Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens

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Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens is a 2012 CGI film in the Ben 10 franchise. It is the third for the original series (coming after the live action film Ben 10 Race Against Time and the regularly animated Secret of the Omnitrix) and the fourth film in the series overall.

The film takes place at the end of the original series where Ben is now back in Bellwood getting on with his life (as usual not particularly happy about it). During a fight with a tank, Ben is caught in the crossfire from Gwen's magic which affects the Omnitrix and causes it to go haywire more then usual. Tetrax comes to pick up Ben so Azmuth can fix it but en route their attacked by a Galvanic Mechamorph hunter whose also looking for Azmuth. The malfunction from the Omnitrix cause Ben to teleport wildly around the world with the mevhomorph in pursuit. While Tetrax, Max and Gwen try to locate Ben themselves.


Tropes used in Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens include:
  • All CGI Cartoon
  • Attack Its Weak Point: All of Way Big species have a weakness on their giant fins.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Tetrax's lecture with Ben on how to fight a Tokustar.
  • Eek! A Mouse!: Ben's mother when she sees Ben in his Gray Matter form.
  • Foregone Conclusion: Despite the film being supposedly non-canon, Azmuth mentions Mana to Gwen.
  • Look Behind You!: Done to the Mechamorph, when being asked about the Tokustar, Ben tells him that the Tokustar is right behind him. The Mechamorph falls for it.
  • Inferred Holocaust: An entire city is heavily damaged and destroyed during a fight with Way Big and Tokustar!Azmuth.
  • Interquel: The film takes place between the original series and the sequels. The canonicity is questionable, however.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: Tetrax somehow gets the ability to lock Ben out of his human form.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Gwen's magic spell used on Upgrade in the beginning of the movie is the source of everything bad that happens in the movie.
  • No Name Given: The Galvanic Mechamorph/Azmuth's father is given no name in this film, with the best name given in outside media being "Retaliator".
  • Non-Standard Character Design: While almost everyone has their original designs in this film, Way Big uses his appearance from both sequel series.
    • The eyes on the character lose their anime-like design and look a tad more normal. Most fans found it a little off putting.
  • Papa Wolf: Max when Tetrax tries to explain whats going on. As well as Azmuth's father when he thinks the Way Big killed his son.
  • Poor Communication Kills: The Galvanin Mechamorph really Azmuth's father constantly keeps attacking Ben who tries to tell him he's just as confused as he is about where Azmuth is or who the Tokustar is. It isn't until he's fully subdued that he finally tells the group whats going on. This trope also nearly comes into play when they find out the Tokustar is Azmuth.
    • The entire film could be said to suffer from this, due to the fact that Ben doesn't tell Tetrax that he's grounded, as well as not telling him that his watch is malfunctioning. Everyone calls him out for not being honest on either. At least Azmuth's father has the excuse that the suit increases aggression, creating a lot of poor judgment.
      • Even worse is that Gwen is also a source of the trouble for not figuring out sooner that her magic fucked up everything in the Omnitrix.
  • Reunion Show: All of the original voice cast return for this one.
  • Running Gag: Whenever the Mechamorph Hunter has Ben subdued and is answered that said alien he's looking for disappeared. He dismisses this with "Aliens don't just disapper". A second later Ben (in alien form) does (though mostly due to either telephoning or turning into a different alien.)
  • Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Sorta, Tetrex programs the Omnitrix to keep turning Ben into different aliens but won't change him back to normal.
  • Status Quo Is God: Ben's parents see him transform into aliens but the memory is wiped from them at the end (remember they don't truly find out till Alien Force).
  • You Are Grounded: Ben's parent do this to him due to a mishap at school thanks to Omnitrix going nutty. Ben's disappearance is what causes Max and Gwen to get in on the plot after they phone Max. At the end, when the parents are restored to normal from the accidental Omnitrix transformation. They conveniently forget about the punishment which frees up Ben to go on a weekend trip with Max and Gwen. Ben turns it down, having learned his lesson from the whole ordeal.
  • Conveniently Empty Building: Turned Up to Eleven with it being an Freaking city! Also Ben's neighborhood is strangely quiet to all the noise of explosions and friends screaming in the middle of the night. Must be heavy sleepers.
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