As most of you know, in the third episode of Ben 10: Alien Force, Kevin expresses his theory that Gwen got her powers from her alien bloodline. Let's examine the facts and see if Kevin's theory has any meaning.
The unaired episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" reveals the following summary: "When Gwen finds out her grandmother is an alien, she must make a difficult decision." So Gwen does have the bloodline, but do her powers really come from it?
Facts supporting Kevin's theory
- The summary for the episode.
- The official site makes no mention of the word "magic" when describing Gwen's powers.
- Hex and Charmcaster were not drained of their powers in Tough Luck.
Facts against Kevin's theory
- Charmcaster refers to Gwen's powers as a "magical aura" in three episodes, INCLUDING Tough Luck before Gwen even knew she had them.
- Gwen refers to the Charms of Bezel in Lucky Girl (and, later, the Keystone in Tough Luck) as "dark magical charms."
- How could Kevin know more about Gwen's ancestry than Gwen herself?
- Gwen touched the Omnitrix several times during the series. If she was part alien, wouldn't it have absorbed her DNA? And before you start mentioning "she might be part Arburian Pelarota" Cannonbolt exhibited NONE of those powers.
This leaves the 10 original aliens from the original series, and possibly Eye Guy. Toss out Fourarms, XLR8, Grey Matter, Ripjaws, and probably another one.
Diamondhead: Probably out. Can Gwen fire diamond-hard projectiles? (THIS DOESN'T COUNT GWEN 10!)
Heatblast: Same thing.
Stinkfly: OK, Gwen can levitate. But is that really flying? And why would she describe the DNAliens' slime as "gross"?
Ghostfreak: The best candidate out of the four mentioned so far. Gwen has shown both of Ghostfreak's "minor" powers (telekinesis and telepathy) but she can't walk through walls.
Wildmutt: No.
Upgrade: The ONLY issues here are the coloring of the on-screen Mechamorphs in the original series, and Cooper having his weird techno thing. It's entirely possible this could be it, but for the most part, not having Upgrade's "main" power wrecks this.
Eye Guy: Not an original alien. but the way Ben obtained Eye Guy is unknown and it might be through Gwen, so... Eye Guy can (or could) fire energy beams. Gwen can do the same thing. Eye Guy has 360 degree vision. Uh, no. Toss out that theory.
The Grandpa Max Theory
It's been suggested in the forums that the alien Gwen descended from was Max's wife, but in the third season Max's wife was revealed to have died. Nevertheless, I have a point no one else has mentioned: What if Max was lying?
Now, the whole plumber/Plumbers thing was, as Gwen stated though referring to someone else, "selective misinformation." Claiming your wife was dead TO YOUR GRANDKIDS is something else, but Max had a reason to lie here. He didn't want to reveal something unless he had to.
One last thing: if it WAS Max's wife there are two theories: One, wife #1 died after giving birth to Carl and the alien was Max's second wife, giving birth to Frank. Two, the powers didn't carry on to Carl for some other reason, or they did carry on but they skipped Ben. This is the best theory based on what we know. Or, the alternate explanation is that the alien was Gwen's other grandmother, but this seems unlikely.
Conclusion
The writers will do something crazy and/or completely unexpected to everyone except me, like a retcon. Kevin will turn out to be right, but without this twist he would have been wrong.
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