History Characters / GoblinSlayerOtherSignificantPlayers

* BigSisterWorship: [[spoiler:He clearly regarded her very highly -- part of the reason why he is so hellbent on killing goblins in revenge and quitting magic school is because he could no longer deal with people at the Academy mocking her memory for falling victim to common goblins.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth: An improvised sonic spell shows why not utilizing the proper magic formulas is a bad idea when he ruptures his throat due to the [[RequiredSecondaryPowers lack of safeguards.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Having to be saved by Goblin Slayer from a troll forces him to admit he was wrong about him. While he still remains prickly to a near-intolerable degree, he becomes more malleable to the party's advice and eventually fixes his attitude. By the end of Volume 6, he sets out as a proper adventurer with Rhea Fighter by his side.]]

* {{Foil}}: Like Goblin Slayer, here is a young man driven to become an adventurer to wipe out the goblin menace [[spoiler:after their sister was murdered by goblins]], but in stark contrast with Goblin Slayer he is a dedicated magic user as opposed to a CombatPragmatist MultiMeleeMaster; a NaiveNewcomer to the rigors of adventuring as opposed to going through TrainingFromHell before he even started; open-faced and socially out-going as opposed to TheFaceless and completely emotionally closed-off; and inspired by intellectual disgust at reports of goblin behavior as opposed to personally experiencing them from a DarkAndTroubledPast. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, Guild Girl sees him as a complete nuisance as opposed to a breath of fresh air]]. And ultimately, unlike Goblin Slayer [[spoiler:he was able to move on with his life, cheerfully departing from the Frontier Guild Town with Rhea Fighter on their dream of becoming adventurers.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While Goblin Slayer was considered a weirdo for a time, but slowly and eventually accepted, Wizard Boy on the other hand is considered annoying by the Guild, adventurers and staff, alike. It doesn't help that he picks on Priestess, who at this point has become EveryonesBabySister to most of the Guild, and some of the offensives thing he says towards her sound like insults against clerics in general and the people saved by them, in other words, all of the Adventurer's Guild.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The main reason nobody likes him is because he acts likes he's hot stuff and insists on bossing the other low-ranking adventurers around, despite being a magic school dropout and the only one without field experience. [[spoiler:He tries to usurp command from Priestess (who is Obsidian-rank and has a decent amount of field experience after being an adventurer for a year) leading a practice rookie mission twice, the second time leading the group into a troll's nest and putting everyone in danger.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:Neither Goblin Slayer nor Priestess have the heart to tell him that they were witnesses to his sister's demise.]]

* PortalPicture: Given a jar of magic paint in volume 12 to draw a tunnel out through the walls of the Chaos-destroyed city he was sent to scope out.

* SharedFamilyQuirks: Just like his sister, [[spoiler:he's an inexperienced KnowNothingKnowItAll who treats himself like he's hot stuff, likes to mess with Priestess and makes newcomer mistakes that puts his team in danger. However, unlike her, Wizard Boy manages to live to see another day and grow out from his attitude.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: A Rare Male example: Spearman can readily tell the boy has interest in Rhea Fighter and that he is too proud to admit it.
* UnknownRival: Seems to consider himself as a Rival to Rookie Warrior, often comparing their "achievements" and getting annoyed when meeting during the middle of a Quest, especially when Rookie Warrior completely his Quest. Rookie Warrior ironically, not only doesn't seem to notice or care, but ''he'' actually treated Wizard Boy the nicest out of all their peers who basically wanted to kick the crap outta him.
* YouKilledMyFather: Decided to copy Goblin Slayer's modus operandi after hearing that his sister met her demise [[spoiler:in a goblin-clearing quest.]]

* ArmyScout: Shows up in volume 12 sent to do recon in a Chaos-ruined city alongside Wizard Boy.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The Gentle Girl to Wizard Boy's Brooding Boy.

* HiddenBuxom: The light novels consistently call her well-endowed, but she has fairly small breasts even for her size in both the illustrations and manga adaptation, until chapter 65 of the manga has her take off her breastplate and reveal she’s been pressing down a pair of breasts each nearly the size of her head this entire time.

* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, given his build, size, clothing, and temperamental nature.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Himself and the DamselInDistress he tried to rescue, in the same attack, by the future goblin lord. [[UnexplainedRecovery He somehow survived.]]

* TragicMistake: Sparing one goblin child was this as the child killed her the moment she faced the other way. [[TheExtremistWasRight This proves Goblin Slayer has a point about having to kill goblin children.]]

* ColdBloodedTorture: When the goblins captured Noble Fencer and Half-Elf Fighter, they determined that Half-Elf Fighter was the more "disposable" one of their two captives as [[spoiler: the Goblin Paladin determine that Noble Fencer's ShockAndAwe could be useful]] and end up getting the brunt of the goblins' cruel treatment. By the the time Goblin Slayer finds Half-Elf Fighter's corpse, she is missing the lower half of her body and the tips of her ears were cut off and stuffed in her mouth.

* ManlyFacialHair: A long, pointy, slightly curled English style that advertises his role as a fighting leader.

* CharmPerson: [[spoiler: Black Hat Wizard amplifies the negative traits of his students to foster conflict, and lulls Samurai Captain into disregarding how ObviouslyEvil he is.]]

* ChekhovsGun: All the party except Black Hat Wizard are prominently stated to wear rings, immediately after Female Bishop freaked out at seeing a [[CursedItem cursed ring]] in the stock of a random merchant. [[spoiler: Sure enough, those same rings end up killing them later.]]
* CruelToBeKind: The party seemingly replaced Female Bishop after her goblin accident and abandoned her in town to fend for herself. In truth Black Hat Wizard was a mentor promising them an easy level-grinding technique and they left her behind out of overprotectiveness and [[spoiler: not wanting her to be involved in their killing]], not realizing how poorly Female Bishop would be treated while alone.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Though they never realized it, the party came under mentorship of the Demon Lord, who was only toying with them so they would be a stronger meal.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Were all set to stop the hostilities and acknowledge the Golden Party as adequate protectors of Female Bishop when they lost their brawl. [[spoiler: Then Black Hat Wizard decided to harvest them.]]
* DevilInPlainSight: Black Hat Wizard's description [[EvilWearsBlack almost cartoonishly signals]] [[SmugSnake his true alignment.]] The only question is the extent. [[spoiler: It's [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demon Lord]] evil.]]

* EasilyForgiven: The original team of four are accepted by the Golden Party as friends after losing their duel and accepting Female Bishop’s decision to switch groups, completely sidestepping how they were willing to kill the protagonists to force their old teammate back into their circle and [[spoiler: murdered dozens of adventurers as part of their "training."]] To be absolutely fair, all that was done under the heavy influence of [[spoiler: the Demon Lord in disguise as Black Hat Wizard, who summarily kills them.]]

* EvilMentor: [[spoiler: Black Hat Wizard trained the party just to have a bigger meal.]]
* FantasticNuke: Black Hat Wizard can solo-cast Fusion Blast without help or strain, [[spoiler: another sign of his [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils true]] nature.]]

* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: Have murdered enough adventurers to render a storage center, complete with side rooms, overflowing.]]

* HumanDisguise: [[spoiler: Black Hat Wizard is the Demon Lord, cultivating adventurers to feast on later.]]

* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Precise details are never stated, but during their first quest together the other party members somehow lost track of Female Bishop or let her fall behind while exiting the cave, leaving her at the mercy of the remaining goblins. Their guilt over that day is such that [[spoiler: they become murderers in pursuit of the power to always protect her from now on.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Magic Knight uses a katana with a red blade. [[spoiler: Black Hat Wizard takes it back after exposing himself as the Demon Lord by killing him.]]

* MagicKnight: Who is even called Magic Knight, though his magic seemingly comes from [[LimitedUseMagicalDevice consumables.]] Black Hat Wizard is also handy with both spell and sword [[spoiler: inhumanly so.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Samurai Warrior assumes the "penance" they say they left Female Bishop to perform was for [[spoiler: slaughtering other adventurers. [[SubvertedTrope In truth that was]] their ''act'' of penance for their true cause of guilt; letting goblins take Female Bishop.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Letting Female Bishop be taken by goblins is something they never want to be weak enough to allow happen again. [[spoiler: They will murder if that gives them the strength faster.]]
* {{Necromancer}}: [[spoiler: Black Hat Wizard was making zombies out of the adventurers they murdered so the party could keep farming experience between kills.]]
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Not themselves but their mutual teammate. The four have devoted themselves to becoming strong enough to guarantee the safety of Female Bishop after letting her get assaulted be goblins. The lengths they go to in that effort [[spoiler: damn them.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: The rest of the party repented of their ganking and acknowledges the validity of Female Bishop making her own choices scant seconds before Black Hat Wizard killed them.]]
* ReducedToDust: [[spoiler: What the curse of their rings does to the party.]]
* ScaryTeeth: Black Hat Wizard has teeth that are stained if not ''glowing'' red [[spoiler: after outing himself as a demon in disguise.]]
* SerialKiller: [[spoiler: The party killed dozens of adventurers of all stripes because it got them more experience than hunting monsters in the Dungeon.]]

* SlasherSmile: Black Hat Wizard has a smile that ''literally'' extends from ear to ear in one illustration. "Over and past his cheekbones" literally. [[spoiler: Demons have malleable anatomy.]]

* TrainingFromHell: The secret fast track to power Black Hat Wizard is peddling involves [[spoiler: ambushing and killing other adventurers in the Dungeon of the Dead, piling their corpses together, and standing ground against a massive tide of undead countless times on repeat.]]
* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler: The party was killing other adventurers in the Dungeon of the Dead as extra experience, their actions covered by the high casualty rate, presence of "scruffy men", and the cover of the Dark Zone.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: They are all uncommonly strong for their amount of time and experience as adventurers thanks to their strong equipment [[spoiler: and killing adventurers instead of monsters.]] However, they do not fight as a cohesive unit, which gives the Golden Party an edge to secure victory.
* VampiricDraining: [[spoiler: Black Hat Wizard is the Demon Lord, and trains up adventurers to have more filling souls.]]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Forest Princess is this for her sister High Elf Archer; being able to shoot arrows with accuracy into the eyestalks of a Gazer while engaging in intense acrobatics is resentfully stated to be child's play for her. In the VideoGame/MemoriaFreese tie-in event and later volume 10, it is also claimed she once destroyed a human battleship with a single arrow. [[ACupAngst She's also much better endowed up top.]]

High Elf Archer and Forest Princess' cousin, the former's scouting teacher, and the latter's fiance.

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: {{Averted}}, in fact he is identified by the mithril skullcap he never takes off.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's the first and only one to ever call Goblin Slayer out for blaming himself over his older sister's life circumstances. Specifically, he tells him that "a flower chooses not where it blooms", and that his sister chose not to marry and move away, but to raise him and to die for him because she ''loved him''. (In comparison to Burglar, who spent five years nonstop blaming Goblin Slayer for every bad thing that happened to his sister.) This speeds up Goblin Slayer's emotional recovery exponentially, making him noticeably more amenable to participating in regular adventures.

The Chief of the Elves. Forest Princess and High Elf Archer's father.

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:It's explained that elves only lose their physical forms naturally when they want to die. Why he did is never specified, though a later conversation makes it clear that it's generally caused by hitting the DespairEventHorizon, usually by an elf [[MayFlyDecemberRomance losing a mortal]] they cared about.]]

* {{Transflormation}}: [[spoiler:Has become a part of the great tree containing the elvish royal court.]]

A scout for a nearby elf settlement in the forest who was assigned to spy on a goblin nest controlled by an ogre. Unfortunately, she was found out and captured by the goblins by the time Goblin Slayer's party arrived.

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Shows up in Volume 7 when the party arrive at the site for Forest Princess' wedding, still baring the scars of her captivity, blind in one eye, and reportedly largely unresponsive. Goblin Slayer goes to her and assures her that all the goblins from the tower are dead, to which she lets tears fall.]]

* DiagonalCut: Kills a few goblins and the Immortal Sorcerer this way. [[spoiler: The later gets up at her expense.]]
* ForeignCultureFetish: {{Averted}} '''BIGTIME''', Baturu views all culture outside of Centaur Culture, as either "primative" or "barbaric", making sure to loudly complain about nearly everything she sees, to her near ''terror'' of anything new and different to what she grew up with. This eventually comes to a head when she sees the "City Centaur" have abandoned their nomadic lifestyles for one akin to competitive sports and that her missing princess embraced this lifestyle. Baturu nearly has a nervous breakdown and accuses the lady atheletes as "Putting themselves on display" and blaming humans for corrupting her kin. It isn't until some of these lady atheletes, particularly Lightning, confront her about dishonoring their love of competition did she finally take back her insults.

* KillingInSelfDefense: [[spoiler: Her personal trainer wasn't killed by her kidnappers, but by her own hooves when he tried to cripple her leg so that he could cash in on bets made against her in her next race.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: First appeared way back in volume 6 during a guys night out between Goblin Slayer, Heavy Warrior, and Spearman.

* CoolUncle: To Cow Girl. He is willing to let Goblin Slayer live on his farm at her request, even though he clearly disapproves of the goblin-obsessed adventurer that his niece's childhood friend has become.

* FeelingTheirAge: In volume 14, even Goblin Slayer notes how he looks perpetually fatigued nowadays, the specter of senescence hovering over him and ready to sap all his strength.
* GoGetterGirl: A rare male example, Cow Girl's Uncle may own his own land and make a decent living as a dairy farmer, but he's not one to just let a good, honest deal by to further his income. Twice thanks to Goblin Slayer he's found ways to use his farm to make further products.
** After Goblin Slayer returned from Water Town with tools to make ice cream, Cow Girl's Uncle jumped at the chance to borrow Goblin Slayer's tool (with his permission) to sell Ice Cream in the Frontier town during Spring and Summer to good fiscal success.
** When Goblin Slayer went to the Desert Kingdom, he sent back a female Camel to the farm as a souvenir for Cow Girl; Uncle has since been collecting her milk to see if he can make some cheese (Camel cheese is indeed real) and sell it as a rare exotic good.

* MinorMajorCharacter: His farm is considered an ''extremely'' important asset and Branch Castle or "fallback position" for the Frontier Town; in short, he's kind of a big deal, just not to the story. Because of this, he's not only part of the town's leadership and attends their meetings regularly, but the threat of his farm falling to Goblins was enough for the Guild to put a special incentive on Goblin bounties in order to convince higher ranked adventurers to protect his farm.

* ParentsAsPeople: In chapter 57 of ''Year One'' he reflects on his time looking after Cow Girl so far. He acknowledges in detail their occasional arguments, mutual hangups, and how he still doesn’t fully understand her, but he cares for her the best he can and their are slowly making it work.

** It's subtle, but he does try to be a father-figure to Goblin Slayer in his own way. In one chapter of ''Year One'', he considers thanking Goblin Slayer for mending a fence but doesn't because he thinks it's distant and informal and instead just welcomes him home, and then later chides him for not letting him (Uncle) and Cowgirl know that he'd been promoted.

* PosthumousCharacter: In the early volumes she was mostly a case of TheLostLenore, providing a SmallRoleBigImpact that brought forth the existence of Goblin Slayer. But later Volumes and the ''Year One'' spinoff provide increasing amounts of info about her character from people that knew her while she was alive, especially Goblin Slayer showing readers more of his memories, painting an ever-expanding rounded image of who she was despite even the prequel starting shortly after her death.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:She laughs off (in a good way) the idea of Priestess being TheChosenOne or SecretlyRoyalty... and as of Volume 13, there are a lot of hints that Priestess is both those things.]]

* AChildShallLeadThem: Downplayed. Goblin Slayer comments on his young age the first time he meets him in ''Year One'', stating that the Village Chief is "only just barely an adult". Its implied he is around the same age as Goblin Slayer and Heavy Warrior, meaning he was just a teenager when he became the chief of his village.

* StealthInsult: An innocent example, when asked about his limp, he explains he "took an arrow to the knee", which is both accurate and a playful "Ball and Chain" joke about his wife; let's just say his wife got the joke and wasn't exactly amused.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Her husband's innocent joke about his limp is because he "took an arrow to the knee" is not lost on her.
** An explaination, the phrase "took an arrow to the knee" is a euphamism akin to "the ol' ball and chain", a marriage joke. So it's not only an innocent joke at her expense, it's made even funnier because her husband also took an arrow to the knee ''literally''.

A little boy who Goblin Slayer saves from running into a goblin nest.

* FakeOutOpening: The first few paragraph make his story look like a flashback to Goblin Slayer's childhood, right up until Goblin Slayer himself actually shows up on a quest.

** The boy is extremely cheeky towards his frazzled sister, while Goblin Slayer was a dutiful MommasBoy towards a sister who was always ladylike and composed [[FaceDeathWithDignity even at the razors edge of death and dishonor.]]

A bard that sings ballads of Goblin Slayer's adventures.

A nun who runs a convent to the God of Trade in the pioneer village where Chosen Heroine grew up.

An older military woman placed in charge of defending the Kingdom's eastern border. Seen in a flashback to the war against the Demon Lord from a decade before the story's start, and running her own fortress in Volume 12.

* CreatureOfHabit: When discussing the Wine Merchant's offer to buy his farm from him and turn his mixed farming cattle ranch into an industrial barley plantation for beer-brewing, he admits his main problem is that he's so used to the way he's lived and operated that to switch to a new production is almost unthinkable for him.

* FeelingTheirAge: In volume 14 even Goblin Slayer notes how he looks perpetually fatigued nowadays, the specter of senescence hovering over him and ready to sap all his strength.

* HiddenDepths: He is a highly introspective man, he sometimes gets absorbed in his thoughts about if he is doing the best for his niece, or agonizing about the fact that maybe he is overstepping, not wanting to replace her parents.He is also a former mercenary, so he is well aware how Adventurers can be. He is also willing to offer Goblin Slayer advice about how to live a more normal life.

* GrandmasRecipe: She had her own special way of preparing beef stew, that she also taught to Cow Girl. The latter insists its not some grand secret recipe, but the memories it conjures for Goblin Slayer and herself are such that she makes it for his dinner almost religiously.

* IAmNotPretty: In a bonus chapter she sincerely asks what man would want her body. In fairness to her; the last time she could clearly see herself she was still an undernourished fifteen-year-old, and while she knows she's filled out since then, she also drastically overestimates how bad her surface-scarring looks.

* BadassBureaucrat: As a Gold-Ranked Adventurer and part of the party that took down the last Demon Lord, she is one of the most power living adventurers of the last generation, and spends her time nowadays administering Water Town, reviewing the court proceedings of the Western Frontier region, and occasionally presiding over trials, and such.

* BrilliantButLazy: She's one of the most powerful spellcasters her world has seen in an epoch, but she also hates writing up reports or sticking to a consistent schedule. She happily procrastinates on the updates to the Monster Manual she was tasked with, and muses that if her personal projects hit brick wall while she's in Frontier Town, she has no problem "lazing around here for at least another five years".

* {{Seer}}: Her SympatheticPOV bonus chapter reveals she does have some capacity for clairvoyance; she gets dressed and expectant for Goblin Slayer to show up one morning because she recalls shuffling her deck the night before and catching a glimpse of a card representing a coming visitor.

* TheFashionista: Updates her armor for style as much as function, demanding each new set be more form-fitting.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Or at ParentalSubstitute siblings, as Goblin Slayer reveres her memory. This trope was in turn true for her, and she always told Goblin Slayer what wonderful people their parents were and offered him their father's hunting knife as a memento.

* QuestGiver: Effectively this, as her information on new foes usually drives Samurai Captain to seek them out.

* SuspendedAnimation: One of her miracles is Preservation; a spell that puts mortally wounded adventurers into a frozen state for a long while, giving their comrades a chance to raise the funds to pay for a Resurrection.

* WomanChild: She knows well enough to keep it hidden in public, but she can be a bit immature for a twenty-five-year-old. Sword Maiden has an especially noticeable habit of [[SmittenTeenageGirl sulking like a teenage girl]] whenever the subject involves Goblin Slayer.
* {{Workaholic}}: She used to bury herself in work to distract herself from her problems. She's a little more lax now, but her attendants still think she needs more rest.

* WalkingTheEarth: Despite the Kingdom having a capital city that the King himself is pretty much shackled in, his council is stated to be a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itinerant_court traveling court]]; a form of government from European antiquity in which the ruling authority packed and moved up and down its territory, setting up shop in a various cities to address local issues and coordinate regional projects temporarily before moving in a manner comaprable to a CircuitJudge.

* GeometricMagic: The main component of her magic rituals to break down the curses sealing the Shadow Tower is constructing a model of various four-dimensional polytopes.

* InsufferableGenius: Acts very haughty and condescending to Goblin Slayer in the beginning.

* TricksterMentor: Tries to be this a little with Goblin Slayer, being very fickle and roundabout in providing answers to his questions, posing riddles about the nature of life, and refusing to help him fight beyond the bare minimum even while standing right in front of him. It doesn't go very far on account of his no-nonsense attitude. She has better luck with Cow Girl while encouraging her to be more relaxed towards her crush.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Her status as heiress makes her even more high-strung and haughty than typical elves, but interactions with Goblin Slayer and stories her family shares about her quickly expose that she is quite clumsy and easily flustered.

* DeerInTheHeadlights: Freezes up while climbing over her carriage in the middle of a goblin ambush, Goblin Slayer covers her and snaps her out f it.

* HeroicResolve: Even with her enchantments stipped, ribs cracked, and organs bruised, she still stands firm and walks steadily forward to finish off the Undead King.

* TheAlcoholic: She guzzles the hard cider Goblin Slayer keeps bringing her in almost every scene she's in.

A former general of the Kingdom. Leaves the army in ''Year One'' Volume 2 to study monsters on the frontier, and ends up hiring the young Goblin Slayer as a guard and helper, becoming the source of most of his understanding of goblin ecology and anatomy.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Aya Yamane (Half-Elf Fighter, Japanese), Hiyori Kono (Rhea Scout, Japanese), Creator/RyoSugisaki (Dwarf Monk, Japanese), Akira Koga (Middle-Aged Wizard, Japanese), Creator/KrystalLaPorte (Half-Elf Fighter, English), Creator/SuzieYeung (Rhea Scout, English), Creator/KentWilliams (Dwarf Monk, English), Mark Allen Jr. (Middle-Aged Wizard, English)

* BarbarianHero: Half-naked, muscle-bound, fancy weapon? Check, check, and double-check. On his reappearance in ''Year One'' he also displays many of the negative aspects of old-school depictions, such as a pronounced anti-intellectual streak and a mien of such casual violence and mercurial temper that it leaves his new allies terrified he'll get offended and try tp kill them at the drop of a hat.

* {{Expy}}: Of Conan The Barbarian, given his build, size, clothing, and temperamental nature.

* BoobsOfSteel: Sword Saint is one of the series' strongest melee fighters, and noticeably has the largest "assets" among her party.

* BoobsOfSteel: Female Warrior is well-endowed, and is the only female on the team who is a front-line fighter.

* MsFanservice: Female Warrior is a very attractive woman with [[BoobsOfSteel large breasts]], [[HartmanHips wide hips]] and shapely legs. It doesn't help that both the light novel illustrations and the manga take the opportunity to have [[MaleGaze a few close-up shots of her rear]].

* {{Foil}}: She is opposite to Goblin Slayer in almost every possible way. As TheChosenOne destined to save the world, she has had everything handed to her by her heroic fate, while Goblin Slayer is just an average person not destined for anything glorious who constantly fights an uphill battle and only makes it out alive through his own wits, resolve and [[ThePowerOfHate sheer hatred for his sworn enemies]]. She routinely battles the most powerful demon lords, Goblin Slayer just slays [[{{Mooks}} goblins]]. She is clad in resplendent armor befitting a high-ranking adventurer and wields a wondrous holy weapon, Goblin Slayer refuses to use enchanted weapons and wears a simple, battered armor which has had its only aesthetic element -- the horns on its helmet -- cut off because they only got in the way in goblin caves. She is an incredibly powerful MagicKnight, Goblin Slayer is a fighter of only average skill with no special abilities. She is known to [[LeeroyJenkins rush into battle headlong]] relying on her raw power and [[BornLucky incredible luck]] to keep her alive, while Goblin Slayer adamantly refuses to rely on luck, prominently utilizes stealth and [[CombatPragmatist underhanded tactics]], exploits the environment to his advantage whenever and however he can, and meticulously plans out every battle before it starts. Basically, the Chosen Heroine is the stereotype of what is expected of a powerful high-level adventurer, and the one the reader might have reasonably expected to be the main character, [[HeroOfAnotherStory had this been a very different tale]]. Goblin Slayer is, well... [[{{Deconstruction}} Goblin Slayer]]. Ironically, she is one of the most powerful beings in the world, but she is only so because of the will of the gods, while Goblin Slayer, despite being nothing out of the ordinary, is one of the few beings completely independent of the will of the gods, so much so that [[spoiler:the gods had planned for her to have a DarkAndTroubledPast backstory through a DoomedHometown...but then [[SpannerInTheWorks Goblin Slayer prevented that]] [[ScrewDestiny from happening by killing all the goblins]]]].

* {{Bishonen}}: Unlike most stereotypical kings in fantasy stories, he is a handsome young man with the looks of a PrinceCharming, although he did ascend to the throne at a young age due to the death of his father.

* SenpaiKohai: The senpai to Priestess, always mother-henning her and encouraging her to blossom.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Goes completely barefoot aside from the stirrups of the leggings she's wearing under her shorts.

* BreackoutCharacter: An in-universe example, Silver Blaze is the hot new star of the Centaur Sports female circuit, to the point that her disappearance was considered a calamity for the upcoming races and her return was met with ''thunderous'' applause from the spectators.