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== [[8-Bit Theater
* What is it with Black Mages hand and hat colour in panel 5 of [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/11/19/episode-096-kant-we-have-an-intelligent-discussion-for-a-change/ this strip?]
** That's just the color for the old world map sprites. The ones used in the majority of the comic are for battle.
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** [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 [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.
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***** But he no longer is a member of the Light Warriors, since he replaced Drizz'l and has since became the leader of the Dark Warriors. Why doesn't he just kill the Light Warriors now?I know he already tried to cause the Chaos Shrine to kill ''everyone'' but Cleric stopped him.
*** 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, [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.
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*** That still leaves the question of why Black Mage neglects to destroy Corneria. Where King Steve is. A known idiot, of the sort which frustrates Black Mage to no ends.
*** He's afraid of invoking Evil Princess Sara's wrath, not that he'll ever admit it.
**** Does he have any real reason to fear Sara, though? His only extended contact with her consisted of him nearly successfully bluffing her into letting them go before Fighter spouted off about his once a day limit. He was out cold for her murdering the giant, too.
*** It has been established that BM is lazy and that King Steve is destroying Corneria with his incompetence. BM probably doesn't want to waste extra effort (and his once a day spells) destroying a kingdom he believes is doomed.
**** Plus, BM is not a mindless murderer. He's a sadist. In every situation he does the cruelest possible thing he can do. And it's crueler to leave them with King Steve.
* Isn't Lich going to be just a little bit pissed that Drizz'l tried to kill his son?
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*** OK, con the RLW into fighting Chaos and then use that amnesia dust on them and claim to have beaten Chaos themselves. Problem solved.
*** You're asking for common sense from the Light Warriors? What?
* In the early strips when the Light Warriors are sleeping in a hotel, why doesn't Black Mage just murder Thief in his sleep and have White Mage join them in his place (after disposing of the body, of course)? He has no use for him and he really wants an empty spot on the team for White Mage, and for BM, [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]. If asked, say that Thief just quit and left in the middle of the night (RM and Fighter aren't nearly smart enough to put it together). [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2002/11/14/episode-215-dont-trust-stores-that-cant-spell-their-own-business/ After all, they genuinely thought that Thief was helping the pirates].
** Because ''Black Mage is a moron.'' For heaven's sake, this is a wizard who deliberately walks backward to a town because he's too lazy to actually turn around. Black Mage is an ''idiot.''
* So in the strip where Sarda reveals his evil plan,he says that he'll be doing the universe a favor by destroying the light warriors (except fighter, who is a casualty). But wait a minute. Thief is a greedy bastard that makes Daffy Duck look like a humanitarian. Black Mage is a being created to bring about the apocalypse, murders people on a regular basis, and actually took over hell for a while. Fighter is a generally nice guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. But what about Red Mage? Most of the time he's grouped in with Thief and B.M. as personifications of evil, but he doesn't seem like a bad guy. Very stupid and overly egotistical, yes, but I wouldn't say he's evil. He seems the want to help people, even if it's only for the Exp.
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