Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-241978-20141009232125/@comment-14267015-20141022042916

Albedo kind of put himself in his situation. He created the fake Omnitrix because he was jealous of not getting the prototype and just copied the design, if he had just looked it over Albedo probably would have realized "oh if I don't change this I'll turn into Ben". That's his own overconfience working against him. Turning into a color distorted Ben was an unforseen side-effect of the two Omnitrxes getting too close to each other, technically no one's fault. Azmuth left him in this state to teach him a lesson, Azmuth is certainly no saint but if Albedo showed he was sorry I'm sure he would have changed him back.

When he was trying to turn himself into a living Omnitrix and Ben interupted the process, again leaving him trapped in human form, it was Albedo's fault. He was being far too mysterious about his plans and his past actions against Ben didn't do him any favors. Plus, given his past, it still wouldn't be a good idea to let Albedo have that kind of power.

In Omniverse, he recreated the Ultimatrix to both stabilize his powers and give himself access to the Ultimates. Albedo did this solely to increase his power and get revenge on Ben and Azmuth, definitely signs of a villain. After coming out of his "enlightenment", Albedo's first action was to try and kill our heroes when he could have changed his ways. Another point against him. Afterward, Azmuth further punished Albedo by turning him into Ben's 10 year-old self. And finally, Albedo later teamed up with Vilgax, Eon, and 4 other evil versions of Ben in an attempt to conquer the multiverse.

Sorry to those of you who believe otherwise, but it seems to me that Albedo is irredeemable. Unless for some reason he were to sacrifice himself for the greater good, that always does the trick, but given how self serving he is I don't see it happening. And you can't say Albedo didn't deserve what happened to him, he hates being Ben so what better punishment is there? If he decided to change his attitude and tried to change his ways, Azmuth might decide to give Albedo a break and at least turn him back into the older Ben, but something would have to be done about the Ultimates. Azmuth himself stated that, that feature was nothing but trouble, eventually I think it would cause the user's DNA to become unstable and either mutate into something indescribable or they'd just die.