Time

“Like sand through the hourglass, the Flow of Time is constant.”

— Glen Lakin on Bluesky^[1]

Time is an Elemental Power in the Merged Realms that is derived from the Source Dragon of Flow.^[1] It is associated with green, blue, red, and orange/amber, and corresponds with the Time Blades and the temporal vortex.

Users' abilities[]

Chronokinesis - The user is able to manipulate, perceive, and control time.
- Chrono-Ergokinesis - The user is able to create, generate, and manipulate temporal energy. It is up to them to decide if it should do the effect or just use powerful energy without a time effect. The user can project rays of time energy that either freezes, slows down, or ages targets rapidly. They can also emit and create a powerful energy field to speed up, slow down, or hold the target and nearby objects caught within the bubble. It is possible to knock objects or people out of the energy field. The bubble will be the color corresponding to the effect used.
  - Chronoportation - Allows the user to travel through the past or the future. It appears to require an immense amount of power, usually requiring the user to channel their element through a conduit of sorts—examples include Lord Garmadon's Mega Weapon and the Time Twins' Iron Doom.
    - Temporal Vortex Creation - The user can create vortices that can travel through time. Wu and Garmadon did this to send the Time Blades away through a temporal vortex, and the Time Twins used it to escape shortly after. The twins later used this through the Iron Doom.
      - Precognition/Retrocognition - Through a temporal vortex, the user can see what has happened in the past or what will happen in the future.
      - Precognitive/Retrocognitive Projections - The temporal vortex can possibly allow the user to project what has happened in the past or what will happen in the future.
      - Aging Immunity/Agelessness - The user is possibly immune to aging to the point of never aging at all when they are in the temporal vortex, as Acronix has stayed young and never aged during his forty-year imprisonment in the vortex.
    - Temporal Erasure - By changing a course of history in the past, the user can likely erase a certain event in time but possibly survive its effect. For example, the BorgWatch was erased because technology never happened and Zane was reverted to his original form.
  - Time Reduction - Allows the user to slow down time, reducing the movement speed of the affected object, person, or area. This appears to involve blue temporal energy.
  - Chrono-Accelekinesis - Allows the user to speed up time forward. It can be used to accelerate the aging of an opponent or to make the user "teleport" by accelerating their own time for short periods. This appears to involve green temporal energy.
    - Temporal Speed - The user can possibly use their power over time to seemingly move at super speed.
  - Antístrofo-Chronokinesis - Allows the user to rewind time. It can be used to restore youth to themselves or others or negate a dangerous situation by reversing time until a moment prior to the event, allowing the user to adjust or prepare accordingly. This appears to involve amber temporal energy.
  - Space-Time Manipulation - As stated by Zane in "The Hands of Time", temporal energy causes a displacement that can control and warp the very fabric of space-time.
  - Gerontokinesis - The user can manipulate a person's age.
    - Paleonokinesis - Nicknamed the Time Punch by Acronix, it allows the user to accelerate someone's age, eventually leading to death. It can only be reversed by using the opposite power on the one affected.
    - Retrokinesis - Allows the user to reverse someone's age to make them younger, although it appears to stop once the target is a baby, as shown in "Golden Hour".
  - Chronokinetic Stasis - Allows the user to pause time, freezing the target in place. This appears to involve red temporal energy.
    - Paralysis Inducement/Body Immobilization - The user can immobilize/freeze people's bodies in space.
    - Immobilization Beam Emission - The user can project beams that immobilize the target.
  - Chronokinetic Blast - The user can release temporal energy over a specific target area, causing great damage and/or delivering great shock waves of pure force.
  - Chronokinetic Beam Emission - The user can fire beams of temporal energy.
  - Time Waves - The user can possibly generate waves of temporal energy.
Unique Inheritance - Amazingly, Time can be given to identical twins thanks to it being easily divisible. This allows the current users to share half the ability.
Temporal Healing -The user can likely heal others using Time.
- Decay Antidote - The Reversal attribute of Time can heal someone affected by Decay.^[3]

Weaknesses[]

Opposite Branch Power: A branch power can counteract their respective opposite power. For example, age acceleration can be undone by age reversal.
Short-term effects and Limited Usage: Pause and Slow-Mo effects are temporary, wearing off after a few minutes at most. Also, Reversal and Forward can only go a few minutes forward or back in time, while de-aging will eventually wear off after awhile.
Splitting apart and co-dependency: Because Krux and Acronix are identical twins, they each inherited half of the ability to manipulate Time instead of the full power. Before they were drained of their powers, Krux could only pause and reverse Time, while Acronix could only slow down and go forward in Time. The Time Twins couldn't use the others' powers and need each other if they ever need to use their abilities at their fullest.

Symbol[]

The symbol of Time seems to resemble a gear with red clock hands and a black swirl inside. The Vermillion have the same symbol on their armor, except it does not have the swirl.

Users[]

First Spinjitzu Master^[2]
First Master of Time (formerly)
- Hundreds of generations
  - Krux (formerly)
  - Acronix (formerly)

Objects[]

Time Blades (absorbed)
- Forward Time Blade (status unknown)
- Slow-Mo Time Blade (status unknown)
- Pause Time Blade (status unknown)
- Reversal Time Blade
Iron Doom (channeled; status unknown)
- Time apparatus (channeled; status unknown)
Scroll of the 4th Dimension (non-canon)

Techniques[]

Time travel

Locations[]

Temporal vortex

Appearances[]

Sets

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Season 7: The Hands of Time

65. "The Hands of Time"
66. "The Hatching"
67. "A Time of Traitors"
69. "A Line in the Sand"
70. "The Attack"
71. "Secrets Discovered"
72. "Pause and Effect"
73. "Out of the Fire and Into the Boiling Sea"
74. "Lost in Time"

Season 9: Hunted

92. "Saving Faith" (flashback)

Ninjago: Reimagined

5. "Golden Hour"

Ninjago Magazine

27. "Slow Motion!"

Ninjago: Legacy Magazine

17. "Snakes in the Sand" (flashback)

Video games

The LEGO Ninjago Movie Videogame (non-canon)

Trivia[]

It is possible that Time is the strongest element in all of Ninjago (excluding the Elemental Essence Powers), as it took the whole Elemental Alliance, including Wu, Garmadon, and the Time Blades to defeat the Time Twins.
Alongside Water and Wind, Time is one of the known elements in Ninjago (not counting the elemental essences nor the elements created after the Merge) that wasn't necessary for Chen's spell, explaining how his army transformed without it.^[4]
- Coincidentally, all three Elements originate from the same Source, Flow.
Time is the first element to have two masters simultaneously, the other being Water. In this case, it's because Krux and Acronix are twins and Time's unique ability is to be inherited by multiple birth children.
- Time is a special case in Elemental Power succession, because its power is easily divisible, allowing it to be distributed among the twins as different abilities from the same power.^[5]
  - In other cases, if twins were born by another Elemental Master, then the firstborn twin would inherit the element and be the sole holder while the secondborn would be a normal person.^[6] This was seen with twins Zeatrix and Beatrix, of which only the former inherited their father Levo's power of Shockwave.
  - It is the only Element known that can be given to twins simultaneously and to multiple birth children.
  - According to Chris "Doc" Wyatt, Time cannot be split between 4 Elemental Masters.^[7]
According to Tommy Andreasen, a Time Blade's destruction "would leave a fragment [of] time without a vessel. That would be very unwise."^[8]
Time is unique, as it is the only active element that currently does not have an elemental master at all, instead being contained in the Time Blades, all spread throughout the timeline.
- Currently, only one quarter of the element has a known location, with that being Reversal power, contained in the Reversal Time Blade that was placed in the Boiling Sea.
- Time is one of the seventeen elements that are currently not known to be confined to a human host. The other sixteen are Ice, Fusion, Balance, Propulsion, Figment, Plants, Quake, Sound, Size, Surface Tension, Reflex, Brute Force, Fear, Swarm, Misfortune and Decay.
Time is one of 9 Elemental Powers to have more than two colors associated with them. The other 8 are Heat, Earth, Lightning, Decay, Gravity, Fire, Mind, and Fusion.
Time is the only element in which its powers branch off into sub-abilities: Forward, Slow-Mo, Pause, and Reversal.
It appears that when Slow-Mo temporal energy clashes with Forward temporal energy, it creates a wave of kinetic energy. Generated kinetic energy does not seem to affect users of temporal energies.
If two masters of Time took part in the Tournament of the Sources, they would've been considered as separate participants.^[9]

Gallery[]

Promotional media[]

In Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu[]

Concept art[]

Translations[]

Language	Name
Dutch	Tijd
Finnish	Aika
German	Zeit
Japanese	タイム時間/時
Russian	Время
Ukrainian	Час

References[]

Elemental Powers
Elemental essences	Creation · Darkness · Destruction · Golden Power
Balance elements	Amber · Balance · Shadow
Energy elements	Heat · Light · Lightning · Propulsion
Flow elements	Form · Smoke · Time · Water · Wind
Focus elements	Figment · Ice · Mind · Reflex · Technology
Life elements	Energy · Nature · Plants · Poison · Size
Motion elements	Fire · Quake · Shockwave · Speed · Sound
Strength elements	Earth · Fusion · Gravity · Metal · Surface Tension
Chaos elements	Brute Force · Decay · Fear · Misfortune · Swarm
Other elements	Imagination (non-canon) · Portals
Movie elements	Creation · Earth · Fire · Green · Ice · Lightning · Surprise · Water

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