Charger

Charger was a Kane-RaKane-RaBuffalo-like territorial Rahi that roamed Mata Nui's plains and Metru Nui's corridors, best known for encounters with the Toa. bull who was transformed into a sentient being and became a Dark HunterThe Dark HuntersA band of mercenaries and thieves founded on Odina by the Shadowed One and Ancient, hired out across the Matoran Universe, and left a battered ruin by the time Teridax ruled the universe.. He kept the headlong, unstoppable temperament of his old species and served The Shadowed OneThe Shadowed OneThe Shadowed One is the leader of the Dark Hunters, a black, yellow, and silver figure based on Spherus Magna. Armed with a staff and a Rhotuka, the Shadowed One directs the organization. as a brute who could be thrown at odds no other agent would face. (BIONICLE: Dark Hunters)

From Kane-Ra bull to Dark Hunter#

Charger was once a Kane-RaKane-RaBuffalo-like territorial Rahi that roamed Mata Nui's plains and Metru Nui's corridors, best known for encounters with the Toa. Bull, one of the large and dangerous horned RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts. of the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control.. By means that were never recorded, he was transformed into a sentient being capable of speech and thought. He was recruited into the Dark HuntersThe Dark HuntersA band of mercenaries and thieves founded on Odina by the Shadowed One and Ancient, hired out across the Matoran Universe, and left a battered ruin by the time Teridax ruled the universe., where The Shadowed OneThe Shadowed OneThe Shadowed One is the leader of the Dark Hunters, a black, yellow, and silver figure based on Spherus Magna. Armed with a staff and a Rhotuka, the Shadowed One directs the organization. put his raw strength to use by dispatching him on missions that required him to fight no fewer than six opponents at a time. Charger always defeated them, whatever advantages they were supposed to hold over him. (BIONICLE: Dark Hunters; BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

Shortly before Mata NuiMata NuiBuilt by the Great Beings to restore Spherus Magna, Mata Nui sustained an entire civilisation inside his body, was deposed by Teridax, and reclaimed his purpose as a mortal on Bara Magna.'s reawakening he was sent to recapture or eliminate MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body. laborers who had escaped from OdinaOdinaOdina is a member of both the Dark Hunters and the Cliff Screechers, operating within the Matoran Universe. Formerly in possession of the powers of Vamprah, Odina retains no elemental abilities in the present day., tired of the island's hospitality. No story follows him further, though writer Greg Farshtey later said he emigrated to Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint. after the Great Spirit robot was wrecked. (BIONICLE: Dark Hunters)

Temperament and tactics#

For all the intelligence his transformation had granted him, Charger was no strategic thinker. If he needed to steal an object from a fortress, he would bring the whole fortress down and retrieve the object from the rubble. He was anything but stealthy, but The Shadowed OneThe Shadowed OneThe Shadowed One is the leader of the Dark Hunters, a black, yellow, and silver figure based on Spherus Magna. Armed with a staff and a Rhotuka, the Shadowed One directs the organization. was willing to keep him in the organization as long as his blunt approach kept producing results. (BIONICLE: Dark Hunters)

He carried over the disposition of his old species: brave and bold to the point of being unstoppable and very nearly suicidal, the same drive that all Kane-RaKane-RaBuffalo-like territorial Rahi that roamed Mata Nui's plains and Metru Nui's corridors, best known for encounters with the Toa. bulls possessed. Faced with a wall, he would go through it; faced with a canyon, he would try to jump it. He was violent toward RahiRahiThe Rahi were the biomechanical wildlife of the Matoran Universe, built largely by the Brotherhood of Makuta, ranging from background fauna to engineered war beasts., and toward MuakaMuakaTiger-like predators of Ko-Wahi with claws, teeth, and a taste for anything that moves. in particular, and he carried a foul smell about him. (BIONICLE: Dark Hunters; BIONICLE: Rahi Beasts)

Equipment#

Charger wielded an axe that absorbed an opponent's elemental energy and hurled it back at them, a weapon supposedly looted from one of his ToaToa (2001)Biomechanical heroes bonded to elemental powers and masks. Not born, but chosen and transformed. victims. He was also armed with sharp blades set along his arms. (BIONICLE: Dark Hunters)