Why Ben REALLY Gets The Wrong Alien

[Music] haven't you learned by now that nothing can stop me nothing except [Music] huh i was supposed to be working on ambien but i guess i can host good evening internet world and universe this is our ash here the omnitrix is the single most powerful versatile and sought-after device in the ben 10 multiverse especially when it comes to ben prime we've made an entire video breaking down every single feature the omnitrix can do but one of the most frustrating handicaps for ben and sometimes says the audience is when ben doesn't get the correct alien he's selected to transform into this trait gives the writers a broader range of scenarios to place ben into be it for comedic purposes or to force ben to problem solve in a different way other than hitting it really hard i think i might have a way to beat him if you say hit him really hard i swear to god i will kick you in the deck i guess we could hit him really hard together whatever this has become a reoccurring theme throughout all four shows but we've never been given a solid answer as to why this happens even when ben receives the completed official omnitrix which is said to function exactly as azimuth intends he still has to struggle with getting an alien he wishes more often than not speculation on this topic was huge during the ben 10 franchise's first initial run but interest in this topic died down when we were apparently given an answer in the ben 10 omniverse episode for a few brains more which originally aired november 30th 2013. in the scene ben finally asks azimuth why he never seems to get the alien he desires to which azimuth states that he expected more dexterity from ben using the controls claiming stop banging so hard on my omnitrix the impact sets the timeout function to a random hello so that should settle it right ben's been hitting the omnitrix too hard which randomizes his transformations which does make sense given the size of a galvan the nature of their technology ben's habit of slamming down the faceplate to transform was never the intended method to activate the device this answer was satisfactory for the majority of fanbase myself included until i listened a little bit closer you see this scene isn't saying what you think it is although ben is clearly asking azimuth why he doesn't get the aliens he chooses azimuth is instead talking about how ben's habit of hitting the watch causes the timeout function to randomize this has been another issue with the omnitrix as the amount of time ben can remain as an alien without master control has also had its fair share of inconsistencies transformations can last anywhere from a few seconds to seemingly hours with no clear indication of how this is determined either while azmid never really answered ben's question we'll never know where he was going with that explanation as he quickly changes his train of thought to inspect albedo's ultimatrix perhaps his explanation for the random transformation time lengths really did have something to do with the inaccurate selection of benz aliens but with the subtitles on we can see for sure that azimuth isn't talking about the mistransformations thus never actually answering ben's question so is there another true answer to this question well it depends on what you want to believe before fans mistakenly took the scene from omniverse as their definitive answer people were speculating on the topic as far back as the classic series when alien force rolled around siri's showrunner dwayne mcduffie began the tradition of ben 10 writers and staff answering questions on his site's message boards unfortunately after dwayne's passing his site was eventually shut down with fragments of it surviving through screenshots and random dates in the wayback machine his spouse charlotte fullerton has stated both on twitter and in an email subscription for the dwayne mcduffie fund that she fully intends to revive the website and restore all the old forums but that day has still yet to come but back then when dwayne was asked about why the omnitrix didn't give him the right alien in the classic series but did an alien force dwayne answered by claiming that in the classic series the omnitrix was not working properly this was causing many functional glitches he used this to explain why the omnitrix's badge could appear in random places in the first series but always on the alien's chests and alien force saying that most species don't have wrists and having the badge in the center provides easy access to any alien that ben becomes he also uses this to explain why the aliens didn't all have green eyes as opposed to alien force as he believed the green eyes represented ben's soul unified through all his transformations the white badge color was an indicator that the omnitrix needed maintenance which changed green after recalibrating showing that the omnitrix was now working properly this does seem like a solid explanation but there are a few holes in this logic for starters in alien force season 3 the omnitrix breaks again and ben starts becoming the wrong alien again yet the amitrix's badge remains green this broken omnitrix theory also comes to a halt when you realize that even if it was true it doesn't explain why ben gets the wrong alien when using the ultimatrix or the official omnitrix either derek j wyatt who worked on omniverse sort of fell into the role as the ben 10 writer's new pseudo ambassador and began answering questions on formspring ask.fm and twitter and still continues to answer questions to this day derek was asked many questions that were originally asked to duane and is offered up a different perspective on what really was happening with the omnitrix for starters he believes that the omnitrix was supposed to allow the badge to appear in an assortment of areas and limiting its location to the chest was the glitch the white faceplate in the classic series didn't represent any error but was actually a scratch guard that ben never removed but eventually fell off after some time he takes this a step further by claiming that alien force and ultimate alien's transformations mostly lacking clothes was due to the omnitrix glitching as well while derrick was the art director of omniverse and not the showrunner as dwayne was his word still holds up a lot of credibility many writers will back derek up believing he knew the ben 10 franchise better than most people on the team more specifically the classic series although his word can also be debunked as well while derek does offer up information on the first three series he also has made it clear that he really doesn't have knowledge of any of the series characters or aliens that he did not work on he also had a few memorable incidents of either contradicting himself or forgetting things he has answered previously most notably the infamous alien x can destroy a multiverse in six thoughts claim and while some writers usually back up his statements they have also strongly disagreed with his answers before too it's safe to say that you can treat derek's answers as an explanation for the sake of an explanation as most of derek's answers seem to be made up on the spot for fun and who can really blame him i mean hell i do that all the time watch any of my streams so does that mean we should take dwayne's word over derek's well no as the same goes for dwayne he did not work on the classic series and his message board's answers rarely ever come up in the show duane's answers don't really have too many contradictions to what happens in canon but they're also never mentioned by any character either so when it comes to what actually happens in the animated series itself both dwayne and derek's explanations have little to no effect on what's happening in the show and yes it's obvious that the true answer is that it's all just aesthetic choices while the alien force era like the naked chess badges omniverse favored the varied badges in uniforms however both series seem to favor the idea of green eyes and green badges omniverse even makes young ben's aliens have green eyes and badges just because it fits the art style better even though they had different eyes and white badges in the classic series as for an in-universe reason an explanation you can subscribe to is that dwayne's answer is true for the first three series up until omniverse's episode so long and thanks for all the smoothies when ben remakes the universe as x and accidentally changes around a lot of things after the universe is altered we can now say that derek's answer is true but again this is all just speculation and neither of their answers really come up in the show so now that the initial omniverse scene has been debunked and both dwayne and derek's answers can't be taken for sure is there even a real answer i'd say yes and while it is a bit of a stretch this theory is backed up by solid facts from the show but even if it makes sense we can only call it a theory a pencil theory at the end of omniverse we see the scene that somehow makes it into every other video we do where ben accepts the idea that the omnitrix isn't always compatible with his intentions and that may be a good thing it always seems to give me the right alien even when i want something else i guess i should stop fighting it it seems to know me better than me we've always been teased with the fact that the omnitrix has some level of artificial intelligence but it's never focused on too heavily there are times where it seems like the omnitrix is just a super smart computer and others where it seems like it's practically alive when ben first receives the omnitrix it fuses to him and literally becomes part of him in the future we can see the omnitrix grows more and more onto ben becoming an extension of himself so if a part of ben becomes the omnitrix wouldn't it be safe to say that a part of the omnitrix becomes ben things may get a little weird but bear with me let's say the longer the omnitrix remains on ben's wrist parts of ben's intelligence personality and overall humanity start to be adopted and encoded into the omnitrix we've seen that the omnitrix takes blank dna and fuses it with ben to create a new alien body unique to ben so we know that the omnitrix is very experienced with entangling ben's dna with a large variety of creatures so adapting some of ben's dna into the device itself seems like child's play we've also seen that the omnitrix and ultimatrix accidentally bring ben's aliens to life on more than one occasion so we know that the omnitrix is capable of artificially creating consciousness with intelligence that quantifies them as a sentient being so perhaps the more that ben uses the omnitrix the more that it comes to life whenever the omnitrix speaks we hear it speak in ben's voice as if it's adapting itself into ben when the omnitrix was severed from ben's arm it was able to take full control of ben's hand and manipulate its muscles to navigate around terrain fight back and pull off some pretty impressive hardcore okay what's my hand doing it also appears to be able to see where it's going and at one point even looks back at a dog chasing it and moves faster so the omnitrix has adapted ben's voice and can even control parts of ben when ben's consciousness is not currently present in that body part whenever ben has master control ben's able to change between alien forms just by thinking of an alien showing the omnitrix is definitely neurologically connected to ben this gives the omnitrix a literal window into ben's mind where it's not just receiving commands it's learning now we'll loop back to the quote from a new dawn one more time where ben says it seems to know me better than me not that the omnitrix is tactical or that it's able to fight the enemies for ben but that it actually seems to know ben as a person so the omnitrix has ben's dna can create intelligent life has ben's voice can control his body can hear ben's thoughts and ben himself even feels like the omnitrix knows who he is and how he acts whenever ben miss transforms it can indeed be a setback but ben being ben also seems to find a way to make it work and it happens so many times that luck just doesn't seem to cut it anymore there has to be some kind of intelligence behind all of this mistransforming it seems that the more ben uses the omnitrix the more the omnitrix learns from ben and acts like a guardian angel making sure that he always has the tools he needs to get the job done it isn't always perfect at choosing which alien to turn ben into but hey neither is ben and if we're saying that the omnitrix gains its intelligence and personality from ben it makes sense that it can sometimes make a stupid decision just as easily as it gives ben the key to save the day it's undeniable that the omnitrix is much smarter than we realized and probably ever will know and we'll probably never truly know why ben is always turning into the wrong alien but one thing's for sure no matter which alien ben becomes when it's hero time ben will always give it his best shot lasers call for chromosome if you're gonna give me the wrong guy all the time why do you even have a dial [Music] thank you guys so much for watching you can stay up to date with all of our projects on patreon and discord and watch a stream every week on our second channel the rust bucket you can also get commissions and read our comic over on our website the inktank.com until then i'm surviving where are you peace [Music]

Channel: The Ink Tank

Views: 3,464,415

Keywords: kuro the artist, 5yl, 5 years later, omnitrix, ultimate, alien, force, reboot, aliens, dwayne, mcduffie, derrick, wyatt, tennyson, ryan asher, o.r. ash, orash, albedo, for a few brains more, a new dawn

Id: 8CJRwXJl2kM

Length: 12min 13sec (733 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 21 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Nevin_313]

"if you're gonna give me the wrong alien every time why do you even have a dial" - Humungasaur

[u/[deleted]]

Ayy glad to see you posting on reddit kuro!

[u/Smoking-Bandit]

I've commented this several times in my reviews but in UAF he constantly exclaims the name of one alien yet the dial is clearly set on a different one. And he always turns into what the dial shows.

[u/TheMadJAM]

You know you've made it in a community when your video gets pinned on the subreddit.

But in all seriousness, great video! Always glad to see em. I hope the next And Beyond is almost ready!