Netflix just dropped the Arcane Season 2 trailer. It definitely seems like they have big plans for this just because it was so successful and Season One landed so hard. So, hopefully, the show makes it for at least five or six seasons.
Netflix is not exactly known for greenlighting a lot of shows beyond season three. But when shows are really popular like this, like Stranger Things, they are known to go a little bit longer.
My assumption is they’ll probably do something similar for season two episodes, where they release a couple of episodes every single week instead of releasing them all at the same time.
Release Date
Netflix reveals in the trailer that Arcane Season 2 will be released in November 2024. A little bit sooner than I would have expected. It took them four years to make season one, and it also went up to being one of the most expensive animated series ever made.
League of Legends makes so much money on that game that they footed much of the bill. But because they were doing that, they had total control over how it was made and how long they spent on it. So they just spent the time it took to make it look amazing.
That’s also why they released it in the weird way they did during season one, with a couple of episodes every single week instead of binge-dropping it all at the same time.
Because they essentially made it themselves, then brought it to Netflix, and “we’re like, we wanted to release it this way.” And when Netflix is like, “Okay, we’re not spending money on it. You can do whatever you want to with it.”
Trailer Breakdown
But this first trailer focuses mostly on the Singed character. He’s in the middle of a blood transfusion in his lab that we saw during season one. He checks his pocket watch, and it’s ticking. Then he looks up as you hear this deep breathing sound, and the camera reveals this is a massive creature that he’s been experimenting on.
It seemingly confirms a long-running fan theory that they’re actually turning the Vander character from season one into the Warwick character from the League of Legends lore. The Netflix Arcane account tweeted out a nightmarish augmentation.
What Happened To Vander?
During the events of season one, Vander was infused with shimmer. Silko confronts him during their last encounter before they strap him to a chair in preparation for an experiment for singed. So, he was already going to be experimenting on him. Vi Jinx and everyone else arrived to save him. Moments away from escaping, though, there are multiple explosions caused by Powder.
Vander fights back against Silko’s remaining men and his shimmer beast before getting stabbed by Silko. Desperate to protect Vi, Vander uses the last of his strength to take shimmer, then turns himself into a monstrous beast. Vander then grabs Vi and jumps out of the collapsing building.
But we jumped to episode nine at the end of the series. Singed found Vander’s body and took it back to his lab, presumably to see if there were possible to bring someone back to life with his chemicals. This also supports another fan theory about Singed’s back story and his dead daughter.
In the present-day show, he’s had Vander theoretically under experiments for the last seven years, and he’s turning him into this undead werewolf-like beast called Warwick, based on the League of Legends, the version of the character.
Presumably, he’ll turn him loose on the undercity, and he’ll wind up fighting Vi and the other characters before they find out what’s really happened to Vander. It is sort of like a Frankenstein’s monster kind of situation where the monster starts to realize what’s really going on. Vander starts to remember what actually happened to him.
Singed’s Daughter
But here’s where we get to that fan theory about Singed trying to conquer death, trying to bring things back from the dead. During the trailer, you hear his pocket watch ticking, and he checks it, but you don’t actually see inside it. It might hold a picture of his daughter, who died before the events of season one.
They don’t really get into his daughter that much during season one, but they imply that she died at some point. It might have had something to do with his experiments; maybe he experimented on her, or maybe her death drove him to become what he is today and drove him to start his experiments.
But I think they’re trying to imply that he might be trying to bring his daughter back from death. That’s the whole reason why he’s performing all these experiments. So a lot of people are now theorizing that his daughter might become Oriana, the Lady of Clockwork from the League of Legends Lore.
So you can kind of see how her back story dovetails a little bit with Singed’s daughter’s back story. It’s kind of the same way they’re combining the Vander character from the show and the Warwick character from the League of Legends lore to make a slightly different version of the character.
Victor’s Transformation
The other major teaser at the end of season one was where Jinx’s missile firing on the Pitover counsel, implying that the war between Piltover and the under city will start at the beginning of the season, and will comprise a big portion of season two, if not spilling into season three and beyond.
Probably the other biggest teaser from the end of season one is Victor’s slow transformation into the Machine Herald from the League of Legends Lore.
So, at the end of Season One, he used the shimmer given to him by Singed, going back to the Singed character to enhance his body with his use of the hex core. Seemingly starting his transformation into his appearance during the game, which is more of a cybernetic blend of techno, organic, magically infused components and body parts. Like a fusion of man magic and technology.
So them leaning on Singed transformations and experiments in the trailer might be them hinting that he’s also responsible for helping transform Victor even faster into the machine Harold. Given the rate of his transformations during season one, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s nearly fully cybernetic by the end of season two. But they might try to push that out to season three.
There’ve been a couple of Arcane season two promos that people have found. And in the background, it seems like if you zoom in and enhance it enough, you can actually see a Machine Harold-looking kind of Victor, like his limbs are completely different looking. So, it really does seem like he transforms a lot during the events of season two, even if he doesn’t fully transform.
Where Do You Stand?
Even though it seems that they’re positioning Silko as an overarching antagonist for the events of the entire series, I think they want you to fall 50-50 on each side. Like, do you support the Under City, or Do you support the Pilrover? Because the whole idea is that there are terrible people on both sides of the conflict
That was kind of what they were using Jace’s storyline for inside the council. As he became part of the council, he found out how corrupt it actually was.
And even though Silco is doing all these terrible things, they wanted to make it seem like he did have some morality during season one, as opposed to Singed, who seemed like he had absolutely no limits. So let me know, who do you think is going to be the actual main villain in the next couple of seasons?
No Peace Because Of Jinx
In the true Game of Thrones, fashion is very much like things inside the world of Westeros. You have a lot of alliances forming on both sides of the conflict and a lot of backstabbing going on on both sides of this kind of conflict.
It’s kind of like we saw Vi working with Jace by the end of season one. That idea will continue into season two. Part of the irony of the end of season one is that Jace met with Silco and made terms for peace, giving the under city total autonomy like complete freedom.
While that final scene with the council was going down, they had actually approved the peace treaty. So it was actually going to go down until Jinx that, the missile off blowing up the council chamber.
So they tried to totally throw the character under the bus. They want to make it seem like a parallel to Jinx when she was younger, causing a similar type of accident that sort of sets off the next big stage of the story, like the next big plot. Like there’s a giant conflict between the city of Piltover and it’s probably Jinx.
We’ll probably get the next really big trailer in the next couple of months. Since the season isn’t dropping till November, they tend to wait a little bit longer to release the really big trailers.
