User blog comment:OverlordRocks/I'm confused about the serpentine/@comment-25374175-20151010032219

The Serpentine’s history is one of the most fascinating events in Ninjago, though also one of the most confusing. In my response, I will promptly attempt to work out this problem.

In the Series – For the majority of the first and briefly the second season, the snakes are portrayed as a villainous tribe; filled with evil with little knowledge of their backstory, making fans unaware of the surprising truth about the Serpentine.

The fact was the Serpentine warned the humans a great danger (the Golden Master [The Overlord]) was among the land. Believing the snakes spoke nonsense, the humans ignored them—in order to bring peace, the Serpentine released the Great Devourer to frighten the humans to hide from the Darkness. After the incident, the humans had the thought that the great evil was the Great Devourer along with the snakes and forced those cold-blooded creatures to hide under the earth. Angered by the way they were treated after saving the humans, the snakes brought their hatred with them, hoping one day to be released; Pythor, the most megalomaniac in the tribe, was the leader in the present eras which fully turned the Serpentine against the humans. That is the series told way of the biography of the Serpentine.

The Wikia’s Way – Okay, I’ll admit I had no idea what you were talking about, though re-reading your post a couple times got me through it. The wikia probably stated the Serpentine were evil (with little backstory) due to it being outdated. I will look forward to it being edited further and fit to its timeline.