Catfight

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Catfight is the first episode of the sixth season of Ben 10: Omniverse, and the fifty-first episode overall.

Synopsis[]

The princesses Looma and Attea are at odds over who gets to marry Ben!^{[CN 1]}

Plot[]

On their respective homeworlds, the princesses Looma and Attea go through countless suitors looking for someone worthy to marry, becoming increasingly annoyed as none of them fit the bill. Separately, they both decide to search for the only Tetramand/Incursean who has beaten them before, Ben Tennyson.

On Earth, Ben is on a double date with Ester, Rook, and Rayona, with the latter visiting Earth for the first time. Despite this, Ben proves to be so engrossed in Sumo Slammers 6 that he fails to return Ester's romantic advances. As Rook and Rayona discuss Ben's failure at being romantic, they notice cats roaming the cinema and pickpocketing from the audience. Rook points this out to Ben, and Ben leaves on hero duty with Rook following. After deciding that watching their boyfriends in action would be far more exciting, Ester and Rayona follow as well. Outside, Ben is surprised to see Nyancy Chan, who Rook points out was the most likely suspect anyway. Ben casually dismisses Nyancy, not considering her ability to mentally control cats a serious power. Nyancy sics her cats on Ben, who tries to transform into Wildmutt but he ends up transforming into Rath instead. This proves disastrous for the heroes as Nyancy instantly hypnotizes Rath into doing her bidding, fighting off the combined efforts of Rook, Rayona, and Ester with ease. Ester suggests going after Nyancy to break her mind control over Rath, but Nyancy orders Rath to protect her. Rath succeeds in disabling the others before escaping with Nyancy.

Just as the heroes try to regroup, Looma and Attea show up in their respective vehicles, demanding Ben - which soon turns into an argument as the competitive princesses begin asserting their right for Ben. As Ester tries to calm them down, Rayona suggests that everyone team up to search for Ben. Rook is less than enthusiastic to involve the two villainous ladies, but Rayona annoyingly points out that finding Ben as quickly as possible would allow them to resume their date, as she has limited time to spend on Earth. Rook concedes to collaborating, and calms the girls down, pointing out that Nyancy would likely spend some time before commencing another cat-themed crime. His hypothesis is proved wrong, though, as he receives a Plumber alert about Nyancy and Rath in Undertown. At this, both Looma and Attea drive away in their vehicles, determined to beat each other to the punch.

In Undertown, Rath rolls away with a giant ball of yarn from Pakmar's shop while ridden by Nyancy as a mount. Attea and Looma intervene, but end up fighting each other instead over Ben, leaving Nyancy and Rath to slink away. Rook and the others eventually catch up to them and regroup, pointing out to the angry princesses that they have to work together, just as he receives another alert about Nyancy being sighted at Spaceman's Wharf. At the docks, Rath hooks a massive fish which Nyancy intends to use for feeding her cats, and they get away on a motorboat. Rook, Ester, and Rayona catch up on their own speedboat. Rath tries to attack, but Ester manages to distract him enough for Looma to grab him from behind and disable him. At this, Attea attempts to shoot Rath with her Incursean Blaster, but Rath demolishes Rook's boat and throws Looma into Attea's blast, leaving Nyancy to escape yet again. After regrouping, Rook receives a gadget from Plumber Headquarters, programmed by Driba and Blukic: namely, a remote control that can force the Omnitrix to time out, causing Rath to transform back to Ben. Thankfully, Rayona overheard Nyancy's plan before she escaped, giving them her location.

In a warehouse, Nyancy plots her next crime as her kittens play; Rath was disabled with a paper bag over his head. Together, Rook, Rayona, Ester, Attea, and Looma gatecrash Nyancy's headquarters, who simply pulls the bag off Rath's head and orders him to attack. Unsurprisingly, the gadget fails to work, allowing Rath to run rampant. In a spot of quick thinking, Rook uses his Proto-Tool to distract Rath with a laser pointer, captivating Rath as he tries to catch it. Rook eventually brings it up to Rath's chest, causing Rath to predictably slam onto the faceplate and transform back into Ben, visibly exhausted from Nyancy's cutesy cat talk. Ben transforms into Blitzwolfer and prepares to apprehend Nyancy, but Looma and Attea begin arguing over Ben's hand in marriage, claiming that they need a husband to fully assume positions as leaders. After Blitzwolfer transforms back to normal, they both reveal to have brought their attack fleets to Bellwood, ready to fight on their command. Ester angrily rebuffs them, pointing out that they don't even like Ben romantically. Ben agrees, willing to resume their date, but Looma insists that Ben fight for his love. In response, Ben transforms into Terraspin, blasting Looma with his wind and pushing her back. As the others watch on, Rook reports to Plumber headquarters that despite all appearances, the Earth is not under attack, and Ben is merely having "girl problems."

Attea manages to secure the discarded remote control and gets it to work, forcing Terraspin to transform abruptly into Bullfrag. Bullfrag and Attea fight it out, and Rook candidly reports that the situation is less than serious, broadcasting footage of the fight back to headquarters, where the onlooking Plumbers groan and return to positions (the imprisoned Milleous is visibly the only one enjoying the fight). Looma, grabbing the control, transforms Bullfrag into Four Arms, forcing him to fight her instead. Ester regains control of the remote, but quickly loses it as Nyancy jumps back into the fray, wanting to transform Four Arms back into Rath. The situation soon turns into an all-out catfight as the three villains fight over the remote, forcing Ben to switch between his three forms. Eventually, this overloads the remote, which blows up after a push by Rayona, transforming Rath back to normal.

Rook arrests Nyancy, along with all of her cats. Looma and Attea resume arguing, and Ben finally learns of the reason for their fight. Baffled, Ben suggests that neither princess needs to marry him to ascend their thrones, since they've both beaten him before and are powerful warriors and leaders in their own right. Unfortunately, this turns into another competition as Looma and Attea wash their hands of Ben, insulting each other as an ineffective leader desperate for a husband. Rook breaks them up, asking the rival princesses to call off their armadas, which they quickly turn into another contest and pull out from Bellwood. Ben and Rook comment on the surreality of what took place, but Rayona and Ester are more than happy that their date can now resume.

Noteworthy Events[]

Major Events[]

Character Debut[]

• Bahrvad

Minor Events[]

• Princess Looma and General Attea come to Earth to make Ben their husband, but fail.
• Rayona comes to Earth for the first time.
• Ben and Ester have their first on-screen date.

Characters[]

Main Characters[]

• Ben Tennyson
• Rook Blonko

Supporting Characters[]

• Ester
• Rayona

Antagonists[]

• Princess Looma Red Wind
• General Attea
• Nyancy Chan

Other Characters[]

• Tetramands
  • Gorvan (cameo)
  • Bahrvad (first appearance; cameo)
  • Other Tetramands
• Incurseans
  • Commander Raff (cameo)
  • Major Glorff (cameo)
  • Milleous
  • Incursean Soldiers
• Pakmar (cameo)
• Y-it (cameo)
• Slim-Worst (cameo)
• Generator Vendor (cameo)
• Max Tennyson
• Plumbers
  • Molly Gunther
  • Blukic (cameo)
  • Driba (cameo)
  • Magister Patelliday (cameo)
  • Morty (cameo)
  • Bryk (cameo)

Aliens Used[]

• Rath (x4; first time intended alien was Wildmutt; second, third and fourth times were unintentional transformations and cameos)
• Blitzwolfer
• Terraspin
• Bullfrag (x4; unintentional transformations; third and fourth times were cameos)
• Four Arms (x3; unintentional transformations; second and third times were cameos)

Quotes[]

Naming and Translations[]

Cast[]

Allusions[]

• Catfight is a term for an altercation between two females. It can be used to describe women insulting each other verbally or engaged in an intense competition for men, power, or occupational success. Here, it acts as a reference to the plot of the episode in two ways: General Attea and Looma's competition, as well as, Nyancy's cat-based powers.
• One of the cats resembles Oliver from Oliver & Company.
• The fish that Rath is carrying resembles the Pokémon Magikarp.

Oliver reference

Magikarp reference

Errors[]

• Even though this episode isn't part of the Galactic Monsters arc, it has the Galactic Monsters theme song at the beginning. This was not intended by the producers.
• In one shot, General Attea's spots on her cheeks are gone.
• In one shot, Rayona's diamond is violet instead of yellow.
• Rook uses a contraction in the episode (specifically "I've") which he doesn't take with caution nor does Rayona feel strange about it.
  • Rayona also uses a contraction near the end of the episode (specifically "there's").
• Rath is much larger in this episode. He is about twice the height he usually is.
• Throughout the episode, Looma is sometimes erroneously drawn with five fingers.
  • This error also occurs with Four Arms in one shot.
• In one shot, one of the Omnitrix symbols is missing from the Proto-Tool.
• When Nyancy Chan takes the paper bag off of Rath's head, the highlights on his eyebrows are not colored in.
• In one shot, Molly's Plumber suit is colored white instead of red.
• When Nyancy looks at Rook, her sclera is colored in when it should not be visible.
• When Rook is speaking to Nyancy, the white fur on the right side of his face extends beyond his eye.
• In the end credits, there is no "/" separating Looma and Rayona's names.

Missing spots

Diamond error

Size error

Fingers error

Highlights error

Plumber suit error

Fingers error

Fingers error

Visible sclera

Face error

Credit error

Trivia[]

• It is revealed that Nyancy's powers can work on Ben when he is Rath, unlike Rook, implying that Rath has more cat-like traits than Rook.
• Near the end of the episode, Rook, Looma and General Attea break the fourth wall when Rook tries to convince them to call off their armadas.
• Ben and Ester going on a date in this episode was first revealed by Derrick J. Wyatt on March 28, 2013.^{[DJW 1]}
• The scene at Pakmar's Yarn Emporium, up until the scene where Looma and Attea run away to beat each other at capturing Rath was storyboard by Phil Allora,^{[PA 1]} while the scene where Rook, Ester, Rayona, Attea and Looma try to subdue Rath at Spaceman's Wharf was storyboarded by Steve Ahn.^{[SA 1]}
  • In the storyboards, the unnamed red alien and Y-it are replaced by an Atrocian and another Galvan.
  • In the original script, it was more of a battle scene between characters at some random flat ground. Steve changed the sequence to a chase from the battle because the story was about catching a villain, yet there were many battles and not enough chasing scenes. He felt one chase sequence was needed in the plot.^{[SA 2]}

References[]

Crew Statements[]

Derrick J. Wyatt[]

Phil Allora[]

Steve Ahn[]

Cartoon Network[]