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Your time is up.

– Clockwork.[1]

Clockwork is the Omnitrix's DNA sample of a Chronosapien[2][3] from an unknown planet.

Appearance

Clockwork is a robot-like alien with skin that is made of golden metal, with black stripes and a key on top of his head. His face has a blank expression, and he has a transparent piece of green glass-like material on his chest, revealing the gears inside of him.

In Omniverse, 16-year-old Clockwork has a larger body and holes on the key on his somewhat restructured head. There is a black stripe on his back that splits into two stripes with a keyhole between them.

11-year-old Clockwork has a thinner and rounder head, a white and black shirt, a smiley face, and a circular piece of glass-like material similar to his original appearance.

Clockwork wears the Ultimatrix/Omnitrix/original Omnitrix symbol on his chest.

Powers and Abilities

Clockwork. He's got time powers. Speed up, slow down, forward, back.

Ben 10,000 explaining Clockwork's powers to No Watch Ben.[4]

Clockwork possesses chronokinesis, which gives him the control over time itself; Clockwork can reduce the time around him, making it look as if he is moving extremely fast to bystanders.[5] He can also completely freeze time, as demonstrated by Maltruant.[6] Furthermore, Clockwork can speed up and reverse time.[7][4] Additionally, Clockwork also possess chronopathy, which grants him a fine-tuned sense of precise time and determines the exact time an event has taken or will take place and for how long, as demonstrated by Maltruant.[6]

Clockwork has the ability to travel through time,[8][9] a technique that was used by Maltruant to recruit Subdora decades before his body was reconstructed in the present day.[DJW 1]

Clockwork can fire time rays from his hands or chest, which have various effects like sending people back in time,[9] manipulating the age of a person or object,[10][11] reversing the effects of a Chronosapien Time Bomb, sending people into a different timeline,[4] and reverting them to a previous state while also immobilizing them.[11]

Clockwork possesses a degree of enhanced strength, as he was able to throw a pipe hard enough it became embedded into a wall.[5] Clockwork also possesses enhanced durability, shown when Looma threw him at a wall at full force.[12]

Clockwork can rotate his head 360 degrees.[DJW 2] Additionally, by rotating the key on his head, he can create hologram-like projections of what happened in the past.[13][14]

Because he is a technological being, it is possible for a Galvanic Mechamorph to merge with Clockwork.[11]

Clockwork can still function if he loses some of his parts.[11]

Weaknesses

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Below Average Stamina

For a guy with time powers, he runs crazy slow!

Ben 23 about Clockwork/Windy-Hindy.[11]

Clockwork's time powers are completely useless in a place where there is no time at all, such as before the birth of a universe, as demonstrated with Maltruant.[15]

Clockwork's aging time rays are ineffective against anything diamond-related such as Petrosapiens, since they take millions or even billions of years to age.[8][9]

Clockwork can be temporarily disabled if he is exposed to a large electromagnetic pulse, such as that from a solar pulse.[7][6]

The use of Clockwork's time powers creates a Sotobro effect, which is a ripple in the timestream that can be sensed or reversed by another Chronosapien.[4]

Clockwork's bulky body makes him relatively slower than other opponents and makes him an easy target for enemy attacks, as he admits that he "is not good for dodging".[5] Similarly, because of his large body and short legs, Clockwork cannot run very fast and will tire out quickly.[3]

Unlike Maltruant, Clockwork is unable to travel through dimensions, even when he is upgraded by a Galvanic Mechamorph.[DJW 3][16]

Because he is a mechanical-based being, Clockwork can be magnetized by a Biotsavartian.[DJW 4]

Clockwork can be affected by a Nemuina's sleeping dust.[DJW 5]

History

Five Years Prior to Omniverse

  • In Ben Again, 16-year-old Ben as 11-year-old Clockwork helped fix the time stream and defeat Eon.

Ultimate Alien

Omniverse

Ultimate Alien Future

Appearances

Ultimate Ben
Season 3
Gwen
Season 3
Ben
Season 3

16-year-old Ben
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
  • Ben Again (11-year-old Ben in 16-year-old Ben's body)
Season 5
Season 7
Season 8
11-year-old Ben
Season 3
  • Ben Again (used by 16-year-old Ben in 11-year-old Ben's body)
No Watch Ben
Season 5

Ultimate Alien
Omniverse

Naming and Translations

Language Name Origin
Bulgarian Времебоец From време/vreme, time and боец/boets, warrior
Chinese 时钟王 From 时钟 (Shí Zhōng), clock and (Wáng), king
Croatian Vremenski From vrijeme, time, the time one
Dutch Uurwerk From uurwerk, clockwork
French Temposaure From temps, time and -saure, -saur
German Uhrwerk From uhrwerk, clockwork
Hebrew המכני From המכני, mechanical
Hungarian Időgép From időgép, time machine
Italian Raggiotempo From raggio, ray and tempo, time
Polish Mechaniczny
Zegar
From mechaniczny, mechanical
From zegar, clock
Portuguese (Br) Ampulheta
Contra Tempo
From ampulheta, hourglass
From contra tempo, contretemps
Romanian Ceasornicul From ceasornic, clock
Russian Машина Времени
Часы
Часовой Механизм
From машина времени, time machine
From часы, clock
From часовой механизм, clockwork
Spanish (HA) Clockwork From the original English name
Spanish (Spain) Crono Crono from cronológico, chronological
Turkish Klokvork From the original English name

Etymology

The term "clockwork" refers to a mechanism with a spring and toothed gearwheels, used to drive a mechanical clock and other types of devices; this refers to Clockwork being a mechanical alien with gears and time-based powers.

Trivia

Haywire Clockwork No Box

The Haywire Clockwork toy

  • Clockwork's appearance when he is fused with Techno-Bubble bears a strong resemblance to the Haywire Clockwork action figure, which has Eatle's Ultimate Alien color scheme.
  • Clockwork makes gear sounds when he moves, which is similar to Armodrillo when he moves his arms.
    • In Omniverse, Clockwork ticks like a clock for the entirety of his transformation sequence, and there is a sound similar to the tolling of Big Ben that sometimes appears at the end.
    • The tolling clock sound also occurs when Clockwork's time rays strike their target or when he is struck on his head key.
  • Clockwork speaks with a thick German accent because Germany is known for inventing the watch, a portable timepiece that could tell time no matter wherever someone was in the world. Whenever Clockwork speaks in Omniverse, the reverb in his voice would make a cuckoo clock sound.
  • Clockwork's Ultimate Alien design, as well as 11-year-old Clockwork's design in Omniverse, were created by Steven Choi.[TJC 1][DJW 6]
    • Clockwork is the only alien used by 11-year-old Ben whose Omnitrix symbol has a gold rim, rather than a silver one like his other aliens.
  • Unlike Buzzshock, Spitter, and Arctiguana, Clockwork was first revealed by a different Ben 10,000 from the one featured in the Original Series.
    • Regardless, the latter three of these aliens would later be unlocked by present-day Ben.
    • Of these, Clockwork was the only one who was used by present-day Ben in the same series he was initially revealed in.
  • Derrick J. Wyatt thought that 11-year-old Ben kept Clockwork after the events of Ben Again, but Matt Youngberg always said he did not.[DJW 7]
    • Concept art of 12-year old Kevin's mutated form featured Clockwork's key on the sides of his head. However, this was removed in the final version.[ca 1][ca 2]
  • There were no plans to feature Clockwork in the reboot, a fact that upsets Duncan Rouleau.[DR 1]

References

Production Material

Concept Art

Crew Statements

Geoffrey Thorne

Derrick J. Wyatt

T.J. Collins

Duncan Rouleau

Transformations
Prime Timeline
Regular Transformations
Introduced in Ben 10 ArctiguanaBlitzwolferBuzzshockCannonboltDiamondheadDittoEye GuyFour ArmsFrankenstrikeGhostfreakGrey MatterHeatblastRipjawsSnare-OhSpitterStinkflyUpchuckUpgradeWay BigWildmuttWildvineXLR8
Introduced in Alien Force Alien XBig ChillBrainstormChromastoneEcho EchoGoopHumungousaurJetrayLodestarNanomechRathSpidermonkeySwampfire
Introduced in Ultimate Alien AmpfibianArmodrilloChamalienClockworkEatleFasttrackJuryriggNRGShocksquatchTerraspinWaterhazard
Introduced in Omniverse AstrodactylAtomixBall WeevilBloxxBullfragCrashhopperFeedbackGravattackGutrotKickin' HawkMole-StachePesky DustThe WorstToepickWalkatroutWhampire
Ultimate Forms
AlbedoArctiguanaBenBig ChillCannonboltEcho EchoGravattackHumungousaurRathSpidermonkeySwampfireWay BigWildmutt
Combinations
Seen Combinations Atomic-XBig ChuckCrashockerDiamond MatterFourmungousaurHeat JawsHumungoopsaurStink ArmsUprigg
Concept Combinations GravadactylXLRG
Alternate Dimensions/Timelines
Original Future Timeline SandboxShellheadSnakepit
Generator Rex Dimension Alpha-ArmsHeatblastHumungousaur
Non-Canon
Competition Winners Alien Maker Contest WinnerMoyoInvinciblePortalerShadowmanStretcheleo
MAD ChromastoneFour ArmsHumungousaurJetrayNRGSwampfire
Total Access AntigraviteslaBob the BlobPlantapocalypse
Ben 10: Science Hero CaetSektoid TransformationShafarnianSteeler
Tim 10 BloxxFour ArmsHeatblastSkateasaurusUpchuckXLR8
Other Cartoon Network AlienEon (retconned)Evil Way BigFuel Run AlienGrendene AlienK-Zone AlienRobot AlienRocksSquidstrictor