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Pilot

Sensei Wu

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Debut: "Way of the Ninja"
Voiced by: Paul Dobson (as an adult), Caleb Skeris (as a toddler)

Wu is the second-born son of the First Spinjitzu Master and younger brother to Garmadon. A childhood incident led to the latter being bitten by the Great Devourer and slowly infected with evil. When Garmadon left to train with Master Chen, Wu came across the orphan Morro and took him on as a student - which would later turn into his biggest regret. He and his brother were then involved in the first Serpentine War on the side of the Elemental Masters as well as the conflict against the Time Twins. Eventually, Garmadon succumbed to the evil flowing in his veins and tried to take the Golden Weapons, leading to a battle that resulted in Wu banishing him to the Underworld.

Having accumulated much experience and wisdom over the last forty years, he would later seek out the Ninja and become their mentor in order to help them against their foes.

After slowly aging to death, the Ninja were forced to use the time reversal blade on him to save his life. Although they succeeded, Wu was accidentally turned into a toddler because of this, and the Sons of Garmadon kidnap him and Misako in order to use him to get the last Oni Mask. Over time, he gradually ages back to normal, reclaims his father's armor, and confronts Garmadon alongside Lloyd.

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• Advertised Extra: Despite being in the opening credits for season 4, he doesn't really play a part until the final few episodes. Garmadon is mostly the main mentor for the ninja in that season.
• The Ageless: Not obvious at first, but it eventually turns out he's at least a thousand years old. You wouldn't know it from looking at him.
• Badass Teacher: He is the one who trained the ninjas to be strong.
• Bash Brothers: With Garmadon from Season 3 onward.
• Big Good: He is a wise old man who is also mentor and master to the six Ninja (Lloyd, Kai, Jay, Cole, Zane, and Nya), as he trained them to be capable of protecting Ninjago from evil forces.
• Cain and Abel: With Lord Garmadon. This was briefly inverted during Season 3 after Wu is subject to an Unwilling Roboticisation. Afterwards, this is subverted because Garmadon never wanted to be evil in the first place... and then it's finally played straight again when Garmadon is revived and Wu becomes the only one who can stop him.
• The Chosen One: After being turned into a baby, he becomes the key to the last Oni mask and the true main target of the Quiet One. This is because only someone with Oni blood can remove the last Oni mask. Although The Quiet One ends up improvising and using Lloyd as the key instead.
• Cool Old Guy: Wu's definitely got shades of this.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: He is briefly subject to an Unwilling Roboticisation in Season 3, but gets better.
• Disc Two Final Boss: Master Wu is the last foe faced by the ninjas in the Fire Chapter of season 11. Once they beat him, it's time to move to the second Story Arc of the season.
• Drink-Based Characterization: Wu and his tea.
• Final Boss Preview: Wu challenges the ninjas in the first episode of season 11, after they started to become lazy following the defeat of the Omega. He gives a Curb-Stomp Battle to the whole team. It later turns out that Master Wu is the Disc Two Final Boss of the season.
• Fountain of Youth: As a side effect of the Ninja using the Reversal Blade on him to save his life, and his stealing it to sabotage Krux and Acronix's time machine, when he returns, he's been turned back into a toddler. It takes him 2 whole Seasons to age back to normal.
• Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of season 7, he sabotages Krux and Acronix's time machine, sending them all to destinations unknown. He returns, obviously. Just not in the way the ninja expected...
• Honor Before Reason:
  • While Garmadon had no intention of honoring the deal he and Wu made with Aspheera to teach her Spinjitzu in exchange for her helping them escape the Serpentine kingdom, Wu decided to do it anyway despite his brother's protests. Big mistake.
  • In Season 15, he at first refuses to help the Ninja with their heist, not only due to it hinging on Aspheera's help (due to Wu and her being mortal enemies), but because it's against the law, and is fully willing to let them serve out their prison time. After the Council of the Crystal King make themselves known as a threat, he ultimately decides that refusing to help the Ninja save Nya was a mistake, and does everything in his power to help them, even though they're now fugitives of the law.
• Hypocrite: Kai considers him this after hearing the story of Aspheera, pointing out that Wu often tells the Ninja to accept responsibility for their actions, but decided to pretend Aspheera never happened. For his part, Wu seems to agree, and briefly considers fighting Aspheera on his own.
• Irony:
  • In Season 11, Wu wanted the ninja to stop lazing around and to go seek out problems in Ninjago to keep up their skills. They eventually find one alright, and Wu himself is responsible for it.
  • A Flashback to his youth in the same season shows that, between him and Garmadon, he was actually the more reckless brother.
• Light 'em Up: His element is Creation, represented by light.
• Light Is Good: Wields the element of Creation, in the form of light, wears white, and is the Big Good of the series.
• Mentor Archetype: Was the one who trained the Ninja.
• My Greatest Failure:
  • Wu seems to regard Morro as one.
  • Season 11 provides another: In his youth, he broke the treaty between the humans and Serpentine by going into Serpentine land, leading to him getting imprisoned and increasing tensions between humans and Serpentine, he then met Aspheera who helped him escape in exchange for him teaching her Spinjitzu. This led to Aspheera usurping the Serpentine king and attacking humans, with Wu stealing one of his father's scrolls of Forbidden Spinjitzu to defeat her. Wu was so ashamed by all this that he wanted to just forget all about it.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Teaching Aspheera spinjitzu was not his best decision.
• Not So Above It All: Many times, he joins in with the ninja and their joking, even occasionally making a few at his students' expense.
• Obsolete Mentor: Laments that he is becoming this in Season 13 (or, as Lloyd puts it, he's in a funk), due to not contributing much in the previous two seasons. He gets over it as the season progresses with help from Cole and Vania, becoming more passionate and adventurous than ever.
• Old Master: Along with Garmadon, they're some of the oldest living people in Ninjago. This is thanks in part to their Oni blood, which extended their lifespans.
• Parental Substitute: To the Ninja and Lloyd. He also used to be Morro's Parental Substitute.
• Pretty Boy: Much like Garmadon, Wu seems to have been a looker as a teenager / young adult.
• Put on a Bus: Is missing in the first season of Dragons Rising, having disappeared during the Merge.
• Rapid Aging: His fight with Krux gets him subject to a Time Punch, which makes him start aging to death. The ninja spend most of the season trying to save him.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: During his tenure as Evil Wu thanks to the Overlord.
• Secret-Keeper: It's pretty much a running gag that Wu seems to know what the latest threat is, but never just freaking tells the ninja about it before it's actually a problem, and when he does start to tell them, something usually interrupts before he can share the main deets. Come season 8, Jay's gotten a little tetchy about it.
• Something Only They Would Say: The ninja realize "Cole Jr." is someone they recognize first when he shows an insatiable fondness for tea, but then says "Ninja never quit".
• Unwilling Roboticisation: Subject to one in Season 3, but he gets better.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In Season 11: Insisting that the Ninja seek out a new adventure lead to the return of Aspheera, Kai losing his Elemental powers, and Zane being banished to the Neverrealm.

Garmadon

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First Mentioned: "Way of the Ninja"
Debut: "The Golden Weapon"
Voiced by: Mark Oliver

Garmadon is the first-born son of the First Spinjitzu Master and older brother to Wu. He was infected with evil by the Great Devourer as a child, and its influence grew on him throughout his life until he became a full-fledged villain. Before he succumbed fully to the evil in his blood, he fell in love with a woman called Misako and married her, at some point conceiving their son Lloyd. He was eventually banished to the Underworld as a mutated figure, and assumed leadership of the Skullkin Army. He plotted to return and collect the Golden Weapons and reshape Ninjago in his own evil image. After facing the Ninja for the first time, Garmadon escaped and became more powerful.

His villainy culminated in him being unwillingly possessed by the Overlord. In a final fight with Lloyd, the Overlord was defeated and exorcised from Garmadon along with all the evil in his blood, leaving him a normal human being again. Garmadon then takes up mentorship as penance for his evil, trying to and eventually failing to take a pacifist path. Catching his son trying to sneak off to a tournament with the Ninja, Garmadon joined them, knowing their host only too well as his evil former sensei, Master Chen. Garmadon did his best to protect Lloyd during the tournament, and finally sacrificed himself to stop a second Serpentine War.

Season 8 has him brought back from the Cursed Realm by his worshipers, The Sons Of Garmadon. Unlike before, Garmadon was brought back with only the worst traits of himself, making him completely different from even his former evil self. However, despite temporarily winning, even this Garmadon couldn't truly bring himself to kill Lloyd and after being defeated in Season 9 and then helping stop the threat of the Oni in Season 10 he went on a journey of self-reflection to not only comprehend who he was but also work towards becoming someone who'd one day make amends with his family and rejoin them.

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• 0% Approval Rating: By Seasons 10 and 15 this is how he ends up because he can't commit to either being a destroyer or a good guy and ends up hurting countless people with his actions. No side wants him around besides a few individuals; the people of Ninjago hate him for the tyrannical reign he led and the suffering he put them through, the Ninjas distrust and reject his advice at all turns for trying to kill them, the Sons of Garmadon turn on him for helping the Ninja, Harumi herself drops any admiration towards him after he unwittingly caused her death and even Lloyd shows resentment towards him for his past actions. The few people to do more than just tolerate him are Wu, who shows care and respect towards Garmadon due to being his brother and having full faith in him changing his ways as well as Vinny, who began teaching him to more compassionate, but even then it was only after Garmadon had proven to Vinny he was a changed man. It takes until he truly shows he's changed for him to gain some respect back from some of people but even then it's only a few who do so.
• All for Nothing: Season 10 shows that his entire plan in Seasons 8 and 9 to combat the Oni would've ended disastrously had he fully come out on top despite his efforts, as his Oni form (which is even stronger than any past form he had) isn't enough to contend with the Omega and in the end he's only able to help stop them by teaming up with the other Ninja to power up their Tornado of Creation.
• The Atoner: From Season 3 onward. Not anymore come Season 8, after being resurrected by the Oni Masks, however this soon is flipped by the end of Season 9 and beginning of Season 10 where he slowly but surely gravitates back to the good side, and while he doesn't shows much, if any, remorse over his past actions he does acknowledge he's not a good person by the end and spent the time between Seasons 10 and 15 learning how to show empathy with some of his dialogue implying he wants to earn Lloyd's forgiveness after all he did.
• Back for the Finale: In two separate ways.
  • He gets resurrected and becomes the Big Bad of the Oni Trilogy, the last three seasons of "Masters of Spinjutzu".
  • He returns in Part 2 of "Crystalized", with him having pulled a Heel–Face Turn after the Oni Trilogy.
• Back from the Dead: The Sons of Garmadon seek to bring him back from the dead as Lord Garmadon and succeed.
• Bad Boss: Is this to both the Serpentine (though this was more of a case of Surrounded by Idiots) and to the Sons of Garmadon (this being a You Have Failed Me case where he executes Mr. E and has no hesitation to threaten to do the same to Harumi and the others).
• Badass Pacifist: Has sworn to never fight after pulling his Heel–Face Turn. This doesn't stick past season 3. It happens again during Season 15 where he decided to take a vow of nonviolence during his quest for redemption but leaves it behind once he sees the Crystal King's army true threat.
• The Bad Guy Wins: So far he's the only villain that has ended a season victorious more than once.
  • The pilot episode. He knows Samukai will betray him, so when Sensei Wu takes the Sword of Fire into the Underworld, he has Samukai take the other weapons there. This is because when Samukai does betray him, they will create a singularity which will allow Garmadon to escape the Underworld.
  • In Season 1 he ends up getting the 4 golden weapons, killing the Great Devourer and achieving his revenge, allowing him to put his plans into motion.
  • Happens again when the Sons of Garmadon bring him back at the end of Season 8, as he successfully defeats the Ninja and conquers Ninjago with none to oppose him. His victory would be undone by Season 9.
• Being Evil Sucks: Due to being evil due to it literally running through his veins, so he'll always be forced to be evil, but he's aware of this and doesn't truly want to be, particularly where his son is concerned. Gets worse when Lloyd is revealed to be The Chosen One. After Garmadon is resurrected by the three Oni masks, being evil doesn't suck for him because he no longer has a conscience. Even then, however, he still shows signs of regret and remorse when he is fighting Lloyd one-on-one, suggesting that he is unhappy with being revived as a destroyer but has essentially given in to his fate. By Seasons 9 and 10 more of this is shown and his unhappiness with his current fate and implied remorse over what he's done to Lloyd and others drives him to try and change his ways, which he does by Season 15.
• Berserk Button:
  • Do not threaten or attempt to harm Lloyd in his presence. Whether he's good or evil (Unless it's him after he Came Back Wrong in Seasons 8 & 9), he's going to make you pay for it.
  • In Season 15, don't harm Christofern either. It's enough to consistently drive him into his Oni Form!
• Big Bad: Overall is this for the series as a whole, being the villain with the most seasons as the Big Bad (being so for the Pilot episodes, Season 2, Season 8, and Season 9). He also acts as this in the movie adaptation, making him the overall main antagonist of the franchise.
• Big Bad Ensemble: In Season 9 he antagonizes Ninjago as Emperor Garmadon, with his opposition being the Elemental Masters, Nya, Misako, PIXAL, Dareth and Lloyd. Meanwhile, the original 4 Ninja and a de-aged Wu are up against a new villain, The Iron Baron, due to the fact that the Ninja are stuck in another realm.
• Body Horror: Multiple times: glowing eyes, charred skin, four arms, the draconian form the Overlord forced him into, and finally an Anacondrai body, courtesy of Master Chen.
  • Jay lampshades this by eventually telling him to pick a body and stick to it!
• Broken Pedestal: Besides Wu and Misako, he more or less shatters everyone else's admiration of him through his selfish and insensitive actions. But most importantly for two parties:
  • Lloyd for most of the series thinks the world of Garmadon and even wished to be like his father in the first Season as a warmongering conqueror, even after his turn to good he still admired his father and respected him. After Garmadon turned good this admiration kept going strong and even after Garmadon's sacrifice Lloyd still held him in high esteem. For most of Seasons 8 and 9, Lloyd still admires his father despite his return as a purely evil monster at first but as Garmadon's cruelty piles up he finds himself disappointed and no longer trusting of him. Season 10 only makes things worse when Garmadon's dismissive and goal-oriented nature strains their relationship even further, culminating in Lloyd outright denouncing any admiration he had for his father. Seasons 11-15 would go further showing Lloyd may still love his father but wants nothing to do with his legacy or being anything like him, especially his Oni side; and even outright shows his greatest fear to be the possibility of becoming a monster like his father. Even after Lloyd begins to open his heart once more to his father after seeing he's changed and patches things up, the pedestal is never really rebuilt.
  • The Sons of Garmadon, especially Harumi, thought of the evil Garmadon as Ninjago's true hero and the only one capable of leading it to prosperity hence why they tried to revive him in a monstruous state where his love for his son wouldn't hold him back. As it turns out, however, the resurrected Garmadon is very much a Bad Boss that doesn't cares about their well-being and even Harumi's admiration of him falls apart after Garmadon shows he won't stop at anything to achieve his goals, even pointless destruction that could get everyone killed, and then accidentally causes her death. When the Overlord brings her back from the dead and tells her admiring Garmadon was a mistake, she doesn't disputes it and her reaction to Garmadon aiding the Ninja further confirms it. It's ambiguous if this one pedestal was rebuilt after her redemption. On the same boat, the other Sons of Garmadon don't look back either, joining Lord Mogra when he frees them from Kryptarium and having no issue with trying to defeat and kill Garmadon when he gets in their way.
• Brought Down to Normal: The Overlord's defeat caused all of the evil to vanish from his body.
• But Now I Must Go: His fate at the end of March of the Oni, after being relieved to see Lloyd alive and figuring he needs to change his ways to ever be with his family again, he leaves to find redemption and change his ways for good.
• The Bus Came Back: After sitting out for Seasons 11 to 14 outside of mentions and being pictured occasionally, he returns in the second half of Crystallized.
• Came Back Strong: When he is resurrected in Season 8, he is able to wield the power of Destruction. After unlocking his True Potential by defeating his son Lloyd he is able to use Creation as well. He also eventually gains access to his Oni form, which while not enough to take on the likes of the Omega and the Overlord is still strong enough to make short work of most other foes and give the former two a run for their money.
• Came Back Wrong: The Sons of Garmadon sought to invoke this by reviving him using the three Oni Masks. They were successful. While he does manage to get back to fighting strength, all the good in him is gone, and later episodes suggest there are a few memories missing since he doesn't even recognize a picture of himself. By the latter parts of Season 9 and Season 10 he starts becoming more lucid and returning to his older personality's kinder ways, cemented by Season 15 having him pull his second Heel–Face Turn after a dose of self-reflection.
• Card-Carrying Villain: In Seasons 1 to 2 he is an unashamedly self-proclaimed evil overlord, he literally eats evil for breakfast. It's low on carbs. Made more notable by his post-resurrection self being initially openly aggressive and cruel but never once thinking of himself as truly evil deep down and having well-intentioned goals for every cruel action he took.
• The Comically Serious: Occasionally, after his resurrection, especially when he teams up with the ninja. Guy has no idea how to interact with ordinary people anymore. It's both silly and saddening at the same time. He gets slightly better by Season 15 where he starts understanding people a bit better but still has a long way to go.
• Companion Cube: In Season 15, it's revealed after Season 10 that he was raising a potted plant that he named Christofern in order to learn care and compassion. And whenever it ends up seemingly destroyed on several occasions, it REALLY drives his fury out enough to bring out his Oni Form, though thankfully it does survive through the season as he eventually plants him at the top of a hill once everything's said and done. It's heavily implied that in addition to being a typical Morality Pet, he also sees Christofern as a metaphor for his and Lloyd's relationship, making his attachment to the plant more meaningful.
• Dark Is Evil: He has a black color scheme and is, of course, evil. When the Devourer's venom is purified from his body, he appears as an ordinary elderly man wearing a green gi. This returns in full force once he is resurrected in Season 8 and takes over as the main baddie in Season 9 but ends fully subverted once he makes his second Heel–Face Turn during Seasons 10 and 15, showing him as mean-spirited and insensitive at worst.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite his compulsion to be evil thanks to the Devourer's venom corrupting him, he is more of a Tragic Villain because he doesn't WANT to be evil, he just can't help himself. His black and purple color scheme comes from his time condemned to the Underworld by Wu.
  • He also had a suit with a Red and Black and Evil All Over aesthetic before being fully corrupted by the venom.
  • He fully becomes this in Season 15, making a genuine effort to try and learn to be good after the events of Season 10 without having his evil purified like before. He even comments on the oddity of an Oni, a being of destruction, helping rebuild the Monastery in the series finale and beginning to patch up things with Lloyd.
• Death Glare: He wants Traveler's Tea. Mystake, the shopkeeper, tells him that only fools ask for that. Cue the Death Glare.
  Mystake: (nervous laugh) But you're no fool.
• Demonic Possession: Becomes the Overlord's unwitting vessel in Season 2. He gets freed in the finale
• Demoted to Dragon: To The Overlord in the (original) final story arc.
• Disney Death: He attempts to perform an act of Faking the Dead in the Season 15 finale against the Overlord/Crystal King in order to provoke Lloyd into using the Oni Form. While it did work, it was only for a really brief moment.
• Enemy Mine: In Season 1 he teams up with the Ninja to oppose the Serpentine, and save Lloyd.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Never stops putting his own life on the line to save Lloyd and despite their fallout still loves Misako. Post-resurrection he seems to have disowned Lloyd in favor of Harumi but doesn't takes long for his old love for his son to return and gradually convince him to reform.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Just one of the major sticking points between him and Lloyd in season 15. Garmadon can no longer grasp even the most basic concepts of good, or even just not being a jerk, no matter how hard he tries.
• Evil Is Petty: In season 1, even when he's working with the ninja, he's still a colossal jerk. And again during season 10, when he shuts off the Destiny Bounty's engines while they're in mid-flight just because.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: He used to look like an ordinary person, albeit with pale skin as the Devourer's venom worked on him. It wasn't until Wu knocked him into the Underworld that he took on his distinctive all-black, red-eyed look. Later seasons would imply this is the result of his Oni side taking over, as other Oni are distinctly similar to him.
• Evil Old Folks: Albeit an tragic variant. Before his Heel–Face Turn, he intended to reshape Ninjago in his own evil image.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" reveals that he didn't want Lloyd to follow in his footsteps.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Played straight when he's trapped in the Underworld, averted after he escapes where his voice is actually quite high. Zigzags a little with his resurrection in season 8, depending on his mood.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: He joins the ninja team temporarily in Season 1 to prevent Pythor and the Snake Tribes from unleashing the Great Devourer. He's also the one who deals the final blow to the Great Devourer with the Golden Weapons. And again with the Oni during Season 10, though in truth he truly wishes to save his family and the people of Ninjago so he can make amends for what he's done and rejoin them.
• Final Boss Preview: Happens twice.
  • He fights Lloyd in the second episode of Season 3 and defeats him by using the Art of the Silent Fist with no effort whatsoever.
  • He has another duel with Lloyd in the penultimate episode of Season 8 and defeats him again. This time, he isn't holding back.
  • Comes the final of Season 9 and he is defeated by Lloyd using the Art of the Silent Fist he used against him in Season 3, while he uses the same technics than in Season 8.
• Foil: Seems to be set up as one to his brother in season 4. Whereas Wu acts more the part of the enigmatic, weird, slightly aloof mentor towards the Ninja, Garmadon is the actual father of one of them and is much more hands-on, direct, and pragmatic as the Ninja's sensei. He also knows quite a lot more about the criminal underworld than his brother does, naturally.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: In Season 10 he joins the Ninja against the Oni, but the only people who even remotely tolerate him are Wu and Misako, who hardly get to interact with him. The other Ninja only tolerate him because they need his help but don't think of him as a friend. Even Lloyd, who's the most optimistic about Garmadon, finds himself frustrated and disillusioned with Garmadon's selfish, insensitive attitude to the point of calling out his former father on how horrible he is to others. While he changes his ways in Season 15 he's still very much this due to not quite outgrowing his jerkass qualities even with Lloyd, with Wu being the only person left in Ninjago who doesn't hate him, distrusts or is ambivalent about him; it takes until the finale for him to finally gain some respect from the Ninja and only barely.
• Good Is Not Nice: As one of the good guys, Garmadon is quite pragmatic, although he's not above pushing the Ninja towards amending their behavior towards fellow Elemental Masters, even if they are on opposing sides. And in Season 15, he's quite assertive and aggressive in his efforts to try to teach Lloyd to use his Oni Side, even faking his own death to the Overlord to make him pull it off. And speaking of his Oni Form, he's not afraid to use it in order to deliver unbridled rage upon the Overlord and his forces.
• Good Parents: Never stops trying to be as good a father for Lloyd as he can be. He remains this post Heel–Face Turn. And though his revived self is initially not this, he begins to work towards becoming it again come Season 15.
• Grumpy Old Man: Towards the Ninja in season 3, and with good reason. Season 10 has this aspect come back in full force as he gets exasperated by the Ninjas' emotionality and refusal to be more logical and goal-oriented against the Oni.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: By the end of Season 10, he leaves to parts unknown after helping the Ninja defeat the Oni, and the series heavily implies that contrary to what he says, he still cares about his family and wants to be part of humanity again, leaving it ambiguous if he returned to evil after leaving. Season 15 sets the record straight, showing that Garmadon is genuinely trying to make an effort to be better despite his evil impulses and repair his relationship with Lloyd.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: As Lord Garmadon, he typically switches to face only when Lloyd is in trouble. It helps he's not evil of his own accord.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the Season 2 finale, he turns back into a (good) human upon the defeat of the Overlord. And in the second half of Season 15, it turns out after the events of Season 10, he attempted to learn from Vinny how to understand compassion and being good, as he eventually decides to work alongside the Ninja in order to defeat the Overlord/Crystal King, and manages to cement this change for good.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • At the climax of the season 4 finale, he trades places with the Anacondrai generals to allow them to deal with Chen's army. As such, Garmadon ends up trapped in the Cursed Realm with no way home; and is ultimately killed one season later when the entire Cursed Realm is destroyed (along with all its inhabitants).
  • The series finale has him seemingly beaten to death by the Overlord while essentially taking the heat of the attacks that would otherwise hit Lloyd and apologizes with his last breath to his son, which allows Lloyd to unleash his Oni form... For a few seconds before he loses it and then Garmadon reveals himself to be alive and having just faked the routine on purpose.
• Hidden Depths: After his revival, he seems to be entirely bereft of his human qualities but finds himself hesitating to kill Lloyd in Season 9, and in Season 10 repeatedly saves him from Oni, suggesting that something good does remain in him. Garmadon also makes an effort to try to understand human emotion and grief, with the Omega also telling him that despite trying to play the monster, Garmadon still wants to live alongside his family again. Season 15 and his titular comic miniseries also show that for all his apparent lack of remorse over his actions in the Oni Trilogy he at least acknowledges he hurt Lloyd and ruined their relationship out of his own free will and wants to one day earn back Lloyd's trust and forgiveness.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He is defeated by Lloyd in season 9, who uses the very same Martial Art that he had beaten him with back in Season 3 (The Art of the Silent Fist) to exhaust him into defeat.
• I Have No Son!: Said verbatim to Lloyd after he comes back wrong thanks to Harumi. It's what solidifies that the revived Garmadon is nothing like the man Lloyd knew when he was alive, not even when he was Lord Garmadon before. But then it gets subverted when Season 9 comes around and Garmadon still acknowledges Lloyd as his son and shows he does care deep down despite trying to distance himself so he could grow stronger. By Seasons 10 and 15 he starts to mend fences and fully goes back on disowning Lloyd, while seeking to earn his forgiveness.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: A couple of times, with Lloyd. The first time, it's when Garmadon is possessed by the Overlord and Lloyd is trying to reach him, and the second time it's when he's brought back by Harumi without any of his positive qualities. Lloyd is able to reach him the first time, but it doesn't work so well when he tries it again, because the Lord Garmadon brought back here lacks the good qualities of the original at first, it takes until Season 10 for the Garmadon that cared greatly about Lloyd to come back and start trying to mend fences.
• Innocently Insensitive: By Seasons 10 and 15 he begins to tame his more overtly evil tendencies but still comes off as an insensitive jerk due to being convinced that traits like kindness and empathy are weak, leading to him angering the Ninja and Lloyd through his apparent lack of care about anyone but himself.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • While he may have been a jerk about it, his decision to not uphold his and Wu's side of the deal to teach Spinjitzu to Aspheera in exchange for her helping them to escape the Serpentine kingdom when they were kids was ultimately the right one.
  • Deconstructed in Season 10 where he tries and get the Ninja to stop being so emotional about the people they lose to the Oni, which is technically right as the Oni are a restless threat that grow stronger over time, but it's his utter lack of empathy and refusal to have faith in others that prevents him from truly being a guide to the Ninja and it only hurts his already strained relationship with Lloyd further.
  • Season 15 has him be outright mean to Lloyd so he can utilize his anger and bring out his Oni form, which as the finale proved is strong enough to defeat the Overlord, only failing because Lloyd was too scared of what he had become.
• Knight of Cerebus: His appearance from Season 8 has him devoid of any humorous moments unlike his previous incarnation, it takes until he starts becoming nicer midway in Season 10 for him to become somewhat comical again; culminating in his redeemed self in Season 15 being prone to goofy moments and some doses of The Comically Serious.
• Lack of Empathy: After being revived as Lord Garmadon in Season 8, he becomes able to hurt his son and displays no remorse in hurting people. It's downplayed in Season 15, where he still acts very goal-oriented at the expense of other people, but he's also genuinely trying to make an effort to become better at understanding other people again and wants to earn Lloyd's forgiveness, showing he has come around to see he was wrong in his prior actions.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: He becomes a good guy for two whole seasons before dying. Also, since the entire premise of Season 8 is that the villains want to resurrect him back as Lord Garmadon, the fact that he dies is pretty much announced to newcomers on a megaphone if they watch the trailers or keep up with the show at all. Likewise, the fact that he has returned to life as Lord Garmadon and taken over Ninjago is announced in the Season 9 trailers.
• Made of Evil: Thanks to the Great Devourer biting him in his youth, it's literally in Garmadon's blood to be evil. In the Season 2 finale, he is finally cured of this after Lloyd beats the Overlord.
• Morality Pet:
  • Lloyd, his son, who Garmadon loves more than he loves being evil. Even once Lloyd joins the Ninja's side and becomes the one destined to defeat him, he refuses to target him, instead targeting the rest of the Ninja. The fact that the resurrected Garmadon is able to harm Lloyd, physically and emotionally, without any semblance of remorse shows that his revived form really is devoid of his good qualities, just as Harumi predicted... Or at least until Season 10 rolls around where Lloyd's anger at him and their gradually deteriorating bond along with Lloyd's Disney Death convince Garmadon to reform so he can one day rejoin his family and more importantly reconcile with his son.
  • In Season 15 it's Christofern, a plant he has grown, the one who fills this role; not only for it being the first living being he cares for in his quest for redemption but also representing his hopes of making amends with Lloyd.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His dark form caused him to grow a second pair of arms, each for holding the remaining two golden weapons.
• My God, What Have I Done?: While not explicitly shown in the show, some of his dialogue in Crystalized and the Garmadon comics miniseries (taking place after Season 10) reveal that he feels nothing but remorse for how he treated Lloyd during the Oni Trilogy and wants one day to earn his forgiveness, fearing that his son might not love him anymore after all he'd done; primarily when he hallucinates Lloyd reaching out to save him while recovering from an attack of Lord Mogra.
  Garmadon: A-After all I've done, you haven't given up on me... Lloyd
• Never My Fault:
  • For all of Season 10 he practically blames the threat of the Oni on the Ninja and Lloyd, specifically; and is baffled when no one wants him around or follows his insensitive line of thought. He at least does realize after being called out just how badly he screwed up and begins his road to redemption.
  • In Season 15, when trying to teach Lloyd to go into Oni form, he keeps giving him unclear and often contradictory instructions, and complains that it's Lloyd's fault. The rest of the ninja even lampshade this.
  Jay: Simmer down, "Master" Garmadon. He's doing exactly what you said!
  Cole: You keep changing the rules, saying different stuff!
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: In Season 8, after he Came Back Wrong, he gives Lloyd one of the most, if not, the most brutal one in the series. When he and Lloyd fight each other, Garmadon stops holding back and lands as many hits on him and ends the fight by throwing Lloyd through multiple walls. Ending with Lloyd badly injured.
• Nominal Hero: The citizens of Ninjago City didn't hesitate to give Lord Garmadon credit for destroying the Great Devourer, never mind that he did it for revenge and kept the Four Weapons of Spinjitzu for his own purposes. He becomes a real hero eventually, though. The fact that he killed the Devourer as Lord Garmadon is Harumi's motivation for wanting him to come back in such a state, so the creators did get around to lampshading this eventually.
• Not Me This Time: The ninja initially think Garmadon is the "Treacherous Deceiver" responsible for Aspheera's rampage in Season 11. He's not. The real culprit is none other than Wu.
• Obviously Evil: As Lord Garmadon, he's pitch-black, with glowing red eyes, visible ribs, and a face like a demon or monster from traditional Japanese artwork. This gets worse when he gets a second pair of arms. His revival as Emperor Garmadon gives him a much more sinister armor and helmet than his prior ones, but this time he gradually reforms on his own.
• Only Sane Man: Once he's human again, his down-to-earth personality contrasts with his brother's Cloud Cuckoo Lander antics of previous seasons.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Very much so, he brought an entire army to protect his son. Even after he becomes the Big Bad again, he refuses to let any harm befall Lloyd.
  • After Pythor and the Overlord kidnap Lloyd, he goes against his vow of peace to fight them.
  • In season 4, he joins the Ninja on a quest just to protect Lloyd — and how.
  • No longer a Papa Wolf in Season 8, in which his revived and corrupted form is able to harm Lloyd with no semblance of remorse... Until Season 10 comes around where he recovers this one aspect of him despite claiming he is beyond any form of goodness, and later events in both his focus comic series and Season 15 would show he feels crushing remorse for ever having hurt Lloyd in the first place, seeking to one day earn his forgiveness for it.
• The Power of Creation: The Mega Weapon he obtains at the beginning of Season 2 has this ability. However, he can only use it once a day and it drains his energy severely with each use.
• Really Dead Montage: Occurs for Lloyd after Garmadon plans to be traded for the Anacondrai generals in the Cursed Realm. Various memories of father and son play along with pretty background music while Lloyd fights Chen's army in a flurry of fury. While Garmadon comes back to life and gradually turns back to good, the old Garmadon virtually never comes back as himself.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: After the events of Season 10, he starts trying to learn empathy and become good, though he still hasn't outgrown some of his antagonistic traits and villainous traits and despite trying to mend fences with Lloyd and trying to earn his forgiveness, he's still not above being harsh to him.
• Purple Is Powerful: His main Elemental Power (destruction) is colored purple.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: As a dark lord, he was this in the pilot and in the first season.
• Sheathe Your Sword: In Season 9, Lloyd defeats Garmadon by dodging his attacks and simply refusing to fight, which eventually exhausts him (due to his powers only working when fighting).
• Silver Fox: Garmadon as a middle-aged sensei is basically what his attractive-for-a-Lego-minifigure son will look like in a few decades.
• Stern Teacher: Is this to Lloyd in Season 3. He's tough on him to get him to reach his full potential, but it's made 100% clear he's only doing it out of concern for his son. He's much more accessible as a sensei in Season 4.
• Team Dad: In Season 4, he becomes the Ninja's hands-on sensei while his brother and his wife repair the Bounty back home.
• Thanatos Gambit: Season 9 implies he partly planned for this to combat the Oni, intending for Lloyd to defeat and kill him so he could unleash his true latent Oni and Dragon powers so he'd be strong enough to take on the Oni army, in the scenario he were defeated. He isn't happy when Lloyd refuses to finish him off after getting him to lose his own powers of destruction and defeating, apparently leaving none in Ninjago capable of fighting the oncoming invasion in Season 10.
• Token Evil Teammate: In Season 10, he joins the ninja in defeating the Oni, but throughout most of it is arrogant, rude, and prone to being untrustworthy (such as getting into a fight with the Ninja, with no warning, to recharge himself), only starting to knock it off once everyone is trying to process their grief with Cole's apparent demise. He's a little bit better in Season 15, making a genuine effort to get past his inability to empathize with people, but still retains his confrontational attitude which quickly irritates the Ninja.
• Tooka Level In Badass: While he was already badass to begin with, his skills have been taken to the next level after his resurrection in Season 8. He even now has a powerful Oni Form.
• Tragic Villain: Unlike some villains, Garmadon does not want to be evil. Luckily, he breaks out of it only to be dragged back into it from beyond the grave by the Sons of Garmadon. While Seasons 8-10 have him hurt Lloyd in many ways to the point of briefly disowning him, Season 15 would show him feeling remorse for it all and try to make it to his son and reconcile while the fallout of his evil actions almost deny him the chance to mend fences.
• The Unsmile: During season 10. He tries to genuinely smile, but Lloyd tells him it just looks like he's plotting stuff. Luckily he's able to make a more genuine heartfelt smile by the end of Season 15, just as he and Lloyd start to mend fences.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His idea to sacrifice himself to banish Chen and the Anacondrai Cultists to the Cursed Realm in the Season 4 finale inadvertently allowed Morro to escape, causing the events of Season 5 (and by extension Season 6 and Day of the Departed) to occur.
  Morro: (to Lloyd) When your father opened the door, he should've been more careful of what came out!
• Unwitting Pawn: Was manipulated by the Overlord into destroying the balance, all so the Overlord could take his body.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • At the end of the Ninjaball Run, when the Ninja just won't quit and finally win the race, foiling his latest plot.
  • Later on in Season 9 he has two: first when Harumi dies, forcing him to take on Lloyd after all in a match where he'll either have to die or kill his son (which he can't really go through) and in his final battle when Lloyd begins to defeat him by resisting him rather than fighting him, leading to him losing his powers.)
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: It's hard to deny that he's this. He was forcibly made evil thanks to being bitten by the Great Devourer and now has to fight his own son.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Combines his own dark power with the Golden Weapons to destroy the Great Devourer. After he is revived in Season 8 and unlocks his True Potential, he is able to wield Destruction and Creation in tandem.

Season 1

Ed and Edna Walker

Debut: "Snakebit"
Voiced by: Colin Murdock and Jillian Michaels

Jay's very eccentric, yet loving parents.

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• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: At first, including commenting on Nya right in front of Jay, or telling all his friends about Jay's potty training.
• Badass Driver: They prove to be this in "Ninjaball Run."
• Body Horror: Get bitten by the Fangpires and not only affects them but their creations.
• Good Parents: They both genuinely love Jay in comparison to his actual father.
• Muggle Foster Parents: In case you wondered why Jay is an Elemental Master while neither of them ever were...
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: This is invoked during Season 3, where they casually leave the ninjas behind using jetpacks while nindroids ambush the scrapyard, though they did believe they could handle it. Jay asked for a jetpack, but they don't have one for him because he hardly visits them.
• Serious Business: Edna's pretty concerned about keeping hydrated at all times, carrying a bottle of water in her purse. She also takes the time to yell about the merits of hydration while being abducted by Vermillion Warriors.

Mystake

Debut: "Tick Tock"
Voiced by: Mackenzie Gray (Seasons 1-2), Mark Oliver (Season 4), Tabitha St. Germain (Season 8-present)

An elderly lady that owns a tea shop in Ninjago. She has knowledge of all sorts of brews, including the dimension-hopping Traveler's Tea. In Season 9, it is revealed she is an Oni.

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• Ascended Extra: In Seasons 1 and 2, she primarily serves as a means to establish Travelers Tea and intermittently helps the heroes. In Season 8 she establishes the existence of the Oni as well as the stakes of Lord Garmadon's resurrection, and in the following season becomes a member of Lloyd's resistance against the Sons of Garmadon.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Acts very nutty at times, but she does definitely know her stuff.
• Catchphrase: "Never heard of it".
• Cool Old Lady: Knowledgeable about all sorts of teas and history, and not afraid to talk smack to her customers.
• Defiant to the End: Facing a pissed-off Garmadon, she shows absolutely no fear, and her last words are "Surrender? Never heard of it".
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Aside from Skylor informing other heroes that Mystake didn't make it, her death isn't mentioned or acknowledged in following episodes.
• Humanity Is Infectious: Was originally sent by her fellow Oni to bring back the First Spinjitzu Master, but instead grew to love the world of Ninjago.
• Killed Offscreen: The last we see of her, she attempts to fight Garmadon so that Skylor can escape. When we cut to Skylor again, she overhears Killow say that "they don't need to worry about the old lady anymore" implying Garmadon killed her.
• Last of Her Kind: Is the only confirmed living Oni so far. This later turns out to be anything but true.
• Really 700 Years Old: As an Oni, she has lived far longer than many of the characters in the series, being thousands of years old.
• Token Heroic Orc: Pretty much the only good full-blooded Oni.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Is able to change her appearance thanks to being an Oni.

Lou

Debut: "The Royal Blacksmiths"
Voiced by: Kirby Morrow (2011-2020), TBA (2021-onward)

Cole's father, a singer with the Royal Blacksmiths.

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• Amazon Chaser: Implied, given what's been relvead about his wife and Cole's mother in Season 13.
• Distressed Dude: He and the Royal Blacksmiths are abducted off-screen by the Vermillion Warriors, who mistakenly assumed the name meant they were actual blacksmiths.
• Good Parents: While he is a bit harsh on Cole when introduced, he eventually accepts that his son is a ninja and not a dancer.

Season 2

Dareth, the "Brown Ninja"

Debut: "Pirates Vs. Ninja"
Voiced by: Alan Marriot

A cocky kung-fu "Sensei" who allows the Ninja to train Lloyd at his Dojo, entitled "Dareth's Mojo Dojo." He is revealed to have lied about his kung-fu claims.

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• Ascended Extra: He's largely an ally who frequently gets himself into trouble, but is a part of Lloyd's resistance in Season 9.
• Blessed with Suck: Mystake grants him powers that seems to be inducing Potty Emergency in himself.
• Character Development: In his early appearances he's largely a cowardly braggart. In later appearances, he becomes much more courageous and willing to try and help the ninja.
• Confusion Fu: Generally, when he tries to fight, the result is a lot of wild flailing around. It can work but is more likely to injure people by accident than if he was actually aiming for them.
• Cowardly Lion: He's not much of a fighter and never one to leap into trouble, but does look after his students and is willing to defend them if need be. Likewise, he can usually be counted on for aid if the ninjas need it.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Jay tries to use the fact that the Ninja saved the city from the Great Devourer as leverage to train at the Dojo, only for Dareth to point out that Garmadon's the one who actually defeated the Devourer.
• Epic Fail: After seeing Lloyd easily destroy ten boards with an elemental chop, he attempts to do it himself with FIFTY boards. He barely has to hit it without screaming in pain.
• The Load: Has an equal amount of playing this trope straight and averting it.
  • His attempt at stopping the pirates only causes more problems for the Ninja and Lloyd is forced to save him.
  • In the Season 2 finale he averts this by accidentally putting on the Helmet of Darkness, giving him control of the Stone Army.
  • He averts this again by saving the students from a shark attack.
  • During the Tournament of Elements, he gets brought along by Nya only because he'd have blown her cover, and is only there because of an all-consuming desire for a food Chen discontinued from his chain. He proceeds to reveal she's only the island by (accidentally) broadcasting his rock'n'roll via her van's loudspeakers, and when he gets caught, automatically scuppers a plan the Elemental Masters had formulated to escape the workshop just by showing up (the plan relied on using the sewers, which Zane had determined would've been just able to take everyone's weight.)
  • And again during season 9, where he inadvertently gives Harumi a chance to bust free, scuppering the plan to have Skylor steal Garmadon's powers, and causing the death of Mystake.
  • And averted once more in the "Hunted" finale, where he successfully fights off a group of Garmadon cultists. Sort of. Just not in the way he'd actually intended.
• Moment Killer: Just as Kai and Skyler are about to kiss in the season 4 finale, he interrupts to whine about Puffy Pot Stickers.
• The Smart Guy: Bizarrely, he's this in just about everything (except Ninja-ing). It's most notable in his interactions with Nya, as he perfectly gives her kabuki make-up in season 4; and tells her and Lloyd absolutely everything they need to know to form a strategy against Emperor Garmadon in season 9. Crosses over with My Greatest Failure, as his proficiency in the one expertise he wants (martial arts) is, shall we say, questionable at best?
• Spanner in the Works: His attempt to gain Elemental Powers in Season 9 results in him needing to go to the bathroom, which allows him to partially foil an ambush by the Sons of Garmadon, where while many of the resistance get captured, it allows him, Lloyd, Skylor, PIXAL, and Nya to escape.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Manages to get two sharks to back off.
• Sixth Ranger: He tries hard to make himself part of the ninja by calling himself the Brown Ninja. Complete with a plywood cyclone he holds in front of himself to appear to be spinjistu-ing.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Guy is obsessed with Chen's Puffy Pot Stickers. He wouldn't have gotten involved in the events of season 4 if not for that obsession.
• You Are Fat: Not said, but during the Tournament of Elements, his fondness for Puffy Pot Stickers means he's got a noticeable pudge, despite being a Minifigure.

Dr. Julien

Debut: "Tick Tock"
Voiced by: Mark Oliver

Zane's father, or rather, his creator.

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• All There in the Manual: His name has never been revealed in the show, but is mentioned in the LEGO Ninjago Character Encyclopedia.
• Back from the Dead: In "The Last Voyage", the Ninja find him on a prison tower in the middle of the ocean and learn that on his deathbed, he was revived by Samukai so he could design vehicles for the Skeleton Army. It only kept him alive for a little while longer, as he was still frail and weak, and he passed away in the Time Skip between seasons 2 and 3.
• Gadgeteer Genius: His achievements include Zane, the Falcon, and a guardian robot, all of which he built from a small workshop in the Birchwood Forest. Later, after being brought back from the dead, he helps design the vehicles for the Skeleton Army. After he is rescued he builds a Power Driller for Cole.
• Gratuitous German: "I thought I was kaput."
• Killed Off for Real: Eventually, his age catches up to him and he dies of natural causes, he may have been revived with a magical potion but he had already died once of old age and the potion didn't restore his youth.

Misako

Debut: "The Stone Army"
Voiced by: Kathleen Barr

Lloyd Garmadon's mother and Garmadon's wife.

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• Absurdly Elderly Mother: Although Lloyd is chronologically a young kid (who has gone through some artificial aging) she seems pretty old for a mother.
• Action Mom: She can fight as well as she can teach. She manages to walk away from a fight with the resurrected Garmadon, who'd just pulverised Lloyd, with only assistance from Nya.
• Berserk Button: DON'T imply she's old. Wu learned this the hard way.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: So she claims, though Lloyd is still (and understandably) hurt by it.
• Lady of War: Finds herself dragged into the midst of the battle between ninja and the Overlord.
• Love Triangle: With Lord Garmadon and Sensei Wu.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Unless there's something she's not sharing, Garmadon has a serious age gap on her, being at least a thousand years old, while she's just an ordinary human.
• Never Mess with Granny: Vague Age notwithstanding, she has graying hair and looked about the same age as Lord Garmadon and Sensei Wu in Wu's photograph. And yet she is amazingly agile, knows Spinjitzu, and has more expertise on the prophecy of the Green Ninja than Sensei Wu himself.
• Only One Name: Just Misako. No second name; despite all the issues Lloyd has with Garmadon, it's never been suggested Misako has a second name for him to use.
• Put on a Bus: Is absent at the beginning of season 8, having left to go looking for Wu. She returns in episode eight. She's gone again in Season 11 but returns in Season 13. She's gone once more in Dragons Rising.
• Vague Age: Exactly how old she is exactly isn't clear. Wu makes the mistake of suggesting she's elderly at the beginning of season 13. He very quickly regrets it.
• Wrong Guy First: When looking at a picture of herself and Lord Garmadon when they were young, she tells Sensei Wu that "I should have chosen you".

Season 3

P.I.X.A.L./The 2nd Samurai X

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Debut: "The Surge"
Voiced by: Jennifer Hayward

A Nindroid created to be Borg's assistant, before becoming the Ninja's ally.

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• Ascended Extra: She started off as just "Zane's Girlfriend" and more or less became a main character by seasons 8 or 9.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Doesn't have any breasts to speak of whatsoever, which is good, because she typically has a lot of her chest exposed.
• Battle Couple: With Zane after he gives her half of his power core. Together, they can use Spinjitzu.
• Chekhov M.I.A.: Suddenly disappears from Zane's CPU partway through season 7, and by the end of the season still hasn't reappeared, only to pop up after the time skip in season 8 once again working with the ninja without comment. Subverted when it turns out she actually was the new Samurai X all along.
• Divergent Character Evolution: In her initial time as Samurai X in Season 7, she uses Nya's old costume, but after Nya suggests she create her own look, P.I.X.A.L. switches to a dark blue and gold color scheme and then changes to a dark blue, white, and red costume with gold highlights in Season 8, the latter of which becomes her default look.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Early on in season 4, she turns out to have been abducted and her body destroyed by Chen's cultists, offscreen, after the end of season 3.
• Fun with Acronyms: Her name stands for Primary Interactive X-Ternal Assistant Life-form.
• Grappling-Hook Gun: Has a built-in one in her arm.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She helps the ninjas use the EMP to deactivate the nindroids, but it deactivates her as well. Fortunately, Zane revives her by giving her half his power core. Her body eventually gets scrapped permanently, but luckily Zane is able to save her by downloading her processor into himself, turning her into a Voice with an Internet Connection. Presumably, Borg could build her another body if given the chance, but he hasn't got around to it. Sometime in Season 7, she gains a new body as Samurai X.
• Love Interest: She shows interest in Zane and they have some tender moments with each other.
• Machine Monotone: When the Ninja first meet her she speaks in a monotone to represent her being more robotic and less human-like than Zane. As she learns about emotions and humanity she slowly loses the monotone, showing a full range of emotions by the time we meet her again in Season 4.
• Mission Control: Takes up the role for the ninja in season 8, when she's not being Samurai X.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When she was under the Overlord's Control. Normally, they're green.
• Retgone: Momentarily during the finale of season 7, though nobody notices.
• Ridiculously Human Robot: Though she's a downgraded version of the robot you've seen already.
• Sixth Ranger: Starts tagging along with the ninja after she's revealed to be the new Samurai X.
• Took a Level in Badass: When she's reactivated after her Heroic Sacrifice, she becomes a better fighter thanks to having part of Zane's power core in her. She takes another as the new Samurai X.
• Voice Changeling: Manages to throw off Nya's suspicions about her identity as Samurai X using one to hide her actual voice.
• Voice with an Internet Connection: Becomes this after Chen's henchmen scrap her body. Zane installs her processor into his upgraded body to save her.

Cyrus Borg

Debut: "The Surge"
Voiced by: Lee Tockar

The head of Borg Industries and the creator of P.I.X.A.L. He is a brilliant scientist who helped rebuild Ninjago City into the technologically advanced New Ninjago City.

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• Brainwashed and Crazy: The Overlord takes control of him after he gives the Ninja the Techno-Blades.
• Cool Chair: He was disabled from birth, so he built his moving chair.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: What the Overlord did to him.
• Distressed Dude: Kidnapped by the Overlord and made into a cyborg to help him with his plans in the third season. And again by the Time Twins in the seventh season to build them a device so they can use the Time Blades and take over Ninjago.
• Electronic Eye: Gains a few after his Unwilling Roboticization.
• Everything Sensor: He designed one generation of Borgwatches with the ability to detect temporal anomalies. Why? Why not? Backfires just a little bit when it helps Krux and Acronix find the Time Blades.
• Forced into Evil: The Overlord forces him to build him special robots capable of absorbing Lloyd's golden power, then later completely brainwashes him into subservience after getting caught trying to give the Ninja the Techno Blades.
• Gory Discretion Shot: We don't actually see his Unwilling Roboticization, but we know it certainly wasn't pretty.
• Heel–Face Turn: Once he's freed of the Overlord's control, he becomes a true ally to the ninjas.
• Nice Guy: Never anything but polite and helpful towards the heroes (one incident of mistaking them for bad guys aside).
• Prophetic Name: He jokes that when his parents named him, his career choice was set.
• Put on a Bus: He's absent from season 4, aside from a brief appearance in "The Invitation" and a voice cameo in "The Corridor of Elders". He returns again in season 5.
• Shout-Out: A wheelchair-bound scientist with a hand constantly covered by a glove? He's a nod to the titular character of Doctor Strangelove, just without the evil and insanity.
• Tragic Villain: Converted to a cyborg against his will by the Digital Overlord.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: The Digital Overlord forcibly converts him into a cyborg to make him more subservient. Luckily it's reversible (heck, it ended up happening twice in Season 3).
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • His decision to build his company over the site of the final battle allowed the Overlord to resurrect inside his computer systems, setting off an enormous chain of events spanning the next several seasons.
  • One of his information bots helps clue Nadakhan in on where to find the Realm Crystal and regather his crew.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Non-lethal example. He's freed of his brainwashing in "The Titanium Ninja" by the Overlord after the latter becomes the Golden Master, deeming Cyrus to no longer be of any use to him.
  Cyrus: (while on the ground) You're-you're releasing me? But what have you done? What now?
  Cryptor: Now you watch your city and all of Ninjago fall, and bow to a new master. Looks like you already have that part down! (laughs evilly)

Season 5

Ronin

Debut: "Ghost Story"
Voiced by: Brian Dobson

Ronin is a selfish yet skilled thief and bounty hunter, whose deal with the Soul Archer caused him to become involved in the Ninja's conflict with Morro and the Ghost Army. Initially siding with whoever he thought would save his skin, Ronin eventually returned, fully committed, to help fight the Ghost Army alongside the Ninja at the Battle of Stiix. Ronin returned later on, as more of a neutral party.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In Shadows of Ronin, he's a full-on villain who worked for Chen. In the series, while he isn't certainly the nicest guy, he's more of an Anti-Hero whose villainous actions are rare and typically only for money.
• Anti-Hero: At first glance, Ronin is a selfish yet skilled thief and bounty hunter. He often took terrible actions, making deals with the evil Soul Archer and selling Zane to Master Chen. However, looking to change his ways, Ronin sided with the Ninja and oversaw Nya as she tried to master her water element. This proves that he has an sympathetic backstory, as his motivation for in the game was actually to save his cursed soul. Eventually, his more sincere personality comes through in the episode, "Curse World: Part 1," when he arrives in his airship R.E.X. and promptly dumps every amount of money he ever made on the building Morro had lifted with his elemental wind power, giving Lloyd the chance to defeat Morro. From that point on he is the Ninjas' friend and ally... aside from helping arrest them all in season 6.
  • His villainous side finally takes prominence in-canon) in The Island, having tricked the Keepers with an animatronic Wojira so they would send all their valuables to it for offerings, which he could then turn a profit off of.
• Badass Normal: Despite lacking the elemental or magical powers that most of the other characters have, he's still very capable and intelligent, and frequently proves to be a formidable opponent for the main characters when the moment presents itself.
  • His feats in the non-canon Shadow of Ronin deserve a mention: Nearly wiping the ninja of all their memories, not only recruiting an army of samurai but brainwashing the Serpentine to both work for him, then uncovering the long-lost, ancient Elemental Forges and Primal Fulcrum to attempt to open a portal to the Cursed Realm and unleash Master Chen and his Anacondrai cultists back upon Ninjago, all so he can get money to pay his debts.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Ronin is the fake Wojira in The Island, tricking Mammatus into offering him gifts.
  • Though non-canon, his first appearance in Shadow of Ronin certainly puts him on an equal footing with most other season-long villains with the danger threshold he creates.
• Canon Immigrant: He originally debuted in the non-canon game LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin before making his way to the show.
• Captain Ersatz: Without his hat and mask, he is visually similar to Snake Plissken.
• Character Check: Ronin was an antagonist in the non-canon Shadow of Ronin video game, and in the show itself, he initially has a fairly antagonistic relationship with the ninja due to his profit-oriented mindset, but this got largely downplayed as Masters of Spinjitzu went on, with him largely being heroic by the end. The Island features Ronin as a major villain, putting emphasis on his greed again, where he scams the Keepers of the Amulet for profit, putting him at odds with the Ninja, and results in him being sent to prison.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite all the crap he does, no one seems to hold much of a grudge against him. It helps that at the least he can be a dependable ally if things get serious.
• Cool Ship:
  • R.E.X.
  • Follows it up with the Salvage M.E.C. in the Dark Island Trilogy and Day of the Departed.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Jay recruits him for the final fight of season 6, and he ends up saving him and his family from a tight spot in Day of the Departed.
• Greed: An anti-heroic example. He's only really interested in money and will frequently pull a Heel–Face Revolving Door if it means he can make money.
• Heel–Face Turn: He becomes an ally of the Ninja in Season 5.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: Of course, he could easily turn on them if there's a chance to earn a quick buck as shown in Season 6 and The Island.
• Never My Fault: In season 15, he's in prison for what he did, and blames the ninja for it. They point out he was the one committing criminal acts, but he refuses to listen.
• Only in It for the Money: He isn't interested in power, just money. It is eventually revealed that he needs so much money due to a debt he has towards Soul Archer. He will also frequently change sides if it means he can make a quick buck, as shown in Season 6 and The Island mini-series.
• Precocious Crush: Inverted and defied. During a fight at Steep Wisdom in Season 5, the Sword of Sanctuary showed a prediction that Ronin kissed Nya on the cheek, much to the latter's disgust. In season 6, while the Ninja are on the run after being framed by Nadakhan, he asked Lloyd about how she's doing.
• Wild Card: Though he considers himself to be a friend of sorts towards the Ninja, he will oppose them if offered a high amount of money.

Season 6

Nelson, the "Purple Ninja"

^{Click here to see him in later seasons.}

Debut: "Infamous"
Voiced by: David Raynolds

A kid who broke both of his legs training to become a ninja and was later visited in the hospital by the Ninja and made the honorary "Purple Ninja." His appearance from Season 11 onwards has him become older and is now working as a paperboy.

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• A Day in the Limelight: In "The News Never Sleeps!" in Season 11 and "Papergirl" in Season 14 alongside Antonia.
• Ascended Extra: He appears only once in Season 6, but becomes a recurring character in Seasons 11-15, with multiple focus episodes around him.
• I Got Bigger: Season 11 has him appear considerably older than he was in Season 6.
• Iron Butt Monkey: If his various pictures of him injured are any indication, he was very prone to injury up until "The News Never Sleeps!". In said episode, he's completely surprised he made a jump over a broken bridge without getting hurt.

The Commissioner

Debut: "Infamous"
Voiced by: Michael Donovan

The current head of the Ninjago City police department.

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• Defiant to the End: It's his duty to protect Ninjago City, and the Ninja are his allies, and he will stand by it even when cornered by someone like Nadakhan or Kalmaar.
• Eye Twitch: Happens when he gets angry.
• Inspector Javert: When the ninja get framed, he becomes hell-bent on arresting them all.
• No Name Given: His name is never given, being simply known as "The Commissioner".
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He's usually got the back of the Ninja and will listen to them.
  • While he still chases them after they escape Kryptarium Prison in Season 6, when Lloyd asks him if he doesn't think they're trying to help, he reluctantly lets him go. Once Nadakhan becomes a much more clear threat, he puts his full support behind what remains of the Ninja and tries to help them.
  • In Season 8, as soon as the Ninja ask him for assistance in stopping the Sons of Garmadon, he quickly tries to ask for clearance from the Mayor to do so.

Echo Zane

Debut: "The Last Resort"
Voiced by: Brent Miller

The prototype of Zane found in the basement of Dr. Julien's lab.

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• Easily Detachable Robot Parts: Not intentionally, mind. His disrepaired state means his arms and legs will fall off at a moment's notice, usually at the worst time.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Jay recruits him for the team in the final fight of season 6.
• Replacement Goldfish: Jay and Nya figure Dr. Julien made him as a replacement for Zane.
• Smart People Play Chess: Or try to, but he goes up against an enemy who cheats, and never figures it out.

Season 7

Ray and Maya

First Mentioned (Ray): "Way of the Ninja"
Debut: "Spellbound"
Voiced by: Vincent Tong and Jillian Michaels

Kai and Nya's parents, and the original Elemental Masters of Fire and Water.

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• The Bus Came Back: Both return in season 15.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: They were forced to forge armor for the Vermillion Warriors under the threat that Krux would harm Kai and Nya if they refused. This left them absent from their children's lives for many years.
• Depower: Since they passed on their elements to their kids, they have no power of their own anymore.
• Generation Xerox: They both look identical to their children, and Ray acts very much like his son - both are skilled blacksmiths, but also tremendous doofuses when not at work.
• Hero of Another Story: As the former elemental masters, they had some escapades of their own.
• Making a Splash: Maya had this power before passing it on to her daughter.
• My Beloved Smother: Mya desperately seeks to reconnect with Nya, but overcompensates by treating her like a child and being a nuisance.
• Older Than They Look: They looked like they haven't aged a day since the Serpentine War, which was decades ago.
• Parental Favoritism: They dote on Kai, while Mya gives Nya a hard time over her Power Incontinence.
• Playing with Fire: This was Ray's element before it became Kai's.
• Put on a Bus: For all the fuss about finding them in season 7, they've just been unheard of for seven seasons straight.

Season 8

Emperor and Empress of Ninjago

Debut: "The Mask of Deception"
Voiced by: Richard Newman (Emperor), Ellen Kennedy (Empress)

The rulers of Ninjago, and Harumi's adopted parents.

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• The Emperor: As the title suggests they are the rulers of Ninjago, but they are a benevolent example of this trope.
• Killed Offscreen: They were killed during the Temple's destruction.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: They adopted a child who was orphaned by the Great Devourer and raise her like their own. Unfortunately, their good-intentioned but strict parenting made her resent them and become the leader for the Sons of Garmadon and attempt to resurrect him.
• Parents as People: They only wanted to help Harumi by adopting her and raising her like their own. They unfortunately didn't aid her emotional needs which caused her to hate them.

Hutchins

Debut: "A Sinister Shadow"
Voiced by: Alan Marriott

The Master-at-Arms for the Royal Family.

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• Fan Boy: Has a Kai action figure in his pocket.
• Killed Offscreen: Along with the Emperor and Empress.
• Red Herring: Was presumed to be one of the Sons of Garmadon, turns out he wasn't and Harumi was.
• Undying Loyalty: Showed to be a bodyguard with great loyalty towards the Royal Family and Harumi.

Season 11

Antonia

Debut: "The News Never Sleeps!"
Voiced by: Brynna Drummond

The leader of the paperboys. She shows Nelson the ropes and pratfalls of the job while teaching him tricks to avoid the dangers that assault Ninjago City on a regular basis.

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• A Day in the Limelight: In "Papergirl".
• Badass Normal: She may not be a ninja, but she's capable of performing impressive stunts with her bike to avoid danger, and its implied all the Paperboys are somewhat just as skilled if it means getting the news to the people of Ninjago. She even manages to earn Villain Respect from Kalmaar in "Papergirl" as she and Nelson give him a tough chase to get the Storm Amulet back from them before he catches them, saying that she's the only one that ever came close to stopping him.
• Strolling Through the Chaos: Both she and the paperboys are incredibly used to the occasional dangers that happen in Ninjago, to the point that Aspheera's attack on Ninjago City is just another day of spreading the news to the citizens to them.

Sorla

Debut: "The Never-Realm"
Voiced by: Patty Drake

The leader of the village located near the Great Lake in the Never-Realm.

Akita

^{Click here to see her wolf form.}

Debut: "The Never-Realm"
Voiced by: Tabitha St. Germain

A girl that is the last of the Formlings, a race of shapeshifters in the Never-Realm. She is able to turn into a wolf. She seeks revenge on the Ice Emperor for freezing the rest of her kind and teams up with Lloyd to do so.

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• Deadpan Snarker: Manages to be this in both human and wolf forms, mostly when Lloyd talks about Harumi.
• Last of Her Kind: Believes herself to be this, but her brother is still alive, imprisoned by the Ice Emperor.
• Morphic Resonance: She has the same facial markings in her human and wolf forms.
• Noble Wolf: Can shapeshift into one.
• Samus Is a Girl: Lloyd first encountered her in her wolf form, mistaking her for a male.
• Ship Tease: Kisses Lloyd on the cheek in the season finale just before he returns to Ninjago, and hopes to see him again one day.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: As a Formling, she can change into an animal form and back again. Hers is a white wolf with red markings and three tails.

Kataru

^{Click here to see his bear form.}

Debut: "Secret of the Wolf"
Voiced by: Cole Howard

Akita's brother, and a prisoner in the Ice Emperor's dungeon.

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• Distressed Dude: Is a prisoner in the Ice Emperor's dungeon.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He's a Formling like Akita, with his animal form being a bear.

Krag

Debut: "The Traveler's Tree"
Voiced by: Brian Drummond

A yeti who watches over the Traveller's Tree in the Never-Realm.

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• Gentle Giant: Despite his intimidating appearance, he's quite friendly to everyone that travels to the Traveller's Tree.
• Last of His Kind: You can thank the Ice Emperor for that. And the other yeti don't get better.

Season 12

League of Jay

Debut: "Superstar Rockin' Jay"
Voiced by: Andrew Francis (Beta Jay 137), Kelly Metzger (Jaybird 64), Bill Newton (Jay Walkin 238), Paul Dobson (Dee-Jay 81)

A group of Prime Empire players who style themselves after Jay. They help Scott stay hidden from Unagami in exchange for him fixing their vehicles and weapons.

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They may be eccentric, but they know a lot of tricks and how to hold their own in a fight.
• Cloudcuckoolander: They're definitely quirky to say the least.
• Continuity Nod: Their avatars all consist of Jay wearing robes from previous seasons.

Scott

^{Click here to see his avatar.}

Debut: "Superstar Rockin' Jay"
Voiced by: Adrian Petriw

A mysterious Prime Empire player living in a hidden corner of the game while hiding from Unagami, remaining so using an undetectable barrier and with the help of the League of Jay. He's revealed to be a former video game tester for Milton Dyer's company and the first person to play Prime Empire, becoming trapped inside the game after Unagami heard him say he wanted a bigger challenge and invited him in.

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• And I Must Scream: He's been trapped inside Prime Empire for decades. The fact that he has only one life left means he can't afford to take any risks that would cause him to lose it, which doesn't help his situation either.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Gets cubed by Red Visors trying to help the ninja escape when his hideout is discovered. He gets better.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Having been trapped in Prime Empire for a very long time, Scott becomes overly cautious and bitter, as he chooses to remain on the sidelines due to having only one life remaining before he'd be "cubed". However, after spending time with the Ninja, he chooses to become more of a hero, giving his life to helping the Ninja evade the Red Visors.

Okino

Debut: "I Am Okino"
Voiced by: Alessandro Juliani

A Prime Empire NPC who resides in Terra Karana, a samurai helping to guide players though various dangers to obtain the Keytana hidden in the Maze of the Red Dragon.

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• Break the Badass: Losing so many masters really took a toll on his confidence until the ninja came along.
• The Bus Came Back: He makes cameos in Seasons 14 and 15.
• Despair Event Horizon: Is absolutely devastated when he learns his world is a video game. He gets better.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After failing all of his masters and sacrificing his chance to leave Prime Empire, he succeeds in both guiding the ninja through the maze safe and sound and visiting the real world.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Losing so many masters causes Okino to lose confidence until his interaction with the Ninja regains his faith. However, when the Ninja reveal that Okino is part of the video game, he becomes disillusioned with the fact. But he still intends to help the Ninja after they encourage him to do the right thing.
• Sadistic Choice: Unagami gives him one: Okino can either leave the ninja to die at the hands of the Red Dragon and be able to journey to the real world, or he can keep helping them and be unable to ever travel there. Fortunately, he chooses the latter.
• Welcome to Corneria: "I am Okino, samurai of Terra Karana. I will be your guide through the three deadly challenges..."

Racer Seven / Blazey H. Speed

Debut: "Racer Seven"
Voiced by: Shannon Chan-Kent

A Prime Empire NPC who competes in the Speedway Five Billion, trying and failing to win at least once without crashing. After making a life for herself in the real world, she would officially go by the name Blazey H. Speed.

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• Drives Like Crazy: When she isn't driving on the racetrack, turns out she does this, even with something like a news van. Though considering the urgency of getting Cole and Vinny to the NGTV News Tower, it was rather necessary.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Her whole existence is this. Whenever Racer Seven is racing and it looks like she will win, her programming will kick in and she will always wipe out and someone else wins instead. She finally wins a race thanks to some motivational words from the ninja to overcome her programming.

Milton Dyer

^{Click here to him 30 years ago.}

Debut: "Ninjago Confidential"
Voiced by: Mark Hildreth

The elusive and enigmatic creator of Prime Empire.

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• The Atoner: After he realizes he drove Unagami to grief-induced madness, he's quick to try to make amends.
• Just a Machine: He initially doesn't show much regret for shutting down Unagami, and is surprised at P.I.X.A.L. seemingly being able to emulate feelings rather than actually feel. Once he realizes that P.I.X.A.L. and Zane's emotions are real, he recognizes that he made a mistake shutting down Unagami, and genuinely apologizes for not understanding he had feelings. The two reconcile with Unagami becoming Milton's son.
• Red Herring: The Ninjas spend most of Prime Empire thinking that he's Unagami, with there being quite a bit of evidence directing toward that possibility. The final act reveals he was the one who ultimately first shut him down, and ends up an ally to the Ninja.
• Walking Spoiler: Is the creator of Prime Empire and Unagami, aka Unfinished Adventure Game 1.

Season 13

Princess Vania

Debut: "Into the Dark"
Voiced by: Sabrina Pitre

The princess and eventually queen of Shintaro.

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• Abusive Parents: Her father King Vangelis tends to be rather emotionally controlling towards her.
• Archnemesis Dad: Her father is the Skull Sorcerer.
• Naginatas Are Feminine: Like the rest of the Royal Army of Shintaro, she's skilled in using a naginata.
• The Not-Love Interest: While she gets a bit of Ship Tease with Cole and has great admiration for him, they ultimately do not get together or form any kind of romantic relationship.
• Red Herring: Lloyd states his suspicions about her, thinking that she's trying to deceive Cole (due to his own biases regarding Harumi), and she and the Skull Sorcerer are never seen together in the first six episodes of the season, suggesting Lloyd could be right. The seventh episode proves beyond a shadow of a doubt she's just as nice as she appears, with the episode not only revealing her father is the Skull Sorcerer, but she goes out of her way to try and rescue Cole and Wu at the end of the episode.
• Ship Tease: With Cole. Because of that, Lloyd considers her suspicious.

Chompy

^{Click here to him big.}

Debut: "Into the Dark"

Vania's pet dragon.

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• Sizeshifter: Is capable of growing from a small size to a size as big as previously seen dragons.

Munce

One of the races who live in Shintaro's underground alongside the Geckles.

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• Verbal Tic: They always pronounce people's names starting with "M", such as "Cole" being pronounced as "Mole", or "Lilly" as "Milly."

Murt

Debut: "The Worst Rescue Ever"
Voiced by: Michael Adamthwaite

A Munce who is forced to mine vengestone for the Skull Sorcerer until he is freed by the ninja.

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• Cloudcuckoolander: A lot of his lines and mannerisms make him come off as this, especially his first conversation with Cole and his reenactment of the ninja fighting the Skull Sorcerer.
• Hulk Speak: Talks like this.

Queen Murtessa

Debut: "Queen of the Munce"
Voiced by: Tabitha St. Germain

The reigning queen of the Munce, until she temporarily passes leadership onto Nya.

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Geckles

One of the races who live in Shintaro's underground alongside the Munce.

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• Verbal Tic: They always pronounce people's names starting with "G", such as "Lilly" as "Gilly."

Gleck

Debut: "Into the Dark"
Voiced by: Brian Drummond

A Geckle who wears a locket given to him by Lily.

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• Only Sane Man: He's the only one to realize that the Munce never stole the Blades of Deliverance and that the Munce and Geckles shouldn't be fighting each other. Too bad nobody but the ninja will listen to him.

Chancellor Gulch

Debut: "Trial By Mino"
Voiced by: Andrew McNee

The leader of the Geckles, until he temporarily passes the leadership off to Kai.

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The Lowly/Upply (Korgran, Fungus, Plundar, and Adam)

From Left to Right: Fungus, Plundar, Korgran, and Adam

Debut: "The Real Fall"
Voiced by: Paul Dobson (Korgran), Ian James Corlett (Fungus), Adam Trask (Plundar), Deven Mack (Korgran's Axe)

A team of adventurers hired by King Vangelis years ago to investigate the dungeons of Shintaro and retrieve the Skull of Hazza D'ur, only for them to be betrayed and cast deep beneath the mountain. They join forces with Cole and the other ninja to help take down the Skull Sorcerer. Their team consists of Korgran the warrior, Fungus the sorcerer, Plundar the thief, and Adam the giant spider.

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• Aerith and Bob: Ironically, of the four adventurers the one with the most ordinary name is Adam the Giant Spider.
• Ambiguous Situation: Does Korgran's axe really talk to him, or is it just in his imagination?
• Break the Badass: Their betrayal by King Vangelis and imprisonment deep beneath the mountains left their confidence as adventurers shattered. They get better with help from Cole, Master Wu, and Vania.
• Captain Ersatz: Korgran is one to He-Man, right down to the scene transitions in his backstory.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Korgran, Fungus, and Plundar respectively.
• Giant Spider: Adam, though he's not as big as the other Spiders.
• Husky Russkie: Korgran hails from Metallonia, the same place Karlof is from.
• Shout-Out: Being a party of adventurers with a Fighter, Mage, Thief setup who went on a quest and were trapped in a dungeon, the Lowly clearly reference Dungeons & Dragons. Particularly Plundar, who makes decisions by rolling a d20 and a d6.
• Sour Supporter: Plundar is usually the one to comment on the absurdity of others actions with a rather cynical outlook. He mostly drops it as the season goes on.
• Team Pet: Adam the giant spider.
• Token Heroic Orc: Adam is the only giant spider in the season that is on the heroes' side, and never tries to eat anyone.
• You No Take Candle: Like Karlof, Korgran talks like this. He apparently does it to fit his barbarian image, though his father (who talks like almost every other Ninjago denizen) complains that it makes him sound uneducated.

Lilly (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Debut: "Into the Dark"
Voiced by: Erin Mathews

Cole's mother, long deceased by the time we first see him, and the Elemental Master of Earth.

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• Accidental Misnaming: The Munce and Geckles remember her as "Milly" and "Gilly" respectively, helping obscure her identity to the ninja.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Do you remember that Cole mentioned that his mother died right before the beginning of the show during a flashback in Season 8? Turns out that she's the posthumous Greater-Scope Paragon of Season 13 and a famous heroine capable of saving an entire kingdom on her own.
• Dishing Out Dirt: As the previous Elemental Master of Earth. She had a greater knowledge of how her powers worked than Cole or Master Wu, being the first person to ever figure out the Spinjitzu Burst.
• Famed In-Story: The Munks and Geckles are still awed over their savior's exploits.
• Hero of Another Story: Before she met Cole's dad, Lou, she killed a dragon and saved an entire underground kingdom all by herself... and never told anyone on the surface.
• Posthumous Character: She died of... something before the series began. Cole met Master Wu while he was still processing his grief.
• Walking Spoiler: Good luck if you want to talk about Season 13 without revealing her role in the season's Myth Arc!

The Island

Timothy "Twitchy Tim" Batterson

Debut: "Uncharted"
Voiced by: Brian Drummond

An explorer who was stranded on the Island of the Keepers years ago when his hot air balloon was blown off course into the Storm Belt. He managed to escape the island, although repeated lightning strikes left him with a case of retrograde amnesia. He is asked by the ninja to help them get through the Storm Belt to rescue Master Wu, Misako, and Clutch Powers from the Island of the Keepers.

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• The Bus Came Back: Makes a cameo during the last episode of Season 14 and appears in Season 15.
• Cowardly Lion: He would rather hide than try to brave the dangers he faced on the island again. He faces his fears thanks to some inspiring words from Lloyd and goes on to save the ninja when they're in trouble.
• Forgetful Jones: Getting struck by lightning multiple times left him with retrograde amnesia.
• In-Series Nickname: His name is Timothy Batterson, but everyone calls him "Twitchy Tim" or just "Twitchy."
• Made of Iron: He got struck by lightning twelve times. Physically he's somehow perfectly fine, although mentally is a different story.
• Nervous Wreck: His experiences in the Storm Belt and on the Island of the Keepers left the poor guy severely traumatized.
• Trauma Button: Even mentioning the Storm Belt or the Island of the Keepers is enough to send him into a panic and flare up his PTSD.

Zippy

Debut: "The Keepers of the Amulet"
Voiced by: Brian Drummond

A hyperactive dragon living on the Island of the Keepers who befriends the ninja.

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• All Animals Are Dogs: He behaves very much like an energetic dog.
• Expy: Appears to be based off of Scooby-Doo.

Season 14

King Trimaar

Debut: "The Wrath of Kalmaar"
Voiced by: Ron Halder

The former king of Merlopia, the father of Kalmaar, and the adoptive father of Benthomaar. He is fatally injured by Kalmaar trying to stop his son from awakening Wojira.

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• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Dies in the arms of Benthomaar, telling his son to assist the ninja and stop Kalmaar.
• The Good King: Unlike Kalmaar, Trimaar did not hold a grudge against the surface dwellers and only sought to retain peace.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He never seemed to notice Kalmaar was a real piece of work from childhood. It gets him killed.
• Killed Off for Real: Courtesy of Kalmaar. He's also one of few characters in the series to die onscreen.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the second episode he appears in.

Prince Benthomaar

Debut: "The Wrath of Kalmaar"
Voiced by: Cole Howard

The adopted son of King Trimaar and the adoptive brother of Kalmaar. He assists the ninja with stopping Kalmaar after the latter kills King Trimaar.

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• Happily Adopted: He was taken in by King Trimaar and raised as his own son. Kalmaar however greatly despises him and only sees him as a tool for his own ends.
• Insistent Terminology: He is Kalmaar's adopted brother, as the latter is always quick to remind him.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Only ever tried to reach out to Kalmaar. When it looked like it had finally worked, Kalmaar was just using him for his own ends.

Nyad

^{Click here to her merged with the sea.}

Debut: "A Big Splash"
Voiced by: Andrea Libman

The first Elemental Master of Water and Nya's ancestor, a Merlopian who long ago fought alongside the First Spinjitzu Master and merged with the Endless Sea in order to defeat Wojira.

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• Blue-and-Orange Morality: When we finally meet her in Season 15 it turns out that merging with the sea has caused her to have a very... odd view of the world, to say the least.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She merged with the Endless Sea to defeat Wojira the first time, despite knowing that she would never be able to reobtain her physical form.
• Posthumous Character: She's long gone by the events of Season 14. Later subverted, as she appears in Season 15.

Season 15

The New Ninja

Debut: "Farewell The Sea"
Teal Ninja voiced by: Ryan Beil
Fuchsia Ninja voiced by: Travis Turner
Orange Ninja voiced by: Kelly Sheridan
Pink Ninja voiced by: Michael Adamthwaite

A new vigilante group of ninjas approved by Mayor Trustable during the year the Ninja were inactive.

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• Blue Is Heroic: More like teal, but the Teal Ninja is the leader of the team.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: They end up becoming Crystal Zombies around the middle of Season 15.
• Canon Immigrant: The Fuchsia Ninja was a brief joke in The LEGO Ninjago Movie, but gains a counterpart in the main series itself in Season 15, albeit with no ties to their Element from the movie (Surprise!).
• Condescending Compassion: While talking to Lloyd about helping the ninja as they've fallen out of shape, you can tell they think themselves superior to the ninjas.
• Hero Antagonist: Played with considering they're antagonists to the already heroic Ninja. While they are often in conflict with the Ninja, it's only because of the New Ninja's duty to uphold the law conflicting with the Ninja's goals.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: The Teal, Orange and Fuchsia Ninja utilize swords and knives as their main weapons.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Even worse than the heroes, wearing neon colors and using brightly colored smoke bombs. And on top of that they're just as talkative if not even more.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They're a bit rude and overly prideful, with a smug attitude toward the original ninja, but have been helping Ninjago in their absence. They're shown helping rebuild the monastery in the series finale, suggesting that they're genuinely thankful toward the ninja.
• Large Ham: They are INCREDIBLY prideful and boisterous of their duty to uphold the law and fight criminals, and are perhaps even more talkative than the original Ninja themselves.
• Magic Versus Science: They represent the Science side of the rivalry with the more elementally magic Ninja, lacking any elemental powers of their own but wielding high-tech, more flashy weapons.
• Mysterious Past: Apart from being sanctioned by Mayor Trustable sometime during the one-year gap between Seasons 14 and 15, being inspired by the original Ninja, and being a little rude, no other information on them exists. Like if they are from Ninjago City or another place, how they met, where or how they got their training or weapons, what their real names are, or how old they are.
• Real Men Wear Pink: The Pink and Fuchsia Ninja.
• Replacement Scrappy: In-Universe, the original Ninja are NOT fond of the idea of a new team of Ninja replacing them just like that, especially Lloyd.
• Technicolor Ninja: Just like the original Ninja, but to an even further extent because at least the original Ninja had Cole as the Black Ninja. The New Ninja in comparison are outright wearing bright neon colors.
• Toyless Toyline Character: None of the New Ninja are in the Crystallized toyline.
• The Voiceless: So far, the Yellow Ninja hasn't said a single word yet.

Hounddog McBrag

Debut: "Hounddog McBrag"
Voiced by: Michael Dobson

A marshal of the Ninjago City Police, being deployed once the formerly-imprisoned Ninja broke out of jail in order to arrest them.

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• Lawful Stupid: Even when Ninjago City and all of Ninjago are at risk, he's still persistent on his mission to arrest the Ninja. It's not until Lloyd saves him from being crystalized that he finally stops hunting him and the rest of the Ninja down.
• Super-Persistent Predator: Nearly nothing will stop him from attempting to arrest those he targets. Even if there's a canyon filled with water, his response? Drive his car off the cliff and into the river after the Ninja.

Sally

Debut: "The Benefit of Grief"
Voiced by: Ashleigh Ball

A young girl who's aspiring to become a singer in Ninjago City, though still has a good bit of growing up to do.

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• Ambiguously Gay: She has a pride flag sticker on her van, but it actually belongs to her father, who is shown to be married to a woman, which in turn would make him Ambiguously Bi. However, Sally has a different pride flag sticker on her guitar in the official art, implying that she does belongs to the LGBTQ+ community, but not making clear which part of it.
• The Runaway: When Kai, Zane, and Dareth meet her, she's taken her father's van with the intention of becoming a singer/songwriter in Ninjago City.

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