Teridax (DMU)

In the Dark Mirror Universe, Makuta Teridax was a member of the resistance against Tuyet. After the fall of Tuyet, he began plotting a takeover of the Matoran Universe.

Dark Mirror
The Makuta species was targeted for extinction by the Toa Empire when the Empire took over the Matoran Universe, so Teridax was forced to go into hiding in the Metru Nui Archives. In one of the Empire's attacks, Teridax's mask, the Kanohi Kraahkan, was obtained by Tuyet and placed in an exhibit in the Archives that would alert her if anyone touched it. Because Teridax could not risk alerting Tuyet to his location by attempting to retrieve the Kraahkan, he was forced to don an infected Kanohi Hau instead. As more and more Makuta were hunted down and killed, Teridax became one of the last surviving members of his species, along with Krika and Kojol.

Approximately 3500 years after the creation of the Toa Empire, Teridax discovered Takua, Takanuva, and Dume in the Archives, so he shapeshifted into the form of Tuyet and took them to the Makuta's enclave. Teridax then dropped his disguise and questioned Takanuva about his motives, so Takanuva explained that he was not from their universe and was searching for a being named Brutaka who he hoped could take him home. Takanuva's story piqued Teridax's interest, so he offered to assist the Toa of Light if he first stole the Kanohi Vahi for them from a Toa Empire convoy led by Jaller.

Soon afterwards, Pohatu decided that the time had come for the resistance against Tuyet to strike at the Coliseum, so he had Ahkmou notify the Makuta of his plans. Teridax led a squadron consisting of Krika, Kojol, Dume, and Takua into battle, but was forced to pull back for a moment when a Toa of Iron and a Toa of Plasma used their combined powers to kill Takua and Kojol. However, he soon charged into battle again, working with Krika to defeat Lewa with their Kraata powers: Krika used his Vacuum power to absorb Lewa's attacks, so Teridax killed the Toa with a charged bolt of lightning. The two Makuta's closely-coordinated attacks met with great success, as many more Toa fell before them, which gave Takanuva the window of opportunity he needed to slip into the Coliseum and confront Tuyet.

Dusk and Dawn
Teridax and Krika both survived the battle and stood victorious over the defeated Toa as Lesovikk declared that Tuyet was dead. Dume then announced to the survivors that the remaining leaders of the factions of the Matoran Universe must meet with him in Ta-Metru to discuss the future of their world, so Teridax and Krika attended the meeting to represent what was left of the Brotherhood of Makuta. During the meeting, Teridax hinted that he was developing plans of conquest that made the others' look like "a Rahi's fantasy", much to Krika's silent disdain. Apparently, these plans involved the transformation of a Matoran named Sanox into a Toa of Shadows: Teridax told Krika that Sanox's power would be so great that Mata Nui himself would be affected, which would cause a cataclysm that would allow them to seize control of the universe. Meanwhile, Teridax's plans kicked into motion as Sanox was drawn to the Kanohi Kraahkan in the Archives, donned the mask, and was transformed into a Toa of Shadows by a surge of energy within it.

Though the true outcome of Teridax's plans are unknown, it is known that his efforts resulted in the Order of Mata Nui evacuating a large number of Matoran to an unidentified crystalline city outside the Matoran Universe.

Abilities & Powers

 * Absorption - Teridax, like most other Makuta, could absorb other biomechanical beings to increase his size and strength.
 * Shadow Energy - Teridax could create elemental shadow blasts as a means of attack, as well as shadow constructs such as Shadow Hands.
 * Kraata Creation - Teridax, like most other Makuta, could create Kraata slugs of varying types, which could then be turned into Rahkshi through the use of Energized Protodermis.
 * Kraata Powers - Teridax had access to the full range of Kraata powers, which granted him the abilities of increased accuracy, instant environmental adaptation, anger induction, chain lightning, camouflage, confusion induction, cyclone creation, darkness creation, density control, matter disintegration, attack dodging, elasticity, electrical field creation, fear induction, increased resistance to fire and ice, gravity manipulation, eyebeam generation, energy draining, illusion casting, insect control, temporary invulnerability, magnetism manipulation, mind reading, molecular disruption, plantlife control, plasma generation, poison generation, power scream generation, rapid healing, Rahi control, shapeshifting, object shattering, sound dampening, sleep induction, slowness induction, sonic wave generation, stasis field generation, teleportation, vacuum creation, and weather control.