Thread:Stryzzar/@comment-26812877-20151216160144/@comment-26812877-20151217065905

Well, it's not just Western society views that Cartoon Network needs to take into account on. There are the international viewers as well, which is where this concept is more popular and favored in. Heck, Ben 10 is more popular with international viewers than it is with U.S. viewers. Why do you think CN is airing the reboot internationally first and then in the U.S.? Overall, there are other cultures around the world that accept this kind of relationship and as I mentioned before, this concept has been done in other forms of entertainment media and literature. Again, the examples that the "Kissing Cousins" trope that the TvTropes website lists.

I said "a major reason" meaning that it's not the only reason why CN made Kevin a hero.

And look at where gay relationship are now. They are accepted almost worldwide. Besides, CN revealed that Steven Universe has a lesbian couple and look how that turned out. At this point, we are becoming more willing to accept and support weird, strange, and abnormal relationships. If at this point it's now ok to put in a gay relationship in a cartoon show, why not try to go for a cousin relationship next?

And would CN let the Tennyson family carry a recessive disease? Yeah, I doubt it. We're talking about a 4-7% chance of a genetic disorder in a child from a cousin couple with a 93-96% of nothing happening to the child at all. Scientists don't even consider this a biological reason to discourage cousin relationships. Those chances only increase if relationships like this continue within one family for multiple generations. And again, this is a fictional show with fictional characters. There are many examples of entertainment media and literature that did this cousin relationship concept. Why shouldn't Cartoon Network follow up on that with Ben 10? This is another reason why this isn't a big deal to have in the show.

Now yes, Ben and Gwen don't have to be a couple and that alone won't make the Ben 10 series great but there sure are a whole lot of fans, if not most fans, that do favor this relationship and want this relationship to happen in the show.