Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4848837-20130325005718/@comment-4848837-20130326111601

ICame2Play, I can see your point (a point which no one has actually brought up before), as it nullifies what Azmuth said in War of the Worlds. But regardless, that shouldn't be a real point. If a base for all the DNA exists, then Azmuth needn't worry about the Omnitrix getting destroyed--just the planet, which is harder to find. This would let the Omnitrix be infinitely recreated. Tossing out Primus is taking a step backwards, because if the Omnitrix is destroyed another time, all the DNA in the Omnitrix will be lost unless Azmuth makes another one that's linked up to Primus (which will be lacking any DNA that had been scanned since the Omntrix's creation as well as resetting Ben's playlists).

Also, I don't think the point of the Omnitrix was retconned in any way. I might be missing something, but was it ever said in the original series that the Omnitrix contained all the species directly? Azmuth could have led Ben to believe this so he wouldn't break it (and maybe telling Ben about it was what made him more likely to use the self destruct command in The Final Battle). The point of the Omnitrix--also something said in War of the Worlds--was to bring back life for other species as well as let other species "walk a mile in other species' shoes" (Azmuth in Secret of the Omnitrix).