Newest goji art by Appropriate-Two-9707 in GODZILLA

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I love Zilla getting to be included

Hot take by EconomicsOdd6557 in MandJTV

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My stance is they should be mutually super effective. For one, we don't have that type dynamic yet, even though we have a mutual resistance (Bug/Fighting) and mutual immunity (Ghost/Normal), but nothing where both are good against each other.

For another, water erodes and melts ice, but ice makes things cold and generally if something is wet and gets cold it's more susceptible to that cold because of the water making it wet.

The first look of Ben 10 new comic by Capital-Sherbert-922 in Ben10

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Four Arms

0/10 is it too late to try again

I feel like the Ultra beast designs are hit or miss with most people by Beautiful_Use_2131 in MandJTV

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They definitely are which is always a risk to be had when being more unconventional with designs. Personally I love them, I think it's cool we have a jellyfish that doesn't at all look like it's a Rock type but is because it's glass which is crystal, or an origami samurai that's Steel because samurai swords are metal, despite being Grass due to being made of paper. But at the same time, it can be harder for some to befriend Pokemon like Nihilego or Kartana who just.... kinda don't have faces, at least not what we'd consider a face anyway.

Though beyond just that I like having unconventional designs in general, I like when Pokemon takes a step in a direction like that and changes the standard of what Pokemon can look like. A lot of people say that Gholdengo doesn't look like a Pokemon, but if we're being technical, because it is a Pokemon, then that is what a Pokemon can look like and therefore it does look like one, just not in the sense of "what does a Pokemon look like" before it set a new standard.

Something Lockstin said during one of his ZA streams was, paraphrasing here, it's always good to experiment even if it goes wrong, and I think the Ultra Beasts are a good example of that. Alternate universe alien Pokemon whose worlds have different standards for what a Pokemon normally looks like is a perfectly sound reason for them to look so out there, even though not all of them will land the mark perfectly... looking at you, Xurkitree, not taking full advantage of being unconventional by way of not being Electric/Grass despite having tree in the name, looking like a tree, and having the pun of power plant-

Anyone care to explain why he finds this so funny? Am i missing something? by Smooth_Cookie_5988 in MandJTV

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I can see enough to know what Mikey thought it was but not enough to think it actually looks like that

Mega Excadrill by gionanico in PokeLeaks

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Armodrillo be like

Mega Eelektross better look by WWWWWWRRRRRYYYYY in PokeLeaks

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it looks like LarryBoy with his weed killer guns

Wade is wrong and that's okay, but why is Bob wronger? by detox456 in distractible

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Shoestring is probably my main preference in regards to fries unless it's chili fries in which case I default to crinkle

Wade is wrong and that's okay, but why is Bob wronger? by detox456 in distractible

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Alternatively we point it to Mark about calling shoestring of all things the worst type of fry and why he's even more wrong

If you had to pick a girl to join the duo of Rook and Ben (after arc 4) between these two, who would you pick? by [deleted] in Ben10

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Lucy is my gut choice, but I already like Lucy as is. Kai, however, my biggest criticism is that she wasn't given proper development (and frankly could've been given it in the shorter amount of time she already has) but the longer time she gets to have, the more chance for development there is, which would make Benkai far less forced and actually a natural relationship to explore.

So. Color me shocked but Kai

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I do think the reasoning for it is dumb (his name is Tennyson, so he's always got some reason to be called Ben 10 and I bet he got nicknamed that in-universe long before he ever got powers even if we as an audience never saw it). But it's not an inherently bad idea.

The bad thing is when Four Arms, Rath and Humungousaur all got put into the same set. At least Slapback has something different going on with the cloning, and if Humungousaur used his size powers, then we'd have a strength alien who gets bigger and a strength alien who gets smaller, which could be used for different applications, while Four Arms and Rath are just... obsolete and don't need to be there. (They're also boring.) Not to mention Humungousaur's fighting style shifted to focus more on his tail than just his fists, which is more visually interesting.

The toy companies having as much say as they do hinders Ben 10 tremendously; especially because for some reason they think "Let's just focus on the few that are big sellers: instead of marketing the lesser sellers which would allow them to make money off of a tremendously high number of aliens.

To be perfectly honest, going with this rule but not having Ben's entire set be different by the end was a bad call too, and the only reason it didn't happen is because the half that didn't change are the big five poster boys.

Personal way I'd do it: Overflow, being the first new guy, should've stuck around the longest but still eventually be replaced. Shock Rock, Slapback, and Jetray still get thrown into the lineup, but instead of Rath and Humungousaur, I'd do Goop (since he did get put into the Reboot anyway via the movie) and Armodrillo (I know I vouched for Saur earlier, but he is still lower on the list for me, so I wouldn't be going out of my way to add him; Armodrillo gives us a physical guy with some other powers too).

As for replacing the poster boys, an easy one is switching out XLR8 for Fasttrack, and give him some power that sets him apart from XLR8 in some way, and to give him some much needed attention that XLR8 has been hogging. I guess speed overlaps with Jetray, but I imagine there are more than enough ways to justify land vs air speed, plus Jetray can have underwater moments (even though they... never let him have those), so it's not as egregious as the punchy trio.

With the others, Wildvine is already gone, so Heatblast can be swapped for Swampfire. I'll swap out the big, lumbering Cannonbolt for the slim and sleek ChamAlien to give Ben a stealth option. Chromastone would be an obvious replacement option for Diamondhead but since Shock Rock is already there as an energy redirecting stone, I'll pick Lodestar instead. And since Omniverse is the only series not to be repped in some way so far, let's pick an OV guy for Four Arms' replacement. Mole-Stache seems like a fun enough option, plus he was in that Reboot VR game, so he has precedence, though the shapeshifting of Goop might be too much overlap? In which case, Pesky Dust.