Ben Tennyson

Ben Tennyson is a human hero from Planet Earth, equipped with a device that allows him to transform into various other alien species.

## Official Bio

*It started when an alien device dropped from the sky, and stuck itself upon his wrist for no real reason why. Now he's got superpowers, he's no ordinary guy. Ben Tennyson is one of the more notable heroes on Earth, though hardly the only one. Armed with the Prototype Omnitrix and a direct line to the Codon Stream, he has access to currently upwards of fourty alien DNA samples. And he's been acting as a hero with this device ever since he found it at the age of ten. While heroes of other races had mentors or courses to help them figure out how to face the challenges of fighting crime, Ben had been throwing himself headlong at human supervillians, alien invaders, and even a few conquerors of the mystic. It surprised many when he dropped the Omnitrix at age 13, shortly after foiling the Fulmini invasion of Earth, but he has a recent return in response to the Highbreed's secret invasion of Earth, one that ended in their defeat. Once again the "Hero of Heroes" has returned to a somewhat civilian lifestyle, but if he sees some maniac doing some evil deeds, it's "Hero Time."*

## History

Benjamin Kirby Tennyson, who preferred to go by Ben Tennyson, grew up in Bellwood, California. At age ten, while on a road trip with his grampa Max Tennyson and cousin Gwen Tennyson, he came across the Prototype Omnitrix after it was jettisoned to Earth in order to keep it out of the hands of High Lord Vilgax when he tried to take it from the Galvan Alliance. The device attached itself to his wrist, and he was given the ability to transform into ten random samples of the alien DNA it had access to from the Condon Stream, though he would gain access to more forms as time went on. With the help of mentors like the mercenary Tetrax Shard and Azmuth, the creator of the Omnitrix, Ben chose to use the Omnitrix's abilities to fight crime as a superhero, taking on foes such as Vilgax when he attempted to take the Omnitrix prototype from him, the Forever Knights when Enoch learned of the Omnitrix, Ectolord Zs'Skayer, who had previously been contained within the Omnitrix as Ben's "Ghostfreak" transformation, Kevin E Levin,who eventually developed a respect for him after several encounters, and several others, many of whom teamed up with Forever King Driscoll to try and stop Ben, only to fail and cause the Forever Knights to fracture, with the Forever Knight mechanized armor seeking only to get revenge on him. Ben's exploits would become well known throughout the galaxy, being heard of by even the Galactic Council and Irken Empire, making him one of the famous Humans in the galaxy. To make referring to him easier, he would come to be known by the name of "Ben 10."

When Ben was 11, he found himself doing less heroics than before in Bellwood, instead getting into shenanigans and hanging at the home of a neighbor he developed a crush on after the Omnitrix detected Nanochips in her garage, which it attempted to scan. However, Ben would eventually start to question his desire to being a hero. While some believed these doubts were caused by the destruction of his "Feedback" transformation at the hands of Malware, these did not come to head until after the High Override used the sample of his own DNA that he had arranged to be cataloged in the Galvan DNA Sampling Project to take control of Ben's "Shock Rock" transformation as part of his invasion of Earth when Ben was thirteen. While Ben was able to repel the invasion, his actions under the control of the High Override convinced him to remove the Omnitrix and retire from being a hero.

But this wouldn't last, for two years later Ben learned that Highbreed were preparing to invade Earth. Donning the Prototype Omnitrix, now recalibrated due to sending the DNA sample it had made using incomplete Nanochip DNA and Ben's own to Galvan Prime for analysis, once more, Ben gathered a force of superpowered individuals, including his former enemy Kevin, the Plumbers' Helpers, Professor Paradox, and the probe of Baz-L after it befriended a close companion, and fought back against the invasion in a guerilla campaign.

Hot Shot was a big fan of Ben, and realized he couldn't use the catchphrase "Hero Time" in Fight Sim Club due to Ben already using it.

Ben met Sari Sumdac at some point, and the pair fought against a Highbreed. As a result of their encounters, Sari picked up his tendency to yell out the names of his alien forms upon transforming. Wyit remarked that this habit meant that Sari had spent too much time with Ben after watching her transform into her "Hawtstuff" form in Hero's Wannabe Comeback. Meanwhile, the Galvan Albedo had hacked Ben's Omnitrix to create his own upgraded version of the device, the Ultimatrix, but during testing, an error resulted in him getting turned into a copy of Ben. This forced Albedo to travel to Earth and attack the Forever Knights to learn of Ben's whereabouts.

Ben would face off against Albedo, but the battle ended with bio-energy feedback from their Omnitrixes turning Albedo into an albino version of Ben.

Ben was able to end the conflict with the Highbreed by using the Omnitrix to scramble their very genostructure, discrediting their creed of genetic purity and ending their threat, giving Ben the chance to relax and take on a more civilian role until trouble came along. *He attended classes with Sari Sumdac and Touya Shiun, who he occasionally dragged along on adventures, though Touya would note they had no lasting communications.*

Sari figured Ben would be busy after fighting the Highbreed, and as such didn't bother inviting him to celebrate Christmas with her in The Fight Before Christmas. Sari revealed she had fought with Ben while hanging out with Hot Shot, Bumblebee, Lightbright, Arcee, Rampage, and Transmutate at Burgerbot, prompting Hot Shot to ask her for more information about him.

During the Festival of the Stars Ben used his "Grey Matter" transformation to sneak to Acadeimos in Sari's hoodie in order to watch the Tournament of Heroes. Sticking with her when she came to the medbay to check on Bumblebee after his fight with Polar Claw and overhearing Lifeline say that a strong smell could snap him out of his electrical feedback, Ben switched to his "Stinkfly" transformation to generate a gas cloud. It fixed Bumblebee, but Ben realized that he had made the smell too strong when Sari got mad at him and Lifeline ran out of the room. Telling Bumblebee that he was just trying to help him, Ben had to explain that he wasn't a girl or a Sumdac droid before returning to his Human form to introduce himself to Bee, only to be dismayed to learn that that he had no idea who was, even after listing off his exploits. However, he eventually agreed with Bee that the galaxy was big enough that not everyone would have heard of him, unaware that the conversation had been watched by Slazer. Switching back to "Grey Matter" to watch the other fights, Ben told Bumblebee that it was a shame that he got kicked out so early due to figuring the battles were more fun than school, but was so shocked to learn of what he had done on previous days that Ben had to ask if Bee had made it up, noting that what was considered uneventful was as much a matter of perspective as anything else. However he failed to notice that Albedo was observing them. While waiting for the final match between Arcee and Starbreak, Ben calculated that the fight had a 50-50 chance of going either way, but had to explain to Sari that "Grey Matter" had figured out the odds.

### The Siege

#### Aborted Timeline

During the Siege of Acadeimos Ben joined the battle against the Decepticons, using his "Humungousaur" transformation to beat down Crankcase. Asking Sari if the battle was the kind of thing she normally dealt with, Ben admitted that it would provide the workout he needed after fighting the Highbreed, but when Albedo showed up as "Negative Big Chill" to confront him, Ben told his old enemy that revenge could wait. Surprised to hear that Sari knew of Albedo, Ben summed up their previous encounters before taking him on in his own "Negative Humungousaur" form, telling Albedo to try getting anger out by ranting on the internet instead of fighting with a fake watch. Unconcerned by an improvements to the Omnitrix Albedo could have made, Ben was taken off guard when he switched to his "Negative Ultimate Humungousaur" form, but figured he could still take him. However, his uppercut didn't phase Albedo, and Ben was sent crashing into a Decepticon with a single punch, and upon getting back up he then had to avoid the bone fragments Albedo started shooting at him, which was watched by Dreadlock and Berserker. Once Sari defeated Albedo using "Overavity", Ben returned to Human form as he noted that while bad, his injuries could have been worse, and he learned about Sari's previous encounter with an Ultimatrix user. Asking Sari if she thought the Autobots would be alright, Ben remarked how heroes would win eventually, even when everything seemed bad, but upon being told to leave the area by "The Doctor" if he wanted to help, Ben noted that he looked like a character from an Amazon show about angels.

In the original version of the future that followed, Ben would come to be known as Ben 10,000.

#### Revised Timeline

Choosing to travel through time with "The Doctor" aboard his Tardis, Ben arrived in the new timeline created in Return to Autobot Academy, and upon being given the go ahead by "The Doctor" he transformed into "Way Big" and punched Devastator in the face as he exited the Tardis. Brawling with the Combiner, Ben questioned why all evil bots were designed to be so ugly, but found that Devastator's armor hurt his hand upon punching it directly. Trapped by Devastator's cement, Ben apologized to Sari for messing up and told Grimlock that he didn't need help escaping, but was able to free his hand and throw Grimlock at Devastator, allowing him to beat the Combiner.

Afterwards, Ben would have other adventures, including taking on the Nanochip swarm helping Tetrax and a mysterious traveler restore Petropia from calamity.

## Powers and Abilities

Ben is equipped with the Prototype Omnimatrix, also known as the Omnitrix, a genetic transmogrifier that allows him to change form into several alien species. Ben's Omnitrix is equipped with multiple genetic samples from across the Galaxy, though it is equipped with a time-out function to prevent being trapped in a single form. Though originally containing DNA samples with in, the device would later be updated to directly retrieve DNA data from the codon stream.

For a list of Aliens, see here.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Carl Tennyson - Father
* Galvan Alliance
	+ Plumbers
		- Max Tennyson - Grandfather
		- Gwen Tennyson - Cousin
		- Kevin E Levin - Friend, Former Enemy
		- "Lucy Mann" - Second Cousin-in-Law Once Removed
		- Joel Tennyson - Cousin Once Removed
	+ Azmuth - Mentor
	+ Baz-L - Acquaintance
	+ Sari Sumdac - Friend
* Khoros Bounty Hunter Guild
	+ Tetrax Shard - Mentor
* Galactic Enforcers
	+ Ultimos
	+ Synaptak
	+ Titania
* Plumbers' Helpers
	+ Helen Wheels
	+ Manny Armstrong
	+ Alan Albright
* Autobots
	+ Autobot Academy
		- Bumblebee - Acquaintance
		- Lifeline - Acquaintance
	+ Roaming Team Nighthaunt
		- Grimlock
* Tardis Companions
	+ "The Doctor"
* Frank Tennyson - Uncle
* Verdona Tennyson - Grandmother
* Sunspot Shiner Tennyson - Cousin
* "Camille Mann" - Cousin-in-Law Once Removed
* Professor Paradox
* Touya Shiun - Friend

### Enemies

* Faction
	+ Vilgax
	+ Zs'Skayer
	+ Albedo
* Forever Knights
	+ Enoch
	+ Driscoll
	+ Forever Knight
	+ Patrick Pendrake
* Khoros Bounty Hunter Guild
	+ SixSix
	+ SevenSeven
	+ Kraab
	+ Hope Hexagoni/"Charmcaster"
	+ Argit
	+ Vreedle Brothers
		- Rhomboid Vreedle
		- Octogon Vreedle
	+ Szerpentt
* Circus of Fear
	+ "Zombozo I"
* Herbert Zomboni/"Zombozo II"
* "The Great One"
* Malware
* High Override
* Highbreed
* Incursean Empire
	+ Milleous
	+ Attea the ?/1000
	+ Attea the 12/1000
* Nanochip Swarm
* Decepticons
	+ Straxus' Sect
		- Constructicons
			* Devastator
	+ Triggercons
		- Crankcase

## Appearances

### Comic Issues

#### The Siege

* Siege of Acadeimos
* Return to Autobot Academy

## Trivia

* Ben's backstory calls on a mix of several iterations of the Ben 10 franchise -
	+ Ben attaining the Omnitrix due to Vilgax's meddling is a concept first seen in the pilot episode of the first show, "And Then There Were Ten."
	+ Ben encountering the Fulmini invasion forces calls on events of the Reboot show, specifically the "Innervasion" episodes. Notably, unlike the reboot, Ben chose to discard the Omnitrix temporarily as a result, a state seen in the first episode of Alien Force though never adequately explained in that show.
	+ Ben getting doubts with the destruction of his Conductoid form, Feedback, is seen in the Omniverse episode "Showdown, Part 2."
	+ Ben gathering multiple superpowered individuals to fight the Highbreed invasion is the plot of the first two seasons of Alien Force, complete with his genostructure rewrite seen in "War of the Worlds, Part 2."
* Chronologically speaking, all this, combined with Tetrax's profile mentioning Petropia being restored, puts Ben in the middle of Season 3 of Alien Force (or at least, the Autobot Academy Universe version).
* The first few lines of Ben's profile are based on the theme song of the original Ben 10 series.
* Ben Tennyson’s ideal voice actor would be Yuri Lowenthal.

## References

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2. ↑ https://autoacafiles.tumblr.com/post/644148301057458176
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://autoacafiles.tumblr.com/post/734038472203059200/so-how-what-exactly-is-nanomechhoverfly-in-the-aa
4. ↑ https://www.tumblr.com/autoacafiles/721795103882199040/so-this-has-been-something-thats-been-asked-for-a