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Jinx, the Loose Cannon

Birth Name: Powder

Voiced by: Sarah Williams (LoL, Legends of Runeterra, English), Ella Purnell (Arcane), Mia Sinclair Jenness (young), Isacha Mengíbar (European Spanish), Karla Falcon (Mexican Spanish), Sumire Uesaka (Japanese), Fernanda Bullara (Brazilian Portuguese), Chae-Eon Han (Korean), Natalia Tereshkova (Russian)

"Rules are meant to be broken, like buildings!.. or people!!"

Jinx is a major character of the League of Legends franchise.

Born under the name "Powder", the girl that would become Jinx grew up in the polluted and crime-ridden undercity of Zaun with her older sister Violet "Vi". A traumatic accident caused by Powder, followed by an emotional fallout between the two sisters, lead her down a road of destructive madness, growing up to become an erratic anarchist by the name of "Jinx". In modern day, she sows chaos around the privileged city of Piltover, becoming a threat and nuisance to the city authorities, while also being a local hero to the struggling citizens of Zaun. Her sister Vi, now a Piltover Enforcer, has an ongoing rivalry with her.

Introduced in League of Legends as a playable champion, Jinx has gone on to become a poster child for the series, appearing in several other media installments such as Legends of Runeterra, and becoming one of the protagonists of the TV series Arcane.

In general

Ambiguous Disorder:
- As a child, Powder shows some signs of Dependent Personality Disorder, being desperate for approval from the rest of her group, dependent on Vi's emotional support to feel a sense of self-worth, and generally struggling with feelings of being inadequate or useless. She also shows signs of Borderline Personality Disorder in that she's shown to be very impulsive and fears being abandoned, with her emotional stability easily crumbling whenever she thinks Vi has left her behind.
- All of these symptoms are magnified tenfold as Jinx, showing her becoming agitated at the thought of being useless or needing to take time off. On top of that, she displays intense, risk-taking behavior and has hallucinations and flashbacks, reminiscent of PTSD. She's also seemed to have developed a dissociative disorder, referring to herself as both Powder and Jinx at different times. Her reunion with Vi shows that she's aware of her trauma in a moment of lucidity, but she quickly lapses back into her maniacal Jinx persona when she feels threatened.
- A lot of her symptoms, chiefly the hallucinations, paranoia and hearing voices, also point towards potential Schizophrenia or psychosis. Suffice to say, Jinx is very clearly not well.
Arch-Enemy: Vi. She went out of her way to make the Piltover Enforcer her nemesis by humiliating her and her ability to keep order, nearly killing her by bringing down Piltover's most secure building on her, drawing some mean graffiti on her champion page in tacky pink paint. Arcane explores the root of the tension between the two; Vi is resentful towards Jinx for causing the explosion that resulted in the deaths of their father figure and adoptive siblings, while Jinx resents Vi for abandoning her to the harsh city of Zaun. The emotions and motivations beyond that though are much more complex, and it's clear that both sisters feel tremendous guilt for their actions.
Ax-Crazy: Everywhere she goes, she loves to blow things up and cause mayhem. Following the time skip in Arcane, she goes from a shy young girl to a maladjusted young woman perfectly fine with shooting her allies, blowing up an airship full of Shimmer to kill two enemies and luring several Enforcers to their deaths with a elaborate bomb trap, the latter two done entirely of her own volition. She also shows signs of her future Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter" tendencies, displaying genuine glee along with her rage while battling the Firelights in Episode 6.
Badass Adorable: Ever since she was an adorably sweet child, she has a knack of creating bombs out of toys and it surely shows. Even as an adult, she's still very cute and haven't lost her knack of explosives.
Bare Your Midriff: Her outfits tend to expose her midsection.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Exciting = "good" and boring = "bad." That's pretty much the extent of her moral code. As Rioter Gypsylord explained, she wouldn't knife a citizen of Piltover in a dark alley. That's not fun. But if that same person were sitting on a crate of fireworks, she'd blow up the crate without a thought for the person on top of it. Explosions are cool!
Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Of the Illegalist-ish "let's blow society to hell for kicks" movement.
Braids of Action: As an adult, she has two braids that stretch all the way to her ankles.
Breakout Character: Jinx has proven to be one of the most popular an marketable characters in the League of Legends franchise. She's one of the main champions used to promote Wild Rift, appearing on the game's main cover art and in its promotional cinematic. She's a playable unit in the base roster of Legends of Runeterra, and has gone on to become one of the main protagonists of Arcane.
Cain and Abel: Her and Vi are arch-enemies, and also sisters. It was ambiguous for the longest time as Riot kept going back and forth on it, until the first released full scene preview of Arcane, "A Score to Settle" finally confirmed that they are in fact sisters.
Consulting Mister Puppet: Her joke has her do this with her rocket launcher, Fishbones. To her displeasure, its attitude is completely meek.
Cute and Psycho:
- If only for her sheer glee and joy when wrecking havoc. She's undoubtedly very much psycho, but many people find her to be kinda cute as well.
- Her Star Guardian skin plays this up as much as possible. And then her familiar Shiro gets in on it, as according to Jinx he loves the item Bloodthirster, gets impatient when not being used, and his favorite part of being a Star Guardian is the slaughter involved ^note First Star doesn't approve of that choice of words, though. Her other familiar, Kuro, prefers the sparkles that come with the job.
Cute Is Evil:
- Jinx is pretty much a petite and cute girl, complete with flat chest, when compared to her hunters (Vi and Caitlyn), who are mature and buxom ladies. However, she's also extremely destructive with zero care about anything else other than her own fun.
- Played up in her Star Guardian skin. While both of Jinx's familiars, Shiro and Kuro, are adorable, the "cuter" of the two, Shiro, is the one who's much more Cute and Psycho than Kuro (as seen above).
Dark and Troubled Past: Greatly implied with several interactions. The specifics are vague and it doesn't seem to really bother her in the present day, but many other champions suggest that she Used to Be a Sweet Kid before something tragic happened and she went crazy.
Kalista: Your spirit burns with sorrow...
Jinx: Me? Pfft, you've got the wrong lady, lady!

Swain: Faces fading in the flames. It was all her fault.
- Her new backstory confirm this: "No one knows for certain what happened to turn that sweet young child into a wildcard, infamous for her wanton acts of destruction."
Does This Remind You of Anything?/G-Rated Sex: In "Paint the Town", Jinx's first encounter with Ziggs has the two of them tossing ammunition at each other when laughing. When two collide and they're both thrown back against the wall, the first thing she asks Ziggs is whether that was "good for [him] too". Almost immediately after a scene occurs with the aftermath resulting in Ziggs straddling Jinx with a huge multicoloured explosion going off in the background (though the two are fully clothed). The rest of the night they spend together then has the structure of a date.
Expy:
- The similarities between her and Tiny Tina have not gone unnoticed.
- Personality-wise she shares more than a few traits with Harley Quinn.
- All she's missing is an actual tank...
Fashionable Asymmetry: Wears only one stocking on her right leg and has only one sleeve on her opposite left arm.
Folk Hero: In her revised lore, Jinx's mysterious background and outrageous exploits have her on her way to becoming one of these to the underclass of Zaun, the more rebellious of whom idolise her for making fools of the arrogant and uncaring Pilties. Her schemes have inspired copycat criminals among the chem-punks, satirical plays mocking the incompetence of the Wardens, and even a couple of new colloquialisms (although it also notes that nobody else has dared call Vi "Pretty-in-Pink" to her face yet).
Foreshadowing: Several bits of in-game lore and interactions tease at the details of her backstory which is all confirmed in Arcane.
- Her vaguely explained antagonism with Vi is displayed in many of their interactions in both League and Legends of Runeterra. This all stems from a traumatic falling out the two had as children after Jinx accidentally killed their loved ones in an explosion.
- Ekko remembers her from when they were both young children, including her birth name, Powder.
- Warwick has fuzzy memories of Jinx from a time long before his transformation. It's implied that he's her father-figure, Vander. Though he can't remember the fact.
  "You were there", "Let me forget"
- Swain and Fiddlesticks are able to peer into her memories and fears respectively, noting that she still blames herself for inadverdantly killing her father figure and childhood friends.
Gadgeteer Genius: She's a capable engineer, and most of her weapons were all custom-made.
- In Tales of Runeterra, she's able to redirect Heimerdinger's hextech core into her rocket launcher. Though the energy output makes it to fly out of her hands and into a dump in Zaun, which only mildly annoys her.
- Despite all of Powder's bombs being duds until Episode 3, she's still gifted enough with machinery that she built a working panic button in Vander's bar, which he uses to successfully alert Vi's crew to the incoming Enforcers out to arrest them. Her naming her weaponry in the present as Jinx like she did with her bombs in childhood implies they were also made by herself.
- Silco even outright states that she's his best option for actually weaponizing the Piltoveran tech she stole, seeming to show she's become this for his whole gang. She's shown to be able to reproduce Jayce's first Hextech experiment with reasonable accuracy (if not similar quality) and demonstrates an understanding of the underlying principles from reading his notes, showing that her childish behavior belies her intelligence.
Gatling Good: Pow-Pow the minigun is a smaller but no less deadly version of this.
Genius Ditz:
- Knowingly coming from Zaun herself, she does have the full know-how experience in all of her own weapons, having two well-crafted firearms, an electric pistol, lots of explosives and its propulsive ordnance, all possibly designed by herself. Not to mention being frantically proud and happy in standing on her own rocket without even slipping off.
- She is able to singlehandedly recreate Jayce's hextech prototype with nothing but his notebook and whatever scrap she had lying around (stolen hextech core aside).
Genki Girl: An antagonistic example. She gets really energetic when the chaos starts up and tries to continue the high.
Hearing Voices: As an adult, she develops a tendency to talk to inanimate objects, both her weapons, and the effigies she made of her deceased brothers. In stressful situations, this develops into full on voices in her head that she frequently tells to shut up.
I Call It "Vera": The names of her minigun and rocket launcher are Pow-Pow And Fishbones, respectively. Even Powder has a habit of giving her various bombs names, such as Mouser or Whisker.
I Just Want to Be Normal: According to this interview, Fishbones the Rocket Launcher actually represents her subconscious desires and her hidden, repressed self, which includes a latent desire for normalcy.
Improbable Aiming Skills: Even as a child she was an excellent shooter, able to score over 20 perfect shots in a row on an arcade game. As Jinx, her minigun leaves little room for accuracy and almost always misses, but she's a crack shot with a pistol, able to shoot a crystal grenade mid-air as it's being thrown at her.
Image Song: "Get Jinxed", and "Enemy" for her Arcane self.
It Amused Me: She blows things up because wants to have fun. If people tend not to survive being blown up, well, that's not her problem, and maybe that'll teach them to stand somewhere else next time.
It's All My Fault: It's heavily implied in her interactions with other champions that her Dark and Troubled Past contains an incident she blames herself for. Arcane reveals that the thing she blames herself for is accidentally killing all of her friends in an explosion.
Mad Artist: Loves graffiti and dark-light messages… and decorates her many, many explosives and weapons with them.
Mad Bomber: She has a love of explosives, to the point that she tosses bombs down a pit when bored.
Meaningful Name:
- Her birth name of Powder references a powder keg, and that keg would one day explode and give way to the insane anarchist Jinx. It also is a reference to the color powder blue, which is what her hair color is (sort of like Vi's full name, Violet, is the color of her hair).
- Her unfortunate tendency to be the main variable in the kids' failed heists and projects results in her being known a "jinx", which she gets called by Mylo at multiple points, as well as by an enraged Vi in the aftermath of Powder's explosion, which killed the rest of their family.
Meaningful Rename: Her original name was Powder, but she changed it after growing up and going mad in Arcane. "Jinx" was a nickname her adoptive sibling, Mylo, gave her out of frustration of her being The Load in her youth. It only stuck after Vi calls her "Jinx" too when Powder accidentally kills Mylo.
Ms. Fanservice: Of a sort. Despite being one of the most Stripperiffic champions in the game, her skinny frame, complete lack of chest and Ax-Crazy personality make her one of the least sexualized women in the game, but her character design and personality still manage to be so resonant that she remains one of the most popular champions in the game, both from the fans and Riot themselves.
Muscles Are Meaningless: That's quite a bit of weaponry to carry around for a woman who Vi refers to as "scrawny".
My God, What Have I Done?:
- In "Paint the Town", she pushes to blow up the Piltover Warden Station while ignoring Ziggs' warnings that she would likely kill everyone inside, and she would never forgive herself if she did. She ignores him and does it anyway, but the resulting explosion is so huge that seemingly for the first time ever, she feels guilt... at least until she hears that everyone successfully evacuated seconds later.
"Um... is this... what feeling bad feels like?"
- The realization that her bomb resulted in the deaths of Vander, Mylo, and Claggor, causes her to slowly break down into uncontrollable crying as she tries to explain herself to Vi.
Order Versus Chaos: You know you're chaotic when you manage to make Vi look like a paradigm of order. She targeted Piltover specifically for this reason, being the most peaceful and crime-free city-state thanks to Vi and Caitlyn.
Practically Joker: According to her creator, the basic concept for the character was The Dark Knight Trilogy's Joker if the role had been played by Helena Bonham Carter. The game's other Joker expy, Shaco, is based on the DCAU Joker. Another reference to the role is included in her Get Jinxed video, where a monkey sports some rather familiar facial makeup while sitting on a gate that looks suspiciously like Arkham Asylum's. There's also a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to the role a few seconds before even that, when Jinx is shooting robots in the dark. One of the shots of her face has her sporting a damn near perfect replica ◊ of one of the Joker's better known expressions.
Psycho Pink: Pink is one of the main colors of her outfit, and is featured prominently in many of her weapons and VFX. While it does highlight her cute and feminine side, that traditional symbolism with the color completely contrasts her gleefully destructive tendencies.
Psychopathic Womanchild: Has significant overtones of this, being highly immature and treating both her weapons and her victims as her toys. Her childish-sounding voice, Girlish Pigtails, skinny frame, and noticeable lack of buxom don't really help.
Rapunzel Hair: Her pigtails are almost as long as she is tall! Fans have a field day imagining what it would look like untied. ◊ It was also much shorter when she was younger ◊.
Rebellious Spirit: Even if the cause isn't known, there's no arguing that Jinx has long since thrown off any society's rules.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Possesses strange pinkish red irises. They even seem to glow slightly in dim light or when she is really having a good time. It's clearly not natural, since she had blue-grey eyes as a child ◊, and they were still blue even once she'd started to grow up and dress like the psycho we all know.
Slasher Smile: Seems to be her default expression. In Arcane she sports a couple nasty ones when she's in a fight. Seeing them horrifies Vi.
Stripperiffic: Her clothing is a stocking, a sleeve, hot pants, some belts, gloves, and a bikini top. Although her outfit in Arcane isn't as revealing, it's only by a small margin, as it's a small top with low strung pants.
Small Girl, Big Gun: One girl with several massive guns.
Tattooed Crook: Tattoos on her right side? Check. Crook? Double check.
Trigger Happy: Half her lines express how eager she is to riddle things with shrapnel or lead.
Troll: Revels in it. She even mocks Vi's image song by altering a few lyrics.
Jinx: She's such a loser, always ready to cry, dah-dah-dah-dah!
The Unblinking: Not made very clear in most depictions, but Legends of Runeterra has a few interactions joking about how she's one of these, which nicely complements her constantly manic energy.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Before Arcane, Ekko's champion-specific quotes implied she used to be good friends with him, Vi, and the rest of their crew until she became violent and unstable. Her revised lore also mentions that some old-timers remember a young girl that fits her description but was totally unlike her, described as "sweet and innocent, a tinkerer with big ideas, who never quite fit in and came to a bad end". The reason why she turned out how she did still hasn't been established, but it will apparently be addressed in Arcane.
Walking Armory: She's packing more heat than Rumble's Tristy. To count: a minigun, rocket launcher, shock blaster, sticky grenades, and a special gigantic long-range missile she can fire from Fishbones. Heck, all the weaponry she carries probably weighs more than she does! Hyperspace Arsenal, ho!
We Used to Be Friends: With her sister Vi. "A Score to Settle" strongly hints at a falling-out between the two, even before Jinx went crazy. Full details will be revealed in Arcane.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: One of the only champions to have an unrealistic hair color, and one of the two champions to specifically have blue hair (the other being Sona). Oddly, unlike her eyes, it seems to be natural since she also had that hair colour as a child.

In League of Legends

"Rules are made to be broken... like buildings! Or people!"

A manic and impulsive criminal from Zaun, Jinx lives to wreak havoc without care for the consequences. With an arsenal of deadly weapons, she unleashes the loudest blasts and brightest explosions to leave a trail of mayhem and panic in her wake. Jinx despises boredom, and gleefully brings her own chaotic brand of pandemonium wherever she goes.

Jinx is a Marksman champion who sacrifices mobility and defensive abilities for extremely high sustained and poke damage with her arsenal of various weapons.

Her passive, Get Excited!, greatly increases Jinx's movement and attack speed for a few seconds whenever she kills or helps kill an enemy champion, epic monster or turret.
Her first ability, Switcheroo!, swaps between Jinx's weapons:
- Pow-Pow, a machine-gun that increases Jinx's attack speed with every basic attack, stacking up to three times.
- Fishbones, a rocket launcher that greatly increases Jinx's attack range and causes her basic attacks to deal bonus damage to the target and other enemies around them, at the cost of mana per attack and reduced attack speed.
With her second ability, Zap!, Jinx fires a long-range shot from her shock pistol in a target direction that damages, reveals and slows the first enemy it hits.
With her third ability, Flame Chompers!, Jinx tosses out a row of three snare grenades to a target location that explode after a few seconds, setting nearby enemies on fire to deal damage-over-time. If an enemy champion walks over a grenade it will immediately explode and briefly immobilize them.
Her ultimate ability, Super Mega Death Rocket!, fires a massive rocket in a target direction with global range that explodes upon hitting an enemy champion, dealing damage to enemies inside the explosion based on their missing health. The damage of the rocket increases the longer it was in flight before hitting a target.

Jinx's alternate skins include Crime City Jinx, Firecracker Jinx, Zombie Slayer Jinx, Star Guardian Jinx, Ambitious Elf Jinx, Odyssey Jinx, PROJECT: Jinx, Heartseeker Jinx, and Arcane Jinx. Wild Rift exclusively includes Glorious Jinx, and Legends of Runeterra exclusively includes Gilded Jinx.

In season 1 of Teamfight Tactics, Jinx is a Tier 4 Hextech Gunslinger. Her ability, Get Excited!, is a passive that triggers when she scores takedowns - the first one grants her increased attack speed, and the second switches her weapon to Fishbones, causing her attacks to deal splash damage. She was removed in season 2. She returns in season 3 with the same cost and ability, but was changed to use her Odyssey Jinx skin and reclassified as a Rebel Blaster. Season 4 saw her retooled into a 3-cost Fortune Sharpshooter using her Firecracker skin, with her Fishbones ability allowing her to shoot a rocket with blast damage that also stuns enemies hit for 1.5 seconds. She was removed in the Festival of Beasts mid-set update, returning in season 6 using her Arcane Jinx skin as a Tier 5 Scrap Sister Twinshot. Her Sister origin is a trait unique to her and Vi that gives each of them different bonuses when played together. In Jinx's case, she gains bonus attack speed for a few seconds every time she scores a takedown; this effect can stack infinitely, but each stack lasts independently and new stacks do not refresh the duration of previous ones. Her ability was changed to Super Mega Death Rocket, which has Jinx ride a rocket into the sky and crash down on the center-most enemy, dealing magic damage to enemies adjacent to the epicenter and reduced damage to enemies in a larger radius. The affected area is set on fire for the rest of the round, burning all allies and enemies in the area except Jinx herself for percent max health true damage over time and reducing incoming healing for the duration. Jinx then swaps to her rocket launcher for the rest of the round, causing her basic attacks to deal bonus percent attack damage in an area around her target.

In Legends of Runeterra, Jinx is a 4-mana 4/3 Piltover & Zaun Champion with Quick Attack. When you empty your hand while she's in play she levels up, gaining +1/+1, causing you to draw an extra card at the start of each round, and generating a Super Mega Death Rocket (a Fleeting 1-mana Slow spell that deals 4 damage to the enemy Nexus and 1 damage to all their other units) the first time each round she sees you empty your hand. Her signature spell is Jinx's Get Excited!

Jinx is one of the protagonists of the first LoL animated series, Arcane.

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Played with extensively in her promotional "wanted" poster:

Murder, Unprovoked Assault, Disturbing the Peace, Public Indecency, Murder Again, Inauthorized Property Recoloration, Unflattering Impersonation of an Officer, Reckless Hexplosive Detonation, Destruction of the Peace, Really Petty Larceny, Exorbitant Weapon Size, Some More Murders, Inciting Mass Hysteria, Making Fun of the Peace, Aggravated Jaywalking, Forging of Official Wanted Posters.
Attack! Attack! Attack!: Her kit is very aggression-based at the cost of having low mobility and no escape tools. The only thing helping her movement is her passive, which necessitates that she kill/destroy something before continuing on her spree or running away.
BFG: Wields a hefty minigun as one of her two main weapons.
Big Stupid Doo Doo Head: If she taunts near an enemy Caitlyn or Vi, the most insulting nicknames she can come up with are along the lines of "Hat Lady" or "Fat Hands" (respectively).
Bilingual Bonus: For her Star Guardian skin, Jinx's familiars/guns are called Shiro (Minigun), and Kuro (Rocket). Shiro and Kuro are the Japanese words for "White" and "Black" respectively, matching their appearance.
Bloodless Carnage: The music video for her "Get Jinxed" Image Song has her mow down dozens of enemies with no blood spilt... because they're all robots. This is likely because a video of her killing lots of people messily would be outside the permissible scope for a T-rated game.
Chaotic Stupid: Fits the Laconic description of this trope almost perfectly: "A character who does whatever they feel like doing, even if it's clearly a really bad idea to do it." The "bad idea" here being her inclination to "blow up society for the hell of it" mentioned in the entry for Bomb-Throwing Anarchists above. She'd even blow up the sun if she was capable.
Chekhov's Gunman: Her (tattooed) arms and legs appeared in the Summer Skin login screen, leading to speculation as to who she was.
Childish Tooth Gap: As can be seen in her design ◊ in Arcane she had one of these as a child, although it's gone by her appearance in the present.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Even aside from her erratic anarchism, Jinx is clearly completely nuts. On meeting Ziggs (and seeing right through his glamour) she immediately reasons he must be a figment of her imagination, then decides this makes him her conscience.
Color-Coded Characters: On the Star Guardians team, she's red.
Comedic Sociopath: Hands down one of the most insane champions in the entire game, and also one of the funniest.
The Comically Serious: Yes, believe it or not, with one of her Star Guardian Jinx lines when her health hits zero:
Dark Is Not Evil: In her Star Guardian skin, Kuro, her black familiar that becomes her rocket launcher, prefers the sparkles that come with the job, as opposed to Shiro's Cute and Psycho.
Dark Magical Girl: While not a rival of the Star Guardians, Star Guardian Jinx's lore makes it clear she's based on this character archetype.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- Very, very downplayed, but she does seem to prefer people not getting hurt during her antics. She doesn't really view it as her problem if they do, though. The idea of outright killing people unintentionally is one of the few things shown to get to her, albeit barely.
- In Episode 9 of Arcane, when Vi, in terror, assumes she cut off Caitlyn's head and served it on a platter, Jinx responds by saying that she isn't that crazy.
Expressive Hair: When she's killed, her pigtails form a heart. In her Star Guardian skin, they instead form a star with her limbs.
Fiery Redhead: In her Star Guardian skin. She's The Lancer of the group and the incredibly rebellious one to boot with bright red hair.
Finishing Move: Super Mega Death Rocket! deals more damage the closer her targets are to death. If you and your allies are heavily wounded, don't cluster together when you try to recall to base.
Foil: She plays off extremely well as an Evil Counterpart to Vi. Among other differences, Vi is a reformed criminal who upholds the law in Piltover by giving criminals an epic beatdown, while Jinx is a anarchic Zaunite criminal who causes mindless destruction and chaos because she thinks it's fun. Vi is an armored, tomboyish brawler who dives in to pummel foes with her fists, while Jinx is a scantily-clad Psychopathic Womanchild who fights from a distance with her arsenal of guns.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Her passive plays into her backstory and song rather well; by killing enemy champions or blowing up towers, Jinx is continuing her crime spree and hopefully getting someone to try chasing her. She wants to be chased, if only as another layer to her game.
Glass Cannon: Even by marksmen standards, Jinx dishes out absurd damage, but dies from a stiff breeze and has pretty much zero chance of escaping if she gets cornered.
Hates Wearing Dresses: In "The Wedding Crasher", she wears a fancy dress and bonnet as a disguise to infiltrate an extravagant wedding to trash up. She hates the outfit, but needed it to conceal her gun and her hair, and she promptly discards it once she begins wreaking havoc.
Hit-and-Run Tactics: Because of her fast minion-killing from Fishbones combined with fast turret-shredding from Pow-Pow, it's not uncommon to find Jinxes pushing towers down off to the side then making use of her passive to get the hell out of dodge. Of course, it's curtains if she doesn't start running soon enough.
Hope Spot: Just like Ezreal, Ashe, and Draven, just because you and your buddies survive with minimal health doesn't mean that Super Mega Death Rocket! isn't headed for you from across the map. This is especially true for Jinx as her ultimate's damage ramps up with the amount of damage taken by the victim, meaning that crafty Jinxes will often set up wards in common recall locations so they can time a rocket to hit you just as you reach your fountain for a guaranteed kill.
Hyper-Awareness: In her comic with Ziggs, she knew he was spying on her despite not even looking in his direction and could see through his human disguise glamour.
Hyperspace Arsenal: Averted with her classic skin. In both the art and model, Pow-Pow is on her right hip, Fishbones on her left shoulder and her stun gun on her left thigh. She even has a short animation for whipping each one out and putting them away as part of her attack animations.
In Love with Your Carnage: It's arguable that she likes Ziggs so much because of his hexsplosives. Anything that causes more destruction and explosions is more fun for her.
In-Series Nickname: Refers to Caitlyn as "Hat Lady" and Vi as "Fat Hands". She also calls Ziggs "Conscience" due to mistaking him for hers.
I Shall Taunt You: She's going out of her way to make Vi really hate her guts.
Swain: Faces fading in the flames. It was all her fault.

Fiddlesticks: Jinx! All your fault! ALL YOUR FAULT!
Karma Houdini: Played for Laughs in "Paint the Town", where after successfully blowing up the entire Warden Station after knowing there were people inside, she actually has a brief audible pang of guilt after seemingly killing them all. However, when she overhears how everyone successfully evacuated the building and was accounted for, she takes it with glee and flees with Ziggs back to Zaun.
"Yaaaaaay nobody died I didn't have to learn anything yaaaaaay—"
Kilroy Was Here: In her Image Song music video, she spray-paints "JINX WAS HERE!" on the side of a rhinoceros.
The Lancer: Of the Star Guardians; she's a powerful ally, but doesn't fit in with the others and is constantly at odds with Lux.
Laughably Evil: As chaotic and psychotic a force she may be, she's also one of the most upbeat and fun villains in the game, with her dialogue being consistently comedic in tone.
Light Is Not Good: Well, while Star Guardian Jinx is technically a good guy, her Familiar Shiro, the white one that becomes her minigun, loves the item Bloodthirster, gets impatient when not being used, and his favorite part of being a Star Guardian is the slaughter involved. Her other familiar, Kuro, the black one that becomes her rocket launcher, prefers the sparkles that come with the job
Magical Girl: She's a Star Guardian! (Yes, we know, just roll with it.) According to the Star Guardians page, she's the newest, most rebellious member of the group, but also potentially the strongest. Her guns even turn into non-human sidekicks named Shiro and Kuro!
Meet Cute: Ran into Ziggs entirely by accident in Paint the Town when he came across her trying to repair her rocket launcher in a back alley.
More Dakka: Switching to her minigun causes her attacks to increase attack speed to a limit. Also firmly believes that she needs more guns, despite having three of them ^note a minigun, a rocket launcher, and a taser pistol already in her arsenal, alongside trap grenades.
Jinx: What if I had a gun that... shot other guns?
No Indoor Voice: She, herself, is capable of speaking quietly, but all of her abilities' names end in exclamation marks.
OOC Is Serious Business: In "Paint the Town", she surprisingly has a brief moment of conscience after she ignores Ziggs and blows up the Piltover Warden Station. She almost immediately gets over it upon realizing everyone was successfully evacuated, but this moment isn't lost on her, and she congratulates Ziggs for making her feel bad "for like, eight seconds. Which is a new record."
Pet the Dog: One of Jinx's interactions with an allied Zaunite Urchin in Legends of Runeterra sees her give the kid advice on how to earn herself more donations.
Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": So much so that she's the first champion whose laughter emote loops. No wonder Vi hates her laugh so much. Her laugh sound clips are also absurdly long on their own. Her Japanese voice takes it straight into laughing mad territory.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: Surprisingly averted in her Star Guardian skin. Of her two familiars, Kuro the black and red one, is the more level-headed of the two and prefers the sparkles that come with being a Star Guardian.
Red Is Heroic: Downplayed in her Star Guardian skin. She's technically a good guy, her color palette is red and it's implied/outright stated in the Star Guardian reveal that if Jinx could stop being so rebellious towards the Star Guardian cause, she could potentially be the most powerful member.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Lux's blue on the Star Guardians team, being the impulsive, aggressive foil to Lux's gentler, dutiful persona.
Riding the Bomb: The "Get Jinxed" video starts with a dozen missiles headed toward Piltover... and she's riding one and having the time of her life.
Senseless Violins: Crime City Jinx has her stow Pow-Pow in a cello case.
Sex Is Violence:
- If her music video is any indicator, she seems to really enjoy shooting Pow-Pow and watching explosions go off everywhere. As for being on the receiving end, she's not outwardly a masochist, but her hair braids do form a heart as she dies.
- In Paint the Town, she reacts to her brief skirmish with Ziggs as though they were having sex, complete with asking him whether it was good for him.
Scenery Gorn: If the background of her splash art looks familiar, it's actually the same as Vi's (a shiny Piltover), but much darker without power and very much wrecked after she's set off several explosions.
Shadow Archetype: To Vi, representing what she would become if her enjoyment of violence overtook her morality.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: According to 'Paint the Town' Jinx once got refused service at a restaurant when she tried to go in topless (she takes her top off when she wants to eat cake).
Ship Tease: With Ziggs. They actually go on a date together in "Paint the Town", complete with a surprising amount of sexual tension.
Spent Shells Shower: Literally in the "Get Jinxed" music video, where she's laying in a bathtub full of spent minigun shells as more rain down on her.
Splash Damage Abuse: Like Tristana, Jinx can punish enemies that hide in crowds of minions when she has Fishbones out. Also, her ultimate deals damage to everyone in a particular radius, making it inadvisable for her squishier enemies to hide right behind their tank when heavily damaged (not unlike Graves' Collateral Damage).
Stun Gun: The ability Zap!, though it only slows.
Terrorist Without A Cause: She has no known rationale for doing the things that she does. She does it because it's fun.
Token Evil Teammate: Star Guardian Jinx. Technically being one of the good guys' team doesn't change Jinx's love of violence and shooting one bit.
Too Dumb to Fool: Such a nutjob, she can see through Yordle glamours. Zigzagged, as she interprets an unglamoured Ziggs as a manifestation of her subconscious.
Too Many Belts: Lampshaded.
Up to Eleven: Jinx is the very definition of a ranged physical carry taken to its Logical Extreme. She's basically made of wet tissue paper while having a ridiculously high damage output even by the standards of other ranged carries. In the right hands, there's little that can stand in her way, but just one slip-up can mean death.
Villain Song: Get Jinxed.
Violation of Common Sense: In-Universe. Her recall animation shows her hitching a ride on a live rocket from Fishbones. Taken even further in the "Get Jinxed" music video where she outright rides a skyward bomb on its way toward Piltover — although this apparently makes more sense (and is a lot less dangerous) than having oneself being propelled by an actual explosion.

In Arcane

Powder/Jinx

^{Click here to see her as Powder}

The future Loose Cannon, the youngest of a group of Zaunite ruffians who is desperate to be useful to her sister.

Adorably Precocious Child: Powder, the girl who would become Jinx years down the line, starts out as an absolute sweetheart, if somewhat naïve.
Affectionate Nickname: When they finally unite, Vi calls Powder "Pow Pow".
Appropriated Appellation: She calls herself "Jinx" since her sister furiously calls her that after she accidentally kills Mylo and Claggor.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
- A rather morbid example happens in act 2. Mylo and Powder often argue, snark, and get into spats, but after his death she created a life-sized doll of him showing she misses him and still wants him around.
  - More than that, she actively hallucinates screaming ghosts of both Mylo and Claggor during moments of serious trauma, and hears them whispering to her. It's clear that their deaths and her responsibility for them hit her hard.
- She's moved to genuine tears upon reuniting with Vi for the first time in years. Though it's not long before Caitlyn arrives and Jinx assumes the two were plotting against her.
The Baby of the Bunch: Powder is clearly the youngest of the group and struggles to keep up several times, causing the others to either constantly worry for her safety or dismiss her as an annoying nuisance.
Back-to-Back Badasses: With Vi, as they fight off the attacking Firelights.
Bad People Abuse Animals: Played with. She pulls a gun on a bird that flies up behind her, and shoots it after regarding it for a few moments. This is less a sign of her being a bad person, however, and more of her being a deeply troubled and traumatized young woman.
The Berserker: Becomes this if she suffers a breakdown in a fight, madly firing wildly and laughing with her Gatling gun and using it as a bludgeon.
Berserk Button: As Jinx, she becomes noticeably more unstable and uncontrollable once she starts to figure out that various people are keeping her away from Vi… and because of her abandonment issues with Vi, also anything that remotely hints that Vi might "betray" her again.
Big "NO!": Lets out an anguished one when the Firelights kidnap Vi, separating them after years of being apart and finally reuniting.
Big Sister Worship: Powder clearly loves and idolizes Vi. This admiration all but vanishes when Vi blames her for Vander's death and slaps her, with Powder disowning Vi as her sibling at the end of episode 3.
Body Horror: In Act III she is strapped down on Singed's table and forcibly injected with massive doses of Shimmer to save her life, making her veins bulge and having her cry out Shimmer.
Boxing Battler: Jinx's usage of the boxing machine inside the old arcade demonstrates that she's reasonably skilled with her fists as an adult in addition to her main use of guns, gadgets, and explosives. She does cheat a bit by using kicks, but still demonstrates enough technique to indicate she knows what she's doing and gets the second-highest place on the scoreboard, falling just behind Vi's top score back when they were kids.
Break the Cutie: The explosion she causes at Silco's factory kills Mylo and Claggor, breaks Vi's arm, and causes Vander to pull a Heroic Sacrifice. Upon realizing this, Powder can barely muster an apology before Vi snaps at her, further traumatizing the young girl.
Call-Forward: At the end of Episode 3, the flames from the burning cannery are reflected in Powder's Innocent Blue Eyes to give them a reddish-pink color, the same color they are in the present after she goes insane and becomes Jinx.
Co-Dragons: Silco's most dangerous subordinate, but her instability leaves Sevika as his proper second-in-command.
Create Your Own Villain: While understandable, considering what Powder had done, Vi slapping her, calling her a jinx and leaving her leads to a devastated Powder disowning her and turning into Jinx. If Vi kept her temper in control until they got to safety, they would never have been separated. In Episode 9, during their 'family reunion', Jinx even underlines to Vi that it wasn't Silco's speeches or the years she spent under his tutorage that made Jinx, but her words and actions from that night
The Cutie: There's no denying that she's painfully endearing as a child with her Puppy-Dog Eyes and sweet personality. Sadly, her personality immediately changes after the end of Episode 3, but still remains cute as a button.
Daddy's Little Villain: Acts like one towards Silco when she becomes Jinx, mixing in various measures of The Millstone and The Brute with a touch of The Dreaded as well; she's by far the most outrageously dangerous and destructive of his gang, and too much so, in fact, but Silco dotes on and enables her.
Darker and Edgier: Jinx in League Of Legends has always been more of a comical anarchist, restricted by the game's T rating to blowing up robots and empty buildings for fun. Arcane Jinx has no such restriction, and is fully willing to kill scores of people who get in her way and is portrayed far less comically.
Death Glare: Twofold. Sevika lashes out at her over their botched smuggling job and gets right up in her face with one of these. Jinx wordlessly returns a glare, complete with head tilting and a scoff.
Didn't Think This Through: In her rush to be helpful and make her bombs actually explode, she ends up causing a much bigger explosion than planned, killing Mylo and Claggor, and nearly killing Vi and Vander.
The Dreaded: Following the timeskip, Jinx has garnered a bit of a reputation among her allies and enemies. When the Firelights that intrude on the smuggling operation see her graffiti, they immediately go on high alert. Even the people of Silco's crew are wary of Jinx due to her erratic behavior and perchant for things that go boom.
Empowered Badass Normal: Jinx was already plenty dangerous as Silco's top subordinate, but she is grievously injured after her fight with Ekko, requiring Singed to save her life. He seems to given her a little Shimmer in the process, making her even faster and deadlier than she was before. It also has the side-effect of turning her eyes pink, giving her their trademark red glare.
Generation Xerox: As of Episode 3, Vi and Powder seem to be turning out like Vander and Silco: a pair of siblings, with the younger one idolizing the older until they experience what they perceive as a betrayal and abandonment by their sibling who deeply regrets it, with the incident dividing them onto opposite sides of a conflict. In addition, the older sibling is a physically-powerful hand-to-hand fighter, with the younger being weaker and requiring weapons and pragmatism to be an effective fighter.
Girlish Pigtails: It's not easy to notice, but Jinx's trademark Rapunzel Hair twin braids can actually seen in the young Powder's hairstyle, they're just tied together and far shorter, and look like a normal braid.
The Glomp: A rare Played for Drama version in Episode 3: Powder has been confronted with the fact that the explosion that she caused killed Claggor and Mylo and indirectly resulted in Vander's death, and she's just been slapped, yelled at, and seemingly abandoned by Vi. When Silco appears and offers a small measure of comfort, Powder is so emotionally shattered and desperate that she practically tackles him into a hug.
Green-Eyed Monster: During Act 3, she's shown to be highly envious of Caitlyn for her closeness to Vi, believing that her sister replaced her. At the end of Episode 9, she even tells Vi that if she wants Powder to come back, she has to get rid of Caitlyn first.
Hate at First Sight: She already disliked Caitlyn when she 'met' her properly for the first time when reuniting with Vi after so long, taking her presence as a sign that Sevika was telling the truth about Vi cooperating with Enforcers to catch her, but after realising how close Vi and Caitlyn are throughout Act III , she becomes murderous towards her, seeing her as the main reason Vi won't truly return to her, hallucinating her smirking victoriously at her when Vi supports her after Power's bombs wound her on the bridge, seeing her in Singed's place as he's operating on her to save her life with Shimmer, effectively blaming her for her current suffering, and afterwards going out of her way to kidnap Caitlyn and drag her to her 'family reunion' so she can give have Vi shoot her to reaffirm that she won't ever betray her again, effectively underlying that she won't ever be able to trust and love Vi again as long as Caitlyn's around.
The Heavy: Silco is inarguably the villain of the first season, but Powder and Vi's relationship is the central focus as the former devolves into the psychotic Jinx. It comes to a head in the finale, where Jinx accidentally kills Silco and bombs the Piltover Council.
Inelegant Blubbering: A distressingly realistic and dramatic example occurs in episode 3. After being left behind by Vi and the rest of the gang to sit out the rescue mission for Vander, Powder has a heartbreakingly accurate tantrum in her room, complete with saliva and snot running down her face.
Innocent Blue Eyes: Granted, they're more grey-blue than proper blue, but they highlight her relative youth and inexperience compared to the others.
The Jinx: Mylo calls Powder a jinx for causing bad luck for them whenever she tags along. It sticks as her name after Vi agrees with the sentiment after Powder accidentally kills Mylo and the rest of their adoptive family.
Kick Chick: At present day, when Jinx goes back to the old arcade they used to play in, she boots up the boxing machine that Vi used to practice on. But instead of using her fists as Vi did, she largely uses her feet for kicks instead. Averted otherwise as she largely just uses guns and explosives and which she needs to be physical, she generally uses her minigun as a blunt weapon.
Lack of Empathy: Jinx notably lacks any compassion or empathy for anyone not considered to be in her immediate "family" circle, and will gleefully shoot and explode anything in her way, uncaring of whether she hits allies along the way. During the fight with the Firelights, she's so vicious and uncaring of collateral that she almost even hits Vi with her bullet sprays.
Meaningful Name:
- Her birth name of Powder references a powder keg, and that keg would one day explode and give way to the insane anarchist Jinx.
- Her unfortunate tendency to be the main variable in the kids' failed heists and projects results in her being known a "jinx", which she gets called by Mylo at multiple points, as well as by an enraged Vi in the aftermath of Powder's explosion, which killed the rest of their family.
The Millstone: As Silco's enforcer, she is an unpredictable, dangerous maniac that even he has great difficulty controlling. Sevika furiously complains to Silco about this after a botched protection job, and he does internally acknowledge her complaints, but his affection for her keeps him from taking serious action.
Misplaced Retribution: Her abandonment issues from Vi, and the drugged hallucinations caused by Singed's treatment causes her to direct a lot of hatred towards Caitlyn, whom she considers Vi's Replacement Goldfish for her.
Muscles Are Meaningless: She's very lanky as an adult, but capable of easily wielding a large minigun.
My Greatest Failure: Post time-skip the deaths of Mylo and Claggor as a result of her bomb are clearly this, to the point where they factor into a major part of her psychosis; not only has she created dolls in her lair that act as simulacrum of them, but in moments of extreme stress and trauma she actively hallucinates their screaming ghosts at her back and hears them whispering to her.
Not Quite the Right Thing: In episode 3, Powder tries for a Big Damn Heroes moment. If she hadn't intervened, her comrades would probably have escaped by the skin of their teeth. Instead, they get blown up by her uncontrolled bomb.
Origins Episode: Arcane shows, among other things, how she went from a nicer girl to a psychopathic mad bomber.
Please, Don't Leave Me!: She desperately and tearfully begs Vi not to abandon her when she walks away following the explosion that killed the rest of their family, already suffering severe trauma from realizing her explosion killed them and Vi hitting and blaming her for it.
Protagonist Journey to Villain: This is the story of how a fairly innocent child turned into the psychotic anarchist Jinx.
Psychopathic Manchild: Jinx acts similarly to a child despite being an adult, and displays no empathy when she shoots several allies. Later, she makes a recording of her mimicking a child after setting a fire to lure several Enforcers into a building she rigged to explode.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Played with. As a child, she's mostly the Blue to Vi's Red: has the right color scheme, and is gentler and less physically violent than her sister. But on account of being younger, she's also more impulsive and doesn't fully understand some of the things she gets into. She's also shown to be far less emotionally stable without Vi around to support her, as evidenced by her disturbingly violent tantrum in episode 3.
Saved by Canon: At the end of episode 9, her body is entirely enveloped by an explosion from her home-made rocket launcher. Since she's a champion in the game, she's almost certainly safe.
Self-Made Orphan: In a roundabout way Powder is fairly responsible for her adoptive father Vander's death. And somewhat less accidentally and a lot more directly, Jinx shoots Silco in the heat of the moment. Meaning she's 2 for 3 on killing her own dads.
Shy Blue-Haired Girl: She starts off as this, being far more introverted and less talkative than the other members of Vi's gang.
Spanner in the Works: Fittingly for somebody Mylo nicknames The Jinx because of how she keeps screwing thing up for them every time she tags along, Powder/Jinx's actions cause ripple effects that further destabilise the stability between Zaun and Piltover, and cause strife for those around her both directly and indirectly, by accident in her youth, but as she becomes older and more crazed, she starts causing these events on purpose, seeing it as a part of who she is.
- In episode 1, it's Powder messing around with the Hex crystals that causes the explosion that alerts the enforcers to their presence, causing a very public disturbance that draws a lot of unwanted attention to then and raises tensions between Zaun and Piltover. Power is also ultimately forced to throw away the gains they got from the heist when Deckard's ground ambushes them, rendering the whole thing All for Nothing. The explosion also causes Jayce to reveal the truth of his research before the council, further aggravating them over his experimentation with magic and causing them to demand the thief be found immediately due to the dangerous nature of what they stole, and also nearly caused Jayce to be Driven to Suicide before Victor stops him. The mounting pressure being placed on Vander due to his status as the Big Good of Zaun and his unwillingness to sacrifice his adopted family to resolve the problem is also what alerts Silco to the fact that there's an opportunity to usurp his former brother as the leader of Zaun and push forward with his plans. Notably, Vi, Mylo and Claggor found a hex crystal in the main room of Jayce's study, but they were wise enough not to mess around with something they didn't understand.
- In episode 2, Powder bringing Vi's old stuffed doll with her to Vander's bar tips him off about Vi planning to pull a heroicSacrifice and give herself up to resolve the tensions between Zaun and Piltover. This leads to him rushing to Benzo's shop without backup in an effort to take her place, leaving him unprepared and unable to fight back properly when Silco ambushes them all with a mutated Deckard and kidnaps him, kicking off the climatic confrontation at the cannery.
- Although Silco promised he was never going to hand Jinx over, the Council voted for the deal and a diplomatic solution to the crisis was found. Jinx's bombing of the Council utterly destroys any chance of peace between Piltover and Zaun.
Super Reflexes: Implied by multiple instances where her perception of a situation seems to slow normal time to a crawl (bordering on Bullet Time), and by her being able to nail over a dozen shots dead center into moving arcade targets even as a young girl.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Powder, a young girl with only rudimentary knowledge of technology and explosives, uses an unknown and highly unstable stone to create a bomb without knowing its range or power. This causes a massive explosion with lots of collateral damage and additionally leads to the deaths of most of her adoptive family.
Tagalong Kid: How Mylo and Claggor perceive her. The one time she doesn't tag along ends up going sideways in more ways than one.
Tantrum Throwing: Played for Drama when Vi refuses to let her go on the mission to rescue Vander. She is so heartbroken and outraged that she throws a screaming, blubbering fit, destroying her own inventions, which ironically leads her to see the destructive potential of the crystals.
That Man Is Dead: When Powder finally reunites with Vi and sees her with Caitlyn, she angrily claims that she is now Jinx, and that Powder "fell down a well". At the end of Act 3, after accidentally killing Silco, she quietly sits at the seat labeled "Jinx" and tells Vi "Here's to the new us", showing that whatever traces of Powder left in her are no more.
Then Let Me Be Evil: In "The Monster You Created," Jinx brings Vi to a room and shows her two different seats, one marked as "Powder", the other "Jinx." She explains she'll let her sister decide where she should sit. After accidentally killing Silco, the girl calmly sits down in the "Jinx" seat. Then she gets up, retrieves the Gemstone, and fires a rocket powered up by it at the Council chamber.
Jinx: I thought... maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I'm... different. But you've changed too. So... here's to the new us.
Took a Level in Badass: Powder was The Baby of the Bunch and pretty much useless in a fight, not even being able to make her grenades actually explodes. Jinx as an adult is a Mad Bomber, a crack shot with a pistol, and is able to fight hand-to-hand well enough to nearly beat Vi's high score on the punching bot.
Took a Level in Badass: Powder was The Baby of the Bunch and pretty much useless in a fight, not even being able to make her grenades actually explodes. Jinx as an adult is a Mad Bomber, a crack shot with a pistol, and is able to fight hand-to-hand well enough to nearly beat Vi's high score on the punching bot.
Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour:
- Powder's attempts at contributing to the efforts of Vi's crew is to try making bombs, and is willing to fill some with nails.
- Very, very subtle, but it's there. After getting caught in her own improvised bomb's explosion, Powder can be seen mid-fall in slow motion, her face showing not fear, nor panic or horror, but subtle awe and wonder at the sheer destructiveness of her bomb's power. It's even more pronounced by the Dissonant Soundtrack that plays as this happens.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In her attempt at helping Vi save Vander from Silco, she creates an explosion that kills Mylo and Claggor, scars Singed, breaks Vi's arm and forces Vander to sacrifice himself to save Vi.
"Well Done, Son!" Guy: As one of her schizophrenic rants demonstrate, she fears being seen as a loose end to Silco, likely as a hangover from her past trauma. To make up for the losses in a botched smuggling job, she goes off on her own and manages to steal a Hextech Gem to impress him.
Yandere: She gets murderously envious of Caitlyn when she realizes Vi likes her. Jinx quickly becomes plagued by hallucinations of Caitlyn taunting her with Vi, terrified her sister will abandon her again. Jinx eventually kidnaps both women and tries to have Vi murder Caitlyn.
Youthful Freckles: Not as prominent as Vi's, but they're there.