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Simian Says is the thirteenth episode of the third season of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and the thirty-third episode overall.
Synopsis
An evil Xenocite queen takes over the Arachnachimps' home planet by attaching herself to a crime lord named Mizaru.[CN 1][revised]
Plot
Eunice is on Primus, monitoring the Codon Stream, and discovers that the Arachnachimp DNA sample is undergoing issues. On Azmuth's orders, Eunice sends some Volaticus biopsis to retrieve a fresh sample. Hours later, the Volaticus biopsis still haven't returned and Eunice decides to go investigate. Once near Aranhascimma, Eunice's ship is shot down.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Ben, Gwen, and Kevin are quizzing each other on which stars in the sky are actually planets. Ben notices that no one has tried to take over the Earth, kill them, or ask for his autograph in the past two days. At that moment, Simian drops in, hanging down from a lamp post and asks for their help. Simian explains that following his failure with the Highbreed, he stole a few valuable items from them, and among those was a Xenocite queen. Simian brought the Xenocite to an Arachnachimp crime lord named Mizaru. Once Mizaru opened the canister, the Xenocite inside attached itself to him, and started making more Xenocites, which in turn attached themselves to the Arachnachimps, turning them into DNAlien slaves for Mizaru. Simian only managed to barely escape and reach Earth for Ben's help.
Deciding that Simian deserves the benefit of the doubt, because if he's lying, he's at Kevin's mercy, they follow him to Aranhascimmia and the land is cloaked. Armed with four of Cooper's DNA Repair Guns, they go to the planet with the plan of curing as many DNAliens as possible. The Ultimatrix detects Eunice's presence, and Ben tracks her to a large opening, where they're ambushed by the DNAliens.
The group soon discovers that the DNA repair guns are ineffective against the Arachnachimps (explained later as they were designed to return DNAliens to human form, not Arachnachimps). Trying the Ultimatrix, they find that due to insufficient power, it can't restore the genetic damage like the Omnitrix was able to at Los Soledad, so Ben transforms into Terraspin to fight them. Unfortunately, Eunice's presence returns Terraspin back into Ben, but she is able to rescue the team from the ambush, Eunice deactivates her link to Primus, which was interfering with the Ultimatrix's link to the planet. Eunice brings the group to the hideout of Haplor, his wife, and his daughter. Eunice explains that with Haplor as a baseline sample of Arachnachimp DNA, she'll be able to return the DNAliens to normal form. Simian instead states that he'll be the baseline sample, intending to make up for his mistake.
When the group arrives outside Mizaru's palace, they discover that he's taken Haplor and his family hostage. With this, the team is forced to reveal themselves to try and prevent Haplor and his family from being turned into DNAliens, in which they failed. Eunice is also turned into a DNAlien. Ben tries to fight her, while Gwen and Kevin keep Simian from being turned into a DNAlien himself.
Ben is able to transform Eunice back using the Ultimatrix to cure her, first into her Unitrix form, and then back to her human form. While Kevin holds off the hoard and Ben goes to fight Mizaru, Simian, Eunice, and Gwen get to work, rigging up a pulse that will return the DNAliens back to normal. Ben transforms into Spidermonkey and at first tries to fight, but fails. Spidermonkey then evolves into Ultimate Spidermonkey and continues to fight Mizaru. Mizaru explains that the Xenocite didn't take over his personality, but instead Mizaru took control over the Xenocite Queen, resulting in a lot of power for himself.
The pulse kicks in just in time, and every single Arachnachimp transforms back into normal, including Mizaru. The others arrive just in time to see Mizaru defeated by Ben. Simian sees the Xenocite Queen struggling for a new host and thinks about how much power he will get if he attaches the Xenocite to himself. Instead, he kills the Xenocite with a rock. Ben observes Simian's change of behavior and accepts that the latter is fit to be a real prince.
Mizaru vows revenge, only to be eaten by one of the many inhabitants of the planet. The group leaves Simian to drop Eunice off on Primus, then return home. Ben comments that Simian seems to be reforming, based on the fact that he didn't take the Xenocite for his own, to which Kevin denies. Gwen then notices that the DNA repair guns are missing.
Meanwhile, Simian holds a black market deal, with the Incurseans selling them the DNA repair guns for hefty profits.
Noteworthy Events
Major Events
- Ben's team makes their first visit to Aranhascimma.
- The Arachnachimps are brought back from near-extinction.
Character Debuts
- Simian (Ultimate Alien debut)
- Mizaru
- Xenocites (Ultimate Alien debut)
- Arachnachimp DNAliens
- Root Shark
- Volaticus biopsis (Ultimate Alien debut)
- Haplor
- Haplor's Wife
- Haplor's Daughter
- Emperor Milleous (Ultimate Alien debut)
- Incurseans (Ultimate Alien debut)
Characters
Main Characters
Supporting Characters
Antagonists
- Human DNAliens (flashback)
- Mizaru (first appearance; flashback and present; death)
- Xenocites (first reappearance; flashback and present)
- Arachnachimp DNAliens (first appearance)
- Root Shark (first appearance)
Other Characters
- Volaticus biopsis (first reappearance)
- Azmuth (video call)
- Arachnachimps (flashback and present)
- Haplor (first appearance)
- Haplor's Wife (first appearance)
- Haplor's Daughter (first appearance)
- Incurseans (first reappearance)
- Emperor Milleous
- Incursean Soldiers
Aliens Used
- Terraspin
- Swampfire
- Spidermonkey (x2; goes Ultimate and reverts; second time was a cameo)
Aliens on Eunice's Tablet
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Naming and Translations
| Language | Name | Origin |
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| Hungarian | Simian Azt Mondja | Simian Says That |
| Polish | Simian Mówi | Simian Says |
| Portuguese (Br) | O Simian Mandou | The Simian Sent |
| Romanian | Simian Spune | Simian Says |
| Spanish (HA) | Simian Dice | Simian Says |
Cast
Continuity
- Ben mentions that Simian betrayed the team and sold them out to the Highbreed, which occurred in Birds of a Feather.
- Ben references the Bunker Highbreed and the events of If All Else Fails when calling Mizaru "just another Highbreed slave, who doesn't know his masters have been defeated".
Allusions
- The name of this episode is a reference to the phrase Simon Says.
- At the sight of Simian, Kevin says, "Well, well, well. If it isn't the con artist formerly known as prince." This is a reference to the musician Prince, who was for a time known as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince."
- Ben calls Mizaru "Queen Kong", a reference to King Kong.
Errors
- There is no reason that the DNA sample in the Codon Stream should be affected if the Arachnachimps are taken over by DNAliens.
- When Eunice approaches Aranhascimia, the Arachnachimp hologram has an Ultimatrix symbol.
- Even though Simian does not mention that Mizaru is a crime boss, Ben says "Are you telling me you willingly brought a Xenocite to your home world and set it loose on a crime boss?"
- Terraspin's Ultimatrix symbol disappears for a brief moment.
- The closed captions on the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: The Wild Truth DVD misspell Haplor's name as "Haplar".
- When Eunice says "Naturally, they have no effect on Arachnachimps", the closed captions on the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: The Wild Truth DVD say "Naturally, they have no affect on Arachnachimps".
- In Alien Force, it was established that it took some time for Xenocite-possessed individuals to turn into full DNAliens. However, in this episode, Haplor, his wife and his daughter immediately turn into DNAliens when they are possessed by Xenocites.
- Swampfire and Spidermonkey's holograms are drawn incorrectly.
- Even though the DNA sample of the Arachnachimps was not restored to the Codon Stream, Ben is able to turn into Spidermonkey.
- When Simian is on the ground after being rescued by Kevin, he has an Ultimatrix symbol.
- When there is an Arachnachimp hologram in Eunice's ship, the Arachnachimp has an Ultimatrix symbol for a second.
- In two shots, Eunice's hair bang is on the left side instead of right.
- When Simian takes his hands off a stone he was touching, there seems to be another hand touching the stone.
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Trivia
- It is mentioned that Azmuth moved Primus to a different area in space.
- The scene where Eunice travels to Aranhascimmia, only to crash land, was storyboarded by Luke Weber.[sb 1]
- In the first draft of the script dated June 14, 2010:
- The Ultimatrix glows blue when Terraspin reverts back to Ben.[script 1]
- When Kevin pulls Simian out of the water, a Xenocite follows him, which Kevin destroys.[script 2]
- Mizaru is eaten by another predator instead of a Root Shark.[script 3]
- The scene where Eunice kisses Ben is cut in the Arabic dub.
