We’re back with another one.
Parallels
Or
Seeing Patterns in Things that Aren’t There.
Part 57
A New Breed of Defibrillator
Or
Hey, Watch This!
Or
Saving What we Love, Mostly.
Or
That Others May Live
1. Matoro uses the Ignika to revive Mata Nui from death and save the Matoran Universe. While also teleporting his friends away to safety in Metru Nui, at the cost of his own life in the process, his own life force being used to resurrect Mata Nui in turn.
So that he may eventually be properly awakened and finish his task.
“With all that done, Matoro surrendered himself gratefully and completely to his destiny. The merged energies of Toa and Kanohi mask exploded in the core of the universe, flooding it with light.
Streams of golden power flowed into every part of this realm and then beyond it, until it had touched every place where the Great Spirit had once reigned. Just as countless beings had sensed the death of Mata Nui, so did they now feel life return to him.
And in the sky above the city of Metru Nui, the stars shone brightly once before...”
- Bionicle Legends #8: Downfall. (2008) by Greg Farshtey.
2. The Forerunner Lifeworker Growth-Through-Trial-of-Change (pictured above using her depiction from the 2022 Halo Encyclopaedia) utilises the deadbolt key to relinquish Abaddon’s control over the Domain and, using her own life force and biological framework to serve as the template from which the Domain can begin to heal and rebuild itself anew.
Halo: Fractures. “Promises to Keep” by Christie Golden. (2016)
This process would continue through the creation of the Warden Eternal (despite him losing sight of his purpose) and begin to culminate a thousand centuries later following the events of Halo: Epitaph.
3. “Hush now. Spoilers.” *reboots the Library’s central computer system* - River Song.
Doctor Who: Forest of the Dead (2008). By Steven Moffat.
River Song overrides the Library’s self-destruct system, preventing it from doing so, by wiring herself into the central data core, rebooting the Library’s digital archive and saving her friends, the Doctor and everyone trapped in the virtual world in the process, but at the cost of her own life, saving them from the Vashta Nerada and the Library’s halted collapse.
Despite her death, her data ghost was uploaded to the library’s computer by the Tenth Doctor through her sonic screwdriver, allowing her to live on in the virtual world with her other friends who had been killed beforehand. (Alongside CAL and Dr Moon)
Kind of speaks for itself.
These all stuck out to me in their similarity.
Surely I’m not the only one who noticed. Right?
Make of this what you will.
