The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E10: “The Killbox”

Recurring Themes:

  • Blood and gore: Most of the episode is a very violent battle with a lot of blood and gore including eye injuries and severed limbs.

Occurrences:

 

  • Unreality: Places not appearing as characters expect them. Time dilation between realms causes characters to have two different perceptions of passed time.
  • Family Abuse: A character fights a physically and emotionally abusive older family. Include bullying, and blaming the abused character for other violent actions.
  • Healing through willpower: As part of magical healing, a character must will themselves to get better.
  • Fight to the Death: Characters duel with the intention of killing each other.
  • Impalement: a character is fully impaled through their back and stomach.
  • Claustrophobia: A character gasps in pain while being crushed (non fatal).
  • Falling: Characters leap or fall intentionally from great heights during a fight.
  • Eye injuries: Multiple people are stabbed in the eyes during a battle.
  • Mauling: Characters are attacked by an animals twice.
  • Fire: Characters are set on fire in a magical explosion.
  • Gore: A character removes their partially severed arm.
  • Gore: A character is cut in half.
  • Alcohol: Characters play drinking games in a tavern.
  • Sexually explicit song: A song about maturation is sung.
  • Frightening hallucinations: A character has hallucinations that scare them. They're unsure how real they are.
  • Sexual Deceit: A character flirts with someone under false pretenses to get them alone and punish them for previous actions.
  • Incest: Characters flirt and go off alone before it is revealed that they are related.

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing Lights: Dark scene with bright flashes of magic, fire, and weapon clashes.