Did Vander really run out of steam when Silco stabbed him in episode 3, or did he just not have it in him to kill his "brother" a second time?
Did Silco embrace and comfort Powder because he truly empathized with herbeing "abandoned" by her sister? Or did he just recognize her as a potential pawn and say what she wanted to hear?
Act III seems to confirm that his fatherly love for her is very much genuine, even if it may not have started off that way. He completely freaks out when he sees how badly Jinx has been hurt by one of her bombs, and assures her while dying that he would never have sacrificed her for Zaun's independence.
Similarly, his actions during the climax of episode 9 — Was he trying to shoot Vi in order to sever any connection Jinx had to a life other than with him, or just to silence the woman hammering his daughter's Trauma Button? Did Silco consider that Jinx may kill or disown him, or was he certain that Jinx would have forgiven him after he shot her sister?
Does Silco genuinely believe that Vi is a Big Sister BullyBitch in Sheep's Clothing who doesn't or wouldn't love Jinx, or is it something he lies to Jinx (and maybe himself) about so he can keep his daughter with him?
Was Silco genuine that he didn't care about Zaun anymore and would have left it to burn to save Jinx? Or was he telling it only to placate Jinx, and after she shot him, to assuage her guilt and assure her that she's a good person and that he loves and forgives her?
Singed has never been portrayed in even a remotely human light before now: In the flashback where he meets Viktor he calls him a kindred spirit in their loneliness, though whether he genuinely empathizes with Viktor is anyone's guess. He takes the boy in as an assistant, and he does seem genuinely disheartened when Viktor walks out after finding the truth about Rio. Furthermore, despite the extremes he goes to to keep the terminally-ill Rio alive, he's shown gently comforting her in a flashback before the scene segues to the present, where it's shown how just far he's fallen into his callousness. So, did Singed always perform these heinous experiments For Science!, or was he genuinely once trying to help his fellow man? Taken a significant step further when he reveals to Silco that he once had a daughter of his own, and is even shown staring mournfully at a locket picture of his child at the end of the season.
Is Jayce really the intelligent, forward-thinking "Man of Progress" he's billed as? Or is he just an impulsive, easily-manipulated Manchild who can't or won't take the long shots if he doesn't have someone else propping him up and fixing his mistakes so he doesn't have to do the hard work himself? Given his inability to stay quiet during his trial and how quickly he resorts to suicide, then later how easily he agrees to compromise his principles and literally hop into bed with Piltover's oligarchs...
Then again, these goals and flaws might not be completely mutually exclusive. Jayce is clearly willing to skirt or even flout the law to pursue his dreams — The entire series was kickstarted by Jayce buying magical items he knew were illegal to own from Benzo, and thus gave Little Man the tip about some Topsider with money to burn, and he later agrees to join Vi in destroying the Shimmer factory after the Council refuses to act.
How benevolent wasMarcus' plan for Vi? 'Cause from the audience's standpoint it looks like it started and ended with tossing her in prison for the rest of her life. Was he really trying to protect her from being killed by Silco an/or maybe experimented on by Singed? Did he see her imprisonment as Laser-Guided Karma for being a part of the bombing of the building in Piltover? Did he hope to maybe use her against Silco at a later date, or did he just want her off the street and out of mind? And was his claim that Silco would kill her a warning or a threat?
A third theory, based on the fact that Jinx didn't try to use said bomb earlier and there's enough time between her activating it and it actually going off for Ekko to get far enough away that all he gets is a busted leg, is that Jinx was trying to kill herself, possibly so Ekko didn't have to. She broke things off with her new adoptive father, keeps getting haunted by her dead brothers, her sister seemingly abandoned her again for a cute Enforcer girl and her former best friend now despises her and is beating the daylights out of her. Poor girl.
Yet another theory — similar to the third — is that it wasn't Jinx who set off the bomb, but Powder: Ekko hesitated to deliver the killing blow to Jinx when he saw her expression and recognized her as Powder instead of Jinx. In this interpretation, Powder, in an unusually lucid moment, chose to end her life while she was still herself rather than go on living as the monstrous Jinx. Whether or not she meant to take Ekko with her is anyone's guess.
In Episode 8, Vi confides in Caitlyn that she used to tell Powder stories about chasing away monsters when they were kids, but that she ran away when a real monster appeared. Was she referring to Silco, who Vi saw had Powder cornered after she walked away from her? Or was she referring to herself for the way she slapped and insulted Powder, then left her completely alone in the world?
In the final arc, was Sevika really planning to betray Silco to Finn but changed her mind at the last second after hearing the latter's speech about loyalty, or was she always loyal to Silco and just putting on a show for the conspirators? Silco himself wasn't sure, as he loses his composure for a minute when she draws her arm blade and slices barely over his head to kill Finn). Or maybe she just wanted to keep Silco's underlings in line so that she could take over after Silco inevitably self-destructed over his relationship with Jinx? The final shot of her lounging in his office and smoking a cigar while recovering from her fight with Vi implies that she might be picking up where he left off.
Does Jinx genuinely believe that Caitlyn is Vi's girlfriend, or at least that one or both is in love with the other, or was she just taunting her?
Did Jinx really think that Vi would consider killing Caitlyn to get Powder back, or did she already know Vi would never do it and only presented her with such a Sadistic Choice to finally drive it through her head that she's not the same little girl Vi walked away from that night?
Bear in mind that Jinx only put this scenario together afterSinged had to pump her full of Shimmer to save her life after her fight with Ekko — Something he explicitly warned Silco was extremely risky and likely wouldn't leave Jinx the same as she was. So would Jinx have done something like this pre-operation, or did whatever Singed did to bring her back from the brink make her into the kind of person who would, laying the groundwork for her to become the amoral Mad Bomber she is in the game?
How much did Vi really mean the justifications she threw at Jayce after he accidentally killed a child? Her tone makes it clear that she is indeed upset, but is she trying to convince herself as much as him so that they can stay committed to the fight? At the same time, her lines about Silco's rule causing far more innocent deaths than just this one are spoken with even more conviction, so it's possible that her childhood in the Undercity, adolescence in prison and hatred of Silco have hardened her against such things. She grew up seeing all of this as normal, while the privileged Jayce is only just now seeing first-hand.
Sevika advises Silco to give Jinx her space, an odd show of concern given the animosity between the two women. Is this genuine advice, or is she just trying to get him to ignore Jinx for a time and focus on his responsibilities as leader of Zaun? If the former, is this a rare show of sympathy for Jinx despite her general disdain for her? If the latter, is she trying to drive a wedge between them or just remind Silco that his duties as Don of the Undercity outweigh his apparent need to dote on his daughter?
Caitlyn chatting up a jane at the brothel she visits with Vi is taken as an in- and out-of-universe sign of her sexuality, but is her awkwardness when speaking to a male patron also a sign of such, or was she just fumbling because Vi had made her feel put on the spot and she needed some time to find her footing/get into character?
Does Ekko actually believe Jinx is Beyond Redemption, or is it something he wants or needs to believe? He insists to Vi that Powder is gone, but in episode 6 when he has to fight Jinx he immediately draws her into reliving one of their childhood games — a strategy that relies on there still being something of Powder in Jinx. Moreover, he hesitates to finish Jinx off because for a moment her roughed-up face reminds him too much of Powder's to do so. Some viewers have even analyzed the explosion on the bridge and come to the conclusion that Ekko must have grabbed the grenade before it went off and chucked/batted/kicked it to a non-fatal distance from the both of them, effectively saving Jinx's life.
