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  1. ALVIS
    BS01 is not perfect, and many of the editors who remain are a little eager sometimes to add information that has not directly been confirmed. I should know; I've done it myself, and been corrected for it. The assumption, thus far, has been that anyone who died in the MU and wasn't disintegrated (or had their head crushed) would be revived. That's why lists of, say, Zyglak who were killed by Ehlek's species are listed as "(revived)", because it's reasonable to assume that Ehlek's kin weren't using disintegration weapons to kill them. But if it bothers you, feel free to ask Greg, and if he confirms something different, BS01 will quickly correct itself.
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    Yeah, some of these elements are way OP and should never have been canonized. On the other hand, I'd say that Plasma is actually underpowered -- whereas you can do a lot with elemental control over fire or water, all you can really do with plasma is incinerate things (and possibly make high-tech television screens). But in either case, these are the elements that we have to live with, if we're going to treat the canon as some sort of divine and infallible scripture.
  3. ALVIS
    Ehh... No.
  4. ALVIS
    Sexism hurts all of us, it's true.
  5. ALVIS
    Why... yes, everything that has been said has already been said. Look, eating crow is all well and good, but it's not a dish served with redundancy.
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    Nonsense. Marendar is the reason for destined Matoran not to become Toa, because Toa are what it was built to kill. I don't think Marendar is any threat to the Agori whatsoever, or anyone who's not a Toa. After all, it was built with the intent of saving the Agori from tyrannical Toa. It would be counter-intuitive for it to go after Agori.
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    If anyone wants my two cents*, I think this is kind of a silly discussion to be having. If the Makuta didn't execute by disintegration, that means one of three things: 1. They didn't know about the Red Star at all. 2. They knew about the Red Star, but figured dying once would be enough to dissuade subjects from disobeying again. 3. They knew both about the Red Star's function and about its malfunction, and killed people sloppily because they knew the revived would be stuck on the Red Star. Tren Krom's knowledge almost definitely included the Red Star (as seen in The Powers That Be), and would have been relayed from Mutran to Teridax at least, so we can assume Option 1 is incorrect. Option 2 is bonesiii's hypothesis. However, I vote for Option 3. Even though the Makuta knew that the Red Star was reviving people, they would have observed early on that those people were not returning to the Matoran Universe. Thus, it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to conclude that any method of execution was valid, since anyone revived by the Red Star wasn't coming back down. * (Oops - bonesiii posted the above as I was composing mine. Sorry to drag the discussion out any further.)
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    Keep in mind that Dark Mirror's Takua was not destined to become a Toa; it seems he wasn't destined to do much of anything. So destinies can differ across alternate timelines.
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    @ fishers: I don't think this story takes place in LoMN. The implication is that it takes place in the aftermath of Comic 20, in which Krekka got teleported outside an airship by Vakama (hence why the disk launcher reminded him of his fall). Nice story, anyway, but I think Krekka's grammar is off. In his canon appearances, he's dumb, but he's not that dumb -- he still uses pronouns and definite articles.
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    Okay, so they are currently in a nebulous state of non-canon-ness that might later be clarified. Maybe. That's fine by me. Honestly, we have enough stories and backstories dealing with the Dark Time and the Matoran Universe already. What we really need is a "100,000 Years Untold" contest for Spherus Magna, because we know next to nothing about that location, and that's a crying shame, since it's an entire planet.
  11. ALVIS
    According to the most recent Greg info on the subject, he can take it off, but he'd lose the powers.
  12. ALVIS
    I can ask Dorek about it. He's the only BS01 staff member who's really up and running at the moment.
  13. ALVIS
    Thank you to fishers64 for asking these questions in my stead (I have been having technical difficulties with logging on to the LMB, but I intend to have them fixed soon). The following information is of note to me: 1. The Toa Hagah wore the same masks as Matoran. 1) Yes 2. The Brotherhood of Makuta did not practice execution by disintegration. 2) Less thorough. Once you have been killed by a Makuta, it is not an experience you want to repeat, so you tend to be more circumspect I also tried to resolve that whole mess with the revival device in Mask of Light, and tried to confirm that Miserix created the Kanohi Dragon, but unfortunately, Greg didn't have answers for either of those questions. Oh, well.
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    Teridax stole leadership of the Brotherhood from Miserix about 79,100 years ago. I see that the poll's been updated. I'm glad to see it, but unfortunately, since I already voted, I can't go back and change mine to be more in line. Just know that, excluding Teridax, I would vote for the Makuta of Stelt, because I really enjoyed getting to know him while writing An Even Exchange (below).
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    Actually, it wasn't the Rahaga who wanted Roodaka to turn them back. As I've just realized after a reread, it was Tahu's idea. (Toa Nuva Blog, excerpts from Entries 5 and 6)
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    I would have to disagree with the above poster about the Toa Metru. Onewa, Nuju, and Whenua contributed a lot of character, knowledge, and skills to the team, and quite frankly, I don't know that a team consisting of only Vakama, Matau, and Nokama could have accomplished anything. I sort of agree about the Toa Hagah, though. Their backstory is cool, and necessary to the Avohkii's story, but I would have let them stay Rahaga. Except for stopping the Xia kaiju battle, they accomplished exactly jack squat after Roodaka turned them back.
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    At long, long last, we finally have a resolution to the First Toa Team conundrum: they were disintegrated. Since they were armed with weapons that disintegrate, it would make sense that they used them, so yes. On one level, it's a shame that these characters are permanently dead. But I'm pleased to have this loose end finally wrapped up, because the alternate explanation was utterly ridiculous. *simultaneous rejoicing/mourning*
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    It's both. The bright light was the original ability mentioned by Greg, and more recently, some LMB posters convinced him that it didn't make sense for them not to have heat resistance. I thought I changed all the relevant pages to include both resistances. Where did you read that they only have resistance to bright light? That needs to be fixed.
  19. ALVIS
    Ooh, now there are some interesting tidbits in this post... 1. Greg seems to be coming around to the idea that Lesovikk's team may have been disintegrated. However, he's sticking to "if" phrasing for now, and hasn't confirmed it. (He also reinforced some details about who gets revived and who doesn't.) 1) If they were disintegrated, as seems likely, then they could not be revived because there needs to be a body to teleport. 2. Velika made sure to kill Karzahni and Tren Krom in gruesome ways to cause fear and panic. 6) Yes. Velika was looking to cause fear and panic, which he would then position himself as the person to quell.
  20. ALVIS
    Huh. Mimic is strangely popular. It's a shame he never appeared in actual story. I actually like Ravager a lot. The way he's described as a coldhearted psychopath, who just wants everything destroyed and everyone dead, makes him a very alarming and dangerous character, and his amnesia makes him even more intriguing. I have an idea brewing for a fanfic about him, which I haven't gotten around to writing yet, but maybe I'll start work on it. I also like Kraata-Kal, as you might guess from the link in my sig, but Ravager would have to take the cake.
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    My worry is that a reboot story team would go the route of Mask of Light and completely ruin Onua by turning him into a boisterous bruiser who tosses around considerable strength without any kinds of tactics, when in fact he's the wisest and quietest of them all.
  22. ALVIS
    Of the choices presented, I would have to say Teridax, because he will always be the Makuta to me. However, I must point out that not all known Makuta are on this list. You're missing Kojol, Tridax, and the Makuta of Stelt. The latter one has basically nothing to his name (he doesn't even have a name), but after writing An Even Exchange to expand on his aims and ambitions (see below), I actually have something of a soft spot for him, so I would probably have voted for him if Teridax weren't an option. Really, having Teridax on the ballot just nullifies everyone else. None of them can really compete. If you were to remove Teridax as an option, I think you would see a much more diverse arrangement of votes.
  23. ALVIS
    This thread has rapidly derailed into a shipping thread, and it's absolutely glorious.
  24. ALVIS
    Actually, I feel like Hahli and Jaller kind of separated by the time '06 rolled around. They've been nothing but professional around each other since Power Play. Sad story, I know, but not every relationship works out. Hewkii and Macku, on the other hand, obviously still have a thing going, even though we haven't seen them in the same place since 2003.
  25. ALVIS
    *raises hand* I got into BIONICLE when I was four years old. As soon as I discovered the basic story and learned that Gali was the only girl, I thought, "Huh, that doesn't seem fair", so I decided that Lewa and Kopaka (and by extension, Wairuha) would also be female. Unfortunately, as I got more involved with the novels and comics, this headcanon became harder and harder to maintain. But it was nice while it lasted. It was a time of blissful innocence and ignorance of the wider ramifications of these ridiculously skewed gender ratios. (Nice rebuttal to Jim, BTW.)
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