Yellowjackets: Ranking The Most Complicated Relationships (So Far)

(L-R): Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna and Ella Purnell as Teen Jackie in YELLOWJACKETS, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”. Photo credit: Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME.
(L-R): Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna and Ella Purnell as Teen Jackie in YELLOWJACKETS, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”. Photo credit: Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME. /
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Ben And The Teens

As the only adult present in the Wilderness, Ben would be the default leader. Surrounded by scared teenagers, Ben would have been the one to step up and help protect the rest of the team. Instead, he is forced to the sidelines after his leg is chopped off, and those responsibilities are passed off to Natalie as the Hunter and Shauna as the Butcher.

For most of season two, Ben is disassociating from the rest of the group, choosing to live in his mind where he exists in an alternate reality, one where he chooses Paul and their life together over his own fear. Ben's desire to remove himself from the rest of the group comes after he watches them desperately and ravenously devour Jackie's body after spending months with little to no food.

While Ben was quick to want to avoid Misty, and seemed to want to find an ally in Natalie, it appeared that at the end of season two, Ben may have made a dangerous move against his players by setting their cabin on fire.

Assuming Ben had been the one to start the fire, tensions would certainly be rising between him and the rest of the teenagers when they eventually meet again. As the teenagers dive further into chaos, it is only a matter of time before Ben will have to meet them again or, perhaps, meet his end.