| “ | Only one can remain. | „ |
| ~ Chen using the Anacondrai slogan for his own twisted purposes - his most famous quote. |
| “ | When my followers become Anacondrai, Ninjago will be ruled by those who deserve it, the most powerful! | „ |
| ~ Chen to Lloyd. |
| “ | After I defeat your little green friend and take his powers, I will have all the Elements I need to conjure a spell that will transform me and my worshippers into Anacondrai. With you and your friends gone, nothing will stop me. | „ |
| ~ Chen to Kai. |
Master Chen is a major antagonist in the animated series LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, serving as the main antagonist of Season 4: Tournament of Elements and a supporting antagonist in the TV special Day of the Departed.
He is the leader of the Anacondrai Cultists and a master of deception who was responsible for the Serpentine War and training Lord Garmadon. After he was exiled to an island for treason, Chen worked on a plan to steal the powers of the Elemental Masters and perform a spell that would turn him and his followers into Anacondrai. He is also Kai's first arch-nemesis.
In the series, he is voiced by Ian James Corlett, who also voiced Skales and Clancee in the same series. In LEGO Dimensions, he was voiced by William Salyers.
Biography[]
Past[]
When he was young, Chen grew up in vain when he was told he would amount to nothing, compared to the Elemental Masters, who were born with natural abilities.
Sometime long ago, Chen served as a mentor to Garmadon (who still had evil in his blood due to being bitten by the Great Devourer as a kid) and Clouse. One day, when Garmadon and Clouse were sparring, he made a wager that who ever won would become his right-hand and gain Lordship, so Garmadon cheated and won regardless, and was given the title "Lord Garmadon." Later, Garmadon and Chen were discussing the rivalry between humanity and Serpentine, with Garmadon saying that there could be a truce. But Chen told him to "Never Trust a Snake!". Chen then gave Garmadon a love letter written by Wu which was for Misako. Chen convinced Garmadon to change the letter to make it seem it came from him.
Although Chen successfully turned humanity and the Serpentine against each other, after the Serpentine were sealed away in their tombs, Chen and Clause were discovered and permanently exiled to an abandoned jungle island. How long he spent on the island is unknown but he was not idle; amassing a cult of loyal followers and creating a staff capable of absorbing all of the Elemental Powers to allow him to turn himself and his followers into Anacondrai to conquer Ninjago. He also opened a chain of noodle restaurants named Mr. Chen's Noodle House which he operated as legitimate businesses where the Ninja often frequented.
Season 4: Tournament of Elements[]
A year after the destruction of the Golden Master and Zane's death, Chen sends messages to all of the descendants of the Elemental Masters promising a special reward with the one he sends to the Ninja promising to give them Zane if they win. As he starts the Tournament of Elements, Chen's lieutenant Clouse always gives him the offer to first take care of the Ninja, as Chen refuses to mess up the tournament. When he figures out the Ninja and the Elemental Masters start working together, he and Clouse decide to do whatever it takes to break their alliance and their friendship with the Elemental Masters. When Chen calls Lloyd a cheater and conspirator in front of all Elemental Masters, they realize that he is one, and Clouse suggests him to let them go, so they can begin their plans. Chen then tells the Elemental Masters about the Staff of Elements just in order to further destroy their alliance with the Ninja.
When Lloyd mentions the spell of transforming into Anacondrai that Clouse is going to cast, Clouse pretends to be innocent, which makes the alliance get broken even more. After Nya sneaks into the island and steals Clouse's spellbook in the disguise of a kabuki servant, Chen is informed by Clouse about someone stealing the book, and working as a kabuki servant. Chen orders a search for the intruder across the island, and when Nya is found out to be the spy, Clouse runs after her in an attempt to capture her. Chen then discovers from his daughter Skylor about Cole and Zane trying to escape, and becomes proud of her; getting the idea from Clouse to continue the tournament and hunt Nya, and to track her down so that he can capture her. Clouse suggests him to force Skylor fight Kai, and when he listens to Clouse, Skylor ends up victorious and imprisons Kai for Chen. Chen then steals all the elemental powers, gets Kai (who was pretending to work for him and Clouse) against Lloyd and almost unleashes the spell, until Kai breaks the staff with Skylor's help. Chen then nabs his daughter and pretends to apologize to her but Clouse's idea is foiled when Chen stupidly tells her about his plot. Then, Skylor understands that Chen is manipulating her, and she escapes her imprisonment and rides a hover, then she flies away on it. Chen tries to speed up to her hover, just so he can recapture her. Chen. As Clouse and Chen chase her on the Condrai Copter, Clouse gets distracted by Garmadon, and gets banished into the Cursed Realm after he opens a portal to the realm itself in a fight with his arch-rival, thus leaving Chen without his right-hand man.
As soon as Kapau and Chope read the spell from Clouse's spellbook, he and his army (with the exception of Clouse, who was banished), Skylor, and Garmadon turn into fake Anacondrai. Then, Chen sends his Anacondrai minions to find Pythor, so that they can use his essence to ensure that the transformation spell is permanent. When Chen and his army cross the border of the Corridor of Elders, Pythor decides to affiliate himself with the Ninja and aid them by releasing the spirits of the Anacondrai Generals from the Cursed Realm. Garmadon decides to banishes himself, just so he will be able to defeat Chen with the help of the spirits of Arcturus and his fellow generals. After Garmadon is banished, Arcturus and his comrades are released and Chen is cursed alongside his goons, getting surprised because his plot didn't involve being cursed. On the way into the portal, he regrets his actions towards Skylor, but doesn't truly redeem himself, and in a desperate plea, he yells at Skylor to save him only to be sucked into the Cursed Realm.
Season 5: Possession[]
Master Chen appears imprisoned by The Preeminent in the Cursed Realm (her stomach), but when he sees Lloyd running past him, he tells Clouse that he saw him. However, Clouse, obsessed with his own escape, states he is seeing things again. Chen, along with the Anacondrai Cultists (except for Clouse, who escapes) and Garmadon, later perish in the Cursed Realm's destruction.
"Day of the Departed"[]
Master Chen is later resurrected from his statue in the Ninjago Museum by Sensei Yang , and tries to kill Kai and Nya. However, he is later killed by the latter, and sent back to the Departed Realm.
Appearance[]
Chen donned an Anacondrai skull on top of his head, which had skeleton rims and a big purple snake wrapped around its head. He had thick sideburns, a mustache-goatee, heavy eyebrows, and black hair overall, but in his early years it appeared to be red. He was dressed in dark crimson robes with black and golden trim and purple rims around the midlines.
Personality[]
Chen comes off as pitiful, ruthless, pretentious, self-centered, cheating, egotistical, oppressive, and sadistic. He believes the very concept of peace to be mundane and the idea of war more enticing, showing his warmongering tendencies. Having been told that he would amount to nothing special when growing up, he would start to believe that without power he is worthless, suggesting a fundamental inferiority complex. Since then, he would become obsessed with gaining as much power as he could, in addition to adopting a 'survival-of-the-fittest' mindset when he began to hold the belief that Ninjago deserves to be ruled by the most powerful.
He is also a master of manipulation and deception, most notably when he managed to orchestrate the First Serpentine War by turning the Human race and the Serpentine against one another by lying to one side so that the other will attack them first. Despite these traits, he tends to behave in an immature and temperamental manner (characteristics he had gained in his exile following the war), as he is shown to constantly throw tantrums when things don't go his way, such as during the Thunderblade event when Lloyd won and he was exposed as the cheater or during the Battle at the Corridor of Elders where he saw the rebuilt Destiny's Bounty arrive with the tide being turned against him. He is extremely eccentric, which is evident by when he plays with his throne's button features throughout the Tournament of Elements.
Additionally, he is shown to be a coward, which is evidenced by when he was fleeing for his life when the spirits of the Anacondrai Generals were released from the Cursed Realm and started banishing his army to the latter, and he even expected his daughter Skylor to save him, but remained oblivious to the fact he stole her elemental power for his own selfish gain and kidnapped her for betraying him, showing his self-entitlement and hypocrisy.
He even is exhibited to be culturally insensitive and a heartless defiler, as he used the symbolism of the Anacondrai, even after betraying both human and Serpentine by igniting the war that drove both sides to battle each other almost to the point of near-extinction, and espoused their ideology of "only one can remain", adding insult to injury. He appears to be extremely shameless and immodest in this sacrilege, as he begged the spirits of the Anacondrai generals to spare him even though he was the one who instigated both wars, which caused them to be banished to the Cursed Realm, and then used stolen elemental powers to transform himself and his followers into pseudo-Anacondrai, even going as far as to claim himself to be on the same side as them.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Previous Elemental Master of Amber - wife
- Skylor - daughter
Allies[]
- Anacondrai Cultists - subordinates
- Anacondrai serpent †
- Mogra
- Time Twins - former enemies
- The Mechanic - former employee
- Yang †
- Departed Villains
Enemies[]
- Garmadon - former student and former prisoner
- Elemental Alliance
- Ray
- Maya
- Previous Elemental Master of Ice †
- Previous Elemental Master of Lightning
- Cole's grandfather - temporary ally
- Previous Elemental Master of Shadow
- Previous Elemental Master of Gravity
- Previous Elemental Master of Sound
- Unknown Elemental Master
- Sqiffy - former employee
- Bucko - former employee
- Ninja
- Lloyd Garmadon - former prisoner
- Kai - archenemy, temporary ally and attempted victim
- Jay Walker - former prisoner
- Cole - former prisoner and accidental resurrector
- Zane - former prisoner
- Nya - former prisoner, indirect killer and attempted victim
- Elemental Masters
- Karlof - former prisoner
- Griffin Turner - former prisoner
- Neuro - former prisoner
- Shade - former prisoner
- Bolobo - former prisoner
- Gravis - former prisoner
- Ash - former prisoner
- Mr. Pale - former prisoner
- Tox - former prisoner
- Jacob Pevsner - former prisoner
- Chamille - former prisoner
- Serpentine
- Soto
- Wu
- Misako
Quotes[]
| “ | Welcome to the Tournament of Elements! | „ |
| ~ Master Chen at the opening ceremony. |
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Chen is the only known character to wield most of the Elemental Powers in all of Ninjago, although this was only done with the Staff of Elements.
External Links[]
- Master Chen on the Ninjago Wiki.
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Skulkin Serpentine Destiny's Bounty Pirates Stone Army Nindroid Army Anacondrai Cultists Ghost Warriors Yang's Students Sky Pirates Shadow Army Departed Villains Sons of Garmadon Dragon Hunters Oni Blizzard Samurai Unagami's Army Re-Awakened Kryptarium Inmates Merlopians Crystal Army Imperians Administration Agents Wolf Clan Shark Army Snake Army Red Crows Others See Also | ||
