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* [[Darker and Edgier]] than most other [[LEGO]] lines.

* [[Defanged Horrors]]: The serials.

** [[The Chris Carter Effect]]: [http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?app=blog&module=display§ion=blog&blogid=26&showentry=87217 Referred to by Greg as "Sizzle and Steak"] as to why things changed - you may lose something in the explanation, but you have to explain things ''sometime''.

** Arguably, also inverted with the relatively much less alien Bara Magna setting, which featured such Earth-inspired themes as characters ''wearing'' armor ([[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|Water}}, 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.

== General Matoran Tropes ==

* [[Abandoned Mine]]: in the ''Mata Nui Online Game 2'', the Great Mine was abandoned due to flooding by Gahlok in the previous arc. Hahli, a Ga-Matoran and experienced swimmer, has to dive through the mine to retrieve tools and materials for the Onu-Matoran miners.

* [[All Myths Are True]] (possibly heavily distorted, but true nonetheless)

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

'''Makuta:''' I bore you! For I am Nothing. And out of Nothing, you came. And it is back into Nothing that you shall go. }}

* [[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]]).

* [[Praetorian Guard]]: most notably the Bohrok-Kal

* [[Psychic Link]]: Gali establishes one with Takua in the ''Mata Nui Online Game'', so that he can witness the battle from afar.

 

== ''BIONICLE Adventures'' ==

* [[Always Second Best]]: Ahkmou

* [[Amphibious Automobile]]: the Vahki Transport used by the Toa Metru to travel between Metru Nui and Mata Nui.

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

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

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

* [[Atlantis Is Boring]]: Averted with the Mahri Nui arc, which often considered to be a high point for the series and packs plenty of action, from mutated fishmen to psychotic robots and all manners of sea monsters.

* [[Awesome Personnel Carrier]]: the Toa Terrain Crawler, a living example. It was only used once.

** [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Hydraxon's response to Nocturn when Nocturn recalls when the original died.

* [[Badass Normal]]: The Voya Nui Resistance Team, although they owe it to their weapons.

* [[Designated Girl Fight]]: Gali vs Gorast in the Swamp of Secrets.

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

* [[Don't Celebrate Just Yet]]: the Toa Nuva return from Karda Nui to Metru Nui to celebrate Mata Nui's awakening ... only to find out they were [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]] in Makuta's Plan, meaning Makuta has [[Grand Theft Me|taken over Mata Nui's body]].

* [[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.)

* [[Shout-Out]]: During the "Brothers in Arms" serial, Vultraz remarks that [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|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]].

** In "Federation of Fear":

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

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

* [[The Worm That Walks]]: {{spoiler|The giant made of scarabax beetles that appears in the climax of ''Legend Reborn''.}}

* [[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]]!

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: The [[Twist Ending]]. That is all.

* [[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 opponents, not weaker.