If there is a mask of life, could there be a mask of death?

[lasqur]

Just asking.

[Kavu]

Well if you want to be technical, the Ignika is the mask of death. Life just sounds better.

[Toa Smoke Monster]

A Mask of Death was never mentioned to exist in the MU, though that doesn't mean one couldn't have existed. But I think Levvisokk is right. The Ignika could be considered a 'Mask of Death.'

[Chro]

Although the Ignika often has properties better suiting a Mask of Death instead of Life, I think you're asking if there's a separate Kanohi altogether. No, there isn't. Life, Time, and Creation are the three Legendary Kanohi because those things are the three fundamental principles of the MU. But, as death is not one of those principles, there is no Legendary mask (or any mask) of death.Certain masks have powers pertaining to death, though, such as the Tryna or the Mask of Scavenging.

Edited December 4, 2012 by Chro

[fishers64]

The Ignika can kill things by draining life energy. There doesn't seem to be any "death energy" in the MU that such a Mask could use, since you either have life energy or you don't, and a mask that drains life energy would be somewhat redundant with the Mask of Life since it can do that anyway.

[FallenCor]

I'm inclined too agree with Levvisokk. Although the Ignika was known as the "Mask of Life", it did possess the power to manipulate life however it wished. There are a number of examples of it using the power of "death", such as when Toa Ignika attempted to kill Pohatu, Lewa, Tanma and Photok by accelerating their aging in Shadows in the Sky, cursing Nocturn with killing every being he touched, absorbing life energy to unleash a sort of "Nova Blast", the list goes on. There's also the fact that the Great Beings built a fail-safe into the mask that, were the Matoran Universe thrown utterly and hopelessly out of balance, was to destroy every living thing in the Great Spirit robot. It counts as both the Mask of Life and the "Mask of Death", in my opinion, so I doubt that there ever was, or ever will be, a Mask of Death.

[Meta-Mind]

To be honest, the Ignika is a Mask of Death, because Death is a subset of Life. :PBesides that, there is no individual mask for Death, because the Great Beings had no reason to make one. The Mask of Life could perform any of the few functions that a dedicated Mask of Death would be necessary for (such as destroying all life if things went out of balance), and served other purposes (such as providing a way to heal Mata Nui if necessary) as well.

[Ballom Nom Nom]

Yes, but what would that really do? I assume a Mask of Death would function as a suicide device if the wearer were stupid enough to activate it.~B~

[toa kopaka4372]

Like others have said, the Ignika functions good enough as a Mask of Death as well.

[GallifreyanOrigin]

Well, now that we know what we know about the Red Star, a "Mask of Death" would have been kinda silly in the grand scheme of things.

Edited December 5, 2012 by XyzTheDay!

[25K Now!]

The Ignika pretty much had total dominion over life, so it could serve as a Mask of Death as well.

[Makuta Matata]

Technically the Mask of Life could be used as a mask of death.

[toa kopaka4372]

Well, now that we know what we know about the Red Star, a "Mask of Death" would have been kinda silly in the grand scheme of things.

 

Not if it functioned was disintegrating its targets

Edited December 5, 2012 by toa kopaka4372

[Kavu]

 

Well, now that we know what we know about the Red Star, a "Mask of Death" would have been kinda silly in the grand scheme of things.

 

Not if it functioned was disintegrating its targets

 

In that case it would be considered a Mask of Disintegration

[mistergryphon]

Well, due to Bionicle being a /child's toy/, I don't think they'd have an actual "mask of death". They may have something that implies it, but they'd never have an actual mask of death.

[toa kopaka4372]

Well, due to Bionicle being a /child's toy/, I don't think they'd have an actual "mask of death". They may have something that implies it, but they'd never have an actual mask of death.

 

I don't think that's a limitation, especially since the Mask of Life caused direct death in the story before. Bsides, the story team has already put far worse in the story.

Edited December 6, 2012 by toa kopaka4372

[25K Now!]

Well, due to Bionicle being a /child's toy/, I don't think they'd have an actual "mask of death". They may have something that implies it, but they'd never have an actual mask of death.

Well we did rip a guy apart by at molecular levels.

 

Protection of the children from references of death doesn't really work when that happens near the end of 2008.

[ActivePalpitation]

I think that just how the Ignika has the ability to give life, It has the ability to deminish it. Just a theroy

[Chro]

Yes, that's exactly what it does. It can drain Life energy to kill something, kind of like how a Toa of Fire can remove heat to freeze something.

[CeeCee]

I think Ignika could control Death(absence of life)

[Dralcax]

Death is the absence of life. The Ignika could manipulate death the same way Vakama absorbed the flames in order to get the Great Disk.

[Chro]

Well, the question has been taken care of, and right now we're just getting a bunch of the same answer phrased differently from multiple people.With nothing more left to do, think it's about time this thread closed?