Nixels (creature)


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"Dude, quit it! Cease the lameness."

- Flain

Nixels are the dark, uncreative, uncool enemies of the colorful, creative, cool Mixels and the primary antagonists of the Mixels franchise.

Personality
Nixels are small and seemingly harmless; but they are actually vicious, annoying, crazy and destructive creatures who are spread all over the land of the Mixels. They live to tear down and break apart the world around them, including any combinations that the Mixels create. There is nothing the Nixels hate more than when two or three Mixels combine together and get super powers. The Nixels have made it their mission in life to put and end to such crazy creativity all together. The only way to do this is to hide and destroy the Cubits which enable the Mixels to combine in the first place. When they swarm together, they can break apart a Mixel in seconds.

There are shown to not be very intelligent, as they are easily confused (such as when they stand at attention towards an ice sculpture of Major Nixel in Wrong Colors), and have poor speech capacities, only being able to say single words and very simple phrases.

Physical Appearance
Nixels, are very, very small. So small, in fact, that they can be easily crushed by Seismo's large feet. They have little ears, arms, and legs. Their bodies are mostly black, with the exception of their circular, white faces. It is possible that the black outer shell of a Nixel is like armor since it is shown that they can pop right out and run around without it. It is unknown how they control the hands in the armor, as they have no hands when outside of it. Their arms are also retractable, as demonstrated in Nixel "Mix Over".

However, there is a member that is an oddity to these rules. He is Muscle Nixel, and is about the size of Major Nixel and is very buff. Even King Nixel, their leader, is very large; being the largest overall character in the franchise. However, this is only due to him being made up of individual Nixels.

Biography
Nixels were created and cloned using the Ultimate Nixelator. King Nixel assumed the position of leading the entire army and appointed Major Nixel as military commander. They then occupied Nixels Land and began to scheme, making it their mission to get rid of the Mixels.

First plans
While many Mixels were at the Mix Festival, the Nixels kidnapped them and trapped them in safes scattered across Mixel Land. The only Mixel who managed to evade capture was Flain, who arrived late to the party. Nixels attacked various areas of the planet, but they and their Major were defeated by the Mixels who were set free by the Infernite leader. ("Calling All Mixels") One Nixel decided to relax and take a break from his duties by eating cookironies. The Infernites, Cragsters and Electroids saw this during their fight for the last of their cookironies, and gave chase, hoping to gain possession of the snack. ("Cookironi") Flain and Seismo create a lava slide at the Infernite Kingdom, but when they are about to ride it, a Nixel comes in and tries to ruin their fun. Soon, a lot more of them invade as well. Flain suggests that he and Seismo Mix so they can repel the little creatures away, and so they do so after retrieving back their Cubit from them. After they defeat the Nixels, they upgrade their lava slide in the process; but the same Nixel from the beginning comes back to annoy them again. This time, Seismo stomps on it and it gets stuck on the bottom of his foot. He then leaves with Flain to try out their improved lava slide, while the flattened Nixel angrily chants. ("Nixels") During a training exercise to steal Cubits, Major Nixel instructed three Nixels to head to various lands to take one from each of the original three tribes. The Nixel that headed to the Infernite lands ended with his head on fire, the Nixel that headed to the Cragster lands ended with a footprint embedded into his shell, and the final Nixel that made it to the Electroid lands brought back a Cragster and Electroid Cubit, along with the Zaptor & Seismo Mix, who attacked the Major, much to the amusement of the Nixels. ("Another Nixel") A large group of Nixels managed to give chase to Shuff and Volectro, ending with them being able to drive the two Mixels off of a cliff. Thanks to the interventions of Flurr and Gobba, the two Mixels were able to survive via a makeshift bobsled, but the Nixels continued to chase them, only to be stopped by a crude ice sculpture of the Major, which scared them enough to salute, and stay saluting, while the Mixels ran off. ("Wrong Colors") During another training exercise, Major Nixel painted two Nixels in Frosticon and Flexer colors in an attempt to steal more Cubits. This disguise managed to fool Balk and Lunk, who were just about to play Slingshot. They unknowingly gave a Cubit to the two Nixels, who faked a Mix to try and blend in, but were ditched by the Balk & Lunk Mix, who just found them "weird". When they returned the Cubit to the Major, he, along with the remaining Nixel army, thought they were Mixels, and attacked them, while the Major escaped with the Cubit, only for the Mix to retrieve it again. ("Nixel "Mix Over"")

Further plans
During the annual Mix Festival, Major Nixel piloted the Cloud Ship to attack the Mixels. Using the Mega Nixel Mixel Nixer, which cost the lives of multiple Nixels, the Festival was Nixed, turning most of the Mixels in to mindless zombies drained of color. When a few of the leaders were able to escape, the Major sent out the remaining Nixels to give chase. When the leaders decided that they were heading to Mixel Mountain to retrieve the giant rainbow Cubit, a few Nixels overheard the plan, letting them beat the Mixels to the peak and cover the Cubit. By burrowing under the Cubit, the Mixels were able to smash it into smaller Cubits, creating Mixes that defeated and scattered the Nixels away. ("Epic Comedy Adventure") During an Infernite camping trip, a few Nixels hid from the trio to listen in on their campfire story. When the the Mixels were abducted by the Ship-Space, two Nixels tagged along, getting kicked into orbit, much to their annoyance. During a picnic hosted by the Orbitons, the two Nixels burrowed under and stole the Oxy-Juice and Crater Tots being served. However, the Oxy-Juice was grabbed by the Nurp-Naut & Meltus Mix, who burned and stomped on the Nixel, while the Crater Tots were devoured by the second Nixel, who accepted Rokit Sauce from the Rokit & Burnard Mix, sending him into a mushroom cloud explosion thanks to the heat. The two Nixels were later seen orbiting yet again. A satellite feed of the new moon-based Mixels was sent to a screening of Nixels, who jeered in anger at the new Mixels, but they all recoiled in fright due to King Nixel's arrival. ("Mixel Moon Madness")

Nixels were a key component of the Nixelstorm, which scattered various Mixels across the lands, but also scattered the controls of the Cloud Ship as well. Eventually, the Nixelstorm was tamed by the Mixels and the Cloud Ship was fully destroyed, leading to the Nixels to creating King Nixel's Airship for the next plans. ("Mixels Rush") The Nixels played an important part in King Nixel's large plan to stop the Mixels with the Mixamajig hoax. Two Nixels boarded the Egg-Rock to find a willing Mixel to be the one in charge of the Mixamajig Key by using a Maximum Mixel shadow puppet to fool them, while also planting a seed of discord into the ranks. Eventually, when the entirety of the Mixels met at the Mixamajig Threshold with their own keys, they were fully trapped and at the mercy of King Nixel. When the Mixels managed to escape through Maxing, the entirety of the Nixel army combined forces to boost King Nixel-whose body is already made of multiple Nixels-into a larger form. To counteract, the Maxes formed the Ultra-Miximum Max and ended up defeating the King, leading his Nixel army to scatter off away from him. ("A Quest for the Lost Mixamajig")

Set Information
There are three different variants each, in 2014 and 2015 (and six known new variants in 2016) of Nixels in the LEGO sets, and one set in each Mixel tribe includes a Nixel.

Series 1

 * Vulk (sloped ears)
 * Krader (cat ears)
 * Teslo (flat ears)

Series 2

 * Slumbo (sloped ears)
 * Chomly (flat ears)
 * Balk (cat ears)

Series 3

 * Glurt (cat ears)
 * Hoogi (flat ears)
 * Magnifo (sloped ears)

2015
All of the Nixels here were given articulated arms.

It was eventually revealed, in August 2015, that the main reason the Nixels were redesigned in 2015 was to contribute to King Nixel's complete model, and act as his limbs.

Series 4

 * Rokit (two ears and bar feet)
 * Flamzer (two ears and sloped feet)
 * Vampos (three ears and bar feet)

Series 5

 * Gox (two ears and bar feet)
 * Krog (three ears and bar feet)
 * Turg (two ears and sloped feet)

Series 6

 * Wuzzo (King Nixel's base model)
 * Slusho (three ears and bar feet)
 * Berp (two ears and bar feet)

2016
In 2016, each tribe has a Nixel themed after the tribes' profession. They are slightly modified versions of the 2015 Nixels.

Series 7

 * Busto (has crowbar and frustrated expression)
 * Paladum (has spear and normal expression)
 * Jamzy (has starstruck expression)

Series 8

 * Hydro (has flaming ears and normal expression)
 * Skulzy (has coin and eyepatch)
 * Skrubz (has broken leg and sad expression)

Other
Nixels are also included as small builds inside the front covers of the books Flane's Adventure, Activity Book, and Mixels Vs Nixels!

Memorable Quotes

 * "Mixels? (blows a raspberry) Nixels? (creates gesture of thumbs up) Heh..." - Nixel, Nixels
 * "M-Mix?" - Nixel, Nixel "Mix Over"
 * ""Break them up, shake them up, that's the way to wake them up." - Nixel, LEGO Mixels: Activity Book
 * "Seriously?" - Nixel, Mixel Moon Madness
 * "Crater Tots! Tots! Tots!" - Nixel, Mixel Moon Madness
 * "Oxy-Juice! Juice, juice!" - Nixel, Mixel Moon Madness

Background Information

 * Their name is a play on the word "nix"; a term that means to destroy something.
 * Originally, as seen in preliminary packaging, the Nixels were going to be various shapes, and not all of them being cubical.
 * The army and strict personalities, combined with the drive for conformity, of the Nixel community strongly resembles that of Communism. They may also be based off of Naziism because of their goal to exterminate the Mixels for being unlike them.
 * One represents October in the Mixels: 2015 Wall Calendar (probably because they are villainous, and Halloween is related to evil). A few represent April in the Mixels: 2016 Wall Calendar.

Trivia

 * A reoccurring motif of the Nixels is a white circle with a Nixel hand giving a thumbs-down sign in it. It decorates Nixel Land and is the symbol on their flag, Muscle Nixel's belt, Major Nixel's staff in Calling All Mixels, and when you guess wrong in Who's In The Mix.
 * In long-distance shots, the design of the Nixels becomes oversimplified to the point that they end up lacking arms and their eyes only become black dots. They are the only characters to have specific long-distance model designs.
 * The square-topped Nixels are the most common variety and are the only variations of Nixels in Calling All Mixels.
 * The square-topped Nixels appear to have their animation model flipped when making it face a different direction, thus switching the places for the taller square and smaller square.
 * Nixels have never been shown from a side view, almost always from a 3/4 view instead.
 * They are very similar to Daleks in that they chant a single word of destruction (Exterminate), are a battle suit piloted by a smaller character, and are a feared villain.
 * The regular Nixels seem to be cloned in a machine from the first three variations; this is the reason why there are so many.
 * Their gender was only mentioned in Calling All Mixels.
 * However, female Nixels are confirmed to exist, as King Nixel mentions his mother.
 * Mixels Rush gives some of the Nixels black eyelids, instead of the standard white.
 * It was also shown that some Nixels have moustaches, resembling King Nixel's.
 * In Season 2, the Nixels, even Major Nixel, had new voices that were more higher pitched.
 * However, their old voices remained in Mixels Rush.
 * Despite it being said that there are hundreds of Nixels in the swarm, there have only been less than two hundred seen in the show. Most of the time, it looks like there are less than fifty Nixels.
 * In Calling All Mixels, they are the main and only enemies that will attack your base at times.
 * In the LEGO Mixels: Activity Book and a LEGO Club Magazine, Nixels are seen with incredible speech, as they do not say "NIX!". Instead, they speak full English. However, this is possibly only for the convenience of the reader, so they understand what is going on.
 * Every Mixel that comes with a Nixel does not have official Mix instructions on the LEGO site.
 * Parts of the Nixels are used in some of the official LEGO Mixes.
 * The Series 7 LEGO website update was the first update to have Nixels used in the CGI animations with their respective Mixels.

Season 1

 * Cookironi (cameo)
 * Nixels
 * Pothole (mentioned)
 * Another Nixel
 * Wrong Colors
 * Nixel "Mix Over"
 * Vaudeville Fun (mentioned)
 * Epic Comedy Adventure

Season 2

 * Mixel Moon Madness
 * A Quest for the Lost Mixamajig

Games

 * Calling All Mixels
 * Mixel Mania
 * Who's In The Mix
 * Mixels Rush

Books

 * LEGO Mixels: Flane's Adventure (scrapped)
 * LEGO Mixels: Ready, Steady, Paste!
 * LEGO Mixels: Activity Book
 * LEGO Mixels: Stick and Mix!
 * LEGO Mixels: Mixels Vs Nixels!

Other

 * Mixels: 2015 Wall Calendar
 * Mixels: 2016 Wall Calendar
 * Shirts

Miscellaneous

 * Mixels Websites
 * The Wonderful World of Mixels
 * Breaking News
 * Mixies Drummer in Five-Hour Marathon Solo
 * Knights in Shiny Armor Attacked by Plastic Knife
 * LEGO Club Magazines