Omnitrix Science

Hold onto your Unitaurs and get ready to Brainstorm your contradicting points because this episode is going to be all about the science of the Omnitrix and Ultimatrix!
Intro!
Hello, Ben 10 Fan-Fiction! Welcome to Ben 10 Theory, where we don't just base ourselves off of MatPat's Game Theory, but we also go ahead and add in the intro and the structure of the writing!
But ripping off the smartest show in gaming aside, we're going to get into the nitty gritty of science today.
Ever wonder how exactly the Omnitrix and Ultimatrix changed the strucutre of Ben's entire being into that of an extraterrestrial alien from some far off world?
It might seem complicated, but actually, it's quite a simple process.
...Well, I say that, but it really depends on which alien we're talking about.
We'll be talking about two things in this theory:
#How do the Omnitrix and Ultimatrix change the DNA structure of the user into that of another species?
#How does the Ultimatrix evolve Ben's alien forms?
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Let's start by answering that first question
It's simple genetics and mitosis, my friends.
Your DNA is located in the cells of your body. Every cell of your body has approximately 6.5 feet of DNA molecules, meaning you have approximately 20 billion miles of DNA molecules distributed among the trillions of cells in your entire body. The DNA in each of these cells is the same. Replace even one part of that DNA with another, and the entire body can change. That's how things like cancer come about.
Let's take some things into account here.
Cells die and reproduce at an alarmingly fast rate, and each different type of cell dies and reproduces at a different rate. Skin cells reproduce faster than any other cell in existence, reproducing at approximately ONE MILLION CELLS PER SECOND.
Realistically speaking, if the species of the show existed and you were able to be turned into them:
If you change the skin cell DNA to that of Cerebrocrustacean DNA, your entire skin would change to the exoskeleton of Brainstorm much quicker than the rest of your entire body would change into that species, meaning you'd look like a cast member of Jersey Shore a split second before becoming a crab with the intelligence of the Doctor from Doctor Who.
Speaking of Brainstorm, that's a huge issue with the Omnitrix/Ultimatrix science:
Brain cells are different from every other cell in the body in the sense that once they're destroyed, don't grow back. Meaning that turning into any alien who either has a larger head or a larger brain would bring major problems. Brain cells can't be created.
What does this mean? Well it simply means that these aliens who are larger don't get larger brains. They actually physically can't. We're at a dilemma here that only sci-fi can fix and can't be backed by any true, non-fictional science. Aliens like Brainstorm and Way Big will have human-sized brains, and that means Brainstorm's mental capacity would really only be that of a human's, making him not as intelligent as the average Cerebrocrustacean.
So what does this mean for Ben's smartest alien, Grey Matter?
Well, to put it simply, turning into anyone smaller would destroy brain cells you couldn't grow back. Grey Matter's mind is supposed to pretty much be like a TARDIS, bigger on the inside with all the information an average Galvan would have. But the outside is smaller than a human's, so even if all that info got into his mind as Grey Matter, the majority of Ben's mind would be lost due to him having to lose cells to get a Galvan-sized mind, so he would have lost intelligence his human self had once he transforms back. Even more so if he turns into Nanomech and does a Ant-Man move to turn even smaller, he'd lose most of his own brain cells, and more than likely wouldn't even be able to function anymore.
That's right. Using real life science, turning into Nanomech is LETHAL. Not because you'd have a smaller lung capacity, not because he's mechanical, but because you'd lose so many brain cells that don't grow back.
So now we've discovered turning into aliens with smaller heads is a big no-no if you wanna keep your mind and not lose all body functions. Unfortunately, there's no way around it this time. Lock those aliens away, no matter how powerful. But hey, at least that means you don't have to deal with aliens like Walkatrout or The Worst, am I right?
There's another big no-no alien: Goop.
Yeah, that big lovable snot blob. And by lovable, I mean love to be disgusted by. He's a no-no as well. He's a one-cell organism. All your cells get compacted into one when you go him, and then when you turn back, they could all very well go haywire and make you be all misshapen and whatnot.
So what about aliens with differing personalities and mindsets? Let's start with personalities.
Alien X is the only known alien to deal with MPD, Multiple Personality Disorder. This isn't counting the Ectonurite lurking in Ghostfreak that we discussed in Episode 2. Alien X has three personalities:
*Bellicus, the voice of rage and aggression.
*Serena, the voice of love and compassion.
*Ben, the voice of reason.
Bellicus and Serena are generated versions of Kevin and Gwen (but let's save that for another theory, shall we?) and were generated from the subconscious mind of Ben: Kevin being aggressive and Gwen being compassionate. And Ben is inside Alien X as himself, so his mind doesn't get altered in any way here.
But what about Rath? An alien with anger issues that not even Adam Sandler's anger management councilor could fix. Ben's mind is rewired almost entirely to be aggressive and throw a punch at almost anything that even breathes. And then the reverse is done when he switches back, rewiring his brain to the state it was before he was transformed. Kind of like a really intense brain surgery where someone just a tad bit more qualified than Markiplier is your doctor.
And how about Big Chill? He's a species that reproduces asexually every 80 years and is hot-wired to do so. That, added onto the fact that Ben is a 15 year old male still dealing with puberty makes Big Chill a really dangerous individual to be around when it's that time of his life. His entire body is hot-wired to do anything to be ready for the birth of his oncoming children, the way one would be hot-wired to do almost anything sexual when "in the mood," the way most 15 year old males going through puberty are a lot of the time, and I mean A LOT. Big Chill is pretty much just that, he's just those feelings you get when you get to be at that age and are curious about yourself in that kind of way. Just a part of growing up, except this time you get kids anyways. Luckily they can take care of themselves but unfortunately you probably won't ever see them again.
So now we've covered the beginning of the transformation, the effects on the brain the transformation has, and how Big Chill has an effect on the already unstable forces that come with being a mid-pubescent male. Now how about muscles?
Most of Ben's aliens have a degree of enhanced strength, but let's focus on the biggies. The Way Biggies.
Way Big is currently Ben's biggest alien, not counting the one-hit wonder, Ultimate Way Big. Muscles in aliens who are this big have to be gigantic. I tried to do the math to figure out exactly what the length of his arms are, and nothing added up. But you can plainly see the muscles are A TON bigger than what Ben's usually are. This means the muscles are strengthened and stretched out, but if that's the case, Ben should have some really flappy arms when he turns back, like just as flappy as Stewie from Family Guy when he took steroids. And the same goes for Humungousaur, Four Arms, Rath, etc. Well, you might think that...
Something else to note about bigger aliens is you would gain so many cells when turning into them. What happens to them when you turn back? They die. Those cells die and get blown away in the wind like any other would. This could very well be what is preventing these muscles from being so flappy when he turns back.
What about bone structure? AmpFibian doesn't even have bones. More than likely, when Ben turns into a boneless alien, the bones dissolve. Goop, one of the big no-nos has been proven to have dissolved bones as seen in his transformation sequence. It's not farfetched to think the same with AmpFibian happens.
Now here's a real eye opener. Eye Guy is one of Ben's weirdest aliens. But how on Earth, or Sightra, I should say, would the science work for all those eyes? Just imagine what an Opticoid's skeleton looks like. The entire torso would have eye sockets as well as his arms and palms, and his face would have two giant ear bones. The structure of Eye Guy is one of the most drastic changes from human, and it would change the entire optic never set up, which could very easily be damaged when transforming. There's also the matter of his chest eye, but that will be talked about some other time.
But then there's Heatblast and NRG. These are physical beings who give off a gas and radiation. Shouldn't Ben be sick with radiation poisoning due to NRG? Radiation doesn't just go away in a few seconds, it takes years for radiation to be gone, which is why Chernobyl is still not inhabited again after the incident took place there, the same incident that even gave NRG his iconic Russian accent. NRG's more than likely another big no-no alien. And Heatblast is literally Ben being caught on fire. Is he only protected due to the fact his genes have changed to Pyronite already and have made him immune to fire?
Diamondhead and Chromastone are crystalline aliens, stone. Ben's entire structure changes from flesh to rock and minerals. Chromastone is like if he looked Medusa in the eyes while on some weird acid trip.
There are a lot of aliens who need to be talked about for this situation, but the majority will get their own theories that will explain them.
Omnitrix science? It's actually dangerous. Ironically, the most safe to turn into is Alien X, the one Ben refuses to turn into, because your own brain isn't affected by it, and you're not turned into a single-cell organism and your skeleton isn't dissolved. There's a ton of no-no aliens, let's just be really glad this device actually doesn't exist in real life, or at least isn't bound by real science. Well, I dunno, Ben seems to have lost quite a lot of intelligence. I mean, just look at Omniverse. Or don't. At least, don't look at most of it.
But that's just a Ben 10 Theory on the Science of the Omnitrix! Click the tab at the top to check out the Science of the Ultimatrix and it's evolutionary properties!
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The process of Ultimatrix evolution itself has already been confirmed:
The Ultimatrix puts the DNA of the alien you're evolving into a worst case scenario simulation, causing them to have to evolve to survive it, fixing many of their pre-existing flaws.
Pre-existing flaws? Let's focus on what those are for each alien we've already seen turn Ultimate and explain how each Ultimate fixes them.
===Ultimate Humungousaur===
Humungousaur is a considerably powerful and effective alien. That is, if you're facing an enemy who is close range and has no electric powers. Those are Humungousaur's limitations:
*He is an alien with no distance attacks aside from punching the ground, which won't always work.
*He has a weakness to electricity.
Switch to Ultimate Humungousaur.
Look at this guy. He's like a mutant Bowser with a mace on his tail and missile launchers for hands.
Wait, missile launchers? For HANDS?! How does that work?
The missile launchers are what help fix the lack of a ranged attack Humungousaur has, but how can they even be a part of his biological make up?
Ultimate Humungousaur's missiles are actually made... of his bone fragments. That's right, the missiles this evolved Vaxasaurian shoots are made of the stuff that makes up sans & PAPYRUS from Undertale.
But how much bone matter does he have? Does he run out?
Here's my theory.
Ultimate Humungousaur's skeleton is actually the majority of his innards. So much, in fact, that we see it has to stick out of his flesh in Omniverse.
Oh, you don't know what I mean by that? I'm talking about those tubes. The ones you see on the body parts of Omniverse Ultimate Humungousaur that make him look like a reptilian Fazbear Animatronic. Those are part of his evolves skeleton.
How do I know that? Er, more correctly, how do I theorize that?
Well it's honestly the only thing that would explain those tubes. I doubt they're organs. Let's assume for a second that Vaxasaurians as well as their evolved forms have a similar organ set up to humans:
*Two lungs
*Heart veered to the left
*Stomach
*Small and large intestine
*Esophagus
*Brain
*Kidneys
*Bladder
*Reproductive organs
*Waste removing organs
*Etc
If we assume this, that means every organ would be intertwined with each other in someway, as in from opening of the mouth to the opening of either the reproductive or waste removing organ. This would mean there's no way for the tubes you see poking out of his flesh are organs.
Also, just look at the way they open the flesh. It's the same way bone would open up our flesh, tearing it apart and leaving scars while still protruding from our bodies.
Another thing is that these tubes are where his missiles come from in Omniverse. They'd have to be either be touching bone or be bone.
What touches bones? Muscles. But these tubes can't be those either because muscles can't protrude from flesh the way these tubes do, especially not tough Vaxasaurian skin.
And it can't be veins either because we can see that Ultimate Humungousaur's veins are smaller than these tubes.
So it has to be bones. Hollow bones that take excess bone matter, turn it into the iconic missile-like form, and them shoot them out at a high pressure. Basically sneezing these missiles out of his hands.
And now there's another problem we have to focus on: Humungousaur's weakness to electricity.
Do you realize how many electric aliens Ben has?
#Frankenstrike
#Feedback
#Brainstorm
#Nanomech
#AmpFibian
#Shocksquatch
#Buzzshock
Seven electric aliens.
If one of each of those species teamed up to take down Ben and he did his extremely iconic yell for the Omnitrix to give him Humungousaur of all aliens, (because, let's face it, Ben is too stupid for his own good to use someone who actually makes sense to use the majority of the time) Humungousaur would be taken down almost instantly from a blast from each of these aliens because he's weak to that power.
Granted, I doubt the Ultimatrix simulation is going to make that be the worst case scenario to put Humungousaur through, but it still has to be touched upon, so let's go with something a bit more likely.
Remember how last episode I explained how Humungousaur's growing powers are just an illusion to make him more intimidating and more attractive to mates? Well Ultimate Humungousaur doesn't have the ability to change his size, er, in Ben 10 Theory terms, he doesn't have the ability to look bigger. Why not? Because, honestly, Ultimate Humungousaur has no need for it.
Ultimate Humungousaur is about twice as big as Humungousaur, meaning he stands at roughly 24 feet tall, considering his hunchback position. So he already is physically bigger, but he also has armor on all the time now, while Humungousaur only had it when he would appear to change size, or, as it was pointed out in the comments of the last theory, sometimes he would just have the armor and not actually grow, strengthening that growth illusion theory.
How does this tie in with making him more durable against things like electricity? Look at him. His skin is a lot tougher now. The only problem he'd have is if this bone armor turned out to be actual metal which would actually make this weakness worse, but it hasn't been confirmed or shown in the show that this is metal, so we're going to go with the idea that all of his armor is actually bone. Evolved Vaxasaurian bone preventing him from being electrified as easily, and removing the need to have to appear bigger to enemies since he already is bigger.
Not only that, but you can clearly tell this new armor is less like a stegosaur and more like an ankylosaur. Why's that? Compare Intimidation Humungousaur to Ultimate Humungousaur.
*Intimidation Humungousaur has stegosaur-like features. The plates that grow down his spine and the spikes on his tail are homages to that of a stegosaur.
*Ultimate Humungousaur has plated bone armor on his back and head with spikey bones protruding from it like an ankylosaur, and his mace tail is like the club tail the ankylosaur had when it was still alive.
Ultimate Humungousaur? I'd say we've explained him pretty well.
===Ultimate Swampfire===
Ask yourself: What flaws does Swampfire have?
He's a fragile alien, the opposite of Water Hazard in fact, being a fragile fire alien while Water Hazard has one of the toughest exoskeletons out there and has hydrokinesis.
And yes, I recognize Swampfire's regeneration ability, (in fact, a theory involving that is planned) and I recognize at how fast of a rate he can regenerate, but that doesn't make it any less tedious.
What Ultimate Swampfire lacks in a regenerative ability he makes up for in his bark-like armor. This stuff has not been shown to be able to be broken just yet (although it has nothing on Amperi electricty apparently) but that just means it prevents him from having to take a few seconds to regenerate, and he can use those few seconds to his advantage. Trust me, a few seconds makes an absolute To'Kustar-sized ton of difference when you're trying to save worlds.
What else needs to be upgraded about him? Well, Swampfire's fire is fueled by natural methane, as evident by the fact his species is called Methanosian. So that would mean Ultimate Swampfire would have to be fueled by something more potent... KEROSENE!
Oh, yes. Ultimate Swampfire's fire is fueled by natural kerosene ha has stored within the blue parts of his body. In fact, that's what makes him blue. With Ben's fire aliens, not counting NRG since radiation and fire are NOT the same thing, the scale from lowest to highest heat is this:
*Heatblast
*Swampfire
*Ultimate Swampfire
And that's not even theorizing, that's just facts based on the color of their fires. Heatblast is yellow, Swampfire is orange, and Ultimate Swampfire is blue. So this means that Ultimate Swampfire has the hottest fire power Ben has ever used.
Ultimate Swampfire? Done and done, now get out of the swamp.
===Ultimate Spidermonkey===
Take a look at Spidermonkey. What are his weaknesses?
Well, he's not the strongest alien. He's stronger than a human, sure, but his arms are still rather weak for fighting stronger enemies like Crabdozer.
So that's why Ultimate Spidermonkey is so strong, to fix that about his devolved form, especially the Omniverse version of him. In Ultimate Alien, Ultimate Spidermonkey had lost Spidermonkey's extra arms, but in Omniverse he did the opposite, and gained two more arms, all of which are equally muscular.
Spidermonkey's tail was where his webs came from, and Ultimate Spidermonkey lacks this tail and shoots webs from his mouth. Why would he need a tail after all? It's not for balance, obviously. Ultimate Alien takes care of that with spider legs, and each of those spider legs is replaced with an arm for balance in Omniverse, so no need for a tail. Not to mention how much stronger the webbing is and faster it gets shot than the original form. Another thing to note is the tail would have to go past him to shoot the webs, making it much easier to get caught in them. If he shoots the webs from his mouth, it's coming from the front of his body rather than the back.
We don't really need to talk about his eyes, honestly, especially since Spidermonkey's got the same number of eyes as Ultimate Spidermonkey in Omniverse, and that isn't really gonna do much for him, but there is something about his Omniverse face profile I will talk about: Spider fangs.
Omniverse Ultimate Spidermonkey has spider fangs on the ends of the hair on the side of his face. Why? Well, the same reason spiders in real life do: Prey, and protection from predators.
We don't know the diet of Arachnachimps, so let's just say they trap freaky alien banana flies in their webs. Eventually those prey would evolve to be more resistant to the Arachnachimps, especially their bites, so they have to get fangs in order to make the bite more deadly. This applies to the predators, the Root Sharks, as well. In order to protect themselves from the Root Sharks, the Arachnachimps grew fangs to make a more deadly bite in protection against these dangerous predators.
If you want to see more on Arachachimps, I'd suggest you look them up on the web.
===Ultimate Big Chill===
===Ultimate Cannonbolt===
===Ultimate Echo Echo===
===Ultimate Wildmutt===
===Ultimate Ben===
===Ultimate Way Big===
===Ultimate Albedo===
===Ultimate Arctiguana===
===Ultimate Gravattack===
===Ultimate Rath===
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