Thread:Per Ankh/@comment-24588058-20161220015851/@comment-24588058-20161220051041

Technically speaking, you are incorrect. Ben has unlocked only 70-ish aliens (I can't remember the exact number). The Omnitrix has a sample of every sentient species in the Milky Way Galaxy (+5 from Andromeda), which brings the total number of DNA samples collected to date up to 1,000,912 (give or take 2). And one limit of Alien X, which we can include a measure of testing this out, is that while it is basically a God in every sense of the word, it must agree on a motion before it is decided. In this case, Alien X becomes extremely difficult to use effectively since - in Ben's case - the two beings in there basically disagree on everything. I know in Omniverse Ben was able to get them to basically let him control Alien X while they argued for all of eternity, but for the artifact the idea is to limit that back to the agreement issue. As I recall from one episode, Albeedo accidentally transformed into Alien X and was stuck in that form for over a year. So, it's a win-lose situation there, and it prevents just anyone from doing as they please.