History WMG / Ben10AlienForce

[[WMG:Michael Morningstar/Darkstar is a TakeThat to Edward Cullen from Literature/{{Twilight}}]]

* Alternatively, Kevin in the ''original series'' was an impostor. AF Kevin's [[Main/TroubledButCute troubledness]] stems from being the victim of supernatural identity theft as a preteen, and the being we all ''thought'' was Kevin could escape from the Null Void at any time...
* Or the monstrous version of Kevin is his Main/SuperpoweredEvilSide, and he mellowed out a bit after 5 years. Alien force Kevin has a personality with more in common with how Kevin was before his transformation (which he irrationally blamed Ben for). Perhaps his warped DNA made him go nuts, considering that Ghostfreak's sentient DNA was in the mix.

[[WMG:Token LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya {{Reincarnation}}s Theory]]

The majority of the episode was [[AllJustADream just a typical elaborate manifestation]] of his fight with death, using memories of old allies and enemies in a forbidding environment (with the addition of fantasies of being a [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin-level]] {{Ninja}}. The "world" that's unraveling is his life. He meets Grandpa Max because he already died, and the scene at the end happens when Ben starts to return from the edge. At first, he wants his grandfather to come with him, but he can't. So Ben wants to stay, but he has to go back because he has more to do on Earth. Finally, the voices of his loved ones pull him back from the edge. It all fits.

Although the episode "Ken 10" and thus Kevin's development featured therein is non-canonical, it is reasonable to assume that with practice he would be able to exert some form of control over his transformation - at least enough to become human again. The monster form is now his "default" form, however, and so he requires a certain level of control to remain human; due to the passage of time, this is now as simple as breathing, but the more he uses his powers in other ways, the more control is required. Absorbing solid material is less difficult than absorbing energy; therefore, he can utilise that aspect of his powers without risk of transforming, while absorbing energy will present a risk. He doesn't want to revert to that form for reasons perhaps related to the Main/SuperpoweredEvilSide theory.

[[WMG: In a parallel world, the show is an attempt to take ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}}'' back to its roots.]]
First see the theory [[WMG/{{Ben10}} here]] that the show is an adaptation of a comic book in a parallel world. In said world, the cartoon is an poor adaptation where the character's personalities etc. have been messed with. Alien Force is an attempt by a new team to make a semi-sequel to the previous cartoon by adding elements from the original comic. This explains all of the discrepencies. The writers are trying to reverse the AdaptationDecay wrought by the Ben 10 cartoon.

It was recently shown confirmed that Kevin's dad, Devin Levin, had the same energy absorbing powers that Kevin orginally used in WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}; when he uses them exactly once, Max panics, saying something along the lines of 'Don't do it, you know what happens when you use your powers!'. He didn't appear to have any immediate problems then. Now consider that when Kevin first showed up, he didn't use any other forms of his powers beside energy absorbing.
This troper concludes that energy absorbing has some sort of adverse effect on their sanity or stability. In this context, Kevin's apparent {{Character Derailment}} makes sense; without him mucking about with energy for five years or so, a measure of stability has returned to him. And it's {{Word of God}} that 'he can absorb energy, but he's scared to'. Maybe he's afraid of losing himself again.

There is no evidence to back this up. It's simply a redesign. Vilgax could of removed his cybernetics.

** I hope you go to hell.

* More specifically, Rath was the DonaldDuck to Ben's Mickey Mouse. Word around here is that fans complained that Ben was too "mature" and "heroic" and not flawed enough in the first two seasons, so the writers tried to fix that by making Ben a jerk. That didn't work, so they created a separate (well, sort of) character that embodied aggression and impulsiveness instead.

To the anodytes the physical form is nothing more than a shell that they can change like we change clothes. Gwen will probably also gain this ability and might even take on new names to go with the new bodies like Kai Green. Also Verdona might have change her physical from in between having her sons unless they were twins of course. One of the future Bens starts to use magic and awakens his anodyte heritage and is why he can use the different alien powers while in human form.

Changing from a Monster Mashup of the Prime 10 into the animated version of [[PowerRangers [=SPD=] Pink]] is a tad drastic. So one possibility is that the AF Kevin is some form of imposter and the real Kevin will show up later on.

* He never said he didn't watch the original series. [[https://archive.li/iedcr He did, and, in fact, multiple times]].

[[WMG: [[DwayneMacDuffie Dwayne]] just didn't care.]]
I know, never speak ill of the dead, but from what he said about "never watching the original series" and using it as an excuse for the inconsistencies he had to patch up, he obviously didn't view ''Alien Force'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Ultimate Alien]]'' as anything more than [[MoneyDearBoy a source of income]]. This explains why the writing was a lot poorer than his previous work at MilestoneComics and on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' - he didn't really have any passion for what he was doing.

I know, never speak ill of the dead, but from what he said about "never watching the original series" and using it as an excuse for the inconsistencies he had to patch up, he obviously didn't view ''Alien Force'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Ultimate Alien]]'' as anything more than [[MoneyDearBoy a source of income]]. This explains why the writing was a lot poorer than his previous work at MilestoneComics and on ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' - he didn't really have any passion for what he was doing.

I know, never speak ill of the dead, but from what he said about "never watching the original series" and using it as an excuse for the inconsistencies he had to patch up, he obviously didn't view ''Alien Force'' and ''UltimateAlien'' as anything more than [[MoneyDearBoy a source of income]]. This explains why the writing was a lot poorer than his previous work at MilestoneComics and on ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' - he didn't really have any passion for what he was doing.