Seabound

*“That's how the cookie crumbles”*

— Nya's last words to pass onto her mother

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## Title Card

***Seabound*** is the fourteenth season and the eighteenth installment in the *LEGO Ninjago* series. It was originally released on November 19th, 2021. Nya is the focus character of this season, and King Kalmaar is the main antagonist. The Maaray Guards serve as the villainous faction.

It is the fifth installment in the Book of Elements arc. This season encompasses the **Water Chapter**, and the villainous faction retellings are the Sky Pirates in the Maaray Guards. Nya is the focus character, as this season goes into detail with her relationship with her mother and the history of the Elemental Power of Water. The collectible item for this season is the Wave Amulet.

In April 2021, a series of shorts titled *Ninjago: Reimagined* was released prior to this season. They are a collection of fun "what if" episodes detailing alternate story lines based on the Ninjago world. Only one of the episodes is canon, that being *Golden Hour*, a special 11th episode of *The Hands of Time*.

It is preceded by *The Island* and followed by *Crystalized.*

## Plot Summary

When Nya’s elemental water powers are mysteriously interrupted, the ninja go on a journey to the deepest part of the Endless Sea. But will they find what they’re looking for?

If you’re ready for the challenge, just hop on board their newly designed underwater ship, the Hydro-Bounty and let’s get this mission started! Along with Nya’s mom, Maya, P.I.X.A.L., and her fellow ninja, Jay, Zane and Lloyd, you’ll join Nya in a battle against the elements and the evil Prince Kalmaar, the Prince of Merlopia. That’s when things really get tricky. He has an evil plan to awaken an ancient sea-serpent, Wojira. Psst spoiler alert! This does NOT look good for NINJAGO City!

Just like her mother before her, Nya is the Master of Water, but without the full force of her powers, how will she overcome Prince Kalmaar and save NINJAGO from his evil plan? Join the crew on their epic Seabound adventure to find out. All it takes is some courage, sacrifice and a little help from your friends and family.

## Characters

* Antonia - Brynna Drummond
* Benthomaar - Cole Howard
* Cecil Putnam - Paul Dobson
* Clutch Powers - Ian James Corlett
* Cole - Kirby Morrow
* Dareth - Alan Marriott
* Gayle Gossip - Kelly Sheridan
* Glutinous - Sam Vincent
* Gripe - Brian Drummond
* Hailmar - Brian Drummond
* Jay - Michael Adamthwaite
* Kai - Vincent Tong
* Kalmaar - Giles Panton
* Lloyd Garmadon - Sam Vincent
* Maaray Guards - Michael Adamthwaite, Brent Miller
* Mammatus - Paul Dobson
* Maya - Jillian Michaels
* Misako - Kathleen Barr
* Miss Demeanor - Erin Mathews
* Nelson - David Raynolds
* Nya - Kelly Metzger
* P.I.X.A.L. - Jennifer Hayward
* PoulErik - Brian Drummond, Vincent Tong
* Ray - Vincent Tong
* Smythe - Michael Adamthwaite
* Trimaar - Ron Halder
* Vania - Sabrina Pitre
* Wu - Paul Dobson
* Zane - Brent Miller

## Battles

* Ninja vs. Miss Demeanor
* Zane & P.I.X.A.L. vs. Octopus
* Ninja vs. Maaray Guards
* Maya & Nya vs. Ripper Sharks
* Kalmaar vs. Trimaar
* Ninja & Maya vs. Kalmaar & the Maaray Guards
* Ninja & Maya vs. Ripper Sharks
* Wu vs. Kalmaar & Maaray Guards
* Kai vs. Kalmaar
* Ninja vs. Kalmaar & Maaray Guards
* Nelson & Antonia vs. Kalmaar
* Wu, Cole, Kai, & Ray vs. Kalmaar
* Wojira vs. Ninjago City
* Ninja & Benthomaar vs. Maaray Guards
* Jay vs. Kalmaar
* Benthomaar vs. Kalmaar
* Endless Ocean Nya vs. Kalmaar
* Endless Ocean Nya vs. Wojira

## Locations Visited

* Ninjago
	+ Mountain of Height
		- Monastery of Spinjitzu
	+ Ninjago City
		- Explorer's Club
		- Ninjago City Police Station
		- Borg Tower
		- Ninjago Harbor
	+ Endless Sea
		- Island of the Keepers
		- The Keeper's Village
		- Tartarus Trench
			* The Graveyard of Ships
			* Temple of Wojira
			* Kingdom of Merlopia
	+ Shintaro Mountain
		- Kingdom of Shintaro

## Sets

Nya was the mascot ninja and the Amulets of Wojira are the collectible items of the season. The set background was based on the Endless Sea.

* 71750 Lloyd's Hydro Mech
* 71752 Ninja Sub Speeder
* 71754 Water Dragon
* 71755 Temple of the Endless Sea
* 71756 Hydro Bounty

### *Legacy: Reimagined* sets

Also known as **Legacy 4** and **Legacy 5** sets, some of the models are represented in the *Reimagined* shorts as well as in *Seabound.*

#### *Legacy 4*

* 71735 Tournament of Elements
* 71736 Boulder Blaster
* 71737 X-1 Ninja Charger
* 71738 Zane's Titan Mech Battle
* 71740 Jay's Electro Mech
* 71741 Ninjago City Gardens
* 71742 Overlord Dragon

#### *Legacy 5*

* 71734 Kai's Blade Cycle
* 71739 Ultra Sonic Raider
* 71749 Final Flight of Destiny's Bounty
* 71753 Fire Dragon Attack

## Notes

* This is the final installment to feature voice work from Cole's late actor, Kirby Morrow. He passed away on November 18th, 2020.
* Together with *The Island*, this season is marketed from broadcasters as **Season 3** of the new *LEGO Ninjago* series, it is referred to as "**The Abyss and the Flood**."
* The title cards for this season depict scenes of that episode having sunk to the bottom of the sea, with the episode title placed above it.
* This season's name, Seabound, sounds very similar to the name of Season 6, Skybound. Nya has a major role in both seasons.
	+ Interestingly, the first episode of this season came exactly 100 episodes after the final episode of Skybound.
* This is the first season for Lloyd to not use his powers besides Spinjitzu since his debut in Rise of the Snakes.
	+ Additionally, this is the first season for Cole to not use his Earth Punch since its debut in "Day of the Departed."
* According to Tommy Andreasen:
	+ The reason Cole has a smaller role in this season is that "Cole just had a season dedicated to him, so [they] thought it was fair to focus elsewhere. Seabound was written and recorded before Kirby Morrow's untimely passing."
	+ "There actually exists a 44-minute seamless edit of the last 4 episodes of 'Ninjago: Seabound' … [they] call it 'The Flood'."
* Most of the season was produced with the crew members working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
	+ Because of this some animation and voice lines were re-used.
* In a promotional GIF (and in-season), WildBrain uses stances and forms for waterbending seen in *Avatar: The Last Airbender*.
	+ Jay had also used a very similar motion to those used in *Avatar* for lightning-bending a couple times in Sons of Garmadon.
* This season has a total of 5 spin-off episodes released alongside it.

* Amount of times a different character reads a title card:
	+ **Nya**: 3
	+ **Maya**: 3
	+ **Benthomaar**: 2
	+ **Kalmaar**: 2
	+ **Wu**: 2
	+ **P.I.X.A.L.**: 1
	+ **Mammatus**: 1
	+ **Kai**: 1
	+ **Jay**: 1

## Continuity

* Unagami and Okino from Season 12 make their reappearance in this season.
* The Teapot of Tyrahn returns in this season after being absent in *The Island*. This continues the trend of the teapot appearing in almost every installment since Season 11.
	+ The teapot is seen on display at the Explorer's Club headquarters, implying that after Clutch Powers found it in the Desert of Doom, and the Ninja realized it was missing, he put it on display. At the end of the episode that it appears in, it is flung out of the building when Wojira crashes into it.
* Kai & Nya's parents, Ray & Maya, appear in this season for the first time since their introduction in *The Hands of Time*. It is implied through words of the writers off-screen that the married couple went on a well-deserved vacation after being freed from the clutches of Krux. Krux himself is also mentioned for the first time in the first episode after being mentioned previously in Season 8.
* This season reveals massive amounts of lore that dates back to before the beginnings of Ninjago, which had never been previously explored.
	+ Previously, it was known that the Golden Peaks existed before "Ninjago," as it is traditionally known, and the First Spinjitzu Master used the molten gold in the mountain to form the Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu to create the landmass that would become Ninjago and the Dark Island.
	+ It is revealed in this season that the realm that Ninjago is in existed long before the First Spinjitzu Master's arrival and was a planet of mostly ocean and storms ruled by Wojira. The Merlopians were the primary sentient life forms on the planet.
		- The First Spinijtzu Master commanded all of the Ninjagian Elemental Powers except for Water and Wind, which belonged to Wojira. In order to create a peaceful world, the First Spinjitzu Master created the Keepers and enlisted the help of the Merlopians to defeat Wojira and calm the seas. With their help, he pries the Storm and Wave Amulets off of Wojira which plunges her into a deep sleep. He gives the Storm Amulet to the Keepers to protect, and the Wave Amulet to the Merlopians.
		- This means that Wojira and the Merlopians predate the existence of "Ninjago" itself. The creation of Ninjago was originally the beginning of the timeline.
			* Because the First Spinjitzu Master commanded all the Elements in Ninjago except for Water and Wind, it is possible that this is why those two Elements were left out of Clouse's spell to turn everyone into an Anacondrai.
	+ The First Master of Water is revealed to be a Merlopian named Nyad. This makes Maya, Kai, & Nya descendants of Merlopians.
		- Maya knew about her Merlopian ancestry, and she named Nya after Nyad.
* In the pilot episode, the villain Miss Demeanor is seen attempting to steal mass amounts of Vengestone for some unknown reason. This is the second instance of mass amounts of Vengestone being exported to some mysterious place, after the Skull Sorcerer reveals that he has been getting paid by a "buyer" to mine the Vengestone in the dungeons of Shintaro.
	+ In *Crystalized* it is revealed that the Vengestone buyer is Harumi.
* At the end of the season, Nya becomes one with the Endless Sea, *literally* becoming Water. She leaves the Ninja team as she is called to the sea.
	+ The Ninja all say their goodbyes, and several previous characters in the series pay their respects to her, making it out like she was killed.
	+ It was implied that she could somehow come back, as it is said that the First Master of Water, Nyad, also became one with the sea, but since Nya is her descendant, she had to come back somehow to have children. This is confirmed in the next season when her powers are taken from her by Aspheera's staff.
	+ This new form that Nya takes is referred to as "NRG Nya" in the sets. This adds to the collection of NRG Ninja (or True Potential Ninja) that was originally started in Season 1, when each Ninja became one with their Elemental Power.
* Kai neglects to join Nya, Lloyd, Jay, & Zane on their mission underwater. The reasons given are that Wu needed to study the current and previous Masters of Fire, but it could also be a nod to the fact that Kai is afraid of water, as revealed in *Possession*.
* One of the ice-cream flavors that the Dairy Dragon apparently sells is called "Bananakhan," named after Nadakhan the Djinn.
	+ Since the events of *Skybound* were erased from the timeline, those events must have become public knowledge due to Jay and Nya telling everyone.
* Kalmaar references the Oni, revealing the fact that the initial Oni invasion on Ninjago is common knowledge in Merlopian history.
	+ This also marks the first time the Oni are mentioned since their debut.
	+ He also mentions the Vermillion, but it is unknown how he knew about that species of Serpentine.
* A Ninjago City tour bus points out Borg Tower to tourists, telling them it was the site of many battles including one with Garmadon (referencing the events of *Hunted*,) and with Unagami (referencing the events of *Prime Empire*.)
	+ Battles they failed to mention include the two with the Overlord, which took place in that same spot.
* Patty Keys returns for the first time since Season 2.