Jinx/Trivia

General

• Jinx's dance references Jake from Adventure Time.
  • A side by side comparison can be seen here.
• C (her nemesis' alias) X, and VI are Roman numerals which coincidentally form CXVI (116) Jinx's 'release number'.
• Super Mega Death Rocket!'s blast radius displays a smiley face upon impact.
  • Get Excited! also displays a smiley face over Jinx upon activation.
• Jinx is the first champion whose laugh animation automatically loops as well as the only one to currently have a login screen for all of her non-release skins.
• Jinx's braids (her scarf in Mafia) form a heart when she dies.
• Whenever Jinx is on the opposing team, Vi and/or Caitlyn each gain the Catch me if you can! cosmetic debuff.

Development

• Jinx's production name was 'Psycho Arsenal'.
• Prior to her reveal Robert 'Ransom' Lo described Jinx's personality as 'unique' and her hair color as 'one only a single champion has'.
• Katie 'TeaTime' De Sousa stated Jinx was inspired by the Joker, Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, and Helena Bonham Carter.
• Jinx appeared for the very first time during Pool Party 2013 (Her head can be barely seen next to Pool Party Renekton in Pool Party Graves' artwork, and the corresponding login screen at the time was drawn from her first-person view)

Quotes

• "Say hello to my friends of varying sizes!" references Tony Montana from Scarface.
• Her Super Mega Death Rocket! lines reference Worms.
• "I'm bringing guns to the knife fight! Hehe" references The Untouchables ("Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight.")
• "She's such a loser, always ready to cry!' T-t-t-ta!" references Vi's theme.
• "Jinx? Stands for Jinx! Durr" references "Vi? Stands for Violence / Vice / Vicious".
• "Three guns means never having to say I'm sorry" references Love Story.
• "Let's just behave... said no one, ever" references the eponymous meme.
• According to Sarah Anne Williams (Jinx's voice actress) "HRRRRRK... blah" was inspired by 'Red vs. Blue' by Rooster Teeth.

Skins

Original Jinx

• The background is the same as Original Vi's but in ruins.
• The right side of her body is tattoed with blue smoke and pink bullets. She couldn't stay still for long so the other half wasn't finished.
• Pow-Pow wears kitty ears.
  • In early stages, the minigun was named Mr. Pew-Pew and had a cat face painted on its guncannon.

• She is dressed like a flapper.
• Pow-Pow being hidden in a violin case references Film noir.
• She dances the Charleston while the phonograph beside her plays 'Get Jinxed' 1920s style.
  • A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
• This is her only untattoed skin.
• She is the second non-Legendary skin to have special voice-over lines (the others being Jaximus, Mecha Kha'Zix, Pentakill Karthus, and Battlecast Vel'Koz).
• She shares this theme with , , and (the Bounty Hunter and the Plague Rat can be seen in the background together with Urgot and Twisted Fate's Blue Cards).

Firecracker Jinx

• She has a green Chinese dragon tattooed on her right arm.
• This skin was inspired from a fan-created concept sketch by Anti-Pioneer and was released 9 days before Chinese New Year 2015.

• The original concept for a zombie-killing Jinx was a real-world zombie apocalypse survivor. However, designers decided to change the idea to zombie slayer since it'd fit better her personality.
  • When talking about zombie-killing theme, Jinx was the first champion thought for the concept.
• Her look is based on an anime-style, schoolgirl-type monster slayer.
• She uses homemade weaponry: a V-twin motorcycle engine minigun, a molotov cocktails and propane tanks launcher, a launchable taser and some severed-heads chompers.
• She has black hearts tattooed on her right arm.
• She shares this theme with .
• Zombie Brand can be seen in the background.
  • Zombie Nunu also makes an appearance.

Star Guardian Jinx

• She references the magical girl genre from anime.
  • Her outfit references Sailor Chibi Moon from Sailor Moon.
  • Her back-tattoed wings and star effects reference Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura. While ulting, two black and white wings grow from her tattoos referencing The Fly from Sakura's anime.
  • Her hairstyle references Kyoko Sakura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
• She uses her new pets, Shiro and Kuro, as her weapons.
  • In Japanese, "shiro" (?) means "white" and "kuro" (?) means "black."
  • They're fused together into her Super Mega Death Rocket and their faces appear in the explosion.
• Her dance animation was based on "Ievan Polkka Dance".
  • A side-by-side comparison can be seen here.
• "What do you think? Mercy or mayhem?" references a common moral choice in video games with diverging storylines.
• When dying, Jinx cries out, "The horror! The horror!" This is a direct reference to the last words of Mr. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.
• This skin was inspired from a fan-created skin concept by Selin Aydin.
• She shares this theme with Star Guardian Janna, Star Guardian Lulu, Star Guardian Lux, and Star Guardian Poppy.
  • When there's a Star Gurdian Jinx in the ally team, a stripped-down version of "Burning Bright" will play as the party starts. This happens with every other Star Guardian skin.

Relations

• Jinx is a Zaunite criminal who is wreaking havoc across Piltover 'for fun' and to provoke Vi.
  • Jinx and Vi are implied to be sisters ("You think I'm crazy? You should see my sister", Lyte: " You look like your sister! Er, wait, I'm not supposed to talk about that... ")
  • It is suspected Jinx is fixated on Vi because the Enforcer forgot their early childhood together and she is trying to force her to remember (Jinx allegedly told Vi this when they confronted each other deep within Piltover's Ecliptic Vaults)
• Ekko remembers Jinx from before she went mad ("I had a crush... until you started talking to the gun")
• Jinx constantly wants to hug Ziggs (he is quite terrified of her)