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Garland

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"I, GARLAND, WILL uh... KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN!"
—Garland

Garland is the founder of the Dark Warriors and the Light Warriors' archnemesis and most frequent enemy. Despite this, Garland is generally portrayed as a friendly cook and the nicest character along with Fighter.


First Appearance: Episode 052: Meanwhile...


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[edit] Overview

He is the first villain the Warriors of Light face. He somehow managed to kidnap Princess Sara. Throughout the series, Garland has been shown as an incredibly incompetent villain.

He also has an extreme fear of Forest Imps, the weakest creatures in the world. It has been shown that the Forest Imps have been doing various things to impair Garland's goal throughout the series.

While the Light Warriors made their way to the Temple of Fiends, Princess Sara was attempting to make Garland into a good evildoer. However, everything she tried just proved that he was a nice (but stupid) guy.

When the Light Warriors were captured by Princess Sara while she was helping him, Garland went to talk to them. They were petrified in fear at first, thinking that he "is so evil he can be nice to us before he kills us".

Garland's greeting speech to them was originally "Hello, I am Garland, would you like some cookies?". Sara then wrote a much more evil speech. However, when Garland went to greet the Light Warriors, the speech had been stolen, forcing him to improvise and proclaim "I, Garland, will knock you all down". The Light Warriors promptly burst out laughing, and Garland thought the line was so evil it had driven them insane.

Needless to say, the Light Warriors escaped after Garland lowered them into a pit of what everyone thought was acid, but turned out to be Mountain Dew. Black Belt proceeded to beat Garland to a pulp.

Since that incident, Garland formed the Dark Warriors along with Bikke, Drizz'l and Vilbert von Vampire. He is the leader for no other reason than the other three being too incompetent to do anything about it. They have tried (and failed) to defeat the Light Warriors time and time again.

The only time they succeeded was when Garland launched a slander campaign that turned everyone in Corneria against the Light Warriors.

As of Comic 981, he has lost leadership of the Dark Warriors to Drizz'l, who was himself usurped by Black Mage, one of the former Light Warriors, in comic 1019. Garland was shortly part of the Wildcats alongside Generic Half-Elven Dual-Class Ranger, Fighter, and Rogue.

His sprite is originally a Magic Knight from Final Fantasy III (although in Episode 53 and onwards it is closer to the original Garland sprite).

[edit] Dark Warriors appearances

  • Launching a slander campaign that turned everyone in Corneria against the Light Warriors.
  • Trying to invade Corneria Castle - at the request of King Steve, so he could declare war on some country - being botched by Sara. Drizz'l invited her to join the Dark Warriors, and was met with serious laughter.
  • Become crew of the Light Warriors ship (when they were sent by Sarda to the Arctic) in order to the kill them. They tried poisoned food (Garland threw it away), crashing the ship into icebergs (Black Mage exploded all in the way, even one he only stabbed), exploding the cannons while the LW cleaned them (Black Mage put extra powder, and the concussive forces annuled each other), summoning monsters (Black Mage killed them), and they finally abandoned the ship when the Light Warriors other than BM were about to discover their identities.
  • In the arctic, they killed the yeti and found the Light Warriors hanging on his cave - and despite Drizz'l suggesting on getting them down to kill the Warriors, Garland vetoed the idea. They only escaped after finding Real Light Warriors ship, and hiding themselves in a crate as the LW stole the ship and used it to ride it back to Corneria. In Corneria, Garland discovered all about the Light Warriors by talking to Fighter.
  • Bikke organized a meeting so he could plot a mutiny against Garland - but he invited Garland to it, since he would make the food. Garland explained that he accepted because the mutiny wouldn't give results, and the food had amnesia pepper anyway.
  • After King Steve lost the kingdom to a string, and the Dark Warriors witnessed him "killing it" to get it back, he hired them as his accountants as a bribe.

[edit] Trivia

  • Garland seems to be a very good cook.
  • Garlnad has graduated from "Barry's Correspondence School of Arch-Villainy".
  • He has a deep seeded hatred for the Forest Imps, weakest monsters in FFI.
  • He and the other Dark Warriors have the honor of being four of the nine people to out-Thief Thief
  • He seems to have a crush on Princess Sara.
  • Garland somehow can summon monsters - he summoned an octopus, a dinosaur to fight the octopus since it attacked the Dark Warriors, and a marmoset so they could escape by the sea since no Dark Warrior could swim.

[edit] Character History

Not much is known about Garland's past except that he was once a Conerian officer.
His full name is apparently Jim W. Garland

[edit] Relationships with other characters

Drizz'l: Drizz'l generally hates Garland's niceness and following cliché villain rules (such as assuming the heroes are defeated on their own as opposed to double checking). The two interacting are a key element of Dark Warrior scenarios.

Bikke: Garland sees Bikke as an idiot, and Bikke sees Garland as a sissy. However, Bikke is kept on the team because Garland fears him.

Vilbert: Despite Garland being the one who found and recruited Vilbert, the two are rarely seen interacting. They recognize each others' incompetence, yet the two do not seem to hate one another. Unlike Bikke and Drizz'l, Vilbert has not been shown trying to start a mutiny against Garland, although he did participate in theirs.

Princess Sara: Sara first acted as a mentor of sorts to Garland in the ways of evil. She continues to mock the Dark Warriors' attempts to invade Corneria Castle, which seems to be a regular event.

Black Mage: During Black Mage's time as leader of the Dark Warriors, the two were often seen talking to one another, with Garland questioning and complaining about Black Mage's methods.

King Steve: Although the two are never seen talking to one another, King Steve seems to view Garland and the Dark Warriors as his friends, perhaps because Garland used to work for him.

Darko: Garland was an understudy to Darko at one point, with Darko ashamed of him much like his current peers are. It was unknown what the exact relationship between the two was, when it happened, and if it still continues.

[edit] Abilities

Garland has the strange ability to summon powerful creatures (such as a Deep One, a dinosaur, a giant marmoset, and possibly even Chaos), perhaps meaning that he is a Final Fantasy summoner. This could be in reference to Golbez and Exdeath, as Golbez summons a Shadow Dragon and the two are shown to be casters despite being clad in incredibly heavy suits of armor. Alternatively, he might be a beastmaster, as he was put in charge of obtaining monsters to guard the Temple of Fiends and once ran a pet shelter there.

[edit] The Many Looks of Garland

First Appearance

The Usual

Barry

Full Frontal Nudity

[edit] See Also

Garland Appearances

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