History Recap / ArcaneS1E3TheBaseViolenceNecessaryForChange

* HeroicBSOD: A particularly tragic example. After seeing the corpses of her slain friends buried under the rubble, Vi turns over and sees the detached monkey head from Powder's makeshift explosive, making her realize that it was Powder who caused the explosion.

* HeroicBSOD: A particularly tragic example. After seeing the corpses of her slain friends buried under the rubble, the camera pans over to the detached monkey head from Powder's makeshift explosive, making Vi realize that it was Powder who caused the explosion.

Vi and her team work to rescue Vander, while Viktor and Jayce work to prove their theories. But as Viktor and his friend find success and the chance to change the world, a disaster opens up a rift between sisters that threatens to change the world as well, and ignite one woman's StartOfDarkness.

* HopeSpot: Much of the climax is made up of Vander’s kids, led by Vi, falling for the trap he’s bait for. Mylo picks the locks on Vander’s chair, Claggor manages to find a weak spot in the wall to escape through, and Vi holds off most of Silco’s thugs with her fists and a door. Things are looking up... but then Powder tries to help with an experimental explosive...

** An arguably more dramatic variation occurs when Vi sees the severed head of Powder's cymbal monkey toy she modified into a bomb amongst the wreckage, punctuated by the sparks from the damaged lighting setting the spilled chemicals from Silco's Shimmer alight in the room, further illuminating it as Vi focuses on it. Since it's in plain view of both Mylo and Claggor's bodies, it's a non-verbal statement to Vi who's actually responsible for their deaths.

* LetThemDieHappy: Well, not exactly 'happy' but unlike Vi, Vander never sees the shattered remains of Powder's cymbal monkey bomb and realises that she's responsible for the blast, allowing him to die once he's gotten Vi out of the burning building thinking that he's at least managed to save one of his adoptive daughters and she'll look after the other

* GoneHorriblyRight: After seeing so many of her grenades fail to work, Powder prays that this time, her magic-infused grenades will work. And boy, do they work...

* GoneHorribyRight: After seeing so many of her grenades fail to work, Powder prays that this time, her magic-infused grenades will work. And boy, do they work...

Vi and her team work to rescue Vander, while Viktor and Jayce work to prove their theories.

* AllForNothing: : Less than nothing, in fact. Powder sets off her improvised hexcrystal explosive in hopes of being useful to her adoptive family and contributing to their escape. Instead, the explosion kills half of them outright, just as they were on the verge of escaping, and badly injures Vi enough that she can no longer escape on her own or defend herself, forcing Vander to pull a LastStand and eventual HeroicSacrifice to get her out of the building before the mortal wounds he suffered claims his life. To add insult to injury, Deckard, who was the primary target of the bomb and the closest one to the blast, not to mention the least protected, survives virtually unscathed thanks to his mutation, highlighting how pointless Powder's interference was.

* AllForNothing: : Less than nothing, in fact. Powder sets of her improvised hexcrystal explosive in hopes of being useful to her adoptive family and contributing to their escape. Instead, the explosion kills half of them outright, just as they were on the verge of escaping, and badly injures Vi enough that she can no longer escape on her own or defend herself, forcing Vander to pull a LastStand and eventual HeroicSacrifice to get her out of the building before the moral wounds he suffered claims his life. To add insult to injury, Deckard, who was the primary target of the bomb and the closest one to the blast, not to mention the least protected, survives virtually unscathed thanks to his mutation, highlighting how pointless Powder's interference was.

* IronicEcho: A visual one. The poster image of Power being hugged by somebody and staring out at the viewer seen on the main page is re-created here, but instead of it being her beloved sister's arms it's instead [[BigBad Silco's]] arms she's finding comfort in, and instead of a wide-eyed and fearful gaze, Powder's eye is hardened and hateful, lit by the flames of the blast she started, tinging her InnocentBlueEyes [[RedEyesTakeWarning pink]] like her future persona of Jynx's will be.

An epic showdown between old rivals results in a fateful moment for Zaun. Jayce and Viktor risk it all for their research.

Vi and her team work to rescue Zander, while Viktor and Jayce work to prove their theories.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Ultimately, it's Powder's impulsive desire to help Vi and make herself useful that causes things to go FromBadToWorse. If Powder hadn't set off a ''highly volatile bomb'', it's likely Mylo, Claggor and Vander would have survived, since Claggor had created an escape route just moments earlier and Deckard seemingly wouldn't have gotten through the door in time to stop them.

* ItsAllAboutMe: It's subtle, but Power's focus during the rescue is on proving herself useful to Vi rather than accepting that there's nothing she can do to help, ultimately making the situation worse and indirectly getting almost everybody she was trying to save bu Vi killed. When her bomb goes off, she's more focused on the successful explosion and the beauty of it rather than considering what might have happened to the people inside the building she was trying to save, and she's so elated by her success she doesn't even realise Vander's body is right in front of her at first when she runs up to Vi in the aftermath. When Vi walks away from her, all Power can process at that point is how Vi is leaving ''her'', rather than understanding that Vi wants to put distance between them because she's suffering from their loved one's deaths and fearful she'd take her anger out on Powder in her current state.

* EurekaMoment: During her tantrum after being left out of the rescue mission, Powder drops one of the hex crystals and sees it discharge energy from the impact. From this, she realizes that the one she dropped during the robbery was responsible for the explosion, and gets the idea to use them to upgrade her bombs.

* MookChivalry: Played with. Silco's mooks need to charge across a narrow causeway to get to Vander in case they get in each other's way when attacking, letting Vi dispatch them one by one, but a few times, when one of them recovers from behind Vi after she's smacked them down and moved forward to the next challenger, they get a chance to team up and almost overpower her.

* EurkeaMoment: During her tantrum after being left out of the rescue mission, Powder drops one of the hex crystals and sees it discharge energy from the impact. From this, she realizes that the one she dropped during the robbery was responsible for the explosion, and gets the idea to use them to upgrade her bombs.

* EmpathyDollShot: An interesting variation of this happens during the warehouse explosion sequence: Vi's old rabbit toy is shown being flung mid-air in slow motion. Vi herself, meanwhile, has just witnessed the death of her friends and is on the verge of losing her father figure.

* MookChivalry: Played with. Silco's mooks need to charge across a narrow causeway to get to Vander, letting Vi dispatch them one by one, but a few times they get a chance to team up and almost overpower her.

* MookChivalry: JustifiedTrope as the mooks need to charge across a narrow causeway to get to Vander, letting Vi dispatch them one by one.