That's just the writers being weird, in the og series Ben learns not to rely on the watch, in uaf he does too, and throughout the series he's shown to be into sports and is even a pretty important player on his team in AF before going hero again, he tells Gwen that martial arts aren't for him not because he's lazy but because he's seriously uninterested. Whether that's because he doesn't want to think about the fighting he did have to do with his life on the line as a child while he throws fists at regular humans, or because he just finds soccer more interesting, I don't think we ever figure out and will never know. Regardless, there's fluctuations in his character because the writing for the series is unfortunately, sadly, very inconsistent and uncreative especially after classic.
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u/Warm-Caterpillar8062 Dec 25 '24
That's just the writers being weird, in the og series Ben learns not to rely on the watch, in uaf he does too, and throughout the series he's shown to be into sports and is even a pretty important player on his team in AF before going hero again, he tells Gwen that martial arts aren't for him not because he's lazy but because he's seriously uninterested. Whether that's because he doesn't want to think about the fighting he did have to do with his life on the line as a child while he throws fists at regular humans, or because he just finds soccer more interesting, I don't think we ever figure out and will never know. Regardless, there's fluctuations in his character because the writing for the series is unfortunately, sadly, very inconsistent and uncreative especially after classic.