@0takuDragonSlayer Changing the subject?
Lets summarize, i am calling the shame of a Bionicle an hypocrite because he is an honorless bastard, this is based on the logic of narrative coherence. Not on the idea of group dynamics, or the existence of exceptions, that has little to nothing to do with my point, when you analyse a story you have to approach it from the necessities of the narrative.
You need to first realize that we are talking about a story that has to maintain narrative coherence, and we are dealing with a group that is introduced as antagonistic made up of people shown as overconfident but designed to ultimately resort to cheap tricks and strategies that ultimately betray their own words and initially presented image. You are missing the context.
The second chapter shows that Toa doesn't respects any traditions, for him the only thing that matters is to show off his strength, and in doing so he broke the warrior's code of his people, a code is not something you make up for yourself, is something a society establishes, and his brother was not trying to stop him for no reason at all, he tried to stop him because it is a mark of shame to use power for underground fights, it is a mark of shame to use power for anything other than the defense of their people and the protection of their traditions, that is the foundation of a code of honor.
But shitty Bionicle said that he doesn't gives a damn about any of that, he abandoned all of it, and said that he only brandish his power for himself, and in doing so is no longer a warrior following a code, just a fighter for hire seeking self indulgence, hell, he calls himself a seeker.
In your stubbornest you even went as far as missing the fact that both Toa and his brother had already surpassed their ancestors in strength, and all that they were missing was fame and recognition, but fame is not part of a warriors code, attaining prestige is not what constitutes a warriors code, let alone when pursing it means abandoning its people and joining the underground.
And yet Toa tries to pass himself as someone who fights with honor when he already abandoned his people. Is that contradiction on his character, which you so conveniently are ignoring, that puts him in the same spot as people who use poison and technicalities to win their fights.
That's the point, get within the context of the story, "just because some people are doing bad things, doesn't means everyone in the group is the same" is logically sound, but doesn't matters, for the story that we are reading it doesn't makes sense. Maybe later on Purgatory gets to redeem their fighters and join hands with the good guys once the real antagonist take a more central spot, but for now we are dealing with a bunch of scumbags designed to make the Kengan Association fighters look better both in skill and character.
Get it now?
