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"I am the ultimate Spinjitzu master!"

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Pilot

• The Ninjas pulling off Spinjitzu for the first time.
• Also, the Ninja performing the Tornado of Creation for the first time.

Season 1: Rise of the Snakes

• In "Snakebit", while the other three Ninja jump out of the way from the wrecking ball, Jay instead jumps ON the wrecking ball, backflips in mid-air, and lands on the crane and knocks out the Fangpyre controlling it.
• Four words: Ninjas vs. Great Devourer.
• Zane unlocking his true potential.
  Zane: Watch out, Pythor. We're coming to get you.
• How about Kai unlocking his potential? Having to choose between saving Lloyd or retrieving the second to last Fang Blade, flying out of an erupting volcano in a fireball cradling an unconscious Lloyd, and falling unconscious himself afterwards. Plus he was the one most desperate to unlock his potential.
• While we're at it, Jay and Cole unlocking their true potential counts. Jay saved him and Nya by stopping a full-speed roller coaster and Cole was able to save himself and his father from heavy rubble.
• The Fangpyres (and by extension, the Serpentine) get one in "Rise of the Great Devourer" by zombifying a huge bendy bus and turning it into what Sensi Wu could only describe as "a moving fortress" that took an entire day for the whole team to kill, even with the help of Samurai!Nya. And that's just the Pre-Final Boss of the season!
• Nya is able to defeat all of the ninjas and create an alter ego called Samurai X by herself which is pretty amazing.
• The battle against the Serpentine in "All Of Nothing". Skeletons return.
• Garmadon using the combined power of the Golden Weapons to destroy the Great Devourer.
  Garmadon: "YOU ARE THE REASON EVIL RUNS THROUGH MY BLOOD! You bit me once, now feel what it's like to be bitten back!"

Season 2: Legacy of the Green Ninja

• A minor moment in "Darkness Shall Rise", but despite knowing he needs to get the money from his pizza job and being on thin ice, Jay chooses to make a detour to stop some thugs from robbing a woman in an alley, swiftly taking them out with his moped.
• The Ninja's fight with the pirates in the second episode of Season 2. Even Lloyd gets in some good moves and manages to use Spinjitzu for the first time as well. And while he recklessly uses his elemental powers and gets the Ninja in a rough spot, Nya comes in as Samurai X, effortlessly taking out the pirates.
  Jay: Who wins between pirates and ninja? It's Samurai!
• In "Double Trouble" Jay's evil clones taunts Jay that he kissed Nya. In response, Jay brutally beats up his evil self into oblivion.
• Lloyd grabbing his mother and leaps out of the way in slow motion just as the Stone Warrior is about to kill them.
  • Also doubles as a Heartwarming Moment considering how he felt towards her earlier.
• From "The Island of Darkness", we have the ninja regaining their powers, plus gaining new outfits and weapons, and the fight scene that follows.
• The penultimate episode has Evil Nya completely wiping the floor with all of the Ninja. Also, it has significant Funny elements mixed in.
• From "The Ultimate Spinjitzu Master", Lloyd finally becomes the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master, which gives him the power to utterly destroy the Overlord and cure his father in the process.
  • The fight as a whole is awesome. This line, in particular, stands out:
    Overlord: You can't defeat me. Where there is light, there will always be shadow!
    Lloyd: Unless my light is bright enough! (The Golden Dragon tackles the Overlord)
  • Don't forget the fact that Lloyd creates a golden dragon made out of light!

Season 3: Rebooted

• The Techno Blades' ability to hack the evil machines and (in some cases) transform them is pretty awesome.
• Wu's impressive Batman Gambit in "The Surge" to get Lloyd and the Techno Blades out of New Ninjago City and the Overlord's clutches. First, he gets the Overlord's attention by carrying the blades in a blanket while running across several rooftops, allowing Lloyd and the ninja to escape. Then Wu knocks out a nearby security camera before using floating traffic lights to jump between buildings, secretly passing off the Techno Blades to Kai in his jet before the Overlord's forces catch up to him, all at the cost of Wu getting captured.
• Zane showing throughout Season 3 that while he may be outdated compared to the newer model Nindroids, he's still able to kick tons of ass, as shown by his almost effortless capturing of a brainwashed PIXAL and him punching and kicking his way through several Nindroids to rescue her from Cryptor.
  Zane: (to a brainwashed P.I.X.A.L.) You may call me old, but not slow!
• Zane and PIXAL teaming up in "Blackout" to take on Cryptor and the Nindroids surrounding them, creating a two-person Spinjitzu tornado to defeat them.
• The fact that the graphic novels are written by Greg Farshtey. Yes, he of Bionicle fame.
• Zane pulls an amazing triple cross on the Overlord in the ninth graphic novel. Trying to explain it in mere words would be futile- it's just that confusing. Even in the book itself.
• In Episode 28, we see Garmadon's driving skills. Who knew that a guy as old as he is could jump a car across a chasm?
• From Episode 29, Zane and P.I.X.A.L. fighting the Nindroids together.
• When Pythor returns, he manages to steal the Overlord hard drive and allies with him. Together, they are quickly able to capture Lloyd!
• Dareth telling a shark to back off, and the shark listening!
• The Ninja battling the Overlord in Cyberspace.
• Garmadon breaking his oath of peace. Which leads to this exchange with Pythor:
  Pythor: But your oath! You swore never to fight!
  Garmadon: When you took my son, all bets were off.

Season 4: Tournament of Elements

• In "Versus", after arguing over whom Nya loves more and generally treating each other like crap, Cole and Jay finally put their differences aside, refuse to fight each other in their match, and rebel against Chen. Also, Cole gives the Jadeblade to Jay so he could move on instead.
• Cole pulling an escape attempt in the factory in "Spy For a Spy" was this, especially when you consider he wanted them to throw him in a cell so he can grab the guard's keys.
• Cole, Zane, Jay, and Karlof staging a breakout using their newly-built Roto Jet and using it to save the other Elemental Masters.
  • Hell, the fact that they managed to create a fully-functioning jet (complete with working weapons) out of nothing but noodle machine parts and memorized schematics from Karlof's memory within the span of twenty-four hours is an amazing feat by itself. A-Team, eat your hearts out.
• While it quickly corrupts him, Kai using the Staff of Elements to lay siege to Chen's forces certainly counts. And once the staff is knocked out of his hand, Kai grabs the staff before Chen does and shatters it against the ground. Chen still completes his spell, but if not for Kai destroying the staff the Elemental Masters wouldn't have been able to fight back.
• Garmadon's final battle with Clouse. He's floundering at the edge of a portal, breaks the vine he's holding onto, launches himself across it, uses the vine to grab Clouse to pull him in, and climbs up Clouse to get out of the portal. Your argument is invalid.
• All of the Elemental Masters finally come together as one to take on Chen and his army of fake Anacondrai, forming their own dragons to fly off the island.
  Kai: Chen brought us here so that only one may remain. Well, we are one!
• Zane showing off how much stronger his new body is by effortlessly defeating the Nindroids locked up in Kryptarium Prison.
  Zane: I'm not an outdated relic anymore!
• Arcturus and his generals are freed from what is essentially Hell, and the first thing they do? Send Chen and his army right to where they came from as vengeance for setting their tribe up to be entombed and killed and then insulting their legacy by wearing their remains.
  • What's even more awesome is the badass "The Reason You Suck" Speech Arcturus PERSONALLY delivers Chen, after the guy has the nerve to ask what he did wrong, even as his empire of lies and deceit collapses all around him. Just the VENOM in Arcturus' tone is terrifying in itself, and you can tell Chen was probably soiling his hypothetical pants the whole time.
    Arcturus: YOU WILL NEVER BE ONE OF US, CHEN. BECAUSE YOU ARE A LIAR, A CHEAT, AND AN IMPOSTOR!
• Pythor manages to tame a predator that was trying to kill him into riding him into a WAR ZONE. And he's still TINY, by the way.
  • Likewise, his reason for helping the Ninja? HE'S more Eviler than Thou to all of the other villains and not just some lackey. If anyone else gets in his way, he'll do ANYTHING to ensure they're dead.

Season 5: Possession

• Nya turns out to be the descendant of the Master of Water. Water happens to be a ghost's biggest weakness. Nya just got levels of awesome.
  • She leads the Ninja to invade Stiix to get the Realm Crystal, and her plan is genius. Using the other ninja to lower the enemy numbers and disguise herself as the Green Ninja to get in close to attack Morro, so Lloyd can get the Realm Crystal.
• Kai succeeds in reaching out to Lloyd, stalling Morro enough for the Ninja to claim the Sword of Sanctuary.
• Kai and Zane manage to take out Soul Archer by combining their elements, with Kai's fire melting Zane's ice to drop water onto the ghost.
• Skylor appearing in Curseworld, Part I.
• Ronin repays his enormous debt to Morro. Specifically, he basically dumps his life savings onto the house, and subsequently, Morro, whom the latter is levitating, and is able to give Lloyd enough time to get inside and get to the Realm Crystal.
• Nya destroys HELL. Call it what you want; Cursed Realm, Preeminent, etc., but for all intents and purposes it's Hell. And Nya DESTROYED IT with a single wave.

Season 6: Skybound

• Captain Soto has an offscreen one in season six sealing Nadakhan in the Teapot of Tyrahn, and exiling the rest of the Sky Pirates across the sixteen realms.
• The Ninjas' and Captain Soto's escape from Kryptarium Prison.

Day of the Departed

• Seeing the Ninja being able to contend one-on-one with the previous Big Bads really shows just how much stronger they've gotten; Yes, the villains had the disadvantage of being in extremely fragile mannequin bodies. Even so, it's pretty awesome seeing some, such as Jay, single-handedly trounce Samukai in battle, to the point where the former King of the Underworld has to take Ed and Edna hostage to ensure he wins.
• Cole unlocking his RX power and shattering the reality-splicing, curse-inducing Yin Blade with a PUNCH.

Season 7: The Hands of Time

Season 8: Sons of Garmadon

• "Big Trouble in Little Ninjago":
  • Lloyd's friends have seemingly been killed in front of him by his resurrected father and he's successfully conquered Ninjago, all while Harumi mocks him while inciting him to give in to his grief, this also comes a few minutes after giving him an offer to rule alongside her and Garmadon, does he breaks down in tears? Well, yes, but does he gives in to his hatred and ends up joining her? Hell no, he doesn't. Instead, he tells Harumi that even without his powers or friends he'll never give up and one day will stop her and Garmadon. Just as Harumi is about to kill him, Lloyd decides to basically flip her off and turn her own Badass Boast against her, which ends up making her lose her cool, giving into her childish rage and impulses, which allows Lloyd to escape, the exact opposite of what her Hannibal Lecture was supposed to do.
    Harumi: This. This is what I wanted. To see your father's return, and for you to lose everything. How does it feel to see the end?
    Lloyd: No. I won't let it do to me what it did to you. This isn't the end, Harumi. This is just the beginning. Without my power, without my friends, I'm gonna fight you. I'm gonna fight on. Because a ninja never quits.
    Harumi: Well then, goodbye, Lloyd.
    Lloyd: Before I go, just answer me this: you said the greatest villain was the one who got away. Then what am I?
    [Cue Harumi screaming in pure rage and taking an ineffective swing at Lloyd, allowing him to escape]
  • And as the Season 9 teaser shows he made good on his words to fight on.

Season 9: Hunted

• The Season 9 trailer shows that after a 3-year and 5-season absence, the Elemental Masters are back, and helping Lloyd's La Résistance movement. This alone indicates how high the stakes have been raised.
• "Firstbourne":
  • The Elemental Masters' Big Damn Heroes moment where they effortlessly make a mockery out of the Sons of Garmadon (even with Killow and Mr. E) assisting them.
    • Special mention goes to Karloff who swats Mr. E aside like a bug with a single punch, and Mr. E had the Mask of Hatred at the time, which made him powerful enough to take a lot of punishment.
• Lloyd's Rousing Speech to the citizens in "Radio Free Ninjago".
  Lloyd: The Resistance never quits!
• The plan to capture Harumi in "Two Lies, One Truth", using misdirection to separate Harumi from the other Sons of Garmadon.
  Lloyd: You took my friends from me, so I took yours.
  • Even more awesome is the fact that Nya managed to defeat and subdue Killow on her own. Just for consideration: Killow is three times her size and much more physically imposing.
• The ninja managing to hijack the Dieselnaut from Iron Baron in "The Weakest Link" using the skills they learned from Faith, with Cole using the rig's turret to shoot the helicopter Iron Baron is riding on out of the sky.
• Wu finally regains all of his memories in "Saving Faith", aging up into a young adult and proceeding to kick the asses of all the Dragon Hunters holding the ninja prisoner. In the words of Jay: "Master Wu is back, baby!"
  Wu: You let my ninja go, or else!
  Iron Baron: Or else, what?
  Wu: Or else I will reclaim my father's armor and ask his dragon to end your rule. I am the Son of the First Spinjitzu Master, and this is my oath!
• Firstbourne imprisons Iron Baron alive in molten magma with no food or water after he attempts to control her with the Dragon Armor.
  • Prior to that, there's the epic speech Wu gives to Iron Baron regarding how the former deceived the latter into thinking it was the Dragon Armor that allowed the First Spinjitzu Master to control Firstbourne when it was actually his pure heart, something which Iron Baron lacks:
    Wu: You know, I've learned a lot of things since I came to this realm.
    Iron Baron: What are you babbling about?!
    Wu: My ninja taught me responsibility, confidence, a sense of humor, and to listen to the voice within. But I also learned something from you.
    Iron Baron: Argh! Stand down! Kneel before me!
    Wu: You taught me the power of lies. You didn't really think the Dragon Armor is what made Firstbourne obey my father, did you? It was because of his heart. She sensed goodness in him. What does she sense in you?
• How does Lloyd finally defeat Lord Garmadon at the end of Season 9? By using the same passive resistance strategy he learned from Sensei Garmadon way back in the Season 3 episode "The Art of the Silent Fist".

Season 10: March of the Oni

• Even though it could be easily overlooked, the fact that Cole survived the Fall in Season 10. He fell several stories and was still yet able to get up and walk pretty normally quickly, with enough coherence to fix the remote to his car. Not only that, but he somehow managed to endure the miasma that was literally freezing people solid in seconds. Cole is a lot stronger than folks give him credit for.
• The final fight with the Oni, which follows a montage of Kai finally putting his blacksmith skills to use in reforging the Golden Weapons. After 7 years and 9 seasons, we finally get to see the Ninja using their signature weapons again. Even the Tornado of Creation makes a return, the golden power generated by the weapons & the tornado ultimately being what defeats the Oni.

Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu

• Despite the problems in the Fire Chapter, the beginning of the season shows that Wu is the master for a reason by curb-stomping every single member of the Ninja in a sparing match, even when they use their powers.
• Zane one-shot every member of the Pyro Vipers when he claims the scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu.
• After losing his powers to Aspheera early into Season 11, Kai gradually regains them over the course of the season's Ice Chapter. This culminates in the Ninjas' fight with the Ice Dragon Boreal in the season finale, where Kai's full powers manifest in a large blast of fire that outright melts the dragon!
  • For added awesomeness, for the entire season nobody has been able to harm Boreal—it tanks several direct hits from the Ninja's elemental powers, nearly kills Lloyd and destroys the Titan Mech, and even gets crushed by the Land Bounty just slows it down. But when Kai fully regains his powers, he one-shots Boreal.
• Zane regains his memories to save Lloyd from Vex, renouncing himself as the Ice Emperor in the process and destroying the Scroll, freeing the land from its curse.

Season 12: Prime Empire

• Jay gets trapped inside Prime Empire for less than a day and somehow manages to become a celebrity to a group of players styling themselves after he called the League of Jay by the time the other ninja arrive.
• Okino decides to rebel against Unagami to help the ninja defeat the red dragon instead of leaving them to die in favor of a chance to enter the real world, later set out to embark on his own journey.
  Okino: I choose my own path!
• Jay and Nya winning the dance contest with some sick (and likely impractical) dance moves even while they and the other ninja fight off attacking Red Visors. For some extra awesome points, Cole once again performs the Triple Tiger Sashay.
• Racer Seven finally manages to win the Speedway Five Billion with the help of the ninja and by going against her programming to crash every time she's about to win, as well as her helping the ninja get away from oncoming Red Visors.
• Okino appears in the real world, helping to protect people from Unagami's invading forces.
• Jay manages to get Unagami and Milton Dyer to talk out their problems instead of fighting, with Dyer convincing Unagami to call off his invasion on Ninjago City and release all the trapped players and NPCs from Prime Empire by promising to make amends to him.

Season 13: Master of the Mountain

• Cole, Wu, Vania, and the Lowly manage to win their first battle against the lava monster, with the Lowly regaining their confidence as adventurers.
• After spending most of the season depressed from feeling the ninja does not need him anymore, with some prodding from Vania, Wu gives a Rousing Speech that inspires both Cole and himself to not give up and to go fight Grief-Bringer and the Skull Sorcerer, even if they do not have the Spinjitzu Burst.
  Wu: Vania is right. I have been neglecting my duties. What has been the principle lesson of all my teachings?
  Cole: Ninja never quit!
  Wu: Exactly! Ninja never quit! And from this moment on, neither do masters! They would never quit on us, and we will never quit on them! Burst or not, we have a dragon to face!
• The Stone Mech is a truly fearsome sight to behold, with Cole using its sword to smash the lava monster pursuing him and his friends to pieces.
• The ninja, the Lowly (now the Upply), and the Munce and Geckles squaring off against the Skull Sorcerer and his army, getting well-deserved revenge for all the crap the Skull Sorcerer has put them all through.
• Cole defeated Vangelis/the Skull Sorcerer by unlocking the Spinjitzu Burst and using it to destroy the Skull of Hazza D'ur.

The Island

• Twitchy Tim saving the ninja from Ronin and his henchmen, facing his fears and ramming a catamaran straight into Ronin's ship.
  Twitchy: Come on, storm! Give me all you've got!

Season 14: Seabound

• The head members of the Explorers Club Percy, Underhill, and Smythe take up weapons and help the ninja fight Kalmaar and his forces to protect the Storm Amulet, each of them giving their own Badass Boast as they leap into battle and manage to hold their own.
  Percy: We are members of the Explorers Club. We laugh in the face of danger! Ha, ha, ha! Tally ho!
  Underhill: You will rue the day you ruffians stormed our club. Ho, ho, ho!
  Smythe: You'll receive no quarter here!
• Nelson and Antonia keep the Storm Amulet out of Kalmaar's grasp as the latter chases them all over Ninjago City while the former two perform various stunts with their bikes to lose him. Even after he catches them and manages to get away, Kalmaar acknowledges Antonia as the only one who came close to foiling his plans despite her being nothing but a common papergirl.
• Benthomaar disowns Kalmaar as his brother and destroys the trident used to control Wojira. Wojira then proceeds to swallow Kalmaar whole while the latter desperately tries and fails to maintain control.
• Nya merges with the Endless Sea like Nyad did and defeats Wojira by destroying the Wave Amulet, causing Wojira to electrocute herself to death by the now uncontrollable power of the Storm Amulet.

Season 15: Crystalized

• Aspheera saving Nya from being one with the sea by draining her elemental powers, while the Ninja buy her time by battling the New Ninja.
• The Mechanic battling the original four ninja in a subway tunnel and defeating them all by himself. He might've been a small-time villain, but he's definitely not punching above his weight.
• The entirety of the battle for the Golden Weapons in "The Fall of the Monastery". While the Council of the Crystal King wins, Wu, Skylor, PIXAL, and Nya put up a decent fight, and Wu in particular is able to fight off Aspheera, Vangelis, and the Mechanic simultaneously.
  • Pythor's role in the fight is just as awesome. For the first time in the entire series, he uses his invisibility to fight, not flee or hide. The result is that he becomes a stealthy, deadly battler who can catch his foes off-guard at any moment. While the other council members are frequently tossed around, beaten up, and are running for their lives throughout the fight, Pythor walks away with barely a scratch.
• Every time Garmadon uses his Oni form throughout the season. He not only looks more demonic (and cool), but he also grows wings and is shown to be the one thing keeping the Crystal Army at bay.
• Though separated from each other after the Overlord's initial attack, the Ninja each evade detection from the Crystal Army and manage to regroup back at the Resistance's base.
• After learning the Overlord is behind the Devourer's corruption into the beast that rampaged across Ninjago and killed her parents, Harumi (having spent an entire season torn between siding with him and Lloyd) chooses to join the Ninja for good, helping Lloyd and Garmadon fight him.
• Everyone—the Serpentine, the Prime Empire NPCs, Vania, Chompy, the Geckles and Munce, the Upply, the Keepers, the Merlopians, and even civilians like Dareth, Ed, and Sally—joining the Ninja for their final stand. And with all of their allies united despite having their backs up against a wall, it thus leads into...
• The ninja unlocking Dragon Form and purifying their Golden Weapons after reclaiming them from the Council of the Crystal King. Special mention goes to The Weekend Whip being integrated into such a lore-important moment of unlocking the Dragon Forms, with the lyrics "Jump up, kick back, whip around and spin" being the method to pulling it off. And following that: The beatdown of the Council of the Crystal King.
  • Okino saves Nya from the Mechanic by lopping off the Mechanic's robo-arm. Nya then traps the Mechanic under a water pipe and uses her limited power over Ice (the same technique she learned in Season 11) to purify one of the Shurikens of Ice without any Dragon Form required.
  • After having been thoroughly trounced by Mr. E, Zane takes on his successor with ease, starting by sideswiping Mister F in mid-air to save PIXAL. The two are evenly matched at first, until Zane reclaims the remaining Shuriken of Ice and uses it to knock down a billboard that crushes Mister F, presumably destroying him.
  • With help from Vania and the Upply, Cole reclaims the Scythe of Quakes and renders Vangelis's wings useless by burying him.
  • After spending the beginning of the season at odds, Kai and Jay briefly work together to fight Aspheera and Pythor. Even when they're later divided into one-on-one fights, they prove capable of outmatching their foes on their own. Jay manages to circumvent Pythor's invisibility by electrifying the roof they're fighting on, knocking Pythor out instantly, and reclaiming the Nunchucks of Lightning. Kai, meanwhile, trades blows with Aspheera before taking her out with one solid punch and reclaiming the Sword of Fire. Not only is it the first time Kai's defeated a main antagonist on his own (even if Aspheera has been Demoted to Dragon), but he also finally gets some payback for her stealing his powers back in Season 11.
    • The way each Ninja wins is a sly nod to their characters. Jay, Zane, and Nya, the more crafty members of the team, use their environments to their advantage. Kai and Cole, meanwhile, overpower their foes with brute force. For added bonus points, Kai and Zane manage to defeat their foes without using their elemental powers.
• Lloyd unlocking his Oni form. While he only uses it briefly, it's shown to be very effective against the Overlord. And props to Garmadon very convincingly faking his death in order to provoke Lloyd into pulling it off.
• The ninja sacrifice their powers and the Golden Weapons in order to ensure that the Overlord can't corrupt the elements of Creation, even if he does manage to corrupt them... However, not only do they succeed in it, but via their sacrifice, it results in the summoning of the Golden Ultra Dragon. The dragon saves Lloyd, who then rides it into combat against the Overlord. The Overlord is petrified by the power of the four elements, then shattered to pieces with one final attack from the dragon's tail.

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