Ben Tennyson (Heroes of Evolution)

Benjamin Kirby "Ben" Tennyson is the titular character of Ben 10: Heroes of Evolution, created by TJlive800.

Character Background
Ben is still 16 years of age and has lived through the canon of the first three Ben 10 series, with the omission of his receiving the new Omnitrix from Azmuth in The Ultimate Enemy, Part 2. He is still in possession of the Ultimatrix. His life as chronicled in Heroes of Evolution takes place in the summer of 2014, with him having finished his sophomore year in high school and on the verge of becoming a junior.

In "Pilot - Part 1", Ben is finishing his last day of his 10th grade year at Bellwood High School. With Julie, he tries to escape high-energy fans following endless partying at school, but is saved by BPD Captain James Rozum to discuss Will Harangue's newly-initiated criminal activity. Rozum gets a text on his phone and appears shocked; he ignores Ben's questions.

The next day, Ben takes Gwen and Kevin with him to the BPD 10th precinct to question Captain Rozum; after a brief argument, Rozum talks with Ben privately about how the suspects in a shooting two nights ago were U.S. Army soldiers and how disgusted he is by their breakage of his brother's code. Ben understands his pain and promises to help find these men.

Ben, Gwen and Rozum all trace the suspected shooter, Trent Marks, to a desolated, barren area in Bellwood's northeastern outskirts. Using Jetray, Ben finds a phone inside a house, and gets a call from an incredibly frightened friend of his, Jack, who gives him an address to meet him at. Ben goes alone in his car, not knowing that Marks killed Jack. Marks ambushes Ben and shoots a tire on his car, sending it flying into the parking lot. Meanwhile, Gwen and Rozum are kidnapped.

A large army of troops comes for Ben, but Ben uses Humungousaur to intimidate them from the shadows, eventually breaking out and taking down a large number of army vehicles. Corrupt general John Briggs orders gas-emitting bomber helicopters to subdue Humungousaur - following a news report with Harangue, who is in cohorts with Briggs, Humungousaur is brought to Briggs' father's family-named fort for experimentation. The Ultimatrix's power is drained after Briggs has his scientists drain Ben out with amphetamines.

Ben is taken to be interrogated by Briggs and Harangue, but Briggs betrays Harangue and takes Ben to a secret lab to experiment on him and steal alien samples from the Ultimatrix. The lab's power goes out when Colonel Rozum's men, who came to rescue his brother, are ambushed by unidentified ships. Briggs holds Ben, Gwen, Kevin and Harangue prisoner to meet with his secret employer: Vulkanus.

Vulkanus kills Briggs and takes Ben with him personally, ordering the others executed. Grandpa Max and the Plumbers arrive and make a deal that Vulkanus can keep Ben in exchange for sparing the others. Ben knows Max is bluffing, and uses the power in the Ultimatrix that has recharged so far to attack the soldiers using Cannonbolt and later Ultimate Cannonbolt. The entire facility is destroyed and Ben reunites with his friends, who are joined by Cooper as well as a captured Harangue, to find Vulkanus, who has escaped.

Vulkanus wreaks havoc around central Bellwood for Ben to face him, and Ben meets him as Rath, publicly taking him down. Harangue manages to escape and holds Ben at gunpoint, but Ben easily overpowers him. Despite his injury sustained during his capture, Capt. Rozum arrives and arrests Harangue. Cooper stops Vulkanus from escaping and arrests him as well.

Little does everyone know that Vulkanus was ordered by a mysterious third party to steal the Ultimatrix from Ben.

In "Brothers", Ben's time with his friends is shown a little more. Ben and Kevin save Ben's parents from being killed by two assassins sent after Ben: Krill and Wyatt Herman. Gwen arrives to assist them and they take the battle all the way to the bridge leading to the city.

Max calls Ben to brief him on the perpetrators and their history with him as students. Ben is surprised by this and interrogates Krill and Wyatt - they say that they were Plumbers and were set up to fail a hostage rescue by an anonymous man hiring them to be hitmen.

The same superior texts them, asking for a report. Ben texts back and threatens the man despite Krill and Wyatt's pleas not to, but realizes his grave mistake when he is sent a picture of the brothers' parents in captivity. The brothers commit suicide and the man is satisfied. Max arrives to pick up the brothers and is devastated to see them dead. The mysterious man later releases the parents to Max and sends a note through them, promising Max that they will meet again.

Personality
In Heroes of Evolution, Ben is portrayed as a rebellious, rude, energetic, easy-going and almost carefree character who is always making jokes and poking fun at others. He now takes his job more seriously and is cold and direct when facing his enemies, showing little fear for criminals. He uses his aliens in a more intimidating manner and often sneaks up on adversaries.

Ben is shown to be very observant and following his pact formed with the police, he becomes more attentive to clues at crimes and always seeks to gain the upper hand on the enemy - as the show progresses he becomes less and less afraid of fan crowds, though he initially chooses to run in fear. Ben shows little regard to people who think they're better than him and is always rude and confrontational to people he suspects of wrongdoing. His carefree attitude is further shown when he tries to be as friendly as possible to essentially defy his parents - he takes things rather lightly but his plans almost always work.