History Characters / Goblins

* TookALevelInBadass: Subverted. "Which class did you choose?" "[[MasterOfNone All of them]]." [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/09032005/ It's less useful than it sounds.]]

* ObliviouslyEvil: His goal of eradicating all evil is racist, overly violent, and willfully cruel overall and half of the people we see him kill aren't evil at all. Going by the fact that he hasn't Fallen, he clearly doesn't consider his actions evil.

[[folder: Saral Caine]]

* NeverBeHurtAgain: When it came time for him to pick a class, he picked the Monk class because they can escape bonds, remembering the time he spent tied up and imprisoned.

* 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]], tearing off most of his remaining armour 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 left without any tricks or tools afterwards, and only his innate paladin abilities to work with]]. Despite all of that, he's still a dangerous opponent, but its clear the repeated battling is wearing down at his effectiveness.

* 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 most of his armour and defences from the fall, being left with minimal defences 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]], tearing off most of his remaining armour 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 left without any tricks or tools afterwards, and only his innate paladin abilities to work with]]. Despite all of that, he's still a dangerous opponent, but its clear the repeated battling is wearing down at his effectiveness.

* 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 most of his armour and defences from the fall, being left with minimal defences when meeting up with the GAP a second time, who similarly utilise a controllable Golem in the dungeon room to point the ever-loving tar out of him, tearing off most of his remaining armour 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 left without any tricks or tools afterwards, and only his innate paladin abilities to work with]]. despite all of that, he's still a dangerous opponent, but its clear the repeated battling is wearing down at his effectiveness.

* 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 [[SuperPersistantPredator never gives up a hunt]].

* 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.]]

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: He takes his sweet time chasing after his victims.

* 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.]]

* 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.

* HumanoidAbomination: At least half of his face is [[spoiler:made up of the [[YourSoulIsMine trapped souls]] of his victims. Even his beard starts to look more like tentacles than hair. And as for what might be underneath that armour...]]

* 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.

* 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.]]

* TraumaButton: Being [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/04132012/ trapped under a tree]] reminds her of [[spoiler:Dellyn's nightly rapes]]. See also HatesBeingTouched.

* Fingore: He loses all the fingers on his left hand except his thumb to Big Ears' axe when the two fight each other.

* HalfHumanHybrid: He looks like a large, gray skinned, bald human. His heredity was never officially confirmed, and the only hint of him being a crossbreed is a throwaway comment by a character of there being a half stone giant/half human in Brassmoon.

* BodyHorror: His helmet doesn't just show only one eye for protection.

* MorphWeapon: 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.]]

* GrievousHarmWithABody: He gets around his 'don't fight what you can't eat' taboo by using one MechaMook as a club to beat the stuffing out of the rest of them. After all, the MechaMook was doing the actual *hitting*.

* BadassGay: Like all the members of the GAP, he's a true Badass; his orientation was a matter of WordOfGay for years before an [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/11012015-2/ enchantment]] broadcast what he finds physically attractive.

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: So extreme as to be verging on BlueAndOrangeMorality.
--> '''Kore:''' All evil must be destroyed. ''Even potential evil.''

* 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, one of the rails for his shield breaks, 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.