History Fridge / Bionicle

* The revelation that the Red Star actually revives the dead brings some really horrible thoughts about the ones that died ''permanent deaths''. It's implied that Matoro, Icarax and the many Shadow Takanuvas are not only killed off for real, but that they would be denied to what's essentially the heaven and reincarnation of the matoran universe. Worse would probably be Tuyet from the Toa Empire Universe, who got killed ''in-between dimensions'', dooming her consciousness to float in the endless void and no one knows it!

* The Toa Inika all had the same Kanohi masks as the Toa Mata when they were Matoran-which could count as a kind of subtle {{Foreshadowing}} that they're meant to be Toa. Similarly, Matoro's role as [[spoiler:TheChosenOne]] is foreshadowed in the Inika commercial, where he's seen standing at the front and center of the team instead of [[DecoyProtagonist Jaller]].

* Though Takanuva's revival at the end of Mask of Light is a bit of an AssPull, ''Jaller's'' revival makes a lot more sense after the reveal that [[spoiler: deceased beings go to the Red Star to be repaired, but are unable to come back because of the Red Star's broken teleportation function. Jaller's body was ''not'' destroyed, but he seems to suddenly disappear after his death, with only his mask left behind. Takutanuva was able to revive Jaller by using Makuta's teleportation power to bring Jaller back from the Star.]]

* Why did Makuta plan to leave Lewa behind when he dumped the rest into space? He wanted a replacement for Helryx who not only wasn't responding to his attempts to psychologically torture her into submission, but was becoming a hassle not worth the effort anyway. And who could be more satisfying to [[BreakTheCutie break mentally]] than the FunPersonified Toa Lewa?

* Why did Makuta plan to leave Lewa behind when he dumped the rest into space? He wanted a replacement for Helryx who not only wasn't responding to his attempts to psychologically torture her into submission, but was becoming a hazzle not worth the effort anyway. And who could be more satisfying to [[BreakTheCutie break mentally]] than the FunPersonified Toa Lewa?

* The Karzahni (the plant) mentioned that a member of the Order of Mata Nui told it about the organization before it died. However they died, and whatever the Karzahni did to encourage them to talk, was probably not very pleasant at all.

* The fact that the Toa Mata were each given a Kanohi Miru - Mask Of Levitation - seems odd when the Kanohi Kadin - Mask of Flight - would seemingly render it redundant. However, throughout the Voya Nui saga, the Kadin is shown to have a steep learning curve that takes Nuparu most of ''Power Play'' to get the hang of, while the Miru is relatively easy to use. The Toa Mata were given their identical sets of masks by Artahka for the quest to awaken Mata Nui, a mission that theoretically shouldn't have a lot of time for practice. It makes sense that he'd give them simple, but reliable and easy to use Kanohi, compared to some of the flashier but harder to use or more situational Kanohi that other Toa teams use. In fact, all six of the original Kanohi - force-fields, SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, water breathing, x-ray vision, and levitation - can be seen as BoringButPractical; easy to use and covering most obstacles the Toa Mata could reasonably be expected to encounter on the journey to Karda Nui.

* The fact that the Toa Mata were each given a Kanohi Miru - Mask Of Levitation - seems odd when the Kanohi Kadin - Mask of Flight - would seemingly render it redundant. However, throughout the Voya Nui saga, the Kadin is shown to have a steep learning curce that takes Nuparu most of ''Power Play'' to get the hang of, while the Miru is relatively easy to use. The Toa Mata were given their identical sets of masks by Artahka for the quest to awaken Mata Nui, a mission that theoretically shouldn't have a lot of time for practice. It makes sense that he'd give them simple, but reliable and easy to use Kanohi, compared to some of the flashier but harder to use or more situational Kanohi that other Toa teams use. In fact, all six of the original Kanohi - force-fields, SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, water breathing, x-ray vision, and levitation - can be seen as BoringButPractical; easy to use and covering most obstacles the Toa Mata could reasonably be expected to encounter on the journey to Karda Nui.

** Greg has also shown a reluctance to utilize {{Story Breaker Power}}s, such as ensuring that Matoro can't use his ElementalPowers in conjunction with the Iden, or not allowing time travel with either the Vahi or Olmak. So why allow Tahu to gain all of the Makuta powers in addition to what he already has? ''Because the series is about to end and there won't be a story to break!''

* The Toa Inika all had the same Kanohi masks as the Toa Mata when they were Matoran-which could count as a kind of subtle {{Foreshadowing}} that they're meant to be Toa.
** Similarly, Matoro's role as [[spoiler:TheChosenOne]] is foreshadowed in the Inika commercial, where he's seen standing at the front and center of the team instead of [[DecoyProtagonist Jaller]].

* Icarax' love for melee combat? His ''mask'' only absorbs life energy from intact bodies, which do not usually remain after plasma blasts and acid-based attacks.
** He got his Kraahkan from Teridax's corpse. Oh well, he carried the mask of ''Scavenging'' before that.
*** He took the Kraahkan on Teridax's orders, but decided to wear it himself out of his pride and ego, as he believes that he would make a much better leader for the Brotherhood than Teridax. Because of this, it isn't too surprising that his name is two letters away from being Icarus, a figure in Myth/ClassicalMythology who let his pride get the better of him, which led to his death.

* The Mask of Life can only manipulate objects that are/were living, thus it can transform the weapons of Glatorian into elemental tools since they were created from animal bones. So why was it able to create a body for Mata Nui out of lifeless sand? Unless that wasn't sand...And Bara Magna ''was'' the site of a large scale war and disaster...
** Debatable. The Mask also cursed a Great Being with the power to bring everything around him to life, and it seems unlikely that rays of light were ever alive.

* Velika being a disguised Great Being actually makes a ''lot'' of sense in hindsight - during the Voya Nui novels, Velika is shown to know things that no random Po-Matoran, no matter how intelligent, should be able to know, but the other characters, and by extension, the audience, wrote it off. For instance, in ''Power Play'', it's never explained ''how'' Velika knew that Energized Protodermis would counteract the effects of the Piraka's Antidermis Virus. In fact, he shouldn't even know what Antidermis ''is''; not even Zaktann knew what it really was. Velika, however, was one of the beings who ''created'' Antidermis and experimented extensively with its counterpart. Of ''course'' he recognized it for what it was and knew exactly how to counteract it!

* {{Alternate Universe}}s are by default seen as [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse less important]] that the main one, simply because in the ''BIONICLE'' fiction, they are merely side-branches of the main timeline. This means that no matter what atrocities may happen in those worlds, these are simply glossed over. For example, just think of Tridax: he kidnapped and forcibly corrupted a whole bunch of Takanuvas from various other dimensions, who were then either killed during the Destiny War or freed and ''then'' killed by the Alternate Teridax. Not only does this mean that the main universe characters condoned killing originally innocent Toa who only turned evil due to a crazed villain, but also that all those other universes have been robbed of their only Toa of Light, one of their most powerful heroes. But since they aren't the main universe, they don't seem to matter.

* When Karzhanni uses his WhatIf powers on Teridax to show him a future where Mata Nui wakes up, Teridax manages to break free, and subjects Karzhanni to a MindRape of his own. Why was Teridax able to do this? Because [[XanatosGambit THAT WAS WHAT HE WANTED ALL ALONG!!!]]

* As the story serial Yesterday Quest reveals, Orde is the first Toa of Psionics and one of the first Toa created, so he likely was a contemporary of Lesovikk and his Toa team, maybe even worked alongside them. Now recall Orde's assignment to pacify the Zyglak and his rather ignominious failure which made them much more aggressive and violent. Now, how did Lesovikk's team die again?

* The Toa Inika all had the same Kanohi masks as the Toa Mata when they were Matoran.