The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2
Themes:
- Adult humor: Jokes are often raunchy or deal with bodily functions. There is a lot of swearing.
- Alcohol: Characters frequently drink and many scenes take place in bars.
- Combat and gore: There are many intense battle scenes with a lot of blood and other wounds shown in graphic detail
- Complicated family relationships: Many characters have complicated relationships with their families, including abuse and neglect.
- 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.
- Death and grieving: Multiple storylines deal with individual and mass death, and with the concept of death.
- Flashing lights: Magical effects with flashing lights are in every episode.
- 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.
Intro:
Visual appearances:
- Flashing lights: Spell effects and fire animation (mainly white and yellow light).
- Eyes: Starts with a closeup of a Raven's eyes. Later a closeup on a character's eyes. End's with magical eyes in the clouds.
- Heights: a view of a city from above following a swooping bird.
- Blood and gore: A monster is killed by bursting through its head. Other enemies are fought. Badly wounded characters are shown after a battle.
- Fire: A Village is shown burning with two scared witnesses.
- Imprisonment: A character is shown leaving a prison with hanging manacles.
- Gun: A character is shown wielding a gun.
Episodes:
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.
Recurring Themes:
– Falling: Characters repeatedly fall from great heights.
– Alcohol: Characters drinking in a tavern.
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.
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.
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.
Recurring Themes:
– Manipulation: A character faces magical compulsion to seek violent conflict.
Recurring Themes:
– Unreality: A landscape where things move and shift in unnatural and unsetting ways and respond to emotions.
Recurring Themes:
– Family Abuse: Verbal and emotional abuse shown. Physical abuse briefly referenced.
Recurring Themes:
– Extreme violence: slaughter of innocent people. Physical abuse as punishment.
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.
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.