Bionicle

***Bionicle*** was a stop-motion series chronicling the early adventures of the Makuta, Rahkshi, Matoran and Toa. It both began and ended in 2017 after a premature cancellation.

## Episodes

Bionicle Easter Egg Hunt (Episode 1)

Rahkshi Are Violent (Episode 2)

Cyphor Wants Doughnuts (Episode 3)

Taking Stuff Literally (Unreleased Episode 4)

A Day in the Life of Rahkshi (Cancelled Episode 5)

Painfulness (Cancelled Episode 6)

Random Flamethrowers (Cancelled Episode 7)

Finding Stuff in the Dark (Cancelled Episode 8)

The Problem with Dining (Cancelled Episode 9)

Cyphor is a Bad Shot (Cancelled Episode 10/Season 1 Finale)

Random Violence (Cancelled Episode 11/Season 2 Premiere)

## Legacy

*Bionicle* was a poorly made, rushed, error-ridden abomination, notorious for its use of subtitles rather than actual audio, static frames and overuse of *Kalimba* by Mr Scruff. It was cancelled very early on due to just how rubbish those first few episodes were, partially due to the lack of an actual script. *Cyphor Wants Doughnuts* is particularly notable for the fact that it was rushed out in merely a day due to the appalling reception of *Rahkshi Are Violent*, leading it to be plagued with errors, extremely fast-paced and chock-full of random subplots like romantic relationships which were just added in to increase the intensity. The cancellation of the series led to the fourth episode being unreleased, while the other 16 episodes were never filmed, with the only reference that they ever existed at all being a recently recovered physical episode list, with some episodes still sporting preliminary titles!

## Errors

While the episodes themselves are notoriously erroneous, those mistakes are covered in the single episodes’ pages. This area will count everything wrong about the series as a whole.

This series was made with an, um... *cursory* knowledge of Bionicle’s storyline at best. The series was meant to be set within Bionicle’s universe, but it was so incredibly wrong that it had to be relegated to being in a different universe altogether, hence *Bonkle*. Some of the more notable instances include:

- All the Rahkshi are visually distinct and have different genders, names and personalities, as opposed to being identical, single-minded drones.

- Arvak and Vorcan are referred to as Toa of Water and Ice respectively, despite having the colouring of Toa of Psionics and Lightning.

- Apparently elements aren’t gender-locked, as Arvak is a male Toa of ‘water’. Both Psionics and Lightning are gender-locked as female elements as well, only making the situation worse.

- The Toa attempt multiple murders, with Arvak even yelling “IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO DIEEEEE!!!” at one point. This directly goes against the Toa Code’s ‘no killing’ rule.

- Bionicle characters physically can’t eat doughnuts, so the presence of a doughnut store seems somewhat pointless.

- Makuta apparently aren’t composed of Antidermis, as otherwise Zardok would’ve died at least thrice from armour piercing.

- Bionicle characters aren’t able to love and they don’t have reproductive organs. Both of these facts are disregarded through the ‘Intor loves Rahkshi’ plotline and Zardok’s ‘painful scream’ after being kicked in the crotch.

- People act like Rahkshi are a type of Makuta all throughout episode 2, though this luckily doesn’t spread to the other episodes.

- Despite the Makuta being literally thousands of years old, Intor acts like some kind of socially inept teenager. Since reproduction is apparently possible in this universe, it’s best to just assume that he is this, otherwise his relationship with Rahkshi gets really creepy.