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Mystery, Incorporeal is the second episode of the fifth season of Ben 10: Omniverse, and the forty-second episode overall.
Synopsis[]
An old enemy emerges while Ben and Rook visit Kevin and Gwen at college.[CN 1]
Plot[]
One night at Friedkin University, Punchinello takes off with a piece of plutonium from the campus building. However, he is quickly stopped by Lucky Girl. She fights with him as he fires lasers from his nose, and she blocks them with her manna shield. As they fight, Friedkin students watch and cheer for her, but she uses a manna shield to break Punchinello's mechanical nose, and unmasks him. The students are shocked that he is Professor Aniceto of the Drama department. The excited students start to crowd around Lucky Girl, unwittingly pulling her away from Aniceto, who uses the opportunity to escape. However, he accidentally face slams into the Proto-TRUK and Ben and Rook exit the truck to greet her.
The next day, the duo begin touring the college with Gwen, as Ben is excited to attend the open house, but she is slightly annoyed by this, as she was settling into a new routine away from Ben: overachieving in classes; protecting the college as Lucky Girl; and now using her full name Gwendolyn. They meet up with Kevin and Zed and order sandwiches from a food truck. Behind them in line, a kid named Dante is being bullied by two students, and Gwen and Kevin step in to defend him. However, the bullies are quickly distracted by Ben and cause a mob of fans to form around him. Ben asks the group if he should go to their college, and they all cheer, much to Gwen and Kevin's disdain. Gwen and Dante start to leave to go to classes, but all of suddenly Zed growls at him.
Rook urges Ben to go, but all of the students suddenly start backing up. A Rock Monster appears and destroys the food trucks, also sending Ben and Rook flying backwards. Ben transforms into Juryrigg, and overconfidently runs into the Rock Monster, but it quickly knocks him away. Rook uses his Proto-Tool to fire an arrow at the monster, but it simply blocks it. Kevin manages to get onto the monster and absorbs its material, turning himself into stone to fight it. Juryrigg turns the damaged food truck into a machine, shooting fireballs at the Rock Monster. However, the food truck vendor's head gets stuck, and the machine cannot fire. The Rock Monster lunges at Juryrigg but it touches the Omnitrix, making a shockwave which sends the Rock Monster flying backwards. Juryrigg transforms back into Ben, who notices the Omnitrix is only displaying Ghostfreak's icon. Ben, Kevin, and Rook chase the Rock Monster into a lecture hall, but it seems to have gotten away. They notice the curtains on the stage moving and Ben assumes that Charmcaster is there. They are caught sneaking backstage by Gwen and Dante and Gwen wonders why they are back there. Dante then informs them that it's Professor Xagliv's class, but Ben doesn't think so and pulls back the curtain to reveal just Xagliv herself. Ben, Kevin, and Rook get spooked by her appearance and aggressively tells Gwen to take her seat.
Xagliv begins to teach her class, which bores Ben and Kevin. Ben and Kevin whispering jokes to themselves but Gwen quickly silences them, much to chiggrin Xagliv demands that trio leave her class. As Gwen and the others are leaving, Xagliv reveals a stone that looks very familiar to Gwen. Rook notices that Gwen recognizes the artifact and Gwen says that she thinks that it's one of the Charms of Bezel. Ben and Gwen thought that they were destroyed when they were kids, but Dante suddenly arrives, also talking about the artifact and someone can be seen spying on the group from a nearby closet. Back out in the courtyard, Ben still thinks that something is up with Xagliv and Rook says that the Rock Monster disappeared the exact moment Xagliv appeared. Kevin reminds them it's one of Charmcaster's monsters and Gwen noticed that Xagliv kicked her out just after the artifact was revealed. Suddenly, more Rock Monsters appear, but with hooded students riding them this time. Ben turns into Eye Guy and Kevin (with Zed) begin to fight the Rock Monsters. A Rock Monster attempts to attack Gwen and Dante, but Gwen puts up a shield and the Rock Monster is caught by Rook, and swings it into the air and Eye Guy destroys it. Gwen causes a minor distraction to assume her Lucky Girl persona once more, but she tosses away the hooded student and destroys the Rock Monster. After Eye Guy transforms back into Ben, the other hooded students run away while Ben, Gwen, and Rook watch them, but some of them sexcited by Ben's performance, while Gwen is just happy to have saved the students.
The group then confront Professor Xagliv in her classroom, and they all start to question him. Rook notices that "Xagliv" spelled backwards is "Vilgax" and Rook removes Xagliv's wig, revealing her bald head, she angrily takes back her wig, but Ben questions her, saying she has a Charm of Bezel. Suddenly, Dante starts laughing evilly and takes the Charm of Bezel for himself, and everyone flying backwards and Gwen starts firing manna at him, but he stopes them and knocks her out. Ben, Kevin, and Rook attempt to charge at him, but Dante simply knocks them back. He prosseds to get Gwen down into the basement and with the others start to purchinning them, but he takes her into a room, sealing off the door and preventing the others from getting inside. The other kids start a chant and Dante removes an ID Mask, revealing himself to be Darkstar, much to her disspleaseing is angry to see him again.
Darkstar reminds Gwen of how Charmcaster locked him out of Legerdomain just because of his appearance, to which Gwen replies it was really because he was creep, to which he counters by says that its enjoyable draining the manna of Legerdomain so much that he is going to use Gwen to make the manna appear through her. Meanwhile, Ben, Kevin, Rook, and Zed all continue trying to break through the door to no success. Darkstar prepares the transfer and one of the hooded students, Margie, comments on Darkstar not fully taking Gwen's power. Darkstar says that all manna comes from Legerdomain and that it must return to the original person, he then drains Margie's manna and continues opening the portal. Rook gets the group inside by blasting at the door using his Proto-Tool and he orders his group to keep Ben and the others away. The hooded students get on some Rock Monsters and Ben trries to use his Omnitrix, but its still set on Ghostfreak and reluntectly fights without aliens. He tricks a Rock Monster into knocking over a column, which falls onto it. Rook takes out a group of the Rock Monsters. Kevin smashes through many Rock Monsters and, as more surround Ben's group, their manna (along with that of the robbed students) is drained. Darkstar has just finished the transfer and regains his "perfect" body using his Michael Morningstar name again. Michael flies out onto the courtyard and boasts about his looks. Ben then reluctantly transforms into Ghostfreak and battles him, by having no manna, isn't affected by Michael's absorption powers and possesses Michael. Ghostfreak fools around with Michael's body and uses it to free Gwen from the control and stop and reverse the transfer. Michael is reverted back to his "Darkstar" body and is soon arrested. Gwen tells the police officer to keep the symbol on Darkstar's head and the officer takes him away.
In the police car, Darkstar attempts to use his magic, but the symbol stops him. The police officer is revealed to be Charmcaster herself. Darkstar believes she forgives him for stealing from her, but instead, she presses the symbol on his forehead, causing him excruciating pain as the car lights up with magic as she tortures him. Meanwhile, the portal Darkstar had created reopens and Zs'Skayr emerges from Legerdomain. Back at the university, Gwen and Kevin are relaxing and Rook is playing with Zed. Suddenly, Ben arrives with students carrying him. Ben says he has an honorary degree and doesn't need to attend college. Ben then addresses himself as "Dr. Tennyson", much to the dismay of Gwen, Kevin, and Rook.
Noteworthy Events[]
Major Events[]
- Ben regains Ghostfreak once again after one of Charmcaster's Rock Monsters bites the Omnitrix.
- Darkstar is turned into a totem by Charmcaster.
- Zs'Skayr is freed from Legerdomain.
Character Debuts[]
- Professor Helena Xagliv
- Punchinello
- Sandwich Vendor
- Rock Monsters (Omniverse debut)
- Margie
- Zs'Skayr (Omniverse present debut)
- Charmcaster (Omniverse debut)
Omnitrix Alien Debut[]
- Ghostfreak (Omniverse debut)
Location Debut[]
Minor Events[]
- Ben gains an honorary degree.
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Supporting Characters[]
- Professor Helena Xagliv (first appearance)
Antagonists[]
- Punchinello (first appearance)
- Darkstar
- Rock Monsters (first reappearance)
- Margie (first appearance)
- Zs'Skayr (first reappearance; cameo)
Other Characters[]
- Sandwich Vendor (first appearance)
- Charmcaster (first reappearance; cameo)
Transformations[]
- Juryrigg
- Eye Guy
- Ghostfreak (first reappearance)
Spells Used[]
By Gwen[]
- Protection Spell (x3; no incantation)
- Binding Spell (no incantation)
By Darkstar[]
- Contego
- Energy Extraction/Portal Creation Spell (no incantation)
By Ben[]
- Spell Reversal Spell (no incantation)
By Charmcaster[]
- Containment Spell (no incantation)
- Transmutation Spell (no incantation)
Locations[]
- Friedkin University (first appearance)
Quotes[]
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Naming and Translations[]
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| French | Mystère Incorporel | Mystery, Incorporeal |
| Hungarian | Titok, Testetlen | Secret, Bodiless |
| Italian | Misteri Incorporei | Incorporeal Mysteries |
| Polish | Zed i Ekipa Detektywów | Zed and a Team of Detectives |
| Portuguese (Br) | Mistério, Incorpóreo | Mystery, Incorporeal |
| Romanian | Mistere Imateriale | Intangible Mysteries |
| Spanish (HA) | Misterio Incorpóreo | Mystery, Incorporeal |
Cast[]
| Voice Actor | Role(s) |
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| Yuri Lowenthal | Ben Tennyson Student #1 Student #4 Police Officer |
| Bumper Robinson | Rook Blonko Juryrigg Punchinello Student #3 |
| Ashley Johnson | Gwen Tennyson Margie Student #2 |
| Greg Cipes | Kevin Levin Sandwich Vendor |
| Paul Eiding | Eye Guy Zed |
| Steve Blum | Ghostfreak Professor Helena Xagliv |
| Wil Wheaton | Darkstar |
Continuity[]
- Professor Xagliv makes her debut, after having been indirectly mentioned by Gwen in Many Happy Returns.
- Ben is unsure about using Ghostfreak after having trouble with the transformation in Ghostfreaked Out and Ghost Town.
- Ben and Gwen mention that the Charms of Bezel were destroyed when they were kids, which occurred in Tough Luck.
- Darkstar mentions that Charmcaster locked him out of Legerdomain, which occurred in Couples Retreat.
Allusions[]
- The episode contains several references to the Scooby-Doo franchise.
- The name of this episode is a play-with-words to the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated television series.
- When Gwen unmasks Punchinello and the crowd gasps and says, "Professor Aniceto!", it is similar to most unmasking of villains at the end of most Scooby Doo episodes and movies.
- Kevin says: "Looks like we've got a mystery on our hands," which is a near-verbatim typical quote of Fred's whenever there's a mystery afoot.
- After removing Professor Xagliv's wig, Gwen comments on it being a red herring, which is also the name of a boy Fred Jones presumes is always the masked villain in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
- A red herring is a term for someone who is set up by the author to look like the perpetrator in a mystery but isn't.
- The scene in which Ben, Kevin, Rook and Zed chase Darkstar through the different doorways is an allusion to the typical Scooby-Doo chase scenes.
- Zed grunts twice in a voice that is similar to Scooby's.
- Three of Darkstar's cultists look like Raven and Jinx from Teen Titans, and Stocking from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
- The way Ben and Rook greet Gwen at the beginning of this episode is similar how she and Kevin greeted Ben in Many Happy Returns.
- The sandwich truck, HP Lunchkraft, is named after acclaimed horror author H. P. Lovecraft. Its most famous sandwich, the Miskatonic Madness, is an allusion to Miskatonic University, a college that is a major setting in the Cthulhu horror stories started by H. P. Lovecraft.
- The first hint to Dante's true identity, is that he wears the intern shirt of Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation, a role previously played by Darkstar's voice actor, Wil Wheaton. In addition, his alias is an allusion to Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet whose most famous book, The Inferno is about hell, which is ruled by Lucifer, who is also called the Morning Star.
Errors[]
- When Ben tells Gwen that he wants to attend her college, a food truck can be seen. However, when Kevin and Zed arrive, the food truck is missing.
- When Zed jumps up to order from the food truck, Rook has two extra plates on his armor.
- When three of the students go to Ben, Ben is eating a sandwich. The next moment, the sandwich is not there.
- When Ben, Kevin and Rook are tip-toeing across the stage, the Omnitrix is missing from Ben's wrist.
- During the establishing shot of Professor Xagliv's class, Kevin is asleep in his seat, but in the next shot, he is in the process of leaning back.
- In one scene Rook's right ear is black.
- Ben is shorter than Gwen for two shots.
- Some of Darkstar's students are layered above the banister.
- When Darkstar drains Margie, her far hand does not shrivel.
- Zs'Skayr is listed in the end credits despite having no lines. His name is also misspelled as "Zs'skayr".
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Trivia[]
- Gwen uses her Lucky Girl persona to protect her college but prefers to keep her identity a secret.
- Gwen shows progression towards acting like her future self:
- She now prefers to go by her full first name of "Gwendolyn" instead of just "Gwen".
- She has attained her first Charm of Bezel, giving her the ability to fly at high speeds.
- Matt Wayne's pitch for this episode was asking what the worst possible thing that could happen when going to a college in the eastern US would be- the answer to which being the college being a Stephen King-inspired college.[MW 1]
- Zed's presence alongside Kevin in the episode prompted the numerous Scooby-Doo gags.
- Matt Wayne attributed many of the Scooby Doo elements in this episode to Derrick J. Wyatt.
- The idea of the villain's unmasking going array (contrasting the typical plot structure of Scooby Doo) was Matt Wayne's idea.
- Zed's presence alongside Kevin in the episode prompted the numerous Scooby-Doo gags.
- The scene where Gwen leads Ben and Rook to the food truck, up until the scene where Ben, Rook and Kevin find Professor Xagliv behind a curtain was storyboarded by Steve Ahn.[am 1]
- Zed has her old collar and Professor Xagliv has horns in the storyboards.
