YMMV / Ben 10: Plumbers of Bellwood

• Alas, Poor Scrappy: The Omniverse counterpart of the team die with dignity after the Plumbers of Bellwood failed to stop Eon and Shada from destroying the Omniverse.
• Aluminium Christmas Trees: Some people would think that Hope (who is Caucasian) disgusing herself as a Geisha in one episode is a sign of Yellowface or cultural appropriation. What they do not know is that non-Japanese women as geishas have actually happened in real life.
• Character Rerailment: The creator has stated that Ben is not a Jerkass anymore and has returned to his intended characterisation from pre-Seasonal Rot Alien Force. Vilgax also returned to his original series characterisation in the second season as well, though met his end in the conclusion of the season.
• Growing the Beard: Word of God has considered the last two seasons a major improvement from the previous four seasons.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Over a year after Max was diagnosed with cancer in the fanfic, the creator's step grandmother was diagnosed with the illness in August 2016, though she managed to get treatment from it due to her form of cancer being an early form than not terminal.
  • In April 2017, the husband of a step cousin-in-law of his was revealed to have been diagnosed with bowel cancer, the same illness that killed his paternal grandfather in September 2014 and then succumbed to it two months later. He mentions this trope on this journal entry, published after his relative-in-law's death.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In one episode, Ben and Gwen are referred to as "Idiot Cousin Duo". Fast forward to a year later, when the 2016 reboot of the original had Ben back as a 10-year-old, which he was an Idiot Hero in the original series.
  • Ben transforming into a form of Vilgax's alien race using the Deltatrix becomes this as in the reboot, he is able to transform into a copy of Vilgax.
• Moral Event Horizon: The Leader crosses it when he kills Khyber after he failed in his mission to traumatise Ben permanently.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Kai has been more favourable as her character development has expanded from being a generic love interest for Ben in the original series to being a serious character who can shapeshift into a werewolf.
  • Verdona too, as in season four, following after Max is diagnosed with heart cancer, she begins to care about her grandson Ben and supporting him as a hero.
  • The Anodite race became this when Gwen uses less of her alien-inherited powers and the overpowerment is toned down to normal. This also helps that the Plumbers of Bellwood actually protect an Anodite from Ben and Gwen's cousin Sunny.
• Take That, Scrappy!:
  • In "Finding Ben", both Khyber and Metalhound are Killed Off for Real.
  • Harangue gets imprisoned in "Age of the Plumbers" for kidnapping Kevin and Hope. The creator said that he had enough with the character and felt he would be better off being Put on a Bus to Hell, never to return again than being Killed Off for Real.
• The Woobie: Hope. In fact, most of the main Plumbers qualify this.