Funny / Arcane

"JINX!" "That's me!"

Episode 1 - Welcome to the Playground

• Mylo is delicately picking the lock on the door of Jayce's balcony, which he understandably complains about ("Who locks a balcony?!"), when Vi just kicks the door down. As everyone walks past an incredulous Mylo to enter Jayce's apartment, Claggor cheekily smacks Mylo's head.
  Mylo: Animals!
• As the crew goes through Jayce's things, while Powder marvels over one of the devices, Mylo proudly presents another device, with two metal blades gnashing together. Powder, unimpressed, bluntly identifies it as a nosehair trimmer. Funnier still is that when Vi tells her to make sure Mylo doesn't fill their bag with more junk, Mylo can be seen actually using it on his nose before he goes back to searching for loot.
• While on the run from the Enforcers, Vi throws open a filthy garbage chute to escape through. When Mylo tries to protest that his shirt was new, Vi cuts him off by knocking him inside. Funnier still is that this is apparently something that they have to do regularly.
  • When they hit the bottom, Mylo exits first. As he tries to pick himself up, Claggor comes out and slams into him, sending both of them sprawling.
• While heading back home in Zaun, Vi and her gang pass a brothel, where a very ratty-looking Yordle prostitute makes eyes at Claggor. The poor boy quickly averts his eyes and speeds up, visibly disturbed.
  • The same scene also features a man getting dragged inside, and once the group passes, he gets thrown out onto the street without his pants, having apparently tried to get away with not paying, and before the scene cuts he puts up his dukes.
• Vi's increasingly frustrated attempts to convey her "it's time to shut up" expression to Mylo, while he tries to interrupt. Also, there's her "what part of shup up do you not understand" expression when Mylo finally gives up.
• In an effort to cheer Powder up, Vi takes her to a rooftop and points out various things in view where their siblings had screwed up. Claggor had gotten his foot stuck in a gutter by a canal while on the run from Enforcers, and they decided to leave him there because they thought it was funny, resulting in him being stuck there all night. Mylo had attempted to draw a giant middle finger on a billboard, but tripped over his own paint bucket and nearly fell off, with Vi pointing out a specific splotch of paint that had been left behind by his rear end.
  • As she's pointing out Claggor's incident, there's a drunk bum pissing into the canal.

Episode 2 - Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved

• In her introduction, Mel happily purchases a puzzle from a merchant, who tries to be politely puzzled by her choice, telling her it's a simple children's toy. Later, she gifts Councilor Hoskel this puzzle as a birthday present, claiming it is "for the sharpest of minds". Funnier still is that Councilor Salo quickly panics and hands him the nuts he was eating as his present, but Hoskel immediately turns hostile due to being allergic to said nuts.
  • After the multiyear timeskip, Hoskel's still working on that puzzle.
• The scene where Vi's crew lays low at the arcade has some laughs:
  • Claggor pokes fun at Mylo after he complains about having to be there, mockingly asking if he was scared Powder was going to beat him at a shooting gallery. Mylo complains that Powder only wins because she rigs it and starts shooting, proving to be a lousy shot while making a jab at her over the ruined heist. We then see a concerned Claggor before an irked Powder starts shooting, hitting every single target with pinpoint accuracy as a dumbfounded Mylo stares. She then gives him an annoyed look before walking off.
  • Powder notices some commotion outside the arcade, and sees Marcus and some Enforcers grilling passersby about where the gang could be hiding. The impudent man they're currently interrogating opts to spit on Marcus's shoe, who simply looks at him while taking a breath. Powder then tries to tell everyone about what's going on, before getting cut off by the man getting flung through the arcade's window with a slow-motion crash.
  • When the the crew makes a break for it after being discovered by the Enforcers, Mylo jumps over the shooting gallery's counter and lets out a valiant war cry as he starts shooting the game's pellet rounds at the Enforcers, which bounce harmlessly off their armor as they stand motionless. Followed by Vi braining one of them with a part from the boxing machine as they start to advance.
• The brush with the Enforcers when they investigate the Last Drop under Marcus is tense, as Powder is barely maintaining her grip on a pipe as they search the room - but after they slam the door shut to leave, she falls with an undignified yelp.
• Viktor interrupts Jayce's suicide to muse over his notes. Especially the part where Jayce signed every page.
  Viktor: Eh, a little egotistical, don't you think?

Episode 3 - The Base Violence Necessary For Change

• After Jayce and Viktor perfect the former's theory on Hextech, Jayce says they'll have to test it with his equipment. Viktor then nonchalantly says it was all being destroyed tomorrow, prompting a Big "WHAT?!" from Jayce and Viktor sheepishly saying he forgot to mention it.
• Viktor and Jayce are breaking into Heimerdinger's lab in the middle of the night. When Viktor makes a comment that things were going good so far, Mel immediately catches them right after. Jayce nervously tries to act natural and says it was a surprise to see her, while Viktor tries to cover by pretending he didn't realize it wasn't his bedroom. Gets even funnier when one realizes Viktor's lie was that he was bringing another man with him to his bedroom at night.
• Jayce and Viktor are about ready to try the Hextech experiment and Jayce asks Viktor if he's sure that it's safe. Viktor just shrugs.
• Heimerdinger, while amazed by their successful experiment with Hextech, begins to chide the floating Jayce and Viktor for their work on magic, before irritably asking them to stop hovering around. Viktor can only say that he's not sure how to do that.
  • Heimerdinger's mustache gets caught in the magic field, prompting him to step back.
• Mylo and Claggor are getting ready for a battle with Piltover by collecting what they can use in a fight, which turns out to be an incredibly lame assortment of improvised weapons save for Vander's old gauntlets. They then begin squabbling over who gets to use a bat when Claggor calls dibs on it, with Mylo indignantly protesting that he found it in the first place.
• Rather darkly funny given the circumstances, but after Vander has killed Deckard while fueled by Shimmer, Silco wisely backs the hell away from Vander's field of view.

Episode 4 - Happy Progress Day

• Jayce finds Caitlyn at the Progress Day fair, and playfully flicks her hat from behind. She retaliates by getting his hand in a painful hold, before the two begin exchanging banter.
  • Jayce noticing a dirty look Caitlyn's mother is giving her, and asking her about it.
    Jayce: Still avoiding her?
    Caitlyn: I'm working.
    Jayce: Oh, I can see that. I mean, there's so much crime to thwart outside your family's tent.
  • Jayce telling her how he was giving the speech instead of Heimerdinger that night.
    Jayce: I'm giving the big address tonight.
    Caitlyn: We really have descended to anarchy.
    Jayce: Have fun herding the drunkards. (cuts to said drunkards cheering on a small airship)
  • One of the drunkards is the same man we saw kicked out of the brothel without his pants. This is also a Creator Cameo of the founders of Studio Fortiche in a real Take That Us moment.
• While explaining to Heimerdinger their new projects with Hextech, the laser machine that would become Viktor's Death Ray in the present misfires and sends Heimerdinger's poro scrambling.
• Viewers can get a good chuckle out of Jayce's demonstration of the Atlas Gauntlet even if they aren't Genre Savvy. He presents it as a tool when everyone knows it's obviously going to be a weapon. "Mining"... yeah right.
• As Jayce is holding his speech, he is clearly trying to do a Rags to Riches story, explaining that his parents were simple people... Who owned a factory. The Piltover nobles watching clearly love it, but it's obvious that he's not the Working-Class Hero he sees himself as.
• Silco tries to reassure Jinx that her sister is gone. Jinx replies with a rather...interesting turn of phrase.

  Silco: Your sister is gone. You know that as well as I do.

  Jinx: I know. I know. Sisters, right? Can't live with them, can't stuff 'em back in the ol' baby-maker.

• Jinx is seen playing around with Silco's Shimmer injector, like pretending to fly it through the air like a plane or blowing across the opening like one does with an empty bottle. Silco's lack of reaction implies she's done this so often that he's used to it.
• Jinx lures a group of Enforcers into a burning building, pretending to be a trapped little girl. She then reveals her true intentions and casually tells them the building is rigged full of dynamite before it explodes, which can be darkly funny in a Joker-esque way.

  Jinx: I'm a helpless little girl, and I set the building on fire! By accident! Totally by accident!

• If you look closely during the meeting at the council, Councilor Hoskel, the one who Mel had gifted a puzzle before Jayce's trial as a birthday present, can be seen fiddling with that very same puzzle. Meaning that even after several years, he still didn't manage to solve it. And let's not forget that the merchant Mel had brought it from stated it was a children's toy.
• When an angered Silco confronts Jinx about killing six Enforcers with the aforementioned explosion, Jinx is busy tinkering with machinery while blasting "Get Jinxed" over a gramophone and fails to notice him as he shouts her name repeatedly, making Silco appear less like an enraged crime lord and more like an annoyed dad trying to get his teenage daughter to turn down her music. And while he's busy chewing her out, she's only chuckling along as if she's a teen thinking back fondly on some recent mischief, which is made even funnier by the fact said mischief involved casually and unnecessarily murdering six people.
  • The first time Silco calls out to her, Jinx can very briefly be seen singing into a spanner like it's a microphone.
  • It's subtle, but when Jinx finally notices him she says "That's me!" as if also acknowledging it's her own song that's playing.
  • If you're familiar with the song, there's also some humor to be gotten out of Silco, who's currently being ignored by Jinx, getting Jinx's attention and cutting off the song right before the lyric "Right now I'm feeling ignored".
  • There also the implication that Jinx took the time to both write and record her own theme song at some point. Apparently explosives and machinery aren't the only things she has talent in.
• A bit of Meta Humor comes from Caitlyn's first meeting with Vi, for fans of the game who know of the extremely close relationship Vi and Caitlyn develop it can be pretty funny that the first thing Vi says to Caitlyn is, "Who the hell are you?"

Episode 5 - Everybody Wants To Be My Enemy

• Caitlyn initially suggests that her and Vi take an elevator-like "Bathysphere" into Zaun, while helping an elderly yordle board it. Vi calls it "too risky" and instead opts to go down the old-fashioned way, and Caitlyn reluctantly decides to follow her, with frequent cuts between Vi effortlessly leaping across the rooftops and poor Caitlyn fearfully stumbling after her. By the time an exhausted and nerve-wracked Caitlyn reaches Zaun's streets, the old yordle she had helped is walking past the alley she and Vi are standing in, meaning she could have just taken the Bathysphere to get there in the same time without the hassle.
  • After Vi reaches the ground, she's accosted by a pair of ruffians looking to rob her. She casually compliments one on his jacket, and after Caitlyn catches up to her, Vi's taken it for herself and tosses her the other one's clothes to blend in, with the thugs lying beaten and naked in a dumpster.
  • The female ruffian wears the outfit with the collar open. However, when Caitlyn wears it, she keeps it buttoned up. Ironically, the Arcane Caitlyn skin in-game still has her cleavage exposed.
• Vi takes a moment to eat at a food stall, and the refined Caitlyn is disgusted by Vi's utter lack of table manners, as well as by the nasty-looking food and the owner's lack of sanitation while cooking, scratching his rear right in front of her. When Caitlyn asks Vi if she's going to question the owner about Silco, Vi plays dumb, pretending that she's only there because she's hungry and making up for having to live on prison food for the past few years. Caitlyn goes on a frustrated tirade about how unhelpful Vi is being, until she sees the owner slipping Vi a piece of paper telling her where to go next.
• While trying to find Jinx, Vi takes Caitlyn to a brothel to get information, which results in a few funny moments:
  • Caitlyn's discomfort at passing a room where some bubble bath foreplay is happening offscreen is underscored by her returning to sneak a small peek.
  • When Caitlyn objects to Vi's idea of pretending to work at the brothel to get information, Vi retorts that if Caitlyn wants to get information out of people, she has to make them think she has what they want. Caitlyn nervously asks what that would be, and Vi outright tells Caitlyn "You're hot, cupcake" and proceeds to do a Wall Pin of Love on her, asking whether she prefers men or women. Caitlyn is visibly flustered by this already, but then Vi gets Caitlyn to very awkwardly introduce herself to a male patron, and ditches her as poor Caitlyn haplessly flounders. Later, we see Caitlyn lounging and flirting naturally with a woman instead. And Vi got all the information she needed by talking to the woman in charge, so it is possible she did all that just to mess with Caitlyn.
  • During Vi and Caitlyn's conversation, a Yordle in a gimp suit casually strolls down the corridor while humming to himself.
• When Silco starts making a speech about the day he drowned, Jinx complains that he made this speech a million times already, once again sounding more like a rebellious teenager than a murdering madwoman.
• While 97% of Vi's throwdown with Sevika is awesome, 3% of it is pretty funny.
  • The way the fight starts? Sevika is quite literally just minding her own business playing cards with some punks, when Vi out of nowhere attacks her with a flying knee to the side of her face. Funnier still is that her goons quickly grab the money they were betting with before they bail.
  • After revealing her new mechanical arm, Sevika has Vi on the backfoot. Vi's solution? To kick her right in the box.
  • After some fighting, the two have to slump over and catch their breath. Vi still has it in her to taunt Sevika with a "come at me" gesture.
• When an injured Sevika stumbles into Silco's office to tell him Vi is back, he's busy putting makeup over his scarred eye and the only words he has for his battered enforcer is to simply say she's making a mess.

Episode 6 - When These Walls Come Tumbling Down

• Jinx harasses a hapless young bartender at The Last Drop, making him jump with a Stealth Hi/Bye, insistently referring to him as Chuck when his name is Thieram, grilling him about the recent hubbub and affairs with Sevika as he gets more and more unnerved, not understanding a figure of speech, and all the while casually playing with the Hextech Gemstone, before finally leaving him with a hug and a bomb on his back, which scares him out of his wits before it explodes and covers his whole back with paint.
• While Silco showing up to threaten Marcus' daughter is an extremely tense scene, it's alleviated slightly by one of Silco's henchmen sitting on a rocking horse and reading a children's book while apparently being quite engrossed in it.
  • The image of evil crime lord Silco sitting cross-legged on the ground and building a toy tower with a little girl is also quite amusing. It's a good-sized tower as well. How long was he sitting there, playing along while he waited for Marcus to show up?
  • The fact that Silco, dignified crime boss and businessman, Undercity kingpin with grand ambitions... can't help but send the little girl's tower tumbling down once he's done playing with her, clearly taking great glee in doing so. A solid reminder that Evil Is Petty were there ever one.
• While Vi and Caitlyn are running away from Silco after knocking down a building in the depths of Zaun, she collides with a random bystander and the two begin beefing, with Vi shoving and flipping him off with an aggravated look before Caitlyn tries to drag her off.
  • In the Mandarin dub, her middle finger is censored with a squiggling pink X.
• In addition to knocking her out and tying her to Silco's ceiling, Jinx adds insult to injury by drawing a mustache and glasses on Sevika's face.

Episode 7 - The Boy Savior

• The scene where Ekko interrogates Vi starts out fairly tense since Ekko is wary of Vi for suddenly arriving back in the Undercity years later with an Enforcer in tow, but as they keep arguing, it's clear that their close relationship hasn't changed much even after years of not seeing each other.
  Vi: You were following us! Why didn't you say something?!
  Ekko: I didn't know if I could trust you!
  Vi: So—so you just come out swinging?
  Ekko: Gee, I wonder who I learned that from.
  Vi: Well, you should have learned more. You still punch like a little boy.
  Ekko: And you still block with your face!
• After the two are taken by the Firelights, Vi messes with Caitlyn by hiding while Caitlyn begs that she be punished instead of Vi. Caitlyn looks appropriately betrayed when Vi pops out to tease her.
  Vi: [smirks] My hero.
  Caitlyn: You're—but I thought y—I thought they were hurting you!

Episode 8 - Oil and Water

• Mel's mother, the Noxan general Ambessa Medarda, arrives in Piltover, and Mel does not take kindly to her visit, fully aware that her mother is visiting because she's interested in the potential of Hextech weaponry and not just to "sample the local cuisine". As the two argue, an airship suddenly appears with a handsome young man, and Ambessa cheerfully joins him and seductively strokes his face as she tells Mel that she's off to "sample the local cuisine" before leaving. Not five minutes has she been in Piltover and it turns out she ordered a gigolo for herself in advance.
• Vi and Jayce both have unfortunate encounters with their girlfriend's mother, and it's hard to tell who got the shorter end of the stick.
  • Vi helps an injured Caitlyn back into her house through her window, when Caitlyn's mother, who is at least in her fifties, kicks the door down and levels a rifle at the intruders in her home, with Vi and Caitlyn staring in pure shock. Funnier still is Caitlyn's father coming around the doorway afterwards all out of breath, having tried to catch up with his combative wife.
  • Jayce meets Mel's mother when she's in the bath, being massaged by her boytoy and aggressively splaying her legs, and this already makes him uncomfortable. When she gets up and walks to him without putting anything on, he quickly averts his eyes.
• Mrs. Kirraman's reaction to seeing Vi in Caitlyn's room is a very subdued "You found a stray", implying that this is far from the first time Caitlyn has brought girls through her window.
  • And, for their part, Vi and Caitlyn's reaction to Mrs. Kirraman kicking in the door and leveling a gun at the possible intruders. Even Vi is left in Stunned Silence.
• The implication that Jinx kidnapped Caitlyn while the latter was naked and wet from the shower, and had to get her dried off and dressed up properly at some point prior to her appearance in Episode 9. When asked◊, the writer said they wanted the audience to imagine for themselves.
• In a moment of extreme Black Comedy, Sky's practicing her conversation starter for Viktor and says "Everything you do inspires me..." just before opening a door to Viktor at the center of a whirlwind of arcane power, convulsing demonically and sounding likes he's choking. All in all, a very uninspiring sight.
  • It did inspire her, though: to try and save him from the Hexcore.
• It's rather funny how even after Vi's all grown up, she still can't get a pair of gauntlets her size.

Episode 9 - The Monster You Created

• In the middle of a tense scene between Jayce and Vi, the Enforcers are able to convey "Oh shit, are we doing this?" wearing full gas masks just through their heads going back and forth between the two.
• An enraged Mel confronts her mother for trying to push Jayce towards a violent path to deal with Zaun, and she smacks a wine glass out of Ambessa's hand. The wine ends up ruining her manwhore's shirt, who looks understandably indignant, and he is visibly irritated when she waves for him to leave. Her sole guard allows himself a brief chuckle at the boy's expense.
• Following the death of the chembaron Renni's son during Jayce's attack, it seems like Sevika is ready to betray Silco on Finn's urging. Later, after Sevika proves to be loyal to Silco by slicing open Finn's throat during his and Renni's attempt to overthrow him, Silco's words to a terrified Renni are hilariously brutal.
  Silco: I would have had your son killed for this. Although I suppose we're ahead on that account. Get out.
  • Before Sevika cuts Finn's throat, Silco gave a small speech explaining how he chooses to still believe in loyalty. After Finn is killed, Silco is seen hunched over his desk and panting, with a terrified expression that implies he had no idea what Sevika was actually going to do. You can almost hear him thinking 'Holy shit, I can't believe that worked.'
• The scene at the The Last Drop has some good laughs:
  • One of Silco's goons grabs another unsuspecting thug and begins licking and slobbering over his head, and Sevika groans in disgust while shaking her head.
  • When Vi enters the bar, everyone inside stares silently at her - except for the aforementioned goon, who is still goofing around and at first thinks everyone's staring at him. Even though Vi is standing almost directly in front of him, it takes a good deal of time for him to realize who just came in, and he comically jumps back and draws his knife in fear when he does.
  • Just as Vi walks in, he selects a song from the club's jukebox. The disc shows a picture of a thug punching the daylights out of an enforcer, which is extremely apropos to what's going to happen. Funnier still, the song's name is "Chiqenaude", which is French for a flick of the finger or a friendly tap.
  • Thieram, the bartender Jinx harassed in Episode 6, can be seen cowering behind the bar when Vi comes in, and when Sevika tells everyone to get out, he meekly slinks below the counter and exits unseen.
  • In the middle of her rematch with Sevika, both combatants apparently get tuckered out and take a break. Vi heads over to the bar and downs an abandoned drink, before chucking the emptied glass at Sevika, who is taking a breather on a couch, forcing her to dodge it before the fight resumes.
• At her "dinner party", Jinx carries a large, cloched plate to the table. Before she opens it she mentions that she paid Caitlyn a visit, saying that she "made her a snack" as Vi gets increasingly frightened. When she reveals what's under the lid Vi looks away in horror, expecting to see Caitlyn's severed head, but instead we see an actual cupcake with the Gemstone on top of it. While this moment certainly counts as Nightmare Fuel in its own way, especially for Vi, the payoff veers into Black Comedy. Jinx's response to Vi's reaction sells it perfectly.
  Jinx: Sheesh. I'm not that crazy.
  • There's also the fact that Jinx is using Vi's gauntlets like oven mitts in this scene as she's carrying the tray to the table and she's also painted them pink and blue in the short time she's had them.