there’s a lot of debate of which ninja is the most traumatized and I honestly can’t decide, so I’m gonna list all the trauma I remember. Feel free to add anymore I missed.
Kai
Parentless
raised his sister by himself and had to run a blacksmith shop as a teen to make ends meet
his sister got kidnapped
Got hit with snake venom and was high for awhile
got stuck in a collapsing volcano
the whole birthday human piñata thing
saw his brother explode (rip Zane)
ends up falling in love with a villain
loses his powers
gets tricked by said villain and almost destroys Lloyd with the power staff
gf turned into a snake
got teased about what happened to his parents
(still parentless)
fails to protect his possessed brother
is forced to fight said possessed brother
nearly drowns
gets swarmed by psycho fangirls (s6)
finds out his parents may be traitors
truly believes his parents are traitors and tries to stab them
father gets hit my the time punch
is forced to go back in time and watches Master Wu be lost to time
watches his best friend fall off the bounty and “die” (and literally can’t do a thing)
loses his powers (again)
gets thrown into a bunch of walls
literally has to summon his fire or everyone will DIE
watches everyone get turned to ice sculptures
Loses powers and gets turned into a cube o7
gets pelted with rocks
sister turns into the sea
gets in a car crash
turns into a Crystal zombie
oh, and he gets hit by a giant blast and thrown into the distance, then nearly gets killed by dragons.
Jay
Turns into a snake man
Gets tied up and nearly hit by a train
has a pointless love triangle where he breaks up with his best friend
literally resents him the whole time but is secretly sad
said best friend sacrifices himself and Jay has to watch him be thrown into the pit below rip
is adopted
Bio dad is dead (dead as hell)
bio mom is gone (who knows where)
he’s just motherless
Spider tries to eat him
literally gets tortured by a bunch of pirates
loses his ex gf to a super hot djinn
watches Nya die
is traumatized by even the mention of time travel (s7)
adoptive mom gets kidnapped
is so traumatized that he just becomes emotionally depleted and is okay with a dragon eating him???
watches best friend literally fall into a cloud of darkness and can’t even do anything
almost falls into lava
watches his whole family and gf get cubed
gets sacrificed to a sea beast (which isn’t technically real but still)
almost drowns
literally almost dies because water in lungs
gf turns into the sea
is depressed for awhile
grows a beard
Gets turned into a Crystal zombie
‼️‼️SPOILER‼️‼️amnesia
Cole
Mother died when he was a child
Which lead to a bad relationship with his father
ran away and climbed a mountain in his grief
nearly got killed by a dragon
got mind controlled and was forced to fight his friends/ninja brothers
had a weird love triangle
lost powers
sacrificed himself for Jay
turned into a ghosty boi
got kidnapped by the sons of Garmadon
falls off the bounty and nearly gets frozen in the oni cloud
feels so responsible for losing the travelers tea that he literally climbs up a snowy mountain without sleeves-
gets cubed in a video game
is attacked by a creature wearing his moms locket
no one believes him
despite all the crazy things that have happened
gets thrown to the bottom of the mountain
Gets in a car crash
crystal Zombie time
Zane
Fatherless
wandered for like 10 years-
had amnesia
everyone calls him “weird”
is actually a nindroid
bird robot dies several times
btw his dad is actually alive
falls in love with a robot girl
literally gives her half of his heart
sacrifices himself to protect those he loves and all of ninjago
is rebuilt only to be kidnapped
gf is scrapped and now lives in his head
dies again because smartphones aren’t real (s7)
nearly dies from being thrown off the cliff by someone who was essentially supposed to be himself
Had visions about his literal banishment
gets banished to the never realm
loses memories and is manipulated
commits mass genocide
nearly assassinated
Gets electric shocked and hooked up to power a giant machine
turns off emotions because of Nya becoming a mermaid
crystal zombie
literally locked in a imperium temple for years (but doesn’t remember a thing???)
Nya
Lost both her parents at a young age
was kidnapped
becomes samurai X because she wanted to help and the others wouldn’t let her
im not even going to talk about s3
gets hunted down by Chen’ forces
is actually the water ninja
unlocks her true potential before everyone can die
is forced to deal with misogyny at every turn because she’s the “girl ninja”
gets possessed by the spirit of Delara
dies
someone steals her samurai suit
her parents are alive
she watches her family and bf die
has to deal with survivors guilt when Cole “dies”
is forced to confront her powers once again in s12
gets cubed
watches her bf get flirted with and he doesn’t do anything
Becomes a Queen despite not wanting to???
watches bf get sacrificed
Misses her mom but she’s been gone so long things have changed
sacrifices herself to save Jay
turns into the sea
amnesia
is alive again but is separated from Jay once again (merge)
Lloyd
Mom left him at a boarding school as a baby
dad is evil
Is mistreated and opens a serpentine tomb
gets gatekeeped, gaslight and girlbossed by a purple snake
kidnapped
nearly dies because he’s forced to retrieve a fang blade
almost dies in a volcano
Hes destined to defeat his father btw
and fight him
Son vs father
loses his childhood to save his friends
mother is alive
has to fight his father and destroy the overlord
friend group breaks up after Zane dies
Recently redeemed father dies because Lloyd has to banish him to the cursed realm
gets possessed by his cousin
gets thrown into a river and nearly drowns
says a final goodbye to his father
gets really old
isnt old anymore
is forced into a leadership role and no one cares
falls in love with this really pretty, nice girl
oops
shes evil
she beats him up and brings his father back from the dead (only the evil part)
his father beats him up and leaves him for dead
watches family be crushed
is forced top into leadership again and confronts loss
fights his father one last time and defeats him narrowly
Is forced to work with and babysit his evil dad
is so traumatized by Harumi that his trust issues are heightened
distrusts a Wolf girl but works with her
she kisses him and then he leaves (for good?)
Is forced to fight video game Harumi and they kill each other (poetic but cruel)
is cubed
sneaks into Cole’s bedroom just to tell him how much he distrusts the new princess
sister gets turned into the sea
works at Starbucks?
his ex gf is alive and pissed
dad loves a plant more than him
father plays dead and Lloyd turns into a demon goat man
Gets separated from his whole family in the merge
gets a vision of his family’s grave
gets high, beats the shit out of some bad guys and passes out
probably traumatized after that
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