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== What's Up With the Ten Great Holy/Saint Mages? ==

According to the various arc, there is pretty much a "top ten list" of mages - the biggest, strongest, and most skilled. The only ones speciffically named are Gerard (when he was still playing [[The Masquerade]]), Fairy Tail's guildmaster, and Phantom Lord's guildmaster. The last two, whose names I cannot recall, Seem to deserve their titles, both supposedly being nearly invincible when compared to other mages. However, other characters are shown to easily be just as strong if not stronger than at least two of these three.

* These include: 1)Laxus, who is a freaking strong {{spoiler|artificial dragon slayer}}, is is capable of using the legendary class spell {{spoiler|fairy law}}. 2)Erza, who can withstand a blast from the [[Strong Flesh Weak Steel|building-destroying]] jupiter cannon, defeat the ([[Overshadowed by Awesome|relatively]]) powerful mage {{spoiler|Aria}}, and give the Phantom Lord guy a bit of a challenge; she can also take a lot of punishment and still go toe-to-toe with Gerard, though he pretty much beats her. 3)Ur, who dukes it out with [[Kaiju|Deliora]], though she cannot actually defeat it; Gerard even mentions that she could have gained a "Great Mage" title. 4)Gildartz; oh lord, Gildartz. He can destroy nearly any normal substance - and does so on a regular basis becose of his absent-mindedness - survives a surprize dragon attack, scares the crap out of Natsu even though he {{spoiler|loses an arm, leg, and an unspecified organ}} in that attack, and Natsu thinks of merely pushing Gildartz back a few feet to be a major sign of progress.

* These include: 1)Laxus, who is a freaking strong {{spoiler|artificial dragon slayer}}, is is capable of using the legendary class spell {{spoiler|fairy law}}. 2)Erza, who can withstand a blast from the [[Strong Flesh, Weak Steel|building-destroying]] jupiter cannon, defeat the ([[Overshadowed by Awesome|relatively]]) powerful mage {{spoiler|Aria}}, and give the Phantom Lord guy a bit of a challenge; she can also take a lot of punishment and still go toe-to-toe with Gerard, though he pretty much beats her. 3)Ur, who dukes it out with [[Kaiju|Deliora]], though she cannot actually defeat it; Gerard even mentions that she could have gained a "Great Mage" title. 4)Gildartz; oh lord, Gildartz. He can destroy nearly any normal substance - and does so on a regular basis becose of his absent-mindedness - survives a surprize dragon attack, scares the crap out of Natsu even though he {{spoiler|loses an arm, leg, and an unspecified organ}} in that attack, and Natsu thinks of merely pushing Gildartz back a few feet to be a major sign of progress.

* Gereard, however, doesn't seem that strong - his most powerful attack is the Abyss Break spell, which any really skilled mage can use. All of the other guys could easily [[Let's You and Him Fight|defeat Gerard in one-on-one combat]]; but are ''any'' of these guys in the top ten? [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|Nope]]. What the heck is up with that?

** Maybe it's not about strength, but skill? Also, I guess if you have a bad reputation, such as FT's tendency to cause property damage, you probably wouldn't be granted a title. Also, 1) Laxus was probably hiding his true strength, since he was planning to eventually take over Fairy Tail, 2) Erza withstanding the cannon and beating Aria wasn't much of a surprise (Aria seemed like a sneak attack kind of guy). Also, Jose was just playing around with Erza, though he does mentioned Erza would have made a formidable foe, and Gerard is just weird (seriously, his power level's all over the place), 3) Ur ''could'' have gotten the title, but we don't know enough about Ur's strength or skill, 4) Gildartz probably won't get a title seeing that he has a tendency to let his magic run wild, plus property damage.