Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4969948-20160404201742/@comment-24922135-20160621212805

Alanomaly wrote: Being a reboot has become a shoddy cop out for being able to do whatever the hell they want it seems.

To be fair, Ben 10 has never needed that excuse before. AF, UA, and OV all took major liberties with the plot and lore from the series that came before them. A great example being Kevin's back story. He went from a human in OS, to an alien in UAF, and back to a human in OV. Saying that this is intended to be a reboot is a better excuse than any we've had before, at least this time they aren't pretending to follow previous canon.

And actually I sympathise with the writers wanting to shake up the original ten a bit. Ann's ten aliens in Age of the Unitrix were supposed to be the ten from the OS, but were changed for reasons. The reason I omitted wildmutt and Ripjaws is because Wildmutt was not unique enough to the others, and Ripjaws was too situational. I bet the writers for the reboot have similar excuses.

My predictions for Ghostfreak being omitted would be that he was considered either too scary or too powerful (preferably the latter). who knows, we may get an arc in the future where Ben unlocks Ghostfreak and then uses almost exclusivley him (like how 11 year old Ben in OV used only feedback) before Ghostfreak breaks out. That would give us the Zs'skayer story AND solve Alan's worry that we wouldn't get the build up to his break out.