Ben 10: Alien Force

Television series
German title	Ben 10: Alien Force
Original title	Ben 10: Alien Force
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2008-2010
Episodes	46 in 3 seasons
genre	Science fiction , action
production	Dwayne McDuffie, Glen Murakami
music	Lolita Ritmanis , Kristopher Carter , Michael McCuistion
First broadcast	April 18, 2008 on Cartoon Network
German-language first broadcast	September 19, 2009 on Cartoon Network
synchronization

Ben 10: Alien Force is an American animated series and is the sequel to Ben 10 . The series continues the events around the protagonist of the first series, Ben Tennyson, five years after the events of the previous, first series.

action

Benjamin "Ben" Tennyson, now at the age of 15, and Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson, also at the age of 15, have a horde of new wild aliens in front of them. A troop of the new aliens are called DNAliens and their only goal is to destroy humanity and all life forms that are impure for them.

Within the past five years, Ben managed to take off the Omnitrix and live a normal life. One day when he was going to visit his grandfather Maxwell Tennyson, he rode his bike to Max's motor home. But instead of his grandfather, he found a DNAlien there that attacked him. He was able to persuade his opponent to flee and received a message from his grandfather, who was captured by these aliens.

Without hesitation, Ben drove, with his Omnitrix in his luggage, to his cousin Gwen, who has improved her magical powers a lot over the last five years and who is also the proud owner of the Black Belt in Taek Won Do. Together they go to a small barter with an organization that deals in alien technology. The seller is none other than Kevin E. Levin, who previously fought Ben and has thus become a mixture of the ten Omnitrix aliens. But he was able to assume his human form again. Since then he has been trading in extraterrestrial technology and making a good profit. In the small sale, the buyers turn out to be DNAliens and Ben becomes one of the new ten aliens in his Omnitrix for the first time.

Ben, who loves his new, smarter version of his Omnitrix, Gwen, who has now mastered sorcery and Taek Won Do, and Kevin, who has the ability to absorb matter, are now fighting as a team against the DNAliens and many other aliens. Among these are new and well-known ones, for example Vilgax, who is now getting stronger and stronger, and the curse thrower, who now wants to get Gwen back.

Characters

main character

Benjamin "Ben" Tennyson

Ben still lives in Bellwood with his parents Karl and Sandra Tennyson. He is now 15 years old, enjoys playing soccer and leads a normal life. His parents once suspected nothing of his abilities until he turned into an alien in front of his parents in an episode in order to defeat a DNAliens.

Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson

Ben's cousin, like him, is now 15 years old and has a black belt in Taek Won Do. She has mature magical powers (mana). These magical powers come from her grandmother Verdona, an alien whose race can control the basic energy of magic . She helps Ben save her grandpa Max and save the world from the bad guys. After a while, Gwen also falls in love with Kevin E. Levin.

Kevin Ethan Levin

Kevin, now 16 years old, was able to escape from the zero void and become an almost normal person again. Now he has mastered the ability to absorb matter. At first he works as a dealer in alien weapons, but when the DNAliens betray him and a galactic cop leaves his life for him, he joins Ben and Gwen, and over time he develops an intimate relationship with Gwen. In a later accident, however, it will again be locked into an uncontrolled chimera form of the materials it has absorbed, from which it can no longer transform itself back.

Supporting characters

Maxwell "Max" Tennyson

Grandpa Max is kidnapped by the DNAliens before the series starts, but is saved by Ben and Gwen. After the successful rescue, he goes back into the plumbing business and often helps Ben, Gwen and Kevin out with his experiences.

Azmuth

Azmuth, a Galvaner, is the inventor of the Omnitrix and describes himself as the most intelligent being in the universe. Azmuth originally designed the Omnitrix (as explained in the film Ben 10 - The Secret of the Omnitrix ) not as a weapon, but as an intergalactic means of communication. Grumpy and solitary as he is, he is therefore very critical of Ben's use of the Omnitrix as a superhero.

Julie Yamamoto

Julie Yamamoto, an American of Japanese descent, is Ben's friend and schoolmate. After an incident with an alien seeking help, she discovers Ben's secret, but continues to stay with him and participate in his adventures.

"Ship"

A galvanic mechamorph, a nanotechnological alien race, with the mentality of an earthly dog. "Schiff" was adopted by Julie Yamamoto when she found out about Ben's secret during a relief effort on behalf of "Schiff" s original owners.

Opponent

Vilgax

Vilgax the arch enemy of Max and Ben Tennyson. The initially two meter tall and now huge Vilgax tries to destroy Ben Tennyson along with the earth. But Ben prevents it every time and later Vilgax comes back stronger and with more skills. Next to the elite, he is Ben's greatest opponent. Vilgax is a power-hungry, cruel and dogged conqueror who spares no means to destroy Ben. But these funds also backfire.

The elite

The elite aliens are on the verge of destruction of their species as they have lost the ability to reproduce. Now they don't want to go under alone, but rather take all the life forms of this Galaxy with them. They consider all other life forms of this and other galaxies to be impure, only their own kind is pure.

DNAliens

The DNAliens are basically the servants of the elite aliens. The DNAliens are normal people who got hit by an alien droid. These droids change the genes and appearance of their victims, and with the identity masks on, they look like normal people. But this hardly makes Ben's work difficult.

The eternal knights

The Eternal Knights are a secret organization from the Middle Ages that hoard illegal alien technology and weapons. Their initial goal was an alien but harmless dragon, which they held captive for centuries until they could finally find the most suitable weapon for its destruction. Fortunately, Ben was able to free the dragon, which didn't improve his already bad relationships with the knights.

Albedo

A galvaner and former Azmuth helper who turned into an image of Ben in an accident. He tries to get to the Omnitrix in order to change back to its original form. He has had white hair and red eyes and a jacket since the first encounter with Ben. In battle, he initially uses a copy of the Omnitrix, later the Ultimatrix

Vulcanus

The former helper at Sixsix also returns in the new series to make life difficult for Ben. However, it eventually turns out to be much less dangerous than it appears to be.

Omnitrix and Ultimatrix

The galvaner Azmuth created the wristwatch-like Omnitrix. In this Omnitrix he stored over 1,000,000 strands of DNA from life forms in the entire universe, including from life forms that were already extinct. Unfortunately, the Omnitrix was destroyed in the last two episodes of Ben 10: Alien Force . But that's where the Ultimatrix comes into play, which is the transition to Ben 10: Ultimate Alien . From the last episodes of Ben 10: Alien Force it is known that the Ultimatrix brings all aliens to their maximum power. In addition, the new clock includes all old and all new life forms in the galaxy.

Omnitrix launch aliens

Ben's first 10 aliens:

• Mudfire: Throws fire; can regenerate; controls other plants
• Goo: Can completely change his body shape; consists purely of goo (no bones etc.)
• Turbomanta: Extremely fast; shoots neuroshock rays from the end of his tail / eyes
• Echo Echo: Emits extreme sound waves; can multiply
• Gigantussaurus: Extremely strong; can enlarge
• Super brain: Extremely smart; Electric shock waves / bumps
• Freezer: Ice cold / freezing breath; can fly; can penetrate matter (invisibility)
• Chromastone: Can absorb energy; can fire energy balls; as good as indestructible
• Spidermonkey: Can walk on the walls; can spin / shoot (sticky) webs
• Alien X: His thoughts become reality, but extremely difficult to control because he has two personalities (Sirena = voice of love and compassion; Bilikux = voice of anger and aggression) who constantly argue with each other.

Omnitrix More Aliens

These aliens came a little later:

• Cannonball: can curl up into a ball; strong armor
• Spittoon: Eats all materials and spits them out at high speed
• Super giant: huge; extremely strong
• Steel skull : can shoot crystals; Can grow crystals; very strong; is harder than diamond
• Pole Star: Magnetic - Antimagnetic; Can fire powerful rays
• Tiger: Very strong; sharp claws; Extremely aggressive (very easily irritated)

Production and publication

The series was produced by Cartoon Network from 2008 to 2010 and directed by Dan Riba , Butch Lukic, John Fang and Rick Morales. The music was composed by Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion and Lolita Ritmanis.

It was first broadcast in the United States from April 18, 2008 to March 26, 2010 on Cartoon Network. The German version was first broadcast on September 19, 2009, also on Cartoon Network. The free TV premiere followed on Kabel eins on October 17, 2009. The series was also published in Spain, Australia and New Zealand, among others.

synchronization

character	English speaker	German speaker
Ben Tennyson	Yuri Lowenthal	Roman Wolko
Gwen Tennyson	Ashley Johnson	Marieke Oeffinger
Max Tennyson	Paul Eiding	Ulf J. Söhmisch
Kevin E. Levin	Greg Cipes	Patrick Schröder

Episode guide

Web links

• Ben 10: Alien Force in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ben 10: Alien Force on Cartoon Network.de
• fernsehserien.de about the series