Also known as Ben 10 Classic
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science fiction & Superhero.
Created by: Man of Action (Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, and Steven T. Seagle).
Voiced of: Tara Strong, Meagan Smith, Paul Eiding, Dee Bradley Baker, Steven Blum, Richard Steven Horvitz, Richard McGonagle, Fred Tatasciore & Jim Ward.
Plot: Ben Tennyson, a 10-year-old boy, discovers a magical device that can turn him into 10 different alien heroes, each with its own unique abilities. With this newfound power, Ben, Grandpa Max and cousin Gwen help others and stop evildoers – but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t cause some superpowered kid mischief once and a while.
I was looking forward to talk about this show after so long being away from it.
This show was amazing.
Pros: The animation style looks really good for the times, the plot for this in entire show was simple & really good, the very good voice over casts & all sorts of villains from all different shapes and sizes, a lot of extraordinary adventures & a incredible design for a box set.
Cons: some of the episodes of this show can get better weird, sometimes the action can get ridiculous & the last season felt like it was overstayed my welcome.
The Characters:
- Benjamin Kirby “Ben” Tennyson:
Ben is shown to be a cocky, immature boy, who is not above enjoying attention and enjoys making jokes even during fights. Though his immaturity makes a bad impression on some people, Ben is good-hearted, noble and loyal, and his actions are motivated above all by a strong and sincere will to help and save others in need. He will stop at nothing to protect his family or anyone in danger whether human or alien. Ben proves to be resourceful, intelligent (Ben has been known to have an eidetic memory), shrewd and cunning when needed, which saved him from many situations, especially when the Omnitrix cannot activate or doesn’t provide him with the alien he originally wanted.
- Gwendolyn Catherine “Gwen” Tennyson:
She is depicted as a kind and intelligent girl, very skilled with computers and possessing a level of martial arts skills. She is also very independent but is very organised, sometimes to the point of compulsive, but can be a light-hearted schemer. Overall, her most notable skill is her innate, if latent, ability at magic. She got her powers from her alien grandmother, Verdona Tennyson. She is extremely skilled at magic as in “Tough Luck” when she picks up Hex’s staff to defeat Charmcaster, Charmcaster replies that it can only be worked in the hands of a master magician and Gwen could still fire a yellow energy beam from it even though she hadn’t learnt about them.
- Grandpa Maxwell “Max” Tennyson:
Max mentions having spent his childhood summers on his Uncle Jedediah’s farm, where he learned about the merits of hard work. A “not-quite-all-there” Max, under the effects of Zombozo’s happiness-draining, mentions having been afraid of heights as a kid and then, when “enough was enough”, Max “climbed up to the top of the water tower” and “scared the fear” right out of him. It was shown that Max had a childhood friend called Donovan Grand Smith, who sums up Max: “growing up he always was the worrywart never the risk-taker”, like himself. Thirty years earlier, Donovan and Max had both been broke when Donovan offered Max a business opportunity which he turned down. Max later became a Plumber (Donovan thought Max was an actual plumber), establishing that Max’s career as a Plumber lasted for about twenty-eight years before he retired (Max mentioned that after twenty-eight years on the job, he’d never figured out who was behind the Bermuda Triangle). It was revealed that Max had been an astronaut and would have been the first man on the moon, but left the program before the Apollo Moon mission. In his own words, Max said he just “took his step for mankind in other ways”.
Main villains
- Vilgax:
An intergalactic despot and one of the most feared aliens in the galaxy. Vilgax is vicious, arrogant, and dangerously relentless, as he will stop at nothing to take the Omnitrix, which he wishes to use in order to create a transforming super army. In the past, Vilgax was an enemy of Max. Vilgax was injured and remained in a regeneration chamber in the first season, but when completely healed, he was cybernetically enhanced, giving him colossal size, strength and durability that made him a match for every alien Ben could access at that time, therefore becoming the boy’s archenemy. Vilgax was the main antagonist of the first season, and was a recurring antagonist in the following seasons.
- Kevin Ethan Levin:
An 11-year-old delinquent sociopath with a mutant power that allows him to absorb energy. He uses the ability to commit crimes to benefit himself, never caring if it hurts anyone. He originally wanted to team up with Ben to become unstoppable, but after Ben refuses the offer, he absorbs power from the Omnitrix instead. He uses this to frame Ben for robberies using the alien forms, but the constant changes makes his DNA unstable and he eventually becomes a combination of all ten of the alien forms. Becoming a monster makes him hate Ben more than ever, as he blames him for his new form, and he swears revenge, becoming Ben’s secondary archenemy and foil: “Kevin 11”. Kevin is a minor antagonist in the first season, the main antagonist of the second season and a minor antagonist in the fourth season.
- Aloysius James Animo:
A scientist whose career was cut short when it was discovered that he was performing twisted genetic experiments on animals. He had hoped that his research would win him the Verties Award, which is an award in veterinary science. Because of the nature of his research, he lost the award to another doctor named Kelly. This drove him insane, and he dropped off the map for five years until he could perfect his research. After being defeated by Ben for the first time, Dr. Animo makes himself a personal nemesis to the boy, always hoping to defeat him and rule the world. His powers include controlling animals, reviving them and creating them. He is Ben’s tertiary archenemy.
- Zs’Skayr / Ghostfreak:
An Ectonurite who was originally one of Ben’s forms. Zs’Skayr was sampling Flourana DNAs into the Omnitrix but ended up having his own DNA sampled along with it creating a clone of him and Ben’s form “Ghostfreak”. His powers include invisibility, intangibility, possession, tentacles, energy beam projection, telekinesis and firing energy beams from his hands. He was a minor antagonist in the second season and the main antagonist of the third season.
- Charmcaster:
A gifted 15 year old human who was the teenage niece of Hex. She first appears to be loyal to her uncle, but was actually using him to get power for herself. She later attempts to use a spell to swap bodies with Ben in order to gain possession of the Omnitrix only to switch with Gwen by mistake and be foiled, and have her spell book stolen by Gwen. She later becomes a member of the Negative 10 to get revenge on the Tennysons, though her grudge is mainly against Gwen. Her powers include mana manipulation and spell-casting. She is Gwen’s archenemy.
- Driscoll / Forever King:
A former Plumber kicked out in disgrace after being caught stealing technologies from alien criminals for personal gain, who joined the Forever Knights and eventually became their leader with the goal of achieving world domination. After learning of the Plumbers secret “sub-energy” weapon the Forever King assembles the Negative 10, a team of the Tennysons human enemies, to steal it to achieve his goal. He was the main antagonist of season four.
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Rating: 10 out of 10 Stars – IMDb
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