Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8505655-20130507211744/@comment-1409915-20131124214127

Silentia Altum wrote: Now, I know that for various reasons pertaining to the running of a business, only so many character designs will be created during a given span of time. Fine. This makes sense with the Omnitrix - Ben only unlocks a new alien on infrequent occasions - but this is ridiculous in relation to the Ultimatrix and Nemetrix:

1. Ben could turn any of his more than forty aliens into their ultimate forms, but somehow only did so with eight.

2. Khyber has a predator for nearly every Omnitrix alien, presumably about a million, give or take, but somehow only nine are ever used.

Why did others never appear? Which ones should have appeared? Like Mark said, Ben is scared of the Ultimates, I'm not sure it's because he's afraid they'll becom sentient. Dwayne McDuffie said that Ben felt discomfort going Ultimate and that he was afraid of them.

That's why not many would havebeen seen, plus UA was plot driven. Therefore if it was not necessary to the plot it wasn't used. As for why Ben didn't use them the first two reasons above count. Maybe he couldn't either. He tried Ultimate Rath in a comic but that failed, why? Rath should have an Ultimate like anyone right? Ult Wildmutt only came about because he was trying to pick a new alien but accidentally Ultimized. Ultimate Way Big was only used befause he was Way Big and needed more power. Not even talking about Ult. Ben.

My answer for that would be Ben didn't want to.

For the Nemetrix I'd say because Ben turned into the prey and they've been effective, Khyber's seen, or Khyber is an idiot. As seen in "It was Them" he was close enough to call Slamworm back to him while fighting Diamondhead so why didn't he turn Zed into a Petrosapien Predator.

I'd say proven effectiveness is for the Nemetrix.