#ninjago iron baron

[geoxstxrs]

NINJAGO HC’S PT 5 : MORE VILLAINS

[xynczachrome]

Stained Glass Series: Wu's Rediscovery

[nyaskitten]

I'll say it before and I'll say it again, I genuinely do believe the Iron Baron is one of the greatest Ninjago villains, and the only reason he's so "forgettable" is because he shared a season with HARUMI AND GARMADON, literally fan-favorite, iconic characters who everyone knows and loves. He was one of the best villains, and I REFUSE any slander on his absolutely horrid and evil name!!!!

[jinxed-ninjago]

I completely forgot about Wu pulling a "The best way to defeat your enemy is to make them your friend" on Iron Baron then leaving him for Firstbourne to kill lmfao

[fiberturkey89]

Earth Dragon of the First Realm heacanons/lore part 5

A group of Primordial Earth Dragons is often referred to as a crash, and for good reason, too. Various tales in the mountainous regions of the First Realm are of deafening roars that can rival volcanic eruptions and crash thunder that looms in the distance. When in reality it's often Earth Dragon's engaging in ritualistic combat for events and celebrations.

Earth Dragons are often considered to be the strongest of the Primordial Dragons, in legends of old their steps are said to make the ground tremble and quake. Their tails reflecting the great jagged boulders that get dislodged by rockslides or carved by water. If there was a kin blessed by the Strength Source Dragon- it would be the Primordial Earth Dragons and those that came after.

Even more social than Fire Dragons, you will often find at least one Earth Dragon in a mixed flock or in a crash of up to ten to twelve members. Often lead by the eldest female or male, how one can tell the age of a Primordial Earth Dragon is by the size of its horns and tusks. The larger the tusks and horns, the more old it is.

Leadership is often passed in a non-combative way down to those who the crash leader deems fit, for they will wait the suitor to become capable of leading the crash one they are not able to. Most leaders do not want those who respond with violence. They want those who respond with what they feel is right in their gut.

While it is not the best way to tell, there will often be a substantial age gap between Earth Dragons who are able to use magma as an offensive/defensive capability. They can tap into the powers of magma and coat their front limbs with it. As a result, not only does their breath change from a blast of sand and dirt that can petrify anything on contact with the air, but their breath changes to lava.

Some Earth Dragons of different realms have become one with the magma and lava however. Rockslide for example has become one with it, the lava cracks amongst his eyes prove that he had sworn to the very heat from volcanoes. No longer able to use the petrification breath other Earth Dragons are able to use, like Slab for example- though he is able to tap into the magma.

However, these are only used in dire situation and specific ceremonies. One of those, being the passing of a Earth Dragon. Particularly a crash leader. Earth Dragons will create a miniature volcano or egg sort of structure then fill it with lava from their forelimbs and breath, poking holes on the outside to let the lava pour out. This done to symbolize how the cycle of death and life is a constant, how volcanoes will form new land and the moving plates within the earth will change it over time. Additionally, its to prove that the soul is eternal, just like the heat within volcanoes despite the damage done to the mortal body. (The Earth Wyvern in the Monastery of Spinjitzu, named Rockslide - is of this belief).

During the reign of Iron Baron, Fire Dragons and Earth Dragons saw the most overhunting. Fire Dragons for their ability to create the perfect weapons with pure flames and Earth Dragons for entertainment, tusks horns and spines. Slab was named by Iron Baron himself, caught after attempting to save Ultra Dragon. However, he was the reason Stormbringer and her son managed to escape Dead's End after he went on a rampage, yet was ultimately restrained and thrown into the pit where he would later need to fight against many a hunter.

He would later be the one to ferry Cole, the Earth Ninja home to Ninjago and engage in combat against the Oni Colossus with Nomad the Gasher.

[juniperjellyfish]

[ninjakitten1699]

Years later even after its release, I can still come across this scene again and be upset over this.

I also realize there’s only three heads, three skulls and Iron Baron’s sitting in a spot where one of them would be. That spot was Rocky’s..

Where’s Rocky’s head? Where is he?

Where’s our goodest boy of the good boys?!?

[ninjago-x-lmk]

Just a quick little non-related lore purpose but.

Lloyd revived Iron Baron to kill him and placed his skull in his section of the Ninjago Museum of History.

Though that’s the explanation they gave for the random skull, some say it’s just a sculpture he made when he was in Darkley’s

It’s still unknown if the skull is real or not, frankly Lloyd refused to tell and osteologists were too afraid to even research because of him.

[puff-hugs]

"kyle"

My friends who've watched Ninjago a long time ago guess character names

Inspired by @i-stole-jays-pudding-cup post!

It's a long on boys, get ready:

They guessed Kai pretty quickly so I immediately went to Seabound

[error501blog]

I just simulated the Hunger Games Here's the Summary

The Bloodbath No deaths occurred.

Day 1 No deaths occurred.

Night 1 Iron Baron and Morro track down and kill Kai. Cole dies from hunger. Acronix throws a knife into Jay's chest.

Day 2 Pixal and Mr. E fight Morro and Harumi. Pixal and Mr. E survive. Chen shoots a poisonous blow dart into Dareth's neck, slowly killing him.

Night 2 Chen repeatedly stabs Misako to death with sais. Ultra Violet, Pixal, and Skylor get into a fight. Pixal triumphantly kills them both.

Day 3 Master Wu repeatedly stabs Krux to death with sais.

Night 3 Zane falls into a pit and dies.

Day 4 Nadakhan, Mr. E, and Faith unsuccessfully ambush Pixal, Nya, and Lloyd, who kill them instead.

Night 4 No deaths occurred.

Day 5 Nya severely slices Master Wu with a sword. Clouse accidently steps on a landmine. Garmadon kills Iron Baron for his supplies.

Night 5 Acronix kills Chen with a hatchet. Pixal bashes Lloyd's head against a rock several times.

The Feast Nya attacks Cyrus Borg, but Garmadon protects him, killing Nya.

Day 6 Acronix attempts to climb a tree, but falls to his death.

Night 6 No deaths occurred.

Day 7 No deaths occurred.

Night 7 Cyrus Borg dies trying to escape the arena.

Day 8 Garmadon falls into a pit and dies. The winner is Pixal from District 6!

[writer-room]

So I’m watching Hunted

[sepublic]

Obviously it would be way too many villains to juggle and thus give justice but could you fucking imagine if they brought back ALL of the old villains for Crystalized, even the ones who were already brought back in Day of the Departed?

We know Traveler's Tea can bring back the dead from the Departed Realm. But instead of Morro, who has already proven himself to be chill, maybe the Preeminent could be brought back in his place, since she was the true villain of Possession. The Preeminent could take a smaller minifigure form, or even be a miniaturized Lego build. Her being a lot smaller is because she got weaker from being dead longer, and Pixal defeating her.

Nadakhan gets brought back and it turns out he remembers all of Skybound, just as Jay and Nya do! Or he doesn't. Jay and Nya explain to the others that there was a whole season that just got undone, and given their experiences with time travel, it's not entirely out of the question for them to accept this. Nadakhan can't grant wishes anymore because that's a huge can of worms from a writing standpoint... Maybe the Overlord used technology to limit him, knowing what he was getting into because he heard the stories of Nadakhan. Or maybe his wish-granting was lost due to Djinjago's destruction, which is what Dragons Rising did. Again this is inconsistent lore but it's Ninjago so whaddya expect.

Yang is still haunting the Temple of Airjitzu, but as a chill and reasonable ghost. Maybe he gets crystalized (can ghosts be crystalized???), brainwashing and forcing him to the Crystal King's council.

Acronix and Krux are easy to explain, in fact the way they were left in canon is just begging for them to make a comeback, because if Wu did, why not them? Tbh a part of me thinks Machia is, in some ways, a better fit for this role; She much better represents her villain faction than the Time Twins do, since she's an actual Vermillion. Maybe all three characters can represent Hands of Time; Machia was also there with the Time Twins as part of Iron Doom, so again, easy explanation. The Iron Doom falls out of the time vortex and idk gets obliterated by the impact, maybe it lands on some explosive stuff, so only the Time Twins and/or Machia make it out alive; So there's no Vermillion army or time machine to rely on.

Iron Baron somehow survived getting encased in molten metal; I dunno how but he just did. He somehow broke himself free. Maybe his mechanical arm was still functional.

Should the Omega Oni be included? It might seem redundant with the Overlord there, but he technically WAS a big arc villain. It was a very short arc by Ninjago standards but whatever. Maybe having the Omega there could be used to contrast his existence with the Overlord's, and/or explain what the Overlord's whole relation to the Dragon/Oni divide even is.

Vex is retrieved from the Never-Realm. He's probably the least justified of all the villains to bring back given he's canonically a wimp, but maybe the Overlord selects him specifically for the psychological torment it'd bring on Zane. I like to think that Zane unsettles the Overlord because while it makes sense for the First Spinjitzu Master, and later his grandson, to defeat him... By comparison, Zane is a nobody in the eyes of the Overlord, just a master of another regular element, no more special than the rest; And yet he still beat him, put the Overlord down longer than Lloyd even did. So he's scared of Zane deep down, and he's using Vex as a way to get back at him.

Unagami gets corrupted by an evil virus because the Overlord already has experience with hacking given his stint in Rebooted. Unagami might be a bit more problematic for censors because once the show starts depicting him as a literal child, it might make censors uncomfortable to have him getting beaten up under any context, even if he did re-assume his Prime Empire form.

Mammatus is... Well, he could easily be crystalized. But given how his character is a racial caricature, I wouldn't be surprised if Lego wanted to avoid touching his character anymore; I suspect he was written as an actually reasonable person to avoid unfortunate implications, even if Ninjago still ended up doing that in a different way. Tbh I wish Mammatus and the Keepers got better focus and writing, especially during Seabound, but I can understand why he'd be left out.

Kalmaar is dead, but so were the villains in Day of the Departed. To break off on a side tangent, I'm surprised the writers killed off Kalmaar, despite Crystalized and its villains-returning gimmick being right around the corner. Given Vangelis and Aspheera were merely imprisoned, it'd have been easy to just have him be imprisoned, but I guess they didn't want to bring him back? But yeah, if you can bring back the dead by opening a portal to the Departed Realm with Traveler's Tea, then that opens up for a lot of villains to come back pretty easily.

So with all of these explanations in mind, our list would include;

-Samukai

-Pythor

-Kozu

-Cryptor

-Chen

-The Preeminent

-Nadakhan

-Yang

-Acronix and Krux

-Harumi

-Iron Baron

-Omega

-Aspheera

-Vex

-Unagami

-Vangelis

-Mammatus

-Kalmaar

-The Overlord

Yeah, I left out the Mechanic and Mr. F. Mr. F was kind of a useless addition since he wasn't actually Mr. E, meaning the writers didn't bring back the dropped Echo Zane plotline. And unlike Mr. E, who had an actual presence and menace, I kinda forgot about Mr. F a lot of the time, and Harumi better represents the Sons of Garmadon. I also left out the Mechanic because he isn't really a major arc villain, just a recurring thug. Tbh I'd replace him with Soto, who could represent the first half of S2, and whose pirates are an actual existing faction with continued relevance, and even defeated Nadakhan!

Also, I’d like to think Zane’s Ice Emperor persona makes an actual dramatic return and not just as an ineffectual gag, like maybe he has to use the scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu to combat the Vengestone army, and seeing Vex again could trigger the past. It’s only for like one episode because we need Zane, but it’s a villain cameo for the arc where all the villains return.

But yeah, if we keep out Soto and Machia, that still brings us to 20 villains to juggle. Which is why this never could've happened. But I can dream, right? Writing a version of Crystalized that includes all of these characters and gives them some actual characterization and dynamics would be a Herculean feat.

(Now imagine a story that brings back all of these villains AND the ones from Dragons Rising…!)

[the-ninjago-historian]

So, as far as I know, this is canon. :(

Wow. That's really sad. And shockingly dark. I think Tommy might have said something about it, but the tweet is gone. If anyone has it, please let me know.

haha this is horrifying :]

[crappy-coffee]

I be like “hehe yeah Ninjago is such a silly show!!” and then I remember that the Ultra Dragon was caught by a Dragon Hunters and killed so his skeletal remains could be used as a throne.

[fiberturkey89]

You know, I just think about how before Imperium came on the scene - that the First Realm peoples were brutally efficent in making Dragons their prey. Think about it.

Jet Jack's role and the helicopter that usually carried Iron Baron were most likely to instill panic and fear into Dragons and to prevent them from escaping the line fire the other vehicles had.

But then I realized.

What if Faith had been the one to land the killing blow on Ultra Dragon?