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The main [[Myth Arc]] is that [[Exty Years From Now|one thousand years ago]], the [[Big Bad|evil Makuta]] made the [[Minor Major Character|Great Spirit Mata Nui]] fall asleep. Since a [[Physical God]] protector being unconscious is a ''bad thing'', the [[Hobbits|Matoran people]] and their [[Magic Knights|Toa protectors]] are now working to wake him up again. The Matoran saga is split into three [[Rotating Arcs]] (labeled by book series title):

In the end, the Toa Nuva finally wake up Mata Nui - allowing Makuta to commit [[Grand Theft Me]] and [[A God Am I|usurp the Great Spirit]], sealing Mata Nui's spirit into the [[Soul Jar|Mask of Life]] and exiling it into space. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job Waking It, Heroes.]]

The story then picks up on the [[Crapsack World|wasteland world]] of Bara Magna, where tribesGlatorians ofcompete [[Badasson Normal|Glatorian]]behalf andof [[Hobbits|Agori]]tribes competeof Agori in [[Gladiator Games]] for scarce resources. [[Minor Major Character|Mata Nui]] lands there and ends up making friends and uniting the tribes while he tries to find his way home. There was one movie called ''The Legend Reborn'', while a web serial kept tabs on the Matoran.

The series has [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]; check the [[Bionicle (Franchise)/Characters|Character Sheet]] for more info on them.

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* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]], [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|but the actual quote was slightly different]].

** Oddly enough, however, the movie "Web of Shadows", the novelization of the movie, [[NamesName's the Same|by the same name,]] and the comics running at the same time all have somewhat different plots.

* [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]]: There are several always-enemy races on both worlds. The Matoran Universe has the Makuta and their spawn, the [[Elite Mooks|Rahkshi]]; the Visorak, the Skakdi (which include the Piraka), and the Zyglak. Bara Magna has the Rock, Sand, and possibly Iron Tribes; the Bone Hunters, and the baterra.

*** [[Story -Boarding the Apocalypse]]: at the beginning of ''Legends'', Karzahni showed [[What If]] the heroes fail and Mata Nui dies.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Every major group has members colored {{color|red|rred}}, {{color|blue|bblue}}, {{color|green|ggreen}}, black, {{color|silver|wwhite}}, and {{color|brown|bbrown}}, though {{color|orange|oorange}} or {{color|goldenrod|yyellow}} are sometimes used in brown's place. in the case of [[Mooks]] there are six breeds in those colors. For Toa and Matoran and for Bara Magnans, the colors show the tribe they belong to; with Toa/Matoran this also indicates gender ([[Viewer Gender Confusion|or is supposed to]]) and [[Elemental Powers]]. Evil characters (the Makuta and Bara Magna's rock tribe) also favor black.

* [[Contest Winner Cameo]] / [[Official Fan -Submitted Content]]: Lego ''loves'' these kinds of contests. The most notable winning entries are Toa Krakua and Tahtorak.

* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]] / [[Lower Deck Episode]]: the web serials

* [[Doing inIn Thethe Wizard]]: After the ''Mask of Light'' saga, all the mystical aspects (such as [[Physical God|Mata Nui]] being a great spirit/deity) were gradually stripped away for more "logical" explanations. See main page for more.

* [[Earth Drift]]: Of a sort, related to [[Doing inIn Thethe Wizard]] above. The franchise was never set anywhere close to Earth, but the first few years were very influenced by Polynesian themes (set on a tropical island, everyone wears tiki-like masks, actual Maori terms were used, etc). Part of it was legally mandated (see "[[Meaningful Name]]" in the Matoran section), but the theme was pretty much lost by the time they found a lost city [[Beneath the Earth]].

** Arguably, also inverted with the relatively much less alien Bara Magna setting, which featured such Earth-inspired themes as characters ''wearing'' armor ([[Twenty Four 24-Hour Armor|as opposed to having it be part of their bodies]]), having romantic relationships, or eating with their mouths.<ref>To be fair, there is a line in the fourth ''Chronicles'' book about Onua and Whenua having a meal, but this is the only instance of non-Rahi characters eating in the Matoran Universe.</ref>

* [[Elemental Nation]]: Mata Nui and Metru Nui were divided into seven regions, six of which corresponded to each element of Fire, {{color|blue|WWater}}, Air, Earth, Stone and Ice (the seventh was a central neutral zone). Bara Magna has all the trappings of this, but nobody actually has innate elemental powers.

* [[Expy]]: Agori and Glatorian are basically powerless versions of [[Hobbits|Matoran]] and [[Magic Knights|Toa]] (in-universe, it's the other way around)

* [[Family -Unfriendly Death]]: Most of these deaths were only described in the books or web serials, leaving exactly how nasty they were up to the reader's imagination. Still, for a [[Merchandise -Driven]] [[LEGO]] series, the deaths of characters were pretty graphic, including {{spoiler|Icarax}} getting attacked mid-teleportation, scattering every piece of his body throughout the known universe, {{spoiler|Botar}} being crushed by his armor while he's still wearing it, {{spoiler|alternate-universe Tuyet}} getting hit by a [[Portal Cut]], {{spoiler|"Ancient"}} getting blown to atoms, {{spoiler|the "Phantoka" and "Mistika" Makuta}} being incinerated (with the exception of {{spoiler|Krika}}, who becomes so intangible that his atoms fly apart), and {{spoiler|Makuta is on the receiving end of a [[Colony Drop]]}}.

** [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Midak Skyblasters, Nynrah Ghost Blasters (Adaptive Armor type)

* [[Five -Man Band]] (Well, Six, but who's counting?)

* [[Late to Thethe Party]]: More or less the standard storyline, as it was used in ''Chronicles'', the latter half of ''Adventures'', Bara Magna, and ''all three'' parts of ''Legends''.

* [[Long Lived]] / [[We Are Asas Mayflies]]: Everyone; apparently biomechanicals commonly have lifespans reaching ''at least'' five or six digits. [[Fridge Logic|Even the people of Bara Magna, who are just organic with some biomechanical implants.]]

* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted; despite the line being mainly aimed for kids, characters rarely shy away from calling death what it is.

* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: [[Handwaved]] for [[Hobbits|Matoran]], at least, by the fact that they're mechanical beings with no need of romance for reproduction purposes. There was a Hewkii/Macku pairing and some Jaller/Hahli teasing in the flash cartoons of ''Chronicles'', though they ended up being dropped as a result of this [[Trope]] taking effect. Note: this [[Trope]] has not stopped [[Shipping|shippers]] in the ''slightest''. (Does anything really?)

** [[Ship Tease]]: The last novel throws one in for good measure: [[Action Girl]] [[The Big Guy|Kiina]] hugs [[Minor Major Character|Mata Nui]] and tells him that he shouldn't make her cry {{spoiler|just before he places his spirit into the Prototype Robot and goes to fight [[Big Bad|Makuta]] alone}}. Of course, given the [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] rule, it's officially [[Platonic Life Partners|wholly friendly and platonic]], but it's also not hard to think it would've been written a bit differently if the series wasn't already canceled by that time.

* [[Off -Model]]: Both movies and Comics exhibit this fairly often.

* [[Parodic Table of the Elements]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104153705/http://www.russellwalks.com/PTOIElarge.html The Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements] has Antidermis, Exsidian, and Protodermis in it.

** Metru Nui is this as well.

* [[Shattered World]]: Spherus Magna was split into Bara Magna, Aqua Magna, and Bota Magna by an evenevent that's even called "The Shattering".

* [[Sticks to Thethe Back]]: common in animations, especially involving the Toa, as well as the Glatorian's weapons in ''The Legend Reborn''. Justified for Takanuva (''Mask of Light'' version) and the Toa Metru, as the toys had weapon mounts built into their backs.

* [[Villain Episode]]: The ''Legends'' book ''Legacy of Evil'' (featuring the Piraka), as well as web serials "The Mutran Chronicles" (the Brotherhood of Makuta), "Federation of Fear" (various villains in a [[Boxed Crook]] team), "Empire of the Skrall" ([[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|the Skrall]]), and "Sahmad's Tale" (Sahmad and the Iron Tribe).

* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140705052421/http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page BIONICLE Sector 01 Wiki], or just BS01 for short.

* [[Writing Byby the Seat of Your Pants]]: Farshety has said this is his preferred writing style, at least for the web serials that aren't as connected to the main plot threads.

* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: the Matoran and Mata Nui's other races. Designed to be essentially "nanotech" in Mata Nui's body, they turned out sentient and developed their own cultures and such.

* [[All Your Colors Combined]]: six Toa can combine their power to create a [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|Toa Seal]].

* [[Call a Rabbit Aa Smeerp]]: "Rahi" is the Matoran term for animals in general, and each species has its own name (Ussal crabs, Gukko birds, etc.)

** [[Call a Smeerp Aa Rabbit]]

* [[Combining Mecha]]: The theory behind the Toa Kaita, shown with the Toa Mata (Wairuha being formed of Lewa, Gali, and Kopaka, and Akamai being formed from Tahu, Pohatu, and Onua.) It's stated that most Toa groups are able to form Kaita forms, but [[Take Our Word for It|never comes up in canon beyond the Toa Nuva]]. The Toa Metru were implied to be able to do it (but [[How Do I Shot Web?|didn't know how]]), whereas the Toa Hordika were one of the few groups that could not (due to the Visorak infection that turned them into [[Petting Zoo People|Rahi Zoo Robots]]).

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Tren Krom. Subverted in that, while powerful and immeasurably ancient, he is ''not'' an alien - he was created by the Great Beings like everything else in the Matoran world. Written as a [[Shout -Out]] to Lovecraft.

* [[Goal -Oriented Evolution]]: Matoran to Toa to Turaga. Matoran of Light can also be Matoran to Bohrok. The Makuta species also evolved to the point of being [[Energy Beings]] in [[Animated Armor]].

* [[The Gods Must Be Lazy]]: Something has to be ''really'' wrong in the world to grab Mata Nui's attention. Makes sense when you consider {{spoiler|the [[Womb Level]] nature of the world - do you think of your stomach when you don't have indigestion?}} Of course, once he ''does'' start paying attention, [[GodsGod's Hands Are Tied|his hands get tied]].

* [[The Legend Of Chekov]]: In most cases, the Matoran consider most of the Turaga's stories as mere fairy tales. But most of them wind up becoming painfully true, from giant Manas to the hellish Karzahni.

* [[Non -Indicative Name]]: The "Great Spirit" Mata Nui has a physical body.

{{quote| '''Nuhrii:''' Mata Nui protect us!}}

* [[One -Winged Angel]]: Makuta (subverted in that his true form is just energy that can't do much without a shell; played straight in that he's made the shell bigger and nastier in a couple fights)

* [[The Savage South]]: The southern edge of the Matoran Universe are said to be so dangerous that not even Makuta go there.

* [[Tunnel King]]: the cave-dwelling Onu-Matoran are an entire tribe of these.

* [[We Will Use Wiki Words in Thethe Future]]: Air Matoran "treespeak"/"chutespeak" slang

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Minor characters from past arcs don't usually get mentioned in new story material.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]?: Toa of Water tend to get stuck with limited-use Mask Powers. (Though the water powers are of course still good, which probably makes this more [[Flight, Strength, Heart]].)

** [[Moses in Thethe BullrushesBulrushes]]: the Order of Mata Nui secretly spread Matoran of Light throughout the world so the tribe wouldn't be wiped out if their homeland came under attack.

* "[[Did You Actually Believe?]] I would let them return to their homes?" (Makuta in ''Mask of Light'', after Takanuva summoned the Matoran to his lair)

* [[Holding Out for Aa Hero]]: The Matoran of Mata Nui were threatened by Makuta's forces for 1000 years until the awakening of the Toa Mata.

* [["I Know You Are're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Toa Onua to Toa Lewa twice.

* [[ItsIt's XIX. I Hate X.]]

{{quote| '''Kopaka''': ''Your Turaga speaks in riddles. I hate riddles.''<br />

* [[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]: subverted with the Toa Mata; the Laser Guide was off a bit so they forgot more than intended.

* [[Mid -Season Upgrade]]: The Toa Mata become the Toa Nuva.

* [[Mix -and -Match Critters]]: the Rahi Nui, a creature that combines elements from several Rahi species: [[A Load of Bull|the head of a Kane-Ra bull]], [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|the arms of a Tarakava lizard]], [[Cats Are Mean|the body of a Muaka panther]], [[Beware My Stinger Tail|the stinger of a Nui-Jaga scorpion]], and [[Good Wings, Evil Wings|enlarged wings from a Nui-Rama wasp]].

{{quote| '''Gali:''' How are you like the sea? The sea bears life! The sea bore ''us!''<br />

* [[Powered Armor]] / [[Mini -Mecha]]: the Boxor (which [[Good Old Fisticuffs|can strike with its arms]]) and the Exo-Toa (complete with [[Good Old Fisticuffs|Boxing Claw]] and [[Arm Cannon|Electro-Rocket]]).

** [[Armor Is Useless]]: The Exo-Toa block their users' [[Elemental Powers]]. They also have the AI to act autonomously, but haven't exactly been shown to have a stellar track record in this regard (though it's less [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]] and more [[The Worf Effect]]).

* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: The Bohrok play with this; it seems to be played straigt before it turns out (six real-world years later) that they're just doing their Great-Beings-given job (and therefore Sealed Neutral).

* [[Sealed Good in Aa Can]]: Very literally with The Toa Mata (see [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]], above), who were sealed in Toa Canisters.

* [[There Is Another]]: The [[Wham! Line]] leading into ''Adventures'': "You are not the first Toa!"

* [[Trauma -Induced Amnesia]]: Takua during the first year

** [[Jungle Japes]]: Le-Wahi, with [[Bubblegloop Swamp]] on the ground level and the [[Tree -Top Town]] of Le-Koro

** [[Slippy -Slidey Ice World]]: Ko-Wahi

* [[Yin -Yang Bomb]]: Takutanuva

* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: the Vahki

* [[Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are]]: Vakama hiding from Makuta on two separate occasions in ''Adventures''

* [[Don't Think, Feel]]: How Turaga Lhikan trains Toa Whenua, Nuju, and Onewa to use their mask powers.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Spinning]]: Rhotuka (from the Visorak arc), which are spinning wheels of energy.

* [[Hijacked Byby Ganon]]: Guess who's ''really'' behind all the trouble?

* [["I Know You Are're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Toa Matau to Toa Vakama during the Visorak invasion

* [[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]: the Metru Nui Matoran

* [[Mid -Season Upgrade]]: Inverted; the Toa Metru get a Midseason ''Downgrade'' into the Toa Hordika.

* [[Museum of the Strange Andand Unusual]]: the Onu-Metru Archives. It's so dangerous down in its deeper levels that not even Vahki are permitted in there.

* [[Plot Tailored to Thethe Party]]: ''Legends of Metru Nui'', as the Toa Metru discover their mask powers

* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: Makuta in ''Web of Shadows''

* [[ScheherezadeScheherazade Gambit]]: Roodaka urges Sidorak to [[Complexity Addiction|make a spectacle of the Toa Metru's deaths rather than just shoot them]]. While she only does this so their dead bodies could be available for use in her own schemes, it does give the Rahaga time to stage a rescue.

* [[Similarly Named Works]]: ''Web of Shadows'' is also the name of [[Spider-Man: Web of Shadows|a Spider-Man game]].

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Toa Vakama, over his [[Leeroy Jenkins]] actions.

* [[Whole -Episode Flashback]]: the entirety of ''Adventures''

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: One of the Shadowed One's Dark Hunters has the specific task of killing any Hunter that fails its mission, and take up the mission himself.

* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: Naming Day, an otherwise completely generic holiday, has an associated myth about Mata Nui coming through the transport chutes to deliver gifts.

* [[Zeppelins Fromfrom Another World]]: The airships in Metru Nui.

== ''BIONICLE Legends'' and Afterward ==

* [[Almost -Dead Guy]]: kicking off the Mahri Nui arc

* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Hydraxon (Subversion: No he isn't. He's a copy who ''thinks'' he's the original.)

** Goes double for Hydraxon, who only has bunch of weapons, a bunch of training, and enhanced hearing (which doubles as a weakness) to get him by.

** {{spoiler|During Makuta's reign, Artakha manages to intervene right before [[Knight Templar|Toa Helryx]] tries to destroy the universe in order to stop him before showing up in person to [[What the Hell, Hero?|berate her for her methods.]]}}

* [[Conservation of Ninjitsu]]: Consciously averted with the Brotherhood of Makuta - when the Toa faced more than one at once, Farshtey added [[Drama -Preserving Handicap|Drama Preserving Handicaps]] to give the Toa a legitimate chance.

* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: some of the Mask of Life's curses end up being this (and once or twice it actively tries to do its bearer a favor instead, leading to [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]).

* [[Day Hurts Dark -Adjusted Eyes]]: the Onu-Matoran typically live underground, so light stings their eyes.

* [[Death Byby Irony]]: Makuta Mutran thinks of a way to try and control Karda Nui's energy storm, only to be zapped to dust after declaring he figured it out.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Brutally subverted with {{spoiler|Carapar}}, who tries to kill the [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]] [[Shout -Out]] Tren Krom and gets disintegrated by the thing's [[Eye Beam]] before his attack even hits.

* [[Doing inIn Thethe Wizard]]: At the end of ''Legends'', a number of mythological aspects got explained away. The biggest one is that Mata Nui, revered as a mystical [[Physical God]] by the Matoran, was actually {{spoiler|a giant robot that they lived inside.}} About the only things that didn't were the Great Beings - we learned more about them here and on Bara Magna, but they're still mysterious [[Precursors]].

* [[Drama -Preserving Handicap]]: the Makuta invading Karda Nui. The "Phantoka" team was blinded, the "Mistika" team suffered [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]] and lost some of their multiple powers, and Icarax was painfully devolved back into a physical being. (Mutran was unaffected, but was more of a [[Mad Scientist]] than a fighter anyway.)

* [[Field Power Effect]]: in Karda Nui, where beings of [[Light 'Em Up|Light]] grow larger than normal.

* [[Flanderization]]: Vezon went from a creepy and insane [[The Lord of the Rings|Gollum-esque]] villain at the end of the Voya Nui arc to a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] in Karda Nui-era web serials.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: ''twice'' in a single book to a corrupted Toa Takanuva in ''Legends''

* [[Getting Smilies Painted Onon Your Soul]]: the first Toa of Psionics, Orde, was created by the Great Beings to do something like this to the Zyglak. Unfortunately, due to Orde's violent temper, he made them in an [[Unstoppable Rage]]. Thus, the Great Beings made the rest of the Toa of Psionics female from then on.

* [[Giant Spider]]: The big-enough-to-ride Fenrakk (which incidentally gets...

** [[Scaled Up]] into the Kardas dragon)

* [[Going to Be One of Those Days]]: [[The Chew Toy|Lewa]] after [[Grand Theft Me|having his body stolen]], being turned into an [[Eldritch Abomination]], getting [[Thrown Out the Airlock]], ending up in a jungle full of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cyborg dinosaurs that shoot laser beams]] and finally getting [[Captured Byby Cannibals|captured by savages]]:

{{quote| '''Lewa''': Oh. It's going to be ''this'' kind of day.}}

* [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body]]: Reidak breaks up a squabble among the other Piraka by throwing Hakann at Avak. Hakann pays him back in the same way (to Avak's displeasure) during his [[A God Am I]] phase.

* [[Hijacked Byby Ganon]]: Again. Three guesses who.

{{quote| '''Kongu''': Five of us, 5000 of them. I like your idea of fair odds, Hahli.}}

{{quote| ''"You couldn't snap your fingers without help ... if you had fingers."''}}

* [[The Kingdom]]: The [[Alternate Universe]] in "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|The Kingdom]]", ruled by Turaga Takanuva.

* [[Mid -Season Upgrade]]: Toa Inika into Mahri.

* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]]: Used for the Piraka, like when Avak flips Reidak out of a boat. His response is strongly implied to be the Matoran version of a [[Cluster F -Bomb]].

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job]] [[Just for Pun|Waking]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|It, Heroes]] In the Toa Nuva's defense, there's no way in Karzanhi they could have known that {{spoiler|Makuta had already [[Grand Theft Me|placed himself in control of Mata Nui's body]] so that all he had to do was wait for the Toa to reactivate it}}.

* [[Precision -Guided Boomerang]]: Axonn can do this with his Great Axe.

* [[Pretty Spry for Aa Dead Guy]]: {{spoiler|Hydraxon}}

** [[Isn't It Ironic?]]: "Move Along" is about talking someone out of suicide - not very appropriate for a preteen franchise.

* [[Set a Mook Toto Kill Aa Mook]]: Used in the climax of "Destiny War", pitting Bohrok against Rahkshi. (''Adventures'' also had a Vahki/Visorak scuffle, though not triggered by the heroes)

* [[Shout -Out]]: During the "Brothers in Arms" serial, Vultraz remarks that [[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|he doesn't think he's in Karda Nui anymore and tries clicking his red feet together three times to get back to the main universe]].

{{quote| '''Vezon:''' [[Gonna Need More Trope|We're gonna need...]]<br />

'''Brutaka:''' [[Jaws (Filmfilm)|A bigger boat, I know.]] }}

** The next issue teaser on the first 2010 story comic is ''[[Transformers: theThe Movie|And One Shall Fall]]''

* [[Super -Powered Evil Side]]: Toa Takanuva during the tail end of ''Legends''

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Toa Takanuva's blog telling of his hopes for a new era of peace. Especially when you realize it's set ''right'' before the [[Wham! Episode]].

* [[Trauma -Induced Amnesia]]: the Mahri Nui Matoran

* [[Twist Ending]] / [[Wham! Episode]]: two in the Matoran saga's conclusion: the books and comics first show that {{spoiler|Makuta wins}}, then the web content adds the revelation that {{spoiler|the Matoran world is inside Mata Nui}}.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Both Hewkii and Kongu in the Mahri Nui arc, as they both come from tribes that don't like deep water (Stone and Air, respectively). In an interesting inversion, the Toa of Fire was relatively unperturbed by the environment.

* [[Beam -O -War]]: occurs between [[The Big Guy|Kiina]] and [[The Lancer|Ackar]] using their new [[Elemental Powers]] of {{color|blue|wwater}} and fire respectively in ''The Legend Reborn''.

* [[Character Asas Himself]]: Click in the movie

* [[Combat Byby Champion]]

* [[Dragon -in -Chief]]: [[Evil Overlord|Tuma]] in ''Legend Reborn''. Everywhere else, he's the [[Big Bad]].

* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: The baterra and the Element Lords appeared in the '09 web serials and ''would have'' showed up more prominently in the original 2010 story.

* [[Five -Man Band]]: In ''The Legend Reborn'':

* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: [[Jerkass|Strakk]] pulls this in [[The Movie]] and in the comics.

** [[Mass "Oh Crap"|General reaction]] to seeing {{spoiler|a swarm of beetles forming a giant}}

* [[Outside Ride]]: [[Five -Man Band|Mata Nui, Ackar, Gresh, and Berix]] on the Thornatus that [[The Big Guy|Kiina]] drove in ''[[The Movie|The Legend Reborn]]''.

* [[Serious Business]]: The arena matches. Explained that rather than waste precious supplies on armies to fight for resources, it's better for all sides to settle disputes with [[Combat Byby Champion]].

{{quote| In that case...''(casually tosses [[Jerkass|Strakk's]] shield into lava pit)'' Eh, I got plenty of shields.}}

* [[Sure, Let's Go Withwith That]]:

{{quote| '''Metus:''' I was going to say "earthquake", maybe "volcanic eruption", but uh, "evil" works.}}

* "[[This Cannot Be!]]! [[Memetic Mutation|I AM THE MIGHTY TUMA!]]" ...[[Villain Decay|yeah.]]

* [[Throw -Away Guns]]: the Thornax launchers used by Tarix and Vastus in [[The Movie]]. Justified since [[Edible Ammunition|Thornax]] are pretty rare.

* [[Twenty Four 24-Hour Armor]]: To quote Greg, "[[Justified Trope|they are on a dangerous world and shedding armor would be pretty stupid.]]"

* [[What a Piece of Junk!]]: vehicles, such as Thornatus, are this, but they are still functional to be used.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130529033621/http://www.bzpower.com/forum/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=26& early treatment] for the 2010 movie would have featured a longer journey through the Valley of the Maze, the Element Lords as key characters, and ending with Mata Nui and crew getting launched to Bota Magna, the land of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|biomechanical]] [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]]. With the toyline ending, [[Wrap It Up|this storyline and the 2011 one with the dinosaurs got canceled]].

* [[You Fool!]]: [[Evil Overlord|Tuma]] says this when some Skrall managed to get lumber into the fortress, because the "lumber" is actually [[Shapeshifting|Baterra in disguise]]!

* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: [[Evil Overlord|Tuma]] is intolerant of failure, which pressures the Skrall even further in succeeding in their assignments.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: The Skrall's attack on the Grand Tournament, though unlike most examples of the trope the Skrall are actually ''stronger'' than their Glatorian oppenentsopponents, not weaker.

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