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*** OR Black Mage has the same attitude to sexuality that he has towards incredibly violent murder: indiscriminate equal opportunity offender. I.e. he's an OmnicidalManiac and he probably has the AnythingThatMoves attitude down pat.

[[WMG: Black Belt is the local equivalent of LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya (or possibly Kyon).]]

[[WMG: 8-Bit Theater is going to end with KillEmAll, a GainaxEnding, or some combination of both.]]

[[WMG: Fighter And Black Mage sitting in a tree [[YaoiGuys K-I-S-S-I-N-G]]!]]

Also, Fighter revealing his plot and betraying the party in the climax would be [[RuleOfFunny incredibly funny]]. And [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]].

It would be hard to steer it in any other direction from [[CerebusSyndrome the one it's on now]] without an impressive AssPull. Or maybe, just maybe, a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, but only if we're lucky.

[[WMG: FF1 is what REALLY happened in 8 Bit Theater]]

Except they were reincarnated as [[TheAdventuresOfDuaneAndBrando DUNE the Fighter, SPUD the Black Belt, JOJO the Red Mage, and LEO the Black Mage]]. These four Light Warriors, however, realized the mistakes made in their respective past lives. Thus causing DUNE to be smart and the leader, SPUD to join the team, JOJO to flaunt his powers by using them, and LEO to be slick and effective. In the universe they were reborn in, the Dark Warriors really are evil, the villagers really are good, etc.

It would explain why he's a destructive nexus, was apparently evil from birth and generally is stab-happy. Why is Black Mage the living embodiment of the VillainBall? Much like [[{{Exalted}} the Ebon Dragon]], he embodies evil as in the lack of every single virtue-[[EvilVirtues pragmatism, restraint and sanity are considered virtues.]] Thus Black Mage is compelled to be as StupidEvil as he can because doing anything considered good by ''[[EveryoneHasStandards anyone]]'' would be antithetical to his existence. The reason why he's not in office is because he did something so idiotically villainous that [[PragmaticVillainy his own legions of hell]] booted him out. Darko is trying(and failing) to make Black Mage sane. What he doesn't know(or is purposefully hiding) is that there is a way to make him competent again while still appealing to the necessity to be evil. How? By pointing out that since he's being completely loyal to his nature, he's not a hypocrite. And not being a hypocrite is considered a ''virtue.'' Thus Black Mage being hypocritical and not doing evil in every conceivable way would be okay. Due to this, Black Mage would be less the Ebon Dragon and more [[Literature/SpaceTrilogy Perelandra Satan]]; [[EvilIsPetty enjoying petty evil]] yet [[PragmaticVillainy willing to be grand when it suits him.]] The only way to stop him then would be to point out the LogicBomb of this("you're using [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad acts of inhumanity as your creed.]] By being as evil as possible, you're actually being moral in your own twisted view"), but since Black Mage is ''nuts'' this probably won't work.

[[WMG:Fighter is a [[{{Exalted}} Solar Exalted]]]]

...by Brian Clevinger himself. Assuming that there is no sudden double-twist on one of the most massive anticlimaxes ever to walk the earth, readers of ''8-Bit Theater'' will be directed to his other comics under the pretense of "Now, want to see what Brian can do at the top of his game while ''not'' going to elaborate lengths to mess with his audience?" Anyone not reading them already will rush over, hoping that he'll do it "right" this time. Only time will tell if they are walking into the same trap. (This, of course, assumes that he had the likes of ''AtomicRobo'' and ''HowIKilledYourMaster'' in mind way back in 2001 and simply chose not to act on them until relatively recently, because The Plan dictated as much.)

Black Mage will attempt one last time to impress White Mage by doing some genuinely good deeds. Of course, this being Black Mage, this deeds won't ''actually'' be genuine and just an underhanded scheme to trick her and earn false credit for everything. Tired of dealing with him, White Mage crosses over to our world and watches ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', asking an unseen someone "...And they always watch things like this?" Returning to their world, she then turns Black Mage, Fighter, Thief and Red Mage in {{Expy}}s of the MST3K crew and sends them off to the same fate, finally explaining the ''Theater'' part of the title!

Black Mage will attempt one last time to impress White Mage by doing some geniunely good deeds. Of course, this being Black Mage, this deeds won't ''actually'' be genuine and just an underhanded scheme to trick her and earn false credit for everything. Tired of dealing with him, White Mage crosses over to our world and watches ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', asking an unseen someone "...And they always watch things like this?" Returning to their world, she then turns Black Mage, Fighter, Thief and Red Mage in {{Expy}}s of the MST3K crew and sends them off to the same fate, finally explaining the ''Theater'' part of the title!

Pointless, an anticlimax to both the strip (being the epilogue) and the wait (several weeks at least), and, well, [[AmericanCustomaryMeasurements 12/25]].

[[WMG: Black Belt is the local equivalent of SuzumiyaHaruhi (or possibly Kyon).]]