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So, it's confirmed in product descriptions that the Skull creatures wear Skull Masks, and seeing Skull Slicer swap his Skull Spider mask to Lewa's golden mask to reveal a face beneath somewhat confirms this. But just what are these masks, and what can they do - if anything?

 

I'm of the mindset that they're just stylised masks worn for show, but they might posses some form of power. Who knows!

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Possessiob is right. The skull spider masks put the wearer under LoSS', and therefore Kulta's, control. The newly dubbed "bull skull masks"? No clue.

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Skull Mask — Mask of Cartilage: Prevents arthritis

Bull Skull Mask — Mask of Bone Density: Reduces risk of bone fracture

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I think they're like tribal masks used to intimidate enemies, solely for decoration.

I think this suggestion is closest to the marrow. This is G2, the masks don't have to do anything besides look cool.

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Skull Basher's character video shows him putting Onua's mask on over the top of his Bull Skull Mask.

 

It makes sense that Slicer's mask is removable, because he was resurrected (presumably) by a Skull Spider attaching to his face.

But is it possible that the other types of Skull "Mask" actually just represent the maskless face of the creature?

 

Either the product description calling it a "Mask" is actually just the piece name, or we are back to the whole "Can you wear multiple masks on top of each other?" G1 argument... :(

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Skull Basher's character video shows him putting Onua's mask on over the top of his Bull Skull Mask.

 

It makes sense that Slicer's mask is removable, because he was resurrected (presumably) by a Skull Spider attaching to his face.

But is it possible that the other types of Skull "Mask" actually just represent the maskless face of the creature?

 

Either the product description calling it a "Mask" is actually just the piece name, or we are back to the whole "Can you wear multiple masks on top of each other?" G1 argument... :(

Wait a second... Slicer removing his 'Spider' means that perhaps he steals Onua's mask to be free of Kulta's control; however, He's gone mad from the transformation, and his existence drains the elemental power of the mask just to keep him 'alive'. Can it be that Skull Slicer commits 'Suicide By Toa' to get free?

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Skull Basher's character video shows him putting Onua's mask on over the top of his Bull Skull Mask.

 

It makes sense that Slicer's mask is removable, because he was resurrected (presumably) by a Skull Spider attaching to his face.

But is it possible that the other types of Skull "Mask" actually just represent the maskless face of the creature?

 

Either the product description calling it a "Mask" is actually just the piece name, or we are back to the whole "Can you wear multiple masks on top of each other?" G1 argument... :(

Wait a second... Slicer removing his 'Spider' means that perhaps he steals Onua's mask to be free of Kulta's control; however, He's gone mad from the transformation, and his existence drains the elemental power of the mask just to keep him 'alive'. Can it be that Skull Slicer commits 'Suicide By Toa' to get free?

 

Slicer steals Lewa's mask, not Onua's.

 

Is it Basher or Slicer that goes mad?

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Skull Basher's character video shows him putting Onua's mask on over the top of his Bull Skull Mask.

 

It makes sense that Slicer's mask is removable, because he was resurrected (presumably) by a Skull Spider attaching to his face.

But is it possible that the other types of Skull "Mask" actually just represent the maskless face of the creature?

 

Either the product description calling it a "Mask" is actually just the piece name, or we are back to the whole "Can you wear multiple masks on top of each other?" G1 argument... :(

Wait a second... Slicer removing his 'Spider' means that perhaps he steals Onua's mask to be free of Kulta's control; however, He's gone mad from the transformation, and his existence drains the elemental power of the mask just to keep him 'alive'. Can it be that Skull Slicer commits 'Suicide By Toa' to get free?

 

Slicer steals Lewa's mask, not Onua's.

 

Is it Basher or Slicer that goes mad?

 

Sorry. Slicer went mad in the transformation, but remembered enough to know that the mask is controlling him and he'd have to get rid of it. Make more sense?

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Sorry. Slicer went mad in the transformation, but remembered enough to know that the mask is controlling him and he'd have to get rid of it. Make more sense?

Yes. Although if the mask is controlling him, wouldn't it control him to not get rid of itself?

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Sorry. Slicer went mad in the transformation, but remembered enough to know that the mask is controlling him and he'd have to get rid of it. Make more sense?

Yes. Although if the mask is controlling him, wouldn't it control him to not get rid of itself?

 

Madness can make a mind harder to control. Perhaps the remnant of the original personality overpowered the Spider's for just long enough to discard it.

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Sorry. Slicer went mad in the transformation, but remembered enough to know that the mask is controlling him and he'd have to get rid of it. Make more sense?

Yes. Although if the mask is controlling him, wouldn't it control him to not get rid of itself?
Madness can make a mind harder to control. Perhaps the remnant of the original personality overpowered the Spider's for just long enough to discard it.
I like your theory. Definitely would add a nice dark tone, and makes sense because Slicer is the only villain that dons a skull spider mask, so it would make sense that perhaps he was someone at some point, perhaps even a hero.

 

Makes sense further if you consider the fact he guards the Arena, a place where warriors fought. Maybe Slicer was one of the in the past.

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I interpreted it that a Skull Spider was used in Slicer's resurrection, hence the mask, but that mask doesn't control him because it is not actually a living skull spider (it has no legs).

 

He serves Kulta for the same unknown reason that the other Skull Creatures serve him, not because LoSS has some sort of indirect mind control over him (it would be weird that Slicer is Kulta's lieutenant if he were just a puppet of LoSS).

 

Slicer can freely replace the Skull Spider Mask with another mask because it has no effect, like the other Skull Masks.

 

I actually have a theory that the main villain for "Revenge of the Skull Spiders" will be Slicer wearing the Golden Mask of Skull Spiders, after having taken over the horde from LoSS. (This is because Slicer was resurrected differently to the other Skull Creatures, so may remain ever if their resurrection is reversed. After Kulta's failing, Makuta could forge the Golden Mask of Skull Spiders for Slicer to lead a new Skull Spider attack. This would explain why the story hasn't mentioned that mask yet, and why Club Magazine suggested that LoSS controls the Skull Spiders through telepathy rather than needing a special mask.)

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I was under the assumption that these skull "masks" were just their decayed faces. Especially when they put the golden masks over them


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What if they are decayed masks? They used to have powers, but they decayed along with the bodies of the wearers. The masks also are decayed and don't look the way they used to. The masks are the bare bones of their former forms :P

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What if they are decayed masks? They used to have powers, but they decayed along with the bodies of the wearers. The masks also are decayed and don't look the way they used to. The masks are the bare bones of their former forms :P

They'd probably look more like the g1 miru, were that the case. More holes, since the nonstructural, thinner parts wore away first.

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I like some of the ideas here- like that the masks are placed on the deceased, and so when they are "zombified", they still wart those death masks.

 

Personally, my first idea was that the skull masks are the reason they came back to life- like the skull masks are the reason they are reanimated, which means someone put them on them...

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