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| “ | Maybe not, but I am her son. And I made a promise, to stand up to tyrants like you. Always! | „ |
| ~ Cole to the Skull Sorcerer in "The Son of Lilly". |
Cole Brookstone is one of the main protagonists of the Ninjago franchise. He is the Black Ninja and Master of Earth who was one of five chosen warriors to protect the Green Ninja.
He was voiced by the late Kirby Morrow from the Pilot Episodes to Season 14: Seabound, who also voiced his father Lou, Mr. Pale, and Gravis in the same series, Miroku from Inuyasha, and Teru Mikami from Death Note.
He is currently voiced by Andrew Francis, who also voices Morro and Shade in the same series, Shining Armor from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Tatsuma Sakamoto from Gintama°, Max Mcgrath from Max Steel, Linden and Prince Kieran in the Barbie series, MegaMan.EXE from Mega Man NT Warriors, Vert Wheeler in Hot Wheels: Acceleracers, Gil Nexdor in Johnny Test, Lin Chung in Hero 108, Ty Rux in Dinotrux, and Kord Zane from Slugterra, while in the Lego: Ninjago movie, he is voiced by Fred Armisen.
Other portrayals[]
- In the LEGO Ninjago: Nindroids handheld game, LEGO Dimensions, and LEGO Ninjago: Shadows of Ronin, he is voiced Roger Craig Smith who voice Sonic the Hedgehog, Thomas in Regular Show, and Hawkodile and Richard in Unikitty!
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Cole was born as the son of a member of a barbershop music group, Lou and previous elemental master of Earth, Lilly. Wu was also present when Lilly kept her son lying in her bed.
When Cole was three years old, his mother told him the moon was made out of green cheese.
When Cole was five, he would often sneak out at night to watch his parents dance on the terrace of their house.
When Cole was six, his history teacher told him the storm god Wohira had created the moon out of a crystallized bolt of lightning. Though at first Cole felt his mother had lied to him, he realized she had not lied, just given him the truth that would make sense at the time.
At some point, Lilly and Lou danced in a dance class while Cole watched them from behind the door.
Eventually, Lilly became sick. Cole and Lou visited her, and Cole went up to Lilly and hugged her. After Cole told Lilly that he didn't want her to be sick anymore, Lilly replied that we don't always get what we want. She then said that Lou told her Cole had gotten in trouble at school, to which Cole admitted. Cole told her how he got into a fight with a bully picking on younger children, and he continued on by promising to Lilly that he wouldn't fight again. However, Lilly was proud of him standing up to the bully. She made Cole promise to always stand up to those who are cruel and unjust, which Cole accepted.
Ninjago[]
Of all candidates, Master Wu choose Cole along with Jay, Zane, Kai, Lloyd and Nya for training. The five became close friends over the course of their training. They would go on to fight against the Serpentine and later the Stone Army. After Lloyd defeated The Overlord and his father was purified of evil, peace resumed until Pythor returned to aiding The Overlord in becoming the Golden Master and commanding the Nindroid army. It was during this time of peace that Jay and Cole began to form affections for Nya. The conflict would come to an abrupt end when Zane sacrificed himself to vanquish The Overlord.
Cole and his compatriots parted ways with Zane gone; However the team would reunite upon finding that Zane survived. Cole and the Ninja traveled to Chen's Island to compete in the Tournament of Elements. During the Tournament Cole would make amends with Jay over their competing affections towards Nya. The Ninja would ally with the Elemental Masters to fight the army of Chen. After the campaign, the Ninja battled a legion of malevolent spirits lead by the evil Morro, of the Cursed Realm.
In an effort to learn Airjitzu, the Ninja went to Yang's Airjitzu Temple. After accidentally dropping the scroll, Cole turned into a ghost. Even after his transmogrification, Cole did what he could to aid his still living friends in defeating a barrage of hostile ghosts. After the battle in the city of Stiix, Nadakhan the Djinn appeared from the Teapot of Tyrahn and planned to arrest the Ninja after discovering the status of the Realm Crystal as told by Cyrus Borg's Infovison. Once Cole and his allies escaped from Kryptarium Prison, Captain Soto told them about the one thing that can slow a Djinn down: the Tiger Widow venom, which is located on one island where the Tiger Venom spider resides. During a mission to rescue Jay and stop Nadakhan, the remaining Ninja used all of their wishes and soon get captured by Nadakhan with his blade, the Sword of Souls (except for Jay and Nya). The events of Season 6 would later be undone by a mystical wish made by Jay.
Going back to the Day of the Departed, Cole found Yang was responsible for turning him into a ghost. Yang had tricked Cole into opening the Departed Realm - which revived the Ninjas' old enemies. As his allies fought the villains, Cole fought off Yang and his students. Once Cole allowed Yang's students to make amends with Yang, changing them to humans. Cole himself traveled through the Rift of Return, becoming human once again, though he still has a ghostly scar across his forehead.
Cole joined his allies in battling the Time Twins and their Vermillion army, as well as seeking the powerful Time Blades. Although their enemies were defeated, Wu was lost in the time vortex but was rediscovered a year later in the form of a baby by Cole, as he liked to drink tea and wouldn't drink anything else. Cole protected the de-aged Wu from a notorious gang that resurrected Lord Garmadon, and the two were later stranded in the Realm of Oni and Dragons with the original ninja looking for a way home. After the defeat of Iron Baron (the leader of the Dragon Hunters), Cole, along with the other four ninja and Wu (now the Dragon Master), returned home with the help of the Dragons. They managed to defeat the Colossus while Lloyd defeated his father, saving Ninjago once again.
Cole fights alongside his friends to defend against the Oni invasion but falls into the darkness attempting to rescue citizens. However, he survives and comes to the monastery to defeat the Oni and witness Jay ask Nya to be his Yang. Months later, Cole and his friends fight against Aspheera and her Pyro Vipers after accidentally releasing them from their tomb. After Zane is banished by Aspheera's sorcery, he and the remaining ninja send themselves to the Never-Realm in order to rescue him. While Lloyd went to find Zane, Cole and the others protected the Ice Fishers of Great Lake. Cole befriended Krag the Yeti in the mountains, who led him to the Traveler's Tree, allowing them to use its berries to a potent enough dose of tea to go back home. The ninja fight Boreal the Ice Dragon, and discover that Zane is the Ice Emperor. With Zane having managed to return to his senses in a fight with Lloyd and freeing the Never-Realm from its eternal winter, the team reunites and use Traveler's Tea to head back to their home realm.
Sometime later, Cole and the other ninja enter the virtual world of Prime Empire when the legendary arcade game resurfaces, and hundreds of gamers are zapped into it. He and Kai sacrifice their last of their four lives to save Jay, Nya, and Lloyd in the Speedway Five-Billion. Eventually, Jay moves on to convince Unagami to free everyone trapped in the game, and Cole, as well as the other ninja, gamers, and NPCs are freed.
Afterward, Cole travels to the Kingdom of Shintaro on top of Shintaro, where he discovers Dungeons that were made by an evil sorcerer Hazza D'ur underneath the mountain and the evil Skull Sorcerer. He gets captured but is later saved by the other ninja. He returns to the surface, but the King, Vangelis, reveals that he is actually the Skull Sorcerer, and banishes him, Princess Vania, and Wu to Rock-Bottom. There, they meet the Lowly. Together they escape from Rock-Bottom, and Cole faces the Skull Sorcerer, unlocking the power of the Spinjitzu Burst, defeating the Skull Sorcerer, and fulfilling a promise he made to his mother, Lilly. Cole, Wu, and the other ninja later leave Shintaro but prepare to go on another adventure.
Cole traveled to The Island of the Keepers to save Misako and Wu. There, the ninja discovered the Storm Amulet and the existence of Wojira.
When Nya lost control of her powers, he stayed behind at the monastery along with Kai while the others went to investigate. Later on, he attempted to stop Kalmaar from awakening Wojira, but ultimately failed and he assisted the other ninja in the fight that followed. He was saddened when Nya left, and attended her memorial, as well as silently comforting Jay during this time.
One year later, Cole unites the ninja team to solve a Vengestone hoarding from some henchmen, but they run into and form a rivalry between the New Ninja. Later, after realizing a way to bring Nya back, Jay and Cole break into Borg Tower to steal Aspheera's staff, but were unsuccessful. The ninja, however, manage to stow a truck containing it and allow Aspheera, who was freed by Kai, Zane and Lloyd, to steal Nya's powers and become human again. At a cost though, the ninja become criminals and are placed in Kryptarium Prison. When hearing word about the Overlord, now known as the Crystal King, is summoning the ninja's worst enemies against them, the ninja break out of prison thanks to Dareth, and have Lloyd go undercover with the Council of the Crystal King. As the ninja search for Lloyd under the N line, the tunnel is blown up by Crystal Spiders and are trapped under rubble until they are saved by Nya in her Samurai X Mech, and the ninja regroup at the Samurai X Cave to save Lloyd and plan to stop the Overlord's invasion and save Ninjago. Eventually, Cole and the original ninja unlock their Dragon Forms, reclaim their Golden Weapons and unite them to prevent the Overlord from corrupting them, becoming crystalized in the process. However, the powers formed the Golden Ultra Dragon and defeated the Overlord, freeing everyone from the Overlord's reign. Cole and the other ninja, alongside their allies, rebuilt the Monastery of Spinjitzu.
Several weeks later, Cole moved to a farming village, where a dispute was in progress, and thanks to his visiting father and the farmers, he regains his powers in the process before leaving the village with his father.
Ninjago: Dragons Rising[]
Later after the Merge, Cole was separated from his fellow ninja, and woke up in the Land of Lost Things, where he encountered a Munce exile named Geo and started to protect the children living there from a creature called the Hoarder, using his powers to transform into a golem, which he thought was powered up from Geo's Fusionpowers. One such encounter, he attacked three suspicious individuals before discovering Nya was one of them and learn the Claws of Imperium were after the Dragon Core, which is stolen by Dr. LaRow. When time came to attack Imperium, Cole stayed behind, only to start following Sprite, who was projecting Wu's voice.
At some point, he returned to the monastery upon learning Kreel had been gathering Chronosteel to sell in her junkyard, but prevented her after Lobbo was infected by a dangerous artifact. Later, Cole helped the other ninja stopping the Mechanic from stealing mechs in the Mech Master 5000 and stopped Lava-Tides from stealing dragon eggs.
After finishing his mission, Cole returned to the Land of Lost Things, where he found out that the Wolf Clan planned to abduct Bonzle and exploit her to unlock a gateway for the Forbidden Five's release. In order to protect her, Cole and Zane embarked on a journey to Mysterium to find Bonzle's creator, Gandalaria. Sespite the help of the sorceress, Bonzle is finally kidnapped by Jordana in the Wyldness. Eventually, Cole, Zane, and Gandalaria joined forces to save the Cloud Kingdom from imminent destruction while the others prevent the Blood Moon Ritual, at the cost of Kai and Bonzle being banished to the Nether-Space. When three Arc dragons were murdered sole time later, Cole joined the ninja as they participate in the Tournament of the Sources, where he battles Arin's old friend, Frak, and loses, but gives him advice during the latter's battle against Zur. Guided by a light, Cole comes across the Monastery of Gates where he learns from Wu's ghost that he was responsible for the Merge. After Nokt won the tournament, Cole and the ninja attempted to stop the former as he released the rest of the Forbidden Five before Nya was able to free Kai and Bonzle with Riyu's help, and Nokt had the seized powers stripped and returned to their rightful owners before watching the Forbidden Five, along with Ras and Arin, escape through a portal gate, which became destroyed.
Appearance[]
Cole has a muscular body, as a result of his past as a rock climber, being the strongest of the ninja even without his Elemental Power, though it does give him his super-strength, and has the basic yellow flesh of a LEGO character. He has medium length, shaggy black hair and bushy eyebrows, and from Season 8 to 10, a more relaxed look to his eyes. Before Season 8, his hair was shorter and swept to the left. His eyebrows were thinner and woollier.
As a ghost, Cole's body was no longer tangible. His skin was a pale green and the rest of his body was transparent. He was outlined by a pale green streak and appeared to glow like other ghosts do. During Day of the Departed, Cole was thrown into the rift to the Departed Realm by Yang, restoring his humanity. However, since Cole barely made it out, he received a ghostly green scar going down the left side of his face. Starting from Season 8, his scar is no longer visible (probably because time let it heal itself) but when he uses the Earth Punch, it reappears as orange. As of Season 11, the scar now looks longer.
Personality[]
Cole used to be more uptight and strategic, disapproving of Kai's impulsiveness. Before meeting Wu, Cole lacked direction and purpose. At this time, his mother just passed away and he was struggling to take care of the family himself. As a ninja, Cole thoroughly enjoys helping others in need and feels accomplished with a job well done.
In the pilot episodes, Cole insisted he was without fear, though Zane quickly pointed out his fear of dragons. When the ninja had to recruit their dragons, Cole awkwardly stood on top of the Earth Dragon instead of properly mounting him. Despite his initial hesitance, he grew to accept the Earth Dragon, even learning to care for him more than the other ninja cared for theirs. He was also worried to face his dad and dance in Season 1. He had a fear of ghosts in Season 5, which he was also able to overcome after turning into a ghost and facing Master Yang. This was the same with singing in front of people in Season 8. Cole has had the most fears expressed and conquered, despite acting like the bravest of the ninja.
Cole may act out of instinct or impulse without thinking first, as seen in "Wishmasters", where two of his wishes went to waste.
He is shown to have fatherly tendencies, caring for baby Wu as his own in Season 8, even going to the extent of calling him Cole Jr. before figuring out the baby's identity. He was often shown being protective of the deaged Wu as well, examples being when he attempted to threaten Ultra Violet should she harm the child, running into the ninja's cabin to protect him when the Bounty crashed, and making sure the deaged Wu was safely hidden behind a rock before joining the other ninja in using his Spinjitzu. Throughout the season, Cole was his main caretaker. Another example of these tendencies was in Season 11, where Cole threatened Krag with a parent-like punishment: to not let him play video games.
Cole has kept a strong relationship with his father, Lou, ever since Season 1. Before, he would lie to his father through letters about his dance practice, not wanting to disappoint him. Whenever the Royal Blacksmiths would be performing, Cole would point out his dad proudly. Since then as well, Cole has been more confident in his dancing and singing. He occasionally does the move Triple Tiger Sashay in a fight and in Season 8, he openly sang.
He also has addictive tendencies, mainly his love for cake. He has also shown these same tendencies towards noodles from Chen's Noodle House. In general, Cole seems to have a great love for food and eating, despite being shown to be a terrible cook in Season 1. Sometimes he eats without thinking though, like when Dareth hid weapons in a cake for them, or eating the fortune cookie without taking out the fortune. In Season 9, the others joked about how he might be overweight, but Cole points out how he had shown a lot of self restraint in Seasons 8 and 9 by staying away from cake, even stating that "his body is a temple".
At the beginning of Season 8, Jay comments that Cole has become a party pooper since Master Wu had gone missing after Season 7. This was due to Cole giving up cake. It seems like a drastic change for him, and may be inferred that the loss of Wu affected Cole immensely. Similarly, the death of his mother, Lilly, prior to the series, impacted him and forced him to become more responsible at a younger age, explaining his tendency to become a leader and take more responsibility to deal with loss.
He and Zane are the most serious and focused of the ninja. However, that does not stop him from allowing his one-track mind or competitiveness to get the best of him. Once he really sets his mind to something, he will remain interested in it until it is fulfilled.
Cole is one to put himself at risk before his friends, as shown when he gave Jay the Jadeblade during Season 4. He has shown sympathy toward Zane, Lloyd, young Wu and Jay when they were melancholic. However, when trying to comfort his allies, he seems to have difficulty finding the correct words to do so, only able to accomplish the task with the example of his teammates. He always encourages his friends to do the right things but tries not to force them. This happened with Jay in Season 6 and Wu in Season 9. If it comes down to it though, he will try to solve the problem. He tends to be patient and give others the benefit of the doubt, as seen in "Scavengers" when he told the others to not be so hard on Lloyd, who was trying to lead at the time.
Sometimes Cole is shown to not think things through. One of these occurrences was in Day of the Departed when he was bitter about being turned into a ghost and went into the temple to face off against Yang alone. He realized the depths of his actions and the effect they had on his friends and felt guilty, though in the end he managed to get past his inner turmoil and defeat Yang. He showed understanding to Yang's plight and was able to get him to overcome his pain and attempted to get him to go through the rift with him.
Cole has been shown to make allies easily. Examples of this include Master Yang, Krag in the Never-Realm, and the Upply in Shintaro. Cole seems to be very understanding and willing to help those who need it. Cole is also never willing to leave someone behind, as shown in Season 4 with the factory workers and eliminated Elemental Masters. This was an early example in the show of his promise to his mother to "always stand up to those who are cruel and unjust", even though the phrase was never shown until Season 13.
Rarely does Cole back down from a fight, for better or worse. When Jay aggravated Cole about Nya, Cole was willing to fight back. However, it doesn't seem like it was about Nya as much as it was about seeing who was the better of the two. However, in the end his maturity manages to shine through, with him finally ending the fight in the Tournament of Elements. Since then, Cole is proud to be considered Jay's best friend and is shown to return this friendship.
Season 11 showed how sensitive Cole is to keep his friends happy and how he hates letting them down. This is most evident when Cole felt extreme guilt for losing the Traveler's Tea. He also seemed like a pretty good artist, making some pretty well-drawn ninja puppets to tell the kids stories about Aspheera and how the ninja got into the Never-Realm. The other times we see drawings from him are the ones hanging in Lilly's room when he was younger in Season 13 and in Season 1 when Nya was explaining the venom of the Venomari.
In Season 12, he and Kai heroically both sacrificed themselves for the others to win the Speedway Five-Billion. Both Jay and Cole in this season were shown to be the video game experts on the team.
Cole has a lot of ideas that seem to typically be shot down or cause doubt. In Season 4, as he tried to find the trigger for a secret passage in Kai's suite, the other ninja questioned him. Later in the season as he and the factory workers plan an escape, his plan of rolling into giant egg rolls was rejected. His argument against a Roto Jet was also ignored. In Season 13, Cole seeing a purple creature in his bedroom wasn't believed by the ninja or Wu. Later, Cole tries to lead Master Wu, Vania, and the Lowly out of the mountain by making choices like riding the minecart and using the stone mech to push it. Not only was there doubt, but when they barely succeeded each time, Cole would claim dizzily, "Another great idea!"
Cole has a lot of confidence in his super strength. In Season 4 after Chen took his elemental power, Cole yelled that they couldn't take his super strength, in which he was quickly proven wrong. This happened again when the ninja were put in jail. In Season 8, his advice to Lloyd to impress Harumi was to act tough and flex his muscles.
Skills and Abilities[]
Cole uses his Earth element against Frak.
- Earth: Cole commands the element of Earth, giving him great physical strength and durability, which he primarily uses. He can stand his ground to a supernatural degree and enemies frequently act as though they have hit a person-shaped brick wall when they bump into him. At full power, he can manipulate the earth below his feet, causing earthquakes, creating fissures, throwing rocks and dust at enemies, or even burying things in rapidly-rising mounds of dirt.
- Earth Punch: After defeating Yang, Cole obtains superhuman strength, even more so than before. This is seen in use when his arms glow orange. Cole himself doesn't even know the extent of this new ability, nor is he an expert at controlling its power. At times, his hands appear to have a mind of their own when the power is activated. But over time he manages to control it and summon it at will, but it is shown that if he becomes lazy and doesn't train, it loses its ability.
- Spinjitzu: Like his fellow ninja, he can also perform Spinjitzu, channeling the power of Earth. He can combine his Earth Punch with Spinjitzu to make a magma trail.
- Spinjitzu Burst: In contrast to the other ninja, Cole possesses the unique ability to execute the Spinjitzu Burst. Initially, Cole harbored reservations regarding his mother's capacity to perform the technique until he recollected the promise he had made to her to stand up for what is right.
- Forbidden Spinjitzu: By holding a Scroll of Forbidden Spinjitzu, Cole is capable of performing Forbidden Spinjtizu.
- Airjitzu: Cole can perform Airjitzu.
- Elemental Dragon: Like all other Elemental Masters who managed to overcome their fears, Cole is capable of summoning his own Elemental Earth Dragon at will.
- Elemental Golem: Sometime after the Merge, Cole obtained the ability to transform into a golem, using his Earth Punch and surrounding rocks.
Cole uses his Triple Tiger Sashay on the Red Visors.
- Dancing: After coming to terms with his dancing heritage, Cole gains a surprising amount of grace and flexibility, allowing him to wriggle out of tight spaces when he relaxes himself.
- Triple Tiger Sashay: His new agility also enables him to perform the Triple Tiger Sashay, which is effective against multiple opponents or for getting himself out of trouble.
- Ghost Physiology (formerly): As he used to be a ghost, Cole had the following abilities:
- Possession: As a ghost, Cole could possess materials like snow, objects like a keyhole, and mechanisms like the Ice Mech.
- Intangibility: Cole also had the ability to phase through solid objects, but become solid himself if he concentrates.
- Levitation: Cole could levitate if he concentrates hard enough.
- Invisibility: Cole could become invisible if he concentrates, but is still visible to paranormal scanners.
- Combat: Because of his training with Wu, Cole is formidable fighter and is able to take on multiple opponents with his Spinjitzu. He is also capable of performing hand-to-hand combat against Serpentine, Stone Warriors, and Nindroids. He manage to defeat several Elemental Masters during the Tournament of Elements despite having a stomach ache.
- Art of the Silent Fist: Under Master Garmadon, Cole learned the Art of the Silent Fist.
- Stealth: Being a ninja, Cole is able to sneak into places without being noticed.
Trivia[]
- Cole is similar to Kazuto Kirigaya/Kirito from Sword Art Online.
- Both share the same appearance of having black hair and black clothing. They also share the same signature color (black).
- Both of them love to play video games, and they are also skilled at them.
- They were once trapped in video games with final bosses as the main antagonists (Kirito against Akihiko Kayaba in "Sword Art Online", and Cole against Unagami in "Prime Empire").
- Both are able to wield two swords in combat (Kirito with the Elucidator and the Dark Repulser, and Cole with the Blades of Deliverance).
- Both of their mothers died during childhood. The difference is that Cole's mother died from an unknown illness, while Kirito's mother died in an accident.
- Cole is also similar to Danny Fenton from Danny Phantom.
- Both Danny Fenton and Cole have black hair.
- Both have ghost powers.
- However, Danny kept his ghost powers in his series while Cole loses his ghost powers after becoming fully human once again.
- In "Double Trouble," it is revealed that he loves cake.
- His favorite color is orange, but he doesn't want to tell anyone about it.
- Cole's voice actor Kirby Morrow is one of the first main actors of the series who passed away.
- Cole is the second character to have a new voice actor: Andrew Francis who voices Morro: the Elemental Master of Wind and Shade: the Elemental Master of Shadow; the first voice actor was Sam Vincent who currently voices Lloyd Garmadon who was previously voiced by Jillian Michaels, who also voiced Kai and Nya's mother: Maya.
- Both Sam Vincent and Andrew Francis: Lloyd's and Cole's voice actors were on Max Steel as Max McGrath & Steel, Voltron Forces as Pidge and Lance, and Slugterra as Eli Shane & Kord Zane, along Junjie (voiced by Vincent Tong who voices Kai)
External Links[]
- Cole on the Ninjago Wiki
- Cole on the Pure Good Wiki
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