Why Did Ben 10,000 Punch the Time Bomb And Die?

power scaling in Ben 10 is an absolute mess but some things are also more simple than you'd think one of the most notable moments in Ben 10 is during the big multiversal team up Vilgax sets off a bomb that destroys every single Ben and their own entire universe aside from one without an Omnitrix who is called No watch Ben Ben 10K the future version of Ben Prime transforms into Atomic X and punches the time bomb only to be erased away but why we know from Professor Paradox that there are infinite universes in the Ben 10 Multiverse parallel versions of the history we know there are hundreds of them had infinitum and from Vilgax that the bomb destroyed every Universe aside from his current one the destination won't even touch this timeline it's designed to wipe other timelines from existence all of them this shows that on some level this bomb has the power to destroy things infinitely if you want an official scaling term this puts the bomb around multiversal Plus or tier 2A Ben 10K who by all means should be leagues more powerful and smarter than the band we follow in the show attempts to retaliate against the Bomb by using a fusion between Alien X and atomix a common rule among Ben 10 fusions is that the powers of those aliens are split in two while stink arms is both stinkfly and forearms he is not as strong as forearms nor can fly as well as stinkfly it's very debatable what the real advantage of using atomics with Alien X actually does as Alien X can do anything that atomics can do to a ridiculous degree but it's widely believed that atomics's DNA mixed into the bunch gives Ben 10K better control over alien X's Powers opposed to cutting alien X's power in half as cutting infinite power in half seems redundant no matter how you look at this it still begs the question why did Ben 10K think merely punching the time bomb was a good idea in the first place after hearing many sides to this debate over the past few years I think it boils down to three possible reasons let's start with the one I've already suggested and defended in the past is that Ben simply didn't know what he was up against and made the wrong move we as the audience knew what the time bomb was due to the conversation between Vilgax and Eon but none of the other bends including Ben 10K are around to hear it so there doesn't seem to be a way that Ben knew what was really happening and perform a proper countermeasure while bellicus and Serena have what we can classify as omniscience as they have information Beyond Ben's scope of knowledge this doesn't mean that Ben has the knowledge himself felicus and Serena are able to have Consciousness even when Ben is not transformed into Alien X and have even been implied to somehow Outlast Ben after his death if Ben wants information he needs to know to ask for it and there's a chance Ben 10K simply didn't know what the time bomb was and was expecting Atomic X to be enough to handle it Alien X was able to automatically survive the destruction of his own Universe without even realizing it and the time bomb wave looked like just about every other energy-based explosion we've seen in Ben 10. so Ben 10K probably didn't think any differently about it it's also worth noting that right after this no watch Ben was able to use Clockwork to undo the effects of the time bomb and actually reverse the destructive energy that was able to wipe out infinite universes this feat takes place within the same two-part story yet usually gets overlooked despite how ridiculously powerful it is and we know that Alien X still scales above Clockwork so Atomic X probably could have done this too had he known what he was up against it doesn't matter how powerful someone is if they're able to be tricked but let's play Devil's Advocate and move on to our second reason that perhaps the time bomb really is more powerful than Atomic X while some believe that atomix's DNA can't actually cut alien X's powers in half there are those that do believe this so let's explore that outcome with atomic X being only half of Alien X by definition he should only be half as powerful as Alien X while cutting Infinity in half seems to be useless it is actually possible a great example is taking an infinite string of numbers you can take out all of the odd numbers leaving them separate from the evens and have two sets of infinity while they are both equally infinite they are technically only two parts to a greater Infinity which is the full scale of numbers as strange as it is to say perhaps only being half as infinitely powerful as a full Celestial Sapien was enough of a disadvantage for Ben 10K to be susceptible to the time bomb it is questionable what would happen if a full-fledged Celestial Sapien went up against the bomb but bringing back clockwork's ability to reverse the bomb and Alien X scales above Clockwork it's reasonable to assume that Alien X could have survived this if Atomic X didn't cut his powers in half a third possibility and the one I currently enjoy the most is that Ben 10K willingly sacrificed himself to preserve the timeline the natural flow of events is a common theme in Ben 10 especially whenever there's episodes that feature Professor Paradox characters will often Point towards alternative solutions to problems at hand and even if they would work in the moment Professor Paradox explains that certain events must unfold in a very specific way even if they don't make sense at the time you could go back in time and stop aggregor before he gets the map with all your powers why don't you just like snap your fingers or something and fix all this there's a limit to what I can tell you things will get worse before they get better Kevin I'm sorry you cannot interfere time Walker and you know why There Are Places I cannot go and things I cannot do but Ben can given that Ben Prime was also present during the time bombs explosion and Ben 10K is from the future that means Ben 10K already went through these events at least once he knew that even if he could stop the time bomb and save everyone right now it was no watch Ben's Destiny to save the day as that's how it happened to him in the past sure the future changes all the time in Ben 10 but there are also time Loops which can't change or else the loop will break Ben is also very experienced with creating time Loops as he breezed through the confusion when he swapped Minds with his younger self during the episode Ben again and notably the season 8 finale when it was revealed that maltruent was also caught in a Time Loop created by Ben and the professor Ben is also Keen to maintain the time Loops even when it involves keeping others in the dark see maltruent is stuck in a Time Loop the only person who doesn't know about the time Loop is maltruent himself oh and you I guess we even come to know that the events of of the time bomb are a Time Loop itself as the good bends that arrive to save no watch Ben at the start of the battle were actually recruited by no watch Ben himself at the end of the battle but were brought back in time to that moment no watch Ben is also part of a Time Loop where Ben Prime receives the Omnitrix in the first place so perhaps in order to maintain the correct timeline Ben 10K allowed himself to be erased knowing that no watch Ben will bring him back anyways so he punched the time bomb to make it seem like he was fighting back in order to preserve everyone else's unknowing perspective and not let them know about the time Loop sometimes to do something all you need to do is nothing you can even say He Cheats a little bit and hints towards the solution by being the one to introduce no watch Ben to Clockwork in the first place who's this Clockwork he's got time Powers all of these plausibilities are only theories but they are all based on the logic of the series so without an official answer any of these could be true and I guess it's up to you which one you want to go with let me know what your favorite theory is down below in the comments or if you have your own I'm interested to hear about everyone else's interpretation of this scene thanks for watching and as always keep it busy [Music]

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Length: 8min 32sec (512 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 25 2023

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[u/Frostburn36]

Amusing, just watched that a bit earlier and this is the first Ben 10 post I see

I definitely loved the "Preserve the timeline" theory