History Characters / GoblinSlayerAntagonists

* MinionMaster: He produces an aura around him that causes monster corpses in his immediate presence to rise again as zombies. They collapse if he goes out of range from them.

* AlienBlood: The greater demon Female Knight slays is stated to have blood "the color of muddy water".

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Seem to operate like the Manga/DungeonMeshi slimes in having a skin or central nerve that holds their liquid together that most be punctured to kill them. Half-Elf Scout must pull it partially off his teammate's face to slice through it enough to kill it.

* EliteMook: Goblin champions, who are big and powerful enough to casually tear off an adventurer's head, and whom Silver-ranked adventurers (who otherwise see goblins as just newbie targets) regard as worthwhile challenges.

* VillainsWantMercy: Goblins have no genuine warrior's pride and or consideration for anything other than their own material well-being. A goblin that finds itself about to die will beg shamelessly to be allowed to live, and if granted will feel no gratitude and will not hesitate to turn the tables; that damn adventurer should have known its place and been the one getting struck down to begin with.

* DropTheHammer: The Ogre's brother has a giant metal warhammer instead of a club, and makes extensive use of it in contrast to his magic-spammy predecessor. [[spoiler: Lizard Priest has it put up on the guild trophy wall.]]

* KillItWithFire: The narration prevaricates on if the party release him out in the sunlight or just burn the bag with him still inside, but either way he meets his end in flames.

* InnnateNightVision: When the party tries to use a cloud cover spell to throw him off, he internally brags that vampires have heat vision.

* BloodMagic: [[spoiler:Priestess is stumped at first to figure out how he can maintain a Protection spell without exerting any energy or focus against their assault, then realizes that the barrier is feeding upon the blood on the floor of the dungeon]].

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:When his spells get cut off and he gets cut down, he pulls himself onto a demon's alter and ritual-suicides himself to bring the Demon Lord back to kill Goblin Slayer]].

* ParadoxPerson: Witch claims it is this, both existing and not existing, though their is a trick to making it one or the other, [[spoiler:exposing the real monster behind the illusion]].

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: It's mistaken for a calvary unit, but doesn't have a mount and would be too for one.

* YouNoTakeCandle: {{Downplayed}} to the point of being {{Averted}} -- him using the CommonTongue when pleading for Priestess to release him comes out mostly in complete, grammatically correct sentences, and the parts where he swallows his words or has stilted diction can be ascribed to him being [[JustForPun pressed for breath]] and trying to play up how pathetic he was.

* FallenHero: Was once a mighty champion of Order in the Age of the Gods, slaying countless demons and monsters, but now it's dead body is desecrated and made to fight in the name of Chaos.

* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Without a cleric to break the necromancy ritual, this is the only way to stop a zombie for sure. In volume 12 it is noted that the arrows of the besieged soldiers are practically ineffective as they aren't causing enough damage to their craniums.
* SealedEvilInACan: The crazy zombie king in ''Year One'' was contained only when his own surviving subjects perform a ritual to bury his city deep underground. Dark Elves mistakenly free him while trying to summon the Demon Lord.

* KickTheDog: It is noted repeatedly that a goblin's only source of pleasure, be it carnal delight or casual amusement, is from petty acts of physical cruelty. The first example we see is a goblin breaking Wizard's staff after seeing her demand it returned.

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* YouWannaGetSued: When discussing it with the party, Lizard Priest describes it as "one of those creatures whose name you are never supposed to speak".

* PoisonousPerson: The giant rats are such bad disease vectors that the Rookie Duo drink antidotes if they get too much of their blood on them (apparently it works on the plague too). Evidently less of a concern with Giant Cockroaches.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: A dedicated thinker he may be, but no goblin ever got to the top of the pile by being easy to put down. He can even fight toe-to-toe with Goblin Slayer, a [[ExperiencedProtagonist specialized Silver-ranked veteran adventurer]] who has spent half his life preparing to find and kill goblins just like him!

->''"A good goblin? I guess there might be one if you looked really hard. But in the end, the only good goblins are the ones who never come out of their holes."''

* ItsAllAboutMe: Rampant and unwarranted narcissism is probably the least of their negative traits, but still. Goblins tend to see all creatures around them, fellow gobs and enemy races alike, as stupid leeches hogging its rightful bounty. The sooner everyone else recognizes that goblin's natural claim to rulership, or at least dies and leaves it’s stuff up for grabs, the sooner the world will be set right in its mind.