Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.16.250.42-20130428184051/@comment-3412412-20140103003430

Maxwell Cohen wrote: ICame2Play wrote: Maxwell Cohen wrote: SatX19 wrote: 173.174.241.121 wrote: if the writers hate Fasttrack then why does he exist The writers don't hate him. DJW confirmed that he may appear again. XLR8 appeared in omniverse because he was an old time favourite for fans and fans might get excited for his reappearance. Fasttrack also didn't appear because if there are 2 speed aliens, it will be quite confusing. This might also be the reason why swampfire is not appearing a lot, because of heatblast' s and wildvine' s reappearances. Is that why so many aliens have been neglected? Redundancy issues. So many aliens have been neglected? Let's do a count of the aliens that haven't appeared yet:

1. Fasttrack

2. Jetray

3. Ghostfreak

4. ChamAlien

That's 4 of the 44 aliens that appeared before Omniverse made its debut. And the redundancy issue is due to the failure of the writers of Alien Force and Ultimate Alien to come up with genuinely new powers. I didn't say a neglected alien hasn't appeared. I'm saying that they haven't been used much. Take Chromastone and Brainstorm. They've only made one appearance each so far. Meanwhile, Ben keeps using aliens like Shocksquatch, Feedback, Humungousaur, Fourarms, and Astrodactyl constantly. I think Ghostfreak won't be used much, Zs,Skayr might take over. Jetray and Fasttrack have been replaced by Stinkfly, Astrodactyl and XLR8. ChamAlien hasn't been replaced but a episode where he would've been useful hasn't aired yet.