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The wildest thing about Ben 10 is that it took until 2005 for someone to have the idea "what if a kid could turn into a bunch of aliens" like this isn't obviously the coolest and most marketable premise for anything ever. Each design is a new toy. A new powerset. Come on.

But to prove that it wasn't a fluke, they continued to have the best ideas for every aspect of it. How does he transform? A cool watch you can also sell as a toy. That watch's name? Omnitrix. Say it. It's so satisfying. How many aliens? Ten. Nice round number. The kid's name? Ben. The show's name? Ben Ten. His full name is Benjamin Tennyson, a normal, plausible name, but he also turns into 10 aliens.

Bigger brands dream about this synergy. Better writers would kill for this coherence. So holistic. So intuitive. The identity alone!!! The retro alien sound motif? Chilling. The green? Any other color would be wrong. The kirby krackle pattern? It seems so obvious in retrospect. The roadtrip format? Genius. Lesser writers would've done the spider-man high school thing. His arch nemesis being Cthulhu darth vader? Inspired, iconic, intimidating!

The execution has its highs and lows, but the idea??? Game changing. So self-evident that it seems inevitable. If Ben 10 didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

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Bad kids get icecream! ( I missed them so this was fun to make!)

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watching C2 after C3 is so weird lol

ohhh, so that's why they called him the dirt wizard.

wait wtf why does fjord have a texas accent

THAT'S the cobalt soul that emily was from??!? the same one ?!?

omfg that's Ryn's room.

jester's sendings compared to imogen's. how is that the same player LOL

WHY DID FJORD RANDOMLY BECOME BRITISH AND THEN REVERT

Holy shit i finally understand the gravity of the bright queen and the dwendalian empire working together.

the beginnings of travelercon ....

THIS IS HOW ESSEK IS INTRODUCED?

THAT'S WHY THE FRIEND IS CALLED BREN

I FINALLY UNDERSTAND NOTT AND VETH?!?!?

WHEN ARE BEAU AND YASHA GOING TO GET IT ON

CALEB CASTING TIME STOP IS SO MUCH MORE POIGNANT NOW

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*trows at you humanAU! callowmoore and runs away*

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At the request of OP, and Ms. Aabria I’m very sorry if you’ve already been pinged @quiddie

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i've seen firsthand how manipulative dream is to people i know personally, so watching people call him out for his lies publicly in real time is so satisfying🫶genuinely one of the worst people on the internet and as tommy properly said, an actual movie villain. Have a great week yall

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hey man i don't usually post about drama but the one thing i can confirm is that tommy doesn't treat us like a "sweatshop" lmao

we have always been paid fairly and there are enough of us that even at the height of us all being busy editing for him during the nyc vlogs, we had as much time as we wanted to recuperate (because we got to choose when we would be put in to edit a video)

saying that he would have stans edit videos for free is crazy as well. idk if what dream is saying happened before my time, but as far as i'm aware tommy has always paid his editors very fairly, and my personal experience is that editing for tommy is the only time that i was "paid minimum wage" for editing - because everything else i edited literally didn't make enough money to do that.

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It's 4

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was suddenly moved to draw a toony sort of character design .. but this is a bit too close to 2013 tumblr sexyman for my own comfort

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always remember gay men are the reason we dont have to pay for public bathrooms in canada

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when you only got back from hell like a month ago and decided that in lieu of any other options it might be best to just move on from all that and then you find out that your friends maybe didn't fully explain everything that went on last year and also all the loose ends have grouped up and are now roaming the countryside causing chaos.

you guys gonna do anything about that orrrrrr

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Honestly I shouldn't be surprised that you're in medschool. I knew all the talking wasn't for nothing. Goodluck and may God bless you on your studies dude!

( Congrats on getting a girlfriend btw ;) )

thank you!! :D

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Oh, I almost forgot HeRMit cHAleNgES

so true

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bonk

bink

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I haven't heard about you since like. 4. years, congrats on being a big guy youtuber! You up to anything lately?

lol i havent posted in like 2 years on youtube

currently my nose is shoved against the grindstone with med school, but im doing a bunch of stuff with friends that i find fun (like dnd) and irl (clubs and whatnot). also got a girlfriend lol

idk if or when i'll return to youtube tbh, i've had ideas but never done much more than that, and the longer i stay away the more i feel like it'd need to be a really good video. and i dont think i have any ideas for something that good just yet :p

ty for the ask!

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do you remember?

thanks for the ask! how about i answer your question with a choice. (either option is okay.) 2 choices, of course. 1 for you to pick as your answer.

SO! the choice. Not knowing whether I remember what you're talking about, or..

I know exactly what you mean.

Guess you'll never know which it is!! Haha. Thanks anyway :)

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The permit master🕴️

Also no I don’t know how to draw his hair yet don’t @ me