Ben 10: Omniverse

Ben 10: Omniverse is the fourth iteration of the Ben 10 franchise, and it is the sequel of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.

## Summary

Set a few months after the events of *Ultimate Alien*, Ben was all set to be a solo hero with his new Omnitrix after Gwen and Kevin left for college, but Grandpa Max teamed him up with a rookie named Rook Blonko. Together they explore a secret alien city, known as Undertown beneath the city of Bellwood, and do everything they can to protect the world from dangerous threats.

## Why It Rocks

1. The show has an interesting plot that takes place after both the original series and Ultimate Alien.
2. Captures some of the qualities from the original show.
3. Very likable and enjoyable characters.
4. New Omnitrix with new aliens. It even allows Ben to turn into aliens he had previously but never turned into, like Articguana and Buzzshock for example.
5. All of the characters from the previous shows appear in this show like Gwen, Max, and Kevin.
6. The voice acting is really good. Especially Yuri Lowenthal as 16 year old and Tara Strong as 11 year old Ben Tennyson.
	* Speaking of Tara Strong, she even reprised her role as 10 year old Ben Tennyson in the 2017 reboot of the old show.
7. All of the aliens have very creative designs and features.
8. Lively animation.
9. The 11 year old version of Ben is also part of the plot.
10. It had a crossover with the *Secret Saturdays* which was surprising since the show was cancelled a few years before the episode's debut and hardly anyone even remembers it.
11. One episode had alien versions of Cow and Chicken. They even managed to get Charlie Adler to reprise his role.
12. Perhaps the best example of *Ben 10*'s captivating worldbuilding and top-notch sound design.

## Bad Qualities

1. Ben 10k is now portrayed as a man who **combines 2 aliens into one.** The fusions shown throughout the series look like something from DeviantArt.
2. The art-style is a *huge* step backwards from its three predecessors. Even for a series that greatly pays homage to the original series, at least the latter had a *much* better art style than *Omniverse*.
3. There were a few bad episodes like "And Then There Were None"/"And Then There Was Ben".
	* The crossover with the *Secret Saturdays,* while a decent episode, is greatly inferior to that of *Heroes United* between *Generator Rex* and *Ben 10: Ultimate Alien*.
4. Julie and Ben are revealed to have broken up because of a video game. Not like, one of them choosing to get or play a video game over being with the other, it's instead Julie misinterpreting Ben's complaints about a video game as him dumping her. This was because the writing staff never liked Julie to begin with, but Dwayne McDuffie did, and after he died, the staff got her out of the way quickly and eventually brought back Kai Green from the original series, who ended up becoming Ben's wife in the future.
5. In the final three seasons, Cartoon Network simply stopped caring about Omniverse and starting burning new episodes literally at *6:00 AM* in the morning.
6. The sequel of the video game based on the show of the same name wasn’t great.
7. Sadly, the end of Omniverse also marked the end of the original continuity.