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  • "True Genius" has Heimerdinger's nameless apprentice scale a building to retrieve the professor's invention that Jinx had stolen...only for her tinkering to send it plummeting into the Sump. So he climbs all the way down...right in time for Ekko's tinkering to send it flying back up.
    Apprentice: Oh, man...
  • The comedy of errors that is "Double-Double Cross".
    • A captured Twisted Fate trying to tell his captor (Miss Fortune) that Graves wouldn't be dumb enough to walk into an obvious trap to save him. He doesn't even finish his sentence before Graves kicks the door open.
    • Miss Fortune's genius plan to capture him: An old-fashioned ankle snare. It's hard to tell what's the funniest part of this: the fact Graves almost steps on it and only missed by a few inches, Miss Fortune's genuine disappointment that it didn't work, or the fact that based on the way TF is strung up, it actually did work on him.
      Miss Fortune: Dammit.
      Twisted Fate: Dumb luck is a gift of his.
    • The two have Fortune at their mercy... and then get so caught up arguing over how to split the reward that she drops them into a tiny crate via trap door.
      Graves: Get your elbow out of my mouth!
      Twisted Fate: That is not my elbow!
    • Their varied reactions to the witch promising to offer them to some Eldritch Abomination for a millennium of torment.
      Graves: One thousand years of suffering? How’s that even possible? Some kind of time travel?! I got twenty years max, man.
      Twisted Fate: You know, I am too young and handsome to go out like this!
    • And the punchline — Fortune evidently decides that no one deserves that and slips them a card.
      Sea witch: My sacrifice!
  • We could just say that the entirety of the Don't Mess With Yordles cinematic takes the cake to the moon and back with all of it's comedy, but we'd be missing out on all of the best bits:
    • When Teemo goes missing in Bilgewater, Tristana has to deal with Corki and Lulu wanting to come along. To keep them out of the way, she lies to Corki that there are enemy bogies over Piltover and has Lulu guard a rock as "the most important part of the mission".
      • Lulu's frustration shows this isn't the first time she's had to guard a rock. When she complains about the situation, she accidentally casts a spell that inflates Pix's head.
      • As Corki is flying over Piltover, he bemoans that there are no bogies whilst completely oblivious to Jinx's makeshift Hextech cannon from the "True Genius" cinematic rocketing around the sky.
    • When Tristana arrives in Bilgewater, she's greeted by Graves' cannon gun in her face. She goes from fangirling over the contraption to instant fear and nervousness when he fires it off and she's reminded that there's a gun in her face.
    • After Tristana is imprisoned with Teemo in a Runic Iron cage set up by Graves, Corki comes flying in to save them... except he crashes into a ship mast several yards away. He tries to use the momentum from getting luanched out of his helicopter to punch Graves, only to shoot right past him and into the cage.
    • Corki reveals that he was only a distraction for Lulu. Lulu then emerges from a portal grown to gigantic proportions, scaring Graves shitless and knocking him away like a ragdoll while barely caring about his presence.
    • Beforehand, Twisted Fate had warned Graves that Yordles are more trouble than they're worth since they're "ticking time bomb[s] of trouble". Once Lulu comes walking up three times as big as both combined, he simply puts on his hat and nonchalantly leaves to avoid getting involved.
      Twisted Fate: As I said: Tick, tick, tick.
    • Graves attempts to use Corki to stop the Yordles from attacking, only for Lulu to sneak up behind and transform him into a frog.
      • Twisted Fate casually collects his polymorphed partner in a box and takes him away. The Yordles see him off with vary degrees of enthusiasm, with Lulu waving goodbye like a child seeing her best friend off at the end of her birthday party.
    • We finally learn why Teemo was in Bilgewater in the first place: he wanted to earn his badge for adopting a pet. In his case, it's a soul-devouring sea worm. Tristana and Corki immediately freak out and try to stop him from taking it back home. Lulu on the other hand is leaning forward eagerly with an almost terrifyingly shit-eating grin, and only calls out to him so she can take a closer look for herself.
      Teemo: (giggles) Cute, huh?
    • And in the final shot, Pix actually gets their leg stuck in the Iris Out for a bit.

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