Didn't Azmuth explain in Omniverse that because Ben was smacking the dial with such force, it would cause the dial to spin and chance aliens last second?
@@FirestoneAnimation that's what I thought too, but the people at the Ink Tank dissected that scene and what Azmuth says is that Ben keeps randomising the time-out period by slamming the dial.
@@FirestoneAnimation He still slammed the recalibrated one, and that one gave him the right alien always. It wasn’t until Ben and Kevin tried to hack the omnitrix that it went back to giving him the wrong alien at times. Not cause he kept slamming it.
If any kid had the omnitrix would hate that sound just as much as Ben. Cause that watch did have a habit on timing out on Ben at some of the most inconvenient times
It's also kinda hilarious yet stupid at the same time when the omnitrix did time out on Ben at a bad time in the episode when Ghostfreak/Zs'Skayr returned in season 3 he had a chance to possess Ben's body like he wanted to when he first broke out of the omnitrix. But in classic villain fashion he starts monologuing instead. Though there were some gags I found funny in Ben 10 like when sometimes the watch would give Ben the wrong alien that was funny if it happened every once in a while, though while I like omniverse I feel like they used that gag way to much
Do you think Ben has PTSD when he hears this sound Like, so many times he was in a situation where that sound meant “You are about to die” Do you think if you recorded this sound and played it to him in the middle of a battle he’d have a fucking panic attack
@@cartoonishidealism582 oh absolutely I think he'd go into something more akin to fight or flight, where he'd instinctively look for the nearest place to hide or the nearest object that can be used as a weapon before realizing he was not in danger and that he could still use his watch, that the timer hadn't run out
Like with the diamond head episode where he was looking where to timeout away from people. It took forever for him to go back and it just kept beeping.
@@solarfreak1107 so many great videos of our generation had their comments wiped out thanks to this stupid thing. I always loved relating to folks who had the same experience growing up with the amazing cartoons such as Justice League Unlimited Batman animated and ben 10. The comments were present just one or two years ago. Now completely gone. It feels like a great tragedy.
How did the writers balance out giving Ben such extremely powerful abilities? Well by having the device time-out whenever at the most inopportune times lol
@@jantheking7028 there was a lot because the first omnitrix that we see in the show is the prototype, in the others shows(like alien force) omnitrix has improoved himself due to ben's new needs or ben just get an "upgrade version"(sometimes correcting some bugs in the process, like the timer)
Despite the watch timing out at the worst times and changinghim into the wrong aliens, you gotta give respect to the writers because it forces Ben to get creative in really close situations where he could have died...Plus it's really good for suspense...
If my memory serves me correctly, The reason why Ben would always get the wrong aliens at times is because Azmuth stated that Ben kept slapping the Omnitrix too hard causing it to reset.
@@jesuschristthefirstjojo.7565 I read a fan theory that said that the Watch is smart enough to strategize and choose the correct alien Ben is a child and would choose Humongasaur over XLR8 to save people in a burning building then get XLR8 and be sad The Watch chooses the alien for Ben and forces him to strategize with what he has and makes him a smarter user instead of choosing Humungasaur for every episode (like what I wanted as a child) Like imagine he needs to fix something and wanted XLR8 to fix electronics faster when Upgrade is the better option
@@uphi-downlow5792 that's literally my theory i've had for ages lol. i personally think that 1. it tries to stop him from picking stupid aliens and 2. picks aliens which aren't the obvious solution to force him to get creative if it thinks he can survive the encounter and win it
It has a timer of exactly 10 minutes in a transformation and a 10 minute cool down. The watch wasnt meant to be a weapon, it was a research tool, so it needs to limit what someone can do with it.
With master control being a thing I never understood the point of the timeout in universe especially if azimuth had no intention of it being a weapon it makes no sense for him to limit it
@@ASS-tb3mqHow was he scared? He needed Ben to turn back in order to possess him He couldn’t when Ben was in alien form because the Omnitrix would prevent him from doing so 😂
Ghostfreak, to me, was always legitimately terrifying, in both his regular and true form. When Ben opened up his chest and those tentacles came out at Bozo, that actually scared me. His true form, just seethed creepiness, with his upside down head, long claws, and decaying body. He always scared me.
That reason alone is why I felt like Ghostfreak was the most evil of Ben's villains. Dude just took pride in the fear he caused compared to Vilgax who just wanted the Omnitrix to take over the world. Personally, I wouldn't have minded if Ghostfreak became the final boss of the series in the original continuity.
@@saltystick_99 Ghostfreak end goal, besides one time turning Earth's population into mutant freaks with the satellites, is just to possess individuals. Vilgax on the other hand possess an army capable of taking over the galaxy, with the Omnitrix being his Deux Ex Machinima
As a child this absolutely irritated me, I knew for a fact that whenever this happened, and in the original Ben 10 show it happened nearly every episode it was always going to turn off at the worst possible time, that is until Ben acquired the master code for it. I’ve watched many great animated shows that ruled my childhood, as I was born in 2007, and this by far is the best one that I’ve rewatched, as I child I loved the fighting and the transformations but didn’t think twice of Ben’s actual lore, as a 16 year old, I now realize that Ben was just an eager child trying to catch up with his sister, as he realized that she was always better than him, he accidentally got over his own head, and realized what he could do with this power, at first he used it recklessly, then realized that if it got in the wrong hands people that he loved like his sited and his uncle could die, so he cherished it like none other, and trained intellectually and physically, this only happens in Ultimate, in Ben 10 Ben is just a child, in Ultimate he’s a responsible properly developed teenager, and in the sequel he’s an adult man working for an organization. Ultimate was by far my favorite. And it was LONG.
@@maximilian200057 yeah his cousin but yeah, the fact is to him, she is not different from sister, I guess. And maybe even better than a normal blood sis, since they lived through very dangerous situations and until Ultimate, they were in contact for over 6 years with Omniverse maybe 7? idk I didn't watch omniverse much... I just started to watch it again and I am 22 years old... I kind of looking for nostalgia.
You realize that Vilgax is really powerful when Ben can fight him using Master Control and still got bagged, he could only hold him for a time to Max and Gwen to run.
The whole reason for the time out was to avoid the prototype Omnitrix permanently altering Ben’s DNA as Asmuth was still working on it. Which is why it rebooted in alien force and no longer timed out
Nope...it was because Ben didn't have access to the master codes or something...in the later seasons after a million tries he figures out the master control and fights effortlessly against vilgax and kevin...
@@pewpewpewpew3229 Nope, it was in universe a fixed time limit of 10 minutes because it was a prototype. When it updated and recalibrated it was changed to be energy usage so timeouts became less of an issue until Ben broke the damn thing again
No because Ben 10,000 omitrix dident rebooted and the only reason why it rebooted in aliens force cos Ben change the future when he met his future self so he took off the omitrix but In the original timeline that never happen
@@symbolofpeacetv1578 The original Omnitrix was a prototype, but to Classic Ben 10K, Secret Of The Omnitrix likely never happened (it'll be apparent why i think this in a moment). Here, it's based more on time than energy consumption, prone to glitching, and is generally unstable. This is also connected to the Codon Stream, a small bank of Alien samples that are then stored on the watch itself. Also, given that C-Ben 10K used both Grey Matter and Upgrade to unlock and upgrade the Proto-omnitrix, that means Azmuth never tried to retrieve the Omnitrix, or bothered to even look for it. (Or, like Ben 23, did try, but Ben defeated or un-alived Azmuth) According to Omniverse (which is the same timeline as Classic, AF and UA) Ben didn't take the Omnitrix off until he was at least 11, then puts it back on at 15/16, where it auto-updates into the AF Watch. This is based moreso on Ben's physicality and energy (hence why he transforms back when KO'd), though most glitches has been fixed. This version is connected to the planet Primus, which wirelessly connects all DNA to the U-Omnitrix. Ben should look down at his dial more often here, since most mis-transformations are his fault, and it also doesn't detransform until Ben and Kevin mess with the Omnitrix, putting it into Safety Mode. In Ultimate Alien, the Ultimatrix is made by Albedo, meaning it's not official. That ALSO means it doesn't fully benefit as a upgrade, leading into the Ultimates gaining sentience. It's still based on Energy rather than time, though, it seems it has a larger capacity now. This one also never Times out. It's unknown whether this is connected to Primus or Codon (though i believe it's Primus) The New Omnitrix (from Omniverse, but was given to Ben at the end of Ultimate Alien by Azmuth) is the fully realized product of the Omnitrix. It doesn't time out, run out of energy, has a species lock, or mistransforms by itself. It also can store and display more aliens at once.
Like when he was struggling against Kevin in this very video. What a horrifying scenario to be turned back to a powerless human while an angry kid with hulk powers is targeting you.
It's such a shame in alien force and ultimate alien it became a energy limit and didn't even tell us when it timed out. Even in Omniverse it doesn't really time out the same
Especially when he was underwater as Ripjaws and it started timing out. He was probably deep enough that he would've been crushed to death if he turned human.
As an adult you realize the timer served as a great way of balancing out the ridiculously OP nature of the Omnitrix, as well as give stakes to Ben's fights.
And a goal to work towards overcoming. Which most kids also realised except for the very young ones, since it was made pretty fn clear in the damn show. Lmao.
Honestly man, I’m glad the writers implemented this feature. Without the timing out, Ben would win almost 100% of the time. It was a nice balance that made tension still present, because it meant that Ben couldn’t rely on his aliens 24/7.
It's so heartwarming to see that despite the original franchise ended eight years ago, there are still a lot of people who are interested in it and still either post or watch such videos. I used to watch Ben 10 occasionally when it was first launched(was 4 years old when the first episode was broadcasted) and the only thing I regret is that it took me over 17 years to truly discover its magic. It's so nice and nostalgic to see videos like this
Yeah i used to watch the og ben 10 while i was 7 yrs old(now i am 17).But nowadays cartoon channels has literally downgraded Ben 10 so much its horrible.Btw i still watch and like cartoons.(sorry for my broken english)
Same here. While I didn't get to follow the franchise to the end (I stopped after Ultimate Alien), I have no memory of not being hyped about watching a new episode. And it would've broken my seven year old self's heart to see how the reboot ruined it. It shares the same trash bin as Teen Titans Go.
The Omnitrix is sentient, or at least, semi sentient. Of all the times it has timed out, it hasn’t timed out in situations that would otherwise kill its host. In those situations, it would prolong the transformation, but at the cost of a longer than normal recharge
I always imagined the longer/shorter timeouts were Ben's perception of it. When he really needs to fly a bit longer it seems to suddenly time out fast. When he is thinking really quick about where to hide his identity it seems to take a long while to timeout. Things like that!
In the Omnitrix’s defense, Ben literally always slammed his hand on the thing, which he wasn’t supposed to be doing at all. But in Ben’s defense, it’s not like Azmuth wrote a manual for the watch saying not to.
i read a theory about how the bugs weren't actually bugs the wrong aliens that ben ACCIDENTLY got was the best alien for that current scenario.....the time limit tho.... yea a nerf
I remember watching the episode where they introduced Ditto, that's the first (only?) time when the omnitrix times out but doesn't transform Ben back. Since then I had a hard time believing the timeout sound, "maybe this time Ben won't change back!", 10 years old me would say
@@ThePilleroflightning Gwen deduces it. But what's weird is that the alien Echo-Echo can also duplicate but each one is independent and can die without the others being affected.
@@theplaguegamer6216 I think it’s so Echo Echo and Ditto can differentiate and not act so similarly. Or simply because Echo Echo’s race doesn’t work the same. But who knows honestly.
And how Ben have experience and fast mind to change into right aliens in the danger moment. Like in Nulivoid episode in classic, in the iconic Master Control scene.
@@Outsider00 And he was still a child, imagine him in the future with access to more powerful aliens like Atomix, Alien X, Clockwork, Way Big etc. He would become an Omniversal level threat
@@Grzmichuj2137 if he was bad, the multiverse will be in danger. You can see how powerful is him with control master by classic Bens 10.000 or Omniverse. I like how master control alows Ben to go beyond of unlock aliens, he can literally rebuild the entire universe and recreate extinct species, like cannonbolt or diamondhead (when Chromastone recreated the petrosapien planet).
You can share your thoughts but me personally. I love the original design of the omnitrix. The aliens looked unlike anything I could imagine at the time, insane power yet so broken. It's the charm of how the most powerful yet self-destructive device put into the hands of a ten year old. An it actually gave Ben a real challenge, every fight was on a time limit.
We all hated the sound just as Ben did,but it really balances out the story and also shows us how one needs to be a quick thinker too as when omni was charging he only had to use his creativity. Gives the same vibe as JJBA
I remember reading the timer is a failsafe to prevent abuse and misuse of the watch for its wearer, limiting its use to only 10 minutes every hour. The watch also gave Ben the wrong alien because the ai is designed to give the best alien to use in a scenario. However, prolonged bonding unlocks the watch's failsafes when you want its trust, eventually turning off the timer, giving quick alien switching, and allowing the user to choose whatever alien they want with no ai interference
This makes so much more sense... As a kid, actually up till now, I thought it was just a "battery low" kinda thing... It always confused me that the watch would find it more battery efficient to turn Ben back into a Human than to keep him as whatever alien he was at that time. I'd question why, how it worked, and what it was actually doing to Ben. This... THIS... makes so much more sense. Like the watch needs to know it can trust the user, and adjust the user to experiencing the effects, like it was making sure no one got stuck in a form they didn't want, and no one could just use alien powers constantly and forever.
I think Azmuth once explained that Ben sometimes transform into the wrong aliens because he kept slamming the omnitrix instead of pressing it properly, which in theory could nudge the option dial into the next alien in line before the transformation
@Paulo SM strong chance the aliens had some ability that would allow the situation to play out more smoothly, but ben was just too impulsive and quick to react to ever consider those options as options.
@Paulo SM much like how he couldnt properly use the watch maybe he couldnt use the aliens to the fullest potential. we as viewers really dont get to know.
This was actually interesting, as a kid we all hated the fact that the watch trolled him at the worst times but now that we're grown up, we understand that the watch was trying to teach him that no matter what powers you get, they're useless if not used at the proper time and situation and then we could see in the next season that he used it way better when he grew up
This is so nostalgic. As kid I always hated that the omnitrix was timing out, but at the same time I always thought the was writers way of making the audience relate to Ben. When the omnitrix timed out Ben got mad and we the audience got mad too.
whenever ben 10 used the omnitrix, he can only be a specific type of alien for a limited time of 10 minutes. or you could just refer to firestone animation's interpretation of how the omnitrix works for each ben.
Time based for the most part but there *are* instances of Ben getting a quick recharge because he's in danger and one very notable instance of a transformation lasting like... maybe a minute tops because a previous transformation was forcibly extended to last a much longer length of time.
My favorite episode ever was when he messed with it and actually used its full potential, with no time limits and without having to press it all the time, just thinking about an alien to transform into it. I never got over the fact that he was never able to do that again
Excatly when it times out the writers want him to solve out situations on his OWN WITHOUT THE WATCH. It shows that Ben 10 Can Be a HERO WITH AND WITHOUT THE WATCH.
@@dream6562 I thought ghost freak was the only one able to take over ben cause it was a actual being placed himself in the omnitrix and not just a sample like all the other ones.
@@hidan407 actually ghost freak species has this special thing where their conciousness exists in each strand of DNA, so he was able to live on just by a sample of his DNA in the omnitrix
That sound effect gives me so much nostalgia. This used to be my favorite cartoon from when I was 4 years old to 11 years old. I played all the flash games, watched all the RUclips videos, and drew all the aliens. This show raised me.
Same. And the story was so original (a boy with a watch that transforms him to aliens with various abilities, not some superhero with superpowers, not a story based on an old comic, etc) that it can't ever be replicated.
@@josephoduor2358 Not to say Ben 10 wasn't brilliant in many ways But a human with a device that turns him into an alien is Ultraman. I was a Ben 10 fan first, but ever since I discovered Ultraman, I just notice more and more similarities. Even one of Ben's Aliens (Waybig) is LITERALLY just Ultraman. They even named his species Tokustar which sounds like Tokusatsu (the genre stuff like Ultraman, Power Rangers and Godzilla belong to) But my favorite similarity is that both heroes have a timer that beeps and flashes red when they're about to turn back into human.
You should have included that scene in They Lurk Beyond where Ripjaws was about to time out while still underwater and he was desperately trying to get back into the submarine while the Omnitrix was beeping for a ridiculously long time.
Definitely one of my favorite aspects of the first series. The Omnitrix malfunctions a lot. It times out and sometimes picks a different Alien than Ben’s choice. I do love that he a unlocked new aliens as he progressed through the show.
I swear, I was convinced that watch was trying to kill Ben sometimes. But it brought like, 50 percent of the suspense. The reboots not having this is a tragedy
the new ben 10 is actually pretty good, no cap. its supposed to be more tuned towards today's humor style, but i found it fun to watch. hating the reboots may be your thing, but UAF, OV [favorite, cause i grew up with it.] and the new reboot were pretty good imho
@@HealthXPotions Maybe it is fun to watch, I will never know because I grew up with the classic Ben10, meaning I'm almost 20 now and don't really watch cartoons all that much. So it's good if you enjoy it, personally for me Ben turning into a Gravity Falls character is a hard pill to swallow. Idk why "today's humor" is dumbed down but it is what it is i guess.
Destroy All Aliens had a pretty anxiety-driving moment with that sound when Way Big Ben was frozen. "I can't move!" "That's bad..." (Beeping) "That's worse!"
The omnitrix running out was honestly a pretty good way to balance out the show tbh You'd thought Ben would figure out how long it lasts and test it out at some point but I guess once that thing got stuck on his wrist, he never really had much down time huh?
I'd say ben had a pretty good guess on how long it took the watch to time out. But in the heat of battle you can't really tell how much time has passed. Add to that the fact that he's only 10 years old and might not have the best sense of time
Plus, I just read another comment up top that made sense: The Omnitrix is AI-powered and detects the situation such that it doesn't always give Ben the alien he wanted...but the alien that was needed.
"That's not Ben!" *"Yeah, right! Whenever there's some freaky alien, your cousin just... happens to be gone? How dumb do you think i am?!"* Finally, someone with the common sense to piece things together!
Even as the series goes the watch times out at the worst possible moment 😂 I still remember that one episode when Azmuth explains why the watch times out quickly and why it keeps choosing the wrong alien….my guess is because the times that Ben SLAMS the watch so hard when all you had to do is just press it with your finger
Which he only did in the first episode if I remember right. But once he realize it was a "transform into an alien watch thing" he just resorted to slamming his big meaty claws on it. You know...That actually has a lot of weight to it. No pun intended.
Not to mention, it's designed for and by a Galvan, so I doubt Azmuth accounted for it to be slammed like that. He even said as much, slightly paraphrasing "I expected more dexterity out of those fatty fingers"
But the thing is, its just a bs writer excuse. In alien force it was working properly even when he slams it, and he continies to do so even after azimuth told him the supposed reason.
Reminder, the Omnitrix would glitch out because Ben kept ramming it too hard, even Azmuth said if Ben would just press the button, like it was meant to be, instead of ramming it, he would get the right aliens and the battery wouldn't run out so fast
My biggest problem with this was that it always took as much time as the writers wanted for it to actually change him back once it started beeping. Sometimes it's a second and a half, sometimes it's like 20.
I think the Kevin Levin fight as Four Arms is maybe the worst example of this where it's timing out for a full 45 seconds of screentime compared to the normal 3 seconds. That being said I don't think that's actually on the writers. Scripts are a hard medium to perceive time in and what on paper might look like 5 seconds may in actuality take a full minute, especially if the 5 seconds in the script involve a lot of action that has to be animated.
I like to think that the watch had some form of knowing if Ben was in a real life-death situation and would prolong the beeping time to give him a chance. All the other times that it insta beeped out, Ben wouldn't really die by going back to human, but against Kevin, for example, he would've be done for. So the Omnitrix prolonged the timer until Ben felt he was no longer dead by turning back🎉
my head canon i had as a kid was that the watch was alive and doing this shit on purpose. Made it so much funnier to watch it with that mindset growing up
Ben losing his ability to turn into any aliens due to the time limitation of the Omnitrix is like Spider-Man lost his powers for wasting all of the webs. No matter how strong and powerful you are, limits still holds you back.
I never liked the sound, but I'd still love to have an omnitrix. Mainly because that means there are aliens in real life as well and I have the best tool to use for everyday activities. Also I would never pass up the chance to transform into Diamond head, XLR8, Big Chill, GrayMatter/Brainstorm, Upgrade and Clockwork
@F_MK Yeah sorry but, if the price of omnopotent power is to be stuck for eternity with Bellus and Serina then its not worth it for me. I'd literally rather have Ben's "The Worst" transformation rather than Alien X. At least with him I'm indestructible and can move
This is something I wish the Ultimate Alien Force era, Omniverse, and the reboot had kept. In those series, Ben would time out but would instantly go right back to being an alien in less than a few seconds. I always felt that ruined the tension and suspense by having Ben go alien so quickly.
That’s because in the later series Ben could choose to revert back whenever he wanted, the Omnitrix was actually upgraded instead of just a prototype and he didn’t smack the shit out of it. The canonical reason for the timeouts is that because Ben kept slamming the watch face down aggressively with his whole fist when he transformed, instead of just pressing it down normally with one or two fingers, it would set a random time to time out due to a chronometer within the watch becoming loose.
@@tedioussugar384I mean in some ways the "better" omnitrixes were worse. As an example related to the timer it's shown in classic the timer only turns Ben human if he stays the same alien for 10 minutes so in multiple cases if Ben switches the timer resets to 10 minutes. Also the whole smack the omnitrix is dumb and is kinda a retcon, as an example remember the time when azmuth jumped on the omnitrix to transform Ben (in classic), how azmuth didn't softly press the omnitrix when he had it, how paradox tells Ben to hit the omnitrix, how albedo slams his omnitrix (mind you the one he built and should be worse and albedo should know since he worked with azmuth it's bad to slam ) Personally I think it was just a thing in Omniverse and a fault of the completed omnitrix
I honestly like that despite being a super-advanced alien artifact, the Omnitrix still malfunctions sometimes. Turns out you can't make 100% perfect technology
Indeed it took azmuth 6 years to develop the complete omnitrix and yet it's still not 100% perfect but it's pretty close to it like 97% that's really close
I think the writers did a decent job at not making ben not always OP with the omnitrix, by having the timeouts and having ben transform into the alien he didn't want
I love the device like the omnitrix, all it’s upsides and downsides that kinda balance ultimate powers, restrictions, and a literal child using them lol. I’m also glad they never went with the omnitrix had a mind of its own and actively took steps to explain why these issues happened lol
This was low-key genius this and mistransformations Ben's one of the few heroes who could have mistakes like this and still be interesting plus his franchise was basically what comics do nowadays on TV shows and movies
As much as I hated Omniverse because of it’s endless Retconning, it did have one explanation that worked perfectly. When Ben is too rough with the Omnitrix it screws up the time out function. If you notice in AF and UA Ben was more gentle with using the Omnitrix and had more control, with the watch only timing out when it gets over used..
@@kermitgotthesickkicks4265 there’s a difference between subtle retconning, such as control dial placement. And blatantly altering everything with no rhyme or reason.
@@kermitgotthesickkicks4265 Yes, at the same time those were not retcons the were expansions. -The original series never spoke or mentioned Plummers outside of earth, but it also never claimed they were exlusive to earth. If the series said that Plummer were a solely earth based organization that would be one thing. -Anodite's were never mentioned or established in the original series. So, it's not a retcon, as a retcon is when established canon is changed or altered to fit a new narrative. The same goes for primus, the original series never mentioned how DNA was collected or stored, as such nothing was changed or altered.
Becayse the Omnitrix has failsafes to protect Ben so it can extend the timer in situations like that or just turn him into a Alien automatically to protect him
I always liked the sound that was made where, somehow the omnitrix was timing out but held out a few seconds longer than normal, making a totally different stress noise.
I love the first one with Heatblast. Ben had just prevented two trains from crashing and escaped from Kevin. Even while holding onto dear life on a moving train, he simply expresses his dislike of the Omnitrix’s timeout noise in controlled distress
Ahh I remember a dream where I had the classic Omnitrix. I was in the middle of my city, and transformed into xlr8, went home as fast as possible and turned human, went to bed. After that I woke because I thought I actually had the Omnitrix in real life that actually works
My favourite scene of this was against Kevin, the watch beeped but Ben refused to turn back so he managed to stay fourarms a little bit longer and kick Kevin ass
Y'All remember that one episode where Ben got stuck as Grey Matter for a whole day? Why the hell did it take so damn long for the Omnitrix to time out then?
Right. That’s what I always wondered why that even happened in that episode of “Ben 10” & still don’t understand it even till this very day after all these years from my Childhood.
Always found myself waiting for the next episode day by day. Glad to see that so many people still remember and love this. Hope they never try to remake it because with today's climate. They will destroy this.
I also hated this but right now i appreciate it, because I realized so much scenes of Ben solving the situation without the aliens is one of the things that made Ben 10 so special and addictive to all of us at the time.
This is why I always liked Alien Force more. It’s energy based instead of time and gave him the right alien. And then season 3 happened… When I was a kid though I was fanboying over season 3 because of all the returning aliens and villains.
the energy based shit is so dumb because they just picked and choosed there were no rules with the "energy" stuff. One episode ben literally transforms into like 5 aliens in one go against michael morningstar. Other episodes he'll time out. another episode he might be the alien for the whole entire episode.
I forgot how much of a troll that thing was. Not only did it give him wrong aliens, it turned him back at the worst moments. 😂
Didn't Azmuth explain in Omniverse that because Ben was smacking the dial with such force, it would cause the dial to spin and chance aliens last second?
@@FirestoneAnimation That was with the new one omnitrix.
@@FirestoneAnimation that's what I thought too, but the people at the Ink Tank dissected that scene and what Azmuth says is that Ben keeps randomising the time-out period by slamming the dial.
@@yuutaruu4242 Oh yeah
@@FirestoneAnimation
He still slammed the recalibrated one, and that one gave him the right alien always. It wasn’t until Ben and Kevin tried to hack the omnitrix that it went back to giving him the wrong alien at times. Not cause he kept slamming it.
If any kid had the omnitrix would hate that sound just as much as Ben. Cause that watch did have a habit on timing out on Ben at some of the most inconvenient times
to right mate if only ben could use greymatter to unlock the master control like ken his possible future son did
@@temidayobello1311 Ben would made every villain fodder if he had it
@@joenaomeke2700 that doesnt make sense
It's also kinda hilarious yet stupid at the same time when the omnitrix did time out on Ben at a bad time in the episode when Ghostfreak/Zs'Skayr returned in season 3 he had a chance to possess Ben's body like he wanted to when he first broke out of the omnitrix.
But in classic villain fashion he starts monologuing instead.
Though there were some gags I found funny in Ben 10 like when sometimes the watch would give Ben the wrong alien that was funny if it happened every once in a while, though while I like omniverse I feel like they used that gag way to much
@@thomaselliottjohncampbell3024 good point
It always felt like having a anxiety attack because as a kid *you always feel as if Ben was gonna die* Whenever you heard that noise..
Ye
The sound immediately turns on my fight or flight response
Yeah
Yeah and it would be way worse if he was flying in like the middle of an ocean or something then it begins to time out.
Yes sir especially when fighting villains like Ghost Freak
Gods, the amount of anxiety I would get every time it timed out in a serious situation 😭
They had no reason playing with our heart rate 😭
@@andtea4558 fr😭
Fr! I was like: "No no no NOT NOW!"
Do you think Ben has PTSD when he hears this sound
Like, so many times he was in a situation where that sound meant “You are about to die”
Do you think if you recorded this sound and played it to him in the middle of a battle he’d have a fucking panic attack
@@cartoonishidealism582 oh absolutely
I think he'd go into something more akin to fight or flight, where he'd instinctively look for the nearest place to hide or the nearest object that can be used as a weapon before realizing he was not in danger and that he could still use his watch, that the timer hadn't run out
What’s worse is when the Omnitrix took longer to time out, so the sound would play longer at an increasingly higher pitch.
Enemy's : 🤨👂
Like with the diamond head episode where he was looking where to timeout away from people. It took forever for him to go back and it just kept beeping.
@@brandoncastellano1858 what episode is that?
@@causalityconductor I honestly couldn’t tell you it’s been so long. I think it was the one where Kevin was going around pretending to be him though?
@@brandoncastellano1858 thanks. I will check
The iconic sound of anxiety, because you know when you hear it, Ben’s about to be at a *massive* disadvantage.
Maybe this cartoon was the reason i developed anxiety...
@@Interrogation_Point Doubt
then it’s scrawny 12 year boy vs omnipotent powerful alien
I literally feel like I need to hold my breath everytime when hearing it. Ben Ten was the cause of my anxiety
@@thejaded bruh
_"You know, for a watch, you have a lousy sense of timing"_
-Tennyson, Ben
2007
Lol true
For real!
" *Sometimes I feel like this thing just plain hates me* "
- Tennyson, Ben
2007
Ben is his nickname BTW
His first name is Benjamin
@@Edgeworth992we know
the swearing in the description is to avoid getting marked for kids, but it also accurately describes how we felt when we heard this
Nice to know how easy it is to bypass youtube kids. Fuck that shit, I love relating to people in the comments.
@@solarfreak1107 so many great videos of our generation had their comments wiped out thanks to this stupid thing. I always loved relating to folks who had the same experience growing up with the amazing cartoons such as Justice League Unlimited Batman animated and ben 10. The comments were present just one or two years ago. Now completely gone. It feels like a great tragedy.
Haha
@@OptimusDeltaDude same.Fuck RUclips.
How did the writers balance out giving Ben such extremely powerful abilities? Well by having the device time-out whenever at the most inopportune times lol
That and the mistransformations.
There was a lot of bad things about the omnitrix. If it malfunctioned, you could be switching into the aliens at random, or the alien forms would mix.
@@jantheking7028 there was a lot because the first omnitrix that we see in the show is the prototype, in the others shows(like alien force) omnitrix has improoved himself due to ben's new needs or ben just get an "upgrade version"(sometimes correcting some bugs in the process, like the timer)
@@jantheking7028 the mixing was only when Omnitrix had a piece missing.
@@Gburst the timer wasn't a bug, though?
Despite the watch timing out at the worst times and changinghim into the wrong aliens, you gotta give respect to the writers because it forces Ben to get creative in really close situations where he could have died...Plus it's really good for suspense...
If my memory serves me correctly, The reason why Ben would always get the wrong aliens at times is because Azmuth stated that Ben kept slapping the Omnitrix too hard causing it to reset.
@@jesuschristthefirstjojo.7565 Nope, it only randomizes the timeout duration.
@@jesuschristthefirstjojo.7565 I read a fan theory that said that the Watch is smart enough to strategize and choose the correct alien
Ben is a child and would choose Humongasaur over XLR8 to save people in a burning building then get XLR8 and be sad
The Watch chooses the alien for Ben and forces him to strategize with what he has and makes him a smarter user instead of choosing Humungasaur for every episode (like what I wanted as a child)
Like imagine he needs to fix something and wanted XLR8 to fix electronics faster when Upgrade is the better option
@@uphi-downlow5792 That's just a theory. From what I read here, The Omnitrix is really just a R&D kit rather than a weapon.
@@uphi-downlow5792 that's literally my theory i've had for ages lol. i personally think that 1. it tries to stop him from picking stupid aliens and 2. picks aliens which aren't the obvious solution to force him to get creative if it thinks he can survive the encounter and win it
for a watch, the omnitrix has terrible timing
Badum tsss
Aht aht at aht
The funny part it has an AI who is probably messing around with Ben
It has a timer of exactly 10 minutes in a transformation and a 10 minute cool down. The watch wasnt meant to be a weapon, it was a research tool, so it needs to limit what someone can do with it.
With master control being a thing I never understood the point of the timeout in universe especially if azimuth had no intention of it being a weapon it makes no sense for him to limit it
0:19 Zs'Skayr: Aw, music to my ears.
Bro was soo scared of Fourarms😂
@@ASS-tb3mqHow was he scared? He needed Ben to turn back in order to possess him
He couldn’t when Ben was in alien form because the Omnitrix would prevent him from doing so 😂
@@omnii5818 o I know but let’s be real in the original series I didn’t see any villain beating fourarms in a fight
@@ASS-tb3mq Nah you’re right breh. Four Arms was him
Straight up orochimaru
There's not a single man on this planet that didn't dream of finding an omnitrix and saving the world from disasters.
True 😢
this and getting bit by spiders to be spider-man 😅
Or other gender children 😂
fr
Psychos exist. Some would want to terrorise everyone
Ghostfreak, to me, was always legitimately terrifying, in both his regular and true form. When Ben opened up his chest and those tentacles came out at Bozo, that actually scared me. His true form, just seethed creepiness, with his upside down head, long claws, and decaying body. He always scared me.
That reason alone is why I felt like Ghostfreak was the most evil of Ben's villains. Dude just took pride in the fear he caused compared to Vilgax who just wanted the Omnitrix to take over the world.
Personally, I wouldn't have minded if Ghostfreak became the final boss of the series in the original continuity.
@@saltystick_99 Ghostfreak end goal, besides one time turning Earth's population into mutant freaks with the satellites, is just to possess individuals.
Vilgax on the other hand possess an army capable of taking over the galaxy, with the Omnitrix being his Deux Ex Machinima
And the eyes when he possesses someone😰😰😰
I remember i couldn't sleep well when i saw Gostfreack first time ( that horrible form with upsidedown head 😬 )
Creepier knowing ghost freak is just a species of aliens too not a actual apparition
Despite having horrible timing, I actually find the sound itself a pretty cool power down sound.
Same
The sounds of Omnitrix in OS are the best . I can listen to them all day .
Same
@@mohammadreihani8993 Yeah, the original series had some of the best sound design in media
That should be an alarm...
As a child this absolutely irritated me, I knew for a fact that whenever this happened, and in the original Ben 10 show it happened nearly every episode it was always going to turn off at the worst possible time, that is until Ben acquired the master code for it. I’ve watched many great animated shows that ruled my childhood, as I was born in 2007, and this by far is the best one that I’ve rewatched, as I child I loved the fighting and the transformations but didn’t think twice of Ben’s actual lore, as a 16 year old, I now realize that Ben was just an eager child trying to catch up with his sister, as he realized that she was always better than him, he accidentally got over his own head, and realized what he could do with this power, at first he used it recklessly, then realized that if it got in the wrong hands people that he loved like his sited and his uncle could die, so he cherished it like none other, and trained intellectually and physically, this only happens in Ultimate, in Ben 10 Ben is just a child, in Ultimate he’s a responsible properly developed teenager, and in the sequel he’s an adult man working for an organization. Ultimate was by far my favorite. And it was LONG.
I believe Gwen is actually his first cousin.
@@maximilian200057 yeah his cousin but yeah, the fact is to him, she is not different from sister, I guess. And maybe even better than a normal blood sis, since they lived through very dangerous situations and until Ultimate, they were in contact for over 6 years with Omniverse maybe 7? idk I didn't watch omniverse much... I just started to watch it again and I am 22 years old... I kind of looking for nostalgia.
You realize that Vilgax is really powerful when Ben can fight him using Master Control and still got bagged, he could only hold him for a time to Max and Gwen to run.
>in Ultimate he’s a responsible properly developed teenager
i want you to think about this in another 4 or 5 years lmao
@@silbyrn sadge how a big part of Ben 10 community or maybe even majority didnt like mature Ben xD
The whole reason for the time out was to avoid the prototype Omnitrix permanently altering Ben’s DNA as Asmuth was still working on it. Which is why it rebooted in alien force and no longer timed out
Nope...it was because Ben didn't have access to the master codes or something...in the later seasons after a million tries he figures out the master control and fights effortlessly against vilgax and kevin...
@@pewpewpewpew3229 Nope, it was in universe a fixed time limit of 10 minutes because it was a prototype. When it updated and recalibrated it was changed to be energy usage so timeouts became less of an issue until Ben broke the damn thing again
No because Ben 10,000 omitrix dident rebooted and the only reason why it rebooted in aliens force cos Ben change the future when he met his future self so he took off the omitrix but In the original timeline that never happen
@@symbolofpeacetv1578
The original Omnitrix was a prototype, but to Classic Ben 10K, Secret Of The Omnitrix likely never happened (it'll be apparent why i think this in a moment). Here, it's based more on time than energy consumption, prone to glitching, and is generally unstable. This is also connected to the Codon Stream, a small bank of Alien samples that are then stored on the watch itself. Also, given that C-Ben 10K used both Grey Matter and Upgrade to unlock and upgrade the Proto-omnitrix, that means Azmuth never tried to retrieve the Omnitrix, or bothered to even look for it. (Or, like Ben 23, did try, but Ben defeated or un-alived Azmuth)
According to Omniverse (which is the same timeline as Classic, AF and UA) Ben didn't take the Omnitrix off until he was at least 11, then puts it back on at 15/16, where it auto-updates into the AF Watch. This is based moreso on Ben's physicality and energy (hence why he transforms back when KO'd), though most glitches has been fixed. This version is connected to the planet Primus, which wirelessly connects all DNA to the U-Omnitrix. Ben should look down at his dial more often here, since most mis-transformations are his fault, and it also doesn't detransform until Ben and Kevin mess with the Omnitrix, putting it into Safety Mode.
In Ultimate Alien, the Ultimatrix is made by Albedo, meaning it's not official. That ALSO means it doesn't fully benefit as a upgrade, leading into the Ultimates gaining sentience. It's still based on Energy rather than time, though, it seems it has a larger capacity now. This one also never Times out. It's unknown whether this is connected to Primus or Codon (though i believe it's Primus)
The New Omnitrix (from Omniverse, but was given to Ben at the end of Ultimate Alien by Azmuth) is the fully realized product of the Omnitrix. It doesn't time out, run out of energy, has a species lock, or mistransforms by itself. It also can store and display more aliens at once.
It still did actually, it just never made a sound.
The use of the Omnitrix timer was done so well in the series, it sometimes genuinely feels scary when it runs out while he’s fighting an enemy
Same
Like when he was struggling against Kevin in this very video. What a horrifying scenario to be turned back to a powerless human while an angry kid with hulk powers is targeting you.
It's such a shame in alien force and ultimate alien it became a energy limit and didn't even tell us when it timed out.
Even in Omniverse it doesn't really time out the same
Especially when he was underwater as Ripjaws and it started timing out.
He was probably deep enough that he would've been crushed to death if he turned human.
True
As an adult you realize the timer served as a great way of balancing out the ridiculously OP nature of the Omnitrix, as well as give stakes to Ben's fights.
That what it's makes more interesting than new once
@@rwik....170 say it again for the kids in the back…. new ben 10 gives me reverse nostalgia💀
@@rwik....170 does the new one not have the timer?
And a goal to work towards overcoming. Which most kids also realised except for the very young ones, since it was made pretty fn clear in the damn show. Lmao.
@@randyrandal8128 people still watch cartoon? The people around me all watch animes now
Honestly man, I’m glad the writers implemented this feature. Without the timing out, Ben would win almost 100% of the time. It was a nice balance that made tension still present, because it meant that Ben couldn’t rely on his aliens 24/7.
It's so heartwarming to see that despite the original franchise ended eight years ago, there are still a lot of people who are interested in it and still either post or watch such videos. I used to watch Ben 10 occasionally when it was first launched(was 4 years old when the first episode was broadcasted) and the only thing I regret is that it took me over 17 years to truly discover its magic. It's so nice and nostalgic to see videos like this
Yeah i used to watch the og ben 10 while i was 7 yrs old(now i am 17).But nowadays cartoon channels has literally downgraded Ben 10 so much its horrible.Btw i still watch and like cartoons.(sorry for my broken english)
Fr
Same here. While I didn't get to follow the franchise to the end (I stopped after Ultimate Alien), I have no memory of not being hyped about watching a new episode. And it would've broken my seven year old self's heart to see how the reboot ruined it.
It shares the same trash bin as Teen Titans Go.
so ur 12 now? or 13?
I wish there was another word for “nostalgic”, it’s so annoying and overused, just saying.
I like how sometimes it turns him back almost instantly, but then sometimes the beeping continues for a solid thirty seconds.
I think it's because if it would leave him in a really dangerous situation with little to no warning it alerts him earlier to prepare
The Omnitrix is sentient, or at least, semi sentient. Of all the times it has timed out, it hasn’t timed out in situations that would otherwise kill its host. In those situations, it would prolong the transformation, but at the cost of a longer than normal recharge
I always imagined the longer/shorter timeouts were Ben's perception of it.
When he really needs to fly a bit longer it seems to suddenly time out fast. When he is thinking really quick about where to hide his identity it seems to take a long while to timeout. Things like that!
Or, hear me out, it’s plot armor.
0:27 the sadness in his voice
In the Omnitrix’s defense, Ben literally always slammed his hand on the thing, which he wasn’t supposed to be doing at all.
But in Ben’s defense, it’s not like Azmuth wrote a manual for the watch saying not to.
So how should he use omnitrix?just asking bcz i had always seen ben slapping the watch so i have no idea :(
@@sagenomagic524 tap gently, people theorize that the omnitrix gives the wrong aliens cause he's aggressively slamming it
@@thecipher8495 Anyone would be mad if you aggressively slam them! 🤣🤣
Just like the watches I broke trynna transform on the other kids
@@Blob_Aether i wouldnt 😳
This is why Ben unlocking master control was always one of my fav eps in the original series
I love how they balanced out the Omnitrix being so damn op by making it buggy and with an arbitrary time limit
i read a theory about how the bugs weren't actually bugs the wrong aliens that ben ACCIDENTLY got was the best alien for that current scenario.....the time limit tho.... yea a nerf
@@sohanghosh9765 the wrong aliens for the best scenario are a thing only to omniverse omnitrix since it is the complete omnitrix
@@sohanghosh9765 wasn't it because Ben used to slam on the watch? Asmith specifically said that him slamming on the watch would fuck up his selection
@@jakefrost8306 thats cannon... I stated a random theory
@@sohanghosh9765 oh fair enough, alternative perspectives I guess👏🏽
I remember watching the episode where they introduced Ditto, that's the first (only?) time when the omnitrix times out but doesn't transform Ben back. Since then I had a hard time believing the timeout sound, "maybe this time Ben won't change back!", 10 years old me would say
So 10 year old you didn’t realize it was because the ditto clones weren’t close enough?
@@pemanilnoob hey I'm just realizing that now after 13+ years
@@jackofficialTM I’m pretty sure in that same episode, Ben deducts he can’t change back for that very reason
@@ThePilleroflightning Gwen deduces it. But what's weird is that the alien Echo-Echo can also duplicate but each one is independent and can die without the others being affected.
@@theplaguegamer6216 I think it’s so Echo Echo and Ditto can differentiate and not act so similarly. Or simply because Echo Echo’s race doesn’t work the same. But who knows honestly.
True, but now that I think about it it makes the scenarios more interesting and helps to show how Overpowered a Ben with master control is.
And how Ben have experience and fast mind to change into right aliens in the danger moment. Like in Nulivoid episode in classic, in the iconic Master Control scene.
@@Outsider00 that was a GOAT 🐐 episode even at the end when Gwen Duped both Vilgax and Kevin with a bomb 💣 😂
@@Outsider00 And he was still a child, imagine him in the future with access to more powerful aliens like Atomix, Alien X, Clockwork, Way Big etc. He would become an Omniversal level threat
@@Grzmichuj2137 if he was bad, the multiverse will be in danger. You can see how powerful is him with control master by classic Bens 10.000 or Omniverse. I like how master control alows Ben to go beyond of unlock aliens, he can literally rebuild the entire universe and recreate extinct species, like cannonbolt or diamondhead (when Chromastone recreated the petrosapien planet).
@@Outsider00 The scene when Ben was rapidly transforming into different aliens to dodge the sky creatures was badass
You can share your thoughts but me personally. I love the original design of the omnitrix. The aliens looked unlike anything I could imagine at the time, insane power yet so broken. It's the charm of how the most powerful yet self-destructive device put into the hands of a ten year old. An it actually gave Ben a real challenge, every fight was on a time limit.
We all hated the sound just as Ben did,but it really balances out the story and also shows us how one needs to be a quick thinker too as when omni was charging he only had to use his creativity. Gives the same vibe as JJBA
Whh
Ehhh
lol gayjo
@@supagreatman2826 you sound like your name is Jacob
@@damian9303 That made me laugh out loud for no damn reason at all
I remember reading the timer is a failsafe to prevent abuse and misuse of the watch for its wearer, limiting its use to only 10 minutes every hour. The watch also gave Ben the wrong alien because the ai is designed to give the best alien to use in a scenario. However, prolonged bonding unlocks the watch's failsafes when you want its trust, eventually turning off the timer, giving quick alien switching, and allowing the user to choose whatever alien they want with no ai interference
This makes so much more sense...
As a kid, actually up till now, I thought it was just a "battery low" kinda thing... It always confused me that the watch would find it more battery efficient to turn Ben back into a Human than to keep him as whatever alien he was at that time. I'd question why, how it worked, and what it was actually doing to Ben. This... THIS... makes so much more sense. Like the watch needs to know it can trust the user, and adjust the user to experiencing the effects, like it was making sure no one got stuck in a form they didn't want, and no one could just use alien powers constantly and forever.
I think Azmuth once explained that Ben sometimes transform into the wrong aliens because he kept slamming the omnitrix instead of pressing it properly, which in theory could nudge the option dial into the next alien in line before the transformation
part of it was the omnitrix using the right alien and part of it is because ben slams his omnitrix too hard
@Paulo SM strong chance the aliens had some ability that would allow the situation to play out more smoothly, but ben was just too impulsive and quick to react to ever consider those options as options.
@Paulo SM much like how he couldnt properly use the watch maybe he couldnt use the aliens to the fullest potential. we as viewers really dont get to know.
Okay but in the first fight against Kevin it was cool because Fourarms defeated him before the time out
The Omnitrix said "you have 5 seconds, end this now!!"
😂😂 I loved the way Ben stopped fucking around and just said Kevin with should exercise his rights to catch these hands. All four of them
This was actually interesting, as a kid we all hated the fact that the watch trolled him at the worst times but now that we're grown up, we understand that the watch was trying to teach him that no matter what powers you get, they're useless if not used at the proper time and situation and then we could see in the next season that he used it way better when he grew up
This is so nostalgic. As kid I always hated that the omnitrix was timing out, but at the same time I always thought the was writers way of making the audience relate to Ben. When the omnitrix timed out Ben got mad and we the audience got mad too.
You surely understood show writing intricacies as a kid
@@anshuman_eek her surely was some kid 😀
That's definitely the point.
You thought all that as a kid?
@@joelivuso7351 maybe he wasn't like 5, maybe 12
"We have made significant nerfs to some items to balance the quality of our gameplay"
The nerfs in question:
Say it already.
@@maru4252 the video is my answer
@@maru4252 Bro's last two braincells failed to understand the meaning of this comment
@@maru4252 how are you this dumb
😂😂😂
"swearing to avoid getting marked for kids"
We're living in a dystopian society
yeah kids f-ucking suck
thank coppa
Say no to swearing to avoid COPPA
Who really made coppa??
LITERALLY 1984 😱
0:02 *oh man, i hate sound.*
0:11 *you have 10 minutes for your text*
I hate that guy
I hate that man.
I hate that fella
Was it time based?
Was it energy based?
Was it plot convenience?
Yes
All of the above.
Time based: Classic
Energy Based: UAF-Omniverse
Plot convenience: Reboot
whenever ben 10 used the omnitrix, he can only be a specific type of alien for a limited time of 10 minutes. or you could just refer to firestone animation's interpretation of how the omnitrix works for each ben.
@@FirestoneAnimation Omniverse has a mix of both.
Time based for the most part but there *are* instances of Ben getting a quick recharge because he's in danger and one very notable instance of a transformation lasting like... maybe a minute tops because a previous transformation was forcibly extended to last a much longer length of time.
My favorite episode ever was when he messed with it and actually used its full potential, with no time limits and without having to press it all the time, just thinking about an alien to transform into it. I never got over the fact that he was never able to do that again
He bodied vilgax and kevin at the same time with that
@@littlespartan581 yes
@@littlespartan581 you know even with a 🚫 sign your name still looks gay, right?
@@darthhunter69 never able to that again? He has literally done that in every series what? It's the master control lmao
@@shadowx8145 I didn't watch the other series yet. You see, I didn't watch Ben 10 as a kid, I'm watching it now that I am a teenager
I like it when the omnitrix has a limit. It forces Ben to be aware of the situation & does not overly rely on the device.
Excatly when it times out the writers want him to solve out situations on his OWN WITHOUT THE WATCH. It shows that Ben 10 Can Be a HERO WITH AND WITHOUT THE WATCH.
@@robertalorenalvinsevillemi2896 I like the in universe explanation to where it's to keep his DNA from mutations
@@dream6562 I thought ghost freak was the only one able to take over ben cause it was a actual being placed himself in the omnitrix and not just a sample like all the other ones.
That's what grandpa Max was trying to teach him.Thinking the plumber way
@@hidan407 actually ghost freak species has this special thing where their conciousness exists in each strand of DNA, so he was able to live on just by a sample of his DNA in the omnitrix
Worst part is that that shit STILL CANT TELL TIME.
We may still hate that sound, but it still brings memories 😢
That’s the same exact thing I said & was just thinking about 🥺
real😔
True 😔😔
It was 2012, i was 7 year old.
Amazing times man.
Yep it does
That sound effect gives me so much nostalgia. This used to be my favorite cartoon from when I was 4 years old to 11 years old. I played all the flash games, watched all the RUclips videos, and drew all the aliens. This show raised me.
ong bruh me aswell that be wolf episode hit on a rainy day
@@thebrowz3269 oo
Same. And the story was so original (a boy with a watch that transforms him to aliens with various abilities, not some superhero with superpowers, not a story based on an old comic, etc) that it can't ever be replicated.
@@josephoduor2358
Not to say Ben 10 wasn't brilliant in many ways
But a human with a device that turns him into an alien is Ultraman.
I was a Ben 10 fan first, but ever since I discovered Ultraman, I just notice more and more similarities.
Even one of Ben's Aliens (Waybig) is LITERALLY just Ultraman.
They even named his species Tokustar which sounds like Tokusatsu (the genre stuff like Ultraman, Power Rangers and Godzilla belong to)
But my favorite similarity is that both heroes have a timer that beeps and flashes red when they're about to turn back into human.
@@jonatanluna1061 This is my first time hearing about Ultraman.
You should have included that scene in They Lurk Beyond where Ripjaws was about to time out while still underwater and he was desperately trying to get back into the submarine while the Omnitrix was beeping for a ridiculously long time.
That scene had me panicking. I have a fear of drowning so I couldn’t possibly imagining how panicked Ben was as the watch started to power down
And weren't they like thousabds of kilometers below? The pressure would have crushed ben
Definitely one of my favorite aspects of the first series. The Omnitrix malfunctions a lot. It times out and sometimes picks a different Alien than Ben’s choice. I do love that he a unlocked new aliens as he progressed through the show.
This is the reason why if I had an Omnitrix, it would either be in private, or when I’m in an actual fight
Private wdym
Well, you would only hear this if you transform
What does private mean
He means not to transform in the public cuz then he gon time out infront of people
only use Greymatter in private and find a way to decouple it then leave it for 5 years so it recalibrates
I swear, I was convinced that watch was trying to kill Ben sometimes. But it brought like, 50 percent of the suspense. The reboots not having this is a tragedy
The reboots themselves are a tragedy
@@rizilm2229 reboots plural? UAF and OV are canon, no?
@@SatoreyGojo yeah but the original comment said reboots so I just went with that coz idk how many there are haha
the new ben 10 is actually pretty good, no cap. its supposed to be more tuned towards today's humor style, but i found it fun to watch. hating the reboots may be your thing, but UAF, OV [favorite, cause i grew up with it.] and the new reboot were pretty good imho
@@HealthXPotions Maybe it is fun to watch, I will never know because I grew up with the classic Ben10, meaning I'm almost 20 now and don't really watch cartoons all that much. So it's good if you enjoy it, personally for me Ben turning into a Gravity Falls character is a hard pill to swallow. Idk why "today's humor" is dumbed down but it is what it is i guess.
Destroy All Aliens had a pretty anxiety-driving moment with that sound when Way Big Ben was frozen.
"I can't move!"
"That's bad..."
(Beeping) "That's worse!"
I think this a fitting balance check for the most powerful weapon in the universe...
The omnitrix running out was honestly a pretty good way to balance out the show tbh
You'd thought Ben would figure out how long it lasts and test it out at some point but I guess once that thing got stuck on his wrist, he never really had much down time huh?
I'd say ben had a pretty good guess on how long it took the watch to time out. But in the heat of battle you can't really tell how much time has passed. Add to that the fact that he's only 10 years old and might not have the best sense of time
You would've thought, but give any 10 year old the powers of God and you'll find out they're gonna be too busy playing to figure out the kinks.
Plus, I just read another comment up top that made sense: The Omnitrix is AI-powered and detects the situation such that it doesn't always give Ben the alien he wanted...but the alien that was needed.
@@denniskanyanja3728 thats cap its explained its because he slams it too hard
@@0nstims no that randomize the time out
"That's not Ben!"
*"Yeah, right! Whenever there's some freaky alien, your cousin just... happens to be gone? How dumb do you think i am?!"*
Finally, someone with the common sense to piece things together!
Piece
@@mackenziemesler7882 What?
@@mackenziemesler7882 Oh, I see what you mean.
When did that happened?
@@LlegoManuel The episode "They Lurk Below"
Even as the series goes the watch times out at the worst possible moment 😂
I still remember that one episode when Azmuth explains why the watch times out quickly and why it keeps choosing the wrong alien….my guess is because the times that Ben SLAMS the watch so hard when all you had to do is just press it with your finger
Which he only did in the first episode if I remember right. But once he realize it was a "transform into an alien watch thing" he just resorted to slamming his big meaty claws on it.
You know...That actually has a lot of weight to it. No pun intended.
Not to mention, it's designed for and by a Galvan, so I doubt Azmuth accounted for it to be slammed like that. He even said as much, slightly paraphrasing "I expected more dexterity out of those fatty fingers"
This is what made the "Master Control" & "Ben 10k" eps so special. We got to see what Ben could do at his absolute best.
The Omnitrix always times out but if Ben activated the Master Control it won’t time out
Green lantern ring 💍 lol
I actually love that sound, the time out sound is iconic. It did have a habit of happening at the worst possible time, though.
same, I can’t imagine straight up hating the sound (unless you’re ben ofc)
Same. It always makes me laugh.
I'm 50/50
I still find it funny that the canonical explanation for the watch malfunctioning is that he was slapping it too hard when he transformed
To be fair, he was 10 when he first got it
@@timothyfinn3619 it was also a prototype
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Lil dude was just too damn dramatic. Didnt he fully slam it on a wall once when his other hand couldn't reach? lol
But the thing is, its just a bs writer excuse. In alien force it was working properly even when he slams it, and he continies to do so even after azimuth told him the supposed reason.
Reminder, the Omnitrix would glitch out because Ben kept ramming it too hard, even Azmuth said if Ben would just press the button, like it was meant to be, instead of ramming it, he would get the right aliens and the battery wouldn't run out so fast
The Omnitrix actually has 10 minutes for the user but the runtime for each episode doesn't have enough time so we thought it last for a few seconds
That'd be seconds
That'd be seconds
Yup good ol DBZ time making scenes play out longer than they actually are
Seriously?
The reboot be like
My biggest problem with this was that it always took as much time as the writers wanted for it to actually change him back once it started beeping. Sometimes it's a second and a half, sometimes it's like 20.
I think the Kevin Levin fight as Four Arms is maybe the worst example of this where it's timing out for a full 45 seconds of screentime compared to the normal 3 seconds.
That being said I don't think that's actually on the writers. Scripts are a hard medium to perceive time in and what on paper might look like 5 seconds may in actuality take a full minute, especially if the 5 seconds in the script involve a lot of action that has to be animated.
I like to think that the watch had some form of knowing if Ben was in a real life-death situation and would prolong the beeping time to give him a chance.
All the other times that it insta beeped out, Ben wouldn't really die by going back to human, but against Kevin, for example, he would've be done for. So the Omnitrix prolonged the timer until Ben felt he was no longer dead by turning back🎉
hmm maybe the timer was random? idk tho
my head canon i had as a kid was that the watch was alive and doing this shit on purpose. Made it so much funnier to watch it with that mindset growing up
Wasn't it that watch waited for him to be in a 'safe' position? Like if he is upgrade, watch waits for him to jump of a tech
The sound of the omnitrix shutting off was the most nerve-racking thing to hear as a kid next to Sonic’s drowning tune.
I have to admit hearing that sound would make me and just about anyone want to blow their top when the omnitrix timed out like that.
Ben losing his ability to turn into any aliens due to the time limitation of the Omnitrix is like Spider-Man lost his powers for wasting all of the webs.
No matter how strong and powerful you are, limits still holds you back.
I always interpreted it as a warning sign. Basically the omnitrix saying “Yo, you gotta hurry up, I only have so much power left.”
The omnitrix has to be one of the most bugged devices ever. Glad it had a patch up in its update. Only took it a few years
Did anyone else love this sound , the sound when he transforms and when it recharges
Ben 10 had the best sound design out of any cartoon
Yesss
I never liked the sound, but I'd still love to have an omnitrix. Mainly because that means there are aliens in real life as well and I have the best tool to use for everyday activities. Also I would never pass up the chance to transform into Diamond head, XLR8, Big Chill, GrayMatter/Brainstorm, Upgrade and Clockwork
if omnitrix existed, then that would mean that hunters for it would exist too. You would've have to fight Vilgax everyday
@F_MK Well, only if you manage to reason with those green masks preventing you from doing almost anything lol
@@assbeater I don't mind that, he maybe evil and scary but don't forget that classic Vilgax was incredibly awesome
@F_MK Yeah sorry but, if the price of omnopotent power is to be stuck for eternity with Bellus and Serina then its not worth it for me. I'd literally rather have Ben's "The Worst" transformation rather than Alien X. At least with him I'm indestructible and can move
@@CHARDRICJOSHPROJAS or you can just use the same trick ben did to gain full power
This is something I wish the Ultimate Alien Force era, Omniverse, and the reboot had kept. In those series, Ben would time out but would instantly go right back to being an alien in less than a few seconds. I always felt that ruined the tension and suspense by having Ben go alien so quickly.
I mean, the first episode of omniverse did for some reason have a recharge time
That’s because in the later series Ben could choose to revert back whenever he wanted, the Omnitrix was actually upgraded instead of just a prototype and he didn’t smack the shit out of it.
The canonical reason for the timeouts is that because Ben kept slamming the watch face down aggressively with his whole fist when he transformed, instead of just pressing it down normally with one or two fingers, it would set a random time to time out due to a chronometer within the watch becoming loose.
To be fair, Ben’s opponents also were pretty extreme at times lol
@@tedioussugar384I mean in some ways the "better" omnitrixes were worse.
As an example related to the timer it's shown in classic the timer only turns Ben human if he stays the same alien for 10 minutes so in multiple cases if Ben switches the timer resets to 10 minutes.
Also the whole smack the omnitrix is dumb and is kinda a retcon, as an example remember the time when azmuth jumped on the omnitrix to transform Ben (in classic), how azmuth didn't softly press the omnitrix when he had it, how paradox tells Ben to hit the omnitrix, how albedo slams his omnitrix (mind you the one he built and should be worse and albedo should know since he worked with azmuth it's bad to slam )
Personally I think it was just a thing in Omniverse and a fault of the completed omnitrix
@@tedioussugar384 I've always found this to be super funny considering how hyped up the watch's durability is
0:19 Music to my ears ~ Ghost Freak 😂😂😂
0:11 bro that’s a horrifying situation to be in
"Its like music 2 my ears"
Perfect lines 4 a villain 2 say
Damn you gotta stop using them numbers instead of words, shit's terrible for the eyes
@@ianrahbek2289 Couldn’t agree more
How are you enjoying that much time you saved by typing the numbers instead of words?
Niggas really complaining abt how a yt comment is typed ain’t no way 💀.
True
I honestly like that despite being a super-advanced alien artifact, the Omnitrix still malfunctions sometimes. Turns out you can't make 100% perfect technology
Indeed it took azmuth 6 years to develop the complete omnitrix and yet it's still not 100% perfect but it's pretty close to it like 97% that's really close
The sound that the fun is over and I'm back to being a ten year old runt lol memories
I think the writers did a decent job at not making ben not always OP with the omnitrix, by having the timeouts and having ben transform into the alien he didn't want
Well, to be fair, if he did have it his way, Fourarms and Humungosaur would have more screen time. 😊
Pure nostalgia ❤️
Too bad they don't stream this anymore on CN
yea CN is now shit
Do they stream Ben 10 Omnitrix wala 😐 now also ??
@@mjgamingofficial5078 yep sadly they do, that's just a damned ripoff
@@kal-azar2006 oh ok 👍
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This sound effect is the equivalent of what you hear, when a red or blue shell is coming at you in Mario Kart.
Yes
Dude I played the ben 10 video games so I knew EXACTLY how it felt hearing that lol
I love the device like the omnitrix, all it’s upsides and downsides that kinda balance ultimate powers, restrictions, and a literal child using them lol. I’m also glad they never went with the omnitrix had a mind of its own and actively took steps to explain why these issues happened lol
Exactly perfect show , they balanced it so Good
This was low-key genius this and mistransformations Ben's one of the few heroes who could have mistakes like this and still be interesting plus his franchise was basically what comics do nowadays on TV shows and movies
That time out beeping tune will make any people say "shit"
"You know, for a watch, the Omnitrix, you have a lousy sense of timing, again"
-Tennyson, Ben, 2016
This video's description summarizes what goes through Ben's head when he hears that beeping.
As much as I hated Omniverse because of it’s endless Retconning, it did have one explanation that worked perfectly.
When Ben is too rough with the Omnitrix it screws up the time out function. If you notice in AF and UA Ben was more gentle with using the Omnitrix and had more control, with the watch only timing out when it gets over used..
@@kermitgotthesickkicks4265 there’s a difference between subtle retconning, such as control dial placement.
And blatantly altering everything with no rhyme or reason.
@@kermitgotthesickkicks4265 Yes, at the same time those were not retcons the were expansions.
-The original series never spoke or mentioned Plummers outside of earth, but it also never claimed they were exlusive to earth.
If the series said that Plummer were a solely earth based organization that would be one thing.
-Anodite's were never mentioned or established in the original series. So, it's not a retcon, as a retcon is when established canon is changed or altered to fit a new narrative.
The same goes for primus, the original series never mentioned how DNA was collected or stored, as such nothing was changed or altered.
This brings me back, I love how it would always do it when he was flying as stinkfly😂
The alarm in the morning
Sometimes it seemed like the timing out sound would last longer before finally timing Ben out. Like the first time he fought Kevin.
I agree, but that also showed us that Ben was not going all out in that fight until those last 5 seconds.
After that 5 second beatdown kid me just thought "WHY DIDN'T YA DO THAT FIRST!?"
Becayse the Omnitrix has failsafes to protect Ben so it can extend the timer in situations like that or just turn him into a Alien automatically to protect him
I always liked the sound that was made where, somehow the omnitrix was timing out but held out a few seconds longer than normal, making a totally different stress noise.
In a writer POV, having the Omnitrix with a timer allows more scenarios ideas, it’s probably why a lot of the episodes are bangers
Ben: You know, it is true that you are a watch , but you do not understand the time
0:49 ayo uncle max
Ben 10k must have Vietnam flashbacks whenever he hears it.
It's been a decade since I last saw Ben on tv. Thank you for giving me some flashbacks. It was a fun ride with Ben, Gwen, Grandpa, Kevin and Vilgax 🥺
I love the first one with Heatblast. Ben had just prevented two trains from crashing and escaped from Kevin.
Even while holding onto dear life on a moving train, he simply expresses his dislike of the Omnitrix’s timeout noise in controlled distress
Ahh I remember a dream where I had the classic Omnitrix. I was in the middle of my city, and transformed into xlr8, went home as fast as possible and turned human, went to bed. After that I woke because I thought I actually had the Omnitrix in real life that actually works
This was an awesome idea to balance out the adventures and make them more exciting.
I want those days back 🥺😭😭😭
Agreed those were times when only thing to worry was omnitrix rinning out of time
My favourite scene of this was against Kevin, the watch beeped but Ben refused to turn back so he managed to stay fourarms a little bit longer and kick Kevin ass
Y'All remember that one episode where Ben got stuck as Grey Matter for a whole day? Why the hell did it take so damn long for the Omnitrix to time out then?
Right. That’s what I always wondered why that even happened in that episode of “Ben 10” & still don’t understand it even till this very day after all these years from my Childhood.
Lord only knows.
Azmuth bro, pure bias
The reason (I can't remember correctly) is that he slapped it so hard when it is meant to be pressed.
edit: I meant the Omnitrix
Where he got kidnapped at that water park?
Always found myself waiting for the next episode day by day.
Glad to see that so many people still remember and love this.
Hope they never try to remake it because with today's climate. They will destroy this.
Spoiler: They already did and no... do not google it. They massacred our boy
@@ArgylleagenI tried binging new one, it was a disaster.
Shh... Let this blessed man exist in ignorance 🤫
Should we tell him?
Does he know?
I also hated this but right now i appreciate it, because I realized so much scenes of Ben solving the situation without the aliens is one of the things that made Ben 10 so special and addictive to all of us at the time.
As someone who played ben 10 protector of earth in my childhood, I can confirm this bring some stressful memories back
This is why I always liked Alien Force more. It’s energy based instead of time and gave him the right alien. And then season 3 happened…
When I was a kid though I was fanboying over season 3 because of all the returning aliens and villains.
the energy based shit is so dumb because they just picked and choosed there were no rules with the "energy" stuff. One episode ben literally transforms into like 5 aliens in one go against michael morningstar. Other episodes he'll time out. another episode he might be the alien for the whole entire episode.