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Was it useless of Ben 10 to keep his secret ?

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  • npzmanN

    In other superhero shows. A superhero character keeps the identity a secret to protect themselves and the people that matters to them in their personal life. So their enemies won't target them.

    However nearly all of Ben's enemies knows about the Omnitrix and his alien transformations. Even during the Original Series and Alien Force. In most of Alien Force Ben doesn't even bother to hide to turn into a alien.

    Why did it took a obsessive fan like Jimmy Jones to reveal Ben's secret by the time of the events of the first Ben 10 Ultimate Alien episode. Jimmy exposed Ben's secret thinking he's doing Ben a favor.

    Why didn't any of Ben's villains just revealed Ben's secret publicly to create stress and new obstacles in Ben's life and making it harder Ben 10 to help people.

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    In other superhero shows. A superhero character keeps the identity a secret to protect themselves and the people that matters to them in their personal life. So their enemies won't target them.

    However nearly all of Ben's enemies knows about the Omnitrix and his alien transformations. Even during the Original Series and Alien Force. In most of Alien Force Ben doesn't even bother to hide to turn into a alien.

    Why did it took a obsessive fan like Jimmy Jones to reveal Ben's secret by the time of the events of the first Ben 10 Ultimate Alien episode. Jimmy exposed Ben's secret thinking he's doing Ben a favor.

    Why didn't any of Ben's villains just revealed Ben's secret publicly to create stress and new obstacles in Ben's life and making it harder Ben 10 to help people.

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    @npzman dunno, but I only watch the reboot

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    @npzman dunno, but I only watch the reboot

    npzmanN

    @lad Still didn't got around to watching the reboot but from what I heard I think Ben never kept his secret in the reboot.

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    @lad Still didn't got around to watching the reboot but from what I heard I think Ben never kept his secret in the reboot.

    Tactical OchoaT

    @npzman From what I recall, he doesn't.

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    In other superhero shows. A superhero character keeps the identity a secret to protect themselves and the people that matters to them in their personal life. So their enemies won't target them.

    However nearly all of Ben's enemies knows about the Omnitrix and his alien transformations. Even during the Original Series and Alien Force. In most of Alien Force Ben doesn't even bother to hide to turn into a alien.

    Why did it took a obsessive fan like Jimmy Jones to reveal Ben's secret by the time of the events of the first Ben 10 Ultimate Alien episode. Jimmy exposed Ben's secret thinking he's doing Ben a favor.

    Why didn't any of Ben's villains just revealed Ben's secret publicly to create stress and new obstacles in Ben's life and making it harder Ben 10 to help people.

    Tactical OchoaT

    @npzman What you're saying in the case with Alien Force and Ultimate Alien sounds like a case of bad writing; especially in regards to Jimmy Jones. I am not a fan of how Ben's identity was publicly revealed by Jimmy. I thought that was a really dumb thing that Ultimate Alien did.

    In the case with the Original Series, Ben's enemies don't know about his other family members. Who they are? What do they look like? Where they're at? Etc. Knowing Ben's identity wouldn't put his other family members in danger. Even then, the Tennyson family would certainly be an "off limits" thing here. We've seen what Ben (and Gwen) would do to anyone that dares to go after his family.

    Also, I'm pretty sure that revealing Ben's identity to the public wouldn't really get in the way of him being a hero. He would still go out of his way to stop the bad guys and be a hero. Whatever obstacles do get in his way, Ben would just find a way around them...or not even care about them. Ultimate Alien, Omniverse, and the Ben 10,000 future showcased this. Revealing Ben's identity publicly did little to nothing to benefit the villains.

    Along with protecting his family, another reason why Ben's hero identity was kept a secret for a while was so his family didn't know what Ben (and Gwen) were doing. The idea of two 10-year-olds using magic and the Omnitrix to be heroes, thus putting their lives in constant danger, wouldn't really sit well with Ben and Gwen's parents.

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  • ?

    When did Ben 10 get bad?

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    @Ebomnitrix Dwayne McDuffie didn't create Ben 10. The Man of Action team did, McDuffie had a very different vision for Ben 10 and retconned a lot of things for AF/UA that Man of Action had previously established in OS. I absolutely love Dwayne's work on Statick Shock and Justice League Unlimited (JLU is my favorite cartoon ever actually), but as other people here have said, I would have preferred a Ben 10 sequel by the hands of the original creators. My answer to the question: I think there is a reason why the OS is the most popular series, and that reason is because from AF onwards a big part of the audience lost interest (I'm not talking about the hardcore fans here, I'm talking about casual friends that I know that stopped watching Ben 10 after the OS). AF storylines were amazing, but the new aliens were not as interesting as the Original Series' ones (with a few exceptions), there were a lot of retcons, and especially, the writers were in love with Kevin and made him the main star of the show, stealing the spotlight from Ben sometimes, and it didn't work out.
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    Is Ben 10 dead?

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    @Ben-10-Fan I still think they can turn it around and improve the reboot, I'm still not sure that the Gwen spin off is even being made, but I hope so. It might help the franchise.
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    ben 10 toys

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    @Omni-Triforcer said in ben 10 toys: For the kids i want the omnitrix to come back since i know how much i wanted that damn toy when i was younger. I never bought Ben 10 toys and the only ben 10 merchandise i bought was the video games so hopefully they bring those back. Lol, same here. I always wonder how cool it was to have the Omnitrix als a toy. It looked so awesome when is was like 8 or 9. Ah Yeah those great child memerois
  • Ultimate OmniTriU

    Ben 10 Movie

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    Tactical OchoaT
    So according to this link by MoviePilot.com that lists 10 facts about Ben 10, Joel Silver might not be involved with the Ben 10 live action movie anymore. What we already know is that in 2011, Joel Silver was called in to produce the Ben 10 movie under Warners Bros and Dark Castle Entertainment while in 2012 it was reported that Albert Torres was writing the script. This we already know. What I think we don't know was that Joel Silvers left Warners Bros in 2013 and now works at Universal Studios. Ryan Engle was also brought in to continue working on Torres' script, which I believe means that Torres is no longer working on the Ben 10 movie. MoviePilot states that the Ben 10 movie might be made by either Warners Bros or Universal Studios but I doubt that Universal Studios is going to be working on Ben 10 simply because Ben 10 is owned by Cartoon Network, who is owned by Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting, who also owns Warners Bros and Dark Castle Entertainment. Universal Studios is owned by Comcast and NBCUniversal and not Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting. Cartoon Network is not going to hand this movie to Universal Studios but instead they would hand it to Warners Bros because of this. Therefore, Joel Silver is not involved with the Ben 10 live action movie. Whether or not anyone here knows about this already, I'm posting this here anyways for those who don't know about this. http://moviepilot.com/posts/3900108 Joel Silvers leaves Warners Bros: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warner-bros-joel-silver-317552 http://news.doddleme.com/news-room/warner-bros-joel-silver-part-ways-after-25-years/ http://flickdirect.com/news/3854/joel-silver-producer-of-the-matrix-leaves-warner-bros/article.ashx Ryan Engle working on the Ben 10 Movie: http://www.slashfilm.com/live-action-ben-10-adaptation-adds-black-list-screenwriter-ryan-engle/
  • Tactical OchoaT

    The Ben 10 Series

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    @chronosapien234 Yes, true. The Circus Freaks were important with his plan. However, that's just because they're villainous henchmen characters. Even without Zombozo, the Circus Freaks still end up temporarily as the henchmen to another villain. You know, Ghostfreak. Pretty much almost every time we've seen the Circus Freaks, they are serving somebody. Mostly Zombozo. They're just villainous henchmen characters. They helped but they're not really all that important. In fact, I believe that there pretty much wouldn't be a difference at all if they aren't around. Why? Because, again, they're henchmen. They're also basic thugs, too. The Circus Freaks are not that important. Also, this is about Zombozo as a character and villain. What makes Zombozo who he is. Why he is like that. How he executes his plans. What makes Zombozo as Zombozo and he doesn't need the Circus Freaks for that. That is another out of the many problems with Omniverse and even the other sequels. The Original Series was able to do things that not many cartoon shows ever did. The Original Series did something new. The sequels were generic and typical cartoon shows. They barely did anything new if nothing new at all. That episode in Omniverse with Zombozo turning everyone in Bellwood into zombie clowns. If it was a nod to the Original Series, it failed at trying to delivery and do something unique and impressive. No instead, it ended up being another terrible episode due to Ben regaining his fear of clowns and one major plot hole that really ruined that episode, let alone the sheer cartoonish stupidity of it. Does nobody remember that Zombozo and the Circus Freaks are villains? Does nobody remember what they've done in the past? Oh, Ben regained his fear of clowns, huh? Thanks for making Ben conquering his fears in the Original Series pointless now, Cartoon Network. As for the plot hole, ask yourself this question? Those toy teeth that turn people into zombie clowns. Yeah, how is it that those teeth can bite through Plumber armor and hazmat suits let alone BASIC CLOTHING? They're plastic toy teeth. Is Plumber armor really that terrible and not that protective? I thought Stormtrooper armor was bad enough. Plumber armor is even worse. That one plot hole alone makes that entire episode freakin stupid and terrible. It shows how poor and lazy the writing, structuring, and designing of the sequels are. I know it's a cartoon show but again, it needs to make sense and needs to be understandable enough to work.