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** Red Mage would despise the idea of letting another group fight the final battle against the great evil. If not because it doesn't make narrative sense, then because he'd be out the XP for it. Thief, meanwhile, doesn't trust anyone but himself to not screw everything up, and the idea of stealing somebody else's gear to get more powerful is a lot more appealing than letting them fight and take the glory. (And treasure.) Fighter, of course, lacks ambition, and Black Mage defaults to the plan that results in more suffering.
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** That, and White Mage wasn't thinking straight at the time. All she saw was the unfairness that the Light Warriors, who were the biggest threats to the happiness and safety of the world, were about to be given (or take) all the credit for killing Chaos and saving the world. When Garland and his buddies happened to run into her, she hit on the idea of making it look like they were the heroes. She did eventually regret the action, as three years later, she set out on behalf of the Council of White Mages to find the Light Warriors to recognize them for their efforts leading to the prophecy being fulfilled.
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** And don't forget that Thief himself is one of the most scheming bastards in the world. He probably set something up to discredit and dethrone his father so he could take over.
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** Correction: BM's stabbing never works ''on Fighter''. There are a few exceptions, but generally it's RuleOfFunny, RealityEnsues, or WM heals/resurrects them. BM's good at stabbing... he just can't stab people who shouldn't die [[YouCantFightFate according to the universal time stream]].
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** Correction: BM's stabbing never works ''on Fighter''. There are a few exceptions, but generally it's RuleOfFunny, RealityEnsues, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome, or WM heals/resurrects them. BM's good at stabbing... he just can't stab people who shouldn't die [[YouCantFightFate according to the universal time stream]].
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* Here's one: When you're actually reading one of the comics, the page heading on your browser reads "Nuklear Power - Home of 8-Bit Theatre". Anywhere else on the site, it will use the American spelling, "Theater", and any place on the site where the title is written, it is written as "Theater". The fact that the title of the comic and the comic itself will never be on-screen at the same time only makes this weirder. Hey, this is "Just Bugs Me". It doesn't necessarily ''have'' to be FridgeLogic that's doing the bugging.
** Fear not my bugged acquaintance, the new site revamp eliminated that problem.
* Why did Black Mage neglect to destroy Corneria?
** King Steve.
*** 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.
** Fear not my bugged acquaintance, the new site revamp eliminated that problem.
* Why did Black Mage neglect to destroy Corneria?
** King Steve.
*** 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.
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* Here's one: When you're actually reading one of the comics, the page heading on your browser reads "Nuklear Power - Home of 8-Bit Theatre". Anywhere else on the site, it will use the American spelling, "Theater", and any place on the site where the title is written, it is written as "Theater". The fact that the title of the comic and the comic itself will never be on-screen at the same time only makes this weirder. Hey, this is "Just Bugs Me". It doesn't necessarily ''have'' to be FridgeLogic that's doing the bugging.\n
** Fear not mybugged head-scratching acquaintance, the new site revamp eliminated that problem.
* Why did Black Mage neglect to destroyCorneria?
** King Steve.
*** That still leaves the question of why Black Mage neglects to destroy Corneria. WhereCorneria? King Steve is. A 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.
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* Why did Black Mage neglect to destroy
** King Steve.
*** That still leaves the question of why Black Mage neglects to destroy Corneria. Where
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*** 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.
*** 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.
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** This troper believes that, due to the RuleOfFunny, Thief will lose his class change when it's least convenient.
*** That was always my assumption. All things considered, it'll probably be soon. But then he'll compensate by stealing his red ninja powers from the past.
*** [[spoiler:[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/09/19/episode-1174-oh-thats-what/ Now.]]]]
*** That was always my assumption. All things considered, it'll probably be soon. But then he'll compensate by stealing his red ninja powers from the past.
*** [[spoiler:[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/09/19/episode-1174-oh-thats-what/ Now.]]]]
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** This troper believes that, due to the RuleOfFunny, Thief will lose his class change when it's least convenient.
*** That was always my assumption. All things considered, it'll probably be soon. But then he'll compensate by stealing his red ninja powers from the past.
***[[spoiler:[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/09/19/episode-1174-oh-thats-what/ Now.]]]]
*** That was always my assumption. All things considered, it'll probably be soon. But then he'll compensate by stealing his red ninja powers from the past.
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* Personally, this troper is bugged by the amount of stuff that bugs the other tropers here. All of this can be covered by the [[Main/RuleofFunny Rule of Funny]]; which the author actively uses.
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* Personally, this troper is bugged by the amount of stuff that bugs the other Why are so many tropers here. scratching their heads about so much stuff? All of this can be covered by the [[Main/RuleofFunny Rule of Funny]]; which the author actively uses.
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** [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/10/04/episode-902-we-hurt-the-ones-we-loathe/ He's tried]]. He just has a terrible track record with killing Light Warriors in general, due to poor knife skills and even worse aim.
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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]]
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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]]I live to serve.]]
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*** 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]]).
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*** 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]]).proof]].
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** BM mentions after Lich's defeat that he wants to keep the group together if only to inflict as much suffering as possible on the others. Also, after working for Sarda for a while, he starts to develop a mild YouCantFightFate attitude, along with various degrees of MediumAwareness, probably realizing he can't kill them or ditch them until a particularly climatic moment. He waits to switch sides with Ur's cultists because doomsday cultists about to summon an EldritchAbomination fits the bill well enough. He switches sides with Muffin because a fight with a dragon in a flying castle that could easily be a VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon fits the bill well enough(not to mention the air orb was the last on the list).
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** BM mentions after Lich's defeat that he wants to keep the group together if only to inflict as much suffering as possible on the others. Also, after working for Sarda for a while, he starts to develop a mild YouCantFightFate attitude, along with various degrees of MediumAwareness, probably realizing he can't kill them or ditch them until a particularly climatic moment. He waits to switch sides with Ur's cultists because doomsday cultists about to summon an EldritchAbomination fits the bill well enough. He switches sides with Muffin because a fight with a dragon in a flying castle that could easily be a VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon fits the bill well enough(not enough (not to mention the air orb was the last on the list).
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** White mage was part of a "secret cabal of healers," mentioned in the early comics. Revealing the WM group as the heros would likely go against the whole "secret" thing.
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** White mage was part of a "secret cabal of healers," mentioned in the early comics. Revealing the WM group as the heros heroes would likely go against the whole "secret" thing.
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** Close to, but not. Just because they do not age does not mean that they can't die. Now consider that in elfland, all castle advisors are evil viziers, There have been multiple wars, and at least half the population is a scheming bastard. Do the math.
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* Elves in this universe are pretty close to immortal, and Thief's father wasn't sick anymore after the quest with Astos. So how did Thief end up as king of Elfland?
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**** [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/10/19/episode-472-synthesis/ "I can't do this! He's in pieces!"]] Resurrection spells don't necessarily work like True Resurrection in D&D. If you don't have enough parts of a person or the brain's been damaged too much or any other number of issues at play with Black Belt's death, then the attempt might very well just fail. Sarda's resurrections don't count, of course.
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** Red Mage seems to be based half on a stats-obsessed min-max player, and half on the "murder-hobo" type of tabletop player: the player who is only interested in fighting and killing everything in sight (enemy, NPC, or otherwise), looting the bodies, looting their homes, and selling whatever he can't equip before moving on to the next area.
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** The comic hints that they stole it, but it never testifies that they did - they may have searched for it and found nothing.
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** Chaos wasn't just going to kill them, he was going to destroy the world. Sending the real Light Warriors would only mean that their fate would be entirely out of their control.
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** Well, firstly, it was even more galling to supplant BM with ''Garland'' than it would have been to take the credit herself. Secondly, when the inevitable sequel rolls around (I mean in FF terms, not in webcomic terms), the new archvillain's first move will be to vaporize the guys who saved the world from the ''previous'' archvillain. Better to have chumps take that bullet for you.
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** Those idiots? They probably believed an empty cup of coffee held the essence of the Orb of Air and the scaled barista they got it from was completely legit.
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** Those idiots? They probably believed an empty cup of coffee held the essence of the Orb of Air and the scaled barista barrista they got it from was completely legit.
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That question has already been asked and answered!!! A dark god is preventing BM from dying, reviving him every time he is killed to stop him from stepping foot into hell again.
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* Why did Black Mage never think of just ''killing himself'' to get back into Hell?
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** Correction: BM's stabbing never works ''on Fighter''. There are a few exceptions, but generally it's RuleOfFunny, RealityEnsues, or WM heals/resurrects them. BM's good at stabbing...he just can't stab people who shouldn't die [[YouCantFightFate according to the universal time stream]].
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** Correction: BM's stabbing never works ''on Fighter''. There are a few exceptions, but generally it's RuleOfFunny, RealityEnsues, or WM heals/resurrects them. BM's good at stabbing... he just can't stab people who shouldn't die [[YouCantFightFate according to the universal time stream]].
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**** Are you sure about that? The last time that Thief stepped down and RM and Fighter elected Fighter the leader, BM became leader through a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030911 military coup]].
***** That was the point. BM knows he'll have to use force on the party to keep control, and that this may lead to, say, fighter being stuck singing the spiderman song in times of great trouble. Or without the use of Thief or Red Mage's legs. And you have to admit, it seems pretty futile to expect RM to handle the healing.
***** That was the point. BM knows he'll have to use force on the party to keep control, and that this may lead to, say, fighter being stuck singing the spiderman song in times of great trouble. Or without the use of Thief or Red Mage's legs. And you have to admit, it seems pretty futile to expect RM to handle the healing.
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**** Are you sure about that? The last time that Thief stepped down and RM and Fighter elected Fighter the leader, BM became leader through a [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030911 com/2003/09/11/episode-328-under-new-management/ military coup]].
***** That was the point. BM knows he'll have to use force on the party to keep control, and that this may lead to, say,fighter Fighter being stuck singing the spiderman Spider-Man song in times of great trouble. Or without the use of Thief or Red Mage's legs. And you have to admit, it seems pretty futile to expect RM to handle the healing.
***** That was the point. BM knows he'll have to use force on the party to keep control, and that this may lead to, say,
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*** All those stabwounds to the head made you forget that "amnesia dust" ''never'' works.
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** Sometimes he believes he's in a tabletop RPG, sometimes he believes he's in a MMORPG, sometimes he believes he's in a RTSG... heck, sometimes he even reasons like he's in a Final Fantasy game, go figure!
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**** It seems pretty unlikely that this is the case - otherwise, White Mage's angst about Black Belt would be utterly pointless, since he's a simple LIF1 away from being back in the game (even if the body was too destroyed during the Kary Incident, his stoned time-clone's body looked pretty reparable). Yeah, we see Red Mage cast it, but we're discussing ''Red Mage'' here. White Mage even spelled out that her white magic isn't identical to the Final Fantasy version during the Hurt/Onrac arc, saying that it just restores order, and that if it made things 'better' there'd be no pain or death or bad things, ever. Presumably, once someone's dead, their natural state is being dead and all the white magic in the world won't change that.
