Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6527064-20150725002151/@comment-26812877-20151014070135

Well that's the thing. When you really analyze Kevin, he definitely does not fit that role. In the Original Series, Kevin grows to have a very deep grudge against Ben. This led to Kevin initially wanting to ruin Ben's hero reputation but soon after led to Kevin making repeated attempts to kill Ben. In fact, Kevin's grudge against Ben led to him even going so far as to have Kevin team up with Ben's greatest and most feared enemy, Vilgax. Plus, Kevin had eventually reached the point where he delved into becoming a psychopath, sociopath, and mentally unstable. This is not because of his powers. This is because of the abuse that he faced in his past and his encounters with Ben. Let's not forget to mention that Kevin ended up in the Null Void. Considering that the Null Void was able to have some psychological negative effect on Vilgax (read the wiki page on Vilgax), imagine what the Null Void could do to an 11-year-old Kevin. Here's another point to make. Kevin is a thug that doesn't know what he really wants other than that he wants more. I'll also add every attempt that Kevin had made to kill Ben and Gwen in the Original Series to this argument as well. More wealth, more respect, more of pretty much anything, hence in the sequels he continues to commit criminal acts even though he reformed into a good guy. Now can people change? Yes, but people can also stay the same. Considering the type of person that Kevin is and his very strong grudge on Ben, it makes absolutely no sense and is completely not understandable for Kevin to transition into a good guy and to even team up with Ben and Gwen. It also makes absolutely no sense and is completely not understandable for Gwen to be in a relationship with Kevin as well.

Now yes, Kevin does lighten things up in the sequels but that's because the new writers that made Alien Force changed Ben and Gwen into the very individuals that they would not be and is in fact the complete opposite of them. Ben and Gwen never really grew up and never really got the chance to do so because of how Glen Murikami and Dwayne McDuffie treated them as. Ben wasn't supposed to be only mature and serious. He was supposed to be the cocky, fun-loving, ego-centric, and impulsive individual that he was in the Original Series but here's another thing about Ben in the Original Series. He was also mature and serious. In the Original Series, Ben grew up as the show progressed. He developed and improved himself into becoming a better and more responsible hero while staying his good same old self. As for Gwen, in the Original Series, she was the voice of reason (especially to Ben) while also having the willingness to fight when necessary. In the sequels, Gwen was changed into pretty much just someone who complains to Ben and Kevin for the actions that they take yet let's them walk all over her. Ben and Gwen lost what made them great characters and that's why Kevin at least had personality in the sequels.

You said that there was a huge contrast in personality between Ben, Gwen, and Max. That's where you're wrong. Ben, Gwen, and Max were the most perfect team that this series ever got. You want comic relief and entertaining characters. In the Original Series, you got that with Ben and Gwen. There was no huge contrast in personality with those characters. Everything that you needed with Ben, Gwen, and Max was all right there with them. There's no need for Kevin to fill in any gap in character personalities because there wasn't never even a gap to begin with.

If you like Kevin as a good guy, that's fine by me. I understand your opinions. Still, Kevin is better off as a villain. Heck, I bet you anything that not even Man of Action would want Kevin to be a good guy either.