The Tale of Benthomaar is the one hundred and seventy-second episode of Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu , and the eighth episode of season fourteen.
Plot [ ]
Benthomaar shares with his new friends the tale of how he came to be adopted by King Trimaar , having been separated from his birth parents in circumstances he cannot remember. Trimaar and Prince Kalmaar came across him as he was being attacked by monstrous eels, with Trimaar driving off the eels over Kalmaar's objections. Trimaar gave Benthomaar his name and raised him like his own son. Unfortunately, Kalmaar regarded his adopted sibling-and everyone else not of royal blood-with contempt, being obsessed with finding a way to awaken Wojira .
One day, Kalmaar discovered a forbidden scroll detailing the location of the Temple of Wojira in the Tartarus Trench , and confronted his father about it. Trimaar, appalled that he would seek out such knowledge, ordered Kalmaar to pursue it no further. However, Kalmaar refused to accept this, and decided to try and reach the temple-or rather, let Benthomaar try it for him to insure it was possible to survive. Feigning admiration of his adopted brother and a desire to reconcile, Kalmaar convinced Benthomaar to swim into the trench.
When Benthomaar expressed his doubts, Kalmaar played upon Benthomaar's desire to be accepted by him to get him to enter the dangerous trench. Benthomaar succeeded in finding them a safe route to the temple, even driving off one of the same type of eels that had threatened him as a child. Sadly, Kalmaar then ordered Benthomaar to leave, revealing that he had merely used Benthomaar for his own purposes, and making Bentho realize that Kalmaar would never love him. Having heard the tale, the crew of the Hydro Bounty gladly welcome Benthomaar as a friend, and become more determined than ever to thwart Kalmaar's ambitions.
Notes [ ]
King Trimaar's reference to "Underseabiscuit" is a parody of Seabiscuit, a real-world racing horse from the mid-to-late 1930s.
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Pilot Episodes
1. Way of the Ninja · 2. The Golden Weapon · 3. King of Shadows · 4. Weapons of Destiny
Season 1: Rise of the Snakes
1. Rise of the Snakes · 2. Home · 3. Snakebit · 4. Never Trust a Snake · 5. Can of Worms · 6. The Snake King · 7. Tick Tock · 8. Once Bitten, Twice Shy · 9. The Royal Blacksmiths · 10. The Green Ninja · 11. All of Nothing · 12. The Rise of the Great Devourer · 13. Day of the Great Devourer
Season 2: Legacy of the Green Ninja
1. Darkness Shall Rise · 2. Pirates vs. Ninja · 3. Double Trouble · 4. Ninjaball Run · 5. Child's Play · 6. Wrong Place, Wrong Time · 7. The Stone Army · 8. The Day Ninjago Stood Still · 9. The Last Voyage · 10. Island of Darkness 11. The Last Hope · 12. Return of the Overlord · 13. Rise of the Spinjitzu Master
Season 3: Rebooted
1. The Surge · 2. The Art of the Silent Fist · 3. Blackout · 4. The Curse of the Golden Master · 5. Enter the Digiverse · 6. Codename: Arcturus · 7. The Void · 8. The Titanium Ninja
Season 4: Tournament of Elements
1. The Invitation · 2. Only One Can Remain · 3. Versus · 4. Ninja Roll · 5. Spy for a Spy · 6. Spellbound · 7. The Forgotten Element · 8. The Day of the Dragon · 9. The Greatest Fear of All · 10. The Corridor of Elders
Season 5: Possession
1. Winds of Change · 2. Ghost Story · 3. Stiix and Stones · 4. The Temple on Haunted Hill · 5. Peak-a-Boo · 6. Kingdom Come · 7. The Crooked Path · 8. Grave Danger · 9. Curseworld, Part I · 10. Curseworld, Part II
Season 6: Skybound
1. Infamous · 2. Public Enemy Number One · 3. Enkrypted · 4. Misfortune Rising · 5. On a Wish and a Prayer · 6. My Dinner With Nadakhan · 7. Wishmasters · 8. The Last Resort · 9. Operation Land Ho! · 10. The Way Back
Specials
Day of the Departed · March of the Oni · Dream Team
Season 7: The Hands of Time
1. The Hands of Time · 2. The Hatching · 3. A Time of Traitors · 4. Scavengers · 5. A Line in the Sand · 6. The Attack · 7. Secrets Discovered · 8. Pause and Effect · 9. Out of the Fire and Into the Boiling Sea · 10. Lost in Time
Season 8: Sons of Garmadon
1. The Mask of Deception · 2. The Jade Princess · 3. The Oni and the Dragon · 4. Snake Jaguar · 5. Dead Man's Squall · 6. The Quiet One · 7. Game of Masks · 8. Dread on Arrival · 9. True Potential · 10. Big Trouble, Little Ninjago
Season 9: Hunted
1. Firstbourne · 2. Iron and Stone · 3. Radio Free Ninjago · 4. How to Build a Dragon · 5. The Gilded Path · 6. Two Lies, One Truth · 7. The Weakest Link · 8. Saving Faith · 9. Lessons for a Master · 10. Green Destiny
Season 10: March of the Oni
1. The Darkness Comes · 2. Into the Breach · 3. The Fall · 4. Endings
Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu
1. Wasted True Potential · 2. Questing for Quests · 3. A Rocky Start · 4. The Belly of the Beast · 5. Booby-Traps, and How to Survive Them · 6. The News Never Sleeps! · 7. Ninja vs. Lava · 8. Snaketastrophy · 9. Powerless · 10. Ancient History · 11. Never Trust a Human · 12. Under Siege · 13. The Explorer's Club · 14. Vengeance Is Mine! · 15. A Cold Goodbye · 16. The Never-Realm · 17. Fire Maker · 18. An Unlikely Ally · 19. The Absolute Worst · 20. The Message · 21. The Traveler's Tree · 22. Krag's Lament · 23. Secret of the Wolf · 24. The Last of the Formlings · 25. My Enemy, My Friend · 26. The Kaiju Protocol · 27. Corruption · 28 A Fragile Hope · 29. Once and for All · 30. Awakenings
Season 12: Prime Empire
1. Would You Like to Enter Prime Empire? · 2. Dyer Island · 3. Level Thirteen · 4. Superstar Rockin' Jay · 5. I Am Okino · 6. The Glitch · 7. The Cliffs of Hysteria · 8. The Maze of the Red Dragon · 9. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back · 10. Racer Seven · 11. The Speedway Five-Billion · 12. Stop, Drop and Side Scroll · 13. Ninjago Confidential · 14. The Prodigal Father · 15. The Temple of Madness · 16. Game Over
Season 13: Master of the Mountain
1. Shintaro · 2. Into the Dark · 3. The Worst Rescue Ever · 4. The Two Blades · 5. Queen of the Munce · 6. Trial By Mino 7. The Skull Sorcerer · 8. The Real Fall · 9. Dungeon Party! · 10. Dungeon Crawl! · 11. Grief-Bringer · 12. Masters Never Quit · 13. The Darkest Hour · 14. The Ascent · 15. The Upply Strike Back! · 16. The Son of Lilly
The Island
1. Uncharted · 2. The Keepers of the Amulet · 3. The Gift of Jay · 4. The Tooth of Wojira
Season 14: Seabound
1. A Big Splash · 2. The Call of the Deep · 3. Unsinkable · 4. Five Thousand Fathoms Down · 5. The Wrath of Kalmaar · 6. Long Live the King · 7. Escape from Merlopia · 8. The Tale of Benthomaar · 9. The Storm Amulet · 10. Riddle of the Sphinx · 11. Papergirl · 12. Master of the Sea · 13. The Calm Before the Storm · 14. Assault on Ninjago City · 15. Nyad · 16. The Turn of the Tide
Season 15: Crystalized
1. Farewell the Sea · 2. The Call of Home · 3. The Shape of Nya · 4. A Mayor Problem · 5. Public Enemies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5! · 6. A Painful Promise · 7. Ninjago City vs. Ninja · 8. Kryptarium Prison Blues · 9. Hounddog McBrag · 10. The Benefit of Grief · 11. The Fifth Villain · 12. The Council of the Crystal King · 13. A Sinister Shadow · 14. The Spider's Design · 15. The Fall of the Monastery · 16. Darkness Within · 17. The Coming of the King · 18. Return to Primeval's Eye · 19. Crystastrophe · 20. Christofern · 21. A Lesson in Anger · 22. Brave But Foolish · 23. Quittin' Time · 24. Return of the Ice Emperor · 25. Safe Haven · 26. Compatible · 27. Distress Calls · 28. An Issue of Trust · 29. Dragon Form · 30. Roots
Dragons Rising: Season 1
1. The Merge, Part 1 · 2. The Merge, Part 2 · 3. Crossroads Carnival · 4. Beyond Madness · 5. Writers of Destiny · 6. Return to Imperium · 7. Mindless Beasts · 8. I Will Be the Danger · 9. The Calm Inside · 10. The Battle of the Second Monastery · 11. The Temple of the Dragon Cores · 12. Gangs of the Sea · 13. Wyldly Inappropriate · 14. The Last Djinn · 15. They Call It Doom · 16. Land of Lost Things · 17. The Administration · 18. Absolute Power · 19. We Are All Dragons · 20. The Power Within
Dragons Rising: Season 2
1. The Blood Moon · 2. Shattered Dreams · 3. Beyond the Phantasm Cave · 4. Force From the East · 5. The Spell at the Waterfall · 6. To Mysterium · 7. Fugitives From Madness · 8. Secrets of the Wyldness · 9. The Forest of Spirits · 10. Rising Ninja · 11. The Shape of Motion · 12. Enter the City of Temples · 13. They Gather for the Feast · 14. Inside the Maze · 15. United We Fall · 16. Truth and Lies · 17. The Sword Shatters · 18. Clues and Suspects · 19. The Final Game · 20. Elements of Betrayal
Shorts Series
Mini-Movies · Tall Tales · Wu's Teas · Villain Throwback · Decoded · Tales from the Monastery of Spinjitzu · Prime Empire Original Shorts · Reimagined · The Virtues of Spinjitzu · The Elemental Mechs