History Characters / EightBitTheater

* AwesomeButImpractical: His magic is genuinely and even impressively powerful by the standards of the setting. His ability to actually ''use'' it effectively is a bit more of a coin toss to put it nicely. Having poweful, offensive magic sounds useful but Black Mage rarely actually has it work when he wants it to. He has horrible aim with his spells so he's not very likely to hit anything when he uses it, something which ''might'' get worse when his all too easy to set off temper flares up. Being able to steamroll anything in one hit doesn't mean much if he can't actually land that hit. The fact that he's a GlassCannon SquishyWizard just makes this worse for him. Black Mage actually seems to be aware of this to some extent, considering that he travels with other people because he knows that his considerable power won't be enough to protect himself against the monsters in the world.

* BrilliantButLazy: It's fairly easy to read him as this; over the course of the comics he's used the widest varieties of spells, displayed in-depth knowledge about magical theory (including magics he doesn't personally practice, such as ice and summoning) and history, and as mentioned elsewhere, so long as he's not particularly angry or close to White Mage, he's generally the smartest of the group. He just happens to be insanely lazy, commenting more than once that a battle would go their way if they all actually fought instead of just standing by to let Red Mage get mauled, and not acting on it because it's too much effort.
** In fact, [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/10/27/episode-617-thinking-ahead/ he unlocked his nearly full potential waaay before the other three Light Warriors even got half-way there]], but held off going [[StoryBreakerPower Game Breaker Mode]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/04/30/episode-1123-endgame/ until 506 episodes later]]. (Nearly full potential, because he is still under the restraint of his PowerLimiter.) The only possible reason being either this trope, and/or he is a DeathSeeker. Or he is just too emotionally unstable, what with all the power, idiocy from the world around and his own, he doesn't seem to be able to focus.

** Treates Fighter like a brain dead anchor around his neck. He's not wrong.

* MonsterClown: His Blue Mage suit gives him this look.

* OmnicidalManiac: He's not very discriminant with who he murders. Or brutally maims. He has a list of all the people he wants to kill, with only two entries. Those entries are [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/01/31/episode-655-switcheroo/ "Everyone I know" and "Everyone I don't know"]].
** The only person he ''doesn't'' want to kill is White Mage. Though if she did die (like say, from drinking "wine" that's actually paint thinner), he wouldn't be too upset, since [[ILoveTheDead the body would still be warm for a while at least]]. [[spoiler:Ironically, he actually ''does'' end up impaling her on one of his evil tendril spike things, though she gets better.]]

* CatchPhrase:

-->'''Black Mage''': It was a joke.
-->'''Red Mage''': [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/09/24/episode-603-you-cant-knock-them-all-out-of-the-park/ Oh. See, I was confused by the total lack of comedy.]]

* PragmaticVillainy:
** He's the only one of the party who objects to the genocide of the dwarven nation during the hunt for the Earth Orb and goes out of his way to try and stop it, simply because killing them prevents the dwarves from giving them directions.

* TinTyrant: In an armor covered with SpikesOfVillainy.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early on, he implies himself to have been a legendary serial killer who led people to their deaths. This idea is dropped fairly quickly, and after that point, he's fairly moral.

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* WhiteMage: Naturally, white magic is his thing.

* CovertPervert: Was ''very'' pleased with Thief [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/05/23/episode-033-amongst-our-weaponry-are-such-diverse-elements-as/ stripping Fighter nude]] to demonstrate his stealing skills.

* WhiteMage: Duh. She is a white mage from an order of white mages who performs white magic.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Absorbs so much power that he is killed and his body is used by Chaos.]]
** He also [[spoiler:causes himself to be stuck at the beginning of time, as when he attempted to send White Mage to a pocket dimension, he accidentally sends her to the beginning of the universe ''seconds before he gets there''.]]

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* PetTheDog: Towards Fighter, who he recognizes as "a casualty" that unlike the three sociopaths around him, doesn't really deserves to die. At times he's also gentle to White Mage, even if he has reasons to hate her.
** He also lets the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Dark Warriors]] flee rather than killing them all, taking pity on their incompetence.

** HeroOfAnotherStory: Even with these setbacks, they still manage to save the multiverse and acquire ludicrously powerful items in the process. [[TheChewToy This, however, makes them very visible looting targets for the other Light Warriors]].

* DropTheHammer: Uses a giant hammer as her main weapon.

* HeroesWantRedheads: His lust for White Mage, although calling [[VillainProtagonist Black Mage]] a "hero" is a stretch.

* HeroesWantRedheads:
** She might have [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/05/23/episode-033-amongst-our-weaponry-are-such-diverse-elements-as/ a crush]] [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/07/24/episode-874-silence-implies-consent/ on Fighter,]] or at the very least has no contempt for him.
** [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/07/06/episode-438-makin-friends/ She swoons over Ranger, the first time they meet.]]

* TheTeam: It's noted in their encounter with the Light and Dark Warriors that they actually seem to like each other, unlike the others.

* TheDragonslayer: He is this, despite the fact that he evidently doesn't entirely grasp what a dragon actually ''is''.