It was so that Sephiroth could summon the meteor and-- oh wait, wrong story.
BB had potential; could whip any human and had some philosophical moments too. The "I get lost" thing was a run-on gag like "I like swords", but outside of that he had potential. If we're going with a semi-realistic "Final Fantasy" story thing though, he shoulda never existed/been seen in the first place, unless he was part of the 4 (so-called) Light Warriors.
Then again, that brings up another interesting point. The fake light warriors tricked King Steve with light bulbs, whereas the real ones had the real orbs... but Sarda is omniscient and wouldn't be tricked like that; wouldn't he choose to help the real (competent) four Light Warriors instead of the fake ones?
Discuss.

Well, I don't think it mttered who had the fancy heriloom orbs in the first place. The Light Warriors highjacked destiny. They purified two of the orbs. I don't think it really matters who does it, as long as it gets done. (And they might fail, yet.)

Y'know, the real Light Warriors were supposed to carry the orbs, whilst the fake ones faked their orb-holding with Light Bulbs. However, Lich held the Earth Orb, and Kary held the Fire Orb. Likewise, Kraken probably has the Water Orb, and Tiamat probably has the Wind Orb. That means that Lich, Kary, Kraken, and Tiamat are the true Light Warriors!

OK, my thoughts on BB's death.

I was in denial about it at first. I thought they'd just take a few pieces to a church and resurrect him. I was wrong. Then I realized a great reason for BB to return. RPGs today are full of violently angsty characters. Even Vilbert doesn't scratch the surface of how gothy these characters are. I thought that BB returning from death would be a perfect oppurtunity for a personality retooling that would allow him to become full of angst and regret for the sake of satire. While I still think that would be pretty good, I realized why BB shouldn't be resurrected.

Has anybody here read Brian's rants on the status of comics today? I'm pretty sure he made points about how he hates heroes "dying" for cheap drama and then coming back later through some time loophole/resurrection/alternate dimension/"he never really died." I agree with him on this. If we realize that the heroes are in no real danger of dying and staying dead, even if they die, we don't care.

So, Brian, thank you for treating us with respect. Thank you for not messing with us for the sake of cheap drama. Thank you for thinking that we have the maturity to accept the death of a fictional character. Thank you for keeping BB where he belongs.

Still, it'd be pretty cool to see BB again, even if he's just a ghost or flashback or something. He was awesome.

A ghost version of Black Belt would be hilarious if done properly, especially if he gave advice that Black Mage hated. A lot. And Fighter liked. A lot.

Basically an Obi-Wan ghost version. Y'know?

Bizzaro, the True Warriors of light have the orbs of Light, Not earth, wind, fire, water. Thus, said beasts would be Warriors of their respective elements. If your theory was correct.

Black belt got what he deserved! Spending so much time with WM when BM should have been with her. Plus anyone who has such a horrible sense of direction would never be able to find his way back from the nether world, even if he was offered a ressurection spell.

Black belt. Baisically Brian would have to gut and revamp his whole personality. He cannot make it back to the real world even if he wanted to with his current abilities.

Black Belt: White mage! I'm back from the dead!
Matoya: Who the hell are you?
*later*
Black Belt: white mage, I have finally found you!
Sarda: Get lost you stupid salesman or i will rearange your particles
*even later*
Black Belt: White mage, is that really you?
Black Mage: WTF?
Black Belt: OOF! DEAR GOD! HOW CAN YOU STAB A GHOST?

See?

Dude, that is possibly the stupidest thing mentioned in this entire thread!

First off, if you have actually read the comic, you would have seen that Black Mage happens to be an EXTREMELY evil wizard! White Mage dose not even have an intrest in him.

Second, you would have also seen that niether Black Belt nor White Mage should an interest in eachother.

Third, as things are things are right now, Black Mage will be seeing less of White Mage because Sandra keeps sending them all across the globe.

No argument here (but you did spell the word "resurrection" wrong).

Violently disagreed. It's a different view on the comic, that's all. Discuss it all you want, but please step away from the border to Flameland.

And the grammatically correct way of putting it is "most stupid." :)