History WesternAnimation / TheLegendOfVoxMachina

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* StealthPun: Simon, Vax's snake belt, has an eyepatch. He's an ''one-eyed trouser snake''. [[note]]It's a dick joke.[[/note]]

* OurGodsAreDifferent: A pantheon of pagan gods exist in this world who provide certain holy people with the ability to create ''Green Lantern''-like light constructs and heal people. They are so mysterious and remote that they don't even have named, instead they referred to by titles like "the Knowing Mistress" or "the Matron of Ravens." They seemed to walk the world centuries before in the form of giants, but now have only appear to their followers in visions and dreams.

* ''Mighty Nein'': A yet-unreleased spin-off adapting the [[WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignTwo second campaign]] of ''Critical Role''.

** The second time is when during a battle with a dragon in the penultimate episode of Season 2, Vax and Scanlan shove **themselves** up the dragon's ass to attack it from the inside.

* TemptingFate: Grog mocks Sylas by calling his sword cute, mere moments before said sword absorbs his blood and grows bigger.

** In "The Tide Of Bone" Scanlan's forearm has a chunk torn out of it by one of the Zombie horde besieging the town of whitestone, an act that is particularly devastating for him due to the size difference. His arm is left barely functional afterwards and quickly starts turning necrotic, with Keyleth estimating he has less than an hour before it rots completely, with the rapid decay either being caused by the black magic animating the undead abomination or simply being bitten by something as unsanitary as a rotting body. Grog even offers to chop the arm off completely before it gets any worse, but rather than [[AmputationStopsSpread stopping Scanlan from turning into a zombie]], it's merely so the rot doesn't poison his body as well as his arm. [[spoiler:Luckily, Pike returns and swiftly heals the wound before it gets any worse.]].

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Keyleth only had one mug of ale in a drinking contest, and then [[VomitIndiscretionShot it all comes back up as she throws up onto the floor]].

** NaiveNewcomer Keyleth [[CantHoldHisLiquor can't hold her liquor]] and [[VomitIndiscretionShot chucks it all up even though she'd only had one]], [[SorryOciffer after blatantly claiming she isn't drunk and that they should go to another bar]].

** Keyleth proves herself to be a naive lightweight who CantHoldHerLiquor and barfs repeatedly.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Keyleth, after drinking too much, throws up on the floor, which is shown on-screen. Pike mentions that [[CantHoldHIsLiquor Keyleth only had one mug of ale]]. She ends up puking a few more times as a result, including during the BarBrawl into someone else's mouth and after Scanlan's song that introduces Vox Machina to the council.
* WaterfallPuke: Keyleth's drunken vomiting. She throws up on the floor, [[VomitIndiscretionShot which is shown on-screen]]. Pike mentions that [[CantHoldHisLiquor Keyleth only had one mug of ale]].

* {{Animesque}}: The series has a typical anime intro with an animation similar to Sakuga style, characters fighting enemies they will never meet in the show, solo character shot and all the main characters doing the typical TeamShot watching the sunset. The character designer is no other than Phil Bourassa, who also did ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' and ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies'', and some of animation renderings were made by Production Reve, which is specialized in other {{Animesque}} shows like ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', ''WesternAnimation/DotaDragonsBlood'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''.

* RevengeBeforeReason: The primary arc of Season 1 sees Percy struggling to maintain his moral center as his desire for vengeance against the Briarwoods and their servants for the murder of his family threatens to corrupt and wholly consume him. This is portrayed through his torture and maiming of an innocent carriage driver which results in the group getting arrested, him abandoning the group and nearly unwittingly shooting Vax in the middle of a rage, getting furious with his team for stealing his kills, and demanding the team leave a critically wounded Keyleth behind in order to satisfy his vengeance against Delilah. [[DealWithTheDevil Part of this is for reasons]] [[DemonicPossession not wholly in his control]].

* RevengeBeforeReason: In Episode 3. After the Briarwoods escape, Percy curses that he had them, then yells at the rest of Vox Machina for letting them get away, despite the fact that [[CurbStompBattle Vox Machina were getting their collective asses handed to them by the Briarwoods.]] After that, Percy holds the Briarwoods' carriage driver at gunpoint, [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique shoots off one of his hands]], and aims to kill him, right in the middle of a noble estate. The result is that Percy gets Vox Machina arrested when it's discovered what he's doing.

* EvilVirtues: Sylas and Delilah Briarwood are very evil, and very, very deeply in love, like an evil Morticia and Gomez Addams When no healer could cure Sylas' disease, a distraught Delilah turned to the dark arts and made a pact with [[spoiler:the Whispered One]] that turns Sylas into a Vampire, preserving him. Everything they do - though they relish in it - is because there's nothing Delilah won't do to stay with Sylas. [[spoiler: Once Vox Machina kill Sylas, Delilah has no fight left in her.]]

* TwinTelepathy: Vex senses that something's wrong after [[spoiler:Vax goes down in the fountain and whispers the safeword "chenga".]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: Shortly before the party's showdown with Brimscythe, Keyleth discovers a wall with four magical stones embedded inside of them, and as she approaches, green reptilian eye appears in one of them, followed by a voice that called out "Intruders!" before the stones immediately break. [[spoiler:This is Raishan, a member of the Chroma Conclave.]]

** Percy is more arrogant due to his rich upbringing than he was in the original web show, and openly admits that he's embarrassed to be associated with the rest of Vox Machina. At least part of this seems to come from his simmering anger issues over his DarkAndTroubledPast and tendency to [[TheStoic bottle them up]], rather than let them show, making him all-round irritable at his current circumstances.

* {{Fanservice}}: While the show doesn't shy away from showing sex and nudity explicitly, it's usually PlayedForLaughs and not taken too seriously. Which makes the portrait [[spoiler: (secretly a portal)]] of a nude dragon-like humanoid woman that Vox Machina finds in General Krieg's office in "The Terror of Tal'dorei, Part 2", with her back and derreire turned towards the observer for their viewing pleasure, particularly stand out, especially with how [[MaleGaze the scene is cast]] [[DistractedByTheSexy from Grog's perspective]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MightyNein'': A yet-unreleased spin-off adapting the [[WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignTwo second campaign]] of ''Critical Role''.

* ''Mighty Nein'': A yet-unreleased spin-off adapting the second campaign of ''Critical Role''.