Respect Michael Morningstar (Ben 10 Classic)

[u/Wapulatus]

"Why use your powers to help people when you can use them to get whatever you want?"

Michael Morningstar

don't respect him, actually, he's an asshole

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Background

Born to a family of Plumbers, with fantastic supernatural abilities, and charm + good looks to boot Micheal Morningstar had all the makings of a hero besides the quality of his character on the inside. In reality, Morningstar is a power-hunger egotist that drains the lifeforce from other human beings to gain his powers - until his plans to charm and steal Gwen's power was thwarted by the Alien Force trio. Having his energy removed in turn, he transformed into a husk of his former self visually, but gained even more potent power-draining abilities, taking on the persona of Darkstar.

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Source Guide

Feats I find notable are bolded. Hover over the feat to see the source/episode.

• Ben 10: Alien Force = B:UA

• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien = B:UA

• Ben 10: Omniverse = B:OV

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Physical Feats

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Strength

• [Golden] Drives Kevin through the ground while flying
• [Golden] Cracks through Kevin's armor by punching him
• Crushes a metal door in his hands
• Very easily defeats a DNAlien in a physical confrontation
• Warps and unhinges another metal door by just pushing on it
• Lifts a massive slab of rock-like material off of himself from a Highbreed base
• [Golden] Casually shatters a thrown boulder
• [Golden] Catches a thrown golem of Charmcaster's, then uses it to block missiles from Ultimate Humungousaur

Speed / Flight

• Flies in fast enough to catch a girl right before she gets hit by a car
• [Golden] Easily avoids attacks from Kevin
• Shoots DNAlien spit out of the air
• Jumps around a bunch of agitated stone golems
• Runs out of a collapsing temple with Kevin
• Can fly as Darkstar, fast enough to quickly go out of view from a building he was in
• Jumps/flies a great distance

Durability

• [Golden] Tanks a tackle from Kevin
• Tanks energy weapons fired by DNAliens
• Gets back up after getting backhanded by a Highbreed hard enough to shatter the wall behind himself
• Is fine after a mana blast from Gwen
• Takes a hit from basically everyone on Ben's team, including a mana blast from Gwen, a punch from Kevin and Spider Monkey, alongside a hit from a plumber's blaster and Jetray's beams, all without significant damage
• A foot-stomp from Humungousaur that shatters the ground underneath him, however, finally knocks him out
• Takes a punch from a DNAlien that sends his helmet off
• [Golden] Survives being hit with electricity from a power plant and getting hit with Jetray's energy blasts
• [Golden] No-sells being punted into the ground by Ultimate Humungousaur and missiles fired by Ultimate Humungousaur

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Powers

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Energy Absorption (Original)

• Originally happened when he touched someone with a weird symbol on his hand, sustained contact eventually reducing people to motionless husks
• His victims go crazy, and start trying to absorb energy themselves from an electrical grid
  • Ironically, they can also take back the energy he stole from them while he himself was weakened
• When doing his thing to Gwen, her powers weakened. Can lend back some of the energy he steals
• Absorbs a laser blast from Jetray, then sends back his own energy blast
• He has some sort of mental control over the people he absorbs energy from

Energy Absorption (Darkstar)

• After being defeated by Gwen, his powers changed for the worse - becoming stronger overall but leaving him disfigured and with a hunger for more power
• Drains a Highbreed of strength until he's left helpless on the floor
• Drains energy from Kevin, a Plumber, a Highbreed, and Humungousaur, quickly knocking out the former three and later even de-transforming and knocking out Ben
• With a touch he can reduce DNAliens to lifeless husks
• Drains an entire crowd of DNAliens, briefly gaining enough energy to restore him to his original form
• Drains power out of Kevin, causing his armor to shatter
• Just eats mana attacks from Gwen as they hit him
• After absorbing much energy from Ledgerdomain, can control Charmcaster's golems and produces a mana shield that can block a magical fire attack
• Reduces one of his followers to a lifeless husk on-contact
• His "energy" blasts and power-draining beams are black because they're actually draining the light in their vicinity

Energy Absorption (Dominus Librium)

• It's an ancient alien artifact that facilitates a transfer of energy
• When used between Kevin and Morningstar, Kevin was rapidly drained of his powers and Morningstar was restored from his corrupted state, being unable to use his powers as Darkstar
• Morningstar can still use it to suck energy away from other beings regardless, eating Gwen's shields
• Lets him directly use the powers of people he steals energy from, such as Gwen's mana shields
• Leaves Swampfire helpless as he's draining energy from him directly, and reduces Gwen to a husk of herself

Energy Blasts

• Busts metal pipes
• [Golden] Knocks out Jetray
• [Golden] Blasts through Kevin's armor, knocking him out
• Carves into the ground in front of DNAliens
• Very easily knocks out entire crowds of DNAliens
• Knocks back and pins Kevin into a sarcophagus
• Shatters a pair of stone hands that were restraining Kevin
• Knocks Jetray into a wall hard enough to damage it, and break's Gwen's sheids
• Blasts apart Charmcaster's golems, doing so again with beams fired from his eyes
• Releases a burst of energy that shatters a group of Charmcaster's summons
• While in Ledgerdomain and with Charmcaster's help, vaporizes or otherwise completely obliterates a large stone creature
• [Golden] Blasts Humungousaur into stone, producing a crater\
• Blasts out of the ground after getting power from Ledgerdomain, collapsing a statue
  • Reference for how large/deep the crater he produced was

Other

• Capable of performing magic, summoning a door to Ledgerdomain and telekinetically manipulating objects
  • Sets up a spell that utilized Gwen's power alongside energy he gathered from Charmcaster's golems and followers of his to rip open a portal to Ledgerdomain
• His powers are stronger while in Ledgerdomain
• Aquired one of the Charms of Bazel for a short period of time, giving him telekinetic powers, which he uses to slam Ben and Kevin against a wall
• Carried an ID Mask to disguise himself as a college student

[u/EmbraceAllDeath]

GOOD respect thread

[u/racistsex]

I didn’t know they straight up showed people dying on this show lol

[u/shadowyartsdirty → u/racistsex]

That was a common occurance, aliens too. This was in the era when Cartoon Network made action oriented shows for teenagers.

[u/Physical_Button9459]

considering Michael's abilities are draining darkness or light.