[Crazy Jetty]

Forget Alien Force, and Ultimate Alien, the evolutions of the Ben 10 mythos, and go back to the original cartoon.

For some reason, I was thinking about it last night, and the simularities between Ben 10, and Captain Marvel are striking.

Ben Tennison- a 10 year old boy who accidentally gains cosmic, almost mystical powers to transform into a series of aliens with multiple powers.

Billy Batson- a young boy who's given magical powers to transform into an all-powerful superman-like being.

Gwen Tennison- a very close cousin of equal age, who eventually gains powers of her own, and shares in our hero's adventures.

Mary Batson- a long lost twin sister of equal age, who eventually gains powers of her own, and shares in our hero's adventures.

The comparisons don't end there. Ben's Grampa seems to share a simular mentor/caretaker role as Billy's Uncle.

And Kevin Levin also seems to be a combination of Black Adam and Captain Marvel Jr.

I could also easily see a SHAZAM series with a simular road-trip setting.

So... what's the verdict?
Does it seem to anyone else that Ben Ten was inspired by Captain Marvel, or more-so may have originally intended to actually *be* a captain marvel series but completely reworked from the ground up for whatever reasons?
Or am I seeing things that just aren't there?