Garmadon Sensei Garmadon , previously Lord Garmadon , was a character from the Ninjago theme . He was the main antagonist of the pilot episodes of " " , a secondary tritagonist in the first season , the main later secondary antagonist of the second season and a secondary tritagonist again in the third season , fourth season and a bit of the fifth season . He is the brother of Sensei Wu , a son of The First Spinjitzu Master , the husband of Misako , and the father of Lloyd . In " The Corridor of Elders " , he sacrificed himself by being banished into the Cursed Realm as a spell component , in order to free the Anacondrai Generals and defeat Master Chen . However , in " Curseworld Part II " , the Cursed Realm was destroyed and Garmadon was killed . Description . When Lord Garmadon initially appeared in sets in 2011 . His head is black and demonic with red eyes , an opened mouth with white teeth , and various dark metallic / silver lines on his head . His torso is also black with printing on it reminiscent of ribs , as well as a purple belt above his waist . His arms , hands , legs , and hips are also black and left unprinted . He wears a silver samurai helmet with a bone on it . In 2012 Garmadon was redesigned . His helmet is gumetal / iron and also has a white bone in it , and the helmet has been remoulded to feature a longer visor . He has the same face as last year ' s minifigure , with slight modifications . Rather than having one torso as his previous variation and most other minifigures , Garmadon has two . His first one is slightly smaller than usual and has dark grey armour moulded onto it which is fit to go over much of the lower torso also . Though much of it is covered by the armour , the torso underneath is the same as his previous variation . The black legs now have printing depicting the purple belt extending from the torso into a knot and split into two sashes . In 2013 Lord Garmadon still included the same head , torsos , and legs in the 2012 variation but was wearing the " Helmet of Shadows " . This helmet is similar to Garmadon ' s previous helmet in 2012 but has the Stone Army symbol on it in black instead of the white bone and also includes a black visor that makes his face look similar to when he became possessed by the Overlord . However , in the TV show he also grew claws on his hands and feet and grew wings allowing him to fly . The minifig has normal hands and legs and does not feature wings . In the TV show episode Rise of the Spinjitzu Master he morphed into a gigantic black dragon , due to the shift in the balance between good and evil . This is because the Overlord was originally a dragon . In 2014 , Garmadon was introduced into his human form known as " Sensei Garmadon " . He included a gray hairpiece , a new face , and a green robe with a tacky coat over it . In 2015 , Garmadon has a new outfit that is familiar to the 2014 variant ; he has still white sleeves , yellow hand , grey hair and the same face print . His chest is strikingly similar to the first version with the exception of the added gold , and that the only green part is his belt . On his back is a visible purple snake tattoo , which is the mark of the anacondrai . In the Video - Games . Lord Garmadon is also playable character in " " with his first variation and is unlocked after 100 % completion of the game is reached . In Skeleton Story Mode , he is playable in " Shadow Puppets . " In Ninja Story Mode , he is an enemy in " Shadow Play " and " The Confrontation . " However , he cannot be attacked in " Shadow Play " . Sensei Garmadon appears in , playable in the level " Two Brothers " . Background . Beginnings . Many years ago , Garmadon lived at the Monastery with his brother , Wu , as they were the sons of The First Spinjitzu Master . The brothers were the best of friends during their childhood . However , one day when the two brothers were practicing with their katanas , Garmadon managed to disarm Wu and accidentally flung his brother ' s sword over the monastery walls . Garmadon and Wu both knew that their father would be upset about this , Garmadon opted for them to go over and retrieve it , but Wu refused to do it , prompting Garmadon to chide him for it , " Never put off for tomorrow , what could be done today , " before hopping over to retrieve his brother ' s sword . As Garmadon reached for the blade , he was bitten by The Great Devourer and the poisonous venom consumed his soul . After his father ’ s death , the two brothers were left in charge of protecting The Four Golden Weapons , and they became an authoritative , unstoppable , and dominant fighting force against evil , including fighting the four - armed Samukai and banishing him down to the Underworld . But the venom remained within him , slowly turning the proud and selfless warrior into the the Dark Lord over the years . Years after Garmadon was bitten by The Great Devourer , he met Misako , and both he and Wu became enamored by her . Later , Garmadon left the Monastery to seek a darker means of guidance , and became a pupil of Chen , who taught him dark magic and to win at all costs , no matter who he hurt . Chen even convinced him to forge Wu ’ s love letter to Misako as his own , which resulted in her falling in love with him instead of Wu . He also fought in the Serpentine War with his brother Wu , and it was stated by Garmadon that it was then that Chen turned against his own and joined the Serpentine . After the war , Garmadon and Wu returned home , and Chen was left on his island where he was banished . At some point Garmadon , Wu , and the Elemental Alliance were forced to contend with Acronix and Krux , the Time Twins , and succeeded in taking away their Time - based powers . Using blades forged from chronosteel by Kai and Nya ' s parents Ray and Maya , Wu and Garmadon were able to strip the Time Twins of their powers , which they then used to open a vortex . The brothers hurled the Time Blades into the vortex to prevent them falling into the wrong hands , only for Acronix and Krux to jump in after them . Decades later , Garmadon and Misako , having married , had Lloyd . They were a family for a while , as the poison took its toll on Garmadon and turned him fully evil . Eventually he attempted to steal the Golden Weapons and remake Ninjago ( world ) in his own twisted image , but Wu stood in his way . A battle ensued between the brothers , and Garmadon was banished to the boundless realm of the Underworld , just as Samukai had been . However , he vowed to return to Ninjago and seize the weapons and gain ultimate power . To start off , Garmadon used Spinjitzu to defeat Samukai in a duel and declared himself the new King of the Underworld and commander - in - chief of the Skulkin army . A decade later , Garmadon finally set his schemes in motion and sent Samukai and his army to Ninjago to wreak havoc and search for the weapons . Sensei Wu , after acknowledging the presence of danger in Ninjago , searched for four brave ninja , Kai , Cole , Zane , and Jay , to defeat all evil and fulfill the prophecy of Ninjago . Escape from the Underworld . Garmadon first appears to Kai in the form of a shadowy being , who threatens to kill his sister Nya , who had been kidnapped by Samukai previously , if he did not retrieve the Sword of Fire . Fortunately , Sensei Wu arrived and sacrificed himself for the sake of Ninjago by apprehending his brother ' s plans and traveling with the Sword of Fire to the Underworld . Garmadon summoned Samukai , who already collected the other three weapons while the other Ninja were sleeping , to bring the weapons back to the Underworld , where he and Wu battle for the weapons . The Ninja soon arrived and performed the Tornado of Creation , defeating the Skulkin and allowing passage to Sensei in Garmadon ' s throne room . When they arrived , however , Samukai turned against Garmadon , tired of being his puppet , and took all four of the weapons , wanting to reclaim his title as King . But Garmadon simply laughed and states his plan has worked , right before Samukai is destroyed and turned into a Vortex having not been able to handle all the Weapons ' power simultaneously . Garmadon then traveled through the portal to escape , again vowing his return after growing powerful enough to possess the weapons . Lloyd Garmadon . Shortly later , the ninja learn that at some unknown point Garmadon fathered a son with Misako named Lloyd , who served as a minor antagonist for the Ninja by releasing the Serpentine from their tombs in order to take over Ninjago for his father . However , in " Never Trust a Snake " Lloyd repented and joined his uncle . As the battles unfolded between the Serpentine and the Ninja , Garmadon trained in an nether - worldly dimension to become powerful enough to possess all four golden weapons . When Lloyd was kidnapped by the Serpentine , Wu left the ninja to search for his brother , and bought a magical tea that opened a portal to the alternative world . Upon entering it , Sensei finally finds his corrupted brother with four arms , who says , " Hello , brother . What took you so long ? " Sensei Wu tried to inform Lord Garmadon about the escaped Serpentine , but Garmadon decided that it was time to fight using four weapons , one for each arms , in offense against Wu . After seeing that Wu ' s spinjitzu was too strong for him , he summoned three mud monsters to trap and kill Wu , but while Wu was being absorbed by the monsters he , in his struggle for survival told Garmadon about Lloyd ' s capture by the Serpentine . When Garmadon heard this , he decided to save Wu and together they traveled out of the netherworld through the Mountain Of Madness . Garmadon then moved onto Destiny ' s Bounty with Wu and the ninja where he was mistrusted , especially by Kai , and the two got into a shove fight . After finding out that the third Fangblade was hidden at the Fire Temple , Sensei Wu sent Garmadon to get the golden weapons , but Kai assumed he was trying to steal them which sparked another fight that had to be broken up by Wu . They arrived at the temple just in time to ambush the Serpentine . Garmadon caught the glimpse of his son Lloyd imprisoned and was filled with rage and attempted to save Lloyd , but soon failed . Despairing for Lloyd as the entire volcano became unstable and blocked him off from Lloyd and Kai . When the Fire Ninja tried to go for the fang blade before Pythor could escape . He succeeded and it landed on the edge of the lava , while Lloyd ' s small island began to melt . Torn between retrieving the Fangblade and saving Lloyd , Kai then went for Lloyd and escaped , finally unlocking his true potential . After departing the mountain , the team realized that Lloyd was the Green Ninja and now instead of just brother against brother , it was son against father . Lord Garmadon later attempted to steal computer information from Destiny ' s Bounty ' s computer mainframe while the Ninjas and Wu went into the Serpentine ' s hideout to steal the three fangblades while Pythor was away getting the last one . Garmadon was caught in the act by his son , who was angry at his father for doing it while everyone else was risking their lives . It was at this moment that Garmadon despairingly admits to Lloyd that he was evil due to The Great Devourer ' s venom that runs through his veins , and that it was out of his very control to be good . Lloyd declares that he hates his father for abandoning him all this time during his childhood , and tells Garmadon to return to wherever it was he went to and to never return again . Garmadon goes to the Underworld to rally the Skulkin again , and leads them to the Serpentine hideout to defeat the Serpentine and free Wu , Nya , and the ninja . Lord Garmadon fights Pythor , and the Ninjas steal the four fang blades and return to their ship to escape . Lord Garmadon leaves The Destiny ' s Bounty after rescuing the team , telling Lloyd that his purpose for coming back was to make sure that his son was safe , and that Lloyd was now safe with the Ninja and his uncle . Garmadon said that Lloyd was a good boy and will soon become a great man , and that even though they may be on different sides of virtue now , Garmadon will always be proud of his son . After Pythor has stole back the Fang Blades and has summoned the Great Devourer , Lord Garmadon takes the Golden Weapons when the Ninja fail to defeat it and uses their combined strength to destroy the Great Devourer , finally taking his vengeance on the snake for corrupting him as a child and saving Ninjago from its destruction . Garmadon soon disappears with the weapons . The Mega - Weapon . When Garmadon returns with the weapons at last in his clutches , he plans to destroy Wu and the ninja to keep Lloyd from being trained and fulfilling his destiny . He rallies the Serpentine and they recreate Destiny ' s Bounty , which was destroyed in the fight with the devourer , into the " Black Bounty " which they use to fly to the birthplace of the golden weapons , the Golden Peaks , and fuse them together into one mega - weapon . While trying to use the new weapon to destroy the Ultra Dragon , he instead resurrected Captain Soto and his pirate crew , who commanded Destiny ' s Bounty centuries before , as the weapon can only create and not destroy . Weakened by using the weapon , Garmadon and the Serpentine were locked up by the pirates until they are defeated by the ninja . Trying to overcome the weapon ' s ability to only create , Garmadon comes up with the idea to create evil duplicates of the ninja , who are defeated by not only the ninja , but Lloyd ' s former classmates from Darkley ' s Boarding School for Bad Boys . He then tries to sabotage the ninjas ' attempts to keep Grand Sensei Dareth ' s Mojo Dojo from being destroyed by entering against them in a competition . He attempts to stop them by sending Serpentine to attack and creating a crevice in the ground , but is once again beaten and the police even tried to arrest him . Garmadon then attempted to reawaken the Grundal , but is interrupted by the ninja and the process seemingly fails and he instead made Kai , Cole , Zane , and Jay children . The Grundal was reawakened and the ninja attempted to fight it but found that they were too short to perform spinjitzu . Wu and Nya purchased " Tomorrows Tea " to return the ninja and the Grundal to their proper ages . Most recently , Garmadon and the Serpentine attempted to rebuild their city of Ouroboros . When the ninja arrive , Garmadon uses the mega - weapon to open up a vortex to change time and prevent the ninja from ever becoming ninja . He foils the Skulkin ' s kidnap of Nya , which was Kai ' s motivation to join Wu , so the ninja from the future do so themselves to give past Kai a prompt to train . When they reach their journey to the Fire Temple , both Garmadons battle both Kais and the other ninja from the future which results in the destruction of the Mega - Weapon and they return to the future , where the Mega - Weapon is still seemingly destroyed . The Stone Army . Shortly after the Mega - Weapon was destroyed , Lord Garmadon thought made another plan to destroy the ninja . He remembers the dark island mentioned in Captain Soto ' s log , from back when the pirates took over their ship . He , along with the Serpentine generals , sets out in a Rattle - copter to find the dark island . Annoyed , Skales tells him that he has gone mad , and that there is no land outside of Ninjago . The other generals are finally convinced that they need a new leader , so when Garmadon is distracted , Skales pushes him out of the Rattle - Copter , leaving him stranded in the ocean . Skales then makes himself the new Serpentine King , replacing Lord Garmadon . Later , Garmadon washes up on the shore of an tropical island . Once he wakes up , he is greeted by the Overlord . The Overlord tells him it was his destiny to arrive on the island , and leads Garmadon to an ancient stone , with four handles . Garmadon pulls all four handles at once , and the dark island resurfaces from the bottom of the ocean . Back in Ninjago , Skales leads the Serpentine in his plan to destroy Ninjago City , but they stumble upon a tomb filled with Stone Warriors . The Stone Warriors lock the Serpentine up , then leave to find their master , he who wears the helmet of shadows . The Overlord leads Garmadon to the Helmet of Shadows , and Garmadon takes control of the Stone Army . With guidance from the Overlord , Garmadon instructs his army to build the ultimate weapon , consisting of dark matter . The Weapon is designed to transform whatever it targets into Garmadon ' s evil image . Using the dark island as his base , Garmadon is seemingly unstoppable . Once the ninja arrive , a war on the island breaks out . Garmadon realizes he will have to fight his son soon , but he doesn ' t want to . At one point , the stone army captured Misako , Garmadon ' s wife , whom Garmadon has not seen since before he was cast into the Underworld . She tells him that Lloyd does not want to fight , which both comforts and scares Garmadon . Garmadon is ashamed of his evil ways , but still invites her to rule Ninjago by his side . Misako lies and tells him that she accepts , but she steals the Helmet of Shadows from him , leaving him angry and hurt . When the ultimate weapon , Garmatron is complete , Lord Garmadon leads his troops to the edge of the island , and aims the weapon at Ninjago . Lloyd , Sensei Wu , and Misako arrive and tell him to stop . Garmadon tells them that fate has turned his son , wife , and brother against him , and turning them evil is the only way for his family to be together . Sensei Wu tells him that the Overlord is using him , and that if he fires the weapon , the Overlord will be released . The Overlord insists that Garmadon ignore him and fire the weapon anyway , so Garmadon decides the Overlord is right , and fires the weapon at Jamanakai village . The balance is then shifted , and the Overlord is freed . The Overlord posses Lord Garmadon ' s body , and he transforms into an evil , scaly figure with claws , sharp teeth , a tail , and a head resembling a dinosaur . The heroes realize the " Dark Lord " in the green ninja prophecy was not talking about Garmadon , but about the Overlord . Lloyd begins his fight with the Overlord , trying to tell his father to regain control over his body . Garmadon fights back , telling the Overlord that he will not hurt his son , but the Overlord wins , and nearly kills Lloyd . Still possessing Garmadon , the Overlord , the stone army , and evil Nya teleport to Ninjago City , leaving Lloyd on the island with a broken leg . Later , the Overlord transforms Garmadon ' s body into his " True Form " . The " True form " resembles a gigantic black dragon . When the ninja arrive in Ninjago City , everyone ( Except for Dareth ) has been transformed into Garmadon ' s image . The Helmet of Shadows falls off of Garmadon ' s head when he turns into a dragon , because it is far too small . Dareth finds the helmet , and takes control of the stone army . Lloyd battles the Overlord , and wins , transforming everything in Garmadon ' s image back to good . Lloyd is upset because his father ' s body is missing . But they find him shortly after that , only he is not the Garmadon they once knew . Garmadon is now transformed to look like his original self ( Before cast into the underworld ) only much older . Every ounce of evil was drained out of Garmadon , making him good again . His family runs to him , and he is finally reunited with the people he loves . Doomsday Devices . Before Garmadon became good again , he created doomsday devices in case he was defeated . He and the ninja , later had to travel around the world to stop them in the graphic novel , Destiny of Doom . REBOOTED . In Season 3 , Lord Garmadon renames himself " Sensei Garmadon " and vows to live nonviolently to make up his cruelness as the Dark Lord . In Art of the Silent Fist , Garmadon opens up a dojo and teaches the ninja , how to use the Silent Fist . Later , he and Lloyd planned to work together to escape from the Overlord ' s systems . They borrow one of Nya ' s cars and run off . MechDragon , an evil dragon built by the Digital Overlord , goes after them . Later , the ninja put the Techno Blades in the Ninjago Power Source , shutting down the Nindroid s and the MechDragon . The two of them keep moving , hoping the Overlord is gone for good . In Blackout , they make it to some mountains , were Sensei Garmadon teaches Lloyd how to move rocks and boulders . When they come across a broken bridge , Garmadon tells Lloyd to use boulders to make a new one , but Lloyd ignores him and uses the Golden Dragon to make a bridge . Soon , Garmadon falls off the mountain , but Lloyd makes a giant hand made of rocks and saves his father . In The Curse of the Golden Master , they were hiding away in the forests . After Tech Wu ambushed them along with some Nindroids , Garmadon was defeated and was thrown into the ocean . Pythor and Wu then kidnap Lloyd and take him away . In Enter the Digiverse Garmadon appeared in Borg Tower disguised as a Nindroid , renouncing his way of nonviolence in order to fight for his son . He fought Tech Wu on a crane outside the tower until the system was rebooted . He was then seen communicating with Lloyd along with the others . In , he was with Wu , Zane and Pixal in Borg Tower . He later went to the Lost City of Ouroboros with them and watched Arcturus launch into space . In The Void , he was shown with Wu , Pixal , and Nya in Borg Tower . He was escaping with them when Pythor and the Nindroid ' s return . In The Titanium Ninja , himself , Wu , Pixal , and Nya along with the Ninja going in a assault to destroy and defeat The Golden Master in order to save Ninjago from the Nindroid Apocalypse . Tournament of Elements . In The Corridor of Elders he sacrificed himself to the Cursed Realm , in order to awaken the Anacondrai General ' s spirits and bring an end to Chen ' s army . Possession . Garmadon appears in episode 54 , Curseworld Part II . When Lloyd was sent to the Curse Realm by one of the Preeminent ' s feeler , he meets Garmadon , trapped by chains . Garmadon tell ' s Lloyd not to give up , that he is the green ninja by the color of his heart but not mask , also that Garmadon will always be with him no matter what will happen . Then Garmadon gives Lloyd his robes . But after the Preeminent was killed by Nya , so was Garmadon . Hands of Time . In Pause and Effect Garmadon was one of a number of figures from Wu ' s past who appeared to torment him in his nightmares , as Wu continued to blame himself for Garmadon ' s fall to evil . Kai and Nya later had the chance to fight alongside young Garmadon when the Time Twins and their Vermillion warriors traveled into the past using their Iron Doom . Description . Original . LEGO . com Description