Overlord < nowiki > < / nowiki > Overlord is an evil spirit and the central main antagonist in " " . He created the Stone Army out of an unbreakable material only found on the Dark Island and commanded the Nindroids . In a prophecy by the Serpentine , he is known as The Golden Master . However , he was defeated in " The Titanium Ninja " after Zane sacrificed himself . He was released in a set in summer 2014 . Description . Minifigure . The Overlord ' s minifigure reveals him as the Golden Master . He has a black head with a printing of his evil face and wears a helmet . His torso is black with printings of his skeletons in gold . He has a black triangle piece for his legs which includes his more skeletons , and ghost - like tail . The Overlord wears the same armor as the Gundabad Orcs in gold . He is the only Ninjago character to have a triangle piece as his feet . However , he also has plain black legs , which he can also use . TV Series . Spirit . In the Overlord ' s spirit form , he appears to be a hovering ball of dark matter . True Form . In the Overlord ' s true form , he takes the form of a dragon . During the Final Battle , he once gains the upper hand , growing as large as Ninjago City , itself . Digital . In his digital form , he appears as two balls of matter , forming two eyes , which expand and shrink during talking . Weakened State . In his weakened state , the Overlord appears to be a sloppy goo , similar to his spirit form . 90 % Complete Golden Master . In his 90 % complete form , the Overlord looks like his Golden Master minifigure , except with no printings . Background . The Beginning . When Ninjago was created by The First Spinjitzu Master , the Overlord was created too . He and the Master began a battle between good and evil . Both the Overlord and the Spinjitzu Master were evenly matched . To corrupt the balance , the Overlord created The Stone Army from indestructible material . The First Spinjitzu Master knew he could not win , so he split Ninjago into two , banishing the Overlord on the other side . The Celestial Clock . Thousands of years later , Lord Garmadon teamed up with the Serpentine in an attempt to destroy the Ninja ( Jay , Kai , Zane and Cole ) . After the Ninja thwarted all his plans , Garmadon made one last ditch attempt by finding the Dark Island , home of the Overlord . However , the Serpentine betrayed him , and threw him in the ocean . Garmadon washed ashore on a small island . It was there that he met the Overlord . The Overlord and Garmadon teamed up to take over Ninjago . The Overlord first instructed Lord Garmadon climb to the top of a mountain . There , Garmadon turned four cranks and The Dark Island came out of the ocean . The Overlord then urged Garmadon take the Helmet of Shadows so he could control the Stone Army , in turn starting the Celestial Clock that counts down to the final battle between good and evil . Next , The Overlord instructed Lord Garmadon to command the army to build a super weapon . The Ninja soon showed up on the island in an attempt to stop evil from winning the final battle . However , the Stone Army attacked them . The Ninja managed to escape and make it to the Temple of Light . They managed to get Elemental Weapons that can defeat the Stone Army . Although , the Ninja had gotten stronger , the Overlord informed Garmadon that they were , too . The stop the Final Battle , the Ninja planned to steal the Helmet of Shadows and return it to the Celestial Clock . However , the clock reached zero , and the super weapon was powered up . The Overlord gave the super weapon , Garmatron , to Garmadon so he could take over Ninjago . The Final Battle . The Ninja returned to Ninjago , only to discover the Garmatron had turned into a fortress and the Overlord had assumed his true dragon form . The ninja climbed the Garmatron , but they had been struck by Dark Matter ( except for Kai ) and only Lloyd made it to the top . The Overlord mocked Lloyd and spit a massive amount of Dark Matter at him . However , Lloyd used his gold energy to create a shield . After releasing the shield , Lloyd ' s outfit turned golden , making him the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master . Lloyd summoned The Golden Dragon and continued his fight with the evil spirit . Both as masters of light and darkness they were evenly matched , until the Overlord gained the upper hand , and brought darkness upon Ninjago . He turned huge and swallowed the Golden Dragon . The Golden Dragon unleashed the maximum power of Lloyd ' s golden energy , dispersing the Overlord and the Darkness , and purifying Ninjago once again . The Age of Technology . However , the Overlord was not entirely destroyed . Reverted to his weakened state from the Dark Island , he returned by disguising himself as a computer virus which infected Borg Industries , led by Cyrus Borg who is the only one aware of his presence for some time . When Borg attempts to sneak away the Techno Blades - - the only hardware capable of erasing the spirit from the systems - - to the ninja , the Overlord becomes infuriated and takes over the whole tower , ' reformatting ' Borg and every piece of equipment connected to the tower . He possess Borg ' s Mech Chair , allowing him to move around . His attempts to destroy the ninja and obtain the Blades ultimately fail , but does kidnap Sensei Wu who used himself to divert the spirit ' s attention . Building the Nindroid Army from scans on Zane , compliments of P . I . X . A . L , he plans to capture Lloyd to harness his Golden powers and escape the digital realm with his own body . Unfortunately , his digitized state means he can only exist in bodies and technological devices to survive until then . Soon , the Ninja destroy the Ninjago Power Source , turning the Overlord off . The Stranger . Soon , the hardrive with the Overlord was stolen by a Stranger , previous to the ninja ' s success in disabling Ninjago ' s main power station . Although curious at Pythor ' s disguised form , he decides there is no choice but to comply with the former Serpentine leader . After a near - successful attempt on the ninja ' s lives and the Techno - Blades , the Overlord develops some respect for the snake . However , a problem develops with Pythor ' s schemes : with the main power shut off , only a few Nindroids can be activated at a time . To solve this , Pythor makes his way to Ninjago ' s aquarium , where he steals its entire tank of Electro Cobrai to power the Nindroids . With the horde that goes underground after the ninja , the Overlord possesses one to provide a message to his enemies : that they failed in their focused attempt to defeat him , because the Nindroids were only a distraction for them while he focused on separating from them , locating , and capturing his true weakness - - Lloyd . Meanwhile , this actually happens when the Digital Overlord , possessing the mech - dragon , corners Lloyd and Pythor restrains him . He then proceeds to take the Green Ninja back to Ninjago for his revival . Revival . After he captured Lloyd , he tells the Nindroids and Pythor to Attack Borg Industries . While the Nindroids are on their assault , he starts draining Lloyd ' s powers and reveals that he ' s having the body of the legendary Golden Master . But as he drains Lloyd ' s Power , The Overlord starts to realize that the Ninja are starting to reboot the system in the Digiverse . So the Overlord starts to fight the Ninja to prevent them from rebooting the entire Ninjago . So then he turns the Digiverse upside down . So he heads to the top where they cant get him . But the Ninja transformed their Techno Blades into the vehicles before they were destroyed , but the Ninja luckily managed to reboot Ninjago except for the Nindroids . Before the Overlord could become the Golden Master , the system was rebooted , leaving the Overlord in an incomplete body . Pythor finds him in the sunk MechDragon . He swallows him and spits him back on land , where he plans to go after the Golden Weapons of Spinjitsu in space to complete his body . General Cryptor and the Nindroids build a spaceship and blast off . The next day , Pythor , OverBorg , and the Overlord go to Borg Industries and place the Overlord in a capsule , restoring his body as a 90 % complete Golden Master . The OverBorg finds out that Nya , P . I . X . A . L . , Wu , and Garmadon are hiding in the tower , and attacks them . However , they escape on a hover - copter . Later , the Nindroids arrive with the Golden Weapons , making the Overlord the reborn , god - like Golden Master . The Golden Master . With the Golden Weapons reforged as a new mech to embody and empower him , the Golden Master sets his authority by fortifying the city and terrorizing the people . Upon seeing the ninjas ' arrival , he uses his new - found Spinjitzu power to destroy them , but fails when faced with the Temple of Fortitude ' s shield . The Ninja soon get Stone Warrior armor , making them invisible . However , the Overlord attacks the Ninja again with ropes of golden energy . This time he succeeds , until Zane charges him directly with his ice power to freeze him . The Golden Master retaliates with his golden energy , but the exchange of such colossal power surges proves too much for even him to master . The Overlord is then finally destroyed , but at the apparent cost of Zane ' s life . In " The Dark Island Trilogy " Wu ' s journal entries depict the Golden Master in his humanoid form in opposition to the First Spinjitzu Master . He is also mentioned in " Day of the Departed " as one of the various villains the ninja have faced in the past , though he is not among those revived by Sensei Yang . LEGO Dimensions . The Golden Master appears in the game , though in much smaller form than in the series , as one of the villains in service to Lord Vortech . Given that the Ninjago storyline of the game takes place in the time of the Tournament of Elements arc , it is unknown whether the Golden Master was revived by Vortech or simply brought forth from an earlier point in time prior to his demise .