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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGlhWPwrkDg "After Victory"]], we see the end of a war between Noxus and Urtis. Darius saves the life of a slave who defied her ungrateful king, who demanded she die for him after she saved his crown from being destroyed. He then offers her a chance to become more than a slave, the short ending with the king's crown being melted down and made into a sword that the slave, now a Noxian warrior, wields.
-->'''Darius''': "Kings demand you kneel before their heirlooms and unearned titles. Noxus wants you to stand. So you can be reforged in a glory shared by all."
** In ''Tales of Runeterra: Freljord'', Braum is told to GoOnWithoutMe as a Freljordian is injured in an attack and intends to perform a HeroicSacrifice by way of [[TakingYouWithMe shattering the glacial wall they're standing on]], to ensure the attackers cannot follow Braum and her infant son whom Braum is carrying, her last words is for Braum to raise her son well. Ordinarily, you'd expect such a scene to end with Braum walking away from the scene, perhaps cutting away post-timeskip to show the boy having grown up strong and proud. \\
'''Not on Braum's watch!''' [[DareToBeBadass With a resolute "Come, little one"]] He jumps onto his shield, [[ShieldSurf surfs down the mountainside, overtakes the avalanche]], tackles the falling freljordian out of her fall with his free arm, taking the brunt of the fall himself, landing right in front of the avalanche, quickly handing the Freljordian her baby back, then picks up his shield, and ''blocks the avalanche'' while giving them both reassuring smiles as the avalanche is forced to part around them. It doesn't matter whether it's bows, cannons, magic, or avalanches, Braum ''will'' protect you.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVLRh1y96M "True Genius"]] has Heimerdinger's nameless apprentice scale a building to retrieve the professor's invention that Jinx had stolen...only for her tinkering to send it plummeting into the Sump. So he climbs all the way down...right in time for ''Ekko's'' tinkering to send it flying back up.
--->'''Apprentice''': Oh, man...
** The comedy of errors that is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJhZW-iN0s "Double-Double Cross"]].
*** A captured Twisted Fate trying to tell his captor (Miss Fortune) that [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough Graves wouldn't be dumb enough]] to walk into an obvious trap to save him. He doesn't even finish his sentence before Graves kicks the door open.
*** Miss Fortune's genius plan to capture him: An old-fashioned [[CaughtInASnare ankle snare]]. It's hard to tell what's the funniest part of this: the fact Graves almost steps on it and only missed by a few inches, Miss Fortune's genuine disappointment that it didn't work, or the fact that based on the way TF is strung up, it actually ''did'' work on him.
---->'''Miss Fortune''': Dammit.\\
'''Twisted Fate''': Dumb luck is a gift of his.
*** The two have Fortune at their mercy... and then get so caught up arguing over how to split the reward that she drops them into a tiny crate via trap door.
---->'''Graves''': [[SomeonesTouchingMyButt Get your elbow out of my mouth]]!\\
'''Twisted Fate''': That is ''not'' my elbow!
*** Their varied reactions to the witch promising to offer them to some EldritchAbomination for a millennium of torment.
---->'''Graves''': One thousand years of suffering? How’s that even possible? Some kind of time travel?! I got twenty years max, man.
---->'''Twisted Fate''': You know, I am too young and handsome to go out like this!
*** And the punchline -- Fortune evidently decides that no one deserves that and slips them a card.
---->'''Sea witch''': My sacrifice!
* We could just say that the entirety of the [[https://youtu.be/8QkVYl4r42U/ Don't Mess With Yordles]] cinematic for Wild Rift takes the cake to the moon and back with all of it's comedy, but we'd be missing out on all of the best bits:
** When Teemo goes missing in Bilgewater, Tristana has to deal with Corki and Lulu wanting to come along. To keep them out of the way, she lies to Corki that there are enemy bogies over Piltover and has Lulu guard a rock as [[BrickJoke "the most important part of the mission"]].
*** Lulu's frustration shows this isn't the first time she's had to guard a rock. When she complains about the situation, she accidentally casts a spell that inflates Pix's head.
*** As Corki is flying over Piltover, he bemoans that there are no bogies whilst completely oblivious to Jinx's makeshift Hextech cannon from the "[[https://youtu.be/qCVLRh1y96M True Genius]]" cinematic rocketing around the sky.
** When Tristana arrives in Bilgewater, she's greeted by Graves' cannon gun in her face. She goes from [[GunPorn fangirling over the contraption]] to [[DelayedOhCrap instant fear and nervousness]] when he fires it off and she's reminded that there's a gun in her ''face''.
** After Tristana is imprisoned with Teemo in a [[ColdIron Runic Iron cage]] set up by Graves, Corki comes flying in to save them... except he crashes into a ship mast several yards away. He tries to use the momentum from getting luanched out of his helicopter to punch Graves, only to shoot right past him and into the cage.
** Corki reveals that he was only a distraction for Lulu. Lulu then emerges from a portal [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration grown to gigantic proportions]], scaring Graves shitless and [[OffhandBackhand knocking him away like a ragdoll]] while barely caring about his presence.
*** Despite the fact she's directly complaining to Tristana for putting her on rock duty, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she also completely fails to notice that she and their friends]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint are locked in a cage]]''.
*** When she accidentally depowers herself touching the cage, [[BrickJoke the rock]] she's carrying lands on Graves' foot, causing [[NiceJobFixingItVillain him to accidentally fire off his gun to release the Yordles from their imprisonment]].
*** Lulu is immediately worried about the rock after she drops it despite her earlier complaints.
** Beforehand, Twisted Fate had warned Graves that Yordles are more trouble than they're worth since they're "ticking time bomb[s] of trouble". Once Lulu comes walking up three times as big as both combined, he simply puts on his hat and and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere nonchalantly leaves to avoid getting involved]].
--->'''Twisted Fate''': As I said: Tick, tick, tick.
** Graves attempts to use Corki to stop the Yordles from attacking, only for Lulu to sneak up behind and transform him into a frog.
*** Twisted Fate casually collects his polymorphed partner in a box and takes him away. The Yordles see him off with vary degrees of enthusiasm, with Lulu waving goodbye like a child seeing her best friend off at the end of her birthday party.
** We finally learn why Teemo was in Bilgewater in the first place: he wanted to earn his badge for adopting a pet. In his case, it's a ''soul-devouring sea worm''. Tristana and Corki immediately freak out and try to stop him from taking it back home. Lulu on the other hand [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} is leaning forward eagerly with an almost terrifyingly shit-eating grin]], and only calls out to him [[NightmareFetishist so she can take a closer look for herself]].
--->'''Teemo''':''"(giggles) Cute, huh?"''
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** When his cousin attempts a HeroicSacrifice in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTnVvmqB9fY "The Raid"]] cinematic, Braum goes for plan B: Snowboarding in front of an avalanche on his door shield and blocking said avalanche with his ''Unbreakable'' ability, saving her and her infant son.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGlhWPwrkDg "After Victory"]] has a nameless slave girl[[note]] revealed to be [[https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Trifarian_Gloryseeker_(Legends_of_Runeterra) Trifarian Gloryseeker]][[/note]] attack the enormous Captain Farron to retrieve her king's crown. When said king responds by [[UngratefulBastard saying no slave should even touch his crown and orders her to suicide attack Farron and Darius]], she refuses. And when he tries to attack her, Darius tosses his ax straight through him.

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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGlhWPwrkDg "After Victory"]], we see the end of a war between Noxus and Urtis. Darius saves the life of a slave who defied her ungrateful king, who demanded she die for him after she saved his crown from being destroyed. He then offers her a chance to become more than a slave, the short ending with the king's crown being melted down and made into a sword that the slave, now a Noxian warrior, wields.

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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: We could just say that the entirety of the [[https://youtu.be/8QkVYl4r42U/ Don't Mess With Yordles]] cinematic for Wild Rift takes the cake to the moon and back with all of it's comedy, but we'd be missing out on all of the best bits:
** When Teemo goes missing in Bilgewater, Tristana has to deal with Corki and Lulu wanting to come along. To keep them out of the way, she lies to Corki that there are enemy bogies over Piltover and has Lulu guard a rock as [[BrickJoke "the most important part of the mission"]].
*** Lulu's frustration shows this isn't the first time she's had to guard a rock. When she complains about the situation, she accidentally casts a spell that inflates Pix's head.
*** As Corki is flying over Piltover, he bemoans that there are no bogies whilst completely oblivious to Jinx's makeshift Hextech cannon from the "[[https://youtu.be/qCVLRh1y96M True Genius]]" cinematic rocketing around the sky.
** When Tristana arrives in Bilgewater, she's greeted by Graves' cannon gun in her face. She goes from [[GunPorn fangirling over the contraption]] to [[DelayedOhCrap instant fear and nervousness]] when he fires it off and she's reminded that there's a gun in her ''face''.
** After Tristana is imprisoned with Teemo in a [[ColdIron Runic Iron cage]] set up by Graves, Corki comes flying in to save them... except he crashes into a ship mast several yards away. He tries to use the momentum from getting luanched out of his helicopter to punch Graves, only to shoot right past him and into the cage.
** Corki reveals that he was only a distraction for Lulu. Lulu then emerges from a portal [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration grown to gigantic proportions]], scaring Graves shitless and [[OffhandBackhand knocking him away like a ragdoll]] while barely caring about his presence.
*** Despite the fact she's directly complaining to Tristana for putting her on rock duty, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she also completely fails to notice that she and their friends]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint are locked in a cage]]''.
*** When she accidentally depowers herself touching the cage, [[BrickJoke the rock]] she's carrying lands on Graves' foot, causing [[NiceJobFixingItVillain him to accidentally fire off his gun to release the Yordles from their imprisonment]].
*** Lulu is immediately worried about the rock after she drops it despite her earlier complaints.
** Beforehand, Twisted Fate had warned Graves that Yordles are more trouble than they're worth since they're "ticking time bomb[s] of trouble". Once Lulu comes walking up three times as big as both combined, he simply puts on his hat and and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere nonchalantly leaves to avoid getting involved]].
--->'''Twisted Fate''': As I said: Tick, tick, tick.
** Graves attempts to use Corki to stop the Yordles from attacking, only for Lulu to sneak up behind and transform him into a frog.
*** Twisted Fate casually collects his polymorphed partner in a box and takes him away. The Yordles see him off with vary degrees of enthusiasm, with Lulu waving goodbye like a child seeing her best friend off at the end of her birthday party.
** We finally learn why Teemo was in Bilgewater in the first place: he wanted to earn his badge for adopting a pet. In his case, it's a ''soul-devouring sea worm''. Tristana and Corki immediately freak out and try to stop him from taking it back home. Lulu on the other hand [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} is leaning forward eagerly with an almost terrifyingly shit-eating grin]], and only calls out to him [[NightmareFetishist so she can take a closer look for herself]].
--->'''Teemo''':''"(giggles) Cute, huh?"''
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
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In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGlhWPwrkDg "After Victory"]], we see the end of a war between Noxus and Urtis. Darius saves the life of a slave who defied her ungrateful king, who demanded she die for him after she saved his crown from being destroyed. He then offers her a chance to become more than a slave, the short ending with the king's crown being melted down and made into a sword that the slave, now a Noxian warrior, wields.


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** In ''Tales of Runeterra: Freljord'', Braum is told to GoOnWithoutMe as a Freljordian is injured in an attack and intends to perform a HeroicSacrifice by way of [[TakingYouWithMe shattering the glacial wall they're standing on]], to ensure the attackers cannot follow Braum and her infant son whom Braum is carrying, her last words is for Braum to raise her son well. Ordinarily, you'd expect such a scene to end with Braum walking away from the scene, perhaps cutting away post-timeskip to show the boy having grown up strong and proud. \\
'''Not on Braum's watch!''' [[DareToBeBadass With a resolute "Come, little one"]] He jumps onto his shield, [[ShieldSurf surfs down the mountainside, overtakes the avalanche]], tackles the falling freljordian out of her fall with his free arm, taking the brunt of the fall himself, landing right in front of the avalanche, quickly handing the Freljordian her baby back, then picks up his shield, and ''blocks the avalanche'' while giving them both reassuring smiles as the avalanche is forced to part around them. It doesn't matter whether it's bows, cannons, magic, or avalanches, Braum ''will'' protect you.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While most region cinematics do their best to establish or flesh out story/worldbuilding elements, the Targon reveal cinematic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UuLD-0lndY "The Vaulted Road"]] received more criticism due to not doing so to the extent of others, raising far more questions than answers:

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While most region cinematics of the shorts do their best to establish or flesh out story/worldbuilding elements, the Targon reveal cinematic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UuLD-0lndY "The Vaulted Road"]] received more criticism due to not doing so to the extent of others, raising far more questions than answers:
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVLRh1y96M "True Genius"]] has Heimerdinger's nameless apprentice scale a building to retrieve the professor's invention that Jinx had stolen...only for her tinkering to send it plummeting into the Sump. So he climbs all the way down...right in time for ''Ekko's'' tinkering to send it flying back up.
--->'''Apprentice''': Oh, man...
** The comedy of errors that is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJhZW-iN0s "Double-Double Cross"]].
*** A captured Twisted Fate trying to tell his captor (Miss Fortune) that [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough Graves wouldn't be dumb enough]] to walk into an obvious trap to save him. He doesn't even finish his sentence before Graves kicks the door open.
*** Miss Fortune's genius plan to capture him: An old-fashioned [[CaughtInASnare ankle snare]]. It's hard to tell what's the funniest part of this: the fact Graves almost steps on it and only missed by a few inches, Miss Fortune's genuine disappointment that it didn't work, or the fact that based on the way TF is strung up, it actually ''did'' work on him.
---->'''Miss Fortune''': Dammit.\\
'''Twisted Fate''': Dumb luck is a gift of his.
*** The two have Fortune at their mercy... and then get so caught up arguing over how to split the reward that she drops them into a tiny crate via trap door.
---->'''Graves''': [[SomeonesTouchingMyButt Get your elbow out of my mouth]]!\\
'''Twisted Fate''': That is ''not'' my elbow!
*** Their varied reactions to the witch promising to offer them to some EldritchAbomination for a millennium of torment.
---->'''Graves''': One thousand years of suffering? How’s that even possible? Some kind of time travel?! I got twenty years max, man.
---->'''Twisted Fate''': You know, I am too young and handsome to go out like this!
*** And the punchline -- Fortune evidently decides that no one deserves that and slips them a card.
---->'''Sea witch''': My sacrifice!
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGlhWPwrkDg "After Victory"]], we see the end of a war between Noxus and Urtis. Darius saves the life of a slave who defied her ungrateful king, who demanded she die for him after she saved his crown from being destroyed. He then offers her a chance to become more than a slave, the short ending with the king's crown being melted down and made into a sword that the slave, now a Noxian warrior, wields.
-->'''Darius''': "Kings demand you kneel before their heirlooms and unearned titles. Noxus wants you to stand. So you can be reforged in a glory shared by all."
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** When his cousin attempts a HeroicSacrifice in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTnVvmqB9fY "The Raid"]] cinematic, Braum goes for plan B: Snowboarding in front of an avalanche on his door shield and blocking said avalanche with his ''Unbreakable'' ability, saving her and her infant son.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGlhWPwrkDg "After Victory"]] has a nameless slave girl[[note]] revealed to be [[https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Trifarian_Gloryseeker_(Legends_of_Runeterra) Trifarian Gloryseeker]][[/note]] attack the enormous Captain Farron to retrieve her king's crown. When said king responds by [[UngratefulBastard saying no slave should even touch his crown and orders her to suicide attack Farron and Darius]], she refuses. And when he tries to attack her, Darius tosses his ax straight through him.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: While most region cinematics do their best to establish or flesh out story/worldbuilding elements, the Targon reveal cinematic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UuLD-0lndY "The Vaulted Road"]] received more criticism due to not doing so to the extent of others, raising far more questions than answers:
** The cinematic shows Leona and Diana on-screen together for the first time. Is there an epic fight? A debate of Solari vs. Lunari logic? Nope -- the cinematic is centrally focused on a never-before-seen [[StarCrossedLovers star-crossed Targonian couple]], with Leona and Diana being completely tertiary to the events [[LostInMediasRes (we have no context for why either of them are there)]], and the video ends [[{{Cliffhanger}} right as they sight each other]], not exchanging a single word (we finally did get to see them clash in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrPFeEHegik "Call of the Mountain"]], but the reasons why are still unknown).
** There's also the Solari-Lunari couple themselves. Given how the Lunari are largely perceived to be extinct, you'd think there would be a greater focus on how such a couple even formed to begin with. Unfortunately, no hints are dropped, and given how the short ends with them [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascending to a higher plane of existence]], it's unlikely we'll ever know.

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