#General Samukai

[riptidesblog]

(Making up ninjago lore and posting it as pages from a journal of a random researcher or smth,idk I was going for gf journals vibe)

The text:

"The world was young, when time didn't have a name and few of the 16 realms existed. She was born because of mortals. They'd started doing terrible things and darkness tainted their souls. She, a horror beyond mortal mind, took form of one to roam the world in search of followers. Face hidden behind a veil, skin as cold and gray as that of a corpse tinted green, clad in shadows as black as darkness of a rotting soul and bound in chains unlike any other. She wore a crown and wielded a power never seen before. She who created the dark arts.

The beast seeked out those corrupt and with wishes unfulfilled. She revealed herself to those loyal and punished the others. All who belonged to her she kept even in death with shackles around their wrists and chains around neck.

When the *redacted* came, world shattered and she assumed her true form: a beast, a prison for the dead, punishment for the wicked."

[nyaskitten]

Scenario! Netflix has come to you and begged at your knees to make the new Ninjago reboot (no soft reboot, everything redone). How would you do it?

SHSHFEHF this is a really funny prompt for me because I have been DYING thinking of how a Ninjago reboot would go. I DO HAVE THOUGHTS ON THIS!!! I'm gonna punch it under a "read more" cus its a LOT, but if anyone has ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE DONT BE AFRAID TO ASK ME PLEASEEE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

First, the ninja are similar to TLNM in that they all start as ninja, and possibly even all of them are in their teens ! Ofc I would wanna keep my OG series age gap HCs for them all (Lloyd is 12-13, Nya 14, Kai, Jay, and Cole r 16, and Zane like Allegedly 17.) I think if Lloyd started as a ninja, it'd be bcz Garmadon was cursed years ago, and Misako went missing trying to save him, so she left Lloyd with Wu. I don't think the prophecy would still be a thing, but Misako might have a different issue leaving Lloyd w/ Wu. Nya gets her element later than the guys tho, bcz Wu couldn't sense it (it's not a Creation power) and so he Assumed it skipped a generation.

For actual content, I think I'd mix DR events and OG series event like crazy, keep the idea of Source Dragons, but maybe with a twist that they have mortal messengers/champions who the ninja can summon through their weapons, and they can combine like the Golden Ultra Dragon in Crystalized? And also the vehicles are still there OF COURSE!!!

Maybe Garmadon would be working with a mysterious other-realmer (you already know who) in an effort to gain control over the Source Dragon energy of the Golden Weapons? Maybe they wanna recreate the realms, but then this Mysterious other-realmer reveals he works for a secret OTHER guy and betrays Garmadon (this Other guy would prolly be a mix of Thunderfang, the Overlord, and Ras' master, bcz yk, it is Ras.)

I think for basic villain plot stuff, s1 would be Garmadon trapped in a mix btwn the Underworld and the Cursed Realm, and he manages to escape in the end thanks to the power of the weapons and his poopoo-faced general Samukai (he still dies probably,) and I think either in the finale or s2, Ras would find Garmadon and offer him a Special Evil Proposal and Garmadon laughs evilly.

In s2, the Serpentine are freed by a faux tribe of desert exilees, who seek companionship and domination. Maybe they're commanded by Skales, who knows! Maybe he wants to lead his fallen tribe to true glory, and awaken the Devourer, who threatens to devastate Ninjago and all the worlds beyond. I think Wu would still find Garmadon from the Realm of Madness back to Ninjago, but Garmadon would bring with him a Secret friend who doesn't speak much, but who Garmadon insisted MUST come along. I still think Lloyd would be kidnapped, but instead it's because he controls Life Energy, and would be the ultimate key to reviving the comatose Devourer, as the Fangblades have been sapped of their magic. After getting Lloyd back (unfortunately after the ritual has commenced,) Garmadon helps in killing the Devourer, and then he disappears with the Source Weapons, his mysterious pal nowhere to be seen, either.

S3 would follow Ras and Garmadon in the limelight again as villains, trying to control/harness the powers of the Source Weapons, so they can recreate the realms. Little does Garmadon know, Ras is a sneaky little liar with his OWN intent. The plot of this season would probably mirror Legacy of the Green Ninja, Ras and Garmadon hunting around for the Realm Crystal in the fabled Tomb of the FSM. Ras' goal is to bring the Kingdom of Imperium (in the First Realm for the purposes of this story) into Ninjago, whereas Garmadon just wants some power!!! Ras has his way with the Source Weapons and Realm Crystal, and manages to create a gateway that will force Imperium to merge with Ninjago.

For s4, after Ras betrays Garmadon and opens his Special gateway, I think Imperium would make its presence known across the realms as they march on Ninjago, under the guidance of the Empress and the elusive Dragon that commands them.

I'm not really sure where this would lead into, but by s5 Imperium has crumbled, and now the great powerful dragon they've been secretly working under is free and dominating the lands, maybe not for a WHILE maybe only in the final like 3 episodes I GUESS. IDK.

All I know is I would love to see the ninja struggling with Mergequake-ADJACENT issues cus Ras tore open the fabric of the realms w/ unnatural and divine means he wasn't meant to use. I wanna incorporate other villains and seasons into this hypothetical reboot, alas I do not think they would all get major focus, and would Instead be like side villains who show up every now and again.

[destinysbounty]

I understand why Garmadon is usually considered the main villain of Ninjago as a series. Like, I get that on a meta level. It's not an altogether inaccurate assessment of his character. But it's still kinda funny bc this man is only an antagonist for like half of his screentime. Observe:

Pilots - Villain. Kidnaps Nya, deliberately orchestrates Samukai's death, overall acts like a spooky demon man, etc.

Season 1 - I mean he's kind of a general nuisance, sure, but aside from stealing the Golden Weapons he doesn't do anything objectively evil here? Not only does he help them save Lloyd, but he also defeats the Great Devourer. If we're being purely technical from a narrative standpoint, he's an ally in this season.

Season 2 - Back to being a villain again, but gets redeemed/restored at the very end.

Seasons 3-5 - Good guy! A mentor figure for the ninja, in fact! Just an all around good dad and funny guy.

Seasons 8-9 - Villain. Oh my god is he a villain. I don't even have to explain this one. Pilots-era spooky demon vibes except it's dialed up to like 200.

Season 10 - Once again a reluctant ally for the ninja, as he helps them stop the Oni invasion, but he's also a dick about it. Season 1 vibes but this time directly solely at Lloyd.

Season 15 - Morally gray antihero type. not very good at being a good person, and is even worse at being a good father, but he's trying his best.

Dragons Rising - Honestly idk if he's even alive. Fingers crossed, I guess?

Like sure, yeah, I'm not gonna raise a fuss about it when someone says Garmadon is the main villain of the show. Technically speaking, they're not entirely wrong. But it's very silly to me because Garmadon is only a villain sometimes. Sometimes he's a bad guy trying to take over the world, sometimes he's a loving father, and other times he's just a morally gray asshole minding his own business. And y'know what, I respect that about him.

[symposiumlover]

Ninjago guy sexuality rant

This is gonna be longer than the Constitution oh my gosh why are there so many…. I’ll just go over the ones I remember

Ninja and the old man-

- Kai is bi

- Jay is straight

- Cole is gay

- Zane is pansexual and asexual

- Lloyd is bi with a preference for evil people and furries….

- Wu is bi I know… crazy work

Side characters-

- Cyrus Borg is like… Something; I don’t know and I don’t care

- Dareth is pansexual god I hate Dareth someone strike him down

- Skales is bi… I love him so much he’s my bae. He doesn’t count as a villain anymore

- the serpentine generals man idk… Skalidor is either aggressively gay or aggressively straight. Acidicus is something. Fangtom is bi and probably listens to Greenday LMAO

- Ray is straight

- Cliff is extremely hetero

- Frohicky is pansexual

- Echo Zane.. leave it up to the fans cuz idgaf

- Dr. Julien exists

- Lou is an extremely closeted bisexual man

- Benthomaar is a straight ally; same with Trimaar

- Percival is a freaking homo

- Glutinous is aroace

- Hailmar is gay as hell for Vangelis and in general

- Fedulian is gay but I kinda want him #toobad

- Egalt is straight I think

- Riyu don’t do that shit

I GIVE UP!! CANT THINK OF ANY MORE SIDE CHARACTERS SO MOVING ON!

Villains-

- Pythor is pansexual

- Mr. E/F finds sexuality to be irrelevant so he’s unlabeled. He does like men and women though. He is not a sexual person unless his partner would prefer it to be that way. So like on the asexual spectrum. Finds sex to be extremely irrelevant and probably does not have the parts for it (though like any Nindroid, he can make alterations). This is not about Echo. I am not a Mr E = Echo person

- Flintlocke is a faggot for Nadakhan brobrogoogoo

- Nadakhan is straight

- Doubloon is um I’m not entirely sure

- Killow is pansexual. Love that guy!

- Rapton is some breed of queer….. same with Dorama. For each other. They should make out

- Captain Soto is pansexual!

- Soul Archer is straight lol

- Wrayth is bi

- Ghoultar has never had a single romantic thought

- Morro is gay.. he does not like girls

- Kalmaar is gay and homophobic

- Cryptor and Kozu are gay and fucked in DOTD offscreen

- Clouse is a homo and Chen is a cultural appropriatior

- Garmadon is bi

- Samukai is likely pansexual

- Hazza D’ur is straight….. At least he was before his death.

- Ras is probably gay. He might like girls a little, but it’s unlikely. Perhaps bisexual. Perhaps.

- Drix is pansexual with a strong preference for men. The only girls he really likes are mantis women for some reason; he likes the type of woman that will just MURDER him

- Nokt is bisexual. Ras and Nya really turned him on for some reason.

- Zarkt is flat freakin pansexual…… he likes dominant people (Aka Nokt and Pixal help me NOW)

- Thunderfag

- Mindroid is likely straight and ace

- Char is bi and has a crush on Aspheera!

- Captain Soto is pansexual

- Acronix is gay

- Krux is a closeted bisexual man

- The Mechanic looks homophobic and makes homophobic jokes but y’all DO know that he wore a pink dress and a hat with matching pink feathers in canon right? He’s pansexual and very open about it. He’d probably announce that he’s a fag at a pride parade.

- Iron Baron is a homosexual because he hates women

- Vangelis is bisexual and has been out for like a decade. He’s just never mentioned it, so people assume that he’s “secretly gay” and it became popular gossip in the palace at one point in time

[mr-cactis]

Remembering Day of the Departed.

I like that when Samukai asks what's going on, Cryptor just says what's >really< going on

"Well, the skinny man in the silky girl robes can't control his chair. And-"

He's a clone of Zane, a nindroid, ask and he'll answer.

Headcanon that if you ask him a question, he'll promptly answer in 👆🤓 mode, as if he'd left general mode to go into teacher mode.

[qu13ll3-choichoi]

(WIP) Day of The Dead Special Fanart is coming soon!

I'll be posting the complete thing close/later on Dia De Los Muertos (November 1)!

The character with the most votes goes first, second-to-most as second, third to third, and fourth to fourth!

I also just found out that Chen is actually skinny, according to Cryptor saying "skinny man in (little) girl robes can't control his chair". I used to draw Chen a little pudgy.

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When four-armed Garmadon was first revealed back in 2012, a lot of people, myself included, thought that it was because he like. Absorbed Samukai's essence, or something like that. Like it was to show him becoming more powerful and taking on traits of past villainous factions he allied with. So naturally, I thought it'd have been cool if after S1, Garmadon ended up having a snake tail instead of legs, just like Pythor and the other Serpentine generals. I suppose with S2, he would've developed stone skin and/or armor, becoming indestructible; Maybe wearing the helmet he has in the 2013 sets. I wonder if the Helmet of Shadows was originally supposed to have the Stone Warrior mouthguard, but then the animators removed it so Garmadon could emote more.

Garmadon did end up taking traits from the Overlord, too! But more because of the Overlord assimilating him, rather than the other way around. So in addition to uncanny claws, he'd have dragon wings on his back. With the added height of a second torso and the snake tail, plus the Helmet of Shadow's horns, Garmadon would've put on some real height.

[thepeanutbutterwizard]

More Dod stuff, meet two of the highest ranking members of the Garmadons faction, Generals Kozu and Aspheera.

(I tried to draw Samukai. It sucked, and I Do Not Want to draw him, so I've decided that he got sick of having to follow the Garmadons, so he and some of the Skulkin have split off to do their own thing)

Kozu and the rest of the Stone Army were revived by Misako after she recovered the crest from the Helmet of Shadows from Dark Island. The spell that binds the will of the Stone Warriors to whoever is in possession of the crest has since been removed by Misako (having the indestructible members of your army be controlled by something that can be lost/stolen is a massive weak-point, so she got rid of it before it could be used against her family), and the Stone Warriors follow her out of actual loyalty (and also bc they dont really know any life outside of war)

Kozu is Lloyd's most responsible babysitter

Releasing and recruiting Aspheera was Garmadons idea. It was purely bc he figured it would bother Wu. He was right.

Aspheera gleefully leads the Serpentine forces who allied themselves with the Garmadons (most of the Constrictai, all of the few surviving Anacondrai, about half of the Venomari and Fangpyers, and a handful of Hypnobrai) against Wu and his allies. She wields various magics as easily as she breathes, a more jack-of-all-trades kind of sorceress than Misako. I also made it so she still has her Hypnobrai eyes, instead of having them be changed bc of her imprisonment for whatever reason. Since she's an ancient Serpentine, shes from a time before the Tribes all evolved into the five different ones in modern Ninjago, so she has a few traits from different tribes (I'm debating on whether or not she has any kind of venom)

She takes great pleasure in seeing how annoyed and off-put Wu gets when she flirts with both Garmadon and Misako. Misako doesn't play into it, but she also doesn't stop Aspheera bc she thinks its just as funny as Aspheera does. Garmadon has not noticed that Aspheera is flirting with either of them.

Aspheera is Lloyds favorite babysitter.

Initially I was going to have Cryptor on here too, with a story about Borg Industry making the Nindroid army to help Wu combat the Garmadons, before the Army was hacked by Unagami and brought onto the Villains side, but I actually like the idea of Cryptor being a Hero while also being a massive asshole.

So next post will have him, Wu, and some of the other Heroes

[roselock22]

I love your Kai, Jay, Cole, Zane, Lloyd, Nya, Arin, Sora, Wyldfyre, Skylor, Harumi, Akita, Master wu, Garmadon, Misako, pixal, lily, ray, maya, Lou, Dareth, Mystake, Cyrus borg, ronin, Nelson, Antonia, Frohicky, Beatrix, lord ras, cinder, Samukai, Pythor, Wojira, the great devourer, Skales, the overlord, general kozu, master Chen, clouse, morro, Euphrasia, Nadakhan, Krux, Acronix, Mr e, faith, the omega, Aspheera, general vex, the ice emperor, unamagmi, Scott, the mechanic, Vania, king Vangelis, benthomaar, and geo character designs 🫶🫶

Burnt noodle is so cute 🥺🥺💕

Me when i haven't drwn half of those characters/J

BUT YEE TY, redesigning ninjago characters is my favorite hobby I ought to draw burnt noddle more

[theplatypusblue]

A small list for posterity’s sake:

Samukai had four arms.

Garmadon had four arms.

General Kozu had four arms (as did The Overlord, but he was just possessing Garmadon, so whatever)

Nadakhan had four arms.

The Hands of Time had a collective total of four arms ig.

Mr. E had four arms when wearing the Mask of Vengeance. (It’s kinda redundant tho, since Garmadon is already a main villain in that season but whatever)

Crystal King had four arms.

So basically there was a dearth in four-armed villains from seasons 3-5, but then we bounce back in season 6-10 (I’m counting garm as a villain in moto, even if he’s changed sides somewhat, he’s in the middle enough for it to count). After that, the wild brain seasons don’t have any four-armed villains besides CK (that I remember), and neither does dragons rising (so far). Did I miss anything??

[the-multiversal-malevolence-blog]

The list

<110 out of 110 members minus the plus ones>

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Commanders: Hades {Benefactor / Boss / Founder / First in command} and Jafar {Leader / Second in command}

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Corporals: The Spot, Lex Luthor (DC Animated Universe), Cree Lincoln, Magica De Spell (Ducktales 2017), Mr. Burns, Plankton, Giovanni, Belos, Master Xehanort, Bowser, Maleficent, Evil Queen, Captain Hook (Peter Pan Return to Neverland), Lord Dominator, Dr. Eggman, Bill Cipher, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Pythor, Wuya, Fearless Leader, Adam, Dr. Facilier, Gabriel Agreste aka Monarch, Ursula, Scrozzle, Baxter Stockman (TMNT 2012), Randall Boggs, The Mechanic, Vox, General Cryptor, Master Chen, Master Xandred, Lord Vortech, Scar, El Jefe, Colonel H. Stinkmeaner, Aku, The Joker (Batman The Brave and the Bold), Catra, Lady Tremaine (Cinderella 3), The Wicked Witch Of The West, Darth Vader, Robo Roxy, Robo Blaze, Sledge, Goldar Maximus, Vilgax (Ben 10 2016), Mr. Crocker, Dr. Drakken, Lord Krakenskull, Roberto Arnoldi, Kaos, Claude Frollo, Yzma, Zach Varmitech, Lord Tirek, Lord Voldemort, Shang Tsung, Cruella De Vil, Gantu, The Queen Of Hearts, Slade (Teen Titans), Lord Shen, Samukai, Krux, Acronix, Snide, Momakase, Scarlett (Total Drama), Heximas, Freddy Krueger, Mojo Jojo, Oogie Boogie, Professor J.T. Wu, Professor Pericles, Slappy The Living Dummy, The Coachman, Lena Luthor (Dc Superhero Girls G1) Rob, Gaston, Darcy, Garrett Bobby Ferguson Jr, Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Poison Ivy (Dc Superhero Girls G2), Scarecrow (Injustice 2), Sinestro (Justice League Action), Venom (Spider-Man 2017), Syndrome, William Afton, Mother Gothel, Sauron, Davy Jones, Megatron (Transformers Animated 2007), High Roller, Skeletor, Ebon, Professor Poopypants, Ratcliffe, Shan Yu, Eric Cartman, Sigma, Widowmaker, Doomfist, Moria, Reaper, Sombra, Lord Betrayus and Ember McLain

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<40 Plus Ones>

Plus ones: Pain & Panic, Cerberus, The Fates [Lachesis, Atropos and Clotho], Mr. Smithers, Karen Plankton, The Magic Mirror On The Wall, Mr. Smee (Peter Pan Return to Neverland), Sage, Metal Sonic, Orbbot, Cubebot, Scratch, Grounder, Coconuts, Norm The Robot, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, Valentino, Velvette, Octoroo, Sharkjaw, Anastasia (Cinderella 3), Drizella (Cinderella 3), Lucifer the cat (Cinderella 3), Wrench, Fury, Poisandra, Curio, Shego, Krakenbeast, Glumshanks, Shock, Lock, Barrel, The Zebra Brothers and Bearstomp

[chasingmemoriesofficial]

Here's what CM!Garmadon looks like. He's a lot younger-looking, and like his son has a dragon form. The difference is, Garmadon was born with his dragon, who he named Ebony.

Like I mentioned in Lloyd's post, Garmadon is also a snake-mutant (from the Great Devourer venom) and a witch.

And it's hidden by his pants, but his left leg is missing below the knee, but unlike Lloyd his prosthetic is made of metal instead of pure energy. Garmadon is also slightly hunched over so he looks a little shorter than he actually is (6'1").

Now, Garmadon is a first-gen Ninjagian and a second-gen Elemental Master (at best) as well as being born from two human parents (there ain't any of that confusing dragon/oni hybrid crap) so he's not gonna be as incredibly tall as half the Ninja are. He was considered tall for his time, especially since he's taller than both of his parents (Wu is too).

Instead of being a tall, muscular, and visibly powerful Dark Lord, CM!Garmadon is a frail and thin old man (though he doesn't look old) who spent the past several years as Samukai's prisoner in the Underworld (as seen in the previous version of Origins).

If you're wondering what that white thing on his hip is, CM!Garmadon's on a ventilator after his time in the Underworld. He's missing a lung (he lost it a good 20 years before the Serpentine War) and the dank, smoky atmosphere of the Underworld messed up his remaining one. (Heroforge doesn't have a cannula option but he does have one)

Garmadon's eyes aren't naturally red, and they're not red from the venom (although their shape is). It's actually because of his witch magic. A witch's magic aura differs between them, although some have similar colors to each other (Garmadon and Lloyd's are both red, although Lloyd's is a darker shade).

When a witch uses their magic, their eyes light up the color of their magic, but there is a chance for their eyes to become that color permanently if they undergo a Witch Rage (more on that in another post). This is what happened to Garmadon (and Wu, actually).

CM!Garmadon, unlike his canon counterpart, is probably the least vicious person you could meet. He's incredibly smart and clever, yes, and a brilliant strategist as well as a smooth talker, but he's generally really sweet and excitable like his son, as well as easily distracted (mostly by shiny things or animals).

He's also a librarian and used to keep a garden before his Fall. Now, living with the Ninja, he just sticks around and helps Zane cook (he loves cooking and is the only one in his family who can).

Bonus: he's also color-blind and drinks blood (although he doesn't strictly CRAVE it like a vampire does in the myths, but he can sustain himself on it if he needs to; it's how he survived in the Underworld so long)

The only obvious physical traits that Lloyd inherited from Garmadon (minus the snake traits) are the eye shape, crooked smile, and curly hair. Other than that he takes after his mother.

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Emperor of Ninjago (5)

• After a few years, Lloyd had already turned 12, and even the information Kai provided to Skylor still didn't help the rebels advance. Harumi continued to visit Lloyd regularly and the training that Kai taught Lloyd was getting better and better, and even Kai ended up being the strongest soldier in Garmadon's army, even though he still couldn't fully confront Garmadon, Kai had already managed to several victories against generals. Samukai and Kozu.

• The Resistance, despite having valuable information from Skylor, was still unable to make Garmadon's forces withdraw from the kingdoms still before Garmadon's forces and ensure that the labor camps were destroyed to free all the slaves and prisoners who worked there. Wu still focused on finding the Green Ninja, but the Ninjas always returned unsuccessful in their mission. The Ninjas became the main leaders of the rebellion and Morro continued his violent attacks against Garmadon's armies in different parts of Ninjago.

• Unexpectedly one day Garmadon ordered Kai to prepare Lloyd to escape from the palace, since the Overlord was close to completely recovering his power and wanted to possess Lloyd's body to have his new body since he was not yet able to generate a body himself, Garmadon hearing that knew he had to do everything he could to save Lloyd.

• Garmadon took the Fire Sword from its hiding place and when he summoned Kai to his chambers in private he revealed that the Overlord planned to possess Lloyd to take over his body moment Garmadon asked Kai to quickly plan to escape the palace with Lloyd so he could keep him safe. Garmadon also gave the Fire Sword to Kai so that the Overlord wouldn't keep one of Ninjago's most powerful weapons.

• Kai planned his escape from the palace with Lloyd in detail. Thanks to his maps of the palace, Kai managed to discover secret passages and underground tunnels that led to the outskirts of the palace.

• Kai told Skylor what the Overlord wanted to do with Lloyd and she gave him a map indicating the location of Wu's camp, Skylor had given this map to Kai so he could take Lloyd to safety once he was there they will escape from the palace. When Kai showed the Fire Sword to Lloyd it suddenly began to glow once Lloyd touched it out of curiosity. Kai knew at that moment that Lloyd was the prophesied Green Ninja, since from what he discovered from his research, the Golden Weapons would reveal who would be the chosen one.

• Knowing that Lloyd was the Green Ninja terrified Kai more since if anyone else knew about it, they would not hesitate to kill the boy, thanks to Garmadon giving him the key to his Vengestone bracelets Kai managed to recover his elemental power, but his fire was still somewhat weak from the years of inactivity, it just needed time to recover, but Kai knew he had to flee the palace with Lloyd quickly.

• Kai had told Lloyd about the plan to flee the palace and how the Overlord wanted to possess him to have a new body, Lloyd knew the danger this represented and decided to follow Kai's orders, but before Lloyd managed to inform Harumi and Knowing that they would not see each other again for a while, she said goodbye to her best friend. Kai also said goodbye to Harumi and asked her not to tell anyone about her escape plan. Harumi promised to keep it a secret.

• Lloyd also said goodbye to his father for the last time when he was free from the control of the Overlord and the poison of the Great Devourer, Garmadon knew that he might not see his son again because if the Overlord found out about Lloyd's escape, Garmadon would be completely possessed by the Overlord and affected even more by the poison of the Great Devourer and that would cause him to not be able to have any more lucid moments.

• Kai and Lloyd managed to escape from the palace by using one of the tunnels that connected the city's sewers, Kai also managed to take several books and scrolls of the prophecy and the Overlord, as well as maps of the palace and information about the bases and fields of Garmadon's work. But upon leaving the sewers they were discovered by several guards who tried to capture them. Kai luckily stole a horse and together with Lloyd managed to escape from the kingdom, where they spent weeks trying to reach the Resistance base.

• Obviously along the way they were attacked by groups of guards, thieves and sometimes they ended up in the middle of fights between Garmadon's soldiers and several rebels. But Kai and Lloyd still managed to stay together. Also, along the way Kai began to tell Lloyd about his previous life as the Red Ninja, Lloyd still did not understand why Kai did not tell him about his true identity, but he understood that it was so he could protect himself from the guards Garmadon's when they lived in the palace.

• When they reached the nearby areas of the Resistance base Kai and Lloyd were ambushed by the same Ninjas and a group of rebels who were guarding the area, Kai managed to stop the ambush by revealing the Fire Sword and its elemental power, Cole, Jay, Zane and Nya still couldn't believe that Kai was actually alive. Obviously the reunion was emotional, but there was still confusion wondering how Kai was alive and why he brought Prince Lloyd to the rebel base.

• Kai explained how he survived the attack where they believed he had died, but he did not explain almost the entire story of his life in the palace, in addition, he also explained that he became Lloyd's personal guard and that he discovered that the prince It was the Green Ninja, obviously at first they didn't believe Kai but they would confirm it by being present at Wu. Kai and Lloyd were taken to the rebel base and Wu still couldn't believe that Kai was alive and that his nephew Lloyd was really alive, when he heard that Kai had said that Lloyd could be the Green Ninja Wu immediately placed the Four Golden Weapons in front of to Lloyd and they began to shine brightly, thus confirming that Lloyd was actually the Green Ninja.

• This had shocked the rebels completely, they could not believe that the son of their greatest enemy would be the Green Ninja, although Wu mentioned that this could be logical since Lloyd has the same blood as the First Master and could have inherited the powers of Onís and Dragons. Furthermore, Wu motivated everyone that Lloyd could be a better ruler than Garmadon, which the rebels accepted but still distrusted the prince, since they did not know much about Lloyd due to Garmadon keeping him hidden in the palace and the rebels only knew of its existence thanks to the information Skylor provided them.

• Obviously when Lloyd started living in the Resistance base he was not very well received, unlike Kai, who at least was immediately accepted back into the Resistance, Lloyd knew that his father made a lot of people suffer and that made him feel sad to Lloyd. However, Kai was the one who always reassured him and told him that he was not to blame for the actions that the Overlord instilled in his father.

• Kai even mentioned to Lloyd that once the war was over, Lloyd would not have to take the throne, Kai assured Lloyd that he could choose to live a quieter life and leave the throne to his uncle if he wished. Lloyd was still unsure of his decision, but at least he was glad to know that Kai was always on his side.

• The only one who did not accept Lloyd within the Wu base was Morro, although he no longer had a voice within his old base, he still did not accept that Lloyd would be a good ruler once the war was over, Kai was the only who defended Lloyd from all who opposed him remaining on the base. It is for that reason that only Kai began to train Lloyd better, then the other Ninjas would take care of his other training.

• Nya was the first from the base to approach Lloyd, she was the only one who immediately supported Wu and Kai's decision, Nya let Lloyd see her inventions and also allowed him to help her with weapons and other private inventions of hers. Furthermore, Nya also helped in her training, they both went to a waterfall where Nya always practiced and there she taught Lloyd how to use the spear, even though the sword was Lloyd's favorite weapon.

• Wu also participated in Lloyd's training, he even taught him meditation techniques so that he could relax his mind and concentrate better, in addition, they became closer as uncle and nephew by having several conversations about themselves over a cup of tea.

• Cole, Zane and Jay also grew fond of Lloyd over time, the three of them had a different training system, in addition, when they were not training Lloyd entered his daily activities, Jay taught him about mechanics, Zane gave him first aid lessons in case of emergencies and let him sometimes play with his falcon, Cole gave him treats and accompanied him on some explorations with some rebels.

• Even sometimes some children his age let Lloyd participate in their games and training, even though Lloyd was far ahead in experience than the other children, he still always managed to surprise them. Those actions that Lloyd did at the base gradually earned him the trust of the other rebels. But Morro and his group were the only ones who still distrusted Lloyd.

• The years passed and Lloyd became stronger and stronger, even though he was already 16 years old Wu mentioned that Lloyd was not yet ready to face his father, but Kai knew that Lloyd was never ready to face his father, but still He had faith in Lloyd, after all he raised him for a long time, the only thing that worried Kai was the decisions Lloyd would make during his future battles against his father's forces and the Overlord.

[ninjago-x-lmk]

I think this is how it works.

The Underworld > For Warriors Disgraced in Battle.

The Cursed Realm > For People who have died with bad deeds or bad intentions and motivations such as vengeance or murder.

The Departed Realm in general > THE ACTUAL resting place of the dead.

This is Kinda like in The Underworld of Greek Mythology where souls go to different places depending on how they live…

The Fields of Asphodel is somewhat debated on what it does, but is considered to be a place where a majority of the dead go.

The Elysium is considered the place where heroes like Achilles or where Heracles would’ve ended up in if they died. Sometimes there’s an exception where the gods will request for you to end up there.

Then there’s the Isle of the Blessed which is sometimes considered a real place on Earth where good people go to that aren’t necessarily heroes.

Then there’s Tartarus a widely excepted place in Mythology which is basically Hell if you want to simplify it…

In the Ninjago World there seems to be more than one way you can die and could end up either in The Underworld, The Cursed Realm or The Departed Realm.

For The Underworld it is mainly far warriors who are disgraced in battle, those who are dishonored, disliked and tyrants in battle, like Samukai.

Garmadon DID NOT DIE however, he just fell into the Underworld…since his Season 1 form is more or less confirmed to be some type of Oni Form or something that is affiliated with the Oni, (considering Mystake turns into a Similar form in front of Garmadon) the Oni Form could just be permanently activated by his evilness, other than that, Garmadon did not die, so he couldn’t have turned into a Skulkin because of not dying.

Meanwhile the Departed Realm is rightfully named because it is the only place where the Dead go…we barely even see this Realm, but judging by Lloyd’s temporary visit to it, and a glimpse of what it looks like to Wu and Pixal, It’s likely it’s separated between Good and Bad people. (Whether or not the bad part was made due to the Cursed Realm’s influence is not confirmed)

Meanwhile usually the way to get to the Cursed Realm is if your soul is cursed when you were alive and you died or if your soul was banished. And since the Cursed Realm is basically the guts of the Preeminent, it works like a Digestive System where the longer you stay there you basically get your skin peeled off and turned into a soul. (Examples Include: Clouse and The Anacondrai Generals) Not only that but it basically looks like purgatory since those who reside there are eternally hungry and thirsty.

A majority of the Cursed Realm’s residents are either dead or were banished to the Cursed Realm, (Soul Archer for instance) so it’s hard to determine what exactly makes them ‘Cursed’ other than their souls are cursed.

Guys! Tommy talks about the Underworld and How it works! This could be super helpful in figuring out more about Bonzle!

It also answers some questions about what happened to Garmadon when he fell down there! Take a gander at this stuff!

That last comment is super interesting! It could give insight as to what happened to Bonzle!👀

[localguy2]

Do you guys know the origin behind this video?

I saw only a small mention of this on the Ninjago wiki, searched it up on YT and this is what popped up

[lord-of-the-day-of-the-departed]

I once had a idea

What if day of the departed was actually a important part of Hands of time with being more than Cole being human again?

I’ll divide this idea in 3 parts

The changes on day of the departed

The changes on hands of time

And the upcoming changes of the next seasons (I’ll won’t actually write all since is too much to write of)

1-instead of Pythor being a villain we will put a small great devourer has he’s replacement with a fang blade on her mouth but she will be the size of the statue on the city of ouroboros (this is mostly so Pythor return to villainy will be more than attacking Lloyd with a stick) the fights will go like this

Lloyd vs the great devourer (avenging he’s father of the corrupting the devourer caused)

Kozu vs Jay and Brown ninja (once again not personal with Jay but with the brown ninja)

Samukai and Chen vs Nya and Kai (Samukai kidnapped Nya in the pilot so this makes sense of a rematch between the Two and a revenge for Nya)

Krypto vs Zane

Only Chen dies while Lloyd gets to put in a dormant state the not so great devourer and makes the beast shrink into a normal giant snake size, Krypto would be partially destroyed but I’ll rise again once Zane goes to the other after thinking he killed krypto,Kozu gets trapped by the other stone warriors since the brown ninja kept the good old Helmet,Samukai gets roped and Anya taunts him. Morro does the same he did in the original special and warned wu and the Ninjas which have their respective villains trapped. Cole defeats Yang and when they thought the villains returned to the realm of the departed Morro was there like “something isn’t right”, after day of the departed Morro goes with Yang and Yang explains how the spell is not working has it should since they were supposed to return to the Cursed realm and thought it had to work with the departed realm as well but seemingly without the cursed realm the villains were stuck in this realm hill they die again but in Morros case he returned has a ghost so he got the worse part of the deal. The villains go to check on the villains they had captured but Kozu escaped with the Helmet, the same goes for Samukai and the great devourer and according to the security tapes Krypto freed them

2-hands of time:

Samukai returned to the underworld which was now abandoned and seems the skeleton army dissolved after they fought the serpentine and now Samukai wants to defeat the ninjas for dissolving he’s kingdom

Krypto:goes around hacking all the technology he finds with the technoblade he had (which will be the ice technoblade) he ends up to hack a motorcycle and goes to the desert to hide but not before leaving lots of corrupted tech to attack the ninjas, he ends up teaming up with Samukai but both want to betray each other when they have the chance.

Kozu:with a battalion of stone warriors he goes to free the giant stone warrior and now wants to make a new stone army using the great devourer

Great devourer:Once it wakes up the snake becomes docile going around like a child but that’s until Kai goes to the museum to and the great devourer feels her offsprings causing Kai to discover Krux identity

When they get the slow motion hand Morro talks about using the blades to fix their mistake so garmadon would have never been bite,the serpentines never got freed and he never died in the first place but Master wu says “even if I regret all of those things and more, the past molds our future selfs and by changing the past we change ourselves and I love my ninjas the way they are” but then Krypto and Samukai intervene stealing it revealing their plan to use them to go back in time (Samukai to go back just when he dies so he can rule when Garmadon disappears and Krypto to destroy Zane to prevent the defeat of the overlord) Krypto reveals he entered in borg industry’s serves and discovered their location thanks to Pixal knowing it, Morro thanks to being a ghost he’s inmune to the forward Time blade for being a eternal spirit, so he takes the time blade leaving the twins with none but they do get to kidnap sensei wi,The rest of the ninjas get in the hands of time lair has usual.

After that Samukai and Krypto get in the time hands lair thanks to pixal once again and we have a fight between Morro and Krypto with the Time blades but both gets defeated by the twins with the time blades and Kozu with the pause time blade, pausing Morro and taking the forward and slow mo time blades and with that it was thing of no time for Kozu to give the time blades to the twins.

But before… Nya and Kai (and the devourer) get to the meet their parents in which the true is revealed by how Krux used the vermillion to poison Kai with a lesser venom similar to the one that affected Garmadon but in exchange for the cure their parents went to work with him, and they’re accompanied by Kozu who has the pause time blade since he sends a Scout Soldier to follow the Vermillion after they rampage for metal through the city. Kozu got to discover the place of the time blade and got there first and got it first but made a deal with the twins to give him vermillion to make more stone soldiers which the twins accept since they know stone warriors are more indestructible and valuable than any vermillion soldier. The stone soldiers quickly defeat the heroes and then they return to the base finishing the machine and go back in time while Kozu starts massacring some vermillion left behind by the time twins using their blood on statues to make more stone soldiers and he starts invading ninjago but the devourer overpowers the control of the twins over the vermillion making them fight back against the stone warriors, in the chaos Morro flys to the portal in the sky chasing the twins with Kay and Nya. Kozu reveals the real plans Is how the twins undoing the past will drive into the destruction of the devourer awakening the stone army once again but this time without golden power so no one will be able to defeat the overlord

Most things go the same except for Morro staying with Wu to fight. Morro falls in the past while Wu goes like usual

After that we get a scene of Morro being tempted to help he’s past self to go back home but decides to give him a advice “kid I know he meant no harm, if he still loves you he’ll welcome you with open arms” past Morro will remember this which will lead to future Morro redeeming himself at the end of possession. Now Morro will try for things to stay mostly the same in the past

Meanwhile the hands of time return to the present while wu turns into a baby and goes to the future. They are welcomed by the great devourer which frees the vermillion from their control and go back with their mother, meanwhile Samukai gets abandoned by Krypto which try’s to steal the time blades but gets stopped by same, but the hacked car of the nindroid runs over Zane allowing the nindroid to escape

Status of the villains

Kozu:arrested with the rest of the stone army

Samukai:arrested

Great devourer:I’m a sanctuary with her offsprings

Hands of time:both arrested in the highest technology prison of ninjago

Krypto:disappeared

Morro:somewhere in Ninjago (will become important in sons of Garmadon)

3-upcoming seasons

Morro:he’s the one who brings baby wu to the ninjas but stays in the shadows so Garmadon won’t know about he’s presence (I’m still thinking about events after)

Kozu:will join the sons of Garmadon knowin full well what’s going to happen

Samukai:he mostly does nothing till crystalized joining the other criminals to help defeat the crystal king but this may change

Krypto:goes to prime empire and subsequently becomes a virus and recurring threat through the season