- "You think you're better than me? NO ONE'S BETTER THAN ME!"
- ―Morro after Lloyd's return in "Cursed World, Part 2"
Morro is a minifigure from Ninjago theme that was released in 2015. He is the main antagonist for Season Five. He was a former student of Sensei Wu and the Elemental Master of Wind.
Description
Morro's robed version has Severus Snape's hair, with a green streak dyed into it in the show. He has a transparent green face with a black half mask on it. His black cape is ragged. He has a dark green torso, similar to the original ninja Gi and with a ghost Golden Ninja emblem. His legs are transparent green and have a belt on them.
Background
The Master of Wind
When Morro was a boy, he was homeless and ate food out of dumpsters. One day, he tried finding food in Sensei Wu's dumpster. However, Wu found him and gave him food from his monastery. Wu then trained Morro to become a ninja. After seeing his wind powers, Wu assumed that he was destined to become the Green Ninja, a powerful warrior destined to defeat the Dark Lord. The Wind Master was obsessed by the title and for his final challenge, he needed to step near the Golden Weapons. If the weapons reacted with a green aura, it would confirm he is the Green Ninja. However, the Golden Weapons did not. Morro was then angry as he escaped from the monastery and fought the Grundle to prove the position. After being rescued by Sensei Wu, Morro informed him that he will find the tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master, what Wu could not, to prove he really is the Green Ninja. He was never seen afterwards and it is unknown how he was banished to the Cursed Realm.
The Return
In Corridor of Elders, Garmadon sacrifices himself to the Cursed Realm, releasing the spirits of the Anacondrai generals. However, a dark cloud also appeared from the sky and headed into the screen, with the ghost of the Wind Master screaming "Morro!".
Possession
In Winds of Change, Morro possesses the Green Ninja and fights his former master and the ninja. During the Ninja's escape, he pursues him using the Morro Dragon.
In Ghost Story, The ninja still make their escape from Morro. The Morro dragon makes a blasted hole in the Destiny's Bounty 2.0 sending Kai out of the ship. Luckily Zane and Sensei Wu manage to rescue him, although they lost Sensei Wu's staff. Morro rushes to get the staff and manages to get it which gives him the opportunity to see the ninja's vessel hurdling down from the sky about to crash.
At Yang Tavern, he summons Wrayth back into Ninjago and sends him to defeat the Ninja.
In Stiix and Stones, Morro begins searching for the Scroll of Airjitzu; he traces it to the City on Water which is specifically located at Ronin's location. He summons Soul Archer to get to the scroll.
Both of them later hold Ronin hostage, but the ninja also came for the same thing. Morro then summons more of his Ghost Warriors to attack them. Ronin manages to get free by one of the Aeroblade's tips touching the rope which cut it. Ronin then finds the chance to escape and Morro and the Ninja chase after the scroll.
Later in the pursuit, Morro manages to get the scroll and escapes with it leaving the ninja chasing after him. The ninja slowly get divided one by one leaving Kai the last one to chase Morro. Although, Morro was at a distance where he can't be reached and unlocks the technique of Airjitzu and escapes on his dragon leaving the Ninja helpless.
In The Temple on Haunted Hill, Morro heads to a unknown location about to attack Samurai X's Cave. He summons Bansha, Ghoultar, and Soul Archer to help him on the mission.
When Nya and Ronin arrive at Nya's base, they find out that Morro and the Ghost Generals have somehow made it to the cave first. The ghosts patrol the cave to make sure no one entered the cave. Nya then goes on attack and summons her mech; Morro sends out his generals to attack the mech.
Later, Nya shoots out a sticky bomb on Morro which turns out to be the Allied Armor of Azure. Outraged, Morro sends out his ghosts to hold the mech down. The ghosts manage to (although Nya manages to escape) get the mech and transform it into the Mech-Enstein. Ronin and Nya manages to escape from being sliced by the mech. Although when Ronin was close to the mech, the Ghosts trap them. Then Nya used her power of summoning rain to ward off the ghosts making them retreat. Morro was the only ghost not to be effected by the rain.
Morro was seen in Sensei Yang's Haunted Temple who lured them to the attic of the temple where he revealed to be Sensei Yang in disguise.
In Peak-A-Boo, Morro and his ghost army travel to a snowy peak where the portal to Cloud Kingdom is. Morro attempts to get to the top, but was countlessly delayed by the ninja. When Morro reached the top of the peak, he saw the ninja get to the portal first by using their Airjitzu.
Notes
- He has an army of Ghost Ninja, including Wrayth.
- His name is referenced to Kirby Morrow, an actor who voices Cole, Lou, Mr. Pale, and various characters from Ninjago
- Ironically, he is not voiced by said actor.
- Morro wore a similar robe that resembles Green Ninja's Zen Extreme outfit.
- So far, Morro is the only known person to use the Allied Armour of Azure
- He can also summon an elemental dragon at will, though this could've been because of his possession of Lloyd and thus gaining the same abilities.
- In Season 5's description, it's revealed that Morro has a master known as The Preeminent and is trying to free her from the Cursed Realm by finding the First Spinjitzu Master's tomb. This scheme was to prove not only was he the rightful Green Ninja, but also curse those who he believed betrayed him from giving him the title.
- There is an animation error in episode 46, when Morro stands with the golden weapons on the floor. The Sword of Fire is replaced with an ordinary golden katana, and it can be seen when the weapons are shown on the ground. While this is obviously an error by the animators, it would mean in theory that even if Morro was indeed the Green Ninja, the weapons wouldn't react to him, since they are all not present.
- Morro might reference Tai Lung from the Kung Fu Panda franchise. He also shares some traits with him.
- They were both trained as kids by their master (Morro trained by Sensei Wu; Tai Lung trained by Master Shifu)
- They were both believed to be a legendary warrior by their master but was not (Morro the Green Ninja; Tai Lung, the Dragon Warrior) and replaced with another student (Lloyd as the Green Ninja; Po as the Dragon Warrior).
- They both disappeared for a long time (Morro was banished to the Cursed Realm after finding out he was not the Green Ninja; Tai Lung who was struck in rage and was stuck in Chor-Gom Prison for twenty years).
- Apparently in Episode 51, it's revealed that there was a skeleton of Morro's original body before he became a ghost in a chamber inside the Caves of Despair. Although, it's unknown how he was sent to the Cursed Realm.
- In the final episode, Morro redeems himself when told he was equally prized by Sensei Wu and not cast out alone. Realizing his faults and reasons for being unworthy to be the Master of Power, he sacrifices himself in giving the Realm Crystal to his former sensei so he may at least save Lloyd.
- As a child, Morro's outfit is a darker version of Lloyd´s ZX outfit.
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