I'd just like to voice a grievance, with the whole Ben 10 reboot series. I'd like to start this off by saying I haven't watched the whole thing, so maybe it's a cinematic masterpiece to rival the works of Shakespeare; I don't know. But what I do know is that I have eyes, and no, I'm not watching this through Nostalgia-Vision gogglesâą (patent pending) this is how I was introduced to Ben 10 before I watched any of the older series or movies, this is purely a criticism of the designs. And yes, I know, they were made more superhero like to entice children because that's the main audience, I get it, but they're just ugly.
Let's start off with something tame, Xlr8, it's hard to get him wrong and I only have a few a few complaints. First, where the fuck did he get those back spikes? Those weren't there before, did some serious evolution happen to this man between this and any other version of the Ben 10 universe? And his arms look like baguettes. And where's his mask? All of the bugs are going to get in his eyes.
Much like the last one, this is just minor complaints. He looks like a walking advertisement for lighters. This man looks less like he's fighting crime and more like he's trying to help me get lung cancer. What happened to him being "the prime of his species" he looks like he has two kids, a divorce, and a down payment on a coastal home. I've never seen a man made of fire and lava look more sunburnt
I know, I know, these are two different aliens. But come on, there's no way there wasn't reference drawn. "Hmm, ooh! What if we made a mechanical looking alien with water powers" "oh well we already have o-" "shut the fuck up Gary, we're gonna call it Overflow" just bring back Water Hazard, he's significantly better, in design, name, everything. Water Hazard looks like a badass monk who's mastered water bending after 10 years in the mountains, Overflow looks like a washing machine with a personal grievance against the villain of the episode
Okay what the fuck happened here? No I'm fucking serious, I want to know. Why does he have legs? Why does he have full arms? Why is he wearing a bulletproof vest? What happened to Wildvine? Get some fertilizer on this man! He's suffering of malnutrition or whatever
WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM??? All you had to do was draw a frog, he looks like a Simpsons bit, and he's probably been smoking, look at how red his eyes are. He's got no muscles, just bone and skin is all you need to be a Galvin apparently.
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