Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24111700-20141114194623/@comment-25413835-20141203221121

Aceiscoolpro wrote: I'm sure Dwayne McDuffie (alien force and ultimate alien writer) had a lot planned for Chromastone's backstory but we'll probably never see that as Dwayne McDuffie had passed away just a few years ago. Not really. The writers had access to all of the episodes Dwayne wrote before he passed. And before he did pass, they had already moved on and were writing bits of omniverse. The reason why chromostone was treated so weirdly is because they just wanted to bring back some Ben's original aliens in season 3 of AF. They saw how diamondhead and chromostone had simularities, so they decided to use that as an explination to bring diamondhead back. Of course, using that explination meant chromostone would be destoryed, so thats why he wasnt used much in UA. Once Ben got him back, they had already gone a full season and a long hiatus without using him, so they just kept useing the same aliens Ben used recently. They threw him in a few episodes to say "Hey, hes still here", but that was it.

The reason why he wasnt used much in OV is most likely because Derrick's original redesign for him was rejected. So they threw him in an early episode with his old design, but since they didnt have a new design for him, he didn't make many more appearences. That is until A New Dawn, when he got his new appearence.