History Funny / Bionicle

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[[caption-width-right:350:Careful Matau, just a few more hits and you'll literally be BreakingTheFourthWall.]]

** He even pats Matoro on the back while saying it and this being [[{{Narcissist}} Teridax]], he could very well have been serious.

** Said negations also went surprisingly well. After a few days of going nowhere [[AxCrazy Icarax]] simply [[RageBreakingPoint lost his patience]] and once the rubble (and bodies) had been cleared [[AggressiveNegotiations the Xians had no problem accepting the terms of the brotherhood.]]
** Mutran also once had a pet rock that he accidentally left behind on Xia. Though disappointed at losing his project, he shrugs it off and forgets about it. Fast forward a few thousand years, and the thing has somehow grown into a carnivorous mountain.

* When Onua causes a cave-in on the invading Rakhshi, ''in his own village''. Pohatu congratulates him on the tactic...then wonders how Onua kept the ceiling from coming down on them as well. Before Pohatu even ''finishes the sentence'', his answer came crashing down: Onua ''didn't''.

'''Matau:''' ...wind...fly...

-->'''Lhikan''' ''(in a very serious tone)''''':''' Don't archive it!

-->'''Lhikan''' ''(teasingly as if giving a mischievous kid his first canister set)''''':''' Don't break it!

-->...huh?

** While the Toa Metru are AllWebbedUp by the Visorak, Matau berates Vakama for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "[Getting] us captured, poisoned-and seeing as I don't think we've been brought up here for the view-imminently Smash-Dashed!"]][[note]]Smash-Dashed is Le-Matoran speak for being dash across the ground[[/note]], Onewa tries to say something....but is gagged by the webbing covering his mouth.
---> '''Matau''': He agrees!

---> '''Matau''': IM DANGEROUS, IM UGLY, AND I'LL HURT YOU!
** When the Toa enter Keetongu's lair Matau expects to find him....but he apparently isn't there.
---> '''Matau''': Hurry, you guys, it's amazing! ''(gravs his own head in mock-amazement)'' It's Keetongu!\\
([[{{beat}} Cue shot of empty cavern with no Keetongu to speak of]])\\
'''Matau''': ''(unimpressed)'' ...{{Not}}.

-->'''Matau:''' So, we've come all this way…[[SuddenlyShouting JUST TO FIND OUT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO COME ALL THIS WAY??!]]

---> '''[[ButtMonkey Matau]]''': Hey, wait. You know, I think we should talk about this—\\

* In ''Time Trap'', the Shadowed One was asked if someone's hand should be cut off for insubordination. He replied that enough hands had been removed that year, the author probably referencing the amount of hand-chopping in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie that had been released a few months prior.

-->'''Avak:''' Someone needs to guard the boat, and I volunteer.
-->'''Reidak:''' I volunteer to guard Avak guarding the boat and make sure he doesn't leave without us.

-->'''Axonn''': You have five seconds to put down that rock and end this battle in one piece, Piraka. One...two...FIVE! (throws his axe and sends Reidak flying)

-->'''Hewkii''': That was your face.
-->'''Nuparu''': Very funny. You're no vision of beauty yourself, Hewkii.

-->'''Hewkii''': On the other hand, maybe they will.

-->'''Kongu''': No thoughts mean no minds. And no minds means they weren't there. Or else they were all [[TakeThat Po-Matoran.]]

--->'''Hahli:''' You're insane!
--->'''Karzahni:''' I prefer the term "creative". Though I suppose there is not much difference between the two in the end, is there?

--->'''Maxilos/Teridax :''' "Cheer up, little Toa. When all is said and done, and two islands' worth of Matoran are dead, [[FameThroughInfamy your name will live in history]] — right alongside mine."

* In a rather meta way during the Mahri Nui saga, Maxilos/Teridax has been frozen by Matoro, with the very real possibility of ending the Master of Shadow's reign forever. And what gets him out? One of his many ComboPlatterPowers? An ally? A cunning backup plan? Nope--it's the fact that Jaller made a wall of flame just a ''bit too close'' to his ice prison. If he'd been just a few feet to one side, Teridax's plan would never have succeeded. Very possibly the ''ultimate'' case in this entire franchise of NiceJobBreakingItHero.

* [[WhenEldersAttack Turaga Vakama]] beating [[MasterPoisoner Lerahk]] over the head with his staff in ''Mask of Light'' to little effect was hilarious, especially since the obviously confused Lerahk was just standing there and letting him do it.

** "Hi, honey, I'm home!" (said to Tuyet after she becomes a monster and is about to kill Lhikan)

** In general, the Piraka are genuinely entertaining in terms of their group dynamic, which consists entirely of them [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder being too prone to screw each other over]].
* Back when Takua was in Metru-Nui there was a running joke that an entire squad of Vahki (which was at the time Metru Nui's police force) was assigned just to keep watch on Takua.

* When watching metal pods rise from the depths of the Codrex:

* In his introduction video, Pohatu kicks a rock into a stone formation, chestbumps it, and then ''moonwalks back out of the frame'' as the formation collapses. That said, the website at the time used shorter versions of these videos, so those who saw those first would be in for a surprise!

* When Makuta Teridax first revealed himself. He appeared as a rusted Matoran just to mess with the Toa.

-->'''Jaller:''' ''(disbelieving)'' You fell out of a ''tree?''
-->'''Lewa:''' ''(offended)'' Hey buddy, even I fall sometimes!
** Later on they run into Pohatu, who has had several goats magnetized to him by Gahlok-Kal. He embarrassedly asks if Takua can [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain keep that bit out when he writes down the story.]]
* How Levahk-Kal is defeated: his vacuum powers shoot him into the air, accompanied by the funny side-note to the effect of "[[OffscreenInertia and he is rising still]]"

--->'''Vakama:''' Back, you foul creature! One more step and I'll-!
--->'''Tahu:''' ''(jumps in front of Vakama)'' I'll take it from here, wise one!
* When Onua causes a cave-in on the invading Rakhshi, ''in his own village''. Pohatu congratulates him on the tactic...then wonders how Onua kept the ceiling from coming down on them as well. Before Pohatu even ''finishes the sentence'' his answer came crashing down: Onua ''didn't''.
--->'''Pohatu:''' Well done! But how did you keep the ceiling from collapsing... ''ON US TOO''?!

* In one of the books about the Toa Metru, Onewa is attempting to find Ahkmou and get the location of the Great Disk of Stone from him. He finds him sitting on top of a very large structure, and while Onewa is running and busting his tail to get to Ahkmou before [[PsychoForHire Nidhiki]] can, Ahkmou very casually yells down to him, "Hey, Onewa, what gets harder to catch the faster you run?" Onewa, who is very much not amused, immediately roars back, "MY BREATH!"

'''Matau:''' Look at me! I can--*flies into a screen* AUGH!\\

'''Matau:''' Wind... fly...

* From the beginning of "Legends of Metru Nui" when Lhikan gives a Toa stone to Whenua. Michael Dobson's delivery is what really sells it.

* Matau trying to ask Nokama out on a date, to which she responds that "Vakama isn't the only one with odd visions". It takes Matau a moment to realize he just got insulted.

* Vakama muses to himself that maybe one day, Toa will get to fight an easy enemy. Just take its mask off and it'll be over...Yeah, right.

** While the Toa Metru are AllWebbedUp by the Visorak, Matau berates Vakama for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "[Getting] us captured, poisoned-and seeing as I don't think we've been brought up here for the view-imminently Smash-Dashed!"]], Onewa tries to say something....but is gagged by the webbing covering his mouth.
--> '''Matau''': He agrees!
** What does Matau do when he finally sees what the other mutated Toa Metru look like? He screams at them like a rabid animal while yelling threats at them.
--> '''Matau''': IM DANGEROUS, IM UGLY, AND I'LL HURT YOU!

--> '''Matau''': Hurry, you guys, it's amazing! It's Keeetonguuu!
--> ({{beat}})
--> '''Matau''': {{Not}}.

** After Keetongu refuses to change them back into Toa:
-->'''Matau:''' So we've come all this way JUST TO FIND OUT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO COME ALL THIS WAY??!

** When Norik tells the Toa Hordika to guard a temple until morning we have this gem.
--> '''[[Main/ButtMonkey Matau]]''': Hey, wait. You know, I think we should talk about this.
--> '''Everyone else''': [[Main/BigNo No!]]

** He and Chirox decides to flip the Rahi in order to determine who gets to join Icarax in negotiating with the Xians. It took longer than planned though as the Rahi in question had two heads and no tail and booth accused the other of cheating.
** Said negations also wen't surprisingly well. After a few days of going nowhere [[AxCrazy Icarax]] simply [[RageBreakingPoint lost his patience]] and once the rubble (and bodies) had been cleared [[AggressiveNegotiations the Xians had no problem accepting the terms of the brotherhood.]]
** He also once had a pet rock that he accidentally left behind on Xia. Though disappointed at losing his project, he shrugs it off and forgets about it. Fast forward a few thousand years, and the thing has somehow grown into a carnivorous mountain.

* In one of the books about the Toa Metru, Onewa is attempting to find Ahkmou and get the location of the Great Disk of Stone from him. He finds him sitting on top of a very large structure, and while Onewa is running and busting his tail to get to Ahkmou before [[PsychoForHire Nidhiki]] can, Ahkmou very casually yells down to him, "Hey, Onewa, what gets harder to catch the faster you run?" Onewa, who is very much not amused, immediately roars back, "MY BREATH!"

* Characters just flip small animals instead of coins to end quarrels. The Piraka also liked to flick each other. It would be such a surreal sight to witness these 7 foot thugs randomly flipping each other over, that it's plain funny.

* When Vezon, after having a Mask of Dimensional Gates fused to his face, ends up in an alternate timeline where Toa and Glatorian work together on Spherus Magna, he gets into this conversation with Tarduk:
-->'''Tarduk''': So who are you, exactly?
-->'''Vezon''': *loud enough for everyone to hear* My name is... ah... Toa Vezon. I'm the Toa of... of... Anarchy.
** The best part? Tarduk ''doesn't even question him.'' Which might imply that somewhere in that universe, there ''are'' Toa of Anarchy (or that Tarduk just isn't familiar with ElementalPowers, but still).
* Nidhiki was wonderfully snarky during his flashback appearances. Notable examples include:
** "You take all the fun out of constant violence, Lhikan."
** "Hi, honey, I'm home!" (said to Tuyet after she becomes a monster and is about to kill Lhikan)
** "I always knew she looked down on us, but this is ridiculous!" (After Tuyet creates a siphon of water to tower over them)
** "A friendly place we have here. Heavily defended, home to several hundred killers, and unfailingly lethal to trespassers, but friendly."
** "I see you have spirit, little Toa. I ''hate'' spirit."

* In ''Reign of Shadows'', when an alternate version of Tarduk introduces himself to Vezon, Vezon quickly ducks down, only to look around and realize there was no tar flying through the air in his direction.
-->'''Narrator''': It took him a moment to realize that it wasn't [[PunnyName “Tar, duck!"]] he had heard.

** When watching metal pods rise from the depths of the Codrex:
--> "Now what will come out of this? A new mask of power? Some tooth-claw creature? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking A Matoran marching band?"]]
* Axonn and Brutaka's snarking at each other as they crouch behind a rock to avoid the Skakdi attacking them, affirming that they've moved back into VitriolicBestBuds territory:
-->'''Axonn''': Just like the good old days. Now I remember why I hated them so much.
** Brutaka's response is to stand up, hold his hands in the air, yell that they surrender, and to [[TakeMeToYourLeader take them to their leader]]. It's not hard to imagine Axonn face-palming.
** And then when they go to meet Nektann, Brutaka recruits him by [[RefugeInAudacity claiming that they've already recruited all the other Skakdi warlords]]. When Axonn confronts him about this, aghast, Brutaka shrugs that they'd better get started.

* When Onua brings down the ceiling on the invading Rakhshi. Pohatu congratulates him on the tactic...then wonders how Onua kept the ceiling from coming down on them as well. Before Pohatu even ''finishes the sentence'' his answer came crashing down: Onua ''didn't''.

--->'''Pohatu:''' Well done! But how do you keep the ceiling from collapsing ''ON US TOO''?!

* In ''Time Trap'', the Shadowed One was asked if someone's hand should be cut off for insubordination. He replied that enough hands had been removed that year, the author probably referencing the amount of hand-chopping in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie that had been released a few months prior.

* That characters just flip small animals instead of coins to end quarrels. The Piraka also liked to flick each other. It would be such a surreal sight to witness these 7 foot thugs randomly flipping each other over, that it's plain funny.
** This leads to an incident where Mutran and Chirox are having trouble settling a disagreement due to the nearest Rahi being a creature with two heads, one on each end, and no tail.

** He also once had a pet rock that he accidentally left behind on a certain island during a mission there. Though disappointed at losing his project, he shrugs it off and forgets about it. Fast forward a few thousand years, and the thing has somehow grown into a carnivorous mountain.

* In ''The Mask of Light'' Onua brings down the ceiling on the invading Rakhshi. Pohatu congratulates him on the tactic...then wonders how Onua kept the ceiling from coming down on them as well. Before Pohatu even ''finishes the sentence'' his answer came crashing down: Onua ''didn't''.

* In ''Maze of Shadows'', when Matau asks why doesn't the Karzahni plant get the vial of energized protodermis itself, the plant replies back that it wasn't created with mobility.
* The CreditsGag at the end of ''Legends of Metru Nui'', which includes fake positions written in Matoran script:
-->''Best Matoran\\
Location Scouts\\
Asst to Mr Makuta\\
Set Doctor\\
Nivawk Handler\\
Gaffer\\
Vahki Transport Captain\\
Security for Metru Nui\\
Master Builders\\
Stunt Riders\\
Stunt Doubles for [[ButtMonkey Matau]]\\
Kikanalo Wranglers''
** It comes back in ''Web of Shadows''.
-->''Sleeping Matoran\\
Matoran Translator\\
Set Doctor\\
Horde Steward\\
Wardrobe Mistress\\
The Gaffer\\
Location Safety\\
Location Security\\
Virtual Presence\\
Visorak Wranglers\\
High Wire Stunts''
* In one of the books about the Toa Metru, Onewa is attempting to find Ahkmou and get the location of the Great Disk of Stone from him. He finds him sitting on top of a very large structure, and while Onewa is running and busting his tail to get to Ahkmou before [[PsychoForHire Nidhiki]] can, Ahkmou very casually yells down to him, "Hey, Onewa, what gets harder to catch the faster you run?" Onewa, who is very much not amused, immediately roars back, "MY BREATH!"
* Nidhiki was wonderfully snarky during his appearances. Notable examples include:

* [[WhenEldersAttack Turaga Vakama]] beating [[MasterPoisoner Lerahk]] over the head with his staff in ''Mask of Light'' to little effect was hilarious, especially since the obviously confused Lerahk was just standing there and letting him do it.
--->'''Vakama:''' Back, you foul creature! One more step and I'll-!
--->'''Tahu:''' ''(jumps in front of Vakama)'' I'll take it from here, wise one!
* This exchange:
--->'''Hahli:''' You're insane!
--->'''Karzahni:''' I prefer the term "creative". Though I suppose there is not much difference between the two in the end, is there?

* In Time Trap from 2005, the Shadowed One was asked if someone's hand should be cut off for insubordination. He replied that enough hands had been removed that year, referencing the amount of hand-chopping in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie that had been released a few months prior.
* The cutscenes and the Piraka Playground in ''BIONICLE Heroes''. The {{slapstick}} can get tiresome, but the Playground's animations mostly hit home, especially if you imagine the Piraka with their canonical personalities doing all the goofups.

* Lewa's DeadpanSnarker nature can help relieve even the most difficult of situations. At one point, he comes up with a plan to get into the Piraka fortress. How to do that? Stand in front of the door, let Reidak swing a punch at him, and [[DeadlyDodging slip aside at the last moment, knocking the door in]].
-->'''Lewa''': Very deep-impressive. You will be remembered in legends as Reidak, defeater of doors.

* The official ''BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui'' soundtrack includes a track titled "Bad Things Happen in the Desert." It's an actual quote from the movie itself... but when taken out of context and used as a music track title, it sounds like Nathan Furst gave up trying to come up with a creative title and instead just resorted to describing the relevant scene with BuffySpeak.

* Axonn's...''unique'' arithmetic.
-->'''Axonn''': You have five seconds to put down that rock and end this battle in one piece, Piraka. One...two...FIVE! (throws his axe and sends Reidak flying)
* According to WordOfGod, the writing team giving the Kanohi Kadin, Mask of Flight, to Nuparu rather than Kongu basically just because RuleOfFunny.
* In a rather meta way, Maxilos/Teridax has been frozen by Matoro, with the very real possibility of ending the Master of Shadow's reign forever. And what gets him out? One of his many ComboPlatterPowers? An ally? A cunning backup plan? Nope--it's the fact that Jaller made a wall of flame just a ''bit too close'' to his ice prison. If he'd been just a few feet to one side, Teridax's plan would never have succeeded. Very possibly the ''ultimate'' case in this entire franchise of NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* [[TheStoic Onua Nuva,]] of all people, being a DeadpanSnarker.
-->"You did not defeat the Toa Nuva. We simply found your company so boring that we chose to take a nap."
* Although Kongu tries hard to be the team's PluckyComicRelief, it's Hewkii who really masters the art of the DeadpanSnarker, especially being VitriolicBestBuds with Nuparu. Examples include:
** Upon Nuparu running to his friends with an amazed discovery, Hewkii sarcastically asks if he's found a new, exciting kind of tool.
** When Nuparu takes off his mask, revealing a blinding glow, he naturally asks what it was.
-->'''Hewkii''': That was your face.
-->'''Nuparu''': Very funny. You're no vision of beauty yourself, Hewkii.
** Nuparu notes that [[CallBack the Toa Metru took ages to master their mask powers]]. It's not as if their masks will simply activate on thought. No sooner do the words leave his mouth than his Kadin activates. He shoots straight into the air, bashes his head on the ceiling, and collapses.
-->'''Hewkii''': On the other hand, maybe they will.
* Kongu does get a few good moments in, though. For example, he notes to the other Inika that he could tell the "Toa Nuva" the Inika "killed" in the Zone of Nightmares were just illusions, because his [[{{Telepathy}} Suletu]] wasn't picking up any thoughts.
-->'''Kongu''': No thoughts mean no minds. And no minds means they weren't there. Or else they were all [[TakeThat Po-Matoran.]]
** Which, it's implied, even Hewkii finds ActuallyPrettyFunny.
* Lewa's plan to defeat the Lehvok-Kal in "Tales of the Masks." It involves Tahu ''vine-swinging.'' His reaction is LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain, while the Turaga find it pretty hilarious.
* During the Turaga's conference in the above book, Nuju says something. Matoro, his translator, dutifully repeats:
-->'''Matoro''': Turaga Nuju says...[[OhCrap oh no, I can't say that about Turaga Onewa!]]
** Given that he's been doing this job for about a millennium, one imagines this isn't the first time he's been in this situation, either.

* In ''The Mutran Chronicles'', Mutran taking claim for the creation of the Lohrak, when Chirox already made it. Chirox is not amused.
-->'''Mutran:''' It's as if I signed my name to your creation.
-->'''Chirox:''' ''Signed'' your name? You can't even spell your name!
** The entirety of "The Mutran Chronicles" is a crowning moment of funny for those who like a little dark humor.

* Mutran and Chirox's bickering has a certain comedic element to it. Mutran at one point muses that usually he disposes of failed experiments, but in the case of "this hissing, biting, and incredibly toxic creation", he'll make an exception and present it to Chirox as a gift.
** He also once had a pet rock that he accidentally left behind on a certain island during a mission there. Though disappointed at losing his project, he shrugs it off and forgets about it. Fast forward a few thousand years, and the thing has somehow grown into a carnivorous mountain.

* How Levahk-Kal is defeated: [[spoiler: his vacuum powers shoot him into the air, accompanied by the funny side-note to the effect of "[[OffscreenInertia and he is rising still]]"]]

** "Hi, honey, I'm home!" (said to [[spoiler: Tuyet]] after [[spoiler: she becomes a monster]] and is about to kill Lhikan)
** "I always knew she looked down on us, but this is ridiculous!" (After [[Spoiler: Tuyet]] creates a siphon of water to tower over them)

[[caption-width-right:350:Careful Matau, just a few more hits you'll literally be BreakingTheFourthWall.]]

* In his introduction video, Pohatu kicks a rock into a stone formation and then ''moonwalks back out of the frame.''

[[HilariousInHindsight Master Builders]]\\

** In a group of villains recruited for a suicide mission, Vezon gets brought along, and irritates everyone else, prompting Roodaka to ask the inevitable:
--->'''Roodaka:''' Why did we bring him?
--->'''Brutaka:''' He breaks up the monotony.

** What does Matau when he finally see's what the other mutated Toa Metru look like?, he screams at them like a rabid while yelling threats at them.

* What does Matau when he finally see's what the other mutated Toa Metru look like?, he screams at them like a rabid while yelling threats at them.

** What does Matau when he finally see's what the other mutated Toa Metru look like?, he screams at them like a rabid while yelling threats at them.

--> '''Matau''': [[{{SarcasmMode}} Hurry, you guys, it's amazing! It's Keeetonguuu!]]

-->'''Lhikan''' ''(teasingly as if giving a mischievous kid his first canister set)'' Don't break it!

* Much of what Vezon has to say is hilarious. Then again, he was apparently inspired by SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}, so...