Kevin Levin
Kevin Levin was a male animated character who features in Ben 10.
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Biography
Kevin Ethan Levin
Kevin was first encountered by Ben in an arcade, where, after befriending him, he was assaulted by bullies and saved by XLR8. The two attempted to steal a video game from a warehouse and got caught by SWAT agents, forcing Ben to reveal the Omnitrix to him in order to escape. The two subsequently formed a partnership to use their respective powers for personal gain; however, when Kevin rigged two trains to collide, not caring that the crash would most likely result in the deaths of several hundred people, Ben suffered a crisis of conscience and broke off their partnership. Ben transformed into Heatblast instead of transforming into Four Arms, to stop Kevin, but to even the odds, Kevin grabbed onto Heatblast and absorbed his DNA, transforming him into an incomplete version of Heatblast. When Heatblast foiled Kevin's plans and escaped, Kevin left to use his powers to get revenge on the bullies that tormented him. However, his powers disappeared, and he transformed back into to his normal form.
When Four Arms showed up to stop Kevin, Kevin absorbed Four Arms' DNA, transformed him into an incomplete version of Four Arms. As Four Arms and Kevin fought, Four Arms won and, after reverting back into Ben, offered Kevin a new home and a chance to be a good guy. Kevin agreed to reform and go with Ben, but revealed he lied and tried to take the Omnitrix off of Ben. Feedback from it transformed Kevin back to normal and appeared to have removed the powers he absorbed. He escaped and, at the end of the episode, it was revealed that he still had Heatblast's powers. After leaving the city, Kevin started making connections in Earth's criminal alien underworld.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Originally, he claimed that he was not evil but rather more nuanced when compared to his arch-foe Ben Tennyson.
Due to a complicated childhood and having supernatural abilities at a young age, Kevin exhibited psychopathic tendencies and was willing to hurt or kill anyone for his personal gain. This stemmed from being treated like a freak by his peers and family and was only exacerbated by the negative mental side effects he experienced whenever he absorbed too much energy. This caused Kevin to live with many insecurities about himself; he would embrace his "freak" title while also being paranoid of other people using it against him. His paranoia would progress to the point of considering everyone to be his enemy because, as he put it, "Nobody's innocent! They just haven't had the chance to make fun of me yet!" Kevin thus lived on the streets, committing various crimes and cruel acts of violence; one telling instance of which was attempting to ram a money train into another train carrying passengers, and simply parroting the phrase "no pain, no gain" at the thought of all the innocent lives that would be lost.
Kevin came to believe that his father was a man named Devin Levin but in reality these were false memories inserted into his mind by Servantis.
Powers and abilities
As a result of his heritage, Kevin had the powers of an Osmosian that were an extraterrestrial species with the power to absorb traits of others.
After his time in the Null Void and when he became a teenager, Kevin's powers once again changed. He apparently lost the ability to take on alien forms or even be permanently fixed into the composite form of multiple alien bodies. Instead, his powers were now the ability to change his form to match that of physical objects. By a simple touch, he could adopt the characteristics of other objects which enhanced his strength and durability. This allowed him to take on the characteristics of rock or steel and use the strength of those compounds to augment his fighting abilities. Alternatively, he could gain additional properties based on the compound he absorbed such as rubber allowing him to bounce around his environment. He had a fine control over this talent allowing him to only change his hands or arms into the object he touches rather then his entire body. Powerful energy blasts, however, were able to rip this secondary skin off him and revert him back to his human form. Furthermore, sheer strengths of physical attacks were capable of cracking this secondary skin.
Notes
- Kevin Levin was created by Steven T. Seagle and Joe Casey where he featured in the setting of the Ben 10 universe.
In other media
Television
Films
Video games
Appearances
- Ben 10:
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