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Ben 10

• Ben's very first transformation into Heatblast in "And Then There Were 10" after he stopped freaking out (page image).
  • Ben turning into Diamondhead and destroying Vilgax's robot.
• In Secret of the Omnitrix, Gwen gets dragged underground by a pack of Florauna (Wildvines), and the male half of the Bratty Half-Pint duo proves that he'll risk the universe for people he cares about:
  Ben: Going hero!
  Myaxx: Ben, no! The self-destruct will accelerate!
  Ben: I. DON'T. CARE!!
  • When Azmuth didn't want to fix the SDM mode, Ben replied with this fantastic gem.
    Azmuth: That is none of my concerns.
    Dials to Cannonbolt
    Ben: It is now.
  • Ben's first transformation into Way Big and utterly obliterating Vilgax's entire army singlehandedly before hurling Vilgax into space. In canon with Alien Force, this was Vilgax's final defeat in the original series.
• Ben gets another one at the end of the "Ghostfreak Returns" two-parter, when he goes Cannonbolt in order to survive orbital re-entry and the resulting landing (with Gwen and Max inside his ball form, at that), breaking that episode's Aesop into teeny-tiny pieces in the process.
  • From the same episode, Air Upgrade (melding with the contents of a junkyard to create a functioning space rocket!)
• More Cannonbolt awesome: At the end of "Grudge Match", Kevin has Ben cornered, smugly declaring he knows all of Ben's aliens and nothing he does can surprise him. Ben then turns into Cannonbolt, an alien Kevin hasn't seen before, and spends the next thirty seconds effortlessly smacking him around.
  Cannonbolt: "New game: it's called Dodge Ball!"
• Earlier against Kevin in "Framed," Ben gets a more low-key Moment when, out of a mixture of pity and disgust at the boy, Ben simply refuses to fight him, a complete reversal of his usually violence-happy persona, and coldly remarks that Kevin isn't worth the effort.
• It seems Kevin just provokes awesome in Ben, as he gets another Moment against him in the Twenty Years Into The Future episode "Ken 10". Kevin, in a brand new One-Winged Angel form, spends a good five minutes pulverising his old foe, and nothing Ben does works. Then Kevin hurts Ben's son. Big mistake. Ben promptly turns into the monstrously huge alien Way Big and pounds Kevin into the ground. Again. And again. And again. It's surprising he wasn't putty after that.
  HOW! DARE! YOU!!
• In the episode with the evil sentient weather machine, Ben goes up and uses a guitar as Four Arms, but then is turned back into a human, and STILL manages to defeat the weather machine with the power of rock! And after the weather machine is defeated, Ben SURFS DOWN THE WEATHER MACHINE ON A GUITAR!
• Some of Ben's best Moments of Awesome are when he finishes the job just as his human self. Like against Ghostfreak or Kevin in Back With a Vengeance. After seeing Ben's aliens do all the cool stuff it just becomes so much more awesome and surprising to see that regular Ben can be pretty capable on his own too.
  • Saving Kai is also pretty awesome. The Omnitrix refuses to work, so he just hops over buildings, jumps on a barrel, grabs Kai, and jumps for an awning. That's one for the hero book.
• The three alien bounty hunters utilizing their tech and tracking skills as they race each other to catch Ben in "Hunted" providing him his toughest opponents yet. Tetrax strategically revealing that he's from the same species as one of Ben's aliens also does a lot to rattle Ben during their fight, although Tetrax turns out to be Good All Along.
• Also in Back With a Vengeance, Ben is getting attacked by scores of Null Guardians and is constantly flashing between his various alien forms to dodge or defeat all of them until he gets blindsided by the one Vilgax is riding.
• Four Arms vs Retaliator in "Destroy All Aliens". Especially the part where Four Arms catches missiles, and, after a bit of experimentation, uses them to fly.
• Ben gets serious in "Last Laugh" when he sees what happened to Gwen when Zombozo sucked her soul out. He transforms into Ghostfreak and freaks Zombozo out, especially with that scene where he reveals the tentacles.
  Ghostfreak: I've just figured it out; there's something I'm more afraid of than you. Losing my family to some goofball emotional vampire. In other words...you're going down, clown.
  • Before that, Ben manages to drive the RV to safety by himself, despite being a 10-year old and a little too short to see the road ahead.
  • After being spotted by Zombozo's henchmen, Ben somehow manages to relocate himself to a safer location within seconds without being spotted in his human form. is this kid even a human?
• IN "Perfect Day" when Ben reawakens from Enoch's mind manipulation, he knocks out two scientists with one hit. Keep in mind, he was a kid when he did that one.
• Gwen's pep talk during the movie when the Omnitrix is unusable.
  Gwen: What about all the times you saved Grandpa? Or me? Or lots of other people when you weren't an alien? You are a hero, even if you can't go hero.
• Gwen Punching out Rojo in "The Alliance" and Charmcaster in "A Change of Face".
• .......Does it have to be just one? That's all that need be said by Grandpa Max.
• Kevin Impaling and murdering Monster of the Week Slix, preventing him from killing Ben... then proceeding to attempt to kill Ben himself.
• His Evil Plan in "Framed." He usually just acts like a super-powered beast, so seeing him actually have a thinking plan that hits Ben where it hurts most (his pride) is quite impressive. His newfound scheming later resurfaces when he attempts to betray Vilgax at the opportune moment in "Back with a Vengeance".
  • This development is taken to its logical conclusion with Kevin 11,000 in "Ken 10". Gone is the angry, emotionally unstable kid from the past...as an adult, Kevin 11,000 is chillingly composed and calculating, and manages to be awesome despite how evil he is.
• Charmcaster turning on her Uncle Hex at the moment he's about to become all-powerful so that she can have it all for herself. As she puts it to Hex, "I get the charms AND the power and YOU get SQUAT!" That's always the kind of thing a good Bastard Understudy should hope to achieve.
  • Made cooler when you consider that throughout the episode, Hex had been forcing her to reply to his commands with a submissive "Yes, uncle." When commanding her to step aside here, she says "That would be a big NO, uncle." Sure, she's doing evil here, but it's hard to deny that Hex had it coming to him.
• Charmcaster and Gwen have a magic battle in "Ben 10 vs. the Negative 10: Part 2". Rojo attempts to interfere and attack Gwen...prompting Charmcaster to join Gwen in blasting Rojo away. Charmcaster clearly takes The Only One Allowed to Defeat You trope seriously!

Vilgax

• Defeating Ben just by touching the Omnitrix insignia.
• Being able to put cracks in Diamondhead.
• Destroying Mount freaking Rushmore. With Ben's FACE no less.
• His fight with Kevin in "Back with a Vengeance." Which doesn't end well for Kevin.
• Escaping the Null Void in the Grand Finale movie "Secret of the Omnitrix." How did he do it? He's fucking Vilgax, that's how!

Others

• Lt. Steel, the one-time character of the episode "Framed" definitely had one at the end, when the newly-mutated Kevin is about to kick Ben off the Golden Gate Bridge.
  Kevin: You'll never win because you're the good guy! And guys like you never have the guts to finish guys like me!
  Lt. Steel: But I do! FIRE! (Kevin gets blasted off the bridge.)
• Dr. Animo. The man tried to take back his former award from a rival...while riding a T-Rex.
• It didn't actually happen, but Ben's entire family got an awesome moment in "Goodbye and Good Riddance" in defeating Vilgax.
• Camille, Joel's Lenopan fiancée, gets one in "My Big Fat Alien Wedding". When her parents and ex-boyfriend object to the marriage (and the resulting truce between their race and the Plumbers) and attack the wedding, she fights back against them.
  Camille: This is my special day, and nobody is going to ruin it. (Shifts into her Lenopan form) Especially not my family! (Rushes into the fight)
  Joel: (proudly) She is gonna be my wife!

Ben 10: Alien Force

Ben

• In "Ben 10 Returns Part 1" It's either his first battle as Swampfire. Or the part of the battle right before that when the Omnitrix refused to work and he had to fight as a human. It's hard to decide which is more awesome.
• Talking down at two bullies in "The Gauntlet" and getting applause from all his peers for doing so.
  • Ben's exact actions against his tormentors deserve a mention: The bullies in question are J.T. and Cash, Ben's old bullies (or for those who don't remember, those morons from the first episode who wedgied him). When they first hassle him (shoving a tray of smoothies into him) he simply shrugs it off, even waving Kevin off when he's about to come over. When they continue to douche around, Ben prepares to use his watch on them like the old days.. and then backs off, giving Cash one hell of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and getting aforementioned applause for it.:
    Ben: You know what? You two aren't even worth it. It's ridiculous. You've been doing the same old bully routine since the second grade, Cash, it's tired. Spilling my drink? Seriously. I can't believe I used to be afraid of you. Look around, Cash. We've all grown up, but you're still the same pathetic loser who has to torment others to feel good about himself. You're just... sad.
• Also in the same episode as the above moment, Ben fighting a possessed Cash as Chromastone, from his stealth transformation to changing back and giving his opponent a Death Glare. Cash zaps him with a laser? He just deflects it. Tosses him like a rag doll? His only response is to get back up and sternly wags his finger at him. Admit it, it's just too awesome watching Ben in such a display of robustness, resilience, and maturity.
  • His and Cash's dialogue sounds like an exchange between a bully and a brave, confident individual, showing what happens when a bully really tries to face off against someone stronger than him. Anvilicious? Perhaps. Awesome? Heck yeah!
    Ben: (In wake of Cash's rampage) HEY! What is your problem?
• Ben over and over again in "Darkstar Rising." First, after a Plumber effortlessly whips around Kevin, Ben restrains him just as fast as Goop. Then he saves Kevin and Gwen Big Damn Heroes style, resists Darkstar's energy drain to the point where he says "I forgot how strong you were," and finally all but kills Darkstar by going from one alien morph to another despite the energy drain it leaves on him.
• "Voided": Ben's skydiving moment that appears to be a Heroic Sacrifice and results in Big Chill freezing Devoid's furnace, turning into Humungosaur and literally squashing Animo with his fist like a bug, and his semi-Ninja fight with Pierce where he lets Pierce win.
• "War of the Worlds". Winning the day, not with firepower, but with the peaceful method of helping the Higbreed with their problem. Actually, "strength tempered with mercy" is a recurring theme in the episode. Namely: Using the Omnitrix to cure DNAliens, Ben stopping Darkstar from harming a bunch of them, Cooper using his technokinesis to build "DNA Repair Guns," and use of Non-Lethal K.O. as a combat tactic. That shows a real maturity that you'd hope someone with their level of power would display... and stick to.
• Ben Tricking the Shapeshifter in "Primus." Ben gives up the Omnitrix to Vilgax in exchange for the hostages he has. Unfortunately for Vilgax, the Omnitrix systems have rebooted since he last used it, so he needs Ben's help. Ben shows him how to turn into an alien by turning him into an alien with an easily exploitable weakness, which Ben does exploit, and then takes back the Omnitrix from the helpless Vilgax.
  • Followed by Way Big vs. Giant Vilgax. Ben even says "finally" before delivering the Curb-Stomp Battle and tossing him to space, again.
• Ben gets another one in "Con of Rath". While in the titular form of Rath, a 7 foot tall, super-strong, tiger-like alien, he literally leaps down the throat of a newly introduced villain, who is about 3 times his current size, jumps back out by punching out the villain's teeth, then jumps back on his head and threatens to do it again and come out with a sweater made of his ORGANS if he is to declare war with another alien race, all to save the other aliens' larvae marshmallow-like prince.
  • Rath telling off the Lewodan ambassador that tricked him into the whole thing. He's not eloquent, but he gets the point across.
    Rath: (to the ambassador) NEVER. TALK TO ME. AGAIN.
• Ben threatening to let the Omnitrix self-destruct if Vilgax doesn't return it in the finale, capping off the Xanatos Gambit by being perfectly willing to let the Omnitrix explode if it means Vilgax can't have it. Then doing the same thing to Albedo. Even if it wasn't going to blow up the whole universe, it was still pretty badass.
• Humongosaur's Pre-Asskicking One-Liner in "Ben 10 Returns Part 2":
  Humungosaur: Guess what time it is? IT'S HERO TIME!!!
• Ben chewing out Bellicus and Serena for not doing anything in X = Ben + 2. Shows how much he cares about the people of earth if he is calling out two GODS.

Gwen

• "Coming to my senses" and defeating Morningstar the sparkly vampire. Some of us have been waiting a long time to see that, girl!
• Similar to her defeat of Morningstar, Gwen's defeat of Charmcaster in In Charm's Way. Charmcaster has taken her powers, so Gwen challenges her to a fist-fight. Charmcaster doesn't roll that way, so she instead blasts Gwen with magic...which is exactly what Gwen was actually anticipating with the fist-fight challenge, and thus Gwen reverses the spell, takes her powers back, and opens up a dimensional vortex, and chucks Charmcaster and her minions in it.

Kevin

• "Inside Man" when he single-handedly saves Gwen from being sucked up into the DNAlien ship by pulling her back down to earth.
• The episode where Ben is trapped in Alien X: While he was in his coma, Kevin used his power to absorb rubber, and effortlessly pwned the alien army trying to capture him.
• Kevin, after being cured of his mutation in a decidedly painful way, stopping a crushing punch from Vilgax cold with one just one hand in "The Final Battle."
  "Guess who's got his old powers back?" *Sends Vilgax flying with a single punch*
• "My name is Kevin Ethan Levin. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." If not that moment, certainly the end of the episode: "He didn't make it."

Vilgax

• Vilgax managed to Curb Stomp the "Max Force" (including Max himself!) without really trying.
• The first battle between him and Ben is really awesome. Even if Vilgax lost, he put up a good show. Vilgax on the warpath is always something to see. Especially when he spends most of a two-parter fully mauling the hell out of every other hero we know with his new powers.

Other

• Grandpa Max's detonation of the Null Void Projector. He got better.
• Darkstar's entrance in "Darkstar Rising", where he curb-stomps several DNAliens and a Highbreed.
• Ben & Riney the Highbreed WORKING TOGETHER to survive. This good karma comes back to him in the finale.
• Ben's dad in "Grounded" with the Space Bazooka. Don't forget Ben smacking a Highbreed commander with the bazooka afterwards in his Humongosaur form. Seriously, the Highbreed was sent flying into a tank.
• Julie standing on top of Ship, flying into a laser barrage, not the least bit concerned for her own well-being, in "War of the Worlds."
• Tech-blob-alien-pet Ship gets one in Vreedle, Vreedle (aka, Don't Fear The Repo) when the Vreedle brothers (a pair of bounty hunters known for their over-violent tactics and tendency to never bring back a living target) come to retrieve and return him to the Galvanic Mechomorph that originally spawned him. Julie gets in the line of fire, so Ship takes matters into his own hands: he becomes a suit of Powered Armor to protect Gwen and Julie, gives the latter a fighting chance against the Vreedles, and help hold them off until Ben and Kevin get back from space-court.
• Azmuth fighting Vilgax in Primus as Humungousaur and Rath. Sure, he was eventually defeated, but seeing Azmuth fight using the Omnitrix was really impressive considering his usual role as a background character.
  Azmuth (as Rath): Let me tell you something, Vilgax, conqueror of ten worlds! Azmuth will defeat you! Azmuth will hunt you down even though you're standing right here! You are no match for the awesomeness of Azmuth! *splits a boulder in half by touching it with his claw*
• Albedo as Ultimate Humungosaur vs Vilgax's army of Humungosaurs is definitely this.

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

• The reintroduction of Four-Arms in Video Games has him going against Sssserpent once again and easily catches his likely venomous hands without trying with his upper arms...and then smashes him with a pair of near-by automobiles. All Sssserpent can do is ask to go home.
• In "Hit 'Em Where They Live", Gwen defeating Zombozo without even having to fight. It was just... seriously, it has to be seen to be believed how awesome it was.
  Gwen: You have no idea who you're dealing with!
  Zombozo: We've seen what your cousin can do.
  Gwen: I'm not talking about him. I want you to listen to me, then pass the word to every lowlife you know; if you want to come after Ben, or Kevin, or me, fine. That's the life we chose. I'm talking to you. Look at me! Look at me! As of right now, the Tennyson family is off. Limits! If any of you ever attacks one of our loved ones, or hurts one of our loved ones, or even bumps into someone we love in the street, this is what awaits you!
• Ben rushing to Julie's rescue when Captain Nemesis/"Overlord" captures her, transforming straight into Ultimate Humongousaur, and proceeding to lay into him with everything he's got, without speaking a word (And note that since Alien Force, Ben usually says his alien form's name, which proved that he was dead serious with Nemesis).
• After Aggregor kills the aliens and absorbs their powers, Ben loses it and gives him the biggest smackdown ever seen in the series. Gwen even had to hold him back.
  • And after several solid moments of getting his ass kicked into next week, Aggregor reveals that he didn't even feel a thing, and pays Ben and company back tenfold.
• You know Psyphon, Vilgax's toadying sidekick? He'd be the last character you'd expect to have CMOA material. After one of Vilgax's many "final" defeats, Psyphon comes to Earth to avenge his master. He's got killer robots, he's got all the weaponry Vilgax had acquired before his "death," and he's got a serious mad-on. He was in fact the first villain ever to actually beat an Ultimate form - something Vilgax himself had yet to do. You'll spend half the episode saying "No way, he did that?"
  • Which brings us to Cash and JT using a giant alien energy-draining raygun to depower him and save Ben's hide. And nobody will ever know.
• Admit it. Spreading himself as Goop throughout an entire water planet when Aggregor has stolen the very core that keeps the planet together and SUCCEEDING at pulling it back through sheer force of will is probably the biggest feat Ben has accomplished so far.
• Gwen and Charmcaster are just awesome all throughout the action scenes of "Where the Magic Happens". In the non-action variety, Charmcaster's speech of defiance to her father's killer toward the end stands out.
• How is Ultimate Kevin pimp-slapping Aggregor and draining all his awesome powers not on here?
• In "Forge of Creation" a ten-year-old Ben manages to guilt trip an insane, monstrous Ultimate Kevin into not taking the powers of a baby Alien X, even though he knows that Ultimate Kevin could squash him like a grape.
• "Absolute Power" is a bastion of awesome. To wit:
  • We finally get Gwen vs. Ben - and by golly, is it epic, with plenty of awesome exuded by both sides.
  • Later, Gwen vs. Kevin. She uses one of Charmcaster's summons on him. Gentlemen, the Les Yay from a few episodes ago has come full circle.
  • When they're putting the final touches on their plan, who should help but Cooper, who hit a major growth spurt. Took a Level in Badass indeed.
  • When Kevin shows up at Gwen's place, Max is there to greet him. He doesn't put up much of a fight, but man, does he kick some ass when needed.
  • A few seconds later, Kevin's stepdad shows up to try to talk him down. Kevin is about to raise his fist to his stepdad - a mere mortal with no magic powers or alien tech backing him up - and the guy doesn't flinch at all. Guess badass runs in the family.
    Harvey: I'm not afraid of you anymore, Kevin.
  • The Sonic Doom attack that Ultimate Echo Echo uses undoubtedly qualifies.
  • Finally, after all is said and done, Darkstar reveals that he just wanted to steal all of Kevin's powers for his own. It would seem that the series is about to invoke Here We Go Again!...then Ben reveals the last-minute failsafe in his plan, which strips Darkstar of his newfound powers.
    • Added awesomeness coming from Ben actually saying 'Like we didn't see that coming', showing Darkstar's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder has come back to bite him.
  • Future Ben 10,000. To elaborate, Future Ben (the Ben 10,000 we saw in the original series was confirmed to have been an alternate version) has only one form shown...Ultimate Ben. Basically, without actually BECOMING an alien, he can still use his Ultimatrix's alien's powers. He still has to switch between them, but man, is he awesome!
• "The Purge": The Forever Knight, being turned back into a real threat by the return of Sir George, start hunting aliens and attempting to kill them if they can't or don't want to leave Earth. Ben fights Driscoll in a duel, asking that if he wins, they will have to let the aliens go. Though he wins, Driscoll goes back on his word. Ben answers by stabbing the wall just next to his head as Ultimate Spider-Monkey, turning back to human, and delivering the following speech:
  "Maybe you’ve forgotten something; I'm Ben Tennyson, wielder of the most powerful weapon in the universe. I stopped the Highbreed invasion, I defeated Vilgax in hand-to-hand combat, and I've beaten the Forever Knights more times than I can count. Here's what's going to happen; you're going to release these prisoners, you're going to crawl back to whatever hole you came from, and you're going to stop hunting down aliens. Because if you don't, I promise, you'll regret it for the rest of your very. Short. Lives."
  • Cue to Driscoll and his knight leaving without any more argument.
• "Ultimate Sacrifice". Ben is willing, when faced with annihilation in order to let the now sentient Ultimates live, or planning an escape, he accepts dying for them, even telling Gwen he has no plan, he really is going to die. If it weren't for the fact that his willingness to sacrifice himself let the Ultimates out and stopped him anyway, as well as Azmuth coming to help, Ben would be dead.
• In "The Widening Gyre", Way Big vs. the Garbage Monster.
• "The Ultimate Enemy Part 1", George and Ben vs Dagon powered Vilgax. Also, Kevin freeing Gwen from Dagon's mind control. After he witnessed Gwen stomping Ben as Humongosaur with a mere gesture!
• "The Ultimate Enemy Part 2": Ultimate Way Big. That is all.
  • Faced down by a Dagon-empowered Vilgax, who taunts Ben (“Who will it be? Diamondhead? Swampfire? One of your tiresome ultimate aliens?”), Ben instead uses Ascalon to empower himself and fight off Vilgax as himself
  • After that, we have Ben stabbing Vilgax with Ascalon, sealing Dagon in said sword.
  • Vilgax, even though Ben has beaten him, nearly gets moral victory when almost manipulates Ben into using Dagon's power to remake the universe to his own liking, only to be stopped by Julie.
  • Using Ascalon to turn the Esoterica back to humans.
  • Vilgax telling Dagon the universe is his to conquer was pretty awesome. Vilgax baiting Dagon into killing himself was also pretty awesome.
  • And last but not least, Ben doing the right thing restores Azmuth's trust about him being The Chosen One and he gives Ben a new Omnitrix.

Ben 10 (2016)

Now has it's own page.