Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Difference between revisions

* [[Cool Ship]]: Kevin personalized an old Plumbers' flyer, christened the Rustbucket-3. It can slice US fighter jets in half like a hot knife through butter, and travel interstellar distances in uber-short amounts of time.

** Turns out NASA's been building their own ship called the ''Orion'', which can travel at 15% the speed of light. ([[Truth in Television]]. Project Orion was the first design study of nuclear pulse propulsion, which is what is used here.)

** Though according to [[Word of God]], he's always had them, but up until now was afraid to use them.

** Aggregor gets this once he absorbs the power of the five Andromeda aliens.

*** Kevin's ''other'' [[Evil Counterpart]], Darkstar, {{spoiler|appears in the first season finale}}.

* [[Evil Power Vacuum]]: In "Enemy of my Frenemy", it's revealed that after Adwaita was overthrown the rebels immediately began to fight each other for control.

** [[Word of God]] says the evolutionary process works by having the chosen alien in a simulated "worst case scenario" planet-wide civil war for an extend period of time, about a million or so years, and the dominant form at the end of the simulation is what Ben evolves into.

* [[Explosive Overclocking]]: When Captain Nemesis asks his team to crank up the power on his suit.

*** In the same episode Darkstar says that he'll take Gwen as a trophy once he kills Ben and Kevin and [[Take Over the World|takes over the world]]. We all know [[Go-Go Enslavement|what "trophy" means]].

** In "The Eggman Cometh", we get this little gem from Dr. Animo; "Out of the way, you dumb cluck."

* [[A God Am I]]: Aggregor's ultimate goal.

* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: Crossed in "Forge of Creation". So the good news is, {{spoiler|Evil!Kevin kicked Aggregor's ass and stopped him from taking over the universe}}. So the bad news is, {{spoiler|Evil!Kevin is back}}.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Ben:''' "Jennifer's publicist says being seen together is good for both of us. Cross-pollination…"<br />

'''Kevin:''' "Ahahaha!"<br />

* [[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.

** {{spoiler|Charmcaster becomes this in her quest to bring her father back to life, in the process becoming ''worse'' than the one who actually killed him. Her father calls her out on this and she [[My God, What Have I Done?|realizes all to late the error of her ways.]] She's shown to have gotten better after this, though, working at being a better ruler and person.}}

* [[Hurl It Into the Sun]]: The defeat of the trash [[Golem]] in "The Widening Gyre".

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Sunny and Antonio.

* [[Inhumanable Alien Rights]]: Rozum seems to think that Aliens don't have any rights.

* [[Instant Armor]]: The Sword of Ascanlon grants its wielder this.

* [[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. }}

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: When Captain Nemesis kidnaps Julie as a means to get to Ben, Ben immediately finds him, jumps straight to Ultimate Humongousaur, and kicks five kinds of ass ''without so much as a word''. The lesson: [[Berserk Button|Do not fuck with Ben's loved ones]].

** He does it again when Aggregor {{spoiler|mercilessly kills the five Andromeda aliens when he absorbs their powers. If it weren't for the fact that Aggregor was invincible, Ben probably would've killed him}}.

{{quote| '''Ben:''' Maybe we should split up, cover more ground.<br />

'''Kevin:''' Great idea. That way Aggregor can pick us off one at a time. }}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The second episode also reveals Ben's middle name, when Gwen hits him with a [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Benjamin '''''[[Jack Kirby|Kirby]]''''' Tennyson.

** Also: Will Harangue; Harangue means "A long pompous speech or a tirade," which seems to fit the anchorman pretty well.

** In the episode "Deep", we're introduced to [[Kevin Michael Richardson|Plumber Magister Pyke]], a [[Fish People|Pisciss Volann]].

* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: Aggregor transforms into a conglomerated form of the five aliens after he absorbs them. {{spoiler|He reverts back after Kevin takes his power for his own}}.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Ruritania]]: The Kingdom of Zarkovia.

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Captain Nemesis tries to pull this on Ben with Julie and the hot actress. Ben unflinchingly saves Julie. After a tender moment, Julie finally brings up the actress. Cue the camera cutting to Gwen and Kevin rescuing her.

* [[Scream Discretion Shot]]: Bivalvan in "Fame".

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Easy to miss if you don't pay attention. In the most recent episode (as of this edit), Ben, Gwen, and Kevin, with the aid of Charmcaster, go to the dimension of "Ledgerdomain", where all mana comes from, through a [[Doraemon (Anime)|"Door to Anywhere"]]. Ledgerdomain is just what the natives call it, though. If you watched with closed captioning on, the name was spelled there as Yahwahtacsip, which is part of what makes it easy to miss.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: The first season's storyline ends up this way due to no long-lasting consequences.

* [[Sharing a Body]]: Ben and Ra'ad in "Fused".

** Will Harangue's plot in "Video Games" is identical in many details to Syndrome's plot in ''[[The Incredibles]]''. The Stalker even looks like an Omnidroid.

*** Bringing the Jameson reference full circle, it's also near identical to a plot Jameson used to attack [[Spider-Man]] back in the day.

** In "Ultimate Aggregor", Paradox claims he can't help with the Aggregor situation because he has other business "[[Star Wars|a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.]]" Kevin immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|calls him on this]].

*** To which Paradox counters with "I'm a time traveler. How do you know I won't eventually go back in time and say it first?"

** Also, in "Where the Magic Happens", they use a [[Doraemon (Anime)|"Door to Anywhere."]]

** The following ep, "Perplexahedron", has the Sentinel, an ancient alien guarding the last piece of the Map of Infinity - the entire setup looks an awful lot like the last Templar guarding the Holy Grail in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade]]'', {{spoiler|complete with the place caving in on itself at the end}}.

* [[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.

* [[Story Arc]]: Season 1 has the "Prisoners of Aggregor" arc, followed immediately after by the "Map of Infinity" arc. Now the remainder will be dedicated to {{spoiler|rescuing Kevin from himself.}}

** Then we get into Season 2, which starts to look like a subversion (ala Season 3 of ''Alien Force'') until Paradox's warning in "Ben 10,000 Returns".

{{quote| '''Overlord:''' Captain Nemesis is dead. From now on, call me, '''''OVERLORD!'''''<br />

'''Goop!Ben:''' How about we call you a good therapist? }}

** "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.

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The plant monster that dissolves on contact with ''peanuts'', though it's more likely the fact that they were salted that made them dangerous. Still, it worked ridiculously well.

* [[Weaponized Animal]]: The nose-shooting alien fish on planet Pisciss in "Deep".

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: "I'm not going anywhere. Not until I finish my smoothie."

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Invoked by Ben in season 2 in regards to Eunice. {{spoiler|Azmuth says she is a construct no different than the aliens Ben transforms into, Ben disagrees}}.