Critical Role: Vox Machina and Mighty Nein at SDCC 2025

Get ready to roll, Critters! Last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, the Critical Role team dropped two new MASSIVE sneak peeks for their animated series. Finally, finally, we’ve got our first full look at The Mighty Nein season 1. Your fan-favorite, absolute circus of a TTRPG party is serving up plenty of laughs and subterfuge already. Meanwhile, Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III is going all Ocean’s Eleven to conquer the next quest for the Vestiges of Divergence in The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 sneak peek.

Adventures await! Check out the brand-new footage below. Plus, we’ll discuss some of our hopes about the final season of Vox Machina … and some Mighty Nein questions like, where’s Yasha!?

Sneak Peek at The Mighty Nein Season 1

This hilarious teaser from the animators at Titmouse introduces us to most of the Mighty Nein … or should we say the Sensual Seven? It gives fans an immediate (and pitch perfect!) look at the earliest days of our favorite Wildemount heroes — from Nott the Brave being drunk as an Exandrian skunk to Jester criticizing the guards’ choice of handcuffs. We’ve even got Caleb speaking Zemnian!

One notable omission from this preview, however, is the presence of Yasha Nydoorin, the team’s celestial warrior. She was seen in a team image shared later by Entertainment Weekly, along with a teaser of Essek Thelyss, our resident dunamantic mage, who didn’t appear until the campaign’s 57th episode. This left Critters scratching their heads about narrative changes from the Mighty Nein’s actual play origins.

We know from previous discussions by the cast that this animated series expands on the characters’ backstories and adds in new details not present in the original campaign — while we won’t speculate on possible changes and the withholding of animated Yasha to start with, it’s clear that even Critical Role Campaign 2 diehards will be surprised by what’s in store.

The Mighty Nein premieres on Prime Video on November 19, 2025.

The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4

With the Chroma Conclave defeated, Percy resurrected, and our heroes scattered to the globe, season 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina is sure to be chaotic. The Whispered One is on the rise, and there’s still plenty of action to be had before the heroes are truly ready to face this ultimate evil.

Our first sneak peek of the new season shows the team strategizing with Shaun Gilmore about how to break into the archives of the Cobalt Soul order (which Mighty Nein fans will recognize as part of Beauregard’s backstory). Fans get a peek at new faces — Taryon Darrington and Doty —  as well as a highly stylized heist plan courtesy of Percy de Rolo himself. With a tongue-in-cheek tease of “the Cobalt Soul Affair,” it seems that all the drama of the looming apocalypse can’t diminish The Legend of Vox Machina‘s signature humor.

Fifth and final season ordered

With season 4 set to drop in 2026, Critters also got a bittersweet, inevitable update that TLOVM has been renewed for its fifth and final season. This news shouldn’t surprise fans, but instead should give a sense of accomplishment and excitement — we’re reaching the end of the campaign! And there’s plenty more on the way with the premiere of The Mighty Nein (and maybe someday, Bells Hells?).

Depending on how far our heroes get in season 4’s action, season 5 will likely be a race to the finish against the resurrection of The Whispered One and his cult. Will we see Joe Manganiello’s Arkhan the Cruel? How about those heart-rending moments of sacrifice in the epic final battle at Vassalheim?

Maybe we’ll even get epilogue events like the wedding at Dalen’s Closet or the adventure of how Grog’s soul went missing for a few weeks thanks to the Deck of Many Things. There’s absolutely no telling yet, but we’re on the edge of our chairs (those villainous, villainous chairs) waiting to know more.

Well, Critters – how do you want to do this? With Critical Role still in its 10th anniversary year, things couldn’t be bigger or more exciting for fans and these beloved characters! With so much story to explore, we can’t wait for even more years in Exandria to come.

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