Thursday, May 25, 2017

Prediction: Beast Boy vs Ben Tennyson

Introduction


Transformation is a very useful ability for any number of situations. The ability to use transformation to become any size or shape is also very useful. However, there is a limit depending on what type of transformation abilities you get. In one corner, Ben Tennyson, the defender of Earth from aliens, and in the other corner, Beast Boy, a titan with a real feral instinct. 

Background

Ben Tennyson


Way back when, a young man known as Ben Tennyson, his cousin, and his grandfather all went on a cross country road trip for an entire summer. Thanks to the road trip being ultimately boring as fuck, Ben decided to take a walk outside to get away from all the boringness when he saw a shooting star falling into the woods that he was currently camping in and chased after it. Hitting the fall site, Ben quickly realised that the shooting star wasn't actually a shooting star, but alien tech. 

Ben ran to the piece of tech, hoping for some excitement, and by god, did he get what he was hoping for. In the capsule was a watch, and that watch immediately attached to his arm and started fusing with his DNA. Trying to figure out what the watch did, he messed around with it and somehow transformed into an actual alien. After causing a forest fire, Ben turned back into his human form and declared that he would use his newfound watch to become a hero.

The watch, the Omnitrix, has been upgraded and used in many different ways. From stopping petty crime to defeating powerful aliens, Ben grew up used his abilities to help as many people as he possibly could, learning how to control and obtain new aliens to transform into. But as he grew up, so did his ego. After being discovered as Ben 10, his new-fangled fame took him to new heights, which also posed as more of a threat to his friends and family. However, he finally had help from his cousin Gwen and his childhood enemy, Kevin. 

Then so on and so forth, he fought many other supervillains, including an evil duplicate of himself called Albedo, as well as becoming an honorary member of the intergalactic police known as the plumbers. his adventures end when a being called maltruant decides that he wants to create a new universe in his own image, but Ben eventually defeats him and witnesses the creation of a new universe. Omniverse was fucking weird, but it's canon.

Other Info

  • Full Name: Benjamin Kirby Tennyson
  • Age: 16 (by the end of the original franchise)
  • Residence: Bellwood, California
  • Has access to approximately 65~ different aliens
  • In a relationship with Kai Green (Possible Future Wife)
  • Has a college degree from Friedkin University
  • Visited Generator Rex once

Beast Boy

Garfield Logan lived with his parents in Lumumba, Africa while they were developing "reverse evolution" in order to bring extinct creatures back from the grave.  However, while they were living in Lumumba, Garfield contracted a deadly disease known as Sakutia, and the only way to cure him was to use a serum that transformed him into a West African green monkey for 24 hours. However, once the serum wore off and he was cured, Garfield's skin, hair, and eyes all turned green, as well as the ability to transform into any animal he could imagine. This could be real, fictional, or even extraterrestrial to some extent, but he has to have seen the animal with his own eyes before he could transform into it. 

After gaining these new-fangled abilities, his parents died in a boating accident, and Garfield's life took a heavy turn for the worse. He went on to be kidnapped by assholes, then got adopted by another asshole (Nick Galtry), before trying to hire villains to kill Garfield before he could inherit anything. However, those villains were stopped by the Doom Patrol, and Galtry was exposed so that Garfield could join the Doom Patrol as the adopted child of Elasti-Girl and Steve Dayton. Once joined, he finally takes the codename Beast Boy.

But then the entire Doom Patrol dies, so Beast Boy has to find something to do with his life. One of the most well-known adaptions of this was that Garfield portrayed an alien on a television show, Space Trek: 2020 before it got sued and cancelled. Before it got cancelled, Garfield joined the West Coast Teen Titans and changed his name to 'changeling' before eventually changing it back.

Other Info

  • Full Name: Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan
  • Height: Varies
  • Weight: Varies
  • Can transform into any animal after seeing it once
  • Has had a canonical relationship with Raven
  • Is generally shown as Vegetarian

Weapons and other Equipment

Ben 10

Omnitrix


Ben's primary weapon is the Omnitrix, which he's always had in one form or another. It allows him to transform into several different aliens. Before being upgraded, he was only able to transform into said aliens for 10 minutes, however, this is bypassable with the Quick Change feature that allows Ben to transform into other aliens midfight. There are over 1 million different species of Alien DNA encoded on the Omnitrix, but Ben has not unlocked them all.

  • Can protect user from negative effects such as possession
  • Functions as a GPS
  • Has a universal translator
  • Does have a self-destruct sequence

Beast Boy

Beast Boy does not have any actual equipment, his weapons are his animal transformations.

Powers and Abilities

Ben Tennyson

Ben has a really long list of Aliens. I'm just going to list all of them. Their names should be generally what they do since most of them are puns. For information, here
  • Alien X (Capable of bending reality)
  • AmpFibian
  • Arctiguana
  • Armodrillo
  • Astrodactyl
  • Atomix
  • Ball Weevil
  • Big Chill
  • Blitzwolfer
  • Bloxx
  • Brainstorm
  • Bullfrag
  • Buzzshock
  • Canonbolt
  • ChamAlien
  • Chromastone
  • Clockwork
  • Crashhopper
  • Diamondhead
  • Ditto
  • Eatle
  • Echo Echo
  • Eye Guy
  • Fasttrack (Is pretty much useless since XLR8 is unlocked)
  • Feedback
  • Four Arms
  • Frankenstrike
  • Ghostfreak
  • Goop
  • GravAttack
  • Grey Matter
  • Gutrot
  • Heatblast
  • Humungosaur
  • Jetray
  • Jury Rigg
  • Kickin' Hawk
  • Lode Star
  • Mole-Stache
  • Nanomech
  • NRG
  • Pesky Dust
  • Rath
  • Ripjaws
  • Shocksquash
  • Snare-Oh
  • Spidermonkey
  • Spitter
  • Squidstrictor
  • Stinkfly
  • Swampfire
  • Terraspin
  • Toepick
  • The Worst
  • Upchuck
  • Upgrade
  • Ventrilosquid
  • Walkatrout
  • Water Hazard
  • Way Big
  • Whampire
  • Wildmutt
  • Wildvine
  • XLR8

Beast Boy

Beast Boy's abilities include being able to transform into any animal, real, fictional, or alien. He can even turn into multiple animals at once and partially transform himself into animals. While he's these animals, he can mimic any of the abilities that the animal has. 

He can also change quickly at will, to the point where he can dodge an actual bullet.

Feats

Ben 10


Beast Boy


Weaknesses

Ben Tennyson


Ben is overconfident, cocky, and really famous. Too famous for his own good. He overestimates his own abilities and believes he can take down any enemy he comes across, even with his own disadvantages.

Regarding his Aliens, most of them aren't that strong, and his most powerful ones have their own weaknesses. Up until the Omniverse episode "Universe vs Tennyson", Alien X couldn't be controlled without the approval of every action by Serena and Bellicus. Atomix gets exhausted after using too much energy and can't fight, despite being one of the most powerful non-Alien X aliens Ben has. The Worst, even though it can take a ton of damage, can't fight. Toepick also can't fight, it's only strength is its face.

Beast Boy

Beast Boy's major weakness is that he's an idiot. He easily gets hypnotised by Mad Mod, rushes into combat without thinking, and usually only helps when everyone else is helping. He has a carefree demeanour and will do practically anything until the point where it could kill him. 

He also laughs at the word "boogers" and that alone proves he's a disappointment.

Summary

Ben Tennyson

Advantages

  • More Powerful Aliens can easily One Shot most of Garfield's transformations
  • XLR8 and Fasttrack are faster than most of Garfield's transformations
  • More Varied Abilities
  • More Powerful Aliens can take anything Garfield tries to do
  • Smarter
  • His skin isn't green

Disadvantages

  • Far fewer transformations than Garfield
  • Transformations take slightly more time than Garfield's transformations
  • His Ego is far bigger than Garfield
  • His girlfriend isn't Raven

Beast Boy


Advantages

  • Many, Many more transformations
  • Could possibly transform into most of Ben's Aliens
  • Some animal transformations stronger than most of Ben's weaker aliens.
  • Was in a canonical relationship with both Raven and Terra

Disadvantages

  • He's a fucking idiot
  • Ben's most powerful aliens can one shot
  • Slower
  • Weaker
  • Less Durable
  • He's a fucking idiot
  • Not even dragons can save him

Verdict (final statistics don't matter because of the variety)


After many, many, many long years of research (yeah, I know this doesn't contain a lot and I should've gone back through all of Beast Boy's Comics, but that's like 2 years of stuff and I'm a bit lazy), This is finally a thing. This is one of those fights that I actually really, really want to see happen because of the connection. 

Yeah, I realise it's a total shitstomp if we go with both characters most powerful forms, but if we manage to keep it a bit in-character, it's not at bad as people thing and can be shown as really entertaining.

Most of Ben's weaker aliens are only around Large Building - City Block, which is similar to most of Beast Boy's normal transformations can match with. Beast Boy's Gorilla has equal feats to Four Arms that we've seen (didn't post four arms feats because fuck, there's a shitload of aliens Ben 10 has and if I gave all of them feats this blog would never be posted). But even Beast Boys more powerful transformations don't really come close to aliens like Alien X, Way Big, or Atomix. 

Hilariously, this also works out because Beast Boy's stupidity will actually improve Ben's overconfidence by making him go easier on him, and use weaker aliens, unless you take Omniverse Ben into account and he just uses Alien X to beat the shit out of random thugs (Although I'd argue that it's an outlier in his consistent personality, since before that he'd never use Alien X for something that remarkably stupid, which is why he originally locked that transformation from his own use because he didn't trust himself with it). Ben would only use his more powerful aliens when Beast Boy proves to be a threat.

The one counter I see every single time I look this matchup up online is the argument that Beast Boy could potentially transform into Ben's aliens. The way his powers work, it is actually possible. Beast Boy genetically alters his DNA to become that different species, making it his own unique DNA. Since Ben's Aliens are all different species from humans, in theory, it's possible he could transform into any of Ben's aliens as well as gain their abilities, as long as he's seen the actual creature in question.

There are two ways this could go down:

A. Ben uses Beast Boys stupidity against him, catches him off-guard, and kills him. 

B. Ben turns into Upgrade, Beast Boy sees Upgrade, then Beast Boy uses Ben's overconfidence in order to transform himself into Upgrade and destroy the Omnitrix by activating the self-destruct sequence.

Option A is the only one that would effectively work in a situation like that. For one, Beast Boy has no technology, so there's no reason at all for Ben to become Upgrade and do anything. Secondly, if by some miracle Ben does decide to transform into Upgrade, Garfield is not even close to smart enough to figure out that he could use it to destroy the Omnitrix. He can transform into Upgrade, yeah, but in the end, Garfield couldn't do a whole lot.

The other other ending is that Ben goes Alien X at the end of the fight, and catches Beast Boy off guard before Beast Boy realises what's happening, and erases him from existence. Even if we assume that Beast Boy can transform into other aliens, he just isn't smart enough to figure out a way to kill Ben. 












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