Inept Mage: Difference between revisions

* Jowan from [[Dragon Age|Dragon Age: Origins]]. Between the generally inherent power of Mages and his dabbling in [[Blood Magic]] he ''should'' be very, ''very'' powerful. Alas, he's much weaker than almost every other Mage in the game, and only turned to [[Blood Magic]] out of desperation.

 

* Gwynn from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' very rarely gets a spell completely right. She enchants some monkeys to attack someone who's annoying her, without considering that, when someone else annoys her, the monkeys will change targets. Or she tries getting a demon to leave Riff alone, but ends up making it possess her instead. Or she tries getting her and Zoe's hair to grow back, but, thanks to the spell relying on a [[Jerkass Genie]], it makes them turn into fully-furred [[Star Wars|wookie]]-like creatures. Basically anything she tries other than [[Psychokinesis|moving things with her mind]] or [[Power Glows|making pretty lights]] isn't going to work as planned.

** It seems to be the rituals that give her trouble. If she has to blast something with lightning or force, she has no problems at all, and can be [[Let's Get Dangerous|downright]] ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|dangerous]]'' when she's pushed.

* In ''[[Doodze]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120108080846/http://seguemediagroup.com/doodze/?p=775 accidentally turning the sh'leep into ravening monsters].

 

* Leaving chaos in their wake is something of a hallmark of the "three little witches"—Abracadabra, Palantir, and Clover—from the eponymous story set in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. May well yet turn out to be a case of [[How Do I Shot Web?]], though; they ''are'' only kids (younger than the regular students at Whateley, even) at this point, after all.

* Perf, of ''[[Journey Quest]]'', is an excellent example of this: he has precisely three spells he can cast without recourse to his spellbooks: ''Conjure Milk'',<ref>which, when used against a party of orcs that had captured him and his friends, earned him the appellation "lactomancer"</ref> ''Mend'' <ref>a sewing spell</ref> and ''Vague''.<ref>the effects of which are kinda hard to nail down...</ref> The one time we see him casting ''with'' a spellbook, he's trying to heal the party cleric, and [[Magic Misfire|fails so badly that said cleric dies]]. And becomes an [[Gone Horribly Right|entirely new form of undead]].