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* [[Accidental Aiming Skills]]: Rath grabs a piece of debris and makes a precision strike that knocks out Rojo's hoverbike. He admits he was actually aiming for her head.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[Yuri Lowenthal]] voicing a character getting an alien that can [[Tunnel King|dig through dirt with ease]]? [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|I wonder ...]]
** Yuri's in a [[Paprika|final instalment of a supernatural series, huh?]]
** Not to mention [[Tara Platt]] voicing the actress who he enters into a relationship with<ref>They're married in real life.</ref>.
** [[Greg Cipes]]' and [[Ashley Johnson]]'s characters not getting along with [[Tara Strong]]'s character initially? It's [[Teen Titans (animation)|Beast Boy, Terra, and Raven]] all over again.
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** "Moonstruck" is an all-Max episode, flashing back to not only how he got involved with the Plumbers, but how he met Verdona.
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: In "Ultimate Sacrifice" {{spoiler|a flaw in the Ultimatrix grants sentience to some of Ben's Ultimate transformations... and they are not happy about Ben supposedly "enslaving" them.}}
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: According to Ben 10,000 Returns everything outside of the television shows (excluding [[What If]] episodes of course) is all non-canon outside of Ben 10: Alien Swarm.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: "Night of the Living Nightmare". {{spoiler|Set up to look like Ben's dream, but turns out to be Albedo's.}}
* [[All Your Powers Combined]]:
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** And the Ultimatrix seems to still have the same '''ten minute''' time limit even though Ben can change a number of times before the Ultimatrix needs recharge time.
** Oh, and to top it all off, the Cartoon Network Asia and Cartoon Network UK premieres of the series ''and'' the US premiere of episodes '''10''' and 11 aired on '''10/10/10'''.
** The first season finale aired in the US on '''Dec'''ember<ref>Before July and August were added to the calendar, December was the tenth month!</ref> 10.
* [[Nuclear Physics Goof]]: Gwen mentions using carbon rods as control rods, but carbon is the last thing you'd want to use, because pure carbon actually increases reactivity (it's second only to heavy water at successfully moderating neutrons). Boron carbide, or at least boron-doped carbon, maybe, but pure carbon? No way. Also, light water reactor fuel isn't enriched enough to sustain a chain reaction without a moderator, so the whole "living nuclear reactor" bit makes no sense when P'andor clearly isn't made of water, in whole or in part.
** [[A Wizard Did It|An alien did it]].
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* [[Big Badass Battle Sequence]]: {{spoiler|The Forever Knights versus the the Flame Keepers Circle in "The Beginning of the End." Ben tries to come in on the side of the Knights only for it to turn into a [[Melee a Trois]].}}
* [[Biological Mashup]]: Aggregor's new form consists of the legs of Bivalvan, the arms of Andreas, the torso of Galapagus, the face plate of P'andor for a neck, and a head much like Ra'ad's. {{spoiler|And as of "Forge of Creation", Kevin has done the same thing with Ben's entire alien set, minus the Ultimate forms and Alien X.}}
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Julie in "Revenge of the Swarm."
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: {{spoiler|Will Harangue}} is attacking Ben {{spoiler|for ratings}}, and when he sees the results?
{{quote|People love to watch Ben 10!}}
** And Professor Paradox has a habit of warning people not to give out spoilers.
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Gwen and Kevin, respectively.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In "Prisoner 775 is Missing", the teaser features Ben explaining that he doesn't have an alien called Overkill (due to him believing Gwen was referring to Swampfire). At the end, when he scans and obtains a new form, ChamAlien, he shouts "Overkill!", much to his friends' annoyance.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Ben's former idol Captain Nemesis, {{spoiler|who becomes the villain Overlord}}.
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: Apparently, Ben's battle with Zombozo six years ago.
** To be fair, Zombozo didn't menace him after their first meeting, so it's understandable he'd forget him.
*** [[Word of God]] is that Ben said that because he didn't want to admit (to Kevin) he used to be scared of clowns.
* [[Call Back]]: Might be accidental, but in "Absolute Power" Gwen tries to talk Kevin out of his rampage in a game arcade. If you remember the original series, they first met in a game arcade in New York, bringing their relationship full circle. Both arcades even look similar.
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* [[Cassandra Truth]]: After an episode of taking credit for Ben's various acts of heroism, J.T. and Cash get their act together and actually save Ben's life... which no one sees them do, and having outed themselves as frauds mere minutes earlier, no one believes him when they try to take credit this time.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The later parts of season 2 get rather dark. The main characters are {{spoiler|''murdered'' (then revived)}}, and Captain Nemesis {{spoiler|straight up murders several people in his reappearance. Ben also broke his arm in that same episode, a rare instance of such a damaging injury sticking.}}
** [[Cerebus Rollercoaster]]: However, the episode after "Catch a Falling Star"<ref> "The Eggman Cometh"</ref> was mainly a comedic episode, then the episode after ''that''<ref> "Night of the Living Nightmare"</ref> brought it back to scary.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Humans may not have any superpowers, but with enough Plumber training, they can jump as high as Fourarms or Spidermonkey.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Kevin spends most of "Video Games" blowing spitwads at people. Guess what he has to do to help stop the Stalker robot?
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** In the beginning of "Night of the Living Nightmare", Ben knocks over his smoothie while he sleeps. {{spoiler|This saves him from getting a Cassiopean Dream Eater stuck onto his face when Albedo trips on it instead.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Alien X.
* [[Clarke's Third Law]]:
{{quote|'''Azmuth:''' [The sword] isn't magic! It's science!
'''Ben:''' ''Your'' science. }}
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** In "Absolute Power", Kevin blames his stepfather for convincing his mom to kick him out, forcing him onto the streets and into the mindset that led to Kevin 11. His stepfather points out that Kevin [[Kung Shui|destroyed the house]] on a rampage and they were ill-equipped to deal with a superpowered adolescent.
** "Moonstruck" is a double whammy by alluding to both previous shows: Max was given the opportunity to be the first man on the moon, but ultimately declined in favor of becoming a plumber. Though already established in [[Ben 10|the original series]], it was revealed in this flashback that he got the offer from Labrid, the magister from ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Alien Force]]'''s premiere.
** In "The Purge", Driscoll, the Forever King from [[Ben 10|the original series]] as well as Enoch, his subordinate appear, as does Patrick, the Forever King from the [[Ben 10: Alien Force|Alien Force]] episode "Be-Knighted."
** Sunder, the [[Marvel Comics|Terrax-like]] bounty hunter from the ''Alien Force'' episode "Single Handed" reappears in "The Transmogrification of Eunice", only this time working for {{spoiler|Azmuth}}.
** Ben as Big Chill notes to Ma Vreedle that "[he's] a mother too!". Viewers will recall that [[Mister Seahorse|Big Chill]] produced offspring back in ''Alien Force''.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|Kevin gives one to Aggregor after absorbing Ben's aliens again. It comes at the price of his sanity…}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Aggregor seems to put the word 'Dangerous' in this trope. {{spoiler|He's not impatient, waiting until just the right moment to make his move. He knows enough not to go after the four fragments of the Map of Infinity without the proper abilities and seeks out the aliens with the exact abilities he needs. He employs [[Mecha-Mooks]] that won't turn against him, and knows that his operations are too important for said mooks to do and instead handles everything personally. He's clever enough to subvert [[Talking Is a Free Action]], such as when he murdered the Plumber who had boarded his ship when he was citing the violation code. One of the major things he does is that he actually tracks the Ultimatrix's signal to locate Ben and his prisoners. He subtly manages to recapture his fugitives without Ben and the others knowing until it's too late. He was well prepared for a Plumber ambush, and was clever enough to leave a squadron of his robots and his damaged ship that was set to self destruct as a decoy while he carried out his real plan. He pretends to let Ben think he's pummeling him when he isn't feeling a thing and strikes back when Ben stops. Finally, he lets Ben and the others do all the work in collecting the fragments of the Map of Infinity, stealing them after they've finally reached them}}.
** However, he has some moments of seeming [[Genre Blindness|Genre Blind]]. He's had [[Villain Ball|the chance to kill the heroes and passed on it]], flaunts his success (not that he can really hide it), and it really wouldn't have cost him anything to run the gauntlets himself (it just proves he's a [[Jerkass]], which we knew already). He also ignores Kevin's warning that [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|absorbing energy will drive him insane]], not that he wasn't already. {{spoiler|However, with his [[One-Winged Angel]] transformation, Aggregor arguably doesn't need to be savvy; he's basically unstoppable.}}
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The entire episode "Catch a Falling Star" is basically this.
* [[David vs. Goliath]]: Ben ultimately defeats Harangue's [[The Incredibles|Omnidroid knockoff]] by turning into Nanomech, his smallest alien (and incidentally the only one the robot didn't have on file) and tearing it apart form the inside.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Gwen {{spoiler|promises Michael Morningstar enough mana to remain at full strength}} for a year if he'll help her restore Kevin to normal.
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'''Kevin:''' *[[Beat]]* No. I sense I've made a mistake of some kind. }}
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The next time you watch "Absolute Power: Part 2", pay ''real'' close attention to the audio at the start. [[Unfortunate Implications|Now, say with]] '''[[Unfortunate Implications|ALL]]''' [[Unfortunate Implications|honesty that you don't picture Kevin doing… "something else" there…]]
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Magister Hulka.
* [[Driving Test Smashers]]: Happens to Gwen in "Video Games".
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Played straight and subverted. Younger people (kids, teenagers, etc.), generally takes Ben's deeds for what they are. Mass media portrays him in a thoroughly negative light, and thus adults have a much lower opinion of him. The government is cool with him, though, having recognized the Plumbers as the authority in such matters for a long time now.
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* [[Enemy Civil War]]: The Forever Knights have so many factions that hate each other that when another group showed up, Ben and company had to ask which Forever King they were aligned with. And then it turned out to be ''yet another'' faction they hadn't met.
* [[Energy Absorption]]: Aggregor, Ben's newest addition to his [[Rogues Gallery]], has this power. Somewhat ironic considering that he's of the same alien race as Ben's former-enemy-turned-ally Kevin, who also did this in the [[Ben 10|original series]].
** [[Word of God]] says that Kevin still has this ability, but prefers to utilize his matter assimilation abilities for [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|obvious reasons]].
* [[Energy Being]]: P'andor and mature anodites
** Despite his appearance as giant space squid, Diagon is this as well. {{spoiler|Vilgax exploits this to kill him.}}
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** What Colonel Rozum was like [[Beneath the Mask]] was foreshadowed back in Paradox's first appearance in ''Alien Force'' when he implies he wanted to use Paradox's time machine as a weapon against the Russians.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Charmcaster took over Ledgerdomain and temporarily ''killed everyone in it'', including the [[Power Trio]], because {{spoiler|she just wanted her daddy back alive again}}.
** Oh, and before that, her goal was to ''free'' Ledgerdomain and everyone in it from an evil alien tyrant. {{spoiler|She succeeded... and then promptly all the denizens of the realm ''started a war'' over who gets to take control of it. Poor Charmcaster, nothing she works at ever ends up right...}}
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Galapagus' entire species (except for [[Black Sheep|Addwagia]], to the point where their world has no such thing as lying, crime, or prisons.
** Let's not forget about Eunice.
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* [[G-Rated Drug]]: According to Darkstar, energy is like this to him and {{spoiler|Kevin}}.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Kevin while teaching Gwen how to drive. He tells her a car needs to be treated like a woman, but when she asks for an explanation, obviously displeased by the comparison, he immediately stops himself from continuing.
** In the season finale, ''no one'' is surprised that Darkstar tries to betray everyone at the end, and he's promptly dealt with in less than 2 seconds. No cliffhanger for you, buddy!
** A government [[The Men in Black|Man in Black]] displays this in "The Widening Gyre":
{{quote|'''MIB:''' Standard operating procedure is to show up unannounced, then ''demand'' you come with us. But we know we're dealing with Ben Tennyson<ref> (who is liable to respond to such a thing with, shall we say, ''force'')</ref> so, we're ''asking''. Would you ''please'' come with us?}}
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** "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" had drug references.
** When she first appears in "The Transmogrification of Eunice", Eunice{{spoiler|/the Unitrix}} is in her{{spoiler|/its}} spaceship, unconscious, ''completely naked'' except for a [[Censor Steam]].
** The first part of "Revenge of the Swarm".
{{quote|'''Validus:''' We're here because of what you wanted to do with Elena!
'''Ben:''' I don't understand!
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{{quote|''*[[Death Glare]]*'' I will peel you like a grape!}}
** Gwen probably shouldn't have mentioned to Charmcaster that she dated Darkstar before.
*** Darkstar made it obvious with his insistence on referring to her as "Lovely Gwen", so it would've happened anyway.
* [[Groupie Brigade]]: Ben has to call Gwen and Kevin to rescue him from one at the start of "Deep".
* [[Have You Tried Rebooting]]: In "Fused", Kevin successfully reboots the Ultimatrix to restore it to its normal operating state.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Charmcaster, though she does a [[Face Heel Turn]] by becoming [[She Who Fights Monsters]], then she goes through the [[Heel Face Revolving Door]].}}
** The Vreedle Brothers.
* [[Heh, Heh, You Said "X"]]: Ben describing his (completely professional) relationship with an actress:
{{quote|'''Ben:''' "Jennifer's publicist says being seen together is good for both of us. Cross-pollination…"
'''Kevin:''' "Ahahaha!"
'''Ben:''' "…of our ''careers''." }}
* [[He's All Grown Up]]: Cooper went from tiny fat kid to a tall, well-defined teenager. Especially jarring since he appeared in ''Alien Force'' in his younger form.
* [[Here We Go Again]]: The Ultimatrix carries over the same problem with Ben not always getting which alien he wanted when he dialed it into the watch.
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: In "Moonstruck" we find out Max met Verdona when she was a [[Damsel in Distress]] and a redhead.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: The episode's called "Andreas' Fault"; who do you think it was? Also Ra'ad in the following one.
** {{spoiler|Kevin sacrifices his sanity to stop Aggregor and save the universe}}.
* [[Heroic Vow]]: After Aggregor recaptures the last of his escaped prisoners, Ben makes one to save the aliens and stop Aggregor. {{spoiler|He doesn't manage either, and though Kevin does manage to stop Aggregor at the end, it costs him his sanity.}}
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Harangue quotes Nietzsche's line about the abyss in regards to Captain Nemesis going bad, but he's obviously just trying to spin the whole thing against Ben.
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* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|Charmcaster's home dimension, in which all of her people were either killed or imprisoned.}}
* [[Immune to Bullets|Immune to Lasers]]: "That's your ''first'' mistake! When you shoot Rath, it just makes Rath ''mad''!!!" *roars* (Then again, [[Unstoppable Rage|what doesn't]]?)
* [[Impairment Shot]]: Humongosaur!Ben hallucinates everything as monstrous after getting the dream dust in his face.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Conduit Edwards, by George in retaliation for killing his squire Winston}}.
** Season Two: Ship sees things out of focus after crash-landing and losing consciousness.
* [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]: The Ultimatrix, given to Ben in the finale to ''Alien Force''; it's essentially an upgraded Omnitrix which allows Ben to access more powerful forms of several of the aliens he transforms into. See [[Super Mode]] below.
* [[Inhumanable Alien Rights]]: Rozum seems to think that Aliens don't have any rights.
* [[Instant Armor]]: The Sword of Ascanlon grants its wielder this.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Sunny and Antonio. Seriously, [[HotImprobable Skitty-On-WailordSpecies ActionCompatibility|how would that even]] ''work?''
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In an example of proving [[Not So Different]] right, Crazy!Kevin uses Darkstar's smarmy endearment for Gwen right before {{spoiler|trying to suck out all her mana}}
{{quote|'''Ultimate Kevin:''' Hello, lovely Gwen. }}
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: About 63, all in one guy! Almost everyone Ben's turned into throughout the three series (plus Nanomech from the Alien Swarm movie, and a few we've never seen), except for Eon, can be found in the title sequence.
* [[Logical Weakness]]: Ra'ad, and by extension Ampfibian, is highly vulnerable to water, being an elecromagnetic being, This is ironic, as the species is an [[Electric Jellyfish]]. The writers apparently thought better of the weakness later on, since Ampfibian was able to swim underwater with no problems in "Deep".
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: Kevin's heretofore unseen stepfather.
** Gwen and Ben's cousin Sunny.
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: The Cassiopeia dream eater puts whoever it attaches to into one, then feeds off the chemicals in their brain related to stress as they try in vain to fight off the resulting nightmares.
* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: How Aggregor retrieves his first three escaped prisoners. Subverted for the last two: he had to make a token effort for the fourth, and the fifth gave him a lot of trouble while performing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
** Played straight again when retrieving {{spoiler|the first piece of the Map of Infinity; Aggregor lets the [[Power Trio]] work through the traps in the [[Temple of Doom]] so that he can take the Map piece for himself at the end. Same with the third.}}
* [[Made of Iron]]: Ben is this entire trope. He's able to survive getting kicked by Bivalvan's [[Powered Armour]], hit by another alien powered suit, blasted by Pandor's radioactive beam, and kicked by Aggregor's {{spoiler|"Ultimate Form"}} without any broken bones or scratches ALL IN HUMAN FORM. Kevin has an excuse because of him being Osmosian allowing him to be more resistant to damage. And Gwen probably used a spell to make herself more resistant to harm.
* [[Magical Land]]: Charmcaster and Hex are revealed to be from one much similar to the Null Void dimension, only with a purple backdrop instead of red.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Despite being blown by Galapagus' wind in "Ultimate Aggregor" and Terraspin's wind in the 1st season finale, Gwen's skirt doesn't flip high enough to see higher than her thighs.
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* [[Mondegreen]]: In-universe example; Jimmy thought Jetray's name was "Jeffrey".
* [[Monster Clown]]: Zombozo makes a triumphant return in the third episode.
* [[Monumental Battle]]:
** For no logical reason, Harangue challenges Ben to a battle next to the Washington Monument. This leads to the [[Monumental Damage]] below.
** The final fight with the garbage monster in "The Widening Gyre" takes place at the San Francisco Bridge.
* [[Monumental Damage]]: Harangue manages to topple the Washington Monument and put holes in the Capitol Building with missiles inside of five minutes on ''live television''. He even <s>manages</s> attempts to pin the blame on Ben.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: ''Definitely'' the 'Overkill' joke at the end of "Prisoner 775 is Missing". "[[Too Soon]]?"
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: Young!Verdona wears Young!Ben's signature shirt.
* [[Naked on Arrival]]: Eunice.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted.
{{quote|'''Ben:''' Seriously, dude, just apologize [to Gwen].
'''Kevin:''' She's just scared of going back to Legerdemain. Because, y'know, how Charmcaster ''killed us all''. Good reason. }}
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* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: Somewhat justified with {{spoiler|the Andromeda aliens}}. Aggregor had converted them into energy so he could permanently absorb their powers. Once all the energy returned back to their original owners, they turned back to normal. (Then again, how it knew to convert them back into their physical forms is still unanswered.)
* [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now]]: In what has to be one of the fastest fulfillments of the trope's promise ever, Darkstar has the nerve to proclaim this after absorbing Kevin's excess energy, which was a considerable amount. Ben naturally [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|saw it coming]], pushes a button on a nearby panel, and takes it from Darkstar before a minute has passed.
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]:
** Old King Xarion of Zarcovia, his throne usurped by his own son with the help of {{spoiler|Dr. Viktor's dead body}}, calls in Ben and the gang to help him… {{spoiler|after which he turns on them and uses the Ultimatrix as a conduit to bodyjack Dr. Viktor.}}
** Ssserpent when he appears in "The Perfect Girlfriend". Before, his sole role was to get his tail kicked by Ben in a few seconds, this time he'd studied Ben thoroughly and set a trap that almost ''kills'' Ben. He also manages to avoid being captured the entire episode, something few of Ben's toughter villains can't say they managed.
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** In "Nor Iron Bars A Cage", one of the Null Void robo-jailors actually goes "uh oh" {{spoiler|at the impending prison revolt.}}
* [[Panty Shot]]: Gwen in 'Andreas Fault' when she is preparing to kick Sir Dagonet. They're the oddly enough...the same color as her tights?
* [[Playing Possum]]: Argit, to save himself from Crazy!Kevin's wrath at Plumber Academy.
* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: A necessity for Ben to be even the least bit threatened by any villain, though it helps that the Ultimatrix isn't exactly reliable. A particularly [[Egregious]] case occurs in "Where the Magic Happens", where Ben never thinks to use Terraspin, an alien immune to mana, in the dimension ''made entirely of mana'' and against the opponent whose ''only weapon is mana''. In general, any time Ben doesn't use his obviously overpowered evolution function to curb-stomp his foes on the spot counts.
* [[Pokémon-Speak]]: Ship. In "Eye of the Beholder", he learns a new word, "Julie!".
* [[Power Copying]]: The Ultimatrix can scan any alien it doesn't have a copy of in the database and add it to Ben's repertoire. The downside is that he can't transform while it's doing this.
** Unless he's already transformed when it happens.
*** Ben actually starts doing this actively in "Prisoner 775 is Missing".
** Aggregor and Kevin, being Osmosians, can also do this with anything they touch. Although it comes with a [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]] drawback, so Kevin never actually uses this aspect of his ability {{spoiler|until he turns evil, that is}}.
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** {{spoiler|The real Diagon}} is sealed in another dimension, and the source of his power, his heart, was torn away from him and sealed by a magical sword.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: This series seems pretty fond of poking fun at its own flaws and the flaws of the series in general. For example, at the opening of a smoothie shop doing a Ben 10 promotion, a kid calls the Alien X flavor "filler".
** Let's not forget about "Video Games", where Ben talks about the multiplayer function in the game not being a good idea.
** In "Forge of Creation" {{spoiler|Young Ben looks through the 16-year old Ben's alien repertoire, and calls most of them lame}}.
* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Elena Validus kills herself to stop the Hive and save Ben, because she was the queen. However, [[The Stinger]] reveals while she did save Ben, her sacrifice didn't stop the Hive and they're still alive. A later episode reveals that even SHE is still alive and back in "queen" mode again. The sacrifice was indeed entirely pointless.}}
* [[Serious Business]]: Julie takes her mini golf ''super'' seriously. So much so, that when a killer robot interrupts her game, she tries to attack it!
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Octagon Vreedle, of The Vreedle Brothers, in an odd combination of not-too-bright and this.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: The first season's storyline ends up this way due to no long-lasting consequences.
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** In "Nor Iron Bars a Cage", we have a corrupt warden who kills a prisoner to avoid him helping another prisoner out. [[The Shawshank Redemption|Never seen that one before]].
** In "Basic Training", we meet an arrogant Plumber cadet named [[Futurama|Brannigan]].
*** Who is wearing red Valou…armor.
*** You Plumber recruits will behave, or Magister [[Stripes|Hulka]] with the big toe will see how far he can shove it up your...
** In "It's Not Easy Being Gwen," we learn Max once brought [[Gremlins|Mogwai-kabobs]] to a family get-together... and that Gwen thinks they taste like chicken.
** In "Ben 10,000", Paradox mentions "[[Marvel Comics|Cross-Time]]". He explain how it works, which is very similar to [[DC Comics]]' Hypertime.
*** And Eon's plot in that episode is very similar to {{spoiler|what the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[The One (film)|The One]]'' was trying to do}}.
*** It's also similar to {{spoiler|DC Comics' ''[[Kingdom Come|The Kingdom]]'', where the supervillain Gog travels across Hypertime to destroy Superman from different realities}}.
** "Moonstruck" is a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to the first two ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]'' movies, as well as the old alien invasion movies from the 1950s.
** From "Andreas' Fault", the [[Ben 10: Alien Force|second time]] a Forever Knight is heard yelling "[[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail|RUN AWAY!]]"
*** Kevin even calls it "[[Monty Python]] week" when the Forever Knights show up in season 2.
** "The Widening Gyre" has quite a few:
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** In "Ben 10,000 Returns", when Kevin notices the strange fighting styles of the multiverse Ben counterparts under Eon's control, he asks Ben, "Since when did you learn ninjutsu?" Guess who else Yuri Lowenthal voices besides Ben? [[Naruto|Sasuke Uchiha.]]
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]: Ben's explanation as to why he isn't bothering trying to fix Kevin again.
* [[Spider Tank]]: Although it's closer to a [[Humongous Mecha]], Will Harangue attacks Ben with one in "Video Games".
* [[Stern Chase]]: The 2nd and 3rd chapters of season 1 (the Map of Infinity and the {{spoiler|search for Kevin}}) have elements of this.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Jennifer Nocturne suffers a serious case of this in "Catch a Falling Star", falling in love with her former kidnapper Captain Nemesis and becoming his accomplice.
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{{quote|'''Overlord:''' Captain Nemesis is dead. From now on, call me, '''''OVERLORD!'''''
'''Goop!Ben:''' How about we call you a good therapist? }}
* [[Theme Naming]]: [[wikipedia:Azimuth|Azmuth]] and [[wikipedia:Zenith|Zenith]]. They're both named after astronomical terms.
** "Albedo" means "mirror." In this case- a mirror image of Ben.
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: The entire cast's reaction to Rozum's imprisoning 775 aliens for decades in horrible conditions with no good reason other than "national security" and without due process of law, instead of handing them over to the Plumbers for a proper trial. The audience probably agrees.
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* [[Villain Decay]]: Zombozo actually inverts this completely. He was from season 1 of ''[[Ben 10]]'', come his return he's as scary as ever and is implied to have just '''''buried''''' someone when he first shows up.
** The Hive's return also subverts this. While they don't near effortlessly conquer the world like in the movie, they're actually even more deadly than they originally were because they're ''smarter'' this time. {{spoiler|Instead of making their Queen act differently than a human, she pretends to be their ally to earn their trust and attempt to bring Ben to their side.}} They're so deadly they nearly kill Ben and it takes {{spoiler|Elena}}'s [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to defeat them. Even then, [[The Stinger]] reveals they were just [[Playing Possum]] and are still out there.
** Subverted ''again'' by the Forever Knights. They spend a good chunk of the series degenerating into cold open villains and perennial punching bags, but when {{spoiler|their founder, Old George}} shows up, he quickly goes about reunifying them and whipping them back into shape as an actual ''competent'' and ''effective'' extremist group.
** Played straight, though, with Darkstar. Just compare his appearances in ''Alien Force'', where he was a competant, dangerous, [[Manipulative Bastard]], to his appearances here, where he's forced to hide out in alleyways and leech off of animals' energy, makes plans that the heroes see right through from the start, and who is always left in the most pathetic state possible by the end of the episode.
** Albedo. As Gwen put it, "He's not a threat anymore, he's a... nuisance."
* [[Villain Episode]]: Kinda-sorta with "Where the Magic Happens"; next to Gwen, Charmcaster is the main character of the episode.
** Similarly, "Couples Retreat" focuse more on Charmcaster and Darkstar then it does the heroes.
* [[Villain Team-Up]]: Zombozo, Charmcaster, and Vulkanus in the third episode.
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** {{spoiler|In a "What the Hell, [[Anti-Villain]]" moment, Charmcaster's father calls her out on using life-exchanging black magic to resurrect him. Apparently, it didn't occur to her that he might not approve of her killing '''600,000''' ''living beings'' just to bring him back. Then he sacrifices himself to undo her work, leaving Charmcaster in a mix between [[Heel Realization]], [[My God, What Have I Done?]], and [[Villainous BSOD]].}}
* [[Whole Costume Reference]]: One of the three safecrackers in "Too Hot to Handle" is dressed identical to [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Dr. Horrible.]]
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: "Computer Games" is a 30 minute homage to the Spider Slayer from the [[Spider-Man]] comic.
** "Moonstruck" has a thread running through it that makes it an homage to the first two ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]'' movies.
** "The Big Story" to ''{{spoiler|[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]}}''.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: The reason why Kevin was such an evil kid in the first series. Osmosians are driven mad by absorbing energy. Aggregor claims this is just a lie by the powerful, but given how unstable he is already he's not exactly a reliable source.
** {{spoiler|Kevin did it again, though it was a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save the universe and defeat Aggregor. It cost his sanity, but he got better.}}
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Prisoner 775 from the self titled episode. He was imprisoned for years for doing nothing more than being exiled to Earth for trying to save his homeworld from a brutal tyrant. By the time he got out, the rebellion had lost and his family was dead. With this on top of being confined to horrible conditions for whoever knows how long, one can't blame him for going on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against the one responsible for doing that to him...
** Meanwhile, {{spoiler|the last leg of Season 1 gave us Kevin, who absorbed energy to save the universe from Aggregor at the cost of his sanity and body. Lacking almost virtually any sense of control, he promptly goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against ''everyone'' that wronged him. Most of his targets did things that were quite minor, but a few actually do deserve it.}}
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Cash and J.T; the one time they're actual heroes, no one believes them.
** Charmcaster, over and over again. {{spoiler|She's able to return to her realm? She ends up trapped in it. She frees her realm? It's people proceed to fight a civil war over it. She ressurects her father? He goes back to being dead so that the souls sacrificed to bring him back can return. She finds a boy who likes her? He doesn't, and is using her for her power.}}
* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be Serious]]: Inverted. Charmcaster asks Darkstar to call her by her real name rather than "Beautiful" to prove his insistence that he truly cares for her. He fails this test spectacularly.
* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: Was there ''really'' any doubt Aggregor would absorb the powers of the five aliens?
** Or that he would get the entire Map of Infinity?
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