Arcane

its a bit odd Camille was not shown at all. did I miss her? was she on the bridge?

its 3 parts right?
I suspect part 2, will be rise of Zaun. the monsters of Zaun unleased. Jinx, Warwick, singed, mundo, urgot.
Caitlyn wont officially be sheriff yet. but on that road, team up with Vi to try and get info on the source of the monsters.

it will end with leading into the corruption of Piltover. with part 3 being Cailtyn turning her eye towards the council, and the aristocracy.
Camille will be sent to assassinate Caitlyn, which VI will stand between them. Which will put the Vi/Camille stuff in the forefront. Jinx will still be a pita.

vi's amnesia. so far, seems like they are just ignoring it entirely. there is a possible means for it. the super serum. Caitlyn recruits Vi from prison. Vi doesn't actually tell Caitlyn much about her past. Vi gets dosed with that shit, temp powers, but also messes up her memories. so you have Vi no longer remembering much of her past, Caitlyn not actually knowing it either, so can't help her with it much.

Orianna and blitzcrank are also piltover/zaun charactesr. viktor built blitzcrank.

All I know is they better make that yordle hooker a playable champion.

Janx said:

Had no idea what char in LoL she was but as much as she was called a jinx it was easy to put 2 and 2 together. Went and watched a trailer vid of the LoL char and guess her origin story doesn't end well.

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might be relevant for those that don't follow yeah. heres Jinx's introduction. I swear there was some jinx/vi/caitlyn cinematic interactions as well, not just in game. but can't remember where.

Ekko's probably should be relevant as well.

Watched Ep 1. Know nothing about LoL.

Boring. I really don't give a shit about homeless zoomer kids. At least the DOTA series started with killing a dragon then grabbing a beer.

Caliane said:

might be relevant for those that don't follow yeah. heres Jinx's introduction. I swear there was some jinx/vi/caitlyn cinematic interactions as well, not just in game. but can't remember where.

Ekko's probably should be relevant as well.

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tbh i think it was the Jinx music video when Riot surpassed Blizzard

Ravishing said:

You're probably only going to see brief cameos of these characters or not at all.
I'm doubtful we see orianna/blitz/mundo/urgot/camille

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Camille is a pretty big/core character in Piltover and Vi/Caitlyn and Jayce.. Shes part of Jayce's house. I can't imagine her not being a big part of this. although, really odd she's not already. yeah, Orianna probably just a cameo/easter egg. Blitz hard to say, given his ties to Victor, who was a medium plot character. mundo, cameo at best likely. urgot hard to say. his noxian ties might be too much. but he does again, have lots of ties to Ekko and Vi. so maybe?
we have to consider how the side plots will play in. Ekko. was he just a cameo, or will he play a bigger role as we come back to him? Jayce and viktor. its hard to imagine their hextech side plot, was just to introduce hextech for Jinx, and as a side introduction to Caitlyn. That B plot, almost certainly is going to end up the A plot.
game lore says the hextech factories cause a large amount of the poisoned air in Zaun.

Pretty sure the guy in the owl mask that hoverboards onto the airship in the trailer is grown-up Ekko.



He's also one of the carved statues in the intro.

Actually, there's a part in the intro where someone who was wearing leg-braces like a polio patient loses them, presumably to be replaced with hextech or something. Would that be Viktor then?

Janx said:

Yeah the jinx video/song was really good/catchy.

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They've been doing original music on a whole other level since that first Jinx video.

They once decided to sell kpop themed skins around the time BTS got huge in the west and they created a fake kpop band with LoL champions. To promote the skins they made a fake kpop video that saw like half a billion views and was playing on the radio in Asia. It rose to the top of charts and made #1 in Itunes' global listings.

The video was made during their runeterra/custom painterly shader era too, so it's a precursor of the Arcane animation style:


That video did so well that they actually released a legit album with the band and that's risen to the top of the charts too. The animation is more conventional 3D though; possibly because it's meant to introduce a Chinese singer into the band:

Janx said:

That is pretty damn crazy.

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No, what's crazy is that time they decided to make Sailor Moon themed skins and proceeded to put every anime studio on the planet to shame...

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should rewatch these trailers. they show alot about the future sets.

this promo too.


I suspect Riven would be their point of view character for a future season. She's always been woefully under-represented in lore and outright depowered a bit. lorewise, shes basically at her lowest point. ready for JRPG, chosen one status. It almost feels like they have something big planned for her.
Mt targon stuff with Diana/Leona, etc also is prepped for animated series too.

Caliane said:

should rewatch these trailers. they show alot about the future sets.

this promo too.


I suspect Riven would be their point of view character for a future season. She's always been woefully under-represented in lore and outright depowered a bit. lorewise, shes basically at her lowest point. ready for JRPG, chosen one status. It almost feels like they have something big planned for her.
Mt targon stuff with Diana/Leona, etc also is prepped for animated series too.

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Riven would be ideal for a POV character in any kind of introductory episodes into the Noxus/Ionia conflict except that they've been rehabilitating Noxus' evil empire image in Runeterra and other videos.

Instead of the evil slave empire, they've done a 180 and Noxus is now a Fantasy America "liberating" people:

Vi finds out she’s a replicant and goes into a depression and loses her mojo. Gets picked up by the love interest and badass warrior babe, Riven. Starts to believe in herself again, but still combat hesitant.

Riven holds off a giant onslaught, but right as Vi shows up to help out, the Jinx rocket plows her down. Vi finally snaps and goes all out again.

if they don’t make it happen in the series then maybe a pornal?

phisey said:

They've been doing original music on a whole other level since that first Jinx video.

They once decided to sell kpop themed skins around the time BTS got huge in the west and they created a fake kpop band with LoL champions. To promote the skins they made a fake kpop video that saw like half a billion views and was playing on the radio in Asia. It rose to the top of charts and made #1 in Itunes' global listings.

The video was made during their runeterra/custom painterly shader era too, so it's a precursor of the Arcane animation style:


That video did so well that they actually released a legit album with the band and that's risen to the top of the charts too. The animation is more conventional 3D though; possibly because it's meant to introduce a Chinese singer into the band:

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I heard the league Kpop song playing in a Korean gorcery store last month. It blew my mind it was that popular.

CaughtCross said:

I heard the league Kpop song playing in a Korean gorcery store last month. It blew my mind it was that popular.

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Wouldn't be surprising in a korean store since the real K-Pop idols they hired for the fake LoL band are very popular kpop idols irl. Aside from Imagine Dragons and JID, they don't use too many big names from the west.

On that note, Riot made a music video out of the intro song from Arcane and they actually animated Imagine Dragons and the guest rapper into the video. Also looks like most the animation is original for the music video.