Overview

For another power with similar properties also used by Lloyd, see Life. For the element used by Mr. Pale, see Light.
“The Golden Power needs to be protected, honored. Evil forces will seek it, try to take it for their own.”

Golden Power (sometimes referred to as Light[2] or Golden Energy[3]) is an elemental essence in the Merged Realms[4][5] that is derived from all of the Source Dragons.[1] It is closely related to Creation and Destruction[6][7] and is comprised of all the Source Dragon Elemental Powers in a sense.[8] It is associated with the colors gold and golden yellow and corresponds with the Golden Weapons, the Mega Weapon, the Golden Dragon, the Golden Armor, and the Golden Ultra Dragon.

Users' abilities

Users' abilities[]

  • Potentikinesis - The user can manipulate various abilities.
    • Power Bestowal - The user can give various abilities and elemental powers to other people.
    • Power Restoration - The user is able to restore the power of others.
    • Power Augmentation - The user can increase their power thousandfold.
    • Power Combination - The user can likely combine various abilities and elemental powers.
    • Flight - The user can freely fly in the air.
    • Elementumkinesis - The user can create, shape, and manipulate the Elements of Creation (Fire, Earth, Lightning, and Ice). Capabilities may include moving, altering, and mixing existing elements. The user can also use them as vividly as the specific master of those elements can but has full control over them.
      • Elemental Blasts - Users of this element can fire blasts of the main four elements with the Golden Power, usually as an offense.
    • 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.
    • Nigh-Invulnerability - As seen with Lloyd in "Rise of the Spinjitzu Master", users of Golden Power are highly resistant to almost all kinds of harm and damage.
    • Chryso-Ergokinesis - The user can manipulate golden energy, usually to attack an adversary (the Golden Master can generate powerful beams composed of gold colored energy).
      • Energy Ball Projection - The user can shoot golden energy balls.
      • Energy Beam Emission - The user can shoot a blast/ray of Golden Power/energy from his hand. They can also make a beam of Golden Power with two hands, which is a more powerful version of the ray. This move is usually done with two hands as it requires more energy.
      • Energy Wave Emission - The user can send golden energy waves to weaken enemies.
      • Golden Explosion - The user can release golden energy over a target area of their choosing, causing great damage or delivering great shock waves of pure force.
      • Energy Constructs - The user can create objects out of golden energy (nets, whips, etc).
        • Energy Shield Construction - The user can make or encase himself in a Golden Power shield/dome/field.
        • Energy Tendril Creation - As shown by the Overlord as the Golden Master in "The Titanium Ninja," the user appears to be able to create tendrils out of golden energy.
      • Photokinesis - The user can create and manipulate gold colored light.
    • Meta Matter Manipulation - The user can manipulate all possible forms of matter, allowing them to wield a stronger form of Creation (even stronger than the Tornado of Creation), usually to attack or 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 anything from nothing either as finished objects or simply unfinished elements.
        • Remote Materialization - The user can create and reshape all kinds of things in distant and far off places without the user even being present.
        • Artifact Creation - The user can create powerful artifacts, like the Realm Crystal.
        • Web Generation - As seen with the Overlord as the Golden Master in "The Titanium Ninja", the user can use Golden Power to create a massive spiderweb.
          • Web Constructs - The user can form objects out of their webs, such as when the Golden Master created ropes from his web to ensnare Wu, Garmadon, and four of the Ninja.
    • Healing/Purification - The user can heal/purify themselves and other people from any injuries and Dark Matter.
    • Corruption Immunity - As seen with Lloyd, the user appears to be immune to the corruptive property of Dark Matter.
    • Disintegration - The user can wield a stronger version of Destruction, essentially disintegrating anyone who doesn't have an Elemental Power. This is seen when the Mega Weapon disintegrated a pirate who tried to steal it from Garmadon, a Nindroid who touched the Mega Weapon fused with the Golden Weapons on a comet, and Zane's original body being destroyed by the Golden Armor. Golden Power and Destruction are the only known powers capable of destroying the Overlord's physical form, as seen in "Rise of the Spinjitzu Master" and "Roots."
    • Regeneration - The user likely has regenerative abilities as seen in "Enter the Digiverse", when the Overlord harnessed enough Golden Power from Lloyd to start regenerating his physical form.
  • Martial Arts Creation - The user can create their own martial arts, as shown when the First Spinjitzu Master created Forbidden Spinjitzu and wrote about it in two scrolls.
    • Spinjitzu, Airjitzu, and Forbidden Spinjitzu - 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. It is possible the user can do Forbidden Spinjitzu too.
  • Elemental Dragon - The user can create an Elemental Golden Dragon.
  • Dimensional Travel - The user can travel to another realm with this power as when the First Spinjitzu Master did to create Ninjago.
Symbol

Symbol[]

Potential Golden Power symbol on the sashes of Lloyd's Elemental Kimono.

Potential Golden Power symbol on the sashes of Lloyd's Elemental Kimono.

A potential symbol for Golden Power could be found on Lloyd's Elemental kimono, being a circle with 4 protruding lines corresponding to the 4 cardinal directions that potentially link it to the four Elements of Creation, with one final horizontal line found inside the circle.

Notable users
Appearances
Trivia

Trivia[]

  • Golden Power is one of the two strongest powers across the realms and the benevolent side of the Balance alongside its malevolent counterpart Darkness.
  • Since the element co-operates with the main elements (Fire, Lightning, Earth, and Ice) of Ninjago, it is possible the element also co-operates with the other elements; in Lloyd's first battle with the Overlord, he was able to alter his appearance and fly in the air, as per the elements Form and Gravity. In addition, while in the Digiverse, the four original Ninja were able to manipulate and reflect the light to the data port around the Digital Overlord, though it is unknown if the element of Light has this property.
    • Chris "Doc" Wyatt suggests that Golden Power is composed of all of the elemental powers in a way, due to it coming from all seven Source Dragons.[8]
  • All the users of Golden Power got this essence in unique ways:
    • The First Spinjitzu Master, the first true master of this power, obtained it from the seven Source Dragons alongside most pre-Merge Elemental Powers.
    • Lloyd, the Master of Energy, is supposed to unlock this Element and become the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master (which he did), and stay at that strength until death. But since Lloyd lost his Golden Power to the Overlord, and gave the remaining of it (the elemental part of it) to the other ninja, he is left with just the Element of Energy. As such, he is in a weakened state but is still stronger than the other ninja by around 20%.[9]
      • Since Lloyd gave out the rest of his Golden Power to the ninja, he initially became somewhat of a "source" of their Elemental Power. This meant that if his power ever got disrupted, their powers would too, as seen in "Winds of Change". However, this is no longer true in Season 8, as due to the passage of time and Lloyd's growth, the ninja's powers became more independent from him.[10]
    • The Overlord (as the Golden Master), mostly absorbed Golden Power from Lloyd to regain a physical form, but could only use it by wearing the Golden Armor, which was forged from (and had the combined power of) the Golden Weapons. After his Golden Master form was frozen and destroyed by Zane, the armor was was later melted and reforged into the original Weapons by Kai.
    • The four original ninja siphoned some Golden Power from Lloyd while in the Digiverse due to the Overlord's physical form absorbing it from Lloyd in the real world while his digital essence was fighting the ninja in the Digiverse. Much later, by combining the powers of the reforged Golden Weapons alongside their own, they manifested Golden Power, which took the form of a Dragon that helped Lloyd defeat the Overlord as the Crystal King.
  • Although it is a fact that Golden Power is composed of all Elemental Powers, the only ones that do not form part of a perfect unification are the Elements of Chaos and the elemental essence of Darkness, because these elements are not derived from the Source Dragons.
  • The Golden Power's draconic manifestation, the Golden Dragon, is far larger than any of the other Elemental Dragons (that are not combination dragons) in size. This could relate to the magnitude of the element's power level.
  • Though the power was introduced in Legacy of the Green Ninja, its name was not used until Rebooted.
  • Golden Power is similar to the Golden Chi from Legends of Chima, because both can manipulate the user's surroundings. When asked if they were related, Tommy Andreasen said, "That’s a fine question, but not one to be answered here [on X]."[11]
  • In "Enter the Digiverse," the four original ninja briefly experienced Golden Power (see images below).
  • The Golden Master may have been using a corrupted version of Golden Power, since he was the embodiment of evil (and thus Darkness), but had been resurrected using Golden Power (possibly combining the two).
  • Although it is occasionally referred to as "light", it is distinct from actual Light.
  • After the events of the final prophecy of Quanish the Elder, the Golden Mech is currently the only source of object that wields Golden Power.
  • It has not yet been revealed what abilities the Golden Power has.[12]
  • Previously, the exact relationship between Golden Power and Creation was unclear. Tommy Andreasen once said to, “Think of golden as creation",[13] but when later asked if the two essences were the same, he said, "Can’t get into that. Too complicated".[14] Both Tommy Andreasen and Chris “Doc” Wyatt would later confirm that Golden Power and Creation are indeed related.[15][6][7]
    • Within the show, there are examples where both essences seem to be accessed by combining Fire, Lightning, Ice and Earth, with Golden Power being obtained at a higher-level of power:
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      In "The Way Back", when the four original Ninja combined their Elements of Creation with Lloyd's Energy to blow away a door, the resulting blast looked like Golden Power. Similarly, after the Golden Armor is reforged back into the Golden Weapons in "Endings", the four Ninja use the weapons and their own powers alongside Wu's own Creation, Garmadon's Destruction, Lloyd's Energy and Nya's Water to create a Tornado of Creation more powerful than normal that instantly defeated the Oni and spread a wave of what appeared to be Golden Power across the realms to purify them of the Oni's dark cloud.
    • In "Roots", the ninja combined their and the Golden Weapons' powers to form the Golden Ultra Dragon, which Lloyd used to defeat the Overlord.
      • Golden Power may be similar yet different from Creation in the same way as other Elemental Powers, like Fire and Heat, Earth and Quake, Speed and Reflex, as well as Nature and Plants.
      • Additionally, The Book of Elemental Powers heavily implies that Golden Power is the combination of Creation and Destruction, stated that it can "create and destroy," and being tied to the First Spinjitzu Master's Oni and Dragon heritage.
  • According to Tommy Andreasen, Lloyd will most likely not regain Golden Power, because it would be unnecessary for the story.[16]
    • However, Chris “Doc” Wyatt confirmed on X that there is a possibility for Lloyd to regain Golden Power.
      • Additionally, he stated Lloyd would not need to go back to the Temple of Light in order to regain Golden Power.[17]
  • As the Golden Master, the Overlord showed more proficiency with the Golden Power than Lloyd.[18]
  • Masters of the Golden Power are able to do a Spinjitzu Burst in the Grasslands or in the Golden Peaks.[19]
Gallery
Translations

Translations[]

Golden Power[]

Language Name
Chinese (Simplified) 黄金能量
Czech Zlatá síla
Dutch Gouden Kracht
French Pouvoir Doré/Pouvoir D'or
German Goldene Kraft
Hungarian Arany Erő
Japanese ゴールデン・パワー
Polish Złota moc
Russian Золотая сила
Ukrainian Золота сила

Light[]

Language Name
Chinese (Simplified) 光明
German Licht
References