Ben 10,000 Returns

Ben 10,000 Returns is the seventh episode of the third season of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and the twenty-seventh episode overall.
==Synopsis==
Eon is back and it's up to an older and wiser Ben from the future to help the crew defeat him using the Hands of Armageddon to win the battle.
==Plot==
Twenty years into the future, Eon is attacking Ben 10,000's headquarters. Ben 10,000 criticizes Eon's decision to attack him alone. He is then attacked by Eon's minions, but Ben 10,000 fights Eon and his minions with his Ultimatrix. He evolves into Ultimate Ben and uses the powers of Ultimate Humungousaur, Arctiguana, and Heatblast. As Eon is about to hit Ben 10,000 with a time ray, Ultimate Ben uses Clockwork's time ray and apparently destroys Eon and his minions before reverting to his normal form. Suddenly, Paradox appears and tells Ben 10,000 that the fight with Eon is not over and that it has barely just begun.
Back in the present, Ben, Gwen and Kevin are investigating a signal the Ultimatrix found. They find the Hand of Armageddon, and when Ben touches it, it releases some of Eon's minions. Ben transforms into Spidermonkey to fight, but after defeating them, they disappear. In the future, Paradox tells Ben 10,000 that Eon is not dead, and he is destroying alternate versions of Ben. Realizing he is targeting his past self, Paradox and Ben 10,000 go to the past to meet the gang after Gwen uses a spell to use the Hand of Armageddon to see through time. Soon, Paradox and Ben 10,000 appear.
Ben 10,000 reveals he is a different future version than the one Ben met when he was 10 and that he is Ben's real future. Paradox informs them that the Hand of Armageddon is the source of their troubles, so Four Arms and Ben 10,000 strap the Hand of Armageddon in the Rustbucket 3, and Paradox explains cross-time to the team. After the explanation, the Hand of Armageddon reactivates and releases more minions. Ben attempts to transform into Rath, but he transforms into Goop instead and Ben 10,000 evolves into Ultimate Ben, who uses Spidermonkey and Ultimate Humungousaur's powers to fight. When the ship goes down, Ultimate Ben uses Jetray's powers to land the ship safely.
Paradox appears again and tells them that the Hand of Armageddon must be destroyed. Ben transforms into Way Big and Ultimate Ben uses Clockwork's powers while Gwen protects herself, Kevin and Paradox from the blasts. However, both of their Ultimatrix symbols glow purple and a portal is opened for Eon to emerge. When Way Big tries to stop him, Eon fires a blast transforming Way Big into a disintegrating statue, eliminating him from the Ultimatrix.
After Way Big transforms back into Ben, he is still safe, and transforms into Swampfire then evolves into Ultimate Swampfire to fight while Ben 10,000 uses XLR8's powers. Eon destroys both Swampfires, and as he was about to destroy Ben, Ultimate Ben protects him with Diamondhead's diamonds. He then gets him away from Eon using XLR8 again. While Kevin and Gwen fight Eon's minions, Gwen uses another spell to freeze them in place. They take off the helmets of Eon's minions and discover that they all have Ben's face.
Eon reveals that instead of destroying the Bens he defeats, he absorbs them and turns them into his slaves. Eon takes off his own helmet to reveal he has Ben 10,000's face and reveals his plan to create a new timeline where he is the only Ben Tennyson in existence. Soon enough, Eon is defeated when Jetray destroys the Hand of Armageddon, causing all of the timelines Eon altered to be restored to normal. While helping Ben get Way Big and both Swampfires back, Ultimate Ben unlocks all of his remaining aliens from since Ben was age 10, as well as several new aliens for Ben "because it'll annoy Azmuth". Before leaving, Paradox gives a warning to the team about Old George and "the creature from beyond".
==Noteworthy Events==
===Major Events===
*Eon returns and is revealed to be an alternate timeline version of Ben.
*The team learns about cross-time.
*It is revealed that Eon's minions are other versions of Ben that Eon captured.
*Ben 10,000 helps his younger self regain access to every alien he has ever become, as well as several new transformations.
*Paradox warns Ben and his team to beware Old George and "the creature from beyond".
====Character Debuts====
*Ben 10,000
*Eon (Ultimate Alien debut)
*Eon's Minions (Ultimate Alien) (debut)
*Ben Tennyson (Race Against Time) (Ultimate Alien debut)
*Gwen Tennyson (Race Against Time) (Ultimate Alien debut)
*Max Tennyson (Race Against Time) (Ultimate Alien debut)
====Ultimatrix Alien Debuts====
*Ultimate Ben
==Characters==
===Main Characters===
*Ben Tennyson
*Gwen Tennyson
*Kevin Levin
===Supporting Characters===
*Ben 10,000 (first appearance)
*Professor Paradox
===Antagonists===
*Eon (first reappearance)
*Eon's Minions (Ultimate Alien) (first appearance)
===Other Characters===
*Ben Tennyson (Race Against Time) (first reappearance; projection; cameo)
*Gwen Tennyson (Race Against Time) (first reappearance; projection; cameo)
*Max Tennyson (Race Against Time) (first reappearance; projection; cameo)
==Aliens Used==
===By Ben===
*Spidermonkey
*Four Arms (off-screen activation; cameo)
*Goop (intended alien was Rath)
*Way Big (destroyed; restored)
*Swampfire (x2; goes Ultimate and reverts; destroyed; restored; second time was a cameo)
**Ultimate Swampfire (destroyed; restored)
*Jetray
===By Ben 10,000===
*Ultimate Ben (x2; second time was an off-screen activation)
**Ultimate Humungousaur (x2)
**Arctiguana
**Heatblast
**Clockwork (x2)
**Unknown Alien (off-screen activation; cameo)
**Spidermonkey
**Jetray
**XLR8 (x2)
**Diamondhead (x2; off-screen activations)
==Spells Used==
===By Gwen===
*Ostendo specialis
*Statua
===By Ultimate Ben===
*Contego
==Quotes==
==Naming and Translations==
==Cast==
==Continuity==
*Several characters mention the events of Ben 10,000, where Ben and Gwen were taken to an alternate future and met an older version of Ben.
==Allusions==
*The title of this episode is a reference to the first two episodes of Alien Force.
*Eon's scheme is similar to that of the Jet Li film The One. The only difference is that Eon enslaves his targets rather than killing them.
*Paradox using the line "It's far from over, old friend" is similar to the First Doctor's final lines "It's far from being all over", as are his warnings of "spoiler alerts", a phrase used by the then-current iteration of the Doctor from Doctor Who.
*Paradox mentions "cross-time", a term used in the Marvel Comics storyline, The Cross-Time Caper, though he explains how it works in a similar manner to DC Comics' Hypertime.
**Paradox also mentions a timeline where Albedo was frozen as Negative Alien X for over a year. The comment is a nod to the post-credits scene from the Nintendo DS version of Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks.
==Errors==
*When Eon's minions charge towards Ben 10,000, Eon's neck overlaps his cape.
*When Eon is hit by the time ray in the beginning, he doesn't have his cape. Also, the fire around him is gone.
*When Ben 10,000 changes from Ultimate Ben to normal Ben, he still has the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest.
*The closed captions on the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: The Return of Heatblast DVD misspell Arctiguana's name as "Arcticguana".
*In the museum, Kevin keeps shifting between human and metal form.
*When Gwen makes vocalizations while fighting Eon's minions, her mouth does not move.
*Spidermonkey is much bigger before he reverts back to Ben.
*When Ben shakes hands with Ben 10,000, it is shown to be with the right hand, but when the scene changes, they are shaking with their left hands.
*Ben and Ben 10,000's heights change throughout the episode. Ben is initially shown to be a head shorter than Ben 10,000, but later, he is taller.
*When Ben 10,000 tells Ben about that he defeated the third Vilgaxian invasion, his Ultimatrix's dial is facing the wrong way. This error occurs again when he tells Gwen that she saw into an alternate timeline with the spell she casted earlier.
*Goop's hologram is darker than usual and is missing the Anti-Gravity Projector.
*Even though Goop says that he wanted Rath, it can be seen that Goop's hologram was active on the Ultimatrix.
*Before Ultimate Ben uses Spidermonkey's powers, his Ultimatrix symbol's colors are inverted.
*Before Ultimate Ben uses Jetray's powers, his Ultimatrix symbol is fully black.
*When Eon begins to emerge from the Hand of Armageddon, Ultimate Ben is missing until Eon disintegrates Way Big with a time ray.
*When Kevin absorbs a stone to fight Eon's minions, the stone he absorbs is brown, but his armor is shown to be grey.
*When Ultimate Swampfire grabs Eon, his Ultimatrix symbol is slightly shifted.
*When Eon throws Ultimate Swampfire on the ground, the four spikes on the Ultimatrix symbol are missing.
*When Ultimate Ben takes Ben to run from Eon, his Ultimatrix symbol is gone.
*Ben, Gwen, and Kevin are noticeably shorter in this episode.
*Before Ben transforms into Jetray, his hologram is drawn incorrectly.
B10kR (35).png|Layering error
B10kR (74).png|Missing fire and cape
B10kR (79).png|Ultimatrix symbol error
UA TRoH DVD Arctiguana Error.png|Incorrect closed captions on the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: The Return of Heatblast DVD
B10kR (99).png|Human form
B10kR (104).png|Metal form
B10kR (157).png|Size error
B10kR (206).png|Right handshake
B10kR (209).png|Left handshake
B10kR (218).png|Ultimatrix dial error
B10kR (249).png|Ultimatrix dial error
B10kR (265).png|Height error/Hologram error
B10kR (280).png|Hologram error
B10kR (310).png|Hologram error
B10kR (379).png|Ultimate Ben is missing
B10kR (418).png|Different stone
B10kR (438).png|Dislocated Ultimatrix symbol
B10kR (442).png|Missing spikes
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B10kR (495).png|Hologram error
==Trivia==
*The events of Ben 10: Race Against Time were originally canon to the Classic Continuity. This episode retcons it, as the movie takes place in an alternate timeline.
**Furthermore, Eon was originally portrayed as a Chronian from the planet Chronia.Ben 10: Race Against Time This episode retcons it, as he is revealed to be an alternate version of Ben Tennyson.
*In the U.K., this episode aired before The Creature From Beyond.
*The Gweniverse is briefly mentioned in this episode; this timeline would eventually make its debut in And Then There Was Ben.
==Notes==
==References==
===Crew Statements===
====Dwayne McDuffie====
====Becky Lau====
===Cartoon Network===
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