBiology "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseBiology"): In an episode, some cows and a human were turned into mutant monstrosities due to exposure to an alien mutagen. Fortunately they were 'only briefly exposed', so the mutation reversed itself by the end of the episode. Needless to say, that's NOT how biology or radiation works\! - [Asimov's Three Kinds of Science Fiction](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction"): The show being [Space Opera](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceOpera "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceOpera"), it falls squarely in the Adventure classification. [Kid Hero](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHero "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHero") Ben Tennyson stumbles onto the alien-originated Omnitrix, a device that allows him to turn into a roulette of aliens, each with their own unique set of superpowers. The exact inner workings of the Omnitrix are spoon-fed to the audience, though never completely revealed and the social implications of such technology are never even glanced at. What the series cares about is Ben fending off extraterrestrial bad guys and sometimes going galaxy-trekking. - [Ax-Crazy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy"): Kevin 11 is shown to have sadistic and violent tendencies. - [Badass Biker](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBiker "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBiker"): Rojo a [Hot-Blooded](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotBlooded "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotBlooded") (bordering on [Ax-Crazy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy")) biker. - [Badass Family](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassFamily "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassFamily"): Max Tennyson and his grandchildren travel the country fighting world-threatening aliens. - [Badass Normal](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal"): - Max Tennyson has been fighting powerful aliens for years in spite of just being a human being with no powers. - Ben himself in the episode "Gwen 10" where Ben loses his powers, Ben still proves to be pretty badass, even using Grandpa Max's [BFG](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BFG "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BFG") with no problem. - In "Grudge Match", Ben manages to defeat an alien robot even after his Omnitrix times out. Admittedly, he already weakened it as Diamondhead, but it was still more than capable of killing him. - [Baseball Episode](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BaseballEpisode "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BaseballEpisode"): The episode "The Unnaturals" in which the Cannons (their hometown and Ben's school baseball team) and their opponents named Squires (disguised as baseball players but actually they are robots) had a baseball game in Philadelphia. One of its team are the school bullies named J.T. and Cash. During the game, XLR8 sabotages them before acting in favor of the team. Later in the episode, Ben sneaks into the Cannons and wears Cash's baseball t-shirt with the inscription "23" on the back of it. He failed to bat the ball two times but when he bats it successfully, he runs from his starting point up to the umpire or referee and from that part of the field, he turns into Four Arms. - [Be Careful What You Wish For](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor"): The beginning of an episode has Ben easily thwart a robbery. At the end of the preview, he outright states if there's anyone who can give him a challenge. Just so happens, it was the Negative 10 episode. - [BFG](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BFG "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BFG"): Some of Max's guns. - [Big Bad](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad"): Vilgax in Season 1, Kevin 11 in Season 2, Ghostfreak in Season 3, and the Forever King in Season 4. - Vilgax, being the [Arch-Enemy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArchEnemy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArchEnemy"), also had the role of secondary [Big Bad](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad") in Seasons 2 and 4. - [Big Damn Movie](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigDamnMovie "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigDamnMovie"): [Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix"), which [Man of Action Studios](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/ManOfActionStudios "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/ManOfActionStudios") have stated to canonically be the finale of the original series. The universe is threatened by the Omnitrix's self-destruct mode, and its creator is introduced, who goes on to become a supporting character in future installments. - [Big Eater](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigEater "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigEater"): Ben's alien form Upchuck can eat pretty much anything...[except human food](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Irony "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Irony"). - [Birthday Buddies](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BirthdayBuddies "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BirthdayBuddies"): Cousins Ben and Gwen Tennyson share the same birthday, and since they are both 10 years old that means they were born on the same day. Since they are both spending the summer travelling with their grandfather Max, they get into an argument over whose birthday should be celebrated on the actual date of their birthday. - [Bizarre Alien Senses](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BizarreAlienSenses "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BizarreAlienSenses"): As Wildmutt, Ben [lacks eyes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyelessFace "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyelessFace"), yet still experiences "images" of what's around him. This perception is probably scent-based, as the images grow sharper when he takes a breath and he had trouble navigating when Ben changed into him while having a cold. - [Black-and-White Morality](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality"): The show is mostly this trope, but the main hero's character flaws can push it slightly into [Black-and-Gray Morality](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndGrayMorality "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndGrayMorality") at times. - [Black Box](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackBox "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackBox"): The Omnitrix itself. Even its creator doesn't know exactly what he's made. - [Black Magician Girl](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackMagicianGirl "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackMagicianGirl"): Charmcaster has magic powers. - [Body Horror](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BodyHorror "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BodyHorror"): Quite a lot of it, in fact: - Many of Ben's transformations involve this. - Kevin after he is forced to be a conglomerate of Ben's original 10 forms. - The way the flesh on Ben's wrist stretches like chewing gum when Vilgax removed the Omnitrix. - The mutations inflicted by Corrodium in the episode "Under Wraps" were particularly unnerving; monstrous, twisted, black shadows with glowing purple lines gouged across them. Later on, in "Be Afraid of the Dark", when we actually see the mutations taking place as the entire populace of Earth is subjected to them, it's even more disturbing. - [Brush-Off Walk-Off](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrushOffWalkOff "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrushOffWalkOff"): Ben does this to Kevin in "Framed”, which pisses him off and triggers a [Shapeshifter Mode Lock](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshifterModeLock "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshifterModeLock"). - [Came from the Sky](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CameFromTheSky "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CameFromTheSky"): This is how Ben got the Omnitrix. - [Can't Live Without You](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CantLiveWithoutYou "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CantLiveWithoutYou"): Ben and Kevin in the [Chained Heat](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChainedHeat "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChainedHeat") episode — their shackle is set up so if one of them dies, so does the other. - [Can't Shift While Shifted](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CantShiftWhileShifted "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CantShiftWhileShifted"): The Omnitrix as a [Transformation Trinket](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationTrinket "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationTrinket") is only in an operable form to select aliens when Ben is human, meaning he can't pick another alien until he turns back into a human. This is later subverted when we learn about the Master Control, which allows Ben to change alien forms just by mentally wishing to - even if he is already in an alien form. And in the sequels, Ben learned how to change forms in alien form by touching The Omnitrix. - [Cape Busters](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CapeBusters "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CapeBusters"): The Forever Knights often target Ben because of his Omnitrix enabling him to assume different alien forms. - [Captain Ersatz](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainErsatz "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainErsatz"): There's a shocking number of comic book characters in "Ready to Rumble" getting the treatment: [Cyclops](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Cyclops "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Cyclops"), [Wonder Man](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/WonderMan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/WonderMan"), and [Killer Croc](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Batman "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Batman"). - [Capture Balls](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptureBalls "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptureBalls"): In the future shown in ["Ken 10"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S4E7Ken10 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S4E7Ken10"), Ben captures defeated enemies inside thrown "Null Void Containment Eggs" until he can release them into the [Null Void](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrisonDimension "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrisonDimension"). - [Centrifugal Farce](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CentrifugalFarce "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CentrifugalFarce"): [BenMummy and a Werewolf-esque alien fight](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItMakesSenseInContext "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItMakesSenseInContext") next to one of these. - [Chained Heat](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChainedHeat "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChainedHeat"): "Grudge Match" had Ben and Kevin chained together for most of the episode. - [Character Catchphrase](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterCatchphrase "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterCatchphrase"): "It's hero time!" and variations, when Ben uses the Omnitrix; and "Oh, man!" when he does something stupid or realizes he did something stupid (the latter of which would carry over to his [teenage](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce") [years](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien")). - [Character Name Alias](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterNameAlias "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterNameAlias"): In "The Unnaturals", the robot Little League team all have the names of famous dead MLB players. - [Christmas Episode](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChristmasEpisode "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChristmasEpisode"): The episode "Merry Christmas," which features the Tennysons visiting a holiday theme park. During the summer, no less. - [Circus of Magic](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CircusOfMagic "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CircusOfMagic"): Implied. Zombozo is the head of a circus act that gets people to laugh before using a machine to suck all the happiness out of them to fuel his own health and abilities. However, their supernatural abilities are never attributed to alien activity, implying that they're somehow magical in nature, as Zombozo was bitten by a zombie prior to the series. - [Clingy MacGuffin](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin"): The Omnitrix latches onto Ben's wrist and sticks there for the remainder of the series. - [Collector of Forms](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CollectorOfForms "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CollectorOfForms"): The Omnitrix slowly acquires new alien species for Ben to transform into over the course of the series by a variety of methods, but most commonly by scanning DNA from new species Ben meets. - [Comic-Book Adaptation](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComicBookAdaptation "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComicBookAdaptation"): Stories based on this show were featured in the earlier issues of [Cartoon Network Action Pack](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/CartoonNetworkActionPack "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/CartoonNetworkActionPack"). As the comic book continued publication, it stayed up to date by switching to adaptations of [Ben 10: Alien Force](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce") and [Ben 10: Ultimate Alien](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien"). - [Conveyor Belt o' Doom](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConveyorBeltODoom "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConveyorBeltODoom"): "Ready to Rumble" — The mother of two mutant kids was tied to a conveyor belt in an old wood mill. She was heading towards a wood saw that's right between her legs. - [Cool Old Guy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolOldGuy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolOldGuy"): Ben and Gwen's grandfather Max Tennyson is a retired member of an organization known as the Plumbers, who specialize in policing aliens. - [Cowardly Lion](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CowardlyLion "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CowardlyLion"): Gilbert in "Camp Fear". When he's not running around screaming his head off, he's quite helpful fighting off the mushroom monsters and protecting the younger campers. - [Create Your Own Hero](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreateYourOwnHero "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreateYourOwnHero"): [Vilgax](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad") trying to get the Omnitrix for his scheme was what eventually led the device to end up on Earth and stick itself on the wrist of Ben Tennyson. - [Creepy Child](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreepyChild "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreepyChild"): Meet Kevin, eleven years old and willing to kill a subway load of people without a second thought. - [Cross-Dressing Voices](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossdressingVoices "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrossdressingVoices"): [Tara Strong](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TaraStrong "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TaraStrong") as Ben and Upgrade. - [Cute Monster Girl](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuteMonsterGirl "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuteMonsterGirl"): In "My Big Fat Alien Wedding" the majority of the shapeshifting aliens are very ugly non-humanoid sludge monsters in their true form. The non-evil one (who's marrying a human) oddly looks like a fairly attractive purple-skinned woman in her true form. Despite being the daughter of the episode's villains. - [Dark Magical Girl](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkMagicalGirl "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkMagicalGirl"): [Played with](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingWithATrope "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingWithATrope") in regards to Charmcaster. She does sincerely have the background of a normal DMG (raised and trained by an evil, abusive guardian,) but she actually chooses to be evil rather than [join her](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn") [Magical Girl](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirl "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirl") counterpart. - [Description Cut](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DescriptionCut "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DescriptionCut"): Vilgax, in the first episode, prattles on about how no one in the universe can stop him. Then the scene cuts to Ben, in school, throwing a paper airplane at his teacher before the bell rings. - [Doomsday Device](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomsdayDevice "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomsdayDevice"): Animo's telescopic Transmodulator, the Loboan's makeshift receiver designed to spread Corrodium over the Earth, etc.. - [Dream Intro](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamIntro "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamIntro"): An episode has Ben transform into Wildmutt (one of his aliens) in order to rescue a boy stuck up a tree. The viewer then notices something is wrong when Ben, as Wildmutt, an alien who can’t talk, starts talking, in regular Ben's voice nonetheless. The boy then transforms into Ghostfreak and then Ben wakes up. - [Early-Installment Weirdness](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness"): - Gwen is initially depicted as being a [Badass Normal](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal") for much of the series, before finally becoming the [Magical Girl](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirl "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirl") she's known for being in the sequels. Her magic is also shown to have a blue-colored theme to it, whereas later installments (including Destroy All Aliens) give it a pink/purple hue. - Kevin's first appearance has him using his powers to absorb energy from machines rather than solid matter, a far cry from what he does in later shows. He also lacks a connection with anyone other than Ben, while other shows in the franchise establish his close connection to everyone else and his relationship with Gwen. - Ben's alien forms all have a white version of the Omnitrix logo somewhere on their bodies, whereas later installments have it remain green. - Bellwood, Ben and Gwen's hometown, is rarely featured in this series, due to the synopsis of the show being around Ben, Gwen and Max traveling the United States for a summer roadtrip. - [Earth-Shattering Kaboom](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthShatteringKaboom "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthShatteringKaboom"): The [Storyboarding the Apocalypse](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoryboardingTheApocalypse "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoryboardingTheApocalypse") shows that the titular [Planet Destroyer](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer") in "The Big Tick" eventually does this to every planet it feeds off. - [Eating the Enemy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EatingTheEnemy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EatingTheEnemy"): - One of Ben's aliens, Upchuck, is a Gourmand, a species of [big eaters](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigEater "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigEater") capable of devouring practically anything inorganic. In his first appearance, Ben uses him to eat a robot machine that hijacked his grandpa. Strangely, while he can eat inorganic things, he can't digest organic matter. - Various aliens have tried to make a meal of the characters. A notable example being the [Mycelium](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManEatingPlant "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManEatingPlant") who was a giant fungus brain who wanted to devour ever creature on Earth and take it over. - [Eldritch Abomination](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination"): The Great One from "The Big Tick". - The Mycelium in "Camp Fear". - [Elemental Powers](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElementalPowers "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElementalPowers"): Several of Ben's alien forms have powers based on a specific element, the most obvious one being Heatblast. - [Emerald Power](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmeraldPower "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmeraldPower"): The Omnitrix glows green when active. - [Empathic Weapon](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmpathicWeapon "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmpathicWeapon"): The Omnitrix. - [Enemy Without](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout"): Early on, Ghostfreak was implied to have a mind of his own and even secretly possessed Ben. In the second season, he finally escaped the Omnitrix. - [Evil Counterpart](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCounterpart "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCounterpart"): Kevin 11 to Ben, especially after he copied the powers of Ben's original ten alien forms by draining the energy of the Omnitrix. Charmcaster to Gwen because they both have magic powers. - [Evil Sorcerer](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilSorcerer "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilSorcerer"): Hex is a sorcerer and one of the show's recurring villains. - [Expository Theme Tune](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExpositoryThemeTune "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExpositoryThemeTune"): It started when an alien device did what it did And stuck itself upon his wrist with secrets that it hid Now he's got super powers, he's no ordinary kid He's Ben 10! (Ben 10, Ben 10!) - [Expy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Expy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Expy"): Zombozo demonstrates similar behavior to [Pennywise](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/IT "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/IT"), he even turns into a giant spider in a hallucination(?)\! - [Extra-Strength Masquerade](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExtraStrengthMasquerade "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExtraStrengthMasquerade"): As a [Fantasy Kitchen Sink](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasyKitchenSink "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasyKitchenSink") show borderlining on [World of Weirdness](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldOfWeirdness "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldOfWeirdness"), it's really inconsistent with regards to whether the existence of aliens, robots, and mutants is commonly accepted knowledge, or whether such things are supposed to be regarded as myth by the general public. - [Face Fault](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceFault "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceFault"): Look hard enough, Gwen in Charmcaster's body in "A Change Of Face" has these. - [Family-Friendly Firearms](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyFriendlyFirearms "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyFriendlyFirearms"): Sometimes justified by the sci-fi setting, but really...where are ordinary gang members, mall cops, and other assorted armed [Muggles](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Muggles "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Muggles") getting their sci-fi firearms? - [Family-Unfriendly Death](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyUnfriendlyDeath "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyUnfriendlyDeath"): [Kevin 11](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCounterpart "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCounterpart") killing sentient robot Slix Vigma by impaling him on his Diamondhead arm, and almost give the same fate to Ben. Another example includes villain Ghostfreak, who was burnt to ashes. Twice. - [Flanderization](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization"): - Early on, the Omnitrix is fairly reliable, only transforming Ben into the wrong alien once every few episodes, and Ben is justifiably surprised when it happens. Fast forward to the Season 3 finale, and out of the four times Ben transformed in the first part, he only got the alien he wanted once, and he's reduced to frantically begging the Omnitrix to please cooperate with him this time... - Ben himself also suffers from this. Is quite obvious in the 3-minute shorts that frequently appear on Cartoon Network. - [Flower Mouth](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlowerMouth "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlowerMouth"): Ben's Blitzwolfer form has a snout that opens in four different directions. - [Foreshadowing](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Foreshadowing "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Foreshadowing"): - There are many hints that Max wasn't just a normal Plumber, such as knowing that Heatblast is not a monster but an alien, and mentions of Vilgax making him tense. - In "Kevin 11", Kevin boasts that he's "taking all of \[Ben's\] alien powers". In "Framed", its revealed that he did. But by the end, [he bit off more than he can chew](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BodyHorror "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BodyHorror"). - When Vilgax personally shows up in "Secrets", he has an [Imagine Spot](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImagineSpot "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImagineSpot") of an army of Omnitrix users taking over the cosmos with him at the helm to showcase his evil. Notably, a Four-Arms changes in real-time into a Heatblast. This isn't an exaggeration, but a future ability of the Omnitrix that occasionally gets used in this series, is mastered by [Ben's older self](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FutureBadass "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FutureBadass"), and learned properly by [Ben 10: Alien Force](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce"). - When the Omnitrix first falls to Earth in "And Then There Were Ten", it doesn't just land near Ben; it actually changes its path to fly in his direction, as if personally seeking him out. This hints at a later reveal that the Omnitrix was sent for someone with the same DNA as Ben i.e. Grandpa Max. - [Foul Medicine](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FoulMedicine "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FoulMedicine"): In "Side Effects", Ben catches a cold from getting inside an ice cream truck, which also affects the powers of his aliens. Grandpa Max buys him a medicine which both tastes and smells terribly. - [Fiery Redhead](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FieryRedhead "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FieryRedhead"): Gwen has red hair and is often ill-tempered. - [The Freakshow](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFreakshow "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFreakshow"): Source of the Circus Freak Trio. - [Freudian Excuse](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FreudianExcuse "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FreudianExcuse"): - Kevin being abandoned by his parents and mocked by peers for being a "freak". Once he couldn't take it anymore, he decided "[to show them just how much of a freak he could be.](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThenLetMeBeEvil "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThenLetMeBeEvil")" - Also, Charmcaster being raised by her [blatantly abusive](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbusiveParents "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbusiveParents") uncle Hex. He did his job too well, and she [ends up betraying him for her own evil goals.](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStarscream "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStarscream") - [Full-Contact Magic](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FullContactMagic "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FullContactMagic"): Played perfectly straight; mixing a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and ~~magic~~ alien energy-manipulation powers gives Gwen dynamic and fluid fighting scenes. - [Future Badass](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FutureBadass "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FutureBadass"): Ben 10,000, Gwendolyn, and cyborg Max. That is all. - [Future Me Scares Me](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FutureMeScaresMe "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FutureMeScaresMe"): When Ben and Gwen go to the future, Future Ben is pretty much a jerk. - [A Glitch in the Matrix](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AGlitchInTheMatrix "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AGlitchInTheMatrix") / [Out-of-Character Alert](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OutOfCharacterAlert "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OutOfCharacterAlert"): Ben realizes that the Forever Knights trapped him in a [Lotus-Eater Machine](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine") when he encounters a dream version of Vilgax who only tried to send him to the Null Void and wasn't even after the Omnitrix. - [Grand Theft Me](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrandTheftMe "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrandTheftMe"): Charmcaster can't get the Omnitrix off Ben, so she's just going to do this instead. - [Green-Skinned Space Babe](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe"): Xylene. - With [Non-Mammal Mammaries](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NonMammalMammaries "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NonMammalMammaries"), even after she states that her race does not take care of their young at all ("On my planet, once you hatch, you're on your own.") - [The Group](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGroup "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGroup"): The Forever Knights' cover name is The Organization. - [Growing Up Sucks](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingUpSucks "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingUpSucks"): Ben 10,000 has Ben decide that being an adult isn't cool if he's going to be a jerk. This statement causes his future self to change his ways and become a better person. - [Halloween Episode](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalloweenEpisode "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalloweenEpisode"): The episodes "Last Laugh," "Ghostfreaked Out," "Benwolf," "Under Wraps," "The Return," and "Be Afraid of the Dark" are considered Halloween episodes, despite the fact that the series is supposed to take place during the summer. - [Hands Looking Wrong](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HandsLookingWrong "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HandsLookingWrong"): - In the pilot, looking at his hands is how Ben first realizes he has transformed into Heatblast, screaming before the transformation background dissipates. - A couple of Ben's stock [Transformation Sequences](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationSequence "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationSequence") have him observing his transformation starting at his arm. Justified, since the origin point is his wrist mounted Omnitrix. - [Height Insult](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeightInsult "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeightInsult"): Gwen teases Ben several times about being too short un "A Small Problem": first after [being denied access to a water slide](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouMustBeThisTallToRide "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouMustBeThisTallToRide") that Gwen is tall enough for, later after turning into Gray Matter (although he wanted to turn into the much larger Ripjaws) to try the water slide, and then at the end of the episode after Ben turns back to normal. - [Henshin Hero](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HenshinHero "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HenshinHero"): Ben has no superpowers as a human. He only gets them when he transforms into one of his alien forms. - [Hijacked by Ganon](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HijackedByGanon "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HijackedByGanon"): A Season 3 episode introduced a werewolf-like alien who was seemingly killed at the end of his episode, but was revealed to have built a machine as a [Sequel Hook](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelHook "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelHook"). A mummy-like alien is then introduced in a later episode. Both come back and are revealed to work for a new villain named Dr Vicktor in the first part of the season finale... and then it turns out Dr Vicktor himself was [The Dragon](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon") to Ghostfreak/Zs'Skayr, a villain who had been introduced in a previous Season 2 episode. - [Hour of Power](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HourOfPower "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HourOfPower"): The Omnitrix only allows Ben to be an alien for a limited time. After the time limit runs out, he returns to normal and has to wait for the Omnitrix to recharge before he can change into an alien again. - [Humanoid Aliens](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumanoidAliens "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumanoidAliens"): Many of the aliens vaguely resemble humans. - [Hybrids Are a Crapshoot](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HybridsAreACrapshoot "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HybridsAreACrapshoot"): Ben accidentally removes the faceplate from the Omnitrix, which results in his aliens being fused together, often with disastrous results, such as a combination of Fourarms and Stinkfly that is much weaker than Fourarms but too heavy to fly. - [Hypocritical Humor](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypocriticalHumor "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypocriticalHumor"): A bit of it in "Gwen 10", where Ben keeps telling off Gwen for doing things he knows perfectly well he did in the past. - [I Am Not Left-Handed](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IAmNotLeftHanded "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IAmNotLeftHanded"): A couple of occasions, but possibly the most awesome is in "Grudge Match", where Kevin 11 has Ben trapped, and boasts that he can handle any of Ben's 10 aliens, since he IS all those aliens combined. Ben then reveals that he's unlocked a new form since Kevin last saw him: Cannon Bolt. Kevin gets hammered. - A similar, if more subtle version comes from "Ben 10,000", when Vilgax makes the same boast about all TEN THOUSAND of Future Ben's aliens, except that Future Ben has one form Vilgax overlooked: human. - [I'm Cold... So Cold...](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImColdSoCold "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImColdSoCold"): Happens in an episode when Ben offers another character a piece of chocolate, which turns out to be highly poisonous to his species. - [Implacable Man](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImplacableMan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImplacableMan"): Vilgax. No matter what happens to him, he won't let it stop him from hunting down Ben and trying to get the Omnitrix. - [Imported Alien Phlebotinum](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImportedAlienPhlebotinum"): The Omnitrix. - [In Case of X, Break Glass](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InCaseOfXBreakGlass "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InCaseOfXBreakGlass"): [Inverted](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Inverted "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Inverted") when a giant lightbulb containing and powered by a swarm of [Megawhatts](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShockAndAwe "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShockAndAwe") is labeled with "In case of emergency, do NOT break glass". - [The Infested](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheInfested "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheInfested"): The villain Clancy carries swarms of multiple insects inside his clothes. He possesses a [unique empathic connection](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBeastmaster "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBeastmaster") to them, which allows him to direct them in battle. - [Instant Expert](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InstantExpert "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InstantExpert"): Gwen when she gets the Omnitrix in an alternate timeline. Subverted with her magic, which she bumbles through for many episodes before getting good at it. - [Intangible Man](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IntangibleMan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IntangibleMan"): Ghostfreak. - [I Owe You My Life](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IOweYouMyLife "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IOweYouMyLife"): In "Grudge Match", a gladiator named Technorg offers Ben to be "master" after Ben spared his life in battle. Naturally, Ben refuses the offer and forces Technorg to get off the Mega Cruiser while he still can. - [Jade-Colored Glasses](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JadeColoredGlasses "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JadeColoredGlasses"): Ben 10,000 has been wearing a set for years, apparently. - [Joker Immunity](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JokerImmunity "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JokerImmunity"): Vilgax. Helps that he's [Nigh-Invulnerable](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NighInvulnerable "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NighInvulnerable"), of course. It's a bit hard to kill somebody who survived being nuked. And has upgraded himself since then. - [Jumped at the Call](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JumpedAtTheCall "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JumpedAtTheCall"): Ben was quick to accept the idea of using the Omnitrix to save the world. - [Jumping Off the Slippery Slope](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope"): Kevin's "crash a passenger train" plan. Fastest partnership breakup ever. - [Kid Hero](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHero "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHero"): Ben is only 10 when the show starts. - [Kid Hero All Grown Up](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHeroAllGrownUp "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHeroAllGrownUp"): Every iteration of the series has featured at least an adventure with Ben meeting himself as an adult, usually going by "Ben Ten Thousand". Gwen as an adult is usually featured in such stories. - [Kill It with Fire](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KillItWithFire "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KillItWithFire"): Present in the very first episode, Ben accidentally starts a fire, Grandpa Max tells Ben that in order to stop it, he should start another one. - [Knight of Cerebus](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightOfCerebus "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightOfCerebus"): The series, at its heart, is about a kid who does heroic and stupid things with his Omnitrix, but when [Vilgax](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad"), [Kevin](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCounterpart "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCounterpart") and [Zs'Skayr](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout") appear, the episode's gonna take itself fairly seriously. - [Lamarck Was Right](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LamarckWasRight "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LamarckWasRight"): Averted in "Ken 10"; Kenny needs his own Omnitrix to get his own powers. - [Laughably Evil](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LaughablyEvil "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LaughablyEvil"): Many secondary villains such as Dr. Animo, Charmcaster, or the Circus Freaks are this, contrasting to the more serious Big Bads. - [Lawyer-Friendly Cameo](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LawyerFriendlyCameo "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LawyerFriendlyCameo"): - An alien version of [Billy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy") in Ken 10. Even shares the same VA. - Versions of Konohamaru and Team Ebisu from [Naruto](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Naruto "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Naruto") in the Christmas episode. - A Sakura Haruno near the end of "Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures". - [Legion of Doom](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LegionOfDoom "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LegionOfDoom"): The Negative 10. Several of their members were villains Ben had previously fought, even ones that hadn't been seen since the first season like Clancy and Rojo. - [Leitmotif](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Leitmotif "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Leitmotif"): Several, including ones for Ben's aliens and a one for the occasional instances of [Sky Surfing](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SkySurfing "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SkySurfing") that happen a few times over the series. - [Light-Flicker Teleportation](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightFlickerTeleportation "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightFlickerTeleportation"): In "[Under Wraps](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S3E8UnderWraps "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S3E8UnderWraps")", after Diamondhead digs up the [Corrodium](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppliedPhlebotinum "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppliedPhlebotinum"), Gwen realizes that they've just done [the Mummy's](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mummy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mummy") job for him, and the Mummy suddenly appears at the end of the hallway. The lights flicker, and it gets closer each time. Notably, after the lights go out, it's [purple glowing marks](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PurpleIsImpure "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PurpleIsImpure") stay visible for a brief moment, essentially letting the light flicker twice. - [Limited Wardrobe](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LimitedWardrobe "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LimitedWardrobe"): A subtle nod to this in "Gwen 10": Ben throws several shirts identical to his own out of his suitcase while he's searching for a lost item. - Subverted in the live-action movie of course. But Ben wore this very shirt later in the movie. - [Living Ghost](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LivingGhost "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LivingGhost"): One of Ben's first transformations, Ghostfreak, is an alien that, like the name suggests, can turn invisible and intangible with little to no consequence, and in rare instances, possess others. Ghostfreak was sampled from an entire ghost-like race that live in a solar system filled with Halloween-themed aliens. Their entire conscience also exists in every strand of their DNA, which means that Ghostfreak [was trapped in the Omnitrix and fully aware](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndIMustScream "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndIMustScream") until [he escaped and became one of Ben's villains](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout"). - [Lotus-Eater Machine](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine"): "Perfect Day" had Enoch attempt to trap Ben in one so that he could easily remove the Omnitrix. - [Lovecraftian Superpower](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LovecraftianSuperpower "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LovecraftianSuperpower"): The Omnitrix can turn Ben into a variety of things, some more disturbing than others. - [Magic Misfire](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicMisfire "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicMisfire"): Gwen, too. She even figured out how to use the misfire to her advantage. Sort of. - [Magic Pants](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicPants "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicPants"): ANYTHING that Ben was wearing before he goes alien — no matter how badly it was ripped during the transformation sequence — will be back, in perfect condition, when the Omnitrix runs out of juice. - [Man Hug](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManHug "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManHug"): When Max runs into his old plumber buddy Phil, the two greet each other with a hug. - [Merchandise-Driven](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MerchandiseDriven "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MerchandiseDriven"): The show had a LOT of toys made for it, and the toyetic nature of Ben's alien forms would only get more obvious with each following series in the franchise. - [The Men in Black](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMenInBlack "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMenInBlack"): - The Plumbers, who are a [secret organization](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Masquerade "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Masquerade"). - There is also the Special Alien Containment Team (SACT), who are more public than the Plumbers. - [Missed the Call](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissedTheCall "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissedTheCall"): The Omnitrix was intended for Grandpa Max, not for Ben. - [Monster Clown](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterClown "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterClown"): Zombozo. - [Monster of the Week](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterOfTheWeek "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterOfTheWeek"): The show lives on this. Considering the strange varieties of trouble that tend to occur wherever Ben goes, one feels sorry for this kid's hometown if summer vacation ends. - [Mook Horror Show](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MookHorrorShow "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MookHorrorShow"): Ben sometimes invokes this on criminals. This includes one time when he was fighting two robbers as Ripjaws. However, the most noteable time is when he literally scares Zombozo to death as Ghostfreak. - [Motive Decay](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MotiveDecay "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MotiveDecay"): In his debut appearance, Dr Animo wanted to get a prize that was denied him. In the remainder of his appearances, he just wanted to either conquer or mutate the world. - [The Movie](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMovie "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMovie"): Two of them — [Secret of the Omnitrix](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10SecretOfTheOmnitrix"), and the live action movie [Race Against Time](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Ben10RaceAgainstTime "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Ben10RaceAgainstTime"). A third all-CGI film, [Destroy All Aliens](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10DestroyAllAliens "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10DestroyAllAliens"), set during this timeframe was later released in 2012. - [Multiform Balance](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MultiformBalance "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MultiformBalance"): Theoretically, each of Ben's alien forms have powers applicable to specific situations. In practice, due to [Ben's](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHero "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidHero") lack of tactical thinking and the Omnitrix's tendency to be uncooperative, whether an alien will be used in the appropriate role is never certain, forcing Ben to improvise. - [Mundane Utility](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MundaneUtility "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MundaneUtility"): Sometimes Ben uses his alien forms to do something as ordinary as looking for a prize in boxes of cereal. - [Mushroom Man](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MushroomMan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MushroomMan") / [Plant Mooks](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlantMooks "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlantMooks"): The Tennysons face an army of them in "Camp Fear". - [My Friends... and Zoidberg](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyFriendsAndZoidberg "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyFriendsAndZoidberg") "...and leave the rest to the game pros... and Ben." - [Near-Miss Groin Attack](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NearMissGroinAttack "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NearMissGroinAttack"): Happens to Grandpa Max, with crystal spikes landing all around his body as he keeps backing up to avoid it hitting his groin. - [Never Say "Die"](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverSayDie "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverSayDie"): While there are occasions where this trope is averted, with characters explicitly mentioning death, being a kids’ show, there are still times where this trope is played straight. - [New Superpower](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewSuperpower "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewSuperpower"): - In "The Big Tick", Ben, to his surprise, discovers that the Omnitrix can turn him into more than ten aliens, and becomes Cannonbolt. Cannonbolt doesn't breathe fire or shoot freeze rays from his eyes, and is likewise devoid of magnetic blasts. In addition, he has problems balancing. The form can, however, curl up into an armored ball and roll, alternately ricocheting off of things or smashing through them. When all of Ben's other forms fail to stop the immense, world-destroying [Monster of the Week](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterOfTheWeek "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterOfTheWeek"), Ben must, despite his initial misgivings, use this form to save the world. Cannonbolt is actually useful again a few episodes later against a recurring antagonist who had, in an earlier episode, absorbed the powers of Ben's original ten forms, and goes on to become one of Ben's more frequently-used alien forms. - Cannonbolt also introduced the concept of Ben gaining/discovering new alien forms, which would become a regular occurrence for the rest of the franchise. In a sense, the ability to gain new powers was a new power of its own. - [The Night That Never Ends](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNightThatNeverEnds "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNightThatNeverEnds"): Zs'Skayr (to whom sunlight is fatal) tries covering the sunlit side of the Earth with a shell of radioactive material in "Be Afraid of the Dark", so he can rule it as his domain. (The fact that this will mutate the entire population of the Earth is an unfortunate side effect to him.) - [No Celebrities Were Harmed](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoCelebritiesWereHarmed "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoCelebritiesWereHarmed"): "Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures" features an actor named Abel North, who played a television hero Ben grew up with called Kangaroo Commando. He's quite obviously a spoof of [Adam West](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/AdamWest "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/AdamWest") and his role as Batman in [the 1966 television series](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Batman1966 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Batman1966"). - [No-Holds-Barred Beatdown](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoHoldsBarredBeatdown "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoHoldsBarredBeatdown"): How Vilgax says hello. - [No Ontological Inertia](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoOntologicalInertia "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoOntologicalInertia"): The episode "The Big Tick" features an [Eldritch Abomination](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination") which completely ravages much of the Earth in an attempt to destroy it. After the abomination is destroyed, the Earth returns to its former, unravaged state immediately. - [No Sense of Humor](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSenseOfHumor "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSenseOfHumor"): Adult Ben, as seen in the episode "[Ben 10,000](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S3E1BenTenThousand "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S3E1BenTenThousand")". He gets better in the end and continuing into "Ken 10". - [Oblivious Mockery](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObliviousMockery "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObliviousMockery"): Early in the [What If?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIf "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIf") episode "Gwen 10", Gwen gets the Omnitrix stuck on her wrist and turns into [Heatblast](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagmaMan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagmaMan"). Ben, who remembers going through this before, warns her about the danger of using fiery powers in the middle of a forest. She immediately responds that only an idiot would set the forest on fire. Naturally, that's exactly what Ben did in the first episode. - [The Other Darrin](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOtherDarrin "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOtherDarrin") invoked: Discussed in-universe in the episode "Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventures", where Ben mentions that his favorite television hero Kangaroo Commando, usually played by Abel North, was instead played by Abel's brother Kane in one episode. - [Painful Adhesive Removal](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PainfulAdhesiveRemoval "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PainfulAdhesiveRemoval"): In "[Back With A Vengeance](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S2E13BackWithAVengeance "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S2E13BackWithAVengeance")", [the Omnitrix](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin") is (temporarily) removed from Ben's wrist using a special device. He is clearly in pain and there are tears in his eyes as his skin begins stretching, until the device finally comes off. According to [Pop-Up Trivia](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PopUpTrivia "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PopUpTrivia"), Ben would later describe this feeling as "like ripping a really sticky band-aid off a sunburn". - [Papa Wolf](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PapaWolf "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PapaWolf"): Grandpa Max towards Ben and Gwen. Ben himself in the future, where his son Kenny is concerned. - [Parental Hypocrisy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalHypocrisy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalHypocrisy"): Ben's future self Ben 10,000 becomes a hypocritical parent in the episode "Ken 10". When his son Ken is excited about getting his own Omnitrix for his 10th birthday, Ben tells his son that saving the world isn't kid's stuff, despite the fact that he himself first became a hero when he was his son's age. Later, Ben 10,000 asks where his son gets his attitude shortly after Ken gets angry with his father and acts the same way Ben did whenever he got into a disagreement with his grandfather Max. Both occasions hang a lampshade by having Grandpa Max give a scornful look at Ben whenever he makes his hypocritical statement. - [Parental Marriage Veto](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalMarriageVeto "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalMarriageVeto"): In "Big Fat Alien Wedding", Joel's parents are pretty much against [his marriage to Camille](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InterspeciesRomance "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InterspeciesRomance"), a [Sludgepuppy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlobMonster "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlobMonster"), which would cement a treaty between both human and Sludgepuppies. This is because both Gordon and Betty Jean (Joel's Parents) are Plumbers who have been fighting Sludgepuppies for the longest time, and are thus slow to trust a species that's, only until recently, been their mortal enemy. During the wedding itself, it's revealed that Camille's parents (who, up until this point, [seemed like nice people](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BitchInSheepsClothing "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BitchInSheepsClothing")) hate the idea of the wedding uniting the enemy races. The end of the episode has Gordon and Betty Jean warming up to their daughter-in-law. - [Phantom Zone](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PhantomZone "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PhantomZone"): The Null Void. Unusual in that things were let out before the viewer was let in on it. - [Planet Destroyer](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer"): The tick monster from "The Big Tick" moves from planet to planet, mutating and ultimately destroying each one for sustenance. - [Planetary Core Manipulation](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetaryCoreManipulation "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetaryCoreManipulation"): In "The Big Tick", the planet is attacked by a tick-like alien which destroys other planets. When doing so, The Great One injects its tentacles deeply in the planet to its core, devouring it from the inside out. - [Plant Aliens](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlantAliens "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlantAliens"): Wildvine is an example of this. - [Post-Adventure Adventure](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostAdventureAdventure "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostAdventureAdventure"): From the perspective of Grandpa Max, the events of the show are this for him. Max is a retired Plumber, an organization of humans and aliens sworn to defend Earth from alien attack. When Max was in his prime, he defeated [Vilgax](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlord "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlord"), among many, many other things over the course of his career before eventually retiring and settling down. When Ben retrieves the Omnitrix, Max's former skills are put to good use in supporting his grandson's efforts to battle the neverending supply of alien bad guys looking to take it from Ben. Max alludes to his adventures fondly in flashbacks, but the viewer never gets to see all of them. - [Psycho for Hire](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PsychoForHire "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PsychoForHire"): Kevin 11. As noted in "Grudge Match", while his main desire is revenge on Ben, he likes to seek any excuse to fight, brutalize, or even kill various opponents. - [Puny Earthlings](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunyEarthlings "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunyEarthlings"): Humans are the only species that doesn't have at least one ability that would be classified as a superpower. - [Puppy Love](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PuppyLove "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PuppyLove"): Ben and Kai. - [Purple Is Impure](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PurpleIsImpure "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PurpleIsImpure"): All of the [Anur aliens](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterMash "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterMash") have a purple motif which turns green when Ben uses those aliens. The mutagenic [Corrodium](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppliedPhlebotinum "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppliedPhlebotinum") from that system also has a purple glow. - ["Reason You Suck" Speech](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReasonYouSuckSpeech "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReasonYouSuckSpeech"): Tetrax berates Ben for relying on brute strength to solve every situation, and never using strategy. Ben takes this to heart and later uses Gray Matter to win against the last two bounty hunters. - [Retroactive Precognition](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetroactivePrecognition "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetroactivePrecognition"): Ben has this in "Gwen 10" when he gets mysteriously transported to the past, and remembers everything that happened over the past several months, but nobody else does. Out of denial or disbelief though it takes Max a while to believe Ben despite the fact that Ben now knows about Vilgax (who only Max has met) and the Omnitrix, which is unknown to most people on Earth. Unfortunately for Ben, things have changed enough that his knowledge of future events is limited in its usefulness. - [Running Gag](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag"): The many, many times Ben tries to turn into one alien but ends up mistransforming as another one. - [Sadistic Choice](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SadisticChoice "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SadisticChoice"): - In "The Return", Vilgax has knocked out Gwen and Max and threatens to kill them if Ben doesn't surrender. - In "Back With A Vengeance", Vilgax and Kevin 11 kidnap Gwen to force Ben to hand over the Omnitrix. - In "Ghostfreaked Out", Ghostfreak possesses Gwen and threatens to make her fall to her death if Ben doesn't drop the sun gunnote the sun gun projects a beam of sunlight which is Ghostfreak's only weakness, at which point Ghostfreak will possess him and gain control of the Omnitrix. - [Schmuck Bait](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SchmuckBait "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SchmuckBait"): "It" in "Tourist Trap". - [Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale"): In Negative 10, the power source has "as much power as the sun." Then Max goes on to say that if it goes off, it can blow up a continent the size of Texas to outer space. An energy source that powerful would blow up more than a continent, much less Texas. And then when the [Big Bad](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad") finally absorbs this ultra-powerful energy source into his [Powered Armor](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoweredArmor "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoweredArmor"), the most he can think to do with it is use it to shoot rather mediocre [eyebeams](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Eyebeams "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Eyebeams"). - [Sealed Evil in a Can](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SealedEvilInACan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SealedEvilInACan"): - Vilgax, tends to be put in a can of whatever sort between appearances, be it a healing chamber, a block of ice, or a pocket dimension. He's slightly unusual in that we see him out of the can first. - Ghostfreak/Zs'Skayr is an odd example of evil that got sealed in a can accidentally, his DNA sampled for the show's [Clingy MacGuffin](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin") so that the wearer can turn into him, and the personalities of his species being encoded in their genes somehow. Eventually, he gets loose and becomes Ben's [Enemy Without](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnemyWithout"). - [Second-Person Attack](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecondPersonAttack "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecondPersonAttack"): At least [Once an Episode](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnceAnEpisode "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnceAnEpisode"). - [Secret Legacy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretLegacy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretLegacy"): Grandpa Max, who had had a long history dealing with aliens as the Plumbers. - [Self-Guarding Phlebotinum](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SelfGuardingPhlebotinum "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SelfGuardingPhlebotinum"): The Omnitrix generates a small field around itself when someone who is not the person who it is currently attached to tries to touch it. However, it should noted that the Omnitrix is neither [Empathic](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmpathicWeapon "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmpathicWeapon") nor [Loyal](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoyalPhlebotinum "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoyalPhlebotinum") and only tries to protect itself; in fact, one way you can obtain it is to kill the current user and then take it for yourself. - [Shapeshifter Struggles](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshifterStruggles "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshifterStruggles"): The series revolves around a kid with an alien [Transformation Trinket](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationTrinket "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationTrinket") permanently attached to his wrist, so it should be no surprise that Ben's had just about every problem that a shapeshifter can run into. Sometimes the Omnitrix itself is as big a problem as whatever the current [Villain of the Week](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainOfTheWeek "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainOfTheWeek") is. - [Shapeshifting Sound](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshiftingSound "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshiftingSound"): Whenever Ben uses the Omnitrix to transform any alien he chooses, the transformations are accompanied with electronic sounds. - [Shout-Out](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShoutOut "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShoutOut"): - ["I find your lack of faith disturbing."](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/StarWars "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/StarWars") - In "The Visitor", Max tells Xylene "We'll always have Roswell", which is a clear reference to the line "We'll always have Paris" from [Casablanca](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Casablanca "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Casablanca"). - Grandpa Max piloting the space shuttle in "Be Afraid of the Dark" Grandpa: Yeah. I still got [The Right Stuff](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheRightStuff "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheRightStuff"). - In the first episode, Grandpa Max's RV, the Rustbucket, has the license plate "[S81Z1M](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Shazam "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Shazam")". - At the very end of of "Merry Christmas", three children are shown whose designs are very similar to Konohamaru, Moegi, and Udon from [Naruto](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Naruto "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Naruto"). - [Spiked Wheels](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpikedWheels "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpikedWheels"): In "Ben 4 Good Buddy", Turbine has wheel spikes as one of the weapons on her [Weaponized Car](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponizedCar "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponizedCar"). - [Status Quo Is God](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StatusQuoIsGod "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StatusQuoIsGod"): Ben gaining mastery of the Omnitrix? [Reset Button](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ResetButton "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ResetButton") time. - [Steven Ulysses Perhero](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StevenUlyssesPerhero "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StevenUlyssesPerhero"): Ben Tennyson has access to ten alien forms from the beginning of the series. - [Storyboarding the Apocalypse](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoryboardingTheApocalypse "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoryboardingTheApocalypse"): [The tick](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer")'s worshippers in "The Big Tick" do this. - [Stumbling in the New Form](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StumblingInTheNewForm "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StumblingInTheNewForm"): Ben sometimes has trouble figuring out how to move when the Omnitrix glitches and gives him a new alien form. When he first turned into Cannonbolt, he couldn't stand up straight and it took him an entire episode to discover how to curl up and become a [Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HyperDestructiveBouncingBall "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HyperDestructiveBouncingBall"). The same was true for Snare-oh, since he had absolutely no idea how to stand on legs that are basically made out of strips of paper. - [Super Power Lottery](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperPowerLottery "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperPowerLottery"): The Omnitrix essentially embodies this trope (in more ways than one). After gaining the Omnitrix, Ben had the abilities of [Super-Strength](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperStrength "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperStrength"), [Super-Speed](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperSpeed "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperSpeed") (and [reflexes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperReflexes "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperReflexes")), [Super-Intelligence](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperIntelligence "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperIntelligence"), [pyrokinesis](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingWithFire "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingWithFire"), [underwater breathing](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperNotDrowningSkills "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperNotDrowningSkills"), [the ability to manipulate crystals](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GemstoneAssault "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GemstoneAssault"), the power of [Flight](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flight "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flight"), goo expulsion, [Technopathy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Technopathy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Technopathy"), [regeneration](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodThingYouCanHeal "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodThingYouCanHeal"), [invisibility](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Invisibility "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Invisibility") and [intangibility](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Intangibility "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Intangibility"). All of these powers are still just the first ten forms. Later forms would introduce [duplication](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MesACrowd "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MesACrowd"), [super flexibility](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberMan "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberMan"), a [sonic howl](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperScream "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperScream"), [electrokinesis](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShockAndAwe "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShockAndAwe"), solid matter ingestion, [Eye Beams](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyeBeams "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyeBeams") and [Way Big](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AttackofThe50FootWhatever "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AttackofThe50FootWhatever") who can [swat battleships out of the sky](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoryBreakerPower "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoryBreakerPower"). This is downplayed as while, Ben does have access to all these powers, they are typically exclusive to certain forms and the Omnitrix tends to be unreliable most of the time. - [Surprisingly Realistic Outcome](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome"): - The [What If?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIf "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIf") episode "Goodbye and Good Riddance". After several weeks of crazy adventures, what brings it all to a halt is not Ben messing up and watching people die, or getting an alien unsuitable for the present situation, but simply his summer vacation ending. [Followed immediately by Vilgax thrashing his house](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndTheAdventureContinues "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndTheAdventureContinues"). - When Enoch finally gets the ancient superweapon he and Grandpa Max were racing to find, it crumbles to dust in his hand. Five thousand years of age and neglect will do that to a sword, even a mythical superweapon. - [Sword over Head](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SwordOverHead "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SwordOverHead"): Ben to Kevin in "Framed". - [Synchronization](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Synchronization "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Synchronization"): Ben's alien form Ditto. - [Tastes Like Friendship](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TastesLikeFriendship "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TastesLikeFriendship"): Subverted. Feeding theobromine compounds to an extra-terrestrial may not be the best idea... - [The Teaser](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTeaser "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTeaser"): Every episode of Ben 10 has the intro play several minutes into the episode. - [Theme Naming](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThemeNaming "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThemeNaming"): Ben Tennyson is ten years old. - Ben gives his alien forms extremely marketable names based on their appearance or powers. - [Third-Person Person](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThirdPersonPerson "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThirdPersonPerson"): "No-one boos Technorg! Technorg is champion!" - [This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman"): In "The Big Tick", the episode where Ben first unlocks Cannonbolt, he initially hates the alien form for being unwieldy and uncontrollable, and refuses to use it again. Guess which alien turns out to be the only one capable of defeating the [Eldritch Abomination](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EldritchAbomination") threatening the Earth that episode? - More than a little bizarre, given that the Great One's worshipers claim that it just recently "cleansed" an entire planet full of Cannonbolt's species. - More literally, Ripjaws is completely awesome during underwater episodes, and (almost) completely useless otherwise. - [Token Adult](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenAdult "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenAdult"): Grandpa Max, being the only adult of the group, and an [authority figure](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalSubstitute "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalSubstitute") to Ben and Gwen. - [Transformation Conventions](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationConventions "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationConventions"): Frequently, the Omnitrix overrides Ben's choice of Alien Hero to match plot or comedy requirements. In the [first episode](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S1E1AndThenThereWereTen "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S1E1AndThenThereWereTen"), after Ben has been introduced as a temperamental slacker, the first extraterrestrial the Omnitrix picks for him is Heatblast, a magma-based alien. - [Transformation Exhilaration](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationExhilaration "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationExhilaration"): The first time Kevin mutates after absorbing the Omnitrix' power in "Kevin 11", he clearly enjoys the experience, judging by his expression. At the end of "Framed", however, when he becomes an amalgam of Ben's aliens, he is very much in pain when doing so. - [Transformation Trinket](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationTrinket "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformationTrinket"): The Omnitrix - [Transforming Conforming](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformingConforming "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TransformingConforming"): The Omnitrix gives Ben amazing powers, but also the limitations to each alien he transforms into. Ripjaws cannot breathe out of water, Heatblast can burn things accidentally, Four Arms doesn't fit in small spaces, Grey Matter can be caught easily because of his small size, etc. - [Traveling at the Speed of Plot](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot"): XLR8 is exactly as fast as the plot calls for, and no faster. Sometimes it's literally too fast to see, most of the time not so much. Thus, aliens with nowhere near its speed can still hit it. - [Tree Cover](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TreeCover "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TreeCover"): In "The Visitor," Ben eavesdrops on Max and Xylene by turning into Wildvine and merging with the tree. - [Tuck and Cover](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TuckAndCover "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TuckAndCover"): Cannonbolt's function in a rescue operation. - [Ultraman Copy](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UltramanCopy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UltramanCopy"): Way Big is one, having a very similar design to Ultraman. - [The Unchosen One](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnchosenOne "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnchosenOne"): It turns out that Ben, who obtained the Omnitrix, wasn't the intended recepient; it was Max who was supposed to obtain it. - [Unexplained Recovery](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnexplainedRecovery "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnexplainedRecovery"): - The third time Kevin shows up (despite apparently being killed previously), his explanation of how he survived boils down to this, as well as a recap of what happened last time. He doesn't actually use the phrase, but it's implied. - At the end of Tough Luck, both Hex and Charmcaster's powers were sucked by the destruction of the Charm of Bezel. Yet, when we see them come back, their powers have come back without any clear explanation. Averted with Hex turning back into a child however, as it's specifically said that the Fountain of Youth's effect were temporary. Played straight in that we never see how Charmcaster retrieved her magic bag after the end of A Change of Face, though it's shown to have a level of sentience so it probably made its way back to her on its own. - [The Unintelligible](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnintelligible "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnintelligible"): Wildmutt and SixSix speak in languages that aren't intelligible to humans, but are intelligible to other aliens. - [Vengeful Vending Machine](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VengefulVendingMachine "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VengefulVendingMachine"): In a short episode, Ben tries to get a candy bar from a vending machine, only for it to fall against the glass. Ever the [Determinator](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator"), Ben decides to go Grey Matter to get the candy bar. The only problem is when the Omnitrix times out, leaving Ben's [entire body](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExaggeratedTrope "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExaggeratedTrope") trapped in the machine. - [Video Game Perversity Prevention](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGamePerversityPrevention "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGamePerversityPrevention"): Crossing over with [Video Game Cruelty Punishment](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameCrueltyPunishment "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameCrueltyPunishment"), in the online game "Alien Device", Ben says "I don't need to do that" when you try to do things such as throw objects at bystanders. - [Villain Forgot to Level Grind](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainForgotToLevelGrind "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainForgotToLevelGrind"): Kevin 11 has [the powers of Ben's original 10 aliens](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllYourPowersCombined "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllYourPowersCombined"). However, by the time of their fight in "[Grudge Match](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S2E5GrudgeMatch "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S2E5GrudgeMatch")", Ben has unlocked an 11th alien, Cannonbolt, who proceeds to give Kevin a [Curb-Stomp Battle](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CurbStompBattle "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CurbStompBattle"). Kevin: Don't bother trying to dial in another alien. I know all your powers, inside and out. Ben: \[transforms\] Oh yeah? I don't think you've been introduced to Cannonbolt\! - [Villain Team-Up](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainTeamUp "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainTeamUp"): Kevin finding Vilgax in the second season finale, and the Negative 10 later on. - [Voices Are Mental](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoicesAreMental "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoicesAreMental"): At first averted in the ["Freaky Friday" Flip](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FreakyFridayFlip "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FreakyFridayFlip") episode "A Change of Face", when Charmcaster and Gwen switch bodies, but then played straight when it happens to Ben and Gwen. - [Voluntary Shapeshifting](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoluntaryShapeshifting "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VoluntaryShapeshifting"): Thanks to the Omnitrix, Ben can voluntarily change into a whole army of aliens — ten at first, and nine more canonically by the end of the series; his "Ben 10,000" incarnation has up to ten thousand transformations, including three new ones we see and five others mentioned in "Ken 10"; and Race Against Time adds Eon for that version of Ben. And that's just in this series. - [Webcomic Time](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebcomicTime "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebcomicTime"): The summer road trip lasted nearly the whole of the original series, which was 50 episodes long, excluding non-canon episodes, which definitely was longer than just a few months. - [Weirder Than Usual](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeirderThanUsual "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeirderThanUsual"): - In "Last Laugh": Gwen Tennyson: Ever since we decided to go to the circus, you've been acting weirder than normal. What are you scared of? Ben Tennyson: I'm not scared of anything. - In "A Change Of Face" when Charmcaster was inhabiting Gwen's body. Ben Tennyson: Grandpa have you noticed Gwen has been acting weird lately? I mean weirder than usual? - [Wham Episode](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhamEpisode "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhamEpisode"): "Secrets", which resolves the [Myth Arc](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MythArc "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MythArc") hinting at Max's past and formally introduces [Vilgax](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightOfCerebus "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightOfCerebus") to Ben's life. - [What If?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIf "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIf"): The out-of-mainstream-continuity episode "[Gwen 10](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S2E4Gwen10 "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/Ben10S2E4Gwen10")". - The show's last episode: "Goodbye and Good Riddance", which takes a look at what Ben's life would be like when summer vacation ended but is declared non-canon. - [What the Hell, Hero?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatTheHellHero "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatTheHellHero")" In "Kevin 11", Max calls Ben out for the way he recklessly uses the watch, only for Ben to go as far as to tell Max that [he's not his father](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YoureNotMyFather "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YoureNotMyFather"), which does shock him and even [Gwen herself.](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneHasStandards "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneHasStandards") Max: How do you expect me to trust you if keep misusing the watch? Ben: Excuse me, I use it 100 times for good. Why can't I use it just once for me? Max: It's not how many times you use it, Ben. It's how you use it. Ben: It was no big deal. Max: To you. And that's all you care about. So, no more 'Sumo Slammers' stuff for 2 weeks! No comics, no trading cards, no- Ben: Fair\! Max: Neither is getting booted from a 4-star hotel I already paid for\! Ben: Fine, take it out my allowance\! Gwen: You don't get an allowance... Max and Ben: (to Gwen) Stay out of this\! (Gwen lowers in her chair) Ben: This is my vacation, too! You can't always tell me what to do. [You're not my dad\!](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YoureNotMyFather "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YoureNotMyFather") - [Where's the Fun in That?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WheresTheFunInThat "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WheresTheFunInThat"): In the [What If?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIf "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatIf") episode where Gwen was the one the [Omnitrix](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyMacGuffin") attached itself to, [Vilgax](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad") has her restrained and selects from a range of sharp-looking tools to forcibly remove it from her. *Gwen \[nervously\]:* Couldn't you just slip the watch off? Vilgax: And what fun would that be? - [Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes"): In Ben's case, [clowns](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterClown "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterClown"). In the case of the clowns, [Ghostfreak](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HorrifyingTheHorror "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HorrifyingTheHorror"). - [The Worf Effect](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect"): All of the original aliens fail to put a scratch on [The Great One](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetDestroyer") in "The Big Tick". It's only the newly-acquired Cannonbolt that's able to destroy it. - [Would Hurt a Child](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WouldHurtAChild "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WouldHurtAChild"): Subverted in the sense that whenever Ben transforms and does battle, he gets beat up pretty graphically, which would look unsettling if it was happening in his human form. Played straight when he reverts back to Ben and his enemies don't hesitate to take advantage of his vulnerability. - [You and What Army?](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAndWhatArmy "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAndWhatArmy"): Ben asks this Dr. Animo when the latter announces he will [Take Over the World](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeOverTheWorld "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeOverTheWorld") with the mutated Lepidopterran he created out of Ditto's DNA. Animo's response is "this one" and the Lepidopterran clones itself into an army in a similar fashion to Ditto. - [You Must Be This Tall to Ride](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouMustBeThisTallToRide "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouMustBeThisTallToRide"): In the episode "A Small Problem", Ben is told he's too short to go down a water slide, which he immediately decides to rectify by turning into Ripjaws. Maybe it's for the best that he ended up as the less-noticeable Grey Matter instead. - [You Won't Feel a Thing\!](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouWontFeelAThing "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouWontFeelAThing"): Ben defeats a cyborg Rojo by merging with her as Upgrade and says "This won't hurt a bit" before adding "Okay, I lied". - [Your Other Left](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YourOtherLeft "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YourOtherLeft"): Totally played straight when Gwen is trying to ride on Ben (as Wildmutt)'s back after he is rendered "blind" from a cold. * [Feedback](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Ben10#feedback) ### Video Example(s): ## Clancy The villain of the episode, Clancy, has the power to command arthropods. 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