Inept Mage: Difference between revisions

* Mannitol from ''[[The Legend of Dick and Dom]]'': his incantations tend to backfire horribly, for example, turning a friend into a [[Brain In a Jar|disembodied head]]; impressive, given that at one point non-mages successfully cast a spell.

* Marnie Stonebrook from ''[[True Blood]]'' doesn't have a clue on her spells. But, whenever she gets possessed by the ghost of the witch, Antonia Gavilán, she becomes one of the most powerful villains in the show.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** The class also appears in ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldur's Gate 2]]'', this time with a set list of results, but an incredibly variable one. They can [[Gender Bender|change a random target's gender]], [[Drop the Cow|summon a cow right above their target's head]], [[Magic Misfire|accidentally target themselves with the spell]] . . . At least in this case you get the benefit of [[Save Scumming]].

** Wild Mages aren't actually inept (Unless that's how you play one). Just ''crazy''. Consider their signature spell: Nahal's Reckless Dweomer; a spell that the mage casts in order to attempt to shape it into any other spell he knows without having the spell memorized. Wild Surges can be extremely deadly if you're lucky; casting Magic Missile has an equal chance of making your opponent (and everything in ten feet of it) explode messily as it does the chance of summoning harmless squirrels.

* Abraham of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' is an interesting example. Although he is a very powerful spell caster, and deadly in combat, his lack of common sense has earned him a bit of a [http://egscomics.com/?date=2009-06-09 reputation] for incompetence.

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

 

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