What happened to Jinx at the end of Arcane season 2? While our Arcane Season 2 finale explainer article will give you a complete rundown of everything that happens in the League of Legends spinoff's finale, Riot and Fortiche have left a touch of ambiguity in the fate of some characters. , and some eagles. Fans are already picking up on some compelling details.
This article contains spoilers for the Arcane season 2 finale.
Towards the end of Arcane's final episode, Jinx, Vi, and Vander find themselves trapped in the destruction around Hexgate. While Jinx is relatively safe, Vi and Vander are on a platform that threatens to fall a dangerous distance. With Vi injured from her fall onto the platform and Vander re-entering her frantic state, it seems certain that they are both about to fall to their deaths.
Jinx decides to take action, using her enhanced speed to hit Vander, sending them both over the edge, but leaving Vi safe. Vi tries to catch Jinx, and Vander also manages to grab her before falling, so Jinx removes the hexagonal crystal from Vi's gauntlets, deactivating them and causing her and Vander to fall, telling Vi that they will always be together as she does so. .
As Vi moans in distress on the platform, Jinx and Vander fall, and the former pulls one of her grenades from her pocket in a moment reminiscent of her earlier scene with Ekko. A wide shot then shows a pink and blue explosion: pink for Jinx's grenade and blue for the Hextech core that is destroyed in the explosion. Jinx is absent from the rest of the story, and the combination of her apparent sacrifice and her apparent lack of interest in living after the events at Viktor's commune suggest that she met her end at the bottom of the hexagonal gate.
Is Jinx dead in Arcane?
However, it turns out that I am increasingly convinced that she did not actually die. Eagle-eyed fans might have noticed a rapidly moving purple streak away from the explosion just as it hits; It matches the color often associated with Jinx and fits with her enhanced speed, a tool that allowed her to hit Vander quite a few. moments before.
Later, we see Caitlyn using her family archives to research the architecture of the hexagonal doors, focusing in particular on the vents found on the side of the structure. Since we know that Jinx already has knowledge of Piltover's ventilation systems thanks to her colorful attack on Piltover in episode 3, Caitlyn's handling of the grenade shrapnel at this point seems symbolic. Caitlyn returns to Vi when she hears her humming, the same song that Powder sings in the first scene of Arcane episode 1.
The final clue about what happened to Jinx at the end of Arcane actually comes from the second scene of Arcane season 1. As Vi, Mylo, Claggor, and Powder head up to their heist at Jayce's apartment, they arrive at a rooftop. As an airship flies overhead toward Piltover, Powder comments, “One day I'll ride one of those things.” That moment, the character's third line in the entire show, appears to come to fruition in the final scene of Arcane Season 2, when a nearly identical airship flies off-screen over the open ocean, far from Piltover and Zaun.
There's no guarantee Jinx will be in the pilot's seat, but there are no other obvious candidates, and we already know from her balloon that she's a capable pilot. Coupled with her Silco hallucination in episode 8, in which her former father figure explains that the only way to break the cycle of violence is often to walk away, it seems likely that Jinx intends to turn her back on her former father. life, to end the cycle of violence that sustains Arcane. It seems pretty unlikely that there will be an Arcane season 3, but that doesn't mean Jinx's story is over for good.
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