Ben Tennyson
Description
Benjamin Kirby Tennyson was just a normal ten-year-old kid from Bellwood. When he began his Summer long road-trip with his Grandfather Max and cousin Gwen, he stumbled upon the Omnitrix, a powerful watch-like device that allowed him to transform into numerous aliens, each with their own powers and abilities. With this, he uses these aliens to fight evil and defend the Earth.
Personality
Due to being a 10 year-old, Ben is cocky, childish, and often selfish, Ben's immaturity and attention-seeking behavior often led him to joke around, regardless of the situation. Despite some childish attitude, he was heroic, caring and generally good-natured, always willing to save others at any time even at the risk of himself.
The Omnitrix
Five Years Later
Description
Over the next five years, Ben went through many trials and tribulations. Fighting many powerful villains, gaining respect as a galactic hero, even giving up on heroics to pursue a normal life for a while. But when the Highbreed invaded, he reactivated the Omnitrix to become the Hero of Heroes, Ben 10.
Personality
Over the years, Ben has mellowed out a lot and has become a more responsible superhero. He values each of his transformations and believes every alien has something valuable to give to his heroics. But he still has his goofy and attention-seeking attitude when he’s fighting and hanging out, never taking himself too seriously.
The Omnitrix
Powers - Abilities
Powers
Ben is the wielder of the Omnitrix. This grants him the power to shapeshift into a myriad of alien creatures, utilizing their powers and unique traits in creative ways. When he first gained the Omnitrix, he only had access to 10 aliens, but over the years he gains more randomly. By age 16 he has access to over 300 aliens.
Abilities
Even without the Omnitrix, Ben is still a proficient fighter and is somewhat athletic despite not having much strength. He possesses an untapped intellect that he uses sparingly when fighting crime and figuring out problems. His experience in fighting more powerful foes has made him naturally more durable and more tolerant to pain.
Trivia
The first alien he ever transformed into was Frostcomet.
He wanted to become a hero due to both inspiration from his Grandpa Max’s “police days”, and because he’s a huge fan of comics/superheroes.
For the first few months of obtaining the Omnitrix, Ben often mis-transforms into the wrong alien and unknowingly set the time-out to random periods. Over time he learned to better control these mistakes.
Ben loves playing various sports. Such as soccer, baseball, football, paintball, and boxing. His fighting skills have only improved as he gets older.
In his early teen years, Ben became obsessed with smoothies, particularly ones from Mr Smoothie. Once his identity was revealed, he became the official spokesman for the franchises.
He only has 10 aliens for the first month of finding the Omnitrix. He gains more sequentially as time goes on. By the time he’s 15, he has access to almost 300 aliens.
Despite his transformations being instant, Ben admits that transforming feels like the in-between of a really good stretch and a slight cramp.
When Ben was 13, an incident with Malware resulted in him deactivating the Omnitrix and taking a break from hero work for 2 years. But once the Highbreed invades Earth and Grandpa Max goes missing, he reactivates the device and starts hero work once again.
The plumbers advise Ben to maintain a secret identity in order to preserve that Earth is a Level 2 planet that's not ready for alien integration. Unfortunately his secret is revealed almost five-and-a-half years after he found the Omnitrix. But by then he had become a galactic hero.
