Ben 10: Plumbers of Bellwood Mutations

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Ben 10: Plumbers of Bellwood Mutations By Mateus Honrado 16062015 Episode 85: Face to Face, Part 1 Five months after
defeating Hex
, the Plumbers of Bellwood are now operating at their
new base, the Colossus. At Enigma City, Dark Shadow prepares to kill Vulkanus, Kraab,
Sixsix, Sevenseven and Argit as requested by the Leader due to them outliving their
usefulness, while Animo prepares to capture Aggregor in order to fatally mutate him. At
the Colossus, Ben and Gwen train as Ghostfreak and Big Chill respectively before Kevin
tells them that he had a message from Manny that Dark Shadow has went into the
Stratego and killed Vulkanus and Kraab in addition to capturing Aggregor. The Plumbers
of Bellwood fly inside Stratego and then discover dead bodies of Vulkanus and Kraab.
Soon, Hope and Pierce sees Dark Shadow escaping as he plans on killing Sixsix and
Sevenseven.
Retreating back at the Colossus, Cooper does autopsies on Vulkanus and Kraab. He
notices that Vulkanus was shot in the head and chest and that his body was back in its
7ft stature (it shrunk prior to the events of "Kevin's Big Score", causing Vulkanus to wear
a robotic suit) and then sees Kraab's claws being in crushed. At Enigma City, Animo
taunts Aggregor on why he failed to defeat Ben. Aggregor tells him that Kevin absorbed
his powers and then he absorbed the Ultimatrix powers (referring to
Ultimate Alien
season one finale story arc). Hearing this, Animo electrocutes him and then traps him in
a cage. Meanwhile, Dark Shadow arrives at Detroit and then clobbers both Sixsix and
Sevenseven before breaking their necks at their prison cell.
Julie and Rook arrive at Detroit but they're too late as both Sixsix and Sevenseven are
now dead. Arriving back, Julie tells Ester that the bounty hunters were killed by Dark
Shadow, while Kai transforms into lupine form as she senses Dark Shadow's footsteps.
She follows his footsteps only to be stopped when the magnetic villain uses his powers to
trap her with iron bars. After this, he continues his killings while Cooper discovers a
trapped Kai and frees her. Soon the two leave as they re-enter the Colossus. Cooper tells
Ben that Dark Shadow has been requested to kill Vulkanus, Kraab, Sixsix, Sevenseven
and a fifth person because they've outlived their usefulness, according to the leaked
conversations he secretly recorded at Enigma City.
Ben wonders if it's Aggregor but Cooper tells him that it isn't. Kevin begins to realise that
Argit could be the "fifth person" that Dark Shadow is planning to kill. Because of this, the
Plumbers of Bellwood decides to fly Incarceron, where Argit is currently held at before
Dark Shadow arrives. Arriving at Incarceron, the Plumbers tell Argit that he'll seek
asylum as Dark Shadow will arrive soon to kill him. Argit refuses but when Dark Shadow
arrives at the station, he agrees. The Plumbers carry Argit and leave Incarceron, thus
stopping Dark Shadow. After Argit says "That was close", Dark Shadow teleports and
grabs him by the neck. Soon, Argit confronts him as he tells him that he wouldn't dare to
shoot his blaster to kill an arms dealer like him. Dark Shadow agrees and then stabs him
in the abdomen.
Ben then overhears Argit's screams as he confronts Dark Shadow. Dark Shadow tells him
that he lost and he will plan to destroy the Hoover Dam in order to start a flood in the
Colorado River region. Soon he teleports out and then Kevin arrives as he witnesses a
seriously wounded Argit. He tells Kevin that he's sorry for betraying him. Kevin then
forgives him and begins to realise that he may not make it. At Enigma City, the Leader
oversees Animo torturing Aggregor as the former reveals his plans: To dissect Aggregor
and then use his powers as part of an experiment in order to bring a giant mutation in
about a size of England, but is unable to find the missing link, which is revealed to be
Kevin, as he is an Osmonian-human hybrid and he would become a Frankenstein's
monster-like mutant.
At Corgan's, Ben watches a news report on Dark Shadow arriving at Ohio and plotting
his plan to flood the states in the Colorado River: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada,
New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Because of this, Ben tells his team that they need to fly
to the Hoover Dam to stop Dark Shadow's plans for once and for all. The Colossus then
leave Bellwood for the Hoover Dam, while inside Argit has his wound bandaged but
realises that his wound will expire soon and that he will die after that. In the
entertainment unit, Ben is comforted by Gwen as Ben then cuts his hair, thus sporting a
flattop. Ben arrives in the meeting room in full Plumber garb and tells them that Dark
Shadow will pay, concluding the episode.
Trivia:
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Aliens used: Ghostfreak (Ben), Big Chill (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Ben confronting Dark Shadow face-to-face with the latter being
the clone of Ben's evil doppelgänger Albedo.
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Villain of the episode: Dark Shadow, the Leader, Aggregor, Dr. Animo, Vulkanus,
Kraab, Sixsix, Sevenseven and Argit (switches to good)
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Vulkanus, Kraab and Aggregor were trapped in Stratego in "Seven Ways to
Search and Destroy", Argit was sent to Incarceron in "Incognito", while Sixsix and
Sevenseven were last seen imprisoned in a high-facility prison at Detroit in
"Journey to the Future".
●
The episode was dedicated to the victims of the Nepal earthquakes.
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Ben sports a flattop cut in this episode, while Kai sports a chongo hairstyle in part
of becoming proud of her Navajo heritage.
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Shout-outs: Kevin says "whoa", popularly used by Canadian American actor
Keanu Reeves.
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Take-thats: A sign at Corgan's takes a pot shot at Dan DiDio in the final scene:
"Hey, Mr. DiDio. Don't like light and soft, eh?", referring to recent DC Comics
titles becoming darker, edgier and angsty.
Episode 86: Face to Face, Part 2 The Plumbers of Bellwood fly to the Hoover Dam as they prepare to stop Dark Shadow
from flooding the states covering the Colorado River. Meanwhile inside the Colossus,
Argit begins to suffer a seizure as Kai arrives to remove the bandage from his stab
wound and then stitches the wound to prevent any infection. Inside the dam, Dark
Shadow prepares to crush one of the generators in order to cause a flooding inside but is
unable to do so as cops arrive to arrest him. However, they then notice that there have
been explosives set up to blow up the generators. Because of this, they evacuate
immediately as they send a bomb squad to defuse them, while Dark Shadow stays
behind as he prepares to detonate the explosives but to no avail.
At Enigma City, a badly-tortured Aggregor tells Animo that he wouldn't dare kill him, but
Animo uses his blade to open his chest. Because of this, Aggregor becomes a subject of
vivisection as Animo removes his heart that contains his powers, killing him. Soon,
Animo puts Aggregor's heart on a freezer and then hangs his corpse on hooks. After the
Colossus lands at the Hoover Dam, Rook enters inside as he sees Dark Shadow setting
up explosives to blowing up the dam to flood the region. Soon, he talks to Ben via
communicator that Dark Shadow will be blowing up the dam soon. Because of this, the
Plumbers of Bellwood split up except Pierce, Julie, Kai and Kevin who are currently in the
Colossus to help Argit recover from his wound, which could become fatal if the stitches
rip apart.
Arriving at the dam, Ben and Gwen morph into Wildvine and XLR8 to confront Dark
Shadow, while Rook and Hope are preparing to diffuse the explosives in addition to Ester
and Cooper telling workers inside to evacuate the dam as they prepare to stop Dark
Shadow and to arrest him. In the Colossus, Argit tells Kevin that he regrets being an
arms dealer for tyrannical aliens and that he only did it out of interest. He then
apologises to Kevin for the causes he has done to the Plumbers. Kevin then forgives him.
Soon, the wound opens, which causes him into a fit and becomes unconscious. As Kai
uses the defibrillators to revive him, Argit regains consciousness and then in his dying
breath, he tells Kevin: "Beware of what's going to happen to you. You will be hunted
down."
After this, Argit dies in Kevin's arms. Meanwhile, in the Hoover Dam, Ben shoots vines at
the explosives, crushing it instantly, while Gwen uses her superspeed to take down the
remaining explosives. Dark Shadow tries to blow the dam but to no avail as he realises
that the explosives have removed but detonates it eventually as the Plumbers throws the
explosives into the sky and then it explodes just moments before it was intended to hit
the dam. Refusing to accept defeat, Dark Shadow challenges Ben to a fight, while the
Plumbers return back to the Colossus, where they've become shocked when they see
Argit's corpse. Ben demorphs as he headbutts Dark Shadow, but Dark Shadow headbutts
back, causing Ben to lose balance. Dark Shadow uses his magnetic powers to create a
metal bar.
He attempts to hit Ben with the bar in the head, but Ben uses his blaster to destroy the
bar and then he points the blaster at Dark Shadow, while Dark Shadow points his blaster
at Ben. Ben kicks Dark Shadow's blaster from his hand and crushes it with his left foot.
Soon, Dark Shadow uses another bar and clubs Ben's knees, injuring him. Dark Shadow
proclaims himself victorious, but Ben - lying down - sets his blaster on non-fatal mode
and shoots Dark Shadow, rendering him unconscious. Ben is taken on a stretcher to the
Colossus, while Dark Shadow is arrested and is then taken to Incareron for the murders
of the five people he was told to kill. At the Colossus, Ben lies down as he is told by
Pierce that his knees haven't been broken, but he may need to take a break from
fighting.
In Enigma City, Animo continues his plan to have Kevin becoming the first person to be
mutated by a serum including Aggregor's DNA from his heart and then tells the Leader
that Kevin is their main target. In the Bellwood Hospital, Max receives a video message
from Ben and Gwen telling him all the best and quoting Frederich Nietzche: "What
doesn't kill you makes you stronger". After the message ends, Max is comforted by his
wife Verdona and then both are reduced into tears due to the emotional message. In
Incarceron, Dark Shadow wakes up and realises that he is now imprisoned in the same
cell as Argit. In the Colossus, the Plumbers mourn the death of Argit as Ben is comforted
by Gwen. Somewhere in Japan, a woman finds her katana as she prepares to go into
battle against evil.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Wildvine (Ben), XLR8 (Gwen)
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Title reference: See above
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Villain of the episode: Dark Shadow, the Leader, Aggregor and Dr. Animo
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Aggregor is killed by Dr. Animo after being vivisected.
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Argit dies in this episode, while Miranda and Malcolm
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Due to the vivisection scene despite no graphic violence depicted, the episode is
rated TV-PG-V. This is the first episode of the series to be rated TV-PG-V since
"Incognito", which was given this rating due to a scene involving Argit attempt to
jump from the Willis Tower. Story editor Mateus Honrado said that the show
wouldn't contain graphic violence such as gore as he aims the show to have a
PG-13 feel. In fact, there are no expletives in the show.
●
The episode was dedicated to Grace Lee Whitney, Ben E. King, Percy Sledge, Errol
Brown, Michael Blake and B.B. King and aired on the tenth anniversary of
Star
●
Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
.
Due to his injuries, Ben is unable to morph from "Trouble in Limbo" to "Land of
Confusion", so Gwen is the main protagonist for "Trouble in Limbo" and "Not Fly
Away", while in "The Zone" and "Land of Confusion" are team-centric episodes.
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Shout-outs: Aggregor's body hanging after being vivisected is a nod to
Event
Horizon
when D.J. is vivisected by Weir. Ben and Dark Shadow's fight is a nod to
●
the train fight in
The Matrix
.
Take-thats: The final sign says: "50 Shades of Nothing", poking fun of
50 Shades
of Grey
.
Episode 87: Trouble in Limbo Continued from last episode, in Japan, a woman practices her sword fighting with her
katana, dating around 12th century, implying she is descended from a family of samurai.
At the Colossus, Gwen is given a mission by Ben that he was planning to do (his double
knee injury caused from his confrontation with Dark Shadow prevented him to take
part), which is to find the Orb of Cronos in order to not to let it fall into the wrong hands.
He then tells her that the orb is located near Mount Fuji in Japan. At Incarceron, Simian
frees himself as he is then teleported out by the Leader and later leaves a dummy of him
made out of webs. Gwen goes to Japan, where she attempts to search the orb at Mount
Fuji. Arriving at the volcano, she attempts to retrieve it.
However, when she retrieves it, Gwen then slides into the snowy surfaces as she
screams in terror. Soon, she morphs into Jetray and manages to hold the orb. After this,
she flies into safety before Simian shoots webs at her legs, which causes her to fall into
the snow and then Simian manages to take the orb from her. Back at the Colossus,
Cooper, Rook, Pierce and Kevin watch
Battlefield Earth
at the entertainment bay.
Annoyed with the cheesiness of the film, the four agree that it's one of the worst films
they ever watched but felt that the film had a great "so bad, it's good" gimmick. In the
cockpit bay, Kai, Julie, Hope and Ester put the Colossus on autopilot as they enter the
romance section of the entertainment bay and realise how bad
Twilight
is, while Ben
locates the recent whereabouts of the Leader.
Back at Japan, Gwen reaches on to dear life as she reminisces the time when she and
Ben were ten-year-olds and had a rivalry (archive footage from
The Original Series
) as
she then falls unconscious before being rescued by a woman wearing a silk coat. Gwen
regains consciousness as she wakes up in a pagoda-like apartment and sees a 12th
century katana. The woman, now wearing a red-yellow kimono, tells her that she saved
her life and then Gwen notices the katana as she says that she saw the katana from a
painting of Tomoe Gozen. The woman then tells her about Gozen when she fought in the
Genpei War and became one of the first female samurai to ever fought in battle. Soon,
Gwen then asks her if her family knew about her, which the woman says she is Gozen.
Gwen then asks he how did she became so youthful after the war. She tells her that in
her last days in 1247, she found an elixir that made her immortal, restoring her youthful
appearance and then went into hiding after her "death" to keep her immortality a secret.
After this, she then says that she is 858 years old. Gwen asks her about the Orb of
Cronos, but Tomoe tells her that the orb is a very powerful and dangerous object and if
the orb fall into wrong hands, it could cause trouble in limbo. Because of this, she tells
Gwen it would be risky for her to retrieve the orb as she leaves and that they'll meet
again. After this, Gwen morphs into Way Big as Simian prepares to use the orb to great
terror. Gwen confronts Simian and tells him to give the orb back to her. Simian shoots
webs at her as she tries to stop him.
Gwen grows into gigantic size as she tells Simian to hand back the orb, but he again
refuses as he uses the orb to bring great chaos. Eventually, Gwen is helped by Tomoe now wearing her samurai armor - as she uses her katana to combat against Simian.
Simian tries to shoot webs from his tail at Tomoe but Tomoe manages to slice the end of
his tail with her katana, wounding him. After this, Gwen manages to retrieve the orb and
then finally defeats Simian. Simian is recaptured back to Incarceron, while Tomoe tells
Gwen that they'll meet again and that she'll keep the orb in safe hands. After this, Gwen
goes back to the Colossus and Tomoe bows as she leaves. Arriving back to the Colossus,
Gwen tells Ben that she has the orb and tells him to keep it in safe hands.
At Enigma City, Animo continues his plan while the Leader swears vengeance on the
Plumbers of Bellwood after Simian is returned back to Incarceron. In the Colossus, Ben
tries to walk without his walking stick, but falls because of this. Gwen arrives to help him
and that he needs to recover. Ben tells Gwen she's right and then says he's unsure
about continuing as a superhero. After this, Ben and Gwen walk back to the medical bay.
At her home, Tomoe is meditating as she senses evil forces that are about to attack
somewhere soon. After this, she goes to her bed as she reminisces about her past as a
samurai and then closes her eyes as she begins to dream about a future she never
realised: Comforting her master Yoshinaka in his dying moments.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Jetray, Way Big (Gwen)
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Title reference: Referring to the powerfulness of the Orb of Cronos.
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Villain of the episode: Simian, the Leader and Dr. Animo.
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First full appearance of Tomoe Gozen, who will help Gwen, Hope and Julie in a
future story arc taking place during the second part of the season.
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Second episode to be set in Japan, first being "Fire Awaits the Rising Sun".
●
Cooper's statement about the Harlem Globetrotters' recent defeat came from
2006 is in fact true. The Globetrotters went down 87-83 to the NABC College
All-Stars on March 31, 2006.
●
Mateus Honrado has cited
Xiaolin Showdown
episode "Tangled Web" as an
influence to the episode.
●
Shout-outs: Tomoe Gozen's appearance is based on Tao Okamoto's look for T
he
Wolverine
, in which she played Mariko Yashida, who in the comics, is the
half-sister of the second Silver Samurai.
●
Take-thats: Cooper, Rook, Pierce and Kevin's reception on
Battlefield Earth
mirrors the critical and commercial reception of the film.
Episode 88: Not Fly Away At Enigma City, the Leader notices a brain dead, yet comatose clone of Gwen in the cryo
freezer as he releases Amara's spirit from her gem thus inhabiting her new body. Soon,
Amara begins to notice her new body as she prepares to hunt down Gwen. In Corgan's,
Hope has a conversation with her close friend Ashley, while Gwen arrives to tell Hope
that she met Tomoe Gozen in the flesh while searching for the Orb of Cronos, but Hope
dismisses her story. At the Colossus, Ben begins training to regain strength on his legs
after his double knee injury. However, he faints when he sees an hallucination of the
Leader preparing to shoot him. Because of this, Cooper arrives to inject penicillin in
order to relieve his stress. Ester tells him to relax as he is taken to his room to recover.
At the train station, Amara prepares to hunt down Gwen as Gwen arrives to take a train
there. Soon, Amara follows her as Gwen reads her messages on her phone. Soon, Gwen
turns around and then she sees Amara as herself. She doesn't notice the duplicate is her
until she sees her menacing laugh. Amara uses her sorcery powers in order to depower
Gwen, but Gwen morphs into Grey Matter and leapfrogs out of the train. After this, she
sees another train coming and again leapfrogs. In the Colossus, Hope begins to have
doubts about herself following after her conversation with Ashley. Kai arrives and asks
what's going wrong with her. Hope tells her that after talking to Ashley in Corgan's, she
had began to have feelings for her after moving on from Michael's death.
Because of this, she tells her that Ashley kissed her and then Ashley told her that she is
a lesbian. Kai tells her it's OK to accept her what she is and then Hope thanks Kai for
supporting her. Outside Ben's room, Pierce and Julie begin to have a kiss before being
interrupted by Kevin and Rook, who tell them to come inside. Inside, Ben tells them that
his grandfather has been diagnosed with heart cancer and that it may be an inoperable
tumour. Because of this, they begin to reduce themselves into tears as they decide to
support his battle with the illness. After leaving the train tracks, Gwen goes into the
sewers as she prepares to confront against Amara. Amara uses her powers to attack
Gwen but Gwen frees herself as she uses her forcefields to stop her from being blasted.
While Gwen continues her confrontation against Amara, at the Colossus, Ben watches
home videos of him, Gwen and their grandfather with the team before being interrupted
by Kai and Hope, who has something to say. Hope tells the team that her close friend
Ashley was not just that close, but had feelings for her and so she kissed her. Then, she
finally reveals herself as bisexual, saying that she's nothing to be afraid of. After this,
Ben tells her that the team will fully support her and also defending her from any
homophobic abuse. Back at the sewers, Gwen morphs into Fourarms as she then pines
Amara on to the ground. Soon, Amara punches her back as she punches her in the
stomach. Gwen then headbutts her and kicks her in the head.
Amara then uses her powers to continue attacking her before Gwen clobbers her into the
pool of sewer water. Soon, Amara hangs on to dear life as Gwen then demorphs and
tries to save her. Amara refuses as she tells her that she wouldn't save a clone like her
and that she was inside of her before when she wore the gem (referring to "Dark
Gwen"). Soon, Amara frees herself from Gwen and goes into the water. Because of this,
Gwen realises that their battle will continue. After that, she returns back to the Colossus
as she tells the team that the Leader has created a clone of her, like he did with a clone
of Ben (Dark Omega) and a clone of Hope (Dark Charmcaster). Then, she tells Kevin that
the Leader may be creating a clone of his.
Back at Enigma City, Animo continues his plan while the Leader looks upon another brain
dead and comatose clone, but this time is Kevin as he plans to turn him into a clone of
Kevin's former villainous side which was Kevin 11, but also codenamed Ultimate Kevin.
After his leaves, the camera zooms in the clone number on the glass: Eleven. After
leaving the cloning chamber, the Leader oversees Amara returning back as she then tells
him that her fight with Gwen will continue and they'll meet again to continue it. After
this, she enters the cloning chamber as she sees Kevin's clone drifting towards the tank.
In the final scene at Corgan's, Hope arrives as she tells Amara she does love her and
then the two share a kiss. At the Colossus, Ben is told by Pierce that he'll return to
heroism sooner than later.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Grey Matter, Fourarms (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Gwen's quote to Amara when she prepares to get away: "Do not
fly away from me."
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader, Dr. Animo and Amara (now Dark Gwen II)
●
First appearance of Ashley Robertson, who is a close friend of Hope. She is voiced
by Zelda Williams, while her father is voiced by Steve Martin. According to Mateus
Honrado, Zelda's father Robin Williams was the original choice but due to his
suicide in August 2014, the role was recast with Martin after Michael Keaton,
Kevin Costner, Ted Danson, Craig T. Nelson, J.K. Simmons and Lee Majors
rejected the offer. Majors previously played Max Tennyson in
Ben 10: Race
Against Time
. Her father only has two lines in this episode, which are: "I'm glad
you are, Ashley" and "Excuse me but I have to go as I got some important stuff
to do."
●
It is revealed that Gwen's clone was the first clone created by the Shadow
Alliance of Evil but was an unsuccessful effort due to her later becoming brain
dead and comatose. Dark Shadow and Dark Charmcaster were the successful
clones.
●
Kevin's clone Kevin 11 is foreshadowed in this episode as he is seen drifting in a
tank in the beginning of the episode.
●
Shout-outs: One of the ads inside the train is an advert for an album by Sam
Honour Date. Sam Honour Date is an anagram of story editor Mateus Honrado.
●
Take-thats: One ad inside the train says: "Tzachor sucks, Lynn rules", taking pot
shots at Jonathan Tzachor, who angered
Power Rangers
fans with heavy usage of
Sentai footage and less character development in its neo-Saban era and calling
him (along with Bruce Kalish) an inferior replacement to Judd Lynn.
Episode 89: The Zone Continuing on from previous episode, the Leader prepares to thaw out Kevin's brain dead
comatose clone before Animo continues his plans to cause a great mutation event with
Kevin being the test subject. In Bellwood, it's the day before Halloween and the
Plumbers are invited to a Halloween masquerade party by a fellow friend of Gwen's
named Molly. Then, the team gets changed as they then arrive at the Zone. Outside the
Zone, the team are in a line to go inside and then are allowed in. After this, Cash and JT
(dressed as Jenko and Schmidt from
21 Jump Street
, respectively) try to get inside but
are rejected. Inside the Zone, the team are welcomed by Molly (dressed as Suki from
Avatar: The Last Airbender
) and her fraternal twin brother Mack (dressed as Arnold
Schwarzenegger) as they party down.
Outside the Zone, Cash and JT then go into costume as Drake and Josh from the titular
Nickelodeon show. The bouncer is fooled that they're Drake Bell and Josh Peck, so
they're let in. Unbeknownst to them, the real Drake Bell and Josh Peck are busy filming
their revival of their eponymous TV show. Soon, they are angered that the fact someone
has impersonated themselves at the Zone. Because of this, they prepare to halt filming
in order to confront the impersonators. Back at the Zone, Ben begins to see home videos
of his grandfather on his phone before being comforted by Gwen. However, they're
interrupted by Kevin and Hope, who tell them that Cash and JT are here. The four see
Cash and JT attempting to hit on Molly and then realise that they're in costume as Drake
Bell and Josh Peck.
Much to their shock, they tell the bouncer that they're not the real Drake and Josh, but
he dismisses it. In the bar area, Cooper orders a glass of cola, but it turns out to be ice
tea mixed with cream soda as the cola supply has run out. However, he does a spit-take,
causing him to blow a raspberry at Pierce. Because of this, this leads to a fight against
the two. Rook tells Kai, Julie and Ester that Cooper and Pierce are having a fight at the
alley. In the alley, Pierce and Cooper begin their fight as Pierce shoots spikes at Cooper's
arm, which leads Cooper to flick off the spikes from his arm as he does a move on Pierce
that causes him to pummel him in the ground. Meanwhile, Drake and Josh arrive at the
Zone to tell the bouncer that they're the real Drake and Josh but the bouncer refuses
them entry.
However, Cash and JT take off their disguises and reveal themselves. They apologise to
Drake and Josh for what they did and deserve to be kicked out. Moved by this, Drake
and Josh decides to allow them to enter at the Zone. Back at the alley, Cooper and
Pierce resume their fight as they then arm wrestle. Pierce attempts to crush Cooper's
hand, but Cooper manages to defeat him in the arm wrestling. Soon, Rook declares
Cooper the winner and then the latter apologises to spit the drink at his face. Pierce
accepts his apology and then both shake hands, thus making up. Back inside, Ben talks
to Gwen about his doubts on returning back to heroism, but Gwen tells him not to worry
as she's hoping him for the best. After this, he hugs her and then they return back to the
Colossus.
Meanwhile, Kevin is in the bathroom as he sees a reflection of himself in the mirror
whose face then slowly melts to reveal an nearly-invisible (muscles, veins and eyes)
head. The reflection then tells Kevin that he'll fear for the worst and then he shatters
into pieces as Kevin becomes shocked in terror. Soon, the reflection appears against but
in a evil voice saying: "You're going to lose your powers, Kevin. I've seen the future."
After this, Kevin punches the mirror, smashing it but injuring his hand. Soon, the team
return back to the Colossus as the night that was October 30 slowly becomes October
31. At the Colossus, Kevin's right hand is bandaged and then Kevin is told by Ester that
the cuts will heal. In his room, Ben puts his Deltatrix in the storage unit due to his
doubts about his future.
In the following morning, Cooper receives a message from a teenager who tells him
about a location called the Land of Confusion and that it contains some of the most
guarded treasures from Plumber history and that it needs to be protected from being
stolen. He then tells the team that they need go to Arizona as someone needs their help
to protect the treasures inside the Land of Confusion. The team then fly the Colossus to
Arizona in order to protect the treasures. In Enigma City, the Leader begins opening the
tank containing Kevin's clone and then injects a serum containing Kevin's mutated
Osmonian DNA from his hair lock. Soon, the clone then turns into a monstrous
combination of Ben's alien forms and growls after this, concluding the episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: N/A
●
Title reference: Referring to the club where the Halloween masquerade party is
held.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader, Dr. Animo and Kevin 11 (opening and closing
scene only)
●
Halloween episode. All ten Plumbers go cosplaying: Ben is dressed as Rick
Deckard from
Blade Runner
, Gwen is dressed as Asami Sato from
Avatar: The
Legend of Korra
, Kevin is dressed as Han Solo from
Star Wars
, Hope is dressed as
Deanna Troi from
Star Trek
, Cooper is dressed as Agent Mulder from
The X-Files
,
Kai is dressed as Megara from
Hercules
, Rook is dressed as Morpheus from
The
Matrix
, Ester is dressed as Lara Croft from
Tomb Raider
, Pierce is dressed as
Duke from
G.I. Joe
and Julie is dressed as Motoko Kusanagi from
Ghost in the
●
Shell
.
First appearance of Molly Gunther and her fraternal twin brother Mack, who will
form a team of Plumbers consisting of themselves, Ester's boyfriend Andrew,
Cooper's girlfriend Cleo, Julie's cousin Serena, Tyler, Miranda and her brother
Matthew in the third part of the season two.
●
Drake Bell and Josh Peck guest star as themselves in this episode, while Terry
Crews voices the bouncer.
●
Shout-outs: Drake and Josh being shocked about the fact that someone has
impersonated themselves and went to the Zone mirror the scene from
White
Chicks
in which Brittany and Tiffany Wilson are shocked that someone (Kevin and
Marcus Copeland) has been impersonating themselves while dancing at a club
using their names.
●
Take-thats: The Zone has a banned list of famous people. This includes: Stuart
Snyder (for executive meddling with a TV network - referring to Cartoon
Network), Michael Bay (for using more explosions than character development in
Transformers
films), Dan Slott (for derailing a popular superhero - referring to
Spider-Man), Mark Millar (for saying rape is a plot device), Rob Liefeld (for his
antagonistic behaviour) and many more.
Episode 90: Land of Confusion In Enigma City, the Leader continues to monitor Kevin's clone as he prepares to send
him to attack the Plumbers of Bellwood. On their way to Arizona, the Plumbers of
Bellwood fly into their spacecraft/aircraft hybrid Colossus. Landing at the Land of
Confusion museum, which houses the most guarded treasure from Plumber history, the
Plumbers of Bellwood are welcomed by fellow Plumber, an Apache Indian named Miranda
Greenshadow and her brother Matthew, who tells them that they need to protect them
from being stolen. Meanwhile, Enigma frees himself in the Plumber military prison in
Fukushima as he vows vengeance on Ben and Gwen. Inside the Land of Confusion, the
team oversees the treasures in order to protect them from being stolen.
The treasures, which comprise of the pre-2000 Plumber arsenal and uniform (as seen in
The Original Series
episode "The Visitor") are worth $5 million and that if the treasures
are stolen, it could lead to the museum to face financial troubles. Because of this, Ben
and Cooper sets up lasers in order to protect the treasures and then Kevin and Rook
manages to put railings on the glass. After this, the team keep an eye on the treasures.
However, Enigma arrives and then the power cuts as he then steals the treasure. The
power is then back on as Enigma escapes and then Pierce attempts to shoot at his arm
but to no avail as the To'kustar tyrant escapes without a trace. Miranda's father Adrian
arrives and becomes shocked when he realises that the treasure has gone missing.
Forty yards away, Enigma prepares to deconstruct the arsenal in order to create a super
weapon that could take down a building. At the museum, Adrian tells Miranda that he is
disappointed in her for not protecting the treasure but his wife Danielle tells him that it's
not her fault and that the culprit will be caught soon. Due to the robbery, the museum is
closed for the day as the Plumbers begin hunting down Enigma. Rook, Cooper, Pierce,
Julie, Kai and Ester use the teleporter in order to battle against Enigma. Meanwhile
inside the Colossus, Ben, Gwen, Kevin, Hope, Matt and Miranda see the six searching for
Enigma. The six manage to locate Enigma, who then shapeshifts into a Psychlo before
Cooper shoots his transformation trinket.
Rook tells Enigma that he has a choice: Hand back the treasures and surrender or
challenge a duel. Enigma chooses duelling as he duels against Cooper. Cooper wields his
blaster gun and prepares to shoot down the tyrannical alien as he shoots at his right leg.
But Enigma is unharmed. Soon, Cooper drops his gun as he then does punches Enigma
in the stomach and then in the face, rendering him unconscious but the victory is short
lived as he then pummels Cooper into the ground and then he kicks him in the ribcage,
injuring him. After this, Cooper tries to stand up but he is unable to continue fighting.
Then, Enigma laughs as he becomes victorious but then Ester joins in the fight as she
then uses her ice powers to freeze him. Enigma is then arrested and later sent to
Incarceron.
After this, the treasure is safely returned back to the Land of Confusion and is placed on
a concrete frame. Miranda thanks the Plumbers for helping to take down Enigma and
retrieve the treasure. Then, they say goodbye and leave Arizona by Colossus. Inside
Colossus, Ben opens the storage unit as he then takes his Deltatrix and safely puts it in
his belt buckle. He then prepares his return to heroism as Ben 10. In the medical bay,
Cooper recovers him his rib injuries as he then experiences an hallucination of a mutated
Kevin (similar to his Ultimate Kevin form) saying "You're gonna die, Cooper Daniels!".
Cooper then explodes into a state of extreme terror, which leads to Ester restraining him
and then Pierce calls for a sedative as Gwen then runs to retrieve a sedative and then
the doors ominously close.
In the final scene, Animo continues his plans for a great mutation and then evilly laughs
as Kevin's clone Kevin 11 frees himself. The clone then escapes from Enigma City, as he
prepares to confront Kevin for once and for all. In the epilogue, Ben arrives at the
hospital as he prepares to enter his grandfather's room and then he takes one last sigh
before opening the door. After this, he visits his grandfather and says "You'll fight it for
the better or the worse". In the post-credits scene, Gwen watches a video of her mother
giving birth to her along with her aunt giving birth to Ben. Soon, she switches off the TV
and then sleeps as she dreams of becoming a photographer for
The Bellwood Times,only
to wake up in fright after she sees Kevin being stabbed in the chest in her dream.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: N/A
●
●
Title reference: Referring to the museum in Arizona holding treasures from
Plumbers.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader (opening scene only), Dr. Animo (closing scene
only) and Enigma
●
German-American-Peruvian actress Q'orianka Kilcher guest stars as Miranda
Greenshadow, an Apache Indian whose ancestors helped to build the Hoover
Dam, while her brother Matt is voiced by American actor Booboo Stewart and her
parents Adrian and Danielle are respectively voiced by Canadian actor Adam
Beach, who played Ben Yahzee in
Windtalkers
and Alaskan actress Irene Bedard,
who voiced Pocahontas in
Pocahontas
. All actors are of indigenous American
descent (Kilcher is of Quechua-Huachipaeri descent from her father and
Swiss-German descent from her mother, Stewart is of Blackfoot descent from his
father with partial Scottish and Russian descent and Japanese, Chinese and
Korean descent from his mother, Beach is of Saulteaux First Nations descent with
partial Icelandic background and Bedard is of Inupiat, Yupik, Inuit, Cree and Metis
descent). Both Beach and Bedard co-starred each other in
Squanto: A Warrior's
Tale
, which like
Pocahontas
was criticised for being historically inaccurate, while
both Bedard and Kilcher both played Pocahontas.
●
Shout-outs: A picture outside the museum depicts Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Wesley Snipes, Dolph
Lundgren, Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal as a team of mercenaries called the
Adrenalines. The Adrenalines are an obvious parody of
The Expendables
films,
which all of them (except Seagal) are starred in. The final scene before Animo's
●
closing scene is a nod to the final scene of
Event Horizon
.
Take-thats: Enigma disguises himself as a Psychlo, poking fun of the alien race in
the critically-derided
Battlefield Earth
film adaptation.
Episode 91: The Longest Time Continued from previous episode, Ben visits his grandfather in hospital as he tells him
that he has eight months to live, much to the sadness. After freeing himself from Enigma
City, Kevin 11 plans his confrontation against Kevin as he goes on a rampage in Chicago.
In the Colossus, Kevin reduces into tears as he sees a picture of him and his parents due
to it being the fourteenth anniversary of his father's death. Hope arrives to comfort him
as he realises what would've been if his father didn't get killed. Back at the hospital, Ben
receives an alert from Gwen saying that someone is attacking Chicago. Ben goes to
Chicago as he witnesses a rampage at the NBC Tower. Inside, he sees a monstrous
mutant attacking and then the mutant turns around, revealing himself to be Kevin 11.
Ben realises that the Kevin 11 is not the same Kevin 11/Ultimate Kevin he confronted
when he was 10 and later 16 respectively as Kevin is no longer evil after his redemption
but still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder because of this. Ben then realises
that he is actually a clone and then confronts against him by morphing into Swampfire.
Ben torches Kevin 11's hand, causing it to disintegrate but Kevin 11 uses Wildvine's
power to regrow his hand. Kevin 11 then punches him in the face, rendering him
unconscious. After this, Kevin 11 leaves in victory. After this, Ben returns back to the
Colossus as he trains with Gwen, who morphs into Big Chill only to be interrupted by
Cooper as he tells them that Kevin is at home with his mother.
At his home, Kevin is comforted by his mother Andrea as he tries to move on from his
father's death. Ben, Gwen, Hope, Kai and Cooper arrive as they tell Kevin that the
Leader has created a clone of him using his DNA but then mutating him with a mutated
DNA sample of Kevin when he was Kevin 11. Kevin then watches a news report about a
mutated clone of him and then agrees to help to stop his mutated clone. In the Colossus,
Rook, Ester, Pierce and Julie prepare to fix the engines in the engine room as the
aircraft/spacecraft goes in orbit. However, the engines malfunction, which causes a fire
in the room. Because of this, Ester manages to use her powers to extinguish the fire. In
Chicago, the Plumbers of Bellwood prepare to confront Kevin 11.
Ben and Gwen morph into Upgrade and Wildvine as they begin to battle against the
clone. Gwen uses her vines to wrap Kevin 11 in order to trap him but he clobbers out the
vines in order to defeat the Plumbers. Kevin absorbs silver and his arm shapeshifts into a
hammer as he hammers his legs but is kicked in the legs. Soon, Hope uses her magical
powers in order to put Kevin 11 in a trance, but he snaps back before Cooper uses his
flame-thrower in order to scar the clone to avoid facial recognition. Because of this,
Kevin 11 is then scarred and then he flicks Cooper off before Kai goes into lupine mode
to stop him for once and for all. After this, Kevin 11 is finished off by Gwen, who then
traps in a vine-like cage. Kevin 11 is then sent to Incarceron.
Arriving at the Colossus, the six members are welcomed back. Kevin continues trying to
move on from his father's death but not before Kevin is cheered by his team in honour of
his father. Ben then tells Kevin that: "He wouldn't be a Plumber if it weren't for his
father." After this, Kevin smiles and draws a small tear. In Enigma City, while Dr. Animo
continues his plan, the Leader decides to open the Stratego dimension to free Ragnarok
so that he can battle against Kevin, leading to the following episode "Flightpath".
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Swampfire and Upgrade (Ben), Big Chill and Wildvine (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to the slogan in Corgan's: "For the longest time, you
can wake up and smell the coffee in Corgan's".
●
Villain of the episode: Kevin 11, the Leader and Dr. Animo (latter two, closing
scene only)
●
First full appearance of Kevin's clone Kevin 11.
●
Kevin was seven when his father was killed by Ragnarok.
●
●
This episode was aired on the 38th anniversary of
Star Wars Episode IV: A New
Hope
.
Anderson Cooper has a cameo in this episode in which he has an interview with
Will Harangue, who is currently incarcerated.
●
Shout-outs: A billboard shows Jake and Finn from
Adventure Time
, Mordecai and
Rigby from
Regular Show
and Steven from
Steven Universe
teaming up in a team
up special called the Extraordinaries. Out of the three shows,
Steven Universe
●
actually had a crossover with another show but it was
Uncle Grandpa
.
Take-thats: A baseball player resembling Johnny Test is booed by the crowd due
to his bad boy image, referencing the negative viewer reception of the show on
CN.
Episode 92: Flightpath As Ragnarok frees himself from the Stratego dimension, while celebrating the memorial
party of his father, Kevin faints as he is then taken to the medical bay. Waking up in
Limbo, Kevin sees his father (wearing a white suit) walking to a tall building. Soon, he
enters the building, only to have the building to become a infinite number of doors. He
then opens one door, which leads him to relive his father's death by Ragnarok. Ben and
Gwen go on a mission to hunt down Ragnarok after he killed Kevin's ex-stepfather just
after he left Enigma City. The duo say goodbye to Hope, Cooper, Kai, Rook, Ester, Pierce
and Julie as they prepare to confront Ragnarok. In the harbour, Ben morphs into Ripjaws
as he goes in underwater while Gwen morphs into Ghostfreak in order to go through
walls.
Hope attempts to revive Kevin with her powers as back in Limbo, Kevin continues
relieving his father's death and then goes into another door, which leads him to relieve
the past when he absorbed Ben's Omnitrix ("Kevin 11") and then goes into another door
that leads him into a bottomless pit. In the bottomless pit, Kevin screams before he sees
his stepfather Harvey Hackett being abusive to him and calling him a failure like his
father. Because of this, Kevin explodes in an extreme state of anger as he confronts his
stepfather. Meanwhile, Ben and Gwen arrive at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport
as they confront against Ragnarok. Ragnarok uses his powers to trap them in rebars
outside the airport, causing them to be standing still. However, Ben manages to free
himself with the help of his dissolving liquid.
The two free themselves as they continue their confrontation, while Hope tries to heal
Kevin from his trance as Kevin is punched in the chest by Hackett before the latter fades
away. Then, Kevin enters a room in which he is shot by the Leader. However, the shot in
the leg fade away and then Kevin tries to free himself from Limbo but to no avail. Ben
and Gwen continue their confrontation against Ragnarok as Ben punches him in the face,
saying: "That's for killing Devin Levin. He was a great Plumber and my grandfather's
protege but you killed him, you jerk!" Gwen uses her powers to create a lasso in order to
defeat Ragnarok, but Ragnarok escapes without doubt. Because of this, both Ben and
Gwen morph into Diamondhead and Cannonbolt respectively in order to defeat Ragnarok
for good.
Ben shoots diamonds at Ragnarok, weakening him, while Gwen bumps into him, which
causes him to suffer from rib injuries. Soon, the duo use their abilities to do a twirl kick
as they ultimately defeat him. After this, Ragnarok is sent to a undisclosed location than
in Incarceron, while at the same time, Kevin opens a door that leads him to regain
consciousness. He then opens his eyes and thanks Hope for snapping him out of trance.
Ben and Gwen return to the Colossus and tells Kevin and Hope, that Ragnarok has been
taken to a different location. Kevin then says that: "He got what he deserved." In
Enigma City, Ragnarok is sat down on a metallic chair and then is told by the Leader that
he failed in his mission and that he'll be terminated.
After this, the Leader uses his taser by fatally electrocuting Ragnarok. Dr. Animo then
oversees Ragnarok's charred body and then continues his plans for a giant mutation
event as he begins building a machine that will cause the event and that it is
indestructible. In the final scene, Kevin sees his father's ghost, who tells him to let go of
his past and move on from his death. Kevin agrees and salutes his father to give closure
between the two as Devin then fades away. After this, Kevin smiles and reduces into
tears, ending the episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Ripjaws and Diamondhead (Ben), Ghostfreak and Cannonbolt
(Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to the flying term and in a billboard at Chicago O'Hare
International Airport which says "Airplanes take a route called the flightpath."
●
Villain of the episode: Ragnarok, the Leader and Dr. Animo (latter two, closing
scene only)
●
Final appearance of Ragnarok and Kevin's former stepfather Harvey Hackett, who
is killed early in the episode by Ragnarok.
●
Last episode to feature of the CW-inspired Cartoon Network Studios logo.
●
This episode was dedicated to Anne Meara and John Forbes Nash, Jr., who died
the day before the airing.
●
●
Shout-outs: Kevin being in limbo mirrors the Mobil Avenue scene in
The Matrix
Revolutions
.
Take-thats: A sign in the Chicago O'Hare International Airport says "Quesada and
DiDio are jerks."
Episode 93: Read It and Weep The Forever Knights prepare to fight against the Plumbers of Bellwood as they decided to
retrieve the Ascalon from them (referring to the
Ultimate Alien
finale). Inside the
Colossus craft, the Plumbers of Bellwood prepare to fly to Windsor, England as they
realised that the Forever Knights are planning to strike against them. Arriving at Windsor
Castle, Ben face for the worst as the Forever Knights begin to attack. Because of this,
Ben wields the Ascalon as he does a swordfight against one of them but fails to do so.
Soon, he is electrocuted in the process and is taken to the Knights' headquarters. With
Ben now captured, the remaining nine Plumbers begin to fight against the Knights only
to retreat later on. Waking up at the Knights' lair, Ben realises that the Ascalon has been
retrieved by the Knights.
At the Colossus, Kevin tells his team mates that they need to defeat the Forever Knights
in order to save Ben as they split up. Back in the lair, Ben is told by Enoch that he will be
obliterated by a death ray created by Dr. Chadwick. Outside the lair, Gwen confronts one
of the female Knights and then as the female Knight attempts to finish her off, Gwen
renders her unconscious with her powers. After this, Gwen takes her armour and suits
up in disguise. One of the Knights monitor Ben being electrocuted and then Gwen (in
Knights armour) hits him with her baton and then frees Ben. Ben wonders who the
female Knight might be and then notices it is Gwen. Soon, both Ben and Gwen attempt
to escape the lair but soon are confronted by a swarm of Forever Knights.
Meanwhile in the Colossus, Kevin and Hope are in the cockpit with Rook and Ester, while
Cooper, Pierce, Kai and Julie leave the air-spacecraft as they confront against Driscoll
and then as Driscoll tries to obliterate them, Ben and Gwen throw a mace at him,
injuring his head. Soon, the team return back to the Colossus as they prepare to retrieve
the Ascalon. Landing at the lair, the Plumbers attempt to retrieve the Ascalon but Patrick
and Connor attempts to take them down as they send the Knights to kill them. The team
continue their confrontation against the Forever Knights and then they successfully
retrieve the Ascalon. After this, Patrick tells Hope that her uncle was a Forever Knight
himself and that he was incensed with dark magic so much that he became Hex.
Much to Hope's shock, the team retreat back to the Colossus and then the Forever
Knights decides to forgo with the death ray as they plan on ultimately killing Diagon
(who last appeared in
Ultimate Alien
) after several failed attempts as told by Urian. At
Corgan's, Cooper talks to his close friend Steven, who talks about his brief relationship
with Gwen and then about his relationship with Riley. In the Bellwood Library, Hope
researches about the Forever Knights and then sees a picture of her uncle Harold prior
becoming Hex. Because of this, she dials her phone and tells Ben that the Forever
Knights are coming to attack Bellwood soon. After this, Ben then leaves Corgan's in
order to see Hope and in order to stop the Forever Knights' battle of Bellwood.
In the final scene, the Leader and Dr. Animo oversee the Forever Knights' fleet of their
army and aircraft as they prepare to battle against the Plumbers of Bellwood. The
camera then zooms in Enoch as he puts on his golden mask, telling Driscoll that
"everything has a beginning has an ending." Outside the Bellwood Library, Ben and Hope
fear for the worst as the Forever Knights arrive to attack them, starting the Battle of
Bellwood. Because of this, they brace themselves in action, ending the episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: None
●
Title reference: Referring to the text message from Ben's phone in the beginning
of the episode.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader, Dr. Animo, the Forever Knights (Enoch,
Driscoll, Connor, Patrick, Urian and Dr. Chadwick) and Diagon
●
Diagon and the Forever Knights (Enoch, Driscoll, Connor, Urian, Patrick and Dr.
Chadwick) return, with the latter's last appearance being "The Forever Knights
Before Christmas" (excluding their brief appearance in "The Plumbers of Bellwood
vs. the Shadow Alliance Plumbers, Part 1".
●
First appearance of Cooper's close friend Steven Michaels (voiced by David
Henrie), he is the third LGBT character in the franchise following Hope, who is
bisexual and Ashley, who is a lesbian. He is bisexual as he previously dated Gwen
during the time she first called time on her relationship with Kevin, which took
place after
Ultimate Alien
and before D
ark Endgame
and he is in a relationship
with Riley Anderson (voiced by Daniel Samonas), who is gay. They appear briefly
in Corgan's in the final scene.
●
The name of the owner of Corgan's is revealed to be Joel Andrew Silver. With a
surname like that, it's hinted that he is Jewish. According to Mateus Honrado, he
named the character after the legendary Hollywood film producer Joel Silver.
●
The Forever Knights' headquarters are located in a castle in England.
●
It's revealed that there are female members of the Forever Knights.
●
Unlike his previous appearances, Enoch is only shown in his gold mask for the
final battle in both this episode and "Fall Down".
●
Shout-outs: A poster of the Starlights from
Sailor Moon
appears in Corgan's as in
a list of bands currently scheduled to perform at Bellwood. The
poster
in question
is the Starlights holding their instruments with Yaten holding her keytar, Taiki
holding her guitar and Seiya sitting down with her microphone.
●
Take-thats: A poster of the Bloodhound Gang are obscured due to their
controversial antics.
Episode 94: Fall Down Continuing from previous episode, the Forever Knights prepare to battle against Ben and
Hope. The fleet attack Ben, who then tells Hope to run for her life. Because of this, Hope
runs to get help from her teammates. At the Colossus, Gwen and Cooper begins to
watch a news report about the battle of Bellwood before Hope arrives to tell them that
Ben is currently confronting against the Forever Knights without them. Soon as they
leave the Colossus, they are soon confronted by Diagon. Meanwhile, Kevin along with Kai
go on a simulation in which they confront evil aliens in an abandoned alley, while Julie,
Pierce, Rook and Ester oversee civilians running for their lives as the Forever Knights
continue to attack the town. Meanwhile, Diagon continues attacking them before Gwen
tells him to stop, but he refuses.
Ben continues his confrontation with the Knights as he uses the Ascalon to defeat them
as Dr. Chadwick tries to kill him with the death ray before Kevin shoots him down and
destroys the ray. Kevin joins the fight siding with Ben as they continue battling against
the Knights, while Enoch oversees the battle. Realising that he hasn't been involved with
the battle, Connor prepares to kill Enoch in order to regain his position as leader before
Enoch stabs him in the heart, telling he never deserved the position. After this, Connor
succumbs while Patrick and Driscoll prepares to confront the other Plumbers inside the
Colossus. However inside the Colossus, Driscoll is trapped in a cage in which he escapes
and sends his fleet to attack them but they're defeated by Julie when she uses Ship as
her weapon to take them down.
Meanwhile, Gwen tells Diagon he has good inside of him and that the Forever Knights
are using him as bait. Because of this, the alien dragon sides with the Plumbers in the
battle. Gwen, Cooper, Hope, Julie, Rook, Ester, Pierce and Kai arrive at the battle site
where Ben and Kevin are. The team continue to confront the Forever Knights as Ben
enters at an aeroplane. Then a pilot arrives before Ben tells him to get out. Ben then
flies as he prepares to rescue the team from the Knights. He manages to rescue
everyone except Hope. Because of this, he tells Kevin to pilot the plane as he goes to
rescue Hope, only to be interrupted by Driscoll, who is then killed by Dr. Chadwick with
his portable death ray not before Hope uses her powers to put him in a trance. At the
same time, Diagon kills Patrick by mauling him.
Enoch realises that Driscoll and Patrick are killed, while Dr. Chadwick is now in a
comatose state. Because of this, he challenges Ben to a swordplay as Hope is then
rescued by Kevin. Ben uses the Ascalon while Enoch uses his sword. Enoch then stabs
Ben in the chest after Ben tries to scar him. Enoch declares himself victorious before Ben
tells him that he was wearing a stab vest all the time. He continues the swordplay and
then he cuts Enoch's gold mask in half, exposing his face. Without his gold mask, Enoch
continues the swordplay before Ben cuts his sword in half with the Ascalon and then
stabs Enoch in the stomach, thus becoming victorious. After this, Enoch warns him that
one day someone will finish him, but Ben denies it as such. Enoch then succumbs to the
wound.
After regaining consciousness, Dr. Chadwick sees Enoch's dead boy lying in repose
before he suffers a fatal heart attack. However it turns out to be not a heart attack but a
chip embedded in his heart was electrocuted by the Leader, thus ending the threat of the
Forever Knights forever. The former Knights (along with Urian) are then arrested and
after this, Diagon says goodbye to the Plumbers as he states that he would meet with
them again. In the final scene, the demise of the Forever Knights was part of Dr.
Animo's plan all along.
Trivia:
●
Title reference: Referring to the fall of the Forever Knights.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader, Dr. Animo, the Forever Knights (Enoch,
Driscoll, Connor, Patrick, Urian and Dr. Chadwick) and Diagon (until the final act)
●
Final appearance of the Forever Knights except Urian, who returns for his last
appearance in the following season. Diagon would return as an ally to the
Plumbers in later appearances.
●
●
●
Gilbert Gottfried has a cameo as radio host Leonard Weinstein, a reference to
writer and
Wolverine
co-creator Len Wein.
Shout-outs: When Ben enters at an aircraft, he tells the pilot to "get out", in a
similar tone of Arnold Schwarzenegger in
The Terminator.
Take-thats: The billboard in which Enoch attempts to crush Ben says: "The Bland
Unfunny Gang", poking fun of
The Big Bang Theory
.
Episode 95: Ice Hassles The Plumbers take a break as they split up to do other commitments. Meanwhile, Ben
and Gwen's paternal cousin James is told by the Leader to free his fraternal twin Sunny
from Incarceron in order to confront Ben and Gwen by planning to rob $1 billion worth of
gold bars from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. At the Bellwood Ice Hockey Arena,
Ben and Gwen watch ice hockey before the match is interrupted by a brawl outside. The
two see the brawl happening only to be interrupted by a phone call from Cooper to
cancel their break as they need to face a bigger threat. Inside the Colossus, Kevin tells
Ben and Gwen that their identical cousins James and Sunny have committed a gold bar
robbery. The two then go and confront them.
At the Colossus, Kevin, Hope, Cooper and Kai watch a documentary titled V
al Verde
directed by Steven E. de Souza before being interrupted by a holographic call from Rook
and Ester, who tell them to come into the cargo bay. While Pierce and Julie are currently
at the medical bay, the other six find a cargo package addressed to them and then as
they open it, the package reveals to be a USB stick. Meanwhile outside the bank, Ben
and Gwen go in disguise as bank employees in order to fool their cousins under aliases
Sam Rouleau and Donna Crews. Ben (as Sam) tells the bank manager that he had to go
on a break for lunch. Because of this, both Ben and Gwen monitor the queue as they
prepare to apprehend their cousins from robbing the gold bars from the bank.
Sunny and James arrive at gunpoint as they tell the manager that this is a robbery and
demands him to give the $1 billion loot of gold bars to them. Because of this, Ben and
Gwen help the manager to trick them by swapping the real gold bars with the dye pack
in order to humiliate them. After this, Sunny and James gains the gold bars,
unbeknownst to them, the gold bars are actually dye packs. Soon as they open the box
containing the gold bars, they explode as Ben detonates the devices via remote control.
Realising that the gold bars were fakes, Sunny and James begin to attack Ben and Gwen
as they leave the bank. Then, Ben and Gwen use their Deltatrixes to morph into
Buzzshock and Diamondhead, respectively.
Meanwhile at the Colossus, Kevin puts the USB stick on his laptop as the stick contains a
file that holds information about Dr. Animo's plans and much to the shock that his next
plan to use him as a test subject for a great mutation in which Illinois would become an
US state of mutants. He tells the team about Animo's plans and that they need to stop
him as soon as possible. Continuing their confrontation, Ben attempts to electrocute
James but he kicks him to the ground while Gwen shoots diamonds at Sunny, who then
transforms into her Anodite form in order to defeat her. However, Ben regains
consciousness and then electrocutes Sunny, thus saving Gwen instantly. After this,
Sunny and James are arrested and sent into an ADX prison in an island.
Arriving back at the Colossus, Ben and Gwen are told by Kevin that Animo is planning a
great mutation event soon and that they need to stop him as soon as possible. After
this, Ben and Gwen become shocked by this and prepares to reveal Animo's plans to the
public as soon as possible. The episode ends with the Plumbers of Bellwood reading
Animo's plans that the great mutation will mutate the entire Illinois and that it will
happen in a few months as they'll defeat him for once and for all.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Buzzshock (Ben), Diamondhead (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to the slogan from the Bellwood Ice Hockey Arena: "Ice
hassles the hockey".
●
Villain of the episode: Sunny and James Tennyson and the Leader
●
It is revealed that Sunny's ex-boyfriend Antonio (who only appeared in "Girl
Trouble") was killed when in prison at Incarceron not long after Sunny was put
into her cell.
●
●
The gold bar robbery is inspired by
Die Hard with a Vengeance
.
Ben and Gwen's face disguises are modelled after their voice actors Yuri
Lowenthal and Ashley Johnson. Also, their aliases are a combination of the show's
crew: Sam Rouleau takes his name from executive producer Sam Register and
co-creator Duncan Rouleau, while Donna Crews takes her name from producers
Donna Smith and Kelly Crews.
●
Shout-outs: The documentary
Val Verde
is directed by Steven E. de Souza, which
is the title is a nod to the fictional country in
Predator
,
Commando
and
Die Hard 2
,
all written by de Souza.
●
Take-thats: A plaque on the Federal Bank of Chicago: "We don't accept frauds."
Episode 96: Alpha and Omega In the prologue taking place in New Mexico twelve years ago (two years before
The
Original Series
), Kai, her sister Charlene and their grandfather Wesley are on a hiking
trip as Wesley tells his grandchildren about the Navajo mythical wolf creature, the
yenaldooshi and that he would hunt down humans. In the present day, Kai continues to
suffer from nightmares of being mauled by a werewolf after being accidentally scratched
by Ben ("There's No Business Like Slow Business") and that her powers are becoming
out of control. Meanwhile in the Colossus, Ben and Gwen train while morphing as Stinkfly
and Gwenmummy respectively. A depressed Kai arrives and then Gwen comforts her
after Kai tells her that her werewolf powers are becoming out of control.
The Colossus lands at the Sparrow Lane park near Chicago, where the Plumbers begin
searching for more clues about Animo's plan on the great mutation event. Kevin and
Hope begin to look for clues before they fall into a bottomless, where they hang on to
dear life. The two cries for help as Pierce and Julie overhear them, which leads them
attempting to rescue them but soon, Julie trips on a twig which causes her to fall into the
pit. Pierce breaks the twig but soon gets whacked by a falling tree, leading him into the
pit. Meanwhile, Kai prepares to inject herself with a serum that would allow her to
deplete her werewolf powers in order to regain her humanity, but puts the serum back
into the box as her powers continue to go out of control, which causes her to morph into
her werewolf form.
Kai attacks Ben, Gwen, Rook and Ester and then the four run for their lives as they then
fall into the pit by mistake. Then Kai realises what she has done something wrong when
she attacked her teammates. She tries to revert back to her human form but as she
reverts back, the reverse doesn't fully finish as Kai still has wolf-like ears. In the
bottomless pit, Ben realises that he can't hang on as he attempts to die by falling so that
the team would continue their search without him but the team refuses to do so.
Outside, Kai transforms back to her werewolf form as she injects the serum in order to
reverse her transformation back. Unbeknownst to her, her werewolf DNA is embedded
on the syringe she used to reverse the transformation. As time is ticking for her, Kai
decides to save her team.
Entering outside the pit, Kai tells Ben to grab her hand which he does and then climbs
into the pit as she saves the rest. After this, Kai begin to realise that her werewolf
powers are slowly fading away as the fur has reverted back to her skin while her
wolf-like ears have returned to normal. Soon, Ben kisses Kai in a moment that her
powers are now gone for good. In Enigma City, Enigma plans to free Eon and Shada in
order to keep the future post-apocalypse as possible. In the Colossus, the team
celebrate Thanksgiving while a scanner (secretly used by the Leader) duplicates the
werewolf DNA from the syringe in order to create a serum and giving it to Dr. Animo as
part of his plans for a great mutation event.
In the epilogue, Ben tells Kai that he's proud of her depleting her werewolf powers and
then they kiss. After this, the team do a group hug as they continue to celebrate
Thanksgiving. In the post-credits scene in Japan, Tomoe realises that the dark forces are
coming again and that she needs Gwen's help to defeat them. At the same time, the
Leader plans to vivisect Kevin once he is captured. The episode ends with the team
taking a selfie, followed by pictures of themselves when they were children.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Stinkfly (Ben), Gwenmummy (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to the 2010 film of the same name which involved
wolves.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader (final scene only)
●
Thanksgiving episode.
●
Last appearance of Kai as a werewolf after she sacrifices her powers to save the
team from the bottomless pit and then remnants of her werewolf DNA would later
be taken by the Leader in order to give it to Dr. Animo for his plan.
●
Just before fully depleting her powers and after saving her team, Kai quotes the
last two stanzas of "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley.
●
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Shout-outs: The boulder scene was inspired by
127 Hours
.
Take-thats: One of the signs in the Colossus says: "No Chick-fil-A", in response to
the chicken chain's CEO Dan Cathy using homophobic remarks in 2012.
Episode 97: I, Mutant, Part 1 The Plumbers of Bellwood prepare to fly the Colossus to the Hokkaido region of Japan,
where they go on and spend their winter holiday. The Colossus safely lands to a hotel
where the Plumbers of Bellwood book a room. Meanwhile, Gwen is at a cafe in the hotel
and is then greeted by Tomoe (who is under disguise), who tells her that there are dark
forces coming to attack in Hokkaido soon and that she must go undercover. Because of
this, Gwen tells Ben that she has to go on a secret mission and then offers either Kai,
Julie, Hope of Ester to come with her.
Kai and Ester decline her offer as they feel that they're not ready to go on solo missions.
So, Julie and Hope accept her offer. Meanwhile, Dr. Animo leaves Enigma City as he flies
to Japan in order to confront the Plumbers. Gwen introduces Hope and Julie to Tomoe,
as the latter tells them that they need to go undercover as geisha. Because of this, the
three Plumbers put on make-up, their hair up and wear kimonos in order to avoid
recognition from the dark forces - which are in fact Dr. Animo and his mutated creatures
- so that their cover wouldn't be blown.
Meanwhile, Dr. Animo arrives and sends his mutated creatures to attack the Plumbers of
Bellwood. In the Hokkaido Hotel, Kevin notice a large group of mutated creatures as he
tells Rook to look at the window. Soon the number of mutated creatures increase as the
team go into battle, leading Ben to morph into Goop. Ben transforms into jelly mode,
which leads to the creatures to slip on the floor, followed by Pierce shooting spikes at
them. Meanwhile in the geisha house, Gwen hosts a dance performance to an audience
as Julie keeps an eye on the mutated creatures' arrival.
Soon, the creatures arrive and then Tomoe uses her katana to impale them. Hope then
uses her powers to turn the creatures into stone and then crushing it with her fans.
Outside the Hokkaido Hotel, Ben and Cooper prepare to use their weapons to take down
the mutants but to no avail as they are soon thrown into the swimming pool. Ben
demorphs as he then morphs into Humongosaur and then manages to defeat them but it
becomes short-lived as the mutants then multiply. Back at the geisha house, Gwen, Julie
and Hope put their hair down as they prepare to take their make up off.
However, despite slightly disappointed, Tomoe tells the three that they did their best and
tried to stop the mutants. Julie wonders if they're going to stop their undercover work as
geishas, but Gwen tells her that they won't give up their confrontational against the
mutants. In the Hokkaido Hotel, Ben continues confronting the mutants and then as Ben
growls at them, the mutants retreat and then when Kevin asks if it's really the end of the
battle against the mutants. Ben responds to him that it was just the beginning as they'll
continue confronting them soon.
In the final scene, Dr. Animo tells the Leader that the mutants have retreated and they
need to continue battling against the Plumbers of Bellwood. While sleeping at the
Hokkaido Hotel, Ben has a dream in which he becomes frozen and then the Leader
shows up, followed by Animo punching his head out, resulting it smash into pieces after
falling and then the remaining part of his body is then smashed as well, soon the great
mutation occurs, causing Illinois to be an American state filled with mutants. Ben then
wakes up in fright as he fears for his fate before falling back to sleep, ending the
episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Goop and Humongosaur (Ben)
●
Title reference: Referring to Dr. Animo himself being a mutant.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader and Dr. Animo
●
First part of the two-part story involving Gwen, Hope and Julie teaming up with
Tomoe Gozen.
●
From this episode to "Shadow Be Thy Day", the Plumbers of Bellwood are on
holiday to Japan.
●
Shout-outs: Gwen, Hope and Julie use pseudonyms for themselves while
undercover at the geisha house: Samantha Simpson for Gwen, Sabrina Spellman
for Hope and Rei Hino for Julie. All three are names of characters: Samantha is
from
Totally Spies
, Sabrina is from
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
and Rei (Sailor
Mars) is from
Sailor Moon
. In fact, both Gwen and Samantha are red-headed
green-eyed people, Hope and Sabrina are witches (though Hope considers herself
as a sorceress) and Rei and Julie are Japanese (though Julie is Japanese
American). The geisha scene was inspired by
American Dad!
episode "Tearjerker",
●
My Geisha
and
Memoirs of a Geisha
.
Take-thats: Ben watches a film titled
Monster Movie
, which pokes fun of the
critically panned Friedberg-Seltzer parody films of summer blockbusters.
Episode 98: I, Mutant, Part 2 Continuing from the last episode, Dr. Animo continues his battle against the Plumbers
while outside the geisha house, Gwen takes off her kimono as she prepares to go the hot
springs to relax her from stress. Soon, snow falls as she then dreams about her possible
future in which is a mother of two children. However, the dream then becomes a
nightmare as she sees Bellwood in ruins and then sees Ben being attacked and then
killed by a gang of cyber converted humans. Soon, Gwen wakes up as she then tells
Tomoe that they need to see Ben about the nightmare she had.
In the Hokkaido Hotel, Ben tells Kevin about his nightmare in which he was frozen and
smashed into pieces and that they need to stop Dr. Animo and his team of mutants.
Gwen, Hope and Julie arrive and then Gwen introduces Tomoe to Ben, who then bows in
return. Near Mount Fuji, Animo sends his mutants to hunt down the Plumbers of
Bellwood and to capture Kevin. In the cafe, Kevin drinks a green ice tea-flavoured cola
before the mutants arrive to attack him. Kevin absorbs ceramic in order to punch the
mutants out of his way but soon, one of them prepares to shoot him with a tranquillizer.
However, Cooper shields Kevin as he takes the shot, wounding him. Soon, Ben morphs
into Brainstorm as he causes a disruption on the mutants. Ester then uses her powers to
freeze the mutants and then Hope uses her sorcery skills to crush them into pieces. Soon
Kai uses her flamethrower to destroy them. Gwen takes Cooper to their hotel room,
while Rook and Pierce use their strength to take down the remaining mutants. Regaining
consciousness, Cooper panics as Gwen tells him to relax. However unbeknownst to
them, Animo arrives as he prepares in shoot tranquillizers on the Plumbers.
Ben demorphs and morphs again but this time as Rath. He then growls at him causing
the tranquillizers smashed into pieces. Animo tries to escape but due part of the room
now containing glass on the floor, he goes in pain while walking on broken glass as he
then retreats and goes back to Enigma City. After this, the Plumbers of Bellwood become
victorious but Gwen tells them that their victory will become short-lived. Tomoe is then
recognised as a honorary Plumber. Tomoe then tells Gwen that they'll meet again at
some point and returns back to her house located near Mount Fuji.
The team watch a video from the Leader, who says that Dr. Animo's great mutation will
happen in July 2016. Much to their shock, they send the video link to divisions of the
Plumbers and then respond with a video message saying: "You haven't see the last of
us, the Leader. We will not give up and we will continue to confront in a good vs. evil
battle. End communication." After this, the response is then sent to the Leader, who
then becomes furious as he vows revenge on them for the attack in Hokkaido. The
episode ends with the team preparing to face their fears.
In the post-credits scene, Eon is freed from a vortex from Shada, who then tells him that
she remembers him before. Eon refuses to deny or confirm her statements as Shada
tells him that she's following the same plan that he has - To erase the existence of Ben
Tennyson, now with Gwen added. Because of this, Eon agrees with Shada and the two
depart to Japan in order to confront Ben and Gwen. Back at Japan, Gwen watches the
finale of
Lost
and then becomes angry by its ending. After her reaction, she switches off
the TV, then goes to her bedroom and later falls asleep, ending the episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Brainstorm and Rath (Ben)
●
●
●
Shout-outs: Gwen's nightmare about the Leader's final battle of the Plumbers of
Bellwood (foreshadowing the forthcoming series finale) mirrors the nightmare
●
scene in
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
.
Take-thats: The final minute of the post-credits scene openly criticises the
controversial series finale of
Lost
.
Episode 99: Nevermore It's Christmastime for the Plumbers of Bellwood as they prepare to communicated their
loved ones via video call at the Hokkaido Hotel. Outside the Tokyo Tower, Eon and Shada
prepare to attack. Soon, Ben receives an alert that Tokyo has been attacked. Because of
this, the team decides to put their sightseeing plans on hold as they prepare to confront
dark forces. The team use the Colossus to fly at Tokyo. Arriving at the Tokyo Tower, the
team begins to notice a sign saying: "Quoth the raven, nevermore." Gwen uses her
telepathy powers as she notices that it came from Eon, who has recently attacked the
Plumbers of Tokyo.
Soon, Ben goes into action as he and Gwen morph into Grey Matter as they leapfrog to
confront Eon. Eon then uses his warping powers to distort the duo's reality but it
becomes temporary. Kevin absorbs iron in order to pummel Shada into the ground but
the reality warper defeats him and then Hope uses her powers to smash a part of her
helmet, exposing her left eye. Gwen demorphs and notices a similar resemblance on
Shada. Unfortunately, Shada escape without Gwen realising who she might be. Arriving
back to their hotel room, the Plumbers of Bellwood realise that they lost.
Meanwhile, Shada takes off her helmet in a bathroom and is revealed to be a future
version of Gwen (similar to the 30-year-old future version from
The Original Series
but
with longer hair and wearing a monocle covering her right eye). Soon, she tells Eon that
she is his cousin and that he wasn't the only one to survive the alternate future. Eon
then remembers the moment as he then tells her that he kept her existence a secret
from Ben and Gwen in order to act as if he was the only one from the post-apocalyptic
future. In the Hokkaido Hotel, Cooper begins to see CCTV footage of Eon and Shada
barricading Tokyo Tower.
Soon, he zooms in as he notices Shada taking off her helmet, revealing herself to be the
alternate future version of Gwen. He passes it to Kai, who then passes it on to Rook,
who then passes it on to Ester, who then passes it on to Pierce, who then passes it on to
Julie and then Julie passes it on to Kevin, who then tells Gwen about it. After this, Gwen
is shocked to hear about this as she is then foretold by Ben that the alternate future had
not one survivor as previously thought, but two survivors instead. Because of this, both
Ben and Gwen prepare to fight against Eon and Shada by both morphing into
Shocksquatch.
Eon and Shada arrive at the Tokyo Skytree, where they plan on to broadcast signals that
would create a black hole in order to send it into an alternate universe. However, Ben
and Gwen arrive via bullet train and confront against their alternate future counterparts.
Ben attempts to electrocute Eon, but is overpowered, while Gwen tries to stop Shada
and then defeats by tricking her to remove her mask. Because of this, Eon and Shada
are arrested and sent to a high-security prison in Bellwood, while Ben and Gwen return
back to their hotel room as they communicate with their loved ones.
In the final scene, the Leader is told that Eon and Shada (though not seen) have been
incarcerated and then he prepares to go to Incarceron with Amara to free Dark
Charmaster, Dark Shadow and Kevin 11 as they have something planned for the
Plumbers of Bellwood. Both go into the Leader's spacejet and goes to Incarceron to free
them in a "real vs. clone" battle. In the post-credits scene, the Plumbers eat in silence at
a fried chicken restaurant for Christmas dinner. The episode then ends with a quote
breaking the fourth wall: "Happy 99th episode. 100th is on its way."
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Grey Matter and Shocksquatch (both)
●
Title reference: Referring to the famous quote from
The Raven
by Edgar Allan
Poe: "Quoth the raven, nevermore".
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader, Eon and Shada
●
Christmas episode and first to be set outside the US. The fourth consecutive
Christmas episode for the series as it follows the tradition of having a Christmas
episode every season.
●
Eon returns and Shada is revealed to be the alternate future incarnation of Gwen.
●
The point that the Plumbers of Bellwood are having fried chicken for Christmas
dinner in Japan shown in the end is in fact true. Eating KFC as a Christmas meal
has been a widely practised custom in Japan since KFC Japan promoted their line
of meals as Christmas meals since 1974.
●
The Plumbers of Tokyo have a brief two-minute cameo in this episode as they
prepare to stop Eon. The only lines said from them are "I can't believe it. We
have to stop them", as said by Ken, "There's got to be a way.", as said by Mika,
"I don't think there is.", as said by Sasuke and "Brace ourselves as we better
escape now!", as said by Makoto.
●
Shout-outs: The Plumbers eating fried chicken in Christmas is a nod to the
popular KFC Christmas meal promotion in Japan but also mirroring the famous
shawarma post-credits scene in
The Avengers
.
●
Take-thats: A sign in Tokyo Skytree says: "Do not dump whales in the river",
referring to the controversial whale hunting in Japanese rivers.
Episode 100: Shadow Be Thy Day Arriving at Incarceron, the Leader and Amara confront against guards and then frees
Dark Shadow, Dark Charmcaster and Kevin 11 in order to confront Ben, Gwen, Kevin
and Hope. It is December 31 in Japan as the Plumbers of Bellwood prepare to celebrate
New Year's Day in the Minato ward of Tokyo. Soon Hope gets a vision that someone is
planning to attack the Plumbers soon. Gwen takes a closer look as she sees Amara
teaming up with Kevin 11. Because of this, both Ben and Gwen use their Deltatrixes and
transform into Nanomech as they shrink down to ant-size in order to confront both
Amara and Kevin 11.
Ben goes into Kevin 11's left ear and then tries to sting but Kevin 11 cleans his ear out
and then flicks him off. Gwen tries to sting Amara's lips but Amara flicks it off. The two
then squish Ben and Gwen, but just before they kill them, Ben and Gwen retreat back to
their hotel room. In the hotel room, Ben uses a dimmer to close the blinds as they tell
their team mates Kevin, Hope, Cooper, Kai, Rook, Ester, Pierce and Julie that the
Leader's clones of themselves are prepare to hunt them down and also replacing them as
a ploy. Ben states that Dark Shadow is a clone of both him and his former evil
counterpart Albedo.
Gwen then states that the Leader created a clone of her and then released the spirit of
Amara from the gem to allow her possess the body, which was brain dead at the time.
Back at Minato, the four clones introduce themselves as they agree to form a team that
serve as a sister team to the Shadow Alliance called the Dark Plumbers. Just six hours
before New Year's Day, Ben and Gwen goes to a 7-Eleven in the Koto ward to drink
Slurpees before they are confronted by Dark Shadow and Dark Charmcaster, who then
use their powers to take them down. Ben and Gwen then wake up at the top of Sony
Building.
After regaining consciousness, Ben and Gwen realise that Dark Shadow, Dark
Charmcaster, Amara and Kevin 11 are now referring themselves as the Dark Plumbers
and are planning to replace them, Hope and Kevin as a ploy in order to trick the
Plumbers of Bellwood into think that they're the real ones and that while Kevin becomes
the test subject for the planned great mutation event, Ben, Gwen and Hope along with
the rest of the Plumbers will be the first to be mutated in the event after Kevin. Soon,
Ben and Gwen morph into Chromastone to confront them by shooting gems at them.
Dark Shadow uses his magnetic powers to impale both Ben and Gwen but they escape
the impalement as they fight against him and then Ben shoots a diamond, aiming at
Dark Shadow, who then gets impaled by the gem in his right shoulder. Then Dark
Charmcaster tries to use her sorcery skills but Gwen uses telekinesis to make her drop
on a shrub. Kevin 11 tries to electrocute Ben but Ben kicks him in the leg and traps him
in a dumpster. After this, Ben and Gwen confront their evil clones Dark Shadow and
Amara in order to stop their plan and soon, they defeat the clones in the process.
The Dark Plumbers are then arrested and then sent to Incarceron. Ben and Gwen realise
that there's two hours left before New Year's Day as they make a journey to Hokkaido.
Eventually, they arrive at the Hokkaido Hotel a minute before New Year's Day. The team
celebrate as they then do a 10-second countdown. After the countdown is complete,
2015 becomes 2016. Ben says Happy New Year to Gwen, who then says it back to her.
After the countdown, the team begin to pack their bags as they prepare to leave the
following day. On January 2, the Plumbers of Bellwood then end their vacation and
return back to Bellwood with the Colossus, ending the episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Nanomech and Chromastone (both)
●
Title reference: A pun on the song "Shadow Be Thy Grave" by Red Hot Chili
Peppers.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader and the Dark Plumbers (Dark Shadow, Dark
Charmcaster, Amara and Kevin 11).
●
The 100th episode of the series and 250th episode of the franchise.
●
New Year's Eve/New Year's Day episode, the first to do so but the next does not
occur until season six.
●
Dark Shadow, Dark Charmcaster, Amara and Kevin 11 return. Dark Charmcaster
last appeared in "Dark Charmcaster Strikes Back", Dark Shadow last appeared in
"Face to Face, Part 2", Amara last appeared in "Not Fly Away" and Kevin 11 last
appeared in "The Longest Time".
●
Shout-outs: Ben and Gwen going to a 7-Eleven in Japan is a nod to the American
convenience store chain being very popular in the country.
●
Take-thats: A sign outside Sony Building says: "Nintendo, eat your heart out.",
poking fun of Sony's rivalry with Nintendo.
Episode 101: Omnitrix: Artificial Intelligience In Enigma City, the Leader prepares to use the card containing Malware to terminate Ben
and Gwen as he tries to insert it on the computer and prepares to transfer Malware's A.I.
to a robotic body. After this, Malware wakes up in his new robotic body and vows
revenge on Ben and Gwen. In the Colossus, Ben and Gwen train as Astrodactyl and
Pesky Dust in a training simulation before being interrupted by a news report that a
robot has been terrorising Bellwood with a flamethrower. Because of this, Ben and Gwen
(still in their forms when they were during training) enter at the Bellwood Shopping Mall
as they see the robot stealing items at Soto's.
Ben flies to attack him but Malware grabs his Plumber symbol which contains the
Omnitrix interface from his Deltatrix, thus absorbing the interface. This depletes the
Deltatrix, causing Ben to demorph. Soon, Gwen tries to stop Malware but the robot
absorbs her interface, thus causing her to demorph. Both Ben and Gwen retreat back to
the Colossus as they tell Kevin and Hope that a few months ago, they along with Julie
and her siblings faced against an A.I. known as Malware and that they managed to trick
him into being trapped in a card that they then threw away.
Outside Bellwood, Malware uses his new interface powers as he electrocutes the masts
to cause an electromagnetic pulse, resulting electricity to be temporarily disabled but the
Colossus is unaffected by the pulse as it uses an alternate power instead. Ben and Gwen
are unable to use their Deltatrixes and then as Malware begins to roam around Chicago,
the electricity is restored. Unable to use their Deltatrixes, Ben and Gwen prepare to fight
without powers. Arriving at the outskirts, Ben and Gwen use their weapons as they
attempt to stun him but the weapons fail to work.
Malware tells the duo that they will be terminated. However, the duo's Deltratrixes glow
and then both Ben and Gwen morph into Upgrade and Gwenmummy respectively. Gwen
wraps Malware as he tries to absorb the knowledge of her Deltatrix, but Ben wraps
Malware's robotic chassis. Malware attempts to absorb Ben's form but Ben punches him
and removes the chip causing him to self-terminate. After this, both Ben and Gwen
demorph as Ben then snaps the card and stamping it into other pieces. Following after
defeating Malware, Ben and Gwen then go back to the Colossus.
In the Colossus, Ben sees a ominous red light in his Deltatrix, only to wake up to realise
that the red light was a nightmare. After this, he is then relieved that Malware is gone
for good. The following day, Ben receives a text message from his parents that his
grandfather has now got six months to live due to his heart cancer. Both Ben and Gwen
depart to see their grandfather in the hospital via Ben's Tesla Model S while Kevin
prepares to fix his Bugatti EB110, but as he tries to turn on the ignition, the car's engine
splutters and then as Kevin opens he hub, the engine spill over Kevin, much to his
dismay.
In the final scene, the Leader arrives at the outskirts as he shoots down guards and then
he discovers the remnants of the card containing Malware, vowing to rebuild him but
with a twist - a human must become his host. After this, he takes the remnants and
leaves immediately as he returns back to Enigma City as he goes into shadows from a
distance in order to find a human host for Malware. The episode then ends with a freeze
frame of a red glow, implying Malware isn't gone for good as he was though to be and
that he will return to attack the Plumbers by possessing a human body.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Astrodactyl and Upgrade (Ben), Pesky Dust and Gwenmummy
(Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to Malware absorbing the Omnitrix interface from Ben
and Gwen's Deltatrixes in order to terminate them.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader and Malware
●
Malware returns, making his first appearance since "One Fateful Night" plus it's
his last appearance as a duplicate of his A.I. would appear in the next season.
●
This episode along with "Kevin's Wild Ride" takes place in January 2016.
●
It is revealed that Laserdiscs are still being made, though in real life they have
since been discontinued in the early 2000s.
●
Cooper, Kai, Rook, Ester, Pierce and Julie only appear briefly in this episode and
the next episode.
●
Shout-outs: Malware's demise mirrors Overload's demise in
Teen Titans
episode
"Car Trouble".
●
Take-thats: A sign takes a pot shot at Dan DiDio and Joe Quesada: "Thanks to
you guys, there are now more terrible storylines than the good ones."
Episode 102: Kevin’s Wild Ride A man goes to a drive-in theatre to see
The Terminator
only to be turned away when a
usher tells him that it is full. However, it turns out that it is not full as the man enters at
the drive-in. Soon, he watches the film before the usher tells him to leave. The man
refuses to do and then the usher is revealed to be an android, who throws a stick at the
man, impaling him with extreme prejudice, thus killing him instantly. Soon, the android
then self-terminates himself to prevent himself from being caught. At home, Kevin
continues fixing his EB110 following after the engine spluttered on him.
Kevin receives a video message from Hope that the Plumbers are currently stationed in
Boston, Massachusetts to see a Harlem Globetrotters basketball game and that Ben and
Gwen are currently morphed as Big Chill and Ratha, respectively. After this, he watches
a news report about a murder in the Bellwood Drive-In as he finds a head of the android
usher as he notices the back containing a microchip which reads "Billions Incorporated",
which is a company founded by William "Billy" Billions, one of the youngest billionaires in
the Fortune 500 chart who has made a fortune with making computers, mobile devices
and television sets.
Kevin locates Billions at his headquarters, which is located at the Tempest Building.
Arriving at the Tempest Building, Kevin is greeted by Billions' assistant Mazuma, who
then introduces him to Billions. Kevin talks to Billions about the murder caused by an
android built by him, however Billions dismisses the murder and that someone must
have framed him. After this, Kevin leaves the building as Billions tells Mazuma that he
will never know the truth about the murder. Soon, Kevin turns on the ignition for his
EB110 and then sees a person riding a motorcycle preparing to run away from Billions.
Kevin follows the motorcyclist and tries to talk to him about Billions, but the nervous
motorcyclist then commits suicide by biting a cyanide pill, causing his mouth to foam.
Kevin continues to investigate the perpetrator of the crimes and he watches a television
advert promoting the Billions Dagger phone on his EB110. Soon during the night, he
enters at the Tempest Building as he finds evidence to convict Billions for the murder in
the drive-in theatre and the suicide in the alley. However, Mazuma confronts him as she
then does a nerve pinch to render him unconscious.
Kevin wakes up tied up in an alley as Billions tells him he was indeed the one responsible
for the murder in the drive-in theatre and the suicide in the alley. He then states that the
android usher was actually an assassin he created to kill the person inside the drive-in
theatre, who happened to be an employee working for his company and fired for
attempting to expose secrets about him and that the motorcyclist committed suicide to
avoid being caught by him. He then attempts to kill him for planning to expose evidence
to get him caught. However, Kevin manages to send the evidence to the authorities.
Just before Billions attempts to shoot Kevin, police arrive to arrest him for the drive-in
murder and the alley suicide. After this, Mazuma escapes after Billions is arrested as she
tells him that she'll help him to escape soon. Kevin returns back to the Colossus as Ben
(as Fourarms), Gwen (as Swampfire), Hope, Cooper, Kai, Rook, Ester, Pierce and Julie
return from the Globetrotters basketball game. In prison, Billions looks himself in the
mirror and smirks at himself, vowing revenge on Kevin. In Enigma City, the Leader plans
to free Overlord to fight against the Plumbers.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Big Chill and Fourarms (Ben), Ratha and Swampfire (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to Kevin and his Bugatti EB110.
●
Villain of the episode: The Leader, Billy Billions and Mazuma
●
First appearance of Billy Billions and his assistant Mazuma. Unlike his
Omniverse
appearance, he is depicted in his late thirties while Mazuma is a human than an
android.
●
There is no blood or gore in the impalement scene.
●
The android who impales a man is voiced by Roger L. Jackson, while the man is
voiced by Dwight Schultz.
●
Shout-outs: The Tempest Building's architecture is based on the Chicago Spire, a
never-built skyscraper in Chicago.
●
Take-thats: Billions mentions about animated action-oriented superhero television
shows becoming stale by saying: "
Avengers Assemble
,
Ultimate Spider-Man
,
Hulk
and the Agents of SMASH
and
Teen Titans Go!
are examples that today's
superhero cartoons are now stale.", referring to polarised reception of the shows.
Though
The Batman
exists in the same continuity as
Ben 10: Plumbers of
Bellwood
,
Teen Titans Go!
is meant to be a fictional version of the show.
Episode 103: Resist the Dark Side In prison, Carl Nesmith escapes after being freed by the Leader as he prepares
vengeance towards Ben and Gwen. Soon, he puts on his Overlord armour and vows
revenge. At home, Ben is talking to his parents, who are currently on vacation in Aruba
before he watches a film on TV,
The Howling
-inspired horror film
The Werepoodle
. While
watching the film, Ben receives a phone call from Kevin, who tells him that Overlord has
escaped from prison and is preparing to broadcast a signal intrusion once
The
Werepoodle
is concluded. After
The Werepoodle
is concluded, Overlord jams the
network's satellite signal to broadcast a message.
Overlord tells the public that he is planning to blow up the Willis Tower in order to cause
wreckage towards Chicago. The following day, Ben and Gwen morph into Benvictor and
Heatblast as they foil a jewellery hoist. After this, they demorph and is told by Hope that
they need to return to the Colossus for a briefing. In the Colossus, Max appears via
teleconference as he is currently in hospital for treatment of his battle with heart cancer.
He tells the team that Overlord is setting up explosives to blow up Willis Tower, which
would eventually cause damage towards Chicago.
The team then enters outside the Willis Tower as Cooper and Rook oversee Overlord
setting up explosives on the top floor as they go to the elevator but to no avail as the
elevator is rigged with explosives. They attempt to leave but the doors are jammed with
super glue. Rook tries to crush the doors but it is proven to be worthless. Cooper
communicates to Pierce via walkie-talkie that they're stuck. Soon, Pierce arrives as he
then shoots spikes at the doors, freeing Cooper and Rook. Meanwhile, Kai, Julie and
Ester go upstairs as they enter the top floor, planning to defuse the explosives.
As they defuse the explosives, Overlord arrives to stop them and then Ben enters using
his Deltatrix, transforming into Ghostfreak. He tries to possess Overlord's body but
Overlord electrocutes him, almost killing him. Gwen arrives at the top as she helps Kai,
Julie and Ester to escape. Ben continues his confrontation against Overlord as he then
tricks him into electrocuting himself. After this, he goes inside Overlord's body as he
then prepares to defuse the explosives. At the same time, the Plumbers leave the Willis
Tower in order to retreat back to the Colossus.
Ben successfully defuses the explosives and attempts to throw it into the river but
unfortunately Overlord forcibly remove Ben from his body as Ben demorphs and is then
kicked into the river with the explosives. As he falls, Ben throws the explosives in the air
as it is then blown up. Soon, Gwen morphs into Ripjaws and goes into the river to save
Ben. Overlord remains at large as he disappears into thin air. In the Colossus, Ben
declares that the mission to defuse explosives from the Willis Tower as a success but
also a failure as they haven't caught Overlord. After this, Cooper tells him that Overlord
has a plan Z called "Rated Z for Zombies".
In the final scene, Overlord arrives at Enigma City and opens a folder containing plan Z
aka "Rated Z for Zombies", which regardless of the title, involves hijacking the Colossus
and then says: "Ben Tennyson, prepare to have your transport taken by me." He then
does an evil smile and then at the Colossus, Ben watches the sequel to
The Werepoodle,
Werepoodle II: Your Girlfriend is a Monster
. Disgusted by the film, Ben then turns the
screen off as he then goes to sleep. In his dream, he sees his Tesla Model S
disintegrating before his own eyes and then is in a middle of a post-apocalyptic
wasteland. After this, Ben wakes up in a fright before going back to sleep.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Benvictor and Ghostfreak (Ben), Heatblast and Ripjaws (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to the phrase said by Ben to Cooper: "You need to
resist the dark side".
●
Villain of the episode: Overlord and the Leader
●
This episode along with "Rated Z for Zombies" takes place in February 2016.
●
Overlord returns; his last appearance was in
Ultimate Alien
episode "Catch a
Falling Star".
●
First appearance of Overlord without Jennifer Nocturne, who is now Dark Omega.
●
Shout-outs: The Saul Bass-designed 1972-1984 Big W logo for Warner Bros is
seen as one of the billboards outside Bellwood.
●
Take-thats:
Werepoodle II: Your Girlfriend is a Monster
is a negative pastiche on
inferior sequels to horror films.
Episode 104: Rated Z for Zombies After teleporting inside the Colossus, Overlord prepares to insert an microchip that will
disable the transponder. Ben wakes up to realise that the Colossus has been taken over
by Overlord. He morphs into Upchuck as he then regurgitates as he spits rebars at him,
causing him to be trapped in the engine room. However, Overlord electrocutes Ben,
powering him down. He then re-enters the cockpit as he plans to fly to Enigma City in
order to hold the Plumbers captive and to bring Kevin as a test subject for the great
mutation. Meanwhile, Gwen wakes up as she then use her flash light in the engine room
and sees a badly injured Ben.
She takes Ben into the medical bay while Kevin and Hope enter at the cockpit, where
they confront against Overlord but to no avail as he uses his stun gun to take them
down. At the medical bay, Ben has his left arm bandaged as Gwen transforms into Eye
Girl and confronts against Overlord. However, Overlord electrocutes her and then Gwen
retreats to the emergency exit bay as she, Ben, Kevin and Hope escape via shuttle as
Overlord resumes control of the Colossus. The shuttle containing Ben, Gwen, Kevin and
Hope land at the Blue John Canyon, which is the same canyon that Aron Ralston had his
right arm crushed and then amputated it to free himself after 127 hours.
Meanwhile in the Colossus, Cooper notices that someone has piloted the air/spacecraft
and that the autopilot is switched off. He enters inside the cockpit and then notices that
the transponder has been disabled by a microchip. As Cooper tries to remove the
microchip, Overlord grabs his arm and attempts to crush his wrist. However, Cooper
punches him in the face and then removes the microchip. It turns out that the microchip
is actually a decoy with a sign saying "Made in South Korea". Overlord laughs as he then
tells him about his plan, which is to fly to Enigma City in order to hold the Plumbers
captive and to bring Kevin as a test subject for the great mutation.
Because of this, Cooper tells Kai to tell the rest of the team to escape immediately from
the Colossus. Meanwhile, Ben prepares to fix the shuttle in order to fly back to the
Colossus and to regain the ship from Overlord. Back at the Colossus, Cooper and Kai
along with Pierce and Julie but not Rook and Ester who are currently asleep, escape via
shuttle as Overlord continues flying with Rook and Ester still inside the Colossus. The
shuttle lands at the same location as Ben, Gwen, Kevin and Hope are stranded at.
Cooper tells Ben about Overlord's plan and that they need to rewire the shuttles in order
to get back to the Colossus.
Rook and Ester wake up to realise that the Colossus has been taken over by Overlord as
he then fights against them. However, Ben, Gwen, Kevin, Hope, Cooper, Kai, Pierce and
Julie arrive and fight against Overlord. Ben attempts to take control of the Colossus, but
he is unable to do so due after realising that the microchip in the transponder was a
decoy. Soon he realises that the real microchip is inside the steering wheel and then
yanks it out. While Overlord continues fighting, Ben and Gwen morph into Chamalien and
Cannonbolt respectively. Ben blends in as he tricks Overlord into the passenger room.
Then Gwen pummels him into the floor, thus defeating him. However, Overlord continues
fighting and attempts to shoot Ben. However Ben continues tricking Overlord as the
latter then shoots at a window, causing explosive decompression. Ben powers down as
he kicks Overlord in the groin and then manages to escape from the cockpit with his
team into the entertainment bay. Unable to save himself, Overlord gets sucked out and
falls to his death. The team manages to turn on the auto-repair on the windows and
successfully return back to the Colossus as they then fly back to Bellwood, ending the
episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Upchuck and Chamalien (Ben), Eye Girl and Cannonbolt (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to Overlord's plan, which has nothing to do with
zombies, but to do with hijacking the Colossus.
●
Villain of the episode: Overlord and the Leader
●
Hope mentions of having a twin sister named Galatea, who would make her debut
in season five.
●
Last appearance of Overlord.
●
Shout-outs: Overlord's death by being sucked out of the Colossus is a nod to
Auric Goldfinger's demise in
Goldfinger.The escape shuttle from the Colossus is
●
influenced by the shuttlecraft from
Star Trek
.
Take-thats: A sign outside Enigma City says "Trolling on the internet is a bad
thing!"
Episode 105: EVO Attacks, Part 1 In the prologue, Ben and Gwen celebrate their 21st birthday in the Colossus as they wish
for their grandfather Max to come but fail to do so as they receive a phone call from
their grandmother Verdona that he cannot come due to his chemotherapy forbidding him
to leave from the hospital, but says that he wishes them a happy birthday. In an
underground facility at Providence's base, the Consortium are trapped in a dimension,
leaving Black Knight the remaining member in the facility. Soon, she sees Van Kleiss in
the shadows and then both share a plan to cause another nanite event which will revive
the EVOs.
In Providence, Rex Salazar continues training before he receives a distress signal from
White Knight that Black Knight and Van Kleiss have escaped. Because of this, he enlists
his brother Caesar and their friends Noah, Bobo, Circe, Tuck, Skwydd, Cricket, Kenwyn
and Beverly to stop the villains from reviving the EVOs but he also needs help so he
contacts Ben. In his room, Ben receives a video call from Rex, who tells him that he
needs his help as Van Kleiss and Black Knight have escaped from prison. Meanwhile, the
Leader discovers Overlord's corpse in the fields and realises that he fell from the
Colossus.
Ben tells his team that four years ago, he went through a rift that lead him to enter in
Manhattan and was mistaken as a monster when morphed into Rath. Soon, he teamed
up with a secret organisation called Providence and helped one of its members (referring
to Rex) to stop a villain named the Alpha Nanite. Due to most of his teammates declining
to join him, Gwen decides to join him. Because of this, the two go to the Providence base
via Ben's Tesla Model S which is upgraded as an hovercar. Arriving at the Providence
base, Rex welcomes Ben back and is introduced to Gwen.
Entering at the base, Gwen is introduced to Rex's team as the team begin to locate Van
Kleiss and Black Knight. However, surveillance cameras are shut down resulting in Ben
and Gwen morphing into Wildmutt and XLR8 respectively as they see the villains
preparing to escape. Ben prepares to maul Van Kleiss, while Gwen superspeeds in order
to cause Black Knight nausea, but both of them are defeated instantly. Rex and his team
prepare to stop them but unfortunately it's too late as the villains then escape. The team
retreat back to the training facility as Dr. Holiday arrives to tell Rex a secret about Black
Knight.
She explains to Rex that she had a twin sister named Angela, who went berserk as a
teenager when she was working as a scientist and eventually was exposed to the EVOs
when the attacks occurred, which caused her voice to change and thus becoming Black
Knight. She then tells him that to stop them from their plan to revive the EVOs that they
need to take an aeroplane in order to locate them and to fight against them. Because of
this, the team say goodbye to Dr. Holiday, Agent Six and White Knight as they leave
Providence to confront against Van Kleiss and Black Knight.
In the final scene at the Colossus, Kevin begins to have a vision of himself in a mutated
form telling him that there's no other way to stop the great mutation event from
happening. However, it turns out to be a dream as Kevin wakes up after falling asleep
while watching a science fiction film
Dystopia
with Hope, Cooper, Kai, Rook, Ester, Pierce
and Julie. After this, he then changes channel and presses a button on the TV. The
episode ends as the screen image collapses into a thin line of light before going dark like
a computer monitor or a vintage television set being turned off.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Wildmutt (Ben), XLR8 (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to Van Kleiss and Black Knight planning to cause
another nanite event.
●
Villain of the episode: Van Kleiss, Black Knight and the Leader
●
First part of the crossover with
Generator Rex
.
●
●
This episode along with its second part takes place in March 2016.
The prologue is set to take place on Ben and Gwen's joint 21st birthday as it
follows tradition of having Ben and Gwen's birthday in an episode every season.
●
●
●
The episode takes place four years after the finale of G
enerator Rex
"Endgame".
Rex is a month younger than Ben and Gwen.
It's revealed that Black Knight and the Consortium were put into a hidden prison
facility in Providence, while Van Kleiss was sent into the facility via Breach's
wormholes.
●
The events of "Heroes United" is confirmed to be canon in the
Ben 10
continuity
as Ben tells his team that he went through a rift that lead him to enter in
Manhattan and was mistaken as a monster when morphed into Rath. It is also
revealed that only the state of Illinois heard about him, not the entire world as
previously thought.
●
Daryl Sabara, John DiMaggio, Grey Griffin, Wally Kurth, J.K. Simmons, Jennifer
Stone, Fred Savage, Freddie Rodriguez, Tara Sands, Dante Basco, Jason Marsden,
Vyvan Phan, Rutina Wesley and Troy Baker reprise their roles from the show as
Rex Salazar, Bobo Haha, Rebecca Holiday, White Knight, Beverly Holiday, Noah
Nixon, Caesar Salazar, Circe, Tuck, Skwydd, Cricket, Kenwyn Jones and Van
Kleiss. Jennifer Hale does not reprise her role as Black Knight as Grey Griffin
voices her in the crossover due to the revelation of the character being revealed
to be Rebecca's twin sister Angela. However, Hale does reprise her in a flashback.
●
Van Kleiss' first name is revealed to be Laurence.
●
Shout-outs: Noah mentions about a younger brother who has a crush on a girl
named Topanga, which is a reference to his voice actor Fred Savage's brother
Ben, whose well-known role is Cory Matthews from
Boy Meets World
and its
sequel series
Girl Meets World
in addition to that his love interest (and later wife)
is Topanga Lawrence.
●
Take-thats: A sign outside Providence says "Screw S. Snyder", referring to
controversial ex-CN president Stuart Snyder.
Episode 106: EVO Attacks, Part 2 Ben, Gwen, Rex, Caesar, Noah, Bobo, Circe, Tuck, Skwydd, Cricket, Kenwyn and Beverly
arrive at an alley as they prepare to fight against Van Kleiss and Black Knight. In
Providence, White Knight oversees a picture of him hugging Dr. Holiday as a child,
implying that he may have some relation with her. At the alley, the twelve prepare to
face the inevitable as Van Kleiss and Black Knight arrive to fight against them. Soon, the
two tell them about their plans to start up a new EVO infestation and prepares to put a
vial of the last remaining nanites on a satellite that is remote controlled by them. Ben
tries to shoot at the satellite but fails to do so.
At the Colossus, Kevin continues his hallucination of a mutated version of himself while
shaving but then snaps out as he realises that he was looking at his reflection. In the
alley, Ben, Gwen, Rex, Caesar, Kenwyn and Bobo fight against Van Kleiss while Noah,
Circe, Tuck, Skwydd, Cricket and Beverly fight against Black Knight. Ben and Gwen
morph into NRG and Big Chill, respectively as they pummel Van Kleiss into the ground
and then Gwen freezes the satellite, thus destroying it into pieces, which ends the threat
of having another EVO attack. Ben removes his iron suit, exposing his flame form as he
tries to incinerate Van Kleiss.
However, Van Kleiss does not become unharmed of the inferno and then Rex uses his
gloves to depower him in order to suppress his powers. But Van Kleiss grabs Rex's arms
and squeezes his wrists, while at the same time Noah and the gang continue attempting
to take down Black Knight. After this, the team decide to retreat from Van Kleiss and
Black Knight as both Ben and Gwen power down. The team plot their battle against the
two villains as the only way to stop them for good is to trap them. So, the team start
preparing by building a super ray that will turn them into gold statues.
In the Colossus, Kevin collapses and goes into a comatose state as he then finds himself
in Limbo. In Limbo, Kevin sees a funeral occurring and tries to discover who died
recently but is unable to do so as he sees the skyline flickering, causing him to wake up.
Back at the alley, the team continue their battle against Van Kleiss and Black Knight,
who then says that she disowns her twin sister (Rebecca) for her genius. Rex uses his
gloves by transforming into a hovercraft as he blasts down Van Kleiss and Black Knight.
With the combined efforts of their powers, the twelve switch on the super ray, causing
the two becoming gold statues.
The team arrive back to Providence with the gold statues as Dr. Holiday kisses Agent Six
as she utters his first name "Wallace". Soon, White Knight tells her and Beverly that due
to Black Knight's plans to overthrow him and that he cared about them is that he is their
father all along. He then explains that after Beverly was mutated, he had no choice but
to keep his identity a secret and did not contact with either of them until they were older
as he would go by the alias "White Knight". Rebecca and Beverly share a heartwarming
feeling with their father, reuniting them. Rex thanks Ben for defeating Van Kleiss and
Black Knight.
After this, Ben says that they'll meet again as he and Gwen return back to the Colossus.
In the Colossus, Kevin, Hope, Cooper, Kai, Rook, Ester, Pierce and Julie watch lost
footage for the surveillance tapes of Dr. Animo stealing equipment for his plan. Ben and
Gwen arrive back at the Colossus as they're exhausted from today's events and then
doze off because of this. In Enigma City, the Leader spy on the Plumbers via a
spider-cam as he then says to himself: "The Plumbers of Bellwood will pay for this.
They'll never regret this as they too will be exposed in the great mutation."
Trivia:
● Aliens used: NRG (Ben), Big Chill (Gwen)
●
●
Villain of the episode: Van Kleiss, Black Knight and the Leader
●
Hynden Walch reprises her role from
Generator Rex
as Breach in the final scene.
●
White Knight is revealed to be Malcolm Holiday, the father of Rebecca, Beverly
and Angela Holiday.
●
Last series crossover until the four-way crossover event with
The Batman
,
The
Secret Saturdays
and G
enerator Rex
in season six: "The Conquest"/"Match
Point"/"Not Fade Away"/"Shadow Lands".
●
Agent Six's first name is revealed to be Wallace, a nod to his voice actor Wally
Kurth though his last name is still unrevealed, while Circe's last name is revealed
to be Harper, Tuck's full name is revealed to be Tucker Michaels, Skwydd's full
name is revealed to be Walter Nichols (first name was already revealed in
Generator Rex
) and Cricket's last name is revealed to be Ruiz. Breach's full name
remains unrevealed.
●
●
Shout-outs: The gold statue scene is a reference to a similar scene in
The
Flintstones
.
Take-thats: One of the articles says "How Many Times Did George Lucas Ruin
Star Wars
?", referring to the controversial changes in
Star Wars
re-releases.
Episode 107: The Stowaways With Ben and Gwen away on a month-long sabbatical to spend time with their
grandfather, the Plumbers of Bellwood go on a mission without them via the Colossus. In
Enigma City, the Leader oversee Dr. Animo finishing up his machine as he soon sets his
sights on capturing Kevin and having becoming the test subject for the great mutation
event. In the Colossus, Kevin detects that there are two stowaways inside and tells Hope
to look inside at the snack bay. Arriving at the snack bay, Hope discovers that someone
has been eating cookies, hinting that the stowaways were the ones who ate them.
Cooper and Kai then check at the medical bay, but to no avail. Soon they overhear
noises which leads them to the cargo bay as they spot the stowaways eating cookies and
drinking cola. After this, they enter inside as then one of the stowaways says that he's
sorry that he came here by accident. Soon, he reveals his identity as Garth Chang as he
then tells Cooper that he and his sister Amelia has known Ben and Gwen since they were
children, much to their relief. Cooper, Kai, Garth and Amelia arrive back to the cockpit as
Cooper explains what has happened in the cargo bay.
Garth and Amelia then become friends with everyone except Kevin and Hope, who are
jealous of them and worried that they've been betrayed by them. Landing at the
Bellwood Shopping Mall, the team go to Soto's as they prepare to buy Laserdiscs, CDs
and DVDs along with magazines and graphic novels. After this, they then have lunch at
the food court as Rook begins to feel ill due to eating sushi. Because of this, he goes to
the bathroom and throws up on the floor, much to the people inside the bathroom being
disgusted by him throwing up. Soon, this causes people to slip before a janitor arrives to
clean up the mess.
In Enigma City, Animo attempts to test the machine in preparations for the great
mutation event as he emits a signal but to no avail as he realises that he still hasn't
captured Kevin. Soon, he shows the Leader a computer-generated previsualisation of the
great mutation, which will turn people into mutants and then covering Illinois, followed
by covering USA thus resulting in the country becoming quarantined and thus declared a
no-man's land. Back at Bellwood Shopping Mall, Ester complains that her root beer has
become lukewarm so she then uses her ice powers to make it icy.
While Pierce and Julie decide to see
Cosmic Geisha
, Kevin and Hope suggests seeing
Slashed 3D
with the rest of the team. Seeing the film, the team scream in terror as they
then leave immediately. Soon, Kevin and Hope apologise to Garth and Amelia for being
jealous as they were worried that their friends were going to betray them. However,
Garth and Amelia then say that they were never going to have the team betray them
and after this, the four then finally become friends. After Pierce and Julie finish seeing
Cosmic Geisha
, the team say goodbye to Garth and Amelia as they say they're welcome
to come inside the Colossus anytime.
As the Chang siblings leave, Cooper tells Kevin that it's a shame that Ben and Gwen
didn't visit them due to their sabbatical and wonders what could have been if they did
visit them. In Enigma City, Animo continues fixing the machine as he then inserts a
computer screen in order to show how much of the USA will be mutated in the great
mutation event and then he sees a vision of himself taking mutants captive in the future
he hopes for. During the future, Kevin appears in a mutated form and then is petrified by
Animo. After the future vision ends, Animo finishes the machine, which he declares that
it will bring great chaos.
Trivia:
●
Title reference: Referring to Garth and Amelia Chang being the stowaways.
●
●
Ben and Gwen only appear in the first scene of this episode and the last scene of
the next episode.
●
This episode along with "The Catastrophe" takes place in April 2016.
●
First appearance of Garth Chang, Ben and Gwen's childhood friend and his sister
Amelia.
●
Shout-outs: The poster for the film
Cosmic Geisha
at the Bellwood Multiplex is
based on the
concept art
for the "Zero Gravity" music video by Estonian singer
Kerli.
●
Take-that: A video store at Bellwood Shopping Mall that is closing down is named
CCCF 21CO, a nod to mini-major film studios that have failed and later folded:
"CCCF 21CO" obviously stands for Cannon, Carolco, Cinergi, Franchise, 21st
Century and Orion.
Episode 108: The Catastrophe At the Bellwood Water Tower, a man drinks a cup of coffee as he watches an exhibition
association football game between New York City and New York Cosmos at the West Side
Stadium before being interrupted by a beeping noise. Entering at the pump station, he
notices a crack and as he then turns on his flashlight, he realises the station is leaking
water and once the crack increases it could cause a flood inside the tower. In the
Colossus, Kevin receives a call from Molly who tells him that her team called the Allied
Plumbers had a distress call from the owner of the water tower to fix a leak.
In Enigma City, the Leader oversee Animo's preparations for the great mutation event,
which will occur in three months. At the Colossus, Kevin tells his team that their
intended mission has since been passed over to the Allied Plumbers. Because of this,
they have to do an U-turn instead. At the water tower, the Allied Plumbers arrive as the
owner tells them that there's a leak in the pump station and that he needs help. Back at
the Colossus, Kevin is told by Hope that she had a report from Molly's twin brother Mack
that Dr. Animo has finished building his machine and that the great mutation will happen
in three months.
Kevin tells his team mates Rook and Ester that they need to go to Enigma City to find
more detail on the great mutation event and how it will affect him. Back at the water
tower, Andrew and Cleo prepare to use caulk to repair the leak, but it turns that "caulk"
is actually a fake as it is then dissolved by the way. This causes more cracks on the
pump station. Back at the Colossus, as Rook and Ester leave to go to Enigma City, Pierce
trains with Julie along with Cooper and Kai in a simulation depicting before the
simulation is interrupted by a sentient virus. Much to his team members' annoyance,
Cooper then shuts down the simulation.
Back at the water tower, the Allied Plumbers try to fix the cracks in the pump station, as
Serena and Tyler try to repair the cracks with real caulk and succeeds to do so. The
owner thanks them for fixing the pump station. After this, the Allied Plumbers then leave
via their B-2 Spirit, which needs refuelling via Boeing KC-135. Back at the Colossus,
Kevin continuing moving on from his breakup with Gwen a year ago and then Hope
arrives as she then comforts him. Kevin tells Hope that he still can't forget about his
former relationship with Gwen. So Hope tells him to forget about restarting his
relationship with Gwen and then kisses him in order for him to move on.
In Enigma City, Rook and Ester go undercover as they prepare to find more detail on the
great mutation event and how it will affect Kevin. The two use a Spidercam to film
Animo's plans to order to find more detail, however the camera begins to shake and
goes out of control. Animo notices and chases after the camera before Rook and Ester
retreat back to the Colossus. Rook and Ester then tell Kevin that they tried to get more
detail on the great mutation but the Spidercam began to malfunction and that they had
to leave as soon as possible. Kevin then contacts Ben and Gwen to arrive back.
Ben and Gwen return back from their vacation as they're told by Kevin that they need to
go to an undisclosed location called the Sandpit, which would contain more detail on the
great mutation event. Ben tells Kevin that there's one person they could trust:
Lieutenant Steel. In the final scene, the Leader tells Pinky and Missy (unseen) to free
Dark Omega in order to confront the Plumbers of Bellwood in the Sandpit. After this, the
two girls prepare themselves to go to Incarceron in order to free Dark Omega and to
stop the Plumbers of Bellwood in the Sandpit.
Trivia:
●
Title reference: Referring to the water tower's pump station being leaked.
●
●
First appearance of the Allied Plumbers, a team led by Molly Gunther consisting of
members such as her fraternal twin brother Mack, Ester's boyfriend Andrew,
Cooper's girlfriend Cleo, Julie's cousin Serena, Tyler, Miranda and her brother
Matthew. Rook and Ester would later join the team in the fifth season.
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Tom Kenny voices the owner of the water tower.
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Shout-outs: The Bellwood Water Tower resembles the converted Lambeth
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workhouse water tower as seen in
Grand Designs
.
Take-thats: While watching the exhibition game, the owner is disappointed with
NY Cosmos being defeated by NYCFC when he states: "No wonder Don Garber
told press that NY Cosmos wouldn't be part of the MLS and that New York
couldn't handle three MLS teams. What an idiot!", taking pot shots at MLS
commissioner Don Garber, whose 24-team target by 2020 has caused concerns
and his
statement
that the New York Cosmos would not become an MLS team by
saying that there won't be a third MLS team in New York has caused controversy.
Episode 109: The Sandpit At Incarceron, Dark Omega is freed by Pinky and Missy as she vows vengeance on the
Plumbers of Bellwood. In the Colossus, Ben tells his team that they need to go to the
Sandpit to see Lieutenant Steel and to get more information about the great mutation
event, which will occur in August. The team then go into stealth mode in order to avoid
being recognised. In Enigma City, the Leader oversee Dr. Animo's plans on the great
mutation as it is now revealed that it will occur in two months.
The Plumbers arrive at the Sandpit, where Lieutenant Steel is at. Steel welcomes the
Plumbers to the top secret base as they prepare to get more information about the great
mutation event. Steel explains that Dr. Animo is planning to mutate people from
Bellwood, which will expand on Illinois, then expanding on to the United States before
expanding it to Canada. It turns out that Animo's plan isn't just to make the United
States a no-man's land but also to make Canada as such.
After hearing this, Gwen senses Pinky and Missy coming as they then attack and nerve
pinch Kevin, Hope, Cooper, Kai, Pierce, Julie, Rook and Ester, rendering them
unconscious. Soon, Gwen unlocks a new form using Detrovite DNA called Titania. She
pines them on the ground and asks who sent them. They refused to answer her as Dark
Omega then confronts against Gwen. Gwen clobbers in the wall, thus defeating her.
However, the victory becomes short-lived as Dark Omega prepares to clobber her.
Eventually, Ben morphs into Titan as he renders the three unconscious. Ben and Gwen
demorph as they then see their team mates regaining consciousness. Pinky and Missy
regain consciousness but Dark Omega is still unconscious. Ben tells his teammates that
Pinky, Missy and Dark Omega have arrived to confront them. After Steel tells them that
they'll meet again, the Plumbers of Bellwood begin to fight against Pinky and Missy while
Dark Omega remains unconscious.
Ben and Gwen uses their Deltratrixes and transforms into DNAliens. They begin to acid
spit at Pinky and Missy, followed by Kevin and Hope using their powers to stop them.
However they free themselves in order to take the unconscious Dark Omega with them.
Then, Cooper uses his stun gun to electrocute their jet and Kai then punches them. The
three are then arrested and sent into the prison inside the Sandpit. The Plumbers of
Bellwood prepare to leave, not long before Steel tells that if they need his help, they can
contact him.
In the final scene, the Plumbers of Bellwood watch a press conference from actor and
ex-Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, who tells the audience that he will be
playing a mentor type-figure to Ben in
Ben Tennyson and the Plumbers of Bellwood
(which has restarted production thanks to filming began after several months of delays).
Ben smiles as he's happy that the film based on his team has restarted production,
ending this episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Titan/Titania and DNAlien (both)
●
Title reference: Referring to the top secret base.
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Villain of the episode: The Leader, Dr. Animo, Dark Omega, Pinky and Missy
●
This episode along with "Vengeance of the Null Void" takes place in May 2016.
●
This episode aired a day after
The Hollywood Reporter
reported a reboot of the
franchise in the works.
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Dark Omega, Pinky and Missy return, with the former's last appearance being
"Trouble in Paradise" and the latter being "The Mutiny".
●
Ben and Gwen unlock two new forms: one using Detrovite DNA aka Titan and
another using DNAlien DNA.
●
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a voice cameo in the end of this episode.
●
Lieutenant Steel returns in this episode and from season five onwards, becomes a
supporting character as he then takes Max Tennyson's role as mentor of the
Plumbers of Bellwood.
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Shout-outs: Cooper is eating Choco Taco, a taco-based ice cream whose
European equivalent is the Winner Taco, which has a polar bear as its mascot.
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Take-thats: When being called the world's greatest hero by Steel, Ben dismisses
it, saying that he regrets the term a year after his identity was revealed to the
public by Jimmy followed by Will Harangue making lies about him, taking pot
shots on the first episode of
Ultimate Alien
titled "Fame". Not only that, Kai
regrets on what she said to Ben when they were ten that she loved him as
Benwolf, not as himself, also taking pot shots in the final scene from
The Original
Series
episode "Benwolf" that drew fan complaints on Kai.
Episode 110: Vengeance of the Null Void Mileous is defrosted as he prepares to trap the Plumbers of Bellwood in the Null Void. At
the Colossus, Ben and Gwen prepare to go on a solo mission as they prepare to go to
Incarceron to visit Miriam in prison after being given a message from Lieutenant Steel.
The rest of the Plumbers of Bellwood team up with the Legion Plumbers, led by Kai's
sister Charlene to stop Mileous. In Incarceron, Ben and Gwen visit Miriam, who
apparently holds more information about the great mutation, which will happen in two
months.
At the Bellwood Auditorium, Kevin and Hope along with their team and the Allied
Plumbers tackle against Mileous before he uses his blaster to sent them to the Null Void.
In Incarceron, Ben and Gwen talk to Miriam about the great mutation. Miriam tells them
that she heard Animo muttering about the great mutation and that it will not just affect
US and Canada, but will also affect Mexico as well. Much to their shock, they must warn
their team for once and for all and then leave Incarceron.
In the Null Void, Cooper and Kai use their blasters to free themselves in order to get help
as they then attempt to contact Ben and Gwen, who have left Incarceron and currently
confronting against Mileous in their Lodestar forms. After this, Ben and Gwen shoot darts
at Mileous, rendering him unconscious. Arriving at the Colossus, Ben and Gwen tell them
the news that Dr. Animo's great mutation plan will also affect Mexico, in addition to the
US and Canada.
After this, Cooper tells them that the rest of the team and the Allied Plumbers are
currently trapped in the Null Void and that they need to be freed. As they prepare to free
them, Kai has a conversation with Ben about their relationship. She tells him that they
haven't spent enough time together and is unsure about their future. Ben tells her that
maybe that they would be better off as friends and that they would find other people to
date. After this, the two kiss and hug.
In the Null Void, Ben and Gwen morph into Chromastone as they shoot diamonds at the
portal, thus opening the Null Void. Then Ben rescues the Legion Plumbers, followed by
Gwen rescuing Rook and Ester. Cooper then rescues Pierce and Julie, while Kai rescues
Kevin and Hope. Charlene tells Kai that the Legion Plumbers will team up again soon and
then leaves with her. Now single, Ben shares a hug with Gwen, who is also single as they
realise that their love interests may not be their true lovers after all.
In the final scene, the Leader foresees Dr. Animo's plan as it's revealed that the great
mutation will now affect the entire North and South Americas, but rendering other
continents unaffected. The machine for the event is revealed to be an antenna, which
will send signals to the two continents and will turn people into mutants. The episode
then ends with the Plumbers of Bellwood receiving news that the Plumbers of Los
Angeles will help them to stop Dr. Animo's great mutation plan from happening.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Lodestar and Chromastone (both)
●
Title reference: Referring to the Null Void
●
Villain of the episode: Mileous, Miriam McDingle, Dr. Animo and the Leader
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Kai's sister Charlene, Jimmy, Probity, Looma, Attea, Hope's sister Joanne,
Technorg and Alanna return and forming a new Plumbers team called the Legion
Plumbers. Cash and JT would later join the team in season five.
●
Mileous returns after being petrified in "The Mutiny" along with Miriam McDingle,
who last appeared in "The Beast Within".
●
Ben and Kai split up as they realise that they would be better off as friends
instead.
●
Shout-outs: The main characters (Justin, Nate, Jubei, Ricki and Dent) of
Da Boom
Crew
, Edd from
Ed, Edd n Eddy
, Dexter from
Dexter's Laboratory
, Numbuh 2 from
Codename: Kids Next Door
, Kimiko Tohomiko from
Xiaolin Showdown
, Blossom
Utonium from
The Powerpuff Girls
appear in the audience of the Bellwood
Auditorium.
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Take-thats: A sign takes pot shots at Jeffrey Katzenberg: "Destroyer of
Dreamworks Animation since 2008."
Episode 111: Ester’s Challenges As Ben and his team, the Plumbers of Bellwood begin plotting on how stop Dr. Animo's
plan to turn the North and South American continents into a mutant wasteland by
capturing Kevin and using as the test subject. Meanwhile at the training facility, Ester
looks in the mirror as she casts doubt about her future as a Plumber. Soon, Gwen arrives
to comfort her and then Ester tells her that she is unsure about her future as a Plumber.
Gwen tells her to follow her lead. Meanwhile, Ben sees himself in the bathroom mirror
and then turns around and sees Eon. After the mirror zooms in and Ben closes his eyes.
He then opens his eyes, revealing that it was a hallucination. Soon, he leaves the
bathroom only to have Eon's reflection looking at him just as he walks away. At the
training facility, Hope arrives as she sees Gwen comforting Ester. Ester tells Hope that
she is unsure whether to return as a Plumber in Bellwood or to find a new career. Hope
tells her to listen to her heart to make her choice about her future. In the cockpit, Kevin
prepares to pilot the Colossus with Manny as Cooper prepares to watch archive footage
of Dr. Animo's plan with the Leader talking to him about the great mutation event.
He then tells Ben, who then sees Cooper as Eon trying to vaporise him from existence.
Cooper tells Ben to calm down and that he needs to relax by taking a sabbatical.
However, Ben declines to do so as he wants to continue to be involved in the teams' plan
to stop Dr. Animo from turning North and South America into a mutant wasteland.
Meanwhile at the cargo bay, Pierce talks to Rook about dating Julie and whether it will
affect their careers as Plumbers. Rook tells him to take it slow as a Plumber and to keep
calm and love life so that he'll date Julie in no time.
Back at the training facility, Ester prepares to use her icy powers to create a glacier,
however it fails as she then gets depressed. Kai and Julie arrives and sees a depressed
Ester, who reduces herself into tears as she admits that she can't take it any more as a
Plumber and she's considering to leave from the Plumbers immediately. However, Gwen
tells Ester that they can make a compromise, she can leave the team as soon they finish
their mission to stop Animo's plans. Ester then agrees, but after overhearing this, Rook
decides that he wants to leave too. Because of this, Gwen tells them that they will find
replacements for them after the mission.
In the medical bay, Ben begins to have a dream in which he enters a post-apocalyptic
world and then sees a future, bearded version of him as he laughs and then he puts on
his helmet, thus marking his beginning as Eon. Ben then says "Not like this." and then
goes catatonic as Cooper and Pierce restrains him, telling him to breathe and then Pierce
tells Cooper to get a sedative in order to calm Ben down. Ben is injected with the
sedative and then calms down. He tells Cooper and Pierce that he saw Eon planning to
erase him out of existence and that it will be their next mission after their plan to stop
Dr. Animo from turning the Americas into a mutant wasteland.
Gwen, Hope, Kai, Ester and Julie go to Corgan's as they share milkshakes and then talk
about their dreams and futures. Soon, Gwen receives a message on her pager saying
"Ben on nervous breakdown. Leave immediately as it's urgent." Gwen and Hope leave to
help Ben, while Kai, Ester and Julie watch T
he Fault in Our Stars
as they break down into
tears at the film's ending. Arriving back to the Colossus, Gwen and Hope are told by
Cooper and Pierce that Ben had a nervous breakdown and had weird hallucinations about
his future self Eon. After this, Gwen goes out to check on Ben in order to ask him why,
ending the episode.
Trivia:
●
Title reference: Referring to Ester and her challenges about her future as a
Plumber.
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Villain of the episode: The Leader, Dr. Animo (archive footage from "The
Catastrophe") and Eon (as a hallucination)
●
This episode along with "Rook's Big Mistake" takes place in June 2016.
●
The Plumbers of Los Angeles (Manny, Helen, Alan, Eunice, Tack, Elena, Edwin,
Lucy, Ken and Jen) return in a semi-regular role from this episode to "Going Back
in Time, Part 2".
●
Ben having hallucinations about Eon foreshadows season five and the origins of
the latter.
●
This episode was dedicated to actor Ron Moody, who died hours before airing.
●
Shout-outs: A picture of Marshall Bravestarr from
BraveStarr
appears on the
animated heroes hall of fame wall in the galleria at the Colossus. Other inductees
include He-Man from
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
, Lion-O from
ThunderCats 2011
, Optimus Prime from
Transformers: Prime
, Lloyd Garmadon
●
from
Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
and Goku from
Dragon Ball
.
Take-thats: The chibi-based
Sumo Slammer
TV series seen on the TV before Ben
switches it to the footage from Enigma City is titled
Sumo Slammer: Omniverse
,
continuing the tradition of using working titles from the sequels but this time
taking pot shots on
Omniverse
.
Episode 112: Rook’s Big Mistake Continuing from the previous episode, Gwen arrives at the medical bay to see Ben as
she is concerned about him. She talks to Ben about why he had a nervous breakdown,
who is currently recovering from the paranoid episode that almost damaged him
mentally. Ben tells her that he saw his future self Eon and then tells Gwen that he was
diagnosed with bipolar disorder during the five month break after defeating Hex because
he began to break down after realising that their grandfather's heart cancer was
revealed to be terminal. After this, he breaks down into tears as Gwen then comforts
him.
While Kevin begins to film messages to the Plumbers in case he dies during the
experiment that will start the great mutation event that is intended to affect North and
South America, Rook tells his teammates Ester, Julie and Hope and Plumbers of L.A.
members Alan, Lucy, Edwin and Eunice about the time he did a big mistake when he was
a rookie Plumber at the Plumber academy in Arizona six years ago. The story then shifts
to six years ago as Rook is in a Plumber academy with Kai, Helen, Pierce and Manny.
Due to Cooper's weight gain following after the death of his grandfather causes him to
be unable to be fit to take part in a training session, Rook takes over his spot.
During the training session, Rook tries to do his best to zap a cardboard cut-out of
Vilgax, only to zap a hole in the ceiling. Because of this, the other rookie Plumbers laugh
at him and then becomes too embarrassed. After this, Rook hides away in a dark room.
Cooper arrives and tries to talk to him, but Rook tells him to go away as he doesn't want
to be a laughingstock any more. So, Cooper walks away from the dark room as Rook
then tells Magister Pike that he wants to leave the Plumbers altogether. However, Pike
tells him that he is part of the Blonko family of Plumbers and that if it would be a shame
for him to quit. He tells him to never give up.
After this, he takes Pike's advice and manages to ignore the laughing. Thanks to this, he
is promoted as Plumber and then becomes Max Tennyson's interim protege the following
year, thus concluding the story. Rook then tells his friends that if it weren't for Pike's
advice, he would never become a Plumber like his father. In the cockpit, Tack, Elena Ken
and Jen takes turns to pilot the Colossus, while Kevin tells his team that he'll be going to
Enigma City in order to terminate the machine that is intended to turn everyone from
every North/South American countries into mutants and that the team will stop Animo
after he terminates the machine.
The Plumbers of Bellwood reluctantly accept his plan to terminate the machine but is
concerned that he may not make it out alive. Kevin then tells them that he filmed
messages just in case he doesn't make the mission out alive. After this, Ben wishes him
luck as he prepares to depart via shuttle in the cargo bay. However, Ben tells him not to
go now as he prepares to make an announcement to his team and the Plumbers of Los
Angeles. He tells them that his grandfather Max was diagnosed with heart cancer several
months and then suffered grief and worries that his grandfather would pass away which
resulted him being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
The two teams then support him as he is then comforted. Kevin decides not to leave
until next month, which will be when the great mutation event occurs. In Enigma City,
the Leader informs Dr. Animo that Kevin is preparing to enter the base to destroy the
machine and that the machine must be moved to an undisclosed location. Because of
this, they will capture Kevin in Enigma City and plan to take him in the same location as
the machine. After this, the two depart in the shadows and the episode is cut to black
with a card saying "The final battle between the Plumbers and Dr. Animo will begin."
Trivia:
●
●
Title reference: Referring to Rook and his big mistake he made when he was a
rookie Plumber, which took place a month before the events of
Alien Force
.
Villain of the episode: The Leader, Dr. Animo (final scene only) and Eon (archive
footage from "Ester's Challenges")
●
This episode was dedicated to actor Christopher Lee, who died five days before
the airing of the episode and a day after his death was confirmed.
●
It's revealed that Ben is suffering from bipolar disorder, as a result of grief he
suffered after hearing the news that his grandfather's cancer was terminal.
●
Shout-outs: "Canon Rock" by Jeong-hyun Lee aka funtwo plays during the
flashback scene involving Rook.
●
Take-thats: Rook tells to Manny: "You're tearing me apart, Manny!", a obvious
reference to
The Room
's infamous quote "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"
Episode 113: Case Closed Kevin arrives at Enigma City and prepares to absorb magnetite in order to crush Dr.
Animo's antenna that will broadcast a signal thorough North and South American
countries to create the great mutation event. He searches the antenna, but no trace of
the machine is located as he sees a note saying: "Ha ha! You've been tricked. Prepare to
be captured." Kevin refuses to realise it before he is tranquillised by the Leader. Ben
sees Kevin being taken in a jet via his drone camera and then the drone is then shot
down by Animo, causing it crash into the Metra train tracks.
Eventually, Helen evacuates everyone from the train as the train carriage then goes on a
collision with the drone, causing it to explode. Ben tells his team and the Plumbers of Los
Angeles that Kevin has been captured and has been sent into a unknown location that he
cannot trace because Kevin's communicator was disconnected by the time he was
captured. Soon, Ben receives a message from Lieutenant Steel that there is currently a
robbery committed at the Bellwood Multiplex cinema and that he and Gwen have to go
and stop them. Arriving at the Multiplex, Ben and Gwen morph into Benfox and
Gwenmummy to stop them.
In the Colossus, Cooper tries to locate Kevin's current whereabouts but soon he
manages to locate Kevin's last known whereabouts and decrypt the last remaining
footage from the drone, showing the Leader's jet. He zooms in the map and then reveals
that Kevin is being held captive in Arsenal Island. He then tells his teammates that he
knows where Kevin is. At the Multiplex, Ben and Gwen manages to beat the thieves and
are applauded by the audience. A girl offers Ben to go on a date with her, but Ben
politely declines as he's too busy to do so. After this, Ben and Gwen leave and return
back to the Colossus.
At the Colossus, Ben and Gwen arrive back as Cooper tells them that he knows where
Kevin is held captive at, which is Arsenal Island. However, Cooper tells them that it's too
risky to go there and that they need to go to there once it's time to do so. Meanwhile, in
the mediation room, Hope mediates as she then has a precognition involving Pierce,
Julie, Rook and Kai being trapped in the simulation room as she tells Ester that they
need to free them from the simulation room as the doors are automatically sealed shut.
Hope then recites a spell in order to free them, which she succeeds.
The six Plumbers then enter the media room in order to recover. In the meeting room,
Ben tells his team mates Gwen and Cooper along with the Plumbers of Los Angeles team
members Manny, Helen, Alan and Eunice that Kevin is currently held captive in Arsenal
Island and that there's no need to rush into going there soon as they need to focus on
plotting their plan to stop the great mutation from happening in the first place. In the
bathroom, Edwin washes his face and then leaves the area as he, Elena, Tack, Lucy, Ken
and Jen enter in the cargo bay, however the cargo bay doors malfunctions, causing it to
be automatically shut.
They manage to free themselves by using the crowbars and then leave the bay
immediately. Ben tells his tea that they have 48 hours left before the great mutation
occurs and that in the next 24 hours, they need to go to Arsenal Island in order to free
Kevin and to stop the event from happening. At an underground base, Kevin attempts to
free himself from his cell but the bars are too hard to be cut down as they're made of
concrete. Soon, the Leader tells Kevin that he will be the first person to be mutated in
the great mutation event and that his team will be next. After this, Kevin then says "No!"
before being tranquillised again, causing him to collapse, ending the episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Benfox (Ben) and Gwenmummy (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to Cooper's quote: "It may be case closed if we stop
Animo for once and for all."
●
●
This episode along with "Up to Eleven" and "Animo's Last Battle" takes place in
July 2016.
●
This episode serves as the first part of a two-part prelude to "Animo's Last
Battle", but also begins the four-part story arc that concludes season four.
●
Shout-outs: "Take a Piece of Me" by Khursor plays in the final scene of the
episode as Kevin tries to escape from his cell. This song is notable for appearing
in the 2000 film
The 6th Day
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and also Lieutenant
Steel's voice actor Michael Rooker.
●
Take-thats: One of the marquees in the Bellwood Multiplex is titled: "Bay S.U.X.",
an obvious pot shot at Michael Bay.
Episode 114: Up to Eleven With a day left to save Kevin, the Plumbers of Bellwood prepare planning to rescue him
and to stop Dr. Animo from starting the great mutation event, which will affect both
North and South America. In Arsenal Island, Kevin regains conscious as he realises that
he's inside the antenna as he becomes the test subject for the great mutation. He tries
to free himself but the glass turns out to be break-resistant. He then cries for help but
the glass is also soundproof. Meanwhile at the Colossus, Ben and Gwen morph into Goop
and Cannonbolt respectively during the training simulation.
While Ben and Gwen are training, Manny tells his team (except Edwin, Lucy, Tack and
Eunice) that they need to go on a top secret mission to Arsenal Island without consulting
Ben and Gwen. With Manny, Helen, Alan, Elena, Ken and Jen preparing to leave via
shuttle, Cooper and Hope oversees them leaving and then tell Ben and Gwen that they're
going to Arsenal Island without their consultation. Ben sends Manny a message telling to
abort the mission immediately but he ignores it before the landing gear begins to fall
part, causing the shuttle to crash land. In the underground base, Kevin prepares to do
the unthinkable and tries to electrocute the antenna.
However, it fails as he then realises that his powers are depleting, while the Leader and
Dr. Animo oversee him slowly losing his electrocution and absorption. Outside, Manny
calls for help as he tries to communicate to Ben that they've crashed. However, the
communication kit fails to work. In the Colossus, Ben - fearing that their shuttle crashed
on land - declare the Plumbers of Los Angeles "missing in action" as he tells his team the
Plumbers of Bellwood that they need to call a rescue mission to rescue them. At the
cargo bay, Pierce see a scientific rendering of the great mutation as he then sees it
affecting the North and South America continents.
Meanwhile at the fields of Arsenal Island, Manny shoots an emergency flare at the
Colossus, which is then caught the eye on Kai, who then tells Gwen that she saw a flare
coming from the Plumbers of Los Angeles. Gwen then tells Julie to pass the message
that the Plumbers of Los Angeles shot a flare to Ben. After hearing the message, Ben
tells his team to rescue the Plumbers of Los Angeles in a rescue mission. Meanwhile in
the underground base, Kevin sees an apparition of his father, who tells him that his
powers are slowly fading away and that he cannot regain them.
The Plumbers of Bellwood prepares to rescue the Plumbers of Los Angeles as Hope
teleports the team back to the Colossus. The Colossus then goes into orbit, while at the
underground base, Kevin tries to free himself from the antenna by using a glass cutting
knife. However, it only leave scratches. Outside the base, Dr. Animo and the Leader
notice the crashed shuttle and realise that the Plumbers came to rescue him but later
retreated back to the Colossus. Dr. Animo tells the Leader to start the great mutation
event, but the Leader tells him that it's too risky to do so.
However without the Leader knowing, Dr. Animo prepares to inject himself with a
stronger copy of the mutant virus, which causes him to gain a muscular purple-skinned
lizard-like form (though unseen to the viewer's point of view). He says in a deep and
gravely voice to the Leader that he's ready to start the great mutation and that the
Plumbers of Bellwood will be captured into the base in order to see the horror that is the
great mutation. At the Colossus, Ben tells his team that they need go to Arsenal Island
in a few hours as they need to prepare for themselves as the great mutation event will
occur soon.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Goop (Ben) and Cannonbolt (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to the popular term used in
This is Spinal Tap
: "The
numbers all go to eleven".
●
●
Last part of the two-part prelude to "Animo's Last Battle".
●
Shout-outs: The map of the Colossus shows a Space Shuttle bay that can serve
as a backup cockpit, a reference to Astro Megaship having a Space Shuttle being
its cockpit.
●
Take-thats: A sign in Arsenal Island says: "Pauline Kael liked to bash good films",
referring to the controversial film critic herself.
Episode 115: Animo’s Last Battle, Part 1 The Colossus lands at Arsenal Island, where Ben, the Plumbers of Bellwood and the
Plumbers of Los Angeles enter the underground base. Hope senses something is wrong
as she then realises that a force of evil are coming to attack them to stop them from
preventing the great mutation. Soon an army of mutants prepare to kill the Plumbers
before Ben and Gwen morph into Heatblast and Big Chill, respectively. Ben burns part of
the mutant army, while Gwen freezes another part but also crushing them into pieces.
While the team continue confronting against the mutants, Hope prepares to free Kevin
from the antenna but the Leader shoots a tranquilliser dart at her neck, rendering her
unconscious.
Ben and Gwen power down as they continue their battle unmorphed. However the battle
ends when after Ben refuses to surrender, he along with his teammates are then
tranquillised. Regaining consciousness, the Plumbers of Bellwood Ben, Gwen, Hope,
Cooper, Kai, Rook, Ester, Pierce and Julie, along with the Plumbers of Los Angeles
Manny, Helen, Alan, Elena, Tack, Eunice, Ken, Jen, Tack and Lucy realise that they're
tied up. Dr. Animo arrives fully revealing his mutated purple-skinned lizard-like form. He
explains his plan to mutate the entire North and South American continents into a
wasteland and that they will be quarantined, thus leaving the remaining five continents
to be mutant-free. Ben compares Animo's great mutation plan to Hitler's Third Reich.
Animo then tells Ben that he'd rather be frozen to death than being defeated. At the
antenna, Kevin tries to free himself but the Leader opens the glass and then places an
electric gauntlet on his head so that he will be electrocuted while being mutated himself
during the beginning of the great mutation. Animo prepares to start the great mutation
as he turns on the switch for the antenna, which emits a signal, sending it through a
satellite from the orbit, which was built by the Shadow Alliance in order to transmit
beacons through the entire North and South America continents. The mutation starts in
Alaska, where a young Inuit boy witness his parents mutating into wolf-like mutants and
then he looks himself in the mirror revealing that he's mutating in a raccoon-like mutant
along with his twin sister.
While being electrocuted, Kevin tries to prevent himself from being mutated but
eventually mutates into a Skrull-like mutant. The mutation then affects Canada, Mexico,
Hawaii, the entirety of South America before it reaches the entire United States. Seeing
the horrors, Ben uses a handheld laser to blast the cage, freeing himself. After this, he
frees Gwen, who then frees her teammates, who then frees the Plumbers of Los Angeles.
The team realise it's too late as the great mutation has occurred. Animo checks on that
99% of North America and South America are mutant-infested, with the remaining 1%
being the Leader, the Plumbers themselves, Lieutenant Steel, the Plumbers' relatives
and the politicians covering the continents.
Soon, Gwen realises that the Leader isn't affected by the great mutation as he used an
antidote (which was the only vial to contain such a thing) to render him immune from
the mutation. She then confronts against him but the Leader overpowers her as he pines
her into the wall. Julie arrives and frees her. Dr. Animo then broadcasts a speech to the
mutants that they will be quarantined and that they fight for themselves. Overhearing
his speech, Ben and Gwen then challenge Animo to a fight, while Hope frees Kevin and
attempts to reverse his mutation. However, the Plumbers are then interrupted by the
Leader as he tells them that to leave the base, they will have to fight against him. The
team battle against the villains, while Hope prepares to use her magic powers to create
an antidote to end the mutation.
Overseeing the battle, the President calls Lieutenant Steel to send his forces to stop the
mutation, which he agrees. Hope manages to create the antidote and tests it on Kevin,
who then reverts back to his human form. She then sends a dose of the antidote to
Lieutenant Steel, who then inserts them on to an array of Harrier aircraft as they then fly
from Lerner Airfield in order to spray the antidote through North and South America.
Arriving at the cryo-chamber, Ben and Gwen battle against Dr. Animo, while the rest of
the Plumbers (bar Hope and Kevin who are the Colossus) battle against the Leader. The
episode ends with the mutated humans fighting against themselves before an array of
Harrier aircraft prepares to reverse the mutation on them.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Heatblast (Ben) and Big Chill (Gwen)
●
Title reference: Referring to Animo and his final battle with the Plumbers.
●
●
A BMW i8 is seen in Arsenal Island.
●
Kevin Michael Richardson reprises his role from "Finding Ben" as President Barack
Obama.
●
Max Tennyson appears in a voice-only cameo.
●
Shout-outs: Animo's final form is based on Morlun's scaly form in
The Amazing
●
Spider-Man
vol. 2 #35.
Take-thats: Ben takes a pot shot at George Lucas' prone to writing a bland script:
"That guy may have made one of the best science fiction films but his recent stuff
are let down from cheesy dialogue." Episode 116: Animo’s Last Battle, Part 2 Continued from last episode, the array of Harrier jets led by Lieutenant Steel successfully
sprays the antidote on the mutated humans, while Ben and Gwen continue their battle
against Dr. Animo in the cryo-chamber in addition to the Plumbers of Bellwood and Los
Angeles fight against the Leader. Meanwhile, Hope tells Kevin that his powers have
slowly depleted and that if he uses his powers again, he will become too strong and then
may kill himself. Refusing to becoming evil for a third time, Kevin decides to stop using
his absorption and electrocution powers as he is told by Hope that he is developing new
powers in place of the depleted ones. At the cryo-chamber, Animo grabs Ben's neck and
prepares to break it before Gwen shoots a dart at his neck.
However, Animo becomes unaffected by this and then sheds his scaly skin as he then
gains a rock-like body (in vein of the Thing from Fantastic Four). He prepares to crush
Gwen before Ben transforms into Humongosaur, kicking him in the groin. In the
underground base, Manny and Rook clobbers down the Leader, while Helen and Ester
prepare to take down the mutant decoy army in addition to that the rest of the Plumbers
of Bellwood (Cooper, Kai, Pierce and Julie) and the Plumbers of Los Angeles (Alan, Elena,
Tack, Eunice, Edwin, Lucy, Ken and Jen) retreat back to the Colossus. In the
cryo-chamber, Gwen morphs into Fourarms as she then tries to crush Animo in order to
kill him in self-defence. However, Animo hits back at Gwen as he then punches her in the
stomach.
Ben then pines Animo to the ceiling, saying that he lost and that mutants have reverted
back to humans. Animo looks at the window and realises that he has failed. Back at the
underground base, Helen and Ester successfully take down the mutant decoy and then
Manny and Rook finally outsmart the Leader as Manny then uses his laser blaster,
resulting Rook to blast the Leader, causing him to break out from the base and then falls
into the Chicago River, apparently drowning him. Manny and Rook return back to the
Colossus and then the Leader regains consciousness as he then renounces his codename
despite remaining as the leader of the Shadow Alliance of Evil and he decides to be
referred to his real name Martin Price.
In the cryo-chamber, Dr. Animo continues to realise that he has lost and prepares to kill
Ben but Gwen protects him as she then punches Animo in the face and throws a spear at
the liquid nitrogen tank, causing it to leak. Then Animo screams as he then gets covered
in liquid nitrogen. However, he frees himself when he sheds his skin by gaining a
insectoid form. He then tries to stamp on Ben's left arm, but Ben knocks a vial of liquid
nitrogen on the floor, causing the glass to smash and then Ben and Gwen power down as
they then climb up and see Animo unable to shed his skin as he is then frozen to death.
Ben then kicks his head off his body as Gwen uses the blaster to smash the body into
pieces. Animo's head then falls on the floor, following by bouncing on the surface before
falling again, causing it to smash.
The liquid nitrogen then covers the base as Ben and Gwen teleport back to the Colossus,
with the base then becomes literally a block of ice. After this, Ben officially confirms to
his team that Animo is gone for good as they then fly outside a section of Chicago Loop.
The team then celebrate their victory as they prepare to drink cola-root beer mix. The
celebration is cut short as Ben receives a phone call from his grandfather, who tells him
that he wants to spend his last days with him and Gwen. After this, Ben tells Gwen that
they need to go and see their grandfather as he told him that he wants to spend his last
days with them. Gwen agrees with him as the two go by Ben's Tesla Model S and leave
the Colossus to spend time with their grandfather in his last days.
Kevin oversees them leaving and wonders if the team would continue if Ben and Gwen
decided not to continue as Plumbers. Hope tells him that they will return as they're
Plumbers by blood and by heart as well. In Enigma City, having renounced his "Leader"
codename, Martin Price then prepares to free Eon and Shada as he then has plans for
them. Price then holds a folder saying "Operation: Time Warp - Plan: To destroy
alternate universe versions of the Plumbers and to change the future, portraying
Bellwood as a post-apocalyptic wasteland." He then smiles and laughs as he vows
destruction to the Plumbers of Bellwood and to turn Bellwood into a post-apocalyptic
wasteland once Eon and Shada takes over, ending the episode.
Trivia:
● Aliens used: Humongosaur (Ben) and Fourarms (Gwen)
●
●
●
Final appearance of Dr. Animo.
●
Max's death and funeral were originally written for this episode but Cartoon
Network and Mateus Honrado both agreed that both his death and funeral would
be used for the season five premiere instead, so the script was partially rewritten
to replace the intended downer ending with an bittersweet ending in which Max
spends his last days with Ben and Gwen. Max does appear in this episode but in a
voice-only cameo.
●
Honrado has said that he is considering to add either "All My Life" by K-Ci and
Jojo, "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy, Faith Evans and 112, "Goodbye" by
Spice Girls, "Patience" by Take That, "My Immortal" by Evanescence, "Under the
Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan, "Angels" by
Robbie Williams, "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" by U2, "See You
Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly,
either "Rain" or "The Power of Goodbye" by Madonna, either "Gone Too Soon" or
"You Are Not Alone" by Michael Jackson, "Hero" by Mariah Carey or "Lean on Me"
by Bill Withers as the farewell song for Max in season five.
●
The final scene serves as a prelude to season five.
●
Last appearance of Kevin using his material absorption and electrocution powers
as he loses them in favour of having new powers: Intangibility, invisibility, flight
and telekinesis.
●
From next season onwards, the Leader would now be referred to his real name
Martin Price after renouncing the codename.
●
"The Dam Busters March" is played when the Harrier jets spray the antidote on
the mutants.
●
Shout-outs: Animo's death by being frozen and then smashed into pieces with the
head being the first part to be smashed is a reference to
Terminator 2:
Judgement Day
(T-1000 is smashed into pieces by the Terminator after he is
covered in liquid nitrogen) and
Demolition Man
(Simon Phoenix becomes frozen
and then his head falls and smashes into pieces by John Spartan).
●
Take-thats: A billboard in the Chicago Loop says "Bat-Nipples? Give me a break",
poking fun of the Batman costume from Joel Schumacher's
Batman Forever
and
Batman and Robin
. Ben Tennyson returns in
Ben 10: Plumbers of Bellwood (season five: Time Warp)

Ben 10: Plumbers of Bellwood Mutations

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