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* [[Complete Monster]]: This series has a total of ''four.''

** Vilgax, a villain who destroyed Tetrax's homeworld, was about to ''cut Ben's arm off just to get the Omnitrix off'' (in "Gwen 10", when Gwen asked if they couldn't just slip the watch off, Vilgax responds "And what fun would that be?", and indeed, there is a much easier way.). Among other horrendous deeds.

** Ghostfreak. The type of guy who will possess a young girl and threaten to make her jump off a roof to her death if her cousin doesn't comply with his wishes. Or cover the world in darkness, which causes everyone on the planet to [[Nightmare Fuel|horrifically mutate.]]

** Zombozo, a [[Ninja Zombie Pirate Robot|zombie vampire clown]] who consumes laughter (draining them of positive energy, apparently), this doesn't sound so bad, but then he kidnaps Gwen draining her until she's pretty much almost a withered husk, and given that he's so casual about it, he's probably done it before, and if you think of it a few other ways, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|there's a very frightening subtext in there]]. Incidentally, he was killed by the abovementioned Ghostfreak.

* [[Ear Worm]]: The theme song.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Lucky Girl, who is ironically one of the leads in disguise. Her nemesis Charmcaster qualifies on the villain side of things.

** [[Badass Grandpa|Grandpa Max]], as detailed in the [[Just Here for Godzilla]] entry, even moreso as of the newer series' when he's not a main character anymore.

* [[Evil Is Cool]]: Vilgax and Kevin.

* [[First Installment Wins]]: While the other two series have their fanbases, many fans are very loyal to the first series. That it's [[Franchise Zombie|the only one the actual creators worked on]] helps matters.

* [[Foe Yay]]: Ben and Kevin, who have [[Chained Heat|been chained to each other]] for an episode, and Gwen and Charmcaster, who [[Freaky Friday Flip|spent a good part of one episode inside each other.]]

* [[Fridge Logic]]: So, if Ben was so desperate to unlock the secrets of the Omnitrix, why didn't he just use Grey Matter's intelligence to do so? {{spoiler|Amusingly, Kenny in "Ken 10" ''does'' think to do this.}}

** The Franchise is also very popular in Denmark, where many stores hold entire sections of ''Ben 10'' merchandise.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:

** Zombozo gets his by kidnapping a 10 year old girl and draining her of her energy until she's nothing but a shrivaled husk of her former self, speaking of it so lightly that it's implied it's not the first time.

* [[Older Than They Think]]: There really was a secret organization called the Plumbers - Richard Nixon's private police who did the illegal surveillance of the Watergate hotel.

* [[The Producer Thinks of Everything]]: One of the first line readings for the role of Ghostfreak?

* [[Puppy Love]]: Ben and Kai.

* [[Relationship Writing Fumble]]: Ben and Gwen, in an almost reverse case of the usual trope. The writers PROBABLY viewed them as just bickering, if still loving, cousins (and nothing else), and tried to write them as such. [[Kissing Cousins|To most of the rest of us...]]

* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: "Destroy All Aliens" has particularly impressive CGI effects, with the Galvanic Mechamorph's fluidity being especially noticeable.