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anyablossom

ninjago fandom don't compare misako to abusers challenge level impossible

zaptrap

#JayWalkerShipWeek2021 Day 1 - Techno / Stars

Zane's there too if you look hard enough :3

#FAV ART #ninjago #jay #zane

mr-cactis

Like him?

#YESSSSSSS THATS THE SHIT!!!!!!#ninjago #echo zane #dr. julien #zane

thestoryteller-thedreamer

Echo Zane is a challenging character. And no, I'm not talking about him becoming Mr. E.

Echo Zane, for all of his sweet, heartwarming antics in Skybound, forces us to reevaluate Dr. Julien. Zane's father, as charming and endearing as he appears in Seasons 1 and 2, was not only willing to make a replacement for his son, but to also abandon this apparently sentient replacement as soon as the true Zane came along. We could absolutely create some kind of excuse- maybe Echo Zane chose to stay behind in the lighthouse, being locked up alone for years would make anyone do insane things etc.

Maybe this is just me, but it does leave a slightly bitter taste in my mouth. I love Dr. Julien... but he's got some serious issues (just like basically almost other ninja parent in the show...)

However, Echo Zane does set up a very interesting parallel between Dr. Julien and Nadakhan, and, by proxy, Echo and Nya. What Echo Zane is to Zane, Nya is to Delara. A fabrication designed to replace the better version, only to be shoved aside possessed when the better version becomes a viable option.

About a year ago I wrote a very long analysis comparing Dr. Julien and Lord Garmadon as fathers and I find it fascinating that once more, Dr. Julien, or at least the implication of Dr. Julien, is less of a character in his own right, and more a mirror of the season's enemy.

Both Dr. Julien and Nadakhan find themselves trapped and alone for a significant amount of time.

Both Dr. Julien and Nadakhan attempt to create/ control someone who looks identical to the person they love most in the world.

And both Dr. Julien and Nadakhan replace their replacement as soon as the original person comes along.

Dr. Julien and Nadakhan certainly aren't a one to one comparison. Dr. Julien never kidnapped and tortured anyone, never ripped apart Ninjago to create his own empire, never sexually assaulted a teenager (at least, I hope not...) But I think the similarities still stand.

In a nutshell, Echo Zane symbolizes the horrors Nya endures in this season, as Nadakhan's vessel to contain Delara. And while Dr. Julien dies, and Nadakhan is trapped in a teapot, Zane remains oblivious and Delara goes back to the Departed Realm...

Echo and Nya are both left to deal with the consequences.

#julien has ALWAYS been a foil for the series' antagonists. it's just that he's rarely referenced directly #and it all comes down to the fact that julien is both a victim AND PERPETRATOR of various forms of abuse.#even before we get later confirmation of some of the things that are Wrong with julien - even just in the setup shown in tick tock -#its obvious on some level just through Reading Under The Tropes that (1) julien must have something very wrong with him to live how he does #and (2) that if you scrape off the romanticism of the setup with the nice music julien was in a position of ultimate power over zane with #RAMPANT potential for abuse. the implication that julien and zane were entirely alone in their house in the woods for 30-50 years??????????#the kooky inventor trope is all well and good on its own but HIGHLY coded as having avoidance issues and/or an anxiety disorder #(theres a reason i have lowkey said for over a decade that julien has AVPD)#it has massive implications for the kind of world that julien thinks he is - or just *is* - running away from #and considering the fact that the skulkin BRING HIM BACK FROM THE DEAD in order to ENSLAVE HIM making weapons for their war #and then they ABANDON HIM on that ISLAND PRISON after they lose? just NEVER COME BACK FOR HIM? for all we know julien may be CORRECT.#and then like. do i even have to elaborate on the second part.#s11 LITERALLY SAID 'what if julien wasn't actually zane's father and was gaslighting him to fulfill his own agenda'. a FULL SEASON on this.#(and when you take into account point 1 it gives a WHOLE NEW MEANING to 'you were built to protect others who cannot protect themselves'#by turning it into 'you were built to protect me from the horrifying world outside coming to hurt me'#which very easily translates to most of the other things julien has ever built; the juggernaut is physical protection #while zane and later echo clearly provided mental + emotional protection)#julien has ALWAYS been 'only not a villain if you assume good faith and don't think about anything too hard'#and like. he says it himself in TLV. 'i was afraid - if you found out what horrible things id created... you'd think i was a... a monster'#(<- and as someone self-dx: what an incredibly AVPD thing to say. lmfao.)#julien is just SUCH an interesting case and the things he does which are morally-dubious-at-best really paint him in an interesting light #and make some of the later scenes with him where their presence feels almost random (e.g. zane's flashback before going undercover in s8)#have a very interesting texture and show how being raised in that environment affected zane. just. the ambivalence of it all.#'my father wasn't a bad person but he believed he was to such an extent that he became one' is a very interesting thing to Process #and frankly idk what id do either #ninjago #dr. julien #zane #echo zane #idk i have more to add but i can clean this up later. cleaned up a little bit with tag editing on desktop but like. you get what i mean

birchwoodswolf

ok but

“Kai’s there, you just have to look a little harder.”

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birchwoodswolf

some rando just liked this post from over a decade ago so throwback to when i hard called this i guess lmaooo

#to be fair it's not even the slightest feat of mental gymnastics (literally that walking across the flat mat meme)#but if you look through the rest of the notes people were apparently spinning off wild other shit so? who knows i guess #frankly id count it as at least something considering that iirc this was the like the Only solid info we had on ns6 at this point #anyway who cares. either way i should self rb old posts whenever people like them more often just to flashbang any remaining followers #ninjago #ns6

randomsewerrat

Doodle because the early dynamic always made me giggle

#so true #fav #ninjago #kai #zane #cole #jay

spinchip

A monument is not a proper burial

#ninjago #zane #fav art #another spinchip banger

gracefulserpent1207

Happy Birthday Ninjago!!!

gracefulserpent1207

Can't believe this post is already 1 year old.

Happy 15th Birthday Ninjago!!!

ninjagoheritageposts

Ninjago Heritage Post

#ninjago

just-a-randomperson

ms paint monastery for the fifteenth anniversary

#ninjago

olderoryoungerpolls

Oh. Shit. My apologies. Just realised you already did hsm. If I can redo my submission then with the 15th anniversary coming up in less than 5 days: Older or younger than LEGO Ninjago? Released January the 14th, 2011.

are you older or younger than ninjago (premiered january 14, 2011)?

i am older

i am younger

i was born that day

Voting ended onJan 20

#i wonder.

cboffshore

#what in the goddamn.......#ninjago

orbitingrook

No freaking way

#i change my mind kai and cole both look amazing it's the flat pose that was bothering me #jay is pretty good. could be better but pretty good #zane is still scary 😔 but he looks slightly better without the mask?#but why are his cheekbones knife-sharp he could kill people with those #ninjago #kai #zane #cole #jay

blakquill

So how are we feeling about the Ninjago x Fortnite Skins?

Do you like how the skins turned out?

Yes I like all of them

No they look bad

They all look good besides 1

I only like 1 or 2 of the skins

i dont care/nuiance option

Voting ended onDec 12, 2025

#kai looks GREAT no notes. like if it were me id have made his hair a bit messier but bro can and does use hair gel religiously. 10/10 #jay's Body and Outfit looks good but there's something off with his face/hair imo. i think its that he needs a barely sharper jaw #possibly also a slightly different nose shape. in general 8/10 as a fortnite skin 9/10 since the face isnt visible most of the time.#cole looks like they started off so close to perfect and then they didnt give him enough fat 😭😭😭😭#like 20% less muscle definition in the arms and 20% more roundness in the jaw and he would Be perfect.#and maybe make the eyes just slightly rounder too but i think it's mostly the jaw there. 7/10 #zane just looks scary im sorry. idk who that even is that's not the zane i know. they made him look too aggressive which doesnt feel right #they kinda butchered him imo but tbh i dont know what i wouldve done either. 2/10 #overall aside from minor nitpicks i think everyone but zane looks pretty good #ninjago #kai #jay #cole #zane #UPDATE: i just saw a vid of cole's in motion and with the mask down and i change my mind a bit. he looks really really good in motion #i still think kai is slightly better than cole but cole is definitely better than jay i think. cole is 9/10

aeroargonic

#FAV #ninjago

literally begging that post to be fake. begging

#i dont want to spend god knows how much money on a lego set.#with lego's modern prices itll probably be $400 minimum #with that many minifigs and as an anniversary set it might be $500 even. fuck me man

nyaskitten

(Minifig list for the Old Town set) we might just be getting the first GOOD minifig selection in a Ninjago modular since the Ninjago City Gardens... godbless

#WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK #JULIEN MINIFIG?????? FOR FUCKING REAL?????????????#WHAT YEAR IS IT #ninjago #WHAT

fakesorbet

bitten twice

#meant to rb this here ill just copy my prev tags:#thought this was some kind of au art of kai and nya and that interpretation fucks hard in my minr #sadly i have no idea who these people are but the art fucks hard #like im just mentally substituting the dogs painting for the one of the elemental masters battling against the time twins from season 7.#and going 'ohhhhhhhh shit. this fucks hard.' do you get me #anyway 10/10 great art op #ninjago

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