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* Why does Black Mage seem to find Fighter's contract with Thief to be binding? He didn't sign it, and Fighter has no legal authority to sign for him. Plus he's ''evil''.
** It was stated once that Black Mage had given Fighter his power of attorney (Sorry I can't remember which strip, I'll try and look it up again)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090223033452/http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030311 I live to serve.] [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/03/11/episode-259-no-such-thing-as-senseless-violence/ Updated link]
*** But he is still ''evil''. It's just a piece of paper, and he's committed far worse crimes than breach of contract. So why doesn't he just burn or outright ignore it?
**** Maybe he's Lawful Evil?!
*** Oh, wait. I've found something else. Thief doesn't even have legal contracts anymore, because BM tore em up. Here's the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090207200822/http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=031007 proof] ([http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/10/07/episode-339-he-thinks-of-everything/ Updated link]).
*** Thief forged a set of replacement contracts. In the same strip.
**** Forgeries are legal now?
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*** He's trying to kill everyone else. All the time. It's just not working.
**** Seriously, most of the time he isn't spending being stupid or cowardly he spends trying to kill them. He even succeeds numerous times, only to have them brought back. He even refuses to cast feather fall to save his own life because he would rather all four of them die.
** Another thing about the contracts, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090222170919/http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=070515 now that all of Thief's lawninja are dead], what is stopping Black Mage from violating the contract and simply declaring himself leader and killing any that objected? Thief has pretty much lost any ability to enforce them.
*** The meatshield point above. He already knows that Fighter is Fighter/RM's choice for Thief's replacement when he steps down. If he tried to kill any who objected, he'd run out of party pretty quickly. And still be going on Sarda's suicide quests.
**** Are you sure about that? The last time that Thief stepped down and RM and Fighter elected Fighter the leader, BM became leader through a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090216090022/http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030911 military coup].
***** That was the point. BM knows he'll have to use force on the party to keep control, and that this may lead to, say, fighter being stuck singing the spiderman song in times of great trouble. Or without the use of Thief or Red Mage's legs. And you have to admit, it seems pretty futile to expect RM to handle the healing.
** The answer, of course, is that Black Mage is a moron. I thought this was laid out quite explicitly by the fact that, well, he's a moron.
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** Oh, and Black Mage is an idiot - wait, that's not relevant at all.
* If Thief has an entire squadron of elite law ninja, then why doesn't he use them more often for situations where they're useful?
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090222170919/http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=070515 They're dead.]
** And the 800+ comics before that?
*** They can only intervene when someone violates the law. That's the reason why Thief had to establish that Lich's use of the Earth Orb was a severe environmental abuse.
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