The Reason You Love Every Arcane Fight Scene [Re-Uploaded]

So first video was taken down 2 hours after being set to public even though it was uploaded as private for a full week before being public. I appreciate all you being here, and hopefully this version of the video will be able to stay up on youtube.

Another point is how realistic the fights are. A lot of fight scenes in other media often resemble a dance, each blow thrown with grace and precision, which is definitely cool but not how fights go in real life. They are brawling, using their surroundings, thinking on their toes. Mylo smacks a dude on the nose with his wrist, Vi banging Sevika's head against the wall to disorient her, Jayce just barely dodging the chemtank's blade and getting his cheek cut. So many little details that makes the characters feel more human.

The first fight scene between the kids is really amazing too! Honestly, this show deserve every single award and praise because it can't get better than this. Thank you for the content!

Also the first fight shows how Jinx made the exact same moves as she did as a child, showing how she never really grew up, and Ekko anticipated jinx’s movements and ultimately won

I'm kinda surprised you didn't mention the legendary Zuko vs Azula (vs Katara as well) fight, without a doubt one of the best in cinematic history

The thing I liked about the fight scenes were that they struck a perfect cord between flashy and brutal, usually when you see a really flashy fight it makes it harder for you to tell what's going on and as a result ends up making the fight hard to watch. When you see a really brutal fight, it ends up draining the colors out of it and making it really ugly as a result. But in this show, the fights are flashy and brutal, the show makes this beautiful yet brutal artform of characters fighting. I wish more shows, especially Western shows had this variety.

"Not a single frame was wasted in the making of this first season." Amen to that. Arcane is a masterpiece.

A really great and really subtle detail that a lot of people miss is how the way that the blood is portrayed on Jinx's teeth mimics the small gap between them that she had as a child as well.

Ekko v Jinx might be the best animated fight scene of all time. It certainly give Zuko v Azula’s agni kai a run for its money, and that's HIGH praise

Tbh Sisters vs Fireflies must be my favorite. The way they knock them from their boards is just 10/10. And if that wouldnt cut it, that one moment when Jinx evades getting killed by tilting her head slightly to the left. How much more badass than this can you get. This is just one of my all time favorite moments regardless of Series tbh.

on vis fight in episode 3 - dude dude DUDE YES !! what you said about her not using her environment and instead just going at it directly is so true!! but it also made me think BACK to the fight between ekko and jinx. before, the two of them trained under vis direction but they lacked her finesse. sure, maybe it was their age but you got me thinking that maybe it was bc her approach wasnt compatible with either of them. jinx is a ranged fighter which is p much the OPPOSITE of vi. she heavily relies on her gadgets to gain the upper hand and as soon as she lost the distance between her and ekko, the fight was over. i think thats why she always won against ekko before since not only did she have both the weapons and the range (both complimenting her aim), but ekko mimicked vis approach and attacked straight on. what made the difference in their last fight on the bridge is that ekkos a more seasoned fighter now whos developed his own strengths and strategies instead of relying on someone elses that werent suitable for him. in each case, neither ekko or jinx can brute force their way through with their fists like vi. i think seeing them confidently engaged in a fight when they were once both liabilities before adds to this scene being so satisfying

I like the fight because big girls go pow pow

I also think something you said before in the women writing one applies here. The idea that the character has to actually TAKE a hit and be hurt. Like I can only watch so many movies where people topple buildings fighting and don’t even get hurt or it’s one guy Vs 50 others and again, won’t get hurt. You see these fights tho and like they take breaks, they exhausted and hurting and that adds WEIGHT, it feels real.

You know. I don't know much about the studio behind Arcane. But I do know that they are behind many of the music videos and other short animations for riot. I think their knowledge and time working on projects like that (basically fitting a lot of key information in such short time while also making it memorable) really helped the studio towards their whole "no wasted frames" vibe.

A small point about Jinx's opening line during the Ekko fight - The Arcane creators planned on having Ekko try and save Jinx sometime as kids before Silco could fully influence her, though we clearly see how that played out. If the creators had kept in that small story plot the sting from her mocking line; "Ooooh look who it is! The boy Savior!" would have easily been considered the first punch IMO. It sets off the rest of the fight so brilliantly I wish they fleshed out that single line more.

It probably just me but my theory is Jinx actually didn't intend to kill Ekko. My theory is she probably pushed him out before the explosion and it's just Jinx literally taking her own life as at that moment she knew she's alone. Vi left her again. Silco betrayed her (atleast that's what she believed at that moment) and her best of friend is hurting her. I interpret that scene as "s**cide" yet I don't see anyone interpret that scene like I do.

As super eye patch wolf said, a fight scene should be a conversation. It should be telling us something about the characters and their ideals/motivations.

Vi's showdown with the goons might be my favorite fight in the whole show. It isn't as flashy as some of the other fights, but it's so tense and grounded. And given the nature of the fight (the bridge, the gauntlets), it really feels like something Vi can pull off. I've seen a lot of people online talk about how "there's no way a 14 y/o girl could fight those guys." I feel like what those people don't realize is that 1) fighting is 90% technique, and 2) whatever handicap Vi has because of her age/size is made up for by the gauntlets.

Only gripe about the Ekko Jinx fight is that Ekko and Powder never even had dialogue in act 1. It is an obvious inference that they would have played together as kids, but Arcane is so concise in its writing that we only got to see them interacting in the Enemy music video

11:15 I would say, an even more underrated fight is right after Vi and goons, Vander vs goons and shimmer after that. In that scene, you get much more of a sense of "what's at stake" and... tbh the buildup is 3 full fucking episodes basically. maybe it's the kind of (early) father mentality inside me, where a person abandons all the morals he has tried to show another person, so they can "make a final stand". Both fights bring the same message, but Vander's fight puts a lot more emphasis on "Fight only for what REALLY matters". That's how I see it, and please use this if you want, cause I'm not, and nobody else is, apparently (unfortunately).