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Jinx (Powder)

"It's Jinx now! "Powder" fell down a well!"

^{Click here to see her as Powder}

Voiced by: Ella Purnell, Mia Sinclair Jenness (young)

Portrayed by: Kit Meyering, Aubree Bouche, Raquel Cosmic (Arcane: Enter the Undercity)

"Nothing ever stays dead."

The future Loose Cannon, the youngest of a group of Zaunite street kids who desperately wants to be useful to her family, especially her big sister. By Act 2 she's become Silco's most dangerous enforcer, and she grows increasingly more destructive and unstable as she sinks deeper into her "Jinx" persona over the season.

For tropes related to her game counterpart, see here.

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• Abusive Offspring: To Silco a few times: When she finds out he lied to her about Vi's death she repeatedly stabs him in the face with a needle, and after misunderstanding his conversation with Vander's statue she kidnaps, binds and gags him for her "dinner party".
• Accidental Murder: While most of Jinx's calls are intentional as of Act II, there are a few exceptions:
  • Back when she was Powder in Episode 3, her bomb causes an explosion greater than what she could've anticipated at the cannery, which kills Mylo and Claggor, and leads Vander to committing a Heroic Sacrifice to save Vi. When Powder learns what she's done, her sanity starts to crumble.
  • In Episode 9, Jinx shoots her minigun during a psychotic trance when she notices Silco was about to shoot Vi with her pistol. When she comes back to her senses, Jinx is horrified to realize she fatally shot him.
• Achilles' Heel: By Act II, Vi is this to her. While she resents her sister for seemingly abandoning her after she accidentally blew up their family, Jinx goes into psychotic trances each time a memory of Vi triggers her past trauma. Despite it all, Jinx still hopes to reunite with her sister and have things go back to the way they were. Silco seems aware of this, and attempts to shoot Vi when she tries to get Powder back to her senses (unknowingly making it worse for her). This leads to Jinx shooting Silco to protect Vi, which is the hammer in Powder's coffin and Jinx's full acceptal of her destructive identity when she understands that Vi wants Powder and not Jinx.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the game, Jinx is almost always smiling and giggling with child-like cheerfulness in contrast to the destruction she causes. She's much more somber in the show, and frequently haunted by hallucinations of the people she's lost. Justified, as her emotional wounds are still relatively fresh here and she still has doubts about whether she would rather be "Powder" or "Jinx"... At first.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Jinx's game backstory has it that she was always mischievous and would frequently travel to Piltover to play pranks on its people — pranks which became more serious as time went on — just for the sake of it. It also keeps the details of her early life intentionally vague. In the show, not only do we see Jinx's early life in Vander's care, but it's heavily implied that she had never been to Piltover before breaking into Jayce's apartment.
• Adaptational Badass: She was never exactly a wimp in-game, but after Singed pipes her full of Shimmer she's briefly shown moving as fast as the Turbo Chemtanks that Vi and Jayce fought earlier.^note Jinx's mobility in the game is actually rather poor compared to many other champions, relying more on CC from her attacks to escape than personal mobility — Until she gets a takedown or destroys a tower, which makes her "Get Excited!" and briefly move at intensely high speed. Shimmer is also known to enhance the user's physical resistance, while Jinx is — per her class — an extremely fragile Glass Cannon in-game, even if she does have a slightly higher base health than many other Marksmen.
• Adaptational Modesty: Downplayed. Her outfit here is still pretty skimpy, but nowhere near as much as the bikini top, short-shorts and stocking she wears in the game. Justified, as she's still a teenager at present^note She was somewhere between 9 and 12 in Act I, and Acts II and III take place around 6 or 7 years later.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the established lore Jinx was a mischievous prankster who, while a definite threat to property, was considered a nuisance at worst who generally didn't get people killed with her antics. The show portrays her as a ruthless Mad Bomber who has no problem gruesomely killing Enforcers (including luring some to their deaths by pretending to be a child in need of help), guns down several Firelights, and later maliciously kidnaps Caitlyn and tries to force Vi to kill her.
• Adoptive Name Change: Powder takes to calling herself "Jinx" after being taken in by Silco to distance herself from her past.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Jinx starts out as an absolute (if somewhat naïve) sweetheart named Powder, who at somewhere around 10 has a working knowledge of building bombs and is an excellent shot with a pistol.
• Affectionate Nickname: Vi calls her "Pow-Pow" at one point when they finally reconnect.
• All Take and No Give: How she behaves in acts 2 and 3: She expects anyone she likes to always be there for and support her, and to be completely devoted only to her. She may genuinely care about her more "positive" relations, but she's also violently possessive of them. This attitude is best shown when she attempts to force Vi to shoot Caitlyn, promising Vi she could have "Powder" back if she did.
• Always Someone Better: During Act 2, Jinx visits the old arcade her family would hide out in when things got too hot. She sets up the boxing game Vi used to play and attempts to beat her sister's highest score, but even after channeling all her issues into it she still only comes in second. She's so completely livid at her failure that she shoots the machine.
• Animal Motifs:
  • Creepy Crows. After shooting a crow at the old arcade she uses its feathers as bookmarks in Jayce's stolen notebook, her battle with Ekko uses a crow to represent her — both in the present and during the flashback to their childhood game —, there are multiple crows present during the final confrontation at the destroyed cannery in Episode 9, and the chair labelled "Jinx" during said confrontation is decorated with crow feathers. Crows are usually shorthand for bad omens — which is self-explanatory due to her status and insulting nickname — and death, befitting her unfortunate tendency to get everyone around her killed and having become a violent killer after the time-skip. Most importantly, crows symbolize adaptability and transformation, which ties into her corruption from innocent, loving Powder into the insane anarchist Jinx. She also has a rather avian habit of tilting her head in consideration.
  • She still has her association with monkeys from the game, though here it's more a case of the maniacal version than the mischievous: As a child, she puts together a bomb that gets most of her adopted family killed using a stolen Hex crystal and a Cymbal-Banging Monkey toy, she leaves graffiti of a monkey's face as her calling card, and she has a tendency to perch in high places — Usually the rafters in Silco's office or her hidey-hole mentioned in Foil below.
  • Her rocket launcher's Threatening Shark motif stands out because it defies her animal motif but fits nicely with her adoptive father Silco's — Fitting, since she built it to achieve his dream.
• Appropriated Appellation: She calls herself "Jinx" since Mylo would regularly dismiss her as such when she ruined their heists, and her sister furiously agreed with him after she accidentally killed him, Claggor and Vander.
• Arch-Enemy: To Ekko. Unlike Vi, Ekko is adamant that Powder is gone and Jinx cannot be redeemed. The genuine terror his Firelights show when faced with her and her sarcastically calling him "the boy savior" all allude to there being a long enmity between the two, though we the audience only see the tail end.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Her Gatling gun "Pow-Pow" is far and away the most powerful weapon in her arsenal, but its weight and build — plus her own tendency to fire it wildly — means that she rarely lands a hit with it. Throughout the first season, anyone not already restrained or incapacitated is pretty easily able to dodge out of its way.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • A rather morbid example in Act 2: Mylo and Powder spend most of their shared screen time in act 1 butting heads, but after the time skip she keeps a life-sized doll of him on her couch, showing that she does miss him and still wants him around.
    • On top of that, Jinx actively hallucinates both his and Claggor's ghosts either whispering in the background during normal conversation or outright screaming at her during moments of extreme stress. It's clear that their deaths — and her responsibility for them — hit her hard.
  • She's moved to genuine tears when Vi comes for her after she sets off her flare, though it doesn't take long before Caitlyn turns up and Jinx assumes they were plotting against her.
  • After Jinx shoots Silco in the heat of the moment, he confirms that he loves her and thinks she's perfect the way she is as she weeps for him. As weird and unhealthy as their father-daughter bond may have been, it was still real.
  • The whole reason Jinx shot Silco in the first place was because he was about to kill Vi. Despite everything that had happened between them — and being in the throes of a mental breakdown she was causing at the time — Jinx still wasn't willing to stand by and let someone kill her sister.
• Ax-Crazy: Following the time skip, Jinx has become an extremely maladjusted young woman perfectly fine with shooting her allies, blowing up an airship full of Shimmer just to kill two enemies and luring several Enforcers to their deaths with a elaborate bomb trap^note That last one wasn't even necessary — She just did it because she could!. She also shows signs of her future Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter" tendencies, as she's clearly enjoying herself during the battle with the Firelights in Episode 6.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Powder is the youngest of Vander's adopted children and she struggles to keep up with the group several times, causing them to either constantly worry for her safety or dismiss her as an annoying hinderance.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: With Vi as they fight off the attacking Firelights.
• Badass Adorable: As a child, she could usually be found figuring out how to turn her toys into bombs. By her teens, she's gotten it down to an art form and is still pretty cutesy-looking.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Played with. She pulls a gun on a bird that startles her and shoots it after regarding it for a few seconds. Still, the show makes it clear that Jinx isn't so much out-and-out evil as extremely messed up in the head.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: As Powder, she wanted her bombs to actually work during a job. During a rescue mission she was told to stay out of, she secretly followed them intending to help with a new hextech-powered one. That time, it worked so well that it killed all but one of her own family.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Deconstructed. Powder/Jinx is completely loyal to Silco and his goals because he did something to console her after she set off the bomb that killed most of her family and seemingly drove Vi to abandon her. However, this is due more to her own selfishness and abandonment issues, as Silco praises and validates her almost constantly and is shown scolding her for her troublingly violent behavior all of once.
• Berserk Button: As Jinx, she becomes noticeably more unstable and uncontrollable as she figures out that people are deliberately trying to keep her and Vi apart… And because she still has abandonment issues with Vi, anything that suggests Vi might "betray" her again does the same.
• The Berserker: Becomes this if she suffers a breakdown during a fight, laughing and screaming as she fires her Gatling gun wildly and even using said gun as a bludgeon.
• Berserker Tears: Jinx cries Shimmer tears and lets out a gut-wrenching scream when she fires her rocket at the Council following Silco's death.
• Beyond Redemption: Ekko believes this of Jinx in Acts II and III. At the end of the season, Jinx agrees, to Caitlyn and Vi's utter horror.
• Big Bad Slippage: Season 1 details how the innocent Powder was shaped into the Ax-Crazy Jinx, as a disastrous accident from her youth and Silco's guidance break-and-rebuild her into an uncontrollable psychopath. She subsequently serves as The Heavy of the season, initially working on Silco's behalf before her growing instability drives her to acts of terrorism that worsen the relations between the two cities (culminating in her bombing the Piltover Council at the end of the season finale).
• Big "NO!": Lets out an anguished one when the Firelights kidnap Vi just when they've finally reconnected after years of being apart.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Whenever she is Hearing Voices, she screams this to her hallucinations.
• Big Sister Worship: Powder clearly loves and idolizes Vi. This admiration all but vanishes when Vi blames her for their family's death and slaps her — Powder outright disowns Vi as her sibling at the end of episode 3.
• Body Horror: In Act III, she's so badly injured by her own grenade that the only way to save her is for Singed to strap her down and inject her with so much Shimmer that she might not be completely saline-based anymore^note We see later than her crying Shimmer wasn't just a one-time thing, at least. — Her veins bulge with the stuff even as it runs from her eyes and mouth, all while she screams in agony for him to stop. He even sticks a needle into her freaking ear at one point.
• Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Literally. Jinx works for Silco as part of his resistance against Piltover's tyranny, however she cares more about killing its Enforcers and those who oppose Silco (such as the Firelights) than the consequences of her destructive actions have on Silco's operations and Zaun as a whole.
• Born Unlucky: At some point, you really have to wonder if Mylo's right and she really is cursed. While she progressively develops more agency in and responsibility for the tragedies she suffers (ranging from none at all when her parents are killed as a little girl to pulling the trigger that kills Silco as a teen), the universe seems determined to destroy her psyche. Everyone around her^note Except Vi may get killed, but having all their deaths on her conscience further drives her mad.
• Boxing Battler: Jinx's round with the boxing machine at the old arcade proves she's pretty capable with her fists as a teenager, even if she prefers to fight with guns and explosives. Granted she does cheat a bit by throwing in more than a few kicks, but she still clearly knows what she's doing and she gets the second-highest score on the board, falling just behind Vi's teenage record.
• Braids of Action: As a teenager, she wears her hair in two braids down to her ankles.
• Break the Cutie: Poor Powder gets absolutely shattered in Episode 3. The explosion she causes at Silco's factory kills Claggor outright, kills Mylo a few seconds later, breaks Vi's arm and forces Vander to pull a Heroic Sacrifice. Upon realizing this, Powder is so horrified that she can barely form a coherent apology before Vi snaps at her, further traumatizing the young girl. Vi then walks away to calm down and avoid hurting her further, but this only convinces Powder that Vi has abandoned her.
• Broken Bird: In the present day, Jinx is still haunted by her past, plagued by hallucinations of her deceased loved ones and crippled with self-doubt. By Episode 9, she becomes a shell of her former self when she accidentally kills Silco in a frenzy and severs ties with Vi, who she believes cannot love the "jinx" she is now.
• Broken Tears: Upon each final scene in every arc:
  • In Episode 3, Powder breaks down in tears when Vi leaves her and she pleads for her to come back.
  • In Episode 6, Jinx goes back to being Powder upon reuniting with Vi, where she cries warmly in her arms for a moment she waited for so long.
  • In Episode 9, Jinx starts crying when she realizes she fatally shot Silco, who spends his dying moments reassuring her and telling her she's perfect the way she is. Jinx can only weep some more in the aftermath.
• Buffy Speak: At one point when studying Jayce's notes:
  Jinx: They form some kind of math-y, magic-y gateway... To the realm of heebie-jeebies.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Vi's Abel: She's a mass-murdering Silco loyalist while Vi is doing everything she can to take him down.
• Call-Forward:
  • At the end of Episode 3, the flames from the burning cannery reflect in Powder's Innocent Grey Eyes, turning them Jinx's sinister reddish-pink.
  • At the end of Act 2, she gets a nasty cut on her right leg which she then literally staples closed^note As opposed to just stitches made of wire, which might explain why she only wears one stocking.
• Character Tics: Jinx and Powder both have a habit of biting their lips.
• Cheerful Child: Powder was definitely this. At least before her Start of Darkness...
• Childish Tooth Gap: Powder has one. Jinx doesn't.
• Children Are Innocent: Despite the rough environment she had to grow up in, Powder is a fairly happy little girl in Act I who tries hard to be useful to her sister. Her innocence ends up being her downfall when she overloads her monkey bomb with Hex crystals, causing an explosion that kills all but one of her family.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: A sibling variant. When Jinx sees that Vi is willing to go back for Caitlyn, after she seemingly abandoned Powder, she becomes both incredibly jealous and furious. Sevika's taunt that she's been replaced echoes loudly in her head, causing her to hallucinate Caitlyn shooting her nightmarish mocking grins and making her all the more desperate to see Caitlyn dead, either by her own hand or by trying to force Vi to do it in exchange for "Powder".
• Co-Dragons: With Sevika. Jinx is Silco's most dangerous agent, but her instability makes her unfit to lead like Sevika can.
• Cop Killer: She technically qualifies, due to having at least six dead Enforcers — who serve as law-enforcement in Piltover — under her belt. She kills even more in episode 7, including the Sheriff.
• Conflicting Loyalty: After she reunites with Vi, Jinx is torn between her identity as Powder, Vi's little sister, and Jinx, Silco's daughter and second-in-command. After she accidentally kills Silco to save Vi, Jinx accepts her new identity before going rogue and firing a missile at the council in order to live her father's dream.
• Corrupt the Cutie: After Powder accidentally gets her family killed with her monkey bomb and is hit and apparently abandoned by Vi, she is found by Silco, who takes her in out of pity and raises her as his own, shaping her into a ruthless bomb-throwing sociopath dependent on his love and approval by the time Act II starts.
• Cradling Your Kill: Jinx gently holds Silco's face after she accidentally shoots him, then breaks down in tears into his lap after he dies.
• Create Your Own Villain: While understandable considering what Powder had done, Vi slapping her, calling her a jinx and walking away from her makes a devastated Powder disown Vi and reinvent herself as Jinx. Had Vi managed to hold her "Reason You Suck" Speech in until they were out of danger, they might never have been separated. During their 'family reunion' in Episode 9, Jinx flat-out admits to Vi that she considers her words and actions that night what created Jinx, much more than Silco's years of sermonizing and tutelage.
• Creepy Blue Eyes: While Powder is born with Innocent Grey Eyes, Jinx has bright blue eyes by Act 2, which makes her look far more menacing and insane. While her eyes occasionally turn grey to hint there's some hints of Powder left in her, they permanently turn pink after Singed performs an emergency surgery after Jinx's bomb almost kills her.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Develops these between Act I and Act II, to hint her deteriorating mental health. Her Shimmer surgery makes them even more prominent.
• Curtains Match the Window: Initially. She has naturally blue hair and eyes, but her eyes permanently turn a lurid pink after she's injected full of Shimmer.
• Cute and Psycho: Jinx may be a baby-faced girl with large eyes, she's also an incredibly emotionally and mentally unstable psychopath and knows how to use her sweet looks to get her opponent's guards down.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: In Act 1, Powder unwillingly make heists with her siblings harder with her inoperable bombs and tendency to panic. While we only see one heist go wrong in the first episode, Mylo states it's not the first time she "jinxes" one of their jobs. For extra measure, she has a hard time doing parkour and almost falls multiple times.
• The Cutie: There's no denying she's painfully endearing as Powder, what with those Puppy-Dog Eyes and sweet personality. Said personality completely turns on its head after Episode 3, though Jinx remains cute as a button.
• Daddy's Girl: To Silco, and not an example that could even remotely be considered healthy.
• Daddy's Little Villain: To Silco, mixed with varying levels of The Millstone, The Dreaded and The Berserker; She's easily the most dangerous and destructive of his gang — too much so, in fact — but Silco continues to dote on and enable her even as he acknowledges this.
• Dark Action Girl: In spades post-Time Skip. She takes on Enforcers and fellow criminals alike with guns, bombs, and maniacal glee. The entire Firelight gang working in tandem is afraid to take her head-on.
• Death Glare: Twofold. Sevika gets right up in her face with one of these when she chews her out for botching their smuggling job. Jinx just scoffs and returns it.
  • She gives a terrifying one to Caitlyn in Episode 9 after she knocks her out with her minigun, complete with creepy shining eyes.
• Death Seeker: In a desperate way to end her suffering, Jinx attempts suicide in Episode 7 by activating one of her grenades and attempt to take Ekko with her. She barely survives thanks to Singed's Shimmer operation, but the pain she goes through in order to live through it might as well be a Fate Worse than Death.
• Didn't Think This Through: In her rush to be helpful to her family and make her bombs work, she ends up causing a much bigger explosion than planned, killing Mylo and Claggor and nearly killing Vander and Vi.
• Distinctive Appearances: By Act 2, she's the character with the longest hair among the entire cast of characters, with braids that reach her ankles.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Lampshaded in Episode 6 when her reunion with Vi goes haywire.
  Vi: Powder, it's okay...
  Jinx: Stop! Calling me that! It's Jinx, now! "Powder" fell down a well!
• Dragon-in-Chief: Downplayed; Jinx's boss Silco is plenty dangerous on his own. However, Jinx is only barely held in check by her need for his approval, and his own attachment to her makes him unable to properly reprimand her for the trouble she causes him. Throughout the season, she continues to butt into his hunt for Vi to settle her insane jealousy of Caitlyn, develops a Hextech weapon to level the playing field with Piltover that far outclasses what Shimmer does to his army, and officially upstages him as the main threat when she kidnaps him in the finale.
• The Dreaded: Following the time skip, Jinx has garnered a reputation among her allies and enemies alike for being dangerously unstable, a far cry from how she was introduced. When the Firelights notice her graffitied calling card while trying to bust Silco's smuggling operation, they immediately go on high alert. Even Silco's own crew are wary of Jinx due to her erratic behavior and penchant for blowing things up.
• Driven to Suicide: In Episode 7, after seeing that Vi has "replaced her" with Caitlyn and being pinned and beaten by her former best friend Ekko, she attempts to die as Powder, not Jinx, by blowing herself up with her old friend. Silco manages to save her and bring her to Singed for an emergency surgery in time.
• Dying as Yourself: Jinx attempts this on the bridge on Episode 7, in order to finish her suffering as Jinx and die as Powder along with her former best friend Ekko. Unfortunately, she wakes up in Singed's operating room and goes through an aboslutely nightmarish surgery, sealing her identity as Jinx during Episode 9.
• Emergency Transformation: After being nearly killed during her fight with Ekko, Silco brings her to Singed to save her, which he can only do by injecting her with massive doses of Shimmer. The procedure permanently lightens her skin and turns her eyes a glowing reddish-pink.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Jinx was already plenty dangerous as Silco's top subordinate, but after she's critically injured by her attempted suicide bombing of Ekko, Singed is only able to save her life by pumping her full of Shimmer, which makes her even faster, stronger, and crazier than she was before. It also has the side-effect of turning her eyes their trademark red-pink.
• Even Bad People Love Their Parents: As bad as "Jinx" is, she's completely devoted to her adoptive father Silco, and treats him with more affection than she does almost anyone else. Their relationship sours when she finds out he lied to her about Vi's death, and even more so when she misunderstands him talking to Vander's statue about his deal with Jayce. Even so, she's immediately horrified when she realizes she shot him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • No matter how much chaos she causes, how many people she kills or lives she ruins, she does still on some level want things between her and her sister Vi to back to go back to the way they were when they were kids. Even when she realizes they can never go back at being sisters because they've changed too much, Jinx is still broken because she really wanted to patch things up with her sister.
  • The bridge scene in Episode 7 shows Jinx has fond memories of the times she played with Ekko as a kid. When they are fighting to the death and Ekko overpowers her, Jinx's pleading eyes to Ekko are grey, showcasing there is still Powder left in her. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus, her pupils are shown expending when she looks at Ekko, which frequently happens when looking at someone you love. Despite the circumstances, Jinx still loves Ekko, but is too broken-up mentally, and once she realizes what they have become she attempts suicide by detonating a grenade to die with her former friend.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In Episode 9, when a terrified Vi assumes she cut off Caitlyn's head and is about to serve it to her on a platter, Jinx insists with some offense that "(she's) not that crazy!" While she would prefer to have Caitlyn dead, she's still insulted that her sister would think she'd go as far as to decapitate someone.
  • A very notable inversion: In League she generally prefers not to get people hurt or killed with her antics, even if she isn't particularly broken up about it if it happens. Here, she's an unrepentantly vicious fighter whose lack of issue with killing is a repeated plot point all on its own.
• Evil Former Friend: To Ekko. The two were best friends as children, but their friendship broke down after Silco took her in and raised her into Jinx, a ruthless gunslinger who has killed many of his fellow Firelights.
• Eye Colour Change: Powder initially has light grey eyes, in contrast to Jinx in the game. This changes over the course of the season, as "Powder" is further subsumed by "Jinx". The first sign comes from the final shots of Act 1, when Powder glares at the spot where Vi had walked away from her and the surrounding flames reflected in her eye make it look purple, like Jinx in the game. After the Time Skip, Jinx retains blue eyes as a sign that there is still some trace of Powder in her... Then her own grenade nearly kills her and she can only be saved by a Shimmer infusion. From then on, Jinx is shown with glowing pink eyes (a side-effect of the operation) and she's at her most malicious and destructive.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Jinx is a pretty cute teen whose big eyes and full lips lend themselves very well to Puppy-Dog Eyes-faces. She's also a remorseless Mad Bomber who knows how to use her looks to make people lower their guard.
• Fan Disservice: Jinx's midriff-bearing, Side Boob-flashing outfit would normally be a case of Fanservice, if she wasn't so borderline-ghoulishly pale and scrawny.
• Faux Affably Evil: Jinx is usually pretty personable and goofy, and a barely-contained bottle of psychoses who causes even her friends and allies often fatal harm.
• Flash Step: After Singed fills her full of Shimmer to save her life following her attempted suicide bombing of Ekko, her already-impressive reflexes advance to this.
• Foil: To Ekko, after the Time Skip. Befitting a pair of former Childhood Friends, there are many parallels between the two.
  • Design-wise, Ekko is a short-haired black boy who typically wears loose-fitting clothing, whereas Jinx is a long-haired white girl dressed in skin-tight Stripperific garb. Still, they both have a distinctively Zaunite aesthetic about them, including the fact that they both wear tank tops.
  • Both liberally utilize modern technology of their own design in combat. But while Ekko is a highly meticulous and innovative Clock King who uses non-lethal weaponry — such as crystal-forming grenades that immobilize targets — and fights very acrobatically at melee range alongside his fellow Firelights, Jinx is a wild and reckless Mad Bomber who works terribly with others, typically fights at range from a fixed position, and packs about twice her weight in bombs, her pistol and her minigun.
  • Both are gifted young Zaunite inventors, but Ekko uses his talents to fight Silco's stranglehold on the Undercity — even building a settlement safe from his influence — and Jinx works as one of Silco's deadliest enforcers.
  • Both live in secret hideouts they created themselves, but said hideouts are like night and day: Ekko lives near Zaun's lower levels in a massive Treehouse of Fun, a bright place full of life and surrounded by people he loves and who love him. Meanwhile, Jinx lives alone near Zaun's border with Piltover on a giant broken-down ventilation fan overlooking a mining chasm, a dreary and dark place with only the dolls of her dead brothers and occasional visits from Silco for company. Their "homes" symbolize their upbringings well: Ekko thrived in the Undercity with the help of his many loyal friends and companions, and thus he uses his gifts to fight for a good cause — No one ever saw anything but the worst in Jinx, so she squanders her gifts and spends her teens with exactly one person who cares for her.
  • Their reunions with Vi are complete inversions of each other: Ekko is initially deeply suspicious of Vi, even accusing her of working for Silco, but they manage to rekindle their friendship within minutes. Jinx starts off crying in relief at seeing her again, and they look like they're about to go back to being sisters, but outside influences torpedo the situation and make Jinx close herself off.
  • By the end of the first season, Ekko seems to be in a much brighter place and may have found a new mentor or even friend in Heimerdinger, while Jinx is a broken shell of a girl who has resigned herself to a life of evil after killing her beloved adoptive father Silco.
• Foregone Conclusion: That Jinx won't ever go back to being "Powder", considering the series is a prequel to the established lore in League, where Jinx is fully at ease with her destructive tendencies.
• Freak Out: Jinx has many, many of these:
  • In Episode 3, Powder descends into a sobbing, screaming mess after Vi and her brothers leave her home while they rescue Vander from Silco.
  • In Episode 4, when Jinx mistakes a Firelight for Vi, she is reminded of all her past trauma and blows a fuse in more ways than one: She first shoots the girl, then starts firing her minigun maniacally, blowing up the entire load of Shimmer she was supposed to guard.
  • Gets one in Episode 5 while she fails to beat Vi's record on the arcade's boxing game.
  • When she thinks Vi is abandoning her for Caitlyn in Episode 7, a hallucination of Mylo taunts her and prompts her to set off her butterfly bombs on the bridge and cause carnage.
  • Played for Drama in the final episode of Season 1, where Jinx suffers a mental breakdown over her Conflicting Loyalty between her sister and her adoptive father. She's seen desperately grabbing her head as her hallucinations get worse, and she finally snaps and shoots her minigun frantically when Silco is about to shoot Vi, which accidentally kills him.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Ekko has zero sympathy for the person Powder's become, pointing out to Vi that Jinx has been willingly serving, killing for, and helping run drugs for Silco for years even though he's clearly done nothing but make the Undercity worse because she's decided that his coddling her outweighs any lives he may ruin or end.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Sevika not-hyperbolically snaps at Silco that everyone who isn't him thinks Jinx is way more trouble than she's worth. For her part, Jinx is never shown hanging out socially with anyone but Silco either. However, they also all know that Jinx is Silco's favorite, so she never faces any consequences for her actions.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: When introduced in Act I, she's a sweet-natured Tagalong Kid whose homemade bombs hardly ever work, and she frequently ends up as The Load during her siblings' heists. After the Time Skip, she's become The Heavy — Not only have her bombs drastically improved in destructive power and functionality, but she's become a devastating opponent and feared throughout the Undercity.
• Gadgeteer Genius:
  • Despite all her bombs being duds until Episode 3, she's still gifted enough with engineering to build a working panic button in Vander's bar, which he uses to successfully warn them about the Enforcers coming to arrest them. Her naming her weaponry as Jinx, as she did with her bombs as Powder, implies that she made them all herself.
  • Silco tells her outright that she's his best option for actually weaponizing the Piltovan tech she stole, implying that she's become this for his gang as a whole. She's able to reproduce Jayce's first Hextech experiment with reasonable accuracy (if understandably lower quality due to her available resources), and demonstrates an understanding of the underlying principles just from reading his notes all in the span of hours. By the end of the first season, she's managed to cobble together her "Fishbones" rocket launcher, using Hextech to dramatically increase the range of the missile. She may act like a barely-sane kindergartener, but she's arguably one of the smartest characters of the series under it.
• Gatling Good: As Jinx, she makes delighted use of a customized gatling gun, known in the game as "Pow-Pow".
• Generation Xerox: As of Episode 3, Vi and Powder seem to be turning out exactly like Vander and Silco: The "younger" sibling idolized their "older" sibling until they experienced what they perceive as a betrayal and abandonment — which their sibling deeply regrets — and thus end up on opposite sides of the conflict between Piltover and Zaun. Even better, the older sibling is a physically powerful hand-to-hand fighter, while the younger is much more reedy and has to rely on their own cunning and various weapons in fights.
• Genius Ditz: As a teenager, she's highly unstable and commits wanton acts of violence no matter how bad an idea it is. However, she can also single-handedly recreate Jayce's hextech prototype with nothing but his notebook and whatever scrap she had lying around (stolen hex gem aside). She might be violent and unhinged, she's far from being unintelligent.
• Giggling Villain: She tends to chuckle or snicker during tense moments, to show how disconnected she is with reality.
• Girlish Pigtails: It's easy to miss, but Powder already has a much shorter version of Jinx's trademark long twin braids — She just keeps them tied together, so it looks like she only has one.
• The Glomp: An unusually dramatic version in Episode 3: Powder has been bombarded by the fact that the explosion she caused killed Claggor and Mylo and indirectly killed Vander, and she's just been slapped, yelled at, and apparently abandoned by Vi. When Silco appears and offers her some small measure of comfort, Powder is so desperately emotionally shattered that she literally knocks him off his feet in a hug.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: After Singed fills her with Shimmer, her eyes start permanently glowing an eerie reddish-pink.
• Go Mad from the Revelation : While Powder wasn't always stable when Vi was not around, her sanity starts deteriorating when she realizes Mylo, Claggor and Vander died because of her bomb, when Vi had told her to stay put. It only gets worse for her when Vi hits her and leaves to cool off, leading Powder to think she had abandoned her.
  Powder: [crying] I only wanted to help... I ONLY WANTED TO HELP, I ONLY WANTED TO HELP, I ONLY--
• Go Out with a Smile: She gives Ekko a sad smile when he cannot bring himself to finish her off, before she attempts to blow both of them up with one of her grenades. However, she survives, thanks to Singed's shimmer operation.
• Green-Eyed Monster: During Act 3, she's completely livid at how close Caitlyn and Vi are, believing that her sister has replaced her. At the end of Episode 9, she gives Vi an impossible ultimatum: If she really wants Powder back, she has to get rid of Caitlyn first.
• The Gunslinger: Shown to be both a Quick Draw and a deadly accurate shot, even as a kid.
• Hanlon's Razor: Powder's Start of Darkness was born from from a genuine desire to help her family, which makes all their deaths even more tragic.
• Harmful to Minors: The series start with a 3-4 years old Powder finding the corpses of her parents on the bridge with her sister.
• Hate at First Sight: She was already on edge when she and Caitlyn 'met' during her reunion with Vi, taking her presence to mean that Sevika was right about Vi bringing the Enforcers down on her, but after seeing how close Vi and Caitlyn are throughout Act III she becomes downright murderous towards her, believing her to be the main reason Vi won't truly return to her and hallucinating Caitlyn smirking victoriously at her when Vi helps her to safety after Jinx's bombs wound her on the bridge. While Singed is operating on her to save her life with Shimmer, she hallucinates that he's Caitlyn — effectively blaming her for her current suffering — and afterward goes out of her way to kidnap Caitlyn and drag her to her "dinner party" so she can make Vi shoot her to reaffirm that she won't ever "betray" her again. Essentially, she won't ever be able to trust and love Vi like she used to as long as Caitlyn's around.
• Hates Being Alone: Powder dissolves into a sobbing mess after Vi leaves her home while she, Mylo, and Claggor go to rescue Vander. She completely shatters when Vi seemingly leaves her all alone after she accidentally gets their family killed. Post time-skip, Jinx is still deeply insecure at the idea of being alone. After she gets Silco killed, and finding herself all alone once again, Jinx accepts her new identity and starts a war to make her deceased father's wish come true.
• Hates Rich People: Like many Zaunites, she despises the citizens of Piltover — especially the Council — for how badly they mistreat them and their home.
• Hearing Voices: Following the time skip, her childhood tendency to talk to her weapons before setting them off has spiraled into full conversations with inanimate objects (usually the effigies she made of her brothers). In high-stress situations, they develop into full-blown auditory and visual hallucinations that she either argues with or just yells at to shut up.
• The Heavy: Powder and Vi's relationship is the central focus of the first season, as the former unravels further into the psychotic Jinx and becomes a far more personal and dangerous enemy than Silco ever was. The increase in tensions between Piltover and Zaun largely stems from her unsanctioned attacks, Caitlyn frees Vi to help her track down the gemstone she stole — to which Vi only agrees so she can reconcile with her sister — and Silco tries to kill the two of them specifically to prevent Jinx from learning Vi is still alive. It all comes to a head when she goes rogue in the finale, kidnapping Caitlyn, Vi, and even Silco. The season's climax ends with her embracing her "Jinx" identity and bombing the Piltover Council, literally blowing any chance at peace between the two cities to hell.
• Heel Realization: She seems to have one on the bridge during Episode 7 when she gets beaten by Ekko, her former childhood friend, who is hesitant to finish her off when he sees that there's still Powder in her. This prompts her to activate one of her grenades in an attempt to die with her best friend by her side.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: It's clear that the "Jinx" persona is nothing but mask she puts on in order to protect Powder, her broken inner child, from further harm. Even at her worst, Jinx never forgave herself for accidentally killing her family, is shown to fondly remember her time with Ekko as kids and genuinely wants to reconnect with her sister.

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• I Call It "Vera": Powder has a habit of naming her weapons, such as "Mouser" and "Whisker" the bombs. "Pow-Pow" the minigun and "Fishbones" the rocket launcher show that she maintains this habit as Jinx. "Pow-Pow" is also something of a Meaningful Name, as it was Vi's Affectionate Nickname for Powder when they were younger and she tends to fire it madly as a form of venting/stress relief.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Even as a child she was able to score over 20 perfect shots in a row on an arcade game. Jinx's minigun leaves little room for accuracy, but she's still good enough with a pistol to shoot a crystal grenade in mid-air as it's being thrown at her.
• Inelegant Blubbering: A rather disturbing example occurs in episode 3. After being told by Vi and crew to sit out the rescue mission for Vander, Powder throws a violent temper tantrum in her room, complete with spit and snot running down her face.
• Innocent Grey Eyes: They begin as a light gray, like her sister, but noticeably turn blue after her encounter with hextech. Either way, they highlight her youth and relative inexperience compared to the others. She loses them permanently after being pumped full of Shimmer by Singed, which comes with the side effect of turning her eyes a bright red-pink.
• Insane Troll Logic: If Vi really wants to be sisters again, then she has to "make (Caitlyn) go away". Of course, the whole point here is that Jinx IS insane — This is just what finally hammers it into Vi's head.
• Ironic Nursery Rhyme: In the opening scene of the first episode, a young Powder sings a beggar's song, "Dear Friend Across The River", a song that showcases the wage difference between the two cities where a Zaunite asks a Piltovian for a penny, "without envy" and with gratitude... All while Enforcers mercilessly gun down civilians, including Powder's own parents. Come Episode 7, Powder, who has now grown into the psychotic Jinx, hums the same song she used to shield herself from violence as a kid, this time while being a perpetrator of violence herself and asking for more than just a penny from her "friend across the river"...
• Irony:
  • Jinx despises how close Vi and Caitlyn are, but she's ultimately the one who brought them together.
  • In the same vein, Jinx would very likely have lived and died without ever seeing her sister again if not for Caitlyn getting her out of Stillwater Hold, yet she considers her the biggest obstacle to rebuilding her and Vi's relationship.
• It's All About Me: See Lack of Empathy below. As a teenager, Jinx seems unable (or just plain unwilling) to care about anyone she doesn't think is nice enough to her. Most of her actions across Acts 2 and 3 are driven by her need to prove herself to Silco and make herself happy, even defying Silco's order to stay under the radar in attempt to impress him and flagrantly ignoring his complaints about her destroying a building and killing six Enforcers. This even extends to her sister Vi — She's All Take and No Give in their relationship, and never seems to consider even if she's hurting Vi by demanding she kill Caitlyn to reconcile with Powder]]. Ekko thinks so too, reasoning that she could have walked away from Silco at any time, but chose to stay with him because of how he enables her.
• It's All My Fault: Powder has no one to blame but her overloaded monkey bomb for causing the death of her family, especially considering Vi told her to stay away. She is promptly driven to madness by the revelation, and still holds herself responsible for the tragedy in the present day.
• Jerkass: Post-timeskip, Jinx is a selfish psychopath who doesn't care about anyone or anything she doesn't personally like — And even they aren't completely safe, as she might start thinking they're plotting against her at the slightest provocation (if any).
  • Jerkass Façade: However, it's made blatantly clear that "Jinx" is nothing but an alter-ego to protect "Powder" from being hurt again.
• The Jinx: Mylo calls Powder a jinx for her tendency to derail their heists whenever she tags along. She takes it as her name after Vi agrees with the sentiment when Powder accidentally kills the rest of their adoptive family.
• Kick Chick: When Jinx goes back to the ruins of the arcade her family used to play in, she boots up the boxing machine Vi used to practice on. Rather than stick purely to her fists as Vi did, she throws in at least one kick for every punch or two. Usually averted, though — She mostly throws grenades and shoots guns in fights, and if she does have to get physical she just wields her minigun like a blunt weapon.
• Kick the Dog: Several times after Act I.
  • Tricking a squad of Enforcers into a bomb trap by acting like a child trapped in a burning building, especially when you consider that it was just a diversion — Even if a distraction had been necessary (which itself is debatable) she could've come up with a non-lethal one if she'd wanted to.
  • She kills a crow that startles her when it lands too close, and later uses its feathers as bookmarks.
  • When facing off with Ekko on the bridge, she spitefully mocks him and wastes no time shooting for the kill.
  • Kidnapping Caitlyn, and demanding Vi execute her before she'll forgive her "abandonment". Also, she really drags out the reveal that she did not, in fact, cut Caitlyn's head off to serve it to Vi on a plate.
  • She completely blames Vi for the way she turned out, and ultimately fires a missile at the Council chambers out of misdirected spite.
• Kubrick Stare: Often shoots these at people in acts 2 and 3. After her Shimmer operation, the glowing pink eyes make them especially creepy.
• Lack of Empathy: Jinx is pretty much totally indifferent to anything and anyone she doesn't personally care about; even that can turn on a dime if they do her the slightest wrong either in reality or in her own head. This is made most clear to the audience through Vi, when she's so completely unconcerned with collateral damage that she almost shoots her sister during their battle with the Firelights.
• Laughing Mad: In Episode 7, after Vi get taken by the Firelights and Jinx gets injured, she limps back to her lair and staples her wound shut, all while cackling like the madwoman she is.
• Lean and Mean: She's much lankier than her sister Vi, both as a child and a teen. In that last case, it makes her look physically unwell on top of mentally.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: In Episode 7, she immediately understands Ekko's suggestion when he starts swinging his pocket watch at his side, and decides to humor him with an homage to their childhood game.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Jinx turned out to be a lot like Silco — Ruthless, selfish, unsympathetic, uses violence/intimidation to get what she wants, and just generally unpleasant to anyone she doesn't like and/or need something from.
• Mad Artist: Loves dark-light graffiti, and decorates her many explosives and weapons with them. She even paints a smile on Caitlyn's gag after kidnapping her.
• Mad Bomber: She's always had a thing for explosives. As a teen, she even tosses bombs down a pit when stressed and/or bored.
• The Mad Hatter: For all her flaws, Jinx seems to be well aware that she's insane, and loves to creep out others (as seen with Thieram at the bar). When Vi assumes she cut off Caitlyn's head, Jinx scoffs that she's "not THAT crazy".
• Meaningful Name:
  • Her birth name, "Powder", might be a reference a powder keg — An extremely tense and volatile situation that will spiral into complete chaos at the slightest provocation — or a "powder monkey"^note someone who works with explosives, which also ties into her Animal Motif. It could also come from her hair color, powder blue (Sort of like how Vi's full name, Violet, matches her hair color).
  • Her unfortunate tendency to ruin the kids' heists and projects earns her the insulting nickname "jinx" from Mylo, and once from an enraged Vi after one of Powder's explosions kills the rest of their family.
• Meaningful Rename: Her changing her name to "Jinx" shows an acceptance of her destructive tendencies and distancing herself from her past as Powder.
• Menacing Stroll: How Jinx is (re)introduced in the fourth episode, walking slowly to the Firelights to greet them with a "hi"... and proceeding two blow up two of them with her grenades. She walks in a similar manner in Episode 7 after unleashing her butterfly bombs on the bridge, while humming "Dear Friend Across The River" for extra creepy factor before gunning down an injured Enforcer.
• The Mentally Ill: As a teenager, Jinx suffers from severe anxiety and hallucinations, as a result of her past traumas. No one but Vi attempts to help her with it, either they enable her destructive behavior (Silco), have no sympathy and even taunt her (Sevika and Singed) or consider her a lost cause (Ekko and Caitlyn).
• The Millstone: As a kid, her friends' robberies would tend to fail if they brought her with them. Later, when working for Silco, she's a dangerously unpredictable maniac that even he can barely keep in line. Sevika furiously complains to Silco about this after Jinx botches a protection job, and while he does acknowledge her complaints his own affection for her keeps him from actually doing anything to discipline her. Her actions repeatedly get her own family and allies killed, often in situations where they would have at least limped away without her.
• Misplaced Retribution: Her abandonment issues with Vi and the hallucinations caused by Singed infusing her with Shimmer to drag her back from the brink of death make her direct a lot of hatred towards Caitlyn, with whom she believes Vi has replaced her with.
• Morality Pet:
  • Was this to Vi when they were kids. While Vi was a troublemaker and sometimes harsh with Mylo, she showed a protective and caring side to her little sister.
  • As of Act II, Jinx is the one and only person Silco remotely cares about. So much that he refuses to give her to Jayce and the Council when they promise an Independent Zaun, and spends his dying moments reassuring her when she accidentally shot him during a breakdown. Talk about fatherly love from a ruthless villain.
• Mundane Utility: At one point she uses Vi's Atlas Gauntlets, intended for heavy mining or combat, as oven mitts.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: She's pretty scrawny as a teenager, yet still capable of wielding a minigun about as long as she is tall, even effectively using it as a makeshift melee weapon.
• My Greatest Failure: The fact that her own bomb killed her foster father and brothers has clearly become this after the Time Skip, to the point that it's how her psychosis manifests: Not only has she created dolls in their likeness that she often talks to, but in moments of extreme distress she hallucinates their ghosts screaming at her over her shoulder.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • The realization that she caused the explosion that killed Vander, Claggor and Mylo makes her break down sobbing inconsolably as she tries to explain herself to Vi.
  • Jinx accidentally shoots Silco in a psychotic panic when he tries to shoot Vi. Despite believing that he was going to sacrifice her to Piltover to ensure Zaun's independence, she tearfully runs to the only person who's cared about her for years, desperately apologizing to him as he's bleeding out. He uses his last words to assure her that he would never have done so, and asserts that he thinks she's perfect as she is. It obviously shatters whatever's left of her hear, and it ensures Jinx's only loyalty will forever be to Silco's dream: the independence of Zaun.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: An extremely dark version. When she sees how close Vi is with Caitlyn she starts frothing with jealous rage, due in no small part to how it feeds into her paranoia that Vi has "replaced" her with Caitlyn. It drives her to try to force Vi to kill Caitlyn so they can "go back" to being sisters.
• Never Be Hurt Again: The reason she became Jinx in the first place: she associates her past identity, Powder, to nothing but pain and heartache considering she unwillingly caused the deaths of her family when she was trying to help and how every single thing she tried to do as a kid only led to her "jinxing it". Now older and stronger, Jinx accepts her role as an enforcer of chaos and destruction, but is still fueled by insecurities and fear of being perceived as "weak" or "useless" like she was in her childhood. By Episode 9, she distances herself from Vi, whom she killed Silco for, and surely because she can't keep losing those she cares about.
• Never My Fault: In Episode 9 she claims that her current "Jinx" mindset is all on Vi, even though — as Ekko points out — Jinx has been making her own decisions ever since they were separated. In truth, Vi only played a very small, unintentional part, and even if Powder had been too young know any better, her actions are still way more on her than on Vi.
  • Downplayed, however, that Jinx isn't saying it to Vi in an accusatory manner: she seems to be thanking Vi for "pushing her" to becoming strong in the present day. Vi doesn't see it as a compliment, and is clearly guilt-ridden for her role in Jinx's creation.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: In episode 3, Powder tries for a Big Damn Heroes moment. Had she not, — like they told her — her family would have probably gotten away by the skin of their teeth. Instead, three of them died.
• Nice Girl: Powder was absolutely this. She may have been more than a little nuts, but she obviously loved her (non-Mylo) family and wanted to help them however she could. Then she accidentally blew them up, her and Vi's relationship fell apart, and Silco took her in and raised her into a complete Jerkass.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The usually manic and perky Jinx is reduced to an Empty Shell speaking with a broken, shaking voice after she accidentally kills Silco and realizes that she and Vi can never go back at being sisters.
• The Ophelia: Under the revealing wardrobe, Puppy-Dog Eyes and excitable behavior, Jinx carries around some substantial trauma and a love of carnage and destruction.
• The Paranoiac: As of Act II, one of her defining traits is thinking that those she cares about are plotting against her. Her hallucinations only add fuel to the fire and distorts her view of reality. Her paranoia worsens upon seeing Vi with Caitlyn, an enforcer, whom Jinx assumes "replaced her" in Vi's heart.
• Patricide: Twofold. First, in Act I, her bomb injures Vander who then sacrifices his life to save Vi from Silco. Then in Episode 9, when Silco is about to shoot Vi, Jinx fires her minigun in a psychotic trance, which ends up accidentally killing him. She's immediately regretful once she realizes what she's done.
• Perky Female Minion: Is this to Silco, though she's his daughter rather than just a common underling.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: This becomes one of her primary character traits: She has all of the abandonment issues, likely stemming from finding her parents' corpses during the opening scene of the show. In Episode 3, she shrieks for Vi to come back when she walks away following the explosion that killed the rest of their family, already traumatized by the realization that she caused said explosion and Vi slapping and yelling at her.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Season One tells the story of how a fairly innocent child became a psychotic anarchist.
• Practically Joker: Ax-Crazy? Lean and Mean? Chaotic fighting style? Pale complexion? Laughing Mad? The Dreaded? Association with purple? Name that starts with "j"? Yeah, it becomes less subtle as the season goes on. Of all Joker incarnations, she bears the most resemblance to Arthur Fleck, another realistic portrayal of a character whose insanity was originally just shorthand for "I will commit crimes in the most eccentric way possible". Both of them started out as psychologically tormented but decent people who had the misfortune of being born into a Wretched Hive that the elitist jerks in power made sure never got any better. Over the course of their stories, their mental health deteriorates further due to a Trauma Conga Line until they finally snap and their "J" persona completely overtakes the person they once were.
  • Many fans have also noted that Ella Purnell's voice for Jinx sounds very similar to Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley Quinn, an influence Purnell has confirmed in interviews.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: Powder was never able to fully process her trauma and mature as she grew up, and it clearly shows as Jinx throws violent tantrums, gives names to her cute, animal-themed weapons and doodles graffiti over everything she can.
• Psycho Pink: Jinx mainly uses bright pink colors in her Mad Artist doodles, and by Episode 8 her eyes permanently turn pink after Singed's operation, which makes her look far more dangerous and deranged.
• Psycho Serum: Singed injecting Powder with massive doses of Shimmer to save her life completes her physical transformation into Jinx, noticeably lightening her skin and giving her her signature reddish-pink eyes. It also elevated her already-impressive reflexes into Flash Step territory.
• Psycho Supporter: Because Silco took her in and consoled her after Vi left her and was imprisoned by Marcus, Powder became incredibly loyal to her foster father, now going by Jinx and going along in his crime schemes to get Zaun's independence. Jinx doesn't necessarily cares about the cause (or the people she kills in the process), she stays by Silco's side no matter what because he's the one person that's patient with her and doesn't see her being a "jinx" as a nuisance (on the contrary, he encourages her destructive behavior).
• Raised by Rival: When her foster father and brothers were killed and her older sister Vi apparently abandoned her and dropped off the radar, Jinx was taken in by her father's nemesis Silco, the Undercity drug lord who had initially planned on killing her but changed his mind at the last second. She grows into a mentally unstable Daddy's Little Villain, but is rattled pretty hard when Vi resurfaces in Zaun. Vi desperately wants to be with her sister again, but after killing Silco Jinx finally accepts that she and Vi are too different for that to be possible anymore.
• Reestablishing Character Moment: In episode 4, Ekko and the Firelights ambush one of Silco's airships to destroy the Shimmer on board. All seems to being going well until they notice the dark-light monkey painted on the wall, and then a swing goes over their heads to reveal a similar dark-light "BOOM" painted on its underside. Cue explosion. A pair of boots then moseys into frame, and an older Powder — armed to the teeth — blows her fringe out of her face and announces herself with "Hi." She then draws a pair of grenades, pulls the pins with her teeth through a menacing glare and chucks them at her opponents, who are knocked over the side of the airship shortly before the explosions go off. The audience clearly understands that loving, klutsy little Powder is now a deeply feared Mad Bomber who can more than hold her own and clearly isn't firing on all cylinders.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A variant. Her eyes turn red-pink after Singed fills her full of Shimmer to save her life.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Played with. As a child, she's mostly the Blue to Vi's Red: She wears mostly blue clothing (on top of her blue eyes and hair), she's much more timid than her sister, and if she does have to fight she uses weapons (that usually don't work) instead of her fists, but as the younger of the two she's also more impulsive and doesn't always fully understand the situation around her. She's also deeply emotionally unstable without Vi around to support her, as evidenced by her rather disturbing tantrum in episode 3.
• Room Full of Crazy: Her headquarters in Silco's lair include: a life-size dummy of Mylo, a doll with Claggor's goggles with his dried bloodstains on it, and a crucified stuffed bunny above her workspace.
• Rhymes on a Dime: Briefly after her reunion with Vi crashes and burns. It helps convey how absolutely batshit she is now^note To Vi, at least — The audience doesn't need much (if any) reminder at this point.
  Jinx: [''dry laugh at Vi] You're a class act, sister! Sister, thought I missed her... [Death Glare] Bet you [shoves Pow-Pow in Vi's face] wouldn't miss her!
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • See Eye Color Change: Powder has Innocent Grey Eyes, while Jinx is doted with Creepy Blue Eyes. When Jinx reunites with Vi, her eyes turn from blue to grey, to showcase that she's back to being Powder with her sister back with her again. When Caitlyn enters the scene, Jinx becomes defensive seeing an Enforcer and her eyes are back to being blue when she thinks she's being tricked by Vi. In the next episode, her eyes are blue until the moment Ekko has her pinned down on the bridge and about to deliver the fatal blow, where Jinx's eyes turn grey once again, proving to Ekko that Powder is indeed still in there. After Singed saves her life using Shimmer, Jinx's eyes turn pink, sealing her into being the destructive and dangerously strong Jinx, with whatever traces of Powder (along with her grey eyes) being gone.
  • To tie with the above fight scene with Ekko, some blood from her nose get on the middle of her teeth, mimicking the Childish Tooth Gap she had back when she was Powder. That along with the grey eyes make Ekko have a brief Heroic BSoD until he realizes Jinx activated one of her grenades to blow them up.
• Sanity Slippage: After Act I, her screws loosen further and further over the season and pretty much come out altogether after Singed's "operation".
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: All of her attempts to separate Vi and Caitlyn ironically only push them closer to eachother.
• Self-Made Orphan: Twice: Powder set off the explosion that made it necessary for Vander to pull a Heroic Sacrifice, and as a teenager Jinx unloads her minigun into Silco during a psychotic break.
• She Who Fights Monsters: The series starts with a toddler named Powder losing her parents to Enforcers on the bridge. About a twelves years later, Powder has become become Jinx, a violent Mad Bomber who kills several Enforcers on the very same bridge, leaving Marcus' daughter, and who knows how many other children, an orphan.
• Shipping Torpedo: Funnily enough, she's the one who's most vocal about there being something more than friendship going on between Vi and Caitlyn, and she loathes it. Jinx explicitly calls Caitlyn "(Vi's) girlfriend" (in a mocking tone) and immediately tries to force Vi to shoot her.
• Shrinking Violet: As a child, Powder was meek and timid around anyone who wasn't Vi or Vander.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: Powder is a lot less talkative and assertive than the rest of Vi's gang. Jinx, however, completely averts this.
• Sideboob: Her skimpy teenage outfit has a touch of this going on.
• A Sinister Clue: Jinx and Powder both wield a pistol in their left hand, and Jinx holds a pencil in her left hand while studying/adding to Jayce's notes.
• Slasher Smile: Often breaks these out during fights, much to Vi's horror.
• Smokescreen Crime: On Progress Day, Jinx demolishes a building and murders several Enforcers just to give herself an opening to steal a Hex gem.
• Spanner in the Works: Not for nothing does Mylo deride her as The Jinx; Every time she tags along, she tends to make the situation around her spiral out of control. As a child it's accidental, but as she gets older and crazier she starts doing it on purpose, as she thinks it's just a part of who she is.
  • In episode 1, Powder dropping one of the Hex crystals as she's stealing them causes the explosion that alerts the Enforcers to their presence, causing a very public disturbance and drawing a lot of unwanted attention to both her siblings and Zaun as a whole, raising tensions between Zaun and Piltover. Powder also ultimately has to dump everything they got from the heist in the river when Deckard's group ambushes them, rendering the whole thing pointless. The mounting pressure on Vander — due to his status as the Big Good of Zaun and his unwillingness to sacrifice his adopted family to resolve the problem — alerts Silco to the fact that there's an opportunity to usurp his former brother as the leader of Zaun and push forward with his plans. Note that Vi, Mylo, and Claggor found another Hex crystal in the main room of Jayce's study, but they knew better than to mess around with something they didn't understand.
  • In episode 2, the explosion she caused also forced Jayce to reveal the truth about his research to the Council, aggravating them with him personally over his experimentation with magic and causing them to demand the thieves be found immediately due to the dangerous nature of what they stole — Jayce was very nearly Driven to Suicide before Victor stops him. Powder later bringing Vi's old stuffed rabbit with her to Vander's bar tips him off that Vi intends to pull a Heroic Sacrifice to resolve the tensions between Zaun and Piltover.
  • In episode 3, Vander and Benzo rush to the latter's pawn shop before the Enforcers arrive in an effort to take Vi's place, leaving them unprepared and unable to properly fight back when Silco ambushes them and sics a Shimmer-mutated Deckard on them: He kills the Enforcers and Benzo outright and drags Vander off to parts unknown, kicking off the climactic showdown at the cannery. Vi and her brothers actually manage to reach Vander and secure an escape route, even with Silco's thugs — including Deckard — hot on their heels, before Powder interferes with an improvised Hextech explosive — she saw Vi losing her brief tussle with the mutant and thought she was about to die. The blast outright kills Mylo and Claggor, injures Vi badly enough that Vander has to pull a Heroic Sacrifice to get her out of the burning building, and ignites the Shimmer production underneath the cannery, causing a massive explosion that A) gives Singed his trademark scars, B) destroys Sevika's left arm and C) alerts Marcus to the disturbance, eventually resulting in him subduing Vi before she can launch a doomed attack on Silco and his surviving henchmen and dumping her in Stillwater prison as an Unperson, confirming Powder's assumption that her sister abandoned her and (literally) driving her into Silco's arms.
  • In episode 4, facing off with a Firelight that looks like Vi sends Jinx into a berserker fit, wildly shooting her minigun to drive off the attackers. One of her stray shots ends up hitting one of Silco's own men, forcing them to leave him behind below deck on the ship, where he's later found by Caitlyn and sent to Stillwater Hold. Vi, now an adult and still imprisoned, recognizes him from the fight at the cannery and beats him into the dirt, eventually resulting in Caitlyn and Vi meeting and the former securing the latter's release, kicking off an upset in Silco's operations as Vi starts derailing them looking for Powder. Jinx's desire to be seen as useful when Silco takes Sevika's criticism of her to heart after the raid and asks her to avoid further disruptions causes her to launch an unsanctioned attack on Piltover, stealing Jayce's Hextech Gems and further increasing tensions between the cities, especially since the sophistication of Jinx's explosives convinces Piltover that she could weaponize Hextech against them.
  • In episode 7, Jinx is so confused and furious about Caitlyn accompanying Vi that she sets off a cloud of explosives shaped like firelights on the bridge just as Caitlyn and Ekko are trying to bring the Gemstone to Piltover. The blast kills Marcus, who intercepted them (and was about to reluctantly shoot Caitlyn), costing Silco a useful asset, though Silco himself isn't all that worried — He's sure he can easily find another Enforcer to coerce. Jinx then grabs the container Ekko had hidden the Stone in, but seeing Vi help Caitlyn get to safety, whom she hallucinates taunting her, drives her into trying to shoot them. Ekko manages to retrieve the container before pummeling her, but Jinx sets off one last grenade that almost kills her and injures Ekko, putting him out of action for the rest of the season. Oh, and best of all, she lifted the Stone from the container before losing it, making Vi and Caitlyn's adventure All for Nothing.
  • In episode 8, Silco desperately rushes a barely-alive Jinx to Singed. He is able to save her, but only at the cost of worsening her insanity. What's more, Silco's actions damage his standing with the other chembarons, who view him as soft and hypocritical.
  • In episode 9, although Silco assures Jinx with his dying breath that he would never have let Piltover have her, the Council voted for his deal with Jayce and a diplomatic solution to the crisis was found. Jinx killing Silco and subsequently bombing the Council utterly destroys any chance for peace between Piltover and Zaun.
• Spikes of Villainy: Downplayed, since it's only her belt that has spikes on it.
• Spoiled Brat: Her life isn't exactly rosy, but Silco caters to her every desire, scolds her a grand total of one time, constantly validates her actions, and protects her from any consequences, including taking the blame for her worst actions. While this keeps Jinx happy most of the time, it also makes her more easily agitated and angered when things don't go her way and more willing to hurt Silco's goons, his standing with Piltover, and even Silco himself.
• Start of Darkness: Powder gets hers in Episode 3, after her Hex-Tech monkey bomb kills her brothers and leads to Vander's death. When Vi learns it was her doing, she slaps her, calls her a "jinx" and leaves her alone. Silco finds the poor girl sobbing her heart out, but can't bring himself to kill her when she hugs him for comfort and realizes how similar they are. Once he decides to comfort her and take her as his own daughter, the future Loose Cannon is born.
• Stepford Smiler: Of the Slasher Smile variety, but Jinx hides her childhood trauma and insanity with a goofy, childish and excitable personality. It's a thin paper mask that easily crumbles whenever a Berserk Button is activated.
• Storyboard Body: The right side of her body from her shoulder to her hip is tattooed with blue clouds/smoke. It symbolizes not only the Hex-Tech explosion that killed her family and led to the birth of her Jinx persona, it's also meant to represent the flare gun Vi gave to her before she left, showcasing Jinx's desire to reunite with her sister.
• Stripperiffic: Downplayed; Her outfit here is nowhere near as revealing as the bikini top and hotpants she wears in the game, but it's still a cropped halter top with low-riding pants. It's also kind of hard to call it sexualized, since she's unhealthily thin and the camera doesn't linger on the naked parts of her.
• Stupid Evil: She commits wanton acts of cruelty and violence just because she feels like it, and it's often a detriment to herself and Silco's goals. She murders several Enforcers (which Silco calls her out on), and because of it all, Jayce is only willing to give in to Silco's demands if he hands Jinx over to face justice (which he can't bring himself to do). Kidnapping Caitlyn, Vi, and Silco gets her beloved father figure killed, and her blowing up the Piltover Council ruins any chance for peaceful Zaunite independence.
• Super-Reflexes: Frequently implied, as her perception seems to slow normal time to a crawl (bordering on Bullet Time), and she can nail over a dozen shots dead center on moving arcade targets even as a young girl. As Jinx, she proves capable of evading multiple shots in combat with the Firelights with no effort. This is enhanced further after she gets loaded with Shimmer to save her life.
• Symbolic Baptism: In the fifth episode, Jinx tells Silco she is unable to weaponize Hex-Tech because she keeps seeing the deaths of her brothers in the cannery. In order to "help", Silco takes Jinx in the river Vander had attempted to drown him in and tells her that a weak man died that day, and a new one was born. He encourages her to "let Powder die" so fear won't control her anymore, and that she's stronger now and perfect the way she currently is. Jinx then trusts Silco to "baptize" her in order to leave Powder in the past. She is later seen successfully succeeding to weaponize Hex-Tech, all while her hair drips.
  • In the next episode when she reunites with Vi, Jinx lampshades this moment by telling her "Powder fell down a well".
• Tagalong Kid: How Claggor and (especially) Mylo perceive her. The last time she tags along (uninvited) she makes the situation go completely fubar.
• Taking You with Me: When Ekko doesn't quite have it in him to finish her off during their battle at the end of Episode 7, she activates one of her grenades as an attempt to kill him with her. It would have killed her if not for Singed injecting her full of enough Shimmer to permanently alter her physiology.
• Tantrum Throwing: Played for Drama when Vi refuses to let her go with her and their brothers to rescue Vander. She's so heartbroken and outraged that she throws a fit through her screaming and sobbing, even destroying her own inventions, which ironically shows her the destructive potential of the crystals she stole.
• Tattooed Crook: Her right arm, side, and leg are tattooed with blue clouds, and she's one of Silco's most lethal subordinates.
• Teens Are Monsters: Jinx is a mass-murdering psychopath in her late teens.
• Teen Genius: As an adolescent, she builds powerful bombs and deadly artillery from junkyard scraps. Even as a kid she was tinkering with bombs, even if they were all duds. Add to that her quick understanding of Jayce's hextech notes and she could've been a peerless genius if she was ever given a real opportunity to apply her talents. Instead, she works for Silco.
• Terms of Endangerment: Upon reuniting with Ekko in Episode 7, Jinx sarcastically refers to him as "The Boy Savior", as a mockery to his past nickname "Little Man". It takes a sadder turn since it's hinted Ekko previously tried to save Powder from Silco in the past, but failed doing so and their friendship fell apart afterwards.
• That Woman Is Dead: When Jinx finally reunites with Vi and sees her with Caitlyn, she angrily tells Vi to stop calling her Powder, who she states "fell down a well". At the end of Act 3, after accidentally killing Silco, she quietly sits at the seat labeled "Jinx" and tells Vi "Here's to the new us", showing that whatever traces of Powder were left in her are gone.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: In "The Monster You Created," Jinx brings Vi to what she calls a "dinner party" and shows her two different seats — One marked "Powder", one "Jinx" — and claims she'll let Vi decide where she should sit. After accidentally killing Silco and hearing him say she's perfect the way she is, — as Jinx — she decides that Vi can't love her the way she currently is, and she quietly sinks into the "Jinx" seat. She then gets up, retrieves the Gemstone, and uses it to fire a rocket at the Council chamber.
  Jinx: I thought... Maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I'm... Different. But you've changed too. So... Here's to the new us.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: To further emphasize her deteriorating mental state, whenever a scene changes to her perspective after act 2, it always features multiple smash cuts between frames and flashes of past scenes with distorted drawings over characters' faces. And that's before her constantly hearing and/or seeing Mylo and Claggor's corpses out of the corner of her eye.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Vi's tomboy.
• Took a Level in Badass: Powder was The Baby of the Bunch and pretty much useless in a fight, not even able to make her grenades explode. Jinx as a teenager is a Mad Bomber, a crack shot with a pistol, and can fight hand-to-hand well enough to nearly beat Vi's high score against the boxing robot. Takes another level following the radical and traumatic surgery Singed performs on her to save her life in episode 8. When Caitlyn is holding her at gunpoint at the climax of the season, she reveals that thanks to the Shimmer infusion she can now move almost faster than the eye can track and knocks Caitlyn out with her minigun.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Powder may have been all kinds of troubled, but she was ultimately a Nice Girl who wanted to help her family. By Act 2, she's become a selfish, unempathetic psychopath who only cares about herself and a handful of people she personally likes, and even they aren't completely safe if they do anything that upsets her.
• Tragic Keepsake: As of Act II, Jinx is revealed to have three: Claggor's blood-stained goggles from the explosion she caused, along with the stuffed bunny and flare gun that Vi gave to her the last day they saw each other.
• Tragic Villain: There are no other ways to describe Jinx in this adaptation. She started off as a genuinely nice and sweet little girl named Powder, who had a lot of engineering potential, but never had the opportunity to develop it in a safe space and was fueled by insecurity of being a useless "jinx". When she finds an unknown source of magic in the shape of Hextech, she ends up causing a much bigger explosion than a child her age could've anticipated, which kills her family and breaks her heart along with her sanity after she believes Vi has abandoned her following the accident. Being taken in by criminal lord Silco in the worst moment of her life didn't help, as he raised her and corrupted her into a violent mass-murdering psychopath who only works for him to gain his approval and unleash her chaos without consequences. It's made blatantly clear in many occasions that the reason Jinx turned the way she is is due to a mix of unfortunate circumstances and bad guidance (a.k.a Big Bad Silco), and had they been different, she could've turned a lot better, and use her genius for good instead of evil. This culminates to the season finale, with Jinx accidentally killing her adoptive father to save her sister, who only wants "Powder" back, while Silco died saying she's perfect the way she is. It makes Jinx think that Vi can't love her for who she is now, sinks deeper into her destructive role and destroys any chance of peace between Zaun and Piltover when she fires a rocket at the Council to continue her father's legacy for an independant Zaun.
• Trigger-Happy: While Jinx uses her minigun to vent during tense moments, she's seen giggling dementedly while shooting it at the Firelights in Episode 6.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: While Powder was introduced as a sweet, innocent child, she wasn't always 100% sane:
  • Powder attempts to contribute to Vi and co's efforts with bombs, some of them filled with nails. Her very first on-screen attempt at using one shows her filling it with nails before throwing it, and she waits for it to go off with disturbing excitement and anticipation.
  • A more subtle example is shown in Episode 3: after getting caught in her own improvised bomb's explosion, Powder is shown mid-fall in slow motion, not shocked or fearful but awed and wonderstruck at the sheer destructive power of what she made. Made even more pronounced by the Dissonant Soundtrack that plays as this happens.
  • There's also that moment of Tantrum Throwing after Vi insists that she stay at home while she and their brothers go to rescue Vander. She's not just screaming and throwing things through her tears here, there's a moment near the beginning where she looks to be beating the side of her head with her fist.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In her attempt to save Vi and Vander from Silco, she creates an explosion that kills Mylo and Claggor, scars Singed, breaks Vi's arm and forces Vander to sacrifice himself to save Vi.
  Powder: I d... I didn't. I was saving you!
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Powder started out as a Tag-Along Cheerful Child who admired her older sister and just wanted to help her siblings during their heists. Getting her family killed with her bomb while she only wanted to save them and (seemingly) being left by her only living family member left, Vi, shattered her completely, and her Start of Darkness was unavoidable after she was spared and taken in by Big Bad Silco, who raised and shaped her into the violent, destructive Jinx we see in Act 2.
• Vague Age: Word of God from the creators◊ states that Powder was around 11-12ish in Act 1, though an interview with Ella Purnell says she was 9, raising questions about whether she was aged up slightly for censorship or thematic reasons.
• Villainous BSoD: Jinx has one when she mistakes a Fireflight for Vi in the sixth Episode. She briefly freezes when she remembers all her bad memories with Vi and the Firelight is unable to break free from her grasp.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • During her battle with the Firelights in Episode 6, she stiffens in shock when she knocks the mask off one of them and mistakens her for Vi. When she realizes it's not her, Jinx shoots the girl before firing her minigun in a craze, blowing up loads of shimmer and screaming like a madwoman.
  • In the final Episode 9, Jinx is driven mad by hallucinations caused by Vi trying to snap "Powder" out of it. It leads to Jinx killing Silco when he attempted to shoot Vi. Upon killing her family a second time, she fires a rocket at the Council in order to continue her father's legacy for an Independent Zaun, while screaming in agony.
• Villainous Legacy: As of Episode 9, with Silco dead, Piltover has one hell of a storm coming in the form of Jinx, an unhinged, vengeful girl with deadly arsenal.
• Villain Protagonist: The first season is just as much about Jinx's downfall from sweet, loving Powder to Ax-Crazy terrorist Jinx as it is about Vi. What's more, it's mostly Jinx's actions that drive the plot: Her messing with Jayce's hextech crystals in episode 1 causes the explosion that exposes him and sets Enforcers on the Undercity, her bomb in episode 3 kills her family, her stealing a Hex gem in act 2 kicks off the conflict between Piltover and Zaun and her repeated interference keeps it from getting resolved, and in the final episode she kills Silco by accident and fires a hextech weapon at the Council, turning the cities' cold war hot and likely unleashing weaponized hextech on the world.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl:
  • A sibling variant in Act I. As a child, Powder is desperate to prove her worth to her older siblings (especially Vi), which causes her to follow them against Vi's wishes to rescue Vander and detonate a bomb that kills all of them but Vi.
  • In Act II, one of Jinx's psychotic rants demonstrates that she's terrified of Silco thinking she's weak or a loose end, likely as a holdover from her past traumas. To make up for the losses in a botched smuggling job, she goes off on her own and manages to steal a perfected Hextech Gem to impress him. He does actually look pretty touched by it, too.
• We Used to Be Friends: Powder and Ekko were close as children, but their friendship broke apart after the deaths of Mylo, Claggor and Vander followed by Vi's disappearance. A deleted scene had a young Ekko trying to save Powder from Silco, but their friendship fell apart when she decided to remain loyal to her father figure, who eventually contributed to her becoming Jinx (who killed a lot of Firelights, adding to Ekko's animosity towards her).
• What You Are in the Dark: During a psychotic breakdown, Jinx realizes Silco is about to shoot Vi. She immediately grabs her minigun and shoots before he can kill her sister. Jinx might be extremely messed up, even during her worst moments, she cares a lot about Vi and won't let anyone hurt her. Though she snaps out of it when she realizes what she's done to her adoptive father...
• When She Smiles: She gives Ekko a sad, but genuine smile when he has her pinned on the bridge. While she does try to blow him up afterwards, it's most likely because she wanted to die as Powder, with her old friend by her side.
• Wild Card: She's called the "Loose Cannon" for a reason. Jinx is so unpredictable when she unleashes chaos that both her enemies and allies alike are not safe from harm. It's prominent in Episode 9 when Jinx is torn between her love for both Vi and Silco, which leads to a huge psychotic breakdown that ends with her killing Silco in order to save Vi, sealing her identity as Jinx for good. The first season ends with a rogue Jinx firing a missile at the council and starting a war between Zaun and Piltover.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Powder was already traumatized by her parents' death when she was very young, and just a few years later she herself made it happen all over again. Even between point A and point B, she grew up in a very harsh environment and was expected to prove herself during a dangerous heist. After all that she ended up under Silco's wing, whose goal of "vengeance against Piltover" wasn't much different from what Vi originally wanted, only he was fully aware of what it required. As much as Silco can be blamed for exploiting Powder's eagerness to prove herself, Vi is the reason it exists in the first place, so "Jinx" is ultimately the result of deep trauma and the influence of the two most important people in her life. Even as Jinx, her Sanity Slippage is further accelerated by her haunting hallucinations, near-death experience, being operated on by resident Mad Scientist Singed, and killing Silco in a panic. Maybe she really was Born Unlucky.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: She records a message of a young girl begging for help to lure a squad of Enforcers into a trap and blow them up. She also hits Ekko with Puppy-Dog Eyes before he can finish her off, buying her enough time to try to blow them both up.
• You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Invoked. When Vi completely loses it in episode 3 and hits her so hard it draws blood, Powder starts tearfully begging "Violet" to stop. No one before or since has called Vi by her full name, and it does manage to snap her out of her rage and into shock and horror.
• Youthful Freckles: Not quite as prominent as Vi's, but they're there.

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"So... Here's to the new us."

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