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rinkunokoisuru · 2 months
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It's still January 14th somewhere, so happy 13th anniversary to Ninjago lol
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writer-room · 9 months
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Forget memes Ninjago citizens would make, what kind of memes would every dimension ever start making after the Merge? Can you imagine how absolutely buckwild it would be to see so many different memes converging together?
Anyway I made some
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On one hand, I could ramble on and go increasingly insane over the world now sharing so incredibly many different cultures across dimensions and how the Crossroads has gotta be full of all these cultures overlapping one another and how they must influence and shift and change in every day life. On the other hand, I can make memes about it
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tellsfromninjago · 5 months
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Happy Halloween
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sepublic · 6 days
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I like how Ninjago has two different Hells, representing two different aspects of what happens to you when you die; There's the Underworld and Skulkin, who are the bones left over, the decayed body. And then there's the Cursed Realm and ghosts, who are the spirits, the soul that abandons the mortal flesh. This is further emphasized with Morro, who is wandering around as a ghost, but his skeletal remains are a separate thing the ninja find later on.
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amarioe · 5 months
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Day 10: Skeleton
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Finished this one a few days ago but didn't post it because i forgot to ask my friends permission (for context, this is said friends AWESOME ASS skulkin oc for an au of theirs) and they said i could post the art!
Anyway, sorry for the lack of posts- i wanted some rest from doing stuff this weekend and kinda put ninjtober on low priority(which is how it'll probably remain tbh, reason being school responsibilites and Physical Therapy for my shrimp posture)
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Skulkin
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ninjagocrohw · 1 year
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hm.
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kydv404 · 2 years
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I did a part for Ninjago Reanimated! Bonus bits and bobs below the cut!
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We had the option to do OCs.self inserts for the end credits so here’s my pfp (think I’ll name her Uskel tbh) reimagined as a Skulkin!
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legosnek · 3 days
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This is disturbing
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milkandsnails · 2 years
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Just finished DGS1 and felt like making some of those sprite/textpost combos 😌 (just realised I originally spelt textpost wrong…pain…)
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nyaskitten · 2 months
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Why are there no animal skulkin or ghosts? Come on now get some non-human VARIETY in the deceased man!!!
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slimeysodaa · 1 year
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if you put them beside each other, they look related so i had an idea
truly just wanted an excuse to draw the four of them together as a family bc i happen to really like ashley and gina and the skulkins and want them to be happy alright?
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also trans ashley bc i can
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writer-room · 10 months
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Rewatching the earlier, and even pilots episodes, of Ninjago are so WILD man. First of all, you notice all the things that are just plain forgotten about or pushed aside in later seasons. Kai originally being the main character, sure, we all know that one, but Cole was heavily implied to be, or become, the leader of the Ninja, that was Cole’s thing. Zane was automatically described with having a sixth seer sense, when nowadays it shows up very, very infrequently. Lloyd used to basically be the Avatar, does anyone remember that? This kid was just the Avatar.
And then you remember the silly things. Like how the skeleton army was once a threat. Like...the skeletons. We battled a giant snake, smaller snakes, robot armies, sentient video games, Garmadon a billion different times, the Overlord, Oni...and the skeletons used to be a worthy adversary. The skeletons.
Did you all remember that Cole’s earth dragon used to...breathe earth? I’ve been forced to remember. Rocky used to breathe earth as a form of attack. It was shown through brown swirly wisps in that beautiful, incredibly shitty 2011 effect. The Underworld used to be implied to be the place where all dead people went, or at least the bad ones. We never heard of a Departed Realm. Do we remember the time Cole had a scene that was a direct parody of Michael Jackson? I sure do. Genuinely the highlight simply because I don’t know how to describe the emotion I felt upon seeing it.
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sb2749 · 10 days
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ringo and nash skulkin from great ace attorney if they were tutorial NPCs in mario & luigi: superstar saga to teach them a bros. move
based on this tweet I made years ago during my first playthrough of TGAAC
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sepublic · 6 days
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All the way back when S1 was airing (so, prehistoric times), I actually had this crack theory that Bonezai and Dr. Julien were the same character.
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Now who is Bonezai you might ask? He's one of the Skulkin, he was from that era of Ninjago where each enemy was advertised in sets and canon as a unique individual with a name, but in the show itself, he's just a placeholder model meant to represent multiple nameless soldiers.
In Bonezai's case, he was one of the Skulkin of Ice, alongside Wyplash; We had two sets of Skulkin, one with the standard minifigure head, the other with a specialized skull mold. Each set had a Skulkin representing one of the four elements of the time, Bonezai was ice. Not in the actual show, but definitely in product descriptions, side lore like the guidebook, and especially in the spinner game, where his character card lists Ice as his primary element. You can see all of this reflected in the color of spike and loincloths the Skulkin had, with white being Ice, gray being Earth, red Fire, and blue Lightning.
Bonezai never really got a proper story appearance, not even in supplementary materials; His only true characterization as an individual was in online descriptions and the like. But he was described as the inventor of the Skulkin vehicles and other machinery, generally chill, but fiercely defensive of his creations; He turned a Skulkin into a tool rack for scratching his Turbo Shredder, and damaging Bonezai's work is a reliable way to distract him.
This was early Ninjago, this was years before we got the Cursed Realm, or the Departed Realm. This was back when the Underworld was apparently THE afterlife for all of Ninjago, with the website in 2011 even stating this. There was the strange implication that all of our protagonists, sans Zane, were destined to become Skulkin, and the Underworld as the arrival for all deceased is kinda played with in the pilots too.
Wu's sacrifice at the Fire Temple is clearly meant to play into the idea that he died and went to the Underworld as a result, taking the Sword of Fire with him. It's even said that no mortal can cross over into the Underworld, implying that Garmadon and Wu both died, and 'banishment' is like being banished to the Shadow Realm in Yugioh, it's just another way to say they died.
Shortly after the pilots aired however, we did get the canon mini-movie shorts, which revealed that there's a passage to the Underworld inside the Fire Temple. So I guess the writers realized the implications of Wu being technically undead, so they did a soft retcon by revealing there was just a portal there the entire time, and that's how Garmadon was able to manifest as well.
But I digress; The point is that up until S4, the canon was that the Underworld was the afterlife. Then we got the Cursed Realm, which differentiated itself as Ninjago's Hell. And finally we had Day of the Departed, which built off of the sixteen realms reveal by making a new, much tamer afterlife called the Departed Realm. During Day of the Departed's release, a lot of lore of dubious canonicity was revealed in the website, including the claim that the Underworld was where disgraced warriors go to where they die. Obviously this was an attempt to differentiate the Underworld and Cursed Realms if they're both Ninjago Hell now, and explain what the Skulkin even are if the Departed Realm is a thing.
All of this is to say: The established lore implies that Dr. Julien became a Skulkin when he died. So we have two dead inventors, affiliated with Ice in some way (in Julien's case, due to having invented Zane) and being very emotionally attached to their creations. So kid me thought it'd be a fun twist if Bonezai was Dr. Julien's undead alter-ego this entire time, because there's no fucking way his name was Bonezai when he was alive.
As for why Bonezai didn't react to his son Zane, I reasoned that the individual named Bonezai never actually encountered Zane; All those lookalikes were just other Skulkin using the same character model for animation ease. As I said earlier, Bonezai never had an actual story appearance, especially not a canon one, so it was easy to imagine that he was just in the Underworld the entire time, blissfully unaware of who his comrades were fighting.
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BUT THEN we got S2, which jumpscared us with Dr. Julien's return, and in a way very odd in regards to the Bonezai theory because like. It was retconned that Julien invented the Skulkin vehicles, which at the time upset me because it just undid all of Bonezai's existence as a character. And it was kind of funny because the writers semi-confirmed my theory that Julien created the Skulkin's machines, but in a way that had him replace Bonezai, rather than make the characters the same. So I guess if I really wanted to stretch it, I could still say they're the same, that during Julien's brief stint working under Samukai he became a Skulkin, and then got his flesh back...???
But yeah, it's definitely not canon now, especially with 2016 bringing us the Departed Realm, which is where Julien actually would've gone post-mortem, both times. In 2011 we had books written by Greg Farshtey, who also characterized Bonezai, that established Zane’s amnesiac past before S1 did, and alluded to Garmadon somehow knowing where he came from. So I wonder if Greg Farshtey knew what the Hagemans had planned, if they told him, if they read his work and decided to roll with Zane having a mysterious origin. So maybe Samukai and Julien’s connection was an attempt to follow through on that, a year later.
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It was a fun and interesting saga, and my thought process was insane when I saw Samukai and Julien on-screen at the same time, and then saw the blueprints. I suppose the fact that there was already blueprints for Samukai to show means that Bonezai created the initial designs, and then Julien perfected on them; We already got something like that back in 2011, when the guidebook mentioned how Chopov unwittingly improved upon the Skulkin motorcycle design, and his version got approved over Bonezai's, to Bonezai's dismay. So I suppose it was nothing new.
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the-ninjago-historian · 2 months
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Here's one of favorite art pieces! A very spooky, and very cool painting of the Underworld! I love the lightning in this piece. And the rock formations are also beautiful!
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