It's Not Easy Being Gwen

It's Not Easy Being Gwen is the twenty-ninth episode of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and the ninth episode of the second season.

Plot
In a park, Dr. Animo is riding on his mutant frog carrying a canister of radioactive isotopes. While believing he lost some people who were chasing him, he learns that his enemies surrounded him. Kevin, Gwen and Ben as Big Chill have surrounded him like they said. Ben freezes Dr. Animo's mutant frog's legs, trapping him in it, but Dr. Animo uses his mind-control headband to give the frog more strength and they both escape. Ben then drops off Gwen at her house, and tries to go to bed to sleep, but gets to sleep for only a for a little while when her alarm clock beeps for 5:30 in the morning, much to her chagrin.

Emily is angry that Gwen would put saving the world from Dr. Animo over getting to her concert. When she berates Gwen for always leaving her to save the world, Gwen gets hurt and (without a choice) goes with Ben to help. In an open field, Kevin is battling Dr. Animo and his army of mutant frogs. While being picked up, he drops the magic pendant Gwen gave him. As Kevin was about to be killed by Animo, Gwen and Ben as Cannonbolt arrive to help him. While battling Animo, Emily prepares for her concert and is shocked to learn that Gwen is not in the seat she reserved for her. Emily plays the music and Dr. Animo fires his transmodulator ray on both Gwen and Kevin, but they manage to survive thanks to Gwen's shields. Ben and Kevin work together while Gwen rests from protecting Kevin from the transmodulator ray and Ben finally defeats Animo with Ultimate Cannonbolt, then destroys the mind-control headband that allowed Animo to control his mutated frogs. Soon, Emily stops playing the piano and while she is gifted with applause, she believes Gwen never showed up at her performance, but is surprised to see Gwen, despite being scraped up and messy from the battle, in the audience applauding Emily (she presumably got there by a teleportation spell), saving their friendship. When Gwen comes home, she tells her mother she got the invitations done in the car and Gwen's mother allows Ben and Kevin to join them for dinner. When Gwen's mother asked how her day was, she responds it was the "usual" and hugs her mother while yawning.

Major Events

 * Dr. Animo becomes a real threat again.
 * Emily hates Ben.

Characters

 * Gwen (main character of the episode)
 * Ben
 * Kevin
 * Emily
 * Lili Tennyson

Villains

 * Dr. Animo
 * Mutant Frogs

Aliens Used

 * Big Chill
 * Wildmutt (off-screen)
 * Jetray
 * Humungousaur
 * Spidermonkey
 * Cannonbolt (x2) (second time goes ultimate)
 * Ultimate Cannonbolt

Spells Used

 * Scribo Iniacendia

Errors

 * When the fog clears out after Ultimate Cannonbolt was getting whipped around by the mutant frog and laying down, the 4 spikes for the Ultimatrix on Ultimate Cannonbolt's chest are gone.
 * When Ultimate Cannonbolt took the tongue of the giant frog, after that Ultimate Cannonbolt hit him. When he hit him, the headband on his eyes wasn't there.
 * When Gwen put her headphones on the table, when she got out the spellbook, the headphones weren't there and the MP3 wasn't with her too.

Trivia

 * Dr. Animo's mutant frogs return for the first time since the original series.
 * This is the first appearance of Gwen's best friend, Emily, who had dated Ben once.
 * It shown that Gwen takes her mini pocket-spellbook to school.
 * It is revealed that Kevin does not go to school.
 * Gwen's outfit is actually the school uniform.
 * This is the second time Gwen and Kevin almost kiss.
 * This episode shows "a day in the life" of Gwen.
 * This is the second time an Ultimate is used against a human villain.
 * This is legally based on Goodbye and Good Riddance, where we see Ben on his school day.
 * The title, "It's Not Easy Being Gwen", is based off the phrase "it's not easy being green" from The Muppets.
 * This episode takes place during the school year but four episodes earlier it was early summer because according to Lili "Sunny's going to be staying with us this summer".
 * This is the second episode told from Gwen's point of view first since the original series.
 * This is the first time ever since Voided that Dr. Animo is the main villain and an actual threat.
 * Kevin is seen adding an electrolysis machine (which converts water into oxygen) to his car, as part of his ongoing efforts to make it submersible (which was first mentioned in In Charm's Way).Kevinfix.jpg
 * It is stated that Emily is Gwen's best friend since Kindergarten.
 * Gwen knows that Kevin does not go to school and does not want him to go off and fight their enemies.
 * This is the fourth time we see Gwen with ripped clothes.
 * Ben turned into all of his aliens off-screen except Canonnbolt's second appearance. This happened because the episode was focused on Gwen's point of view and not Ben's.
 * This is the second time Dr. Animo converts an observatory into a transmodulator ray. The first time was in Dr. Animo and the Mutant Ray.
 * According to Kevin, Ben has a pass that allows him to go off his school's campus anytime he wants.
 * It is said that Ben once dated Emily before he met Julie, but on their first date, Ben left her webbed at a 200 foot radio tower and he said that it was for her own safety.
 * Near the end of the episode, while Emily is playing piano music at her recital, the music is still the main soundtrack while Ben, Gwen, and Kevin battle Dr. Animo and his mutant frogs.
 * This is the second time that Kevin was almost killed, the first being in Absolute Power Part 2, by Ultimate Echo Echo.
 * This is the first time a human villain (Dr.Animo) defeats an Ultimate (Ultimate Cannonbolt),
 * At her concert, Emily is playing the song Fantaisie Impromptu in C- Sharp Minor, Op. 66 by Chopin
 * Ben turns into the same alien two times in a row (Cannonbolt).