#Makuta mutran

[smoked-salmon-official]

Would a Bionicle work? If so Makuta Mutran cause he's so silly

Day 94 of drawing robots, requests open in inbox!!

[arr-jim-lad]

"the literal heart of the universe is kinda mid" -mutran

[cantankerouscanuck]

Your Purpose

I imagine it went something like this

[bionic-baby]

Makuta Mutran (drawn in the MNOG art style)

I’ve been doing a lot more lineless art recently. I’m gonna keep doing it!

[shidraoftheworldpillar]

Mutran

[makutaservaela]

The Invention of the Visorak

[tiredspacedragon]

Part of me thinks Mutran might have been the one who created the Zivon, because he would make something that specifically preys on Visorak, Chirox's greatest achievement, wouldn't he?

But then again, I'm not sure. The Zivon seems a little inelegant for Mutran. Enormous, covered in claws and pincers and Rhotuka launchers with a stinger tail to boot, and destroys everything in sight? I don't know, kaiju doesn't quite seem like his style. Not that the Klakk or Blade Burrower are things of beauty or subtlety, but it feels like there's a greater focus in their designs. And also a purpose, even if Mutran didn't exactly know what that purpose was. Meanwhile the Zivon's purpose is just to wreak havoc.

[sepublic]

Your brotherhood members as THE Makuta reinterpretations are soooo fascinating

Your bit about Chirox being the hand that Mocs and comparing him to smash bro's master hand gave me a thought

Mutran is the crazy hand to Chriox's master hand

And to tie them into lego symbolism like you've been trying to do, both hands are competing ideas about how a Moc should be constructed, constantly dueling to see what works and what doesn't

(Mutran would probably also represent illegal building techniques too)

OHOHO I love this idea so much! And I guess if there's a Master Core equivalent, it's the Antidermis released, paying homage to Teridax's MNOG form as well!

Yeah, this works perfectly because Mutran and Chirox have always been joined at the hip, always been a duo, the trope of the artists with competing visions. I have little doubt that this connection was inspired when Greg realized how similar the two look, after all...

While Chirox's Rahi are more of a destructive, mean-spirited vibe, Mutran's are more... experimental. Weird. Absurd. Still agonizing and unfair to the victims he disassembles, but you can sort of respect what he's going for here. Neither of these philosophies are sustainable, and must be stopped however.

So YES to that idea of Mutran being illegal building techniques, while Chirox is willing to be more pragmatic, function over form; Hence being represented by a swarm of spiders, whereas Mutran wants to put in time and effort into each creation, quality over quantity. So Chirox is creating the mass-produced enemies, the ones for whom there are multiple instances of, while Mutran makes the unique one-of-a-kind bosses (Which is meta since they were respectively a canister and Titan set). I actually have a post comparing these two characters and their philosophies from a while back, which ties into this interpretation.

Them being separate hands of the same entity is also a lot of fun. I intended for Makuta in this universe to seemingly be a spider-like entity, only for it to be revealed that what our heroes have been fighting is just his hand, in an Alaskan Bullworm twist. The full titan this hand is connected to resembles Chirox's depiction in G1... But we can also have it resemble Mutran with this 'Crazy Hand' addition, because again; These two already looked similar, so it doesn't require much change.

Maybe we could go with the idea that one hand is named Chirox, the other is named Mutran; Both offshoots of a larger, mutual entity known as Makuta! A nice reference to their shared title and heritage from G1. I wonder how the introduction of a second Makuta would turn out; Maybe there are scenes showing Makuta tearing things apart to make all sorts of weird stuff, but eagle-eyed viewers will note that the asymmetrical design seems flipped sometimes, and that there's a correspondence between what we see each angle of Makuta create.

We get the classic "There are twins" reveal, and after both hands are beaten, individually and/or together, the whole lair collapses to reveal the monster they're attached to; Their mutual true form, which takes back the title of Makuta in clarification. While his hands are differentiated as Mutran and Chirox afterwards... Two sides of the same coin, or rather entity. Kind of like how MNOG Makuta is implied to just be the destructive side to Mata Nui's chaos, so maybe the brothers are just personalities/design philosophies for the same Great Spirit Robot?

So we bring back the idea of Makuta having a brother he hates and is jealous of... Except this brother isn't good either, so maybe the heroes get them to fight each other, and/or Mutran and Chirox manage to put aside their differences to focus on these pesky heroes! Like in G1...

(When all is said and done, we cut to Will Ferrell tenderly nursing his hands as a Stepping on Lego joke is made, but for hands instead of feet.)

[korohpu]

Friendly reminder that Kraata are made from the solidified antidermis of their parent Makuta, which has to regenerate its lost mass after and retains a mental link to the Kraata cause they're essentially the same being.

All of these Kraata are from Teridax, which means that Whenua's collection seemingly contained several orders of magnitude times as much of Teridax' essence than Teridax' "main" body/node, if you will, ever did. In order to create that many Kraata, he probably spent most of those 1000 years in a state of regeneration because he kept budding off pieces of his being.

Now, those Kraata were all in stasis tubes and therefore inert, so Teridax' link to them was likely as well, but when they broke free his awareness of that room must have skyrocketed to an insane degree within mere seconds. Must have been quite disorienting to suddenly have the center of mass of your consciousness be hundreds of miles away from your body. (similar to when tahu used the golden armor to kill all kraata)

Apparently those Kraata also didn't die when the cave collapsed?? The remains of the cave got razed with the rest of the island when the Bohrok got reawakened a few weeks(?) later, that would give them enough time to get away. Wonder what happened to them.

Shoutout to @lesbioniclepod for reminding me about Whenua's kraata collection

It's really hard to imagine the other Turaga both knowing about and being okay with Whenua maintaining a collection of live Kraata that size. And yet, apparently the others contributed to the collection by catching Kraata in secret over the years and then presumably giving them to Whenua to be put in storage.

And I'd find it hard to buy that the Turaga would think that literally all the Kraata had to be stored in stasis and that killing them was not an acceptable option. Especially since none of them expressed objections to killing Visorak back in the day.

So, my guess is that the other Turaga let Whenua keep a collection of them in stasis so that they could be studied and better understood....

...but his siblings may not have been aware of the exact size of Whenua's collection.

I can imagine him telling the others that they ought to have at least one of each kind of kraata preserved in stasis. This seems fairly reasonable to the others. By kinds, he means kinds of power, right? How many types are there? Eight? Ten? Not more than a dozen, surely.

When he insists that nobody kill any kraata until he's had a chance to look at them and make sure he hasn't already got one of them, they begrudgingly accept that. Alright, they think. But this one's insect control, didn't you already have one of those that Matau caught for you a few years back? At which point Whenua admits that when he says "One of each kind", he's referring not just to breed, but also developmental stage. Alright, they think, he's the expert.

None of the others particularly want a lecture on all the gory details of how Kraata develop, which is of course what they'll get if they try to argue with Whenua. An evil slug wouldn't have that many stages in its life cycle anyway, would it? Two or three maximum, surely.

So the others are thinking Whenua has maybe two or three dozen Kraata stashed away somewhere safe. It wouldn't be good if they were released, but they could handle it if they had to.

Whenua, meanwhile is starting to think he should start a backup collection in case something happens to these specimens. He hasn't lied to his siblings... he said at the beginning that they should have at least one of each kind, and they agreed! So a few backups would be allowed. Maybe three or four of each should be sufficient. Or... five? Hmmm.... he doesn't really trust the number five. Six. Everyone likes the number six!

Anyway.

That's how we ended up here...

[whiteheartlight]

some of Kopaka's most bad-ass moments (not a conclusive list because he's just Like This all the time)

Kopaka's the only one who defeats Hydraxon's energy hound. actually, Kopaka doesn't even try to run from it, just waits for it to come after him and freezes it solid. the fact that Hydraxon trashes him afterwards for his indolence is not relevant

Solek says that Kopaka once fought TWELVE ZYGLAK all on his own and won. this is almost definitely a legend and not true but oh well

yes he was briefly knocked unconscious. but he did spin his sword like Darth Maul and freeze those three Rahkshi in MoL solid enough to tick off Makuta. also we learned that Kopaka and the Ko-Matoran just leave the frozen corpses of Bohrok around Ko-Wahi, apparently as a warning. welcome

appearing from nowhere to freeze Tahu solid in the throes of his poisoning

saves Onua and Pohatu from their own tunnel collapse in Onu-Koro

has a berserker mode where he calmly goes "I have had enough" and then walks through a wall of fire without flinching (and then freezes some Matoran solid whatever)

defeats Roodaka

FREEZES MAKUTA MUTRAN INTO SOLID ICE after ENDURING PSYCHOLOGICAL WATERBOARDING and then TRICKING HIM BY PLAYING DEAD to protect Solek and himself and allow Pohatu and Lewa time to try and find the Mask of Life. could have honestly died or lost his mind right there to try and give them a chance, but instead played 3d chess to humiliate a Makuta who had him pinned against a wall and hallucinating

befriended a strange Toa who turned out to be the Mask of Life even after seeing some of his terrifying power and beckoned him to join them without a word?? why do we act like he is suspicious of strangers??? he said that's friend-shaped (maybe he saw a resemblance to Matoro)

led a successful Av-Matoran revolt against a gang of Makuta who out-powered them by multipliers. successfully destroyed the shadow leeches and protected the remaining Av-Matoran

sees Takanuva in a full-blown rage puncturing holes in Makuta armor and leaps into the air to grab him by the shoulders and help talk him down without hesitation. stays calm when screamed at and prioritizes helping him over avoiding being electrified by the Makuta about five seconds later

known for having a calming voice and being unflappable under intense pressure

sometimes Bionicles that are edgy......... are cool

[arr-jim-lad]

One of my favourite things to read in Bionicle is when the Makuta talk about building creatures, and I dont think a single Makuta loved their job as much as Mutran. He was really just living his best life 🙏

[fermiusdelta]

Makuta Krika

This was something i finished up around Halloween last year before I ended up in the hospital for the 4th time, a aet of 3, this, mutran and gorast. It originally started as a really bad looking watercolor sketch and because i painted over this, you can still see hints of it. I think I'll try to refine it and the others this year.

[bionic-baby]

Miserix looks like she’s got cramps. Has her aunt visited 😉?

it's been a while

was busy making all of the (named) brotherhood of makuta members into anime ladies

[bionic-baby]

Mutran (traditional version)

Is it mootran or mewtran?

[makutaservaela]

Bio-Parenting: Labwork

Masterlist: Link

Questions currently in the QnA queue: 2

[minotaursauce]

Here's something a little different, a 99 piece set-style Bionicle duo consisting of a turncoat Makuta and his little Av-Matoran friend that I like to imagine would've been sold in a box set together in late 2008, similar to Mutran and Vican.