The Game of Death. (No, not Bruce Lee, dammit!)
 

I suppose the tiamat fight will have Thief repeating "Dragons don't exist." for a while, a la Fighter's "dozen times".

We don't know that Red Mage is dead. It was never explicitly stated that Ur assimilated him. All we know is that Red Mage experienced intense pain that involved with the removal of his skeletal system (and how he was still well enough to describe this is beyond me).

It's not like this is enough to kill a light Warrior, a la Black Mage's gut-launcher spell, and the time that Berserker attacked Thief. Therefore, I won't believe that Red Mage is dead until it's shown to me.

Let me put it this way: a man slamming his finger in a door is mild slapstick. A lady slipping on a banana peel is classic slapstick. A person slamming his finger in a door, causing him to rumble in pain until he hits an electric fence so that he is electrocuted and thus doesn't notice the banana peel and slips on it, which just happens to send him down a man whole, is hilarious slapstick.

My point is that in many ways, 8-Bit's death jokes are just the next step in slapstick humor.

Would you mind tellng me why you use such dark text? It gives me a headache.

Anyway, death is quite useful as a comedy. After a surge of adrenaline brought on by fear, the first instinct is to laugh. This is to return a person to a state of normality; the body is saying "there is no danger here." So why is it so surprising that we laugh at death? We, for the most part, don't want to die. Furthermore, nobody has died, and lived to talk about it, so we are also afraid of that extra unknown. So why is it so surprising that we can laugh at someone/thing else dying? We laugh at death because we are afraid of it.

Yes, I would mind. :shifty:

Now then, to get back on subject, I'd like to enter upon the revelation of the fact that NOT dying is also funny when used in congruence with death. Red Mage is apparently not dead because he's too stupid to relevently understand what it means to be taken apart, piece by piece, without 'writing down the damage', so I guess it's funny because he's...not dead. And even though it was an anti-climax, I still found it funny, so it's all good.

The question is...was it evolved slapstick? Also, there was certainly a big joke made on Kraken in HIS death.

Well, judging from the current comic I guess RM's NOT dead.


Ur is though...

It's his modus operandi. Just go with it.

On topic, I think RM's failure to register damage in such a ludicrous manner is rather akin to this.

Black mage = Spinal snap, thus killing him making him the ruler of hell.
Thief = Near death encounter with Berserker, causing him to make a deal with the god of trickery.
Red mage = Swallowed by Ur AND earlier a giant fire dragon, of which he killed them BOTH! (Woot for teh red mage!)
Black belt = ......Black belts dead!
Fighter = Whenever he sleeps near BM is a near-death experience for him...but other than that....hmmm.....

This is funny. The answers to all your questions are here.

I thought I'd mention it, since I know that most forum goers will never understand the post.