Season 1 - Rise of the Snakes

  • Having been kicked out of Darkley's Boarding School for not being evil enough after spending around half of his life there, Lloyd makes his journey to Jamanakai Village in an effort to be more like his father and to get revenge on his school for expelling him.
  • The ninja are at the monastery, playing video games rather than training. Wu removes the plug and tells them to train, but Cole plugs it back in and continues to keep on playing. However, Nya tells them that Lord Garmadon returned from the Underworld to invade Ninjago again.
  • The ninja walked into the village, and they see "Lord Garmadon's shadow". But they soon realised that it was a "false alarm" and it was just his son, Lloyd Garmadon. He terrorizes the village and steals their candy but is soon suppressed by the ninja, and he gets pantsed. The villagers celebrate and all was brought back to normal.
  • Seeking revenge on the ninja for humiliating him, Lloyd releases the Hypnobrai from their tomb. Lloyd accidentally tricks the Hypnobrai General, Slithraa, into hypnotizing himself and gains leverage over the tribe.
  • Lloyd returns to Jamanakai Village with the entire Hypnobrai tribe. The tribe uses hypnotism to take control over the citizens. The ninja arrive to stop him and defeat the Hypnobrai, freeing the people and taking the tribe's staff. However, Skales (the Hypnobrai second-in-command) manages to post-hypnotize Cole.
  • The mailman comes after the ninja were training. However, Zane finds out that he got no mail from his parents.
  • When the ninja, Wu, and Nya were eating, everyone starts commenting on Zane's pink apron and Cole starts a food fight. However, Zane is not amused.
  • Zane unintentionally finds his long-lost friend; the Falcon. After another evening of feeling left out from the ninja's antics, and he follows the Falcon to find a treehouse being constructed by Lloyd and the Serpentine. He informs the ninja of his discovery, and they begin their mission to destroy it. Just before they finish the destruction, Skales uses the previous post-hypnotic command on Cole to attack the ninja. As the ninja struggle to fight Cole, Master Wu and Nya arrive on Kai's dragon, using a flute (later to be described as one of the flutes of the First Spinjitzu Master used to banish the Serpentine in tombs) to snap Cole out of his trance. The group hurry back to the unguarded monastery, only to find that the Hypnobrai had burned it down in search for their staff. Cole, Jay, and Kai blame Zane for the loss of their home, and in the ruckus, no one notices Zane flying off on his dragon.
  • Slithraa and Skales get into a fight for the staff and for the title of General. The other snakes wanted a Slither Pit battle, and it happened. Unfortunately for Lloyd, Slithraa lost due to Skales using Fang-Kwon-Do. He was not able to command the Hypnobrai since then.
  • Later on, the ninja try to make the best of their situation, but immediately regret what they had said to Zane. When they eat toads for dinner, Wu tells them to be grateful, while Nya finds Zane walking towards them. They were shocked that Zane had returned, and he conveyed to them that he had not been hurt by what they had said, but merely had seen and followed the Falcon again. He then leads them to where he had followed the falcon: an abandoned ship in the middle of the Sea of Sand. This would become their new home, known as the Destiny's Bounty. It would survive for a very, very long time.
  • After being betrayed by the Hypnobrai, Lloyd uses a map of other tombs to find the Fangpyre Tomb and reawakens the Fangpyre Tribe.
  • Master Wu informs the ninja that their Dragons have reached the age when they need to fly off in order to go through a stage of metamorphosis. This leaves the ninja without transportation.
  • Jay and the ninja go to Ed & Edna's Scrap N Junk to visit Jay's parents, Ed and Edna, only to find out the Fangpyre have injected venom into them, and Lloyd has taken over the Junkyard.
  • To fight off the Fangpyre (who's venom turns people and objects into snakes), the ninja find out they can transform their weapons into elemental vehicles (Jay's Storm Fighter, Kai's Blade Cycle, Zane's Ice Glider, and Cole's Tread Assault). They manage to get the Fangpyre Staff, which Nya extracts the anti-venom from to reverse the effects on Ed and Edna. With a bit of help from Jay's father, Jay activates the Bounty's new flying function that allows them to escape the approaching Fangpyre, but the staff falls over board in the process.
  • Zane has a dream about the Green Ninja rescuing him while fighting Lord Garmadon, and the 4 ninja get into an argument about who would be the Green Ninja. Wu punishes them by having to find the answer to the question, "What is the best way to defeat your enemy?"
  • Lloyd finds the Anacondrai Tomb and releases Pythor, who tricks Lloyd by pretending to be his friend. He soon betrays Lloyd while the two are raiding Darkley's Boarding School for revenge, but Pythor betrays Lloyd in the middle of the raid. Wu then takes Lloyd as part of the team and even reads Lloyd a bedtime story so he will never trust a snake again. Wu finds his students right outside the cabin door, angry at him for not punishing his young nephew. He then gives the answer to the same question he asked his students in the morning.
  • Master Wu travels to a dark dimension and finds Lord Garmadon, who was revealed to have gotten two extra arms. After informing him of Lloyd releasing the Serpentine and his imprisonment at Pythor's hands, Garmadon agrees to return to Ninjago to rescue his son.
  • After following the Falcon into Birchwood Forest, Zane finds out that he and the Falcon are robots. He then fights a robot that was meant to protect intruders from any harm. Prior to this event, Zane was in shock for a while. Zane discovered a memory switch in his robotic body which leads to him remembering his creator. He protects his friends from the Treehorns and discovers his True Potential after accepting the fact that he is a robot while fighting the strong Queen Treehorn.
  • Jay and Nya are at the Mega Monster Amusement Park but Jay becomes a snake after pricking his finger on a skeleton from a Fangpyre. Meanwhile, Pythor and the other Serpentine find the first Fangblade. They tie Nya to a rollercoaster and Nya reveals to Jay that she is Samurai X. After that, Jay discovers his True Potential by knowing he is the best version of himself. He then saved Nya in the nick of time by stopping the rollercoaster. After that, Jay tells the other 2 ninja that Nya is actually Samurai X.
  • The ninja are searching for the second Fangblade and Cole says he has seen the Fangblade on the Blade Cup, a trophy which his father had won many times. The ninja go to Cole's father, Lou, and train to be dancers to get the Cup but the Serpentine sees it too. The ninja go to the Concert Hall of Ninjago City and win the Cup because of Cole doing the Triple Tiger Sashay, a move that was never been successfully been done by anyone, and because of their great performance. Cole was very sad after, because he was always up because his dad watches him dance. Lou comes and genuinely comforts his son by telling him that the Serpentine are evil and that he saw him dance. But Pythor steals the second Fangblade and crushes Cole and his father, leading Cole to discover his True Potential after realizing that he was born to be a ninja, not a dancer. Then, when Pythor knocked over the set of lights and cameras and stole the Blade Cup, he saved himself and his father from the set of lights and cameras.
  • After all his hard training and rescuing Lloyd, Kai unlocks his True Potential in the Fire Temple upon realizing he wasn't destined to become the Green Ninja but to protect him: everyone soon realizes Lloyd is the Green Ninja and that he must face his father. Meanwhile, the Serpentine obtain the Fangpyre Fangblade from the lava and are just one away from releasing the Great Devourer.
    • Shortly before Kai rescues Lloyd, Future Wu and the Time Twins are briefly transported into the temple before warping away again.
  • The ninja capture Spitta and later figure out that the Serpentine are using underground tunnels to avoid them.
  • Lloyd suggests getting the remaining three Fangblades while Pythor retrieves the Venomari Fangblade. The ninja train in preparation and infiltrate the Constrictai Tomb, leaving Lloyd and Garmadon behind.
  • Lloyd catches his father trying to steal the ninja's secrets, and confronting him, gets him to leave. The ninja fight the Serpentine, only to fall into Pythor's trap.
  • Pythor places the Fangblades together and holds a Slither Pit to celebrate.
  • Lloyd dons the Green Ninja robes and confronts Pythor alongside his father and the Skulkin (except for Samukai). The ninja get the Fang Blades and escape on the Destiny's Bounty, but Pythor sneaks inside, invisible.
  • Master Wu gets a vision of the Great Devourer being awoken.
  • Pythor saves the Fang Blades from being thrown into Torchfire Mountain and escapes on a nearby train with his Serpentine forces, converting it into the Serpentine Train.
  • The ninja pursue Pythor, but he manages to awaken the Great Devourer, only to be eaten alongside Master Wu.
  • The Great Devourer destroys the Destiny's Bounty.
  • The ninja use the Tornado of Creation to create the Ultra Sonic Raider and use it to discover the Great Devourer's weakness on its forehead.
  • The Great Devourer attacks Ninjago City and the ninja are helpless against it, even when the dragons return in the form of the Ultra Dragon.
  • Garmadon attempts to go back to the Dark Realm, but upon noticing the return of the serpent that cursed him, arrives to help the ninja kill it.
    • Future Wu and the Time Twins are briefly transported to the Ninjago Park before warping away again.
  • The ninja begrudgingly entrust Garmadon with the Golden Weapons, and Garmadon destroys the Great Devourer, only to escape with the weapons in tow. Master Wu survives, reconciling with the ninja with a cup of tea in his slimy hand, and Pythor escapes, undetected.
  • Harumi's biological parents are killed when a building caves in on them due to the Great Devourer. This leads Harumi to hate the ninja because they didn't save her parents and idolize Lord Garmadon due to the fact he killed the Devourer.
  • Wu informs Gayle Gossip and the citizens of Ninjago City about the Serpentine unleashing the Great Devourer.

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