User blog:MrYokaiAndWatch902/I Transported

''So... I made this page because the Ben 10 page on TTS felt more nitpicky. The tagline "Not the Ben 10 you guys know and love." kinda sounds lame.''

Quote: A timeline that can't follow its prime.

Bad Qualities/Why it Sucks

 * 1) Utterly poor grasp of the source material. We'd be here forever listing how much times the source material got changed, so let's put up the most obvious examples shown in the show:
 * 2) * The Omnitrix is limited to ten aliens. Each season, new aliens replace old aliens. This is okay in concept as to not overload on aliens, but starting in Season 3, Alien Force aliens (Humungousaur, Rath, Jetray, and Goop if you count the film) started getting added in; these aliens were acquired when Ben was 15. Also, it creates jump-the-shark moments once per season.
 * 3) ** The former two may have been added for fanservice, while Jetray has been added since he can breathe in space, which makes no sense; Ben has never went into space in the original, and even if he did, there are certain aliens that can already survive in space that debuted in the original.
 * 4) ** Mole-Stache is introduced in Omni-Charged, a tie-in VR game... despite Mole-Stache being acquired during Omniverse, when Ben was 17.
 * 5) **According to Steven Seagle (on the Collider), the reason why this happened is because his 83-year father Jack Seagle was angered when Ben got an 11th alien (for those who don't know: Ben acquired Cannonbolt in The Big Tick, adding one new alien to his roster) when the original series was still running, which while is cool, also ruins the reason why Ben 10 was called Ben 10 in the first place (ten aliens to transform into). Note that the original doesn't give Ben a limit of how much aliens he can have at a time.
 * 6) * Anodites and Osmosians don't exist. So, any Anodites/Osmosians are most likely to become Humans, or mutated Humans. This also means Lucky Girl goes from Gwen's alter-ego when powered up to an admired superhero of her's.
 * 7) **It's unknown if Verdona even exists in the reboot.
 * 8) * Possibly due to the above, Kevin gets flanderized. More on that later (see BQ #6)
 * 9) *According to Duncan, all aliens in the original are in the reboot two and vice versa. This means that Ben can suddenly gain Swampfire or Fasttrack, and with the film introducing DNA Pods, the chances increase.
 * 10) *Phil Billings. See BQ #6.
 * 11) The powered-up forms are very underwhelming, often summing up to Ultimate Forms but slightly changed.
 * 12) * Omni-Enhanced forms are the result of Upgrade killing himself off and the Fulmini DNA being too powerful. It adds or enhances the alien's powers and gives them a Fulmini theme. Omni-Enhanced Cannonbolt firing spikes would be okay, but according to Eugene Son, Ultimate Cannonbolt can fire out his spikes as projectiles. Depending on your POV, this makes Omni-Enhanced Cannonbolt basically Ultimate Cannonbolt all over again.
 * 13) * Omni-Kix forms are the result of Ben using the Omni-Kix Key on his Omnitrix. It's basically just giving the aliens robotic suits and powering them up.
 * 14) * Omni-Naut forms gives aliens astronaut suits, rendering Jetray nearly useless and makes his addition pointless.
 * 15) Just like the Teen Titans Go and The Powerpuff Girls (2016), it is now focused more on comedy than action, with jokes that often times fall flat or are downright cringy. One example is Kevin farting in Ben's face in Introducing Kevin 11.
 * 16) Some of the designs are poor, such as Grandpa Max. In addition, the Lepidopterrans' new design looks more like MAD parodies or rip-offs of Necrofriggians. And yes, Lepidopterrans are completely changed in this series, not just Stinkfly.
 * 17) *Due to this, weird and uncanny faces can be made once in a while, such as in the Season 2 intro with Cannonbolt and Wildvine. Some of them have even became memes amongst the Ben 10 community.
 * 18) The pacing is inconsistent due to the 11-minute format. The pacing can go from slow to fast at any second.
 * 19) The characters get flanderized. This will only compare the reboots to their original counterparts from Ben 10 (2005), or if they didn't debut in there what they were originally like in the original.
 * 20) * Ben becomes more reckless and idiotic and doesn't give Gwen credit for her ideas. To defeat the Magg-o-Net Monster, as Four Arms, he tosses the Rust Bucket at it. He could've broken the Rust Bucket which is Max's home for crying out loud!
 * 21) *Rath, Ben's Appoplexian transformation, is now even more idiotic than usual (likely because he's ten compared to fifteen, but still). Rath of Con is pretty much what Rath has now summed up as.
 * 22) **Not to mention, in his cameo on Villainous, he  overdoses on sugar and got hospitalized for this. This basically shows how low Rath has gone. 
 * 23) * Gwen goes from a sweet and fun-loving girl who cared for her cousin despite the occasional squabble to a complete goody two-shoes and Mary Sue. Not just that, but since we never really get to see Anodites, we can assume she goes from a magic expert that can help Ben out to someone absolutely useless at combat, only giving out ideas that never get credit.
 * 24) * Kevin goes from a genocidal, paranoid, and sociopathic Osmosian to a generic human school bully who:
 * 25) ** Made the Antitrix, which downgrades his character to basically the reboot's version of Albedo. It's possible they made the Antitrix to allow Kevin to transform or at least be on par with Ben.
 * 26) ***The Antitrix is also homemade, with him altering the DNA for the aliens to make mutated versions of not just Ben's Season 1 aliens but also Blitzwolfer. Kevin was never this smart in the original.
 * 27) ** Speaking of which, the Omnitrix blueprints were gotten in a dream of his.
 * 28) ** Already has a crush on Gwen (which didn't happen until Alien Force, by the way).
 * 29) ** Doesn't want other people hurt in his feuds with Ben.
 * 30) ** Wants to defeat Ben just to prove that the Antitrix is superior to the Omnitrix.
 * 31) ** While this is decent character development, he joins Ben's side later on. While it is true that he joined Ben's side in the original, it was only because they both wanted personal gain, and it was broken up when Ben realizes Kevin went too far. Kevin denied rejoining Ben's side (and thus his family) due to his paranoia. Here, Kevin is now a complete teammate of Ben's once he joins his side, something which doesn't happen until Alien Force.
 * 32) * Phil Billings is severely butchered as a character to the point he doesn't even feel like present-day original Phil Billings!
 * 33) * Sixsix and Kraab are now actually good guys as opposed to bounty hunters who Vilgax hired to get the Omnitrix. Tetrax, in the meanwhile, is a mixed bag, though this is for the film.
 * 34) The actual new aliens most of the time are very underwhelming.
 * 35) * Overflow is basically Water Hazard all over again, down to the color scheme. Since we don't know much about Orishans (Water Hazard's species), we can't be so sure if Overflow's species (the Cascans) is just a carbon copy of the Orishans. The only difference is that Overflow was underwater and has demonstrated enhanced capabilities while underwater.
 * 36) * Gax comes off as a generic superhero. All he was demonstrated to have was tentacles and laser vision, something which many superheroes had. Apparently, Chimera Sui Genesis show more than those two, being capable of surviving nuclear blasts and transforming into gigantic squid creatures.
 * 37) * Shock Rock is the most decent out of the new aliens, as it isn't trying to rip off any previous aliens.
 * 38) * Slapback is basically Ditto/Echo Echo and Bullfrag combined together. He does however have minor differences, such as duplicating when someone hits his back and his clones becoming increasingly dense instead of just cloning immediately, rather than duplicating when we wants to, but he's still a rehash nonetheless.
 * 39) * The hybrids aren't any better and make Gwen 10 and Ben 10k's aliens/hybrids (and the DNA Lab hybrids to an extent) look like something out of Man of Action, not DeviantArt. Grey Arms (Tetramand/Galvan) looks like a poorly made DeviantArt OC that was accepted, Amalgam Ben looks like a trollfic OC, and XLRArmBlastDiamondHeat (yes, that's it's actual name) looks more like a DeviantArt OC. Are they turning the hybrids into Kevin 11-esque mutants? Maybe!
 * 40) **To an extent, Glitch, while not a mutation the Omnitrix can make, looks more like someone changing Ben 10's color palette and considering it an OC. Compare to 1/2th humans like Helen Wheels, they don't look like someone changed their color palette.
 * 41) *The non-canon aliens suck two. The hybrid in DNA Decode is in a similar case with Grey Arms of looking more like an accepted DeviantArt OC. Meanwhile, Hotdawg, an actual hot dog alien from Rejected Ben 10: Vilgax Hot Dog Fail, can give even the most stupid ideas for aliens a run for their money!
 * 42) Annoying and lackluster theme song that's just a poorly remixed version of the original Ben 10 theme song with the lyrics being basically a repeat of "Ben 10".
 * 43) Nostalgia pandering at times, such as Ben wearing clothes that actually reference his previous incantations for no reason. Another one is Ben wearing a Wildmutt helmet.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Decent animation and art style, with some of the transformation sequences being top-notch.
 * 2) The show somewhat improved after Season 1 but that's not saying much, as it's still not that good.
 * 3) Some character designs are decent, such as Ben Tennyson. And while it's not apart of the show, the Arburian Carcharodon sums up one thing: awesome.
 * 4) Some of the jokes do work and are actually funny.
 * 5) The action, at times, is actually well paced and decent.
 * 6) A fair share of good and decent episodes.
 * 7) The music can be catchy. Even the theme song can be catchy despite how annoying it is.
 * 8) To be fair, it's the most tolerable reboot when compared to Teen Titans Go! and The Powerpuff Girls (2016). Man of Action Entertainment is still the director, and at least there's much more adventures compared to the other reboots and doesn't completely suck the charm out.

The Other List of Source Material Faults

 * Cannonbolt was acquired by Ben after Arburia was destroyed by The Great One. Yet, in the reboot, Ben has Cannonbolt but Arburia hasn't been destroyed.
 * While Billy Billions being ten years old does make sense, Ben doesn't meet Billy until Omniverse. Again, it's when Ben's much older.
 * Pulling the Omnitrix off of an alien renders the user unable to transform back into their original form. However, at least demonstrated by Goop in Alien Force/Ultimate Alien, pulling it off automatically transforms the user back into their original self, not trap them in the alien they transformed into.
 * The Omnitrix didn't require Primus to make and wasn't made after the Unitrix. It just required science. Also, how did Azmuth gather all the DNA samples of all the aliens from throughout the every single galaxy?! That would take years to even do!
 * Plumbers don't exist in the reboot. For your information: Max Tennyson became a plumber post-1967.
 * Ben's Omnitrix in the original and Alien Force was a prototype- here, the Omnitrix is just 100% finished and not a prototype at all.
 * How on earth does the Omnitrix even give Ben's aliens cartoony properties and looks when it's struck by lightning?
 * Back onto the DNA Pods, Ben learning how to swap them pretty much means that Ben is going to be automatically OP if he just knows who to swap to. One might say that it's just related to the film, but let's put this into consideration: Most of the films are canon. For example, Destroy All Aliens? It's basically why Undertown existed in the first place.
 * Because of this, Ben swapping out DNA Pods at will is basically the equivalent of Master Control. So, in other words: The Omnitrix can be easily hacked to swap out DNA Pods and that Master Control can be used by anyone who knows how to swap out DNA Pods.
 * Azmuth has telekinesis of all things. He did not exhibit this in the reboot. No Galvan has even exhibited it.
 * The Incurseans go from being galactic conquerors to what's basically just a Galactic Court. While Ben saving them is reasonable, it's also pretty strange; the Incurseans make Vilgax out like some generic villain who doesn't care about the wellbeing of others, when he did care about his planet Murray/Vilgaxia.
 * And yet another one time Ben meets someone before their proper introduction; Ben encountered the Incurseans when he was 15!
 * Instead of Tetrax being the only good guy realizing that the Omnitrix is safer in Ben's hands and learning from his past mistakes of destroying Petropia, literally all the bounty hunters (Tetrax, Kraab, and Sixsix) are actually good guys. Tetrax, however, is quite the opposite; as opposed to being initially a bad guy, then becoming a good guy, he is revealed to be a good guy, then becomes a bad guy during the film by framing Ben.
 * Some Kinecelerans don't have wheels and in quite an opposite motion as the Petrosapiens, they basically look like XLR8 clones.

Nitpicks

 * 1) Some Antitrix alien names don't have the cleverness as previous names did. For example, Quad Smack and Crystal Fist.
 * 2) Before Slapback was named, two proposed names were  Big Boy  and Brawno, which further cements the fact he's basically Ditto/Echo Echo combined with Bullfrag. Bullfrag also had two proposed names before being officially named (Crazy Legs and Aquattack) and at least those two names did explain something (Crazy Legs = Jumping abilities, Aquattack = Frogs being amphibians), but Big Boy and Brawno sounds like some cheap attempt at humor. Ben's aliens didn't have stupid proposed names before.
 * 3) Some plots are immature and could've been easily avoided if Ben hadn't been reckless and stupid enough. For example, in All Koiled Up, Ben uses Omni-Enhanced Overflow just to get a garden to grow faster, which is illogical for the most part. He ends up destroying the garden and releasing King Koil!
 * 4) Ben's aliens are now all bipeds, being especially evident with Stinkfly and Wildvine. Sure, a Vulpimancer and Ectonurite did appear in the film and a Vulpimancer costume was worn by Ben, but it might just be nostalgia pandering. Then again, Bashmouth's an altered Loboan.

Personal Positives

 * 1) Alien Worlds is great.

Related to the Film

 * 1) Azmuth and the Omnitrix's backstory got butchered, really having a poor grasp of source material. Separately...
 * 2) *Azmuth: Azmuth was originally good friends with Vilgax, but when Vilgax wanted to use the Omnitrix to conquer the universe (it was demonstrated in the original that even without the Omnitrix, Vilgax can still conquer an entire planet), Azmuth trapped half of Vilgax's DNA and turned him into Gax. So, Azmuth was guilty of this and decided to put himself into the Null Void. Also, he was depicted as immature and reckless about his creations when he was younger. It is unknown how old Azmuth was when he made it, but keeping the original ages in mind Azmuth is at least 1781 years old and Vilgax was born sometime prior to 1773. We barely knew anything about when Vilgax knew the Omnitrix, all we know is that he attacked Xylene to try and get the Omnitrix and then pursued Ben after failing to acquire it from Xylene.
 * 3) * Omnitrix: The Omnitrix was made by Azmuth to see what it's like to be as a different species and was going to be a symbol of justice across the universe. Instead of requiring an entire planet made by Azmuth to function properly, it just required science. It somehow manages to use DNA Pods of all species from the entire universe, when that shouldn't be possible (or at least take years) considering that we never get to see the Voliticus Biopsis. Also, before it was made (in the original continuity), the Unitrix was made, but there's no signs of the Unitrix.
 * 4) On topic of poor grasp of source material:
 * 5) *The Null Void wasn't discovered by the Galvans and just happens to be flying around in space. It's still a prison, but it's in the hands of the Incurseans.
 * 6) * And yet again on topic, the Incurseans are inaccurately depicted. Instead of being depicted as galaxy destroyers, they're basically the Galactic Court. Ben also befriends them by saving them. Yes, this is a good feat, but did Ben even befriend the Incurseans in the original continuity?
 * 7) *Ben unlocks Goop, who was unlocked when Ben was 15.

Potential New Quotes

 * We need to tell Man of Action five things about how poorly Rath is implemented.

Why it Sucks

 * 1) After the Animorphosis fiasco where Animo turned into an Appoplexian (or rather, into Rath), Man of Action decided to shamelessly debut Rath as a "new" alien for Ben Tennyson. It shows that the reboot doesn't care about following its source material; Rath was unlocked when Ben was 15 during Tiffin's stay with him (for those who were wondering, Tiffin accidentally unlocked Rath).
 * 2) * Rath was most likely added for fanservice and toy sales.
 * 3) Ben is beyond unlikable. He disobeyed his grandfather, continuously complained, nearly wrecked the entire event, and there's more to come. Sure, there are times where Ben himself is unlikable, but he never went or got this far. We say "or got" because he did try and kill Kevin while he was Ultimate Kevin during Ultimate Alien, but thankfully Kevin was restored to his normal form. Then again, Ultimate Alien was when Ben was 15.
 * 4) *Not helping matters is that during his wreckage, a bunch of people had to ascend a giant scratching post to avoid Rath. They could've fell off and Rath probably wouldn't have cared less. (see WIS #6 for more)
 * 5) Dee Bradley Baker was severely miscasted as Rath. He sounds nothing like John Dimaggio and comes off as rushed and bland. The very first line ("HERE COMES RATH!") is played extremely fast and tries way too hard to be like the original, but miserably fails. What makes matters worse is that John Dimaggio is a voice actor in the reboot.
 * 6) Gwen literally tells Ben to use Rath even after the havoc he caused.
 * 7) The transformation sequence has a jaguar roar, but Rath is based off of a tiger. It's unknown if this was supposed to be a tiger roar.
 * 8) Rath's unintelligent and thick-skulled traits have cranked up to make him idiotic, feral, and extensively cat-like. The first thing he does is chase a mouse and wreak havoc!
 * 9) Everyone is in a cat costume since the entire episode is centered around a cat convention.
 * 10) The title is actually pure laziness, it's just "Con of Rath" from Ben 10: Alien Force but switched around to be about a cat convention, not about the Omnitrix's (and to an extent Rath's) flaws.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Rath's design is well-made, and at least Rath somewhat acts like his original counterpart- albeit more unlikable.

Why it Sucks

 * 1) Really poor grasp of source material that causes plot holes. These plot holes had to be explained in Innervasion and the Ben 10 film, so here's the list of plot holes:
 * 2) *Ben gets Chimera Sui Genesis/Vilgax's DNA. How did Ben acquire the DNA?
 * 3) *Vilgax was originally a skinny alien named Vil. Why was he originally Vil?
 * 4) *Upgrade sacrifices and kills himself to enhance the Omnitrix. This results in Galvanic Mechamorph DNA being destroyed. Yet, again, how can Upgrade die when he's living DNA?
 * 5) *Ben and Vilgax survived being submerged into lava. It was never demonstrated in the original continuity that Vilgax was immune to lava, so this is a bad plot hole. However, he did survive a nuclear explosion, which is very hot. Then again, the reboot sometimes switches things up, deviating from source material.
 * 6) *How did Vil steal Gax's DNA?
 * 7) *Not a plothole, but as opposed to Tetrax Shard just becoming a good guy, Kraab and Sixsix do two.
 * 8) False Advertising: Gax was advertised as stronger than the only aliens. However, he was killed off early and they didn't have the time to flesh Gax out, so all that was shown is wavy tentacles and laser vision, something which many superheroes already have.
 * 9) * On topic, Gax is mainly Vilgax, but with a completely different design.
 * 10) Most of Part 2-3 is filler.
 * 11) Vilgax returns. However, he's a generic villain who just wants to destroy the world because he's evil.
 * 12) Gax is locked off way too early.
 * 13) Again, it tries too hard to be epic but fails at being epic.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Considering that Vilgax in the original was capable of surviving a nuclear bomb (though not without getting severe injuries) and the fact Vilgax can change into a gigantic octopus-like monster, Gax would've likely been good if Vil didn't lock him off in Part 3. (Gax's tentacles were seen in Animorphosis while Dr. Animo was transforming into Rath)
 * 2) Without this episode, Shock Rock wouldn't have been introduced.
 * 3) Some heartwarming moments such as Ben telling Gwen that they are "cousins forever."

Trivia

 * As said, some of the plot holes did get explained. The reason why this isn't in Redeeming Qualities is because it's those episodes that solved the plot holes.
 * Upgrade's Fate: The remaining Galvanic Mechamorph DNA that was destroyed used Ben's DNA to survive, and became Glitch.
 * Vilgax-Related: Azmuth stole half of Vilgax's DNA, resulting in him becoming Vil. So that's probably why Vil was able to steal back the absorbed Chimera Sui Genesis DNA.

in the meantime
out of all the aliens that appeared, Fasttrack's species, the Citrakayahs, didn't appear in Omniverse. Subdora and Swift are a Merlinisapien and Aerophibian respectively, so that means out of them all Fasttarck is the least represented, and so are the Citrakayahs. rip Fasttrack you will be misseroni'd

however Matt Wayne DID say that Fasttrack's stronger than XLR8.

oh and technically Ben gains the least amount of aliens in Ultimate Alien if you don't count Shocksquatch, at nine. Nanomech and Clockwork were gotten prior to the events (probably Fasttrack and Jury Rigg two).