“Get Jinxed” is what she’s listening to at the end of Episode 4 when Silco starts yelling at her for killing the enforcers and blowing up the building.
@@MeeshDeeReacts and that makes this song canon in the league universe. jinx must have it actually recorded for herself; quite crazy when u think about it. Btw there is also a really good song for Vi, but no video. but i would recommend to wait with that until u finished arcane, becuase the lyrics are a bit of a spoiler for Vi's story
@@uzrdutiutfiztdf3545 You are thinking way too hard on that lol. I guarantee you they put it in as an easter egg. Probably zero intention of making it "canon" that Jinx recorded it herself.
Jinx has been a fan favorite in League of Legends ever since they added her. This music video was actually to help hype up her initial release. They also teased her by having Jinx graffiti the entire Riot Games website.
The same studio that animated the get Jinxed music video also did arcane- a French studio called Fortiche. They went from having under 10 animators for that first music video, to over a hundred for the Enemy/Arcane show. They really grew drastically and found their formula throughout this journey and man is is beautiful. If you rewatch episode 4 of arcane, you'll notice Jinx listening to "Get Jinxed" when Silco goes to reprimand her after stealing the crystal, a nice Easter egg they included for the fans !
We’re in the middle of watching Bridging the Rift and love getting to know more about the French studio, Fortiche! Love the French style woven into the Arcane show. Just masterful 🔥
@@MeeshDeeReacts Will you be posting your reaction to bidging the rift? Looove that documenetary series. Its crazy to think about that the two co-creators of Arcane started at Riot in entry lvl positions when it was just a small startup gamecompany, not the billion dollar multimedia company it is now.
@@MeeshDeeReacts I'm so glad you're watching it! This is probably one of the most underappreciated masterpiece of our times, despite all the success it garnered internationally. I'm glad you two get to appreciate all of its beauty
If you hadn't noticed, the moment he stopped the music because Jinxed didn't listened to him was the moment the lyrics were about to say "right know I'm feeling ignored" that was funny !
There's something so telling about Powder/Jinx's final expression in the Enemy MV. Not of sadistic malice, not of sadness or heartbreak. Just exhausted and nearly emotionless. Like she's broken beyond explanation and gave up on everything.
Hope you guys continue watching LOL cinematics, even the ones that have nothing to do with Arcane. The cinematics themselves are each a masterpiece in their own right.
One that might be good to check out later down the line is a music video "Giants - True Damage" as it features Ekko. Would definitely be more enjoyable if they knew at least a little about the other characters featured.
Try the last one girls, its difficult to pick up if u dont know the lore, but if u study a bit of it u will find its absolutly amazing, its called Im still here.
"Get Jinxed" was one of the first videos by Studio Fortiche, who would eventually go on to create Arcane. As you can see their style has changed since then, though there are still signature Fortiche elements, such as the hand-drawn 2D smoke and VFX.
Get Jinxed and its success is basically the progenitor to everything that follows, including Arcane. It was the first time Riot did anything like this, as well as being the beginning of their collaboration with Fortiche. There are a few easter eggs in Arcane from this video, for example you might recall Milo talking about shooting down one of the airships, which is a reference to it happening in this video.
Get Jinxed was released when they released her character. In League, shes an adult, while Arcane is giving us her and Vi's origins. Arcane wasnt originally going to be canon to lore, but Riot backtracked and have now acknowledged tbat Arcane and League lore are synonymous. So its great for us fans of Jinx from the game because we had only gray area when it vame to her lore. All we knew is that she was always being chased by Cait and Vi, and has a crush on Ziggs, who she regularly kidnaps and forces to go on crime scenes with her, all because she thinks hes a figment of her imagination. Arcane has added so much more depth and emotion to her character.
Fun fact, "Get Jinxed" was the first collab between Riot Games and french studio Fortiche, which was known in the industry for doing mostly music clips. Fortiche was yet again comissionned by Riot games for the "Warriors" music video to go with the Imagine Dragons' song made for the 2014 League World championship. After that, Fortiche was pretty much chosen as the de-facto studio for the animated series project. When the series project went into a bit of a script re-write in 2018, Fortinche found themselves in period of down time, and they had bandwidth to make two other video for Riot Games : the first one was the "Rise" video for the 2018 World Championship, and the second was the K/DA Pop Stars clip, both of which I consider to be the best music videos they have ever released. Before the "Get Jinxed" clip, Piltover and Zaun was close to have 0 lore and artwork. Fortiche pretty much just created the whole artstyle for both cities and Riot Games just went with it. It only makes sense for the first animated project to be placed here with this studio making the animation.
The Jinx we originally got in the game and Get Jinxed was definitely a bit of a shallow Harley Quinn clone - at least on the surface. We didn't know super much about her (although we mostly speculated she was definitely Vi's sister), so she came across as just a kind of alluring crazy woman. Arcane definitely toned down on the "sexy lunacy" and grounded the character far more in her mental illness rather than the "poppy craziness". I'm very happy with the Arcane design, and that they no longer play so much on the skimpy clothing and shallow craziness. What a great character, finally.
What's interesting to me is that Get Jinxed is a dream. When she wakes up at the end she's more somber. I kinda feel like this was where they wanted to take the character but the funnier sexier version worked better for as a game character.
not as first was the sister thing done. it was slowly introduced. if you read both back stories they didnt match up (yea i know most people didnt read those). i think it was around jinx's 3rd year when they started hinting at they were sisters. funny thing is thats when arcane was first thought up (2016). also remember arcane wasnt going to be cannon. they even have a interview with the writers of arcane after season 1 dropped and they said it was a different universe and it wont be the same as the main universe but as we know they have changed all that.
Get Jinxed was made in 2015, before Arcane was even a distant possiblity, with the release of the character in League. It was the first time Riot had done something like this. And, yes, she was beloved by the league community from the get go :)
Get jinxed was posted on the league of legends' channel on October 8, 2013 (jinx was released on oct 10, 2013). so... it wasn't made in 2015, but it was put a music album in 2015 which gives the "released date of jan 27, 2015"
@cranberrysauce61 lol thanks for that tidbit, I was wondering where the '2015' was coming from. Can't believe Jinx has been in game for over a decade now
Get Jinxed was Riot's first work with Fortiche if I recall correctly so a bit of polish they had for Arcane was not yet done. It's was also one of Riot's first big character specific promotional videos and it was VERY popular in the community. At the time, people didn't know, but speculated that Vi and Jinx were the sisters in their voice lines
crazy mention on "the get jinxed" video. It was said that she looks like that on league and Netflix arcane jinx looked different. It was so different they gave us players a skin for it during the season.
In arcane the creators tried to incorporate a little the facial features of the voice actors and their expressions - you should watch "bridging the rift: the making of arcane" after you have finished the series.... your admiration for everything will increase 10 fold!!!!
Love your reaction to this video! Welcome to the Arcane/LOL rabbit hole but I have to say that I have watched many reactions and it is amazing to see the many reactions! You guys are on point! I love how you know the background (as much as you can know) and I look forward to see what you two have to say about everything else that you will experience! Love you ❤
You can also watch kda popstars (fortiche made this when arcane was about to get canceled before it was released). When you are done with arcane you can also watch the making of of arcane.
Easter egg: 1:57 We see the firelight bug come out of Powder's mouth and then she changes to Jinx (for two frames - it's easy to miss) I think it's a "what could have been" if she had stayed friends with Ekko and become a Firelight herself - but that aspect left her.
Get jinxed was released like 8 years before Arcane came out that is why it looks bit different. But yeah she looks more like the normal jinx skin in the game. Jinx after arcane got a new skin that looks like the arcane version in game.
I can't wait to dive into all the League cinematics with these two - it's gunna be a fire lore dive! I wonder what they'll be the most hyped for - my money's on a particular season cinematic ;)
The first Fortiche video I ever watched was the "Rise" video they made in 2018 for LoL Worlds. It's so well done that even though I don't play LoL and know very little about it, I thought to myself "I wish they would make an animated series." Then, they released Arcane years later. :D They also released a K-Pop series of skins in the game and Fortiche released a video called Pop Stars that is another amazing visual treat. They can animate black light effects in the most stunning way. I hope to see a lot more of their work in the future.
So, the Enemy video is of Powder, when she is without her friends or family, in The Last Drop (with nobody behind the bar), remembering things that have happened in the past, which make her laugh or cry. Question. Do you think it's before or after the end of episode 3? Is she without her friends and family because they are all dead and it;'s now Silco's place?
I like how at the end of Get Jinxed she does her "finger gun shoot" move, while in Enemy when Powder does the same there's a very very brief flash of Jinx as she fires
A little bit of context about jinx's age In the first few episodes, powder is 10years old, but after the time skip, when we first see her as jinx, she is 16. But in league of legends itself, jinx is now 25 while Caitlyn and VI are in their early 30s. Concurrently, jayce is 24 at the beginning of arcane, 30 after the time skip and 39-40 in the game So even at the end of Arcane season 1, there is still 9 years separating us from the point in time where they were introduced to LoL.
whait,what... isnt supposed that renata glasc is 40 years old,jayce created the sun gates,renata was a child when the sungates where created,does this means that renata is younger than jaice
@@migatito1291 well if jayce made the gates and she was a child when that happened, she obviously would be younger than him by default. Jayce didnt make the gates as a preschooler
@@simplyskrypt3914 yea i know,what i mean is that if jayce is 24-30 when he created the sungates and renata was a child lets say between 12-16 when tha sungates where created,this means renata is at least like 20 years younger than jayce but she is 40 years old in the game and jayce is 40 years old too which is kind of inconsistent
@@migatito1291 if he is 24 and she is 12-16, that would make renata 28-32 in game. Which, i agree, is inconsistent if her in game age is supposed to be 40. For renata to be 40, jayce would have to be 48-52, and his in game model, while adult, is clearly not that old
I would recommend Worlds 2021 Ceremony, as it also features new scenes from Arcane, that is not in ANY other content. Don't worry 0 spoilers. Worlds 2021 Show Open Presented by Mastercard: Imagine Dragons, JID, Denzel Curry, Bea Miller, PVRIS Okay so to explain what you're about to see is, well. League of Legends is a competitive video game, and every year there is a opening ceremony before the final 2 teams are about the play and be crowned world champion. The ceremony includes songs which have come out throughout the year. 2021 unfortunately got hit by COVID and they had to make a digital one, instead of LIVE. 2021 was the year ARCANE came out, and therefore the ceremony was then ARCANE themed. Worlds Opening Ceremony 2024 is 19th November in London. And guess what it's around the same time as ARCANE S2. The 1st song revealed is STILL HERE. Another recommendation Still Here | Season 2024 Cinematic - League of Legends (ft. Forts, Tiffany Aris, and 2WEI)
I love how they experiment with different genres while still staying true to their sound. Btw Nick Thurl Mavromatis has done it again! His new song is a masterpiece. React to it now!
7:20 This get jinxed music video is wayback from 2014, so maybe that's why she looks different even though fortiche did both designs. In my headcanon "Get Jinxed" Jinx's face looks different from Arcane's Jinx because she is older there, Arcane is still a prequel to present Jinx from the game.
"Get Jinxed" was the first collaboration between Riot and Fortiche Studio. This initial project was so well received that they continued working together on several other projects before the release of ARCANE. If you want to check out another music video from this collaboration, "K/DA - POP/STARS" is probably the most impactful.👌😁👍
Btw, when we got Jinx in League of Legends, NONE of her real backstory was available. We spent years and years dissecting her voice lines and such, trying to figure her out. Eventually, it was kinda agreed by Jinx mains that her line, "You think I'm crazy? You should see my sister!" was referring to Vi. Arcane felt hella validating!
as so many have said "Get Jinxed" was the introduction video to the character of Jinx in the Game, only lore we have was that she was from Piltover and the villain to Caitlyn and Vi, there was speculation she was Vi's sister, but nothing confirmed until Arcane released, Jinx character is very much based on Harley Quinn, and everyone loved her. one of the guys behind the character also said "Jinx is not evil, she would not kill a random guy on the street corner, simply because of the killing, now if he was sitting on a crate of fireworks on the other hand.... "
Riot definitely knocked it out of the park with their transformation of the character of Jinx. In the game, she's essentially a cliche manic pixie dream girl similar to Harley Quinn, who a lot of people do love, but the way they built her into something truly tragic and more interesting than that cliche was masterful.
I would 100% recommend watching more of the cinematics and music videos from Riot Games. One of my personal favorites is Phoenix from Worlds 2019, but there's also the Awaken 2019 season cinematic, Legends Never Die from Worlds 2017, and Rise from 2018. However, the one that has just COMPLETELY blown everyone out of the water is this year's cinematic, Still Here. Look, I'm not trying to send you guys on a lore deep dive, I'm just trying to share some of the best League of Legends videos that I've come across. There's a reason that I've got a playlist called LoL Inspirational - because they are very emotionally powerful songs and videos.
Y'all should do the other music videos for League of Legends, they're all so good. One of my favorites is "the curse of the sad mummy", it's very emotional and such a pretty video
Awesome! This is actually a very good moment in the series to watch these clips... for reasons... Please don't forget to watch the (way too short) teaser to season 2 they did for Arcane. :)
7:30 "And see what Powpow thinks" for almost a decade no one knew what this meant, we always knew Jinx as Jinx and nothing more, we assumed that was her real name, her actual name Powder got revealed for the first time in arcane, same as Vi being her sister. There were hints of the later but never a confirmation until the show. Arcane and its story was something completely knew even for veterans league players who knew all the lore.
@@hmmthatsinterestinglol ohhhhh You know what? fair, I play league league in spanish, that's why that never rang a bell with me, now I see they translated "powpow" to "pium-pium" lol
What's worse is that "Jinx" is causing chaos, and she's saying "let's see what pow pow thinks"... in a way she's talking about her "former self", the "weak pow pow that wouldnt be able to think of such things let alone survive them"
With regards to mental health and Jinx in particular - there are hints throughout the entire show that she is, in fact, a sociopath. In the very opening sequence on the bridge, she's peeking through her fingers at the carnage all around but seems relatively unaffected, unwavering in the song she was clearly instructed to sing. Even when they see their parents dead, she doesn't react at first, instead she looks up to see how Vi reacts and then attempts to mirror her - she simply doesn't feel emotions the same way normal people do and has to fake it. In that same scene you actually get your first glimpses of her hallucinations (the scratched up bits of film with faces or figures on them) in a blink-and-you'll miss it moment on the bridge. I'm not going to get into spoiler territory, but Powder has her first mental breakdown long before any of the major traumas actually befall her, simply because Vi left her alone in their room. Vi is her touchstone, her link to 'normalcy', her guidepost on how to pretend that she's normal and therefor have a chance at a normal life. Without Vi, she's lost... clearly.
Small children are incapable of fully understanding the concept of death. It would have been unrealistic to have her crying over her mother's body since she was too young to understand. Young kids do not understand death. She just didn't know what was happening.
@@mossofthemoon That's a fair perspective, but again, on the bridge, we are ALREADY seeing the white scratches in the film, which is clearly intended to represent the fractured nature of her mind.
If you guys were a fan of the Enemy music video, i definitely recommend looking up the other music videos Riot has produced. The KDA ones especially becayse they were also animated by the same studio as Arcane. In general i highly recommend looking up all their other stuff, it is quite a deep dive but well worth it - particularly if you like the universe of Arcane and are curious about the other regions within this world.
Did you notice in Enemy the brief shot of Powder on her rhino? While the Enemy video was made with wholly original work, it really fills in the character's backstories.
I highly recommend to watch the documentary of the making of arcane after you finish the season, it's on RUclips and it's really insane how they made Arcane. It's called Arcane bridging the rift
If you're down for a recommendation of other LoL Music videos to watch, Id suggest: From the LoL music play list: Legends Never Die - Worlds 2017 Awaken - season 2019 cinematic warriors - season 2020 cinematic Your really Got me (ft. Jinx) - cinematic trailer welcome aboard - Odyssey animated trailer (ft. Jinx) The Call - Season 2022 Cinematic Still here - Season 2024 Cinematic You might also get a kick out the K/DA music videos (LoL animated KPOP group featuring champions from LoL sung by some of the re-occuring artists from their music videos) I'd recommend: Pop/Stars More Villain
The "Jinx" in tthe Enemy video really doesn't seem as emotionally fraught as the one we see in Arcane. For the moments we see her, her expression seems calm, strong, and confident. I think this is who Powder *wanted* to grow up to be.
you guys should check out the song "here comes Vi" as well. there's no music video for it, but the song is still great. Nikki Taylor (who sings "Here comes Vi") also did a mashup of "Here comes Vi" and "Get Jinxed" together with Lunity which is fantastic.
Of big recommendation if you want to learn just a bit about all the regions in Runeterra (the name of the world Arcane takes place). There are like 8 animated shorts named "Tales of Runeterra" that shows every region in the world, they are fun and are animated in the arcane art style. Some people who reacted to arcane then reacted to all of them.
Ok, time for some context that is kinda lost after the fact: When Vi was released, she launched with her own song, which was a first for League. Champions before would have themes/music, but vi got her own lyric song which played during her opening (back in the day, the league launcher would have a pseudo animated launch screen with the song (I say psuedo animated because it was just 2-5 seconds looped). Anyway, Jinx was created to be vi's counter opposite. Vi is tall, fully clothed, melee, muscular, hourglass figured, short ping hair and blue eyes and serious, where Jinx is short, barely wearing any clothes, raged, waifish, 'flat' long blue hair and pink eyes, and crazy. Leading up to the launch, of Jinx there was a growing list of easter eggs. Jinx appeared in two opening splash screens, though in the first she was hidden and it was a year before during the summer splash screen. In the second splash screen, she was actually the perspective it was drawn from and we saw her waist down with her arm holding a glass of something, but they still hadn't released any info about her. A wanted poster, with the face scratched out appeared on the website (listing a multitude of crimes, many of which were clearly made up and it was made by 'X' which is what her 'name' was, and it was the citizens of piltover that called her Jinx, which she adopted. Likewise, Vi and Caitlyn's wiki pages were graffitied leading up to Jinx's release. They honestly did a great job of her reveal. Anyway, since Vi got a song, they went with a full blown music video for Jinx, the first they had ever done. Since they were teasing her for so long but not actually revealing her face, this is why not only does the video hide it for a while, but the animation actually slows when she turns around and shows her face because it was a majorly anticipated thing at the time. Other fun facts: Originally, Jinx was supposed to be older than Vi (despite appearances). Vi herself was an amnesiac that washed up on piltover. She got her name from the tattoo that was on her face. She was a criminal at first but during a crime, her crew trapped some miners in a mine, and vi didn't like that. She took the gauntlets off the mech and retrofitted them to be used as gloves, to free the miners. From there she joined Caitlyn as a deputy. Jinx appeared later with a crime spree, writing taunting graffiti for Vi (often using 'fat hands' which is jinx's main taunt for vi) and it basically gave the hint that Jinx knew vi, even if Vi didn't remember Jinx. There was also an implication that there was some sort of person experimenting on technologically gifted people. Vi, which is roman numeral 6, Ekko had the Roman Numeral for 7, Jinx (again, originally named X) was 10, warwick was 3, etc. This was eventually dropped though when they made signed warwicks 'creator' and was just easter eggs that went no where. There were also many hints that Jinx and Vi were sisters, but this wasn't confirmed until Arcane, and ALL of the lore above was retconned for Arcane. Also important fact: The jinx in get jinxed is CURRENT jinx. Arcane is set in the past. They're still teenagers in Arcane, even after the time jump, where as the league characters are in their 20s. So yeah, Jinx will eventually age up to that, etc.
i quiet like how we see powder training like her sister but she grew up a weapon expert instead realizing physical strength isn't the only type of power
A lot of the stuff in the Enemy video ties in to add depth to future events in the shows. Stopping there to avoid spoilers. If you appreciate Arcane, you may also dig Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Blue Eye Samurai.
Riot Games: The epic music studio that has also released some games and a tv show. :) I saw Get Jinxed right before she was released for League, and I was convinced. I bough her the day she came out, and played pretty much only her for +5 years. Yeah, I sorta liked her. Ya'll should check out a Jinx game on RUclips sometime, just to get an idea of how crazy she is in game.
Just something I find interesting If you put get jinx ending on the left side 8:57 then ENEMY on the right side 1:23. You get a little symbolic picture of jinx killing her past self.
There are tons of LoL cinematics, of varying quality. Not worth going through all of them but you should definitely catch the other half of this video, Here Comes Vi!
not as first was the sister thing done. it was slowly introduced. if you read both back stories they didnt match up (yea i know most people didnt read those). i think it was around jinx's 3rd year when they started hinting at they were sisters. funny thing is thats when arcane was first thought up (2016). also remember arcane wasnt going to be cannon. they even have a interview with the writers of arcane after season 1 dropped and they said it was a different universe and it wont be the same as the main universe but as we know they have changed all that.
the jinx in the game and all the other characters are from the future that´s why this jinx looks older the arcane series is placed in the past when they become the playable characaters we know in lol
You should definitely react to more league of legend cinematics, they show more things about the world in which arcane takes place (not all the game's lore is the same in the series tho)
I always forget that Jinx wasn't in the game from the beginning. "Get Jinxed" was a promotion made back in 2013 for when they added her to the game. And the joke is that Riot Games is actually a music-label that also happens to make games.
Jinx is popular in the game because she has two ultimate moves: "Pow-Pow" is her minigun, and "Fishbones" is her rocket launcher. That means when you're playing against a Jinx, you don't know which ultimate the player's going to pull.
That's not the case. She has only one ultimate move. She has two ways to auto attack with those weapons (the regular attack). But compared to other league characters she's quite straightforward. What makes her popular is her character, her presentation, the way she speaks. But she is just as played as almost every other champion.
If you enjoyed these, Ekko, Caitlyn, and Vi all also have individual champion themes from before the show. A couple of them might have some light spoilers in the titles, though, so you may want to confer with your editor.
It's only very very very VERY tangentially related to Arcane, but I highly recommend the animated video Popstars by K/DA. It's a machinima using League of Legends stuff, it's very catchy and visually FUN. Maybe worth a reaction... or at least watch it for fun.
Please also watch the cinematic that Riot makes for LoL. Especially Warriors (the one with a blonde girl as the thumbnail). I'd watch all of them though :).
Caitlyn and vi make an appearance in warriors. Be advised there are two versions of warriors, one that imagine dragons did for league championships and one made for the game cinematic. Highly recommend all the leagues cinematics!
Jinx is a VERY beloved character in the league of legends universe. If League of Legends would need to select 1 character to be it's face for branding... Jinx would EASILY be at the top of that list. There's only 2 champions (in my opinion) who have a chance to take that spot from Jinx; these being Ezreal (due to having been around equally as long and being very popular as well), and Jhin (he's a bit newer than Jinx and Ezreal, but he is definitely one of the most unique and interesting characters. Also: perfection). Hilariously enough, all 3 of these characters fullfil the exact same gameplay role in the game itself. Also MAYBE Yasuo might fit that space as well, as he has gotten a lot of attention in many ways as well. But what mainly makes these 3 stand out as possible faces for the league of legends universe, is how unique they are. Yes, Jinx has a lot of similarities to Harley Quinn. But even with that, she feels so unlike any other character in other franchises. Ezreal, while being relatively basic in character, has enough charm and quirks to make him not that comparable. Jhin... well Jhin is perfection; Jhin is so complex and yet so simple, he delivers at all he stands four (and no, this is not a typo). And Yasuo as well, follows a relatively basic storyline, but with enough details added to make it feel like truly his own.
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“Get Jinxed” is what she’s listening to at the end of Episode 4 when Silco starts yelling at her for killing the enforcers and blowing up the building.
So good!
@@MeeshDeeReacts and that makes this song canon in the league universe. jinx must have it actually recorded for herself; quite crazy when u think about it.
Btw there is also a really good song for Vi, but no video.
but i would recommend to wait with that until u finished arcane, becuase the lyrics are a bit of a spoiler for Vi's story
And the first thing she says is "That's me"
@@uzrdutiutfiztdf3545 Zaun kinda is some kind of "punk ghetto", and trying out rapping in the ghetto is pretty common
@@uzrdutiutfiztdf3545 You are thinking way too hard on that lol. I guarantee you they put it in as an easter egg. Probably zero intention of making it "canon" that Jinx recorded it herself.
Fun fact: the clips you see in the Enemy MV aren't deleted footage from the show. They are scenes they animated for the video.
Get into the league univeerse!!
but it is not canon for Arcane, Riot just wanted to throw us sidewaves from plot
@@sarkyny5185 Nothing in the video would break canon though.
@@sarkyny5185 imagine dragons band is in the world XD. they play in the show itself. so technically they are canon
@@SwordTune hhmm vi training dekard and his crew? Even though, Vi did not know them in Arcane. It was just to mess with our heads
Jinx has been a fan favorite in League of Legends ever since they added her. This music video was actually to help hype up her initial release. They also teased her by having Jinx graffiti the entire Riot Games website.
She is also riot baby 😊
The same studio that animated the get Jinxed music video also did arcane- a French studio called Fortiche. They went from having under 10 animators for that first music video, to over a hundred for the Enemy/Arcane show. They really grew drastically and found their formula throughout this journey and man is is beautiful.
If you rewatch episode 4 of arcane, you'll notice Jinx listening to "Get Jinxed" when Silco goes to reprimand her after stealing the crystal, a nice Easter egg they included for the fans !
We’re in the middle of watching Bridging the Rift and love getting to know more about the French studio, Fortiche! Love the French style woven into the Arcane show. Just masterful 🔥
@@MeeshDeeReacts Will you be posting your reaction to bidging the rift? Looove that documenetary series. Its crazy to think about that the two co-creators of Arcane started at Riot in entry lvl positions when it was just a small startup gamecompany, not the billion dollar multimedia company it is now.
@@MeeshDeeReacts I'm so glad you're watching it! This is probably one of the most underappreciated masterpiece of our times, despite all the success it garnered internationally. I'm glad you two get to appreciate all of its beauty
@@MeeshDeeReacts in the middle? when can we expect something on patreon?? Sorry im just hyped
If you hadn't noticed, the moment he stopped the music because Jinxed didn't listened to him was the moment the lyrics were about to say "right know I'm feeling ignored" that was funny !
There's something so telling about Powder/Jinx's final expression in the Enemy MV. Not of sadistic malice, not of sadness or heartbreak. Just exhausted and nearly emotionless. Like she's broken beyond explanation and gave up on everything.
I read it differently... that this is who Powder wanted to grow up to be, someone confident and strong, not beset by demons like we see in the show.
Hope you guys continue watching LOL cinematics, even the ones that have nothing to do with Arcane. The cinematics themselves are each a masterpiece in their own right.
We absolutely are ;) stay tuned for more!
One that might be good to check out later down the line is a music video "Giants - True Damage" as it features Ekko. Would definitely be more enjoyable if they knew at least a little about the other characters featured.
@@pikmints I love "Giants" great song. I think K/DA will be right up their alley too.
Try the last one girls, its difficult to pick up if u dont know the lore, but if u study a bit of it u will find its absolutly amazing, its called Im still here.
@@MeeshDeeReacts FIREE
"Get Jinxed" was one of the first videos by Studio Fortiche, who would eventually go on to create Arcane. As you can see their style has changed since then, though there are still signature Fortiche elements, such as the hand-drawn 2D smoke and VFX.
Get Jinxed and its success is basically the progenitor to everything that follows, including Arcane. It was the first time Riot did anything like this, as well as being the beginning of their collaboration with Fortiche. There are a few easter eggs in Arcane from this video, for example you might recall Milo talking about shooting down one of the airships, which is a reference to it happening in this video.
Get Jinxed was released when they released her character. In League, shes an adult, while Arcane is giving us her and Vi's origins. Arcane wasnt originally going to be canon to lore, but Riot backtracked and have now acknowledged tbat Arcane and League lore are synonymous. So its great for us fans of Jinx from the game because we had only gray area when it vame to her lore. All we knew is that she was always being chased by Cait and Vi, and has a crush on Ziggs, who she regularly kidnaps and forces to go on crime scenes with her, all because she thinks hes a figment of her imagination. Arcane has added so much more depth and emotion to her character.
FYI the actress that voice Jinx is Lucy from Fallout.
Fun fact, "Get Jinxed" was the first collab between Riot Games and french studio Fortiche, which was known in the industry for doing mostly music clips.
Fortiche was yet again comissionned by Riot games for the "Warriors" music video to go with the Imagine Dragons' song made for the 2014 League World championship. After that, Fortiche was pretty much chosen as the de-facto studio for the animated series project. When the series project went into a bit of a script re-write in 2018, Fortinche found themselves in period of down time, and they had bandwidth to make two other video for Riot Games : the first one was the "Rise" video for the 2018 World Championship, and the second was the K/DA Pop Stars clip, both of which I consider to be the best music videos they have ever released.
Before the "Get Jinxed" clip, Piltover and Zaun was close to have 0 lore and artwork. Fortiche pretty much just created the whole artstyle for both cities and Riot Games just went with it. It only makes sense for the first animated project to be placed here with this studio making the animation.
The Jinx we originally got in the game and Get Jinxed was definitely a bit of a shallow Harley Quinn clone - at least on the surface. We didn't know super much about her (although we mostly speculated she was definitely Vi's sister), so she came across as just a kind of alluring crazy woman. Arcane definitely toned down on the "sexy lunacy" and grounded the character far more in her mental illness rather than the "poppy craziness". I'm very happy with the Arcane design, and that they no longer play so much on the skimpy clothing and shallow craziness. What a great character, finally.
What's interesting to me is that Get Jinxed is a dream. When she wakes up at the end she's more somber. I kinda feel like this was where they wanted to take the character but the funnier sexier version worked better for as a game character.
not as first was the sister thing done. it was slowly introduced. if you read both back stories they didnt match up (yea i know most people didnt read those). i think it was around jinx's 3rd year when they started hinting at they were sisters. funny thing is thats when arcane was first thought up (2016). also remember arcane wasnt going to be cannon. they even have a interview with the writers of arcane after season 1 dropped and they said it was a different universe and it wont be the same as the main universe but as we know they have changed all that.
@@zerodawn09 yep i remember it. We spexulated this was it but story wise nothing was done to make it and nothing inted that was the case.
I love the glimpses of Ekko and Powders friendship in the MV, it’s so sad we barely see them interact in act 1
Ugh couldn’t agree more! Hopefully we get more scenes of them interacting in S2!
Get Jinxed was made in 2015, before Arcane was even a distant possiblity, with the release of the character in League. It was the first time Riot had done something like this. And, yes, she was beloved by the league community from the get go :)
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Get jinxed was posted on the league of legends' channel on October 8, 2013 (jinx was released on oct 10, 2013). so... it wasn't made in 2015, but it was put a music album in 2015 which gives the "released date of jan 27, 2015"
@cranberrysauce61 lol thanks for that tidbit, I was wondering where the '2015' was coming from. Can't believe Jinx has been in game for over a decade now
Get Jinxed was Riot's first work with Fortiche if I recall correctly so a bit of polish they had for Arcane was not yet done. It's was also one of Riot's first big character specific promotional videos and it was VERY popular in the community. At the time, people didn't know, but speculated that Vi and Jinx were the sisters in their voice lines
crazy mention on "the get jinxed" video. It was said that she looks like that on league and Netflix arcane jinx looked different. It was so different they gave us players a skin for it during the season.
the transition of Powder becoming Jinx was the best part of the music video "Enemy"
In arcane the creators tried to incorporate a little the facial features of the voice actors and their expressions - you should watch "bridging the rift: the making of arcane" after you have finished the series.... your admiration for everything will increase 10 fold!!!!
Love your reaction to this video! Welcome to the Arcane/LOL rabbit hole but I have to say that I have watched many reactions and it is amazing to see the many reactions! You guys are on point! I love how you know the background (as much as you can know) and I look forward to see what you two have to say about everything else that you will experience! Love you ❤
You can also watch kda popstars (fortiche made this when arcane was about to get canceled before it was released). When you are done with arcane you can also watch the making of of arcane.
They are so cool, music heads and sports and basketball fans are literally best combination.
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Easter egg:
1:57 We see the firelight bug come out of Powder's mouth and then she changes to Jinx (for two frames - it's easy to miss)
I think it's a "what could have been" if she had stayed friends with Ekko and become a Firelight herself - but that aspect left her.
nah its a reference to a photographer (most shots in the video are) called Gordon Parks
@@MrWTFgameplay Both can be true.
Get jinxed was released like 8 years before Arcane came out that is why it looks bit different. But yeah she looks more like the normal jinx skin in the game. Jinx after arcane got a new skin that looks like the arcane version in game.
2:51 yall missed a super cool part. If you look super closely at powder when the beat drops you see her switch to jinx as she shoots the enforcers :]
I can't wait to dive into all the League cinematics with these two - it's gunna be a fire lore dive! I wonder what they'll be the most hyped for - my money's on a particular season cinematic ;)
Yesss thank you for all your amazing recs!! Your playlist is clutch 🤩🙏🏼
The first Fortiche video I ever watched was the "Rise" video they made in 2018 for LoL Worlds. It's so well done that even though I don't play LoL and know very little about it, I thought to myself "I wish they would make an animated series." Then, they released Arcane years later. :D They also released a K-Pop series of skins in the game and Fortiche released a video called Pop Stars that is another amazing visual treat. They can animate black light effects in the most stunning way. I hope to see a lot more of their work in the future.
I think you guys will really like the documentary of the behind the scenes of arcane, you'll get a lot of cool references.
So, the Enemy video is of Powder, when she is without her friends or family, in The Last Drop (with nobody behind the bar), remembering things that have happened in the past, which make her laugh or cry.
Question. Do you think it's before or after the end of episode 3? Is she without her friends and family because they are all dead and it;'s now Silco's place?
y'all should watch the entire ceremony for League that featured the show, so many cool sets were built
Maybe after finished season 1, you guys should watch arcane bridging the rift as well.
Yes!! We’re starting this already since we finished filming S1 already 🤩
I like how at the end of Get Jinxed she does her "finger gun shoot" move, while in Enemy when Powder does the same there's a very very brief flash of Jinx as she fires
A little bit of context about jinx's age
In the first few episodes, powder is 10years old, but after the time skip, when we first see her as jinx, she is 16. But in league of legends itself, jinx is now 25 while Caitlyn and VI are in their early 30s. Concurrently, jayce is 24 at the beginning of arcane, 30 after the time skip and 39-40 in the game
So even at the end of Arcane season 1, there is still 9 years separating us from the point in time where they were introduced to LoL.
whait,what...
isnt supposed that renata glasc is 40 years old,jayce created the sun gates,renata was a child when the sungates where created,does this means that renata is younger than jaice
@@migatito1291 well if jayce made the gates and she was a child when that happened, she obviously would be younger than him by default. Jayce didnt make the gates as a preschooler
@@simplyskrypt3914 yea i know,what i mean is that if jayce is 24-30 when he created the sungates and renata was a child lets say between 12-16 when tha sungates where created,this means renata is at least like 20 years younger than jayce but she is 40 years old in the game and jayce is 40 years old too which is kind of inconsistent
@@migatito1291 if he is 24 and she is 12-16, that would make renata 28-32 in game. Which, i agree, is inconsistent if her in game age is supposed to be 40. For renata to be 40, jayce would have to be 48-52, and his in game model, while adult, is clearly not that old
I would recommend Worlds 2021 Ceremony, as it also features new scenes from Arcane, that is not in ANY other content. Don't worry 0 spoilers.
Worlds 2021 Show Open Presented by Mastercard: Imagine Dragons, JID, Denzel Curry, Bea Miller, PVRIS
Okay so to explain what you're about to see is, well. League of Legends is a competitive video game, and every year there is a opening ceremony before the final 2 teams are about the play and be crowned world champion. The ceremony includes songs which have come out throughout the year. 2021 unfortunately got hit by COVID and they had to make a digital one, instead of LIVE.
2021 was the year ARCANE came out, and therefore the ceremony was then ARCANE themed.
Worlds Opening Ceremony 2024 is 19th November in London. And guess what it's around the same time as ARCANE S2.
The 1st song revealed is STILL HERE. Another recommendation
Still Here | Season 2024 Cinematic - League of Legends (ft. Forts, Tiffany Aris, and 2WEI)
I love how they experiment with different genres while still staying true to their sound. Btw Nick Thurl Mavromatis has done it again! His new song is a masterpiece. React to it now!
7:20 This get jinxed music video is wayback from 2014, so maybe that's why she looks different even though fortiche did both designs.
In my headcanon "Get Jinxed" Jinx's face looks different from Arcane's Jinx because she is older there, Arcane is still a prequel to present Jinx from the game.
Get Jinxed is the most canon video riot first made. but Also the most truest vidoe for Jinx. She is someone who wants chaos but no death
"Get Jinxed" was the first collaboration between Riot and Fortiche Studio. This initial project was so well received that they continued working together on several other projects before the release of ARCANE. If you want to check out another music video from this collaboration, "K/DA - POP/STARS" is probably the most impactful.👌😁👍
Btw, when we got Jinx in League of Legends, NONE of her real backstory was available. We spent years and years dissecting her voice lines and such, trying to figure her out. Eventually, it was kinda agreed by Jinx mains that her line, "You think I'm crazy? You should see my sister!" was referring to Vi. Arcane felt hella validating!
as so many have said "Get Jinxed" was the introduction video to the character of Jinx in the Game, only lore we have was that she was from Piltover and the villain to Caitlyn and Vi, there was speculation she was Vi's sister, but nothing confirmed until Arcane released, Jinx character is very much based on Harley Quinn, and everyone loved her.
one of the guys behind the character also said "Jinx is not evil, she would not kill a random guy on the street corner, simply because of the killing, now if he was sitting on a crate of fireworks on the other hand.... "
League of Legends has SO many music videos and cinematics.
I don't even play the game and I am a fan.
Riot definitely knocked it out of the park with their transformation of the character of Jinx. In the game, she's essentially a cliche manic pixie dream girl similar to Harley Quinn, who a lot of people do love, but the way they built her into something truly tragic and more interesting than that cliche was masterful.
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You guys should also watch the making of arcane after youre done with the series. Its called "bridging the rift" its so good!
We’ve filmed half of Bridging the Rift so far!! So good and can’t wait to finish it 🤩🙏🏼
I have the atla map as my wallpaper just like the one in the background. It kinda freaked me out for second.😂
Also, loved the reaction!
How cool!! We’re twinning now 🤩❤️
I would 100% recommend watching more of the cinematics and music videos from Riot Games. One of my personal favorites is Phoenix from Worlds 2019, but there's also the Awaken 2019 season cinematic, Legends Never Die from Worlds 2017, and Rise from 2018. However, the one that has just COMPLETELY blown everyone out of the water is this year's cinematic, Still Here. Look, I'm not trying to send you guys on a lore deep dive, I'm just trying to share some of the best League of Legends videos that I've come across. There's a reason that I've got a playlist called LoL Inspirational - because they are very emotionally powerful songs and videos.
Y'all should do the other music videos for League of Legends, they're all so good.
One of my favorites is "the curse of the sad mummy", it's very emotional and such a pretty video
It's so interesting to listen to your reactions, because you come from arcane and discover league of legends content !
Glad you enjoy it! 🥹🙏🏼❤️
ngl...thought this was a clickbait video...but you guys know your stuff.
Recently I've been addicted to October ends ' new song. Reacting to it would be awesome 🤘
If not already whatched, don’t miss the 4 parts making off available over here. Really great stuff, deserving a react!
Awesome! This is actually a very good moment in the series to watch these clips... for reasons... Please don't forget to watch the (way too short) teaser to season 2 they did for Arcane. :)
Vi also has her own song. Its not animated but its really underrated. Might check it out.
7:30 "And see what Powpow thinks" for almost a decade no one knew what this meant, we always knew Jinx as Jinx and nothing more, we assumed that was her real name, her actual name Powder got revealed for the first time in arcane, same as Vi being her sister. There were hints of the later but never a confirmation until the show.
Arcane and its story was something completely knew even for veterans league players who knew all the lore.
But Pow-Pow is the name of her minigun
pow pow is the name of the minigun in the game. so you can imagine the shock in the community in episode 6 when vi calls jinx "pow pow"
@@hmmthatsinterestinglol ohhhhh
You know what? fair, I play league league in spanish, that's why that never rang a bell with me, now I see they translated "powpow" to "pium-pium" lol
@@Matiasfv Her Minigun is named Powpow, such a clever detail, yet F'ed up.
What's worse is that "Jinx" is causing chaos, and she's saying "let's see what pow pow thinks"... in a way she's talking about her "former self", the "weak pow pow that wouldnt be able to think of such things let alone survive them"
With regards to mental health and Jinx in particular - there are hints throughout the entire show that she is, in fact, a sociopath. In the very opening sequence on the bridge, she's peeking through her fingers at the carnage all around but seems relatively unaffected, unwavering in the song she was clearly instructed to sing. Even when they see their parents dead, she doesn't react at first, instead she looks up to see how Vi reacts and then attempts to mirror her - she simply doesn't feel emotions the same way normal people do and has to fake it. In that same scene you actually get your first glimpses of her hallucinations (the scratched up bits of film with faces or figures on them) in a blink-and-you'll miss it moment on the bridge.
I'm not going to get into spoiler territory, but Powder has her first mental breakdown long before any of the major traumas actually befall her, simply because Vi left her alone in their room. Vi is her touchstone, her link to 'normalcy', her guidepost on how to pretend that she's normal and therefor have a chance at a normal life. Without Vi, she's lost... clearly.
Small children are incapable of fully understanding the concept of death. It would have been unrealistic to have her crying over her mother's body since she was too young to understand. Young kids do not understand death. She just didn't know what was happening.
@@mossofthemoon That's a fair perspective, but again, on the bridge, we are ALREADY seeing the white scratches in the film, which is clearly intended to represent the fractured nature of her mind.
I highly recommend them to react to the worlds 2021 opening ceremony bc it relates to Arcane
If you guys were a fan of the Enemy music video, i definitely recommend looking up the other music videos Riot has produced. The KDA ones especially becayse they were also animated by the same studio as Arcane. In general i highly recommend looking up all their other stuff, it is quite a deep dive but well worth it - particularly if you like the universe of Arcane and are curious about the other regions within this world.
Did you notice in Enemy the brief shot of Powder on her rhino?
While the Enemy video was made with wholly original work, it really fills in the character's backstories.
I highly recommend to watch the documentary of the making of arcane after you finish the season, it's on RUclips and it's really insane how they made Arcane. It's called Arcane bridging the rift
go for warriors cinematic you will not regret it absolute masterpiece
4:44 that like every league of legends music video, theyre so good at it.
If you're down for a recommendation of other LoL Music videos to watch, Id suggest:
From the LoL music play list:
Legends Never Die - Worlds 2017
Awaken - season 2019 cinematic
warriors - season 2020 cinematic
Your really Got me (ft. Jinx) - cinematic trailer
welcome aboard - Odyssey animated trailer (ft. Jinx)
The Call - Season 2022 Cinematic
Still here - Season 2024 Cinematic
You might also get a kick out the K/DA music videos
(LoL animated KPOP group featuring champions from LoL sung by some of the re-occuring artists from their music videos)
I'd recommend:
Pop/Stars
More
Villain
Georgia Dow does a breakdown on Jinx (and other characters) in Arcane. They are definitely worth watching.
the game is roughly 6 years after arcane.
Jinx is about 15 or 16 in arcane, shes 21 in the game.
Thats why she looks older in this video
The "Jinx" in tthe Enemy video really doesn't seem as emotionally fraught as the one we see in Arcane. For the moments we see her, her expression seems calm, strong, and confident. I think this is who Powder *wanted* to grow up to be.
Djerv is a Norwegian band. "Djerv/Jerv" is "Wolverine" in Norwegian.
They need to see the other cinematics if they think the Get Jinxed one looked like its new. Imagine what she will think seeing the new ones
Can’t wait to see the others!
you guys should check out the song "here comes Vi" as well. there's no music video for it, but the song is still great. Nikki Taylor (who sings "Here comes Vi") also did a mashup of "Here comes Vi" and "Get Jinxed" together with Lunity which is fantastic.
Of big recommendation if you want to learn just a bit about all the regions in Runeterra (the name of the world Arcane takes place).
There are like 8 animated shorts named "Tales of Runeterra" that shows every region in the world, they are fun and are animated in the arcane art style. Some people who reacted to arcane then reacted to all of them.
November can't come soon enough for season 2 I swear.
Ok, time for some context that is kinda lost after the fact: When Vi was released, she launched with her own song, which was a first for League. Champions before would have themes/music, but vi got her own lyric song which played during her opening (back in the day, the league launcher would have a pseudo animated launch screen with the song (I say psuedo animated because it was just 2-5 seconds looped). Anyway, Jinx was created to be vi's counter opposite. Vi is tall, fully clothed, melee, muscular, hourglass figured, short ping hair and blue eyes and serious, where Jinx is short, barely wearing any clothes, raged, waifish, 'flat' long blue hair and pink eyes, and crazy. Leading up to the launch, of Jinx there was a growing list of easter eggs. Jinx appeared in two opening splash screens, though in the first she was hidden and it was a year before during the summer splash screen. In the second splash screen, she was actually the perspective it was drawn from and we saw her waist down with her arm holding a glass of something, but they still hadn't released any info about her. A wanted poster, with the face scratched out appeared on the website (listing a multitude of crimes, many of which were clearly made up and it was made by 'X' which is what her 'name' was, and it was the citizens of piltover that called her Jinx, which she adopted. Likewise, Vi and Caitlyn's wiki pages were graffitied leading up to Jinx's release. They honestly did a great job of her reveal. Anyway, since Vi got a song, they went with a full blown music video for Jinx, the first they had ever done. Since they were teasing her for so long but not actually revealing her face, this is why not only does the video hide it for a while, but the animation actually slows when she turns around and shows her face because it was a majorly anticipated thing at the time.
Other fun facts: Originally, Jinx was supposed to be older than Vi (despite appearances). Vi herself was an amnesiac that washed up on piltover. She got her name from the tattoo that was on her face. She was a criminal at first but during a crime, her crew trapped some miners in a mine, and vi didn't like that. She took the gauntlets off the mech and retrofitted them to be used as gloves, to free the miners. From there she joined Caitlyn as a deputy. Jinx appeared later with a crime spree, writing taunting graffiti for Vi (often using 'fat hands' which is jinx's main taunt for vi) and it basically gave the hint that Jinx knew vi, even if Vi didn't remember Jinx. There was also an implication that there was some sort of person experimenting on technologically gifted people. Vi, which is roman numeral 6, Ekko had the Roman Numeral for 7, Jinx (again, originally named X) was 10, warwick was 3, etc. This was eventually dropped though when they made signed warwicks 'creator' and was just easter eggs that went no where. There were also many hints that Jinx and Vi were sisters, but this wasn't confirmed until Arcane, and ALL of the lore above was retconned for Arcane.
Also important fact: The jinx in get jinxed is CURRENT jinx. Arcane is set in the past. They're still teenagers in Arcane, even after the time jump, where as the league characters are in their 20s. So yeah, Jinx will eventually age up to that, etc.
Yeah, you guys are awesome
There are so many great music videos made for this game worth watching them if you want too
i quiet like how we see powder training like her sister but she grew up a weapon expert instead realizing physical strength isn't the only type of power
A lot of the stuff in the Enemy video ties in to add depth to future events in the shows. Stopping there to avoid spoilers. If you appreciate Arcane, you may also dig Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Blue Eye Samurai.
Riot Games: The epic music studio that has also released some games and a tv show. :)
I saw Get Jinxed right before she was released for League, and I was convinced. I bough her the day she came out, and played pretty much only her for +5 years. Yeah, I sorta liked her.
Ya'll should check out a Jinx game on RUclips sometime, just to get an idea of how crazy she is in game.
After watching the season, I highly, highly recommend watching the Worlds 2021 show open. Consider it a live action Arcane.
10:17 yes thats because my enemy is an imagine dragons amv for the show, but get jynxed IS jynx
Just something I find interesting
If you put get jinx ending on the left side 8:57 then ENEMY on the right side 1:23. You get a little symbolic picture of jinx killing her past self.
Get jinx is what got arcane going
Yeesss
There are tons of LoL cinematics, of varying quality. Not worth going through all of them but you should definitely catch the other half of this video, Here Comes Vi!
not as first was the sister thing done. it was slowly introduced. if you read both back stories they didnt match up (yea i know most people didnt read those). i think it was around jinx's 3rd year when they started hinting at they were sisters. funny thing is thats when arcane was first thought up (2016). also remember arcane wasnt going to be cannon. they even have a interview with the writers of arcane after season 1 dropped and they said it was a different universe and it wont be the same as the main universe but as we know they have changed all that.
Fun fact the scene in the beginning of get jinxed is almost the same scene as the ending of arcane season one
the jinx in the game and all the other characters are from the future that´s why this jinx looks older the arcane series is placed in the past when they become the playable characaters we know in lol
If you pause it at the right time, when Powder shoots the enforcers with her finger gun, for a single frame she is Jinx.
Maybe you found Jinx strange in "Get Jinxed" here, she is an adult, in the "current time" of League of Legends, years after the end of Arcane
The Jinx in "Get Jinxed" is older. That's why she looks different.
Pre-Arcane: Why is Jinx so fixated on Piltover?
Post-Arcane: Piltover must be destroyed!
You should definitely react to more league of legend cinematics, they show more things about the world in which arcane takes place (not all the game's lore is the same in the series tho)
I always forget that Jinx wasn't in the game from the beginning. "Get Jinxed" was a promotion made back in 2013 for when they added her to the game.
And the joke is that Riot Games is actually a music-label that also happens to make games.
Jinx is popular in the game because she has two ultimate moves: "Pow-Pow" is her minigun, and "Fishbones" is her rocket launcher. That means when you're playing against a Jinx, you don't know which ultimate the player's going to pull.
That's not the case. She has only one ultimate move. She has two ways to auto attack with those weapons (the regular attack). But compared to other league characters she's quite straightforward. What makes her popular is her character, her presentation, the way she speaks. But she is just as played as almost every other champion.
You two should realy react to the Making of Arcane when finished Season 1 ;-)
If you enjoyed these, Ekko, Caitlyn, and Vi all also have individual champion themes from before the show. A couple of them might have some light spoilers in the titles, though, so you may want to confer with your editor.
Jinx in the game is a bit older than jinx in arcane. So that’s also a cause for her different look
It's only very very very VERY tangentially related to Arcane, but I highly recommend the animated video Popstars by K/DA. It's a machinima using League of Legends stuff, it's very catchy and visually FUN.
Maybe worth a reaction... or at least watch it for fun.
Please also watch the cinematic that Riot makes for LoL. Especially Warriors (the one with a blonde girl as the thumbnail). I'd watch all of them though :).
EDITOR: we need a K/DA reaction playlist! make it happen!
I'm hot on the case!
Caitlyn and vi make an appearance in warriors. Be advised there are two versions of warriors, one that imagine dragons did for league championships and one made for the game cinematic. Highly recommend all the leagues cinematics!
You guys should listen to "Here comes Vi"
Actually in the Game's Lore, Jinx should be around 29 years old today.
Jinx is a VERY beloved character in the league of legends universe. If League of Legends would need to select 1 character to be it's face for branding... Jinx would EASILY be at the top of that list. There's only 2 champions (in my opinion) who have a chance to take that spot from Jinx; these being Ezreal (due to having been around equally as long and being very popular as well), and Jhin (he's a bit newer than Jinx and Ezreal, but he is definitely one of the most unique and interesting characters. Also: perfection).
Hilariously enough, all 3 of these characters fullfil the exact same gameplay role in the game itself.
Also MAYBE Yasuo might fit that space as well, as he has gotten a lot of attention in many ways as well.
But what mainly makes these 3 stand out as possible faces for the league of legends universe, is how unique they are. Yes, Jinx has a lot of similarities to Harley Quinn. But even with that, she feels so unlike any other character in other franchises. Ezreal, while being relatively basic in character, has enough charm and quirks to make him not that comparable. Jhin... well Jhin is perfection; Jhin is so complex and yet so simple, he delivers at all he stands four (and no, this is not a typo). And Yasuo as well, follows a relatively basic storyline, but with enough details added to make it feel like truly his own.
Get Jinxed foreshadowed the ending of s1 lmao