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Welcome back to part 3 of this 4 part series, ranking all the Ben 10 aliens show by show!
Today it’s time to look at the 10 Ultimate Alien aliens, from Water Hazard to Juryrigg
(not including Shocksquatch), and rank them all from worst to best!
With no other real explanation needed, let’s start at the bottom of the barrel!
Fasttrack Does anyone honestly like Fasttrack?
If anyone truly does for some reason, I’d honestly love to hear why in the comments,
but Fasttrack is hated by most fans for the general fact that he’s a complete copy of
XLR8 with almost zero difference, aside from having less charm, less charisma, a worse
voice, and a meek design that feels stupid and unmenacing.
Even the way he runs in blue is a sham of the original!
Ugh, I hate this alien…I mean they LITERALLY had XLR8 in the theme song…JUST BRING HIM
BACK THEN!
Eatle Another shameless copy that does nothing new,
and even backtracks a bit.
Everytime Eatle was on screen, especially with his robot UA design, I just wanted to
skip forward and watch Ultimate Echo Echo already!
Just watch his fight with Vilgax and try to tell me it’s cool in any way, shape or form!
Just use Upchuck instead, I mean he literally uses him in other cases so the idea of this
alien is just flawed from inception.
Chamalien The problem with Chamalien was the lack of
actual content we got to see with him in it!
He was only used briefly in all 3 of his appearances, and it was just a massive shame because an
invisible alien, although not EXACTLY new, was a great idea and the concept of being
this slimy reptile with the colored eyes was just kinda intuitive, I guess!
I also just love the German accent!
Juryrigg Juryrigg’s concept is actually quite intriguing
at first!
The power of being a small red dude who can fix and destroy things is a pretty neat idea,
but this one once again falls flat in execution…as the entire character design in UA is abysmal
and completely destroys the entire thing when you simply look at the fricking thing!
I also wish we got more from him, and maybe if they did it right he could’ve become
a poster alien that kids would want cute plushes of or something…maybe that was the intention,
but maybe making him a little demon wasn’t the way to go!
Terraspin Haha, Terraspin, get it?
Cuz he’s a terrapin, and he spins?
Lovely wordplay there gents, and quite a nice alien ya got there.
Nothing crazy, but decent enough for what it wants to do.
Among the five Andromeda aliens, Terraspin is EASILY the weakest and blandest one, but
his backstory is actually my favorite episode in the first season!
Galapagus is quite the alien, but after he leaves and we’re left with Ben as Terraspin,
the boring side comes out and diminishes this alien greatly.
The monotone voice, the boring design, and the simple powers just can’t compete with
what’s to come.
Armodrillo Armodrillo was a personal favorite toy of
mine as a kid because he could theoretically kick Ultimate Humungousaur’s ass if he just
screwdrivered him in the face!
He just seems like the best Hulk alien, and being made of some kind of hard metal, can
feel like an alien that can take hits easily and be more indestructible in comparison.
Ironically, Armodrillo is used in a more sad way a lot in the series, having an innocent
voice and being often cruelly punished by enemies can actually make you find him CUTE
rather than intimidating, which I’m not sure is the approach that was meant or appropriate
for that matter with this sort of dude.
Maybe that’s just me, but I’m fine with calling Armodrillo slightly above average!
Water Hazard Water Hazard’s design, both times has been
awesome!
And that heavily slanted my views on him going in, because looking this cool has GOT to give
him some kind of brownie points.
His water powers have SURPRISINGLY never been implemented before in Ben 10, despite being
an essential element that should have been one of the classics in my opinion.
His ability to absorb moisture from the air is also a super clever touch that could only
have come from Ultimate Alien’s more mature writing.
The voice was also very well done, all the different times, although I’m kinda left
wishing they had kept it consistent with Bivalvin, the final cut, and even the OV version.
All still good though!
Ampfibian Ampfibian is another alien that was totally
shafted throughout the series!
I had this tweet up a few days ago poking fun at this fact and the fact that he has
SO MANY awesome powers, some of which were never even used by the way, and he was still
overshadowed by one-hit wonder aliens that were favored by the writers or network for
some reason.
Ampfibian’s design is super cool, and if he had gotten just a few more appearances
to show off his awesome powers, kinda like the Vengers battle did for Brainstorm, I think
it would have left a better taste in a lot of fans’ mouths.
Clockwork Clockwork is the SECOND alien from this show
to implement the German accent, which is both hilarious and kinda weird to me at the same
time.
His powers are absolutely insane, and actually got the light of day to shine in a lot of
important episodes throughout Omniverse!
Even in fricking UA, we get a bunch of cool scenes with Clockwork, like turning Nesmith’s
stick into dust, and rewinding a specific room in time to find out where the dragon
had come from.
Totally awesome and creative writing with that, from a totally awesome and cool alien
with a slick perfect design!
NRG Did you know NRG’s hilarious Russian accent
is a reference to how Russia acquired some of the first nuclear warheads in the Cold
War?
I don’t know if that’s true, Ben 10 wiki, I DON’T SEE A REFEREEEENCEEEE…anyway,
NRG is the best Ultimate Alien alien, and here’s why!
He is a badass furnace with the ability to shoot energy blasts through the suit, he can
control lava and blast it with his hands, can survive in ultra heat environments, is
basically just a giant lumbering piece of metal that is super duper tough to break,
he can fly out of the suit after a certain point and become this energy dude, and most
importantly, he is menacing and badass in a way that no other alien in this show manages
to pull off, and despite having a more bland set of powers and design compared to…let’s
say Clockwork, his stature, presence and attitude more than makes up for it and delivers an
alien that is cool to watch despite his pretty standard power abilities comparatively.
This is a great example of how charisma can save a Ben 10 alien, and that powers and abilities
can easily be replaced by a simple ability to captivate the audience and command respect
through strength and sharpness.
Aaaaand that was all the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien roster RANKED!
What do you think?
Which alien won this battle for you?
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And don’t worry, ranking the actual Ultimates, as in Ultimate Swampfire, Humungousaur etc,
will be in a future video if THAT’S what you expected clicking on this video.
Thank you so much for watching, and I’ll see you beautiful ladies and jellyfish next
time!
Shalom!