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3!!Main Characters
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5[[folder:Tahu Stars]]
6[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tahustars.png]]
7[[caption-width-right:350:''"Wait your turn or I will eat you, you insubordinate cockalorum."'']]
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9[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click here to see him in Reviving Bionicle 4'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tahustarsrb4.png ''"I'll make it back. Promise."''[[/labelnote]]]]
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11Tahu, Toa of Fire and the main protagonist of Reviving Bionicle. Despite his emotional and sometimes childish tendencies, he is looked up to as a leader by Nathan's Bionicle collection due to his status in Bionicle as a whole as well as his natural prowess as a leader and planner.
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13* AnArmAndALeg: Gets all his limbs blown off doing a stupid stunt at the beginning of ''Reviving Bionicle 4'', spending the first episode as just a torso. G2!Onua later builds him a set of CCBS limbs, which he uses for the rest of the series.
14* BatmanGambit: Pulls one off along with Pohatu in order to dispose of [[spoiler: Perditus after Pohatu discovered Perditus was the feared house serial-killer when he happened upon him hiding a body. Pohatu took his kill-list and returned to Tahu, who decided to kidnap Perditus and keep him in a closet with him under the guise of still being upset about Bionicle's cancellation and wanting someone to keep him company. Once Perditus and Tahu were made to leave the closet by Kopaka, he and Pohatu lured Perditus away from the remaining sets he was planning on deconstructing by stealing his Thornatus in order to 'get to Denmark'. Bumpy as it was, the plan did ultimately lead to Perditus being caught and jailed in a plastic bin of LEGO parts.]]
15 --> '''Tahu:''' This whole time, we had to make sure that [[spoiler: Perditus didn't know that we knew that he didn't know that we knew he was the murderer, and that we knew that he knew that we knew nothing about him being the murderer.]]
16 --> '''Onua:''' Wow! That's so ridiculously complicated!
17 --> '''Tahu:''' Yeah, in retrospect it was kind of a dumb plan.
18* ButtMonkey: Goes through a lot of abuse throughout the series. He even lampshades this in Reviving Bionicle 3, Part 2.
19--> '''Tahu:''' ugh. I am a victim of bad slapstick humor.
20* CharacterDevelopment: While his more childish side still shows up here and there, Tahu has gone from over obsessive about Bionicle’s ending to more neutral and accepting of it. By ''Anonymous'' he’s even embraced the idea of a new wave coming in and even welcomes [[spoiler:the dead bootleg]] into the group instead of [[NoodleIncident using the plunger on him like he did the Hero Factory sets]], as he knows that it’s like to be a punching bag for the fans.
21* {{Expy}}: Of Master Chief from ''WebVideo/ArbyNTheChief'', sharing his childish obsessions with the source material from which he hails from. Unlike Chief however, he's mature and competent when he really needs to be and doesn't actively try to troll people for his amusement. He also shares the same voice as Chief, Microsoft Sam.
22* FlatWhat: His reaction to Voriki’s appearance.
23* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tahu may treat his fellow Bionicle friends very, ''very'' poorly, but deep down he does care for them.
24* MidSeasonUpgrade: In a sense. After he loses his limbs in a stunt and runs out of spare limbs in Episode 1 of ''Reviving Bionicle 4'', he spends the rest of the episode as just a torso, until the end when G2!Onua provides him new custom-made ones using G2 parts, finally giving him actual limb articulation.
25* NoodleImplements: During a flashback in ''Anonymous'', Tahu strikes up a conversation with Onua [[spoiler:in the hopes of getting some information on Gali's disappearance]], proposing that they share their deepest, darkest secrets together. Just before he explains what he does whenever he hears the word 'scrungo', [[TooMuchInformation Pohatu (who he's recounting these events to) decides he doesn't need to hear this.]]
26* NoodleIncident: When he first met the Wave-1 Hero Factory sets, he did something to them with a toilet plunger that the other members of the collection don't like to think about and describe as 'weird and gross'.
27* PartingWordsRegret: [[spoiler:Upon learning about Onua's backstory and the origin of Sockets in ''Reviving Bionicle 4'', Tahu laments his previous attitude toward his best friend in the earlier episodes, and how he'll never get the chance to apologize now that he's stuck in the denmark machine. All he can do is collapse to his knees and mournfully exclaim WhatHaveIDone... until the memories continue to play back, [[JustInTime revealing the password needed to escape the machine.]]]]
28* RedOniBlueOni: The fiery, hot-tempered Red to Kopaka's Blue.
29* TooMuchInformation: Whatever he does when he hears the word 'scrungo', Pohatu doesn't want to know.
30[[/folder]]
31
32[[folder:Kopaka Mata]]
33[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kopaka.png]]
34[[caption-width-right:350:''"That reminds me. I didn't take my twelve doses of Prozac this morning."'']]
35
36Kopaka, Toa of Ice and arguably a more fitting leader to Nathan's Bionicle collection. Kopaka is the calm and reasonable to Tahu's bold and brash. He is often seen hanging around with the other Toa Mata, and genuinely looks out for the safety and well-being of the collection. He's usually the first to call out Tahu or Onua if he catches them doing something stupid.
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38* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original series, Kopaka was calm and thoughtful, but also cold and fairly distant. Here, he's not only reasonable, he also cares deeply for those around him and is overall a kinder and more empathetic presence.
39* BerserkButton: As of ''Reviving Bionicle 4'', he ''hates'' being called a "dust collector" and the idea of selling away toys that brought joy to children, like Pooh Bear.
40* {{Expy}}: Of Arbiter from ''WebVideo/ArbyNTheChief'', sharing his OnlySaneMan status and voice of reason role among the characters. He's not as depressed or as much a doormat, however. He also shares the same voice as Arbiter, Microsoft Mike.
41* FanBoy: In ''Reviving Bionicle 1'', he is shown to be a fan of BBC's Sherlock. This turns out to be a case of [[EarlyInStallmentWeirdness early installment weirdness]], since it's never expanded upon beyond the first episode.
42--> '''Kopaka:''' I hate Creator/StevenMoffat so much.
43* RedOniBlueOni: The cool, sensible Blue to Tahu's Red.
44[[/folder]]
45
46[[folder:OnuaMata]]
47[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/onua.png]]
48[[caption-width-right:350:''"Endings suck. But leaving is worse. You just get stuck with cold goodbyes."'']]
49
50Onua, Toa of Earth, arguably Tahu's best friend. He and Tahu take turns having bad ideas and acting upon them for most of the series. Despite being fun and friendly, he's incredibly reliant on others and can quickly get lost in his own head if he doesn't have someone to bounce off of and keep him distracted.
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52* ADayInTheLimelight: He's ultimately the protagonist of ''Anonymous'', [[spoiler: which focuses much on his depression and possible SanitySlippage following the reboot's cancellation.]]
53* AllForNothing:
54** His brilliant plan to become popular on [=YouTube=] [[spoiler: and bring back Bionicle to ease his troubled mind]] involving blowing himself up with a firecracker amounts to only two views.
55** Played for drama in ''Anonymous'' when he scolds Kopaka for believing his and Tahu’s movie brought Bionicle back.
56* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing he does in the show is blow himself up with a firecracker on camera in the hopes of going viral [[spoiler: and bringing back Bionicle]].
57* HatesBeingAlone: ''Anonymous'' reveals he has deep-seated attachment issues, and isn't even sure where it all comes from. He constantly fears that the people he loves will walk away and disappear without a word.
58* IncrediblyLamePun: Is guilty of these at times.
59--> '''Onua (after he has been shoddily rebuilt by Pohatu):''' Well, the people of Po-Koro know how to sculpt, but they sure aren't good plastic surgeons. Get it? Plastic. We're plast-
60--> '''Tahu (annoyed):''' Yeah, I get it.
61[[/folder]]
62
63[[folder:PohatuMata]]
64[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pohatu.png]]
65[[caption-width-right:350:''"It's a masterpiece, if I do say so myself."'']]
66
67Pohatu, Toa of Stone. A joking sort who's almost always out to have fun and spends his time mostly with Kopaka and Tahu. He has a bad habit of putting bionicles back together wrong. He also tinkers around with weapons whenever he can.
68[[/folder]]
69
70!!Supporting Cast:
71[[folder:GoodGuy2006]]
72
73[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goodguy06.png]]
74[[caption-width-right:350:''"Hey everyone! Look over here! I found a banana!"'']]
75
76A Swedish polybag set that was eventually reduced to a mere puppet in canon, Good Guy is regarded as a misfit among the other members of the collection, though not a particularly disliked one. He starts out as a relatively minor player before becoming the most important supporting part.
77
78* ButtMonkey: Aside from Tahu Stars, Good Guy goes through the most abuse throughout the series. Whether it be verbally insulted or physically harmed by Tahu and others, he can never get a break.
79* BreakoutCharacter: Until Reviving Bionicle, Good Guy was nothing more than the butt of jokes for his weak build and lame name. His role in the web series made him a fan favorite.
80* LovableNerd: Is an adorable nerd, lampshaded by Pohatu Mata in Episode 3.
81--> '''Pohatu:''' Good Guy, why are you such an adorable Danish nerd?
82--> '''Good Guy:''' I'm not a nerd. And I'm Swedish, you uncultured walnut.
83* TookALevelInJerkass: Is pretty immature and indelicate about Takanuva’s art, even after Bad Guy and Jaller Mahri praise it.
84[[/folder]]
85
86[[folder:Takanuva]]
87[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takanuva.png]]
88[[caption-width-right:350:''"A hero can stop the bad guy, yeah. But it's more important to save people. You don't really do it for the glory of stopping evil, you do it so that others can live."'']]
89
90The true seventh Toa and famed Toa of Light, and a major supporting character in the series starting from his introduction in ''Reviving Bionicle 3''. Though an otherwise decent guy all around, the surprise arrival of Voriki - who he had once thought impossible - to the house takes Takanuva's world for a spin.
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92* AdaptationalJerkass: In the main series Takanuva is a noble, cunning warrior who loved his friends deeply. Here he’s still nice to his friends...but treats Voriki like garbage. Constantly putting him down verbally and calls him a "fake hero" to his face. [[spoiler:He does eventually warm up to him after discovering he was used as a test subject with Denmark and the Hero Factory sets against his will and grows to respect him before he dies.]]
93* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from absolutely hating Voriki for even ''existing'' in the first place and makes clear jabs at his expense, to feeling pity for him and mutually accepting the other Toa after [[spoiler:discovering his past as Greg]], and later burying the hatchet with him and offering his hand in friendship after defeating [[spoiler:Evo and Surge]]. [[spoiler:Though this friendship doesn't come to pass due to Voriki's sacrifice, his resurrection years later would open up the door for Takanuva and him to build an actual friendship... if it weren't for Sockets and Umarak's schemes.]]
94* MesACrowd: Unlike most other characters, all of Takanuva's various alternate forms make frequent appearances and interact with both other characters and each other. The series focuses primarily on 03!Takanuva however.
95* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: PlayedForLaughs as he becomes a painter in between RB 3 and 4 [[spoiler: as a way to cope with Voriki's death]]. All his paintings are hilariously subpar but have ridiculously long and flowery names.
96[[/folder]]
97
98[[folder:Voriki/[[spoiler:Greg]]]]
99[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voriki.png]]
100[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't worry, everyone! Toa Voriki, the seventh Toa, master of electricity, recycler of waste, is here!"'']]
101
102[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click here to see his original form in Reviving Bionicle 3'' '''(SPOILERS)''']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gregrb3.png ''"If he falls in there, he'll die. And I can't let that happen."''[[/labelnote]]]]
103
104[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click here to see him in Reviving Bionicle 4'' '''(SPOILERS)''']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gregrb4.png ''"I am me. And I want to become a better person. A person who I want to be, not who I was told or programmed to be."''[[/labelnote]]]]
105
106A character created back in 2002 as a hoax, with the original poster claiming him to be leaked as the Seventh Toa, this one of electricity.
107
108[[spoiler:In actuality, he was Greg, an original character that Tahu and Onua built. Initially constructed as a sacrificial lamb (long story), Tahu and the others quickly befriended before his untimely demise. Evo and Surge would dig up his head and used it as the base for Voriki to act as a sleeper agent of sorts]]
109
110[[spoiler:After dying at the end of RB 3, he makes his return in 4 in a new body built by the Good Guys and Bad Guy. He once again goes by Greg... though he's lost a good half of his memories. The team delves into the denmark machine to retrieve them in Episode 2, and he fully recovers his memories by Episode 3.]]
111
112* CatchPhrase: "Happy birthday!" [[spoiler:This is how he catches Tahu and Onua's attention after he comes back to life in Reviving Bionicle 4, stopping their bickering for a brief moment.]]
113* ExactWords: Essentially how he came into being. [[spoiler:After Kopaka finds Tahu and Onua trying to sacrifice toys to the garbage disposal, he tells them "to find someone who wants to willingly be sacrificed next time". Tahu and Onua decide the most logical route to be? Make their own person.]]
114* HeroicSacrifice: Twice, in fact. First when [[spoiler:he falls into the garbage disposal while trying to save Kopaka from falling in]], and then later on [[spoiler:when he jumped in the way of Denmark’s last blast to prevent Takanuva from dying.]]
115* JokeCharacter: Both in and out of universe. As he was initially created as a hoax he really serves no point to the Bionicle franchise or mythos and doesn't really even fit. This carries over to his portrayal in the series proper. [[spoiler:Evo and Surge even admit that the only reason they rebuilt Greg into Voriki was because they thought it was a funny joke.]]
116* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: [[spoiler: Tahu decides to name him after Bionicle head writer Greg Farshtey, who he refers to as "someone very important to him"]]
117* WalkingSpoiler: Difficult to talk about him without revealing that [[spoiler: he's Tahu and Onua's creation Greg]]
118[[/folder]]
119
120[[folder:GoodGuy2008]]
121[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goodguy08.png]]
122[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh my god, my entire body was stranded in Ko-Wahi."'']]
123
124Yet another polybag set, released in 2008 as shown above. He is welcomed into the collection by Good Guy '06, and the two form a tight-knit friendship and partnership over the course of ''Reviving Bionicle 3''. [[spoiler:He becomes instrumental in stopping the Heroes' plan to use denmark due to being the only set without a trans piece.]]
125
126It's later shown in ''Reviving Bionicle 4'' that [[spoiler:both Good Guys (and newcomer Bad Guy) have continued tinkering with the denmark machine years after it was thought destroyed, and have discovered a number of truths about why the toys are alive. He aids Kopaka in escaping from Umarak's clutches in the third episode.]]
127[[/folder]]
128
129!!Antagonists
130
131[[folder:Perditus]]
132[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/perditus.png]]
133[[caption-width-right:350:''"I can't believe this. I thought they wouldn't mess with it. What happened?"'']]
134
135The driver that came with the Thornatus V9, Perditus was a forgettable figure who becomes a major character in ''Reviving Bionicle 2''. He doesn't get too involved in the search for the mysterious serial killer in the house until [[spoiler: it is revealed he is in fact the killer, who threw everyone else off his trail by learning how to change his voice and appearance by studying instruction booklets.]]
136
137It's later revealed in ''Reviving Bionicle 3'' that [[spoiler:his actions in ''2'' were a result of Surge and Evo's brainwashing using denmark. He's released from the LEGO box at the end of ''3'' and makes amends with the group. (sort of) As shown in ''Reviving Bionicle 4'', he's still quite protective of the Thornatus, though he lacks his murderous tendencies.]]
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139* AdaptationalVillainy: Played with. In the original canon, his hands aren't necessarily clean, since he's secretly [[spoiler:working for Velika, and may have had a hand in the deaths of Tren Krom and Karzahni]], but it's ramped up to eleven here, where he single-handedly [[spoiler:disassembles numerous popular characters as revenge for taking the spotlight from bit players like himself, to the point where characters like Lewa would be chosen to ride around in his Thornatus instead of himself. However, this gets muddled when it turns out he went on a rampage only under the influence of denmark, and in reality isn't quite so murderous.]]
140* EasilyForgiven: He seems to be so; After [[spoiler:denmark is seemingly shut down, and Evo and Surge are jailed]], he is freed from the LEGO prison and asks Lewa if there are any hard feelings between them over what happened in the past. Lewa claims there aren't, [[spoiler: but then it's [[SubvertedTrope revealed he and the Good Guys are preparing an ambush for him.]]]] Possibly played straight as of ''Reviving Bionicle 4'', where he's shown to be alive and well.
141[[/folder]]
142
143[[folder:Mark Surge and Nathan Evo]]
144[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evo.png]]
145[[caption-width-right:350:''"If Hero Factory won't live... then nobody will!"'']]
146
147[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/surgerb.png]]
148[[caption-width-right:350:''"It still has some charge..."'']]
149
150Nathan's only two Hero Factory sets shown off screen, from the first and second waves of the line respectively. They seem to maintain their original characterizations, as bland-as-bread 'heroes' who apparently uphold the peace. [[spoiler: This is subverted when it is revealed they are behind denmark, a machine that can not only control any set with a trans piece, but can also permanently kill them as well. They are ultimately defeated and locked within the LEGO bin at the end of ''Reviving Bionicle 3'', and later make a return in ''Reviving Bionicle 4''.]]
151
152* AdaptationalVillainy: Evo and Surge are shown to be just as kind and heroic as they were in their stories...[[spoiler:that is until the two plot to kill all of the Bionicle sets as a way to keep Hero Factory from being forgotten.]]
153* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:After being absent from the series since their defeat in ''3'', they successfully escape their prison and return in the fourth episode of ''Reviving Bionicle 4''.]]
154[[/folder]]
155
156[[folder:Umarak]]
157[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/umarakrb.png]]
158[[caption-width-right:350:''"How about you chill, squirt?"'']]
159
160One of the sets from the final wave of Bionicle's second generation, and a schemer who attempts to pit the G1 and G2 sets against each other in ''Reviving Bionicle 4''. There seems to be more to him than meets the eye, as he utters a ''very'' familiar phrase when he's finally confronted; [[spoiler:it's later revealed that he's in cahoots with Sockets, helping her return back to the physical world in a new body and kill every set in the house as part of her final plan. He kills Matau and tortures Kopaka for this purpose, though the reasons for his allegiance to Sockets - if there are any at all - remain unknown.]]
161[[/folder]]
162
163[[folder:Sockets '''(SPOILERS FOR REVIVING BIONICLE 4)''']]
164[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/socketsrb4.png]]
165[[caption-width-right:350:''"I want to go back to a time where I felt like I had a future. There is no future here."'']]
166
167[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:''Click here to see her new form in Reviving Bionicle 4'' '''(SPOILERS)''']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/newsocketsrb4.png ''"I almost have everything I ever wanted. Up a lazy river, indeed."''[[/labelnote]]]]
168
169A Gali figure with a miscolored mask and chest piece. She is later revealed to have been [[spoiler:the house's original Gali Mata, who found little meaning in her life and desperately clung onto memories of an unspecified past. Though initially indifferent to the arrival of another Gali along with Onua, Sockets later collaborates with the former to develop what would be the original denmark machine after she begins hallucinating a strange, dark figure. Her bond with the denmark machine rapidly turned obsessive, eroding what remained of her sanity and causing her mind to be pulled into denmark's RAM after being immobilized by Kopaka.]]
170
171[[spoiler:After some time in the RAM, where her sanity gradually faded more and more, Sockets seemed to disappear completely due to some strange "corruption." Despite this, she wasn't completely gone, somehow ending up in denmark's hard drive and hijacking Tahu Stars' body before he could return to the real world. Though she's eventually found out by Kopaka and Onua, Sockets is successful in immobilizing the toys and transferring herself to a new body, completely assembled out of trans pieces.]]
172[[/folder]]
173
174!!Minor Characters
175
176[[folder:Lewa Mata]]
177[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lewarb.png]]
178[[caption-width-right:350:''"You better lean-sit back because I'm about to teach-learn you some third grade grammars."'']]
179
180One of the original six Toa Mata, and one of the most recurring toys in the series starting with his appearance in ''Reviving Bionicle 2''. Lewa is something of a mischief-maker, with the rest of the toys quite familiar with his nonsense throughout the years; [[spoiler:this leads them to not suspect anything is out of the ordinary in ''2'', though Tahu's intervention helps save him from needlessly killing himself at the murderer's request.]]
181
182He later joins forces with the Good Guys to prank Tahu in ''Anonymous'', ordering a bootleg toy and tricking Tahu into believing it's part of G2 Bionicle's replacement line.
183[[/folder]]
184
185[[folder:Kapura]]
186[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kapurarb.png]]
187[[caption-width-right:350:''"No! I am the ultimate! You will all bow down to me!"'']]
188
189A Pakari-toting Ta-Koronan member of the Chronicler's Company back in 2001, Kapura has in the meantime turned to a life of crime as part of Nathan's collection, and has a few Makuta working for him.
190* AdaptationalVillainy: A more comedic example. Kapura's villainy consists of capturing Good Guys 2006 and 2008 and calling them 'plebians', with the aid of a couple Makuta.
191[[/folder]]
192
193[[folder:Tahu Mata]]
194[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tahumatarb.png]]
195[[caption-width-right:350:''"Alright, I'm not going through this. I can't get past that thick mask shielding your brain."'']]
196
197The leader of the original Toa Mata in Nathan's collection. He's left out of focus in favor of Tahu Stars taking on his role among the toys, though he makes a cameo appearance at the end of ''Reviving Bionicle 3'' to welcome the G2 sets into the household after the [[spoiler:denmark]] situation is cleared up.
198
199[[spoiler:Tahu Mata is greatly expanded on in ''Reviving Bionicle 4'', where he appears in flashback sequences within the denmark machine's hard drive. Though a good leader to his team, Tahu Mata is quite outspoken and emotional, leading to his reaction to Bionicle's first cancellation being to run away from the house with the rest of the team. He's partially responsible for Sockets' fall from grace, largely due to his lack of understanding of her feelings.]]

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