Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5486221-20160803133231/@comment-24922135-20160926145618

Overflow is confirmed to be from the Andromeda galaxy, whilst it isn't stated that he is an Orishan BTP seems to think he is. The only real info apart from that is that he comes from the planet Kiusana.

This adds credence to Alan thinking that Overflow is the Reboots version of Water Hazard's species, I will wait for a canon answer myself.

Speaking of which, I hope the reboot does background exposition as well as the OS did. In OS, the enemies often spoke to Ben, particularly when he was in alien form, as though he should know what the hell they are talking about. They don't realise he doesn't know anything about the universe outiside of the Earth, leading them to refer to him by his species name or calling things by their proper names.

I think the earliest example of this would probably be in the episode 'Hunted' when the bounty hunters are looking to retrieve the Omnitrix. They don't call it a 'watch' like Ben does, they refer to it by name. It takes Gwen to realise they're talking about the thing on Ben's wrist. Gradually over the course of the series they name almost all of Ben's aliens (at least the first 12) by species with the possible exception of Stinkfly, and Heatblast. Even Xylene names Upgrade as a Galvanic Mechamorph, to which Grandpa Max has to translate that to 'Upgrade' so Ben understands.

It might just be a little detail, but it was one that I really appreciated as a child. I even had a notebook where I tried to build litle datacards on Ben's aliens. Sure, they were all spelt wrong (I even called XLR8 'accelerate'), but it was fun trying to hunt through the episodes for names. I distinctly remember thinking Heatblast's species names was 'Hothead' because Keving calls himself that (whilst using Heatblast's body) as a joke in Framed.