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[[WMG:Slayers is really a writeup of someone's RPG.]]
Like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' or something similar. That's why Lina is so powerful- she's the character of someone with no life who spends all his time leveling her up. And because her 'adventures' are so entertaining, the DM (or equivalent) refuses to let her die.
* Note [[Tropers/{{loracarol}} This Troper]] wrote the theory above, and she apologizes as she doesn't really know much about RPG's, and if there is somehting inherintly wrong in the description, feel free to fix it.
** The beginning theory is sound, though in a standard Tabletop RPG game everyone levels at about the same rate, Lina's player is just better at manipulating the system if you need a reason for her being more powerful.
* Considering that in Japan there is actually a market for novels and anime based on someone's D&D session (this is how Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar happened, after all), I could see this being the case.

It's the impression i've had since day one "Slayers is what happens when a max level party does a nubie run." Lina can curb stomp anything short of a Raid Boss, Sabrinigo was a lvl 5 raidboss intended for a group of 20 1-5s but instead faced a 3 man team of lvl 20s.

[[WMG: Zomelgustar, the entity that Martina is worshiping, is becoming real]]

[[WMG: Having others (Lina) "kill" the pieces of Shabranigdu sealed inside humans is Shabranigdu's EvilPlan to free itself for good.]]

[[WMG: Zuuma was affected by the first casting of the Giga Slave]]

[[WMG: Lina was completely obliterated at the end of ''NEXT''.]]

[[WMG: Sometime between ''TRY'' and ''Revolution'', Zelgadis was knighted]]

[[WMG: The tangerine Ozzel ate was Naga.]]

* If you subscribe to the theory that the Slayers characters represent the various aspects of Tabletop RPG players, Xellos is supposedly a {{GMPC}}.

[[WMG: Rowdy Gabriev's messing around with chronomancy is why Gourry has memory problems]]

[[WMG: The Slayers characters represent the various aspects of TabletopRPG players]]
Specifically, [[http://pw1.netcom.com/~shagbert/pages/munchkins.html these archtypes]]. Gourry is played by TheRealMan, Zelgadis is played by the [[TheRoleplayer Real Roleplayer]], Amelia is TheLoonie, and Lina is (of course) the {{Munchkin}}. Xellos is by default the {{GMPC}}.


[[WMG: The Lord of Nightmares isn't actually in full control of her powers.]]

[[WMG: The only reason that Lina feels that her chest is "too small" is...]]

[[WMG: Lina, Amelia, Zel, and Goury Represent the four temperments]]
* Lina is choleric, Zel melancholic, Amelia is phlegmatic, and Gourry is sanguine!Setting and universe

[[WMG: White magic is Holy magic that calls upon power from Volfeed and/or the gods of the blue and white worlds.]]

[[WMG: If ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' and ''Literature/LostUniverse'' are connected, then the other two worlds that exist ALSO represent two other genres of SpeculativeFiction.]]

[[WMG:''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', ''Anime/LostUniverse'', and ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are all set in the same universe.]]

[[WMG: If ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' and ''Anime/LostUniverse'' are connected, then the other two worlds that exist ALSO represent two other genres of SpeculativeFiction.]]

...Because people in her hometown were constantly comparing her to her sister. ("It's too bad you're not as pretty as your sister", "It's too bad you're not as cool as your sister" etc.), and they even compared their bust sizes. If the screen shot of Luna from the opening of ''TRY'' is [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luna_1832.jpg anything to go by]], then it is possible that Lina feels her chest is "too small" because she was always compared to her sister. Traveling with [[GagBoobs Naga]] afer she left home could ''not'' have helped. Granted, Luna's chest is not *that* much larger than Lina's appears to be, however Lina's chest was probably a ''lot'' smaller when she was younger, while Luna's chest was larger as she was older.

* Clearly, this means L-sama is LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya.

[[WMG:LightNovel/{{Orphen}} takes place on another continent on the same world.]]
LightNovel/{{Orphen}} and Slayers are of the same genre, have similar technology(ie, same time), are from the same magazine (Magazine/{{Dragon}}) and have a crossover that doesn't seem to contradict this theory.

[[WMG: If ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' and ''Anime/LostUniverse'' are connected, then the other two worlds that exist ALSO represent two other genres of SpeculativeFiction.]]

[[WMG:''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' take place in the same universe.]]

** No, if that was canon, this would be far more confusing than Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion, and any ending becomes a GainaxEnding UpToEleven.

* Considering that in Japan there is actually a market for novels and anime based on someone's D&D session (this is how RecordOfLodossWar happened, after all), I could see this being the case.

** To which I answer: TeleportersAndTransporters. One of those things that makes me shiver at one real-world belief that states we cease to be at death, but are "remade" later - because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abYhYuYp2Is that ain't us]].