Did a Classic Cartoon Network Series Inspire Avengers: Endgame’s Biggest Twist?

Here is a crossover thought I did not expect to have: Avengers: Endgame and Ben 10: Omniverse kind of rhyme. Different budgets, different audiences, same big swings with time travel, multiversal chaos, and an all-hands final brawl. If you watched both, the echoes are hard to miss.

The Endgame deja vu in Omniverse

Omniverse built an arc that plays like a Saturday-morning version of Marvel's biggest swing:

• A catastrophic wipe: a Chronosapien Time Bomb erases alternate versions of Ben across the multiverse — functionally a cartoon parallel to Thanos' snap.
• The last man standing: one Ben from a timeline where he never got the Omnitrix (aka 'no watch' Ben) becomes the lone survivor and the point-of-view hero.
• The time trek: Ben teams up with Professor Paradox to run the Timestream and recruit other Bens from different eras, while the Avengers do their time heist to collect the Infinity Stones.
• The big finish: each story ramps into a massive showdown where the villain goes down and the universe gets put back together — with one notable split. Ben 10 does not do the Iron Man sacrifice play.

One note for the continuity sticklers: Omniverse uses the Chronosapien tech and cycles multiple villains through these arcs (Vilgax is in the mix, and Chronosapien threats loom large). The exact mechanics jump around episode to episode, but the overall shape absolutely mirrors Endgame's time-and-variants playbook.

Was Omniverse borrowing from Marvel? Kind of — look who made it

Ben 10 came from Man of Action — Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau, and Steven T. Seagle — a crew with deep Marvel mileage. Before Ben 10, they wrote runs on X-Men, Deadpool, and The Hulk. They also created the original Big Hero 6 comic that Disney later turned into a movie. When veterans with that DNA go build a sci-fi action cartoon, you are going to see Marvel-esque beats in the toolkit. The Omniverse/Endgame parallels are not subtle.

About that 'Netflix is buying Warner Bros' thing

Short version: there is no announced Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros (or Warner Bros. Discovery) for 82.7 billion dollars. That number and that deal are not a real, confirmed thing as of now.

Could a streamer revive Ben 10 if the rights ever landed there? Sure. The argument makes sense: on cable, the franchise wrestled with ratings, scheduling, and getting bumped for whatever tested better that week. On a platform built for evergreen discovery, the nostalgia factor alone would give Ben 10 (and a lot of Cartoon Network staples) a real shot at a comeback. But that scenario depends on actual ownership and licensing, not a hypothetical megamerger that has not happened.

So, should Ben 10 come back?

I would not say no. The concept is elastic, the fanbase is out there, and the multiverse-era audience is primed for a smart reboot or continuation. If the rights line up and someone gives it a proper runway, there is life in that Omnitrix yet. Would you watch a new Ben 10 run?