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| “ | If you want something so bad, don't wish for it to happen; make it happen! | „ |
| ~ Jay. |
| “ | You're angry! I get it. You were abandoned by your maker! I was abandoned by my parents, too! I'm just like you! I never understood why, and I never had the chance to even ask. But I always hoped there was a good reason. What if there's a reason? | „ |
| ~ Jay reasoning with Unagami. |
| “ | I worked for the Administration. Head of the Department of Realm Reassignment. What do you think I did there? I know exactly where Arin's parents were reassigned. And it's really... really weird. | „ |
| ~ Jay to the ninja about Arin's parents in The Shatter Dragon. |
Jay Walker, born Jay Gordon, is one of the main protagonists of the Ninjago franchise. He is the current Elemental Master of Lightning, Nya's boyfriend and yin, and the adoptive son of Ed and Edna Walker, surrendered by his biological parents, Cliff Gordon and his wife.
Following the Merge, he ended up in a place known as The Adminstration, where he has been working for a mysterious agency for a year, and has no memories of being ninja. While on the hunt to recover Zane, Jay encounters Bonzle, only for Sprite to ambush him and attempt to get him to recover his memories, only enough to recover his powers before it attempted to continue as he tries to resist. Jay would later be recruited by Ras to join the Wolf Clan and participate in the Tournament of the Sources as part of his master plan. During the tournament, Jay, powered by Shatterspin, found himself pitted against Nya, whom he dosen't Recognize due to his memory loss. Ultimately, Jay loses his powers when he was defeated by Nya in the tournament. Following his defeat, Ras dismissed Jay, who expressed his hatred for Nya before leaving.
He is voiced by Michael Adamthwaite, who also voiced King Kristoff from Barbie in Princess Power. In the LEGO Ninjago: Nindroids handheld game, he was voiced by Mick Wingert and in LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin, he was voiced by Kerry Shale and was the voice for Thor in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow.
Biography[]
Ninjago[]
Jay met Master Wu while testing his glider and learned Spinjitzu under his tutorship. In Wu's monastery, he met his other teammates - Kai, Zane and Cole, with whom he embarked on many adventures, battling the likes of the Serpentine and the Stone Army. During this time, Jay formed a romantic relationship with Kai's sister, Nya.
After Lloyd defeated the Overlord, peace resumed until The Overlord returned and created an army of Nindroids that were made from Zane's blueprints. A love triangle formed between Jay, Nya, and Cole, which remained after Zane seemingly died. The ninja parted ways after Zane's death, but upon learning of his survival, they journeyed to Chen's Island and entered the Tournament of Elements. Cole made amends with Jay over his relationship with Nya, and the ninja and Elemental Masters fought the Anacondrai warriors. Soon after, Jay would help the ninja battle Morro and a legion of cursed spirits while learning another martial art called Airjitzu, and they were then faced with Nadakhan, who trapped many of the ninja in his sword. Jay and Nya battled the Sky Pirates, but when Nya was poisoned by the Tiger Widow venom and killed, Jay used his last wish to undo the recent events.
On the Day of the Departed, Jay and his parents were attacked by a revived Samukai, who Jay defeated with help from Ronin. Jay joined his allies in battling the Time Twins and the Vermillion, as well as seeking the powerful Time Blades. Though their enemies were defeated, Wu was lost in the Temporal vortex.
A year later, Jay helped battle a notorious gang that resurrected Lord Garmadon and was ultimately stranded in an Realm of Oni and Dragons with the other original ninja and Wu.
During their first week being stranded in the realm, Jay temporarily loses his sanity and ends up being captured by the Dragon Hunters along with Kai and Zane. After hearing Lloyd's voice on a radio, Jay regains his state of mind and devises a plan to free Zane, Kai, and himself from the Dragon Hunters, and designs a Firstbourne Mech to provide a distraction. They manage to escape with Cole and a growing Wu's assistance before meeting a Hunter named Faith who tells them about the Dragon Armor and they immediately head for it. Wu manages to find the armor and becomes the Golden Dragon Master, and with the Firstbourne and some dragons, they return home to Ninjago to help the Resistance defeat Colossus, while at the same time, Jay reunites with Nya.
Shortly afterward, Jay decides it's time to ask Nya to be his Yang. He sought out advice from Kai but his plans get put on hold when the Oni invade Ninjago. During the final battle at the Monastery, he finally mustered up the courage to ask Nya, which she happily agrees to. After using the Tornado of Creation on the Oni, Jay joins his fellow ninja in the creation of the new mural.
Months later, Jay 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, Jay and the others protected the Ice Fishers of Great Lake. 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 the berry Krag gave Cole to head back to their home realm.
Sometime later, Jay is the first of the ninja to enter the virtual world of Prime Empire, resulting in the legendary arcade game resurfacing and hundreds of gamers getting trapped in it. Jay becomes known as Superstar Rockin' Jay to the League of Jay. The ninja enter in search of the Key-Tanas and Unagami, thinking that finding him would solve the situation. But, by the time the ninja get the last Key-Tana, Jay and Nya are the only surviving ninja left in the game. The duo progresses but Nya gets cubed in the process, which makes Jay distraught and the only ninja left, so he moves on to follow Unagami through the completed Manifestation Gate into Ninjago. He and Milton Dyer successfully console Unagami into releasing the formerly trapped gamers, as well as everyone who was formerly cubed, including the ninja (Kai, Cole, Lloyd, and Nya).
Later, Jay and the rest of his friends were invited to Shintaro in honor of Princess Vania's birthday. Shortly after arriving, the Ninja were forced to split up inside the mountain the kingdom lied on when they were under the attack of the Skull Sorcerer. During his time with the Munce who lived in the Dungeons of Shintaro, Jay was caught in a love triangle between Nya and Murtessa, the Queen of the Munce. He and his friends convinced the Munce to work with the Geckles and vice versa to defeat the Skull Sorcerer. They were successful and they departed on search for another adventure.
The Ninja then traveled to an Island in search of Wu and Misako. It was there that they were captured by the Keepers and Jay was hailed as the "Gift of Jay". Initially thinking they wanted him to be their king, Jay was delighted until realizing they wanted to sacrifice him to the ancient water serpent, Wojira. Fortunately, it was just a fake built by Ronin to steal the islanders' fortune and Jay and the other Ninja found Wu and Misako and made amends with the Keepers.
After Nya's powers go haywire during an attempt to stop a bunch of criminals, Jay and a few of the others traveled under the Endless Sea to investigate what could be the source of the problem. During the adventure, Jay would continuously comfort Nya over her problems. When they realized that the problem behind Nya's powers was Kalmaar trying to awaken Wojira with fake Storm Amulets, the Ninja did everything in their power to stop him from getting the real one. Despite their efforts, Kalmaar managed to awaken Wojira and Jay was left in critical condition due to inhaling a large amount of water, causing him to suffer from dry-drowning. Nya then decides to merge with the sea to draw the water out of Jay and defeats Kalmaar and Wojira. She then says goodbye to her friends as she dives into the ocean. Most saddened by her fate, Jay falls into depression.
A year after Nya's departure, Jay moved to Lighthouse Island and essentially became a hermit before learning from Nya that the only way to return her to normal is to remove her Elemental Power. While Kai, Zane and Lloyd break Aspheera out of Kryptarium, Jay and Cole fail to recover her staff, which is later revealed to be in the hands of the New Ninja, but manage to steal it, and return Nya back to normal before being arrested by them and sent to Kryptarium, where they learn of the Crystal King. After Nya and Dareth break them out, Jay, along with Cole and Lloyd, as well as fellow convict Fugi-Dove, separate from the others to evade the police and reunite at Twitchy Tim's gas station, where they form a plan to infiltrate the Council of the Crystal King.
Several weeks after the Overlord's defeat, Jay and Nya went on a vacation, where he stumbled upon Unagami before discovering a lost city and regains his powers while helping Unagami escape.
Ninjago: Dragons Rising[]
Following the Merge, Jay got separated from his friends and lost his memories of being a ninja. He found himself in the Administration, where he eventually became the manager of realm reassignment. While on the hunt to recover Zane, Jay encounters Bonzle, only for Sprite to ambush him and attempt to get him to recover his memories, but it only made him concerned about people discovering his Elemental Power of Lightning before it attempted to continue as he tries to resist.
Sometime later, Jay escaped from the Administration, and would later be recruited by Ras to join the Wolf Clan and participate in the Tournament of the Sources as part of his master plan. During the tournament, Jay, powered by Shatterspin, found himself pitted against Nya, whom he accused of dishonesty due to his memory loss. Ultimately, Jay suffered a brief loss of his Elemental Power when he was defeated by Nya in the tournament. Following his defeat, Ras dismissed Jay, who expressed his hatred for Nya before leaving into unknown parts.
After the tournament, Jay eventually regained his Elemental Powers thanks to Roby and became a bounty hunter under the alias Rogue. He would eventually be hired by Zeatrix to locate Ras and bring him to her. In the course of his mission, he found Ras and Arin deep within the World Forest. Due to the intervention of Drix who captured Ras, he, in his drive to finish his mission, ended up joining the Ninja at the battle against Thunderfang. Unfortunately, Jay sustained injuries during the fight and was subsequently brought back to the Monastery by Nya, where he discloses that Arin's parents are alive and were sent to the Land of Lee by the Department of Realm Reassignment.
After being taken back to the Monastery, Jay agrees to help Lloyd, Nya, and Wyldfyre find Arin's parents in exchange for money and acquiring Ras for Jay's client Zeatrix.
Appearance[]
Prior to Season 8, Jay had short, straight, reddish-brown hair, with a notch on his right eyebrow. In addition, he was not shown to have freckles.
In Season 8-onward, Jay has curly, light brown hair, generally wearing blue clothing to represent his Elemental color. He has light brown eyebrows and light freckles.
Personality[]
While a refined warrior, Jay is the most light-hearted of the ninja. He often tells jokes although of most are only amusing to him as a coping-mechanism for fear and/or anxiety. While his fellow ninja are easily annoyed by his frequent boasting, Jay remains a good friend to his team-mates. He is also somewhat high-strung and will almost always be the first to panic as danger presents itself.
Jay is fond of inventing - as his favored color is blue he color-codes his inventions when possible. As Jay was raised in a junkyard he can not help but see the potential in even minor everyday objects other might dismiss as junk or overlook all together. During his crush on Nya it was not uncommon for Jay to nervously stutter when around her.
After being stranded in The realm of Oni and Dragon, Jay had an apparent mental breakdown. He seemed oddly not stressed about anything and the other ninja quickly realized he had lost his sanity. Since than he has apparently returned to normal as evidenced by him freaking out when fighting in the Dragon Hunter Arena which indicates his breakdown was simply temporary and caused by stress.
In "Game Over," Jay reveals that deep down, he feels sad about his birth parents abandoning him in a junkyard, explaining to Unagami that he always wonders why they did it and hopes that it was for a good reason, if there's even a reason behind it all.
Nya's merge with the Endless Sea led to Jay suffering another mental breakdown, and he fell into a deep depression, to the point that he isolated himself, did not shave, and started collecting half-empty glasses of water and would speak to them, thinking Nya was in them. He was also defensive of them as when Kai spilt one by accident. Nya's return and reverting back to normal made Jay regain his usual sanity.
After the Merge, the loss of his memory made Jay become sterner and sassy, but still retains most of his old habits like wasting his time on video games rather than sorting out paperwork. He is also more simple than other Administration Agents as he told his Sub-Agent Prentis if someone doesn't need realm reassignment then it is not their department's problem. He also retained his chatty habit, as seen when he encountered Bonzle. Jay also admitted that he found The Administration very rulezy and silly. Despite Jay's dislike, he harbors deep insecurities about himself, particularly not telling The Administration about his elemental powers and as Bonzle exploited that Jay didn't have the heart to turn her in. Much of these traits were exploited by Ras who deceived him by claiming he was a great warrior who served him in the Wyldness. After being corrupted by using a Wolf Mask, Jay becomes cold, ruthless, and impolite, whom Nya describes as a different person. Now as a bounty hunter he’s become ruthless and silent most of the times however despite this he still has his sense of humor but is more sassy, annoyed, and a jerk.
Powers and Abilities[]
Jay can harness the power of Lightning to create a Spinjitzu tornado of pure electricity. He can also seemingly fly with his powers as seen in the episode Day of the Great Devourer, although he hasn't used this ability ever since, as it seemed to be part of his True Potential abilities. His lightning powers were enhanced further by the Nunchucks of Lightning, and later by his Elemental Blade. In close-range combat, he favors nunchucks, but has used katanas and various improvised weapons on occasion.
Despite his goofy nature, Jay is a competent fighter and capable of performing hand-to-hand combat, able to go toe-to-toe with multiple enemies. He manage to fight off Skulkin, Serpentine, Stone Warriors, Nindroids, Anacondrai, Ghost warriors, Sky Pirates, Vermillion warriors, Re-Awakens, and more. One of his most notable combat was when he fought against Bizarro Jaywhere he defeated his evil clone without any assistance. Another example is in Scrap-N-Tap, despite being chained up he manage to hold against Monkey Wrench and Doubloon. At the Lighthouse battle, he manage to put up more of a fight against Doubloon but resorted to trick him to dave for time. He also manage to fight off Samukai. Despite being rusty after Nya's departure, Jay manage to land a few hits on The Mechanic. While hunting Ras, Jay manage to take him down while he was piloting the Super Storm Jet.
He is also shown to be very quick and light on his feet. In "My Dinner With Nadakhan", Jay manage to not only fight Clancee on a Raid Zeppelin but he also mange to avoid Doubloon by slide from a floating island to floating island despite having a Vengestone chain ball on one leg.
Jay and Edna once participated in the Mother-Son Skate-Off and won first place. He later used these skills to help Lloyd win the Tournament of Elements, proving to be more skilled than the other competitors.
Despite being dimwitted at times, Jay is smarter than he looks. He is also good at quick-thinking in stressful situations, as he quickly suggested to Cole to use his ghost powers to undo a lock on Nimbus's room. Jay also created a plan to create a fake Firstbourne as a distraction, which accidentally brought the real Firstbourne. He managed to figure out that the Vengestone smuggling was taken through the N line with a secret passage. In both instances, Jay turned out to be correct, despite the others thinking he lost his mind and were surprised that Jay was correct.
Jay has an eye for machines and gadgets, being in charge of repairing and maintaining the various technology at the ninja's disposal. He was responsible for restoring the Destiny's Bounty to a functional state and equipping it with the modifications needed to make it fly. Over time, his inventing side was less emphasized, due to Nya and Dr. Julien taking up the role of gadgeteer, but Jay's skill with technology should not be underestimated. Prior to "Let's Dance," Jay obtained dancing skills from playing Dancy Pants. He is also able to play the guitar, as shown in Prime Empire.
Trivia[]
- Jay is the first Ninja to have a love interest (Nya).
- He is similar to Mako Mankanshoku from Kill la Kill.
- They share the same appearance of having brown hair and blue clothing.
- They also share the same set of personalities of being lovable, talkative, obsessive, and carefree.
- They are best friends with hot-headed heroes whose signature colors are red (Kai and Ryuko).
- They are raised by their kind parents who live in poverty (in Jay's case, adoptive parents).
- They were once experienced of having wealthy lifestyles.
- They always have their habit to ramble a lot of words, especially in desperate or dangerous situations.
External Links[]
- Jay on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Jay Walker on the Ninjago Wiki
- Jay Walker on the Villains Wiki
