91 Fun Facts About Ninjago

Zane, the White Ninja, is the Elemental Master of what?

Ice: in Season 11 a memory-wiped Zane turns that power on a whole realm, ruling the frozen Never-Realm for decades as the Ice Emperor before his friends reach him.

Which ninja is the Elemental Master of Fire and wears red?

Kai is the Red Ninja of Fire, and he only agreed to train because skeleton warriors had carried off his sister Nya: rescuing her was his reason for joining.

Jay, the Blue Ninja, is the Elemental Master of what?

Lightning: Jay grew up in a junkyard with his adoptive parents, Ed and Edna Walker, and only later learned that his birth father was the film star Cliff Gordon.

Cole, the Black Ninja and Elemental Master of Earth, has a well-known weakness for what food?

Cake: Cole's sweet tooth is a running joke; less known is that his father sings and dances in a famous troupe and once drilled the ninja as a dance act for a talent contest.

Zane sacrificed himself to stop the Overlord in Season 3, then returned in a rebuilt body as which ninja?

The Titanium Ninja: Zane overloaded his own power core to destroy the Golden Master and was mourned with a memorial statue, but he had survived and built himself a new titanium body.

Before becoming the Water Ninja, Nya secretly fought alongside the team under what identity?

Samurai X: the mysterious armoured warrior keeps rescuing the four ninja, until one of them discovers that the mask hides his own younger sister.

Lloyd Garmadon is the legendary Green Ninja and Elemental Master of what?

Energy: Lloyd started out as a small boy; when Garmadon's Mega Weapon turned the other ninja into children, the Tomorrow's Tea that restored them aged him up as well.

When Lloyd first appears in Season 1, what does he want to be?

A villain like his father: the ninja go looking for the returning Lord Garmadon and find only his small son, whose childish schemes they foil before he reforms and finds his destiny.

Lord Garmadon is which of these to Master Wu?

His older brother: Garmadon turned evil after the Great Devourer bit him as a child, and once cleansed of its venom he even trains the ninja as a sensei for a while.

The skeleton army from the Underworld that the ninja fight in Ninjago's pilot episodes is called what?

The Skulkin: their four-armed leader Samukai seizes all four Golden Weapons, but their combined power destroys him and opens the portal Garmadon uses to escape the Underworld.

The Serpentine, villains of Season 1, are made up of how many snake tribes?

Five tribes: the Hypnobrai, Fangpyre, Constrictai, Venomari and Anacondrai; Lloyd unseals their tombs, and Pythor, last of the Anacondrai, later unites them.

What is the title of Ninjago's first full season, which followed the pilot episodes?

Rise of the Snakes: a young Lloyd unleashes the Serpentine tribes, and along the way each of the four original ninja unlocks his 'True Potential'.

In Season 3, Rebooted, the Overlord returns and builds an army of what?

Nindroids: the Overlord comes back as a computer virus, seizes the technology of the New Ninjago City that Cyrus Borg rebuilt, and has General Cryptor lead his robot army.

Which ghost, once Master Wu's first student, possesses Lloyd in Season 5?

Morro, the Master of Wind, trained hoping to be the Green Ninja; when the Golden Weapons did not choose him he left to prove fate wrong, died on the quest and returned as a ghost.

Nadakhan, the villain of Season 6, Skybound, is what kind of creature?

A djinn: freed from the Teapot of Tyrahn, Nadakhan grants three wishes to anyone who asks and twists each one, trapping the ninja one by one until only Jay and Nya are left.

The Sons of Garmadon, a biker gang in Seasons 8 and 9, want to resurrect Garmadon using three of what?

Oni masks: the gang's hidden leader, the Quiet One, turns out to be Princess Harumi, the royal Lloyd has been protecting, and she uses the three masks to bring Garmadon back.

In Ninjago lore, the Dragons wield the power of what?

Creation, against the Oni's power of destruction: the First Spinjitzu Master, born of both, refused to pick a side in their endless war and left to found a new world, Ninjago.

In Season 12, Prime Empire, the ninja enter what to face the villain Unagami?

A video game: Prime Empire is an arcade game whose AI, Unagami, pulls players inside; the season centres on Jay, and Unagami is revealed as creator Milton Dyer's abandoned project.

The Time Twins Acronix and Krux, villains of Season 7, command an army called what?

The Vermillion: each warrior is a swarm of snakes, hatched from the Great Devourer's eggs, filling a suit of armour, so a beaten one simply slithers back together.

The ninja's flying ship headquarters is called what?

Destiny's Bounty was once Captain Soto's pirate ship; the ninja found it in the Sea of Sand after their monastery was destroyed and refitted it to fly.

Ninjago's first sets were built around which battle toy?

Spinners: each minifigure rode a spinning top, the toy version of the show's Spinjitzu tornadoes, and players sent them whirling into each other in battle.

Which LEGO theme was designed to replace Ninjago?

Legends of Chima was built to take over as Ninjago wound down in its third year, but strong sales and fan feedback kept the ninja going, and they long outlasted their replacement.

The 2023 Ninjago sequel series begins after what event combining Ninjago with the other realms?

The Merge fused Ninjago with the other realms and scattered the ninja; its aftershocks, the MergeQuakes, send the team hunting for three Dragon Cores that can stop them.

In the 2023 Ninjago sequel series, which young dragon bonds with Sora?

Riyu: the baby dragon boosted Sora's Technology power when they bonded, and for a long time she feared the power would fail without him beside her.

Sora, the Elemental Master of Technology in the 2023 sequel series, originally comes from which place?

Imperium: Sora, born Ana, grew up in the dragon-draining kingdom of Imperium under Empress Beatrix and fled after seeing how it treated dragons.

Which robot, built by Cyrus Borg as his assistant, later fights beside the ninja?

P.I.X.A.L. was dismantled in Season 4 and lived on as a voice inside Zane's head, until she secretly built herself a new body and rejoined the fight.

Who voiced Lloyd for the first seven seasons of the Ninjago TV series?

Jillian Michaels voiced Lloyd through Season 7; when the ninja were redesigned to match the 2017 movie, Lloyd alone was recast, with Sam Vincent taking over from Season 8.

Which martial arts star appears in live action in The LEGO Ninjago Movie and voices the ninjas' master?

Jackie Chan plays the shopkeeper Mr. Liu in the live-action scenes and voices Master Wu, and his stunt team performed the film's fights on camera for the animators to copy.

In The LEGO Ninjago Movie, firing the 'Ultimate Weapon' summons what to rampage through Ninjago City?

A real cat: the weapon is only a laser pointer, and the live-action house cat that chases its dot, nicknamed Meowthra, flattens the brick-built city.

Who voices Lloyd in The LEGO Ninjago Movie?

Dave Franco voices Lloyd as a schoolboy shunned by the whole city for being the son of the warlord who keeps attacking it.

What is the title of Ninjago's long-running theme song, performed by the band The Fold?

The Weekend Whip has opened most seasons since 2011, and it has been remixed again and again, with later versions renamed for their season, such as The Ghost Whip.

Which run of the show introduced the 11-minute episode format and a new, more stylised animation look?

Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu (Season 11, 2019) moved to 11-minute episodes and a new animation style, pitting the ninja against the sorceress Aspheera and then the Ice Emperor of the Never-Realm.

The final season of the original Ninjago series, released in 2022, was called what?

Crystalized: the ninja turn fugitive to restore Nya to human form, then face the Overlord, back under the alias of the Crystal King with a team of their old enemies.

The two 22-minute pilot specials that launched the TV series aired on which US channel?

Cartoon Network premiered the pilot in the US in January 2011; the two 22-minute specials were later split into four 11-minute episodes.

Production of the original Ninjago series moved to WildBrain Studios in which country for its last five seasons?

Canada: from Season 11 the series was animated by WildBrain Studios in Vancouver, replacing the Danish studio that had made the first ten seasons.

In October 2024, which studio was announced as developing a live-action Ninjago film?

Universal Pictures: the live-action Ninjago film was announced in October 2024, with Dan and Kevin Hageman, the TV series' original writers, attached to write the script.

What is the name of Ninjago's fictional written language, seen on in-universe signs?

Ninjargon can be read: a translator released alongside The LEGO Ninjago Movie in 2017 lets fans decode the signs letter by letter.

In The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Lloyd's mother Koko was once a legendary warrior known as what?

Lady Iron Dragon is who Koko was when she met Garmadon; he admits to Lloyd that he wishes he had stayed with them instead of leaving to conquer Ninjago.

Which actor voices the villain Lord Garmadon in The LEGO Ninjago Movie?

Justin Theroux voices Garmadon, who attacks Ninjago City again and again without ever realising that the Green Ninja driving him off is his own son.

Which Copenhagen studio animated the first ten seasons of the series?

Wil Film, the Copenhagen studio founded by Erik Wilstrup, animated Ninjago from the 2011 pilot through Season 10, after which production moved to WildBrain.

Which fighter in Master Chen's Tournament of Elements turns out to be his own daughter?

Skylor, the Master of Amber, enters the tournament as her father's spy, but her growing feelings for one of the ninja lead her to turn on him.

A Time-Blade has turned Master Wu into what when the ninja find him in Ninjago's Sons of Garmadon?

A baby is how the ancient master first turns up, and the ninja mind him for several episodes before realising who he is, by which point he has grown into a toddler.

The Great Devourer, whose venom turned a young Garmadon evil in Ninjago, is what kind of creature?

A giant snake that grows by swallowing everything in its path, the Great Devourer bit Garmadon when he was a child; years later he destroys it himself with the realm's four legendary weapons.

Master Chen, host of Ninjago's Tournament of Elements, runs a factory and restaurant selling what?

Noodles are the Chen business: one of his generals runs the factory, staffed by prisoners forced to make them, while another delivers the goods to the restaurant.

In Lloyd's first Ninjago appearance, the mischievous boy tries to rob villagers of what?

Candy was the height of his ambition: Lloyd began as a prank-pulling nuisance whose childish schemes kept failing, long before he grew into the team's calm and confident leader.

Day of the Departed, the Ninjago special that revived past villains, was made for which holiday?

Halloween 2016 brought the special instead of a second season that year, because The Lego Ninjago Movie was in development; in the story, the day honours lost loved ones.

Morro's cursed spirits in Ninjago shrug off most physical attacks but are vulnerable to what?

Water is their one great weakness, which is why Nya matters so much that season: she learns she has inherited her mother's elemental power over it.

In The Lego Ninjago Movie, Garmadon attacks the city with henchmen known collectively as what?

The Shark Army kits out its troops as sea life, right up to generals styled on a fish and a jellyfish; the ones Garmadon has fired come back to attack him.

Although its heroes are LEGO minifigures, the Ninjago TV series is animated using which technique?

Computer animation won out after the Copenhagen studio pitched several styles to LEGO; the work was then spread worldwide, with designers in Berlin and animators in China.

In the finale of Ninjago's second season, Lloyd defeats the Overlord after transforming into what?

The Golden Ninja was meant to be the end of the whole story; the toys then sold so well that the creative team got six weeks to work out how to bring the show back.

When Master Wu first finds Kai and Nya in the Ninjago pilot, what are the pair working as?

Blacksmiths by trade, the two are pulled into the story when Nya is abducted, and Kai joins Wu's three other students in the hope of rescuing her.

Master Wu of Ninjago usually goes into battle carrying which weapon, inherited from his father?

A staff handed down by the creator of Ninjago is what he carries, and in the fifth season its engravings prove to be clues to a tomb the enemy is hunting for.

Which streaming service launched the sequel series Ninjago: Dragons Rising in June 2023?

Netflix had already been the original show's home for its last two years, and the sequel was unveiled through a fan hunt for scattered fragments of its poster.

In the finale of Ninjago's fourteenth season, Nya saves Jay and the city by becoming one with what?

The ocean absorbs her completely, a step that can never be undone; it mirrors the legend of Nyad, the first master of her element, who beat the same monster the same way.

Cole fails to escape Master Yang's cursed temple before sunrise in Ninjago and is turned into what?

A ghost for the rest of the season, he had only gone back to grab a scroll he dropped; the upside is that his new form later gets the team out of an avalanche.

Which Anacondrai general tricks young Lloyd and crowns himself ruler of the Serpentine in Ninjago?

Pythor is the last survivor of his tribe, and he keeps coming back: shrunk by a pill meant for the Overlord in the third season, he ends up helping the ninja a season later.

Which Chicago rock band recorded The Weekend Whip, the theme song of the Ninjago TV series?

The Fold wrote it to work away from the show too, pitching it as the dance the ninja do on the weekend when they are off duty; a demo ran in the pilot before a studio take.

Who is unmasked as the Quiet One, secret leader of the Sons of Garmadon biker gang in Ninjago?

Harumi blames the ninja for her parents' deaths during the Great Devourer's rampage, so the adopted princess idolises Garmadon and plots to bring him back.

On the Ninjago TV series, what is the name of Lloyd's archaeologist mother, introduced in Season 2?

Misako is her name on television, while the big-screen version of the story calls Lloyd's mother Koko and makes her a former warrior queen.

In which Ninjago season does Nya first train to become a ninja in her own right?

Possession, the fifth season, centres on her training while the rest of the team battles a vengeful spirit who has taken over Lloyd's body.

Which tech genius built the android P.I.X.A.L. in the Ninjago season Rebooted?

Cyrus Borg rebuilt the ruined capital as a high-tech metropolis, which backfires when the Overlord returns as a virus and seizes control of everything he has made.

Once cleansed of evil at the end of Ninjago's second season, Garmadon returns in Rebooted as what?

A sensei to the ninja is his new calling, but the peace is brief: a season later he is sacrificed to the Cursed Realm, and he eventually comes back as a pure-evil emperor.

Who voices Cole, the laid-back, music-loving member of the team, in The Lego Ninjago Movie?

Fred Armisen was announced in June 2016 with the rest of the team: Kumail Nanjiani as Jay, Zach Woods as Zane and Abbi Jacobson as Nya.

Mystake, a grouchy old woman later unmasked as an Oni, makes her living in Ninjago selling what?

Rare teas with magical properties are her stock in trade, and she proves useful in a fight too: as a shapeshifter she once disguises herself as a captured enemy.

Which self-proclaimed Brown Ninja, owner of a Mojo Dojo, keeps turning up to help the Ninjago team?

Dareth plays a vital part in the Overlord's defeat in the second season despite the bluster, and by the final season he has reinvented himself as the ninja's lawyer.

In Ninjago lore, where was the Overlord trapped after his ancient battle with the realm's creator?

The Dark Island held him until the second season, when he takes over Garmadon's body as the first step in a plan to conquer the whole of Ninjago.

Which martial art, created by Master Yang, do Ninjago's heroes set out to learn in Season 5?

Airjitzu lets its users lift off the ground, and the ninja must learn it to reach a kingdom in the clouds by leaping into a cyclone from Ninjago's tallest mountain.

Which legendary weapon do the ninja recover first, from the Caves of Despair, in the Ninjago pilot?

Scythe of Quakes comes first, though the enemy has beaten them to the caves; the creator of Ninjago had used all four weapons to make the realm itself.

Akita, Lloyd's companion in Ninjago's Never-Realm, is a Formling who can turn into which animal?

A wolf is her animal form, while her twin brother Kataru becomes a bear; she travels with Lloyd to take revenge on the emperor who froze the rest of their people.

Master of the Mountain, Ninjago's thirteenth season, sends the ninja beneath which mountain kingdom?

Shintaro hides an ugly secret: its own king is the Skull Sorcerer, who forces two enslaved tribes to mine vengestone beneath the mountain.

Aspheera, the Serpentine sorceress of Ninjago's eleventh season, is accidentally freed from what?

A pyramid in the Desert of Doom was her tomb: she had been magically sealed inside for overthrowing the Serpentine king, and it is the ninja who let her out.

Krux, one of the villainous Time Twins in Ninjago, hid in plain sight under which disguise?

A museum curator named Dr. Sander Saunders was his cover until the seventh season, and it was Krux who bred the twins' army from the eggs of the Great Devourer.

Which four-armed ruler of the Underworld loses his command to Garmadon in single combat in Ninjago?

Samukai later tries to keep the four legendary weapons for himself, and their combined power destroys him, opening the portal through which Garmadon escapes.

In the handheld game Lego Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin, what does the thief Ronin steal from the ninja?

Their memories are the prize, and the ninja must smash and build their way back to them; the 2015 game is set between the show's fourth and fifth seasons.

Lego Ninjago: The Ride at Legoland parks has no blaster or joystick; riders control it with what?

Hand gestures are all it takes: the ride's maker, Triotech, built it around a tracking system called Maestro in place of a hand-held device.

Which hero of Ninjago: Dragons Rising idolised the ninja and taught himself their fighting art?

Arin managed what was thought impossible without a teacher, and by accident he also invented a new technique that passes that power into ordinary objects.

Which actor took over as the voice of Lloyd from the eighth season of the Ninjago TV series?

Sam Vincent took over when the eighth season redesigned the characters after the film, giving a visibly older Lloyd a deeper voice.

Which leader of Ninjago's Dragon Hunters is killed by Firstbourne after putting on the Dragon Armor?

Iron Baron is an authoritarian who wants revenge on Firstbourne; once he is gone his deputy Faith, the first hunter to side with the ninja, takes over.

Which Ninjago sub-theme, launched in 2019, remakes sets from earlier years with updated designs?

Legacy began with rebuilt versions of early vehicles such as Jay's Storm Fighter, and its designers argued that newer bricks and building methods made the old models better.

In Ninjago, Prince Kalmaar of Merlopia kills his own father in order to awaken which creature?

Wojira is worshipped as a myth by a tribe called the Keepers until Kalmaar proves otherwise; in the end his control snaps along with his trident and the beast swallows him whole.

Before a ship was chosen, Ninjago's writers pictured the ninja's flying base as which building?

A windmill that turned into a helicopter was the Hageman brothers' first idea; the junk that replaced it has been redesigned several times, in the show and as a toy.

In Ninjago's tenth season, the invading Oni spread across Ninjago City and smother it in what?

Darkness is their weapon because their goal is to destroy the power of creation for good; the ninja answer by combining their powers into a single great tornado.

Which sportswear brand teamed up with Ninjago on clothing during the theme's tenth-anniversary year?

Adidas made one of that year's clothing collaborations with the theme, alongside another with the brand Hype.

For Ninjago: Dragons Rising, WildBrain's animators switched to which software, known from gaming?

Unreal Engine 5 was adopted to improve on the look of the original show, which the same studio had animated in its final seasons.

Which explorer from an earlier LEGO adventure film first helps the Ninjago team in season eleven?

Clutch Powers is a suspended member of the Explorers Club when the ninja recruit him, and he comes from the film Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers.

Which composer of The Lego Movie's score returned to write the music for The Lego Ninjago Movie?

Mark Mothersbaugh's score came out through WaterTower Music a week before the film opened in American cinemas, alongside new songs by several other artists.

Which Ninjago set, once tipped as a Christmas dream toy, went on to win Activity Toy of the Year?

Fire Temple took the prize at the Toy of the Year Awards in New York for inspiring creative play, a year after toy retailers tipped it as a festive bestseller.

Which monstrous being, the living embodiment of the Cursed Realm, does Morro serve in Ninjago?

The Preeminent looks like a vast eyeball with tentacles; years after her defeat she bursts out of a portal again and is sent back by P.I.X.A.L.

The Lego Ninjago Movie opens in live action, with a boy fleeing bullies into a shop that sells what?

Relics line the shelves of Mr. Liu, the mysterious owner, who tells the boy the whole story of Ninjago and ends by promising to start his training at dawn.

Both trailers for The Lego Ninjago Movie were cut to which Taylor Swift hit?

Bad Blood ran under both trailers; the first was shown in cinemas ahead of The Lego Batman Movie, and the second added songs by Roxette and Macklemore.

The Ninjago heroes teamed up in a twenty-minute crossover short with which other LEGO series?

Dreamzzz supplied the other half of the cast for the short, which is titled Dream Team and counts among the mini-movies made alongside the main show.