Talk:Ko-Matoran

Armor color vs. accent color

morris, you undid my edit to be consistent with the other matoran pages, but the Onu-Matoran have the same notations on primary vs. secondary color. should we merge all the onu-matoran colors into one sentence as well? personally, i think it'd be better to sort out all the other matoran colors as the onu-matoran are and ko-matoran were. (although, i don't think there's much of that to be done; see the ga-matoran - everything is basically just "varying shades of blue" for both primary and accent colors.) Intelligence4 (talk) 05:46, 31 January 2017 (CET)

I based that on Ta-Matoran and Le-Matoran--should have been clearer in the edit summary, sorry about that. I think we should distinguish between primary and secondary colors like the Onu-Matoran article does currently, but of course to do that we have to figure out exactly what color(s) are primary and which aren't. White is definitely a primary color for Ice, but how about silver and gray as you mentioned? Is orange a primary color for Fire or just red? I'm inclined to say there's only one primary color for each element, but we should settle that before making edits I feel. What do you (and others) think? -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 07:22, 1 February 2017 (CET)

I would normally be inclined to agree with you, Morris, since for the most part all Matoran types do seem to have one primary color. However, there have been some Matoran whose color schemes haven't been primarily that color; for example, Dosne. So while I do think that it's worth noting the single most prominent color for each type, I feel that the other colors should be referred to as more than just "accents". The Aimless Wanderer1 (talk) 16:54, 1 February 2017 (CET)

I think that the onu-matoran were sort of the black sheep here - no pun intended haha. While we have other types, like ko and ga matoran, who really only have one or two colors, the onu matoran seemed to have way more colors for stuff like accents and kanohi than all the others. so onu-matoran aside, i think there's probably a pretty clear cut primary/secondary/accent colors kinda thing. also, i think we list the primary and secondary elemental colors of each element on the elemental powers page - like Water. Intelligence4 (talk) 09:02, 3 February 2017 (CET)

Actually, Po-Matoran also had as much (if not even more) color variation than Onu-Matoran - heck, most of the ones we've seen haven't even been primarily brown. The Aimless Wanderer1 (talk) 17:49, 4 February 2017 (CET)

Huh, you're right the brown ones - they seem to mostly be tan! i don't think any of them had color variations that other tribes had though - i.e. i don't think we've seen po-matoran with a green or purple mask, for example, like the onu matoran Intelligence4 (talk) 23:45, 4 February 2017 (CET)

From what we've seen, Stone has more than one main color, but not many accent colors. That's why Dekar was yellow, for example, and Pohatu Phantoka and Photok were orange. I think it was confirmed that Stone's primary color varied by region, but I could be wrong about that. Same goes for Iron I believe. As far as we know Earth's main color is black everywhere, but Onu-Matoran tend to have a lot of accent colors. -- Morris the Mata Nui Cow (talk) 02:21, 5 February 2017 (CET)

I think that's the most correct summary so far. there was also that little issue with the brown sets not selling as well, so naturally they had to change stuff up in the story - although i still think brown was the best color they used for stone characters. orange just looked weird. (another note, photok wasn't a po-matoran haha) Intelligence4 (talk) 17:01, 6 February 2017 (CET)