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Javier Peña in Every Episode: Best Laid Plans
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You melted a hole in your soul. Be careful, keep it safe- or something might crawl inside
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hey so do you ever realise that when lloyd is a child he wears a purple sash to try and emulate his father-
...but then after he becomes the green ninja and saves the day and purifies garmadon from evil his dad starts wearing green in support of him???
now you do :)
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Three important facts that I promise are connected:
Although it seems that the ninja take turns cooking, Zane's food is apparently so good that they all eagerly await his turn. And his pies are apparently so good that just the smell of them brought a tear to Jay's eyes.
When someone passes away, grief makes menial tasks like cooking and cleaning very difficult. It's for this reason that a lot of bereavement support advice recommends giving gifts of pre-made food or service to those who are grieving. I can imagine the grief would be doubly worsened if you are grieving someone who typically did a lot of the cooking, or someone with whom you strongly associate such tasks.
In s4ep1 "The Invitation", Lloyd invites each of the ninja to dinner with him at Chen's Noodlehouse. However, he phrases it as "if you change your mind, you know where I'll be". Despite his vague wording, all of them unanimously know exactly where to go and when to be there. Furthermore, Cole even says "you're late" to Kai despite the fact that a meetup time was never discussed.
Anyway, my theory is that due to the grief of losing Zane making it difficult to cook, the ninja became regulars at Chen's Noodlehouse. They would go to the same location at roughly the same time almost every night, and that's how the ninja knew exactly where/when to meet up. Which means the place that helped them keep their heads above water post-s3, the place where they spent many nights grieving Zane's loss, is also the same place Lloyd chose to suggest adding a new teammate. And also the same place they found out Zane was alive.
This restaurant has become so strongly tied to their grief over Zane's loss, simply through the way it was there for his friends when he was not. Feeding them the food he himself was no longer present to cook for them. The statue in the garden represents the legacy of his heroism while the noodlehouse represents the legacy of the grief created by his absence, and in this essay I will -
#my brain has been yelling at me to rewatch s3/4#i know i shouldnt. but god i really really want to#ninjago#ns3#ns4#destiny post
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I think Kai is the real mf with the sixth sense bc how the fuck DID he figure that out
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Ok but can we please talk about how absolutely insane s3 was for Kai
Like
His best friend tried to steal his body (comic), his mentor got turned into a cyborg and tried to murder him, his brother gets kidnapped, he DIES, survives THREE CARS blowing up (although tbf that one is kinda his fault), gets captured by pythor and is hung up by the wrists, almost dies AGAIN, gets stuck in space, has an alien shove him in a hole then replace him (comic), and then his best friend DIES.
All in the span of like a week 😭😭😭
Like damn no wonder he became the red shogun I would have done the same tbh
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*jay and cole fighting noises*
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"Sorry. I don't know what got into me."
"You let the anger take over."
Oh fuck. And then in Crystalized Resurrected Garmadon is now telling his son to let the anger take over. Fuuuck.
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What made you change the Golden Master from being the Overlord to Lloyd?
tHE WEALTH OF NARRATIVE POSSIBILITIES IT PROVIDEs \(*-*)/
(plus I always thought the Overlord sucks in S3 and felt needlessly redundant and he steals Lloyd's power in a cheap way and doesn't reallyyyyyy do anything with it anyway I mean damn they go to space for the weapons that were flung there in another timeline then fashion it into armor and next thing you know they're trying to shoot the guy with a pill that doesn't even work —I know it's played for laughs but that was really their best plan against the guy that Lloyd was trapped in a FATED FINAL BATTLE OF DESTINY WITH—and then Zane dies in the process by yeeting himself and the Overlord's just like 'nooo my one weakness someone touching my drip' heyo)
Besides why when Scales was revealing the lore about the Golden Master did everyone's mind immediately jump to Lloyd?! And why did we never expand upon that beyond basically that one sentence?! And what would've happened had Lloyd's power not been absorbed by the Overlord?! And what even are the full capabilities of the Golden Master to begin with?!
And what if Lloyd was aware of this fact beforehand, even vaguely, and has to decide whether or not to let people know that 'yup I've already done some shitty things and I do have the potential to be worse despite my best interests'
Also potentially evil!Lloyd but not entirely?
Just some thoughts that crossed my mind *shrugs*
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Hey so pretty messed up that we see a nindroid get possessed by the Overlord on screen and all that happens is that Zane unplugs him did we all just decide that being possessed is only traumatizing when it happens to Lloyd or
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Rewatching the season 3 finale has me having so many thoughts:
• first off, this might be an unpopular opinion but the last three episodes carry this season, it’s so much better after the digiverse fight, in my opinion
• not the first one to notice this but Zane’s “it’s not about numbers, it’s about family” mirrors Kai saying the same thing earlier that episode
• also I cannot forget that one post dissecting how Kai and Zane are repeatedly implied to be very important to each other in a way that’s never specified. I can’t think of any meaningful one on one interactions between them off the top of my head, but Kai’s the one whose Zane’s final speech mirrors. Kai’s the one chosen to speak at Zane’s funeral. Kai’s the one who Lloyd is most surprised Zane doesn’t remember in s11. What’s happening here?
• speaking of the funeral, Borg really is implied to be the president of (New) Ninjago City, it’s never stated but he seems to be the closest thing they have to a political figure until s8
• also can we talk about Cole’s characterization in Zane’s death? He really is the team’s rock. He’s no stranger to grief. He just watches sorrowfully as he loses one of the most important people in his life, again (his mom’s death was (in my interpretation of the timeline) only a year ago, max). The way he just delicately holds the remnants of Zane’s face before opening his arms to let Nya collapse into him. This guy…
• backtracking a bit, Zane’s little heart monitor thing is an excellent cinematic effect, but it doesn’t make a ton of sense upon some surface level questioning. He doesn’t have a heart, why would he have a heart beat, much less a rhythm to be visualized? But then the funeral speech (very deliberately) reminds us that we never knew what powered him. They specifically mention his “heart.” They call him the perfect balance between “us and technology.” Early on in the season, Pixal specifically says that she has no idea what his power source is, despite him being made from scraps. There is something here. Zane’s power source — on some level — functions like a heart. We never learn the mysteries of what powers him and how, and this line of logic just makes me even more intrigued.
• also can we talk about how the Falcon has not been in this season at all until it swoops in to eat pythor (not actually but that’s what we’re led to believe in this episode) and then show up to Zane’s funeral?
• it snowing at Zane’s funeral hits so hard knowing that winter follows the elemental master of ice, that snowfall marks their homes and, here, their family
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Javier Peña in Every Episode: The Cali KGB
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i had such an embarrassing crush on him when i was 14. and unfortunately i still think he’s hot 💀💀💀
#jfc go put on a shirt man!!!#lego ninjago#general cryptor#ns3#rebooted#i made him bald :(#penance for the war crimes#hair privileges are revoked#vvvortex
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He taught science i think
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Ever since Crystalized came out, there's been this theory circulating that the reason the Overlord somehow managed to manifest crystal power seemingly out of nowhere and with no explanation (at least, none that I can find/remember), is because his fight with Zane affected his power in some way.
The main evidence for this is that:
Zane was the last person to fight the Overlord
Ice is technically a crystalline structure, depending on how it's formed, and Zane is the master of ice
When Harumi was first resurrected, she found the Overlord's spirit imbued into a purple crystal
As evidenced by past seasons, the Overlord's power seems to be influenced by his circumstances and environment in the wake of his last defeat. During Rebooted, a tech center was built over his resting place, and he ended up taking on the abilities and limitations of a computer virus. And in this case, the theory suggests that the Overlord's power was then influenced again by all the ice surrounding him as Zane destroyed both of their physical forms.
This does, to some extent, seem to fall in line with everything else we know about the Overlord. The Overlord is a being of shadow and darkness, and the shape of a shadow will always be influenced by the light around it. (And if we want to get into the theory that the Overlord was created as a result of the FSM trying to purge the oni blood from his veins, then you could even bring up the fact that the oni are shapeshifters sooo).
Now, I'll be the first to admit that this theory is ultimately pretty circumstantial, and there's nothing in canon to point to it being explicitly true. BUT, the cool thing about this theory is that it does also retroactively solve another big fandom mystery: that is, it explains how Zane survived his fight with the Overlord.
Let me explain.
When Zane came back to life after his fight with the Digital Overlord, while it was never outright explained how he did so, it was implied that he came back the same way the Overlord had: by spiritually manifesting within the systems at Borg Tower - specifically, the Digiverse. But that doesn't really answer the question, does it?
Like, the Overlord coming back as a spiritual manifestation makes sense. He's a regenerative being, an immortal abstraction of all the evil in the world. And Zane, as far as we know, is very much not that. So what could have happened to cause Zane, a nindroid, to end up being resurrected in the same way as the god of darkness? Why did he come back to life, instead of passing onto the afterlife? Even Lloyd, the special-est boy in all Ninjago, made a quick visit to the Departed Realm and only came back because the FSM said he could.
And true, it's certainly possible that Zane had a similar encounter with the FSM. Or that his power source is responsible for his resurrection, and just as we may never know how his power source works he may also never know how it brought him back to life. Those are all very possible solutions, and you're welcome to just accept those ideas and move one.
But if you're like me and you don't find those answers particularly satisfying, here's another possibility:
Just as Zane's power has influenced the Overlord, the Overlord's power has influenced Zane. In the explosion of Golden Power that caused both of them to be destroyed in unison, their souls became intertwined. So yes, Zane was meant to die. And judging by his account of the situation in Decoded, he did die. And maybe a peaceful afterlife was well within arm's reach, maybe he was just about to grab the FSM's hand...but then something pulled him back. His soul, chained to the Overlord's dark power, dragged him to the land of the living once more.
And if you really want to get into it, then you could even theorize that this connection ended up influencing Zane's power as well. During the Ice Chapter he was capable of turning people into ice samurai zombie-things kept under his control, as well as creating ice constructs like Boreal. These are not abilities that have been established in the ice power-set, nor are they logical powers for an ice elemental to have. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but the Forbidden Scroll doesn't give you new powers, it just enhances and turbo-boosts what you already have. Which is why it did nothing when Kai held it, as his power had been stolen from him at the time.
(Now before you ask why Pixal could use the Scroll despite seeminlgy not having any powers, there are very subtle implications that she had developed a very, very minor sixth sense due to her inheriting some of Zane's power. If anyone wants me to explain that in greater detail, I'd be more than happy to.)
And yes, Aspheera is also capable of creating elemental zombie/mummy things and other such constructs, but she did all that before she found the Scroll. This is a power-set she had by virtue of her being a powerful sorcerer, not something granted by wielding the Scroll.
And yet somehow, the Scroll did seem to give Zane these powers. Powers that so far have only been exhibited by two people in the series: Aspheera, and the Overlord. So if we submit to the theory that Zane and the Overlord's fight have caused their powers to mix a little, and the Scroll magnifies your power....well, it suddenly becomes very possible that the Scroll amplified some of the dark energy he inherited from the Overlord and awakened some of the Ice Emperor's more unique abilities.
And if that's true, then that really just kinda makes the whole Ice Emperor sting that much more. All of the good things Zane has done, all of his biggest sacrifices, all led to this moment. To him becoming the Ice Emperor.
I dunno. It's just something to think about.
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“I’m out there somewhere”
“But you’ll never listen, to me.”
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