It's Not Easy Being Gwen

It's Not Easy Being Gwen is the twenty-ninth episode of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and its the ninth episode of the second season

Plot
In a park, Dr. Animo is riding on his mutant frog carrying a bag of radioactive isotopes. While believing he lost some people who were chasing him, he learns that his enemies surrounded him. Kevin, Gwen, and Ben as Big Chill have surrounded him like they said. Ben freezes Dr. Animo's mutant frog's legs, trapping him and it, but Dr. Animo uses his mind-control headband to give the frog more strength and they both escape. Ben then drops off Gwen at her house, and tries to go to bed to sleep, but gets to sleep for only a few seconds when her alarm clock beeps for 5:30 in the morning, much to her dismay.

Gwen starts her day by jogging and studying French. She then comes home to take a shower and then gets ready for school. When she was about to leave, Gwen's mother asks her to fill out invitations for a family reunion. Realizing that there are too many invitations, Gwen tries to use a spell to make her pen write the words down for herself, but instead they catch on fire. This just makes Gwen's day even harder. At school, Gwen meets with her friend Emily, who says she has a piano concert tonight and she hopes Gwen can make it. Gwen promises to be there, despite being very overbooked, with activities and the invitations and helping her friends track down Animo. When lunch break goes on, Gwen meets with Kevin, but sees his shirt ripped up and says that he found Animo.

While driving in Kevin's car, Gwen's mother bickers her about not finishing the invitations and Kevin asks if she can help him get into high school. Gwen promises and before Kevin leaves to help Ben as Jetray take down Animo's mutant frogs, Gwen gives him a magic pendant that can protect him if he needs it. Gwen goes back to her school to finish the rest of her studies, and notices Animo placing a threat on the Internet and Ben as Humongosaur battling mutant frogs. She also has to cover for her algebra teacher's class and do karate. Once the school day is over, Gwen would finish her list of duties for the day by finishing the invitations, helping Kevin get a G.E.D., and get to Emily's concert. However, Ben as Spidermonkey arrives and tells Gwen that they can't defeat Dr. Animo without her help, now making Gwen's schedule even MORE tighter.

Emily is astounded that Gwen would put saving the world from Dr. Animo over getting to her concert. When Emily berates Gwen for always leaving her to save the world, Gwen gets hurt and (without a choice) goes with Ben to help. In an open field, Kevin is battling Dr. Animo and his army of mutant frogs. While being picked up, he drops the magic pendant Gwen gave him. As Kevin was about to be killed by Animo, Gwen and Ben as Cannonbolt arrive to help him. While battling Animo, Emily prepares for her concert and is dismayed to learn that Gwen is not in the seat she reserved for her. Emily plays the music and Dr. Animo fires his transmodulator ray on both Gwen and Kevin, but they manage to survive thanks to Gwen's shields. Ben and Kevin work together while Gwen rests from protecting Kevin from the transmodulator ray, and Ben finally defeats Animo with Ultimate Cannonbolt, then destroys the mind-control headband that allowed Animo to control his mutated frogs. Soon, Emily stops playing the piano, and while she is gifted with applause, she believes Gwen never showed up at her performance, but is surprised to see Gwen, despite being scraped up and messy from the battle, in the audience appluading Emily (she presumably got there by a teleportation spell), saving her and Emily's friendship. When Gwen comes home, she tells her mother she got the invitations done in the car and Gwen's mother allows Ben and Kevin to join them for dinner. When Gwen's mother asked how her day was, she responds it was the "usual"and hugs her mother while yawning.

Major Events

 * We saw the daily life of Gwen.
 * Dr. Animo becomes a real threat again.
 * We discovered that Gwen's outfit is actually the school uniform.
 * This is the second time Gwen and Kevin almost kiss.
 * Dr. Animo's mutant frogs return for the first time since the original series.
 * This is the first appearance of Gwen's best friend, Emily, who had dated Ben once.

Characters

 * Gwen (main character of the episode)
 * Ben
 * Kevin
 * Emily
 * Lili Tennyson

Villains

 * Dr. Animo
 * Mutant Frogs

Aliens Used

 * Big Chill
 * Wildmutt (off screen)
 * Jetray
 * Humungousaur
 * Spidermonkey
 * Cannonbolt (x2)
 * Ultimate Cannonbolt

Spells Used

 * Scribo Iniacendia

Errors

 * When Gwen enters her room, her clock says it's 3:02 a.m. but when she lies in bed and her alarm goes off a minute later, the clock says 5:30 a.m.
 * When you see the fog clear out after Ultimate Cannonbolt was getting whipped around bUltcanfrogerror.jpg the mutant frog and laying down, the 4 spikes for the ultimatrix on Ultimate Cannonbolt's chest are gone.
 * When Kevin is fixing his car, he is talking to Gwen on his phone. His phone was showed in Deep. It was a flip-up phone. But now it's a phone like Gwen's and Ben's.
 * When Ultimate Cannonbolt took the tongue of the giant frog, after that Ultimate Cannonbolt hit him. When he hit him, the thing between his eyes (where Dr.Animo controlls) wasn't there.
 * When Gwen put her headphones on the table, when she got out the spellbook, the headphones weren't there & the mp3 wasn't with her too.
 * The three Piles of mails on the table, twice the third one wasn't there.
 * When Gwen & Kevin got to Gwen's home, Kevin's clothes weren't torn up.

Trivia

 * This is the second time an Ultimate is used against a human villain.
 * This is legally based on Goodbye and Good Riddance, where we see Ben on his school day.
 * The title," It's Not Easy Being Gwen," is based off the phrase "it's not easy being green" from The Muppets.
 * This episode takes place during the school year but four episodes earlier it was early summer because according to Lili "Sunny's going to be staying with us this summer". It could be possibly Summer School. This is evidenced by the fact the Ben is not in school while Gwen is. It's possible a lot of time have passed between episodes.
 * This is the Kevinfix.jpgd episode told from Gwen's point of view(first since the original series).
 * This is the first time ever since Voided that Dr. Animo is the main villain and an actual threat.
 * Kevin is seen adding an electrolysis machine (which converts water into Oxygen) to his car, as part of his ongoing efforts to make it submersible (which was first mentioned in In Charm's Way).
 * It states that Emily is Gwen's Best friend since Kindergarten.
 * The mutant frog from the original series comes back. This time, Animo had four of them.
 * This is the second time Kevin and Gwen almost kiss, but Ben was the one to get in the way, the first was the Highbreed Commander commander in Darkstar Rising.
 * Gwen knows that Kevin does not go to school and does not want him to go off and fight their enemies.
 * This is the fourth time we see Gwen with ripped clothes.
 * Ben turned into all of his aliens off-screen except Canonnbolt's second appearance. This happened because the episode was focused on Gwen's point of view and not Ben's.
 * It's implied that the clothes Gwen wears in Ultimate Alien is actually the uniform of her school as her fellow classmates were seen wearing the same color scheme for the girls' skirt and stockings as well as the boys' shirt and vest.
 * This is the second time Dr. Animo converts an observatory into a transmodulator ray. The first time was in Dr. Animo and the Mutant Ray
 * the original series episode .*Dr.Animo used the same headband which he control the Yeti in Escape from Aggregor. Now it is realized that the headband was a replacement for the helmet which he had in the original series.
 * According to Kevin, Ben has a pass that allows him to go off his school's campus anytime he wants.
 * It is said that Ben once dated Emily before or after he met Julie, but on their first date, Ben left her webbed at a 200 foot radio tower and he said that it was for her own safety.
 * Near the end of the episode, while Emily is playing piano music at her recital, the music is still the main soundtrack while Ben, Gwen, and Kevin battle Dr. Animo and his mutant frogs.
 * This is the second time that Kevin was almost killed, the first being in Absolute Power Part 2, by Ultimate Echo Echo.
 * Gwen`s name in French is pronounced- JenVee
 * This is the first time a human villain(Dr.Animo) defeats an Ultimate(Ultimate Cannonbolt), which possibly adds to how deadly Animo really is.
 * At her concert, Emily is playing the song Fantaisie Impromptu in C- Sharp Minor, Op. 66 by Chopin
 * Ben turns into the same alien two times in a row (Cannonbolt).