History WebVideo / RevivingBionicle

And yes, the show takes a lot of cues from ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'', and yes Nathan's [[InspirationForTheWork acknowledged it]].

** Several towards ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''

** Besides its obvious influence on the entire series altogether, the most blatant reference to ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'' is Tahu and Onua's ''BIONCLE'' fanfilm, which is very similar in [[StylisticSuck style and execution]] as Master Chief's own Machinima movie. Right down to having "Crawling" by Music/LinkinPark.

* YouMakeMeSic: [[spoiler:When Denmark calls itself "The Afraid", Tahu corrects it, despite its desire for a serious talk about existence.]]

* OutrightLie: [[spoiler:After reading Onua's diary and learning that he likes cats and has been in a bad mood for a while, Pohatu gives Onua a little LEGO brick with a cat decal on it as a gift to cheer him up. Onua puts two and two together and realizes that the only way Pohatu would know about him being sad and liking cats would be if he read his diary, but Pohatu waves it off by bluntly saying, "I didn't read your diary."]]

--->'''Tahu''': [[spoiler:You're making it sound like nobody ever liked Hero Factory. Lots of people loved you guys! You brought in lots of new LEGO fans! Look, I was pretty upset when ''BIONICLE'' ended, too. [[NotSoDifferent So much that I also tried to bring it back]]. But I learned that even if it's over, that won't stop me from holding onto hope that maybe it'll actually return!]]

* NotSoDifferent: Tahu and the Hero Factory sets. Both were upset that their respective lines were cancelled and desired for their return.

* CerebusSyndrome: Reviving Bionicle 2 has shades of this, but the third entry almost completely dives into this territory.

** [[spoiler:Good Guy is largely seen as a joke, and his often {{Adorkable}} behavior gives others more reason to pay him no mind. In reality, he's ingenious enough to invent a machine that can control LEGO sets with trans pieces.]]

** Gali appears in Reviving Bionicle 1, and is never heard of or reference again until ''Therapy'', ''Anonymous'' and RB 4.

* EasilyForgiven: Hilariously averted with [[spoier:Perditus who, after being freed from the bin apologizes to Lewa for dismantling him. Lewa accepts his apology...[[WhamShot only for he and the other sets Perditus dismantled ready to ambush him around the corner]].]]

* EasilyForgiven: Hilariously averted with Perditus who, after being freed from the bin apologizes to Lewa for dismantling him. Lewa accepts his apology...[[WhamShot only for he and the other sets Perditus dismantled ready to ambush him around the corner]].

* EasilyForgiven: Hilariously averted with Perditus who, after being freed from the bin apologizes to Lewa for dismantling him. Lewa accepts his apology...[[WhamShot only for he and the other sets Persitus dismantled ready to ambush him around the corner]].

And yes, the show takes a lot of cues from ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'', and yes Nathan's acknowledged it.

* EasilyForgiven: Hilariously averted with Perditus who, after being freed from the bin apologizes to Lewa for dismantling him who accepts it...only for he and the other sets he dismantled ready to ambush him.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tahu is more sensible than he would eventually be and Onua is more dumb than he would be later.

* OutrightLie: [[spoiler:After reading Onua's diary and learning that he likes cats and has been in a bad mood for a while, Pohatu gives Onua a little LEGO brick with a cat decal on it as a gift to cheer him up. Onua puts two and two together that the only way Pohatu would know about him being sad and liking cats would be if he read his diary, but Pohatu waves it off by bluntly saying, "I didn't read your diary."]]

* OutrightLie: [[After reading Onua's diary and learning that he likes cats and has been in a bad mood for a while, Pohatu gives Onua a little LEGO brick with a cat decal on it as a gift to cheer him up. Onua puts two and two together that the only way Pohatu would know about him being sad and liking cats would be if he read his diary, but Pohatu waves it off by bluntly saying, "I didn't read your diary."]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Nathan's large LEGO bin, which Kopaka describes as where "No LEGO will ever see the light of day again."

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Perditus of the first sequel.]]

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The second attempt at a Reviving Bionicle short film by the Uniters turn out to actually be ''much'' more well done than Tahu and Onua's, leading to those who saw the rough edit wanting to join in unironically.
* AdaptationalExpansion: Being a hoax, Voriki has little to no personality or characterization before his appearance in the series. Here, he's an over-the-top heroic figure who speaks in gratuitous metaphors and has a near-obsessive desire to dish out justice. [[spoiler:Too bad it turns out he's not actually Voriki.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: ''Therapy'' shows that Tahu has no idea where Gali has gone. His silence and his comment about "ripping off the band-aid rather than speculate the death" suggests something dark behind the mystery.

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Perditus, Surge, and Evo.]]

-->'''Evo''': If Hero Factory won't live, then nobody will. I'll kill everybody!
'''Surge''': Evo, that's too much!

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Surge tries to talk Evo down after their plan to upload Denmark is foiled, and the latter decides to kill everyone in the house [[TakingYouWithMe(including himself and Surge)]] with Denmark.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Surge tries to talk Evo down after their plan to upload Denmark is foiled, and the latter decides to kill everyone in the house {{TakingYouWithMe(including himself and Surge)}} with Denmark.]]