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The Mother of All Vreedles is the twentieth episode of the third season of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and the fortieth episode overall.
Synopsis[]
Ma Vreedle returns to Earth with a cloning machine and a plan to unleash 300 billion Pretty Boy Vreedles on the planet.[CN 1]
Plot[]
The episode opens as the Vreedle Brothers are having trouble robbing an intergalactic bank: the Great Vault of Sulcus, when their mother, Ma Vreedle, intervenes and all the guards run away. Ma angrily berates Rhomboid after he reveals to the security guards that he and Octagon are defective clones, stating that not all her spawn are defective, and revealing a third Vreedle Brother, Pretty Boy Vreedle. After completing the robbery, Ma, against the advice of her older sons, orders the group to go to Earth.
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The Vreedles robbing the Taydenite
Inside the Rustbucket 3, the team are informed that the Vreedle family are coming to Earth. Once hearing that Ma is coming, Kevin attempts to flee, admitting that he is scared of Ma Vreedle. Ben and Gwen, however, force him to go after the Vreedles. Once in orbit over Earth where the Vreedles are, Ben tries to convince Ma to leave.
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Ultimate Spidermonkey fights the Vreedles
She claims that she just wants a nice place to raise children and the sum-total of Earth's saltwater oceans. Ben transforms into Spidermonkey and evolves into Ultimate Spidermonkey and attempts to stop them. They fly back into space, where the lack of oxygen there causes Ultimate Spidermonkey to crash into Earth and survives with a webbing crash bag. Meanwhile, Octagon shoots down the Rustbucket 3 and crashes it into the ocean, forcing Gwen and Kevin to swim back to shore.
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The clones of Pretty Boy Vreedle
Once on Earth, Ma orders Octagon and Rhomboid to set up a cloning machine, this time having read the instructions and intending to drain Earth dry, in the process making 300 billion perfect Pretty Boy Vreedles to make up for the defective Rhomboid and Octagon clones she already made. Ben interrupts the cloning attempt, and after he is captured, he tricks Ma into letting him transform. Then, he attempts to convince Ma to leave Earth, telling her as Big Chill that he himself is a mother (referring to when Big Chill laid eggs).
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Big Chill and Ma Vreedle
Gwen and Kevin attempt to hold off Rhomboid and Octagon. Gwen points out that Octagon and Rhomboid are Plumbers now and are better than this. Octagon points out that they're better than nothing. They ultimately decide that their mother doesn't love them when she tries to kill them, and they with the help of the original Pretty Boy convince her to come in peacefully. Plumber backup arrives to take the already made Pretty Boys to an orphanage and Ma Vreedle to prison. Octagon requests that the team keep quiet about their involvement in their mother's actions to which they agree before Octagon and Rhomboid fly their raging mad mother to prison.
Noteworthy Events[]
Major Events[]
Character Debuts[]
Location Debuts[]
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Supporting Characters[]
Antagonists[]
- Ma Vreedle (first appearance)
Other Characters[]
- Centur Squaar (first appearance)
- Pretty Boy Vreedles (first appearance)
- Dodecahedron Vreedle (first appearance)
- Will Harangue (on TV)
- Magister Patelliday (first appearance)
Transformations[]
- Jetray
- Spidermonkey (x2; goes Ultimate and reverts; second time was a cameo)
- Big Chill
Locations[]
- Sulcus (first appearance)
- Great Vault of Sulcus (first appearance)
- Earth
Quotes[]
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Naming and Translations[]
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Bulgarian | Майката на всички Вридли | from the original English naem |
| Hungarian | A Vreedle Fivérek Anyja | The Vreedle Brothers' Mother |
| Italian | La madre di tutti i Vreedle | The Mother of All Vreedle |
| Polish | Matka Wszystkich Wredziaków | Mother of All Vreedles |
| Portuguese (Br) | A Mãe de Todos os Vreedles | The Mother of All Vreedles |
| Romanian | Mama Tuturor Vreedle-lilor | Mother of All Vreedles |
| Spanish (HA) | La Madre de Todos Los Vicios | The Mother of All Vices |
Cast[]
Continuity[]
- Gwen mentions that the Vreedle Brothers are Plumbers now. They were previously seen as Plumber cadets in The Enemy of My Enemy.
- Big Chill mentions the Baby Chills from Save the Last Dance.
Allusions[]
- The episode's name is a reference to the phrase "The Mother of All Bad Guys".
- The line uttered by Ma Vreedle at the end of the episode, "I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for my meddling kids!" is a reference to Scooby-Doo.
Errors[]
- When Ben receives an incoming transmission while in the Rustbucket 3, the Ultimatrix is seen on his right wrist.
- When Gwen and Kevin emerge from the water, Gwen's chin is bigger than it should be.
- When Ben tricks Ma Vreedle into letting him go, the underneath of the Ultimatrix cannot be seen.
- Big Chill's hologram faces away from Ben.
- Octagon's Plumber Suit has a white circle instead of a grey one at the end.
- The end credits misspell Will Harangue's name as "Harange" and Octagon's name as "Octogon".
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Trivia[]
- The date each version of the script was completed is:
- First draft: August 5, 2010.[script 1]
- First draft (second version): August 26, 2010.[script 2]
- Second draft: August 28, 2010.[script 3]
- The lines for this episode were recorded on September 2, 2010.[DM 1]
- Dwayne McDuffie contributed a lot of jokes to the episode after Matt Wayne's first draft.[MW 1]
- This episode's working title was 300 Billion Vreedles Can't be Wrong.[script 1][script 2]
- The title is a reference to the 2004 boxset 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't be Wrong, released by the band Bon Jovi.
- In the first version of the first draft of the script:[script 1]
- Will Harangue is absent, with Chet Rigby taking his role.
- The news report is intercut with existing stock characters, panicking in existing locations around the world.
- A pencil and sudoku book are visible in the Rustbucket 3 when Ben arrives.
- After crashing into the ocean, Kevin absorbs the wood from the pencil instead of metal from the Rustbucket 3.
- After absorbing metal from the quarter, Kevin remains in his metal form instead of absorbing wood from a tree.
- Ma mentions that she comes from a matriarchal society where she killed all the men and took over.
- In both versions of the first draft of the script, the team are not specified as wearing Plumber Suits.[script 1][script 2]
- In both versions of the first draft of the script, and the second draft of the script:[script 1][script 2][script 3]
- Ma Vreedle was supposed to be asymmetrical and wearing a housecoat and slippers.
- The trailer modules connected to the Vreedle Brothers' ship are loaded down with lumpy pillowcases filled with loot. Ma Vreedle and Dody sit on the pillowcases.
- Rhomboid yanks webbing from his ear before asking Ma how many brothers he and Octagon will get.
- The Pretty Boy cloning process is more elaborate. Beaters whipping the clone mix into a dough, forks pull it, pistons knead it, and blades chop it into portions. A robotic arm grabs a corner and steams it into a brain with eyes, then slaps it back into the dough which gets poured into the Pretty Boy shorts.
- Magister Patelliday does not appear at the end of the episode, with his role taken by an unnamed alien Plumber.
- Humungousaur is used at the end of the end of the episode to take the Rustbucket 3 out of the water and put it on land.
