Jinx, the Loose Cannon

Birth Name: Powder

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"Rules are made to be broken... like buildings! Or people!"

Voiced by:
Sarah Anne Williams (English)
Agnete Kjølsrud (English, singing voice)
Isacha Mengíbar (European Spanish)
Karla Falcón (Mexican Spanish)
Sumire Uesaka (Japanese)
Fernanda Bullara (Brazilian Portuguese)
Chae-Eon Han (Korean)
Natalia Tereshkova (Russian)
Appears in: Legends of Runeterra, Tales of Runeterra, Arcane, CONV/RGENCE: A League of Legends Story, 2XKO

"Volatile explosives are a girl's best friend!"

A manic and impulsive criminal from Zaun, Jinx lives to wreak havoc without care for the consequences. With an arsenal of deadly weapons, she unleashes the loudest blasts and brightest explosions to leave a trail of mayhem and panic in her wake. Jinx despises boredom, and gleefully brings her own chaotic brand of pandemonium wherever she goes.

Jinx is a Marksman champion who sacrifices mobility and defensive abilities for extremely high sustained and poke damage with her arsenal of various weapons.

Her passive, Get Excited!, greatly increases Jinx's movement and attack speed for a few seconds whenever she kills or helps kill an enemy champion, epic monster or turret.
Her first ability, Switcheroo!, swaps between Jinx's weapons:
- Pow-Pow, a machine-gun that increases Jinx's attack speed with every basic attack, stacking up to three times.
- Fishbones, a rocket launcher that greatly increases Jinx's attack range and causes her basic attacks to deal bonus damage to the target and other enemies around them, at the cost of mana per attack and reduced attack speed.
With her second ability, Zap!, Jinx fires a long-range shot from her shock pistol in a target direction that damages, reveals and slows the first enemy it hits.
With her third ability, Flame Chompers!, Jinx tosses out a row of three snare grenades to a target location that explode after a few seconds, setting nearby enemies on fire to deal damage-over-time. If an enemy champion walks over a grenade it will immediately explode and briefly immobilize them.
Her ultimate ability, Super Mega Death Rocket!, fires a massive rocket in a target direction with global range that explodes upon hitting an enemy champion, dealing damage to enemies inside the explosion based on their missing health. The damage of the rocket increases the longer it was in flight before hitting a target.

Jinx's alternate skins include Crime City Jinx, Firecracker Jinx, Zombie Slayer Jinx, Star Guardian Jinx, Ambitious Elf Jinx, Odyssey Jinx, PROJECT: Jinx, Heartseeker Jinx, Arcane Jinx, Battle Cat Jinx, Prestige Battle Cat Jinx, and Cafe Cuties Jinx. Wild Rift exclusively includes Glorious Jinx and Chromacrash Jinx, and Legends of Runeterra exclusively includes Gilded Jinx.

In season 1 of Teamfight Tactics, Jinx is a Tier 4 Hextech Gunslinger. Her ability, Get Excited!, is a passive that triggers when she scores takedowns - the first one grants her increased attack speed, and the second switches her weapon to Fishbones, causing her attacks to deal splash damage. She was removed in season 2. She returns in season 3 with the same cost and ability, but was changed to use her Odyssey Jinx skin and reclassified as a Rebel Blaster. Season 4 saw her retooled into a 3-cost Fortune Sharpshooter using her Firecracker skin, with her Fishbones ability allowing her to shoot a rocket with blast damage that also stuns enemies hit for 1.5 seconds. She was removed in the Festival of Beasts mid-set update, returning in season 6 using her Arcane Jinx skin as a Tier 5 Scrap Sister Twinshot. Her Sister origin is a trait unique to her and Vi that gives each of them different bonuses when played together. In Jinx's case, she gains bonus attack speed for a few seconds every time she scores a takedown; this effect can stack infinitely, but each stack lasts independently and new stacks do not refresh the duration of previous ones. Her ability was changed to Super Mega Death Rocket, which has Jinx ride a rocket into the sky and crash down on the center-most enemy, dealing magic damage to enemies adjacent to the epicenter and reduced damage to enemies in a larger radius. The affected area is set on fire for the rest of the round, burning all allies and enemies in the area except Jinx herself for percent max health true damage over time and reducing incoming healing for the duration. Jinx then swaps to her rocket launcher for the rest of the round, causing her basic attacks to deal bonus percent attack damage in an area around her target and target a random enemy each time she fires. In the Neon Nights mid-set update, she uses her base skin and her Sister trait is replaced with the Rival origin, which is also uniquely shared with Vi and grants Jinx the same bonus, but instead requires her to not be deployed together with Vi on your board to activate. In season 7, she returns to using her Firecracker Jinx skin as a Tier 2 Revel Cannoneer. Her new ability, Flame Chompers, deploys three traps in a line around her target which damage and stun enemies they touch after a brief delay, restoring mana to Jinx for each empty trap. She was removed along with the Revel origin in the Uncharted Realms mid-set update, returning in season 8 using her Battle Cat Jinx skin as a Tier 2 Anima Squad Prankster, with Fishbones returning as her ability. In season 9, she returns to using her base skin as a Tier 2 Zaun Gunner. In this iteration, her Fishbones! ability instead causes her to rapidly fire 5 rockets at random enemies within 2 hexes of her current target, each dealing physical damage to just their single targets. In season 10, she uses her Zombie Slayer Jinx skin and is a Tier 1 Punk Rapidfire. Her Esclation ability causes her to swap between her minigun and rocket launcher with each cast. Minigun attacks grant her a stacking attack speed boost for the rest of combat, while rocket launcher attacks deal bonus damage.

In Legends of Runeterra, Jinx is a 4-mana 4/3 Piltover & Zaun Champion with Quick Attack. When you empty your hand while she's in play she levels up, gaining +1/+1 and generating a Super Mega Death Rocket! (a Fleeting 1-mana Slow spell that deals 4 damage to the enemy Nexus and 1 damage to all their other units) in your hand, as well as drawing you a card at each Round Start and generating another Super Mega Death Rocket! the first time you empty your hand each round afterward. Her Champion Spell is Jinx's Get Excited!

Jinx is one of the protagonists of the first LoL animated series, Arcane. While the series is considered extended canon to the Runeterra universe, any info added from the series into this page should be carefully compared with the current official canon lore first, before being added. Jinx has a separate page exclusively for her appearance in the TV series.

She is part of the base roster for Riot's upcoming free-to-play 2v2 Tag Team Fighting Game, "2XKO"

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Adaptational Modesty: Her appearance in Convergence has her wearing wraps under her bikini top.
Animal Motifs:
- She seems to have one with monkeys/chimpanzees. "Get Jinxed" prominently features a wind-up Cymbal-Banging Monkey toy of hers that's used in subsequent media like Arcane and LOR. She's also generally playful, energetic, and unpredictably chaotic like you'd expect from a classic media depiction of a monkey.
- Battle Cat Jinx is...Well, it's in the name. She has a pair of cute cat ears on her headband and all of her weapon effects evoke mischievous cat imagery.
Arch-Enemy: To Vi. She went out of her way to make the Piltover Enforcer her nemesis by humiliating her and her ability to keep order, nearly killing her by bringing down Piltover's most secure building on her, and drawing some mean graffiti on her champion page in tacky pink paint.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Played with extensively in her promotional "wanted" poster:
Murder, Unprovoked Assault, Disturbing the Peace, Public Indecency, Murder Again, Inauthorized Property Recoloration, Unflattering Impersonation of an Officer, Reckless Hexplosive Detonation, Destruction of the Peace, Really Petty Larceny, Exorbitant Weapon Size, Some More Murders, Inciting Mass Hysteria, Making Fun of the Peace, Aggravated Jaywalking, Forging of Official Wanted Posters.
Attack! Attack! Attack!: Her kit is very aggression-based at the cost of having low mobility and no escape tools. The only thing helping her movement is her passive, which necessitates that she kill/destroy something before continuing on her spree or running away.
Ax-Crazy: Everywhere she goes, she loves to blow things up and cause mayhem. Just hear her laugh, in case her lines don't convince you.
BFG: Wields a hefty minigun as one of her two main weapons.
Big Stupid Doo Doo Head: If she taunts near an enemy Caitlyn or Vi, the most insulting nicknames she can come up with are along the lines of "Hat Lady" or "Fat Hands" (respectively).
Bilingual Bonus: For her Star Guardian skin, Jinx's familiars/guns are called Shiro (Minigun), and Kuro (Rocket). Shiro and Kuro are the Japanese words for "White" and "Black" respectively, matching their appearance.
Birds of a Feather: She finds one in Ziggs, someone who loves explosions just as much as her. He's even able to teach her some restraint so that she doesn't kill anyone in her exploding sprees.
Bloodless Carnage: The music video for her "Get Jinxed" Image Song has her mow down dozens of enemies with no blood spilt... because they're all robots. This is likely because a video of her killing lots of people messily would be outside the permissible scope for a T-rated game.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Exciting = "good" and boring = "bad." That's pretty much the extent of her moral code. As Rioter Gypsylord explained, she wouldn't knife a citizen of Piltover in a dark alley. That's not fun. But if that same person were sitting on a crate of fireworks, she'd blow up the crate without a thought for the person on top of it. Explosions are cool!
Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Of the Illegalist-ish "let's blow society to hell for kicks" movement. As shown in Arcane, she was originally the Tykebomb of the violent revolutionary, Silco.
Break the Cutie: Jinx was originally a kindhearted and innocent girl who simply wanted to help those she cared about. She would then accidentally trigger a catastrophic tragedy, shattering her psyche completely and permanently, a psyche that would only get increasingly damaged as time went on.
Breakout Character: Jinx has proven to be one of the most popular and marketable characters in the League of Legends franchise. She's one of the main champions used to promote Wild Rift, appearing on the game's main cover art and in its promotional cinematic, is a playable unit in the base roster of Legends of Runeterra, and has gone on to become one of the main protagonists of Arcane. She's also set to appear in the upcoming fighting game based on the franchise.
Cain and Abel: Her and Vi are arch-enemies, and also sisters. It was ambiguous for the longest time as Riot kept going back and forth on it, until the first released full scene preview of Arcane, "A Score to Settle" finally confirmed that they are in fact sisters.
Chain Lethality Enabler: Good usage of Jinx's passive allows her to mow down a whole team one champ after other, all thanks to the huge stat boosts she gets off a single takedown which refresh on every kill. It also make tower-wrecking way more seamless for her compared to other AD Cs.
Chaotic Stupid: Fits the Laconic description of this trope almost perfectly: "A character who does whatever they feel like doing, even if it's clearly a really bad idea to do it." The "bad idea" here being her inclination to "blow up society for the hell of it" mentioned in the entry for Bomb-Throwing Anarchists above. She'd even blow up the sun if she was capable.
Chekhov's Gunman: Her (tattooed) arms and legs appeared in the Summer Skin login screen, leading to speculation as to who she was.
Childish Tooth Gap: As can be seen in her design◊ in Arcane she had one of these as a child, although it's gone by her appearance in the present.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Even aside from her erratic anarchism, Jinx is clearly completely nuts. On meeting Ziggs (and seeing right through his glamour) she immediately reasons he must be a figment of her imagination, then decides this makes him her conscience. She even differentiates him as "Bigger Conscience" as opposed to "Little Conscience" who fly around her shoulders.
Color-Coded Characters: On the Star Guardians team, she's red.
Color Motif: Blue (hair, tattoos) and pink (eyes, outfit). Her weapons and VFX all follow a similar pattern.
Comedic Sociopath: Hands down one of the most insane champions in the entire game, and also one of the funniest.
Consulting Mister Puppet: Her joke has her do this with her rocket launcher, Fishbones. To her displeasure, its attitude is completely meek.
Cute and Psycho:
- If only for her sheer glee and joy when wrecking havoc. She's undoubtedly very much psycho, but many people find her to be kinda cute as well.
- Her Star Guardian skin plays this up as much as possible. And then her familiar Shiro gets in on it, as according to Jinx he loves the item Bloodthirster, gets impatient when not being used, and his favorite part of being a Star Guardian is the slaughter involved^note. Her other familiar, Kuro, prefers the sparkles that come with the job.
Cute Is Evil:
- Jinx is pretty much a petite and cute girl, complete with flat chest, when compared to her hunters (Vi and Caitlyn), who are mature and buxom ladies. However, she's also extremely destructive with zero care about anything else other than her own fun.
- Played up in her Star Guardian skin. While both of Jinx's familiars, Shiro and Kuro, are adorable, the "cuter" of the two, Shiro, is the one who's much more Cute and Psycho than Kuro (as seen above).
Dark and Troubled Past: Greatly implied with several interactions. The specifics are vague and it doesn't seem to really bother her in the present day, but many other champions suggest that she Used to Be a Sweet Kid before something tragic happened and she went crazy.
Kalista: Your spirit burns with sorrow...
Jinx: Me? Pfft, you've got the wrong lady, lady!
Swain: Faces fading in the flames. It was all her fault.
- Her new backstory confirm this: "No one knows for certain what happened to turn that sweet young child into a wildcard, infamous for her wanton acts of destruction." Arcane shows this backstory in full detail.
Dark Is Not Evil: In her Star Guardian skin, Kuro, her black familiar that becomes her rocket launcher, prefers the sparkles that come with the job, as opposed to Shiro's Cute and Psycho.
Dark Magical Girl: While not a rival of the Star Guardians, Star Guardian Jinx's lore makes it clear she's based on this character archetype, being a guardian that plays very loose with the rules and clashes with teammates.
A Day in the Limelight:
- She stars in the Wild Rift promo "You Really Got Me" (based on the song of the same name by the Kinks), warping around Runeterra to gather a team to throw down with on the Summoner's Rift.
- She has her own special story in Legends of Runeterra's "Path of Champions" mode. She finds an old stuffed rabbit that used to belong to her sister Vi, and decides to romp her way to the latter to return it.
Depending on the Writer: How friendly or antagonistic her rivalry with Vi is depends on which media you look at. In canon lore the two have a heated cat-and-mouse dynamic that's less good vs. evil and more a result of Jinx being a wacky menace. LOR even shows hints of a friendlier Sibling Rivalry if Jinx takes the route of not holding Caitlyn for ransom. Then you watch Arcane which is a much, much darker look into their relationship, showing how traumatic the falling out between the two was and having Jinx slowly descend into a more violent persona that Vi has to stop at all costs.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: In "Paint the Town", Jinx's first encounter with Ziggs has the two of them tossing ammunition at each other when laughing. When two collide and they're both thrown back against the wall, the first thing she asks Ziggs is whether that was "good for [him] too". Almost immediately after a scene occurs with the aftermath resulting in Ziggs straddling Jinx with a huge multicoloured explosion going off in the background (though the two are fully clothed). The rest of the night they spend together then has the structure of a date.
The Dreaded: Among the people of Piltover she's a public menace, blowing up upper-crust buildings and committing anarchy all over the city. "Paint the Town" even introduces her as the "Loose Cannon", showing how infamous she is. She's less divisive among the people of Zaun though who see her as a champion of the lower class, even if that's not her prime intention.
Ezreal: (Encountering Jinx) Nope! I did not sign up for Jinx-level crazy.
Dull Surprise: One of Star Guardian Jinx's lines when her health hits zero:
Jinx: Oh no. I am dying.
Even Evil Has Standards: Very, very downplayed, but she does seem to prefer people not getting hurt during her antics. She doesn't really view it as her problem if they do, though. The idea of outright killing people unintentionally is one of the few things shown to get to her, albeit barely.
Expressive Hair: When she's killed, her pigtails form a heart. In her Star Guardian skin, they instead form a star with her limbs.
Fashionable Asymmetry: Wears only one stocking on her right leg and has only one sleeve on her opposite left arm.
Fiery Redhead: In her Star Guardian skin. She's The Lancer of the group and the incredibly rebellious one to boot with bright red hair.
Finishing Move: Super Mega Death Rocket! deals more damage the closer her targets are to death. If you and your allies are heavily wounded, don't cluster together when you try to recall to base.
Foil: She plays off extremely well as an Evil Counterpart to Vi. Among other differences, Vi is a reformed criminal who upholds the law in Piltover by giving criminals an epic beatdown, while Jinx is a anarchic Zaunite criminal who causes mindless destruction and chaos because she thinks it's fun. Vi is an armored, tomboyish brawler who dives in to pummel foes with her fists, while Jinx is a scantily-clad Psychopathic Womanchild who fights from a distance with her arsenal of guns.
Folk Hero: In her revised lore, Jinx's mysterious background and outrageous exploits have her on her way to becoming one of these to the underclass of Zaun, the more rebellious of whom idolize her for making fools of the arrogant and uncaring Pilties. Her schemes have inspired copycat criminals among the chem-punks, satirical plays mocking the incompetence of the Wardens, and even a couple of new colloquialisms (although it also notes that nobody else has dared call Vi "Pretty-in-Pink" to her face yet).
Foreshadowing: Several bits of in-game lore and interactions tease at the details of her backstory which is all confirmed in Arcane.
- Her vaguely explained antagonism with Vi is displayed in many of their interactions in both League and Legends of Runeterra. This all stems from a traumatic falling out the two had as children after Jinx accidentally killed their loved ones in an explosion.
- Ekko remembers her from when they were both young children, including her birth name, Powder.
- Warwick has fuzzy memories of Jinx from a time long before his transformation. It's implied that he's her father-figure, Vander. Though he can't remember the fact.
  "You were there", "Let me forget"
- Swain and Fiddlesticks are able to peer into her memories and fears respectively, noting that she still blames herself for inadvertently killing her father figure and childhood friends.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Her passive plays into her backstory and song rather well; by killing enemy champions or blowing up towers, Jinx is continuing her crime spree and hopefully getting someone to try chasing her. She wants to be chased, if only as another layer to her game.
Gatling Good: Pow-Pow the minigun is a smaller but no less deadly version of this, and she relies on it to put out some really heavy firepower.
Genius Ditz: Having been born and raised in Zaun herself, she has the full know-how on crafting her own weapons, having two well-built firearms, an electric pistol, lots of explosives and its propulsive ordnance, all cobbled from whatever materials she can get her hands on. Not to mention being frantically proud and happy in standing on her own rocket without even slipping off.
Genki Girl: An antagonistic example. She gets really energetic when the chaos starts up and tries to continue the high.
Glass Cannon: Even by marksmen standards, Jinx dishes out absurd damage, but dies from a stiff breeze and has pretty much zero chance of escaping if she gets cornered.
Good Angel, Bad Angel: In Paint the Town, Jinx sees both of hers as Ziggs, showing how he both acts as her Morality Pet and an enabler for her destruction.

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Hates Rich People: Jinx has always been resentful of Piltover's upper class who live life free of the same kinds of struggles she's endured. "The Wedding Crasher" explores some of these feelings as she hijacks the wedding of an aristocrat's daughter, noting all the traditions partaken by socialites and how they irk her.
Hates Wearing Dresses: In "The Wedding Crasher", she wears a fancy dress and bonnet as a disguise to infiltrate an extravagant wedding to trash up. She hates the outfit, but needed it to conceal her gun and her ridiculously long hair, then promptly discards it once she begins wreaking havoc.
Hit-and-Run Tactics: Because of her fast minion-killing from Fishbones combined with fast turret-shredding from Pow-Pow, it's not uncommon to find Jinxes pushing towers down off to the side then making use of her passive to get the hell out of dodge. Of course, it's curtains if she doesn't start running soon enough.
Hope Spot: Just because you and your buddies survive with minimal health doesn't mean that Super Mega Death Rocket! isn't headed for you from across the map. This is especially true for Jinx as her ultimate's damage ramps up with the amount of damage taken by the victim, meaning that crafty Jinxes will often set up wards in common recall locations so they can time a rocket to hit you just as you reach your fountain for a guaranteed kill.
Hyper-Awareness: In her comic with Ziggs, she knew he was spying on her despite not even looking in his direction and could see through his human disguise glamour.
I Call It "Vera": The names of her minigun and rocket launcher are "Pow-Pow" and "Fishbones", respectively.
I Just Want to Be Normal: According to an interview, Fishbones the Rocket Launcher actually represents her subconscious desires and her hidden, repressed self, which includes a latent desire for normalcy.
Image Song: "Get Jinxed", and "Enemy" for her Arcane self.
In Love with Your Carnage: It's implied that she likes Ziggs so much because of his hexsplosives. Anything that causes more destruction and explosions is more fun for her.
In-Series Nickname: Refers to Caitlyn as "Hat Lady" and Vi as "Fat Hands". She also calls Ziggs "Conscience" due to mistaking him for hers.
I Shall Taunt You: She's going out of her way to make Vi really hate her guts.
It Amused Me: She blows things up because wants to have fun. If people tend not to survive being blown up, well, that's not her problem, and maybe that'll teach them to stand somewhere else next time.
It's All My Fault: It's heavily implied in her interactions with other champions that her Dark and Troubled Past contains an incident she blames herself for. Arcane reveals that the thing she blames herself for is accidentally killing all of her friends in an explosion
Swain: Faces fading in the flames. It was all her fault.
Fiddlesticks: Jinx! All your fault! ALL YOUR FAULT!
Karma Houdini: Played for Laughs in "Paint the Town", where after successfully blowing up the entire Warden Station after knowing there were people inside, she actually has a brief audible pang of guilt after seemingly killing them all. However, when she overhears how everyone successfully evacuated the building and was accounted for, she takes it with glee and flees with Ziggs back to Zaun.
"Yaaaaaay nobody died I didn't have to learn anything yaaaaaay—"
Kilroy Was Here: In her Image Song music video, she spray-paints "JINX WAS HERE!" on the side of a rhinoceros.
The Lancer: Of the Star Guardians; she's a powerful ally, but doesn't fit in with the others and is constantly at odds with her partner Lux.
Laughably Evil: As chaotic and psychotic a force she may be, she's also one of the most upbeat and fun villains in the game, with her dialogue being consistently comedic in tone.
Lean and Mean: She's pretty thin and scrawny for someone exuding pure chaos. It stands out too when comparing her to other ladies from P&Z like Vi and Caitlyn who are, respectively, more muscular and endowed by comparison
Light Is Not Good: Well, while Star Guardian Jinx is technically a good guy, her Familiar Shiro, the white one that becomes her minigun, loves the item Bloodthirster, gets impatient when not being used, and his favorite part of being a Star Guardian is the slaughter involved. Her other familiar, Kuro, the black one that becomes her rocket launcher, prefers the sparkles that come with the job.
A Lighter Shade of Black: While definitely not an upstanding hero, Jinx's crimes usually pale in the same kind of dire tone and consequences that a lot of other villains from Piltover and Zaun convey. You have Urgot for example who fills the role of a pure-evil villain and a darker nemesis to Caitlyn and Vi, people like Camille who systematically enforce Piltover's massive class divide, and Renata Glasc who's endgame is taking over the both cities' economies. Jinx's anarchy is more often than not Black Comedy by comparison and nowhere near as high in stakes.
Mad Artist: Jinx is a graffiti artist and regularly vandalizes walls and paints her own weaponry with bright, bold colors.
Mad Bomber: Bombings are included in the reports of her crime spree, and she comes packed with explosives when in battle including a rocket launcher and trip mines.
Made of Iron: She can stand point-blank next to her explosives and be harmlessly knocked away like it's nothing. This isn't the case in-game though where she's a frail ADC.
Magical Girl: She's a Star Guardian! (Yes, we know, just roll with it.) According to the Star Guardians page, she's the newest, most rebellious member of the group, but also potentially the strongest. Her guns even turn into non-human sidekicks named Shiro and Kuro!
Magikarp Power: All marksmen are this, and Jinx is no exception — she has low base numbers, but once she gets ahead with gold, items, and levels, she snowballs like crazy. This trait ends up especially heightened with her as Get Excited! makes her exceptionally strong at stringing together multikills, with the ideal that she kill many minions and champions as early as possible to ensure her high DPS by the mid-late game is even more extreme.
Meaningful Rename: Her original name was Powder, but she changed it after going mad as documented in Arcane.
Meet Cute: Ran into Ziggs entirely by accident in Paint the Town when he came across her trying to repair her rocket launcher in a back alley.
Ms. Fanservice: Of a sort. Despite being one of the most Stripperiffic champions in the game, her skinny frame, complete lack of chest and Ax-Crazy personality make her one of the least sexualized women in the game, but her character design and personality still manage to be so resonant that she remains one of the most popular champions in the game, both from the fans and Riot themselves.
More Dakka: Switching to her minigun causes her attacks to increase attack speed to a limit. Also firmly believes that she needs more guns, despite having three of them ^note already in her arsenal, alongside trap grenades.
Jinx: What if I had a gun that... shot other guns?
Muscles Are Meaningless: That's quite a bit of weaponry to carry around for a woman who Vi refers to as "scrawny".
My God, What Have I Done?: In "Paint the Town", she pushes to blow up the Piltover Warden Station while ignoring Ziggs' warnings that she would likely kill everyone inside, and she would never forgive herself if she did. She ignores him and does it anyway, but the resulting explosion is so huge that seemingly for the first time ever, she feels guilt...At least until she hears that everyone successfully evacuated seconds later.
"Um... is this... what feeling bad feels like?"
My Sister Is Off-Limits: Unsurprisingly, she and Caitlyn really don't like each other, and Jinx dislikes how close the latter is with Vi.
Jinx: "Spill the beans, hat lady!...Where's Vi?!"
Caitlyn: "As if I'd ever betray my own partner!"
Jinx: "Your own WHAT?!"
No Indoor Voice: She, herself, is capable of speaking quietly, but all of her abilities' names end in exclamation marks.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Paint the Town", she surprisingly has a brief moment of conscience after she ignores Ziggs and blows up the Piltover Warden Station. She almost immediately gets over it upon realizing everyone was successfully evacuated, but this moment isn't lost on her, and she congratulates Ziggs for making her feel bad "for like, eight seconds. Which is a new record."
Order Versus Chaos: You know you're chaotic when you manage to make Vi look like a paradigm of order. She targeted Piltover specifically for this reason, being the most peaceful and crime-free city-state thanks to Vi and Caitlyn.
Origins Episode: Arcane shows, among other things, how she went from a nicer girl to a psychopathic mad bomber.
The Paralyzer: The ability Zap!, though it only slows.
Pet the Dog:
- One of Jinx's interactions with an allied Zaunite Urchin in Legends of Runeterra sees her give the kid advice on how to earn herself more donations.
- She encouraged Ziggs to move in with her after he lost his place in Piltover.
- Jinx's Legends of Runeterra solo campaign centers on her finding Vi's favorite toy from when they were children and returning it to her estranged sister.
Practically Joker: According to her creator, the basic concept for the character was The Dark Knight Trilogy's Joker if the role had been played by Helena Bonham Carter. The game's other Joker expy, Shaco, is based on the DCAU Joker. Another reference to the role is included in her Get Jinxed video, where a monkey sports some rather familiar facial makeup while sitting on a gate that looks suspiciously like Arkham Asylum's. There's also a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to the role a few seconds before even that, when Jinx is shooting robots in the dark. One of the shots of her face has her sporting a damn near perfect replica◊ of one of the Joker's better known expressions.
Psycho Pink: Pink is one of the main colors of her outfit, and is featured prominently in many of her weapons and VFX. While it does highlight her cute and feminine side, that traditional symbolism with the color completely contrasts her gleefully destructive tendencies.
Psychopathic Womanchild: Has significant overtones of this, being highly immature and treating both her weapons and her victims as her toys. Her childish-sounding voice, Girlish Pigtails, skinny frame, and noticeable lack of buxom don't really help.
Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": So much so that she's the first champion whose laughter emote loops. No wonder Vi hates her laugh so much. Her laugh sound clips are also absurdly long on their own. Her Japanese voice takes it straight into laughing mad territory.
Rebellious Spirit: Even if the cause isn't known, there's no arguing that Jinx has long since thrown off any society's rules.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Possesses unnatural pinkish red irises. They even glow slightly in dim light or when she is really having a good time. This drastic change of color in her eyes came as a result of a very dangerous procedure done to her in order to save her life after she was severely injured in a fight. Her natural eye-color was blue-grey◊.
Red Is Heroic: Downplayed in her Star Guardian skin. She's technically a good guy, her color palette is red and it's implied/outright stated in the Star Guardian reveal that if Jinx could stop being so rebellious towards the Star Guardian cause, she could potentially be the most powerful member.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Lux's blue on the Star Guardians team, being the impulsive, aggressive foil to Lux's gentler, dutiful persona.
Riding the Bomb: The "Get Jinxed" video starts with a dozen missiles headed toward Piltover... and she's riding one and having the time of her life.
Senseless Violins: Crime City Jinx has her stow Pow-Pow in a cello case.
Jinx: What's in my violin case? Violence!
Sex Is Violence:
- If her music video is any indicator, she seems to really enjoy shooting Pow-Pow and watching explosions go off everywhere. As for being on the receiving end, she's not outwardly a masochist, but her hair braids do form a heart as she dies.
- In Paint the Town, she reacts to her brief skirmish with Ziggs as though they were having sex, complete with asking him whether it was good for him.
Scenery Gorn: If the background of her splash art looks familiar, it's actually the same as Vi's (a shiny Piltover), but much darker without power and very much wrecked after she's set off several explosions.
Shadow Archetype: To Vi, representing what she would become if her enjoyment of violence overtook her morality.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: According to 'Paint the Town' Jinx once got refused service at a restaurant when she tried to go in topless (she takes her top off when she wants to eat cake).
Ship Tease: With Ziggs. They actually go on a date together in "Paint the Town", complete with a surprising amount of sexual tension.
Slasher Smile: Seems to be her default expression, with her model in League showing a perpetual grin.
Small Girl, Big Gun: One girl carrying several guns that should by all means crush a normal person's back.
Spent Shells Shower: Literally in the "Get Jinxed" music video, where she's laying in a bathtub full of spent minigun shells as more rain down on her.
Splash Damage Abuse: Like Tristana, Jinx can punish enemies that hide in crowds of minions when she has Fishbones out. Also, her ultimate deals damage to everyone in a particular radius, making it inadvisable for her squishier enemies to hide right behind their tank when heavily damaged (not unlike Graves' Collateral Damage).
Static Stun Gun: One of her weapons is a long ranged taser that slows and damages the first enemy hit.
Stripperiffic: Her clothing is a stocking, a sleeve, hot pants, some belts, gloves, and a bikini top.
Tattooed Crook: Tattoos on her right side? Check. Crook? Double check.
Terrorist Without A Cause: She has no known rationale for doing the things that she does. She does it because it's fun.
Third-Person Person: She briefly talks in the third person in "Paint the Town".
Ziggs: "So, we're going to let them evacuate [the building] first, yeah?"
Jinx: "Jinx raises her eyebrow...suggestively."
Token Evil Teammate: Star Guardian Jinx. Technically being one of the good guys' team doesn't change Jinx's love of violence and shooting one bit.
Too Dumb to Fool: Such a nutjob, she can see through Yordle glamours. Zigzagged, as she interprets an un-glamoured Ziggs as a manifestation of her subconscious.
Too Many Belts: Lampshaded.
Jinx: "I'm wearing lots of belts! For no reason at all."
Trigger-Happy: Half her lines express how eager she is to riddle things with shrapnel or lead.
Troll: Revels in it. She even mocks Vi's image song by altering a few lyrics.
Jinx: She's such a loser, always ready to cry, dah-dah-dah-dah!
The Unblinking: Not made very clear in most depictions, but Legends of Runeterra has a few interactions joking about how she's one of these, which nicely complements her constantly manic energy.
Ezreal: Don't blink, or you'll miss me!
Jinx: That's okay! I never blink.

Jinx: Rules are made to be broken, like buildings! Or people!
Draven: You should try blinking sometime.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: If Ekko's champion-specific quotes are any indication, she used to be good friends with him, Vi, and the rest of their crew until she became violent and unstable. Her revised lore also mentions that some old-timers remember a young girl that fits her description but was totally unlike her, described as "sweet and innocent, a tinkerer with big ideas, who never quite fit in and came to a bad end". The reason why she turned out how she did is addressed in Arcane.
Villain Song: "Get Jinxed"
Violation of Common Sense: In-Universe. Her recall animation shows her hitching a ride on a live rocket from Fishbones. Taken even further in the "Get Jinxed" music video where she outright rides a skyward bomb on its way toward Piltover — although this apparently makes more sense (and is a lot less dangerous) than having oneself being propelled by an actual explosion.
Walking Armory: She's packing more heat than Rumble's mech. To count: a minigun, rocket launcher, shock blaster, sticky grenades, and a special gigantic long-range missile she can fire from Fishbones. Heck, all the weaponry she carries probably weighs more than she does! Hyperspace Arsenal, ho!
We Used to Be Friends: With her sister Vi. "A Score to Settle" strongly hints at a falling-out between the two, even before Jinx went crazy. The full details are revealed in Arcane.
Wedding Smashers: "The Wedding Crasher" features her turning up at an aristocratic wedding and causing chaos for the guests.

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