Heartwarming / 8-Bit Theater

• Shortly after Black Mage becomes ruler of Hell, he just can't bring himself to tell Fighter that he didn't go to Heaven. In his words "Even though I'm the incarnation of all mortal evils, I just don't have the heart." He gets another one a strip or two later.
  Fighter: I bet in Heaven they let you eat cookies for breakfast every day!
  Black Mage: Yes. Yes, that is what they do.
• This strip. Why? Because instead of murdering a person, Black Mage actually gave him a chance to back down. The clincher? It was Fighter.
• Although it may not be quite as touching as some of the other examples here, this strip (especially panels 4,5, and 7). Despite all the (often hilarious) horrible things they've done to people and to each other, there's something strangely touching about seeing three of the Light Warriors share a bed, with the sight rendering Drizz'l unable to kill them.
• One for (most of) the Dark Warriors and the whole world: "GENOCIDES AT RECORD LOW"
• Also the epilogue, for the characters and for the author.
  • After giving the Light Warriors a somewhat-deserved dose of karma, White Mage eventually goes back to make amends as the Light Warriors did play a minor role in the battle to save the world.
  • Red Mage establishes a support group for the survivors of secret societies like himself. White Mage questions why he would want to chat with her since she used her connections to present the Dark Warriors as the true saviors of the world. Red Mage calmly tells her that he's merely content with the adventure, not the glory.
  • Thief becomes the King of the Elves. He tells White Mage that he will let her know if his spies find out where the rest of the Light Warriors are.
  • And finally, Fighter and Black Mage go back to mucking about and bickering, just as they did in the first comic strip.
• An often missed nostalgia moment. Even though Black Mage is more evil than he's ever been, he's still able to look back fondly on the adventure.
• This one here. Fighter finds a note written by Black Mage for White Mage explaining that he doesn't mean to act the way that he does around her, it's just that whatever he tries to say to her gets messed up and creepy on the way out of his brain and to his mouth. He recognizes this as a problem and doesn't blame WM at all for not wanting a thing to do with him. It is truly one of BMs very few redeeming moments regarding their "relationship." Doubles as a Tear Jerker of sorts since it shows that BM has a shred of humanity under all the evil.
• There's a subtle moment when Fighter faces off against the Fiends. At first it seems as though he's alone and being a Cloud Cuckoo Lander when he says the other Light Warriors are helping him. Then we learn that Thief and Red Mage are gearing up to fight the Fiends.
• Thief and Red Mage briefly teaming up to protect White Mage against Black Mage. Made even more surprising and heartwarming by Thief's extremely uncharacteristic Heroic Sacrifice and then Red Mage's even more uncharacteristic last stand against Black Mage.
• While Thief and Black Mage try to abandon Red Mage instead of fighting Sarda, it's worth noting that Thief does come back to drag Fighter away with them.
• Red Mage and Bikke bouncing on a bed together. It's cute to see them getting along so well even though they're meant to be enemies.

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