Being the original series, while the animation looked more realistic than some of the other cartoons from Cartoon Network, the characters in this series were still cartoon-like compared to its first sequel. Which reflected the immaturity that Ben, as a ten-year-old, possessed. As shown in one of the shorts, Ben had control with choosing some of his aliens during later point in the series, but it was mostly inconsistent. What this short also showed was Ben's disinterest at all things academic. He did not show interest at being in a museum, when criminals showed-up to rob the museum, Ben did not try to come up with a plan on what alien could best handle a situation, and decided to use an alien who did not possess the finesse to fight safely in a museum, and Ben did not even try to safely retrieve any stolen artifacts and was for concerned with beating-up the criminals. By the end of the short, while Ben did manage to stop the robbery, he also failed to save the artifacts, causing them to break. And rather than act genuinely apologetic about failing to save any of the stolen artifacts, Ben just says that his family should have gone to a water park instead. Being children, it made sense to make Ben act immature at times. The sequel series, however, aged the characters, which included increased maturity.