#Ninjago headcanon

[theaceofarrows]

Since the live action Ninjago movie is confirmed, here are some of my crack predictions

They DC-ify all the Gi's (think the animated movie but x10)

They retcon half the lore

Lloyd is played by a 25+ year old actor

Dareth is there, but he's serious and played by Chris Pratt

Cole is purely token big, strong dude of the group™️ and isn't a sweet cinnamon roll

Kai's actor is blond (that'd be so funny. It'd be like how Miles Morales's Peter Parker was blond)

Zane is a human

#I'm not like other girls Nya

Jay's actor is 6ft

Wu is played by Jackie Chan (cool) or by Danny DeVito (cursed)

Garmadon is either a giant hulking mess of CGI or just some guy dressed in black with red eyes and the occasional black, purple shadow

No Serpentine (boooo!!)

FSM flashback, but it shows his face, so it's just WRONG

Fugidove cameo for shits and giggles

Cole doesn't get a giant scythe (cowards)

Kai flirts with a bad guy as a distraction

"Ninja never quit" *cue dramatic boss music*

The Weekend Whip starts playing on someone's phone/on the radio

Nya hardly gets any screen time

No dragons (also a booooo!!)

Lloyd's eyes glow red during an intense fight

No spinjitzu tornadoes (I'd classify that as a crime)

Kai's hair is straight and lifeless, with not a single spike insight

There's something Wu hasn't told them yet

Morro reference for the people in the back

They get one F-bomb (please, oh please, it be SO FUNNY!!!😩)

[taddymason]

fun headcanon: jay is completely immune to any bug bite because any insect that touches him dies instantly.

@blinksalot jay being a bug zapper trap

[llannasvsp]

i do not trust a single person who thinks lloyd is younger than 20 in dragons rising, mentally and/or physically.

also the people who think arin and sora would be older than lloyd if it weren't for the tea.

that is just so... so factually incorrect.

[localaceken]

I think Jay canonically not dying even once in the entire show is really funny.

But also it gave me the idea for my fave headcanon for him ever a while ago so, Jay fandom this is for you;

Unless Jay gets any of his vital organs damaged [Ex. him getting large amound of sea water in his lungs in Seabound], he can't die.

If he gets thrown/crushed by something and his heart enters cardiac arrest without damage to any of his organs?

His lighting powers would just, automatically re-start his heart if it were to stop.

Not only that, but depending on the wound and the organ, his lightning can also turn off his nerves because of the sudden adrenaline rush, so he can't feel the said pain unless the adrenaline wears off.

If he were to get beaten to death, he can't die unless his entire body bleeds to multiple organ failures and he won't feel the pain of it until he loses the adrenaline rush he's in due to the said blood loss.

TLDR: Jay's lighting powers are his built in Defibrillator unless he fucks up his vital organs and bleeds to death/organ failure.

[lightning-and-dragons]

What if the only reason the Nunchucks of Lightning are nunchucks is because no elemental Master of Lightning could be trusted with a sharp object until they had trained with a dull object for a few years.

The Master of Fire gets a sword...with a sharp edge.

The Master of Ice gets shurikens...with a sharp edge.

The Master of Earth gets a sythe...with a sharp edge.

But the Master of Lighting? They get nunchucks, a weapon without a sharp edge, that could only hit people with brute force if not for the lightning it contains.

I can just imagine Jay desperately wanting to use Kai's sword or Cole's sythe in training but then nearly killing everyone with the sharp edge. Swinging it randomly as he talked, grabs it from the sharp side of the blade if he drops it, nearly cutting off fingers as he tries to do fancy tricks with it.

This is also the reason Jay isn't allowed in the kitchen.

[skierisa]

somewhat a study/design of lloyd getting older

top is dr, middle is s8, still want to make one more for child's play to s7, because i dont think the tea aged lloyd that much, and the bottom one is s1 to child's play (headcanon him being around 11-13 at that time)

[senseioftheseidiots]

If Wu ever has a phone, he definitely ends his texts with 'Signed, Wu' on them like he would his letters

[miksterrr]

headcannon that lloyd was able to feel when the ninja reached their true potentials.

Okay just hear me out here-

Lloyd was able to harness their elements at first, right?

And like I know there's a headcannon out there where Lloyd's like an empath and whatever bc of his element- but who's to say it couldn't reach more?

Like just imagine- he's just sitting in that cage the serpentine put him in when suddenly he's absolutely freezing, like dead of winter, negative degrees, kind of feel but he also feels powerful and even though he's only known the ninja for like a month at this point he can just tell it's zane-

can feel the pure relief at knowing at something that finally comes to light- and something in his mind is reaching and reaching and trying to connect with him with the absolute freezing power in his veins and trying to reach out to zane for someone to rescue him-

but that feeling's gone as soon as it arrived.

and then like a week later than feeling comes again but it's different but just as powerful as the first time- this time it's electricity rushing up his bones, making his hairs stand on edge, and he feels so energized yet completely drained at the same time- it almost feels warm (like a summer storm) but it's only flashes of warmth compared to the complete freezing of zane's-

but just like zane he knew it was jay, he knew by the absolute excitement he felt and the utter relief and shock speeding right alongside the electricity- he knew that whatever was going on was jay's power- his element reaching out to him for some fucking reason-

once again, that feeling is gone as soon as it arrived.

at this point he's waiting, anticipating feeling that same connection with cole or kai

and what do you know, a week in a half goes by and suddenly it's like he can move mountains. it feels almost more powerful that before, that the he can crush the cage with just his hands but he can't- there's warmth traveling up his veins this time, it's slow-moving but it's a constant warmth opposed to the electricity and it's a nice kind of warmth too, one that doesn't set him on fire or make him panic, it's one that he knows-

it feels like cole's hugs. he's maybe gotten two hugs from the older teen, but this warmth and strength and powerful he's feeling feels just like cole's hugs and he doesn't know what to do with this knowledge- the memory of cole's hug or the same feeling of relief that jay and zane had, along with lingering feelings of contentedness and connection- once again lloyd feels himself reaching for this power for this feeling of relief-

and it falls away just as quickly.

even though lloyd still doesn't under what exactly these connections are- he knows he's waiting for kai, he's waiting and waiting and waiting and yet almost two weeks go by and there's still no sign of power and relief from kai-

it's not until he's lying in bed still reeling from the fact that he's the green ninja when he remembers the feeling. it was overshadowed by his own fear and acceptance and relief but now he knows kai was also feeling the same-

lloyd remembers feeling heat and fire shoot up his body like it didn't know where else to go- he remembers feeling hot, and now he knows it wasn't just because he was in an active volcano- it was definitely part of it but it was also a different kind of heat- it was more similar to cole's but it was also angry and rushing and safe-

and that's how lloyd knew it wasn't only the volcano, because he's only felt that safe with kai before and he remembers that feeling only blooming when kai picked him up he remembers the shared feeling of acceptance and fear and how it was intertwined with the heat- lloyd remembers how that connection unfurled until he could almost see it- where it connected between him and kai and that was the moment lloyd knew kai was his protector- that all of them were meant to protect and mentor him-

the feeling fell away as soon as they landed on the bounty.

but- it was still there- a single minute thread that connected them together- that connected all of them together. lloyd knew if he just tugged on the thread that connected to zane or jay or cole, he'd feel that same kind of power that connected them all those weeks ago.

He doesn't realize what this meant until he started harnessing their elements as well- he doesn't realize until he hears the prophecy of the green ninja again and knows it was meant for him.

unbeknownst to lloyd but the connection works both ways.

the ninja didn't feel each other's true potential or felt what lloyd was feeling in their moment- but they felt lloyd's.

Kai is the only one that was aware of it when it happened, as the other were under the possession of dark matter, but he knew- he felt laces of gold and green threading under his skin and there was energy that he didn't know what to do with- he remembers acceptance and sorrow and relief and conviction- he remembers reaching out to this energy- trying to connect with trying to make it last enough to hear his apologizes-

it's gone as soon as it came.

It takes them all years to realize what it was- it's not until Lloyd was talking about true potentials with Arin and Sora and Wyldfire and the rest of them swapping their stories of them reaching their true potentials do they realize that lloyd was able to feel when they reached theirs and vice versa.

[aroninshonour]

No clue about you guys but headcanoning Zane as like 6'7" is really fuckin' fun cuz like imagine Dr. Julien designing him and going "Ykw I'm gonna make my son the tallest mf anyone's ever seen." And actually going through with it.

[s0ull3ss-p3rs0n]

Guys you know how the green ninja prophecy said that one of the ninja rises above the others and becomes the green ninja or smth and the OG 4 assumed they were the candidates of sorts?

So what if that part was a mistranslation due to FSM illegible ass writing.

Like, FSM wrote the prophecy and drew the picture, BUT, instead of what the prophecy says now, he originally wrote something along the lines of "The four guardians will find and protect the one that rises above them and becomes the green ninja until they are ready to defeat the dark lord" but due to the illegible ass writing, the translators could only decipher "four", "rises above", "green ninja defeat", and "dark lord", and used the image as a little out of context in order to make it to be what it is now.

Just a thought that came to me.

[froginninjago]

This was a conversation that happened when everyone reunited after the merge, prove me wrong:

Zane: Arin! Could you help me understand something?

Arin: Oh! Uh- yeah, of course!

Zane: Thank you. What are "glowing blue orbs?"

Lloyd: *spits out tea*

Kai: Zane... Where did you hear that?

Zane: I read it! It was on this informational website I found called "Archive of Our Own!"

Sora: Zane... Zane that's not an informational website...

Zane: I don't understand. It says archive, does it not?

Lloyd: It isn't exactly...

Arin: An archive of historical records.

Sora: It's more like a fan-forum!

Zane: Ah. That doee explain the questionable wolf-pack dynamics.

[greendest1ny]

lloyd sprays garmadon with a spray bottle everytime he's being annoying or evil. garmadon is constantly drenched

[taddymason]

Elemental Master of Ligthning

You're a snake, you're a snake I can see it in your face

Jay fights snake style in my mind.

[llannasvsp]

okay headcannon time.

when morro possessed lloyd, his physical appearance didn't actually change. firstly, when morro first arrives at the tea shop, he looked like lloyd. secondly, at the library, the two people had no qualms about taking a picture with him. and lastly, ronan thinks morro is lloyd too.

personally, i think the change in appearance was to help the viewers recognize that it wasn't lloyd, but morro, and thats why we see him "change" at the tea shop. in universe, i believe lloyd's physical appearance would stay exactly the same while being possessed.

it makes all the fights angstier too.

[ghostscrown]

I know it's because of kid show censorship, but I think it'd be very funny if the in universe reason no one had guns in ninjago since (what, season 3 ?) is because guns are just. Illegal in ninjago. Like the law was passed atp when we stopped seeing guns in the show. And for some reasons this is the one law even the worst villains respect. (Maybe bc trafficking guns became way too complicated for the result when they know the ninjas don't even have some anyway, so it'd be better to use the energy for their plans / magic weapons or something)

Edit it was not in season 3 at all I think it was more like in season 5 but nvm you get the point

[rainbow-flavoured-skittles]

I think that when Jay and Cole go out for coffee Cole gets the most horrendous sugary drink possible and Jay gets black coffee with like three espresso shots