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Ben 10: Crosstime Possibly Low 1-C re-justification.

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then when Paradox traveled backwards a new snapshot was formed.
Prove he can do that or that the Ben 10 verse works like that, regular time travel just rewrites the same timeline if no loops are involved. Paradox hasn't shown any creation abilities.

I think it should also be noted that Qawsedf's disagreement is different from other peope's disagreements as he does agree that what Paradox did is not ordinary time travel.
 
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Uh yeah, as long as singular timeline is involved, any change in the timeline just rewrites the single Timeline rather than creating new one.

Eon traveling back in time to defeat ben 10000 when he was younger (since he can't defeat ben 10000 rn due to him being strong), Gwen rewritting past with her time travel to save Kevin. All of it just rewritten the prime timeline rather than creating any new one. And most important one: Ben travelling back in past to cure a extradimensional creation also proves it, if alteration creates alternate timeline then that extradimensional creature would have not been cured in real time but rather a timeline would have been created where he was never affected. Never in the verse stated that interfering with past creates alternate timelines, all paradox did was to create intertwined fate of Omnitrix and ben for any upcoming branch to have them.

It's never stated that timelines gets created due to timetravel but just that there exist parallel versions of the primetime with changes (classic ben 10000 timeline which is a alternate w/o any time travel that changed its anyway, a timeline where ben never had to destroy the Omnitrix was created w/o timetravel as well, so it doesn't work like Dragonball timelines creation).
 
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The main problem I see with Qawsedf's interpretation is that the root of the tree (Ben Prime's timeline) shouldn't exist anymore because of Vilgax's statement of all timelines being destroyed except for the one without an Omnitrix. Also if that moment in time was unaffected, why didn't Eon just travel there to avoid the CTB?

There is also no proof that Paradox's time travel caused said moment in time to exist again as a separate reality and if this is supposedly how the verse works, then why didn't Eon do the same thing?
 
The main problem I see with Qawsedf's interpretation is that the root of the tree (Ben Prime's timeline) shouldn't exist anymore because of Vilgax's statement of all timelines being destroyed except for the one without an Omnitrix. Also if that moment in time was unaffected, why didn't Eon just travel there to avoid the CTB?
Actually Qawsed means that they just rebooted NW ben timeline to match the prime timeline. But since timetravel don't cause creation of timelines in ben 10, I don't know.
 
Also keep in mind that Paradox is explaining the basics to No Watch Ben so him using terminology like "reboot" instead of saying "we're traveling across a second temporal dimension to another version of the multiverse, which I then need to set up in a specific way so I can assemble an army of Bens and learn you how to properly use the Omnitrix" isn't exactly a defeater.
 
Yes, they word for word say that.

They go outside of time after the bomb is detonated and then travel back to Prime Ben. After they get him the Omnitrix the multiverse branches again and causes everything that previously existed to happen again in the same way.

After that point it was just NWB and Paradox trying to stop Evil Ben and Vilgax from killing all the other Bens for a second time.
But wouldn't that be impossible since the prime Ben's timeline was destroyed? From my understanding the CTB destroyed every timeline where Ben exists including Ben 10 Primes timeline wouldn't that mean that the Past Present and future of Ben Prime timeline was also destroyed? Which means it would be impossible for them too travel back in time where Ben was 10 years old
 
But wouldn't that be impossible since the prime Ben's timeline was destroyed? From my understanding the CTB destroyed every timeline where Ben exists including Ben 10 Primes timeline wouldn't that mean that the Past Present and future of Ben Prime timeline was also destroyed?
Vilgax destroyed every timeline where Ben got the Omnitrix, which is why NWB wasn't effected. Since NWB wasn't effected all they did was go back and introduce the Omnitrix to him and everything reset itself.

NWB even asks if he was thr only Ben to never see the Omnitrix and Paradox tells him yes.
Prove he can do that or that the Ben 10 verse works like that
I already did. They literally travel into the past and recreated the entire multiverse. It didn't solve the problem however, as by proxy Vilgax's plan to kill all the Bens was also reset and they had to stop it.

This is literally just the first "Doesn't count" image in the OP. All they did was travel backwards in time to an existing universe and caused it to branch out from there.
 
Vilgax destroyed every timeline where Ben got the Omnitrix, which is why NWB wasn't effected.
This is true. but this 👇 is not make sure...
Since NWB wasn't effected all they did was go back and introduce the Omnitrix to him and everything reset itself.
That's not what you said tho at first. You said that they went to Prime Ben's timeline and then went back in time now you're changing and saying that they went back in time in NWB timeline but the thing is, is that NWB timeline doesn't have the omnitrix if I remember correctly also how would they get an omnitrix(the prototype omnitrix in particular) when every timeline where Ben gets the omnitrix is destroyed.
NWB even asks if he was thr only Ben to never see the Omnitrix and Paradox tells him yes.
Well that's true since in his timeline the omnitrix doesn't exist at all so my question still stands and remains unanswered?

 
You said that they went to Prime Ben's timeline and then went back in time now you're changing and saying that they went back in time in NWB timeline but the thing is, is that NWB timeline doesn't have the omnitrix if I remember correctly also how would they get an omnitrix(the prototype omnitrix in particular) when every timeline where Ben gets the omnitrix is destroyed.
The episode shows then just redoing the first episode of Ben 10 and they launch the Omnitrix at Earth and guide it to Prime Ben who gets it. Causing history to reset itself because everything rebranched.

That original timeline was never destroyed is my main point. They went back to it and caused it to branch out again.
 
The episode shows then just redoing the first episode of Ben 10 and they launch the Omnitrix at Earth and guide it to Prime Ben who gets it. Causing history to reset itself because everything rebranched.

That original timeline was never destroyed is my main point. They went back to it and caused it to branch out again.
Actually, this Universe never had the Omnitrix while all other had. So resetting it will not bring Omnitrix.... Unless paradox did off screen stuff and forced azmuth to create one.
 
Unless paradox did off screen stuff and forced azmuth to create one.
Don’t even see how Paradox can force Azmuth to do anything, especially if he’s in a pessimistic mood, heck wouldn’t that immediately impact No Watch Ben’s memories as well?
 
I thought you agreed with Paradox traveling to a different version of the Ben Prime timeline, but apparently you don’t?
NWB still branched off from Prime Ben, as he's called an off-shoot of that Prime Ben.

If NWB isn't erased then Prime Ben can't be either, as NWB is just a version of Prime Ben in a universe where he didn't get the watch.

It's why I said giving Prime Ben a watch just reset everything, because it causes all the other branches to reform themselves
 
No Watch Ben’s branching happens before the creation of the Omnitrix though, so the cut-off point would be before the point Paradox travels to.
Since I'm at work I won't be able to respond properly. When I get home I'll compose my thoughts into a larger comment to explain my points and I hope it's easier to get my point across.
 
The branching order in relation to 5 alternate timelines has to be like:

  • At 1 second: Omnitrix yet hasn't been created and branching of NWB happened, likely even before prime ben travelled back in time and met vilgax before creation of Universe, in this branching, Omnitrix was never created and don't exist. It most likely is a safest Universe out there with as much less villans and evil aliens as much possible since hybrid invasion would have destroyed earth and only Omnitrix could save it, incursions invasion and god knows how many.
  • At 2 second: Omnitrix has been created and Ben 23 got the Omnitrix, he never met his grandpa means he got it before our prime ben.
  • At 3 second: Mad ben never met his grandpa either, and so, was bad guy, his branching happened earlier than prime ben as well, also that this one was extremely new version of Omnitrix that prime ben from Omniverse had. Azmuth never will create or improve Omnitrix for him since Maltruant said "No matter the alternate dimensional timeline, Azmuth was never corrupt" or smth along the line. (This Timeline can't branch after Prime ben got Omnitrix ever)
  • At 4 second: Gwen 10 one, likely happened before prime ben as well since ben from this timeline had memory of prime ben timeline but everything happened here was different since beginning which shouldn't be the case, most likely it wasn't interfered by paradox and everything happened in outer space btw vilgax and galvans was bit different.
  • At 5 second: Prime ben got his Omnitrix and then, Prime versions of prime ben, who has most important roles in all of creation, came, in this Universe, Vilgax saw Omnitrix before even it was created because prime ben has time travelled here.
Time travel in ben 10 is not the cause of branching, it never was, it has always been branched randomly as per possibilities or different ways to tell stories:


the order is just to show which came first and which came latter, one might correct me if there is smth wrong with the order.
 

The green timeline is No Watch Ben's timeline
The yellow cross is everything which got erased by the time bomb as stated by Vilgax and Paradox
The blue dot is when alternate multiverse Ben Prime receives the Omnitrix
The red-blue arrow indicates No Watch Ben and Paradox traveling across a second temporal dimension to the blue dot
The magenta arrows indicate the retroactive branching that takes place when No Watch Ben and Paradox make sure the alternate multiverse Ben Prime gets the Omnitrix
 
Here is divergence illustration of Multiverse in order:
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Blue line = NW timeline, divergence occurred at point R from where it was decided if Omnitrix will exist or not.

Red line = all alternate evil Ben's who have Omniverse version of watch, at this point X, Azmuth decided if he'll make classic version of Omnitrix or Omniverse version of Omnitrix in the beginning of Omnitrix creation.

Green line = Ben 23, at this point U, divergence occurred as per Grandpa Max death which leaves Ben 23 branch w/o Max.

Pink line = bit of changes in the events of space and no interference by paradox and NW ben results in Gwen getting the Omnitrix.

Black line = prime timeline, after Gwen 10 pink line divergence as per bit of changes in fight of space, Ben prime timeline follows the events of original timeline which was interfered by Paradox and NW ben that resulted in him getting the Omnitrix.
 
Here is divergence illustration of Multiverse in order:

Blue line = NW timeline, divergence occurred at point R from where it was decided if Omnitrix will exist or not.

Red line = all alternate evil Ben's who have Omniverse version of watch, at this point X, Azmuth decided if he'll make classic version of Omnitrix or Omniverse version of Omnitrix in the beginning of Omnitrix creation.

Green line = Ben 23, at this point U, divergence occurred as per Grandpa Max death which leaves Ben 23 branch w/o Max.

Pink line = bit of changes in the events of space and no interference by paradox and NW ben results in Gwen getting the Omnitrix.

Black line = prime timeline, after Gwen 10 pink line divergence as per bit of changes in fight of space, Ben prime timeline follows the events of original timeline which was interfered by Paradox and NW ben that resulted in him getting the Omnitrix.
Uuuuhh to me, that diagram you drew simply looks like a normal, ordinary, linear progression of time and branching multiverse. Not sure how it shows a new direction of time.

I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding things btw

Getting caught up the arguments because hypertimeline stuff intrigues me
 

The green timeline is No Watch Ben's timeline
The yellow cross is everything which got erased by the time bomb as stated by Vilgax and Paradox
The blue dot is when alternate multiverse Ben Prime receives the Omnitrix
The red-blue arrow indicates No Watch Ben and Paradox traveling across a second temporal dimension to the blue dot
The magenta arrows indicate the retroactive branching that takes place when No Watch Ben and Paradox make sure the alternate multiverse Ben Prime gets the Omnitrix

I disagree with the second drawing. As stated by Vilgax and Paradox, all alternative Ben Tennysons except NW Ben have been deleted. NW Ben and Paradox have to go back to the root of the tree caused by all the branches to correct this deletion. As I said before, it is like a pruned tree growing its branches again. Paradox and NW Ben accelerated this process again by extending the branches. To give an example of this, it is implied that the events of Maltraunt are actually a cycle and that even if millions of years pass, Prime Ben will come again and defeat Maltraunt. In fact, everything is in a cycle, constantly returning to the root of the tree.
 
I disagree with the second drawing. As stated by Vilgax and Paradox, all alternative Ben Tennysons except NW Ben have been deleted. NW Ben and Paradox have to go back to the root of the tree caused by all the branches to correct this deletion.
There is no "going back to the root of the tree that caused all the branches" because Ben 10 Prime Timeline Was destroyed you cannot go to a "place" that doesn't exist its impossible for them too go back too where Ben gets the omnitrix in the first place(to start the branching again of the timelines) since the entire timeline was erased.
 
Uuuuhh to me, that diagram you drew simply looks like a normal, ordinary, linear progression of time and branching multiverse. Not sure how it shows a new direction of time.

I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding things btw

Getting caught up the arguments because hypertimeline stuff intrigues me
Dw, It is normal timestream, not the Hypertimeline progression of it. This order of branching is to show that it's impossible to reboot NW ben timeline in a way that it branches out all other ben realities. Hence, there have to be a past version of CTB affected Timestream that should have all of timestream still intact in order for paradox to be capable of time travelling there.

What i drew above is just a snapshot of the Hypertimeline before vilgax destroyed it all.
 
Time travel in ben 10 is not the cause of branching, it never was, it has always been branched randomly as per possibilities or different ways to tell stories:
That's literally a branch origin. Random chance.
What i drew above is just a snapshot of the Hypertimeline before vilgax destroyed it all.
Alright, so this is my disagreement.


Your assumption is that Prime Ben's timeline must be destroyed for this to happen. But this can't happen, as NWB is just a branched version of that character. Paradox even states this:


Then finally they get the watch to Ben Prime, rebooting the timeline


All in all the assumption resting on this upgrade is that they travelled to a parallel version of the Prime Branch and rebooted the timeline. When to my knowledge there's no indication of that happening. They travelled to the Prime Ben's timeline from NWB's branched path and just rebooted everything. Paradox when talking about the plan always referring to just "this" timestream. This is finalized in Paradox's line in the middle of the episode:
Paradox: Meeting your counterpart Bens was one thing. Arriving along with them would have hopelessly garbled your timeline.
No Watch Ben: I don't...
Paradox: Get it? No, I don't imagine you do. You ready to join the fight?
NWB was stuck in a void outside his universe even before the first episode ended due to time shennigans.

Meaning that NWB before the bomb and after the bomb are the same person, just temporal displaced. Then Ben unwound the damage from the bomb and saved everyone else.

This is just a 2-A feat being confused as a Low 1-C one.

This is my final answer on the topic, the episodes on there own are just not enough to justify a second temporal axis.
 
Paradox even states this:
Paradox did states to go back to the beginning but are we forgetting that they're not time travelling but rather Crosstime travelling, Crosstime in the verse is specifically used for different versions of history, not regular history, they have been Crosstime travelling which should be impossible, they travelled to beginning version of the Crosstime.

Ben 23 branch is impossible to branch from NW ben as Ben 23 never had grandpa. Also he never went to any summer camp either.

Well, any Omnitrix branch is impossible to branch from NW since NW Universe is a Universe w/o Omnitrix. They specially destroyed everything but NW ben timeline, primetimeline wasn't there anymore.

So the indication of normal time travel is not there, also that this interpretation provides no answers to how NW timeline alteration can create branches with Omnitrix and branches where he never had grandpa.
 
Paradox did states to go back to the beginning but are we forgetting that they're not time travelling but rather Crosstime travelling, Crosstime in the verse is specifically used for different versions of history, not regular history, they have been Crosstime travelling which should be impossible, they travelled to beginning version of the Crosstime.
Which still involves them going back to the trunk of the multiverse, the same trunk that still canonically exists because NWB branched from it.
Ben 23 branch is impossible to branch from NW ben as Ben 23 never had grandpa. Also he never went to any summer camp either.
He doesn't need to, because as soon as Prime Ben got the watch, per Paradox's own words, the entire timestream was rebooted. Meaning the changes happened retroactively as well.
primetimeline wasn't there anymore.
Prime Timeline had to exist up until NWB split from it. Until that happened Prime Ben would still be there, its just that the only future possible was NWB.
 
Which still involves them going back to the trunk of the multiverse,
Correction. Different version of the multiverse. Since time travel sends u to your history while Crosstime sends u to the differen version of your history. Your point relies on time travel which didn't happened, my point relies on crosstime travel which did happened.
He doesn't need to, because as soon as Prime Ben got the watch, per Paradox's own words, the entire timestream was rebooted. Meaning the changes happened retroactively as well.
But divergence doesn't reply on Ben prime getting the Omnitrix at all, it's caused by possibilities. It was all the part of Ben prime timeline for ben to get the Omnitrix, it's a trunk of ben Tennyson tree from which all other realities diverge, doesn't means they went there for divergence but just to reboot prime timeline to as it should be and as was done. Ben 23 is literally independent of the events of Ben prime getting the Omnitrix, same with Gwen 10 and any other evil ben. NW timeline never had a Omnitrix in the first place so there was no fight btw vilgax and all in the space.
 
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Correction. Different version of the multiverse. Since time travel sends u to your history while Crosstime sends u to the differen version of your history.
It's still time travel within the same multiverse space. Ben 10,000 returns makes that rather clear:
Eon has not been destroyed. You merely knocked him down your own timeline.

Wait. He said he's been traveling cross-time. Do you think he tricked me?

Into sending him into your own past, in order to face you when you were younger and less powerful? Yes.
You traveled into cross-time.

Like a parallel world?

Exactly.
As Gwen guessed, cross-time is made up of parallel versions of the history we know. There are hundreds of them... a world where Gwen found the Omnitrix, a world where albedo turned to alien x and was trapped motionless for nearly a year, a world where you didn't have to destroy the Omnitrix to defeat Vilgax. Et cetera.
It's just basic time travel and branching timelines. Nothing special is going on, it just uses its own term.

But divergence doesn't reply on Ben prime getting the Omnitrix at all, it's caused by possibilities.
Yes, but those possibilities branch off from a trunk as Paradox explained. Vilgax destroyed all possibilities other than Ben doesn't get the Omnitrix, and when Ben got Ben Prime the omnitrix the timestream rebooted itself.

NW timeline never had a Omnitrix in the first place so there was no fight btw vilgax and all in the space
It's easily possible that in this timeline Vilgax just nuked the Omnitrix on accident and it was permanently lost.

In any capacity I'm sticking to my previous point. I don't see this as Low 1-C and nothing you said has convinced me. Call the other mods to weigh in and just go from there unless you have something new to give me.
 
It's still time travel within the same multiverse space. Ben 10,000 returns makes that rather clear:



It's just basic time travel and branching timelines. Nothing special is going on, it just uses its own term.


Yes, but those possibilities branch off from a trunk as Paradox explained. Vilgax destroyed all possibilities other than Ben doesn't get the Omnitrix, and when Ben got Ben Prime the omnitrix the timestream rebooted itself.


It's easily possible that in this timeline Vilgax just nuked the Omnitrix on accident and it was permanently lost.

In any capacity I'm sticking to my previous point. I don't see this as Low 1-C and nothing you said has convinced me. Call the other mods to weigh in and just go from there unless you have something new to give me.
Noted.
 
There is no "going back to the root of the tree that caused all the branches" because Ben 10 Prime Timeline Was destroyed you cannot go to a "place" that doesn't exist its impossible for them too go back too where Ben gets the omnitrix in the first place(to start the branching again of the timelines) since the entire timeline was erased.
How do you explain NW Ben being alive if the Prime Ben timeline was destroyed? The answer is simple.
The root of the tree was not destroyed. Paradox and NW Ben went back to the beginning of the root and made it branch again on the tree. As he sent Qawsedf's photo above, Paradox also emphasized that they went back to the beginning in the past.
 
If Vilgax continuum is pre decided regardless what happens in the past, as we know all of timeline events already exist (Prime ben, vilgax, ben 10000), as they are all under continuum (which literally means series of snapshots), I don't know how past or any other timelines even co-existing with vilgax continuum, that's a red flag to the change of anything in the past.

And if vilgax continuum, prior timelines and ben 10000 timelines are coexisting and predecided since beginning then it means there is no point of changing anything, it will be undone right away and won't bring any change. Same as I am writing something while other guy erasing what I'm writing at the same time (my writing will never manifest itself no matter what).
 
If Vilgax continuum is pre decided regardless what happens in the past, as we know all of timeline events already exist (Prime ben, vilgax, ben 10000), as they are all under continuum (which literally means series of snapshots), I don't know how past or any other timelines even co-existing with vilgax continuum, that's a red flag to the change of anything in the past.
Once Vilgax deletes time it's an Immeasurable speed reaction. It retroactively applies and destroys everything else. When they reboot the timeline it also sets a timelimit on when Vilgax will kill all the other Bens. A second time axis isn't needed for any of this, as its temporal manipulation in the first place.

It's why when NWB reverses the bomb you see the effects in real time. Because it's time manipulation where Ben is undoing Vilgax's time manipulation.
 
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