Overlord

The Overlord, also known as **the Dark Lord**, **Golden Master** and **the Crystal King** among other aliases, is one of the two overarching antagonist of the series alongside Dark Mother.

He is an obscure, primordial spirit who is the core source of evil and embodiment of darkness in Earth.

He was willing to destroy the balance between light and darkness so he can bring Earth "peace" under the darkness.

He is also the corruptor of the Great Devourer, making himself responsible for Lord Garmadon and Harumi's descents into villainy, and the archenemy of both the First Spinjitzu Master and Adam Ordeis, as well as one of the Elemental Alliance's most dangerous enemies.

He is also said to be the Real Ultimate Evil and the father of the Demon Sorcerers.

He serves as the main antagonist in the Legacy of the Green Ninja, Rebooted and one of the two main antagonist in the New Crystalized Power Arcs.

## Appearance

During Misako's telling of Ninjago's origins (seen in "The Stone Army"), the Overlord was depicted as a towering mass of dark fire with a vaguely humanoid shape.

When Lord Garmadon arrived on the Island of Darkness, the Overlord appeared as an orb of purple energy with a pale yellow core. The orb pulsed as the Overlord spoke.

After possessing Lord Garmadon's body, the Overlord began his transformation to his original form, which started out as larger, more demonic version of Garmadon. Notable differences included longer limbs ending in clawed hands and feet, short spikes erupting from his shoulders and back, glowing purple eyes, and elongated reptilian jaws filled with long fangs. In "Rise of the Spinjitzu Master," the Overlord completed his transformation, which has a monstrous purple-black dragon with four long feelers on its face, massive, tattered black wings instead of arms, and a broad, toothy mouth.

"Enter the Digiverse" saw the Overlord appear in two different forms. The first was that of a shadowy armored humanoid, as he was in the process of transforming into the legendary Golden Master. When confronting the ninja inside the Digiverse, he took a shadowy humanoid form of great size made out of black and blue ash that possessed a number of tentacles.

In "The Titanium Ninja," the Overlord assumed his semi-golden master form as a black and purple humanoid figure with a face akin to the mid-metamorphosis form he assumed in Garmadon's body with a pair of glowing red eyes. Furthermore, he was adorned with golden skeletal armor and a black helmet with purple energy trailing behind him from his back that appeared similar to a cape. After completing his Golden Master form by fusing with his mech, he experienced a growth spurt of enormous proportions where his armor gained a more ornate appearance and his torso and legs had completely disintegrated with vibrant, flickering purple flames taking their place with mechanical black and gold machinery attached to him in place of his legs

The full merging between Adam and the Overlord would give them the appearance of a young man with yellow hair and purple/red eyes while wearing the golden Armor.

The remnant of the Overlord's digital code from "Decoded" has visual traits from both forms of the virus' full version. Being purple and filling a screen, it has the general figure of the Overlord's eyes but they are smaller and can turn as if they were on a head. They also differ from both the original and the Kraken by appearing more yellow than red.

After gaining a physical form in "Darkness Within" as his new form as the Crystal King, the Overlord has a black face with two large gray-white horns, pink glowing eyes, sharp teeth, and yellow accents on his face. His horns, bare a strong resemblance to the horns on the Oni Mask of Deception. There also appear to be several tusks from the underside of his face. He is also seen having a tall metal neck from underneath his face. His torso closely resembles that of his Golden Master form, though with a few notable differences; his Golden Master symbol is present but now glows pink. There are also glowing pink parts in between the armor, and there are two crystals of the same color on the upper portion of his torso, with the addition of gray shoulder pads. He gains four golden arms which end in gray hands, similar to when he possessed Garmadon, though he lacks the claws and limbs, having actual LEGO arms and hands, in which goes for the same case for his legs, which are dark gray with yellow and purple accents and patterning.

In "Dragon Form" and "Roots," the Overlord transforms into a Centaur-like creature in order to fight Garmadon, Adam, and later Harumi. In this form, his size increases greatly, though not to the extent of his Dragon nor Golden Master forms. His entire body appears to be made of impenetrable gray stone with large infectious crystals, four legs and two bulky arms with indigo nails, a golden chestplate and a torso that resembles his form whilst wearing the Golden Armor. He also gains four crystal wings which allow him to fly. He also gains a golden crown on top of his head with two crystal horns protruding out of it. In this form, he describes himself as a worthy and complete vessel to do his bidding.

## Personality

As the epitome of all evil in Ninjago, the Overlord is shown to be serious, cunning, and practical; however, he is often reliant on metaphysical concepts (the Final Battle, the prophecy of the Golden Master, etc.).

The Overlord disregards all things heroic, such as compassion, empathy, and justice, and insteads devours on anger, hatred, and conflict.

As such, those negative qualities build up all over time, allowing him to regain a physical form.

He is likewise cruel, calculating, and sadistic, often taunting his opponents in moments of weakness.

In fact, he has been known to go out of his way to do so.

Despite his seriousness and mystique, the Overlord can be seen as irritable and stir-crazy at certain points, as shown with him impatiently wanting to harness Adam's Golden Power for himself, and that his minions were taking too long to capture the boy or threatening his council for failing to capture the ninja.

Like with most villains, the Overlord only sees his minions as pawns in his schemes, though he has shown actual respect to two individuals: Pythor and Harumi, however, said respect was never genuine as the Overlord had no qualms with leaving Pythor to his shrunken fate or destroying Harumi for her betrayal.

The Overlord is also a forthright being; as he has no problem pointing out Garmadon's flaws while the four-armed villain was commanding the Stone Army; likewise, he also didn't hesitate to berate his armies whenever they failed an important mission for him.

Nevertheless, he is also shown to be manipulative when he lied to Harumi about wanting to destroy the Balance and eliminate all conflict to Earth in order to achieve peace, thus appealing to her goals and desires.

However, it is proven to be a ruse used to manipulate her in serving him when he unintentionally shown his true colors, after revealing his revelation about corrupting the Great Devourer.

## Powers, Skills & Abilities

* **Darkness**: The Overlord possesses the elemental essence of Darkness. Whilst in control of Lord Garmadon's body, he gained the ability to release dark energy from his hands. He usually fired this energy as offensive beam attacks, which could overpower Lloyd's energy beams and break his leg, but he could also use it to fly; by releasing small "jets" of energy from his lower pair of hands, the Overlord was able to hover in the air or propel himself at varying speeds.
	+ **Darkness Materialization**: The Overlord can give life to inanimate statues. He uses this ability to give life to the Stone Army and the Crystal Warriors, in which the latter were created by having parts of them be replaced with the infectious crystals.
	+ **Dragon form**: Over time, the Overlord can turn into his original dragon-like form, from which his strength and durability increased even further, due to his massive size. He could fly with the use of his large wings, breath dark fire, and spit masses of pure darkness that corrupt anything they hit (much like the Garmatron's Dark Matter shots). At the end of his battle with Lloyd, he displayed the ability to transform himself into a large orb of shadows that engulfs his foe—within the orb, his head grew to many times its original size, although it is unclear if this was purely an ability, or if his host body kept him physical. Even before his transformation as the Golden Master, he was the most powerful enemy the ninja ever met.
	+ **Crystal Creation**: As the Crystal King, the Overlord can create his own crystals that can bestow anyone or anything his powers, or infect them.
		- **Strength Bestowal**: Upon giving Harumi a crystal, he allowed her to move massive hunks of debris to escape a collapsed building following her resurrection.
		- **Telekinesis**: As the Crystal King, the Overlord can use his crystals to levitate and move objects of great size (in this case the Crystal Island by using the central crystal) at will. This is similar to when he used Golden Power as the Golden Master to move all of Ninjago City and turn it into a fortress.
		- **Crystallization**: As the Crystal King, the Overlord can use his powers to crystallize terrain, people, objects, and even entire cities. Once Crystallized, said objects, people or terrain are under his full control, and whatever powers they possessed are also under his command as well. He wished to use this power to crystallize the ninja, and thereby gain dominion over the Elements of Creation.
		- **Shapeshifting**: As the Crystal King, the Overlord can change shape and size at will, as shown when he shifted his form to be that of a giant centaur-like creature.
* **Golden Power**: As the legendary "Golden Master," his powers grew to be equivalent to, if not greater than the First Spinjitzu Master. Once he gained this power, he used it to turn Ninjago City into a colossal fortress, gathering the largest buildings into a near impenetrable wall. Soon after this, he tried to shoot Kai with a beam of Golden Energy. He was also able to use Golden Energy to levitate cars in mid-air, and even threw one at Nya. Eventually, as the Ninja were traveling down a street in their vehicles, the Overlord shot them with a massive ball of golden energy, sending them all huddling further down the street. After this, he used his newfound powers to perform Spinjitzu for the first time, becoming a massive golden tornado. When the ninja got Stone Armor, the Overlord, like the Golden Master, shaped roof tiles into a massive arm and hand in an attempt to crush the ninja; despite this, he failed to crush them. At the end of the episode, he was powerful enough to ensnare the ninja with beams of Golden Power. Though, this shouldn't have been possible as the stone armor the ninja were wearing was supposed to be resistant to the might of Golden Power. However, the Overlord had grown in strength and power tremendously by that point in the episode, which may have been the reason why he was able to overpower the stone armor.

* **Floating**: In his spirit and Crystal King form, he was able to float freely, allowing him to travel on the Island of Darkness and the Crystal Island.
* **Resurrection**: The Overlord has the ability to resurrect souls from the Departed Realm (whether he can only resurrect newly departed souls or ones that have been departed for a while as well is currently unknown). He used this power shortly after Harumi’s death after she vowed to serve him.
* **Enhanced Perception**: He also appeared to have some form of enhanced perception, as he immediately sensed the ninja's arrival on the Island of Darkness. The Overlord also has some kind of perception of living beings (it is not known whether it was thermal vision or the Overlord sees the souls of beings themselves).
* **Enhanced Strength and Durability**: After using Lord Garmadon's body to retake a physical form, the Overlord gained enhanced physical strength and high durability, easily able to take Lloyd's attacks and overpower him.
* **Immortality**: The Overlord, who is the source of all darkness, represents the malevolent part of the Balance, due to which he (as an entity) can never be destroyed. The Overlord's truest being exists in an unknown void, that was shown in "A Sinister Shadow", during his dormant state and for a full return to the physical world and mortal plane of existence he needs a physical form.
	+ **Regeneration**: The Overlord's spirit showed the ability to recover after its destruction in "Rise of the Spinjitzu Master" by Lloyd's Golden Power.
	+ **Manifestation**: The Overlord uses avatars in order to interact in the physical world. Probably, the Overlord does not have its own physical form and exists solely as a concept\spirit of Evil.
* **Possession**: As shown by the example of Lord Garmadon and the Borg Industries systems, the Overlord is able to possess objects, making them their hosts. Upon possessing Garmadon, the Overlord caused a mutation in his body, turning him into a dragon so the Overlord could regain his original form.

## Voice Actor

* Scott McNeil.
* Scott McNeil/Yuri Lowenthal (As the Golden Master)