Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4013721-20150722164753/@comment-26509603-20150731172047

Sheldon Frank wrote: I think that the more information should be revealed about the Overlord's past than what they have now. Did he just appear out of shadow? Or was he alive at some point, building up his spirit with the evil deeds he did? Then, at the brink of death, bathes himself in a darkness many times shaded than that of dark matter. The very darkness that took his life, prolonged it. Once he became the evil spirit he was destined to be, he decided to complete what he never was able to do in life, to conquer a world. As a newborn world, Ninjago seemed more or less like an easy target. Besides, it was the First Spinjitzu Master who hurled him to his death in the first place, making Ninjago a perfect scene for revenge.

We all know what happens after that. The Overlord fights the First Spinjitzu Master but is banished to the Dark Island. Thousands of years later he returns, but is angered to see that the First Spinjitzu Master had since passed away. He decides to conquer Ninjago while settling his revenge on the Second Spinjitzu Master, who, in turn, banishes him once again. Next, the Overlord awakes much sooner than is realized, this time in control of cyberspace, something that New Ninjago City relied profoundly on. But even then, the Overlord was defeated by the Second Spinjitzu Master (or Zane, but I think Lloyd makes more sense to deafeat the Overlord) Banished now for the third time, the Overlord decides to bide his time, as not to be called the "Ultimate Failure" rather than the "Ultimate Evil" But he will return, in a day when the Ninja have passed away and, with time, long forgotten. Someday when many generations of Spinjitzu Masters have risen and fallen. The time will come for conquering, but the time is not now...

Many years later, during the time of the 13th Spinjitzu Master, the Overlord decides to make his move. He cautiously emerges form his lair, as if not to send a beacon of evil towards the 13th Spinjitzu Master. But, as his time on Ninjago increases, so does his knowledge of the present day circumstances. He soon finds out that the 13th Spinjitzu Master had left on 30-year expedition, in search for the First Spinjitzu Master's forgotten origin, and had crash landed on the planet with no way back. What delights the Overlord even further is that the power of the Spinjitzu Masters dissipates throughout the generations, making the 13th Spinjitzu Master not much more powerful than a normal human. This being said, the Overlord disrupts the balance conquers Ninjago easily, cancelling a rescue mission for the stranded crew. Now, when the 13th comes back, if he comes back, he will be in for a big surprise.

But, little did the Overlord know, the surprise would be on him! After enjoying a decade of ruling Ninjago, the 13th Spinjitzu Master returns with increasingly powerful energy and skill. It turned out, while stranded on the First Spinjitzu Master's home planet, the 13th had a run in with the hidden Temple of Time, in which housed a weapon of Spinjitzu for every element. However, the four front pedestals stood empty. While exploring this temple, Zack, one of the crew members with a faint lineage to the element ice, accidently awakens the "Time Dragon" (or whatever you want to call this supreme being) and is killed in its wrath. However, once sensing a descendant of the First Spinjitzu Master, he pauses, allowing the 13th Spinjitzu Master to speak. After a while, the Time Dragon is convinced in a restoration of the First Spinjiztu Master's power, and, with that, the power is once again given and restored. With this new power at hand, the 13th Spinjitzu takes his remaining crew members and flies through space towards Ninjago, only to find that the Overlord had taken over.

A terrific battle commenced, with niether side gaining the upper hand, until the Overlord decides to use the inbalance to his advantage. Once his tactic is in play, the 13th Spinjitzu Master has no choice but to retreat. Once arriving at the planet, he tries to convince their leader, King Micklo, to send help towards Ninjago. King Micklo agrees and sends some of his finest soldiers to help. The attempt fails and the 13th Spinjitzu Master is again forced to retreat, but this time followed by the Overlord. King Micklo becomes extremely mad at the 13th for bringing the fight to his planet and refuses to help. Recognizing this as the planet he once wanted to control in life, the Overlord fights even harder and helps his original species to conquer it. Now, the 13th, against the impossible odds, retreats to the Temple of Time, with the Overlord in close persuit.

Once there, the Overlord plans to destroy the 13th Spinjitzu Master once and for all. He destroys the Temple in the process and is about to destroy the 13th, when, all of a sudden, the Time Dragon awakens from his little sleep and destroys the Overlord for eternity. Afterwards, the Time Dragon plans on leaving the galaxy to find another planet to hibernate on, but as he is about to leave he tells the 13th Spinjitzu Master that he will return when time is at its end. And with that, he was off, projecting through the sky at the speed of light, until his massive form could be seen no more. Peace returned to both planets once again. 1. He sort of "formed" gradually as the First Spinjitzu Master created more and more things. There is a need for balance between Light/Good and Shadow/Evil, so the more good there was, the more Evil and Shadow needed to compensate for it. The First Spinjitzu Master was the personification of Good in Ninjago, and the Overlord became that of Evil.

2. I don't really agree with your theory on the Overlord's backstory. It's possible that he was never more of a being than just an embodiment.

3. (Second Paragraph) Yes, all of that makes much sense.

4. (The Rest) I like the story, but I'm going to hold my opinions, since it's going a little too far ahead. I'd like a Ninjago series based on the next generation of Elemental Masters (but not with any of your Time Dragon or other planets ideas, no offense), called "Spinjitzu Prodigies".