| “ | Never in the history of the Tournament of Sources have we seen anything like this. Betrayal by one sworn to protect the games. But never before have we seen such brave, noble competitors who defended the honor of the games, and the lives of their colleagues. | „ |
| ~ Roby acknowledging the ninja for saving the Tournament of the Sources in Elements of Betrayal |
Roby is the major supporting character of the second season of Ninjago: Dragons Rising. He is the current Games Master for the Tournament of the Sources, as well as Bleckt's nephew, and Wyldfyre's boyfriend.
He is voiced by Ryan Beil.
History
Ninjago: Dragons Rising
Season 2
When the ninja broke into the City of Temples, Roby greets them, brushing off his uncle's attempts to expel them and personally invites them in the tournament, as well as expressing confusion as to why they weren't invited in the first place.
Roby gives the Ninja a tour around the City of Temples. He shows them the painting of the seven Source Dragons as seven heads. Roby then explains the tournament’s rules and how it is a way to honor the seven Source Dragons. Despite, the ninja concern over transferring elemental powers with the Elemental Cup, Roby assures them of the cup's safety switch which allows him to pull the powers back into the cup.
Later at the banquet hall, Roby hands Wyldfyre a menu and shows the team around. When Wyldfyre tries to threaten Cinder, the security bots stop her. Roby explains that fighting outside the arena is prohibited and punishable by expulsion. Roby begins to give a speech when Zeatrix bursts in the room, stating her anger at the ninja (for dethroning her evil younger twin sister Beatrix before her), Ras (for conspiring with Beatrix in taking her father's life) and Roby (for trying to sideline her from the tournament). After she storms out of the hall, an annoyed Games Master gives up on his speech.
Later at night, Roby wakes up when the Security bots swarm Lloyd and the stranger before Lloyd explains what happened and the other ninja come to back him up. Lloyd pulls back the hood of the person to reveal it is a bot before it proceeds to glitch and break down. Ras throws a similar bot on top of it and Zur does the same. Realizing the bots's weapons belong to the Mother Garden, most of the competitors assume Zant-Tanz, the leader of the Mother Garden, sent the attacker bots. Lloyd tries to convince everyone Zant-Tanz did not do it but everyone wants him out of the tournament. Zant-Tanz exiles himself voluntarily as he believes it would comfort the people. Roby tells everyone to go back to sleep and everyone follows his orders.
The following morning, Roby and Bleckt walked around the City to the Games Plaza. They ran into Wyldfyre who Roby invited her to join them. Lloyd visited Roby to know the competitions for the match but Roby refused to tell anyone who they were competing against in order for it to be exciting.
Bleckt and Roby see many Elemental Masters training. Bleckt reminding Roby that the Tournament is about the honor of elemental battle which should be taken seriously, but Roby dismissed it before Wyldfyre said hi to him again. He separated Wyldfyre when she almost got into a fight with Cinder, reminding her that a fight before a match will cause them to be disqualified.
Roby then announced the first match with Zane and Zur. When Zane lost (due to Bleckt's rigging), Roby demonstrated the Elemental Cup transferring Zane's Ice to Zur. Roby then announced the next competitors Nya and Jay. When Nya grabbed the dagger first, Roby transferred Jay's Lightning power to Nya.
Roby had announced Wyldfyre and Cinder's match. After Wyldfyre loss, he asked if she was ok and she said she is. He then used the cup to transfer her Heat to Cinder. Later at night he hear a disturbance and found Cinder on the ground. When Zane invokes the Cavern Run, Roby is confused on it but the former explains it where participants can avoid exile from the games. Despite Bleckt’s protests, Roby allows it and once the ninja got their vehicle he releases the Pace Dragon.
As the Cavern Run continues the Ninja manage to cross the finish line and beat the Pace Dragon, which Roby announced that the ninja were still in the Tournament.
Later at the Games Plaza, Roby uses the Elemental Cup to transfer Euphrasia’s power of Wind to Zeatrix. In the next round, Tox fights Nokt. but Nokt uses Shatterspin and continues beating her up when Roby had already declared him the winner. Roby threatened to disqualify Nokt if he kept on fighting so he left the plaza while the Security Bots take Tox away on a stretcher. Roby later transfer Tox's Poison power to Nokt once she recovered. The next round Roby transferred Mr. Pale's Light power to Lloyd. Roby announces Cole and Frak as the next two competitors. When Frak arrived late, Roby said it was no problem. After the match, Roby gives Cole's Earth power to Frak.
Roby announces Nya and Nokt as the next two competitors. Roby explains the rules of the match, saying whoever gets the majority of the three gems will win. The game begins and the two start fighting. Nokt looks around for a gem and both him and Nya see it appear. Nokt takes the gem and earns a point. A few moments later, they both see a gem appear and Nya grabs it. Nokt performs Shatterspin and Nya uses Rising Dragon to counteract it. After more combat, Nya tries to take the last gem but it disappears and reappears next to Nokt. He gets hold of it and Roby declares him the winner. Roby transfers Nya's Water and Lightning power to Nokt. Roby announces Sora and Cinder as the next two competitors. Roby explains that the competitors must solve puzzles to get to the end and win. Roby announces Sora and Cinder as the next two competitors. Roby explains that the competitors must solve puzzles to get to the end and win. After Sora won, Roby used the cup to transfer Cinder's Smoke to Sora.
Roby was in the Temple City Museum where he was instructing Geo in making a statue of himself. Seeing Arin, Roby talks about his plans to change the museum with replacing the old artifacts with bold modern art. Arin argued that history can he helpful with Roby remarking he reminds him of his uncle. Arin found Roby's idea of putting a holo-display of the seven Source Dragons locked in an epic battle to be cool. Arin was interested when Roby mentions Dragon Ivory, which Roby mentions how they are part of Arc Dragons' horns and the Elemental Cup was made from a polish Dragon Horns. Noticing a painting, Arin asks about it where Roby reveals it is his ancestor, Roake, the First Games Master, looking at the painting cufflinks, Arin ask Roby but Roby said he need to go to the matches. However Arin manage to get a look at his cufflinks which are the same as his ancestor and has the same symbol he found where the attacker bots were.
Roby continued to referee the matches and planned a bonus one with Zeatrix and Lloyd.
Roby arrives at the ninja's hut along with some Temple Guards who are restraining Zeatrix. He reveals that she will be banished from the city and forbidden from participating in future tournaments as a consequence for attacking Lloyd. When Wyldfyre angers Zeatrix, almost causing a fight, Roby managed to extract her powers and promises to give them to Lloyd once he recovers and wakes up. He referees the fight between Sora and Frak, which Sora won.
Roby and Bleckt went back to their offices where they found Arin and Wyldfyre. Wyldfyre asked him about his cufflinks which he mentions that Bleckt had given them to him which his dad also wore for his first Tournament.
As the battle between Lloyd and Nokt was about to forfeit with the latter's victory by default, Lloyd managed to arrive and Roby passes Zeatrix's powers to him. However, noting Lloyd's injuries were not healed, Bleckt convinced a reluctant Roby to forfeit the battle and proclaim Nokt the winner.
Roby announces the fight between Sora and Nokt, which ends in Nokt's victory. However, just as he was crowned the winner, Wyldfyre and Zur arrived to object, and exposed Bleckt's motive to have Roby eliminated and forming an alliance with the Wolf Clan. As Roby declared Nokt disqualified and the ceremony cancelled, Nokt managed to steal the Elemental Cup and gained all the absorbed Elemental Powers.
Roby regains the Elemental Cup and gets on a hoverpad. Ras jumps on and convinces him to drain Nokt's stolen powers. Roby reluctantly agrees to help Ras and flew the hoverpad to the Monastery of Gates. Once they got there, Ras used their hoverpad to destabilizing Nokt. A fierce battle erupted, with Arin, Riyu, and Ras collaborating to subdue Nokt; but before Roby could strip Nokt of the stolen Elemental Powers, Nokt retaliated, using Shockwave to nearly sending him off a cliff.
Roby held on the cliff before Wyldfyre saved him. Once they got to the Monestary, Roby used the cup to drain Nokt of his powers and return all the stolen powers to their rightful owners.
After the Forbidden Five, Ras, and Arin disappeared, Roby proclaimed Sora the winner of the tournament by default. After the games, Wyldfyre and Roby have a romantic moment, but Lloyd interrupts them until Sora drags Lloyd away for rudely interrupting the moment.
Personality
At first glance, Roby appears as a showy, laid-back and charming person who enjoys adding excitement and interesting details in the games he referees in. Likewise, he enjoys making new catchphrases, such as "Stang-Zoot" whilst commenting on the Elemental Masters' abilities and strategies, and the competitions. However, Roby does have a good heart underneath his flamboyant demeanor, as demonstrated in the latter episodes of the second season. He believes in honor of the games and good sportsmanship; as evidenced in one point where when Nokt resumed beating Tox after his victory, Roby threatened to disqualify the former while showing concern for the latter. Additionally, he showed legitimate sympathy for Lloyd after he was ruthlessly struck in the back by a vengeful Zeatrix, and remorsefully forfeited the battle between the Green Ninja and Nokt for the former's welfare. After his uncle Bleckt's crimes were revealed, Roby doesn’t hesitate to declare Nokt's victory null and works with the Ninja to stop the Forbidden Five member.
These traits generally describe Roby as friendly, relaxed, and a fair judge in the tournaments, as well as a notable ally of the Ninja.
