Ben 10: Alien Force
Ben 10: Alien Force is an American animated television series created by team Man of Action, and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It is the sequel to Ben 10, set five years later and taking a darker turn than its predecessor.
The series premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on April 18, 2008, and was originally produced under the working title of Ben 10: Hero Generation. Ben 10: Alien Force ran for a total of three seasons and forty-six episodes with its final episode being aired on March 26, 2010. It was nominated for four Emmy Awards, winning one for Outstanding Sound Mixing – Live Action and Animation.
A sequel series, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, was released in 2010.
Premise
Five years after the events of Ben 10, Ben Tennyson, now a teenager, once again joins the Omnitrix to protect Earth and other parts of the universe from villainous alien activity. The Omnitrix itself, a wristwatch-shaped device, allows Ben to transform into numerous alien forms, thereby inheriting the unique abilities of that alien race.Characters
Heroes
- Benjamin "Ben" Tennyson
- Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson
- Kevin Levin
- Julie Yamamoto
- Max Tennyson
Villains
- Highbreed
- DNAliens
- The Forever Knights
- Vilgax
- Albedo
Themes
The evolved Omnitrix
When the Omnitrix was recalibrated it gained a more watch-style shape, a green wristband, and became smaller and sleeker with the face plate becoming black and green. The inside of the hourglass shape on the face now glows in different colors at special moments; these colors signify the state that the Omnitrix is in. The display mode of alien-shaped black silhouettes printed on the face has been replaced by a dark green 3D hologram hovering above the watch, giving a more detailed look of the selected alien.The new Omnitrix also functions as a Plumber's badge which is used in the series as a communicator, a detector of other Plumber's badges, an alien-language translator, and as a key for accessing the Extranet, an intergalactic Internet.
In Ben 10, the reason Azmuth invented the Omnitrix was for all the beings of the universe to better understand each other. It was revealed in Ben 10: Alien Force that there was another reason for the creation of the Omnitrix. Azmuth tells Ben that the Omnitrix was invented to preserve the DNA of all living beings in the Milky Way Galaxy and restore them if they should ever become extinct.
Episodes
International telecast
Ben 10: Alien Force premiered on Teletoon in Canada on September 6, 2008, and is telecast in 32 languages.| Language | Country | Title | Broadcast |
| English | United States | Ben 10: Alien Force | Cartoon Network |
| English | Canada | Ben 10: Alien Force | Teletoon |
| Hindi | India | Ben 10: Alien Force | Cartoon Network |
| Arabic | Arabic countries | بن 10: إليين فورس | Cartoon Network MBC 3 Ajyal TV Qatar TV |
| Bulgarian | Bulgaria | Бен 10: Извънземна сила | Cartoon Network |
| Czech | Slovakia | Ben 10: Síla vesmíru | Barrandov Studios |
Media
DVD releases
| DVD title | Season | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Time length | Release date |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 1 | Season One | 4:3 | 5 | 110 minutes | October 21, 2008 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 2 | Season One | 4:3 | 4 | 88 minutes | January 13, 2009 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 3 | Season One | 4:3 | 4 | 88 minutes | April 7, 2009 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 4 | Season Two | 16:9 | 5 | 113 minutes | September 1, 2009 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 5 | Season Two | 16:9 | 4 | 90 minutes | November 17, 2009 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 6 | Season Two | 16:9 | 4 | 90 minutes | March 30, 2010 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 7 | Season Three | 16:9 | 7 | 159 minutes | June 29, 2010 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 8 | Season Three | 16:9 | 6 | 136 minutes | August 24, 2010 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 9 | Season Three | 16:9 | 7 | 180 minutes | October 5, 2010 |
| DVD title | Season | Aspect ratio | Episode count | Time length | Release date |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 1 | Season One | 4:3 | 5 | 115 minutes | 03 December 2008 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 2 | Season One | 4:3 | 4 | 88 minutes | 03 March 2009 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 3 | Season One | 4:3 | 4 | 88 minutes | 06 May 2009 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 4 | Season Two | 4:3 | 5 | 110 minutes | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 5 | Season Two | 4:3 | 4 | 88 minutes | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 6 | Season Two | 4:3 | 4 | 88 minutes | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 7 | Season Three | 4:3 | 5 | 110 minutes | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 8 | Season Three | 4:3 | 4 | 88 minutes | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 9 | Season Three | 4:3 | 5 | 110 minutes | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force Volume 10 | Season Three | 4:3 | 4 | 85 minutes | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force – Vengeance of Vilgax | Season Three | 4:3 | 2 | 45 minutes | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force – Season 1 | Season One | 4:3 | 13 | 286 minutes | June 1, 2011 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force – Season 2 | Season Two | 4:3 | 13 | 286 minutes | June 1, 2011 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force – Season 3 | Season Three | 4:3 | 10 | 220 minutes | June 1, 2011 |
| Ben 10: Alien Force – Season 4 | Season Three | 4:3 | 10 | 220 minutes | June 1, 2011 |
''Ben 10: Alien Swarm''
Ben 10: Alien Swarm is a live-action film based on the series, announced by Cartoon Network at their 2008 upfront. It is a sequel to Ben 10: Race Against Time. The first teaser trailer was shown on October 3, 2008, during the premiere of Star Wars: [The Clone Wars |Star Wars: The Clone Wars], a full trailer was shown after the season 2 finale on March 27, 2009, and another full trailer, this time showing a preview of Humongousaur, was shown during the season 3 premiere on September 11, 2009. The film aired on November 25, 2009.Again directed by Alex Winter, the film's cast included Ryan Kelley as Ben, Nathan Keyes as Kevin, and Galadriel Stineman as Gwen. Lee Majors was offered to reprise his role as Grandpa Max, but he turned it down; the role was recast with Barry Corbin. The film also featured Alyssa Diaz as a new character named Elena, who was a childhood friend of Ben. The aliens seen were Big Chill, Humongousaur, and a new alien named Nanomech. In the movie, Kevin's car was a green Dodge Challenger.
Sequels
After Ben 10: Alien Force, there were 2 more sequels that came out, which are Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Ben 10: Omniverse.Video games
A total of three games based on Ben 10: Alien Force were produced: Ben 10 Alien Force: The Game, Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks, and Ben 10 Alien Force: The Rise of Hex. Characters from the Ben 10 series also made appearances in Cartoon Network's MMO, FusionFall.Comics
Ben 10: Alien Force has been featured in Cartoon Network Action Pack!, an anthology comic book series published by DC Comics, since issue #27. It normally alternates bi-monthly with The Secret Saturdays as the lead story.Ben 10: Alien Force stories have been published in Cartoon Network Action Pack! #27, 28, 31, 33, 35, 37, 38, 41, 42, and 43.
Ben 10: Alien Force: Doom Dimension is a two-part graphic novel series published by Del Rey Books, written by Peter David, and illustrated by Dan Hipp.
Books
has published a number of books based on the series, including a collection of chapter books written by Charlotte Fullerton, who has written several episodes for the show.Lego toys
Lego Ben 10: Alien Forceis a discontinued Lego theme based on the animated television series Ben 10: Alien Force of the same name. It is licensed from Cartoon Network. There were the total of six sets of buildable figures similar to Bionicle. The theme was first introduced in January 2010. The product line was discontinued by the end of 2010 and replaced with the Hero Factory in 2010.