Jestro

Jestro is the secondary antagonist of the LEGO Nexo Knights TV series. Starting out as the royal jester of King Halbert's court, he was driven to villainy by everyone around constantly laughing at him, and thus sided with the Book of Monsters to exact revenge on them. After the Book nearly sacrificed him for his own plan, he turned back to the side of good, only to be forcefully turned evil once again in Season 3, staying this way until the end of the series.
He was voiced by Vincent Tong, who also voiced Kai in Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, Garble, Flash Sentry and Sandbar in My Little Pony G4, Huckleberry Pie in Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City, various versions of Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic Prime and Avan in Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai.
== Biography ==
=== Pre-series ===
Jestro used to be an orphan who had to steal for living and often failed due to his clumsiness. Eventually, he was picked up by a knight and sent to the Knights' Academy as a thanks for returning his sword. There, Jestro met Clay Moorington, who would go on to become his best, if not only, friend. Jestro, however, was unfit to become a knight and eventually dropped out. The wizard Merlok thus decided to teach him magic skills, but he failed even then. He would eventually become the royal jester, as making others laugh at him was the only thing he was somewhat good at.
=== Nexo Knights ===
==== Seasons 1-2 ====
Jestro started one of his performances at the end of the Nexo Knights' graduation ceremony, and accidentally caused a blackout in Knightonia. Distressed by the humiliation that his performance was and considering himself a "horrible failure", the jester left the Battledome and walked past Merlok's library. There, he met the Book of Monsters, who promised to make him feared instead of laughed at if he agreed to become a villain and the book's servant. When Clay and Merlok noticed Jestro picking up other evil books and summoning Lava Monsters, Merlok cast a spell that scattered the books across the kingdom. Since then, Jestro, the Book of Monsters and their Lava Monsters searched for them, battling Nexo Knights on their way, and eventually collected eleven of them.
One of the villains' schemes involved working as stand-up comedians in Funnyton to convert its population into their minions. Jestro, however, took pleasure in making people laugh with, not at, him for once, to the point where even the Nexo Knights praised his performance and persuaded him to give up his villainy. After the final evil book, Book of Betrayal, was discovered, it influenced Jestro to abandon the Book of Monsters and run off, soon after meeting up with Clay and handing the book over to him. The knight and the jester would eventually be cornered by Lava Monsters, and Jestro surrendered to them to give Clay time to escape with the book.
At the monsters' hideout, Jestro would learn that the Book of Monsters was actually the arch-necromancer Monstrox all along, and that he planned to possess his body to restore his powers. After Clay exchanged the Book of Betrayal for Jestro's freedom, Monstrox kicked the jester out and attempted to possess Clay instead. Jestro, however, would repay his friend by helping the other knights rescue him and destroy Monstrox. After this, he was given his job of a royal jester back.
==== Seasons 3-4 ====
Several months after the defeat of Monstrox, Jestro would work as a weather reporter and apologize to the people of Knighton for his crimes. Unfortunately, one day he met face-to-face with the arch-necromancer, reborn as the Cloud of Monstrox, who proceeded to brainwash Jestro back into a villain. The two would go on to resurrect an army of Stone Monsters and collect Forbidden Powers to awaken the Colossus of Ultimate Destruction which Monstrox then used to ravage Knighton. After Monstrox was defeated yet again, Jestro was freed from his brainwashing, but sentenced to community service for his crimes.
===LEGO Nexo Knights magazine (non-canon)===
At some point after Monstrox became a digital virus, Jestro was once again working as a jester, performing as a stand-up comedian for Squirebots working at a server base. The robots, however, hated his performance, and when Axl arrived in his Rolling Arsenal, had him take the jester with him when leaving. The two came across a squad of Monstrox's InfectoByters, and Jestro, terrified of the possibility that he could turn evil again, wanted to get away from them, but had to stay with the knight as he and his teammates fought the monsters off instead. Jestro also had a movie about himself produced, but during its screening the cinema was invaded by Monstrox is search of one of the Merlok Powers. His whereabouts after Monstrox's defeat aren't elaborated upon.
==Trivia==
* His name is a pun on the word "jester".
* The sets for the unreleased Season 5 of the TV series showed Jestro wearing a knight's armor. This implies that he would fight the villains alongside Nexo Knights, possibly to atone for his past crimes.
** Additionally, Tommy Andreasen revealed through both his tweets and an interview that Jestro would've discovered that he was good at programming in this season, and used his newfound skills to assist the heroes.
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