Let me introduce you to... a typical Ninjago season :
Lloyd gets kidnapped at least once
Cole adopts some traumatized kids / creatures he found in a forgotten, lonely place
Jay becomes the leader of a cult or something
Zane "dies" for the 182737492th time
Nya kicks something (or someone)
Kai runs straight into the danger powered with raw confidence and survives only by pure luck
New outfits for everyone
The animation had another glow up
Jay and Cole are paired for a mission but they have the worst influence on each other's dumbness and mess up so bad you wonder why they're still allowed to work together
Kai tries to show off but miserably fails
Lloyd thinks he's Steven Universe and tries to redeem a villain
Jay spends 99% of his screentime uncontrollably yelling
Wu reveals crazy family lore he was hiding since forever
Kai gets rejected by Skylor
Cole wants cake. Now.
Lloyd gets more daddy issues than he already had (you didn't know it was even possible)
Star Wars reference
Wth is Garmadon doing this time ?
Nya is constantly on the verge of committing murder
Kai bullies Jay
Pixal somehow manages to stay calm
Lloyd is still in his angsty teenage era except he's now a grown adult
Zane is silly, the worst things possible happen to him, then he's silly again
There's another plot hole but the lore is so crazy already no one is gonna care
Shout out to Ninjago City citizen still living here knowing their lives are in constant danger every single second they stay in this place
Nya and Jay keeps being the only healthy stable romance in the whole show
Dareth unexpectedly ends up being useful
Lloyd do the thing with his eyes when it's getting serious (you instantly start screaming)
Kai says "fiyah"
"Yep so I saw [a main character] falling of a rock so they're definitely dead." "But maybe they..." - "NOPE. THEY'RE DEAD" - "aww ok" (they are, in fact, alive)
The team yells "ninja, go !" at least once
Characters are listening to music. It's The Weekend Whip by The Fold.
Why does someone has to stay behind and why is it Zane.
"You know I'm very old I'm gonna die soon" has said Wu every single day of the past 100 years of his life
Nya builds crazy vehicles again
This is a found family trope and they want you to know it
You spotted a pride flag in the background of a 0.5 seconds action scene and you already know the homophobic fans are going to lose their minds over it again
Snakes. Snakes everywhere.
A villain has the most brutal death on screen and you wonder how th this got approved for a kid show, until the show itself makes a joke about it
"Gasp ! Are we... Gonna lose our powers ???" (no they won't)
Jay's parents are in danger
Crazy plot twist happens and you suddenly realize it's been foreshadowed every single season in the previous 10 seasons but you never paid attention to it until now
Something that happened in a previous season gets referenced and you nostalgia cry about it for a whole episode
"Omg, was that the last and final season of Ninjago ???" (no it wasn't, nothing can end this show, we'll all die way before it does, now get ready for the next arc because it's probably gonna last ten more years)
I FINISHED DECODING THE NINJIGMA MAZE AND I'M WAY TOO PROUD OF MYSELF BUT I DON'T CARE
(each colored section corresponds to one of the ninja: kai, jay, cole, zane, or nya. or the freaking walls. i'm on mobile so i don't have many colors to use rip me)
The original text reads as follows:
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Or, if you're not up for parsing All Of That Nonsense:
You have uncovered the prophecy of the green ninja. The prophecy has been buried deep within Zane's code, as it ha[s] been buried deep within the code of all things, for the prophecy of the green ninja is the prophecy of life. It exp[a]nds farther than the green ninja, farther than all the realms of the known universe. This is but the step of an infinite stairway your journey you realize begins once.
(brackets used where a letter was missing or typo-ed, even after deciphering)
@ the hagemans: WHAT DOES IT MEAN
My favorite thing about the dance sequences in this episode are all the subtle variations. It would have probably been easier for the animators to sync the character models to a uniform set movement but even in the final performance there are all these little details given to each ninja that really brings the whole episode to life
For instance here you can actually see Zane has his foot raised off the ground
I also noticed that occasionally he and Kai get ahead of Jay and Cole (with Zane being slightly faster at moving towards the next pose)
The start has Cole's stance as the widest, which makes sense because he needs to stand out for his own true potential episode!
I don't know what any of these moves are called, but I think it's interesting how Kai is more dramatic with the way he raises his shoulder- compared to Jay, whose performs the same move at a much softer angle
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Idk if yall have had the chance to look at this ninjago book at the Barnes and Noble but these pages really tickled me. Like????? is Zane okay?????? canonically????????????????
u know what no the world needs to see mob psycho 100 goose au duck song from 3 years ago