Oh hi there, today I am giving the entire story of Ben 10, from the first four shows,
as fast as I can, to hopefully help some of you understand the timeline and all of the
main continuity without having to sit through 230 episodes.
Before we start though, if you aren’t completely up to speed on all the Ben 10 aliens and their
powers, I made another video that I’ll link below for you to check out.
Sound good?
Alright!
The story of Ben 10 starts off on summer vacation with 10 year-old Ben, his Grandpa Max and
his cousin Gwen on a road trip around America in the Rustbucket, Grandpa’s RV.
One night, Ben finds a magical watch that fell from space.
This device, called the Omnitrix, can transform the host into any of ten unique alien species
that are programmed into it.
It latches onto Ben’s wrist, and his life will never be the same.
For the rest of the summer, Ben and the gang travel throughout America to different places
and fight some of the classic villains: Dr. Animo, Kevin 11 and, of course, Vilgax!
Dr. Animo is a crazy scientist who does genetic experiments on animals.
Kevin 11 is an Osmosian, a human subspecies with unique abilities.
Kevin’s is absorbing the energy from anything, and he becomes one of Ben’s biggest foes.
While this video is going to be told in the order of the four shows, I will now say that
Kevin was part of a small group of villains called The Rooters, which are some kids who
are tricked by a guy named Dr. Servantis who wants to destroy the “Coming Storm”, also
known as Ben Tennyson.
But more on that a little bit later.
Anyway, another villain is Vilgax.
He's an alien overlord who takes over many planets, and becomes Ben’s main archenemy
throughout the show.
Vilgax sends many bounty hunters after Ben throughout the first season, until he finally
comes to Earth to fight Ben himself, only to be defeated temporarily.
Grandpa Max is revealed to be an old Plumber, a secret organization that fights crime all
around the universe.
Gwen also steals a spell-book from this chick and now has magical powers.
What’s that?
The Omnitrix was meant for Max but accidentally fell into Ben’s hands?
Whatever, he’s probably better at it anyway.
After a few weeks of kicking the butts of various bad guys, Kevin 11 and Vilgax team
up to fight Ben, who has briefly unlocked the master control of his Omnitrix, allowing
him to turn into any alien he wants, at any time he wants.
But for obvious reasons, this won’t last very long.
Eventually, Ben locks Kevin and Vilgax into the Null Void, an alternate dimension where
Plumbers send intergalactic criminals.
Future Gwen, also known as Gwendolyn takes Ben and Gwen to 2026, where Ben sees a boring
and cocky version of himself, named Ben 10,000.
Seeing this sad future, Ben vows to never end up with that same fate.
A few weeks later, the Omnitrix goes into self-destruct mode, which marks the return
of Tetrax, former worker for Vilgax and Petrosapien like Diamondhead.
Tetrax takes Ben to Azmuth, the creator of the Omnitrix, to try and stop the detonation
before the Omnitrix destroys the universe.
After they get to Azmuth’s planet, Ben fights Vilgax one more time without the Omnitrix,
which inspires Azmuth to fix the Omnitrix and unlock Waybig, Ben’s most powerful transformation
yet!
After that, Ben and Gwen return to school and live quiet lives for a few more years.
After 5 years, Ben has removed his Omnitrix and continues to live a normal life, drinking
smoothies and hanging out with friends.
That is, until Grandpa Max goes missing and Ben reequips the Omnitrix and goes searching
for him.
The Omnitrix ends up recalibrating and giving him 10 brand new aliens, locking the originals.
After Ben and Gwen team up with this Plumber named Magister Labrid, they go and find Kevin
11, who is now 16, and escaped the Null Void.
He has now learned to absorb matter rather than energy, to avoid going power-mad as Osmosians
do after absorbing energy.
After getting scammed from the Forever Knights, and seeing how Magister Labrid sacrificed
himself for the others, Kevin agrees to team up with Ben and Gwen, and they become the
awesome trio we all know and love.
After that, the trio is on a search for Grandpa Max, recruiting lots of new Plumbers to fight
the Highbreed, an alien species that attaches these parasites to random people’s faces,
thus corrupting them into these DNAliens which can take care of the duties that they need
to be done.
After the trio finds Grandpa Max in a Highbreed lair, he is revealed to be alive, only to
sacrifice himself yet again to save Ben in a tough fight.
After that, Ben vows to always do what his grandfather told him, and continues assembling
a powerful team.
After that, we learn that Gwen is an Anodite, an alien who can harness her magical powers,
but chooses not to for her friends.
They also meet a man named Professor Paradox, a guy who got locked in a time tunnel for
over 100,000 years and can travel through time and make the world a better place.
Paradox becomes a very powerful ally for the team, and helps them out in useful situations.
Ben also unlocks Alien X, his most powerful, or should I say least powerful alien yet.
Basically, Alien X can do anything he desires, as long as he convinces these two ultra-powerful,
but incredibly stubborn aliens to agree with his requests.
Ben also meets his girlfriend, Julie Yamamoto, who has a pet named Ship.
Ship is a Galvanic Mecamorph, like Upgrade from the classic series.
After the Highbreed plan to destroy the Earth, the war of Ben and all of his friends vs the
Highbreed begins.
Ben is briefly granted master-control again, and they all go to war.
After going to the control tower of the Highbreed, Grandpa Max comes back, to allow Ben to go
to the Highbreed planet to end the war, while everyone else stays on Earth to fight.
Once there, Ben realizes that the Highbreed species is actually getting wiped out, and
they will destroy the entire universe with them.
Ben uses the Omnitrix to revert the Highbreed to their pure DNA, and the war ends successfully,
with the Highbreed returning home.
Having saved the universe, Ben is now regarded as an intergalactic hero, and this boosts
his ego quite a bit, making him act more childish and immature.
After conquering over 10 worlds and absorbing the powers of the greatest heroes in the universe,
Vilgax challenges Ben for the ruler of the Earth.
Ben tries to hack the Omnitrix to gain some more power but ends up failing, releasing
four of his aliens to roam free, and turning Kevin into a monster.
After collecting all four aliens back into the Omnitrix, Ben fights Vilgax, and after
being believed to be defeated, he turns into Diamondhead and defeats Vilgax once more,
saving the Earth once again.
After a harsh defeat for Vilgax, he teams up with Albedo, former partner of Azmuth who
got turned into a human, looking like Ben’s evil twin.
He has invented something called the Ultimatrix, a version of Ben’s Omnitrix which can evolve
them into their Ultimate form.
Their alliance would serve to give Vilgax power and dominance over Tennyson, and Albedo
the Omnitrix to revert himself back to his Galvan form.
They abduct Kevin and Gwen and use them as hostages to fight Ben.
Ben having no choice, gives Vilgax his Omnitrix to free his friends.
Vilgax obviously betrays Albedo and keeps the Omnitrix for himself, using it to power
his army which can all transform into Ben’s aliens.
After a reality check with Azmuth, Ben voice commands the Omnitrix to self-destruct, which
destroys it and hurts Vilgax.
He then gets the Ultimatrix from Albedo and puts it on himself, using it to blow up Vilgax’s
ship and defeat him once again.
The destruction of the Omnitrix also reverts Kevin back to his human form, and from there,
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien begins!
After getting the Ultimatrix and unlocking some of the aliens’ ultimate forms, clips
of Ben transforming rise on the Internet because of a fanboy named Jimmy Jones.
This immediately sends Ben into fame and stardom, only boosting his ego more and more.
Remember how Kevin was an Osmosian?
Well, we now meet an artificial Osmosian, by the name of Aggregor!
He plans to absorb the powers of these five aliens to allow himself to steal the Map of
Infinity, which will make him even more powerful!
Before he fully absorbs the 5 aliens’ powers, they flee to Earth and split up, only to be
recaptured and absorbed by Aggregor, who now harnesses all of their powers.
Now that Ultimate Aggregor has been unleashed, the trio have to stop him before he collects
the four pieces of the Map of Infinity, which Professor Paradox had scattered across the
universe to avoid someone from getting their hands on it.
Unsuccessful every single time, the trio now has to race Aggregor to the Forge of Creation,
the place where Celestialsapiens, like Alien X are born.
Aggregor can get there with the Map, and the trio is helped again by Paradox who partially
takes them there.
While there, the trio meet up with the child Ben from the classic series, and the four
of them must defeat Aggregor before he absorbs a baby Celestialsapien and becomes all-mighty.
Unsuccessful ONCE AGAIN, Kevin absorbs 16 year-old Ben’s Ultimatrix, which allows
him to also absorb Ultimate Aggregor’s power.
This obviously makes him power-mad, and this will split the team up temporarily.
Child Ben is also returned to his timeline.
Mad with power, Kevin goes to absorb the powers of some of his old enemies and acquaintances.
Meanwhile, Ben and Gwen now split up as well, as Gwen tries to take a sensible approach
against Kevin, while Ben tries to kill Kevin before it’s too late.
Eventually, they recruit some old friends, and after Ben fries Kevin with Ultimate Echo
Echo (the coolest alien ever by the way) they return Kevin’s power to their original owners.
Now, the team is reunited!
Weak and in his water-form from the fatal crash with Albedo, Vilgax heals with The Flame
Keepers Circle, a secret group consisting of beings called the Esoterica, who can phase
in and out of dimensions.
They worship a god named the Dagon, who kind of looks like Vilgax’s water-form.
Vilgax takes advantage of this and tells the Esoterica he is the Dagon, making him be revered
as a god until he is healed back to full strength.
Meanwhile, the Forever Knights crack open a seal they think is theirs due to the symbol
on it, which lets loose a parasite that (after the trio find out) latches onto Gwen and temporarily
controls her.
Gwen finds out that these are the Lucubra, small creatures working for the great Dagon,
and the seal that the Knights broke is actually slowly setting the Dagon free.
Ben is then directed to an old guy named George, the original founder of the Forever Knights
who is over 1700 years old.
After some distractions, George gets his hands on the Sword of Ascalon, an invention of Azmuth
long before he invented the Omnitrix.
The sword is actually holding Dagon’s heart in an invisible fortress, which George and
the trio manage to find.
If the heart is reunited with Dagon, he will have immense power and could destroy the world.
Knowing this and foolishly believing Vilgax is Dagon, the Esoterica take Vilgax to the
fortress, which ends with Vilgax going back to his land form after getting the sword.
Dagon sends a message to Vilgax that despite his lies, he’d give Vilgax ultimate power
if he returned the heart to the seal and set Dagon free.
Vilgax agrees, and they all go to the seal.
Vilgax is sucked into it after he cracks it some more, which leaves the sword for George,
revitalizing him to his full strength.
The Esoterica and Knights unleash into a full-on war, with Vilgax returning in full power,
evenly tied with George and Ben.
Vilgax breaks the seal some more, which releases the Dagon’s power onto the planet, turning
every human into an Esoterica, aside from the trio and George.
Dagon recontrols Gwen once again, who breaks open the seal completely, which releases Dagon
in his full godly form.
After Waybig is defeated by Dagon, and George is completely dead at this point, Vilgax double-crosses
Dagon and absorbs all his power for himself, turning himself into another Dagon!
After a bit of an underwhelming fight, Ben defeats and takes Vilgax’s power with Azmuth’s
sword, and reverts every Esoterica on Earth back to human.
Impressed by his maturity, Azmuth gives Ben, the new-and-improved Omnitrix!
Fast forward a few weeks, as Ben is now completely redesigned with the new Omnitrix.
Gwen and Kevin have departed for college, leaving Ben with a new partner named Rook
Blonko.
In terms of being a partner, Rook is a lot more powerful and versatile, and he has a
weapon called the Proto-Tool.
There is now an underground city named Undertown, where all sorts of alien species thrive and
sell things.
Meanwhile, we get introduced to Malware, a Galvanic Mecamorph that was genetically incomplete
back when Ben was still a kid.
Azmuth had failed in trying to save him resulting in only furthering Malware’s genetic malfunctions.
This sent Malware to take a part of Ben’s Omnitrix and go to Dr. Psychobos where he
works on creating his own Omnitrix knockoff to fix himself.
This requires genetic samples for the device however, which is why they recruit Khyber
the Huntsman to go and collect the genetic samples of the natural predators of the aliens
in the Omnitrix.
Basically, Khyber would find the natural predator for Heatblast and collect the genetic sample
for the device, which they would eventually call the “Nemetrix”.
Trying to find a test subject to be the wielder of the Nemetrix, they first go to Phil, the
old Plumber friend of Grandpa Max who was in the Null Void, but eventually end up using
Zed, Khyber’s dog.
After failing to kill Ben for his own ventures, Khyber, Malware and Psychobos attack Galvan
Prime, the planet where Galvans like Azmuth and Galvanic Mecamorph’s like Malware live.
After Psychobos gets defeated by Ben and betrayed by Khyber, it is revealed what happened to
Feedback, Ben’s favorite alien when he was a kid.
Between the end of the classic series and Alien Force, Ben had overused Feedback so
much that it resulted in Malware destroying Feedback from the Omnitrix, which is why Ben
took off the Omnitrix during that time.
More powerful than ever, Malware nearly destroys Galvan B, Galvan Prime’s moon and home of
the Galvanic Mecamorph’s, until they take power again by Azmuth and fix it back to the
original.
Ben also has an existential reflection with his old-self, and unlocks Feedback again,
destroying Malware temporarily.
A while later, we see Rook’s planet, Revannah, a farm planet.
They harvest a product called Amber Ogia, which is a very useful resource.
Remember the Incurseans?
The same ones who destroyed Pluto in Alien Force?
Well, they’re back and more powerful than ever.
Their whole schtick is destroying and conquering worlds for fun, and with the new General Attea
in charge, they attack a lot more frequently.
They have teamed up with Psychobos and try to attack Revannah and some other planets,
only to be stopped by Ben and Rook.
Eventually, they take over Earth, unleashing an army of mutant Way Bigs to destroy the
planet.
Ben and the gang eventually stop that too.
And there’s also this thing called the Anihilaarg, a device capable of destroying the entire
Universe.
Accidentally detonating it causes Ben to transform into Alien X, and rather than save the universe
since it was too late, creates an almost perfect replica of everything.
I know, isn’t that AWESOME?
A little while later, we go to Dimension 23, an alternate dimension where there’s a different
Ben, called Ben 23.
He’s a selfish and alien-hating brat who is super rich and famous, and he gets helped
out by Ben a couple times.
He’ll be back a bit later.
Khyber is back, and this time he’s teamed up with Albedo, who has regained his Ultimatrix
again.
Khyber sends Ben to a planet where Ben has to survive against all the natural predator
aliens in the Nemetrix, which is now on Khyber’s new dog.
The old dog is now Kevin’s pet.
Albedo also transforms himself back to his Galvan form, then into Ultimate Albedo, the
evolved version of a Galvan, making him the smartest being in the Universe, all but Azmuth.
If he gains Azmuth’s intelligence, he could destroy the entire galaxy.
Yadda yadda, Ben stops them and gets a new alien, called Atomix, one of his most powerful
transformations yet!
They cuff Albedo, who turns back to his human form via Azmuth, but Khyber manages to escape.
A little while later, Vilgax and Eon, an old time-traveling foe, have teamed up to collect
an army of different Ben 10’s from various dimensions to fight the good Ben’s, including
the only dimension where Ben never got the Omnitrix because it never existed.
We’ll call this Ben “Ben 0”.
It is later revealed that Vilgax double-crossed Eon and uses a Chronosapien Time Bomb, a device
used to destroy multiple realities throughout a multiverse, to destroy all of the Ben 10’s,
including Ben Prime who we all know.
Right before he gets destroyed, Ben Prime gives his Omnitrix to Ben 0, and Professor
Paradox takes him to reestablish the Prime timeline and make sure the Prime Ben gets
the Omnitrix to begin with.
Now knowing how to use the Omnitrix, Ben 0 and Paradox go back to after everyone died,
and with Clockwork, a Chronosapien, Ben rewinds all the events and all the good Ben’s defeat
Vilgax together.
A few weeks later, Ben Prime goes to court against the Celestialsapiens, or Alien X’s,
because of his violation of one of their rules for recreating the Universe with Alien X a
few weeks prior.
While Ben loses in court, a loophole allows him to win if he wins a fight against another
Celestialsapien.
Here, Ben unlocks full power of Alien X and wins the battle, and is innocent.
Remember in the beginning when I mentioned a guy named Dr. Servantis and the Rooters?
After hearing about Ben rewearing the Omnitrix, Servantis mind controls the Rooters kids again
and turns them into a fight against “The Coming Storm”.
Kevin turns against Ben after Servantis reminds him of how Ben imprisoned him to the Null
Void in his childhood, which makes Kevin turn into a monster again and nearly kills Ben,
until it is revealed he was faking it, to beat Servantis, once and for all.
Later, in a fight with Khyber, Ben recruits Skurd, a Slimebiote creature that can create
armors and cool weapons with the DNA in the Omnitrix.
In the future, Subdora and Exoskull, some C-List villains in the show, are getting the
pieces of Maltruent together.
Maltruent is an evil Chronosapien, who’s body parts have been scattered across the
universe by Paradox until these two recover them, which causes Ben 10,000 to get Ben and
Rook to time travel and try to stop Maltruent before he goes to the beginning of time and
creates his own evil universe.
Lots of time travel shenanigans lead to them going back in time to 1773 and meeting George
Washington.
George Washington goes on to create the Plumbers.
This is also when younger Vilgax had become aware of the Omnitrix and immediately became
envious of its power.
Going back to the beginning of time on a Contemelia ship, a place where universes are created
and destroyed, Ben stops Maltruent from activating his evil Anihilaarg, and using every single
transformation in the Omnitrix, Ben scatters Maltruent across the universe again, putting
him back in the time loop.
Skurd says goodbye to Ben, and they watch as the beautiful Universe is created.
But until the next alien invasion or cosmic threat to the galaxy, you can always rest
assured...that it’s HERO TIME!