#mata nui

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I have mixed feelings on Teridax's death and how it was handled.

On the one hand, I think it's really cool that he's effectively done in by his own bad habits. He's always been prone to grandstanding, he loves an audience, and his lording his power over Mata Nui is both what gives Ignika the opening to create the Golden Armour and Mata Nui himself the opening to redirect his gravity beam to strike the moons.

In the end, it's Teridax's own ego that sets him up to fail, and that's pretty darn cool.

But at the same time I feel like it would've been quite a bit more interesting if Teridax didn't grandstand in this fight. If this was the one opponent he takes seriously, as a genuine threat.

The material's definitely there for it. We know from Teridax's fight with Karzahni in 2007 that he does genuinely fear Mata Nui's return. We know that as soon as he realised that Mata Nui was alive and much closer nearby than he intended, Teridax immediately flies off to try and kill him for good. And then in the battle itself, Mata Nui is improbably resilient.

The Prototype Robot is much, much weaker than the Great Spirit. It has no internal workers to keep it functioning, it previously exploded and it's barely holding together. Mata Nui has far less combat experience than Teridax does, too. Teridax has him beat in every category, and during their battle, whenever they're actually hitting each other, Teridax is winning pretty handily. Mata Nui gets his hits in, sure, but there's a reason why basically every frame of them fighting in the Mata Nui Saga, bar the last one, is Mata Nui getting his ass kicked.

And yet, Mata Nui won't stop. His body his breaking down, he's outmatched in every way, but he just won't die. Every time Makuta puts him down, he gets up and pushes on again.

I think it would be interesting if Teridax starts to crack here. Like the more the battle continues, the more aggressive he gets, the more his smug, ever-confident exterior starts to break and the fear he felt for his brother's return in 2007 starts bubbling up to the surface.

Rather than trying to kill the Toa and Glatorian with his gravity beam, maybe instead it's a desperation move as Mata Nui still won't go down. He resorts to caving the planet in because it's the only thing that he's sure will actually destroy Mata Nui's body. And then Mata Nui does the redirect thing and we get the moon impact.

That said I'm with the Mata Nui Saga on the subject of the actual killshot. it's way cooler if it's the whole moon and Mata Nui has a more forceful attack than the kinda-weak shoulder-check from the comics.