Ben 10: Alien Force

Season 1 Episode 13

X = Ben + 2

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Emperor Milleous plans to destroy the planet Earth for kidnapping his daughter. In order to save the planet, Ben must uncover the secrets of Alien X.

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  • What is this?!?

    1.0
    By MarioMan611, Nov 04, 2010
    This episode stunk. The "Alien X" everyone wanted to see didn't do much. Just fixes the dam, then freezes. Stupid, dumb ripoff. Gwen and Kevin didn't do much either. And the rest of the plot was just a copy of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie plot! Pathetic for a Ben 10 Alien Force episode! And I'm a Ben 10 fan! This episode was so terrible I want to scream! This made the 1st episode look good! Watch this at your own risk! Though, there's one good part. When Kevin absorbs rubber for the first time.

    Terrible...moreless

  • After having himself mixed into trouble with the Incursian empire, Ben decides to use Alien X to save the day. Turning great at first, he soon learns Alien X is not the "go to alien."moreless

    9.7
    By gjv_43, Oct 18, 2010
    A great concept and idea with great and awesome ideas, however this was not the episode that fits "Season Finale" for me. Still, this episode was great and it revealed and showed many this like a new alien species known as the Incursians. In addition to a revealed species, X = Ben + 2 showed a new alien bounty hunter (seven seven), an evil dicator (Emporer Milleous), a Princess (Princess Attea), a commander (Commander), and two giant and deliberating heads (Bellicus and Serena). Also one thing that i really loved about this episode was the way Kevin used his absorbtion power, i mean who absorbs rubber tires, and alien metal.moreless

  • Are you kidding me?!?!

    1.5
    By zerouzaria, Oct 18, 2010
    Honestly with the hype that was given for this, it could've been so much better. Come on now first off Alien X wasn't even really special he was basically the blank picture they gave us with white dots added. Second, he has to debate whether or not he wants to save something. Oh wait no hold on lets first think if we should've saved the dinosaurs first. If that wasn't bad enough NOTHING happened in the episode at all honestly, not really anything to describe this new alien or his power. You wanna know what we got to see, him stuffed in a car being chased by frog.....wooo what and episode gosh at least we know that there was no point using that form EVER again.Wasted episode.moreless

  • The team confronts an alien emperor who threatens to destroy earth if his kidnapped daughter isn't returned to him.

    8.5
    By earthpeople, Sep 07, 2008
    I can't say that I didn't enjoy this episode. It is funny, especially the bit with Gwen thinking their problems with the emperor were over and Kevin deadpanning that they weren't. There is action as the team goes about trying to rescue the kidnapped princess, and it is great to see Kevin using his power to absorb rubber and turn his body into a Bouncing Boy-like weapon. But this is the season finale and the debut of Alien X, something the show's creators have been hyping since the first episode. Alien X is indeed the ultimate power of the Omnitrix, and it is impressive when that power is used to rescue Gwen, Kevin and the princess from certain death under a rampaging flood. But thereafter Alien X does...nothing. He is literally immobile for the rest of his appearance here. It turns out that he is some sort of triune intelligence, with Ben as the third entity. Alien X cannot act unless these three minds agree, and Ben spends most of his time here debating the other minds in a futile effort to put Alien X back in action. I was entertained by this episode, but with all the buildup, I was expecting a serious, explosive confrontation between an overwhelming galactic menace and Alien X. And that makes what we actually get here somewhat disappointing.moreless

  • For it being the season finale, I expected it to be better than all the episodes before it. Instead, it was the worst...

    7.5
    By Torus_333, Sep 06, 2008
    Any episode without Ben sucks. Ben being in Alien X with no action happening, felt like Ben not being in the episode at all.For it being the season finale, I expected it to be better than all the episodes before it. Instead, it was the worst... I usually give the Ben 10 Alien Force Episodes perfect 10's. This one doesn't deserve a 10 or even a 9. I gave it an 8.0. Alien X made some action happen for like, 2 minutes -- or even less! Every episode sucks without Ben. Ben being in Alien X with no action happening, felt like Ben not being in the episode at all. I'm very dissapointed. They should have made this episode an hour long instead of 30 minutes. Then it might've been much better. The main readon this episode wasn't that good was because of Ben, Alien X, and the plot. Those three points,; Period. As of now, I hope Alien X never appears again. T fact that he has TOO much power, ruined the entire episode. His power didn't tire or freeze Ben, the two voices did.moreless
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Cast & Crew: STARS

Yuri Lowenthal

Yuri Lowenthal

Ben Tennyson
Ashley Johnson

Ashley Johnson

Gwen Tennyson
Greg Cipes

Greg Cipes

Kevin Levin
Dee Bradley Baker

Dee Bradley Baker

Swampfire
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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

Dee Bradley Baker

Dee Bradley Baker

Sevenseven / Bandaged Warrior

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James Arnold Taylor

James Arnold Taylor

Raff / Attendant 1

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Vicki Lewis

Vicki Lewis

Serena

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  • TRIVIA (16)

    • According to Kevin, the Incursian Empire has 40 Star Systems under its rule.

    • First appearance of the Incursian species.

    • Pluto is destroyed in this episode by Emperor Milleous to serve as a warning to what he'll do to Earth.

    • Ben 10 Tidbit:
      Tara Strong, the actress who played Ben in the first Ben 10 series, guest stars in this episode as the voice of Princess Attea.

    • Pay Attention:
      When the team got teleported back to the parking lot, they ended up in Kevin's car even though they weren't even close to his car a few seconds ago.

    • Pay Attention:
      Everytime Commander Raff said his formal greeting, he never completely finished it. He was always interrupted by either Emperor Milleous, or Attea.

    • Look Closely:
      When Kevin and Gwen are in the car trying to avoid the Inkersian warriors, Alien X is still in the trunk. If you look closely, Alien X's Omnitrix sign is not on his chest.

    • Fun Trivia:
      Throughout the episode, Emperor Milleous's facial warts increase in number, decrease in number, or completely vanish.

    • The three horns on Alien X's head resemble the 'Voice of Rage and Aggression' (Bellicus), the 'Voice of Love and Compassion' (Serena), and the 'Voice of Reason' (currently Ben).

    • Using the information we know from Six-Six and Seven-Seven, we can assume that the rest of their species have duplicate number names as well; such as Five-Five, or Ten-Ten. It may be a possibility to encounter more in the future.

    • This is the first time in Alien Force that Ben is shown switching from one alien form directly to another with out reverting back to human first. Though this was caused by Alien X's power, the ability was shown at previous times when Ben has been able to activate the master lock on the old Omnitrix, such as in the episodes "Back With A Vengence" and "Ben 10,000," or in "Secrets" and Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix when a power surge affected the Omnitrix.

    • Look Closely:
      When the team is in the parking lot and the warrior aliens appear, there are only four. When the team gets out of the car, there are at least six.

    • In the beginning, Ben acts like the tiebreaker with Kevin and Gwen. Just like he does within Alien X, with Bellicus and Serena.

    • Look Closely:
      When Kevin is in his 'rubber' form, he gets burned by his shoulder. When he goes to grab Alien X, the burnt mark vanishes and then reappears.

    • Swampfire marks as the first and final alien Ben transforms into throughout the first season.

    • Pluto is not, in fact, a planet at all. It is a Kuiper Belt Object. Kevin's optimism about Neptune's orbit improving proves incorrect, even though the search for Pluto began when people noticed that Neptune had an irregular orbit. Pluto had nothing to do with it, however.

  • QUOTES (48)

    • Gwen: (in Kevin's car) Ben, what happened with you back there?
      Ben: Well, no way am I ever becoming Alien X again.
      Kevin: Why not? When it was working, you kicked massive butt!
      Ben: (looks out the window) Yeah, my most powerful transformation ever. But it isn't worth the price.

    • Emperor Milleous: As for you...
      Gwen: (Gwen grabs the detonator from Emperor Milleous) Ha!
      Kevin: (tells Gwen) No, we're done.
      Gwen: Really? (gives the detonator back)
      Emperor Milleous: As an award for your assistance in this matter, the Earth is spared. You may go. (the team gets teleported back)

    • Swampfire: (Inkersian warrior drops because of smoke) Now that's just rude. I don't smell that bad, do I? (smells his armpit)

    • Swampfire: Swampfire! (talking to Attea) Blowing up the world is for big kids only!

    • Attea: (commanding minions) Aim for the molten core. I don't want any big chunks surviving.

    • Ben: (talking to Serena) You're supposed to be love and compassion. How could you let a whole world die? And you're supposed to be anger and aggression. How could you let bad stuff go unpunished. How can you both be so useless?
      Bellicus: (yells out) Useless?

    • Attea: (talking to Gwen and Kevin) Once I destroy your homeworld, you'll be the rarest specimens in my zoo!

    • Attea: (referring to Alien X) This thing was formidable once. Throw it in the dungeon. (referring to Kevin and Gwen) As for these two, they tried to save me so, I spare them.

    • Kevin: (absorbs Seven-Seven's armor) Nice armor! (punches him in the face)

    • Attea: (talking to Gwen and Kevin) The ends of your lively planet will make beautiful fireworks for my coronation.

    • Gwen: (referring to Emperor Milleous) So much for the great dictator. And since Earth isn't in harm's way anymore, we're done! I'll get Ben.
      Kevin: We're not done. (Attea grabs the detonator from Gwen)

    • Emperor Milleous: (Seven-Seven and Attea appear) Daughter, you're safe! (Seven-Seven speaks in alien language)
      Attea: Guards, seize my father!
      Commander Raff: Orders are orders.
      Emperor Milleous: But why?
      Attea: Sentimental old fool. After you paid my ransom, I offered Seven-Seven twice as much to overthrow you.
      Emperor Milleous: Actually, I have to respect that.

    • Gwen: Can't the Emperor just take his daughter and leave Earth out of it?
      Kevin: The Inkersian cult. Generally, they don't enslave you, they wipe you out!

    • Ben: (within Alien X) I propose we teleport the Inkersians a billion light-years away. Yes or no?
      Bellicus and Serena: (simultaneously) No!
      Ben: Disable the conquest ray?
      Bellicus and Serena: (simultaneously) No.
      Ben: We have to do something.
      Serena: Well, we haven't heard arguments yet.
      Ben: Did you ever decide anything before?
      Bellicus and Serena: (simultaneously) Well... (both are embarassed)
      Ben: (worried) Oh man.

    • Serena: Bellicus, Ben's upset. Let's at least go back in session.
      Bellicus: Aw, Ben, Ben, Ben! Why don't you worry about me for a change?
      Serena: You know I do.
      Ben: I propose we come to a vote on saving the world.
      Bellicus:That's new business kid. We still got old business from before you showed up.
      Ben: Well hurry!
      Bellicus: Of course. I would like to vote on tabled notion number 80,000,003: to save the dinosaurs from extinction.
      Serena: He's against it.
      Bellicus: Just listen. I'm sure I could win you over!
      Ben: I say we switch to new business until the Earth isn't in crisis.
      Serena: Seconded.
      Bellicus: Notion carried.

    • Commander Raff: Seize the prisoners!
      Kevin: (shouts out to Gwen) Move! (absorbs rubber from the tire) Heads up!

    • Gwen: Fine. As soon as the princess comes home, we're done.
      Kevin: You think so, huh?
      Emperor Milleous: (talking to Commander Raff) When Seven-Seven delivers Attea, destroy him, destroy your prisinors, destroy their home world, and all is forgiven!

    • Serena: (talking to Ben) You see, until you showed up, Alien X was always in a deadlock. But now, we finally found a tie-breaker. How could we ever let you go?
      Bellicus: Got that genius? You're never changing back! (Ben is shocked)

    • Bellicus: Alien X doesn't do anything until it's put to a vote. We've already cut you slack because you're new. That's the procedure.
      Ben: Okay. I move that you let me use the Omnitrix.
      Bellicus: Is there a second? (looks at Serena) Notion defeated!
      Bellicus and Serena: (Simultaneously) Good vote!

    • Serena: Ben?
      Ben: I don't care. (referring to Emperor Milleous) That guy's going to blow up the Earth!
      Bellicus: Your so-called friends can take care of Earth. Let them pull their own weight for once.
      Serena: (talking to Bellicus) Now you're just being contrary.
      Bellicus: Says you.
      Ben: (yells out) Let's make a decision here!
      Serena: We're not finished deliberating.
      Ben: No, I need to help now. (tries to use the Omnitrix but it fails)

    • Emperor Milleous: (referring to Pluto) Put the little pretty one up on the screen.
      Kevin: (Pluto appears on the screen) That is Pluto.
      Gwen: Pretty? Uh, it's a barren frozen wasteland.
      Emperor Milleous: (destroys Pluto) Was a barren frozen wasteland.

    • Emperor Milleous: (commands minions) Give me Earth on the radio. People of Earth, your time is up. (commands minions) Bring me the royal detonator.
      Gwen: Don't do it!
      Emperor Milleous: (chuckles; presses detonator button)
      Gwen: (yells) No!
      Emperor Milleous: Of course not. My daughter's still there.

    • Emperor Milleous: Raff, your career prospects are dimming.
      Commander Raff: I almost drowned. I mean, Lord Emperor Milleous. Light of the Inkersian Empire. (Emperor Milleous stops him)

    • Kevin: (trying to put Alien X through a rear car window) Ugh, just bend or something!
      Gwen: (Kevin tries to stuff Alien X in the trunk) You can't just stuff him in the trunk!
      Kevin: You're right; he doesn't fit.
      Gwen: I'm serious. He hasn't moved since he fixed the dam. Maybe he's hurt, or...
      Kevin: Nah, he's warm. Maybe he's resting.

    • Serena: I am Serena. The voice of love and compassion.
      Bellicus: And I am Bellicus, the voice of rage and aggression. (yelling) You're supposed to be the voice of reason!
      Serena: Bellicus and I have been lost in eternal argument.
      Ben: Yeah, that's great, but the Earth is going to be destroyed any minute.
      Serena: I feel sorry. Billions of lives will be lost.
      Bellicus: Ah, they probably had it coming.

    • Ben: (inside Alien X) This is awesome! Quick, how do I make something else happen?
      Serena: You are one of three.
      Bellicus: Weren't you listening?
      Ben: Yeah, whatever. Okay, team Alien X, let's move!

    • Kevin: (Seven-Seven flies off with Attea) Tennyson stop him. He's getting away!
      Gwen: Ben?
      Kevin: (flicking fingers) Hello? Anybody home in there?
      Gwen: Ben come on! Seven-Seven is getting away with the princess. Ben, are you okay? Ben?

    • Gwen: (after Alien X's premiere) Wow!
      Kevin: No lie. Has he ever turned into that guy before?
      Gwen: Nope. But with all that power, he's got to be the "go-to" hero from now on.

    • Ben: (dam breaks and flooding occurs) Gotta stop that water. The time is ready to give this one a try. (smacks Omnitrix and turns into Alien X)
      Alien X: Alien X! Seconded. Water-stopping notion carried! (repairs everything)

    • Gwen: (takes Attea's ripped garment piece) If this was hers and you can teleport, we're practically done. (tracking Attea) Got her. She's at Gran Montre Dam. And she's fighting back!

    • Ben: (after Milleous's voice message) There's going to be a panic. Earth doesn't get death threats every day!

    • Emperor Milleous: (in voice message) People of Earth. This is Lord Emperor Milleous. Your errand boy, Seven-Seven has one decorotation to return princess Attea to me before I blow your pathetic planet to dust with the unstoppable Inkersian conquest ray.

    • Ben: (talking to Commander Raff) We'll help you.
      Kevin: Why should we? (looks at Commander Raff) He's more of a work friend!

    • Ben: Wait! Seven-Seven? Like that guy Six-Six we used to fight.
      Commander Raff: He's the same race as Six-Six but far more dangerous.
      Gwen: Yeah, eleven more dangerous!

    • Kevin: What brings you out this way?
      Commander Raff: Seven-Seven snatched a little girl in the system and I really need to find her. You're the only Earth fellow I know. She wore the royal color. See anybody like that?

    • Ben: (Inkersian Warriors appear before them) I don't suppose you guys want to go to the auto show? (they point their weapons at the team)

    • Ben: Can we please make a decision?
      Kevin: (slurps his smoothie) I'm only saying it once; auto show.
      Gwen: Kevin we're going to the lake. Right, Ben?
      Ben: We've kinda done the lake, Gwen. (Gwen frowns and slurps her smoothie)

    • Emperor Milleous: You, my supposed right-hand... find my daughter!
      Commander Raff: Um, no problem your highness.
      Emperor Milleous: This Seven-Seven is a tool of the Empire's enemies.
      Commander Raff: But that could mean anybody, sir. Anybody you haven't enslaved or destroyed yet.
      Emperor Milleous: True. Search the closest inhabitant planet. Fix this! (button pops up) Or I will show you mercy!

    • Emperor Milleous: Quickly, my daughter is missing! (slams hand onto arm rest)
      Commander Raff: Yes. Do not worry about that sir, Seven-Seven probably took her alive. You know, for ransom.
      Emperor Milleous: Attea would never surrender. You are to blame for this! (points at Bandaged Warrior)
      Bandaged Warrior: Em-Emperor Milleous, have mercy!
      Emperor Milleous: (yells out) Mercy? For incompetence? Very well. (button pops out) Your destruction shall be swift. (Milleous presses button; the warrior gets vaporized)

    • Commander Raff: (talking to Bandaged Warrior) How long can we keep the emperor from finding out?
      Emperor Milleous: Raff, to me my major dormone.

    • Bandaged Warrior: While scouting an enemy star system, we were ambushed by the bounty hunter Seven-Seven.
      Commander Raff: Seriously? Where's the princess?
      Bandaged Warrior: We found this piece of her garment among the debris. All the battle was glorious!

    • Ben: (inside Alien X) He destroyed planet Pluto!
      Bellicus: Bah, Pluto wasn't a planet. It was a dwarf planet.
      Serena: I think it should have been a planet.

    • Kevin: Raff, how you been? Guys, this is Raff. The number two guy in like forty star systems. Raff, Gwen Tennyson.
      Commander Raff: Tennyson?
      Kevin: Yeah that's him there. (talking to Ben) I used to talk about what I'd do to you.
      Ben: Right... back when you were a crook.
      Kevin: "Entrepreneur."

    • Serena: We are one of the most powerful beings in the universe.
      Bellicus: Because we are the most deliberative.
      Ben: Huh? You mean the Earth is safe?
      Bellicus: No. How'd you get that?

    • Emperor Milleous: Yes, and Earth will be in smaller pieces if Princess Attea isn't returned to me.
      (Emperor Milleous looks at her)
      Gwen: (yells out) That makes no sense!
      Kevin: (whispers into Gwen's ear) Be quiet. Evil dictator.
      (Emperor Milleous looks at her)
      Gwen: Earth can't even communicate with you!
      Attendant: (in voice message) Incoming message from Earth, your violent highness. (Emperor Milleous looks at her)
      Gwen: (shocked) What do I know?

    • Serena: We are the most powerful beings in the entire universe. We change the world.
      Ben: You don't DO anything! The world is about to be destroyed and you're all, "oh, the procedure!" (Serena starts to cry)
      Bellicus: Now look what you've done! Fine! I move we save the Earth. Happy now?
      Ben: No! Just let me out of here. I've got 9 other guys that can do it better. (referring to the 9 other Omnitrix aliens)
      Serena: (still crying) That's hurtful...

    • Emperor Milleous: (talks to Attea) I'm proud of you Attea. One day you may very well dethrone me. (commands minions) Put her in stasis jail with her mother.

    • Kevin: (Kevin get's burned on shoulder) Phew! Burnin' rubber! (Inkersian Warrior drops)

  • NOTES (19)

  • ALLUSIONS (8)

    • The fact that, at the end, Pluto was destroyed instead of Earth, might be an allusion to The Fairly OddParents episode, "Vicky Lose Her Icky". At the end, Cosmo presses a "planet-destruction-switch" and Pluto was destroyed, because the switch didn't have a specific planet.

    • Star Wars
      The Inkersian conquest ray has the same effect on a planet as the Death Star.

    • The Inkersian Empire seems to share a lot of things in common with ancient empires of Earth. People would greet royalty by stating the emperor's full title. They would be killed if they failed their job. They would often conquer other lands to claim for their own. Princesses might have been kidnapped and held for ransom, however, most of the time, the captives were slaves. There would be a royal color worn by the emperor's family, most notified would be purple. People have been known to overthrow their ruler, including their own family. Also, in the Aztec kingdom, Moctezuma II had a private zoo, to which the princess is refering.

    • Inkersian Empire - Persian Empire:
      The 'Inkersian Empire' name is likely a parody of the Persian Empire name.

    • Serena and Bellicus look very much like the cosmic beings Master Order and Lord Chaos (with Alien X reminiscent of the In-Betweener), created by Jim Starlin for his landmark 1970s Marvel Comic series Warlock.

    • Bellicus: "Pluto isn't a planet!"

      In 2006, scientists ruled that Pluto was too small to be a planet, but since it was to big to be an asteroid or meteor, it was declared a "Dwarf Planet." This has since caused much debate.

    • Kevin's remark on "burning rubber" is supported by the smell of worn-out or burnt tires, which are made of rubber. Hence, "burning rubber," which may also refer to someone who travels a lot, like Kevin.

    • Title - X Equals Ben Plus 2
      The title sounds like a math formula, X = N + 2.

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