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You’ve Got a Fiend in Me
I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →
Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh |
Co-Ed Casting
I get the impression that the general depiction of a white mage in the Final Fantasy series is female. I thought of this when I recently talked about Mario Hoops 3-on-3 and Mario Sports Mix, which have a generic white … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Gender, Magic, Philosophy, Religion, Television, Video Games | Tagged 8-bit theater, aerith gainsborough, angelo, ashlynn, black mages, borya, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest vi, dragon quest viii, dragon quest xi, eiko carol, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vii, fusoya, hargon, jessica albert, kiryl, mages, mario hoops 3-on-3, mario sports mix, masters of the universe, maya, meena, minwu, nevan, orko, palom, porom, priests, princess garnet til alexandros xvii, rosa joanna farrell, rydia of mist, sages, tellah, ultima, white mages, wizards, yin and yang |
Sitting in the Corneria
Video games nowadays tend to flesh out their characters and worlds a lot more than they did back in my youth. Still, there was some definite appeal to trying to piece together what little background the early games did give … Continue reading →
Posted in Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Monsters, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged 8-bit theater, alefgard, chaos, cid of the lufaine, cornelia, corneria, dissidia final fantasy, dragon quest iii, elemental fiends, elfheim, elves, emblem of roto, erdrick, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy tactics, interdimensional rift, kain highwind, light warriors, loto, lufenia, nintendo power, onrac, ricard highwind, roto, star fox, the adventure of link, warrior of light |
Spoony Good Times
I can’t say I’m that well-versed in the world of webcomics, but there are a few I follow, or did when they were still updating. Some are created by people I know from elsewhere on the Internet, while others I … Continue reading →
Mission: Imp Ossible
Growing up with various fantasy universes in books, video games, and other media, I frequently came across names of magical beings that weren’t always consistently defined. I’ve already discussed many of these, but as of yet I haven’t said a … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, British, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Discworld, Eric Shanower, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, Japanese, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged 8-bit theater, buddy holly, final fantasy vi, frank joslyn baum, garland, gau, goblins, ice imps, imp y celyn, imps, kappa, kimberly frodelius, little wizard stories of oz, milt youngren, ozma, ozma and the little wizard of oz, queen zixi of ix, ruby imp, soul music, sound imps, the enchanted island of yew, the ice king of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the three imps of oz, toto in oz, witches, wizard of oz |
Drow Something
As I said in my last post, it’s difficult to determine exactly how Dark Elves fit into Norse mythology, as information about them is scant. Snorri Sturluson mentions the Ljosalfar (Light Elves) and Dokkalfar (Dark Elves), claiming that the former … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Celtic, Characters, Comics, Final Fantasy, Games, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games | Tagged 8-bit theater, alfheim, astos, Black Elves, brokkr, dark elves, dokkalfar, drizz'l, drizzt do'urden, drow, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elves, final fantasy iv, forgotten realms, frank joslyn baum, freyr, gary gygax, ivaldi, kaliko, light elves, ljosalfar, marvel comics, odin, prince flash, prince twilight, santa claus, sif, sindri, snorri sturluson, svartalfar, svartalfheim, the laughing dragon of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the tik-tok man of oz, troia |
Super Loops
SPOILERS for Final Fantasy (the first one) and The 7th Saga. The idea of a time loop is one that comes up occasionally in fiction, sometimes as simply a repeating part of history, and other times involving time travel that … Continue reading →
Posted in Comics, Final Fantasy, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged 7th saga, 8-bit theater, chaos, cid of the lufaine, cornelia, elemental fiends, final fantasy dissidia, garland, gorsia, kary, kraken, lemele, lich, light warriors, lufenia, marilith, sarda, saro, tiamat, time loops, time travel |
Taking It to the Streets
While I’ve written quite a bit about video games from my youth, I haven’t said all that much about one of the biggest hits of the early nineties, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. A one-on-one fighting game that inspired … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Breath of Fire, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mega Man, Punch-Out, Street Fighter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Video Games | Tagged 8-bit theater, balrog, black mage, blanka, cactaurs, chun-li, dhalsim, edmond honda, gouken, guile, hadoken, hadouken, inkheart, ken masters, lord of the rings, m. bison, mega man x, mike tyson, mortal kombat, ninja gaiden, pro wrestling, rich moore, ryu, sagat, shadaloo, sheng long, shoryuken, shredder, street fighter ii, the amazon, vega, wreck-it ralph, zangief |
Video Game Piracy
No, this isn’t about people who pirate software, but rather pirates who appear in video games. There are many of these, but I’m choosing to focus on two of my favorite game franchises, Final Fantasy and Mario. The original game … Continue reading →
Posted in Final Fantasy, Mario, Video Games | Tagged 8-bit theater, bikke, captain snes, captain syrup, comics, faris scherwiz, jonathan jones, pirates, wario |