Lightning

Users' abilities[]

• Electrokinesis - The user can create, generate, increase, convert/store, shape, and manipulate electricity of various intensities.
  • Technokinesis - One application of Lightning, as Jay taught Lloyd, is to overload, control, and power electrical devices or systems. Lloyd used his Lightning powers to overcharge a light bulb, allowing him to use the shards of glass to free himself from his bonds.^[2] Jay was even able to use his power to create a specific image (a Steep Wisdom teapot) on multiple screens.^[3]
    • Electronic Disruption - Lloyd was able to disrupt a message sent to the Ultra Sonic Raider by his father, Lord Garmadon, and play a video game instead.^[2]
  • Electrokinetic Attacks - The user can attack using Lightning.
    • Electric Blast - The user can release electricity over a specific target area which causes great damage and/or delivers great shockwaves of pure force.
    • Electrokinetic Bolt Projection - The user is able to create and project bolts of electricity and control the intensity/power of their projectiles, the bolts aren't weak but may not be as powerful as a full-powered attack.
    • Electrical Ball Projection - The user is able to project a ball of electricity as seen when Jay tried to break Cole free from Skales' hypnosis.^[4] These balls can be concussive as when Nya used this against Nokt.^[5]
      • Hypnosis Negation - As seen in "Home", it is possible to use these electrical balls to shock a person out of hypnosis.
      • Electric Bomb Generation - As seen in "Truth and Lies", the user can likely create or launch bombs of electricity, such as when Nya fired one that caused a small explosion on Nokt.
    • Electrokinetic Infusion - The user can infuse objects (usually a weapon), beings, body parts, vehicles,^[6] or powers with electricity, empowering and energizing them and allowing the user to manipulate their qualities and efficiency and use electricity in various ways to attack.
      • Electric Strike - The user can use electricity to power a strike, allowing shock damage from the electricity used in the strike.
    • Electrokinetic Beam Emission - The user can produce and project beams of concentrated electricity, which can shock or cause electrocution, pierce through almost anything, or create destructive explosions upon impact.
    • Electrokinetic Wave Emission - The user can create waves, spirals, rings, pulses, blasts, balls, and bursts of electricity.
  • Electrokinetic Flight - The user can fly, glide, or levitate using electricity.^[7]
    • Electrokinetic Levitation - The user can levitate using electricity.
  • Electrokinetic Resistance - The user is partially resistant against electricity and lightning.^[8]
  • Electrified Surface - The user can send electricity through a surface (often the ground or a floor) to channel it, sending electric shocks to anything in contact with them or the surface.
  • Electric Conductivity - The user can safely conduct all forms of electricity through their bodies, self-generated or otherwise, which by extension makes them functionally invulnerable to electricity, no matter the voltage. They can also discharge electricity through conductive media (metal, water, etc).
    • Electric Channeling/Discharge - The user can channel electricity for various purposes and control its flow through any matter. Jay was able to channel his lightning powers through water to recharge the Hydro Bounty's battery despite the whole bay being flooded and Lloyd assuming his powers were useless underwater.
  • Electrokinetic Constructs - The user can create objects out of electricity, as seen when Jay created an electrical heart shape in "Codename: Arcturus".
    • Electro-Flyrogenesis/Electrokinetic Shield Construction - The user can generate a force field/shield of electricity as a defensive tactic (similarly to its elemental shield).
      • Elemental Shield - The user can create a Lightning elemental shield.
        • Radiation Resistance - The user's elemental shield can resist the radiation from entering the planet's atmosphere.
        • Space Survivability - The user's elemental shield likely allows them to survive in the vacuum of space, as seen in "The Titanium Ninja" while the Ninja were about to enter their planet's atmosphere.
  • Bio-Electrokinesis - The user can manipulate and generate electricity from their bodies.
    • Electrokinetic Speed - The user is able to use Lightning to achieve superhuman speed. Jay used this ability when he, Zane, and Cole were chasing the Skulkin after they stole three of the Golden Weapons.
    • Electric Recharge - The user is able to recharge batteries by infusing them with electricity, but this can prove dangerous in some situations.
      • Electrical Vision - The user appears to emanate electricity from their eyes while recharging batteries, as seen in "The Wrath of Kalmaar" when Jay's eyes started glowing with lightning.
    • Electrocution/Electric Shock - The user can release extreme electrical current to destroy almost anything.
    • Electrified Body/Electric Aura - When the user is in a state of rage or extreme emotion, their body will be infused and crackle with electricity.^[9]
    • Electrokinetic Absorption/Electrical Attraction - The user can absorb electricity, while removing it from its source and into their body, and use it in various ways. While out in a storm, Jay attracted all the stray lightning directly into him and in "The Oni and the Dragon," he used the electricity he absorbed from a light to shut down Mr. E's motorcycle.
      • Lightning Redirection - It can also be used to redirect lightning to attack an adversary or as a defense.^[8]
    • Scintillakinesis - The user can create, manipulate, and generate different sparks of electricity through a luminous disruptive electrical discharge.
      • Fireworks Generation - As shown by Nokt when he received Lightning after winning his match against Nya in "Truth and Lies," the user can release electrical sparks in a similar fashion to fireworks.
  • Harming Ghosts - The user can use lightning to harm ghosts, from the Cursed Realm or from the Spectral Lands, as Jay managed to electrocute Wrayth, breaking his chain flail, causing him to release Zane and fall into the Endless Sea. In "Day of the Departed", he managed to defeat Samukai with electricity-infused nunchucks while in "Chaos Reigns", he took out Zarkt’s ghost in the Cave of Bells in Mysterium using his Mech Dragon (even though it wasn't coated in Prismatic Ore) and used the mini-mech to also fight Zarkt.
• Dragon Creation - The user can create a Lightning Dragon.

Via the users' True Potential[]

• Electrokinetic Body - The user can temporarily transform their body completely into electricity.
  • Electroportation - This allows the user to also "teleport" short distances using electrical currents and possibly move through electrical circuits and wires.

Higher-level powers[]

• Dragon Form - Like the rest of the users of the elements of Creation, Lightning Elementals can unlock their Dragon Form, though it can only work through a sense of unity and a sequence of movements.
  • Humanoid Dragon Physiology - Dragon Form will cause the user to become a humanoid dragon.
    • Wing Manifestation - Once in Dragon Form, the user gains wings on their back.
      • Flight - Using said wings, the user can fly.
    • Vengestone Immunity - In dragon form, the user's powers are unaffected by Vengestone.
    • Infectious Crystal Immunity - A user of Dragon Form is unaffected by infectious crystals.
    • Enhanced Elemental Powers - A user of Dragon Form has their Elemental Powers heavily enhanced.
      • Shockwave Generation - The user has the ability to create shockwaves. Jay used this against Pythor in “Dragon Form”.
    • Purification - A user of Dragon Form can undo corruption from the infectious crystals.

Weaknesses[]

• Deflection - Jay's lightning powers can be reflected back at him, as shown by Reflectra.
• Underwater Environments - Lloyd mentioned that Lightning wouldn't be effective underwater.^[10] But this can be unlikely as Jay was able to recharge the Hydro Bounty's battery despite the whole bay being flooded.

Symbol[]

The symbol of Lightning is an octopus. The silhouette of the octopus and its tentacles resemble a storm cloud discharging lightning. It may refer to Jay's energetic and intelligent nature.

The symbol of Lightning shown in the Tournament of the Sources represents two lightning bolts.

Notable users[]

• First Spinjitzu Master
• First Master of Lightning (formerly)
  • Hundreds of generations
    • Libber (formerly)
      • Jay Walker
• Nya (briefly)
• Nokt (briefly)

Via objects[]

Nunchucks of Lightning[]

• Garmadon (formerly)
• Samukai (briefly)
• Nuckal (briefly)

Staff of Elements[]

• Master Chen (formerly)
• Kai (formerly)

Elemental Forge of Lightning (non-canon)[]

• Ronin (formerly)

Via other Elemental Powers[]

Creation[]

• Wu

Golden Power[]

• Lloyd Garmadon (formerly)

Amber[]

• Skylor Chen (formerly)

Creatures[]

• Source Dragon of Energy^[1]
• Dragons
  • Firstbourne
  • Lightning Dragons (First Land)
    • Wisp/Ultra Dragon
    • Stormbringer
      • Stormbringer's baby
    • Lightning Dragon Mother (non-canon)
  • Thunder Dragon
  • Jiro
• Elemental Dragons
  • Lightning Dragon
  • Elemental combination dragons
    • Hydroelectric Dragon
    • Golden Ultra Dragon

Materials/Substances[]

• Chronosteel (absorbed; formerly)
• Blue Crystal (absorbed; formerly)
• Dragon Ivory (channeled)

Tools/Objects[]

• Nunchucks of Lightning/Storm Glider (destroyed)
• Lightning Elemental Blade
• Lightning Techno Blade (channeled; formerly)
• Lightning off-roader (channeled; formerly; destroyed)
• ElectroMech (channeled; formerly; destroyed)
• Staff of Elements (absorbed; formerly; destroyed)
• Elemental Forge of Lightning (destroyed; non-canon)
• Elemental Golem (destroyed; non-canon)
• Obsidian Nunchucks (lost in the Ethereal Divide; non-canon)
• Ghost Taker GT (channeled; formerly; destroyed)
• Djinn Blade (absorbed in an alternate timeline; formerly; destroyed)
• Lightning Bike (channeled; formerly)
• Firstbourne mech (channeled; destroyed)
• Scrolls of Forbidden Spinjitzu (channeled; briefly)
  • Zane's scepter (channeled with a Forbidden Scroll; briefly; destroyed)
• Crowns of Horns (channeled)
• Elemental Cup (absorbed; formerly)
• Lightning Daggers

Techniques[]

• Spinjitzu (channeled)
  • Tornado of Creation (briefly)
  • Forbidden Spinjitzu (channeled; formerly)
• True Potential
• Elemental shields
• Elemental Dragons
  • Elemental combination dragons
• Elemental Golems (non-canon)
• Airjitzu (channeled)
• Dragon Form (formerly)

Appearances[]

Sets 70602 Jay's Elemental Dragon 70660 Spinjitzu Jay 70673 ShuriCopter 70682 Spinjitzu Slam - Jay 70690 Jay's Spinjitzu Ninja Training 71768 Jay's Golden Dragon Motorbike 71796 Elemental Dragon vs. The Empress Mech 71818 Tournament Battle Arena 71841 Dragonian Storm Village 71866 Ninja Character Display 15th Anniversary 891833 Jay 892175 Jay 892181 Jay 892302 Golden Dragon Jay 892403 Jay Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu Pilot episodes 2. "The Golden Weapon" 3. "King of Shadows" 4. "Weapons of Destiny" Season 1: Rise of the Snakes 1. "Rise of the Snakes" 2. "Home" 3. "Snakebit" 6. "The Snake King" 7. "Tick Tock" 8. "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" 9. "The Royal Blacksmiths" 10. "The Green Ninja" 11. "All of Nothing" 12. "The Rise of the Great Devourer" 13. "Day of the Great Devourer" Season 2: Legacy of the Green Ninja 16. "Double Trouble" 19. "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" 23. "Island of Darkness" 25. "Return of the Overlord" 26. "Rise of the Spinjitzu Master" Season 3: Rebooted 32. "Codename: Arcturus" 33. "The Void" 34. "The Titanium Ninja" Season 4: Tournament of Elements 35. "The Invitation" 36. "Only One Can Remain" 37. "Versus" 38. "Ninja Roll" 41. "The Forgotten Element" 42. "The Day of the Dragon" 43. "The Greatest Fear of All" 44. "The Corridor of Elders" Season 5: Possession 45. "Winds of Change" 52. "Grave Danger" 54. "Curseworld, Part II" Season 6: Skybound 55. "Infamous" 56. "Public Enemy Number One" 57. "Enkrypted" 58. "Misfortune Rising" 59. "On a Wish and a Prayer" 61. "Wishmasters" 62. "The Last Resort" 63. "Operation Land Ho!" 64. "The Way Back" Day of the Departed "Day of the Departed" Season 7: The Hands of Time 65. "The Hands of Time" 66. "The Hatching" 69. "A Line in the Sand" 74. "Lost in Time" Season 8: Sons of Garmadon 76. "The Jade Princess" 77. "The Oni and the Dragon" 79. "Dead Man's Squall" 81. "Game of Masks" 82. "Dread on Arrival" 84. "Big Trouble, Little Ninjago" Season 9: Hunted 87. "Radio Free Ninjago" 88. "How to Build a Dragon" 91. "The Weakest Link" 94. "Green Destiny" Tales from the Monastery of Spinjitzu 2. "Green and Gold" 5. "Blue Lightning" 6. "Samurai X-Treme" Season 10: March of the Oni 95. "The Darkness Comes" 98. "Endings" Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu 99. "Wasted True Potential" 103. "Boobytraps and How to Survive Them" 106. "Snaketastrophy" 107. "Powerless" 112. "Vengeance is Mine!" 115. "Fire Maker" 117. "The Absolute Worst" (story) 120. "Krag's Lament" 128. "Awakenings" Season 12: Prime Empire 144. "Game Over" Season 13: Master of the Mountain 145. "Shintaro" 147. "The Worst Rescue Ever" 149. "Queen of the Munce" 157. "The Darkest Hour" The Island 162. "The Keepers of the Amulet" 163. "The Gift of Jay" (mentioned) Season 14: Seabound 168. "Five Thousand Fathoms Down" 169. "The Wrath of Kalmaar" 170. "Long Live the King" 176. "Master of the Sea" (mentioned) 180. "The Turn of the Tide" Ninjago: Reimagined 4. "Sweatin' to the Goldies" The Virtues of Spinjitzu 1. "Curiosity" 5. "Generosity" 6. "Courage" Season 15: Crystalized 183. "The Shape of Nya" 184. "A Mayor Problem" 188. "Kryptarium Prison Blues" 191. "The Fifth Villain" 192. "The Council of the Crystal King" 201. "A Lesson in Anger" 203. "Quittin' Time!" 208. "An Issue of Trust" 209. "Dragon Form" 210. "Roots" Ninjago: Dragons Rising Season 1 6. "Return to Imperium" 9. "The Calm Inside" 10. "The Battle of the Second Monastery" 14. "The Last Djinn" 19. "We Are All Dragons" Season 2 26. "To Mysterium" 27. "Fugitives From Madness" (flashback) 28. "Secrets of the Wyldness" 32. "Enter the City of Temples" 34. "Inside the Maze" 36. "Truth and Lies" 37. "The Sword Shatters" 38. "Clues and Suspects" 39. "The Final Game" 40. "Elements of Betrayal" Season 3 50. "The Shatter Dragon" 54. "Casket of Bones" 57. "The Vault of Focus" 60. "Chaos Reigns" Season 4 61. "The Lean of a Tree" Video games LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin (non-canon) The LEGO Ninjago Movie Videogame (non-canon)

Trivia[]

• Despite the element being shown as blue in the TV series, Lightning is mostly a yellow color in the sets. Although the yellow was later adapted into Dragons Rising, there is no in-universe reason for this as it is simply an animation detail.^[11]
  • Lightning is one of 9 Elemental Powers to have more than two colors associated with them. The other 8 are Heat, Gravity, Earth, Decay, Time, Fire, Mind, and Fusion.
• In his original Character Card, Lloyd's dominant element was listed as Lightning, though according to Tommy Andreasen, this isn't canon to the TV series.^[12] 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 Lloyd was the Green Ninja.
  • Additionally, in the "Meet the Heroes" video released for the 10th anniversary, it is stated that his original dominant element was lightning.
  • Despite no longer having Lightning, Lloyd was still able to generate green electricity to charge the Titan Mech's battery in "The Message", possibly because Energy is a combination of the four elements of Creation (including Lightning).^[13][14]
    • In "Ghost Story," Morro was able to shoot green lightning. This is not normal lightning, but rather a manifestation between Energy and ghost power.^[15]
• Similarly, Lord Garmadon's Destruction is represented as lightning on the cards, and he was shown to be able to generate lightning in "The Green Ninja."
  • Interestingly, Garmadon's Destruction Spinjitzu is shown to have a Lightning-like appearance only when fully corrupted by the Great Devourer's venom and transformed following the Battle Between Brothers. In the episodes that came afterwards, his Spinjitzu lacked this electrical design (except when enhanced as Forbidden Spinjitzu).
• Jay's LEGO.com description for Rebooted stated, "When Jay uses his electrical powers to his fullest, he creates 1.21 gigawatts."^[16] However, this may not be canon.^[17]
  • 1.21 gigawatts is a reference to the power input required to operate the DeLorean time machine from the Back to the Future trilogy.
• Lightning seems to be one of the three Elements (along with Energy and Fire) besides Water that are capable of harming ghosts. This was shown when Jay electrocuted Wrayth, causing him to release Zane and fall into the Endless Sea.
  • Another time, in "Chaos Reigns", Jay managed to take out Zarkt's ghost form in the Cave of Bells in Mysterium using his Mech Dragon despite it not being coated in Prismatic Ore.
• In the story about Jay that Fugi-Dove made up in "The Absolute Worst", Jay was shown riding on lightning and creating lightning ropes, although these are purely a part of Fugi-Dove's imagination.
• Nuckal and Krazi are affiliated with Lightning in promotional material and the Ninjago Spinners game, though this is non-canon.
  • Nuckal briefly did have access to Lightning via the Nunchucks of Lightning in "The New Masters of Spinjitzu."
• When asked about which element he would like to have, Tommy Andreasen said, "I kind of like lightning. Ever since I saw the Emperor do that in Return of the Jedi in 1983."^[18]
• Jay has been zapped by lightning a few times, in "Kingdom Come", "On a Wish and a Prayer", and "Sweatin' to the Goldies". This also happened in the issue 23 of the Ninjago Magazine. A ninja is also depicted being zapped by lightning on the spinner card, Power Surge.
  • Characters will often briefly appear as skeletons when zapped with lightning. This is seen happening to the Stone Swordsmen in "The Last Hope," Spitta in "Green and Gold," Cole in "Krag's Lament," and Jay in the aforementioned "Sweatin' to the Goldies."
• One of the Ninjago Magazine shows that Lightning is able to go against Cinder's Shatterspin, though this comic is non-cannon.
• Tommy Andreasen once stated in 2021 that, regarding Wojira's Fury of the Storm ability, "It takes wind (or quake) and water to produce a wave. It takes wind, water and lightning to make a perfect storm."^[19] Years later, a fan asked Doc Wyatt on Bluesky if it could be assumed, according to Tommy's statement, that both Quake and Lightning were directly a part of this ability, to which Doc simply responded, "I buy this."^[20] Later, he clarified stating that while Quake was not connected to this ability (specifically its aspects of Wave and Storm), Lightning is.^[21]
  • This implies a potential connection between Lightning and Storm that fits with the appearance of Storm and Fury of the Storm even if only Wind and Water are mentioned in the show. Kai even compares the Stone Guardians's Storm with Jay's Lightning in "The Keepers of the Amulet."
• Chris "Doc" Wyatt stated that the Source Dragon imprisoned by Imperium is not "the Lightning Source Dragon"^[22] because even if he is the source of Lightning, his true title is the "Source dragon of Energy".^[1]
  • It was eventually revealed that the Source Dragon of Energy is the source of Lightning.^[1]
• Of the four Elements of Creation, Lightning has the least known Elemental Masters, having only two.

Gallery[]

In LEGO form[]

Promotional media[]

In Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu[]

Season 1: Rise of the Snakes[]

Season 2: Legacy of the Green Ninja[]

Season 3: Rebooted[]

Season 4: Tournament of Elements[]

Season 5: Possession[]

Season 6: Skybound[]

Dark Island Trilogy[]

Day of the Departed[]

Season 7: The Hands of Time[]

Season 8: Sons of Garmadon[]

Season 9: Hunted[]

Tales from the Monastery of Spinjitzu[]

Season 10: March of the Oni[]

Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu[]

Season 12: Prime Empire[]

Season 13: Master of the Mountain[]

The Island[]

Season 14: Seabound[]

Ninjago: Reimagined[]

The Virtues of Spinjitzu[]

Season 15: Crystalized[]

In Ninjago: Dragons Rising[]

Season 1[]

Season 2[]

Season 3[]

Season 4[]

In Quest for the Lost Powers[]

In other media[]

The Weekend Whip (15th Anniversary mix)[]

Translations[]

Language	Name
Chinese (Simplified)	电
Czech	Blesk
Dutch	Bliksem
Finnish	Salama
French	Foudre
German	Blitz
Hungarian	Villám
Italian	Fulmine
Japanese	イナズマ
Polish	Błyskawice
Portuguese	Raio Relâmpago
Russian	Молния
Slovak	Blesk
Spanish (Latin America)	Rayo Relámpago (Dragons Rising 3)
Spanish (Spain)	Rayo Luz ("The Gift of Jay"; translation error)
Ukrainian	Блискавка
Turkish	Yıldırım

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