Arin: Ninjago's Powerless Hero 

Something I kind of noticed with Arin is just how adamant he is with trying to reset the status quo to something he is most comfortable with; he wants to return to the past with his parents. It seems as if this goes against the show's whole theme about "Finding one's place in the universe's motion", something that Sora clearly learned at the end of Season 1. Look back at his first visits to The Cloud Kingdom and The Administration - in both instances, he begs desperately for the people there to help him bring back his parents. To me, it shows off an interesting point in the Lord Ras' fallacy of strength; to him, strength is the only thing that can get him what he wants, and that he must force the universe to bend to his own will in order for things to go his way. It feels as if Arin would eventually cave into the same temptations that Ras did, where he will eventually snap and cave into the temptations of bending the universe to his own will just to live in the past with his parents again. In fact, Arin's own Object-Spinjitzu is a perfect example of this mentality. In all three successful instances of Object-Spinjitzu, notice how Arin doesn't try to force the move to happen, he just treats it as a natural ability. And we have seen how powerful this move and mindset is, if it can straight up penetrate through Beatrix's mech, a mech designed to resist Elemental Powers. And yet, in _Rising Ninja,_ he desperately tries to force his Object-Spinjitzu to work in order to save Nya, resulting in Sora having to save both him and Nya because that move would not have worked with that forceful mindset. If anything, this hearkens back to something learned in the 2011 Pilot Episodes; the moment when Jay finally discovers Spinjitzu, he describes the process to the other three Ninja that he's simply going through the motions of Spinjitzu, like he always knew the move. In essence, Spinjitzu isn't just some martial art that involves actions spinning fast enough to become a powerful tornado, it is also a style of life - a mentality that allows its user to persevere through the darkest of times.

SPOILER 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Arin was manipulated by Ras, although he could make the spijintzu better, it is noticeable that it has a shatterspin brightness 😨. I saw in a comment that the reason is that Arin forced and did not seek harmony and movement (motion), to the is desperate to find his parents (Sora mentions it in the first episode of the second season), his low self-esteem and anger, I think that’s the reason he couldn’t move forward with the spinjitzu before (find harmony in it) Lloyd has tried to be a good teacher for the 2 (sora and arin), this time he couldn’t be with arin for the fact that they had to win the tournament but I know that he cares about him and that this will help Lloyd improve as a teacher and be his own teacher (Season 1 shows that he wants to be like Master Wu; not asking for help is an example of wanting to be like him. Arin will be good again when he learns from his mistakes and finds peace in himself.

As a person with high functioning Autism, I feel like I have the potential to be just like my peers, I can never do the things they do (Socialize, maintain a relationship, be independent). Arin's lack of elemental powers really resonates with me, and I really empathize with his envy of others and inability to see his own skills (Self-teaching himself Spinjitzu).

I can’t wait to see where Arin’s story will go from here

In season 2 part 2 Arin is depressed to find his parents and for elemental power, perfect spinjutstu. Sorry if I make typo in English because I'm from Indonesia

Arin being powerless is such a great thing he feels useless because he can’t do a complete spinjtzu and has no powers and this makes me want to root for him even more.

He’s like Ninjago’s Batman other then the fact that Batman is most likely a better fighter than every single ninja on the team since he defeated like the greatest assassins and trains till his peak and is able to fight superhuman beings like Deathstroke, Titan formula bane, Solomon Grundy who’s basically a undead Hulk, Ra’s Al Ghul, he’s actually fought Green Arrow before, and has fought deadshot. Batman has contingency plans that allow him to beat the Justice league if they go rouge.

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I just hope he stays powerless. Having no elemental power is what makes Arin stand out against the other ninja.

Hope Arin turned back good

I wish Arin have true potential of elemental powers in the future.

Ngl my favourite character in dragons rising is arin cuz i feel like i can relate to him in soo many ways, i have autism and i feel like im weak and ill never do anything great 😢

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Great video geo. Your structure have come a long way. And now your delivery is also becoming better and better. Im looking forward to more videos in the future 😊

Amazing work I can tell you work hard on it.💜👍💯

season 2 part 2 spoilers we did see a bit of the shatterspin effect when frek taught arin ras's teaching and ended up helping him to do a perfect spinjitzu tornado

s2, part 2 SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Agh, anyone saw his spinjitsu? The red and black around it? I have have feeling he's gonna learn to do shatterspin naturally.

Fantastic video

To be honest, I thought his power is the element of spinning itself. Like he has a deformed spinjutsu technique because he was was unconsciously utilizing his power to make it happen. His object spinjutsu were all spinning towards their destination. We heard there is a source dragon of motion, so spinning is a possible element.

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Who think arin should have been the Nelson the purple ninja it would have make sens be cool and everything Nelson is also already someone poeple like

Spoilers! That darn traitor is gonna get what’s coming to him