This page details exclusive characters from Goblin Hollow and its predecessor, Under the Lemon Tree. Expect entries to detail both the previous and current webcomics.
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Ben & the Posse
Ben
Benjamin Bruin(, Sr.)
The main character and (former) Author Avatar. Ben is an everyman who lived his life in a normal way until his subconscious in the form of tulpas (later retconned into little green goblins) came into his life. He once worked as a janitor in Bullseye Department Store until he became the owner and supervisor of Goblin Hollow, an arcade play area. Happily Married to Lily.- Author Avatar: To Ralph E. Hayes, at first.
- Beary Friendly: Ben is normally kind and fun to be around. Until you either put Lily is danger or mock him or his life choices.
- Berserk Button: The biggest is harming Lily. Minor ones are mocking his life or busybodies who try his patience.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Just because he is a nice and kind guy doesn't mean he's an easy target. He's still a bear with phenomenal strength, is trained in gun usage, and can talk down to those who try to insult him or his choices. At best, he simply gets even quickly without fuss (like with the obscene phone caller or the family reunion water balloon fight). At worst? Expect a beat down or a belittling speech where he knocks the offender a few pegs. Ookami, the tribal elephant from the Schlock Mercenary Crossover, Grandpa Feldspar and the Snotworthy Heights Homeowners learn this the hard way.
- Big Beautiful Man: How Lily sees him, mostly due to his kind yet protective nature.
- Big Fun: Comes with being a bear.
- Bilingual Backfire: The Feldspar grandparents mock him in Navajo during the family reunion, until Ben answers that he knows Navajo as well.
- Break Them by Talking: Fond of handing out speeches that break down those who hear them like they were newspapers. Anyone whom he gives them to deserve every syllable.
- Chekhov's Gun: Literally with his licensed gun and ownership. Originally bought after he got mugged during the beginning arcs of UtLT, it was finally used in two key points at the end of the comic. Stopping the pawn shop holdup just as Ben was ready to pawn off the gun, and preventing Ookami from escaping with Lily.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Genius Bruiser: The natural strength of a bear plus a mind quick with snark delivery and plans (thanks to the Posse)
- Hidden Depths: Aside from a hinted Native American ancestry, he has the natural strength of a bear, loves cartoons and is a registered gun user.
- Interspecies Romance: He's a bear and Lily's a feline. Both date and eventually marry.
- Nice Guy: He is known for a heart as big as him, but don't consider him a pushover.
- Unlucky Everydude: Was one in the past. First, he tried to proposition a friend of his in nursery school for marriage only to fail due to being a kid, then in high school left love letters and again tried to proposition a girl to date him only to be ridiculed in front of a cafeteria worth of students, finally he found a love letter addressed to him to wait in a certain spot and he ended up stood up in the middle of a rainstorm. These formed self-esteem issues which caused him to think that nobody would love him until Lily came along.
The Posse
The Posse
A group of six (later seven) tulpas made from Ben's subconscious that act as his life coaches and sometimes makes things funnier or worse for him. In the Goblin Hollow Retcon, they were instead seven goblins Ben hatched from eggs from a mysterious European relative for a more supernatural flare.- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: In UtLT, they are basically imaginary creations come to life due to strong belief. The "Clown" aka Ben's self-destructive tendencies wanted this as well but wasn't as developed as the Posse and was deleted.
- Instant Costume Change: Depending on their location in the original comic (a rave, a renaissance faire or the Schlock Mercenary future, they have clothing changes or accessories to fit in.
- Invisibility: Both incarnations have this. Despite being had waved as midgets in their tulpa forms, this is enforced with their goblin forms. However, they can be seen with infrared vision, as Gene discovered.
- Retcon: As said before, the Posse were originally tulpas representing various parts of Ben's personality. However, the premise was later dropped and were instead made into little green goblins Ben hatched from stone eggs. In fact, some parts of UtLT that were used again in Goblin Hollow that originally showed them as their old tulpa forms were either changed to add the new goblin features or completely erased.
- Teleportation: Or "poiting" as they call it due to the sound effect it makes. Normally, they can only teleport themselves, but during the final arc of UtLT, they were able to teleport Ben into the bank and later teleported the robbers' guns away.
- Tulpa: Prior to the Retcon.
- Weirdness Censor: Played. In the original webcomic, it was handwaved as them being midgets to those who could see them. Not so easily in Goblin Hollow, as they are now little green monsters with pointy ears and bat wings.
Sheldon
The unofficial leader of the Posse. Formerly a tulpa in the form of a turtle representing Ben's left-brain analytical side and wisdom.- Mission Control: Acts as such most of the time for Ben and was a key member on the assault on the bank robbery alongside Gelarid.
- Sturdy and Steady Turtles: Ben wonders if the reason Sheldon is a turtle representing his analysis and wisdom is play of this trope. Lily later makes the same observation once she is introduced to the Posse and Sheldon quickly lampshades they did this joke already.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Both his turtle tulpa and goblin forms have them.
- The Leader: All the tulpas (later goblins) of the Posse pay attention to him.
- The Smart Guy: He was a former representation of a right-brain's analytical side. Is there any other reason?
Velvet
Formerly a tulpa in the form of a bunny and representing Ben's inner child. He is the most child-like of the Posse.- Adorably Precocious Child: Both his tulpa and goblin forms to a tee. His goblin form even has him wear pajamas with feet covers at times.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: His tulpa form lampshades this.
- Children Are Innocent: As he represented Ben's inner child.
- Madness Mantra: Has these during his Running Gag belly hugs.
- Manchild: There are hints throughout the original strip he is the same adult age as the other Posse members, but deliberately acts as a child due to his representation of "inner child".
- Running Gag: In both strips, one common gag is Ben showing up at the door and Velvet runs up and hugs the bear's belly, literally scared out of his mind due to something the others forced him to watch, be it a A Nightmare on Elm Street marathon, nature shows or even Viva Piñata.
- The Heart: Innocent, playful but willing to go through anything for Ben.
Morty
Formerly a tulpa in the form of a buzzard and representing Ben's mortality and pessimism. Can be a living source of Black Comedy at one second, but a voice of Brutal Honesty at the other.- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Both form have worn the stovepipe, but his goblin form has taken to wearing a vest and bowtie as well.
- Black Comedy: The lesser half of his personality.
- Brutal Honesty: The dominant other half of his personality.
- Deadpan Snarker: Comes with being a cynical buzzard/goblin.
- Death Is Cheap: Killed by the "Clown" before he could mention who he really is, but was later seen revived and crushing the Clown's round nose when he regenerates as he is part of Ben's mind.
- Sinister Schnoz: Played. Since his former tulpa's "nose" was a buzzard beak, once had an elongated snout that droops down with a small nose at the end as a goblin. Later given a regular muzzle like the other goblins, though.
- Staring Contest: Has one with a gargoyle because if he looks away, it will eat him. Both he and the gargoyle consider the other a Worthy Opponent in staring each other down.
Slick
Formerly a tulpa in the form of a tiny cat and representing Ben's masculinity. Never seen without his sunglasses.- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: In both incarnations, he wears sunglasses and a leather jacket.
- Cool Shades: As a former incarnation of coolness and due to his name, Slick always wears a pair of slick shades.
- Sunglasses at Night: Even wears them without difficulty in the dark.
- Hardboiled Detective: Dressed and acted as one when "hired" by Lily to spy on Penny for her. Later drops the act when Lily mentions it was annoying.
- Not So Above It All: Despite being coolness goblinified, he enjoys being scratched behind his large goblin ears.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: One-sided dislike of Velvet as he represents the opposite side of Ben's personality (during his tulpa phase). Compares him to "chewing tin foil".
- The Lancer: To both Sheldon and at times towards Ben.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Due to nearly being eaten by one of the gargoyles, he now fears stepping into any building that has perching statues on the outside as a result.
Gunther
Formerly a tulpa is form of a dog and representing Ben's hostility and anger. Always with his eyes covered by something.- Blood Knight: He's hostility incarnate, naturally he's always looking for a fight.
- Eye-Obscuring Hat: His helmet (as canine tulpa) or saucepan (as goblin) covers his eyes. However, when not wearing headgear he always has Eyes Always Shut anyway.
- More Dakka: His answer to everything involves guns and violence. In fact, when facing down Grandpa Feldspar, Ookami or other antagonists, expect him to have a gun to their faces.
- Scary Teeth: Being an anger tulpa/goblin, all his teeth are fangs. Two teeth on the lower jaw are seen with his mouth closed in both incarnations. The canine version has them bigger, while the goblin persona has them sharper.
- Semper Fi: Acts as one and cheers with "Oo-Rah!"
- The Big Guy
Zoot
Formerly a tulpa in the form of a rat and representing Ben's extroverted party side. Always wearing some sort of bucket on his head.- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Always wears a bucket-style hat, t-shirt, shorts and sandals. The rat tulpa form has a literal lampshade, while the goblin form wears a popcorn bucket.
- Butt-Monkey: Causes most of the painful gags to Ben and the Posse.
- Eye-Obscuring Hat: His bucket-type hats always cover his eyes.
- Flat Character: Isn't as well-developed as the other Posse members, unfortunately.
Piff
Formerly a tulpa in the form of a weasel and representing Ben's right-brain creativity. He was introduced during the Schlock Mercenary Crossover rather than the start of the strip.- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: As a weasel tulpa, he wore nothing, but now wears an artist's smock as a goblin.
- Exotic Eye Designs: His sclera is completely black and has white pupils.
- Flat Character: Not as flushed out as the rest of the Posse due to his late arrival to the previous reincarnation of the strip.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His full name is Epiphany, but prefers being called Piff.
- The Lancer: To Sheldon, being his right-brain counterpart.
- Took a Level in Badass: Aside from his important contribution in the Crossover with Schlock Mercenary, his other major moment was the one responsible for pulling the tulpas together to help Ben against Grandpa Feldspar.
Supporting Characters
Lily
Lily Feldspar-Bruin
A half-lion/half-cougar girl Ben meet and fell in love with at Bullseye where she worked at the cafeteria. Most of the previous webcomic reincarnation was Ben falling in love, starting to date and have a relationship with her, eventually ending up Happily Married.- Berserk Button: Being kept out of the loop due to Ben's impulsiveness is a major one.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Not as physically domineering as Ben, but many guys during her youth learned the lesson not to think of her as a notch for conquest. The Boss also learned the hard way not to stand between a woman and the man she loved.
- Big "YES!": Her reply to Ben's marriage proposal after the final arc.
- Bitch Slap: Gives one to her sister after swearing during her diatribe against preachers.
- Cartoony Tail: Her tail is a mood indicator for her as she flicks it rapidly when excited, impatient or upset, and becoming frizzled with strong emotions like shock, fright or anger.
- Damsel in Distress: Gets captured twice by Ookami Lobo during the final arc of the previous webcomic.
- Doesn't Like Guns: Had a spat with Ben after learning he owns a gun until Fred set her straight on them.
- Easily Forgiven: When Ben makes a mistake. Half of the time is due to him quickly atoning for his mistakes (like apologizing to Penny after calling her vapid names or building Lily a greenhouse) and the other half is because he's too sweet and caring towards her to not be angry for so long (such as when he finally revealed the Posse to her).
- Half-Human Hybrid: She is the daughter of an African lion and an American cougar.
- Happily Married: To Ben, of course.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Everyone, be it high school kids as a teenager, male coworkers as a cafeteria attendant or kids as the arcade owner's wife, is absolutely heads over heels for her.
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Hollywood Homely: What she was during her high school years. However, she later hits puberty. - Mighty Roar: Despite cougars being unable to do so. Must be something from her father's side.
- Nerd Glasses: One of her embarrassing secrets is that she wears these as she can't read without them.
- Nice Girl: Just like Ben. Sweet, but don't get her mad.
- Older Than They Look: In her fifties she still looks to be thirty, and her son’s classmates think she’s still “hot.”
Penny
Penny Feldspar
Lily's younger sister. She used to live with their parents until her Goth phase made her rebel against them and they decided to sent her to Ben & Lily in hopes they can help her. She can be extremely broody and sarcastic, but deep down she hides her emotions and secrets.- Ambidextrous Sprite: Averted. Her hair is drawn covering the entire side of the face it's on.
- Berserk Button: She hates religiously preachy types with a passion. For a good reason.
- Big Damn Heroes: She's the one who gets rid of both Beltane and Peckansnif's groups by giving them both "The Reason You Suck" Speech to each one as they attempt to destroy Ben's patience.
- Bratty Teenage Sister: Even in the previous reincarnation, Penny was always a rebellious type, but Goblin Hollow turned her to a Goth phase.
- Cartoony Tail: Just like Lily, her tail is expressive either flicking rapidly or frizzling out depending on her mood.
- Character Development: After telling Ben and Lily her Freudian Excuse and revealing she took care of Pepper and Sugar, she slowly starts to change her mood and attitude, reflected by cutting her frontal bangs a few inches shorter.
- Freudian Excuse: The reason she became so moody and hates preachers is due to a childhood friend of hers ending up taking medicine to control her bipolar disorder, only for a radio preacher to rail against those who used pills to alter their moods. Penny's friend took those lectures to heart and began to wean herself off her pills only to fail and her depression got so bad, she hung herself. After her death was on the news, not only were the news of her death brief, but the same preacher instead went on a tirade that her death was due to video game and rock music.
- Goth: Began Goblin Hollow as this. Character Development set in and she slowly becomes more open to everyone.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Like Lily, she is half-African lion and half-American cougar.
- Hidden Depths: Shows a gentler and kinder side when she finds out two stone eggs she got with the gargoyles were really goblin eggs and they hatched. She began to raise the two goblins, named Pepper and Sugar, on her own without nobody finding out until Slick's stakeout.
- Practically Different Generations: She’s around twenty years younger than Lily.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She brought the petrified gargoyles to the Hollow in hope Ben uses them as further decor, instead the gargoyles came to life and began to hunt down the goblins.
Fred
Fred
A rabbit and Ben's best friend and co-worker. First at Bullseye, later as part of the Goblin Hollow staff.- Best Friend: Ben's, of course.
- Characterization Marches On: At first, he was just a random co-worker at Bullseye alongside Ben and Drezzo, until he became more friendly and was "promoted" to a friend.
- Kaiju: A total otaku of such. He even made amateur home movies of the genre.
- Mr. Exposition: Shows Lily how her Doesn't Like Guns philosophy is wrong after showing her his Rugged Scar on his chest after being mugged himself. In Goblin Hollow, he explains to Penny how Ben got fired from Bullseye, and the animosity between him and Beltane.
- The Everyman: Normal as can be, though he has a few quirks such as his Kaiju obsession and amateur-film making.
Merry
Merry
The Boss's niece and fellow co-worker of Ben's. Formerly had a crush on Ben until she learns he's taken by Lily. She now dates Rico.- Beware the Nice Ones: And how. After being given a waiver and settlement over her slipping on the floor by an inconsiderate bean-counter from Accounting and mocking her weight at the same time, she grabs his board, bites and chews a piece off (she's a beaver), and tells him to expect her in court. The best part? She wins not just for the injury on the job but sexual harassment by the Accounting fool.
- Cosmic Plaything: Similar to Ben's own attitude, she considers herself such when not just Ben found her diary detailing her crush on him, but that his girlfriend (Lily) brought it back to her.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Quite the klutz and she knows it.
- Distaff Counterpart: Basically a female Ben in personality and attitude. Nice, tries her very best, falls in love with someone who doesn't treat her badly, and can show she can take care of herself.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: The core of her crush on Ben is that he healed her twisted ankle and showed kindness instead of mocking her klutziness.
- Nepotism: Is part of the store staff due to her uncle being the boss of the department. Even Ben lampshades this.
- Pair the Spares: Dating Rico.
Rico
Rico
A Hispanic chihuahua who transferred from Bullseye's Customer Service to the Janitorial crew. Dates Merry.- Berserk Button: Being mocked with the former "Yo quiero Taco Bell" slogan.
- Family Man: Lives in a traditional Hispanic household with his parents and several siblings.
- Gratuitous Spanish: At times peppers his speech or even whole sentences with Spanish.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Was originally part of his characterization and the reason he transferred from Customer Service. It has lessened more and more with Merry's relation.
- Latin Lover: Tried acting as such for Merry only to prove he can be just as klutzy as her.
- The Napoleon: He may be a short chihuahua and he had a nasty temper, but he's never ashamed of being short.
The Boss
The Boss
Ben and the others' chief at Bullseye.- Charlie Brown Baldness: Has a few strands of visible hair on his head.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is always referred to as "The Boss".
- Eyes Always Shut: Seen with his eyes in this form and only opens them fully when fully shocked.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: His personality and even
Word of God refers to the Trope Namer. - The Bus Came Back: Was given a brief "cameo" in Goblin Hollow during the flashback when Ben was fired from Bullseye.
Roz
Rozalyn
Lily's senior co-worker in the Bullseye cafeteria, both in work and age sense.- Cool Old Lady: Is older than her fellow co-worker Lily but acts more like a Team Mom towards her at times.
- Curse Cut Short: Was about to give Beltane a piece of her mind and her swear was cut by Lily calling her name.
- Never Mess with Granny: Doesn't back down easily, not for an obscene caller (even though he also sickened her) or for Beltane.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Apparently, her name is Rozalyn (if Beltane is to be believed), but everyone calls her "Roz".
- The Bus Came Back: Like the Boss, she too had a "cameo" in the Goblin Hollow flashback when Ben was fired.
Ben Jr.
Benjamin Twofeathers Bruin "Ben Jr."
Ben & Lily's son.- Beware the Nice Ones: Or else his goblin bodyguards will make you regret it.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half-bear, quarter-African lion & quarter-American cougar.
- Last Episode, New Character
- Noodle Incident: How he acquired Tito's egg and hatched him.
- Out Giving Birth, Back in Two Minutes: From the announcement Lily was pregnant with him and finally giving birth, it was only a few strips. More so that 4 strips later, we see him as a child.
Other Goblins
Pepper, Sugar & Tito
Three goblins introduced in the latest strips. Pepper & Sugar were hatched and raised by Penny, while Ben Jr. did the same for Tito.- Big Brother Worship: Tito is very devoted to Ben Jr. and even calls him "oniisan".
- Born as an Adult: Pepper and Sugar are a few weeks to months old when they first appear in the series and are already adults, apparently an effect of imprinting. Tito (Velvet and Sugar’s offspring) is maturing at a much slower rate though due to his egg cracking prematurely.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Pepper appears in the comic explaining the retcon, long before she appears in continuity.
- Flat Character: Tito's personality isn't as developed as he was introduced in the (for now) last strip of Goblin Hollow.
- Girls Have Cooties: At least the Posse think so, hence why they divide the attic in two once the girls move in.
- Last Episode, New Character: Pepper and Sugar are introduced very shortly before Ben Jr's birth, which was originally supposed to be the finale.
- Mutual Masquerade: Penny raised Pepper and Sugar in secret from Ben and Lily, while unbeknownst to her, the two had the Posse hiding from her.
- Smurfette Principle: Pepper and Sugar are female goblins among the male Posse.
Other Characters
Detective Gelarid
Detective Gelarid
A black rabbit police detective from the final arc of the previous webcomic. He hides certain secrets...- Arch-Enemy: To Ookami Lobo.
- Cerebus Syndrome: His appearance alongside Ookami's is the catalyst that the Life Embellished nature of the webcomic will turn to the supernatural.
- Expy: Of the Caped Crusader himself (if he was a police detective rather than a Millionaire Playboy).
- Half-Human Hybrid: Apparently his mother was a dragon, which granted him his super powers.
- Living Shadow: His One-Winged Angel makes him this, giving him flight, Super-Strength, Immune to Bullets and Super-Speed.
- Seen It All: Being linked to the supernatural, he doesn't bat an eye when Sheldon (as turtle tulpa or goblin) appears before him. In fact, he considers Ben a Tulpa Master (or Goblin Master depending on the version) once meeting Sheldon.
- The Quest: To find out who Ookami found that would have helped unlock the secrets within the Pearls of the Elders.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Gelarid may be Immune to Bullets in his One-Winged Angel form, but apparently bullets made from jade can harm him, as Ookami shows.
The Trio
Gus, Michael & Ronnie
Three kids (a cat, dog and skunk respectively) who are introduced at the beginning of Goblin Hollow.- Agent Mulder: Gus's first encounter with the supernatural was finding Velvet playing a game and disappearing before his eyes. He makes it his life mission to reveal that goblins are real.
- Precocious Crush: All three boys fall head over heels for Lily. Also, Maggie has one on Ronnie.
- Smelly Skunk: Ronnie is one when he accidentally sprays after meeting the Boggart.
The Boggart
The Boggart
Like the Posse, it was introduced in the previous strip as a tulpa created by an insane mind unleashed with several others by Ookami Lobo. In Goblin Hollow, it became a seemingly harmless blob monster that somehow followed Ben and Lily to their new home and settled itself in their basement.- Blob Monster: One of these. He somehow survived the attack from Ben, Gelarid and the Posse.
- Eye on a Stalk: Has its eyes on these. It can somehow form one or many eyes on stalks at once.
- Heel–Face Turn: Considering it's a creature of nightmares, it's unknown whether it became less hostile after its beatdown or if it was never really evil to begin with.
- Retcon: Originally it was one of several tulpa created from the insane mind of a Tulpa Master. In Goblin Hollow, he is instead one of several manifested nightmare monsters of a person named Quan Hai Lo.
Eudora
Eudora
A seemingly innocent-looking vixen who is really a Gorgon. She comes to Goblin Hollow in hopes of finding a safe haven for "Wyrd Kids" like her to hang out.- Aborted Arc: Apparently she was going to introduce a new arc introducing more Benevolent Monsters like her before it was dropped.
- Benevolent Monsters: She looks and acts without a single bone of malice in her body.
- Freakiness Shame: She hides her snake hair under a headscarf to avoid unwanted attention.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: A young vixen who is also a Gorgon. Unknown if she also has petrification powers.
- What Could Have Been: See Aborted Arc above.
Antagonists
Drezzo
Drezzo
One of several janitorial co-workers at Bullseye during the beginning arcs of UtLT. Slimeball incarnate.- Jerkass: Openly mocks Ben for his virginity and later on claims he can deflower Lily. What. An. Idiot.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Insult the two budding lovers and each make him pay for it. Lily more so since she is friends with those in the store's pharmacy and knows how much penicillin the little jerk buys for himself. Make that what you will.
- Too Dumb to Live: Mocks a bear that can easily crush him into a cube and a half-lion, half-cougar who is well-versed in dealing with meatheads who want her for her body.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Never seen again after his public humiliation by Lily. Could be the reason...
- You Dirty Rat!: A rat with no intelligence except being a complete Jerkass
The "Clown"
The "Clown"
A mysterious clown introduced in the Schlock Mercenary Crossover. Has plans for Ben.- Fatal Flaw: He claims he wants to live and exist. This clues Ben that while the Clown is intangible and they can't harm him, he likewise can't touch and harm them as he wants to become real. This comes later to bite the Clown as he lunges towards Ben, phases right through him, and falls into the Tabula Rasa of Ben's Subconscious, erasing him forever.
- Hannibal Lecture: Good at these. Befitting a personification of self-destruction.
- Intangible Man: Any attack to the Clown just phases right through him. Also counts as his Fatal Flaw in the end.
- Monster Clown
- Red Herring: He is introduced as an enemy during the Crossover, but he doesn't do anything until the conflict is done.
- The Reveal: As Morty was about to reveal before the Clown stopped him, he is also a Tulpa, albeit a less-developed one, representing Ben's self-destructive impulses and guilt over his mistakes. His one wish is to be as real as the Posse to really torture Ben forever.
Grandpa Feldspar
Old Man Feldspar
Lily's racist maternal grandfather.- Bilingual Backfire: Insults Ben at the dinner table along with his wife speaking to each other in Navajo. However, Ben is also fluent in it.
- Death Glare: Very good at giving these.
- Didn't Think This Through: He thought he could intimidate Ben into cutting ties with Lily issuing a death threat saying he had friends. Thanks to Piff's quick thinking, Ben also reveals he too has friends and the Posse appear.
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: Was peeved when his daughter married an African lion. Then he learns his granddaughter is dating a bear...
- Racist Grandpa
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Even age hasn't stopped him from being a total racist.
- Species Loyalty: Invokes this as part of their cougar heritage. His daughter marrying an African lion was a cause of bother, his granddaughter dating a non-feline is unforgivable.
- Villainous BSoD: Even after Ben reveals the Posse and Grandpa changes gears into not being intimidated and even threatens to call the police on him, Ben has the Posse "poit" and leaves the old cougar completely catatonic. Ben's cherry on the cake is saying that if Grandpa reveals the Posse, he'll be on a one-way trip to the looney bin.
Ookami Lobo
Ookami Lobo
An escaped con who terrorizes the city and the final antagonist in Under the Lemon Tree. He is more than what he seems...- Arch-Enemy: To Gelarid.
- Cerebus Syndrome: Just like the detective, his arrival marks the turn in the webcomic's atmosphere.
- Crazy-Prepared: Has jade bullets, which are the only things the otherwise Immune to Bullets Gelarid can be damaged from.
- Diabolical Mastermind: Fools law enforcement into thinking he's alone and on the run, sets up a double Red Herring to hide his real crime of stealing dragon-created pearls, has a box of crazed tulpas (later boggarts) to fight for him, and is prepared for Gelarid with jade bullets. Yeah, the guy is bad news.
- Evil Gloating: After wounding Gelarid and preparing to kill him, he gloats that "in the end, it comes to who has the gun." Several gun cocks later, Ben and the Posse have their weapons drawn to finally stop him.
- Expy: Just as Gelarid is one for Batman, Ookami with his clown costume is one for his famous nemesis, complete with his famous "dance with the devil in the pale moonlight" quote.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: A double whammy of them. Local hold-up spree in shops → a police diversion to a heist of a major bank → a complete police diversion to a museum break-in to steal the Pearls of the Elders.
- Red Herring: He has not one, but two with the intent purpose to tie up police response and presence as a special group break in to a special museum to steal a necklack containing pearls created by dragons.
- Trigger-Happy: According to Gelarid, if he stays anxious too long, he shoots things to relieve stress. And he's currently in a bank filled with hostages...
- Yellow Peril: His knowledge of the Oriental supernatural, along with his name, hints at this.
Beltane
Beltane
The Boss's secretary at Bullseye and self-proclaimed Wiccan. An extra in UtLT, she quickly Took a Level in Jerkass in Goblin Hollow.- Ascended Extra: Started as a throwaway gag to Ben in the previous webcomic and moved up to Antagonist status in Goblin Hollow.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts completely nice towards the Boss which allows her to convince him to allow anything related to her beliefs.
- Break the Haughty: When she tries to try Ben's patience with her presence along with Peckansnif, Penny quickly shoots down her argument about Goblin Hollow's land being sacred and chews her out with an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
- Evil Is Petty:
- Gets Ben fired because he accidentally dropped a Christmas house decoration on her while he argued with the Boss. After lifting it up and trying to see if she is alright, she complains that he did it on purpose and will get him fired. Cue him dropping the decoration on her again.
- Lampshaded in Penny's speech where Beltane can't seem to get down from her vendetta against Ben for always making her look like a fool.
- Evil Wears Black: Always seen wearing black or black gowns.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: She simply complained why Ben is against her "religion" in the original. Now, she flaunts it and forces her beliefs on everyone.
- The Grinch: Takes offense towards anything holiday-related simply because it's against her "religion". Actual Wiccan teachings have nothing at all against Christmas - or any other religion's holy days.
Peckansnif
Ingrid Peckasnif
President of a local Christian ladies' group. A closedminded zealot of the worst type.- Break the Haughty: Worse off than Beltane. Not only is she subjected to Penny's other "The Reason You Suck" Speech, her pastor shows up and tries to get his help, and instead is chided for her overly zealous behavior, finally hinting that her days as the president of the group are numbered.
- Feathered Fiend
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears a pair of traditional lady glasses on a chain.
- The Fundamentalist: Practically Beltane's direct opposite in the same scale. Whereas the canine is into the occult, the bird is heavily into religion. They both share the same level of zealotry to their beliefs, though.
Snotworthy Heights Homeowners
Snotworthy Heights Homeowner Association
A group of uppity, snobbish homeowners who live near Goblin Hollow. They flaunt their wealth and power in the zoning board to prevent any businesses they don't like from being built or ruining them to the point of bankrupcy.- Determinator: Of the worst type. Go ahead and fight their injunctions, they will simply continue to file them, as well as property disputes, zoning complaints or even EPA reports until the victime either gives up or can't fight anymore due to the lack of money.
- Hypocrite: They accuse Ben that the disputed property line has his mansion illegally going over their properties. Ben actually discovered that the property line was incorrectly measured and that the homeowners are actually crossing over his rightful land.
- Out-Gambitted: Every attempt during Ben's meeting with them to ruin him ends in colossal failure:
- Considering themselves law-abiding individuals reporting crime? Ben shows off photos (courtesy of the goblins) that shows every member doing extremely illegal acts ranging from worker's comp fraud to adultery to drug growing/consuming to tampering with public utility meters.
- Accuse Ben of blackmail? Says it's illegal and he's a law-abiding individual reporting crime.
- Accuse him of invasion of privacy? Says he didn't take the pictures and that he downloaded them off the web after an "interested third party" directed him to them online and that he already forwarded copies of the photos to injured parties like lawyers, spouses and law enforcement.
- Attempt to bankrupt him with lawyer fees to defend against these allegations as well as his discovery that the disputed land actually belongs to him and not them? He visualizes in painful and excruciating detail his backup plan to parcel his land, sell it as trailer lots, have white trash move in and completely devalue all adjacent property, including theirs and tops it off by threatning to actually move next door to the snob who hinted at this gambit.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Never pit brains against a self-made bear with a knack for withering speeches and a Posse of goblins with cameras.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Untouchable due to their influence and finance... or so they thought.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: Average everyman who runs a haunted-themed arcade against a group of uppity homeowners who frown at businesses they don't approve being next door to them. Place your bets.
- Upper-Class Twit: Every single one.
Gargoyles
The Gargoyles
A quintet of stone gargoyles Penny buys for Goblin Hollow's decor. They seem harmless statues at first...- Batman Gambit: To prevent Penny from chewing him out due to destroying the gargoyles, Ben places them on the garage floor so she can run over the remains and everyone can chalk it up to them getting destroyed by accident.
- Blinded by the Light: Bright light doesn't actually hurt them, but it does keep them immobile as they can only move when not seen.
- Expy: Of the Weeping Angels. Lampshaded by the goblins who say the Angels were based on the gargoyles.
- Living Statue: They are made of stone and have a hankering for little green monsters.
- Our Gargoyles Rock: And they love the taste of goblins, to boot!
- Taken for Granite: They usually disguise themselves as stationary statues, until they are no longer being looked at...
- Weaksauce Weakness: Being made of stone, strong enough force, such as a sledgehammer, will shatter them completely.
