After all, Arcane is not a prequel to League Of Legends

Notice! This article contains spoilers for Arcane Season 2.

Arcane the second season solidified the show much better than simply a League of Legends prequel. At the time of Arcane At the end of Season 2, the show concluded its story with an appropriate amount of death and destruction. This probably came as a shock to those familiar with the source material, as even some of the Arcaneof League of Legends champions proved that they were not above being killed.

Naturally, this raises the question of whether Arcane is a League of Legends Prequel after all. ArcaneThe cast of characters is filled with playable champions from the original game, with many assuming the show was simply filling in their backstory. That being said, ArcaneThe ending of proved that this was not the case. As the questions end Arcane the story of season 3 or future spin-offs are brought up, the audience is left with the fact that the show was never a League of Legends spin-off, but something much better.

We all thought Arcane was the Canon of League Of Legends… but it’s not

League characters are expendable in Arcane

Firstly, it’s worth exploring why Arcane cannot be classified as League of Legends prequel that fills in the canon of the game’s characters. The reason for this is the death of several characters in Arcane which are taken directly from the source material. Characters like Jayce, Viktor, Heimerdinger, Jinx, and Warwick apparently died in ArcaneThe ending will likely shock those who know these characters existed in the original game.

Instead of delving into these characters’ stories to prepare them for the future of video games, Arcane follows a different path. These characters are different versions of those in the game, and as a result, they have proven to be expendable. While the deaths of characters like Jinx, Jayce, and Viktor, to name a few, were suitably tragic, they proved that Arcane never bothered to link its characters to their supposed future as League of Legends champions. Instead of, Arcane confirms something else.

Arcane’s second season introduced the League Of Legends multiverse

Arcane the season 2 finale revealed that the show is part of League of Legends’ vast multiverse. The multiverse has long been a concept that has been part of League of Legends‘, despite it not being a very important plot point in the game. In the end, League of Legends is a MOBA, or multiplayer online battle arena, which means any story has few consequences during gameplay. This explains why the multiverse was never a major aspect of the source material, despite its existence being confirmed.

In Arcane, however, the multiverse proved to be important. Not only did Ekko and Heimerdinger end up in an alternate universe where things were different from the one shown in Arcane seasons 1 and 2, but so does Jayce. So developments involving Viktor and his time travel shenanigans involving young Jayce were also tied into the multiverse. These elements, as well as the death of several Arcane characters based on League of Legends, solidified the former as a possibility in the latter’s expansive multiverse, as opposed to the direct prequel many thought it was initially.