Clockwork

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

Appearance

In Ultimate Alien, Clockwork is a robot-like alien with skin that is made of golden metal, with black stripes and a transparent piece of green circular glass on his chest, revealing the gears inside of him.

In Omniverse, Clockwork has a larger body and holes on the key on his head, which is restructured a little. The piece of glass on his chest is now in the shape of a hexagon instead of a circle. On his back, he has a black stripe 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 similar to his appearance in Ultimate Alien. The Omnitrix symbol also has a gold outer casing instead of silver, like his 16-year-old counterpart.

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

11-year-old Clockwork in Omniverse

16-year-old Clockwork fused with Techno-Bubble

Powers and Abilities

• Chronokinesis
• Time Reduction
• Time Rays
• Retrocognition
• Drill Manifestation (Mechamorph enhancement)
• Missile Launchers (Mechamorph enhancement)

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Clockwork can fire green time rays from his hands or chest, which have various effects like sending people back in time,^[1] aging an object/person to dust,^[2] restoring individuals who have been erased from time, or sending them into a different timeline.^[3]

Clockwork can slow down time around himself, making it look like to others that Clockwork is moving at very high speeds.^[4]

By rotating the key on his head, Clockwork can create a projection of what happened in the past.^[5][6]

Clockwork can travel through both time and between different dimensions.^[7][1]

Because he is as a technological being, it is possible for a Galvanic Mechamorph to merge with Clockwork, thus enhancing his abilities. When upgraded, Clockwork's time rays become stronger, his speed and stamina increase to superhuman levels, he can jump extremely high, and he gains the ability to morph his hands into drills, as well as shoulder-mounted rocket launchers.^[8]

Clockwork has a degree of enhanced strength, as he was able to throw a pipe so hard it became heavily embedded into a wall.^[4]

While Clockwork has never trained himself to do so, Maltruant was able to perceive time (chronopathy), and survive in the vacuum of space.^[9]

Weaknesses

• Below Average Stamina
• Vulnerable Head Key
• Durability Limit

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Clockwork is not very durable, as a laser blast from Carl Nesmith's glove could break Clockwork's arm and cause him to shut down. When Clockwork changed back into Ben in this state, Ben's right arm was broken.^[2]

When a Squid Monster struck the key on his head, Clockwork was badly stunned.^[4]

Because of his large body and short legs, Clockwork can't run very fast and is low on stamina. Therefore, he tires out quickly.^[10]

Time has no effect on gumballs^[11] and diamond (especially Petrosapiens, a race of aliens who are literally made out of organic crystals),^[1] so Clockwork's time rays are virtually useless on those items. 

The use of Clockwork's powers create a ripple effect in time that can be sensed or reversed by another Chronosapien or a time-traveler, such as Eon.^[3]

History

Ultimate Ben

• In Ben 10,000 Returns, Clockwork's time rays were used by Ultimate Ben to send Eon into the past. Later, Clockwork's powers were used again in a failed attempt to destroy the Hands of Armageddon with the help of Ben as Way Big.

Gwen

• In Inspector 13, Gwen turned into Clockwork during a car ride to the Techadon Factory.

Ben

• In Ben 10,000 Returns, Clockwork was unlocked by Ben 10,000.
• Clockwork was first used by Ben off-screen prior to Inspector 13.^{[GT 1]}
• In Catch a Falling Star, Clockwork was defeated by Jennifer Nocturne.
• In The Eggman Cometh, Clockwork found out what happened in Natalie's kitchen and realized Dr. Animo was up to no good again.
• In The Beginning of the End, Clockwork found out where the Flame Keepers had gone.

16-year-old Ben

• In A Jolt from the Past, Clockwork chased some Megawhatts until he grew too tired.
• In Many Happy Returns, Clockwork was defeated by Princess Looma.
• In Ben Again, Clockwork fixed the time stream with the help of 11-year-old Ben as Clockwork.
• In Bengeance Is Mine, Clockwork defeated a Squid Monster.
• In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Ben World: Part 1, Clockwork, whose powers were enhanced by Techno-Bubble, defeated Exo-Skull and Subdora but was defeated by Maltruant.
• In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Ben World: Part 2, Clockwork fused with Techno-Bubble in a failed attempt to leave Mad Ben's home dimension.
• In A New Dawn, Clockwork briefly appeared as Ben was cycling through his aliens.

11-year-old Ben

• In Ben Again, Clockwork fixed the time stream with the help of 16-year-old Ben as Clockwork.

No Watch Ben

• In And Then There Was Ben, Ben 10,000 transformed No Watch Ben into Clockwork to showcase his abilities. Later, Clockwork reversed the effects of the Chronosapien Time Bomb and sent back the evil Bens to their own timelines.

Appearances

Ultimate Ben

Season 3

• Ben 10,000 Returns (x2)

Gwen

Season 3

• Inspector 13 (first appearance)

Ben

Season 3

• Catch a Falling Star
• The Eggman Cometh
• The Beginning of the End

16-year-old Ben

Season 1

• A Jolt from the Past (first re-appearance; intended alien was XLR8)

Season 2

• Many Happy Returns (intended alien was Cannonbolt)

Season 3

• Ben Again (16-year-old Ben in 11-year-old Ben's body)

Season 5

• Bengeance Is Mine

Season 7

• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Ben World: Part 1
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Ben World: Part 2

Season 8

• A New Dawn (cameo)

11-year-old Ben

Season 3

• Ben Again (11-year-old Ben in 16-year-old Ben's body)

No Watch Ben

Season 5

• And Then There Was Ben (x2)

• Danger from Dimension 12
• TKO

Naming and Translations

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.

Trivia

• Clockwork fused with Techno-Bubble bears a strong resemblance to the Haywire Clockwork action figure.
• 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 and his time rays make a sound similar to the tolling of Big Ben when they strike their target.
  • The ticking clock sound also occurs when Clockwork is struck on his head key or sometimes at the end of his transformation sequence.

• Clockwork speaks with a thick German accent. Germany is famed for inventing the watch, a portable timepiece that could tell time no matter wherever someone was in the world.
  • Clockwork is the fourth of five of Ben's aliens to have an accent, with the first three being Brainstorm, NRG, and Chamalien, and the fifth being Shocksquatch.
• Clockwork is one of the aliens alongside Buzzshock, Spitter, and Arctiguana to be revealed by Ben 10,000 and later unlocked by Ben, albeit Clockwork was first revealed by a different Ben 10,000 (from an alternate timeline) than the one who revealed the rest.
• Derrick J. Wyatt thinks that 11-year-old Ben kept Clockwork after the events of Ben Again, but Matt Youngberg always said he didn't.^{[DJW 1]}

References

Crew Statements

Geoffrey Thorne

Derrick J. Wyatt