Hot take: Omniverse should have ended in Ben's 18th birthday. Hot take 2: The reason why Humongousaur never used his size shifting powers in Omniverse is because the writers didn't brought it up during production.
Kai green gets too much hate, She was a ten-year-old with a fascination with Navajo Werewolf culture aka skinwalkers. Ten-year-olds tend to say things and regret them later example for Ben. "I don't like being famous between you and me I whish I have my secret identity back" The writers did her dirty.
Oh, extension to this, the omnitrix was originally a device to promote peace among species, to let anyone walk a mile in another alien's shoes, so it would then naturally make sense for those instincts to shine through for a better understanding. Think ectoneurites are all dicks? Be one for a bit and see why. Think ampleplexians are needlessly dumb? Assume one's form and see how foggy your thinking gets. Now that I'm thinking about it, more of that would really help sell the concept of that backstory.
Hot Take: Ben's role as a character and the role of the Omnitrix in universe are really really diminished when Ben has access to fusions or ultimate forms. The themes of the whole franchise shine brightest when Ben sticks to just transforming into different beings from across the Galaxy. - The main reason for the creation of the Omnitrix is to allow it's user to walk a mile in the shoes of any other being in the Galaxy. - Whoever bears the Omnitrix can live the life of any other sentient being and, as such, they become a symbol that unites all species. - Ben can be a member of any planet, or any alien race, and as such he is a living force for peace between all beings. - The ultimatrix and the biomnitrix give Ben a power boost and are good for punching things, not to mention they're good at selling toys, but if Ben is turning into artificial beings that don't actually exist in the universe, there's no point for Ben to be turning into aliens. They're just lab created monsters. - When Ben uses made up forms created by some device, he is no longer a living symbol of unity and the Omnitrix loses all it's thematic value. The coolest thing about Ben having the Omnitrix is that he understands the value of every transformation inside it. Every form matters because every form is a real alien race somewhere in the universe. Ben doesn't just become a Tokustar or a Celestialsapien every battle to win it easily, because he knows the value of each transformation. --- Ultimate forms and fusions are cool, but they're not Ben 10. They don't capture the importance of the Omnitrix from a thematic perspective and they paint Ben as a hero who hits things hard, not a living representation of peace and understanding who has the capacity to unite all life.
I disagree with you. If you see the evolutionary function of ultimatrix and biomatrix can be used for good purposes too. Like reviving dead or extinct species. Helping many species survive an extinction like Ben did with the Hybrids. Plus it can create new species like nanomac and spread sentient lifeforms around the universe.
I disagree with you with some the reason ben doesn't straight up become waybig and instantly win is becuz thta ben wants to give the minimum damage to the city second:ben does not give every alien the praise they worth of especially in OV which is my favorite series ben insults a LOT of its aliens its even named it one of its aliens "the worst"
That “I’m one of everybody” line from ultimate is probably my favorite in the series. I guess that’s why Kevin was such a good foil for Ben whenever he was a villain, turning himself into a monster of combined powers
Gwen was constantly and illogically nerfed throughout the entire series because she's as strong as Ben, if not stronger, and they didn't want her to outshine Ben. We got to see her cook an entire army of DNAliens on her own but a couple of episodes later she somehow can't fight a bunch of forever knights on her own
Kevin was also significantly weaker, but at least there was a logical explanation for that. If anything, Gwen should be stronger than she was in classic.
@@JayRedGear I don’t believe Feedback could absorb mana, I believe he’s only been shown to absorb technological-energy, where Chromastone has been shown to be able to absorb Mana and/or light energy
Hot Take/Opinions: #1 After rewatching the series and finishing the rewatch a few weeks ago, I think the young ben episodes in Omniverse were some of the best in the whole Omniverse series #2- I really wish they made a continuation of the series with Ben, Gwen and Kevin exploring the galaxy like they hinted at the end of Omniverse #3 I think the time travel and whole time war arc was the best arc in Omniverse. #4 in the reboot series, I think Yuri Lowenthal voicing Vilgax was pure genius
Hot take: One of the worst aspects of Omniverse is how little a lot of the aliens appear across the 80 episode runtime. Stinkfly, Chromastone, Swampfire, Ripjaws, Lodestar, Brainstorm, Echo Echo, are all examples of aliens that were barely ever used, not to mention a lot of ones introduced later on like Gutrot, Atomix and Whampire feel like completely wasted potential. But no, gotta have another scene of Ben using Four Arms or Humongousaur
Hot Take: The Rooters arc is good. Aside from the retcon, it is a very well-written story, the darkest plotline of Omniverse, and is very much a story tied to the characters while still maintaining the feel of the series. People just need to give it a chance. Also, about the retcon: I prefer Kevin as a mutant instead of an alien because it's more interesting. But I think OV's retcon was unnecessary because retconning a retcon just caused more mess. It is one of the three retcons that makes no sense anyway. (The others are Plumbers retcon in AF and that garbage planet named Primus)
I was gonna disagree with you for a second until you made it clear that you were viewing the arc separate from the retcon. I think the arc itself is nice and well written in story, but the retcon was terribly written/explained and just made it more confusing. The show has retconned other retcons better than this but it was such an unbelievable reach. I can’t look past the retcon itself because it pulls me out of the story completely. But the stakes of it and the entertainment and mystery of it, it’s still enough to get you invested and feel what the characters feel. I think the arc could’ve used at least one more episode for being such an important story arc in the lore.
The rooters arc was supposed to be very dark and mature. However it wasn't shown it that way. Plus which plummers retcon you are talking about in af? Also Primus was an epic retcon.
@@neeljavia2965 primus was fucking trash. One of the worst episodes of the entire franchise. Plummer retcon was that at first they were a closely knit team made by humans against alien forces, kinda like the SCP police but in af they retconned it to be a intergalactic police force founded be galvans and humans being only a small part of it.
Hmmm, i don’t know its just kind of hard to separate the story of that arc from all its implications because its really not just one retcon but like 3-4. Without it I just feels like a lot of character aren’t acting quite right. I probably need to watch it again.
Hot Take: Alien Force was far too quick to establish the status quo of its group dynamic. Stuff like adding kevin to the team as a good guy and the blooming relationship between gwen and kevin needed a longer stretch of time to be believeable.
@@robin2117 I mean, he *did* spend five years in another Dimension, that's time enough to cool down a tiny bit and grow, but I agree: His turn from reluctant ally to teammate and being attracted to Gwen happened too quickly for my taste.
"Ben 10 VS. The Negative 10" could've been better if they developed Cooper more, had more focus on the villains and their cooperation, included villains like Dr. Victor and Kevin, not include the sub-plot of Ben and Gwen fighting over a ticket, and made the villain defeat much more satisfying then the Upchuck thing.
For another of my hot takes, I feel like Ben's girlfriend in Omniverse could have worked if they established that she had changed from OG and was sorry for wanting to make Ben like a pet. To show that she had changed. I feel like it could have been a really cute arch for her, it would give her something to do in Omniverse, and it would be a good way for people to like her. I love the idea of Ben's girlfriend to love both him and his alien forms, and sometimes in the show, it does work, unfortunately, in the actual show, that's not how it works and I am sad.
Hot take 1:Omniverse Azmuth is the best one he feels like a perfect balance between the previous two Hot take 2: The best alien force aliens are humungasour big chill and swampfire Hot take 3: The best omnitrix is the recalibrated one because it never gave Ben the wrong alien until season three when he and Kevin damaged it
Hot Take: I really like it when aliens have non-humanoid designs (eg. Stinkfly, Wildmutt, Brainstorm, etc) I think it adds a bunch of cool variety to the show.
Hot take- People overestimated brute strength aliens such as four arms and humungasoar. Like yeah they’re strong but won’t it be better to manipulate time or create black holes from ur own gravity?
Hot take: 1. Gwen's, and Charmcaster's magic is better in OV, and classic than in Alien force, and Ultimate Alien 2. Echo echo's wall of sound is one of the best moves Ben has ever done with his aliens 3. The omnitrix is secretly a troll in disguise 4. Goop is a really cool alien
I enjoy these hot take videos, and considering the hot takes I already sent I’m gonna think of some big ones: 1: I feel it’s extremely lame how Alien X is just strong enough to do basically anything, and while I liked the downside a bit with the agreement stuff removing that makes alien x just a lame desu ex machina 2: Ultimate Echo Echo shouldn’t have been just an ultimate alien and should’ve just replace normal echo echo 3: I really like how Atomix was done in OV making him have a weird announcer voice and superhero body 4: I feel Ben 10’s alien designs being primarily bipedal is pretty lame considering how making aliens could allow for some interesting and wild designs (ex: Stinkfly Wildvine OG)
Alien X as a whole is lame. The concept of God-like creatures controlling the universe isn't. But when you allow the main hero to be one of them, it's too far. Alien X should have simply never existed.
@@GoodMorningUSA1 I feel they should’ve made the limits a permanent thing, like it just feels like they removed the agreement thing in order to avoid writing stories where Ben needs to debate…without the restrictions Alien X just breaks any tension the story has
@@tylerr2016 Despite what the show tells us, Serena and Bellicus seem pretty easy to convince. So it isn't really a challenge either. I think UAF handled Alien X the best, because in those two shows combined, he was only used TWO times, and they were both big events. It wasn't until OV that he got fucky.
While I agree the old ben 10 logo looked cool, on your point about not understanding why it was changed it's actually quite simple to explain. The omnitrix in the zero is alot more easy to recognise as the ben 10 brand and that is key when marketing a show. It makes complete sense to change the logo to something that could be understood in a glance.
Fair enough, I just thought the black blobs were 'branding' enough. Most of the logos already have a pic of Ben beside em wearing the Omnitrix so that's all. But I totally understand why they did it.
That’s like having the “O”s in Pokémon’s Title look like pokeballs, or having the S in the classic Superman title design shaped like Superman’s Symbol. It’s unnecessary and not pleasing to look at.
Yes part 3!! 1) There weren’t enough Ultimates in Ultimate Alien. 2) We didn’t get enough Omniversal travel in Omniverse. 3) The best Vilgax is the Reboot Vilgax
Got some ideas for hot takes: -Terraspin is the best new alien during the Agregor saga: Don't know why, I just love him. -Love the idea that Albedo returns with more Últimates in Omniverse. -Rook is the best thing that happened in Omniverse -All of Ben romances feel forced. -Everyone should at least give the Multi part episodes of Ben 10 Reboot a shot. -I would kill for having more Ben 10/Generator Rex crossovers.
@@suyinege8529 Yep. Plus how the situations made him adapt to fighting and lying. They should have shown him training in the plummer academy when ben, Gwen and Kevin were there to complete theirs. Like he was trying to learn to fight so he can defend his planet from future attacks and open his world to outsiders like the wolf guy in ana transil and the plummer in Ravana.
@@pokemonlorekeeper151 yes if he was that strong how did he lose to vilgax he also could have showed up in the episode where Ben is on trial for re-creating the universe
Idk if this is an unpopular opinion cuz I don’t see much people talk about it I but think Ken (Gwen’s brother not Ben 10k’s son) was one of the most poorly handled ideas in the show since he existed to only be a plot device and after that episode it’s like he never even existed which takes me out of it when rewatching Alien Force ESPECIALLY since it’s a pretty important episode.
I think that he should have showed up in more episodes. I mean, he's Gwen's brother, for crying out loud! And based on Ben and Gwen's description of him, he seemed like a really great character.
wildvine in terms in power wasnt the brightest but he sure was durable his healing factors are pretty broken when u think about it he had alot of plants powers body alterations and alot of stuff if ben used him to his full potential wildvine could've been a beast and sorry if my english is bad
Hot take: I don't like how every Omnitrix after the original looks easy to remove. The original series really played it up as being part of his body that can't be removed, while the others look like they could be slipped off, especially since two of them are just wristwatches.
Ben 10 Alien force is the best series, it had the best alien lineup, the highbreed were the best villains and they had interesting premise, it introduced tons of good characters, the only bad thing about it is the lackluster third season, also I like the alien force intro more than the original series intro .
Hot Take 1: Alien X is the most powerful character in fiction. Hot Take 2: All Ben 10 shows are equally good. The reboot is slightly lower. Hot Take 3: The classic continuity needs another continuation.
Hot take1: Khyber is the most underrated villian of the franchise.He has a cool and amazing personality. Hot take2: Ben shouldn't have tried to kill Kevin that makes him a dull character to me instead Ben should've tried to save kevin from his mutation. Hot take3: vilgax was highly nerfed in alien force.He got beaten at almost every episodes in the cheapest way.
vilgax was nerfed,Ben got buffed I do think that ben should have tryed to kill kevin Because kevin was hurting a lot of people also khyber is SOOOO underrated
Hot take 1: Ben 10 is one the most powerful Character in all TV Shows/Anime. Hot take 2: There should be another New main Ben timeline *NOT REBOOT* TV show where Ben, Rook, Kevin and Gwen travel the Universe and goes on Adventures. (Which follows up what happened at the end of Omniverse) Hot take 3: Ben 10 Alien Force and Ultimate Alien Had the best Art Style out of the bunch but each show wins a certain category of it being good.
Hot Takes: #1. Omniverse was best at world building and arcs. UAF had some really dull arcs and its world building was a lot more hit or miss. In an effort to make the Ben 10 universe feel bigger UAF made it feel smaller and more boring. #2. The original series was the best show. UAF is amazing but over praised. #3. Rebooting Ben 10 was and still is a better idea then making a Ben 10k show. #4. The Ben 10 reboot and original series had some of the most creative fight scenes and uses of Ben's powers. UAF and Omniverse's fight scenes aren't nearly as good in comparison.
Omnivers and classic are most fun shows : alien force is best in continuous a story in 2 season : all ben 10 shows are underrated: ultimate alien is best for balancing everything: ultimate alien and omnivers are best in story and concept: many people like classic because its simple: ben 10 have problem that Ben doesn’t ben always fo for alien that could help him i nohw omintrix give him wrong alien but for example he’s don’t use upgrade against tecadon
Hot take: Retcons aside, the Rooters arc is one of the best in Omniverse, it offers great character development for Kevin and it even does some things better than the Ultimate Kevin arc (like Ben not immediately giving up on Kevin upon seeing him change sides)
Personally I'd like it if gwen and max in the reboot had something special to them instead of basically being the ones to tell ben about the moral of the episode
1. Bloxx is cool, the only problem is his color scheme. If he had a more "earthy" texture with stone blocks or something instead of Legos, no one would complain. 2. Every incarnation of Vilgax had one standout strength: OS had the best intimidation factor, AF had the coolest powers, UA had the best take on his relationship with Ben, OV had my favorite episode involving him (And Then There Were None/Was Ben), and the reboot has the most depth. 3. Omniverse by enlarge had the best "fillers"/episodes that aren't part of the main arc, since they tend to focus on Ben's established rogues gallery, rather than a lot of OS/UAF ones that'd just feature villains of the week.
Hot Take: Fasttrack is actually good. I understand that he is basically useless since Ben has faster aliens but that doesn’t mean he’s bad. His design is simple, but cool. His humanoid body makes his running scenes look superb since I love seeing speedsters like Quicksilver and the Flash running. And his voice fits his design. I don’t think he deserves the hate.
The classic series' alien designs were the best in my opinion. Higher detail overall but the black and white goes with pretty much everything, helped make the transformations more iconic than the naked ones in Af to UA and way better Omniverse with adding toxic green to aliens that already had solid color scheme Edit: Also not enough non-humanoid aliens as the series went on
Hot Takes: My opinions on All 5 Shows. Classic: It introduced us to the world of Ben 10, and Ben’s Adventures were always fun to watch and the OG Roster was great particularly Upgrade, XLR8 And Heatblast. And Grandpa Max Was undoubtedly the best character. Sure Ben and Gwens constant arguing was annoying and Ben was some times unbearable, you can kinda forgive that because they are just kids. Classic’s Storytelling was also great with Jess like “Framed” and “Ghostfreaked Out” The stories did have flaws but hey what show doesn’t. Alien Force: Ben’s Evolution from a hot headed brat to a responsible hero was great to experience. And Kevin was The funniest character with his perfect lines and his deliveries. And how he would always turn into a puppy dog when Gwen was involved, and Gwen was just as good as Ben and Kevin, acting as the voice of reason of the three. The AF Roster was great with aliens like Swampfire and Bigchill. And yes Season 3 was well... Something, it did have some good episodes like “Ghost Town” And “Above And Beyond”. And The hibreed were great main Villains. Ultimate Alien: While not as good as the previous 2 Shows, Ultimate Alien stands has its own merits. Like filler episodes being just as good as the story driven ones. Ben’s Ultimate Transformations were awesome Like Ultimate Swampfire and Ultimate Echo Echo, and despite not being used as much as I remember just the concept of bens aliens getting upgraded was so cool to me. And yes a lot of the aliens introduced in UA were just copies of old aliens like Fasttrack And Eatle I still enjoyed them. But my biggest problem with UA is of course the ending and not just because it was a massive waste of opportunity. I personally don’t like how the Forever Knights story was played. I would have preferred someone like Eon. Omniverse: Ok first of While i do think Omniverse’s sillier tone played a part in its down fall. I do still really enjoy the stories Omniverse told. The new aliens were pretty hit or miss with exemptions like Gravattack And Feedback. Malware was my favourite villain being a corrupted version of my favourite species and the Alternate Ben season was great (i don’t remember if it was season 6 or 7) and I love the ending with Ben rapidly morphing between aliens even if Fasttrack, Chamalien, Jetray and Spitter where missing. And I liked how Ben could Ben funny and serious. Reboot/Ben 10 (2016): I think the reboot got to much hate. I like how Ben and Gwen genuinely care for each other and aren’t constantly arguing. Kevin’s struggle with being a Ben Tennyson clone was interesting to watch. And I love the Omni-Enhancements, Omni-Kix and Omni-Naut upgrades I’m not a fan of what they did to upgrade but the other alien redesigns I can get behind even stinkfly. OverFlow, ShockRock And SlapBack where interesting alien concepts and Ben 10 Vs The Universe was one of my favourite movies from the Ben 10 Franchise. And those where my opinions on all 5 series. I think all of the series are good in some way. Thanks for reading. (sorry if I left a few things out)
Unpopular opinions: UAF Gwen's designs are kind off really bad. She looks nothing like the original Gwen. Heck, she doesn't even have her iconic cat symbol. Omniverse fixed all of those issues I've had, and me liking it better than the UAF ones, let alone liking it is an unpopular opinion as well. Ben wanting to kill Kevin right away is stupid. Let me explain why. He gets the idea of killing him as soon as he sees that guy that Kevin injured. And later in the season finale, Ben whispers Cooper his plan of CURING Kevin, then he proceeds to kill him right after. That's so dumb. Art style and visual wise, Omniverse is better than UAF. The main problem with UAF is that it had a combo of low budget and laziness (they couldn't even design aliens for Ben 10k). Most alien civilizations are composed of clones. Omniverse fixes that issue. While sometimes there are a few clones, it has a wide variety of background characters. And the main characters/aliens and so on are more detailed. Such as Kevin who looked like background character in UAF, even tho Kevin isn't exactly a main character in Omniverse. Some aliens even get animated particles on them (Alien X, Gutrot, Atomix). Backgrounds are impecably detailed too. Like the space backgrounds. The lighting is crisp as well. In the sound design department it's also better because they continue that trend from the original series of giving each alien their own unique sound effects. They're so cool and satisfying. (wouldn't call this one unpopular)
Don’t know if this is a hot take or not but Ripjaws is the worst alien in the classic series, he does jack all except for the Kracken and Underwater Hotel episodes, both of which are dull to me. The only time they were somewhat cool was when fused with Heatblast, even then, it was because of the underwater fire stuff
2:30 If they wanted the smoothies for the contimelia they should have made them to be skurd's vision and Ben sees grandpa max. Insta fix, both sides happy, at least I hope so.
Also I forgot to give my hot take. I believe that reboot Humungousaur is stronger than classic Humungousaur if they are the same age. Reboot Humungosaur has everything classic Humungousaur has plus a powerful Sockwave tail (and it has been confirmed he can grow but reboot ben doesn't know that).
Hot takes: - As a big bad antagonist Malware is my favorite (yes more than Vilgax.) His motives are understandable but don’t diminish his evilness while he has a great dynamic between ben and azmuth. Plus all his designs and abilities are super cool! Might’ve been different if alien force didn’t mess up vilgax’s character idk. - everyone harps on albedos first ultimatrix too much. Yes it had a lot of glitches but albedo had to built it in a CAVE! with a box of primitive human tools! While on the run from the plumbers…. _with hands he’s not even use too._ Cut the fellah some slack, his new one seems to work just fine anyway before azmuth gets his grubby hands on it. - isn’t it a little weird Ben never got a DNA sample for high breeds? Come to think of it, How come the omnitrix doesn’t go into scan mode for every alien that ben hasn’t unlocked that he encounters?
Hot Take: Ultimate Cannonbolt is one of the best ultimate aliens. He's the perfect mix between strength and appearance, and the most realistic ultimate alien. His abilites and attire don't change drastically like Ultimate Swamp Fire, Echo Echo, and Humongousaur, but the change isn't too subtle either, like Ultimate Rath(Omniverse), Wildmutt, and Big Chill.
Humungousaur and Four Arms are used a lot but they aren't "overused" as in they're used more than they need to. Humungousaur and Four Arms just have the most direct powers, the heavy hitters, so like they are useful in most situations.
Hot Takes : spitter is one of the most underrated aliens he only shows up once and was able to knock Kevin 11 over a couple of times, ball weevil is practically a copy in the sense of regurgitation
Hot Take: Swampfire only looked good in alien force and ultimate alien and the ultimate forms should have never been taken out except ultimate spider monkey that is the only ultimate alien that just looks dumb to me and ultimate canonbult should have been able to roll so fast he would catch on fire and have his body look more like he was covered in metal and battle scars to remind you he is based off a canon ball that people used a lot in wars
Hot Take: I like all the aliens from all the original timeline shows, because it provides a lot of fanbase fuel for cool ideas. Stuff like Gutrot, Eatle, the Ultimates, Lodestar, the five alien target's in Ultimate Alien, RATH, Brainstorm, Jetray, Big Chill, Swampfire, Heatblast, Echo Echo, Fourarms, Humungosaur, Daimondhead, Astrodactyl, Graymatter, Upchuck, Atomix, Arctiguana, Chamalien, Bullfrag, XLR8, Upgrade, and the Anur System aliens are all great, and honestly a scan of a Highbreed, Khyber's species, the marshmallow species (I forget their name), Argit's species, a Llopen (slush puppy to clarify if I spelled that wrong), or Vilgax's species (done in the reboot interestingly enough) would have been awesome in the OG timeline, among tons of other aliens even in the many backgrounds of all series. I actually also find validity in the joke aliens of the series -eapecially Omniverse - because even Walkatrout is slippery, The Worst is invincible, Molestache has some power in his facial hair despite the silliness, Toepick has the ugly fright powers, Crashhopper has a decent mobility, Kickin' Hawk just is pretty cool (though I love birds, plus he is an improvement over Liam), Whampire is probably the most potentially dangerous of the Anur System species (and Ben is crucial to their survival if you think about it for long enough), Atomix is literally a dork superhero but I find that endearing because Ben is kind of a dork already so the ham is real, Gutrot actually has the more nasally dork side and is very versatile despite his minor reduction to a fart joke, Ball Weevil is probably one of the physically weaker aliens that Ben has used a lot, Pesky Dust is low-key broken despite the frail body, Astrodactyl is an interesting example of having more than one sentient lifeform in a system (without counting Anur because the fantasy monster mash gimmick basically necessitates multiple monster types) especially due to even our planet having Dolphins and whales and Crows and Octopus being comparable to young human children in intelligence, the improvements in design to Shocksquatch and Jury Rigg are amazing, Nanomech is slept on because people forget he can mess with machinery and is also a very hard to attack or track target due to being small, Bloxx is one of the most flexible aliens, Feedback is generally a decent alien (though overexposed of course), and seems to at least have a niche aside from being electric based because of his ability to absorb and release instead of just releasing (plus Ben feeling whole with Feedback might have been a callback to Ben's Anodite heritage with energy control, but that is a theory), Fast Track only sucks because XLR8 came first, otherwise he is generally fine (plus naturally probably lives longer than the two weeks of a Kineceleran), Spitter would have been good enough for an acid alien if Goop wasn't a thing after, and Spidermonkey is both a clever pun on the Earth species, and also was one alien far deserving of his Ultimate just based on the boost in abilities alone. Ditto being voiced by Yakko wasn't just Omniverse, either, if I recall he was also in Classic.
Hot take for me, even though I don't know how the lot of people feel about Rooke from Omniverse but I like him and is a great character and partner to Ben
The ultimate alien concept was mostly worthless as most ultimate aliens (canonbolt, waybig, grey matter) just looked like shit and didn’t add any cool features thus I feel like it was a shallow marketing gimmick to try and make ultimate alien stand out from alien force Four arms and stink flys designs after classic just got worse and worse (reboot four arms was fine tho, wish I could say the same for stink fly) Upgrades color scheme was better in the reboot Omniverse’s new aliens are overhated and a fair amount of them are pretty good/alright but get lumped in with the shitty ones
I have to disagree on Waybig, him just getting way bigger was simple but satisfying, also I liked that he looked more like Ultraman. Grey matter was absolutely awful, deserved a lot better
@@lightningbulb227 I can see the appeal of ultimate waybig but I personally just hated his design idk something about it looked off to me (still nice of them to try and throw in an ultraman type of design tho even if I didn’t like it)
My thing about upgrade's color scheme is that species having a similar color scheme to the omnitrix is nice because it conveys their similar origin of being made by azmuth. Don't know if that even is their origin in reboot, so it could be null and void anyway.
Hot Take: In terms of fantastical adventures and Story telling, OV takes the cake. Don't get me wrong, I love the themes in UA and AF like Stockholm syndrome, maturity, and that Chamalian dude literally begging for death after finding out his family died (Jesus) But Ben LITERALLY traveling back to the beginning of the universe just to witness it's own creation, or Ben prime being wiped out from a time bomb so alternate Ben has to travel back in time and cause the events from the classic series. Or smaller events, like Gravattack creating a black hole due to accidentally warping space and time, or Ben literally recreating the universe, and later going on trial for doing so just for them to canonically explain the artstyle changes, and then break out into an epic Alien X battle. I could keep going on, but yeah. OV just had so many cool stories and plotlines. Also, Reboot Ben 10 could have been way better if 1. They treated season 1 like they did seasons 2-4, and 2, if they either went all in with new aliens or just re-tooled the old ones. As it stands Slapback is the only really interesting NEW Alien in his arsenal and we all know Overflow is just a cleverly renamed Water Hazard
Hot take : Lodestar was underused in omniverse you will say but hey they have Gravattack in ov that is more stronger than lodestar so why they used ditto more than 1 time while they haved echo echo? why eatle was used more than 1 time while he is weaker than upchuck? I want justice to my lodestar. Hot take 2 : giving aliens like nrg,clockwork,chamalien... accent is funny but stupid Hot take 3 : bashmouth is interesting alien his powers are similar to Wolverine but nobody talk about him.
Hot Take 1: Ultimate Cannonbolt & Wildmutt doesn't look too bad imo. Perhaps some things should've been added Hot take 2: I prefer Ben & Rook over Ben, Gwen & Kevin Hot Take 3: I don’t like Julie and Ben’s relationship. I feel like it was doomed from the beginning Hot Take 4: I kind of enjoy/like mistransformations when they are not overused. Hot Take 5: I personally feel like Ditto is one of the worst aliens to use due to his massive weakness. He could be good for puzzles but in other situations? Nah Hot Take 6: I am personally fine with all of the mistransformations in Season 1 of OV. To me, it was a way of showing that Ben was back to square one and that he had to work his way back up again.
Hot Take I've been thinking about a lot recently: Fasttrack can be a more optimal choice than XLR8 in some situations, due to aspects like having feet without wheels, hands instead of triangle claws, and not having a big long tail
Hot take : Ben 10 always skips on "epic final battles" and uses bullshit shortcuts. See , kevin killing aggregor in like 2 seconds and ben killing dagon in 2 seconds with a sword.
Ultimate Alien should have gone harder and more out there in terms of the ultimate alien's designs. More than half of them are just pallet swaps of their original counterparts, like Big Chill and Cannonbolt, but then you have the ones like Swampfire and Echo Echo that have very different designs from their baseline counterparts to really help them stick out. Basically they should have gone the Echo Echo and Swampfire route for more Ultimate Alien designs.
Imma give a practical take. Vengeance of vilgax was good until diamondhead came out. People say the diamondhead moment was great or that it was the best moment of season 3 but that moment was what ruined the entire af, and in turn ultimate alien for most people. Vilgax getting beaten by fucking diamondhead was atrocious. It also makes no sense of how earlier vilgax was in a completely different league from fully grown up bounty hunter tetrax, while the 10-alien powered vilgax got beat by a adolescent diamondhead. I still don't get it, why didn't they went with waybig defeating vilgax again. We haven't really seen waybig "fight" upto that point, just him destroying stuff. Vilgax is supposed to be a way powerful being at that moment, darksied's avatar level strong. Vilgax has issues of how Ben throwing him into space was cheating. Now both of them at their prime, and waybig infact defeating him after a huge fight, blood and bruises and all, he finally accepts ben as his true rival and also helps give the audience closure of Ben properly defeating him with his most powerful alien, not throwing him into space or erasing him or something. That would in turn make the series much better by making vilgax an actual threat for some time.
Hot Take: Ultimate Big Chill never made sense. It's the same level of Ultimate Cannonbolt for me. Hot Take 2: I really liked the Omni Kix armor from the reboot. My favorite upgrade would be omni kix cannonbolt Hot Take 3: I really hated how Ben tends to go for heavy hitters rather than either improvising or using useless aliens to the best of their abilities Hot Take 4: I really hated reboot Ben's arsenal. Most of them really seemed like just brawn only aliens like Rath, Four Arms, and Humongasaur
Hot Take #1: The Alien Force omnitrix is on the Omniverse genuinely is the best for everything shown in the series Hot Take #2: The Omniverse Hoodie is better than the Alien Force jacket, and it looks even more comfortable Hot take #3: Omniverse's omnitrix selection interface is the best of the 3 watches. Both the touch and the ring with the faces of the aliens
@@neeljavia2965 That's stupid, Ben could choose aliens while running, falling or jumping, he just didn't notice what was selected. And that is an error that I had even in UAF
Hot take: Ghostfreak is more powerful than the show makes it seem and if Ben used it more he could be able to solve most problems with ease. He can turn intangible where he is basically immune to almost everything, in the OG series it was shown that he can makes his hands phase through people and attack their internal organs (episode Ghostfreaked Out, he did it to Thumbskull). Its basically an unstoppable force that can ignore any defense you have, as well as your attacks and not even walls can stop, nor gravity or traps since he can fly. I don't know why he isn't considered one of Ben's most powerful aliens, right up there with Alien X or Way Big.
Omniverse is my favorite Ben 10 series always has been my favorite and I think gutrot has a nice personality but that might be because he’s my second favorite alien
Hot Takes I think: 1. Ben's immaturity is kinda realistic and in my opinion it makes the serious moments better 2. Now in a video by The Ink Tank that stated 5 ways the reboot improved the original, (which is quite old) they mentioned that Gwen and Ben not arguing much was a good change. I think it wasn't because it makes the moments where they work together just that much better
I think kind of one of the things that makes Toepick so great is that he doesn't really talk he doesn't have much of a personality, but he's just so intimidating It kind of is his personalityI love it.
I’ve always thought it was annoying in ultimate alien and alien force every time Ben changed into Alien he always gotta announce what he transformed into
Hot Take #1: I think the Nemetrix was the Best (if not only good) concept for Omniverse. I think if it was introduced in the earlier shows, it could have been more acknowledged Hot Take #2: I thought reboot Kevin having his own omnitrix (Antitrix) was stupid the more I thought of it. But I think the reason the execs gave him one was because of Kevin's already Murky Origins from the other shows. Hot Take #3: Escape from Aggregor is one of my personal favorite episodes of ben 10. Mostly it's because said episode is just two VAs (Dee Bradley Baker and John DiMaggio) talking to themselves and each other. If you have a Great range on vocals, it's pretty Fun. Also, are going to review on Thundercats Roar? Because I (like everyone else) hated the show (despite not even being a Thundercats fan). But there are some decent episodes
Hot take: clockwork is bens second strongest transformation since eon was able to vaporize waybig in ua and clockwork has the same powers as eon he should be stronger than waybig
Hot Take: Ben 10: Alien Force is the best show in the whole franchise, period. While the third season isn’t the best, the first 2 carry the show to levels never seen before on a season wide scale, the more mature themes make the characters struggles feel more human and you don’t always know if there will be a happy ever after. Classic has to go next, from the fun nature of the show to the incredible ability to go from a comedic episode to a more serious one made the shows always enjoyable to watch. Thirdly is Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. This shows caries the same mature themes and great character development of Alien Force, but I feel the episodes where not as good on average, however still a good watch, and the finale was a bit anti-climactic, especially the battle with Vilgax. Despite this the show is still a great time. Afterwards is Ben 10: Omniverse. I fell the animation is quite nice, but I personally prefer UAF, and the story was done incredibly, showing us the Contimeela ship in the first season and bringing it back for the finale, genius, and I love the alternative dimensions and time travel aspect, the show really plays into Ben 10’s more sci-fi nature and it works great. Might I add that these 4 shows are really close together on my list and there all amazing. Finally we have the reboot. Need I say more.
Hot take: I actually like alien X he has a cool design and a good weakness. but if they do continue the Omniverse I get making him back to being a cosmic paper weight again. hot take 2: Walkatrout is stronger the alien X
Walkatrout, the Worst, Molestache, and other seemingly “useless” aliens aren’t as bad as people think and it’s cool that there are aliens without significant powers, much like how a human transformation would be
I also have a few more hot takes. Number 1: The running joke that Ben gets the wrong aliens will NEVER get old. And characters in the shows bringing it up makes it funny. Number 2: I loved that some of the aliens voices had special features to it. More in omniverse: Stinkfly always sounded like he was congested, Feedback and Shocksquach had an electric popping or buzzing whenever they spoke. Heatblast sounded like flames, or charcoal crackling, and so on.
Hot Take 1: I feel Ben 10 is at its best with Ben having a relatively small pool of Aliens to choose from that are somewhat specialized and have more defined weaknesses. Like, scenes with Stinkfly in the classic series are more tense than say Jet Ray in AF because Stinkfly isn't as fast as Jet Ray or XLR8 or can breathe in space or shoot lasers etc. So when Ben transforms into him, he has to work more and around his weaknesses to succeed and can still naturally fail like if he gets his wings wet. Ditto has the risk that if 1 clone dies, the rest die as well so Ben can't be reckless while Echo Echo can be as reckless as he wants and it's cool if some clones die. If you give Ben lots and lots of aliens, then some will start to feel redundant. Why use Stinkfly, Ripjaws, FastTrack, Terraspin or XLR8 when you have Jetray that can do the job for all of them? Why use Articguana, Amphibian or Ghostfreak when you have Big Chill? Why use Chromostone, NRG, Eye Guy, BenViktor when you have Feedback? These Aliens will get less screentime and it feels odd whenever Ben transforms into them over better choices. Some Aliens may also be too overspecialized like Bloxx. Omniverse also makes Ben way too powerful and OP in a lot of places. Hot Take 2: Ultimate Alien should have just been called "Alien Force Seasons 4-6". UA has a very similar tone, themes, visual style, structure and the same creative theme to AF. Hot Take 3: The Ultimatrix wasn't a good addition from a storytelling perspective. Evolving Aliens just makes the standard Alien more powerful rather than requiring Ben to use his powers more creatively. Ultimate Humungosaur is just a more powerful Humungosaur and has a gun. Ben doesn't need to use him that much differently to how he uses him normally. Same for Swampfire, Big Chill and Cannonbolt. This means that many fights just go with Ben fighting enemies normally then choosing to go Ultimate to win quickly. Which asks the question why he doesn't just use it instantly then?
@@comicbookking3446 A lot better. Recall that Aliens like Jetray have so many positive qualities that it reduces the tension whenever Ben turns into him. It also means Ben can't have more dynamic or specialized action scenes or events since Jetray doesn't have any weaknesses to to tie the scene around. Like, remember back in Classic when Ben would turn into Ripjaws and would have to keep finding ways to keep Ripjaws hydraded while fighting enemies? That stuff was cool and is kinda lost with Jetray. Like, at the very least, give Jetray and co some severe weakness to compensate. Like they're super frail so if Ben even takes one hit, he's forced to switch back so Jetray becomes high risk/high reward while others like Stinkfly are more consistently useful.
Hot Take: Ben’s character traits from Alien Force season 3 would have been perfect for Season 1 of Alien Force. The forced immaturity on teenage Ben would have to drastically change due to the seriousness of the Highbreed arc and him thinking Grandpa Max was dead. And for Cartoon Network, kids who watch and love younger Ben due to his bratty persona would probably prefer the logical development of an immature to mature Ben in season 1 and 2 of Alien Force, rather than just “randomly changing” his entire persona from egotistical to polite which they decided to do irl, which basically disconnected season 4 of the classic series to the 1st season of Alien Force. I believe all of this would have boosted viewership for Alien Force, meaning season 3 wouldn’t be tampered with.
Hot take 1: the reboot is not bad, people say it is because it doesn’t fellow story and it is a lot cartoony and silly but it’s not BAD at all IMO Hot take 2: I did NOT like how Alien x was BARLEY used in AF and UA I understand how hard it is to get control of alien x but Ben should have asked for permanent control of alien x whenever he transforms into him Hot take 3: I do NOT like that they brong back humugasaur, rath, and jetray in the reboot and I did not like Omni kix armor “ on humugasaur it looks okay” but the reboot is still not bad. and I also do NOT like Dee Bradley Baker voicing rath it just sounds like dee is holding back the screaming John DiMaggio did (which I loved BTW)
I really love season 1 and 2 Ben he mature so much and yes he has a personality we see Ben constantly joke and act goofy a good bit in the first two seasons just wasn't over use like in s3 and ominverse
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Hot Take: Ben 10 console games are amazing!
Hot take: Omniverse should have ended in Ben's 18th birthday.
Hot take 2: The reason why Humongousaur never used his size shifting powers in Omniverse is because the writers didn't brought it up during production.
Albedo shouldn’t have come back in Omniverse
Hot take : i love the reboot, i think It's fresh New take for Ben 10 into the New generation, i really like the omni-kix armors
Kai green gets too much hate, She was a ten-year-old with a fascination with Navajo Werewolf culture aka skinwalkers. Ten-year-olds tend to say things and regret them later example for Ben.
"I don't like being famous between you and me I whish I have my secret identity back"
The writers did her dirty.
The idea of echo echo just screaming into a phone is hilarious.
What's louder, Echo Echo yelling into a phone or two phones on the same call close together?
@@wyalex015 2 phones, same call
Wait isn't echo's echo's scream should break the phone
it was also not how speakers work
It’s basically a Twitter argument.
Hot Take: There should have been more episodes of aliens doing their own thing either intentionally or by instinct like Ghostfreak and Big Chill.
Oh, extension to this, the omnitrix was originally a device to promote peace among species, to let anyone walk a mile in another alien's shoes, so it would then naturally make sense for those instincts to shine through for a better understanding. Think ectoneurites are all dicks? Be one for a bit and see why. Think ampleplexians are needlessly dumb? Assume one's form and see how foggy your thinking gets. Now that I'm thinking about it, more of that would really help sell the concept of that backstory.
I’m fine with just those two
It would’ve been too much filler
Hot Take: Ben's role as a character and the role of the Omnitrix in universe are really really diminished when Ben has access to fusions or ultimate forms. The themes of the whole franchise shine brightest when Ben sticks to just transforming into different beings from across the Galaxy.
- The main reason for the creation of the Omnitrix is to allow it's user to walk a mile in the shoes of any other being in the Galaxy.
- Whoever bears the Omnitrix can live the life of any other sentient being and, as such, they become a symbol that unites all species.
- Ben can be a member of any planet, or any alien race, and as such he is a living force for peace between all beings.
- The ultimatrix and the biomnitrix give Ben a power boost and are good for punching things, not to mention they're good at selling toys, but if Ben is turning into artificial beings that don't actually exist in the universe, there's no point for Ben to be turning into aliens. They're just lab created monsters.
- When Ben uses made up forms created by some device, he is no longer a living symbol of unity and the Omnitrix loses all it's thematic value. The coolest thing about Ben having the Omnitrix is that he understands the value of every transformation inside it. Every form matters because every form is a real alien race somewhere in the universe. Ben doesn't just become a Tokustar or a Celestialsapien every battle to win it easily, because he knows the value of each transformation.
--- Ultimate forms and fusions are cool, but they're not Ben 10. They don't capture the importance of the Omnitrix from a thematic perspective and they paint Ben as a hero who hits things hard, not a living representation of peace and understanding who has the capacity to unite all life.
Until Ben like HUMUNGOUSAUR but yeah I agree with ur points
I disagree with you.
If you see the evolutionary function of ultimatrix and biomatrix can be used for good purposes too.
Like reviving dead or extinct species.
Helping many species survive an extinction like Ben did with the Hybrids.
Plus it can create new species like nanomac and spread sentient lifeforms around the universe.
I disagree with you with some the reason ben doesn't straight up become waybig and instantly win is becuz thta ben wants to give the minimum damage to the city
second:ben does not give every alien the praise they worth of especially in OV which is my favorite series ben insults a LOT of its aliens its even named it one of its aliens "the worst"
That “I’m one of everybody” line from ultimate is probably my favorite in the series.
I guess that’s why Kevin was such a good foil for Ben whenever he was a villain, turning himself into a monster of combined powers
To be fair the omnitrix, for a symbol of peace, sure had a lot of already built in mechanics designed for combat
Gwen was constantly and illogically nerfed throughout the entire series because she's as strong as Ben, if not stronger, and they didn't want her to outshine Ben. We got to see her cook an entire army of DNAliens on her own but a couple of episodes later she somehow can't fight a bunch of forever knights on her own
Kevin was also significantly weaker, but at least there was a logical explanation for that. If anything, Gwen should be stronger than she was in classic.
I don't agree that gwen is stronger than ben because alien x .But she is strong and she is nerfed through out the series.
@@swanthezone6182 And other aliens like Feedback who can absorb her mana.
@@JayRedGear I am not sure about feedback absorbing mana but i guess it could?
@@JayRedGear I don’t believe Feedback could absorb mana, I believe he’s only been shown to absorb technological-energy, where Chromastone has been shown to be able to absorb Mana and/or light energy
Hot Take/Opinions:
#1 After rewatching the series and finishing the rewatch a few weeks ago, I think the young ben episodes in Omniverse were some of the best in the whole Omniverse series
#2- I really wish they made a continuation of the series with Ben, Gwen and Kevin exploring the galaxy like they hinted at the end of Omniverse
#3 I think the time travel and whole time war arc was the best arc in Omniverse.
#4 in the reboot series, I think Yuri Lowenthal voicing Vilgax was pure genius
That last one is definitely not a hot take.
Hot take: One of the worst aspects of Omniverse is how little a lot of the aliens appear across the 80 episode runtime.
Stinkfly, Chromastone, Swampfire, Ripjaws, Lodestar, Brainstorm, Echo Echo, are all examples of aliens that were barely ever used, not to mention a lot of ones introduced later on like Gutrot, Atomix and Whampire feel like completely wasted potential. But no, gotta have another scene of Ben using Four Arms or Humongousaur
He didn't use them that much tho
@@deadaccount1.57 That is my point
Rip JetRay
Hot Take: The Rooters arc is good. Aside from the retcon, it is a very well-written story, the darkest plotline of Omniverse, and is very much a story tied to the characters while still maintaining the feel of the series. People just need to give it a chance. Also, about the retcon: I prefer Kevin as a mutant instead of an alien because it's more interesting. But I think OV's retcon was unnecessary because retconning a retcon just caused more mess. It is one of the three retcons that makes no sense anyway. (The others are Plumbers retcon in AF and that garbage planet named Primus)
I was gonna disagree with you for a second until you made it clear that you were viewing the arc separate from the retcon. I think the arc itself is nice and well written in story, but the retcon was terribly written/explained and just made it more confusing. The show has retconned other retcons better than this but it was such an unbelievable reach. I can’t look past the retcon itself because it pulls me out of the story completely. But the stakes of it and the entertainment and mystery of it, it’s still enough to get you invested and feel what the characters feel. I think the arc could’ve used at least one more episode for being such an important story arc in the lore.
The rooters arc was supposed to be very dark and mature.
However it wasn't shown it that way.
Plus which plummers retcon you are talking about in af?
Also Primus was an epic retcon.
@@neeljavia2965 primus was fucking trash. One of the worst episodes of the entire franchise. Plummer retcon was that at first they were a closely knit team made by humans against alien forces, kinda like the SCP police but in af they retconned it to be a intergalactic police force founded be galvans and humans being only a small part of it.
@@gamingapocalypse7973 the episode was trash. But I actually rather like the idea of a primus as a in universe planet. The place looked cool.
Hmmm, i don’t know its just kind of hard to separate the story of that arc from all its implications because its really not just one retcon but like 3-4. Without it I just feels like a lot of character aren’t acting quite right. I probably need to watch it again.
Hot Take: Alien Force was far too quick to establish the status quo of its group dynamic. Stuff like adding kevin to the team as a good guy and the blooming relationship between gwen and kevin needed a longer stretch of time to be believeable.
Yeah they shouldve held out on adding kevin to the team for like an alien force
Thats what they were going to do but cartoon network changed it
Yes Kevin was willing to kill Gwen in OS but in AF he's suddenly good and doesn't want to kill people
@@robin2117 I mean, he *did* spend five years in another Dimension, that's time enough to cool down a tiny bit and grow, but I agree: His turn from reluctant ally to teammate and being attracted to Gwen happened too quickly for my taste.
"Ben 10 VS. The Negative 10" could've been better if they developed Cooper more, had more focus on the villains and their cooperation, included villains like Dr. Victor and Kevin, not include the sub-plot of Ben and Gwen fighting over a ticket, and made the villain defeat much more satisfying then the Upchuck thing.
And if it was Feedback at the end, instead of Upchuck
For another of my hot takes, I feel like Ben's girlfriend in Omniverse could have worked if they established that she had changed from OG and was sorry for wanting to make Ben like a pet. To show that she had changed. I feel like it could have been a really cute arch for her, it would give her something to do in Omniverse, and it would be a good way for people to like her. I love the idea of Ben's girlfriend to love both him and his alien forms, and sometimes in the show, it does work, unfortunately, in the actual show, that's not how it works and I am sad.
Hot take 1:Omniverse Azmuth is the best one he feels like a perfect balance between the previous two
Hot take 2: The best alien force aliens are humungasour big chill and swampfire
Hot take 3: The best omnitrix is the recalibrated one because it never gave Ben the wrong alien until season three when he and Kevin damaged it
Hot Take: I really like it when aliens have non-humanoid designs (eg. Stinkfly, Wildmutt, Brainstorm, etc) I think it adds a bunch of cool variety to the show.
Hot take- People overestimated brute strength aliens such as four arms and humungasoar. Like yeah they’re strong but won’t it be better to manipulate time or create black holes from ur own gravity?
Hot take:
1. Gwen's, and Charmcaster's magic is better in OV, and classic than in Alien force, and Ultimate Alien
2. Echo echo's wall of sound is one of the best moves Ben has ever done with his aliens
3. The omnitrix is secretly a troll in disguise
4. Goop is a really cool alien
I enjoy these hot take videos, and considering the hot takes I already sent I’m gonna think of some big ones:
1: I feel it’s extremely lame how Alien X is just strong enough to do basically anything, and while I liked the downside a bit with the agreement stuff removing that makes alien x just a lame desu ex machina
2: Ultimate Echo Echo shouldn’t have been just an ultimate alien and should’ve just replace normal echo echo
3: I really like how Atomix was done in OV making him have a weird announcer voice and superhero body
4: I feel Ben 10’s alien designs being primarily bipedal is pretty lame considering how making aliens could allow for some interesting and wild designs (ex: Stinkfly Wildvine OG)
Nice!
Alien X as a whole is lame. The concept of God-like creatures controlling the universe isn't. But when you allow the main hero to be one of them, it's too far. Alien X should have simply never existed.
@@GoodMorningUSA1 I feel they should’ve made the limits a permanent thing, like it just feels like they removed the agreement thing in order to avoid writing stories where Ben needs to debate…without the restrictions Alien X just breaks any tension the story has
@@tylerr2016 Despite what the show tells us, Serena and Bellicus seem pretty easy to convince. So it isn't really a challenge either. I think UAF handled Alien X the best, because in those two shows combined, he was only used TWO times, and they were both big events.
It wasn't until OV that he got fucky.
The fourth is 100% true
While I agree the old ben 10 logo looked cool, on your point about not understanding why it was changed it's actually quite simple to explain. The omnitrix in the zero is alot more easy to recognise as the ben 10 brand and that is key when marketing a show. It makes complete sense to change the logo to something that could be understood in a glance.
Fair enough, I just thought the black blobs were 'branding' enough. Most of the logos already have a pic of Ben beside em wearing the Omnitrix so that's all. But I totally understand why they did it.
That’s like having the “O”s in Pokémon’s Title look like pokeballs, or having the S in the classic Superman title design shaped like Superman’s Symbol. It’s unnecessary and not pleasing to look at.
Yes part 3!!
1) There weren’t enough Ultimates in Ultimate Alien.
2) We didn’t get enough Omniversal travel in Omniverse.
3) The best Vilgax is the Reboot Vilgax
RB vilgax being the best vilgax is not a hot take. Its very popular among the fandom
@@ryangoulbourne4666 oh really?
Got some ideas for hot takes:
-Terraspin is the best new alien during the Agregor saga: Don't know why, I just love him.
-Love the idea that Albedo returns with more Últimates in Omniverse.
-Rook is the best thing that happened in Omniverse
-All of Ben romances feel forced.
-Everyone should at least give the Multi part episodes of Ben 10 Reboot a shot.
-I would kill for having more Ben 10/Generator Rex crossovers.
I agree with your opinion about terraspin completely. He has this chill vibe around him which makes me love him
@@suyinege8529 Yep.
Plus how the situations made him adapt to fighting and lying.
They should have shown him training in the plummer academy when ben, Gwen and Kevin were there to complete theirs.
Like he was trying to learn to fight so he can defend his planet from future attacks and open his world to outsiders like the wolf guy in ana transil and the plummer in Ravana.
Julie and Ben didn't feel forced.
They were the best.
*Y E S* on the Ben 10/generator Rex one, both shows have so much untapped potential and the interactions between Ben and Rex were amazing
@@neeljavia2965 Honestly, I was mostly thinking of Omniverse where everyone wanted a piece of Ben. Still, UA treat her horribly. Poor girl.
Atomix was underused for such a powerful alien he should’ve been in the show at least a couple times even though he was only in 3 episodes
He legit created a mini sun and took out Albedo's Ultimate Spider Monkey in one attack but he lost to Malware in like one attack as well
@@pokemonlorekeeper151 yes if he was that strong how did he lose to vilgax he also could have showed up in the episode where Ben is on trial for re-creating the universe
@@davelevinbook2013 I don't think he had Atomix at that time and the point was he needed something to rival the other celestial sapien
Idk if this is an unpopular opinion cuz I don’t see much people talk about it I but think Ken (Gwen’s brother not Ben 10k’s son) was one of the most poorly handled ideas in the show since he existed to only be a plot device and after that episode it’s like he never even existed which takes me out of it when rewatching Alien Force ESPECIALLY since it’s a pretty important episode.
I think that he should have showed up in more episodes. I mean, he's Gwen's brother, for crying out loud! And based on Ben and Gwen's description of him, he seemed like a really great character.
@@KindaCringe404 Not seeing the cool mobile ever again was the biggest offense
Hot Take: wildvine and ghostfreak were heavily underused in the OS although when you think about it they had pretty broken abilities
I think Wildvine is kinda weak.
wildvine in terms in power wasnt the brightest but he sure was durable his healing factors are pretty broken when u think about it he had alot of plants powers body alterations and alot of stuff if ben used him to his full potential wildvine could've been a beast and sorry if my english is bad
Hot take: I don't like how every Omnitrix after the original looks easy to remove. The original series really played it up as being part of his body that can't be removed, while the others look like they could be slipped off, especially since two of them are just wristwatches.
Ben 10 Alien force is the best series, it had the best alien lineup, the highbreed were the best villains and they had interesting premise, it introduced tons of good characters, the only bad thing about it is the lackluster third season, also I like the alien force intro more than the original series intro .
Hot Take 1: Alien X is the most powerful character in fiction.
Hot Take 2: All Ben 10 shows are equally good. The reboot is slightly lower.
Hot Take 3: The classic continuity needs another continuation.
Hot take: Omniverse should have ended in Ben's 18th birthday.
The second one isn't a hot take, it's a literal fact
yeah but then we would have to have ben 23 turn 15 and albedo have to turn 12 or 13 since he became a kid
Hot take1: Khyber is the most underrated villian of the franchise.He has a cool and amazing personality.
Hot take2: Ben shouldn't have tried to kill Kevin that makes him a dull character to me instead Ben should've tried to save kevin from his mutation.
Hot take3: vilgax was highly nerfed in alien force.He got beaten at almost every episodes in the cheapest way.
vilgax was nerfed,Ben got buffed
I do think that ben should have tryed to kill kevin Because kevin was hurting a lot of people
also khyber is SOOOO underrated
Wait how does Ben trying to kill Kevin make him dull? Usually the trope is that the hero doesn’t kill
I agree with all of this. Khyber is my favorite of the Ben 10 villans, besides Animo.
Vilgax is the classic is at its peak of the villain. It's basically "choose any alien, you're gonna be beaten anyway"
@@farofa2843 I agree that Vilgax is the best Ben 10 villian, but he's massively overated past the OS
Hot take 1: Ben 10 is one the most powerful Character in all TV Shows/Anime.
Hot take 2: There should be another New main Ben timeline *NOT REBOOT* TV show where Ben, Rook, Kevin and Gwen travel the Universe and goes on Adventures.
(Which follows up what happened at the end of Omniverse)
Hot take 3: Ben 10 Alien Force and Ultimate Alien Had the best Art Style out of the bunch but each show wins a certain category of it being good.
@TurboAssGreaser1273 facts
they was going todo hot take 2 but it got canceled because of toy sales
Hot take 2 should have kai too.
Show her and Ben developing deep feelings for each other.
@@neeljavia2965 ngl I was gonna say Kai also would be really nice to see her apart of the Adventure too
@@omegajoex Yes
Hot Takes:
#1. Omniverse was best at world building and arcs. UAF had some really dull arcs and its world building was a lot more hit or miss. In an effort to make the Ben 10 universe feel bigger UAF made it feel smaller and more boring.
#2. The original series was the best show. UAF is amazing but over praised.
#3. Rebooting Ben 10 was and still is a better idea then making a Ben 10k show.
#4. The Ben 10 reboot and original series had some of the most creative fight scenes and uses of Ben's powers. UAF and Omniverse's fight scenes aren't nearly as good in comparison.
Omnivers and classic are most fun shows : alien force is best in continuous a story in 2 season : all ben 10 shows are underrated: ultimate alien is best for balancing everything: ultimate alien and omnivers are best in story and concept: many people like classic because its simple: ben 10 have problem that Ben doesn’t ben always fo for alien that could help him i nohw omintrix give him wrong alien but for example he’s don’t use upgrade against tecadon
Hot take: Retcons aside, the Rooters arc is one of the best in Omniverse, it offers great character development for Kevin and it even does some things better than the Ultimate Kevin arc (like Ben not immediately giving up on Kevin upon seeing him change sides)
Ben didn't gave upp on Kevin immediately in UA.
He did after he saw how he hurted innocents.
In OV Kevin was after Ben not others.
So Ben was chilled.
Hot take: Big chill is best of the alien force aliens and Omniverse design while bad didn’t ruin him
Personally I'd like it if gwen and max in the reboot had something special to them instead of basically being the ones to tell ben about the moral of the episode
1. Bloxx is cool, the only problem is his color scheme. If he had a more "earthy" texture with stone blocks or something instead of Legos, no one would complain.
2. Every incarnation of Vilgax had one standout strength: OS had the best intimidation factor, AF had the coolest powers, UA had the best take on his relationship with Ben, OV had my favorite episode involving him (And Then There Were None/Was Ben), and the reboot has the most depth.
3. Omniverse by enlarge had the best "fillers"/episodes that aren't part of the main arc, since they tend to focus on Ben's established rogues gallery, rather than a lot of OS/UAF ones that'd just feature villains of the week.
Hot Take: Fasttrack is actually good. I understand that he is basically useless since Ben has faster aliens but that doesn’t mean he’s bad. His design is simple, but cool. His humanoid body makes his running scenes look superb since I love seeing speedsters like Quicksilver and the Flash running. And his voice fits his design. I don’t think he deserves the hate.
The hate is simple: it's basically an XLR8 clone(but worse in design), and XLR8 is a fan favorite so....yeah, that's the simplest reason
The classic series' alien designs were the best in my opinion. Higher detail overall but the black and white goes with pretty much everything, helped make the transformations more iconic than the naked ones in Af to UA and way better Omniverse with adding toxic green to aliens that already had solid color scheme
Edit: Also not enough non-humanoid aliens as the series went on
Piers shouldn't have died/Had an actual death scene. I literally didn't realise he died until Kevin said he did in weapon 11.
Hot Takes: My opinions on All 5 Shows.
Classic: It introduced us to the world of Ben 10, and Ben’s Adventures were always fun to watch and the OG Roster was great particularly Upgrade, XLR8 And Heatblast. And Grandpa Max Was undoubtedly the best character. Sure Ben and Gwens constant arguing was annoying and Ben was some times unbearable, you can kinda forgive that because they are just kids. Classic’s Storytelling was also great with Jess like “Framed” and “Ghostfreaked Out” The stories did have flaws but hey what show doesn’t.
Alien Force: Ben’s Evolution from a hot headed brat to a responsible hero was great to experience. And Kevin was The funniest character with his perfect lines and his deliveries. And how he would always turn into a puppy dog when Gwen was involved, and Gwen was just as good as Ben and Kevin, acting as the voice of reason of the three. The AF Roster was great with aliens like Swampfire and Bigchill. And yes Season 3 was well... Something, it did have some good episodes like “Ghost Town” And “Above And Beyond”. And The hibreed were great main Villains.
Ultimate Alien: While not as good as the previous 2 Shows, Ultimate Alien stands has its own merits. Like filler episodes being just as good as the story driven ones. Ben’s Ultimate Transformations were awesome Like Ultimate Swampfire and Ultimate Echo Echo, and despite not being used as much as I remember just the concept of bens aliens getting upgraded was so cool to me. And yes a lot of the aliens introduced in UA were just copies of old aliens like Fasttrack And Eatle I still enjoyed them. But my biggest problem with UA is of course the ending and not just because it was a massive waste of opportunity. I personally don’t like how the Forever Knights story was played. I would have preferred someone like Eon.
Omniverse: Ok first of While i do think Omniverse’s sillier tone played a part in its down fall. I do still really enjoy the stories Omniverse told. The new aliens were pretty hit or miss with exemptions like Gravattack And Feedback. Malware was my favourite villain being a corrupted version of my favourite species and the Alternate Ben season was great (i don’t remember if it was season 6 or 7) and I love the ending with Ben rapidly morphing between aliens even if Fasttrack, Chamalien, Jetray and Spitter where missing. And I liked how Ben could Ben funny and serious.
Reboot/Ben 10 (2016): I think the reboot got to much hate. I like how Ben and Gwen genuinely care for each other and aren’t constantly arguing. Kevin’s struggle with being a Ben Tennyson clone was interesting to watch. And I love the Omni-Enhancements, Omni-Kix and Omni-Naut upgrades I’m not a fan of what they did to upgrade but the other alien redesigns I can get behind even stinkfly. OverFlow, ShockRock And SlapBack where interesting alien concepts and Ben 10 Vs The Universe was one of my favourite movies from the Ben 10 Franchise.
And those where my opinions on all 5 series. I think all of the series are good in some way. Thanks for reading. (sorry if I left a few things out)
Unpopular opinions:
UAF Gwen's designs are kind off really bad. She looks nothing like the original Gwen. Heck, she doesn't even have her iconic cat symbol. Omniverse fixed all of those issues I've had, and me liking it better than the UAF ones, let alone liking it is an unpopular opinion as well.
Ben wanting to kill Kevin right away is stupid. Let me explain why. He gets the idea of killing him as soon as he sees that guy that Kevin injured. And later in the season finale, Ben whispers Cooper his plan of CURING Kevin, then he proceeds to kill him right after. That's so dumb.
Art style and visual wise, Omniverse is better than UAF. The main problem with UAF is that it had a combo of low budget and laziness (they couldn't even design aliens for Ben 10k). Most alien civilizations are composed of clones. Omniverse fixes that issue. While sometimes there are a few clones, it has a wide variety of background characters. And the main characters/aliens and so on are more detailed. Such as Kevin who looked like background character in UAF, even tho Kevin isn't exactly a main character in Omniverse. Some aliens even get animated particles on them (Alien X, Gutrot, Atomix). Backgrounds are impecably detailed too. Like the space backgrounds. The lighting is crisp as well.
In the sound design department it's also better because they continue that trend from the original series of giving each alien their own unique sound effects. They're so cool and satisfying. (wouldn't call this one unpopular)
Yeah ik that was a lot
Honestly I prefer UAF, but I agree with you. I gotta say though, I hated the alien voices in Omniverse, especially Ripjaws. Sounded like Goop.
I disagree with all of this but I can see where you come from
"Like imagine if four arms didn't have that cool voice"
Gutrot is played by Rob Paulson
Hot take: Ultimate alien is a little overrated, not calling it bad but it didn't give me as much of that ben 10 charm as the other series'
Overrated? A lot of people I talk to hate it
Don’t know if this is a hot take or not but
Ripjaws is the worst alien in the classic series, he does jack all except for the Kracken and Underwater Hotel episodes, both of which are dull to me. The only time they were somewhat cool was when fused with Heatblast, even then, it was because of the underwater fire stuff
2:30 If they wanted the smoothies for the contimelia they should have made them to be skurd's vision and Ben sees grandpa max. Insta fix, both sides happy, at least I hope so.
Also I forgot to give my hot take. I believe that reboot Humungousaur is stronger than classic Humungousaur if they are the same age. Reboot Humungosaur has everything classic Humungousaur has plus a powerful Sockwave tail (and it has been confirmed he can grow but reboot ben doesn't know that).
@@diorite7296 reboot humungousaur is tiny
@@diorite7296 I actually like that shockwave tail, but I don't think it makes him stronger than the classic Humangosaure
Hot takes:
- As a big bad antagonist Malware is my favorite (yes more than Vilgax.) His motives are understandable but don’t diminish his evilness while he has a great dynamic between ben and azmuth. Plus all his designs and abilities are super cool! Might’ve been different if alien force didn’t mess up vilgax’s character idk.
- everyone harps on albedos first ultimatrix too much. Yes it had a lot of glitches but albedo had to built it in a CAVE! with a box of primitive human tools! While on the run from the plumbers…. _with hands he’s not even use too._ Cut the fellah some slack, his new one seems to work just fine anyway before azmuth gets his grubby hands on it.
- isn’t it a little weird Ben never got a DNA sample for high breeds? Come to think of it, How come the omnitrix doesn’t go into scan mode for every alien that ben hasn’t unlocked that he encounters?
Hot Take:
Ultimate Cannonbolt is one of the best ultimate aliens. He's the perfect mix between strength and appearance, and the most realistic ultimate alien. His abilites and attire don't change drastically like Ultimate Swamp Fire, Echo Echo, and Humongousaur, but the change isn't too subtle either, like Ultimate Rath(Omniverse), Wildmutt, and Big Chill.
I got mantioned 😂😂😂
Hot take: omniverse needed more romance with its couples (gwen and Kevin Ben and Kai )
Humungousaur and Four Arms are used a lot but they aren't "overused" as in they're used more than they need to. Humungousaur and Four Arms just have the most direct powers, the heavy hitters, so like they are useful in most situations.
Hot Takes : spitter is one of the most underrated aliens he only shows up once and was able to knock Kevin 11 over a couple of times, ball weevil is practically a copy in the sense of regurgitation
Hot Take:
Swampfire only looked good in alien force and ultimate alien and the ultimate forms should have never been taken out except ultimate spider monkey that is the only ultimate alien that just looks dumb to me and ultimate canonbult should have been able to roll so fast he would catch on fire and have his body look more like he was covered in metal and battle scars to remind you he is based off a canon ball that people used a lot in wars
I agree with not making grandpa max the contamilia instead of smoothie ppl. They really overuse the smoothie so important to Ben joke too much
Hot Take: I like all the aliens from all the original timeline shows, because it provides a lot of fanbase fuel for cool ideas. Stuff like Gutrot, Eatle, the Ultimates, Lodestar, the five alien target's in Ultimate Alien, RATH, Brainstorm, Jetray, Big Chill, Swampfire, Heatblast, Echo Echo, Fourarms, Humungosaur, Daimondhead, Astrodactyl, Graymatter, Upchuck, Atomix, Arctiguana, Chamalien, Bullfrag, XLR8, Upgrade, and the Anur System aliens are all great, and honestly a scan of a Highbreed, Khyber's species, the marshmallow species (I forget their name), Argit's species, a Llopen (slush puppy to clarify if I spelled that wrong), or Vilgax's species (done in the reboot interestingly enough) would have been awesome in the OG timeline, among tons of other aliens even in the many backgrounds of all series. I actually also find validity in the joke aliens of the series -eapecially Omniverse - because even Walkatrout is slippery, The Worst is invincible, Molestache has some power in his facial hair despite the silliness, Toepick has the ugly fright powers, Crashhopper has a decent mobility, Kickin' Hawk just is pretty cool (though I love birds, plus he is an improvement over Liam), Whampire is probably the most potentially dangerous of the Anur System species (and Ben is crucial to their survival if you think about it for long enough), Atomix is literally a dork superhero but I find that endearing because Ben is kind of a dork already so the ham is real, Gutrot actually has the more nasally dork side and is very versatile despite his minor reduction to a fart joke, Ball Weevil is probably one of the physically weaker aliens that Ben has used a lot, Pesky Dust is low-key broken despite the frail body, Astrodactyl is an interesting example of having more than one sentient lifeform in a system (without counting Anur because the fantasy monster mash gimmick basically necessitates multiple monster types) especially due to even our planet having Dolphins and whales and Crows and Octopus being comparable to young human children in intelligence, the improvements in design to Shocksquatch and Jury Rigg are amazing, Nanomech is slept on because people forget he can mess with machinery and is also a very hard to attack or track target due to being small, Bloxx is one of the most flexible aliens, Feedback is generally a decent alien (though overexposed of course), and seems to at least have a niche aside from being electric based because of his ability to absorb and release instead of just releasing (plus Ben feeling whole with Feedback might have been a callback to Ben's Anodite heritage with energy control, but that is a theory), Fast Track only sucks because XLR8 came first, otherwise he is generally fine (plus naturally probably lives longer than the two weeks of a Kineceleran), Spitter would have been good enough for an acid alien if Goop wasn't a thing after, and Spidermonkey is both a clever pun on the Earth species, and also was one alien far deserving of his Ultimate just based on the boost in abilities alone. Ditto being voiced by Yakko wasn't just Omniverse, either, if I recall he was also in Classic.
Hot take 1: Ben is at his most powerful in UA
Hot take 2: The classic ben 10 show is overrated
Hot take 3: kevin's character is the best in AF and UA
*Yes.*
The first one isn't an opinion, it's u getting something wrong
Omniverse: hold my alien x
Hot take for me, even though I don't know how the lot of people feel about Rooke from Omniverse but I like him and is a great character and partner to Ben
The ultimate alien concept was mostly worthless as most ultimate aliens (canonbolt, waybig, grey matter) just looked like shit and didn’t add any cool features thus I feel like it was a shallow marketing gimmick to try and make ultimate alien stand out from alien force
Four arms and stink flys designs after classic just got worse and worse (reboot four arms was fine tho, wish I could say the same for stink fly)
Upgrades color scheme was better in the reboot
Omniverse’s new aliens are overhated and a fair amount of them are pretty good/alright but get lumped in with the shitty ones
I have to disagree on Waybig, him just getting way bigger was simple but satisfying, also I liked that he looked more like Ultraman. Grey matter was absolutely awful, deserved a lot better
@@lightningbulb227 I can see the appeal of ultimate waybig but I personally just hated his design idk something about it looked off to me (still nice of them to try and throw in an ultraman type of design tho even if I didn’t like it)
My thing about upgrade's color scheme is that species having a similar color scheme to the omnitrix is nice because it conveys their similar origin of being made by azmuth. Don't know if that even is their origin in reboot, so it could be null and void anyway.
How could you?
@@larniieplayz6285 he got a point, some of the ultimate aliens were just the worst of the whole franchise
Hot Take: In terms of fantastical adventures and Story telling, OV takes the cake. Don't get me wrong, I love the themes in UA and AF like Stockholm syndrome, maturity, and that Chamalian dude literally begging for death after finding out his family died (Jesus) But Ben LITERALLY traveling back to the beginning of the universe just to witness it's own creation, or Ben prime being wiped out from a time bomb so alternate Ben has to travel back in time and cause the events from the classic series. Or smaller events, like Gravattack creating a black hole due to accidentally warping space and time, or Ben literally recreating the universe, and later going on trial for doing so just for them to canonically explain the artstyle changes, and then break out into an epic Alien X battle. I could keep going on, but yeah. OV just had so many cool stories and plotlines.
Also, Reboot Ben 10 could have been way better if 1. They treated season 1 like they did seasons 2-4, and 2, if they either went all in with new aliens or just re-tooled the old ones. As it stands Slapback is the only really interesting NEW Alien in his arsenal and we all know Overflow is just a cleverly renamed Water Hazard
Hot take : Lodestar was underused in omniverse you will say but hey they have Gravattack in ov that is more stronger than lodestar so why they used ditto more than 1 time while they haved echo echo? why eatle was used more than 1 time while he is weaker than upchuck?
I want justice to my lodestar.
Hot take 2 : giving aliens like nrg,clockwork,chamalien... accent is funny but stupid
Hot take 3 : bashmouth is interesting alien his powers are similar to Wolverine but nobody talk about him.
Hot take 2 is amazing I never thought of that before
Hot Take: the classic flash backs in omniverse make sense
Hot Take 1: Ultimate Cannonbolt & Wildmutt doesn't look too bad imo. Perhaps some things should've been added
Hot take 2: I prefer Ben & Rook over Ben, Gwen & Kevin
Hot Take 3: I don’t like Julie and Ben’s relationship. I feel like it was doomed from the beginning
Hot Take 4: I kind of enjoy/like mistransformations when they are not overused.
Hot Take 5: I personally feel like Ditto is one of the worst aliens to use due to his massive weakness. He could be good for puzzles but in other situations? Nah
Hot Take 6: I am personally fine with all of the mistransformations in Season 1 of OV. To me, it was a way of showing that Ben was back to square one and that he had to work his way back up again.
I agree with your last part. But they overused the mistransformations completely
Hot Take I've been thinking about a lot recently: Fasttrack can be a more optimal choice than XLR8 in some situations, due to aspects like having feet without wheels, hands instead of triangle claws, and not having a big long tail
Hot take : Ben 10 always skips on "epic final battles" and uses bullshit shortcuts. See , kevin killing aggregor in like 2 seconds and ben killing dagon in 2 seconds with a sword.
Ultimate Alien should have gone harder and more out there in terms of the ultimate alien's designs. More than half of them are just pallet swaps of their original counterparts, like Big Chill and Cannonbolt, but then you have the ones like Swampfire and Echo Echo that have very different designs from their baseline counterparts to really help them stick out. Basically they should have gone the Echo Echo and Swampfire route for more Ultimate Alien designs.
Imma give a practical take. Vengeance of vilgax was good until diamondhead came out. People say the diamondhead moment was great or that it was the best moment of season 3 but that moment was what ruined the entire af, and in turn ultimate alien for most people. Vilgax getting beaten by fucking diamondhead was atrocious. It also makes no sense of how earlier vilgax was in a completely different league from fully grown up bounty hunter tetrax, while the 10-alien powered vilgax got beat by a adolescent diamondhead. I still don't get it, why didn't they went with waybig defeating vilgax again. We haven't really seen waybig "fight" upto that point, just him destroying stuff. Vilgax is supposed to be a way powerful being at that moment, darksied's avatar level strong. Vilgax has issues of how Ben throwing him into space was cheating. Now both of them at their prime, and waybig infact defeating him after a huge fight, blood and bruises and all, he finally accepts ben as his true rival and also helps give the audience closure of Ben properly defeating him with his most powerful alien, not throwing him into space or erasing him or something. That would in turn make the series much better by making vilgax an actual threat for some time.
Yep.
They could have shown vilgax growing in size as he and Ben fall in the sea.
Hot Take: Ultimate Big Chill never made sense. It's the same level of Ultimate Cannonbolt for me.
Hot Take 2: I really liked the Omni Kix armor from the reboot. My favorite upgrade would be omni kix cannonbolt
Hot Take 3: I really hated how Ben tends to go for heavy hitters rather than either improvising or using useless aliens to the best of their abilities
Hot Take 4: I really hated reboot Ben's arsenal. Most of them really seemed like just brawn only aliens like Rath, Four Arms, and Humongasaur
And Slapback
@@bluefire9285 I kinda wanted to but almost theirs a strategy with slap back rather than just hit stuff harder
@@zoltvolt8808 rb humungousaur has has sonic tail so that makes him unique
Hot Take #1:
The Alien Force omnitrix is on the Omniverse genuinely is the best for everything shown in the series
Hot Take #2: The Omniverse Hoodie is better than the Alien Force jacket, and it looks even more comfortable
Hot take #3: Omniverse's omnitrix selection interface is the best of the 3 watches. Both the touch and the ring with the faces of the aliens
1 is right, but 2 and 3 I disagree with
3 is completely wrong.
The small touch screen and hologram showing aliens was one of the reason why Ben kept getting wrong aliens.
@@neeljavia2965
That was never canon! He does not even notice what he selected,
@@generalsol6882 Because the dial was so small
@@neeljavia2965
That's stupid, Ben could choose aliens while running, falling or jumping, he just didn't notice what was selected.
And that is an error that I had even in UAF
Hot take: AmpFibian is the most underrated and underused alien EVER!
He was probably underused beacuse ben arleady has a lot of electric aliens but yeah
@@deadaccount1.57 yeah, doesn’t explain why Ben never used him for mind reading
@@timedragon5492 Mind reading doesn't seem like a very useful power honestly considering the situations ben gets usually into
Hot take: Upchuck is a super underrated alien and is actually pretty powerful compared to a lot of Ben’s other aliens
The reboot is good, ultimate alien is better than alien force, omniverse is good world building and the animation is the best from the franchise
I agree except for the reboot that show sucks
@@econno8172 I think it’s pretty good
@@Mirrorcomics24 to each his own I guess 🤷♂️
@@Mirrorcomics24 I don't hate the reboot but I can't imagine considering it better than any of the other Ben 10 series
@@ilyassebenana3824 same
Hot take: Ghostfreak is more powerful than the show makes it seem and if Ben used it more he could be able to solve most problems with ease. He can turn intangible where he is basically immune to almost everything, in the OG series it was shown that he can makes his hands phase through people and attack their internal organs (episode Ghostfreaked Out, he did it to Thumbskull). Its basically an unstoppable force that can ignore any defense you have, as well as your attacks and not even walls can stop, nor gravity or traps since he can fly. I don't know why he isn't considered one of Ben's most powerful aliens, right up there with Alien X or Way Big.
Omniverse is my favorite Ben 10 series always has been my favorite and I think gutrot has a nice personality but that might be because he’s my second favorite alien
Hot Takes I think:
1. Ben's immaturity is kinda realistic and in my opinion it makes the serious moments better
2. Now in a video by The Ink Tank that stated 5 ways the reboot improved the original, (which is quite old) they mentioned that Gwen and Ben not arguing much was a good change. I think it wasn't because it makes the moments where they work together just that much better
Also 2 more:
Duped was a fun episode
And Julie is annoying
I think kind of one of the things that makes Toepick so great is that he doesn't really talk he doesn't have much of a personality, but he's just so intimidating It kind of is his personalityI love it.
I’ve always thought it was annoying in ultimate alien and alien force every time Ben changed into Alien he always gotta announce what he transformed into
Hot take - goop is an extremely underused and underrated
The human villains deserve more respect animo a human with junk essentially made an ultimatrix that worked on anything.
Hot Take #1: I think the Nemetrix was the Best (if not only good) concept for Omniverse. I think if it was introduced in the earlier shows, it could have been more acknowledged
Hot Take #2: I thought reboot Kevin having his own omnitrix (Antitrix) was stupid the more I thought of it. But I think the reason the execs gave him one was because of Kevin's already Murky Origins from the other shows.
Hot Take #3: Escape from Aggregor is one of my personal favorite episodes of ben 10. Mostly it's because said episode is just two VAs (Dee Bradley Baker and John DiMaggio) talking to themselves and each other. If you have a Great range on vocals, it's pretty Fun.
Also, are going to review on Thundercats Roar? Because I (like everyone else) hated the show (despite not even being a Thundercats fan). But there are some decent episodes
Ultimate echo echo was and still is the GOAT
Why
Hot take: clockwork is bens second strongest transformation since eon was able to vaporize waybig in ua and clockwork has the same powers as eon he should be stronger than waybig
Hot Take:
Ben 10: Alien Force is the best show in the whole franchise, period. While the third season isn’t the best, the first 2 carry the show to levels never seen before on a season wide scale, the more mature themes make the characters struggles feel more human and you don’t always know if there will be a happy ever after.
Classic has to go next, from the fun nature of the show to the incredible ability to go from a comedic episode to a more serious one made the shows always enjoyable to watch.
Thirdly is Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. This shows caries the same mature themes and great character development of Alien Force, but I feel the episodes where not as good on average, however still a good watch, and the finale was a bit anti-climactic, especially the battle with Vilgax. Despite this the show is still a great time.
Afterwards is Ben 10: Omniverse. I fell the animation is quite nice, but I personally prefer UAF, and the story was done incredibly, showing us the Contimeela ship in the first season and bringing it back for the finale, genius, and I love the alternative dimensions and time travel aspect, the show really plays into Ben 10’s more sci-fi nature and it works great. Might I add that these 4 shows are really close together on my list and there all amazing.
Finally we have the reboot. Need I say more.
The reboot is good tho. Or are you just saying you didn't like it as much as the classic shows?
i like season 3 because of some actually good episodes including the RATH one lol
Hot take: Big Chill is overhyped too much by the fandom.
Hot take: Ripjaws is great and yet it's underrated
hot take: omniverse is the best show. Ben's not too egotisical and too mature.and the animation is way better. I like the art style a lot
Ben's actually very egoistic and immature.
@@neeljavia2965 well ah technically uh nah
@@anti-garmadon296 Yes he is in OV.
@@neeljavia2965 prove it
@@anti-garmadon296 What prove it.
It's common sense.
Ben was much more egoistical and immature in OV than UAF.
Hot take: I actually like alien X he has a cool design and a good weakness. but if they do continue the Omniverse I get making him back to being a cosmic paper weight again.
hot take 2: Walkatrout is stronger the alien X
Walkatrout, the Worst, Molestache, and other seemingly “useless” aliens aren’t as bad as people think and it’s cool that there are aliens without significant powers, much like how a human transformation would be
Yeah it shows the variety of the omnitrix and that it isn't meant as a weapon instead a device to make peace
Someone doing Ben 10 content in 2021 other than Inktank,
A blessing from the lord
Hot Take:Max would be best with the Omnitrix
Hot Take 2:Ben should of got Albedo's Ultimatrix 2.o for a Ultimate Omniverse
Hot take: zombozo isn’t a ripoff of joker and is the best villain in the whole franchise because his face is so cute just look at him
Well... Big chill now REALLY big
I also have a few more hot takes.
Number 1: The running joke that Ben gets the wrong aliens will NEVER get old. And characters in the shows bringing it up makes it funny.
Number 2: I loved that some of the aliens voices had special features to it. More in omniverse: Stinkfly always sounded like he was congested, Feedback and Shocksquach had an electric popping or buzzing whenever they spoke. Heatblast sounded like flames, or charcoal crackling, and so on.
Water hazard sounds like a person speaking underwater:)
@@deadaccount1.57 Crashhopper is all crickety
Hot Take: Omniverse Ben 10K is the coolest future ben by far.
Hot take: grandpa Max’s voice actor is pronounced “I-ding not e-ding”
Hot Take 1: I feel Ben 10 is at its best with Ben having a relatively small pool of Aliens to choose from that are somewhat specialized and have more defined weaknesses. Like, scenes with Stinkfly in the classic series are more tense than say Jet Ray in AF because Stinkfly isn't as fast as Jet Ray or XLR8 or can breathe in space or shoot lasers etc. So when Ben transforms into him, he has to work more and around his weaknesses to succeed and can still naturally fail like if he gets his wings wet. Ditto has the risk that if 1 clone dies, the rest die as well so Ben can't be reckless while Echo Echo can be as reckless as he wants and it's cool if some clones die.
If you give Ben lots and lots of aliens, then some will start to feel redundant. Why use Stinkfly, Ripjaws, FastTrack, Terraspin or XLR8 when you have Jetray that can do the job for all of them? Why use Articguana, Amphibian or Ghostfreak when you have Big Chill? Why use Chromostone, NRG, Eye Guy, BenViktor when you have Feedback? These Aliens will get less screentime and it feels odd whenever Ben transforms into them over better choices. Some Aliens may also be too overspecialized like Bloxx. Omniverse also makes Ben way too powerful and OP in a lot of places.
Hot Take 2: Ultimate Alien should have just been called "Alien Force Seasons 4-6". UA has a very similar tone, themes, visual style, structure and the same creative theme to AF.
Hot Take 3: The Ultimatrix wasn't a good addition from a storytelling perspective. Evolving Aliens just makes the standard Alien more powerful rather than requiring Ben to use his powers more creatively. Ultimate Humungosaur is just a more powerful Humungosaur and has a gun. Ben doesn't need to use him that much differently to how he uses him normally. Same for Swampfire, Big Chill and Cannonbolt. This means that many fights just go with Ben fighting enemies normally then choosing to go Ultimate to win quickly. Which asks the question why he doesn't just use it instantly then?
How do you feel if aliens like Jetray didn’t exist ?
@@comicbookking3446 A lot better. Recall that Aliens like Jetray have so many positive qualities that it reduces the tension whenever Ben turns into him. It also means Ben can't have more dynamic or specialized action scenes or events since Jetray doesn't have any weaknesses to to tie the scene around.
Like, remember back in Classic when Ben would turn into Ripjaws and would have to keep finding ways to keep Ripjaws hydraded while fighting enemies? That stuff was cool and is kinda lost with Jetray.
Like, at the very least, give Jetray and co some severe weakness to compensate. Like they're super frail so if Ben even takes one hit, he's forced to switch back so Jetray becomes high risk/high reward while others like Stinkfly are more consistently useful.
Hot Take: Ben’s character traits from Alien Force season 3 would have been perfect for Season 1 of Alien Force. The forced immaturity on teenage Ben would have to drastically change due to the seriousness of the Highbreed arc and him thinking Grandpa Max was dead.
And for Cartoon Network, kids who watch and love younger Ben due to his bratty persona would probably prefer the logical development of an immature to mature Ben in season 1 and 2 of Alien Force, rather than just “randomly changing” his entire persona from egotistical to polite which they decided to do irl, which basically disconnected season 4 of the classic series to the 1st season of Alien Force.
I believe all of this would have boosted viewership for Alien Force, meaning season 3 wouldn’t be tampered with.
I do want a part 3! but I more want a Top 5 Best Alien Force Episodes, Top 5 Worst Ultimate Alien Episodes, and Top 5 Best Ultimate Alien Episodes pls
Hot take 1: the reboot is not bad, people say it is because it doesn’t fellow story and it is a lot cartoony and silly but it’s not BAD at all IMO
Hot take 2: I did NOT like how Alien x was BARLEY used in AF and UA I understand how hard it is to get control of alien x but Ben should have asked for permanent control of alien x whenever he transforms into him
Hot take 3: I do NOT like that they brong back humugasaur, rath, and jetray in the reboot and I did not like Omni kix armor “ on humugasaur it looks okay” but the reboot is still not bad. and I also do NOT like Dee Bradley Baker voicing rath it just sounds like dee is holding back the screaming John DiMaggio did (which I loved BTW)
Omniverse should’ve started with the UAF art style then it should’ve changed to the Omniverse art style after Alien X recreates the universe.
Hot take: season 5 of ben 10 omnivers (galactic monster) was the best season
Hot take: Deviln Levin should have appeared in other future episodes as Kevin and Gwen's kid. He was a cool character who was forgotten too quickly.
Devlin, not Devin
That thumbnail. That is not how phones work 😂😂😂😂
Hot Take: that scene where humungosaur decimates aggregor is the best scene in Ultimate Alien
I really love season 1 and 2 Ben he mature so much and yes he has a personality we see Ben constantly joke and act goofy a good bit in the first two seasons just wasn't over use like in s3 and ominverse