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Thomas Jingles, referred to as Mr. Jingles, was a Christmas-obsessed old man who appeared in Merry Christmas.
Appearance[]
He has a white beard, gray eyes and wears a red and white hat, and green and red clothes.
Personality[]
What Jingles' original personality was is unknown before his transformation into an elf.
Jingles is a sinister and joyful man who wants to make Christmas be "perfect" by making perfect toys for Santa to deliver to all the children in the world. For this, he had no problem kidnapping children and turning them into elves to work for him and transforming Max Tennyson into Santa after mistaking him for the jolly old man himself.
After he was defeated by Ben, Gwen and Elsgood at the end, Jingles fell into sadness and hopelessness at no longer being able to make the perfect Christmas without having the magic to deliver the presents.
Max explains that the important thing at Christmas is not the gifts, but the spirit in which we give, and regains his happiness after Ben helps him deliver the gifts around the world.
History[]
Background[]
Not much is known for Mr. Jingles except that he founded or trapped in Holiday Village which is located in the middle of the Death Valley somewhere in 1928.
He soon becomes an elf and becomes obsessed with making Christmas toys and using his Jinglelator to make things magical. He turns unwitting kids who went into the Holiday Village into elves to make more toys.
Ben 10[]
One day, the Tennyson Family saw a gate to Holiday Village after they stop in the road due to smoke from the Rustbusket's air conditioner. They entranced by the coldness in the middle of the desert and went through the gate to enter Holiday Village. Mr. Jingles mistaken Max Tennyson as Santa Claus and decide to take him in. He sents his elves to bring Max to him and has them dress him up like Santa. Mr. Jingles places him on a chair where he can control him and have him watch the workshop. Then, he sents his Nutcrackers to capture Max's grandkids: Ben and Gwen to work at the workshop but the kids escape. While setting more of his minions to captured, Ben and Gwen, he makes Max say "Ho Ho Ho" using a feather in order to make him happy.
Later, he captures Ben, Gwen, and Elsgood an elf who turn against Mr. Jingles and have them working in his shop. However, Ben escape and transformed into Grey Matter to destroy the Jinglelator, Mr. Jingles sent more of his minions to stop him but Gwen stop him and Grey Matter shut down the machine and free Max. Mr. Jingles, however tells him that curse can't be lift until they make more toys, but Max tells him the true meaning of Christmas is being together. So Ben, Gwen, and Max travel around the world and delivered presents, after delivering them, the curse was broken.
Mr. Jingles later died in the following years and a statue was built in his place.
Appearances[]
Ben 10[]
Season 3[]
- Merry Christmas (first appearance)
Notes[]
- ↑ Originally in Merry Christmas, Thomas Jingles, Elsgood and the other inhabitants of Holiday Village were transformed into elves due to a curse. Ben and Gwen also started turning into elves. When the curse is lifted, history is altered so that they were never transformed in the first place, despite still remembering the events of the episode.