Skales Skales is the general of the Hypnobrai snake tribe and current leader of the Serpentine , formerly second in command to Slithraa . Skales has always had a hunger for power , first competing against General Slithraa , King Pythor , and Lord Garmadon . He appeared as the secondary antagonist of season 1 , the main antagonist in season 2 ( alongside the Overlord ) , and in the next two seasons a minor character who does not contain any evil . Background . Skales was introduced in the second season of " " , " Rise of the Snakes " . Skales was a Hypnobrai tribe warrior when Lloyd Garmadon found and opened the Hypnobrai tomb . When the general of the Hypnobrai , Slithraa , came under Lloyd ' s control , Skales saw an opportunity to seize power . Lloyd made the Hypnobrai perform childish acts such as raiding Jamanakai Village for candy . While in Jamanakai , the Hypnobrai lost their golden snake staff to the Ninja . For some reason in the show , Skales is turquose instead of earth blue . As the Hypnobrai were constructing a treehouse for Lloyd , the ninja attacked them . Skales hypnotized Cole to keep the other ninja busy while the other Hypnobrai retrieved the staff . After the Hypnobrai got the staff back , they went back to their tomb , Skales holding the staff . When Slithraa wanted the staff back , he demanded that Skales give it to him , but Skales would not obey and the two Serpentine had to fight for the staff in an arena called the " Slither Pit . " Skales won the battle and became the new general of the Hypnobrai tribe . In the episode " Never Trust a Snake " , Lloyd Garmadon had allied with the Fangpyre snake tribe , whom he led in an attack against the Hypnobrai as a way of getting revenge on the Hypnobrai for betraying him . However , it turned out that Fangtom , Skales ' old friend , was now leading the Fangpyre . The Hypnobrai and the Fangpyre then united . Skales and Fangtom brainstormed ways to dispose of Lloyd , but the boy escaped . Skales appears briefly in the episode " Can of Worms " when he says he highly doubts that Pythor can unite the other Serpentine tribes . Skales later helps Pythor to discover the Lost City of Ouroboros . When Pythor challenges the other tribe generals , Skales hands Pythor the Sacred Flute . Pythor uses this to defeat the other generals , then makes Skales his second in command . As Season Three opens , Skales tries to convince the other Serpentine to make him their leader , but they refuse . Eventually , Lord Garmadon arrives and uses the power of the Golden Weapons to recreate the broken Destiny ' s Bounty and turn it into the Black Bounty . He offers to make Ninjago the Serpentines ' new home in exchange for their alliance . Impressed , the Serpentine tag along with Garmadon , abandoning Skales and the other generals . Determined to regain the loyalty of the Serpentine , Skales gets the other generals to rob a bank in order to distract the Ninja while he attempts to kidnap Lloyd so that he can blackmail Lord Garmadon into giving up his power over the Serpentine . Fortunately , Sensei Wu and Nya arrive to rescue Lloyd at the last minute , and Skales was sentenced to jail for life , much to his anger . Upon escaping from the Ninja and seeing that their plan failed and Skales was imprisoned , the other three Serpentine generals finally decided to surrender their loyalty to Lord Garmadon . In the third season ' s fourth episode Ninjaball Run , the generals help Skales break out from his jail and escape in a Serpentine Bus . When they accidentally get caught up in the Ninjaball Run race , Skales decides to try and win the race . But the ninja win the race and reclaim Destiny ' s Bounty while Garmadon is not on , leaving him to get arrested by the police . However , Skales comes to his rescue and helps him escape on the bus . In episode 18 " Child ' s Play " Skales made a short appearance with the other Serpentine generals serving Garmadon after Kai disarmed Garmadon , and so Skales and the other 3 generals tried to steal a museum model but were unable to fit it into the sewer . They then escaped . Skales was then made king of the Serpentine , as he pushed Lord Garmadon into the sea and leaving him there when they set out to look for the Island of Darkness . As his first command , he tells the Serpentine to dig under Ninjago City as an attempt to drag it under like the Serpentine were . As Skales and the others Serpentine dig through the ground they stumble upon an acient tomb holding the stone army . The door has a picture of Skales on it as Skalidor says , and Skales opens the door discovering the Stone Army . The venom from the Great devourer then drips on the army of stone as they come to life . Skales orders the other Serpentine to fight back , but the Stone Army was easily able to defeat them and make their escape through the door . Skales is last seen running for the door just before it closes , and the Serpentine are once again trapped in a tomb forever . Sometime between the episodes The Stone Army and The Curse of the Golden Master he got married to Selma , a pink coloured Mezmo , and had a son who he named Skales Jr . He broke the tomb seal to buy groceries and a newspaper , which alongside a scale found , made the ninjas suspect he was the stranger who was helping the Overlord ( it was actually Pythor ) . He ' s later seen in The Titanium Ninja with his son Skales Jr . He and his son appear in The Corridor of Elders , first in Ninjago City and the second in the fight against the anacondrai cultists . His son and a young boy toss marbles to make several cultists lose their balance . When he sees the Destiny ' s Bounty attacking several of the Cultist ' s vehicles he says " I ' d never think I ' d be happy to see that ship again " . In Secrets Discovered several of the Ninja encounter Skales and a group of Serpentine - including his son - as they are tracking the Vermillion , whom Skales reveals are offspring of the Great Devourer . Quotes . “ Drill , baby drill ! " - Skales as the new King of the Serpentine