| “ | Yes, I’m a tech genius, but I also possess a well-rounded personality. For example, I can be whimsical, spontaneous, organized, and most of all, I’m humorous. | „ |
Benjamin[21] (born September 5[6][7]), better known as Ben and also known as Talking Ben, is one of the main characters of the many series in the Talking Tom & Friends franchise. Originally a model designed by Ukrainian artist Andrey Kravchenko, the character Ben was created when the license to the model was later purchased by the then recently founded Outfit7.[8] He made his debut in Talking Ben the Dog, published by Outfit7 in April of 2011.
Ben is generally depicted as a scientist or a chemistry professor and an inventor, and the most intelligent member of the friend group. As a self-proclaimed "genius",[22] Ben spends most of his time in his office or lab, tinkering with his latest creations.[23][24] Ben is usually kind-hearted and caring[24] and said to be a joy to have around,[10] however, his bad-temper means he is easily provoked, especially when his inventions fail. He is often so caught up in his creations that he does not realize the consequences of what he is creating; because of this, he is said to cause as many problems as he solves.[13] Although he is the "brains" of the group, his work is often unnoticed by his friends, especially by his best friend and partner Tom.[22] Though his failures and lack of acknowledgement frustrate him, Ben nevertheless considers every failure a learning experience and never lets anything go to waste.[25]
Ben is a largely recognized image in pop culture. He has garnered a huge following from audiences, both through internet memes[26] and the overall appeal of his character across the Talking Tom & Friends franchise.[27] After many major appearances across the series, he is considered by Outfit7 to be one of the core characters within the franchise.[27] As of late 2014, he is also considered to be the third most popular character in the franchise.[28] His popularity is attributed to the fact that he gives the franchise a "broader appeal" through his unique, relatable personality in the many narratives he appears in.[27]
Appearance
Ben generally appears as an overweight fawn[15] 22 year old[2] (43 in Talking Friends[1]) dog, specifically a Canis fabulatus,[9] with brown eyes, a large snout with a black (sometimes brown) nose, two large floppy ears, a small stub for a tail, two small legs with three toes, and four fingers on each hand. In 2D media, Ben is often given eyebrows as well, likely to help him express emotion due to limitations in 2D animation.
Apps
In Talking Tom for Messenger, Ben uses his design from Season 1-3 of the 2014 series, but also wears a pair of black sunglasses.
In Talking Tom Gold Run, Ben had a huge overhaul in design. He appears without fur, his eyes are significantly smaller and his mouth is significantly larger, creating a cutesy Ben. Due to being redesigned to be more chibi styled, Ben is also significantly shorter, with a visibly huge head. Depending on the product, this design varies from being two and three-dimensional. His outfit also varies, depending on if he is wearing it in the game, with him wearing a red and dark red polo shirt with yellow buttons, a white undershirt and green shorts in Talking Tom Gold Run.
In Talking Tom Hero Dash, Ben uses his design from Talking Tom Gold Run, but now wears a superhero uniform. It consists of a green and yellow jumpsuit, a green and yellow mask, black shoes and gloves as well as a black belt with the letter "B" in the middle.
In Talking Ben AI, Ben uses his T3 design from the official Talking Tom & Friends website. Here, he appears with a green polo shirt with golden rims and blue shorts.
Shows
Talking Tom and Friends
Like most non-human characters in the series, Ben did not wear clothes in the first three seasons. In Season 4 onwards, he now wears a white checked polo t-shirt with blue and red lines on it, dark green trousers and blue sneakers.
Starting from "Waitress Angela", he gains a third outfit, which is used interchangeably with his Season 4 outfit. In this outfit, he wears a green collared shirt with a purple necktie.
Talking Tom Heroes
Ben wears a blue polo shirt, with blue jeans as his casual outfit. He also wears a simplified version of his Talking Tom Hero Dash uniform, most prominently lacking the "B" from the belt and the yellow stripes while also with the addition of a metallic glove.
Personality
The Apps
In the apps, Talking Tom Cat 2 and Talking Tom and Ben News, Ben is mischievous, cunning, cruel and mean towards Tom and often annoys and bullies him, due to him being a grumpy, elderly person, a large contrast from the 2014 television series, where he is friendly, kind-hearted and has much nicer behavior towards Tom. Ben is a chemistry professor in Talking Friends and does not seem to have any relation to computing in the original series.
Talking Friends
Ben is a retired, not fired, ex chemistry teacher, Who sometimes too smart for his own good, Devoting his days to his next big invention. Never bored and always ready for a good prank, He is dedicated his whole life to bringing up generations of young scientists. He was even Talking Tom's chemistry teacher, According to ben he says tom was one of his worst students, Despite this him and tom are still great friends, Though he is quite shy, Thats part of his charm. He's totally smart, sometimes too smart for his own good, and knows stuff you'd never imagine.
He is a keen inventor who can spend hours, days and weeks in his lab working on his latest invention. Really smart guy... He's a collector. In the old fashione Ben is in love with science and good food. he’s enjoying his easy days with Talking Tom and the rest of the friends. He loves to teach them about the world and the universe. When he isnt busy with the rest of the gang, Ben loves to spend his time in his laboratory where he is constantly improving on his chemistry knowledge, Ben also has the title for being the “Most adorable talking dog in the world” and he is very proud of it
Though he is also a bit of a Brainy prankster and a Nerdy dare devil. One of Ben’s passions is collecting amazing things, Like vintage cars, Comic books and old records, Even if he can be a little grumpy at times, Ben's totally cool!
Talking Tom And Friends
"Turns out I don't need advanced tech to be useful. Making cakes, protecting art, kicking bad guy butt, it's all part of being... a master scientist." ("Ben's Digital Detox")
In Talking Tom and Friends, Ben is a well-skilled mathematician, a computer programmer, a scientist and an inventor. However, Ben gets upset when someone touches or breaks his inventions or things, and he often shouts, freaks out, or gets angry, but is still kind and friendly to his friends. He likes to think quick and solve problems, using his own interests to his advantage. He is helpful, he wants to help the world improve, and likes to work, even when overworking himself at times. He does not like getting pulled away from it, and always tries to focus without goofing off.
One of Ben's most prominent traits is his violent temper. (Tom and Ben News World Cleanup 2012)
Ben is very honest, genius, friendly and a little bit easygoing sometimes. He is heroic, selfless, and tries his best to invent any gadget for good. Most of the people are fond of his smart activities. He can be cordial to his best friend, as well as to the people who really love him. He tries to avoid his enemies to make the situation peaceful.
Relationships
Tom:
| “ | This update might be a crazy idea, but it's important to Tom, so it's important to me. I don't know if Tom will ever see this video, but if he ever did, I'd say, "I'm trying, buddy. Give up on my friend? No way!" | „ |
Tom is Ben's best friend and work partner. The two have known each other since their childhoods,[29] and have an immense, yet imperfect, friendship with one another. While the two of them have been known to argue, with Ben even resulting to violence at times, and even break apart or leave one another, the two always fix their friendship and get back together in the end.
Xenon:
In Talking Friends, Ben is single,[30] but in Talking Tom and Friends Xenon is Ben's girlfriend. The two have been in a relationship since the events of "Love Formula", and Ben has intentions of keeping Xenon pleased with him or making their relationship seem better, whether that be learning to drive to impress her, or cheating the results of a competition to make the two seem happier and better together.
During Xenon's "betrayal", Ben was left incredibly upset and lonely. Xenon's true intentions of helping the gang were later revealed to him, and the two made up since then.
Profiles
Outfit7 Website (2012)
Talking Ben is a scholar. He enjoys scholarly pursuits. A retired chemistry professor dedicated his whole life to bringing up generations of young scientists. He even thaught [sic] Talking Tom and guess what – he says Talking Tom was one of his worst students! These days he’s enjoying easy days with Talking Tom and the rest of the gang. He loves to teach them about the world and the universe. When he is not busy with the rest of the gang, Talking Ben loves to spend his time in his laboratory where he is constantly improving on his chemistry knowledge. Experiments are his passion and he loves creating new explosions … we mean elements. But also explosions!
Outfit7 Website (early 2014)
Talking Ben is an absent-minded, genius inventor who can solve any problem, build any robot, and design any time machine. Ben can be so focused on his latest invention or amazing scientific discovery that he doesn’t always see the implications of what he’s about to unleash. As a result, Ben causes as many problems as he solves. These days he’s enjoying easy days with Talking Tom and the rest of the gang. He loves to teach them about the world and the universe.
Outfit7 Website (mid 2014)
Talking Ben holds the “Most adorable talking dog in the world” title and is mighty proud of it. For the most part he’s very shy, but that’s just part of his charm. He’s a keen inventor and can spend hours, days, weeks, even months in his lab, working on his latest invention. Most of his inventions work, of course. But some days they just don’t. Have no fear, if something does not work, Talking Ben just puts it down to experience and moves on. Nothing goes to waste!
Talking Friends Cartoons
- Brainy prankster
- Energetic deep thinker
- Nerdy dare devil
A retired, not fired, ex chemistry teacher, in love with science and good food. When in a good mood, he was a joy to have around the set, but on a bad day, a good chicken tortilla worked wonders. Oh, but speaking from experience, never tell Ben he's a cute puppy, ok?!
Talking Tom Website
Ben is the mad scientist - well, not really, mad. He's totally smart, sometimes too smart for his own good, and knows stuff you'd never imagine. He loves to read and cook too. I've been grilling him for his famous chili-dog recipe for ages, I'm sure he'll tell me one day! One of Ben's passions is collecting amazing stuff - vintage cars, old vinyl records and even comic books. Even if he can be a little grumpy at times, Ben's totally cool!
Talking Angela Website
Ben is the scientific genius, a keen inventor who can spend hours, days and weeks in his lab working on his latest invention. Really smart guy... He's a collector. In the old fashioned sense - he collects comic books, vintage cars, and vinyl records. He reads all those smart books. His other love is cooking. He is the master chef, yummy... Sometimes he is a bit grumpy but I know he is really kind hearted and caring.
Talking Friends McDonald's 2013 cards
Ben is a scientist, devoting his days to his next big invention. Never bored and always ready for a good prank, often on his best friend Tom.
Talking Friends Annual 2014
- Name: Talking Ben
- Fur: Fawn
- Status: Scholar
- Best friend: Talking Tom
- Hobby: Inventing
- Enjoys: Exploring the unknown and educating the Talking Friends
- Just adores: Making loud bangs and hanging out with Tom
- Most likely to be found: Reading in his comfy chair
- But just who is Ben: Wise and experienced dog with lots of knowledge and a thirst for living
Talking Tom and Friends Website (2015-2023)
I’m Ben. I’m a genius. Blunt, yes, but true! I do have hidden depths though. I’m a very funny guy, for example. Although, to be fair, I haven’t actually received external confirmation of that yet… So it’s just a hypothesis at the moment. But still! Funny AND smart.
My inventions are going to put our app studio on the map! Well, the ones that don’t explode that is… But that only happened once… (Or twice.) Inventing is easy as pie for me. It’s as easy as breathing. What’s hard is getting Tom to clean up after himself. Or say thank you every now and again! I’m working on it though. It’s my greatest challenge yet!
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Trivia
- Ben was teased on the official Talking Tom Facebook page nine days before his app's original release.[31]
- Ben's voice actor in the 2014 series, James Adomian, also voices the MC, Dr. Technology, McGillicuddy, and Ginger's classmate Ronnie Bergstedt.
- Ben is seemingly right-handed.
- Confirmed in the episode of the 2014 series "Assertive App", he is 22 years of age.[2]
- Also seen in "Assertive App", the password he gave his computer is "kayak22", named after his age and the kayak above his office desk.
- However, in Talking Angela, Angela claims Ben is 43 years of age.[1] This was likely changed to make Tom and Ben's meeting make more sense.
- According to the episode of the 2014 series "Couples Clash (Part 2)", Ben's favorite movie is "Science: The Movie". According to the episode "Friendly Customer Service", his favorite amusement park is The Enchanted Headache.
- According to the episode of the 2014 series "A Secret Worth Keeping: Part One", Ben's favorite type of ice cream is strawberry ice cream, same as Angela. Also revealed in the episode, Ben is not good at keeping secrets
- Autumn Summers once mistook his name as "Bentucius" in the episode of the 2014 series "Fancy Party".
- While Ben was shown to be taller than Tom in the earlier seasons of the 2014 series, the later seasons reversed it with Tom being taller than him.
- In an old, now private YouTube video on the official Talking Tom & Friends YouTube channel, Ben rejected dating Kim Kardashian twice, possibly due to him being lazy to accept her.[32]
- The text on the bean cans that Ben often eats are in Russian.
- This suggests that he might be Russian or he just went to Russia before.
- In the episode of the 2014 series "Ping Pong Wizard", it is revealed that Ben has a strange obsession with Ping Pong and Foosball.
- Ben always eats a large number of snacks every time he is sad or his inventions fail. According to Talking Friends Cartoons, on his bad days, he eats chicken tortilla rolls to calm himself.
- According to "talkingtom.com" and "talkingangela.com", Ben enjoys collecting vintage cars, old vinyl records and comic books. Also according to the former, Ben has a chili dog recipe which is famous within the friend group.[20][24]
- In the show Talking Tom and Friends, Ben lives with his mother. This is first mentioned in the pilot episode, "The Audition", and is later shown in the episode "Man on the Moon", where he is seen packing up his stuff to move to the moon from his mother's house.
- The nickname "Ben Prime" is similar but does not refer to a non-Talking Tom & Friends-related character, Ben Tennyson.
- According to the Talking Tom & Friends website, his birthday is September 5.
- According to the 2014 Outfit7 website, Ben holds the record for "most adorable talking dog in the world".
- Ben is a comedian.
- His Latest Appearance in an app was Talking Ben Ai.
- Ben Is The Second Character That Can Be the most mad in the show.
- Ben Also Can Forget About Technology when about his relationship.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Talking Angela Ben's age screenshot
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Assertive App" from Talking Tom and Friends (0:44)
- ↑ "michaelsdcohen.com/animation-voice-over", Retrieved 05-23-24
- ↑ "davesoltura.com/", Retrieved 06-10-24
- ↑ "c21media.net/marketplace/cakeentertainment/talking-tom-heroes-suddenly-super/22455/", Retrieved 09-24-24
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "talkingtomandfriends.com/talking-ben", Retrieved 04-6-23
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ben's profile by Dream Theatre Ltd.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "fierce-network.com/developer/developer-workshop-outfit7", Retrieved 05-22-24
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Talking Angela Ben's species screenshot
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Talking Friends Cartoons Ben's profile
- ↑ Talking Friends McDonald's 2013 Ben's profile
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "outfit7.com/character/talking-ben" (January 2013), Retrieved 04-09-23
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "outfit7.com/character/talking-ben" (January 2014), Retrieved 04-09-23
- ↑ "Talking Tom & Friends React to Your Most Random Comments" from the official Talking Tom & Friends YouTube channel (0:48), "(LOL, Ben is so lonely XD, yeah yeah yeah.)" "And that's how I like it."
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Talking Friends Annual 2014 Pg. 28
- ↑ "Ben the Comedian" from Talking Tom and Friends Minisodes
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Talking Ben's Top 3 Jokes" from the official Talking Tom YouTube channel, (0:55), "Cat jokes are terrible, Tom. Dog jokes are where it's at."
- ↑ "Tom After Tom" from Talking Friends (0:17), "Incorrect, the 60s were outta-sight!"
- ↑ "Talking Tom Spoofs Dubstep Hipster Cat" from the official Talking Tom YouTube channel (0:33)
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 "talkingtom.com/ben.html", Retrieved 11-22-23
- ↑ "Back to School" from Talking Tom and Friends (9:13), "Well, if it isn't another troublemaker! You just fell into the wrong classroom... Benjamin?" "Velma?" "-I haven't seen you since the teacher's pet mixer."
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "talkingtomandfriends.com/ben/" (December 2015), Retrieved 05-22-24
- ↑ "outfit.com/character/talking-ben/" (June 2014), Retrieved 05-22-24
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 "talkingangela.com/ben.html" (March 2015), Retrieved 05-22-24
- ↑ "outfit7.com/character/talking-ben/" (June 2014), Retrieved 09-26-24
- ↑ "screenrant.com/is-talking-ben-the-dog-safe-app-privacy-concerns", Retrieved 05-22-24
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 "outfit7.com/jobs/job-blog/global-reach/story/the-birth-of-becca-how-and-why-we-created-our-latest-character/" (April 2021), Retrieved 05-22-24
- ↑ "outfit7.com/2billion" (October 2014), Retrieved 05-22-24
- ↑ "The Audition" from Talking Tom and Friends (7:01)
- ↑ "Sweetest Valentine's Card Ever?" from the official Talking Tom YouTube channel (0:37)
- ↑ "facebook.com/TalkingTom/photos/pb.100044146344241.-2207520000/209084132443349/?type=3", Retrieved 05-23-24
- ↑ "Talking Ben Rejects Kim Kardashian Again!" from the official Talking Tom & Friends YouTube channel (video private: back-up link)
