| “ | The greatest villain is the one you never knew was there in the first place. | „ |
| ~ Harumi's most famous quote. |
Harumi, also known by her alias the Quiet One, is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Pythor P. Chumsworth) of LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu.
She serves as the secondary antagonist of The Oni Trilogy (specifically the main antagonist of Season 8: Sons of Garmadon and one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Heavy Metal) of Season 9: Hunted), one of the two unseen overarching antagonists (alongside The Overlord) of Season 13: Master of the Mountain, and the central antagonist turned anti-hero of Season 15: Crystalized. A digital version of her also serves as a minor antagonist in Season 12: Prime Empire.
She is the founder of a cult revolving around worshipping Lord Garmadon, whom she sees as a leader Ninjago is worthy of and seeks to resurrect.
She is voiced by Britt McKillip. As the Kabuki Mask, she is voiced by Andrew Francis.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Heinous?[]
Garmadon Rulez! and Sons of Garmadon[]
- She created a cultist biker gang with the goal of resurrecting Garmadon's evil side.
- She kept Misako and Wu prisoners as her "insurance policy" and key to the Oni Mask of Hatred respectively.
- Her feeding the poor was just a ruse to get Lloyd to sympathize with her more, and it eventually becomes pretty clear that she couldn't care less for their lives.
- She stopped Lloyd from protecting children in the street from her minions. Although Samurai X eventually saved them, she couldn't have known that she was coming.
- She rigged the royal palace with explosives and had SoG attack it, with the royal family and Hutchins perishing in the fight. Although they failed to provide the girl with the care she needed and were very strict, they were in no way abusive and Hutchins genuinely cared for her, so their treatment of Harumi can't justify their murder. It's even implied that Harumi plotted to have Hutchins killed even before the attack.
- She manipulated the Ninja, pretending to be friendly and love Lloyd, but actively sabotaged them at the same time, which almost resulted in Zane's death.
- Although she saved Lloyd several times during their journey, it was for pragmatic reasons as only someone with Oni blood could take the mask.
- Getting her hands on the last Oni mask, she revealed to Lloyd that she wanted Garmadon to kill him and left him to die in the temple by causing it to flood.
- She placed Lloyd and Misako in cages connected to each other in such a way that if one was risen, the other would be lowered into the water and the occupant would either drown or get eaten by the piranhas.
- She successfully resurrected Garmadon without any of his human qualities, ironically turning him into a shadow of his former self she accused him of becoming, which makes her directly or indirectly responsible for all the crimes he committed while allied with her.
- When breaking into the Kryptarium Prison, she had its warden thrown out. Although he survived, she couldn't have known that for sure.
- She encouraged Garmadon to unlock his true potential by letting go of any care he still had for his son, seeing it as his weakness, even though Garmadon still loved Lloyd greatly when he killed the Great Devourer.
- She had Garmadon beat Lloyd to near-death and broadcast their fight across Ninjago, only telling him to spare the ninja so that he could witness his father's reign.
- She and Garmadon threatened a lone village that could only send one warrior against them before invading Ninjago City, threatening citizens with death should they not submit to them.
- Despite claiming that Garmadon is the leader Ninjago truly deserved, implying that she believes he could've stopped a tragedy like the Great Devourer's rampage from happening, she doesn't seem to care about the damage done to the city by him, making her a hypocrite.
- She forced Lloyd to watch as Garmadon's titan seemingly killed his friends, saying afterward that for him to lose everything is exactly what she wanted. To make matters worse, one of the presumed victims (Wu) was a toddler, yet Harumi expressed no remorse about it.
- The loss of her parents cannot justify her crimes, as her invasion led to mass destruction and likely many casualties, which would make more people than just Lloyd suffer as she did. Her vendetta against the ninja is also unjustified, as they didn't let her parents die on purpose. Even Lloyd calls her out on her hypocrisy, meaning that she wasn't meant to be seen as an anti-villain or an extremist.
- She revived Garmadon and it's implied that he was a pawn in her grand scheme.
Hunted[]
- She and Garmadon succeeded in taking over Ninjago, turning it into a totalitarian state where anyone even remotely connected to the Ninja would be hunted down and jailed without trial.
- While she stopped Garmadon from searching the city for Lloyd with his titan, it was because she wanted to avoid civil unrest, not new victims.
- She offered Garmadon to adopt her so that he could finally bring himself to kill Lloyd.
- When interrogating the citizens, she gave Killow a sign to throw the man who couldn't answer their question into the canal (although he survived), and it's implied that they would torture the others.
Post-Hunted and Crystalized[]
- Even after her presumed demise, she kept haunting Lloyd, as he was forced to fight her digital clone in Season 12, and it's implied that he still had feelings for her at that point, and his experience with Harumi caused him to become prejudiced against princesses in general as seen in Season 13.
- She’s indirectly responsible for the events of season 13, as she was one of Vangelis’ vengestone buyers.
- After being revived, Harumi has past enemies of the ninja join her and the Crystal King, such as Vangelis, Pythor, the Mechanic, and Aspheera, presumably plotting revenge and aiding the Crystal King in his goals of destroying the balance, potentially dooming Ninjago.
- Despite Lloyd's pleas, she attempted to kill Kai, Jay, Cole, and Zane by caving in the subway tunnel they were in by exploding several Crystal Spiders in the area.
- She only served the Crystal King out of pragmatic reasoning.
- She has the Council of the Crystal King rob the Golden Weapons from the monastery and destroys it with the Crystal Spiders, nearly killing Nya, Wu, Pixal, and Skylar.
- She frees the Overlord by performing a ritual with the Golden Weapons, allowing him to return and begin to terrorize Ninjago once more.
- Though she was against the Overlord and the other members of his council killing Lloyd, she would still try to manipulate him into joining her, even after he saved her life.
- She aids the Overlord as he terrorizes Ninjago, believing he is about to bring peace.
- She begins searching the streets of Ninjago to look for the ninja.
- Along with Mr. F, she finds and locates the location of the ninja's safe haven, allowing the Overlord to order his army to send his army to defeat the ninja.
- Although the Ninjago franchise has massive Heinous Standards, Harumi manages to stand out by being the first villain to actually conquer Ninjago and establish an oppressive regime there, something that villains with similar or bigger resources (like Chen and Overlord) attempted but failed.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- While it doesn't justify her actions, she has a genuine tragedy: her parents were killed in an attack by the Great Devourer, which the ninja failed to stop, and she had to fulfill the role of a princess which she did very reluctantly, never stopping to miss her birth parents, so she grew to idolize Garmadon for killing the Devourer and hate the ninja and her adoptive parents.
- She has been able to show care for others, such as:
- She cares very deeply about her birth parents, as their deaths are what made her hate the ninja.
- She tried to convince Garmadon to spare Mr. E, arguing that he was just following orders and couldn't have foreseen the arrival of Elemental Masters.
- She appears to genuinely have a soft spot for Lloyd, as she was briefly taken aback when learning that he scourged the collapsed building she supposedly perished in and continuously tries to convince the Overlord to let him join their side instead of killing him. She even separates other members of the council from them so she could talk to him alone.
- While whether she did it out of remorse or not is debatable, her performing a selfless act by saving a family from suffering the same fate her family did makes her honorable.
- She wouldn't want the Overlord to destroy Ninjago, and only went along with his plans when he claimed he was bringing balance.
- She ultimately ends up redeeming herself in Dragon Form, where, after the Overlord reveals that he was the sole cause of Garmadon turning evil and corrupting the Devourer, therefore making him indirectly responsible for the deaths of her biological parents, realizing her mistake of blaming the Ninja for the death of her parents, she turns against him and allies with the Ninja. In the aftermath, she is among many the many people who are helping them rebuild the monastery.
Trivia[]
- She and Morro are the only two Ninjago Inconsistently Heinous to be redeemed.
- While sympathetic to some degree even when at her worst, Harumi is notably darker than the villains that came before her, due to her decision to kill her adoptive parents. Indeed, her transformation using the Oni Mask of Hatred is a good reflection of the darkness in her heart.
External Links[]
- Harumi on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
- Harumi on the Villains Wiki
- Harumi on the Heroes Wiki
- Harumi on the Ninjago Wiki
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 Inconsistently Heinous
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