Baron Von Nebula

I think it's worth noting that Malum living in the desert is a fairly recent turn of events. For most of the time he would have been Velika's contact, he would have been a respected, if hot-headed, Glatorian. He also seems like someone who would help out Velika out of his own ambition. I feel like, at some point, Greg said that Malum was his favorite Glatorian set. I could be imagining it, though.

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I would expect that, if it's a reboot rather than a continuation, some stuff is going to be changed for the plot. Otherwise, new fans could very easily have it spoiled for them. I don't even mean being told spoilers by a veteran, but just by looking up, say, "Tahu", they will find later story details.

It is known that Teridax kept some Makuta alive and forced them to mass produce Kraata, before he then killed them. This. If you want to know specifically how he killed that group, I would guess crushing their armor with gravity, since that power was shown to be used the most by the Matoran Universe robot. We never saw a conflict between Makuta where Rahkshi were involved, so we don't really know who they would obey- the one with the strongest will, or their creator. This makes me lean away from Teridax having those Makuta be killed by any minions.

Sorry, I somehow wasn't aware of that. I'm probably just over-anxious.

Is this still going on? It's been over two years now.

Krika did have a sincere change of heart, while Icarax just wanted to wreck Teridax's plan so he could conquer the universe himself. In fact, Icarax's direct approach to conquest would have resulted in more destruction that Teridax ever would cause.

It isn't necessarily that the Metru bore prejudices because of the war. Each element tends to go along with certain personality traits, and each Metru has its own traits as well. Some of these go together better than others. A prime example would be Ko- and Onu- Metrus. They did not get along because each saw the future/past as more important. This definitely affected Nuju and Whenua's initial disagreements, and it probably factored into why Ko- and Onu- Metru took different sides during the war.

I think it was stated that the process completely wiped Sentrahk's memory, and that the process wasn't replicated because of the difficulty in completely re-educating a being.

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I now want a whole movie of this. But I think the Morbuzakh was shown when Vakama got his disk. As it wasn't a set, it makes sense to downplay its importance.

How come all Makuta are confirmed as unable to be revived? Has it been confirmed that no Makuta died before their transformation to a gaseous state?

Without its leaders, the strike probably fell apart on its own. Anyways, the "work" was to rebuild Metru Nui. There's only so long you can sit on a pile of rubble.

So while it is possible that Teridax could not control Keetongu, I find it more likely he did not want it to be over so easily, and so used his other powers instead. Same goes for him controlling the Manas. Maybe he couldn't control all of them, but he is also so sadistic that he probably turned them on each other just for the laughs. Now that that is out of the way, your theory does make some sense, but there is a hole. Kraata and Krana do not form civilizations, yet they are not Rahi, and thus I would not think Rahi Control would work on them, although I do not believe this has been proven. Also, BS01 says that most Rahi do not have the willpower to resist the Mask of Rahi Control power, with possible exceptions of Krahka and Keetongu. So I'd say the answer might be in there, that the deciding factor is willpower and not intelligence. For example, gorillas are intelligent, but they don't really have the same willpower that we do in being able to push their bodies through pain to do things, resist a sort of mental invasion, etc. And it seems like possibly even Krahka and Keetongu wouldn't be able to resist it. I hope that all made sense VMN With Teridax and Keetongu, Teridax was trying to deal with TSO, Voporak, and Sentrahk. He was desperate to regain the Vahi, or at least keep it out of TSO's hands. As such, I don't think he would play around or take his time in dealing with Keetongu. Also, Kraata are like Krana in that they do not have individual minds/wills. They act for the good of the Makuta (which theoretically could order them to build a city). I consider them automatons rather than beings, and as such they would be outside the qualifications for Rahi. I should have made it more clear that I considered a species not to be Rahi if it was shown that members of the species (not necessarily the whole species) exist within civilization. Thus, a Matoran could live as a hermit in the jungle, but he would not be a Rahi, since members of his species do build civilizations. Of course, this would not include exceptional members of a species. For example, there could be a group of mutated Ussal Crabs which spoke and built a city, and were therefore sapient beings rather than Rahi. All Ussal would not then cease to be considered Rahi as a result. Finally, would Krahka be able to resist mental invasion if she shifted into something with telepathy or mental shields?

With the Onewa example, it could be because his mask was not specified for Rahi. I think an actual Mask of Rahi Control or the Kraata power is more effective when dealing specifically with unintelligent Rahi.

I've been having some trouble lately understanding what a Rahi is, and what the Rahi Control power is. Here, I've tried to define both of these. Rahi is Matoran for "not us". However, the term is not applied to Vortixx, Skakdi, etc. It almost always refers to animals- non-sapient beings. There is no issue when creatures like Muaka or Energy Hounds are referred to as Rahi. The confusion comes when creatures such as Tahtorak, Krahka, Artahka Bulls, Keetongu, and the Bahrag are called Rahi. These creatures are all intelligent and more like beings than animals, as they are stated to have Matoran-level intelligence. As such, they should not be defined as Rahi, if Rahi are just animals. I have thought of a different trait which they share with the unintelligent Rahi which could differentiate all Rahi from non-Rahi. Rahi are biomechanical organisms whose species do not form complex societies as civilizations are defined. A one way of deterimining this for each species would be their participation in cities. Krahka and the Artahka Bulls live on their own, and neither take part in nor form civilized structures such as cities. Because of the Tahtorak's size, they must migrate to find food, and therefore could not have settled down or built cities (assuming they had the dexterity to do so anyways). Since Keetongu's species used the Tahtorak as mounts, they presumably lived a nomadic life as well. Finally, the Bahrag lived alone in the Bohrok nest, if you discount the impersonal Bohrok who lack minds of their own. Thus, Rahi can be defined as species in the MU which do not form the same types of societies and structures as species like Matoran, who therefore refer to them by the term "not us". The Rahi Control power, however, must be using the definition of Rahi as "animal". The power first appeared as a Kraata power in 2003, before the term Rahi had ever been applied to an intelligent being (I don't think the Bahrag were said to have been thought of by the Matoran as Rahi until later). At the point that this power was made, Rahi were always animals. In BA 10 (Time Trap), Keetongu and Makuta Teridax fought. Teridax won, but he had to actually fight, which implies that he could not simply use his Rahi Control power on Keetongu. Later, in Into the Darkness, Karzahni attacked Teridax with his army of Manas. Teridax took control of half of the Manas to make them attack the other half, before threatening to have the surviving Manas attack Karzahni. This shows that a powerful user of the Rahi Control power can control many very powerful Rahi, but not a single intelligent Rahi. In addition, the fact that Teridax only controlled half the Manas suggests that there is a limit to how many Rahi he could control at once. The idea that more powerful (but unintelligent) Rahi are harder to control would make sense, when the battle between the Toa Mangai and the Kanohi Dragon is considered. It would be ridiculous to suggest that a single Toa with the right Kanohi could have stopped the Dragon- if this was the case, why would eleven Toa show up to fight it? Thus, the term Rahi does not refer to the intelligence of the species like the term animal does. On the other hand, the Mask of Mind Control uses the "animal" definition of Rahi, and this power is limited by the intelligence, number, and power of the target(s). Sorry if this was too long. Thoughts? Criticisms?

I'm surprised no one's said Dalu.

As you said, Toa have elemental powers that work well at range. Toa have been the focus of Bionicle's storyline, and as such few ranged weapons appear. If the main characters were, say, Vortixx, then more gun-type weapons would have appeared in the story. Finally, we did see a good number of ranged weapons besides Cordak launchers and Zamor Spheres like Kanoka disks and Rhotuka spinners. The first few years were the only ones without projectiles, and they were set on a primitive island. As regards Thornax, it depends on whether you're looking at the movie or anything else. While all other media showed Thornax launchers as devices for firing destructive fruit, The Legend Reborn showed them as handheld energy cannons.

It's animated well, but I always liked the Bionicle mask designs better than the HF helmets.

I'm not sure if the complexity of the maze was made it so difficult- the traps/guards were probably the problem. Mata Nui seemed to get through pretty easily, so maybe the maze's defenses work better at taking out larger groups/armies rather than individuals.

The Mask of Mind Control cannot be used to make a target do anything they consider immoral. As such, it cannot be used to make someone do something they strongly object to.

Jutlin-

The Skrall could have forgotten what it stood for, and it just became a tribal custom, like the patterns on their blades.

I've built Tahtorak, but he isn't all the right colors, and I had to swap out some pieces like the katana on his crest.

I like the Skakdi. They both have varied powers, cool appearances, and the Piraka were some of the best Bionicle villains.