Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24588058-20170306203928/@comment-24588058-20170310042924

I disagree. If you look at all 1,000,912 aliens in the galaxy, and you compare them all side by side, I'm sure a large number of them will have similar abilities. Of all those aliens, probably at least a thousand or more are able to fly in some way or another. At least a thousand can probably swim underwater in some way. A small handful might even be like Jetray and can do both. You'll have some repetitive aliens; I'm surprised they didn't show more, to be honest.

At the same time, some aliens which seem similar have some unique differences. Take Four Arms and Humungousaur, for example. Yes, they are two of Ben's strongest aliens for their size. But the biggest differences between them lie in two of their abilities: Humungousaur can grow from 12 ft. up to 60 ft., while Four Arms. . . . well, enough said there. I actually have a bit of a hunch in regards to how the Omnitrix selects its aliens when it recalibrates to ten. It picks aliens with specific abilities which can be helpful in a variety of situations: Flight, Swim, Space Survivability, Intelligence, Strength, and Intangibility. It's a pretty easy thing to do, since many aliens have similar abilities. And as we saw in AF, if you take an alien like Jetray which can knock out both flight and underwater, you leave the door open for a new alien to be selected. I also counter that Alien X is hardly useless or pointless; if anything, he is by far Ben's most powerful alien, to the point of rendering many of his others useless. Imagine how easy it would be for Ben to smite most of his enemies with Alien X, especially now that he has full control over it (after the events of Universe v. Tennyson).

I also enjoyed Omniverse's showing of other aliens, like The Worst and Walkatrout, because they show the wide variety of alien life. And our opinion of some of the is exactly Ben's opinion of them; he didn't call one of his aliens "The Worst" because he liked it. He usually didn't transform into them, and when he did it usually wasn't on purpose.

That being said, while I would have liked to see aliens like Jetray and Fasttrack used at least one or twice, I wouldn't have wanted to see them all of the time. Like how we are always seeing Humungousaur. Seriously, Ben. It's not always about strength.