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Alright, we all know the makuta, a race of beings that control shadow among forty-one other powers, most of which are deadly. They are selfish by nature, aggressive, vindictive and willing to kill those that stand in their way without a second thought. And they are very good at playing the long game. It doesn't take a lot to see that these guys going bad in the first place, but, why did they go bad? This thread is for everyone's theories regarding the fall of the Brotherhood, and how you came to your conclusion, I'll start. "We hate you, because we cannot be you." That's the line that made me stop, despite the fact that Tahu tries to brush it off like it's just small-talk. Why couldn't they? After that, I started scouring the books, blogs, podcasts, any and every source of bionicle story information I could find. Now this is either just fridge logic, or Greg intentionally placed these things there as clues. Or it's also possible he just hated the makuta so much it leaked into his writing on the times before they went bad. I'm going to assume it's one of the first two. In chronological order. In "The Many Deaths of Toa Tuyet", Tuyet says she may take out the Brotherhood, even though the Brotherhood hadn't betrayed them yet and at the time Teridax was helping to defend Metru Nui against the Dark Hunters. Instead of being even slightly confused as to why she would go after their allies, Lhikan just berates her for trying to instill her own will over a populous. That and they don't mention him or anything about the western side of Metru Nui at any time during the story, so I can only assume that Teridax was stationed there, alone. Displaying a near self destructive disregard for the makuta. This isn't just thinking he can handle it, this is willfully ignoring him. At this point I asked, "were the makuta already hated before they went bad?" During the Great Disturbance, Teridax believed it necessary to not only lock the combatants in the Onu-Metru archives, but to unleash some of the more deadly rahi on them in order to terrorize them into stopping their civil war. As we've seen from Teridax's other activities, he works in incredibly subtle ways. For him to decide that such drastic and involved measures needed to be taken, there must have been something else that guaranteed, at least in his eyes, that they wouldn't listen to him. You could say that the fact that the turaga had already failed could be this reason. But I doubt it. Afterwards, Teridax's actions led to makuta everywhere being even further distrusted by matoran and toa. This is the kind of behavior frequently exhibited by people attempting to justify racism. The person will take a single individual's actions and spread it over the entire group. They'll look at a black man who was convicted of theft and then say that all people of african descent are thieves, or a hispanic man lazing on his porch and say that all hispanics are lazy. They'll look at a jewish man who is cheap and say that all jewish people are tight-fisted when it comes to money. The best comparison for the makuta would be those who discriminate against muslims because there are small sects that are crazy, like those responsible for the 9/11 attacks or other acts of terror. Then when Teridax reveals his plan to the other makuta, Miserix sees it as a ploy to take control of the Brotherhood. That doesn't make any sense, The Plan was to take control of Mata Nui's body, Teridax could easily leave Miserix in command of the Brotherhood if he did this. Meaning Teridax didn't reveal that plan, he talked to the other makuta about something else, something that Miserix saw as a threat. Then you also have to ask, why did so many of the makuta side with Teridax when their leader so openly opposed him? Teridax told them they didn't have to take everyone else's abuse. This, on one hand, would definitely be a threat to Miserix's station of command, as he had just been having everyone endure the hatred. On the other, wasn't he a makuta as well? Why would he disagree with Teridax's message? Because he had been dealing with the same stuff. For so long in fact that it was just the way it was supposed to be to him. Because the status quo was working and hope is scary, especially after the massive amounts of time the makuta had lived without it. Basically, this was an instance of 'Then Let Me Be Evil.' The Brotherhood essentially said, "fine, you want us to be the bad guys, then we're the bad guys. Oh hey, what's wrong? We thought this was what you wanted us to be. Who's laughing now? Stop bleeding into the blasted carpet and take it like the big heroic toa you think you are." And that's without any individual backstory, I'm sure if we had that it would be downright heartbreaking. That's my theory, care to poke any holes in it? Or show us your own? [Thanks to The Iron Toa for showing me where I went wrong with the Six Kingdoms.]
