| 1 | '''{{Spoiler}}s abound.''' |
| 2 | ---- |
| 3 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 4 | |
| 5 | !!Goblin Adventuring Party |
| 6 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblins_gap.png]] |
| 7 | [[caption-width-right:350:L-R: Chief, Big Ears, Complains, Thaco, Fumbles.]] |
| 8 | The Goblin Adventuring Party are the main characters of our story. After their warcamp is destroyed by a human adventuring party, five goblins set off on an adventure to gain class levels and become strong so that they can better defend their clan. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[folder:Big Ears]] |
| 11 | !!Big Ears |
| 12 | |
| 13 | ->''"Never tell me to quiet my heart again."'' |
| 14 | |
| 15 | -> '''Alignment''': LawfulGood |
| 16 | |
| 17 | A member of the Goblin Adventuring Party. After witnessing his best friend One Eye's death, he chose to be a paladin because he was tired of watching others die. |
| 18 | ---- |
| 19 | * AllergicToEvil: Using his DetectEvil on a band of extremely evil enemies causes him to go into a coughing fit. Earlier, being exposed to the evil radiated by the [[ArtifactOfDoom Axe of Prissan]] had caused him to suffer a splitting headache complete with a PsychicNosebleed. |
| 20 | ** Now he's [[ItMakesSenseInContext absorbed an Angel's Horn]], and he's been shown to react similarly to Complains' half-demon status as the Angel in question. |
| 21 | * BadassBoast: Combined with IronicEcho. The line below, the "flea demon" said the same to Complains just moments before. |
| 22 | -->'''Big Ears:''' He [=[=]''[[spoiler:a demonic deity]]''[=]=] ''WILL'' scream my name. In this way, he will speak to me. [=[=]{{Beat}}[=]=] But I will not answer him. |
| 23 | * BadassCreed: |
| 24 | -->'''Big Ears:''' ''(when asked how to tell apart Good and Evil-claiming-to-be-Good)'' The good will be quick to help others in need. They do this without hesitation, without first requiring proof that the need is genuine. But before they condemn the accused, before they bring harm to others, no matter how justified it may seem, they hesitate. They demand proof. Evil will often believe they're fighting for good, but when others are in need, they'll become reluctant, withholding compassion until they see proof of that need.\ |
| 25 | And yet, Evil is quick to condemn, vilify and attack others. For Evil, proof isn't needed to bring harm. Only hatred, and a mantra that they fight for peace and righteousness. |
| 26 | * BattleAura: Big Ears's Individual Magical Effect is a yellow decagonal ring. It is somewhat reminiscent of a brick wall, symbolizing his desire to protect others. If he levels up further, it looks like it may gradually turn into an entire phantom fortress. |
| 27 | * CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Commits a single "evil" act by attacking a fellow Paladin [[BackStab from behind]] (despite this Paladin having tortured and killed the Chief) using a weapon normally incapable of harming fellow Paladins by taking advantage of its [[LoopholeAbuse incorporeality]]. This causes his SealedEvilInACan weapon to shatter, and potentially doom the entire realm by bringing about a demonic apocalypse. He explains the reason he got penalized and not the other Paladin was because he ''knew'' he was committing an evil act, whereas the other Paladin honestly thought he was in the right (even if said Paladin normally performs heinous acts on a regular basis). [[spoiler:After a demon [[SayingTooMuch says too much]], he realizes that it wasn't really his fault, the axe was deliberately flawed and was always going to break because it was actually created to ''help'' The Sacred.]] |
| 28 | * TheBigGuy: While not noticeably taller than the others, he's burlier. |
| 29 | * EarAche: [[spoiler:In the [[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/page-18-2019 July 30, 2019]] strip, we see his namesake getting in the way of his wearing a construct-control helmet in order to fight Kore. At some point in the next three strips, he ''[[SelfHarm rips them right off]]''.]] It's every bit as gory as you might imagine. |
| 30 | * GoodIsDumb: Averted. Big Ears is very intelligent, and good at getting himself and others out of bad situations. |
| 31 | * HonorBeforeReason: He can fall victim to this, but can--usually--be reasoned out of it (which bites him in the ass spectacularly when being talked into [[BackStab attacking a paladin from behind]] causes him a ''major'' penalty). |
| 32 | * HumbleHero: He has a good heart and fights to protect people, but is too humble to think of himself as a hero. |
| 33 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: He is quote, "stupidly, ridiculously LawfulGood", so much so that [[spoiler: coming into contact with a severed angel horn turned him into a half-Goblin/half-angel hybrid.]] |
| 34 | * JumpingOnAGrenade: He tries to smother the "lol pearl" with his body. It leaves him at -8 hp, going to -9 before Minmax can stabilize him. At that point, "everything tastes like 'ouch.'" |
| 35 | * LawfulGood: [[invoked]] A rare modern example of a truly kind, courageous and noble paladin. |
| 36 | -->'''Chief:''' Why would ''anyone'' want [[BeingGoodSucks to become a paladin?!]]\ |
| 37 | '''Big Ears:''' [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/12232006/ So others don't have to.]] |
| 38 | * NiceGuy: The best way to describe Big Ears would be that he's everything a Paladin ''should'' be, as a stark contrast to [[KnightTemplar Kore]]. |
| 39 | * ThePaladin: He chose Paladin as his class so that he could protect others from evil, even if it means he has to suffer for it. |
| 40 | * PrecisionFStrike: [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/10122010-3/ Shit.]] |
| 41 | * SealedEvilInACan: Big Ears's [[spoiler: second axe is a major artifact that contains a powerful demon.]] |
| 42 | * SelfHarm: [[spoiler: Cuts off his ears so he can wear the construct control mask. When he takes the mask off and rejoins the others, he's a bloody mess.]] |
| 43 | * ShutUpHannibal: A flea demon tries to HannibalLecture him into surrendering his soul, only for it to backfire as Big Ears [[AwesomenessByAnalysis realizes]] that the demon's words are, indeed, the reason why he '''''[[spoiler:DIDN[='=]T]]''''' fail as a paladin. See BadassBoast above for the results. |
| 44 | * TookALevelInBadass: After he gets his [[spoiler:second axe. It also comes with a magic armor.]] |
| 45 | -->'''Complains:''' Paladins get the best stuff at third level! |
| 46 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: When he's not wearing the [[spoiler:[[InstantArmor armor that comes with the Axe of Prissan.]]]] |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Chief]] |
| 51 | !!Chief |
| 52 | |
| 53 | ->''"My name is Chief, member of the Goblin Adventuring Party and leader of the Clan of the Cryptic Fall. And I'm not here to beg for my life-- I'm here to kill you."'' |
| 54 | |
| 55 | -> '''Alignment''': LawfulNeutral |
| 56 | |
| 57 | The goblin tribe's leader, and unwilling member of the Goblin Adventuring Party. He chose to be a cleric because he wanted to have the least glamorous and "adventurer-like" job. |
| 58 | ---- |
| 59 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Chief describes being imprisoned within Kore as pure torture]]. |
| 60 | * BattleAura: Chief's Individual Magical Effect is a stylized blue crown and mantle, symbolic of his role as chief. |
| 61 | * EyeScream: Done by himself, no less, in the first arc. |
| 62 | * FailureKnight: He tries to be the responsible, decent leader that his party needs, but ultimately, he never manages to really help them. [[spoiler: At least not while alive.]] |
| 63 | * TheHeart: His compassion and devotion to the team helps keep them on track and working together. |
| 64 | * JavelinThrower: He finds a magic javelin that splits into multiple projectiles when thrown, then teleports back into his hand once it reaches its target. It's been his weapon of choice ever since. |
| 65 | * TheMedic: Being a Cleric, he has access to healing magic. |
| 66 | * OnlySaneMan: As he's the chief, he's used to thinking things through clearly and logically, which makes him the most practical-minded and level-headed on average member of the party. |
| 67 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Gets gruesomely killed off by Kore. We also find out he was never really supposed to be Chief anyway, it was just forced upon him for political reasons.]] |
| 68 | * SenselessSacrifice: He [[spoiler: faces Kore alone, knowing well that he will probably die, to buy the others time to run away. Ultimately, he fails, because Kore realizes this and starts torturing him to make him scream and have the others turn back, which they do. Subverted when his death leads to his soul being absorbed and him revealing exactly how to drain Kore of his powers.]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:Complains of Names]] |
| 74 | !!Complains of Names |
| 75 | |
| 76 | ->''"I'm your worst nightmare... A goblin with a readied action AND an elevation bonus."'' |
| 77 | |
| 78 | -> '''Alignment''': ChaoticGood |
| 79 | |
| 80 | One of the members of the Goblin Adventuring Party, he fought Minmax in the latter's attack to the village and swore to find and kill him. His class is Barbarian, since it benefits from his bad temper. |
| 81 | ---- |
| 82 | * AlienBlood: After becoming [[spoiler: part-demon, his blood turns black.]] |
| 83 | * BashBrothers: Though loathe to admit it to anyone, even himself, he and [[ArchEnemy Minmax]], of all people, have perfect battle symmetry with each other, whether they're fighting a common foe, [[EnemyMine or each other]]. |
| 84 | * BattleAura: Complains's Individual Magical Effect when raging is that his eyes glow purple and give off a LensFlare. [[spoiler:After becoming part-demon, he also gains an ethereal purple demon tail.]] |
| 85 | * TheBerserker: Being a Barbarian, he's prone to these. |
| 86 | * CatchPhrase: When someone says something he considers insane, he's prone to responding with, "Are you '''''high?!'''"'' |
| 87 | * CoolSword: He wields a magical sword that looks really neat. |
| 88 | * CursedWithAwesome: His transformation into a demon is giving him plenty of really nifty abilities. |
| 89 | * DeathByChildbirth: His mother died giving birth to him. |
| 90 | * {{Determinator}}: He just keeps on going despite everything that life seems to throw his way. |
| 91 | * DifficultButAwesome: His magic sword gains a +1 every time he performs a successful tumble in battle, to a maximum of +12, but this resets to 0 when the battle ends. While his sword has the potential of being a real powerhouse, he's got to dodge blows by tumbling a minimum of 12 rounds to get the most benefit. |
| 92 | * FantasticRacism: A less pronounced version than most, but he believes that humans are incapable of things like friendship and that they only pretend to care about others in order to use them. |
| 93 | * {{Fetish}}: He prefers females with hair on their head. Considering that his race is mostly hairless, everyone finds this odd. |
| 94 | * {{Fingore}}: Complains loses his right little finger in one of the [[DiabolusExMachina Shield of Wonder's magic effects.]] |
| 95 | * ForcedTransformation: The shield of wonder ''started'' turning him into a demon. Ears managed to stop it, but not reverse it. [[spoiler: Damage to the Axe of Prissan has caused the change to pick up where the Shield of Wonder left off.]] |
| 96 | * GameBreakingInjury: He breaks his arm during the Brassmoon City arc and it's bone is never completely healed. This later comes to bite Complains in the ass at the worst moment ever. |
| 97 | * GenreSavvy: He's a troper, and is well aware of the EnemyWithout trope, calling it an ''overused'' trope and "cliche." He still unwittingly falls for it. |
| 98 | * HairTriggerTemper: Lots of things make him angry, particularly his clan's naming conventions (hence his own name). |
| 99 | * HealingFactor: His demonic transformation not only allows him to recover from negative hitpoints, but he grows back [[spoiler: the hand that Big Ears cut off.]] |
| 100 | * LifeOrLimbDecision: It's made for him [[spoiler: when Big Ears cuts off his hand to grab the "lol pearl."]] |
| 101 | * MeaningfulName: He likes to complain about other goblins' names. Actually, he likes to complain about everything. He lives up to his name so much that Minmax, who had established himself as bad at guesses, figures his name instantly, while he is half-joking. |
| 102 | ** It's also meaningful in another way: since a goblin's name is related to its destiny, a goblin that fights against against names [[ScrewDestiny also fights against destiny.]] |
| 103 | * MyGreatestFailure: Blames himself for [[spoiler: Chief's death.]] |
| 104 | * OnlySaneMan: In the first arc. He breaks the Goblin Camp's tradition of [[spoiler:[[ContractualGenreBlindness leaving minor magic items in a treasure chest and not using them against level 1 adventurers]].]] |
| 105 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Towards Minmax. Lampshaded by Complains himself. |
| 106 | --> "Minmax, don't die in this battle, 'cause I'm killing you after this!" |
| 107 | * PurpleIsPowerful: His Individual Magical Effect. |
| 108 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Subverted when his [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/04102017-2/ furious tirade]] about Minmax hypocritically claiming to care about the welfare of a single goblin despite slaughtering them for exp and loot earlier slipped into a racist anti-human screed when he accused Minmax of only using Kin and Forgath. |
| 109 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: After he becomes [[spoiler:part demon]] in Brassmoon City arc. |
| 110 | * UnPerson: What will happen to Complains as a consequence of violating goblin law. As an "empty goblin" he is treated like an adventurer and will be forgotten on his death, receiving no memorial statue or other record of his life. |
| 111 | * UnstoppableRage: At least as long as his Barbarian Rage doesn't wear off. Sometimes when it does wear off you get a case of PostVictoryCollapse. |
| 112 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Combined with NiceJobBreakingItHero. [[spoiler: While trying to explain how the imprisoned demon is trying to seduce him, he accidentally touches the Axe Of Prissan, and accelerates the conversion of the realm into a new layer of hell.]] |
| 113 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Downplayed at first in that he wears a vest that just reveals a lot of his torso. Played straighter when he discards it. |
| 114 | * YouAreInCommandNow: It's now believed by the adventuring party that Chief putting his bloodied hand on Names' face over his right eye before dying was in line with Monster Race Chieftains putting Marks Of Leadership on their chosen successors. [[RefusalOfTheCall Names doesn't believe it.]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[/folder]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | [[folder:Thaco]] |
| 119 | !!Thaco |
| 120 | |
| 121 | ->''"You know, in the old days we depended on ingenuity rather than feats, the strength stat used a forward slash as a decimal point... and there were no such thing as Drow. I '''miss''' the old days."'' |
| 122 | |
| 123 | -> '''Alignment''': LawfulNeutral |
| 124 | |
| 125 | Thaco is the oldest goblin in the Goblin Adventuring Party, which is why he's named after an outdated ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' defense mechanic. He's also Complains's father. Thaco already had a lot of combat experience at the start of the story, and when the others chose character classes, he became a monk because he had once been prisoner of [[KnightTemplar Dellyn Goblinslayer]] and never wanted to be bound again (monks can escape bindings). |
| 126 | ---- |
| 127 | * ArrowCatch: As a monk in a universe which follows D&D rules, he has the Deflect Arrows feat. While he can catch only one arrow per turn, which is useless against many foes at once, it's a lifesaver in a duel [[spoiler:as Dellyn finds out the hard way.]] |
| 128 | * BadassNormal: Even before taking a class level in Monk he was able to hold his own against an (albeit low-level) adventurer and win. |
| 129 | * BareFistedMonk: When fighting with the blindfold, as it doesn't work when the wearer is holding a weapon and just becomes an opaque piece of cloth. |
| 130 | * BattleAura: Averted, he's the only member of the group that '''doesn't''' display one of those, as he has not shown any spells or other magic-like abilities (like Complains' rage). |
| 131 | * BlindfoldedVision: He gains a blindfold that slightly obstructs his vision but [[CombatClairvoyance shows attacks before they happen]]. |
| 132 | * TheChosenOne: Subverted. He was actually the one destined to be the clan chief but he willingly gave up the position in favor of Chief (the previous chief's son) in order to avoid dividing the clan between people who supported him and people who thought the clan chief's title should be passed to his son. |
| 133 | * CoolOldGuy: He's the oldest member of the goblin party (his name is actually a reference to 2e, and he apparently lived long enough to see the edition change), but he's still one of the best fighters and the most level-headed leaders they have. |
| 134 | * CombatClairvoyance: He gains a blindfold that, while worn, shows attacks before they happen. |
| 135 | * DualWielding: Two curved blades. |
| 136 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Thaco has the good guy vertical scar across the eye. |
| 137 | * GuileHero: He's quite capable of kicking ass physically, but his brain is definitely one of his edges. |
| 138 | * NecessaryDrawback: His clairvoyant blindfold only works if the person wearing it is unarmed. If they're holding a weapon, it ceases to be translucent and becomes opaque. Fortunately for him, he's a Monk, so he can fight unarmed. |
| 139 | * NeverBeHurtAgain: When the time comes for him to pick a class, remembering the time he spent tied up, imprisoned, and tortured, [[https://www.goblinscomic.com/comic/02192006 he picks the Monk class]] because they can escape bonds. |
| 140 | * OldMaster: Old enough that he shouldn't really be a fighter, but still one of the front-line combatants. He's a D&D monk, too, which makes him fit the "martial artist" part of the iconic archetype. |
| 141 | * {{Revenge}}: Defied. When they infiltrate the city to rescue Fumbles, Thaco meets up with Dellyn Goblinslayer again, the man who captured and repeatedly tortured him, cutting off his ear before he managed to escape. In their climactic duel Thaco defeats Dellyn and cuts off his ear as even payment. Dellyn taunts Thaco, [[NotSoDifferentRemark claiming that he's no different]] and triumphantly proclaims that by killing him Thaco will just make him a legend, feared archenemy of the great Thaco. Thaco responds by leaving him alive, proclaiming Dellyn to be just "[[UnPerson some human]] that he fought in the early levels of his adventuring career", then chucks his ear in the sewer and walks off. [[FateWorseThanDeath The no-named loser's anguished cry is awesome.]] |
| 142 | * ShellShockedVeteran: He started out as one. |
| 143 | * SwordCane: His cane doubles as a pair of swords, or possibly vice-versa. |
| 144 | * TooManyBelts: He wears a lot of belts and not much else. |
| 145 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He doesn't wear a shirt. |
| 146 | * WeakButSkilled: Despite the facts that he's much older than the other goblins, who have a hard time taking anything out of their weight class, Thaco usually lasts the longest against the current opponent simply through skill. He even wins a duel against a high-level adventurer by cleverly sending him into a trap. |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Fumbles/Vorpal]] |
| 151 | !!Fumbles[=/=]Senor Vorpal Kickass'O |
| 152 | |
| 153 | ->'''''"SENOOOOR VORPAAAAL KICKASS'OOOOO!!!"''''' |
| 154 | |
| 155 | -> '''Alignment''': NeutralGood |
| 156 | |
| 157 | The fifth member of the Goblin Adventuring Party. It was originally his idea to take class levels, and the rest of the party decided to follow suit after the warcamp fell. |
| 158 | ---- |
| 159 | * BrokenBird: After being brutally tortured by Goblinslayer he literally loses his mind and can't even talk or think on his own. He's getting better thanks to [[spoiler: Minmax, out of all possible people.]] |
| 160 | * TheChosenOne: By mere luck of the draw and saving throw, he's the only goblin capable of becoming a Fortune Teller, and thus being able to use low level cleric spells to heal the others because everyone else is at negative hit points and unable to use magic or abilities. |
| 161 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: When he sees the "Door" Golem's IME marker change [[spoiler: indicating that Kore has found his way into the dungeon]], his response is to point out that Kore is talking to himself. |
| 162 | * CriticalFailure: Happens frequently and ''spectacularly.'' |
| 163 | * FantasticRacism: Invoked, Played strictly for laughs, and Averted; when he [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/04172017-2/ breaks up a fight between Complains and Minmax]], he mentions that he finds the way humans have equal numbers of both fingers and toes to be creepy. However, in his own words, he also "deals with it", so he really doesn't make a fuss about it. |
| 164 | * TheFool: Starts out as the classical happy-go-lucky goofball, which leads to him making stupid decisions like the aforementioned "be all 11 D&D classes at once" (which isn't even possible by the rules, as there's a number of alignment clashes). He even suggested the warband become adventurers themselves, in a perfect example of "the Fool says something that is actually quite clever" part of the trope. Deconstructed in that leads him to make a fatally stupid mistake, resulting in him being tortured into catatonia. |
| 165 | * HeroicBSOD: After [[spoiler: being tortured]] by Goblinslayer. |
| 166 | ** He finally comes out of it [[spoiler: with Minmax's help.]] |
| 167 | * HiddenDepths: He's the one who comes up with a workable plan to reach the goblin god, Magubilet, to help deal with the Axe of Prissan issue, and he does so while simultaneously playing with Minmax. [[DumbassHasAPoint The rest of the Goblin party is stunned]], especially Thaco, who wonders aloud why they're '''not''' doing as Fumbles suggests. |
| 168 | * LeeroyJenkins: While [[spoiler: running away from Kore]], the rest of the party argues whether to turn back [[spoiler: to save Chief]] or not, when Fumbles just runs straight back, with the BattleCry shown above. |
| 169 | * MasterOfNone: Trying to master 11 D&D classes at once meant he has 1/11th of a level in each of them. He can hide 1/11th of his body in shadows (useful if the enemy is only looking for his ankle), or cast 1/11th of a sleep spell. He has since upgraded to 3/11s. |
| 170 | * MeaningfulRename: In the Depths of the Dragon's Maw, he asks the others to stop calling him "Fumbles", saying he's never liked the name. |
| 171 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When one of his epic fumbles accidentally injures a little elf girl. His attempt to make amends, by returning the girl's toy, ends up going horribly, horribly wrong. |
| 172 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Thaco begins to suspect that "Fumbles" has actually been hiding a ''very high'' wisdom score when it turns out that Fumbles is the only goblin available to become a fortune teller, and [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight Fumbles goes on to prove his competence for the task.]] |
| 173 | * OddFriendship: After Minmax and the goblins are trapped together by Kore, he starts up a friendship with the human. It helps that Minmax made the first move by fixing up Fumbles' fake mustache so that it looked more realistic. That the friendship even developed could be considered odd in itself given that Fumbles is recovering from the capture and following extensive torture and mind rape from humans like Delyn. |
| 174 | * PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler:The ceremony to become a fortuneteller involves absorbing imprints representing the previous fortunetellers in the clan. The more imprints a goblin absorbs, the more powerful a teller they will be, but this also means a higher chance of them dying. The highest confirmed are a 4, and a possibly mythical 6. Fumbles ends up absorbing ''15'', which would have killed him if Minmax, a human not affected by the ceremony, had not been there to intervene.]] |
| 175 | * PluckyComicRelief: At least until he's [[spoiler:tortured by Goblinslayer.]] [[HappyPlace But even then, he's still a hero in his own mind.]] |
| 176 | * {{Seers}}: He eventually becomes their clan's new fortuneteller. |
| 177 | * SmallNameBigEgo: [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/04152006/ It ends poorly.]] |
| 178 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Part of what helps him and Minmax to bond is that they really do have pretty similar lines of bizarro thought. It gets to the point that a disbelieving Complains sighs that the party now has to put up with two of them. |
| 179 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 180 | ** Subverted at the end of the first arc. "Which class did you choose?" "[[MasterOfNone All of them]]." [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/09032005/ It's less useful than it sounds.]] |
| 181 | ** In the Dragon's Maw dungeon, he recovers from his catatonia, starts putting his foot down (e.g. putting a stop to Complains and Minmax's fighting), gains some nifty magic items and becomes a teller. |
| 182 | * UnfortunateNames: Even he hates his original name, so he adapts the name "Vorpal". |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[/folder]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | !!Well of Darkness |
| 187 | Soon after the massacre of the warcamp, Dies Horribly is captured and enslaved by the goblin Viper Clan. Their leader, Duv, sends [[RagtagBunchofMisfits Dies and a few other slaves]] on a quest into the Well of Darkness to retrieve an artifact to ensure her prophesied rise to power. |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Dies Horribly]] |
| 190 | !!Dies Horribly |
| 191 | |
| 192 | ->''[[RunningGag "For the love of the Gods watch where you're pointing that sword!"]]'' |
| 193 | |
| 194 | Dies Horribly is a timid, fearful goblin who is separated from the Goblin Adventuring Party during the attack on the warcamp. |
| 195 | ---- |
| 196 | * ArtificialLimbs: He loses his left arm during the attack on the goblin warcamp by the Drow, but Klik makes him an artificial arm in its place. [[spoiler:He cuts the artificial one off when it develops an evil personality and considers hurting Saves-A-Fox, but Fox uses the [[MacGuffin Orb of Bloodlight]] to make him another new one.]] |
| 197 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: After fulfilling his fate, he spent just over a page actually dead]] |
| 198 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: A firm believer of this. |
| 199 | * BlessedWithSuck: Dies loses his left arm arm, but Klik makes him a living metal replacement. He doesn't like it because it's hard to control. |
| 200 | ** Deepened in the later chapters, as now Dies' metal hand can now control ''him'' to an extent. And it calls him "Father." |
| 201 | * CatchPhrase: "For the love of the Gods watch where you're pointing that X!" |
| 202 | * CowardlyLion: Despite his outward cowardice, when it comes down to the crunch, Dies proves repeatedly at he is capable of overcoming his (perfectly understandable) fear of a hideous death. [[spoiler: When fate finally comes for him, he accepts it without thinking. [[SenselessSacrifice He should have thought]]... [[BackFromTheDead or at least that's how it looks at first.]]]] |
| 203 | * EmpathicWeapon: Dies' left arm has shapeshifting abilities that respond to his emotions, but since fear is his most common emotion, it mostly just makes spikes. |
| 204 | * EvilHand: The artificial limb that Klik makes him eventually turns into this. |
| 205 | * TheFatalist: Accepts that his death is inevitable and that there is [[YouCantFightFate no fighting it]]. [[spoiler:Too bad it looks to be a SelfFulfillingProphecy.]] |
| 206 | * TheFool: Altough his name says the opposite, the universe seems to conspire for his survival. |
| 207 | ** Alternatively, his name implies he's horrible at dying. |
| 208 | ** [[spoiler:He did die. Horribly. [[BackFromTheDead But he got better.]]]] |
| 209 | * HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Duv offers to make him her right-hand goblin and chief of his clan, telling him that history could remember him as a great goblin chieftain; he tells her that he'd rather be remembered as the goblin who turned her down.]] |
| 210 | %%* LovableCoward |
| 211 | * MindControlEyes: His eyes are covered in green metal when his arm is controlling him. |
| 212 | * MisterSeahorse: Depending on your definition of "pregnant." [[spoiler: His hand develops a soul of it's own, relied on his survival and blood before being cut off, and refers to him as "father."]] |
| 213 | * NervousWreck: He's always on edge. This is justified because most Goblins in his clan are named prophetically. |
| 214 | * OnlySaneMan: Seems to be this for the Well of Darkness party. |
| 215 | * PuppetKing: [[spoiler:What he will be to Duv if she has her way]]. |
| 216 | * SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Subversion! While it looked like he was going to sell his soul for the artifact he needed but ExactWords ended up meaning he sold it for a worthless bauble, thanks to LoopholeAbuse, he inadvertently got out of the deal and was resurrected.]] |
| 217 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: The badassery he shows in the Well of Darkness has shades of this, his arm more or less controlling his actions while he kills the demons. He doesn't remember his actions after he snaps out of it, and the alternate personality also seems to be very possessive of its "father" (whether that's Klik or Dies himself hasn't been revealed). |
| 218 | * TookALevelInBadass: After fulfilling (what he believed was) his fate, Dies Horribly finally had enough of everything making his life (and even death) miserable and took several levels of Bad Ass. ''On the spot.'' [[spoiler:Subverted. It turns out this was Evil Klik's personality taking over.]] |
| 219 | ** However, he does genuinely become more competent later. [[spoiler:He openly defies Duv and even Evil Klik.]] |
| 220 | * UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:Duv uses a [[ShamCeremony ceremony to establish people she hopes will be her cronies from the different clans as their new chief]]. If the clan already has a chief, the ceremony is void, [[LoopHoleAbuse but since Dies Horribly's chief just died recently]]...]] |
| 221 | * UnfortunateNames: {{Lampshaded}} numerous times by people aware of the fact that it's a prophetic name. The name alone has basically ruined his entire life. |
| 222 | * WeaponWieldsYou: His artificial arm eventually develops a personality of its own, and will sometimes take control of his body to fight on his behalf. |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Grem]] |
| 227 | !!Grem |
| 228 | |
| 229 | ->''"I swear, on a good day, that goblin could battle the Gods themselves."'' |
| 230 | |
| 231 | Grem is Duv's son, and future chief of the Viper Clan. He joins the party in the Well of Darkness against his mother's wishes. |
| 232 | ---- |
| 233 | * BadassNormal: Has no adventurer levels, or magic equipment, or much of anything except sheer skill and tenacity. It suffices. |
| 234 | * FearlessFool: |
| 235 | -->'''Grem:''' I am a goblin prince! I know when to fight!\ |
| 236 | '''Dies Horribly:''' I am a ''coward''. ''[[KnowWhenToFoldThem I]]'' [[KnowWhenToFoldThem know when to]] ''[[KnowWhenToFoldThem run]]''! |
| 237 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's spoiled and arrogant and a bit of a dick, but he genuinely does have the best wishes of his people at heart and he can be quite brave. |
| 238 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's a WarriorPrince who actually defies his mother's wishes and joins the group in the Well of Darkness of his own volition. |
| 239 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He is clearly meant to be the strong, confident goblin male, who is in direct contrast to the weaker, cowardly (and after they enter the well, usually more clothed) Dies Horribly. This eventually comes to an end when Grem gets more equipment from the Well of Darkness, including a shirt. |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:K'Seliss]] |
| 244 | !!K'Seliss |
| 245 | |
| 246 | ->''"You are one messed up piece of food."'' |
| 247 | |
| 248 | -> '''Alignment''': ChaoticNeutral |
| 249 | |
| 250 | Some sort of magical ogre/lizardfolk hybrid, who treats everyone else as chatty food. Fox is the only one with any control over him. |
| 251 | ---- |
| 252 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: Of all people. His way of deling with a magical guardian meant to kill the whole group after answering a fixed number of questions is to [[spoiler:guess what he should do to OneHitKill said guardian ''and using the questions to verify his analysis'']]. The face of said guardian as he realizes it is [[OhCrap priceless]]. |
| 253 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: Fated to die inside the Well of Darkness' dungeon crawl. [[spoiler:[[DyingMomentOfAwesome At least he]] [[TakingYouWithMe took his killer with him]].]] |
| 254 | * BigGuy: Being part ogre (Large) and part lizardfolk (Medium), he towers over his goblin (Small) companions. |
| 255 | ** BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: So, of course this ensures he doesn't get to live through their adventure. |
| 256 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Lizardfolk culture is manifestly '''nothing''' like human or goblin culture whatsoever. Not least due to the whole "eating = mating = fighting" thing. |
| 257 | -->'''K'seliss''' (to Grem, about Saves-A-Fox): ''If you really want a chance with her, you should bite off her finger and eat it. I ate a female's finger once. She was really impressed until this jerk from my clan ate her leg.'' |
| 258 | * CreepyGood: "Good" may be an overstatement, but he's on the side of the group (partially because he is a slave of the Vipers and partially due to BloodKnight tendencies) and he manages to creep out the goblins with his particularly brutal fighting style. |
| 259 | * CuttingTheKnot: His solution to every problem he comes across, ranging from locked doors to magical guardians that want to kill him, is violence. |
| 260 | -->'''K'Seliss:''' [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/07192010/ Okay, I've tried absolutely everything. There is no way to open this door.]] |
| 261 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: From his point of view. To lizardfolk in this 'verse, fighting, eating, and mating are aspects of the same thing, so he's horrified to find himself forced into fighting things which he can't eat. |
| 262 | * ExtremeOmnivore: If it's made of meat, he'll try to eat it. Even clearly decaying, or even undead, meat. |
| 263 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: He gets around his 'don't fight what you can't eat' taboo by using one {{Mecha Mook|s}} as a club to beat the stuffing out of the rest of them. After all, the {{Mecha Mook|s}} was doing the actual *hitting*. |
| 264 | * HeelFaceTurn: Sort of. He goes to run and leave the others to their fate when they futilely try to blockade a door holding back a monster, and had made clear up to that point that he considers the rest of the party to be expendable. He comes back, blockading the door and giving the rest of the party a chance to escape. |
| 265 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: Bordering on SociopathicHero. Only Saves-A-Fox is keeping him from eating the rest of the party, but while she is around his main treatment of the party's enemies involve a lot of BloodyHilarious BlackHumour. |
| 266 | * HiddenHeartOfGold |
| 267 | -->'''Grem''': You came back.\ |
| 268 | '''K'Seliss''': Shut up! If anyone asks, I ate your limbs and left you all here to die! |
| 269 | * HybridMonster: A lizardfolk/ogre hybrid. |
| 270 | * ImMelting: Contact with [[spoiler: Mr Fingers causes flesh to melt or putrefy or something. Doesn't stop him from killing it with his teeth.]] |
| 271 | * InsistentTerminology: Everyone he can eat tends to be called something other than their given name or simply "food" in general conversation. |
| 272 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: He regards fighting, eating and mating on the same level, and thinks it is perverted to fight things he can't eat. |
| 273 | * KilledOffForReal: He's dissolved into a puddle of putrescent mush by an undead abomination. This pretty much makes it impossible for him to ever be resurrected. |
| 274 | * LizardFolk: He's a lizardfolk, though half ogre as well. |
| 275 | * LoopHoleAbuse: How he manages to fight against the MechaMooks without committing the lizardfolk taboo [[note]] the taboo, being killing what you can't or won't eat [[/note]] (see GrievousHarmWithABody). |
| 276 | * TakingYouWithMe: Already dying from a wasting, flesh-liquifying disease, K'Seliss used his final moments to ''bite the head off'' a huge, undead horror. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome His last act]] was to [[DefiantToTheEnd taunt]] the horror's corpse. |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Klik]] |
| 281 | !!Klik |
| 282 | |
| 283 | ->''"Klik"'' |
| 284 | |
| 285 | A strange flying metal sphere that was sitting around in the goblin warcamp. [[TastesLikeFriendship It follows Dies Horribly around after he helps it recover.]] |
| 286 | ---- |
| 287 | * BizarreAlienBiology: It eats metal and blood is like acid to it. |
| 288 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: Fights his [[spoiler: stronger evil counterpart, damages him enough that he needs to recover, and distracts him enough to let Dies finish him off with his new arm. Then he dies from his wounds.]] |
| 289 | * HeroicMime: Klik can only make "Klik" sounds. Or when he's in pain, a piercing ''"Reeeeeee!"'' |
| 290 | * HyperactiveMetabolism: Eating metal allows it to near-instantly regenerate. |
| 291 | * LastOfHisKind: Seems to be this. [[spoiler: It turns out that [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/11082014/ no, he's not the last of his kind]]. Not by a long shot.]] |
| 292 | * MechanicalLifeform: Klik is made of living metal, eats metal to regenerate, and can fly without visible means of propulsion. |
| 293 | * ShapeshifterWeapon: He transforms into a sword in order to protect Dies from the Drow, and a staff when Saves-A-Fox shatters hers while fighting constructs. |
| 294 | * ShoutOut: Klik resembles the alien face found on the cover of Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy novels. |
| 295 | * SilentSnarker: He never speaks or makes any sort of sound other than "klik", but through features and gestures, he conveys a world of snark. |
| 296 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Blood is corrosive. |
| 297 | * TheUnintelligible: Only makes strange clicking sounds, though it seems to understand Common. |
| 298 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:According to other members of Klik's species, if any of them try to create a replacement limb when they're too young to do so properly, it often turns out ''horrifically'' evil, and can reach demigod levels of power if not stopped in time. Whoops.]] |
| 299 | * VerbalTicName: Dies named him after the only noise he consciously makes. |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[/folder]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | [[folder:Saves-a-Fox]] |
| 304 | !!Saves-a-Fox |
| 305 | |
| 306 | ->''"Trust me. I'm tougher than I look."'' |
| 307 | |
| 308 | A goblin girl who starts looking after Dies. |
| 309 | ---- |
| 310 | * ActionGirl: Has taken six levels as a fighter in the past, which is what allowed her to keep K'Seliss in line. |
| 311 | * CuteMonsterGirl: Very pretty, for a female goblin. |
| 312 | * {{Foil}}: To the fatalism of Dies Horribly. [[spoiler: Dies was right, and the result sends Saves-a-Fox into a HeroicBSOD.]] |
| 313 | * HeroicBSOD: Goes through this after [[spoiler: it is revealed to her that she did, in fact, save a fox.]] |
| 314 | * ScrewDestiny: Her motto. [[spoiler:But, as Dies explains to her, YouCantFightFate.]] |
| 315 | * TookALevelInBadass: Literally; she broke goblin law to take fighter levels. |
| 316 | * WeaknessTurnsHerOn: K'Seliss claims that Saves-A-Fox prefers Dies over Grem because of this. Dies is a hyper-neurotic {{woobie}} while Grem is very confident, some might say to the point of arrogance. For what it's worth, Saves was refusing Grem's attempts to court her long before Dies showed up. One of the only times she is even slightly into Grem is when he appears a bit awkward and vulnerable around her. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Biscuit]] |
| 320 | !!Biscuit |
| 321 | |
| 322 | ->''"[[ComicallyMissingThePoint It sure is a sunny day today.]] Forgive me, I'm not very familiar with sunshine. In fact, I'm far more familiar with pain and death than I am with sunshine. No matter how much sunshine there is, in my experience, there's always more pain and death. Always. ''[{{beat}}]'' [[ShameIfSomethingHappened It sure is a sunny day today.]]"'' |
| 323 | |
| 324 | An orc who was imprisoned in the Well of Darkness in order to provide a constant source of food for the Orb of Bloodlight's demonic guardians. He assists Dies and Saves-a-Fox after they (inadvertently) secure his freedom. |
| 325 | ---- |
| 326 | * AmputationStopsSpread: He is afflicted by [[spoiler:Mr Fingers' flesh-rotting curse after standing on a severed finger torn from the monster's body.]] He opts to cut the cursed leg off with an axe. |
| 327 | * BigDamnHeroes: He comes to the rescue of Dies and Fox shortly after Duv sentences them to death. |
| 328 | * TheBigGuy: As well as coming from the Roak clan, supposedly the largest orcs in the realm, he can go toe-to-toe with demons and hold off a horde of Viper clan goblins by himself. |
| 329 | * CharacterTics: ''sniff'' |
| 330 | * CruelToBeKind: His lesson on stoicism below. |
| 331 | -->'''Biscuit:''' (''sigh'') When a Roak orc is young, his favorite belonging is taken from him, to teach him to rise above the loss.\ |
| 332 | [[spoiler:'''Duv''']]: ''What are you doing?!''\ |
| 333 | '''Biscuit''': I'm helping you.\ |
| 334 | [[spoiler:''[he then rips Duv's remaining wing off]'']] |
| 335 | * DealWithTheDevil: Is implied to have made one, which resulted in his soul being owned by demons, especially considering that his hair and jaw are transparent [[note]] in the series' universe, transparent body parts are a mark that someone had a contract with a demon [[/note]] |
| 336 | * TheDogBitesBack: His first act after gaining freedom is to cut the head off one of his demonic tormenters. |
| 337 | * GeniusBruiser: He has very high mental ability scores in addition to his impressive fighting skills (See LivingLieDetector below for an explanation). |
| 338 | * GentleGiant: A huge yet, kind (if a bit too [[CruelToBeKind harsh]]) and honorable Orc. |
| 339 | * FateWorseThanDeath: He spent 600 years being constantly tortured, killed and resurrected by demons who needed to feed on his suffering. |
| 340 | * FluffyTheTerrible: Named after his favorite food. |
| 341 | * HandicappedBadass: Even after being injured he still kicks a lot of ass. |
| 342 | * IOweYouMyLife: His sense of honor dictates that he must risk his own life to protect Dies and Fox if it comes to it. |
| 343 | * LastOfHisKind: The rest of his clan, the Roak, were hunted to extinction 200 years ago. |
| 344 | * LivingLieDetector: Justified due to the Goblins universe being governed by ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' mechanics; Sense Motive (the skill which lets you know when someone is lying) gets a bonus based off a character's wisdom, and creatures gain a bonus to wisdom as they age. Biscuit is [[Really700YearsOld over 600 winters old]], and due to a {{House Rule|s}} that bonus has continued to grow after he lived beyond his natural lifespan, so his wisdom stat (and, by extension, his Sense Motive skill) is larger than average. |
| 345 | * MarkOfTheBeast: The soft tissues of his lower face and his hair are see-through, marking him as a demon's property. |
| 346 | * OhCrap: Gives a [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/10192012/ hilarious expression]] of bewildered shock when he appears to think his massive overdose of healing potions has caused him to sprout feathers. |
| 347 | * OneManArmy: He is easily one of the strongest two characters in the comic. He manages to single handedly wipe out most of the Viper clan's warriors. |
| 348 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: [[http://goblinscomic.org/comic/07172012/ This is a VERY Sunny Day]]. |
| 349 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He's 600 winters old. |
| 350 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a great one to Duv after rescuing her from drowning. |
| 351 | -->'''Biscuit:''' The only loss you experience, is the loss you feel. As of today, [[spoiler:I have no leg]], and yet I've lost nothing. You have let the loss of your body part shape you into something weak and insane. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What would you be doing if you weren't paining yourself with this loss everyday?]] |
| 352 | * TheSpartanWay: His clan, the Roak, held the view that enduring loss is the foremost measure of orchood. |
| 353 | * TheStoic: Roak orcs are trained to accept pain and loss without burdening themselves with negative emotions. [[AngstWhatAngst It lets him shrug off things that would otherwise traumatize him]], including the torture described above under FateWorseThanDeath, the knowledge of [[LastOfHisKind his entire race dying off 200 winters ago]], and [[spoiler:having to cut off his own leg to save himself from a flesh-rotting curse]]. |
| 354 | * WarriorTherapist: He combines tremendous durability with brute strength, but he prefers to have enemies decide not to attack him. |
| 355 | [[/folder]] |
| 356 | |
| 357 | !!Protagonist Adventuring Party |
| 358 | Originally part of the Antagonist Adventuring Party, the human fighter Minmax and the dwarf cleric Forgath were the only survivors of the original party and have since begun morally reforming themselves. Rescuing and allying with the yuan-ti slave, Kin, they have traveled to the Maze of Many as a diversion from their own quest to stop the White Terror. |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Minmax]] |
| 361 | !!Minmax the Unstoppable Warrior |
| 362 | |
| 363 | -> '''Alignment''': ChaoticGood |
| 364 | |
| 365 | A dimwitted human fighter, Minmax lives for treasure, fighting and excitement. The muscle of the triad of himself, Forgath and Kin. |
| 366 | ---- |
| 367 | * AGodAmI: Completely by accident; Minmax declares himself a "literal god" in the Room of Truth and Lies while touching the color of truth, and as a result, ascends to godhood. |
| 368 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: He manages to create a sword made from Oblivion, ''the concept of nothingness''. According to Kin, the sword continues to exist only because Minmax can't comprehend all the universal and multiversal laws he broke by creating it. And the less he understands it, the more powerful the sword is. |
| 369 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: ZigZagged. He loves [[spoiler:Kin. Kin isn't too sure if she's capable of love the way humans define it.]] They were growing closer for a while during the Maze of Many, but Ruby used the Psion Minmax's machine to change that. |
| 370 | * BashBrothers: Though Minmax hasn't noticed it yet, he and Complains have perfect battle symmetry with each other. |
| 371 | * BattleAura: His Individual Magical Effect seems to be similar to Complains of Names, with his eyes making a violet lens flare. His eyes seem to go dark when he does so, but this may be a result of ArtShift rather than anything meaningful. |
| 372 | * BeingGodIsHard: For a few infinite moments, Minmax becomes a god. It is extremely painful to be a god without followers, but a god also experiences the suffering of their followers. With Minmax having become an omniscient idiot, he messes up badly and returns to mortality screaming. |
| 373 | * BigOlEyebrows: ''All'' of his Maze Of Many incarnations have big ol' eyebrows. They are the one thing that remain consistent. |
| 374 | * CharacterDevelopment: Starts out as, basically, a one-dimensional dungeon-delving thug. Has slowly grown more and more nuanced through the story. |
| 375 | * ChivalrousPervert: He checks out the charisma scores of every woman on the street, but [[spoiler:beats Goblinslayer almost to death for raping the CuteMonsterGirl]]. |
| 376 | * ClingyMacGuffin: Played with; his magic sword Oblivious can NEVER be out of his hands- if he releases it, it immediately opens a portal to the next time in the future that he wants it and his future hand pulls it through. So while he doesn't always ''have'' to carry it, it always has to be carried by him. |
| 377 | * DumbassHasAPoint: The way he distributes what magical loot survives the "lol pearl" explosion makes perfect sense. [[spoiler: An arm brace that turns into a shield for Fumbles, who is slated to be the fortune-teller and is a major lynch-pin in the plan to reach Magubilet, bracers "arm" gauntlets for Complains, who is the one most likely to survive the upcoming trip to hell to seal "The Sacred", and denying the magic axe to Big Ears because he broke the last one.]] |
| 378 | * DumbMuscle: Oh, yes. Minmax is pretty much dumb as a stump, but as a killing machine, he does ''very'' well for someone of his level. He also gets a number of surprisingly bright ideas, too. |
| 379 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Killing monster for easy loot and XP is one thing, but [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil keeping them as sex slaves]] is liable to piss him off [[spoiler:as Dellyn found out]]. |
| 380 | * FantasticRacism: Initially, he thinks of monsters as something that [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman exists only to be killed]]. He grows out of this as he adventures with Kin the yuan-ti, going so far as to develop feelings for her. He then starts up an OddFriendship with Fumbles the goblin. |
| 381 | * FashionableAsymmetry: After he obtains his armor. |
| 382 | * FingerPokeOfDoom: He knows 38 ways to kill a guy using just his thumb. [[spoiler:Psion Minmax]] discovered this was true when Minmax ''finally'' got his hands on him and made the left side of his skull ''explode'' with a single poke. |
| 383 | * FireForgedFriends: With Fumbles, aka Señior Vorpal Kicksasso, to the point that he will happily follow Fumbles into the literal flames of hell. |
| 384 | * FreudianTrio: The passionate, instincts-driven Id to Forgath's Ego and Kin's Superego. |
| 385 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: Exaggerated and played for drama. After ascending to godhood by accident, he learns that gods without worshippers suffer a fate worse than death, so he reaches back in time and creates a universe with like a scwillion Min-max worshippers, and sets up some very simple rules to try and make said followers happy. |
| 386 | ** He creates a non-man-eating species of treasure plant, inspired by the treasure plant that nearly ate him. The plants propagate and spread everywhere. It's a mixed blessing in that the "treasure" stops being treasure, but at least it's quite useful as the gems are excellent building materials and the gold is used in medicine. |
| 387 | ** Because of what happened with Forgath, he puts forward a system where genuine lovers can't grow old and can't die. This is where '''everything''' goes sideways. Since lovers can't die, couples are broken up by hostage taking, with ColdBloodedTorture being used to force them into becoming assassins and soldiers, and the sick, the old, the lame try desperately to find a lover just so they can live and are viewed by society and themselves as having somehow offended their god and are being sent to hell. One woman even cursed at Minmax because her boyfriend died one day before they hooked up, because they weren't at the "lovers" stage yet, he stopped responding to prayers at that point. And due to the way his universe works, it resulted in millions of years of suffering hitting him all at once. '''That''' is why he came back screaming, and he cries in Kin''s arms, bemoaning that he's not fit to be a god and begging her for help. |
| 388 | * HeroicBSOD: Suffers a brief one in the Maze of Many when [[spoiler:he jeopardizes his friendship with Kin by accidently grabbing her controlling leash during an argument]]. |
| 389 | ** When he is trapped inside of a dungeon with [[spoiler:the GAP whilst Forgarth is stuck outside at Kore's non-existent mercy, all he can do is slump down in the water, sobbing to Complains that, "I lost them both Names. I lost them both."]] |
| 390 | * HeroicSacrifice: In the Maze of Many, [[spoiler: he jumps down alone onto the platform with the keys to the treasure room and chucks them up through the opening just before it closes, cutting himself off from Kin and Forgath with hundreds of alternates coming for him.]] |
| 391 | %%* HeroicSelfDeprecation |
| 392 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Forgath, to the point that he calls him "brother". |
| 393 | ** Also, [[spoiler: he and Fumbles also seem to be becoming this]]. |
| 394 | * HiddenDepths: More emotional then mental: |
| 395 | ** Despite his minmaxer nature and [[FantasticRacism fervent belief that the only point of monsters is to be killed by adventurers]], Minmax was still so horrified to discover [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what]] [[spoiler: Dellyn Goblinslayer]] was doing to Kin that he immediately attacked him in outrage. |
| 396 | ** Later, he tried to come up with any excuse he could to avoid having to kill Kin in the way that he said was natural, even going to the extent of using his non-existent non-combat skills to try and make a birthday party for her so that he could claim there was something "normal" about her and, thusly, she wasn't a monster. |
| 397 | ** He's also surprisingly understanding of Kin's emotional trauma, taking no offense when she hesitates to take his hand to enter the Maze of Many. |
| 398 | ** After being trapped in a cave with the clearly very upset Fumbles, Minmax tries to comfort him by fixing the goblin's fake moustache. |
| 399 | ** Minmax also pointed out the ridiculousness of Drowbabe's very existence. |
| 400 | ** And he came up with the idea of pushing over a tree made of dead wood to crush the goblins that had him and Forgath pinned. Even Forgath couldn't believe Minmax could come up with something that clever. |
| 401 | *** Later, he also [[spoiler:outsmarts a psion version of himself by weaponizing a PyrrhicVictory, making sure he is no longer a threat to anyone.]] |
| 402 | ** On a meta level, credit should be given to his roleplayer where it's due: although Complains calls Minmax an unrealistic character with a background full of plot holes, he's roleplayed quite well. That is to say, he actually behaves the way he should given his {{Dump Stat}}s, flaws and all. This is notable because many minmaxers tend to just sorta ignore all those flaws they give their character as far as actual roleplaying goes. (It's either that, or Minmax's roleplayer is as dumb as Minmax himself, and this is the only way they roleplay '''anything'''.) |
| 403 | * InterspeciesRomance: He find himself emotionally (and, later, physically) attracted to Kin. [[StarCrossedLovers It didn't work out.]] |
| 404 | * ItsPersonal: Combined with OOCIsSeriousBusiness. For the first time in his adventuring career, Minmax actually contemplated premeditated murder. [[spoiler: When he realized Kore was in the dungeon.]] He would have gone back to the room with ropes and waited in ambush and then chopped the guy's head off while he was helpless. (Note: Minmax wasn't willing to perform a Coup De Grace on Dellyn Goblinslayer, who was a depraved rapist and tried to kill him.) It was only because Complains told him that the ropes would grab him too that he relented. Why is he acting this way? Because he's avenging Forgath. |
| 405 | ** This tendency is shown earlier through [[ForWantOfANail an alternate universe version of him in the Maze of Many]]. That universe split from the one we follow when Dellyn wasn't killed by Kin in the bar brawl and instead hunted the trio down. What that universe's Minmax did to Dellyn after he killed that universe's Kin and Forgath [[GoryDiscretionShot went way beyond simply 'murder']] into something main universe Minmax at that point wouldn't have entertained doing. |
| 406 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a moron, a manchild and occasionally an insensitive douchenozzle, but he genuinely loves Forgath as a best friend, with vague shades of this being apparent even at the start of the comic, where the emphasis is distinctly on the "jerk" side. The "heart of gold" starts taking precedence after he meets Kin [[spoiler:and really shines when he befriends Fumbles.]] |
| 407 | * MadeOfIndestructium: Oblivious is a sword made of nothing, and being nothing it means the sword cannot be broken by anything. [[spoiler: When trying to open a dungeon door when he failed the puzzle. Minmax chose to use the indestructible sword as a prybar. The door didn't open but the stone it was made of cracked enough to make a big hole.]] |
| 408 | * MagicalEye: In the Maze of Many, his injured eye was magically repaired using his Individual Magical Effect. What Sapphire said suggests it's much more resilient than a normal eye, but everything he sees through it is tinted with his Individual Magical Effect (purple). |
| 409 | * ManChild: Sometimes bordering of PsychopathicManChild, especially earlier in the series, before he starts traveling with Kin. |
| 410 | * {{Malaproper}}: He has a habit of misunderstanding words, such as interpreting "therapeutic" as "Sara puked it" or "pendulum" as "panda lung". |
| 411 | * MaterialMimicry: His new sword seems to be an unusual variant of this, where it can take on the properties of other materials that it touches. [[spoiler:He breaks it by trying to get it to mimic a hole in reality, and now it's stuck in its current form forever.]] |
| 412 | * MinMaxing: It's in his name. |
| 413 | * OddFriendship: Him and Fumbles. They get on surprisingly well together once they realize just how much their thought processes have in common. |
| 414 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Early in the comic, Minmax teases Forgath for saying that he loves Minmax like a brother and calls Forgath gay several times. When he realizes [[spoiler:Forgath is about to die]] he holds Forgath close and calls him "Brother." |
| 415 | ** Also, when the GAP falls into a chasm and he fails to find them, he is genuinely sad, despite his FantasticRacism. Especially because he [[spoiler: became a very good friend with Fumbles. He ends up mourning the others a bit, too, not even excluding [[ArchEnemy Complains]]. Seems like Fumbles is his new Forgath.]] |
| 416 | * PowerOfTheVoid: Minmax's new sword Oblivious. Originally a MorphWeapon, it permanantly copied nothing after Minmax sticks it into an oblivion hole. As a result, it cannot be affected spatially or temporally unless Minmax wields it, and is powered by ignorance. |
| 417 | -->'''Forgath''': Are you telling me that this sword is powered by Minmax's stupidity?\ |
| 418 | '''Kin''': Well, more accurately, his ignorance, but yes.\ |
| 419 | '''Forgath''': By Herbert's Dice! [[IdiotHero In Minmax's hand]] that sword is insanely powerful. |
| 420 | * ProperlyParanoid: Considering all the dungeon crawls he's been on, his line concerning the crystal staircase is not unreasonable. [[spoiler: He's later proven right when Fumbles looks up, gets dizzy, and then accidentally touches the wall, which causes spikes to fall down unto the staircase, causing everyone, save Minmax himself, to fall down a chasm.]] |
| 421 | -->'''Minmax:'''"Yes, Names. '''''Every''''' detail in '''''every''''' dungeon crawl is a trap, or a clue, or a [[NotHyperbole magical space monkey made out of yogurt, that will appear and eat your thumbs]]. This is how dungeon crawls work!" |
| 422 | * RealMenWearPink: Subverted. Minmax's new suit of magical armor is bright pink... and he hates it. However, it's able to change to any color the wearer likes; he just hasn't realised this fact yet. [[spoiler:During the battle with Not-Walter he finally (accidentally) turns it red.]] |
| 423 | * SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: The whole point of minmaxing is that Minmax has traded away just about every single non-combat trick he can think of for more combat prowess. These include the ability to read for a +1 to hit bonus, the ability to wink for Weapon Proficiency: Furniture, and the ability to rhyme on purpose for Improved Unarmed Strike. As mentioned however above, it comes back to bite him sometimes. |
| 424 | * ScarsAreForever: Almost lost his eye fighting Complains, and still has a [[GoodScarsEvilScars vertical scar over the area.]] |
| 425 | ** By the end of the Maze of Many, it got better through Psionic Rebuilding. Though, both the eye and the scar look like a purple eyepatch grafted into both. It works like a charm even so, permanent purple-tint notwithstanding. |
| 426 | * SummonToHand: An unusual variant - when he lets go of his sword Oblivious it travels forward in time to the moment when he next grasps it. |
| 427 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: He and Fumbles [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/05132015/ bond over their kinship in personality]] once they get to know each other. |
| 428 | * TearsOfJoy: When Fumbles, of all creatures, is the one to accidentally figure out how the magical wall works, so that Minmax and the [=GAP=] can gather the magical weapons trapped inside, ''and have them completely identified'', he begins to weep with pleasure, but immediately tries to deny it when asked. |
| 429 | ** Alternatively, [[spoiler: he might have thought of the last time he'd seen Kin, where they encountered a near-identical setup in the Maze of Many]]. |
| 430 | * TheBerserker: Multiclassed into Barbarian in order to use the Raging-induced strength boost to save himself and Kin [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/title-17042012/ from being crushed by rapidly-growing trees.]] |
| 431 | * TheMunchkin: Naturally; "minmaxer" is another name used in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' for a munchkin. Through character development, he becomes much more rounded. |
| 432 | * TooDumbToFool: Forgath tries to confuse him in order to solve a trap. [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/03082011/ It doesn't take.]] |
| 433 | * TooDumbToLive: The only thing keeping him alive, his prodigious stats aside, is Forgath [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/02042011/ predicting and preventing the shenanigans that would otherwise kill him.]] He's later [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/09182015-2/ shown to be aware of this]]. |
| 434 | -->'''Minmax:''' It's just... [[ThisIsThePartWhere this is usually where]] someone would tackle me and stop me from getting myself killed. |
| 435 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While in the dungeon with the Goblin Adventuring Party, several of his well-meaning, and otherwise perfectly sound, actions turn around to bite him and the [=GAP=] in the ass and hard. The latest is finding the "lol pearl" amongst a pile of unusual magic loot which nearly kills them all. |
| 436 | * VitriolicBestBuds: He likes to poke fun at Forgath from time to time, but it's quite clear that he's willing to protect him. |
| 437 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He plays this trope straight until he obtains some armor. |
| 438 | |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:Forgath]] |
| 442 | !!Forgath Bladebeard |
| 443 | |
| 444 | ->'''Alignment:''' Somewhere between LawfulGood and LawfulNeutral |
| 445 | |
| 446 | A dwarven cleric, definitely the brains to Minmax's brawn. He worships Herbert, the GameMaster, and was the nominal leader of the band. The first of the group to start questioning if their attack on the goblin warcamp, or even the racism towards goblins, orcs and other such monstrous humanoids, is really alright. |
| 447 | ---- |
| 448 | * AncestralWeapon: Armor, actually, but the fundamental trope remains the same. His armor is the last thing he has to remember his father by. He's rather miffed when a bunch of Kliks eat it. |
| 449 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: He is fated to die at the hands of another dwarf. Given he is currently travelling with a Yuan-ti, Kore may be involved. [[spoiler:It turns out it was actually ''Idle,'' who is a female dwarf transformed by a curse and who provides him with a deadly poison for a ([[ThanatosGambit necessary]]) suicide.]] |
| 450 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Rather than let Kore [[YourSoulIsMine devour his soul]], he attempts suicide by jumping off the bridge. It's then Averted in that he gets saved and healed by a bunch of Klik's species.]] |
| 451 | * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: The Kliks try to resurrect him from the warped ash, but they were not able to pump enough energy into the ash fast enough, so Salt comes along and helps. Being too young to control its power properly, Salt's contribution does manage to revive Forgath, but he's no longer a dwarf. In fact, nobody knows what he is, but at least he's sane.]] |
| 452 | * CombatMedic: He is the cleric, after all. |
| 453 | * FreudianTrio: The level-headed and kind Ego to Minmax's Id and Kin's Superego. |
| 454 | * GamerChick: His player. |
| 455 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: The various translucent/colored patches of his body, created when [[spoiler: the Kin-party restores the portion of his beard that was deleted by Oblivion and the Kliks sealed the wounds he was bleeding out from after Kore mutilated him]]. |
| 456 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: He and Minmax have each other's backs |
| 457 | ** Minmax is even aware of how good their combination is (with Minmax being a fighter and him being a Cleric) |
| 458 | * MundaneUtility: His favorite magic item, the Anymug, is capable of repeatedly producing any mundane room-temperature fluid that can't inherently destroy the acid-vulnerable stone mug (so no liquid nitrogen, acid or magma). Such as highly flammable oil. |
| 459 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction when he realises he and his party have basically massacred an innocent band of warriors who want nothing more then to keep their women and children safe. He even races to use his ''cure minor wounds'' spell to prevent Thaco from dying as a result. |
| 460 | * NiceGuy: For the most part, Forgath is a virtuous and compassionate cleric that cares more about doing good in the world than EXP. When he realized that the goblin camp he and his party were attacking wasn't evil and were simply defending themselves from adventurers that don't bother to ask questions, he reacts with abstract horror. |
| 461 | * RunningGag: Tackles Minmax whenever the latter does or is about to do something stupid. |
| 462 | * TeamMom: Forgath may pull a prank now and then, but in general he is the reliable, friendly, logical member of the party. His teammates' well-being is very important to him. |
| 463 | * VitriolicBestBuds: He likes to use Minmax's stupidity to mess with him, but it's clear that ''he does'' care for his friend. |
| 464 | * WeCanRebuildHim: Due to being part Klik, when Forgath gets infected by a Corrupted Klik, his teammates decide that his best option would be to commit suicide, so that their friendly Klik could attempt to restore him. It seems to work. |
| 465 | [[/folder]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | [[folder:Kin]] |
| 468 | !!Kin (Primary/#156) |
| 469 | |
| 470 | -> '''Alignment''': NeutralGood, with TrueNeutral leanings |
| 471 | |
| 472 | A yuan-ti who was held prisoner by Dellyn Goblinslayer as his "pet", somewhat accidentally freed by Forgath and Minmax. She continues to accompany them, in part because they have a bargain with her that she will let them use the Jade Teapot she's been sent in search of to find the Goblin Adventuring Party and so they are willing to help her in the Maze of Many. |
| 473 | ---- |
| 474 | * BasedOnATrueStory: WordOfGod is that Kin's character arc, especially her rape and the psychological repercussions, is heavily based on the experiences of the author's mother. Kin's argument with Ruby (Kin #80) about her relationship with Minmax represents the internal conflict his mother felt when she started a new relationship. See [[https://goblinscomic.com/blog/kins-story-is-kind-of-true this link]] for the relevant news post. |
| 475 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She joins Forgath and Minmax (or rather, asks them to join her) simply because they're the first people to treat her with ordinary decency. |
| 476 | * BerserkerTears: She cries as she [[spoiler:[[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/04122010 stabs the Goblinslayer to death with a broken sword-hilt in a rage]].]] |
| 477 | * BizarreAlienBiology: She mentions in one comic that it's easier for her to digest meat than anything else, and it's easier still if the meat is still alive when she swallows it. |
| 478 | * BizarreAlienReproduction: Yuan-ti apparently don't normally form monogamous bonds with others and typically reproduce via mating balls, with multiple males coiling around a single female and striving to fertilise her. This means Yuan-ti typically never know who fathered them. |
| 479 | * BrokenBird: Shades of this, though she seems to be getting better. |
| 480 | * TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Kin makes her triumphant return [[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/whynot by teleporting to Minmax's location]], ''just'' [[MissedHimByThatMuch as he entered one of multiple doors]].]] |
| 481 | * CreepyGood: She escapes a {{mook}} by creeping him out and then scaring him into dropping her leash (ItMakesSenseInContext). |
| 482 | * CuteMonsterGirl: She's a pretty woman with the tail of a giant snake where her legs should be. |
| 483 | * DistractingDisambiguation: [[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/09092011/ Used masterfully]] to get out of a bad spot. |
| 484 | * FreudianTrio: The logical and very intelligent Superego to Minmax's Id and Forgath's Ego. |
| 485 | * TheDogBitesBack [[spoiler:When Forgath accidently drops her magic leash and Minmax knocks Dellyn unconscious during a brawl, she takes the opportunity to stab him in the neck with a broken sword. Multiple times.]] |
| 486 | * GoGoEnslavement: What Goblinslayer did to her, among much, [[RapeAsDrama much]] worse things. |
| 487 | * HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe: Her tail was liquefied by Psionic Minmax when she tried to break his neck with it. She survived, but neither he nor Forgath believed it possible, assuming she died instantly. [[spoiler:It was repaired with Psionic Minmax's devices.]] |
| 488 | * HatesBeingTouched: [[spoiler:Goblinslayer]] used to [[spoiler:sadistically rape her every night while she was in captivity]]. It's an understandable consequence. However, it seems that Minmax is growing into an exception. |
| 489 | * LoveTranscendsSpacetime: In spite of it [[spoiler: being erased from existence, her I.M.E (Individual Magic Effect) prominently features the necklace Minmax gave her; a symbol of their bond and trust.]] |
| 490 | * InterspeciesRomance: There's a fair amount of ShipTease going on between her and Minmax, despite the various complications. [[StarCrossedLovers But it's suffered an in-universe]] RetCon. |
| 491 | * MoralityPet: Kin seems to serve this role for Minmax; all of his most likeable moments have stemmed from his desire to protect her, and arguably to grow for her. |
| 492 | * PrefersRawMeat: As a {{Snake Pe|ople}}rson, her [[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/05242010 favorite food]] is live mice. Minmax is quite disgusted by this at first, but resolves to overcome his WhatMeasureIsANonHuman bigotry and collects some for her "birthday" meal. |
| 493 | * RapeAsBackstory: While she was enslaved by Dellyn [[spoiler: he repeatedly brutalized and raped her.]] |
| 494 | * RestrainingBolt: Her collar, which kept her from acting violently as long as someone was holding the leash. |
| 495 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Yuan-ti have very high natural intelligence, so she tends to talk this way. She gets even more wordy when she's nervous. |
| 496 | * TheSmartGirl: Aside from her [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness sizable vocabulary]], she evidently has a formidable mind, usually being the first to figure out a puzzle. This appears to be a common quality among her alternate selves too; three of them in the Maze of Many figured out the same thing Psionic Minmax did; [[spoiler: that the pocket universe has simplified physics which can be tampered with]]. |
| 497 | ** Later, [[spoiler: she uses this to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech insult Kore to his face]] by obliquely and "innocently" asking if he actually verified that Forgath was "evil" before killing him, then playing dumb when asked if she knew the dwarf]]. |
| 498 | * SnakesAreSexy: She's a giant snake from the waist down, but the resultant effect is CuteMonsterGirl, not unnatural horror. |
| 499 | * SnakePeople: She's a Yuan-Ti. |
| 500 | * TearsOfJoy: She responds this way to a simple act of kindness. [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/09282010-7/ D'awwww!]] |
| 501 | * TemptingFate: While stuck in the Room of Truth and Lies, Kin attempts to tell Minmax to change the color of his armor (it is currently turqoise, the color of "Truth" meaning anything he says while touching becomes an absolute truth) before he says something stupid ... right before Minmax realizes the power he wields and says he's a "literal god" before ascending to godhood right before her eyes. |
| 502 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/09042013/ This comic]] sees Ruby and Kin trading short versions at each other as Ruby tries to convince Kin to leave Minmax and join her party. |
| 503 | * TookALevelInBadass: Literally. [[spoiler: When she shows up looking for Minmax after abusing the GroundhogDayLoop of the Maze of Many]], she's taken a few levels in Wizard. |
| 504 | * TraumaButton: Being [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/04132012/ trapped under a tree]] reminds her of [[spoiler:Dellyn's nightly rapes]]. See also HatesBeingTouched. And the worst one of all, the leash that Dellyn had fastened around her neck and that she hadn't been able to remove - [[spoiler: Minmax grabs hold of it in a fit of desperation to have her listen to him]]. |
| 505 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: She points out that [[BlueAndOrangeMorality due to how they are raised]], [[spoiler:Yuan-ti don't form emotional bonds the way humans do.]] The closest they have is "True-Seeing," being able to [[spoiler: see another's soul, [[{{Synchronization}} to the point of feeling their pleasure and their pain.]] And that only occurs between two yuan-ti. This may be averted, given the developments between her and Minmax.]] |
| 506 | * WhenSheSmiles: Her first genuine smile [[https://www.goblinscomic.com/comic/09282010-7 is a beauty]], as Minmax had done the nicest thing for her she'd ever experienced. |
| 507 | [[/folder]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | [[folder:Alternate Reality Kins]] |
| 510 | !! #54/Sapphire, #80/Ruby, #201/Onyx |
| 511 | A trio of alternate universe versions of Kin who, encountering each other in the Maze of Many, have decided to form an all-Kin adventuring party, marginally allying with the primary reality party to stop Psion Minmax. Their plan is to manipulate the gears in the Maze of Many to both make it believe they all come from the same reality and to allow them to retain their memories after each play-through of the Maze. After this, they intend to LevelGrind by running the Maze repeatedly and resetting before leaving until they decide to leave. |
| 512 | ---- |
| 513 | * AesopAmnesia: Ruby's backstory includes a lifetime of FantasticRacism even before Dellyn got a hold of her, capped off with the sudden realization that not all humans are evil. And yet she is still utterly convinced that Minmax will betray Kin for some reason. |
| 514 | * AmazonBrigade: Three versions of Kin, all of which are female. |
| 515 | * AmbiguousInnocence: Sapphire is incapable of remembering anybody who has died. This has severely reduced her capacity to feel regret. She will kill without hesitation because her victims, for her, simply cease to exist once she destroys them. This makes her "carefree and childlike", but also really creepy. |
| 516 | * ColourfulThemeNaming: Since calling each other Kin would just get confusing, they use nicknames instead; Ruby (Kin #80), Sapphire (Kin #54) and Onyx (Kin #201) |
| 517 | * CuteMonsterGirl: Of the SnakesAreSexy variety. |
| 518 | * FighterMageThief: Of the three Kins who make up the party, we have one as-yet-unidentified DualWielding warrior-type (Ruby), a sorcerer (Onyx), and an archer (Sapphire). |
| 519 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: Invoked and deconstructed with Sapphire, whose magical facial tattoos cause her to be [[LaserGuidedAmnesia incapable of remembering anyone who dies]]. This has allowed her to forget all the deaths she caused as Dellyn's pet assassin -- especially four of her clan friends, the grief of which was destroying her -- but also caused her to immediately forget the existence of her dimension's Minmax and Forgath when the Maze killed them. Her bio notes that if her memory-modifying tattoos are ever dispelled, [[DespairEventHorizon she won't be able to handle it when her memories come back.]] |
| 520 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Ruby has spent so long soured and embittered by Dellyn's treatment of her, plus her reality's Minmax being the only Minmax who tolerated her reality's Dellyn, that she cannot stand Minmax's and Kin's love, and decided to essentially MindRape Kin by using the oblivion holes to erase the necklace that was the symbol of that love. |
| 521 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Ruby, who tells Kin she cannot trust Minmax, and she would be better of with the three Kins. She decides to show her this by [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/09292013/ stealing the memento of Kin and Minmax's trust]] and [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/10172013/ erasing it from existence.]] |
| 522 | * KarmaHoudini: As far as we can tell right now, Ruby has gotten away completely scot-free with almost completely wrecking the relationship between Kin and Minmax. |
| 523 | * MsFanservice: In contrast to their primary reality counterpart, Sapphire and Onyx both dress in skimpy clothing. For Sapphire, this is explicitly because she was never Dellyn's sex-slave, while for Onyx, it's presumably the same. Only Ruby averts this by wearing a practical breastplate -- and it's revealed that, like Kin, she went through the horrors of being Dellyn's sex-slave. |
| 524 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Onyx, technically. Her hair's actually a very dark green. |
| 525 | * SexyJester: Onyx evokes the look, as she's naturally pale-white-skinned and has had salmon-colored, mime-like markings emblazoned on her cheeks and above her eyes as part of a narrowly averted stint as a HumanSacrifice. |
| 526 | * SociopathicHero: Ruby hates all non Yuan-ti so much that she cannot stand Minmax and Kin's love for each other, and deliberately destroys that love with the oblivion holes. |
| 527 | * StupidSexyFlanders: In Onyx's dimension, all female humanoids have milky white skin and only males have any sort of tanning. Her counterparts from the other dimensions are [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics coloured like males from her homeworld]], which means she's feeling "things". Especially towards Ruby. |
| 528 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/09042013/ This comic]] sees Ruby and Kin trading short versions at each other as Ruby tries to convince Kin to leave Minmax and join her party. |
| 529 | [[/folder]] |
| 530 | |
| 531 | !!Antagonist Adventuring Party |
| 532 | The members of a band of adventurers who inadvertently founded the Goblin Adventuring Party by attacking their warcamp. Originally five strong, consisting of two drow, a drow/hobbit halfling, and Minmax & Forgath. The drow all perished during their assault. While Forgath and Minmax have gone their separate ways, the other three eventually respawned, only to die at the hands of Evil Klik. Whether they will reappear again remains a mystery. |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Seth/Baka]] |
| 535 | !!Seth/Baka |
| 536 | |
| 537 | Originally a [[OverusedCopycatCharacter blatant derivative]] of [[Literature/ForgottenRealms Drizzt Do'urden]], he died when Thaco cut him down to -3 hit points, then left him to bleed out over seven rounds. As Baka, he becomes a human of pseudo-Japanese nature and a member of the Samurai class. |
| 538 | ---- |
| 539 | * AskAStupidQuestion: Asks a goblin if he'll bind his wounds. Funny enough, the goblin in question is Asks Nonsense. |
| 540 | * MeaningfulName: The name of his second character means [[UsefulNotes/{{Baka}} "idiot"]] in Japanese. This is appropriate because... see above. |
| 541 | * RulesLawyer: After seeing Evil Klik kill Tuck, all he can think of doing is complaining that it never rolled initiative, so the battle didn't officially start. |
| 542 | * ShoutOut: Tries to prove his ring is a Ring of Summon Monster by summoning a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Geodude]]. |
| 543 | * TooDumbToLive: Goes into a RulesLawyer rant and then attacks Evil Klik, even after seeing it one-shot Tuck and as Yodette screams at him to run. Is promptly killed. |
| 544 | * OccidentalOtaku: As Baka, is obsessed with Japan and tries to work it into every conversation, despite the fact, as his exasperated companions keep telling him, Japan doesn't exist in this world. |
| 545 | |
| 546 | [[/folder]] |
| 547 | |
| 548 | [[folder:Drast/Tuck]] |
| 549 | !!Drasst/Tuck |
| 550 | |
| 551 | -> '''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil (Drasst), Unknown (Tuck) |
| 552 | |
| 553 | Like Seth, Drasst was a blatant rip-off of Drizzt, only in his case short and fat, which he attributed to being raised by stereotypical {{hobbits}}. He cut off the arm of Dies-Horribly, and was then fatally ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Klik. As Tuck, he becomes an actual halfling, specializing in the usage of a longbow. |
| 554 | ---- |
| 555 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Has a bad tendency to talk about things from a player perspective rather than a PC perspective. |
| 556 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Completely exsanguinated, ''while still alive'', at the hands of Evil Klik. |
| 557 | * TheHyena: As Drasst, at least. |
| 558 | * {{Irony}}: Got killed by Klik as Drasst... then gets killed by Evil Klick as Tuck. |
| 559 | * TokenEvilTeamMate: Drasst repeatedly shows himself to be actively sadistic, rather than just short-sighted like his teammates. |
| 560 | * YouWannaGetSued: His original character's full name was "Drasst Don'tsue". |
| 561 | [[/folder]] |
| 562 | |
| 563 | [[folder:Drowbabe/Yodette]] |
| 564 | !!Drowbabe/Yodette |
| 565 | |
| 566 | Possibly a man roleplaying a female PC, Drowbabe was a voluptuously endowed and [[BrainlessBeauty spectacularly dimwitted]] drow sorcerer, who ended up killed by Big-Ears during the attack on the goblin warcamp. As Yodette, is a somewhat less big-breasted yet still dimwitted human cleric. |
| 567 | ---- |
| 568 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: As Drowbabe, she shrugs off wounds while under the effects of a Mage Armour spell because she doesn't understand its mechanics (she thinks it provides damage resistance, when it actually makes attacks more likely to miss you). |
| 569 | * AllThereInTheManual: Her real name never appears in the comic. It's [[spoiler:Tryst Drow'den]]. |
| 570 | * BrainlessBeauty: Partially explainable on a meta level: Sorcerers need a high charisma score, so a common MinMaxing strategy is to [[DumpStat dump]] intelligence. Clerics benefit from both high wisdom and charisma, making the same dump stat even more helpful. |
| 571 | * GenreSavvy: Surprisingly enough. Even tries to warn Baka and Tuck from messing with the wounded but not yet dead Evil Klik because it's certain to get them killed and leave her to do the "dumb blonde who runs away screaming from the monster until it eats her" routine. |
| 572 | * GuyInRealLife: According to Minmax. |
| 573 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: One could argue that the main reason Evil Klik got a drop on Tuck was because he was distracted by his freak out over Yodette's uncharacteristically intelligent statement. |
| 574 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When she tries to invoke tropes to persuade Baka and Tuck to leave Evil Klik alone, they're both flabbergasted that something so intelligent could come out of her mouth. |
| 575 | * {{Stripperific}}: It's hard to tell who is worse about this; Drowbabe or Yodette. |
| 576 | [[/folder]] |
| 577 | |
| 578 | !!Cursed Party |
| 579 | Forgath meets two adventurers, Idle and Bowst, who by their own admission are covered in curses from having tackled a dungeon crawl called "The Cursewalk". Bowst found a cursed talking sword called Ward, and it was later devoured by one of the metal-eating Klik. That didn't change the curse a iota: Bowst is now stuck where said Klik decides to stay. Idle is actually a dwarf woman, but lied to Forgath about it due to liking (or possibly loving) him despite her clan being bitter rivals with Forgath's. |
| 580 | |
| 581 | [[folder:Bowst]] |
| 582 | !!Bowst |
| 583 | |
| 584 | An aggressive, somewhat dimwitted male human fighter. |
| 585 | ---- |
| 586 | * {{Curse}}: Bowst is compelled to hit himself in the face every time he says the word "what" (thus forcing him to wear padded mittens to soften the blows), and he's also linked to a cursed sword (a very rude TalkingWeapon) which he can't get far away from without taking damage. |
| 587 | * DumbMuscle: He's not exactly a smart character. He's honestly kind of like a more {{Jerkass}} version of early-series-Minmax. |
| 588 | * FriendsWithBenefits: He and Idle regularly have sex, but [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/11262015-2/ according to Idle]], they both accept that this is purely a survival matter and they don't have any deeper sort of relationship. |
| 589 | * HypocriticalHumor: Bowst calls Forgath "''Mr. Can't Wait to Brag About His Level''", when he's the one who couldn't wait to state his own (a whopping level ''three'') and Forgath was just responding to this. He's clearly too dumb to notice the irony. |
| 590 | * MateOrDie: One of Bowst's curses requires him to have sex every day or die. Luckily for him Idle doesn't mind helping. |
| 591 | * OddFriendship: How did he and Idle end up together anyway? Only time will tell. |
| 592 | * ThatCameOutWrong: He and Forgaths' argument about "balls", meaning Kliks. Idle tries to fight off laughter. |
| 593 | [[/folder]] |
| 594 | |
| 595 | [[folder:Idle]] |
| 596 | !!Idle Cloudhammer |
| 597 | |
| 598 | A female, elvish adventurer who is travelling with Bowst. Currently has rabbit and goblin traits due to the Cursewalk. Is actually a dwarf of the Cloudhammer clan, rivals of Forgath's own, not that this stops her from liking or getting along with Forgath. |
| 599 | ---- |
| 600 | * {{Curse}}: Mentions that the rabbit ears she now sports are just a minor one among those. Considering the next entry down, she wasn't kidding. |
| 601 | * CursedWithAwesome: She can resurrect once a day after dying. Downside -- she ''has'' to die once a day, or else she dies permanently, forcing her companion to behead her every evening (unless she already died that day). As said in the [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/04062012/ 04062012 comic]], she's turned it to her advantage for finding new uses for [[UselessUsefulSpell spells previously thought useless]] because they would kill their caster, such as one she calls "Idle's Ridiculous Blades", which summons 100 razor-sharp floating blades and sends them flying at her target- right through her. |
| 602 | * CuteMonsterGirl: She's an elf in her natural form, but thanks to a couple of her curses, she currently has rabbit and goblin features. [[spoiler:Or so we thought...]] |
| 603 | * DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Smokes a blue one. |
| 604 | * FriendsWithBenefits: She and Bowst have sex at least once a day, because Bowst is under a MateOrDie curse. She accepts that there's nothing deeper to it beyond survival. Although her precise wording (and admission that she really enjoys it) implies she wouldn't ''mind'' if they were more than that, but Bowst isn't interested. |
| 605 | * TheGadfly: Gleefully joins in on Forgath's trolling of Bowst and teases Forgath by telling him she tattooed a naked orc on his head while he was sleeping. |
| 606 | * HehHehYouSaidX: Cracks up laughing during an [[InnocentInnuendo unintentionally innuendo-laden]] argument between Forgath and Bowst about Bowst's "balls". |
| 607 | * LittleBitBeastly: Has a pair of furry bunny ears thanks to her curse. |
| 608 | * TheManyDeathsOfYou: She has to experience death once a day, every day or she dies, permanently. The revival is shown to be quite painful. |
| 609 | * MixAndMatchCritters: She looks like an elf with goblin ears, an extra pair of bunny ears, a slightly rabbit-like face (harelip) and pronounced "buck teeth". |
| 610 | * MsFanservice: As attractive as Saves-a-Fox and far more {{Stripperific}} -- she basically wears a bikini bottom and a small vest that's practically falling open. |
| 611 | * OddFriendship: With Bowst. |
| 612 | * OnlySaneWoman: It's not hard to be wiser than Bowst, but Idle seems to keep him out of trouble. |
| 613 | * TheReveal: She has a certain kind of plant on her that only affects Dwarves [[spoiler: because she isn't originally an Elf, she is a Dwarf.]] |
| 614 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: She's small in comparison to big warrior Bowst, but is clearly the one with the most brains. |
| 615 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When Bowst attempts to put one over on Forgath by declaring that "four" is now "two", Idle joins in on Forgath's relentless counter-{{Troll}}ing of him. |
| 616 | -->'''Bowst: Shut-up Forgath!'''\ |
| 617 | '''Idle:''' "Shut-up '''Two'''gath".\ |
| 618 | '''Bowst:''' AAAAHH!\ |
| 619 | '''Forgath:''' Aw, ya ninja'd me.\ |
| 620 | '''Idle:''' Hee, I like you. |
| 621 | * TattooAsCharacterType: She tattoos herself with elven skin paint, which never comes off, every morning (since her previous tattoos are erased every time her curse revives her). |
| 622 | [[/folder]] |
| 623 | |
| 624 | [[folder:Ward]] |
| 625 | !!Ward |
| 626 | |
| 627 | A cursed sword that inflicts damage to its user if they're separated. It was later devoured by one of the metal-eating Klik, giving it the power of speech, though it didn't change the curse a iota. |
| 628 | ---- |
| 629 | * CallAHumanAMeatbag: Ward addresses dwarves/elves/humans with such niceties as "bag of floppy organs" or "pile of wet idiocy". |
| 630 | * ClingyMacGuffin: Part of its curse is that it inflicts damage to its user (Bowst) if they're separated, and retains this as a Klik. |
| 631 | * ConflictBall: {{Pun}} aside, its role is to serve as this: Bowst and Idle could leave the valley of the Kliks if they could get Ward to come with them. But Ward absolutely refuses to leave its new home up until another Klik accidentally gets warped and risks threatening TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 632 | * TalkingWeapon: A talking sword and a really rude one. It was later eaten by a Klik, giving it the power of speech as well as its {{Jerkass}} disposition. Though at least it can translate for the other Kliks. |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | !!Villains |
| 636 | |
| 637 | [[folder:Dellyn]] |
| 638 | !!Dellyn Goblinslayer |
| 639 | ->''"I am Dellyn Goblinslayer! Captain of the elite guard and Hero of Brassmoon! There is no way that you can defeat me!"'' |
| 640 | |
| 641 | -> '''Alignment''': NeutralEvil |
| 642 | |
| 643 | The first major villain of the series, beloved hero of the city of Brassmoon, a Ranger specialised in slaying goblins. |
| 644 | ---- |
| 645 | * ArcVillain: He is the main villain of the Brassmoon arc and has tortured two members of the Goblin Adventuring Party, thus instigating several events. |
| 646 | * BigBadWannabe: He clearly ''thinks'' he's the BigBad, but he's wrong. [[spoiler:After Thaco defeats him in a humiliating manner and leaves him alive, he is roughed up in a seemingly meaningless barfight, but doesn't really die until Kin, one of his victims, finishes him off. Then he is overshadowed by far greater threats.]] |
| 647 | * TheBully: He is a ranger that specializes in killing goblins, which in the story setting are still treated like low level xp fodder unless they take Adventurer levels. Do the math. |
| 648 | * BreakTheCutie: What he does to his Yuan-Ti slave Kin, to a horrific level. |
| 649 | * BrokenPedestal: To Minmax. [[spoiler: When he first meets him, he's [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee gushing over him like a fanboy]], before he hears that he rapes Kin every night. Minmax normally hates monsters, but after a few beat panels, he gets mad enough to throw him out of the bar and fight him to the death.]] |
| 650 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: For the Goblin Adventuring Party. He's an important early threat when he captures Fumbles, and he's Thaco's old nemesis, but he's quickly overshadowed by greater threats like Kore, and he's killed ignominiously in an unrelated fight shortly after Thaco leaves him for dead. |
| 651 | * TheDreaded: He's known as the Goblinslayer for a reason. |
| 652 | * EnemiesEqualsGreatness: He believes that how badly a person's enemies want to kill them decides whether or not they're worthy of being described as 'legendary'. [[{{Hypocrite}} Not that he'll let anyone he wants to kill be described as legendary, though]]. |
| 653 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: During his first 'meeting' with Fumbles, he displays both his FantasticRacism and his [[TortureTechnician knowledge of, and sadistic appreciation for torture.]] |
| 654 | * FantasticRacism: His hatred of the 'monster races.' |
| 655 | * AFateWorseThanDeath: From his perspective, ignominy. He's completely satisfied with being killed by Thaco, if it means he'll go down in goblin history as a legend. But when Thaco tells him he's NotWorthKilling and leaves him alive but defeated, he has a full-on VillainousBreakdown. |
| 656 | * ForestRanger: His class is Ranger. |
| 657 | * GreenThumb: On a limited scale. |
| 658 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He's happy to use his EnemiesEqualsGreatness philosophy to justify why he considers himself legendary, but he refuses to let Thaco be described as 'legendary' despite harboring a [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou grim obsession with killing him.]] |
| 659 | * InsultToRocks: Calling him a monster insults Kin, who is an actual monster. Especially since she used to be [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped ]] by him every night. And it's not even PlayedForLaughs. |
| 660 | * ItsAllAboutMe: The fact that he had a statue of himself put in the center of the city should tell you something. |
| 661 | * KarmicDeath: After [[spoiler:a very thorough HumiliationConga, Dellyn is finally killed by Kin, the monster girl that he spent his spare time raping.]] |
| 662 | * LackOfEmpathy: Despite being Brassmoon City's defender he doesn't actually care if his actions lead to the death of any of the citizens, only about [[ItsAllAboutMe how heroic he can make himself look once the dust has settled]]. [[spoiler:The only other character he's shown to have any feelings for is Saral Caine, when he weeps over his corpse.]] |
| 663 | * LukeNounverber: Intentional, as he took the name for himself. |
| 664 | * {{Magitek}} HollywoodCyborg: He looks to be a half wood-{{golem}}. That is, a human with bits and pieces of a wood golem added to his body to make him stronger. |
| 665 | * PetTheDog: He is visibly grief-stricken when he sees [[spoiler: Saral Caine's decapitated corpse.]] Normally that wouldn't be so much of a PetTheDog moment except it's the ''only'' humanizing moment he has in the whole story. |
| 666 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: What he did to [[spoiler:Kin was enough to make Minmax, normally of the type to consider all monsters worth killing for the XP, go ballistic on his ass.]] |
| 667 | * RasputinianDeath: Being humiliatingly defeated by [[spoiler: his favored enemy[[note]]For those unfamiliar with ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Rangers get a ton of combat bonuses against their favored enemy type[[/note]], having his [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Lecture]] turned on its ear, being told by one of his oldest opponents he's NotWorthKilling, and losing an ear right before he loses his position, his pride, and is reduced to an angry drunk. Shortly thereafter Dellyn is thrown through a window, slashed and pummeled, set on fire, beaten over the head with a table, and finally stabbed to death repeatedly.]] |
| 668 | ** And then there's his alternate from Reality 98, [[spoiler:who was tortured to death by that reality's Minmax. We never get told exactly what Minmax did to him, but it took hours.]] |
| 669 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He must be the one to kill Thaco, the only inmate ever to have escaped from the facility he oversees in Brassmoon. Lampshaded several times, and Thaco constructs a BatmanGambit that relies on this. |
| 670 | * TortureTechnician: He sadistically vivisects captured monsters in order to learn their weaknesses. |
| 671 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Seems to be highly regarded by the citizens of Brassmoon for keeping their city safe from monsters. Subverted in that the incident that got him his possition in Brassmoon was actually solved by the goblin named Hawl, while Dellyn took the credit. |
| 672 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He doesn't wear a shirt. |
| 673 | * WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter: The wooden swords he uses look more like falchions than katanas, but they are strong enough to sunder metal. |
| 674 | |
| 675 | [[/folder]] |
| 676 | |
| 677 | [[folder:Saral Caine]] |
| 678 | !! Saral Caine |
| 679 | |
| 680 | -> '''Alignment''': NeutralEvil |
| 681 | |
| 682 | Dellyn Goblinslayer's adventuring partner and second hand man in Brassmoon. Believed to be a stone giant/human crossbreed due to the color of his skin, and no less a despicable villain than his partner. He's also the one Big Ears the goblin took his magical weapon and armor from.... |
| 683 | ---- |
| 684 | * ArtifactOfDoom: His axe is magical; an artifact designed to allow an inconceivably powerful demon to enter the mortal plane. |
| 685 | * TheBrute: This is basically his gig. He is big, strong enough to lift a horse-sized spider, and cruel to his enemies. |
| 686 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: If Big Ears hadn't claimed the axe, the seal wouldn't have been renewed and the demon inside would have wrecked the world. And all because Saral wanted a Paladin's Magic axe. |
| 687 | * FantasticRacism: Shares his friend's, Delyn's, views on the "monster" races, especially goblins. |
| 688 | * {{Fingore}}: He loses all the fingers on his left hand except his thumb to Big Ears' axe when the two fight each other. |
| 689 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Implied. There's a comment by a character of there being a half stone giant/half human in Brassmoon, and while Saral's exact heritage isn't confirmed, his appearance, size and him being from Brassmoon suggests he's the character being referred to. |
| 690 | * {{Jerkass}}: He remorselessly supports Dellyn's atrocities and is mean to his underlings. |
| 691 | * LogicalWeakness: Due to how the Axe of Prissan works, he is unable to hurt Paladins like Big Ears with it, which [[spoiler:costs him the duel and his life.]] |
| 692 | |
| 693 | [[/folder]] |
| 694 | |
| 695 | [[folder:Kore]] |
| 696 | !!Kore |
| 697 | ->''"All evil, even potential evil, must be eradicated."'' |
| 698 | |
| 699 | -> '''Alignment''': LawfulGood (technically) |
| 700 | |
| 701 | The mysterious Dwarven Paladin who slays any member of any evil race he encounters... or anyone that he thinks is tainted by contact with a member of an evil race. |
| 702 | ---- |
| 703 | * AdvancingBossOfDoom: He takes his sweet time chasing after his victims. His heavy-duty armour and massive arsenal of weapons understandably weighs him down and make it hard for him to run anywhere fast, but then again, the only impediment to him eventually catching up to his prey is his willpower, and Kore [[SuperPersistentPredator never gives up a hunt]]. |
| 704 | * BattleAura: One of the most unique ones in the series. For one, it's a pair of apparently angelic white wings made up of chains binding the screaming faces of Kore's past victims. Additionally, it's absolutely '''massive''' compared to most [=IME=]s seen in the series. [[OneManArmy Given that the size and intricacy of an IME shows the power of its owner]]... |
| 705 | * BigBad: He is thus far the closest thing to a BigBad for the entire series, dramatically overshadowing even Dellyn Goblinslayer in power and perhaps even cruelty, and a living avatar of everything the Goblin Adventuring Party stands against. He is also [[spoiler: the first villain to have killed a main character and member of the G.A.P, namely Chief.]] |
| 706 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: So extreme as to be verging on BlueAndOrangeMorality, as illustrated by his character quote above. Brutally demonstrated by his view of the Bladebeard dwarven clan. His first on-screen encounter with a Bladebeard is a child who was kidnapped by an orc. After slaughtering the orc and his companions, he claims that he knows the Bladebeard clan is honorable, but kills the child because he believes ''simply being in the presence of monster races'' has tainted him with evil. Later, he declares Forgath evil because the latter opposes him, and because Forgath is also a Bladebeard, this convinces him that ''the entire Bladebeard clan is now evil and must be exterminated.'' |
| 707 | * BodyHorror: His helmet doesn't just show only one eye for protection. [[spoiler:The face underneath the helmet has the souls of several of Kore's former victims fused to it, all of them writhing in agony. Once his armour is further stripped away, his arms and part of his body are also shown to be similarly made of screaming agonised victims. At this point, just about the only part of him that doesn't appear to be made of twisted flesh and souls is his eye, beard and eyebrows. As of his second meeting with the GAP and them unleashing a dungeon gimmick to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the tar out of him]], half his head is also missing, exposing a molten, glowing light within Kore's body, like he's literally empowered by hellfire inside.]] |
| 708 | * BowAndSwordInAccord: His preferred tactic seems to be pincushioning foes with his [[GunsAkimbo pair of]] AutomaticCrossbows, but he's no slouch in melee and is capable of slicing up any enemy who manages to get close to him. |
| 709 | * ColdBloodedTorture: He tortures [[spoiler: Chief, using Lay on Hands to keep him alive, to lure the goblin party via his screams.]] |
| 710 | * CrazyPrepared: Wears metal boots beneath his shoes, in case someone tries to attack his feet. |
| 711 | ** Turns out he can get back up if he falls on top of his enormous shield. |
| 712 | * {{Curse}}: He has been stated to be under one, though he perceives it as a blessing. |
| 713 | * DeathByAThousandCuts: Upon catching up with the GAP, Kore starts getting subjected to this from multiple parties, all of whom find him to be a dangerous threat that outstrips any pre-existing animosity they hold towards each other. Firstly the GAP circumvent his nigh-unbreachable defences by abusing the Axe of Prissan's unique properties with attacking Paladins to fuse a rope into his throat, putting him down for several minutes and giving him a permanent speech impediment afterwards, then he runs into [[spoiler: Forgarth, fresh off adventuring in the Maze of Many with several high-level items. Though he wins the fight, his armour and weapons are damaged in the exchange, including his helmet getting pounded off his face and severely dented. Afterwards, he next runs into Kin, similarly fresh out the maze with high-level wizardly items, who abuses the Dungeon Room's rules to drop him down a massive pit after he breaks one of his signature axes on her indestructible tail. He's forced to discard his massive shield and duel crossbows from the fall, both of which were presumably damaged beyond repair, when meeting up with the GAP a second time, who similarly utilise a controllable Golem in the dungeon room to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the ever-loving tar out of him]], badly damaging his remaining armour, breaking his remaining Axe and ripping his head in two. Kore is forced to reluctantly retreat from the encounter by distracting the GAP with Chief's spirit, but he's forced to discard his badly battered armour from the waist up on his next appearance, and is left with only his innate paladin abilities to work with afterwards]]. Despite all of that, he's still a dangerous opponent, but its clear the repeated battling is wearing down at his effectiveness. |
| 714 | * DentedIron: When introduced, he seems like an unstoppable juggernaut with a shiny, unblemished set of full plate armor that it seems nothing can get through, along with a tower shield on a complicated rail system that gives him full cover while keeping both his hands free. After several battles, his armor and axes get damaged, he loses his shield when the rails break, and he is forced to cut his half his beard off on the fly, giving him a more and more disheveled and desperate look. It makes him no less dangerous, however. It does, on the other hand, make it much easier for the various forces he faces off with to hurt him, but he's still capable of healing himself to keep pushing forward, [[spoiler: and his unique body makes it hard for him to succumb to normally fatal wounds like other people would, such as having a rope fused into his throat, or having his head torn in half, both of which merely give him pause before he recovers.]] |
| 715 | * {{Determinator}}: Once he has chosen a target, he cannot be stopped. [[spoiler: Fusing a rope with his throat is not enough to slay him... not even to significantly slow him down.]] |
| 716 | * TheDreaded: He has a tendency to induce OhCrap moments in members of the monster races. If Forgath's reaction to finding out that he's on his way is any indication, this reputation extends to the non-monster races as well. |
| 717 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Brutally and efficiently slaughters all the patrons of a tavern in the first scene he appears in, displaying both his incredible skill with weapons and his KnightTemplar philosophy in the process. |
| 718 | * EvilCounterpart: He could be seen as this to Big Ears. Kore is an extraordinarily brutal example of a KnightTemplar Paladin, who only maintains his alignment because he has [[spoiler: [[PoweredByAForsakenChild trapped the souls of his victims]] and can utilize their alignment for himself]]. Compare Big Ears, who is a genuinely kind and heroic example of a Paladin who believes in GoodFeelsGood. |
| 719 | * TheFaceless: He always wears a half-spherical helmet fully covering his face, save for his beard and one slit for his eye. [[spoiler:For good reason: the parts under his armour are pure NightmareFuel]]. |
| 720 | * FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Almost all of it is replaced by the screaming faces of his victims, plus a glowing, smoking gash that would kill any normal being.]] |
| 721 | * FallenHero: From a legitimate paladin to a murderous, insane, walking monstrosity. He was originally part of an entire group of paladins who fought a demon called The Sacred in Hell; [[spoiler: they were all killed except for Kore, who was cursed to be like he is now.]] |
| 722 | * FantasticRacism: He believes that certain races of creature are simply evil by default, and need to be hunted to extinction for the good of the world. |
| 723 | * FightsLikeANormal: He can kill most things he comes across without resorting to using his paladin powers. It led to some speculation that he ''had'' lost his powers, since the only magic he used was via magic items for spells that weren't on the paladin spell list to begin with. That was eventually jossed with a vengeance. |
| 724 | * GoodPowersBadPeople: Uses his paladin powers to heal a creature he intends to torture, in order to prolong the victim's suffering. |
| 725 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: When he [[spoiler: finally proves he can cast paladin spells,]] he displays a very singular Individual Magical Effect (aura) which roughly looks like a pair of angel wings, but they are made from chains of light with the heads of his past victims attached... including one that uncannily resembles the little dwarf child he has slain. Very fitting for someone who is superficially a paladin, but evil within. |
| 726 | * GunsAkimbo: Automatic crossbows akimbo. |
| 727 | * HeroKiller: Both figuratively and [[spoiler: literally, in Chief's case.]] |
| 728 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Believes that the existence of evil in any group, from a monstrous species to a clan of dwarves, means that the entire group needs to be eradicated to prevent the "infection" from spreading. He is blind to the irony of using wholesale mass murder and torture in pursuit of that goal. |
| 729 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He calls others evil. In fact, his whole morality runs on a DoubleStandard. |
| 730 | * HumanoidAbomination: His entire body is [[spoiler:made up of the [[YourSoulIsMine trapped souls]] of his victims. And having half a head torn clean off does nothing to deter him.]] |
| 731 | * {{Immortality}}: It may well be impossible to kill him. [[spoiler: When Ears manages to rip his head in half using a Dungeon construct, this does not kill him, or even cause him to bleed, he just lies on the floor wheezing and pulls out a magic item to briefly summon Chief's soul, for petty spite, at best. Chief reveals there is a very specific way to put him down at all. Kore also doesn't age.]] |
| 732 | * ImplacableMan: Nothing can stop him to date, just slow him down momentarily. |
| 733 | * KnightOfCerebus: His entry is the exact point when Goblins went from a comedic, lighthearted look at goblins to a serious story with an overarching plot. |
| 734 | * KnightTemplar: A particularly brutal version. How brutal and Templarish is he? You know that thing about killing people "tainted" by contact with an evil race? That includes people who were ''kidnapped'' by members of said race. And he doesn't even spare kids who fall into their hands. |
| 735 | * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: He tortured and murdered Chief, and used his soul to escape the Goblins when they finally cornered him. This revealed the way to defeat him permanently.]] |
| 736 | * LastOfHisKind: According to Forgath, he is the last of the Greyhill Paladins. |
| 737 | * LightIsNotGood: He's a Paladin, but he's lucky not to have Fallen. [[spoiler:Even in his hideous true form he invokes this: a large gaping golden wound implies that whatever caused ''that'' is a divine spell.]] |
| 738 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: It's bigger than he is. And he's ''huge'', despite being a dwarf. |
| 739 | * MightyGlacier: He's never been shown moving faster than a slow walk, but is capable of carrying around [[DualWielding two axes]], [[GunsAkimbo two crossbows]], and a [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe a large shield]], and using them efficiently. |
| 740 | * MoralSociopathy: He genuinely thinks he is doing the morally decent thing, but utter lack of empathy prevents him from being likeable at all. |
| 741 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Turns out that the Greyhill Paladins [[spoiler: were actually duped into ''helping'' the Sacred, not imprisoning it.]] |
| 742 | * NoCureForEvil: Averted, but it is ''not'' a good thing. |
| 743 | * NominalHero: This is made a plot point, as his very existence runs on supernatural LoopholeAbuse centered around the alignment on his character sheet: [[spoiler:it's not just ''his'' alignment, but the alignments of all the souls he has devoured. He's only Lawful Good on paper because some of the souls bound to him are also lawful good, and he can switch his own alignment at will.]][[note]]Whether or not it's a free action is not known.[[/note]] |
| 744 | * ObliviouslyEvil: His goal of eradicating all evil, even [[KnightTemplar potential evil]], is racist, overly violent, and willfully cruel overall and half of the people we see him kill aren't evil at all. He is utterly convinced of the righteousness of his actions, though the only reason he retains his paladin powers is because of a curse that allows him to use the alignment of anyone he's killed. If his conversation with Young-And-Beautiful via the Speak With Dead spell is any indication, he's also unaware of his curse. |
| 745 | * OneManArmy: Rumored to have slaughtered entire armies of orcs and ogres singlehandedly. |
| 746 | * ThePaladin: He's a legitimate Paladin, but he commits some of the most evil acts seen on-panel due to [[spoiler:a curse that was placed on him when he fought The Sacred]], forcing him to believe he's doing good. |
| 747 | * PoweredByAForsakenChild: Why is he still a Paladin, despite murdering people who are innocent even by his own twisted standards? [[spoiler:Part of his curse traps the souls of everyone he has ever killed. He can use the alignment of any soul he has trapped to his own benefit no matter what he does, allowing him to count as "lawful good" for the purposes of a paladin, or even chaotic evil or neutral as he needs. If all of the lawful good souls were to be freed, he would lose his paladin powers.]] |
| 748 | * PureIsNotGood: Definitely the purity-of-honor example; Kore is as dedicated to his Oath to bring Evil to justice as he was a millennia ago. This has turned him into a spiteful abomination, physically and spiritually, and has caused the endless suffering of millions of souls, both evil and good. |
| 749 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:According to the Parasite Demon, Kore was the lone surviving paladin from the battle against the demon deity. That happened ''1057 years ago!'']] |
| 750 | * SignatureSoundEffect: His crossbows fire with a distinctive '''KATHUNK'''. |
| 751 | ** Once the GAP fuse a rope into his throat, he's eventually able to heal the wound, but it apparently leaves rope fibres stuck permanently in his throat, resulting in him making a 'k..kkk..' noise when breathing or talking thereafter. |
| 752 | * TautologicalTemplar: He is on a quest to eradicate evil from the world. He doesn't realize he's going about it by performing some of the most evil acts seen on-screen, including ''[[spoiler:torturing a helpless opponent so the latter's anguished screams will draw his fleeing companions.]]'' |
| 753 | * TrialByFriendlyFire: A borderline case, since he doesn't know Minmax or Forgath. All he ''does'' know is that they were fighting goblins, but this doesn't stop him from firing on the goblins, hitting Minmax and Forgath in the crossfire. |
| 754 | * TheUnfettered: Kore's beliefs aren't currently known to be changeable. And it's probably not a good idea to call him on them. |
| 755 | * TinTyrant: He is completely covered in armor. |
| 756 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Big Ears speculates that Kore was cursed and ''tricked'' by the demons of the Axe of Prissan into creating it, and that rather than serving as SealedEvilInACan, the demons intended it as a delivery system to enable them to conquer the Goblins Material Plane.]] |
| 757 | * VillainByProxyFallacy: His primary goal seems to be the elimination of the monstrous races, but members of the civilised races who could potentially harbor sympathy for monsters are also fair game. |
| 758 | * WouldHurtAChild: As mentioned, Kore believes that evil should be eradicated wherever it is found. He also believes it is somehow contagious and even children who have spent any amount of time in the presence of what he deems evil are irrevocably tainted by evil themselves, and so wastes no time in killing even children in that case. |
| 759 | * YearInsideHourOutside: [[spoiler:Not only are the souls trapped within him subjected to immense pain, but time passes hundreds of times quicker for them than it does in the outside world. When Chief is briefly able to communicate with his comrades, years have passed from his perspective when it has only been a few days for them.]] |
| 760 | * YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:He steals the souls of his victims]]. |
| 761 | |
| 762 | [[/folder]] |
| 763 | |
| 764 | [[folder:Duv]] |
| 765 | !!Duv (The White Terror) |
| 766 | ->''"A frightening amount of death is needed when bringing in a new world order. You would be wise not to concern yourself with the lives of lesser beings."'' |
| 767 | |
| 768 | The leader of the Viper Clan and DarkMessiah to the goblin race. |
| 769 | ---- |
| 770 | * ActionMom: As the mother of Grem, how can she be anything but? |
| 771 | * BrokenAngel: A group of humans tried to kill her out of fear. And while she managed to escape with her life, they left her with horrible burn injuries and destroyed one of her wings. [[spoiler:Then Biscuit breaks her some more, but at that point, [[FinalSolution it's hard to argue she doesn't deserve it]].]] |
| 772 | * CategoryTraitor: [[spoiler:Accuses Dies and Fox of being traitors to their own kind for refusing to serve her]]. |
| 773 | * DarkMessiah: She is the chosen champion of the goblin god. She plans to unite all the goblin clans under her banner and visit destruction upon all the non-goblin races. |
| 774 | * FailureToSaveMurder: Blames Saves a Fox when she is told that her son died trying to retrieve her orb and considers killing her. |
| 775 | * FantasticRacism: Hates not only the humans that attacked her, or even humans in general, but all non-goblins. And while she doesn't hate goblins, she does tend to look down on goblins not from her own clan. |
| 776 | * FinalSolution: What she plans to do to the non goblin races, to make the world safe for her own. |
| 777 | * FreudianExcuse: At one time, she strove for peace with all the other races. But because HumansAreBastards, they attacked her village out of fear for what she is, destroyed one of her wings and gave her crippling burn injuries, causing her to realize that they would always murder her own kind [[PayEvilUntoEvil and resolve to do something about that]]. |
| 778 | * GoodWingsEvilWings: A single white angel wing, for a LightIsNotGood DarkMessiah. |
| 779 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: After being burned and crippled by humans, she turned into a KnightTemplar with a goal of protecting and liberating goblinkind. She doesn't realize that her cause has turned her into an embittered, hateful racist who not only hates non-monster races indiscriminately, but even looks down on '''other''' monster races as expendable slaves and sees any goblin who doesn't agree with her as a "traitor to their own kind." Finally, she believes goblin strength is the ferocity of her species and tries to corrupt everyone into believing the same, becoming the monster all goblins are wrongly portrayed as by non-monster races. |
| 780 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: She fights with a pair of small, square razorblades held between her first and second fingers. No handles; just the blades. It's a wonder she doesn't slice her own fingers off in combat. |
| 781 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Her morality is extremely myopic - with the idea that her and those her follow her are the only just and important people in the world. While the Vipers show this constantly, this is most obvious for her when she deceives and attempts to kill Biscuit, then attempts to kill Dies and Fox when they decide not to follow her doctrine. When the whole murderous attempt goes wrong and ends with her battered and defeated, she whines to Biscuit for picking on her like a spoiled child. When Biscuit points out that it was all the result of her short sighted and unjust actions towards others, she flies into a rage [[NeverMyFault for daring to insinuate she could be at fault.]] |
| 782 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Sure, she is in the wrong when Biscuit calls her out, and she is a killer, but she is right to point out that unless you can feel loss, you can't feel gain easily. |
| 783 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Her goal throughout the Well of Darkness arc is to replace her lost wing. But due to [[TheFarmerAndTheViper her cruel treatment of those who helped her]], she only ends up [[spoiler:losing her remaining wing]]. |
| 784 | * MeaningfulName: She was born with white, feathered wings and her name is a homophone for "Dove". Doubles as an IronicName, because doves are a symbol of peace, while Duv wants to forcefully take control of all goblin clans, by force if necessary, then tyrannically dominate or destroy all races who are not goblins. |
| 785 | * MsFanservice: She's rather busty for a goblin, and has an outfit that fits her body, shows plenty of cleavage, and [[ShowSomeLeg her right leg]]. |
| 786 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The White Terror |
| 787 | * NeverMyFault: Her actions cause her clan to be decimated but she blame others for this. |
| 788 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Duv plans to destroy all the non goblin races. Of course, [[HumansAreBastards given what the PC races are like]], the PC races at least may well [[AssholeVictim deserve everything she plans on doing to them]]. |
| 789 | * PowerGivesYouWings: The goblin god, Maglubiyet, blessed her with superior intelligence, strength, speed, and longevity. But the most notable of her gifts were a pair of wings, which granted her flight. |
| 790 | * ReasonBeforeHonor: When her son expresses unease at making people die for another's cause, she claims not to like it either, but would rather sacrifice a crazy lizardfolk and a goblin from a dishonored clan than her own son. |
| 791 | * ReleasedToElsewhere: All of her non-goblin slaves were released alright. Right into the lair of the Switchbeast. |
| 792 | * ScarsAreForever: The left end of her body is blackened and it seems to have stunted the left side of her body's growth. |
| 793 | * ShamCeremony: [[spoiler:[[LoopholeAbuse A goblin chief can only be appointed by fortuneteller. Normally, the fortuneteller must actually BE from the clan in question, but the goblin god gave the Viper clan special rights, thus only the candidate's clan matters for them. If the clan already has a chief, then the ceremony is void, but it is otherwise valid]]. By crowning candidates of her choice, Duv hopes to take control of the other clans]]. |
| 794 | * TwoFaced: The left side of her face is disfigured by burn scars. |
| 795 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: In spite of her methods, she does at least have the best intentions for her own clan. Nonetheless, she's indirectly responsible for [[spoiler:the death of K'Sellis]] and '''very directly''' responsible [[spoiler:for killing dozens of non-goblin slaves simply because they [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer were of any use to her]]. Which ends up bringing ruin to her tribe because of [[TheDogBitesBack Biscuit]].]] |
| 796 | * WithUsOrAgainstUs: Has this attitude when Dies and Fox [[spoiler:refuse to join her quest to [[FinalSolution kill all non goblins]], ordering their execution]]. |
| 797 | * YouAreAlreadyDead: Gives a couple hobgoblins a few quick jabs, but nothing seems to happen. A couple panels later, bleeding cuts appear and they collapse. |
| 798 | * YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: |
| 799 | ** K'Seliss is promised his freedom in exchange for retrieving an artifact, but [[spoiler:[[BecauseDestinySaysSo they already know he is destined to die during the dungeon crawl]] so it's a moot point]]. |
| 800 | ** [[FalseReassurance She informs Biscuit that she freed her non goblin slaves and released them to the clan's south exit]], promising to do the same for him. But when Biscuit gets there, he realizes that the Vipers were lying about it being safe. |
| 801 | [[/folder]] |
| 802 | |
| 803 | [[folder:Not-Walter]] |
| 804 | !! Not-Walter/Grinnorarcen |
| 805 | ->''"Ha ha! Yeah, right. As if "Walter" would be the name that the ancients gave me before time began! Ha ha! That gag never gets old!"'' |
| 806 | |
| 807 | -> '''Alignment''': [[InUniverse By D&D standard]], LawfulEvil |
| 808 | |
| 809 | A huge, hulking Pit Fiend who appears due to an ill-timed request by Forgath and co. for more challenge. By the rules for demons in the Goblins setting, anyone who ''did'' know his true name would gain control over him. Minmax tried to guess it and failed (although the demon briefly tricked him into thinking it was "Walter," leading to his common FanNickname). |
| 810 | |
| 811 | The demon is later seen in the Maze of Many, where an alternate Minmax guessed correctly. |
| 812 | |
| 813 | He is also the star of the small, comedic series "Not-Walter Screams Like A Little Girl". |
| 814 | ---- |
| 815 | * BigRedDevil: [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG57.jpg He's a Pit Fiend.]] |
| 816 | * BloodKnight: He genuinely expects that our-world Minmax is an opponent worth fighting, with good reason. He is disappointed the first time, but not in the rematch. |
| 817 | * HealingFactor: Any wounds he receives from a non-holy weapon regenerate within seconds. |
| 818 | * IKnowYourTrueName: Knowing his true name allows the person that knows it to control him. [[spoiler: Kin uses it to send him back to Hell and escape the control of an evil alt-Minmax]]. |
| 819 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's a bit of a dick, insulting people casually. Amusingly, in all his apparences he is more dickish than evil. |
| 820 | * NothingPersonal: He just has to kill anyone his master orders him to kill. |
| 821 | * MediumAwareness: The first time he is fought, he can't initially attack and acknowledges Minmax won initiative. |
| 822 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: The name thing is explicitly a houserule, not part of the normal D&D rules the setting is based on. Also, he's a devil, not a demon. |
| 823 | * PunchClockVillain: More like a Punch Clock Antagonist (he's still genuinely ''evil'', after all); he outright says he has nothing personal against our Minmax and Forgath, he's just required to kill them because the guy who knows his true name ordered him to. |
| 824 | * RocksFallEveryoneDies: His initial appearance was based on the 'Grudge Monster' variant of this trope, though the heroes successfully fled. |
| 825 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Yup, the badass BloodKnight overly-muscled devil does, when it comes to dolls. |
| 826 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Or [[CreepyDoll dolls]], in his case. |
| 827 | * WorthyOpponent: He usually disrespects Minmax... until their fight in the Maze of Many, where he changes his mind [[spoiler:once Minmax uses Oblivious to hit him and starts causing him some trouble, even without a holy weapon.]] |
| 828 | |
| 829 | [[/folder]] |
| 830 | |
| 831 | [[folder:Psionic Minmax]] |
| 832 | !! Psionic Minmax |
| 833 | |
| 834 | ->''"You see how much pain existence brings? You only fear Oblivion because it is not yet here and you are burdened with a disgusting sense of survival. As a psion, that is something I have been able to overcome. [[OmnicidalManiac Soon we will all never have been.]] [[YourHeadASplode You're welcome.]]"'' |
| 835 | |
| 836 | -> '''Alignment:''' "[[OmnicidalNeutral True Neutral]]" |
| 837 | |
| 838 | The primary villain of the 'Maze of Many' story arc. An AlternateSelf to Minmax from an AlternateUniverse with formidable psionic powers, whose goal is to erase the Maze, and everyone inside it, from existence. |
| 839 | ---- |
| 840 | * ApologeticAttacker: [[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/02222011-2 Apologises to The Kin from his universe after killing her for the 817th time, shortly before death #818.]] |
| 841 | * AsYouKnow: Explains his goals, and how devoted he is to them, in a speech to someone who should already be aware of them. |
| 842 | * BackFromTheDead: His [[spoiler:RealityWarper machine has a timer function that brings him back.]] |
| 843 | * BigNo: [[spoiler: After Minmax throws him into the winner's circle, forcing him to exit the Maze and banishing him back to his reality.]] |
| 844 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: He identifies as Neutral despite exploding heads and trying to retroactively erase an entire pocket universe from existence. He considers this to not be a contradiction because his motivation for doing so is a desire to remove ''himself'' from existence, away from the notions of Good, Evil, Law and Chaos. He doesn't seem to know or care that nobody else would want this. |
| 845 | * ClippedWingAngel: [[spoiler: After Minmax kills him, he uses the Maze's gears to return to life in a body made of pure psionic force. Doing so drains his power reserves to the point that he's easily overpowered by Minmax again, though, and forced out of the Maze of Many for good measure.]] |
| 846 | * ClockKing: Unlike the other parties travelling through the Maze, he's found a way to retain his memories from his previous attempts. This has allowed him to become intimately familiar with the Maze and its mechanics, and how each of the parties travelling through it will behave, though logically there must be one party he has no prior knowledge of. |
| 847 | * DeathSeeker: He wants to obliterate everything within the Maze of Many. Including himself. ''Especially'' himself. The Maze is so valuable because it's the only way he can assure that he is rendered DeaderThanDead. |
| 848 | * DungeonBypass: Able to do this easily within the Maze of Many. He has no intention of reaching the end, however. |
| 849 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: The same machine he used to amplify his powers allowed the Kins to change his weakness, which made it so that Minmax could kill him. |
| 850 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Minmax casting him out of the Maze of Many through its winner's circle means that Psionic Minmax can't ever return to the Maze of Many, so he can't use it to render himself DeaderThanDead. Plus, to make things even worse for the DeathSeeker, his artificially generated body is even ''harder'' to kill than his original body was.]] |
| 851 | * {{Hypocrite}}: "I wonder what it's like to see yourself with such omnipotent importance", said the man attempting to reprogram reality because he personally decided the universe is too flawed to persist. |
| 852 | * IRejectYourReality: And his own reality. And the concept of reality. Considers reality itself to be to blame for all suffering. After all, when he hits someone, it's their nervous system which enables them to feel pain. Nobody ever asked for it to work that way, so why is reality forcing everyone to conform to its "rules"? |
| 853 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Used against the Minmax and Kin from reality #156. |
| 854 | -->'''Psionic Minmax:''' ''[thinking]'' I'm hoping that simple conversation with them will prove informative.\ |
| 855 | '''Prime Minmax:''' What's your ''problem,'' [[BigStupidDoodooHead fart breath dink face!]]\ |
| 856 | '''Psionic Minmax:''' ''[thinking]'' A second consideration is to just torture them for awhile and see if that tells me anything. |
| 857 | * JustBetweenYouAndMe: For some reason, he feels the need to gloat that even if he is killed, he will resurrect when the maze resets, and use the knowledge he's gained to accomplish his omnicidal goals on a future runthrough. [[spoiler:Minmax tossing him into the winner's circle to force him out of the maze apparently never occurred to him.]] |
| 858 | * KryptoniteFactor: He channels all his weaknesses in the number 77,914,839,447, meaning he is nearly invincible to anything outside of that number. However, if he encounters anything resembling the number, he is completely helpless against it. |
| 859 | * MindOverMatter: He is a psion and his mental abilities are mighty. |
| 860 | * MinMaxing: Like all the other incarnations of Minmax; in his case, he traded away his ability to use MindControl powers in exchange for a higher intelligence, which results in him relying on ordinary manipulation to get what he wants. In addition, by using psionic RealityWarper gears, he is able to channel every single one of his weaknesses into a single, mathematical, concept: the number 77,914,839,447. |
| 861 | * NeverMyFault: Refuses to take responsibility for his actions, preferring to blame the universe. For example, if he kills someone, he claims it's the universe's fault that death is possible at all. |
| 862 | * NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: At one point he makes a prediction that he has at least eight minutes to finalize his plans before any of the other parties can interrupt him, not realising that Forgath and Kin found a DungeonBypass that placed them close to the end of the maze. The result is him, who thought he would never need to say the word "impossible", actually saying the word. |
| 863 | * OhCrap: |
| 864 | ** When Kin [[spoiler: broadcast his plans to all the other parties, leading to them deciding to team up on him.]] |
| 865 | ** And again when Minmax 38 is about to shank him, after proving to be immune to his telekinesis [[spoiler: thanks to the Kins messing with his machine.]] |
| 866 | ** [[spoiler: And at long last, one when he's finally defeated after our Minmax threw him into the winner's circle, forcing him to exit the Maze of Many.]] |
| 867 | * OmnicidalManiac: Attempting to create a [[ApocalypseHow Universal Metaphysical Annihalation]], localized within the Maze. |
| 868 | * RealityBreakingParadox: His plan to destroy the Maze involves generating a non-paradoxical mathematical proof that [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/12062011/ 1=0]]. |
| 869 | * RealityWarper: Using psionic gears of his own creation, he has immense control over the Maze of Many. |
| 870 | * RedRightHand: His arms are skeletally thin, purple, and end in clawed fingers. |
| 871 | * SceneryCensor: [[spoiler: He came back naked, but luckily there's a good bit of smoke present to conceal his nether regions.]] |
| 872 | * SpringtimeForHitler: How he ultimately is defeated. [[spoiler:He is shoved into the exit of the dungeon, causing him to "win" the dungeon and be ejected from it with no possibility of return, foiling his plan of erasing the dungeon and himself from existence.]] |
| 873 | * StoryBreakerPower: Because he remembers his previous runs through the maze, he has apparently also retained the xp he earned through all of those runs. Assuming he was level 2 when he entered, and even if he only killed his Kin and Forgath each time, that still puts him far ahead of any other version of himself likely to be running the maze, as he has run the maze ''hundreds'' of times. The machine he's using to destroy reality also enhances his abilities to a great degree, making him near invincible by focusing all of his weaknesses and converting them into a mathematical concept: the number 77,914,839,447. Lampshaded by Onyx, one of Kin's alts. |
| 874 | --> '''[[https://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/07012013/ Onyx]]''': That psion is '''grossly''' overpowered. |
| 875 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: He never wears a shirt. |
| 876 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: His stated goal is the complete elimination of suffering. Unfortunately, the only way he can achieve that is to completely destroy reality so suffering has nowhere to take place. |
| 877 | -->'''Forgath:''' ''You can go to hell!''\ |
| 878 | '''Psionic Minmax:''' I'm trying to get us ''out'' of hell. |
| 879 | * YouAreNumberSix: He somehow enumerated the various realities present in the Maze, and tended to refer to the characters by the numbers of the dimensions they come from. Primary reality Kin is from dimension #156. |
| 880 | * YourHeadASplode: Exploding his opponent's bodyparts, including their heads, with his psionic powers seems to be his preferred method of killing. |
| 881 | |
| 882 | [[/folder]] |
| 883 | |
| 884 | [[folder:Evil Klik]] |
| 885 | !! Evil Klik |
| 886 | |
| 887 | The replacement limb that Klik gave to Dies Horribly, detached and transformed into an utterly malignant specimen of Klik's race. |
| 888 | ---- |
| 889 | * AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler: Attacks and kills "Klik," the being responsible for its existence.]] |
| 890 | * AxCrazy: After being detached from Dies, it just starts killing everything around it non-stop. It eventually starts ''ignoring the rules of the game'' due to how utterly psychotic it is. |
| 891 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Evil Klik just wanted to keep Dies Horribly safe and to be loved by him. Instead, his efforts to secure that love just drove Dies to try to kill him. |
| 892 | * MorphWeapon: Evil Klik is technically a living example of one of these. |
| 893 | * OutsideGenreFoe: Sort of. He is a part of the Goblins world, but he doesn't play by the world's rules. He doesn't roll initiative to start combat, and he doesn't worry about hit points, draining the blood directly from his victims, which kills them instantly. He manages to slaughter the Antagonist Adventuring Party, because they're too confused to react. |
| 894 | * VampiricDraining: Evil Klik is capable of sucking the blood from others by burying his "fingers" into them, which he displays quite graphically on Tuck. |
| 895 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Evil Klik is harmed by Dies' new replacement arm. However, he is healed by blood, which was Klik's WeaksauceWeakness. |
| 896 | * {{Yandere}}: Evil Klik's ultimate reasons for evil are to protect his "father", Dies Horribly -- the problem is, he also wants to "protect him" from people who try to be Dies' friend. |
| 897 | |
| 898 | [[/folder]] |
| 899 | |
| 900 | [[folder:The Sacred]] |
| 901 | !! The Sacred |
| 902 | |
| 903 | A demon demigod that seeks to convert the Goblins Material Plane into a new layer of hell. |
| 904 | ---- |
| 905 | * GreaterScopeVillain: It is the reason Kore went mad and poses a threat to the entire world. |
| 906 | * HumansAreInsects: According to a demon parasite associated with it, it is so far beyond mere mortals that it has no interest in communicating with them, only in [[EmotionEater feeding off their suffering]]. |
| 907 | * SealedEvilInACan: Subverted. It was originally believed that the Sacred was sealed inside the Axe of Prissan. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a lie; Axe isn't a prison at all, it's a means for the Sacred to enter the mortal plane.]] |
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