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Ben maturing in that sense is basically "Character development", an important aspect in all forms of fictional media. I completely agree, Ochoa. In fact, research has shown that impulsivity is a side effect of the brain pruning in adolecence, which is the stage that Ben was begining to enter in the first series and should have been going through relistically in the sequels (he is a human, and in a show based around science and fiction, you'd expect some form of research being done to make Teen!Ben a believeable Teen!Ben). And if this logic is sound to anyone, that would mean that Ben should have been just as or slighlty more impulsive and cocky.

As for mischeviousness, I can confirm that it is apart of his personality. We have seen him do things like stealing from cereal boxes, using the Omnitrix to freak out a kid as Stinkfly in a gross-out competition, attempting to scare Gwen a few times, sneaking into a VIP game room, and probably a whole whack load of other things.