8-Bit Theater/Heartwarming: Difference between revisions

* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|8-bit Theater]]'' gives us a Meta example (like the actual strip itself could ever pull one of these off.): The author faked an [[All Just a Dream]] [[Gainax Ending]] for the sole purpose of pissing off the fans, expecting a ton of angry emails about the [[Anticlimax]]. Instead he got a huge number of emails from readers expressing gratitude for all the work he had put into the comic, saying it was great while it lasted. He even got these from ''people who hated the ending''.

* Shortly after Black Mage becomes ruler of Hell, he just can't bring himself to tell Fighter that he didn't go to Heaven. In his words "Even though I'm the embodiment of all mortal evils, I just don't have the heart." He gets another one a strip or two later.

Black Mage: Yes. That is what they do. }}

* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/09/episode-1126-impasse This] strip. Why? Because instead of murdering a person, Black Mage actually gave him a chance to back down. The clincher? It was Fighter.

* Although it may not be quite as touching as some of the other examples here, [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/02/12/episode-1093-night-of-murder/ this] strip (especially panels 4,5, and 7). Despite all the ([[Rule of Funny|often hilarious]]) horribe things they've done to people and to each other, there's something strangely touching about seeing three of the Light Warriors share a bed ([[Yaoi Fangirl|NO.]]), with the sight rendering [[The Psycho Rangers|Drizz'l]] unable to kill them.

* I think the [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/01/09/episode-1209-pep-talk-of-doom/ latest strip (as of 1/9/10)] counts a bit: I actually went "aaw" at the Light Warriors trying to cheer up Black Mage.

** It does count... As a very twisted one, but still.

** Technically, it's almost a [[So Proud of You]] moment. A disturbing one.