Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4495539-20140531082603/@comment-4106058-20141027082258

Araneae Siqua wrote: Okay, I'm seriously persuaded that Spanner is Ben's son from the future. Reasons? 1) Spanner seemed really intent on getting Ben and Kai together. This could indicate that he's their son because if they didn't get together, Spanner wouldn't have been born, and that would be why he's so worried AND wants to get them together. 2) He's from the future. 'nuff said. 3) Spanner almost slipped up once, almost calling Ben something that began with 'D' before calling him by his actual name. I think he might have almost called him Dad.

You missed a key point. But as if the reveal in Ben 10,000 time wasn't obvious enough.

When Kai hugs Spanner in the Museum, he squirms... the way a fairly grown up (or sometimes even really little) son thends to squirms when their mother is getting all touchy-feely with them. Spanner reacts to Kai as if she IS his mother, he needs Kai and Ben to get together instead of Ben and Esther, and he almost calls Ben, Dad, and Kai Mom.

In addition, unlike Jimmy who always thinks Ben is cool, he comments that history paints Ben as way cooler, which future Jimmy wouldn't think, but Ken would, since he'd only know the facts about Ben either from his parents, cousin, great-grandfather, and their friends' stories, or from how Histroy depicted Ben, and Spanner somewhat idolizes Jimmy the way Jimmy idolized Ben, which if Jimmy had become a cool reporter, would make sense. Also Spanner knows Ben and Kai's favorite foods, before they do, something only someone intimate would know, like a child.

While I used to be in the Jimmy is Spanner camp (which Cough it Up reinforced), with Fight at the Museum, I was redirected and find that Ken Tennyson seems to be Spanner with 98% certainty (unless this is some everytime Spanner goes back, he alters who got the Spanner suit, and thereby each time Spanner comes back, it is a different guy in the suit)