''
Ben 10: Omniverse'' is an American
animated television series and the fourth installment of the ''
Ben 10 franchise'', which aired on
Cartoon Network from August 1, 2012, to November 14, 2014, in the United States.
Man of Action Studios
Man of Action Entertainment (also known as Man of Action Studios) is an American writer collective specializing in various brands of media ranging from television, films, comic books, and animation. The studio is best known for their animated act ...
, consisting of
Duncan Rouleau
Duncan Rouleau is an American comic book writer and artist, and is a part of the Man of Action Studios collective of creators (along with Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Steven T. Seagle), who created the series ''Ben 10'', that aired on Cartoon Network. ...
,
Joe Casey
Joe Casey is an American comic book writer. He has worked on titles such as '' Wildcats 3.0'', ''Uncanny X-Men'', ''The Intimates'', '' Adventures of Superman'', and '' G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' among others. As part of the comics creator group ...
,
Joe Kelly, and
Steven T. Seagle
Steven T. Seagle (born March 31, 1965) is an American writer who works in the comic book, television, film, live theater, video game and animation industries.
He is best known for his graphic novel memoir '' It's a Bird...'' (Vertigo, May 20 ...
, created the franchise.
Each ''Ben 10 Omniverse'' episode is about 22 minutes in length, with two-part episodes (such as the series premiere "The More Things Change", "Showdown", "The Frogs of War", "Weapon XI" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Ben World") being about 44 minutes combined in length. Only forty episodes were ordered at first with the 2010
Cartoon Network Studios
Cartoon Network Studios is an American animation studio owned by the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio is the production arm of Cartoon Network, and started operatin ...
logo, but on August 25, 2012, production of episode 41 began, with 20 more episodes being ordered, bringing the total up to 60. However it was expanded to 80 in June 2013.
The 80 episodes have been broken into eight
story arc
A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of plot in a novel or story. It can also mean an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, board games, vide ...
s consisting of 10 episodes each.
The series has 2 Cartoon Network Studios logos across the 80 episodes, the 2010 one for episodes from story arcs 1–4 and the 2013 one for story arcs 5–8. The episodes aired out of the intended production order. The table below shows the broadcast order of the episodes.
Series overview
Episodes
Story Arc 1: ''A New Beginning'' (2012)
Story Arc 2: ''Malware's Revenge'' (2012–13)
Story Arc 3: ''Incursean Invasion'' (2013)
Story Arc 4: ''Duel of the Duplicates'' (2013)
Story Arc 5: ''Galactic Monsters'' (2014)
Story Arc 6: ''The Evil Rooters'' (2014)
Story Arc 7: ''The Mad Nightmare'' (2014)
Story Arc 8: ''The Time War'' (2014)
Home media
In
region one,
Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. (formerly known as Warner Home Video and WCI Home Video and sometimes credited as Warner Home Entertainment) is the home video distribution division of Warner Bros.
It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Vide ...
have released the entire first three-story arcs and five episodes from each of story arcs four and five on five
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...
sets from February 5, 2013, to September 16, 2014. The entire series is also available on
digital purchase in eight separate volumes, such as complete story arcs.
See also
*
List of Ben 10 2005 episodes
*
List of Ben 10 2016 episodes
*
List of Ben 10: Alien Force episodes
*
List of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episodes
Notes
References
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Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
2010s television-related lists
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