| Benjamin Kirby Tennyson | |
|---|---|
| General Information | |
| Species | Human |
| Home World | Earth |
| Residence | Bellwood |
| Age | 10 (Season 1 - 2) 16 - 17 (Season 3 - 4) |
| Occupations | Hero Student Zeta Squad Member |
| Powers and Abilities | |
| Equipment | Omnitrix |
| Relationships | |
| Relatives | Carl Tennyson (Father) Sandra Tennyson (Mother) |
| Details | |
| Voice Actor | Tara Strong (Young) Yuri Lowenthal (Older) |
Benjamin Kirby "Ben" Tennyson is the one of the main protagonists of Of Gemstones and Watches. He was an ordinary ten-year-old boy until he found the Omnitrix, a powerful watch-like device that allowed him to turn into ten different aliens.
Appearance[]
Ben's physical appearance has changed throughout the series from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old. However, he retains some recurring characteristics. He has unkept brown hair, green eyes, pale skin, and he's quite skinny for his age, though he shows a lot of muscle definition due to being athletic.
At age 10, Ben's usual clothes consisted of a black-striped, white shirt with short sleeves, military green cargo pants with side pockets with a black belt hidden under his shirt, and black and white sneakers with black stripes. Ben wore the Omnitrix on his left wrist.
At age 16, Ben wears a black shirt that has a green stripe in the middle and on the sides of his shirt. He wears blue jeans with a brown belt hidden under the shirt and green and white shoes. He wears a white hooded jacket with green stripes on both arms and a green number 10 on the right side. He wears the Omnitrix on his left wrist.
Personality[]
Initially cocky, childish, and selfish, Ben's immaturity and attention-seeking behavior often led him to joke around, regardless of the situation. His allies often criticized his attitude, unaware of the fact that he used humor to mask his fears. Despite some childish attitude, he was heroic, caring and generally good-natured, always willing to save others at any time.
Over the years, Ben has displayed good leadership skills, as well as the ability to adapt his attitude to a situation, becoming serious when it's called for. He became more mature, responsible and sensible. He's kind-hearted, willing to sacrifice even his own life for others. His idealistic views and unwillingness to compromise his values sometimes drive him to act against reason, such as helping his enemies if they need it.
Ben is protective of his loved ones. When Max died, Ben was unresponsive for days. It took Ruby and Yang to help him grieve.
Ben is incredibly awkward with romantic relationships, due to some failed attempts.
Ben is also easily flustered, according to Ruby.
Abilities[]
Ben is a crafty, intelligent fighter, having memorized multiple forms of combat for alien form and his own human form. Ben is quite agile and acrobatic, as seen when fighting Roman's goons. It is evident that Ben is smart in some respects, possessing an above-average intelligence. He even stated that he really is not working up to his potential at school. Ben also has an extraordinarily sharp memory.
Thanks to Maria, Ben has unlocked an aura.
Somehow, Ben was able to conjure up lightning from his fingers- this is believed to be his Semblance.
Equipment[]
Ben is the wielder of the Omnitrix, which gave him the power to modify his own genetic code in order to turn into various alien creatures. Traditionally, he could only transform into ten aliens at the beginning of the series, but gains additional forms by unlocking them or scanning the DNA of the aliens he meets. When transforming into an alien, Ben gets all the creature's features, including its appearance, voice, all of its unique and special abilities and powers, strengths and weaknesses. Though he mostly retains his personality, there are some cases where the transformation causes a change in it, like with Rath and Juryrigg.
Ben wears a special suit in combat, similar to the Proto Armor. He also carries around pellets that can enlarge to the size of a soccer ball, and kick them as projectiles.
Trivia[]
- Ben's theme song is Just A Little Faster by There for Tomorrow.
- Sumo Slammers is Ben's favorite game, book, and TV show, though Doctor Who is a close second.
- Ben began crushing on Ruby when he was 13.