Why Did Ben 10,000 Punch the Time Bomb And Die?

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TIMECODES:
0:00 - Introduction
2:04 - Theory #1
3:43 - Theory #2
4:58 - Theory #3
7:43 - Conclusion

Footage from Ben 10, Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Ben 10: Omniverse, and Justice League: Doom.

Stock Footage from Vecteezy.

Ending Music from Epidemic Sound.

[TheInkTank]

For all the comments about diving infinity in half: you have to understand, this is fiction. There's no feasible way within our realm of understanding how a Celestialsapian can exist in the first place, none-the-less have their powers cut in half. But this explanation is a way to show that if it COULD be possible to spit infinity, this is a visual explanation on how to do so. I actually got this explanation from a source I will link below, and I think it can also be applied to Ben 10's manor of science fiction. If you don't like the explanation, there's still two other theories in this video that you can choose. However, if you want to claim that you can't cut a Celestialsapian's powers in half solely because the mathematical explanation doesn't make sense, then you're watching the wrong show.

[langadube]

The last theory makes a lot of sense when you realize Ben 10K was the one who told no watch Ben about Clockwork

[Mr.Unriginality]

Never have I heard about the sacrifice perspective until now but I love it and it’s my favorite option now. I love the idea of Ben maturing to the point he realizes he has to die for everything to work out and fully accepting it.

[dndkeg]

Theory 3 makes the most sense to me. Anything with Ben 10K (at least in Omniverse) and Paradox usually means to me in a certain sum of words, “Ah shit, here we go again.”

[ultimaxdoesgaming]

Ben 10K sacrificing himself to preserve the timeline was an option I thought of before but didn't entirely like until this video. Now I think it makes the most sense out of the three and is actually a really good way on keeping continuity when it comes to the series' timeline shenanigans.

[MrFamilyguy]

I gotta give hella respect for the explanation of how to cut infinity in half using even and odd numbers

[Dorkyboi-]

Ben 10K knowing about it does speak to how Ben works. He notices small details that don’t always appear relevant. No Watch Ben having a variant hoodie may be something he’d recognize along with the fact that he’s dealt with his past self before so a reintroduction would have tipped him off to which one he could be dealing with. Paradox is not the most up front kind of guy so it gives the work for Ben to pay more attention to everything around him when Paradox IS involved.

[luiscortazar]

A theory I had is that by sacrificing the near infinite power of Atomic X he weakened the Chronosapian Time bomb just enough to be reversible by a "normal" Chronosapian like no watch Ben's Clockwork.

[ronnyherrera]

I've always been of the belief that fusing any alien with Alien X would be redundant for a celestial sapien since they could do whatever that alien could just by choosing to. I like to think that fusing Alien X with another species just increases that species' abilities to a cosmic level.

[rainbow_vader]

It took me so long to wrap my head around the "combining aliens actually makes their powers weaker" thing because by then I hadn't seen the show for a while and I had become a massive Dragon Ball fan and in that series fusion almost always guarantees _exponential_ increases to your powers

[SuperSpider]

I like the idea that young Ben Prime sees Ben 10K punch the bomb, then when he grows up and reaches this point thinks "I don't know why i punched that, but I did so must be important" and does it again, and after enough time loops simply doesn't know anymore

[aaronolson]

That's what I love about Paradox's character. As all knowing as he is, Paradox knows some things have to happen, people have to make mistakes and die because that is what they were meant to do and changes can cause disasterous ripples. Also you can be quite calm and cheeky when you have knowledge of everything.

[nikitakobzar]

1:13 I don't think the logic of 50% to 50% alien power works here. Diamond Matter, Heat Jaws and Stink Arms are three fusions which were originally created by a broken prototype Omnitrix. All three fusions are possible with the Biomnitrix. However, they might differ in aspects such as appearance, powers, and weaknesses due to the fact that there is no evidence to support the idea that the broken prototype Omnitrix creates fusions the same way as the Biomnitrix.

[ZekromAndYugiAndDrago]

I personally don't think Ben 10, 000 was actually expecting to do anything, but rather panicked and just.. chose his strongest two aliens. Yeah he's a superhero but he's still susceptible to panic and it just makes him more human imo. I don't think he genuinely thought "I'm going to destroy this bomb" I think he thought "holy fuck Vilgax might actually win this time what the hell do I do"

[RaveZion]

I actually do really like that last idea. Time stuff is one of my favorite tropes, and I always love how Ben 10 does it

[just_a_tepig]

My interpretation of the atomix-x fusion was that it was like a samson situation. Where Samson was given divine beyond human strength. Rather than atomix gaining half the power of alien X, he just received as much power he could while still retaining control.
Remember, the biomnitrix was made for the direct intent of fusion, unlike the same fusion event that made stinkfly, who was directly harmed by being 50-50 each.

[DillonMaynard]

I love stories like these because it shows how smart and resourceful Ben can be.

[MatsuyoRific]

Speaking of the power cut from fusing aliens, I think a good way to work around that would be to take two aliens with similar or complimentary powers to help increase the cut strength. Four Arms and Humongusaur are both increadibly strong, so if you fused them, their strength averages out, and you get the benifit of 4 arms and size changing, though you'd only be able to get half as big as Humongosaur's max size. Now I kind of want to see Kuro make a video of the best aliens to fuse together.

[jamesrosengrant]

So I actually LOVE the idea of Ben 10k just punching the bomb to make it look like it was too powerful for him for the sake of keeping the timeline in order. Since even though he COULD stop the bomb, he knows if it's not no watch ben who does the deed than he wouldn't have gotten his watch in the first place or properly kept maltruint in the time loop prison

[alexandrutabacaru]

As a little detail, when Ben 10k was first recruited he perfectly described the situation just fro seeing the team of Bens, which could be a hint to the thing that he knew about everithing