The opening credits also reference famous plays, notably tragedies. Caitlyn's hand-crown thing is Macbeth, Mel and Ambessa in their chairs could reference Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony respectively, Jinx raising her flag is Les Miserables and Victor with his mask allude to The Phantom of the Opera.
i feel viktor resembles odysseus here more, a vagrant returning to his home in order to "save" it. granted there isnt really a wife being courted by hundreds of suitors but it fits his actions better i think
@@CornRaked im not rly familiar with Odysseus, but surely there's something in Sky/The Arcane + Viktor's new followers that could represent/embody "a wife being courted by hundreds of suitors"?
@@thesen8 i suppose the chembarons tyranny and piltovers inevidible invasion of zaun could be the suitors while the innocents and rejecteds are the wife. Its a bit of a stretch though
Sevika crying out when the hexcore is freaking out is probably because her scars she received from powder’s monkey bomb embedded some hextech in her and so she’s physically reacting to the hexcore glitching instead of it just affecting her weapons like it does the others.
If you look real closely at when she's in pain, the scars on her face are flaring up with the Hextech going out of control. Woman was probably feeling the pain of 5 of her being split apart AND still jumped in to protect Jinx not long after.
Not so much an Easter Egg but a very cool writing moment/usage of symbolism is when Ekko, Jayce, and Heimer first enter the hex gate core. You can hear Ekko tell Jayce how Piltover has made it so that whenever it rains, Zaun are the ones to get wet. However, in the first episode of the act after the Piltover council discusses invading Zaun, you can see Salo notice rain drops hitting his hand in the room; showing that for once Piltover is experiencing and noticing the consequences of their actions.
I feel like alot of people forget about the power dynamic between Zaun and Piltover. They're currently technically the "same" empire, but the Zaunites are treated as 3rd class citizens and basically used for all the dirty/ dangerous labor and are alluded to be heavily repressed. My go to parallel is that it's almost like the hunger games. Piltover=Capitol Zaun=Districts Zaun does have a reason to rebel, but Silco was willing to damage and use his own people to gain enough power to make it happen.
Yeah, it’s also worth noting how the councillors were affected in ways that resemble Zaunite characters. Salo was disabled, unable to walk without aid, much like Viktor. Shoola was disfigured, half of her face scarred, like Silco. Caitlyn lost a parent, like Vi and Jinx. It’s fine if the people from the Undercity suffer like that every single day, but the moment PILTOVER is forced to deal with the same thing? It’s an outrage.
@@cartoonishidealism582Damn, AMAZING catch. I was really surprised when i saw the consequences of the attack on ep 1, Salo being disabled really struck me... and then I thought "wait a minute that shit happens all the time in Zaun, fuck you guys"
@@jondough9545I think its interesting because Vander was the opposite, he protected his own and never handed one of theirs... but he never was willing to go forward on ANY way to get over that oppression
Something I noticed: Heimer was seen observing a stain in the lower levels of the hex room, this stain is from when victor coughed blood over the ledge in season 1 and is likely what cause the lattice to be corrupted
Holy shit thats an amazing catch. It makes sense how the hexcore evolved after infusing with victors blood when he was doing tests on it. How it then infused with sky but before that how victor coughed down the hex room. Sheesh brother good job!
The favorite detail I caught was that Ambessa lost Kino because she was distracted. Now she's distracted once more with her schemes and plans, and Mel got nabbed by the Black Rose.
@nyfriom she could have actually, we know she has items like the Kaernic Rookern to ward off the magic of the Black Rose. If she followed the advice of Rictus and involved Mel, she would have been in a better position to help Mel. Hell Rictus could have stood guard for Mel if she was aware of the threat to herself.
Actually, Renni's eyes go red because when Jayce pulled the tube, some of the chemicals spilled into her eye, causing the irritation and dizziness. You can actually see the droplets hitting her eye if you slow it down
One thing I’m surprised you didn’t notice is that Caitlyn is almost an exact version of what Mel said they should use as a regent during her flashback with her mom in season one, clever, to gain her subjects respect, but pliable, so they can mold her into what they need
@@darksaint0124 Caitlyn is very clearly being "molded" into a leader to take down the undercity by Ambessa because she's blinded by her hatred, so her being "pliable" _does_ actually apply. Are you blinded by your bias for her like she is with her hatred lol? It's kinda obvious and this video literally points it out multiple times. If you're talking about when Mel said something along the lines of "we need someone with a fat, kind face", I don't think those words are meant to be taken literally. Caitlyn's family, the Kiramman's, are a powerful symbol in Piltover and they're very well off, hence the phrasing "fat face"; fat being a way to say wealthy and powerful. So yeah. Caitlyn fits the description perfectly. _You_ don't seem to know what those words mean
16:32 I am miffed and scuttled that the people I have watched so far did not get the quoted reference that when Sevika says "we do not give up our own" is a quote that Vander said to Sevika when she left the Last Drop. 😢 Rip Vander 🫡 Hellow Warw.. AhAhahhh 🩸💚
Caitlyn's section of the opening isn't meant to be similar to Sauron, it's meant to be Macbeth as the entire opening is referencing famous tragedies like Julius Ceaser and Les Miserables.
She probably will be too important for the lore, I mean she got a legendary skin in the first day she got released, a book,and a music video, Riot loves her
@@glamita3191 I like the show and I like LoR generally very much, I think they did a great job. I didn't like the sentinel event though. all i can remember is getting 4 champions from the same region in a row all tied to the same story and then having random champions join and get skins. I was promised that I'd get lore and stories but then I had to log in and actively look for it, was demanded to play for hours and was offered little rewards for my time plus had to pay money for the actual champions from that event. Truly the ruination. Ambessa really isn't that bad imo.
No one mentioned that the Grey looking alive wasn't just a artistic view, but probably a Fiddlesticks reference? As the primal demon of fear, being showed in a silhouette in the fumes, which that's probably terriefies the zaunites.
the one that i really really like is a link between episodes 1 and 3. in episode 3, ekko tells jayce "when it rains up here, we're the ones who get wet" referring to the placement of the hexgate's core in a place where its malfunction would only affect zaun. in episode 1, in the scene where salo and mel argue about invading in the council room, it begins to rain. salo is visibly surprised to actually get wet in this scene, and i read that as them finally facing consequences for their handling of zaun(jinx's attack)
when vi tears apart the minigun, the guts of the minigun shortly cover her face and give her the jagged grin she has in some of jinx's drawings/hallucinations.
34:44 even more fitting since one of ambessa's in-game quotes is "there's no greater motivation than grief", so yeah, safe to say she's about to turn cait into a bloodhound
30:09 a neat detail during the fight was cait pushing her glitched gun in sevikas face, which somehow seems to immobilize her. I think its because of the explosion all the way back in s1 from powders monkeybomb, sevika has those light blue scars on her face
25:26 Nono, actually if you look closely, Cait's "shot" came out from the bottom, which seems more like she threw the net that she uses in the game (her E) and rather the image of the chem-barons' faces seems rather that they were caught, just as Cait says "neutralize any agent still loyal to Silco" not to kill them.
11:54 he also pauses because his wounds reopened and began bleeding again, it’s very subtle but the blood stain on the bandage grows a bit. This is likely to show the despite his injuries he is working tirelessly to try to help solve the issue of both Zuan and Viktor; where when he wakes up you can see the wound reopening again while he tries to explain himself to Viktor
Butterfly can represent the buterfly effect, just not going into the past but actually seeing how different timelines and the difference between them changed whole history
22:08 two times people have said thats a hammer, but am I the only one who sees it as a Spool of Wire, which the Chomper is attached to when its launched from the end of Sevika's arm and eats Smeech's hat? Like the "hammer" and Chomper image in the slot machine together make up what the attack ended up being for that spin, so why in Janna's name is everyone calling it a hammer?
I also thought it was a hammer, but you're so right it IS a wire spool! I think for most people "big block attached to a thin stick" just reads as "hammer" before anything else. And it goes by so fast that most don't think about it too hard. I know I didn't.
@@PhyreSpore THANK YOU! It was also shown in the minigame in the League Client rn that Jinx went out of her way to get a wire spool from one of the machines in the arcade to put in Sevika's arm, so I honestly doubt she'd put an icon on the roulette wheel for something she didn't actually put in the arm.
I loved seeing Ambessa in season 2 tbh like I knew she was ruthless but damn she’s so fun to watch how she just brings everything together in her favour but then she’s also so shook by the black rose and has this underlying protectiveness of her family who it seems at face value she has outcast (Mel) she’s such an interesting character with way more layers than I thought she’d have in season one
Great video! One detail I haven't seen anyone mention is that the jaw on the end of Sevika's new arm is made from the trap that Powder triggers on the enforcer in the arcade in season 1 episode 2!
Hey another note about Cait in the intro, the wretched crown shadow symbolizes the authority she will be given, and how it will corrupt her. It also appears before the close up that her fingers are bloody, but during the close up they're clean, possibly representing the blood that was almost on her hands when she became a corrupted authority figure.
Smeech snorts Shimmer for breakfast… he’s not exactly the picture of health compared to someone like Heimerdinger or even a comparatively crazy yordle like Ziggs (say what you want about them but at least Ziggs looks like he brushed those freaky aah flat teeth recently)
I really hope sevika comes to the game as a champion as i feel like she would be a really fun support that could bounce off of jinx both thematically and gameplay wise
an error i noticed on my 4th rewatch: when jinx is knocked down in the alleyway by one of smeech's goons, her nose is bleeding. when the camera pans to her pistol getting kicked out of her hand, the blood from her nose disappears even tho she never made any move to wipe it off. i thought she mightve quickly wiped her face during that quick scuffle, but since fortiche does a really good job at capturing details like that i figured they wouldve showed some smeared blood on her face if that were the case (and there isnt).
In Sevika's arm, it's not actually a hammer, it's from a crane game in the arcade from episode 2, you can see it in the LoL minigame "Jinx Fixes -ruins- everything"
thanks man, i showed this to my buddy who doesnt play league and they actually understood most of this thanks for explaining 😭 also big fan i watch everything u upload king keep up the great videos
Fun fact: Lest is voiced by a Eve Lindley, a trans woman, who has confirmed that Lest is trans as well. She's also voiced by trans women in several other languages!
I'm pretty sure Margot and the other guy are still alive since that montage with the shattered glass effect depicts Caitlyn's netgun ability more than a bullet
Love hunting easter eggs, even the very small ones like Heimer sneaking with Ekko in the labs imitating Twitch "tchi tchi tchi" sounds when Twitch goes invisible, ready to watch act 2
Dont worry man, i know how it feels. I really like Smeech too. He had by far the most personality of all the chem barons. Between his voice, his mannerisms and his design, i was bummed when he died. But hey, hes a yordle, so he'll be back. Eventually
While Jinx is protecting Isha, Sevica also shields the both of them, showing she's formed a bond with Jinx and views her as more than a nuisance, the fact she even agreed to join in with Jinx's little self-destructive performance non-withstanding.
In the hexcore scene, where the 3 of them get distorted, in the background you can see them distorted before they get distorted, funny enough I noticed this with Ekko first them say the rest of them aswell
You did a fantastic job here I was laughing at all the funny stuff you did, all the other videos can't compare to this one it figures that something this good doesn't have more views. :(
In the episode 3 when hex tech gets messed up, we see defined lines of the glitch lightning (idk what to call it) target specifically the veins on Sevika's face
Something I don't think I've seen anyone else mention is that you can actually see fishbones start to glitch before it explodes. It's a bit hard to see but if you look really closely at its eyes, you can see the color within them rapidly change from blue to orange.
When you talk about the leads releasing the grey you say it’s just to catch one person but it’s for the three reasons Cait lists. Dismantling shimmer, neutralizing agents of silco, and locating jinx. The first two happen in the little intro they do.
Smeech is immortal tho, he just took a trip back to bandle city! This could probably be a way to show us how the yordle immortality works, although I doubt we're seeing Smeech again, so maybe not.
One detail I saw someone point out about the intro is how the ray of light potentially represents destiny, and how it is touching each champion and progressing them to their inevitable future. Except Ekko. He dodges it 🤔
I'm not someone who watches shit twice , my favorite show of all time game of Thrones which is the only show I literally miss like a childhood best friend or deceased family member or something, even it I've tried rewatching to fulfill the hole in my heart its absence has left but it's just not the same on a rewatch, but that said, for some reason I can rewatch arcane over and over again and it almost gets better each time...
this is a pretty commonly mentioned one, but in the scene where Caitlyn stares down at Vi after hitting her, her face softens for only a moment before turning away, suggesting she DOES feel remorse about what she did. (I'm grasping at straws for caitvi.)
30:10 in here i dont think its a convenient thing, you can see moments before Jinx shoots Vi with Fishbones Vi's Atlas Gauntlets stop glitching out allowing her to dodge the missile from Fishbones, later on Fishbones does get affected by the glitching and it explodes from the inside
when Jayce pauses as he's hammering it's actually because he's bleeding while he works. If you watch closely, his bloodstain starts getting larger and he continues when he's contempt with working through the pain to make the gun for Cait.
Lest actually reminded me more of Xayah & Rakahn, which she doesn't have any feathers her massive tall ears look a lot like them. Also Ahri isn't even designed like a proper vastayah, MAKE THEM MORE BEASTLY
I mean, I think it's a definite thing. We've seen the hex bullets punch through stuff. Isha's head is perfectly aligned with Jinx's head. That's a double headshot guaranteed
29:44 Caitlyn also blinks as the petal falls behind the mirror, so she missed the part where it's just a mirror that she is aiming at and not Jinx. Because of that moment of hesitation (Vi specifically told her to not hesitate), she shot the mirror and gave away her position and lost her advantage in the fight, turning it into a losing fight. Her and Vi lost that fight because she hesitated at the very start.
1. We add a small, not important thing that you see for maybe 30 seconds (like Heimer's mask) 2. EVERYTHING has a place in the world, so we add other small references and hints to explain the existence of said thing (Heimer later infiltrates the lab so he uses the same mask, it's actually Fireflies' mask that they gave him. It's decorated so we add painting tools to the Heimer's workshop to show that it was actually him who painted it, which shows to us his little quirks
8:30 I love the implication than in the 5 times that he watched the show nor at recording and editing that scene, Nicky never catched that the reason why her eyes became bloody was because the liquid of the tubes splashed her eye and not because those quimics are an overconvoluted nasal glasses.
9:32 I've never shot a lever-action before, but if you have your fundamentals down right, it's easy to keep your shots within an area the size of a quarter, like caitlyn's shots against the chempunk, from a stationary standing position. From a military perspective you're expected to keep your shots that precise to ensure you break body armor through repeated strikes. So Caitlyn doing this, while not too impressive realistically, is exemplary considering literally nobody else can shoot like that, except Jinx.
8:40 The light flashes and blurry vision is probably because she got some chemicals in her eye when Jayce pulled out her nose tubes. 22:08 That isn't a hammer. It is a spool of wire from a claw game. So, in combination with the Chomper, that is the roll for launching it. There is currently a minigame in league where you can play through Jinx collecting the items to construct the arm. 25:34 The Chembarons may not be dead since the shot is the netlauncher and we saw alive goons from Episode 2. They may have been apprehended instead. 30:47 It wasn't the hexcore, but a rapidly spinning globe in the Mage's hand. In Episode 2, Jinx says to Isha, "That's me," which is identical to what she said when Silco tried and failed to get her attention after she stole the Hexcore. She also sits in the same position after jumping from the rafters in his office.
TB Skyen is convinced that Viktor healing people is the hexcore feeding on them but really I find that kind of weird to think when the process of "evolving" these people who come to Viktor takes a very visible physical toll on him, if the Hexcore was being invigorated by the process we'd see Viktor swell with vitality not fall to his knees, gasping for breath. We see it again when he's helping Vander where navigating the interior of Vander's Warwick-mind is both dangerous and exhausting for him. The hexcore and the evolution thing definitely has some bad vibes with it but people are just way too quick to dogpile on Viktor & the commune and it annoys me.
I gotta say: how did Caitlin shoot Powder's finger? Why was she aiming for her finger, and not a kill shot? My call? She wasn't aiming for the finger. Her emotion got carried away. Caitlin MISSED. That's why Vi is so concerned about her aiming. She shot Powder it the finger. Which does nothing for anyone. So Vi knew how close that child was to death when Cait took those shots. She knew she'd stepped over a line.
The opening credits also reference famous plays, notably tragedies. Caitlyn's hand-crown thing is Macbeth, Mel and Ambessa in their chairs could reference Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony respectively, Jinx raising her flag is Les Miserables and Victor with his mask allude to The Phantom of the Opera.
such underrated comment thank you
Honestly I thought the same too when I was stating at jinx waving the flag cuz I was like French revolution made by the French animation lmaoo
i feel viktor resembles odysseus here more, a vagrant returning to his home in order to "save" it. granted there isnt really a wife being courted by hundreds of suitors but it fits his actions better i think
@@CornRaked im not rly familiar with Odysseus, but surely there's something in Sky/The Arcane + Viktor's new followers that could represent/embody "a wife being courted by hundreds of suitors"?
@@thesen8 i suppose the chembarons tyranny and piltovers inevidible invasion of zaun could be the suitors while the innocents and rejecteds are the wife. Its a bit of a stretch though
IT'S BACKWARDS!!! Everybody mentions that Ekko's shadow are clockhands, but no one seems to have pointed out that they're ticking counter-clockwise!!!
IT'S REWIND TIME
Yeah yesterday I noticed the same thing and was blown away
And only by 4 seconds…
Even more deep, nobody mentions that the shadow ticks FOUR TIMES
Sevika crying out when the hexcore is freaking out is probably because her scars she received from powder’s monkey bomb embedded some hextech in her and so she’s physically reacting to the hexcore glitching instead of it just affecting her weapons like it does the others.
If you look real closely at when she's in pain, the scars on her face are flaring up with the Hextech going out of control. Woman was probably feeling the pain of 5 of her being split apart AND still jumped in to protect Jinx not long after.
It’s the hex tech in Caitlyn’s rifle reacting to the shimmer in Savika’s arm and scar
@@CreationsFlare loyal till the end
My days.
I can't imagine the pain 😰
Not so much an Easter Egg but a very cool writing moment/usage of symbolism is when Ekko, Jayce, and Heimer first enter the hex gate core. You can hear Ekko tell Jayce how Piltover has made it so that whenever it rains, Zaun are the ones to get wet. However, in the first episode of the act after the Piltover council discusses invading Zaun, you can see Salo notice rain drops hitting his hand in the room; showing that for once Piltover is experiencing and noticing the consequences of their actions.
I feel like alot of people forget about the power dynamic between Zaun and Piltover. They're currently technically the "same" empire, but the Zaunites are treated as 3rd class citizens and basically used for all the dirty/ dangerous labor and are alluded to be heavily repressed.
My go to parallel is that it's almost like the hunger games. Piltover=Capitol
Zaun=Districts
Zaun does have a reason to rebel, but Silco was willing to damage and use his own people to gain enough power to make it happen.
Yeah, it’s also worth noting how the councillors were affected in ways that resemble Zaunite characters.
Salo was disabled, unable to walk without aid, much like Viktor.
Shoola was disfigured, half of her face scarred, like Silco.
Caitlyn lost a parent, like Vi and Jinx.
It’s fine if the people from the Undercity suffer like that every single day, but the moment PILTOVER is forced to deal with the same thing? It’s an outrage.
@cartoonishidealism582 I never made that connection! Love the parallels thrown in this show. Seriously amazing how much you can find. Cheers!
@@cartoonishidealism582Damn, AMAZING catch. I was really surprised when i saw the consequences of the attack on ep 1, Salo being disabled really struck me... and then I thought "wait a minute that shit happens all the time in Zaun, fuck you guys"
@@jondough9545I think its interesting because Vander was the opposite, he protected his own and never handed one of theirs... but he never was willing to go forward on ANY way to get over that oppression
Something I noticed: Heimer was seen observing a stain in the lower levels of the hex room, this stain is from when victor coughed blood over the ledge in season 1 and is likely what cause the lattice to be corrupted
Holy shit thats an amazing catch. It makes sense how the hexcore evolved after infusing with victors blood when he was doing tests on it. How it then infused with sky but before that how victor coughed down the hex room. Sheesh brother good job!
@@lowly.8776 thank you, and thank you to the 200+ people and Nickyboi for the likes, glad I was able to point something cool out to y’all
HOLY CANOLY WHAT A CATCH
Ohhhh 😯✨
I just want to know if my bois heimer and ekko is dead or not😱
And why isha got teemos helmet on😅
The favorite detail I caught was that Ambessa lost Kino because she was distracted. Now she's distracted once more with her schemes and plans, and Mel got nabbed by the Black Rose.
I think I will rewatch it all once its fully released
it reminds me of when Childish Gambino released “this is America” and all were finding easter eggs for a month
Not like she could've done anything about it anyways
@nyfriom she could have actually, we know she has items like the Kaernic Rookern to ward off the magic of the Black Rose. If she followed the advice of Rictus and involved Mel, she would have been in a better position to help Mel. Hell Rictus could have stood guard for Mel if she was aware of the threat to herself.
Lol
Actually, Renni's eyes go red because when Jayce pulled the tube, some of the chemicals spilled into her eye, causing the irritation and dizziness. You can actually see the droplets hitting her eye if you slow it down
🤓☝️
Yeah, kind nuts for him to assume that the chemicals are for good vision, not that chemical in eye is bad for eye 😂
"I watched it _5_ times"
Me: Is that a threat?! _(goes back to watch it 10 times)_
No, that’s a challenge.
One thing I’m surprised you didn’t notice is that Caitlyn is almost an exact version of what Mel said they should use as a regent during her flashback with her mom in season one, clever, to gain her subjects respect, but pliable, so they can mold her into what they need
You don't seem to know what words mean because Caitlyn is none of those things.
@@darksaint0124 Caitlyn is very clearly being "molded" into a leader to take down the undercity by Ambessa because she's blinded by her hatred, so her being "pliable" _does_ actually apply. Are you blinded by your bias for her like she is with her hatred lol? It's kinda obvious and this video literally points it out multiple times.
If you're talking about when Mel said something along the lines of "we need someone with a fat, kind face", I don't think those words are meant to be taken literally. Caitlyn's family, the Kiramman's, are a powerful symbol in Piltover and they're very well off, hence the phrasing "fat face"; fat being a way to say wealthy and powerful.
So yeah. Caitlyn fits the description perfectly. _You_ don't seem to know what those words mean
16:32 I am miffed and scuttled that the people I have watched so far did not get the quoted reference that when Sevika says "we do not give up our own" is a quote that Vander said to Sevika when she left the Last Drop. 😢 Rip Vander 🫡 Hellow Warw.. AhAhahhh 🩸💚
Yeah, this is a Vander rule that Vi breaks in the first season.
Its hella interesting because you see even Silco, at the end of the day, followed that rule
Caitlyn's section of the opening isn't meant to be similar to Sauron, it's meant to be Macbeth as the entire opening is referencing famous tragedies like Julius Ceaser and Les Miserables.
True 😮
No man is volition from disco elysium trust me bro
@@victorhugobarbosapereira4850 bro
Its also literally in the shape of a crown, so further connecting her to "Heavy Is The Crown"
Hey guys i think Ambessa might be doing something idk but that's the vibe i get. It's probably just a coincidence, right
She probably will be too important for the lore, I mean she got a legendary skin in the first day she got released, a book,and a music video, Riot loves her
@@glamita3191 I like the show and I like LoR generally very much, I think they did a great job. I didn't like the sentinel event though. all i can remember is getting 4 champions from the same region in a row all tied to the same story and then having random champions join and get skins. I was promised that I'd get lore and stories but then I had to log in and actively look for it, was demanded to play for hours and was offered little rewards for my time plus had to pay money for the actual champions from that event. Truly the ruination.
Ambessa really isn't that bad imo.
What if her and Camille end up fighting.
@@glamita3191 ...welp.
7:58 If you think about it, with that weapon, Renni technically gave Jayce grievous wounds, in reference to the effect it does in-game
No one mentioned that the Grey looking alive wasn't just a artistic view, but probably a Fiddlesticks reference? As the primal demon of fear, being showed in a silhouette in the fumes, which that's probably terriefies the zaunites.
I agree the demonic face seems almost identical to fiddlesticks face in his splash. And as a demon of fear it makes sense
"every easter egg in arcane"
*does not mentioned the shakespeare references in the opening*
That's not the whole title tho.
Slightly embarrassing, that was...
mention*
Or all the hidden images!!!! They are literally one frame long.
the one that i really really like is a link between episodes 1 and 3. in episode 3, ekko tells jayce "when it rains up here, we're the ones who get wet" referring to the placement of the hexgate's core in a place where its malfunction would only affect zaun. in episode 1, in the scene where salo and mel argue about invading in the council room, it begins to rain. salo is visibly surprised to actually get wet in this scene, and i read that as them finally facing consequences for their handling of zaun(jinx's attack)
when vi tears apart the minigun, the guts of the minigun shortly cover her face and give her the jagged grin she has in some of jinx's drawings/hallucinations.
34:44 even more fitting since one of ambessa's in-game quotes is "there's no greater motivation than grief", so yeah, safe to say she's about to turn cait into a bloodhound
30:09 a neat detail during the fight was cait pushing her glitched gun in sevikas face, which somehow seems to immobilize her. I think its because of the explosion all the way back in s1 from powders monkeybomb, sevika has those light blue scars on her face
When Heimerdinger is running through the vents with Ekko it's clearly a reference to how Kennen runs and he even has a stance of how Kennen stands.
finally someone said it
25:26 Nono, actually if you look closely, Cait's "shot" came out from the bottom, which seems more like she threw the net that she uses in the game (her E) and rather the image of the chem-barons' faces seems rather that they were caught, just as Cait says "neutralize any agent still loyal to Silco" not to kill them.
11:54 he also pauses because his wounds reopened and began bleeding again, it’s very subtle but the blood stain on the bandage grows a bit. This is likely to show the despite his injuries he is working tirelessly to try to help solve the issue of both Zuan and Viktor; where when he wakes up you can see the wound reopening again while he tries to explain himself to Viktor
Our well deserved Nicholas J. Boi breakdown has finally arrived and I am SAT
lets gooo 🎉
Butterfly can represent the buterfly effect, just not going into the past but actually seeing how different timelines and the difference between them changed whole history
Oh that's excellent! Brings even more meaning to the butterflies in the last season
[spoilers] 34:32 HOLY SHIT 😭
You did not just say cait resembles “Sauron” at 2:02 when it’s clearly the iconic poster for Macbeth
this has me rolling 😭
God i was fuming that he went for sauron refrence. Bruh...
22:08 two times people have said thats a hammer, but am I the only one who sees it as a Spool of Wire, which the Chomper is attached to when its launched from the end of Sevika's arm and eats Smeech's hat? Like the "hammer" and Chomper image in the slot machine together make up what the attack ended up being for that spin, so why in Janna's name is everyone calling it a hammer?
I also thought it was a hammer, but you're so right it IS a wire spool!
I think for most people "big block attached to a thin stick" just reads as "hammer" before anything else. And it goes by so fast that most don't think about it too hard. I know I didn't.
@@PhyreSpore THANK YOU! It was also shown in the minigame in the League Client rn that Jinx went out of her way to get a wire spool from one of the machines in the arcade to put in Sevika's arm, so I honestly doubt she'd put an icon on the roulette wheel for something she didn't actually put in the arm.
This was just about to comment this
I love how there is so much Skylanders music as background track on this video
I loved seeing Ambessa in season 2 tbh like I knew she was ruthless but damn she’s so fun to watch how she just brings everything together in her favour but then she’s also so shook by the black rose and has this underlying protectiveness of her family who it seems at face value she has outcast (Mel) she’s such an interesting character with way more layers than I thought she’d have in season one
Great video! One detail I haven't seen anyone mention is that the jaw on the end of Sevika's new arm is made from the trap that Powder triggers on the enforcer in the arcade in season 1 episode 2!
Hey another note about Cait in the intro, the wretched crown shadow symbolizes the authority she will be given, and how it will corrupt her. It also appears before the close up that her fingers are bloody, but during the close up they're clean, possibly representing the blood that was almost on her hands when she became a corrupted authority figure.
Cuidado bro alrato que lo roba JWluen
I'm not seeing anyone mention how Smeech being a yordle, who are immortal beings of pure magic, gets seemingly ripped to pieces
Smeech snorts Shimmer for breakfast… he’s not exactly the picture of health compared to someone like Heimerdinger or even a comparatively crazy yordle like Ziggs (say what you want about them but at least Ziggs looks like he brushed those freaky aah flat teeth recently)
Yordles’ spirits respawn back to Bandle City after they “die” making them technically immortal
@@stephmignogna9848 Oh so the body dies while the soul respawns back? That makes sense
also! the flower petals are violet! like vi!
edit: i also think it’s possible that the grey is fiddlesticks of zaun
8:33 im pretty sure her eye turned red was bc the chemical fluid got into her eye
The long travel time for singed to get from Piltover to the Freljord wouldn't matter because singed has stacked so many movespeed items.
Careful with a channel called JWulen (might steal your content) to make his "own" video
27:16 that edit was diabolical XD
Now I'm not at all mad at this and fully welcoming it, keep up the good work! (Also the Skylanders music took me out and tbh I love it)
The skylanders music in the back is making me so fucking nostalgic
Man this was so funny and informative, I need this for every other Arcane Act. Including season 1
I really hope sevika comes to the game as a champion as i feel like she would be a really fun support that could bounce off of jinx both thematically and gameplay wise
"Don't fall in love with character that are not playable in League"
Yeah... You're right about that
Oof. Actually don't fall on love with any character... there were people who really thought being a champion and league was plot armor....
an error i noticed on my 4th rewatch: when jinx is knocked down in the alleyway by one of smeech's goons, her nose is bleeding. when the camera pans to her pistol getting kicked out of her hand, the blood from her nose disappears even tho she never made any move to wipe it off.
i thought she mightve quickly wiped her face during that quick scuffle, but since fortiche does a really good job at capturing details like that i figured they wouldve showed some smeared blood on her face if that were the case (and there isnt).
In Sevika's arm, it's not actually a hammer, it's from a crane game in the arcade from episode 2, you can see it in the LoL minigame "Jinx Fixes -ruins- everything"
thanks man, i showed this to my buddy who doesnt play league and they actually understood most of this thanks for explaining 😭
also big fan i watch everything u upload king keep up the great videos
This was one truly amazing breakdown. Can't wait to binge the other two vids
Fun fact: Lest is voiced by a Eve Lindley, a trans woman, who has confirmed that Lest is trans as well. She's also voiced by trans women in several other languages!
Based as hell
This sparks joy
Lest is very pretty.
Lest is the Best
cringe
Every time I hear "Zohnya's Hourglass" I take psychic damage
It better not be because you pronounce it ZaunYas
@@blakesummers3764 If I got the spelling wrong you'll have to live with it. I'm not looking it up
7:10 the scientist that gets shdow blown by a hexcrystal because Ambessa is low on smart people.
well made video! love the added humor as well
I'm pretty sure Margot and the other guy are still alive since that montage with the shattered glass effect depicts Caitlyn's netgun ability more than a bullet
28:01 it's also fun to mention that Lest is canonically trans, as confirmed by her VA on Twitter (who is also trans) \o/
Since when do VAs have a say in this?
Ok... I forgot lest even existed tbh
cringe
Crazy how Nicky managed to cram more details in 36 minutes than Necrit's 1h40 video
I watched all the "hints symbols easter eggs" videos and this is the best one thx
And yet there are still things missing 😢
Love hunting easter eggs, even the very small ones like Heimer sneaking with Ekko in the labs imitating Twitch "tchi tchi tchi" sounds when Twitch goes invisible, ready to watch act 2
unrelated but i luv how u use skylanders music in ur vids!! So nostalgic!!
The fight between Jinx and Vi is legit the opening to season 1. js
Nicky never fails in putting banger skylander music in his videos
Dont worry man, i know how it feels. I really like Smeech too. He had by far the most personality of all the chem barons. Between his voice, his mannerisms and his design, i was bummed when he died. But hey, hes a yordle, so he'll be back. Eventually
Laughs about 34:34 with Maddie being evil since she turned out to be just that
OH MY GOD ARCANE CONTENT WITH SKYLANDERS MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND????
While Jinx is protecting Isha, Sevica also shields the both of them, showing she's formed a bond with Jinx and views her as more than a nuisance, the fact she even agreed to join in with Jinx's little self-destructive performance non-withstanding.
I'm gonna need that act 2 and 3 Easter eggs now boy
the smeech animation makes me so happy that im sad he dies so early
In the hexcore scene, where the 3 of them get distorted, in the background you can see them distorted before they get distorted, funny enough I noticed this with Ekko first them say the rest of them aswell
You did a fantastic job here I was laughing at all the funny stuff you did, all the other videos can't compare to this one it figures that something this good doesn't have more views. :(
24:57 don't worry he's a yordle, probably just going to respawn somewhere
Thank you for making this a real content piece instead of just a list. I chuckled hard
In the episode 3 when hex tech gets messed up, we see defined lines of the glitch lightning (idk what to call it) target specifically the veins on Sevika's face
couldn't go to my irl watch party, was so happy to watch it with yall :)
Something I don't think I've seen anyone else mention is that you can actually see fishbones start to glitch before it explodes. It's a bit hard to see but if you look really closely at its eyes, you can see the color within them rapidly change from blue to orange.
Love this format of video, Nicky!!
When you talk about the leads releasing the grey you say it’s just to catch one person but it’s for the three reasons Cait lists. Dismantling shimmer, neutralizing agents of silco, and locating jinx. The first two happen in the little intro they do.
love the skylanders music
Smeech is immortal tho, he just took a trip back to bandle city! This could probably be a way to show us how the yordle immortality works, although I doubt we're seeing Smeech again, so maybe not.
I immensely appreciate the skylander background music
10/10 video for having Skylander music in the background
One detail I saw someone point out about the intro is how the ray of light potentially represents destiny, and how it is touching each champion and progressing them to their inevitable future.
Except Ekko. He dodges it 🤔
the skylander music perfect its good to see its not forgotten
I'm not someone who watches shit twice , my favorite show of all time game of Thrones which is the only show I literally miss like a childhood best friend or deceased family member or something, even it I've tried rewatching to fulfill the hole in my heart its absence has left but it's just not the same on a rewatch, but that said, for some reason I can rewatch arcane over and over again and it almost gets better each time...
Same for me
this is a pretty commonly mentioned one, but in the scene where Caitlyn stares down at Vi after hitting her, her face softens for only a moment before turning away, suggesting she DOES feel remorse about what she did. (I'm grasping at straws for caitvi.)
30:10 in here i dont think its a convenient thing, you can see moments before Jinx shoots Vi with Fishbones Vi's Atlas Gauntlets stop glitching out allowing her to dodge the missile from Fishbones, later on Fishbones does get affected by the glitching and it explodes from the inside
My theory is that Jinx was just firing a normal rocket and then fired a hextech powered one later
when Jayce pauses as he's hammering it's actually because he's bleeding while he works. If you watch closely, his bloodstain starts getting larger and he continues when he's contempt with working through the pain to make the gun for Cait.
Lest actually reminded me more of Xayah & Rakahn, which she doesn't have any feathers her massive tall ears look a lot like them.
Also Ahri isn't even designed like a proper vastayah, MAKE THEM MORE BEASTLY
Every time Maddie is on screen, I think to myself "Get out of the cameraman's line of sight please it's safer that way"
31:28 " AND POTENTIALLY EVEN iSHA'S SKULL " ... FINALLY A CONTENT CREATOR SAID IT !
I mean, I think it's a definite thing. We've seen the hex bullets punch through stuff. Isha's head is perfectly aligned with Jinx's head. That's a double headshot guaranteed
Damn Skylanders music in the background is nostalgic. Skylanders Giants to be more precise. Great video!
Got to love the Skylanders Giants music in the background
Dude i just finished the series and then i watched this video of yours and i just want to say how tf u predicted the whole season 2
Thanks❤
29:44 Caitlyn also blinks as the petal falls behind the mirror, so she missed the part where it's just a mirror that she is aiming at and not Jinx. Because of that moment of hesitation (Vi specifically told her to not hesitate), she shot the mirror and gave away her position and lost her advantage in the fight, turning it into a losing fight. Her and Vi lost that fight because she hesitated at the very start.
1. We add a small, not important thing that you see for maybe 30 seconds (like Heimer's mask)
2. EVERYTHING has a place in the world, so we add other small references and hints to explain the existence of said thing (Heimer later infiltrates the lab so he uses the same mask, it's actually Fireflies' mask that they gave him. It's decorated so we add painting tools to the Heimer's workshop to show that it was actually him who painted it, which shows to us his little quirks
I love how every few fun facts there’s some random ass meme sound effect, it makes my mentally ill mind happy
8:30 I love the implication than in the 5 times that he watched the show nor at recording and editing that scene, Nicky never catched that the reason why her eyes became bloody was because the liquid of the tubes splashed her eye and not because those quimics are an overconvoluted nasal glasses.
9:32
I've never shot a lever-action before, but if you have your fundamentals down right, it's easy to keep your shots within an area the size of a quarter, like caitlyn's shots against the chempunk, from a stationary standing position.
From a military perspective you're expected to keep your shots that precise to ensure you break body armor through repeated strikes. So Caitlyn doing this, while not too impressive realistically, is exemplary considering literally nobody else can shoot like that, except Jinx.
8:40 The light flashes and blurry vision is probably because she got some chemicals in her eye when Jayce pulled out her nose tubes.
22:08 That isn't a hammer. It is a spool of wire from a claw game. So, in combination with the Chomper, that is the roll for launching it. There is currently a minigame in league where you can play through Jinx collecting the items to construct the arm.
25:34 The Chembarons may not be dead since the shot is the netlauncher and we saw alive goons from Episode 2. They may have been apprehended instead.
30:47 It wasn't the hexcore, but a rapidly spinning globe in the Mage's hand.
In Episode 2, Jinx says to Isha, "That's me," which is identical to what she said when Silco tried and failed to get her attention after she stole the Hexcore. She also sits in the same position after jumping from the rafters in his office.
At the end Lauris didnt join in on the Salute, he knows what path their going down
TB Skyen is convinced that Viktor healing people is the hexcore feeding on them but really I find that kind of weird to think when the process of "evolving" these people who come to Viktor takes a very visible physical toll on him, if the Hexcore was being invigorated by the process we'd see Viktor swell with vitality not fall to his knees, gasping for breath. We see it again when he's helping Vander where navigating the interior of Vander's Warwick-mind is both dangerous and exhausting for him.
The hexcore and the evolution thing definitely has some bad vibes with it but people are just way too quick to dogpile on Viktor & the commune and it annoys me.
"My Mother's entered the game."
"Which one?"
*DEAD* 😂
I gotta say: how did Caitlin shoot Powder's finger? Why was she aiming for her finger, and not a kill shot?
My call? She wasn't aiming for the finger.
Her emotion got carried away.
Caitlin MISSED.
That's why Vi is so concerned about her aiming.
She shot Powder it the finger. Which does nothing for anyone.
So Vi knew how close that child was to death when Cait took those shots. She knew she'd stepped over a line.