Eliminator

Eliminator is a Dark Hunter defined entirely by his purpose: he cleans up failures. When another Dark Hunter botches a mission, the organization dispatches Eliminator to handle both the consequences and the solution. 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. holds him in such regard that failure anywhere in the operation is basically a summons for Eliminator to arrive, punish the responsible operative, and finish the job himself. That dual competence (and the confidence it inspires in the Dark Hunters' leadership) makes him one of the organization's most feared members, even if Bionicle canon reveals almost nothing about his species, his origins, or what he physically looks like.

Role Among the Dark Hunters#

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.'s assessment of Eliminator is blunt: when a Dark Hunter fails in his mission, Eliminator is dispatched to handle the consequence and solution. His first task is to eliminate the operative who could not complete the task. His second is to carry the mission to conclusion himself. He excels at both. This assessment, from BIONICLEBIONICLE: Matoran AdventuresA 2002 GBA platformer where you play as one of six Matoran fighting Bohrok across Mata Nui's islands.: Dark Hunters, essentially sums up everything the canon tells us directly about Eliminator's role.

This positions him as the Dark Hunters' fixer. He's the operative you send when you need both punishment and solution. Most Dark Hunters specialize in a single skill. Eliminator specializes in execution (literal and otherwise) and then stepping in to do what the previous hunter couldn't.

What We Actually Know#

Here's where the stub becomes a stub. Eliminator appears in BIONICLEBIONICLE: Matoran AdventuresA 2002 GBA platformer where you play as one of six Matoran fighting Bohrok across Mata Nui's islands.: Dark Hunters, the novel that detailed the organization and its members, and in passing in the Encyclopedia Updated. Beyond the Shadowed One's endorsement and his color scheme (purple and black), Bionicle canon is silent on almost everything else about him.

Kanoka disks and talons are all the canon specifies for his tools. Everything else about him is silence: his species, his mechanical structure, his origin, how he ascended within the Dark Hunters. No story arc exists for him in canon, no scene of him acting, no mission log. He exists as reputation and threat, a name that makes other Dark Hunters nervous. By the end of the Matoran UniverseMatoran UniverseA civilization of biomechanical beings living inside a colossal robot, destroyed when Teridax seized control. era in 2010, Eliminator is listed as alive on Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint., but his post-universe activities remain unspecified.

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Compiled from primary sources by Lore Fortress editorial. Reviewed by Joe Garratt, Editor-in-Chief.