It is just something that I am curious about.
Well the guy already has so many powers. “What do you get the man who has everything”, as they say. I think realistically they’d probably give him a rhotuka that “drains the light” from the target upon impact or something.
…but that doesn’t feel creative. So let’s say this: let’s say he has a rhotuka that he never uses in combat in favor of his many other abilities, but as a last resort he’s able to store his gaseous form in it. Then when he launches it, it seeks a viable target, and upon impact his consciousness is transferred into target, leaving the old body behind.
I think this fits a guy who lurks in shadows, and even when you think you’ve beaten him, he’s already accounted for it and is just off biding his time somewhere.
In 2001 Teridax’s rhotuka would create a shadow puppet duplicate of the target and it would operate like the original but with less hesitation on going all-out and possessing all the worst attributes of the target to work as a narrative tool emphasizing the dark inner nature of characters
In 2010 Teridax’s rhotuka would make the target say things like MakutaVerse and ruin the story
It would destroy the target in one of a thousand ways, and 941 of them would hurt.
I second Ghid’s 2001 guess. Would explain that random shadow clone thing well, even though the story never says the Toa are hit by anything.
Perhaps it’s something silly more befitting his original nature as a protector (making people smile or something like that), and he’s never used it out of embarrassment? Or maybe it’s something situational, like the ability to give false memories to someone with amnesia so as to supplement his existing manipulations?
Unlikely since Greg said all Makuta can do that and it is something they learned from Tren Krom.
@Zhyndea Maybe but I am pretty sure after rejecting his inner light and evolving into energy whatever his original rhotuka power was would have changed by now. The situational one if it does exist is probably not memory based since his illusion power can cause memory loss so he can do that one whenever he wants if it requires amnesia, and I think he could already implant memories with telepathy since he kind of did that with Lhikan after he already chose six potential toa.
Something similar to the Kahgarak’s shadow dimension spinner power pehaps.