Chen Chen is a minifigure in Ninjago in 2015 . He is the main antagonist of the fourth season of the TV Series . He is Skylor ' s father as well as the owner of Master Chen ' s Noodlehouse , the host of the Tournament of Elements , and the leader of the Anacondrai cult . However , he was banished to the Cursed Realm in " The Corridor of Elders " . Background . Sometime long ago , Chen served as a mentor to Garmadon ( who still had evil in his blood ) and Clouse . One day when Garmadon and Clouse were sparring , he made a wager that who ever won would become his right - hand and gain lordship . So Garmadon cheated and won , regardless that Chen knew he had cheated , and was given the title " Lord Garmadon " . Some time later , Garmadon and Chen were discussing the rivalry between humanity and Serpentine . Garmadon said there could be a truce , but Chen told him to never trust a snake . Chen gave Garmadon a love letter written by Sensei Wu which was for Misako , and convinced Garmadon to change the letter to make it seem it came from him . Chen tricked the Serpentine into starting a war and attacking first , but the Elemental Masters ( including Kai ' s father ) fought back . Chen then told Garmadon the battle plan was successful , but Garmadon who still had good in him decided to go and defeat the Anacondrai for Misako . However , when his henchmen Clouse got the message Chen ' s plans are going to be foiled , he used a spell to turn one of the elemental masters evil . After his plan backfired anyways , he and Clouse were banished to their island , and he began to lose his sanity . As he started the tournament , he invited the ninjas and the current elemental masters to his island . His assistant Clouse tried to convince him to deal with the ninja first , but Chen refused to mess up the tournament . When he figured out the ninja were working together , he and Clouse decided to do anything to break their alliance and their friendship with the elemental masters . When Chen called Lloyd a cheater in front of all the elemental masters , they realized Chen was a cheater , and Clouse suggested to him to let them go , so they could continue the evil plot without suspicion . Chen then told the elemental masters about the Staff of Elements in order to destroy their alliance , turning them against each other . When Lloyd told them about the spell of the anacondrai Clouse is going to cast , Clouse pretended to be innocent , which put the alliance in further peril . After Nya infiltrated the island and touched Clouse ' s spell book in a disguise of a kabuki servant , Chen was informed by Clouse that someone had touched the book , and that person was most likely working as a kabuki servant . Chen checked every kabuki servant on the island , and when Nya was found out to be the traitor , Clouse ran after her in the attempt to finish her off . However , when she escaped , Clouse suggested continuing the tournament while hunting Nya after she escaped , and to track her down so he could capture her . Clouse suggested to him to force Skylor to fight Kai , and when he listened to Clouse , Skylor ended up as a traitor who imprisoned Kai with Chen . Chen then stole all the elemental powers , turned Kai ( who was spying on him and Clouse ) against Lloyd and almost unleashed the spell until Kai broke the staff . Clouse then imprisoned Skylor and suggested that Chen pretended to apologize to her . However , Clouse ' s plan was foiled when Chen stupidly told about his plot , making Skylor realize that Chen was manipulating her , so she flew away on a hoverboard . Clouse tried to speed up her hoverboard just so he can finish her off by making her lose balance , as he planned to do without Chen . Clouse and Chen then chased her on the main anacondrai copter , Clouse gets distracted by Garmadon and got banished into the cursed realm after he opened its portal in a fight with his arch - rival , thus betraying Chen to feed the world into the realm . As soon as Chope and Zugu read the spell from Clouse ' s spellbook , Chen and his minions ( possibly with the exception of Clouse who was banished ) turned into fake anacondrai . Then , Chen sent his anacondrai to find Pythor so they could turn into true anacondrai . When Chen crossed the border of the Corrider of Elders , Pythor decided to ally with the ninja and aid them by releasing the anacondrai from the cursed realm . Garmadon sacrificed himself so he would be able to defeat Chen with the help of Arcturus and his minions . After Garmadon was banished , Arcturus and his army were released and Chen got cursed alongside his goons , being surprised because his plot didn ' t involve being cursed . On the way into the portal , he regretted his selfish actions towards Skylor , but didn ' t truly redeem himself ( he was faking ) , and as a result he yelled at Skylor , asking her to save him . When he already got pushed completely into the portal , the portal closed itself , thus ending the threat of Chen and his cultists . Chen is one of the villains revived by Sensei Yang during Day of the Departed . At first , he joyfully tests the buttons of his new throne / vehicle , but eventually gets annoyed by not knowing which button does what . When the villains choose their respective opponent , Chen chooses Kai and Nya , and goes after them alongside Eyezorai and other of his fake Anacondrai warriors . They are defeated partly by Chen ' s inability to guess what his buttons do .