Hero Time

Hero Time is the ninth episode of the first season of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and the ninth episode overall.
==Synopsis==
A starstruck Ben dates a beautiful young movie actress, while his childhood hero makes a comeback.
==Plot==
As Ben, Gwen, and Kevin are waiting for a book signing, young movie star Jennifer Nocturne arrives to sign her books. Suddenly, she is held hostage by a few robbers armed with dangerous laser guns and after they murder two of her bodyguards, they demand $10 million in one hour- otherwise, they threaten, she will die. Everything looks bad until Ben transforms into Spidermonkey and fights the criminals. As one of them tries to escape, Captain Nemesis, Ben's favorite hero, arrives and knocks him out. After Spidermonkey reverts back to Ben, Jennifer then gives Ben a kiss, which makes Nemesis jealous of Ben.
Ben returns home to find the story on all of the news channels and Gwen, Kevin, and much to Ben's surprise, Julie, who is jealous at Jennifer Nocturne kissing him. Ben assures her that it's for their careers and Julie says there's nothing going on between him and Jennifer, but she is really taking advantage of Ben to get more publicity. Just then, Jennifer arrives in a golden helicopter to take Ben to Captain Nemesis's party, much to Julie's chagrin.
At the party, Jennifer introduces Ben to Nemesis, who tries to be friendly, but is obviously jealous of Ben, and is annoyed when everyone pays more attention to him. Nemesis even gets Ben's name wrong, calling him Tim Bennyson. Meanwhile, Gwen and Kevin try to find out more about the laser guns that the robbers used.
After the party, Nemesis, revealing that the hostage situation was a ruse to make him a bigger star, is seeking to become a bigger star than Ben. He has his assistant Simons enlist the help of Will Harangue, who views Nemesis as a great American icon (an opinion repeatedly noted in the episode), to capture some exclusive footage of him being a bigger hero than Ben, thinking that being a hero is all about fame. A little later, a swarm of war robots lead by Computron appear and attempt to take over the Earth, giving Nemesis the opportunity to prove he's a better hero then Ben. Nemesis and Will Harangue arrive, the former to fight and the latter to film, but Harangue is distracted by another news crew capturing his exclusive footage. Ben arrives as Jetray, ruining Harangue's plan, but when that proves ineffective, he transforms into Armodrillo and destroys most of the robots. Nemesis manages to hide his jealousy and challenges Ben to a friendly competition to see who's the better hero. 
At Ben's place, Gwen tells him that Nocturne's kidnapper's weapons were made by one of Nemesis' companies, before Julie warns Ben that the contest could be a trick. Ben decides to go anyway. At the duel, covered by Nocturne for the Will Harangue Nation, Ben transforms into Humungousaur and easily beats Nemesis in train throwing. However, when Ben attempts to transform into Jetray, he transforms into Rath instead and Nemesis wins the speed challenge. As a tiebreaker, a tug-of-war is held over a mud pit, and Ben transforms into Four Arms and wins. Nemesis is humiliated live on public TV and plots to get revenge on Ben.
Nemesis makes a mountain out of a molehill over his jealousy of Ben, and he has his technicians remove all of the safeguards on his suit, allowing him to use more power than ever before, which would practically kill him. When Simons objects to the removal of the safeguards of his suit, Captain Nemesis tells Simons to leave. He then kidnaps Julie, who was shown taking her anger over Jennifer out on the tennis courts. Nemesis then intercepts Jennifer's helicopter and takes her too. When Ben calls Julie, Nemesis answers the call and tells Ben to "come and get me" if he wants to see her again.
At his lair, Ben stoically transforms into Ultimate Humungousaur, keeping Nemesis at bay and fighting him fiercely. He easily defeats him, but then he reveals he has captured both Julie and Nocturne and that Ben can only save one of them. Nemesis cuts the ropes and both begin to fall down. Ultimate Humungousaur transforms into Goop and catches Julie, while Gwen and Kevin rescue Nocturne.
They hide behind Gwen's shield as Nemesis's energy blasts get increasingly hotter. Nemesis finally snaps and tells them that he doesn't know why he protected people like Ben in the first place and decides to change his name to Overlord. He then tries to kill Goop, who tries to turn into Big Chill but turns into Water Hazard instead. Water Hazard then neutralizes Overlord's armor by soaking him in cold water before absorbing all of the moisture in the air, drying it out and making it brittle enough to break off by beating him up ruthlessly. After Water Hazard transforms back into normal, Ben scolds Overlord for losing sight of what being a hero means.
The police come and arrest Overlord and Harangue claims that Overlord/Nemesis was a good man forced to do bad things to take down Ben, and states "another life destroyed, by the menace that is Ben Tennyson".
==Noteworthy Events==
===Major Events===
*Ben's childhood hero, Captain Nemesis, turns evil and changes his name to Overlord.
====Character Debuts====
*Jennifer Nocturne
*Carl Nesmith
*Computron
*Computron's Minions
*Simons
====Ultimatrix Alien Debut====
*Armodrillo
===Minor Events===
*It is revealed that the Mark 10 has a voice command function.
==Characters==
===Main Characters===
*Ben Tennyson
*Gwen Tennyson
*Kevin Levin
===Supporting Characters===
*Jennifer Nocturne (first appearance)
*Julie Yamamoto
===Antagonists===
*Carl Nesmith (first appearance)
*Will Harangue
*Computron (first appearance)
**Computron's Minions (first appearance)
===Other Characters===
*Pierce's Girlfriend (cameo)
*Carol Smith (cameo)
*Teej (cameo)
*Simons (first appearance)
==Aliens Used==
*Spidermonkey
*Jetray
*Armodrillo (first appearance)
*Humungousaur (x2; second time goes Ultimate)
**Ultimate Humungousaur
*Rath (selected alien was Jetray)
*Four Arms
*Goop
*Water Hazard (intended alien was Big Chill)
==Quotes==
==Naming and Translations==
==Cast==
==Continuity==
*Jennifer Nocturne makes her debut in this episode, after she was mentioned by a reporter in Hit 'Em Where They Live.
==Allusions==
*The couple's name of Ben and Jennifer, Bennifer, refers to the real-life couple of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
*One of Captain Nemesis' nicknames for Ben, Tiananmen, is a reference to Tiananmen Square.
==Errors==
*The crowd standing at both the book signing and at the party changes from a cluster line into a single file line.
*When Ben approaches the thugs, the Ultimatrix dial is facing the wrong way. Also, the dial doesn't pop up, nor does a hologram appear. 
*When Ben becomes Spidermonkey, the fans are standing in front of the cordon, even though they were standing behind it before the fight.
*Spidermonkey flies on top of the building across the street. This is actually the same spot where Captain Nemesis puts on his armor, but he is not seen.
*Various other errors occur during the first fight:
**Although both of Jennifer's bodyguards are shot and thrown backwards, they disappear throughout the fight and even when Jennifer kisses Ben.
**The fans at the book signing appear and vanish throughout the fight.
**Jennifer and the thug who keeps her at hostage constantly vanish and appear.
**The guns vanish after the thugs are disarmed and beaten.
**The Darkfall poster on the door appears and vanishes throughout the fight.
*When Spidermonkey gets hit and flies backwards, there's an ice cream store, but when he moves the collapsing streetlamp away from the fans, the store is missing.
*Right after Kevin knocks one of the thugs out, Spidermonkey is fighting one of the thugs on the right side of the red carpet. Then, when Spidermonkey throws him into other thugs and trapping them in the web, the fight takes place on the left side of the red carpet.
*Spidermonkey's additional positions before and after his confrontation with the thug holding Jennifer is inconsistent. After trapping the thugs using his web, they are in the center of the red carpet. Then, when Spidermonkey jumps backwards, he should have landed on the left side of the red carpet. Instead, when sliding backwards, he is in front of the main entrance again but is not on top of the defeated thugs. Then, when Captain Nemesis arrives, Spidermonkey can be seen on top of the defeated thugs before jumping off.
*It's impossible for Jennifer to run towards Ben in a straight line, since she was at the main entrance, while Ben was on the right side of the red carpet meeting Captain Nemesis.
*Gwen and Kevin rush up to the entrance to knock one of the thugs out. However, when Jennifer kisses Ben, Gwen and Kevin are standing back in their original spot in line as if they haven't left.
*Kevin mutes the volume on the TV when he, Gwen, and Julie watch the news about Ben and Jennifer. However, when Ben arrives and watches Harangue's news, the volume is automatically unmuted.
*When Gwen, Kevin and Julie watch the initial news coverage on Ben and Jennifer, Gwen eats food from a paper bag, but when Ben arrives, the bag disappears.
*When Kevin says, "I do" before Gwen hits him, his face and hand are merged.
*When Jennifer talks to Ben by the helicopter, Ben's jacket stripes are on both sleeves.
*When Jennifer says, "Ready for the party?" to Ben, Gwen and Kevin vanish when the camera moves from Julie to Ben.
*When Ben is at the party, his jacket stripes are on the wrong side.
*It stops raining within a second when Simons speaks with Harangue.
*When Jetray dives, his chest stripe is yellow.
*Before Armodrillo changes back, he is standing behind Captain Nemesis, but when Ben appears, he is suddenly in front of Nemesis.
*Ben says that he defeated ten of Computron's minions, but if counted, he only defeats five. In fact, there were only about five of them in that scene.
*When Jennifer begins hosting for the friendly contest, her shorts are black. This occurs again when Captain Nemesis fires a fire blast at Gwen's mana shield.
*Humungousaur's feet appear before Ben transforms into him.
*When Ben and Nemesis are having their race one of the placards the fans are holding reads "I <3 BEM".
*When Captain Nemesis wins the race, the audience is reused three times.
*The bridge vanishes when Captain Nemesis beats Rath in the race.
*During the competition, in one shot, the "N" on Captain Nemesis' chest is miscolored.
*After Captain Nemesis loses the competition, one of the audience members doesn't have a face.
*When Ben enters the Nemesis Tower, his jacket stripes are on his left sleeve instead of his right sleeve.﻿
*During Ultimate Humungousaur's transformation sequence, Humungousaur's back is light brown.
*Ultimate Humungousaur is supposed to be able to launch missiles out of the blaster scopes he can unveil in the knuckles of his hands. Instead, when he uses them, red laser bolts are fired rapidly out of the top scope as his hands spin as if they were the cannon barrels for revolvers.
*When Captain Nemesis shoots a rope at Ultimate Humungousaur's arm, the rope on his arm disappears for a split second and reappears in the next shot.
*When Captain Nemesis pulls the rope he wrapped around Ultimate Humungousaur's left wrist, Ultimate Humungousaur's eye is colored red, and the portion above it is mistakenly colored green.
*When Nemesis flies towards Ultimate Humungousaur, his horn is green.
*Ben arrives at Nemesis Tower alone. However, after rescuing Julie, Gwen and Kevin unexpectedly appear to rescue Jennifer, without explanation as to how they knew where Captain Nemesis was.
*Right when Water Hazard takes his first swing at Overlord, the "N" on his chest is missing.
HT (11).png|Line error
HT (37).png|Fans are behind the cordon
HT (39).png|Ultimatrix dial error
HT (40).png|Fans are in front of the cordon
HT (46).png|Ice cream store
HT (49).png|Captain Nemesis' spot
HT (52).png|Jennifer and the thug are missing/Missing poster
HT (54).png|Missing ice cream store
HT (62).png|The fight is on the right side of the bookstore's entrance
HT (69).png|The fight is on the left side of the bookstore's entrance
HT (70).png|Spidermonkey and the thugs are at the center of the red carpet
HT (72).png|Spidermonkey is still at the main entrance after sliding back
HT (80).png|Spidermonkey is on top of the thugs
HT (89).png|Jennifer's bodyguards and fans are missing/The guns are missing/Gwen and Kevin are in line
HT (95).png|Paper bag
HT (101).png|No paper bag
HT (116).png|Hand error
HT (124).png|Stripe error
HT (130).png|Gwen and Kevin are missing
HT (137).png|Stripe error
HT (186).png|Rain
HT (188).png|No rain
HT (224).png|Stripe error
HT (253).png|Armodrillo is behind Captain Nemesis
HT (254).png|Ben is in front of Captain Nemesis
HT (275).png|Shorts error
HT (287).png|Feet error
HT (310).png|I <3 BEM
HT (319).png|Reused audience
HT (347).png|"N" error
HT (353).png|No face
HT (405).png|Stripe error
HT (409.3).png|Light brown back
HT (423.05).png|Revolver-like laser bolts instead of missiles
HT (431).png|Missing rope
HT (433.5).png|Eye error
HT (439).png|Green horn
HT (510).png|Shorts error
HT (536).png|Missing "N"
==Trivia==
*In Asia, excluding India, the scene when Jennifer kisses Ben is censored.
*This episode aired on the birthday of Tara Platt, wife to Yuri Lowenthal.
*Ben knew Computron and his minions were attacking people because he saw it on TV.
*A line was cut in the episode, where one of the reporters was supposed to say, "I don't believe it. It's Captain Nemesis!", but in the episode she just says "Captain Nemesis".
**The line, "I don't believe it. It's Captain Nemesis!" was actually used in the show, but it was said by a male construction worker when Captain Nemesis arrived to defeat Computron and his minions.
*In India, the scene where Rath attacks Captain Nemesis after the race was removed.
==References==
===Crew Statements===
====T.J. Collins====
====Dwayne McDuffie====
===Cartoon Network===
===Cartoon Network India===
es:Hora de ser héroe
pl:Czas bohatera
pt-br:Hora do Herói
ro:E timpul pentru eroi
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