Black Mage's Aim

[Red King]

I've seen several instances both in the comic and in the forum of people saying Black Mage's aim is terrible, bad, or downright not accurate. But as I've read back through the comic, I've noticed something which disproves those claims.

Whenever BM misses, his spell hits something good, instead of the intended Targets, usually the LW. So it's my theory he actually has perfect aim, but his subconscious directs it against anything that might cause good or happiness. The ship full of food and medical supplies. The rebuilt dwarven nation, the orphanage. And he has always missed the LW, because ets face it, they can only inflict pain and misery upon the world.

So bm really has perfect aim.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by RoyoR

I've seen several instances both in the comic and in the forum of people saying Black Mage's aim is terrible, bad, or downright not accurate. But as I've read back through the comic, I've noticed something which disproves those claims.

Whenever BM misses, his spell hits something good, instead of the intended Targets, usually the LW. So it's my theory he actually has perfect aim, but his subconscious directs it against anything that might cause good or happiness. The ship full of food and medical supplies. The rebuilt dwarven nation, the orphanage. And he has always missed the LW, because ets face it, they can only inflict pain and misery upon the world.

So bm really has perfect aim.

To be honest, most of those are just things that just happened to be in the way at the time. His Hodoken IS a beam made of mostly light particles. So that beam is going to keep going till it hits something thick enough to stop it. To put it simple, his aim is shit awful, and just because something else might get hit by that attack doesn't and never will change that fact.

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[Red King]

Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

To be honest, most of those are just things that just happened to be in the way at the time. His Hodoken IS a beam made of mostly light particles. So that beam is going to keep going till it hits something thick enough to stop it. To put it simple, his aim is shit awful, and just because something else might get hit by that attack doesn't and never will change that fact.

And the fact that almost every time it hits something good and nice and misses the bad thing?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by RoyoR

And the fact that almost every time it hits something good and nice and misses the bad thing?

Still doesn't change the fact that his aim is worse then Boonie's (Joe's wife) from family guy. It DOES however mean that he might not want to hit the bad thing, which could explain him missing so much. But there were still too many times when he wanted to hit something and still missed (remember the volcano? That was one of them.) to really make up for it.

[Red King]

Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

Still doesn't change the fact that his aim is worse then Boonie's (Joe's wife) from family guy. It DOES however mean that he might not want to hit the bad thing, which could explain him missing so much. But there were still too many times when he wanted to hit something and still missed (remember the volcano? That was one of them.) to really make up for it.

And if I remember correctly, it destroyed a planet on the other side of the sun.
Also like I said, that would have killed the LW, and they can only spread misery upon the world. His aim is attracted to good things.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Originally Posted by RoyoR

And if I remember correctly, it destroyed a planet on the other side of the sun.
Also like I said, that would have killed the LW, and they can only spread misery upon the world. His aim is attracted to good things.

I'm STILL confused as to how that one shot wiped out a whole planet Billions of light years away from their earth, where as every other shot that's hit the ground has failed to annihilate their planet.

Besides that depends on what he thinks is good. Cause pretty much everything else seems good compared to the LWs.

[Red King]

Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

I'm STILL confused as to how that one shot wiped out a whole planet Billions of light years away from their earth, where as every other shot that's hit the ground has failed to annihilate their planet.

Besides that depends on what he thinks is good. Cause pretty much everything else seems good compared to the LWs.

Oh. That's simple. It was funnier that way.

[Flarecobra]

Because it wasn't billions of light-years?

It was on the other side of the sun

[Kyanbu The Legend]

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I really don't see anything good about the dwarfs. plus his aim was WAY off on that one. He even admitted to it.

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

Because it wasn't billions of light-years?

It was on the other side of the sun

The sun it's self is roughly 500,000,000 miles in length. Plus their planet it's self is several hundred million miles away from the sun. Plus the distance between the lizard home world and the sun is probably a few hundred million miles away from the sun. So the distance between the lizard home world and Earth is still at the least, few billion miles in length.

[Stormlock]

Wasn't the (incredibly obvious) joke that he caused the extinction of the dinosaurs on our planet? Unless I'm missing an invisible comic where it shows the whole planet being annihilated.

Maybe it's in the nature of the hadoken to seek out good things and destroy them, thus his lack of success with the volcano or the LWs. Or Sarda the first time. (The second time he could have just aimed everywhere or at the floor for all we know.)