Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11372481-20130629102349/@comment-8505655-20130701150418

@Silentia Altum, haven't you been following along? For example, when Gwen, Kevin And Ben pick up Ben from the past when they are heading to the Forge of Creation to stop Aggregor from harvesting the powers of a newly born Celestapien? And then in Ben Again, teenager Gwen hardly remembers what the brain-swapped Ben did in the past except of telling her what she were supposed to tell him in the future and... Professor Paradox said that time-travelingn is a dangerous thing to do because it doesn't allow of changing the course of history.

And anyway, even the main storyline can be an alternate timeline...! So, what are you trying to say with all of this?

In Ben 10,000, present Ben sees his future self learn an important life lesson from him, which leads to the peculiar conclusion that Ben somehow forgets or ignores what he learned from himself if that episode is taken as Ben's exact future. On top of that, viewing the episode, one gets the feeling that Gwendolyn and Ben 10,000 were not themselves brought into the future when they were 10-year-olds. Meaning one of two things: time was changed, such that that future now only exists in an alternate timeline, or that it was always in an alternate timeline. Either way, by the time it had happened, it was alternate.

The Forge of Creation example makes sense in how both Bens could easily be from the same timeline. The Ben from the past has little to no recollection of this and misconstrues it as a dream. Paradox even explains how past Ben experiencing this will be important to the formation of the present.

Your example about what Paradox said reinforces the possibility that Gwendolyn took Ben and Gwen from an alternate timeline. Why mess with your own past, and, by extension, your present, when you can mess with a separate but similar timeline with no bearing on your own?

And as for that last point, yes and no. The main timeline is alternate relative to all others, but by virtue of being the main timeline, all others are considered relative to it, such that it is the only one that isn't alternate. But that's only a matter of perspective.