Lloyd Garmadon

**Master Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon** is the main protagonist of the animated-action television series *LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu*, one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Riyu) of its 2023 sequel series *LEGO Ninjago: Dragons Rising* and the main protagonist of The LEGO Ninjago Movie.

He is the Green Ninja, the only Master of Energy, and both the leader and the youngest member of the Ninja team. He is the son of Master Garmadon and Misako, the nephew of Master Wu, and the grandson of the First Spinjitzu Master.

## Background

### Early life

Lloyd was born the son of Lord Garmadon and Misako, as well as the nephew of Wu. The soon-to-be dark lord was filled with pride for his newborn son, and wanted Lloyd to follow a different path from his own. The family was happy for a time, but one day Garmadon finally lost control over the evil within him, and was banished to the Underworld after a battle with his brother. Lloyd was too young to remember Garmadon, but he had heard of him, and was fond of his evil father, wanting to follow in his footsteps, unaware that Garmadon did not want this for him. Once he was old enough, Misako sent him to the Darkley's School for Bad Boys. On his first day at Darkley's School, everyone made fun of Lloyd, and Brad put fire ants in his bed. After everyone left, Brad took him under his wing and taught him the art of revenge.

One day, he had received a package from his "grandmummy" when another student named Finn took it from him and turned it into worms. Lloyd was expelled from school that same day because he didn't have the "amoral ambition to become one of tomorrow's masterminds." Before he left, he stole a cape and hood from a closet, planning to become an evil overlord by himself.

### Official Descriptions

#### From TV Series

*From unsuccessful super-villain to the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master, Lloyd has traveled the furthest of all the young ninja. The son of Master Garmadon and Misako, he sacrificed his childhood to embrace his destiny, finally becoming the Green Ninja and, for a short while, the all-powerful Golden Ninja. As a Master in training, he is wise beyond his years and, like his Uncle Wu, represents the way of the ninja. Though he is more the quiet type, Lloyd is the natural leader in the group.*

*As son of Lord Garmadon, it’s hard to follow in his father’s evil footsteps. This young boy will go to comical lengths to prove he is just as bad as his dad. With Wu’s help and the support of the others, Lloyd will learn that living in a parent’s shadow is a choice and you can choose to become anyone you want to be.*

*Now the Green Ninja, Lloyd has turned his back on his father’s dark path. He accepts the importance of hard work and trains with the ninja every day, embracing the motto, “a Ninja Never Quits”. But while he grows stronger, he comes to understand that he’s destined to face his father in the ultimate showdown.*

*Now under the strict tutelage of his father, Garmadon, Lloyd will learn that being the most powerful ninja in all the land isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. His great powers make him a target for the Digital Overlord and the Nindroids. Before the battle is over, Lloyd learns that his burden is easier to manage if he relies on the strength of his friends.*

*Lloyd knows he has a target on his back and everyone in the tournament is gunning for him – which is why he needs his friends more than ever. He has to control his fears, though it’s difficult for him. Lloyd’s leadership is tested as he fights to keep the team together, and after learning about his father’s dark history, he uses the lessons of the past to guide him.*

*Lloyd’s grief allows the cursed spirit of Morro to possess him, turning the powerful Green Ninja against his friends. They struggle to free him from Morro’s control and succeed in time for Lloyd to meet his father in the Cursed Realm. There he discovers that he must destroy the realm – and his father – to save the NINJAGO® world. “There comes a time when every boy must become a man,” Garmadon tells Lloyd. “What sort of man, is up to him.”*

*The loss of his father, Garmadon, hit Lloyd very hard, but after their final meeting Lloyd channeled those feelings and started on a new path. He remains committed to the job that Wu has given them and he’s less and less interested in all the promotional work the ninja are doing. He’s beginning to think they might be taking their eye off the ball… When Lloyd comes to make his wishes he is full of good intentions, but discovers that isn’t enough.*

*Lloyd’s ongoing growth as a leader takes on added importance after Wu is knocked out of action by Acronix’s Time Punch. But Lloyd doesn’t have a lot of experience leading, which means he’s going to make mistakes. Also, his friends aren’t quite ready to drop either the “Temporary” or the “in-Training” parts from Lloyd’s “Temporary Master-in-Training” title. But by applying what Wu taught from his sickbed, Lloyd slowly earns the others’ trust and respect. By the time Wu is lost in time aboard the Iron Doom, the ninja are prepared for a new master to lead.*

*The son of Master Garmadon and Misako, he sacrificed his childhood to embrace his destiny, finally becoming the Green Ninja. As a Master in training, he is wise beyond his years and, like his, Uncle Wu represents the way of the ninja. Though he is more the quiet type, Lloyd is the natural leader in the group.*

#### From films

As the legendary Green Ninja, Lloyd is a Master Builder and the leader of a secret ninja force protecting NINJAGO City from the most notorious villain of all time: Lord Garmadon. Crowds cheer the Green Ninja as a hero, but when he takes off his mask they only see him as Lloyd, the boy unfortunate enough to be Garmadon’s son. It’s hard for him to make friends or get through a day at school because Garmadon ruins everything. Still, Lloyd yearns to have a real relationship with his dad.

### Physical appearence

Lloyd has long, blond tousled hair, and brown arched eyebrows. His eyes are visibly green, and occasionally glow when he uses his powers. As of Sons of Garmadon, Lloyd had grown up further and has an updated design and deeper voice. Lloyd is usually seen with a smirking expression. Whenever he lost access to his powers in Hunted, his green eyes returned to their original black color. When he is driven to his breaking point, such as in The Spider's Design, his eyes take on a purple hue, unleashing his Oni side. During the beginning of Sora and Arin's training, Lloyd reveals that he has started to grow facial hair (albeit hard to notice).
Previously, Lloyd had thin, black eyebrows and normal eyes. Initially, Lloyd was a young boy with a blond "bowl-cut" hairstyle. After the Grundle incident in "Child's Play" exposed him to the aging effects of Tomorrow's Tea, Lloyd became a teenager with a slightly deeper voice and a new, tousled hairstyle.

As a child, he wore black clothing, a purple sash around his waist, with white rib-like markings on his shirt, resembling the appearance of his father, Lord Garmadon. However, the illusion is negated by Lloyd's normal-looking face and hands, as well as the small green number "5" on the upper left side of his shirt that foreshadows him being the fifth and the Green Ninja. While leaving Darkley's Boarding School for Bad Boys, Lloyd stole a black hood and cape to make his outfit look more menacing. After moving in with the ninja, he wore it periodically, primarily during his time in the Serpentine's captivity. When his destiny as the Green Ninja was revealed, Lloyd mainly wore the green gi of the Chosen One (ZX). Also, here are Lloyd's appearances in other ninja suits.

When possessed by Morro's spirit, Lloyd's hair darkens to black and his skin becomes pale with visible shadows surrounding his eyes, similar to Morro’s own appearance. His suit takes on more of a darker shade of green and has more black accessories including a hood. Between "Winds of Change" and "The Temple on Haunted Hill," he adorned the Allied Armor of Azure.

As of "Curseworld, Part I," Lloyd once again has civilian attire consisting of a green shirt, blue pants, and a dark green jacket with his dragon symbol on the back. He wears a black fedora with a green stripe with it in Skybound.

When he fought Morro and was freed from the Cursed Realm, he was wearing his father's gi.

In Skybound, he was briefly turned into an old man after making a wish to Nadakhan to become "wise like Wu" in "Wishmasters," referencing Wu's remark to Morro in "Winds of Change," "with age comes wisdom." He became an elderly man with a similar appearance to his father and uncle, with white hair and increasingly more apparent wrinkles and age lines. This change was reversed as a result of Jay's wish in "The Way Back," which caused the majority of events in Skybound to be undone.

In "The Jade Princess," Harumi gives Lloyd a white hooded jacket to wear over his ninja gi as a disguise.

In "The Gilded Path," Lloyd wears an outfit similar to what some of the fishermen in Ninjago City wear, after burning his ninja suit. Harumi called his appearance "a beggar in rags."

In "Racer Seven," Lloyd wears his avatar in an attempt to disguise himself from the Red Visors. It consists of a green jacket with a right gold sleeve, unzipped to reveal his chest, green pants, gold boots, and a brownish-blonde Mohawk.

In "Farewell the Sea" and "The Shape of Nya," as a window washer, Lloyd wears a white t-shirt, green overalls, and a white and green cap.

In "The Fifth Villain" and "The Council of the Crystal King," Lloyd disguised himself as The Mechanic to infiltrate the Crystal King's Council. His disguise consisted of a black bowler hat, a faux mustache, a mechanical arm and a red coat.

In "Roots", Lloyd unleashed his full Oni form, which consisted of a golden body compared to other oni, four arms, long horns and glowing purple eyes, while the sets his Oni form has two arms, green eyes, and gold horns.

From "Return to Imperium" to "I Will Be the Danger", Lloyd dons the disguise of an Imperium citizen under the alias of "Doyll Donmagar".

### Personality

Throughout his life, one constant of Lloyd's personality was his love for his father, Lord Garmadon. It was a desire to follow in his evil parent's footsteps that drove him to enroll in Darkley's School for Bad Boys—and later, to unleash the Serpentine upon Ninjago.

However, his attempts to become the next evil overlord of Ninjago were largely stymied by his inherently good personality—Lloyd's idea of "evil" was stealing candy, pulling pranks, and overseeing Ninjago from within a treehouse fortress, with his best attempt at an evil laugh being a rather melodramatic "Muhahahaha!" Lloyd's lack of true evil also showed in his demeanor around his Serpentine "minions;" he usually went along with whatever ideas they concocted, and was quick to call a retreat if the battle turned even slightly against his allies. He also displayed extreme naivety about their warlike society, expecting Skales to hand over the Hypnobrai Staff to Slithraa simply because the latter outranked him.

After being betrayed by Pythor and taking up residence on the *Destiny's Bounty*, Lloyd's true nature began to emerge. Having been turned from the path of evil by Master Wu's guidance, he turned his thoughts to stopping the Serpentine threat (partially out of guilt for releasing the first three tribes in the first place). He retained a mischievous streak for a time, but quickly grew out of it after being forced to clean up the messes his pranks left. He also dedicated his life to help the Ninja in any way he could, but his lack of combat talents and inexperience with battling the Serpentine meant that he was relegated to the ship during their missions. This desire to help led to Lloyd's capture when he blew his cover at the City of Ouroboros.

The revelation that he was destined to become the Green Ninja further increased Lloyd's eagerness to help—to his chagrin, this only meant that the Ninja had even less incentive to take him on missions. He was also forced to confront the fact that he was now destined to fight his father, Lord Garmadon, for the fate of Ninjago, causing him to alternate between regret and hostility towards the four-armed villain. Despite this, Lloyd continued to love his father, being saddened when Lord Garmadon had to leave the ship for good.

Lloyd underwent his most dramatic personality shift yet when he was aged to a teenager by Tomorrow's Tea. He became much more serious and calm than before, dedicating himself to his training and becoming a true aspect of the Ninja team. However, his misgivings about confronting his father only grew stronger, forcing Master Wu and Misako to constantly remind him that he had no choice. Despite this, Lloyd was unable to overcome his love for his father, leading to him failing to destroy Lord Garmadon when the latter was vulnerable. It was only when the Overlord took complete control of Garmadon's body was Lloyd able to discard his misgivings and access his full power.

After the battle with the Overlord, he became somewhat cocky about his abilities, and after being made a fool of while sparring with his father in front of a class and his fellow Ninja, he nearly unleashed an energy blast on him in anger, but quickly calmed down. He was at first reluctant to learn how to further harness his power over the elements, but eventually, he became more willing to listen to his father's teachings after having to use his power to save him.

Upon his search for Zane alongside his friends, he underwent yet another dramatic change that would shape his fate: the role of becoming a leader. Even when the others were down from either loss or current circumstances, he always rallied them with supporting words that gave them newfound strength to continue on and, eventually, succeed. This quality came to the point of leading both the Elemental Masters and the Serpentine against Chen's forces in the Second Serpentine War, which then sprung a new challenge of his role being tested by Morro. Ultimately, after receiving some final words of wisdom from his father, he let go of what remained of his childish desires and embraced his chosen path of becoming a wise and powerful master, like his father before him.

A year after Wu's disappearance at the end of the battle against the Time Twins, Lloyd fully settled into being leader, with the addition of taking over the role of the Ninjas' master.

Being betrayed by Harumi caused Lloyd no small amount of grief. Being the kind person he is, it is rare for Lloyd to be cold to someone. He made an exception for Harumi, however, as is shown when he glared at her after she attempted to trick him and as he closed the police transport van doors on her in "Dread on Arrival."

Lloyd was heartbroken when he assumed that Kai, Zane, Jay, Cole, and Wu were killed by the Colossus, shedding a few tears. But, refusing to give in to despair as Harumi intended, he remained determined to defeat the Sons of Garmadon and avenge his friends and uncle.

Losing his Elemental Power made Lloyd begin to doubt his usefulness to Ninjago, and to the Resistance. Luckily, with Nya's encouragement and the hope of seeing Zane, Cole, Kai, Jay, and Wu again, Lloyd has seemingly overcome this doubt. Skylor's powers returning also gave Lloyd hope that his own would come back, and that is something Lloyd looks forward to.

### Age

Lloyd is chronologically in his early teens, making him the youngest of the Ninja team. Physically, he is in his late adolescence, like the majority of his fellow Ninja.

Initially, Lloyd was a young boy of 9–11 years old. After using the Tomorrow's Tea to save his friends and destroy the Grundle, he was caught in the blast that reversed the Mega Weapon's de-aging spell. While the Ninja returned to their normal ages, Lloyd was aged into his teens along with them. As the most recent events take place three to four years after the events of Season 2, Lloyd is most likely chronologically 12–14 years old.

### Powers and Abilities

**Energy**

* **Ergokinesis** - The user is able to manipulate and generate energy. This Elemental Power makes the user able to create powerful beams as explosions and use the power as matter to generate force fields.
	+ **Energy Amplification** - The user can enhance the energy of the objects and people, also changing their color.
	+ **Energy Construction** - The user can summon an object (usually a vehicle) made of solid energy, powered by the user's energy.
	+ **Energy Shield Construction** - The user can make a shield of pure energy, capable of blocking various attacks.
	+ **Energy Propulsion** - Some users of energy can concentrate enough energy to propel upwards and fly temporarily.
	+ **Energy Ball Projection** - The users of this ability are able to create green balls of energy that they can use as part of a melee attack or as a way of transportation (indirect propulsion) and destroy a ghost.
	+ **Energy Beam Emission** - The user can project concentrated beams of energy for a range of damage strengths. The result of beam could be concussive, dispersive, or explosive.
	+ **Elemental Manipulation** - The user's strength is derived from the combination of the four elements of Creation (Fire, Ice, Earth, and Lightning), but they cannot use the elements on their own.
	+ **Energy Healing** - The user can erase the Dark Matter corruption from others.
* **Spinjitzu, Forbidden and Airjitzu** - The user can do Spinjitzu, Forbidden Spinjitzu and Airjitzu. Anyone can do Spinjitzu and Airjitzu with immense skill, but the user can do Energy Spinjitzu , Forbidden Spinjitzu and Airjitzu.
* **Elemental Shield** - The user can create a Energy Elemental Shield.
* **Green Fire** - The user can create green-colored fire.
* **Green Lightning**: The user can create green color lightning as shown in Ghost Story
* **Elemental Dragon** - The user can create an Elemental Energy Dragon.

**Golden Power**

* **Nigh-Omnipotence** - The user is virtually omnipotent (unlimited in power, unless part of the power is taken from them, in which they have a limited amount of power left), like when the First Spinjitzu Master used this elemental power to create Ninjago (using the main elements that make it up). Another example is when the Overlord became the Golden Master, he wanted to use this elemental power to destroy all of Ninjago. The user does not need materials around them to create objects using Creation. Unlike Creation, the Golden Power can be used for offensive energy attacks, and its "constructs" can be mostly made of energy rather than matter. The user is able to use the five main elements that comprise it (including Energy).
	+ **Power Granting** - The user can give the elemental powers of the four main elements to other people (possibly just the Masters of Fire, Earth, Lightning, and Ice).
	+ **Power Restoration** - The user is able to restore the power of others (possibly just the Masters of Fire, Earth, Lightning, and Ice).
	+ **Elemental Manipulation** - The user can create, shape, and manipulate the basic elements of nature (Fire, Earth, Lightning, and Ice). Capabilities may including moving, altering, and mixing existing elements.
	+ **Telekinesis** - The user can influence, manipulate, and move objects and matter (because it is comprised of the elements that Golden Power controls) from great distances, usually to attack or defend against an adversary.
	+ **Ergo-Ecokinesis** - The user can manipulate a stronger form of Energy, usually to attack an adversary (the Golden Master can generate powerful beams composed of gold colored energy).
	+ **Meta-Matter Manipulation** - The user wields a stronger form of Creation (even stronger than the Tornado of Creation), usually to attack or to defend against an adversary.
		- **Omnifabrication** - The user can create, reshape, and move objects or matter to create anything they want/need.
		- **Materialization** - The user can create organic and inorganic matter from nothing either as finished objects or simply unfinished elements.
			* **Remote Materialization** - The user can create and reshape all kind of things in distant and far off places without the user even being present.
	+ **Enhancement** - The user can increase their power thousandfold.
	+ **Golden influence** - The user can send golden waves to weaken enemies.
	+ **Spinjitzu and Airjitzu** - The user can do Spinjitzu and Airjitzu. Anyone can do Spinjitzu and Airjitzu with immense skill, but the user can do Golden Power Spinjitzu and Airjitzu.
	+ **Elemental Blasts** - Users of this element can fire blasts of the main five elements with the Golden Power, usually as offense.
	+ **Golden Ray** - The user can shoot a ray of Golden Power from his hand.
	+ **Golden Beam** - The user can make a beam of Golden Power, which is a more powerful version of the ray. This move is usually done with two hands as it requires more energy.
	+ **Golden Shield** - The user can encase himself in a Golden Power shield.
	+ **Elemental Shield** - The user can create a Golden Power Elemental Shield.
	+ **Elemental Powers** - The user has control over four other elements—Fire, Ice, Earth, and Lightning. He can use them as vividly as the specific master of those elements can but has full control over them.
	+ **Golden Field** - The user can make a golden field.
	+ **Golden Dome** - The user can make a golden dome.
	+ **Golden Blasts** - The user can shoot gold energy blasts.
	+ **Creating Realms** - The user can create his own Realms.
	+ **Creating Powerful Artifacts** - The user can create powerful artifacts, like the Realm Crystal.
	+ **Power Removing** - The user can remove an Elemental Master's powers.
	+ **Wish Granting** - As demonstrated by Garmadon using the Mega Weapon, the user has the ability to grant himself wishes, as long as they don't destroy anything.
	+ **Time Travel** - As demonstrated by Garmadon using the Mega Weapon in Wrong Place, Wrong Time, the user has the ability to travel through time.
	+ **Dimension Travel**: The user can travel to another realm with this power as when the First Spinjitzu master did to create Ninjago
	+ **Elemental Dragon** - The user can create an Elemental Golden Dragon.

**Destruction**

* **Black Cloud resistance:** Due to him having Oni blood in his veins, Lloyd was able to transverse the darkness without becoming petrified.
* **Oni Form:** Through anger or frustration, beings can transform into a state that enchances their strength, energy, and powers.

### Creation and Development

In 2009, The Lego Group proposed to make a series about ninja, deciding that there would be four ninja with elemental powers. The Lego Ninjago theme concept originated in the Lego Ninja theme, which was released by Lego in 1998. In 2011, *Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu* was launched and included some of the concepts from the Lego Ninja theme, such as dragons and fortresses, but also combined this with a modern setting. The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen, two Danish film producers. The character of Lloyd Garmadon was conceived by two screenwriters, Dan and Kevin Hageman following the pilot season. The first sketch depicting Lloyd Garmadon was created in 2010 by co-creator Tommy Andreasen. The Hageman Brothers have stated that "Lloyd" Garmadon was created as a pun on "Lord" Garmadon.

The *Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu* series was animated in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Wil Film ApS for its ten-season run. The production was relocated to WildBrain Studios in Canada with the release of the eleventh season titled *Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu* and renamed *Ninjago*. This marked the use of new animation styles, including anime-style 2D animation, as a way to experiment with the storyline and add new creativity to the show. The run-time for the show was also revised from 22 minutes to 11 minutes.

The eighth season titled *Sons of Garmadon* implemented a new phase for the ninjas' designs, which were now based on the designs of their movie counterparts in *The Lego Ninjago Movie*. Not only were the character appearances updated, but Lloyd was presented as noticeably older in appearance, which was further illustrated by the introduction of a new voice actor. The design changes aimed to help new fans of the movie transition to the television series.

## Role in series

Once a bratty child who sought to follow in his father's villainous footsteps, Lloyd changed his ways, helping the Ninja and realizing his destiny was to be the Green Ninja. As the Ninja trained Lloyd, he reunited with Misako and faced Garmadon and the Overlord, becoming the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master.

Garmadon is purified of evil, and the Overlord is defeated—yet he later returns and steals Lloyd's Golden Power. When Zane sacrificed himself to destroy The Overlord, the Ninja found him alive on Chen's Island. Lloyd and the Ninja set out to save Zane by entering the Tournament of Elements. This brought a war between the Elemental Masters and Chen's army, which ended when Lloyd had to banish his father to the Cursed Realm.

Lloyd was later possessed by the ghost Morro, who claimed the Realm Crystal and freed the Preeminent. Lloyd escaped Morro's possession and helped battle Morro, but The Preeminent's destruction collapsed the Cursed Realm, killing Lloyd's father. Shortly after, Lloyd helped battle the Sky Pirates and their captain, Nadakhan. During the conflict, Lloyd wished to be wise like Wu, but turned older in the process. When Jay made his final wish, recent events were undone and Lloyd's age was reversed. On the Day of the Departed, Lloyd commemorated Garmadon at the Corridor of Elders, where he fought against Pythor. Lloyd would later battle the Time Twins and their Vermillion army. In Wu's absence, Lloyd led the Ninja and became their new master when Wu was lost in Time.

With Wu lost in time, Lloyd took on the role of master as the Sons of Garmadon intend to bring back his father using the Oni Masks and himself, his mother, and the newly found de-aged Wu. They succeed and the undead pure evil Lord Garmadon, nearly kills him, stripping him of his power. He later watched the Colossus as it "killed" Kai, Jay, Zane, Cole, and Wu before fleeing to the safety of his mother, P.I.X.A.L. and Nya, unaware that the four Ninja and his uncle survived through Traveler's Tea.

In Season 9, Lloyd and the others formed a resistance against Garmadon. They also learned that their friends survived the Colossus' attack and were teleported to another location. Afterwards, Lloyd learned from Mistaké that they were sent to the Realm of Oni and Dragons, the homeworld of his grandfather. Lloyd was taught by Mistaké to endure and move forward, Lloyd did so and broadcast to everyone in the city to do the same and challenged his father.

When he and the others were surrounded, the Ninja and Wu returned to the city on new dragons and saved them. Lloyd faced his father and was able to regain his powers after deciding to resist him, which led to Garmadon losing his own powers but not before learning of an impending threat.

In Season 10, Lloyd frees and enlists Garmadon in order to face the new threat, the Oni, who invade Ninjago. With the armour of the Golden Master, they retreat to the monastery where the armour is melted back into the Golden Weapons. The ninja, Garmadon and Wu combine their elemental powers to form the Tornado of Creation and defeat the Oni.

With the Oni defeated, Lloyd and the ninja became lazy and out of practice, until their investigation in Clutch Power's pyramid unearths the dormant tomb of Aspheera, an ancient Serpentine sorceress, who leads her army and attempts to get revenge on Wu, who she deemed wronged her. When Zane is banished during her attack, Lloyd and the ninja trick Wu and travel to the Never-Realm but he is separated from the rest of them. On his journey to liberate Zane from the Ice Emperor, he befriends a formling called Anita, but they are captured and brought to the Emperor's castle, where it is revealed Zane *is* the Ice Emperor, after his memories have been misplaced by General Vex. Zane's memories are triggered and he saves Lloyd from Vex as the ninja return to Ninjago.

The legendary arcade game, *Prime Empire*, mysteriously resurfaces and pulls many of it's players, including Jay, into the game, so Lloyd and the ninja venture into it to save the players from its tyrannical ruler, Unagami. Only Lloyd, Jay and Nya remain as they climb up the levels, but Lloyd succumbs in a duel with an avatar of Harumi. When Unagami reforms, Lloyd and all the players are returned.

The ninja and Wu are invited to the Ivory City of Shintaro to celebrate Princess Vania's birthday, but Cole goes missing in the mines, so when the ninja go into the mines to find him, they are forced to work as slaves alongside the Geckle and Munce by the Skull Sorcerer and his Awakened Warriors. When they all escape, Lloyd ends up with Nya, Jay and the Munce as they arrive in the Munce caves. The Skull Sorcerer chases the ninja(apart from Wu and Cole), the Geckle and the Munce with Grief Bringer and re-captures them, but Cole with new powers, Wu, Vania, the army of Shintaro and the Upply arrive as back-up and destroy Grief-Bringer, imprisoning the Skull Sorcerer(who was actually King Vangelis) and crowning Vania.

When an expedition including Wu and Misako goes missing, Lloyd, the ninja and Twitchy Time arrive on the The Island of the Keepers to find them, whom they found when they were captured by the Keepers, who were protecting the Storm Amulet from Wojira the Serpent. The ninja find it a fake serpent, powered by Ronin and the Kryptarium Inmates, and defeat them.

Lloyd accompanies Nya, Maya, Zane and P.I.X.A.L. as they embark to the Endless Sea where they believe the source to the troubles in Nya's powers are coming from, only to find it's prince Kalmaar trying to resurrect the real Wojira with the Wave Amulet. After he kills the noble king and overthrows the kingdom, the group escapes with his brother Benthomaar. They follow Kalmaar back to Ninjago and regroup with the ninja, but Kalmaar takes the Storm Amulet and awakens Wojira, launching an attack on Ninjago. In the ensuing fight, Kalmaar and Wojira are destroyed, at the cost of Nya tapping into her elemental and becoming a pure being of water, leaving the team. Lloyd then attends her memorial.

## Role in films

### The LEGO Movie

As President Business began to erect walls between the realms, Lloyd and all the other Master Builders were forced to flee into tunnels constructed in the walls.

Once the Special was revealed, Lloyd gathered in Cloud Cuckoo Land with the other Master Builders though was captured when Bad Cop arrived. He was then taken to Lord Business' think tank and forced to come up with instructions.

Lloyd later helped the other Master Builders in the final showdown against Lord Business' forces.

### Enter the Ninjago

In the president of Hollywood's' version of Emmet's story, Lloyd appeared during the highway chase and destroyed the robots so Emmet could getaway. Lloyd accompanied the president to Emmet's apartment where they showed off the new version to the master builder and when the president introduced Lloyd to Emmet, the Green Ninja in turn decorated the double-decker couch in an oriental design and sat next to him to mediate. When the president revealed that ninjas on their own had become outdated, Lloyd passed him the remote to show Emmet their new version of a scene; Lloyd swooping in on a skateboard to place the wheel on Emmet's head. Though Emmet reluctantly went along with it, he was surprised they had also changed the ending to have Lloyd cut him free from the battery. Emmet then suggested they just make a movie about Ninja, which the president of Hollywood immediately accepted.

### The LEGO Ninjago Movie

Lloyd was born to Lord Garmadon and Koko, sometime before the family arrived to Ninjago. When Garmadon declared his intentions of conquering the city, Koko decided she didn't want Lloyd to become an evil conqueror like his dad so she reluctantly left Garmadon and moved with Lloyd to an apartment in Ninjago to give him a normal life. She got a job at a copy center and kept her former life a secret from her son while Lord Garmadon stayed behind and carried on with his plans to conquer Ninjago. As he grew up, Lloyd was discriminated and bullied by the citizens of Ninjago for being the son of the evil Lord Garmadon and got blamed for everything his father did until his paternal uncle, Wu recruited him as part of his Secret Ninja Force, leading him to meet and befriend Kai, Nya, Jay, Cole, and Zane.

On the day of his sixteenth birthday, Lloyd is awakened by his father, who doesn't (or pretends he doesn't) know who Lloyd is. Garmadon claims that he butt-dialed him and claimed that his son is still a baby with no teeth or he is around seven years old. Lloyd corrects him and says he is sixteen, Garmadon hung up after congratulating Lloyd for finally having a full set of teeth. Koko arrives at their apartment and Lloyd gets up and does the dishes while trying to ask his mother to let him skip school for the day but Koko refuses since this are "the best years of his life" while Lloyd tries to tell her about how "judgy" people are but Koko reassures him that he just has to let people know the real him. Koko then reminds him of what to do if Garmadon attacks and wishes him a happy birthday before sending him off to school and he reluctantly obeys her.

As he waits at the bus stop, the other teenagers start texting about how much they hate him before the bus arrives. When the bus comes, Lloyd has to sit alone on one side of the bus and everyone else sits on the other side, causing the weight to nearly tip over the bus.

Once he arrives to school, everyone stops what they are doing and whisper amongst themselves about how his father always ruins everything while Lloyd passes by until Zane walks up to him and talks to him about some argument he had with his mother. Kai then walks up to Lloyd and hugs him with Zane joining in, squeezing them very tight.

Nya soon arrives on her motorcycle followed by Cole and Jay. Nya is showing off the paint job she made on her motorcycle; a portrait of The Lady Iron Dragon when a group of cheerleaders led by Chad walk up to them and start chanting their new song; "Boo Lloyd!" to Lloyd, who tries to take it well and say that they were going to be a success.

## Role in video games

### LEGO Ninjago: Nindroids

Lloyd appears as a playable character with his variants:

* Kid
* ZX
* Kimono
* Golden Ninja
* Rebooted

### LEGO Ninjago: Tournament

Lloyd appears as a playable character with his variants:

* Kid
* ZX
* Kimono
* Golden Ninja
* Rebooted
* Tournament
* Jungle

### The LEGO Movie: The Video Game

In The LEGO Movie: The Video Game, Lloyd appears as a playable character .

### LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin

However, with no knowledge of the Primal Fulcrum's location, Wu heads to the Golden Peaks and enlists the help of Lloyd, who, having recovered from his grief, helps him find Misako at the Fangpyre Tomb, battling several Fangpyre on the way. Misako, who is looking for something to help someone else, stumbles across the two and agrees to help, revealing the location of the Fulcrum to be in Hiroshi's Labyrinth.

Getting Nya's help, the rest of the ninja meet up, and heading through the jungle, arriving in a chamber, with the Primal Fulcrum floating mid-air. In the walls, Misako finds a prophecy that states that in order to destroy the Primal Fulcrum, seven beings need to strike it together at the same time. The others comply, only to be restrained by bonds of energy as a result.

Misako reveals she had lied, claiming vengeance over a betrayal only she remembers. Realizing Ronin had brainwashed her, the ninja watch as the mercenary himself arrives with several Dark Samurai, who take the Primal Fulcrum away. Enraged, Lloyd manages to free one of his hands and blast the Obsidian Glaive with a burst of Energy destroying the artifact and freeing Misako, the Serpentine, and everyone else affected by the weapon.

Ronin, angered, promises that Chen will take vengeance on them before escaping. With no knowledge of where he plans to take the Primal Fulcrum, the ninja infuse the souls of the Fulcrum's four guardians into their Elemental Dragons and are guided to Chen's Island. Fighting off several Nindroids on the way there, they arrive on the island, with Jay taking control of the ElectroMech and using it to blast his way into Chen's Palace.

Fighting off waves of Dark Samurai, they confront Ronin, who reveals he's doing this in order to pay off massive debts of unknown origin and circumstance. Inserting the Elemental Forges into the Primal Fulcrum, Ronin creates a portal to the Ethereal Divide lying between Ninjago and the Cursed Realm. The ninja follow him aboard their Elemental Dragons and the Ultra Dragon, where they defeat the rest of the Dark Samurai.

Within the Ethereal Divide, they confront Ronin, who is charging the Primal Fulcrum in order to open a portal to the Cursed Realm and free Chen and the Cultists. Noticing the depleted Forges, Master Wu comes to the conclusion the crystals are now weak enough to destroy. Unwilling to let the ninja stop his plans, Ronin summons upon the power of the Elemental Forges, forming an Elemental Golem, clashing with the protagonists.

The ninja clash with Ronin, who uses the Forge of Fire to empower the Golem with Fire. Destroying the mech, the ninja discover the Forge of Fire's energy being depleted as a result, and Ronin recreates the Golem, summoning the power of Ice this time. Ultimately, the ninja defeat the Golem's Ice and Lightning forms, depleting two of the Forges and leaving only the Forge of Earth to power the Primal Fulcrum. Using the Tornado of Creation, they shatter Ronin's weakened elemental Golem and destroy the Forge of Earth, enraging him.

With his plans squandered, Ronin calls R.E.X. and escapes on it, only for a massive ethereal arm to reach out for him. Terrified, Ronin narrowly escapes its grasp, even as the Cursed Realm portal begins to collapse, sucking the arm back inside. Gloating over his narrow escape, Ronin flies off, leaving the ninja to be destroyed in the collapse of the Ethereal Divide.

Combining their powers, the ninja destroy the Primal Fulcrum, the resulting explosion closing the portal to the Cursed Realm and scattering the Obsidian Weapons. As a result, the Ethereal Divide falls apart, throwing the ninja back into Ninjago and destroying the Obsidian Weapons left behind. Even as they reconcile over their survival and victory, Kai realizes, to his amusement, that Jay has lost his pants in the process.

And Lloyd also has his variants:

* Young
* Tournament
* ZX
* Elemental
* Techno
* Gold Ninja
* Jungle

### The LEGO Ninjago Movie: The Video Game

In The LEGO Ninjago Movie: The Video Game, Lloyd appears as the protagonist and his variants:

* Ninja
* Unmasked
* Casual
* ZX
* Gold Ninja

## Trivia

* Lloyd was the first character to have his full name spoken in the series, as Wu referred to him as "Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon" in "Never Trust a Snake." Lloyd was called by his full name once more in "Endings," this time by the First Spinjitzu Master. It was also later stated in *The Splinter in the Blind Man's Eye* and "Ninjago City vs. Ninja."
* He is right-handed.
* Lloyd's role as a hero is foreshadowed by the small green "5" on the black shirt he wears in his early appearances. The color of the "5" refers to his destiny as the Green Ninja, while the number itself refers to how he will be the fifth member of the ninja team.
* Before he grew older, the sleeves of his ZX gi were slightly rolled up around his wrists and his pants wrinkled around his heels, indicating the suit was too large for him at the time.
	+ This could perhaps have been foreshadowing his hastened aging in "Child's Play."
* Initially, Lloyd is a mediocre pilot, as seen when he had to fly the *Destiny's Bounty* in "All of Nothing" and "The Rise of the Great Devourer." He seems to have improved following his training as the Green Ninja, as he can control the Ultra Dragon and his own Energy Dragons with ease.
* Lloyd was kicked out of Darkley's Boarding School foreshadowing the fact that he was perhaps never cut out to be a dark mastermind and hinting at his heroic role in the future.
* One reason Lloyd was aged up in the episode "Child's Play" was because the product designers wanted to have him on a spinner. However, it's unknown why this was the case when Chokun, another character with short legs, had a spinner.
* Lloyd is the official leader of the ninja, succeeding Wu, who led the team before Lloyd's arrival.
	+ He most likely took on the role of leader sometime during or after Rebooted.

* In Tommy Andreasen's opinion, Wu and Misako have been in a romantic relationship since the Second Serpentine War. He has also stated Lloyd most likely would approve of the relationship, as "He was left a long time without a family, and he appreciates what he has and honors lost.
* He is one of the only mortals to be sent to the Cursed Realm without being cursed himself, and he is the only person to have returned alive.
	+ The other is Clouse, though he was reduced to a ghost when he escaped.
* He has Oni and Dragon blood like his father, uncle, and grandfather.
* The original four ninja's Elemental Powers are dependent on Lloyd. Meaning that when Lloyd loses his Elemental Power, the other ninja do too. This may be because he shares his Golden Powers with them. However, Tommy Andreasen said that it is possible that as of Sons of Garmadon, this is no longer the case because Lloyd is getting older and his powers are getting stronger and more independent, and that is why after losing his powers in Sons of Garmadon, the other ninja's powers are still working.
* Tommy Andreasen stated that at this point (after dispersing his Golden Powers), Lloyd is around 20% more powerful than the other ninja.
* Lloyd is the first and only one of Wu's students to achieve the rank of master.
	+ Lloyd has been referred to as "Master Lloyd" in "Scavengers," "Lost in Time," "The Mask of Deception," "Green Destiny," "The Maze of the Red Dragon," and "The Merge: Part 2." He was also called this by Arcturus in "The Corridor of Elders" despite not officially having the title at that time.
	+ Lloyd is called "Master Garmadon" by Mystake in "Two Lies, One Truth," the title his father had when he was good (as of the change from "Sensei" to "Master").
* He is one of the five current Elemental Masters to have a known last name: the others being Jay, Griffin, Jacob, and Skylor.
* He is the only Elemental Master who has a known middle name.
* Both Lloyd and Garmadon have been possessed by a villain at some point (with Lloyd being possessed by Morro and Garmadon being possessed by the Overlord).
* Lloyd is the only one of the ninja to meet the First Spinjitzu Master.
	+ However, he comes to believe that it was merely a dream and forgets about it right after.
* His greatest fear is becoming like his father, shown in the Mirror of Dread.
	+ Ironically, becoming like his father was originally his greatest dream.
* By unleashing most of the Serpentine tribes and Pythor, who subsequently reawakened the Great Devourer in Rise of the Snakes, Lloyd provoked most events of the series except for the villains' resurrection in "Day of the Departed," the return of the Time Twins, and the events of Season 10 onward.
	+ By the destruction caused by the Great Devourer in Season 1, Harumi begun to plot against the ninja, which led to the events of Seasons 8 and 9.
	+ The Great Devourer's venom led to the Stone Army being reawakened in Season 2.
	+ As Lloyd unwillingly gave away his Golden Power to the Overlord in Season 3, and then giving the rest to the four ninja, the Overlord had his Nindroids go to space for the Golden Weapons in order to become the Golden Master. This ultimately led Zane to sacrifice himself to save Ninjago.
	+ By Zane ending up on Chen's Island thanks to Ronin, the ninja had to participate in the Tournament of Elements to save him in Season 4.
	+ By going alone to the Ninjago Museum of History ultimately led to him being possessed by Morro in Season 5, which as a result, caused the Ghost Warriors to be unleashed, and subsequently, the Preeminent.
	+ Because Nya flooded the Preeminent using her True Potential, not only did it lead to the death of all of the Cursed Realm's inhabitants, it led to Clouse escaping the realm and unleashing Nadakhan, and as a result of Djinjago's destruction, it led Nadakhan to exact revenge on the ninja in Season 6. It also led to Harumi to form the Sons of Garmadon to resurrect Garmadon in Season 8.
	+ Finally, it led to the four original ninja and young Wu ending up in the Realm of Oni and Dragons at the end of Season 8 and throughout Season 9.
* Lloyd's very existence was caused by The Overlord, as it was The Overlord's influence through the Great Devourer that convinced Garmadon to sign his name on Wu's letter to Misako, thus causing Misako to choose Garmadon.
* He did not know what a VCR is up until "Would You Like to Enter Prime Empire?"
* He was likely around 5 years old when Misako dropped him off at Darkley's.
* Lloyd has injured two of his limbs throughout the series. In "Return of the Overlord," he twisted his ankle, and in "Dead Man's Squall," he broke or dislocated his arm.
* There are a few times in Hunted when Lloyd used Master Garmadon's teachings against the resurrected Lord Garmadon.
	+ In "Spellbound," Garmadon told Lloyd that "Chen grows strong by taking from others. But real power does the opposite. It empowers those around you. Like the way you've empowered me." Lloyd used a similar sentiment against Garmadon in "Radio Free Ninjago," where he said that "fighting me may make you feel powerful, but you're about to see what real power is."
	+ In "Green Destiny," Garmadon lost his power when Lloyd defeated him by indirectly fighting, as Garmadon is fueled by combat. This is a reference to when Garmadon taught his son the Art of the Silent Fist in the episode of the same name from Rebooted.
* In "The Mask of Deception," Lloyd briefly watched Harumi in her room, which goes against "Only One Can Remain," in which Kai and Jay spied on Skylor in her room and Lloyd called it an invasion of privacy.
* Lloyd is currently the only character who controls the element of Energy from his own.
* In his original Character Card and in a video on LEGO's YouTube channel, Lloyd's dominant element is listed as Lightning, though according to Tommy Andreasen, this is not canon to the TV series. However, Lloyd was shown using the Nunchucks of Lightning in Zane's dream in "Never Trust a Snake," and the Golden Weapons made green lightning when they revealed that he was the Green Ninja.
	+ This supposed connection parallels Lord Garmadon, Lloyd's father, whose Destruction is represented as lightning on the cards, a strike of lightning appeared when he was banished to the Underworld, and was shown to be able to generate lightning in "The Green Ninja."
* Lloyd's Rebooted description may be a reference to the supplementary comic *Night of the Nindroids*, in which Lloyd really does throw a ball through a tree trunk.
* Lloyd always appears with the Oni Mask of Hatred in the Sons of Garmadon sets.
	+ However, he does not appear in 5005257 NINJAGO Minifigure Collection, which features Harumi with the Oni Mask of Hatred, though the mask has different printing in that set.
* Lloyd's green eyes from Sons of Garmadon onward are connected to his powers, as his eyes become black when he loses them. This was originally hinted at in the first chapter of the non-canon novel, *Way of the Departed*, where Cole says "Lloyd’s eyes have started changing after Master Wu went missing. He trains alone so intensely, and he is really connecting with his powers ... whatever it is."
	+ Tommy Andreasen also said, "Strange things happen to your body when you hit puberty. I guess that’s especially true for an Elemental Master."
* Lloyd has blond hair while his parents have brown hair, which is a common real-life phenomenon. Due to recessive genes, children can inherit hair colors from their grandparents, and Wu also being blond would mean the gene is at least on Lloyd's paternal side. According to Tommy Andreasen, however, this isn't meant to be thought hard about considering the show's many fantasy elements.
* Similar to Kai and P.I.X.A.L., Lloyd has had his appearance used in non-*Ninjago* sets.
	+ Lloyd's ZX appearance is used for his *The LEGO Movie* counterpart in 70815 Super Secret Police Dropship.
* The Lloyd t-shirt torso from 40429 Ninjago World was later featured in 60291 Family House, a non-*Ninjago* set.
* When asked if, despite his change in appearance, Lloyd would eventually look like his older self seen in Skybound when he became older, Tommy Andreasen said, "You will have to wait and see."
* In "Unsinkable," Lloyd is revealed to like mint-flavored candy. It also reveals that Lloyd's love of candy from "Rise of the Snakes" still exists.
* According to the *Character Encyclopedia New Edition*, Lloyd's camouflage in The Island is made of mud and plants.
* According to Tommy Andreasen, Lloyd is the only one from the bloodline of the First Spinjitzu Master to not be seen or mentioned to have both Oni and dragon powers because he is the only one in the continued bloodline, Garmadon and Wu have Oni and dragon in them, Lloyd has human too.
* According to Mark Oliver in an interview with Brent Miller, if Lloyd had a sister, he would name her Vulgaria.
* When asked whether Lloyd has reached his full potential, Andreasen stated that "Lloyd’s potential is … complicated."
* Lloyd is comparable to Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, as both start out in the series as naive and immature, but develop over the course of their respective journeys (becoming a ninja for Lloyd and becoming a Jedi for Luke) and are well skilled with bladed weapons and supernatural powers by the end of their on-screen adventures. Both share similar physical traits, and both also share fathers who were corrupted by evil, but both of them redeemed themselves in the end, the only difference being that Garmadon lived while Darth Vader ultimately sacrificed himself to save his son as his form of redemption.
	+ Lloyd is also comparable to Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto, both start of as mischievous and bratty kid who were both raised without any parents who want to be like their fathers (Minato Namikaze for Naruto and Garmadon for Lloyd), who both are born from powerful families (the Uzumaki clan for Naruto and the First Spinjitzu Master's lineage for Lloyd) who later developed over time to become powerful ninjas destined to protect their respective homes from powerful evil forces (the Overlord for Lloyd and Kaguya Otsutsuki for Naruto). The only difference is that Lloyd stared off wanting to be evil and didn't want to be a ninja while Naruto wasn't evil and wanted to be the Hokage (the strongest ninja).
* Lloyd often picks his nose and eats the boogers. The worm uses present tense, and it is never denied he still does it.

## External links

* Lloyd Garmadon on Brickipedia.
* Lloyd Garmadon on Ninjago Wiki.
* Lloyd Garmadon on Wikipedia.