What I really like about this version of singed he always has the detached manner. He takes an information he gives advice, but he's never forced anybody to do anything. Even when warning Victor about the consequences, he doesn't disregard Victor's hope merely giving a "perhaps"
It is interesting how Singed seems to solely work on Shimmer as medication, as a way to overcome death itself. Silco uses it as a weapon and Singed probably could not care less about that and only works with him because of the subjects provided. And looking at Jinx, while her mind obviously took a major hit, her body recovered fully, so he is making progress.
this is like saying the guy who male drugs is a good guy but the one who sell them is not this is stupidity Also he worked on all those mutations for silco n willmake chemical bombs that will be used in the war xd
“I understand,now” When Singed looked over and saw Viktor I can’t help but feel like Singed feared for Viktor’s health here since he was experimenting on Rio for survival
I've never played League of Legends, so I was unaware of this character until I watched the show. Needless to say, he left a hell of an impression! I actually really dig this show for going out of its way to not have any antagonist be evil for evil's sake, even the mad scientist/doctor character. I hope we see more of him in Season 2.
The sheer number of situations that take place in Runeterra's lore that include Singed is pretty substantial. He's one of those characters that seems to hardly ever be seen (prior to arcane), yet his involvement in events is very common. He's mostly the reason the undercity is the way it is with his creation "Shimmer", he really set in stone Powder's "Jinx" identity, put Viktor onto his radical "glorious evolution" path and even razing Ionia via his poisons used by Noxus. All with only ~180 seconds of screen time total. Given his coincidental habit of being the cause of/appearing in tragedies, I'm sure you can look forward to seeing plenty more of him.
@@valdemar8817 and made a certain champion (will be soon in Arcane season 2) to have his bones shattered by itself, only to get healed by itself then break again. Have chemicals pours out of his eyes and mouths, put a large spike on his back the impales himself whenever negative emotions are triggered, cuts off his left arm, have him starve for weeks, then after he supposedly died, Singed throws his "corpse" on top of his failed "experiments".
@@neutralplayeroflol5722 Assuming the theories of him being Corin Reveck are correct, "THAT" champion isn't the ONLY champion he makes, not that he has to be Corin in order to put that on his resume. Having such a heavy influence on Noxus and Ionia, he can probably claim responsibility for a good number of champion backstories.
@@onnizx thats fair enough. Theres a lot of retconnong happening to the lore the last several years, so the possibility is there, but singed already being so heavily involved in so many things, I wouldn't be surprised if riot and the writers decided to limit his importance to what they already have him for sure a part of.
I love how Singed is kinda the main actor of Zaun and Runeterra : creates Warwick, the Shimmer and Jinx (kinda) his daughter is Orianna (could be) his quimic weapons destroy villages in Ionia by Noxus army (Riven and Yi were affected)
Well you have to remember that those voice lines are like 10 years old XD. Plus his voice in game is much more based on the old lore (obviously). Rather than the more interesting character he is in the current lore.
@@redtoneredtone6592 Yep,I also like how his Slavic accent is way less stereotypical and region-specific than Viktor`s(What makes it all the more impressive is Brett Tucker, his VA is an Aussie IRL, "Arcane" is one of the few examples of VAs putting on accents that aren`t their real ones that don`t sound stereotypical or forced at all, so unlike the source material it ain`t fuckin` funny!)
My favourite part was when he ran down piltover bridge with his ult active. The enforcers chased him even though Jayce and Cair started pinging them to get back
I like that he’s not just another completely evil mad scientist, sure he lacks general empathy but he’s never done anything to actively harm someone unless it’s in the process of testing something he wants to use to improve lives. He never pressures anyone into anything unless they have no choice (he could very well have just given Viktor the shimmer with no warning of the side effects, but he makes the choice to advise Viktor against it. Also when Deckard looks to him for advice he just gives a slight nod, not reassurance that it won’t kill him, but suggesting he should take it. It would have been easy to just have him encourage anyone interested, but he’s chosen not to) And from what we can tell, he only tests on people and creatures who are already dying, attempting to prevent that and expand the capacity of natural mortality
As an Urgot main I'd fucking love to see some Urgot references or appearances, but I'm gonna be happy as long as season 2 is as good as the first season.
what i like about singed is that the man is shrouded in mystery. he performs almost inhumane experiments for unknown purposes he used to know heimerdinger and apparently lost his daughter a long time ago but none of these are ever given a reason hopefully we get some lore for him in season 2 because so far he's my favourite character
His voice in game is a fairly different, but I much prefer this one over the current one that he's had for over a decade now. Hopefully they get the voice actor in Arcane to do any future voiceover updates for the game.
I dig his laugh and personality in game but his voice and presence in Arcane is still some serious ASMR. Feels like I knew someone like that when I was very young.
This guy has all the qualities to be the main antagonist of the entire series, hoping they will pull it as mysterious as he already was in the first season, like a piece that ties all the others togheter, but never truily shows up
He totally has main antagonist energy, I feel like he will be revealed as the big bad at the same time it's revealed that his "weapon" (Warwick) is actually Vander...
Since the process of "healing" is rather grotesque, as we saw; Silco would very much likely intervene to stop Jinx from suffering. Also, having lost a daughter himself, SInged knows how it feels.
Yeah that's an "lovely" thing I didn't think of. Crazy how in 10 minutes I just found out 2 perspectives I didn't look at the character from. But this was a great call out though
So, it's kinda funny that you mention that, because there's a theory going around from within the league lore community that he's actually a character by the name of Corin Reveck, which would have massive implications for another character in League of Legends, and would also mean that a character that has seemingly existed only in name as an individual in the background to someone else's story (a champion (playable character) that came out way after League's launch) has been themselves a champion staring us right in the face since before League of Legends even came out of beta testing. Oh, and the reason it's funny you mentioned that is because, if he IS Corin Reveck, the William Afton parallel becomes... a tiny bit more creepily accurate, I'll say.
@@Rannulfus Given the current lore, it is a bit different though. I guess it comes close to "To be Beautiful", though the reasons and end result differ completely.
Singed, at least the Arcane version, is intelligent on a level beyond anyone else in the show. Heimerdinger is intelligent, but he’s too complacent. Singed has an ambition that he conceals from everyone but himself. It will be interesting to see what happens in Season 2. Sigh….
Heimerdinger isn't complacent, he's been around for so long, he knows what humans are and aren't capable of. He asks the one question Humans never ask themselves. When we invent, we ask "What can we use this for?" We never ask "What is the cost of it's use?" We don't see the use of something beyond our short lives. Heimerdinger does.
@@pob_42This is not entirely true. He never saw Jayce's potential, but Viktor did. He also can't understand nor accept how humans don't have the same luxury of time like he does and why they force themselves to do certain things because of that.
he perfectly understands, thats why we have a line from heimerdinger that goes something like this: "but how could you know? that is a burden only i carry, TIME..." he is like a stern grandfather figure that knows better then the grandchild, he is not wrong nor right, he surley has more experience but also is stuck in the olden ways...@@dakure907
Not yet confirmed, but there is a high chance. There are quite a few hints that foreshadow it being the truth, such as Vander being referred to as a hound and a dog, but some are deeper than just that. Warwick's rework, and the cornucopia of new lore that came with it, came out about two to three years into Arcane's production, around the time the Arcane crew solidly charted out the plot of the first season, and LoL in turn stopped some of the last of their infuriating retcons and plot changes, and instead finally settled on a singular narrative for good. In-game, Warwick utters some pretty keen taunts when interacting with both Vi and Jinx despite his new backstory not containing them anywhere in it. When procced to do so in either one of their presences, he says things like, "The fear in your eyes, I've seen it before," and "Who taught you how to punch?" to Vi (the former possibly in reference to the night everything went to hell, and the latter possibly in reference to how melee fist-fighter Vander inspired Vi's fighting style), and "You were there..." and "Let me forget..." to Jinx (possibly in reference to the night her monkey bomb exploded, sealing his, Mylo, and Claggor's fates). J.B. Blanc voiced Vander in Arcane, while in League, Warick's VA is uncredited, and is almost impossible to compare to many notable VAs who could have voiced him due to the effects put into the voice itself. However, in Arcane, as Vander was in his Shimmer-mutated form, he not only makes growling and roaring noises of eerily similar bestial qualities to Warwick, but as he bellows out "Silco!" to a retreating Silco, his voice noticeably sounds a lot like Warwick. In one of Arcane's final first season episode's final scenes, we see a body hanging above Singed's head as he looks to the locket in his hands. We don't get a definitive view of the body, but as it's hanging in a position similar to LoL artwork depicting Singed's experimentation on the man who would become Warwick, and has a roughly similar (albeit, ill-defined) appearance to Vander, many comparisons have been made. Finally, the teaser they released for Arcane season 2 has LoL Warwick's 'chase' theme playing in the background as it concludes. All this being said, while LoL and Arcane are confirmed to diverge into two separate canons, they are really influencing one another constantly. For all we know, if it is indeed Vander in the Arcane canon, he'll remain possessing his name. Or maybe he won't. We won't know for sure until the next season!
He reminds of Mido from "Code Vein", except he seems more emotionally distant. He doesn't seek to control everybody like Mido does in his plans for progress. Whatever happens during the evolutionary proccess, it happens, as long as it's not stoped. That's why I respect him more than Mido. Of course I would want to come out on top, but not like a leader. It would limit the potential of evolution.
Another thing is that Singed, while his experiments can be twisted, does not gets any sort of pleasure out of them. He doesn't go out of his way to make people suffer, and if they do, he doesn't feel any positive or negative emotions about it. It's just another part of the process. Mido, meanwhile, while certainly correct about Revenants and humanity needing to evolve to combat the threat of the Aragami, is a sadistic bastard who enjoys the suffering his science inflicts. We see this in Emily and Yakumo's memory echoes, as well as with Cruz. If Mido hadn't done such torturous experiments on her, she never would have frenzied, and the Queen would never have been born.
@@kamikazelemming1552men like him shouldn't be allowed anywhere near lab coats. It surprises me someone as idiotic as him even got the job in the first place. Do you believe the next game we get will be a crossover between "Code Vein" and "God Eater" ? It's such a shame it's certainly going to be set after the third game. I would much prefer for it to be set after the second one. I also hope they give us more choices in how we want our character to behave. In my mind, I created a character arc for my protagonist (her emotional and psychological state represented through her clothes) in which she feels it's her responsibility to act like a judge of sorts for the entire species. I narrowly avoided temptation in putting an end to Eva for her powers and Karen's girlfriend for her part in the attempts at cheating the cycle of life and death. I would like to feel more morally ambiguous towards the new set of characters we're supposed to save.
Speaking of "Code Vein"...a few comments had me regret having saved Eva. Her power seemed to mean the end of the Revenants. And Mido himself said, the Revenants have the power to consume both the world and themselves. It's already bad enough the moral sacrifices they would have to perform for their civilization. But of admiration for her singing, I was compassionate, since it seemed symbolic to me. As in, in the middle of the ruin, there can be survivors filled with beauty. But I still have that tiny doubt of "What if...?".
@@Circurose the normal subtitles didn't show this. The audiosynch on the other side( the thing that was made so blind people can experience the pictures shown rather than just what is happening) called him singed
it's funny how people think it's silco because this part is most likely happening right as jinx shot the rocket did singed run in and was like "mine mine mine mine mine NEW SUBJECT" and booked it out of there with silco XD
I would cry if they rework singed , i mean it could be improved and could still feel similar but this is singed , basic asf but you must be crazy as him (not rly mad scientist, but doing crazy strats in league context)to execute him to the full I cant even explain how rewarding it is to make chaos to your laner with 30 paragraphs for abilities with your shitty basic almost 15 yrs old champ , singed for life
Absolutely not, Jeffrey Dahmer killed because the pleasure he got by doing it. Singed is totally detached from reality he thinks on goals, he's the very definition of a mad scientist.
