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Blaziken rjcf wrote: The problem with these "not retcons" is that viewers simply assumed, for example, that Gwen's powers were innate in origin and not related to aliens in any way, shape, or form. Thus, in their minds, that became canon. They should know a writer never writes everything down, and that characters can be wrong. Otherwise, how are you going to surprise your audience?

Many viewers assume what Man of Action intended for Ben 10 though. In McDuffie and Murikami's eyes though, Gwen is half Anodite. However, I believe that Man of Action wanted to keep Gwen as a human sorceress. There's even that AMA on Reddit that Joe Kelly did a while back where he states that even though he thinks it's nice to keep the concepts simple, Joe Kelly prefers variety and would have wanted to keep Gwen's magic in Ben 10. I believe he means that he would have rather not have Gwen's powers be of alien origin. Many fans and viewers don't like the retcons of the sequel shows because they rather prefer the version of Ben 10 that Man of Action envisioned before CN replaced MOA with a different set of writers. If CN let MOA stay around to make more Ben 10 shows, how do you think the Ben 10 sequel shows would have gone if it was in MOA's hands and not in the hands of McDuffie, Murikami, Derrick J. Wyatt, Matt Wayne, etc? It would have been more likely that we wouldn't get all these retcons such as the Plumbers being an intergalactic law enforcement agency, Kevin being a good guy and being paired with Gwen, Gwen being half Anodite, etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3uhm13/i_am_joe_kelly_man_of_action_writer_of_i_kill/