The Legend of Vox Machina: Season 2

Recurring Themes:

  • Alcohol: Characters frequently drink and many scenes take place in bars.
  • Adult humor: Jokes are often raunchy or deal with bodily functions. There is a lot of swearing.
  • Blood and gore: A lot of blood and gore are frequent parts of the series and in most episodes.
  • Combat and gore: Many intense battle scenes with a lot of blood and other wounds are shown in graphic detail.
  • Death and grieving: Multiple storylines deal with individual and mass death and the concept of death.
  • Dragon attacks: Dragons attack cities and the countryside together using fire, ice, acid, and poison gas. Cities are destroyed by them. Many graphic scenes of their attacks.
  • Magical compulsion: A character's actions are controlled by an outside force and they are distressed by this.
  • Yelling: The sound design has many quiet and loud moments. Characters often yell or scream in distress. A lot of combat sounds.

Visual appearances:

  • Flashing lights: Magical effects with flashing lights are in every episode.

Episodes:

The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E1: “Rise of the Chroma Conclave”

A group shot of Vox Machina, Gilmore, and a random person in front of an arch.

Recurring Themes:
– Drowning: Characters are pulled underwater by monsters multiple times.
– Suspected betrayal: Characters work together, but plan to double-cross them.
– Gore: Death and dismemberment.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E2: “The Trials of Vasselheim”

Vox Machina stand on a snowy road. Percy stands in front looking satisfied with Keyleth behind him looking concerned. Pike sits on Grog's shoulders. Vex and Vax look doubtful. Scanlan can't be seen.

Recurring Themes:
– Falling: Characters repeatedly fall from great heights.
– Alcohol: Characters drinking in a tavern.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E3: “The Sunken Tomb”

A frozen lake in a forest backed by mountains at sunset. Scanlan skates from left to right on a giant magical purple foot.

Recurring Themes:
– Drowning: Characters are pulled underwater by monsters multiple times.
– Suspected betrayal: Characters work together, but plan to double-cross them.
– Gore: Death and dismemberment.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E4: “Those Who Walk Away”

Vax stands in a red scene. Behind him to the left is Ioun, a goddess depicted as a dark woman in flowing robes with long flowing hair, and 3 stars on their forehead. Behind Vax to the right is The Everlight, a goddess depicted as a dark woman crackling with energy floating in front of a golden disk of light.

Recurring Themes:
– Hallucinations: A character has terrifying hallucinations. Some cause the character to freeze in battle.
– Petrification: Throughout a battle, characters are turned to stone.
– Loss of control: A character accepts a new fate that feels out of their control.
– Gore: Death and dismemberment.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E5: “Pass Through Fire”

Vex stands in front of snowy rocks with one hand on her hip, tossing a pouch with the other.

Recurring Themes:
– Parental Absence: The episode deals with the memories and emotions of a character’s parent going missing when they were a child.
– Visions of death: A character repeatedly has dreams and hallucinations of death and dead people.
– Cursed Magical Items: Multiple characters deal with magically forced use of items.
– Fire: contact with the fire plane causes fires and lava throughout the episode. Characters are repeatedly burned.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E6: “Into Rimecleft”

Vax and Percy stand combat ready. Vax is wearing new armor with magical accent details that glow with gold light.

Recurring Themes:
– Manipulation: A character faces magical compulsion to seek violent conflict.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E7: “The Fey Realm”

Scanlan holds Pike sitting on the hilly ground. Pike is bleeding from the abdomen.

Recurring Themes:
– Unreality: A landscape where things move and shift in unnatural and unsetting ways and respond to emotions.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E8: “Echo Tree”

Closeup of Keyleth holding her staff and casting a spell with twinkling yellow light.

Recurring Themes:
– Family Abuse: Verbal and emotional abuse shown. Physical abuse briefly referenced.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E9: “A Test of Pride”

Grog, Pike, and Scanlan peak out of a wooden window.

Recurring Themes:
– Extreme violence: slaughter of innocent people. Physical abuse as punishment.

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

Vax, Vex, Percy, and Keyleth stand in a dim stone hall with blue light.

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.

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E11: “Belly of the Beast”

Vex looks back over her shoulder as she fires a flaming arrow forward. Behind her are mountains and trees at sunset.

Recurring Themes:
– None

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The Legend of Vox Machina, S2 E12: “The Hope Devourer”

In a dim cave, Grog punches forward towards the camera with the glowing titan stone knuckles.

Recurring Themes:
– Acid: Characters start in a large acidic stomach. Characters are attacked by acid throughout. A battle takes place in a cavern filled with acid lakes.

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