Wojira, I am your king. And I command you to destroy the surface world and all who breathe air!
The Great Flood[2] (also known as Kalmaar's assault on the surface world of Ninjago[3]) was an event that occurred after Kalmaar awakened Wojira and used her to destroy all the islands and its inhabitants within Ninjago.
History
Prelude
After Kalmaar awakens Wojira with the Storm and Wave Amulets, he enforces his control over her and takes her to Ninjago City to destroy it. Two days later, Glutinous warns the ninja about Kalmaar and Wojira heading to Ninjago City. After hearing this, the ninja help the citizens of Ninjago evacuate until Kalmaar and Wojira arrived.[1]
The Great Flood
Once Kalmaar and Wojira arrived, the latter creates the Fury of the Storm and started flooding the city. During this, Wu and P.I.X.A.L. continued to rescue anyone that was left behind during the evacuation while the ninja try to stop Kalmaar. When they did, they were stopped by Wojira, who damaged the Destiny's Bounty and Jay's sub car, leaving Nya the only one left to face Kalmaar.[4]
As Kalmaar and Nya began to battle, Lloyd, Kai, Zane, Cole, and Benthomaar found themselves overpowered by the Maaray Guards and retreated while Wu and P.I.X.A.L. agreed to take the citizens to the Ninjago News Center for safety. While retreating, Benthomaar rescued Jay from drowning.[5]
Meanwhile, Kalmaar send out a search party until he informed by Gripe about the Police Commissioner, thinking that he knows where the ninja are. When Kalmaar and the Maaray Guards confront the Police Commissioner, he threatened him with his trident until he realized that Nya returned, and merged herself with the Endless Sea.[5]
Final battle
Nya continued to battle Kalmaar until she briefly lets her guard down after she heard Jay, letting Kalmaar seemingly destroy her. While the rest were fighting off the Maaray Guards, Kalmaar fought off against Jay and Benthomaar and defeated them both, but at the cause of his trident getting destroyed when Benthomaar used one of his spears to destroy it. Because of this, Wojira was freed from Kalmaar's control and ate him. Before Wojira could do any more harm to the city, she fought against Nya in her water dragon form until she destroyed her. However, Nya recovers again and destroys the Wave Amulet. After the Wave Amulet's destruction, Wojira disappears after being struck by Storm, leaving her fate unclear between death or being transported elseware.[6][7]
Appearances
Ninjago
Season 14: Seabound
- 170. "Long Live the King" (mentioned)
- 171. "Escape from Merlopia" (mentioned)
- 173. "The Storm Amulet" (mentioned)
- 176. "Master of the Sea" (mentioned)
- 177. "The Calm Before the Storm"
- 178. "Assault on Ninjago City"
- 179. "Nyad"
- 180. "The Turn of the Tide"
Season 15: Crystalized
- 181. "Farewell the Sea" (indirectly mentioned)
- 182. "The Call of Home" (flashback)
- 184. "A Mayor Problem" (indirectly mentioned)
- 199. "Crystastrophe" (pictured)
Ninjago: Dragons Rising
Season 1
- 17. "The Administration" (indirectly mentioned)
Ninjago Magazine
- 83. Ocean Escape! (visualized)
- 84. Ocean Invaders!
- 85. Can Jay Save Nya? (flashback)
- 86. Monster Panic! (mentioned)
- 89. Water Hazard! (mentioned)
Trivia
- This is the fifth time that someone other than a ninja defeated the main villain. In this case, Kalmaar gets eaten by Wojira.
- However, this was caused by Benthomaar breaking his trident, which means Benthomaar inadvertently caused Kalmaar's demise.
- The other four times were Pythor, who was eaten by the Great Devourer, Chen, who was cursed by the Anacondrai generals, the Time Twins , who were defeated by Wu, and Unagami who was redeemed by Milton Dyer.
- The event was slightly foreshadowed in "A Big Splash" when the farmers' village was flooded.
- It is unknown how much of the island of Ninjago was flooded by Wojira.
- It is unknown where Glutinous was during the Great Flood, but Tommy Andreasen said that "There may be a story about that ;-)".[8]
- Chronologically, this is the second Great Flood that occurred in Ninjago, the first was one that accrued in the village of Haru, which almost destroyed everyone and everything.[9]
- This is also the second time that Ninjago City has been flooded by a big wave. The first the non-canon short "Lloyd's Late."