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Ladies and jellyfish, shalom, and welcome back to A.S.K.
Air, as today I’ll be going back to a topic a lot of you guys know me for, which is the
Ben 10 Omniverse redesigns!
While the last two times we looked at not only the aliens, which got redesigns because
of Omniverse’s new art style, but also the primary and secondary characters, today we’ll
revisit all those art style changes, to boil down the top 5 WORST redesigns among them!
Let’s go!
#5: Humungousaur Look, we’ll start off tame here.
I don’t despise Humungousaur’s redesign or anything, but it’s implicative of a bunch
of issues with Omniverse’s art style as a whole that I’ll be repeating later, so
I think it’s best to just get it out of the way now.
Take a look at the classic Humungousaur.
Perfect, right?
A huge dino freak, with a nice color scheme, scary menacing face, cool growth design with
the horns and the spikes…what’s not to love?!
Now look at the Omniverse version.
Childish looking, too curvy.
Color scheme is oversaturated and too bright.
The face has a massive underbite chin for some reason, and comes off as too goofy and
not intimidating in the slightest.
And we have this stupid ugly obligatory green belt that goes around him!
He has underwear on now for some reason!
Even the eyes look worse in this design!
This is what I call the Omniverse Syndrome, and a lot of aliens suffer from all these
symptoms of saturated, too curvy, too much focus on the chin, and too much goddamn green
just thrown in there!
And the underwear just makes him seem so idiotic and can’t allow me to take him seriously
at all!
Were they TRYING to undermine what effort and skill were put to make Humungousaur the
most dangerous and hulking alien in UAF?
Why would you throw that potential away with a stupid childish mess like this!
Ugh…moving on.
#4: Vilgax Ugggh, Vilgax’s design just generally downgrades
with every iteration.
In the classic series, he was giant, scary and super threatening.
His face was cool as hell and his entire physique screamed ultra-powerful.
I talked about this in my Vilgax video, but you could tell that the Classic writers wanted
Vilgax to be this show’s massive villain, which is why he got so much buildup initially.
Then in UAF, while I still like the design, he got a massive downgrade.
He looks a lot blander, with less detail on his body, a slightly slimmer physique, and
more visibility with his mouth.
I feel like the mystique of having his mouth covered in the classic series was one of the
things that added so much tension and menace to the character.
Then it all just went to crap with the Omniverse iteration.
While the body armour becoming a darker shade of red again is definitely a step in the right
direction, Vilgax’s face and body colour just feel so off!
Now he has more texturing on his skin, which is totally unnecessary because it makes him
look all flabby and brain-like!
Focusing entirely on the squid-aspect of Vilgax was definitely a mistake, and it all started
in Alien Force and just got worse over time.
In Omniverse, his design makes it look like he would smell absolutely horrendous, and
just be so easy to beat.
His face is also just terrible here…I can’t quite put my finger on it, but the menace
that was once there is totally gone, and the way his character acts in Omniverse certainly
doesn’t help anyone’s case.
#3: Big Chill Bit of a hot take with this one, but Big Chill’s
design is absolutely horrendous in Omniverse.
So think of this.
In UAF, Big Chill is quite literally on ice.
He looks absolutely freaky, balancing the more scary parts of the show with this mysterious
cool chill alien.
He is blue all over except the eyes and the Omnitrix, and adopts a slender bug-like look,
with more emphasis on the head and the cape when he is not flying.
But Omniverse takes the moth look all the way to the extreme, and makes him a hunchback
moth who ate a bit too much of the Thanksgiving leftovers.
In addition to the ugly green Omnitrix strap, they even gave him some weird kind of chest
hair or something, making him look older and more husky-like, which just doesn’t do it
for me.
Especially with Big Chill, he’s the type of alien that is versatile and cold, not slow
and fat!
I don’t know what they were thinking with this one, because it does nothing to make
Big Chill seem more intimidating.
All it does is make him take up more space, seem less scary and fast in the air, and more
prone to losing his mind and becoming complacent, like he does when he gets mind-controlled
by Khyber’s dog.
Call me crazy, but I like my aliens to look like they can win, not lose.
#2: Stinkfly Another super lazy one…Stinkfly’s redesign
is really just sad to see, because of how elementary the mistakes here are.
The good news is we barely got to see this one on screen in Omniverse!
It only got like 3 proper appearances!
His hands…yeah, no longer black and slick.
Now they’re green.
The body?
No longer black and white, now IT’S green!
Cuz Omniverse is green, damn it!
Green green green!
Black-colored face, nope!
Now that’s green too, suckers!
And a cool menacing face that balances the creepy and gross look while managing to look
badass as hell?
Yep, just give him the buck teeth!
Doesn’t look moronic or anything!
Why would anyone even think that?
Stinkfly’s redesign screams rushed, and tries to make him seem more gross and repulsive
while completely ignoring what made original Stinkfly so menacing and badass to start with!
Just keep him creepy and not completely goddamn green!
God, I miss the OG art style so much!
Honorable Mentions:
Upgrade Just keep the damn colors the same, and you’re
good!
NO, THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT!
YOU JUST REVERSED IT!
Swampfire The problem with Swampfire’s blossom design
in Omniverse is that it entirely undermines what Swampfire’s abilities are, and gives
him this wider physique for no reason, not to mention the absolutely horrendous color
scheme that is an insult to the perfection that was his UAF design.
Even his original OV design, just doesn’t compare to UAF’s pristine perfection.
#1: Chromastone Aaaand, the infamous one which always gets
rightfully dragged through the mud…Chromastone.
I just loved how Chromastone looked throughout UAF.
The one word to describe him was slick, not only in his slender design, but also in the
perfect shades of purple and pink that he embodied, which made him stand out among the
roster, but other things as well.
He was a totally cool rock amalgam, with a tall presence and a menacing demeanour and
face.
The mouth fit perfectly, and there’s just something so simple and sheen about this original
design.
Fast forward to Omniverse, and aside from getting like 2 whole appearances, Chromastone
looks horrendous!
He has long ass crystals sticking out of him, out of areas that look really uncomfortable,
like his knees and out his arms…like he’s Swampfire or something, and it just makes
me feel like a bad guy would just grab one of those and throw him with it.
He has the classic issue of being covered in green crap, and the Omnitrix is no longer
centred on his chest either.
His physique is more bulky and horizontal, he has a way-too-long spike on the top of
his head, and now, THE MOUTH IS FRICKING COVERED!
It’s like they took everything cool about this alien’s design, and completely reversed
it!
Truly a shame to see, because all they had to do to achieve a successful update would
be to just round out the edges a bit and maybe change the face slightly, like how they did
in Alien X-Tinction.
The way they pulled it off though just really pisses me off.
The funny part is though, that this design was only presented once throughout all 8 seasons
of Omniverse, in only one episode.
Chromastone had one other appearance in season 1 and this one seems to look a lot more like
the UAF design which was better.
I guess they decided to switch things up for season 8, and fortunately, like Stinkfly,
didn’t use this terrible design too many times.
Aaaaand that was all the top 5 worst Omniverse redesigned characters!
What do you think?
What would be your bottom 5, be sure to let me know and also if I should make the top
5 best list as well!
If you need to refresh your memory on all the redesigns, you can find both my other
videos on this topic in the description below and card above, and with all that said…
I’ll see you in the next one!