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Boy Savior
Arcane und League of Legends Lyrics
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@HoneyBadgerLikesYou
EDIT 2: please read my edit before replying to this comment saying “omg you’re right that’s so cool” or “omg you’re wrong that’s so dumb”
EDIT: There have been a few replies to this pointing out that I misinterpreted the S1E4 scene with Ekko's stopwatch. Indeed, Ekko explicitly says they have five minutes and starts the stopwatch at the beginning of the scene, which makes it clear he was just checking the time and had probably not used any time-travel abilities in the fight. With this in mind, I think my interpretation is MUCH, MUCH weaker. Although the S1E4 scene was not at the heart of my argument, I think my interpretation of the bridge scene only works if the S1E4 scene was otherwise unexplained. Thus, I want to make it clear that I don't think there's a strong argument anymore that Ekko has his powers in S1.
ORIGINAL COMMENT:
So I think there's a really compelling argument that Ekko does actually have his powers in the show. The first hint is in S1E4 at 10:04. When Ekko's pink-haired companion gets fatally shot by Jinx, he rushes to the girl's aid and, stooped over her body, he desperately looks at his pocket watch. You can see the watch slowly filling red, which is the device charging back up (his cooldown timer). Ekko realizes that because he already used it during this battle, he doesn't have the opportunity to save his friend, so he flies into a fit of rage and charges Jinx.
During the battle on the bridge, notice that there are brief moments where the animation flashes away from young Ekko and shows older Ekko dodging bullets. Then, at the end, young Ekko throws the watch on the ground after getting shot, but then it rewinds to the beginning of the present day fight. Present day Ekko actually got shot square in the chest, just like when he was a kid playing the game with Powder. The difference is that in the present day, instead of throwing the watch down in defeat, he uses it to rewind time and tries again.
The scene is stylized the way it is for multiple reasons: it increases the emotional weight of the scene, calls attention to the history between Ekko and Powder, and looks straight up badass. But it serves another purpose: to apply some level of ambiguity. Riot's animators know there will be plenty of people watching who don't know a thing about LoL, so they won't already know that time travel is even possible in this world. By keeping the whole thing slightly ambiguous, they can have Ekko use his power in a way which is noticeable for people "in the know," but which also saves the surprise for people who otherwise would never pick up on it.
I anticipate S2 will show Ekko using his powers more explicitly as some big, cool knowledge bomb, but I'm pretty sure he's had it for a while by the time we get to S1E4
@mr_0n10n5
In 2 minutes, they showed:
1) Ekko and Jinx had a heartfelt and fun game they used to play together
2) Both Ekko and Jinx remember this game so much so that without words, Ekko was able to tell Jinx they will compete in that game. Furthermore, they both adhered to the rules of the game throughout the confrontation, as Jinx was in a position to evade and attack from another angle but did not.
3) Ekko has incredible memory, being able to remember a strategy Jinx used years ago and counter it years later
4) Jinx's facial expression after she loses seems to allude to the fact that she regrets fighting with Ekko
Masterclass in writing, animation and music.
110/10
Add more to the comments if I missed any
@sharpshooter9407
See, this is probably the best fight scene in this show. And the show has dope ass fight scenes.
If they animated this like the Vi vs Sevika fight, no one would have complained. It still would have been a banger. Instead, they chose to use this fight as an opportunity to tell the story of the combatants' pasts, as well as their futures.
Ekko gains the ability to time travel sometime after Arcane. The scene rewinding foreshadows that. More importantly than the foreshadowing though, is the flashback. Powder and Ekko have known each other for years. Ekko even had a crush on Powder when they were kids (based on ingame quotes). The paintball flashback scene shows just how close they were.
And it all culminates in Ekko doing a sick ass corkscrew and beating the everloving shit out of Jinx, until he sees that Powder might still be in there.
Fucking incredible.
@a_confused_spoon
When you think about it, Powder knew what she was becoming. She knew Jinx was taking over and it was something she couldn't fight without losing: that's what she was telling Vi in episode 6 and what Silco tells her in episode 9 (something along the lines of "it won't be long before she realizes you're not that girl anymore"). It's what makes the scene where she lights up the flare so powerful (because that was Powder KNOWING that if Vi reached her she had to face the past events and how badly those affected her) and what makes her final words to Vi in episode 9 so heartbreaking. She knows that if she wants that relationship with her sister again, Vi needs to accept her as Jinx, and the only person who genuinely loved Jinx was Silco.
But here we see Ekko, who spent years fighting against Jinx, probably trying to get Powder back at first and lost friends in the process, who Powder knows for a fact gave up on her at some point, giving Powder one more chance. Maybe it was because he spent some time with Vi, but the way he smirks at her sounded like a "You remember how to play this game?". And she was so surprised that he'd do that, cause she knows Ekko was looking for Powder in that moment. And she shows him she's in there.
So when Ekko wins and looks down at her she sees he face and understands Vi was right, Powder is still in there. Ekko likely got to see Jinx's maniacal face during fights and most have gotten used to that, who knows how long it's been since he saw Powder. And the moment she looks at him he immediately realizes that he wasn't ready to kill his childhood friend, despite everything she had become.
But after spending years waiting for Vi, clinging to her voice to survive and having her for just a second before seeing her leaving again for some other girl enforcer is just too much to take for Powder. She knew the grenade was going to kill her, with chances being Ekko would have survived instead because he was on top of her and he could have still ran if he was fast enough (which he did). It seemed to me she was attempting to kill herself more than she was trying to defeat Ekko here, and she was smiling softly at someone who, no, didn't love Jinx, but ACKNOWLEDGED who she had become and STILL saw someone who was worth sparing.
It felt like a silent "I'm sorry". It's such a tender, sweet, devastating moment... and like many people say, this is where Powder dies.
And THAT'S when what Ekko told Vi becomes actually true: Powder is gone, all there's left is Jinx.
@nimboss
2:05
This moment, dear good.
Ekko, with his eyes, clearly goes the realization that the girl he's hurting is the Powder he knew, underneath the crazed exterior of Jinx. You can clearly see the words in his mind through his eyes.
"Powder? ... Is that you?... It can't be..."
And then the scene changes to focus on Jinx, her expression clearly conveys defeat, and even embarrassment:
"Yep... It's me..."
Such a beautifully sad exchange that needed no words. Arcane is incredible
@CamaroThings
The fact that Jinx remembered this as the game they played as kids just showed how not gone and yet gone she is.
@quazar4773
Powder is jinx. It's impossible to go back to how you were just like us, we change every year and going back to the way we were is impossible.
@fionn2220
@@quazar4773 Exactly right, I think people are seriously overexaggerating the difference between her child and adult self to be two different characters when in reality its just her pre and post a seriously traumatic and life altering event. The show does contrast the two in a more dramatic way but I think it's meant to be purely symbolic, no one would be the same if they went through the guilt and shock that Powder did. Ekko and Vi are different from when they were kids too but people make Jinx out to be as if a different person who took over Powders body not Powder with a different name and 7 years of life experience behind her.
@quazar4773
@@fionn2220 Exactly, understanding this honestly makes everything more tragic and relatable.
@lunarul
this scene is in Ekko's mind, not Jinx's
@hamsteur1997
@@lunarul yeah but Jinx recognizes Ekko's stopwatch at the beginning of the scene which means she remembers the game they used to play
@JoeTemple-e3p
Fun fact: the amount of time between Ekko clicking the stopwatch and rushing at her in real life, and him leaping into the air and beating her, is 4 seconds, which is the exact length of time he can travel back in time with his ultimate in the video game, so its like he used his ultimate to beat her.
@joeblack2809
I love it when shows are able to at least accurately depict the characters abilities and skills like in game.
The fact that this scene is drawn that way helps to further the immerse viewers in the story.
@noahh.7642
Ekko remembering their routine when they use to play as kids and utilizing it to plot his advance on Jinx is a really solid way to hint at his future ability to time travel.
@CelerisXIV
The way jinx scoffs when she watches him pull out the pocket watch was great too imo. It was like she was thinking "really that old thing? I'll play along like we used to." Makes this entire scene more heart wrenching for me.