Jakob Adam Shapiro

> "*There's an old saying in my field: "Time travel is for immortals and fools" and I speak from experience.*"
> ― Jakob.
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**Jakob Adam Shapiro** is a time-traveling professor who can travel anywhere in space or time, within reason. He is also a cardiothoracic surgeon. While he forgot his true name from centuries of being trapped in a separate reality, he remembered his name which is "Jakob" while trying to remember a time equation.

## Appearance

Jakob has fair skin, grey eyes, and black hair.

In **Alien Force** and **Ultimate Alien**, he wore a white lab coat over a white shirt with a brown vest and black tie, black pants, and black shoes. He also wore goggles with green lenses around his neck.

In **Omniverse**, his outfit has been modified. Despite not being able to age, his hair is grey on the sides and he has wrinkles on his face. His white lab coat now has brown and black pouches and gold trim, and underneath, he wears a black turtleneck with a white scarf, and his brown vest has gold buttons and pouches. He has a new pair of goggles around his neck, the Chrono Navigator disguised as a metal gauntlet on his right hand and a fingerless glove on his left. His black pants now have brown kneepads, and he wears a pair of brown boots with gold straps.

## Personality

Jakob is portrayed as a calm, easy-going man. He talks much like a stereotypical scientist, with dialogue requiring a greater command of the English language to fully understand. When he was displaced outside of time, he went insane; however, millennia later, he "got bored of that, too" and became sane. "Very sane."

In his first appearance, Swampfire tried to capture Jakob (not knowing whether he was friend or foe), but he always "teleported" to a place a few meters away. When Swampfire asked how he did that, the calm Jakob replied "It's called walking". He also likes gumballs and is often seen offering them to anyone he meets.

Jakob has a habit of getting events that haven't happened yet (from the perspective of the viewer and those he's talking to) and those that have (from his perspective) mixed up, due to his travels through time.

Jakob's calm personality also makes it difficult to tell when he's joking or not, such as telling Kevin that if his replacement car (factory new from the past) came in contact with anything else from the same year it was made, it would "explode like anti-matter."

## History

### Background

At some point, Jakob was working for Area 51. It is unknown what his job was exactly, but it had something to do with the alien prisoners there. In the flashback portion of *Blukic and Driba Go to Area 51*, Jakob was called by Colonel Rozum to help with the investigation about Blukic and Driba's fall on Earth.

Having discovered special properties in quartz crystals during the 1950s, Jakob received government funding to break a hole in the space-time continuum. However, a slight miscalculation and an explosion accidentally caused by his panicked assistant Hugo threw Jakob into the event horizon, where he remained for a hundred thousand years.

Jakob was displaced outside of time, where he lost the ability to age and was unable to sleep or eat; just exist. He went insane for a while, but then got bored and regained his sanity. Gaining complete understanding of the space-time continuum, Jakob forgot his name, but he remembered his name is "Jakob", though it took a while for him to remember his name.

### Alien Force

Jakob used his understanding to travel across time, making different parts of history better for others. He said he would help Ben Tennyson save the "whole entire universe".

Jakob soon learns that the accident sent an extra-dimensional creature fifty years from the time of the experiment. He traveled to the **Alien Force** time to stop it, meeting Ben's younger self. It was at this point that he gained his new moniker, with Gwen bringing it up as the name of his original time travel project. After a few fights with the creature, Ben told Jakob to take them all back to the accident, where it is discovered that Hugo was the creature. He was frightened and confused, but turning everything to dust. By preventing Hugo from being sucked into the event horizon, it negated his time-accelerating existence. After returning to Ben's present, Jakob was stoked that he didn't see it in the first place. When an older Hugo turned up, Jakob greeted him and took him to a "behind-the-scenes look" at eternity.

Jakob left the trio one last gift, Kevin's regressed car, factory new from 1976. However, a note warns him that if the car comes in contact with anything from that era, it would explode like antimatter. However, this was merely a joke.

Jakob returns in the two part season two finale, *War of the Worlds*. He meets up with Azmuth, who greets him as "Time Walker", just as the Highbreed begin to invade Galvan Prime. Jakob convinces Azmuth to escape the planet's destruction, before meeting up with Ben. He informs Ben of the impending crisis, who resorts to gathering all the allies he made. Jakob aids Gwen and Kevin in recruiting Alan, Cooper and Darkstar to help in the fight, by teleporting them to the right location. He then joins Ben's Team and partakes in the following battle against the Highbreed. Here he displays the ability to slow down time using his watch, allowing him to move at high speeds and take out a large number of DNAliens. Later he accepts a gun made by Cooper and uses it to turn DNAliens back into humans.

Jakob informs Gwen about the consequences of her meddling with time. Jakob appears in *Time Heals* where he tries to stop Gwen from travelling back in time to stop Kevin from Kevin's Alien Force Mutation, but is unable to persuade her. After Gwen succeeds in her endeavor, she returns to the present to discover a post-apocalyptic world enslaved by Hex and Charmcaster. Jakob appears again and informs her that she is the cause of all this, as well as telling her that "time travelling is for immortals and fools". He brings Gwen up to date with the events of this alternate future, which end up with Ben getting captured, Kevin becoming enslaved by Charmcaster, and Gwen being killed. A shocked and guilt-ridden Gwen attempts to repair the damage she has done, to which Jakob cautions her to be careful, only to discover she has already left. He smiles knowingly and states that "youth never listen". After Gwen manages to retrieve Archamada Book of Spells which isthe book with the time travelling spell, and manages to fix her mistake, Jakob appears once more in the restored present. Gwen asks him whether there is any more trouble, to which he states "everything's fine", before vanishing.

### Ultimate Alien

In *Ultimate Aggregor*, Jakob appears to tell the team about Aggregor's plan on using the Chronologger to help him absorb the powers of the five the powers of the five Andromeda aliens. He also gives Kevin some advice about his future before vanishing. It is later revealed he divided the Map of Infinity into four pieces in the past.

In *Perplexahedron*, it is revealed Jakob created the planet Perplexahedron to hide the final piece of the map from those who would misuse its power.In *The Forge of Creation*, Jakob took Ben and his team towards the Forge of Creation. After Aggregor was defeated and Ultimate Kevin left, Jakob returned 10 year old Ben to his own time.

Jakob appeared in *Ben 10,000 Returns* to visit Ben 10,000 and helps Ben 10,000 and Ben's Team foil Eon's evil plan. At the end of the episode, he asked Ben 10,000 to restore Swampfire and Way Big. He also gives a warning to Ben's team about Sir George the creature from beyond before leaving with Ben 10,000.

### Omniverse

Sometime in his life, Jakob was busy fighting in a Time War, during which Ben 10,000 (Original) accidentally cut off his right hand.

As he replaced it with a robotic prosthetic, he disguised his Chrono Navigator as the prosthetic itself for safekeeping. He also managed to trap Eon in the Classic Timelineto prevent him from crossing into others to cause chaos.

In *So Long, and Thanks for All the Smoothies*, Jakob became aware that the universe was destroyed by the Annihilargh and replaced with a near-identical one created by Alien X Jakob vs Eon. Jakob returns in *Ben Again*, where he's lost his professor look and has now, as Ben puts it, undergone a Steampunk general makeover. Following Eon switching the minds of 11-year-old Ben and 16-year-old Ben, Jakob goes fives years into the past to talk with 16-year-old Ben following Max's warning him not to give spoilers about the future. He informs Ben of his involvement in the Time War are the reason for his missing hand and that he has gone to great lengths to prevent Eon from causing havoc.

Jakob and Eon Captured at the end of time However, Eon finds him and cuts off his right hand, which is actually his disguised Chrono Navigator, and takes him to the end of time to be interrogated. As he is not a liar, Eon knows he doesn't have the Chrono Navigator with him and goes to take it from 11-year-old Ben. When Eon begins to use the Chrono Navigator to bring his minions into the main timeline, time begins falling apart. He is freed from his shackles thanks to both 11-year-old and 16-year-old Gwen. Instructing both Bens to use Clockwork to place Eon between both periods of time, the timeline is restored to normal and all memory of the event is erased.

Ben 10,000 later comes looking for Jakob in 16-year-old Ben's era, saying that the Chronosapiens have gone rogue and Maltruant's Time Beast which arebbeasts are on an interdimensional rampage, saying this time war is getting out of hand.

In *And Then There Were None*, Jakob learns that Eon and Vilgax are abducting and brainwashing alternate Bens into serving them. He and Ben Prime travel to No Watch Ben's Timeline, and are surprised that there is no Omnitrix in that Universe. They are confronted by Vilgax and Eon's evil Bens, who are countered by several alternate Bens. As the battle rages, Jakob vanishes, returning only after Vilgax sets off a Chronosapien Time Bomb, wiping out every timeline but No Watch Ben's. Jakob pulls No Watch Ben out of Vilgax's grasp, and tells him they have to restart Ben Prime's timeline.

In *And Then There Was Ben*, Jakob brings No Watch Ben to Vilgax's Chimerian Hammer on the day Ben Prime found the Omnitrix, and directs him to ensure events happen the way they originally did. With that done, they begin recruiting the alternate Bens for the previous battle against Vilgax and Eon. Jakob leaves No Watch Ben behind, then returns to send him to the moment after he pulled him away from Vilgax. When the villains are defeated, Jakob returns all the alternate Bens to their own timelines.

Jakob with Ben 10,000 In *Let's Do the Time War Again*, he and Ben 10,000 come to the present to find that time has stopped (due to a clash of energies between Feedback and a Time Beast). They travel further back in an attempt to prevent this from happening. They rebuild the wreckage of Rook's Proto-TRUK and Ben's Tenn-Speed into Time Cycles, using them to save Ben and Rook when the battle with the Time Beast goes awry once more (creating a black hole). They travel back to the same time as before, where Ben and Rook aid their past selves, and use their Time Cycles to revert the Time Beast back into an egg. Jakob takes the past Ben and Rook back in time to "close the loop."

In *The Secret of Dos Santos*, Jakob appears to Ben, Rook and Kai Green in The Temple of The Sky, revealing that the artifact they'd been seeking was one of Maltruant's parts, which Jakob had scattered through time after Maltruant's defeat. The part they found was the main spring, which Jakob had hid in the temple years ago, under the protection of Ujin. When Exo-Skull attacks, Jakob tells Kai he can't do anything. After Exo-Skull is defeated, Jakob takes Ujin back home.

In *A New Dawn*, Jakob gives Ben and Rook a Time Beast egg, which powers up their Time Cycles enough to follow Maltruant to a place even Jakob cannot reach: before the beginning of the universe. Following Maltruant's defeat, Jakob reveals that the villain is unknowingly trapped in a time loop, doomed to be defeated again and again, with Jakob hiding his parts each time. Jakob asks Ben and Rook to help hide Maltruant's parts before he returns them home.

In home from the hospital. Jakob has a new arm and hand grown where the stub in place of the missing arm and hand which was done by Dr. Jordan Silverstein. Max also had a new arm grown by Dr. Jordan Silverstein.

## Powers and Abilities

Like Clockbot, Jakob is able to manipulate time, halting it, slowing it down or speeding it up. By rapidly shifting through time, Jakob can appear to be in multiple places at once. He also possesses dimension travelling abilities and chronopathy. He is capable of de-aging people into children.Due to his time in entrapment for several millennia, Jakob has an in-depth understanding of the space-time continuum. This allows him to travel to any point in space and time, as well as slowing down or speeding up time as he pleases. However, he states that there are places he cannot go and things he cannot do, though what restricts remains unknown.

Jakob can manipulate his own personal time, allowing him to simulate super-speed. His abilities are not limited to this universe, having visited other universes and the space between them. He can also completely stop time. Jakob is able to regress a person's age, but seems incapable of doing it on something mechanical, instead having to pull it physically out of the past.

Jakob is capable of teleporting people, objects and even places like the Forge of Creation to almost any destination instantaneously without any trouble. He might even be able to teleport buildings or entire planets.

Jakob can stop the personal time of a selected target, and release time shockwaves.

Jakob was able to dowse and locate the Dwarf Star with his mind. Jakob is an expert on alternate dimensions, as shown when he recognized Ben 23 as being from Dimension 23 without any prior introduction.

Jakob can survive in the vacuum of space. Furthermore, Jakob can breathe underwater, as demonstrated when he was unconscious in a river, he had no trouble breathing after waking up.

However, he does have to follow certain rules; for example, he cannot bring the past and future versions of an individual together unless absolutely necessary.

Jakob has the ability to travel through time and space by using portals. He can travel through alternate timelines, such as Ultimate Ben's timeline and Dimension 23.

Jakob can fire powerful beams of blue time-based energy from his hands. These time rays are very dangerous, as they can instantly age anything they touch by hundreds of years. When time rays are used on an Omnitrix/Ultimatrix transformation, they will instantly be deleted from the device.

Jakob is stronger and more agile than he looks. He is also durable enough to withstand Heatblast's fire blasts, Diamondhead's projectile shards, and Wildmutt's tackle with no visible damage.

Jakob can teleport by vanishing into a blue haze.

Jakob can launch blue energy blasts, and he can release energy shockwaves.

Jakob is able to sense the ripple effect in time whenever Ben uses Clockwork's time powers.

Jakob's time powers grants him limited molecukinesis abilities, allowing him to create illusions and mirages. This allowed Jakob to appear to be burned up by Heatblast and fake his death.

Jakob's time energy can become electrical, allowing him to manipulate and control technology and machines from any race, such as vehicles or clockwork gears.

Jakob's time travel powers have left him biologically immortal, leaving him unaffected by accelerated aging fields, nor does he need to eat or sleep.

Jakob is capable of reverting Ben from an alien back to his human form as he did to Alien X. Though it is possible Jakob can simply pull Ben back in time to before he transformed, while allowing him to return memories that would have existed.

Jakob possesses enhanced strength and agility, as he was able to fight on par with Eon.

Jakob can see the faces of Toepick's species clearly. It is not an unknowable horror to him, therefore he is able to overcome his initial fears.

## Weaknesses

There are places in existence Jakob cannot reach with his powers, such as before the beginning of time. However, with that said, Jakob is still able to travel to the first and final moments of time.

Jakob had admitted that he does not lie and Eon has confirmed this. Though he can circumvent this with clever wordplay to misdirect others.

Getting control of Jakob's Chrono Navigator might give one an advantage over him, though this has proven to be a double-edged sword, as Eon almost destroyed all reality when he tried to use it.

If all of Jakob is in one point of space and time, he can be affected by a Nemuina's sleeping dust.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Paradox*
2. ↑ *Time Heals*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *The Forge of Creation*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Ben Again*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 *And Then There Was Ben*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *Ben 10,000 Returns*
7. ↑ Professor Paradox
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 *Ben Again*