Into the Badlands
Warning : This clause contains SPOILERS forInto the Badlandsepisode " Requiem for the Fallen " .
The destruction of Magnus ( Francis Magee ) in the penultimate episode ofInto the Badlands ' terminal season will have major ramifications for the last struggle with Pilgrim ( Babou Cessay ) in the series finale . Magnus ' decease in conclusion provides Sunny ( Daniel Wu ) and his allies with the substance to defeat Pilgrim andCressida ( Lorraine Toussaint ) .
before long afterInto the Badlandsreturned for the 2d half of season 3 , fan were introduced to Magnus , the drawing card of the hidden brotherhood known as theBlack Lotus . Whencivilization hang as a result of the Gift , the Black Lotus rose up and dedicated themselves to killing all Dark Ones . The Black Lotus have been working to purge the macrocosm of the Gift for the last five hundred year . Decades ago , the Black Lotus , with the helper of Magnus , burned the urban center of Azra to the primer coat .
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Monday ’s episode ofInto the Badlands , " Requiem for the Fallen " , visualize the main characters keel from thedeath of Lydiaand Pilgrim ’s devastating attack on the Widow and her masses . Even the Widow doubts they ’ll be capable to keep up the battle . Bajie ( Nick Frost ) comes up with a plan to recruit the Black Lotus , specially since the Black Lotus consist of assassins trained specifically for fighting Dark Ones . Sunny , Bajie , and Gaius ( Lewis Tan ) arrange a meeting with Magnus , which predictably ends in bloodshed . Despite make a partake interest in defeat Pilgrim , Magnus refuses to make an alinement with them . cheery ’s sister , Kannin ( Eugenia Yuan ) , arrives and manages to kill Magnus .
Earlier in the episode , Kannin had a violent encounter with Pilgrim , which end with him stealing her Gift . The loss of the Gift is what set aside Kannin to win over the Black Lotus to accept her as their leader , since they never would have taken rules of order from a Dark One .
Magnus ' dying make Bajie ’s plan a bigger success than any of them could have anticipated . Not only do they have someone they can trust now leading the Black Lotus , they also have gained a knock-down and competent ally who can aid them discontinue Pilgrim . As Bajie has sharpen out , no one is better suited for divvy up with Pilgrim ’s army of Dark Ones than the Black Lotus themselves .
Recruiting the Black Lotus is a move Pilgrim has n’t prognosticate . Pilgrim has grown so confident in his own abilities that he no longer thinks he can be stopped . While Pilgrim ’s forces grow stronger every fourth dimension he creates newfangled Dark Ones , Sunny ’s alliance with the Black Lotus may have just made an out of the question situation a lot less hopeless .
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