History NightmareFuel / GoblinSlayer

** This takes on a sadder tone as it is implied the warrior attacked the nest [[RoaringRampageOfRescue because he was trying to save her in the first place.]] Both of them died in that goblin pit in complete despair.

** The entire scene about the goblin children in general. Never mind [[FridgeHorror connecting the dots behind their existence]], Goblin Slayer just slowly approaches them, eyes blazing behind his visor with [[WouldHurtAChild cold-blooded intent]]. Priestess, sensing his bloodlust, can only muster a feeble defense for the babies. He just casually refutes her, raising his club without hesitation... and it cuts to him muttering his goblin count, armor and club soaked in blood.

*** [[FridgeHorror Imagine if Goblin Slayer does this right in front of his current party (Priestess, Shaman Dwarf, High Elf Archer and Lizardman Priest).]] There's no telling how different their relationship would be, and how strained it would become...
*** In volume 8 he skins a goblin with a tattoo to study it, and the rest of the party barely react.
* The Rock Eater is back! (Year 1 chapter 12) This time making its flashy entrance by devouring a scout's upper half, and then reappearing for real to scare the god-knows-how-many adventurers enlisted to hunt it down shitless. [[SavedByCanon Thankfully, we know that Heavy Swordsman, Spearman, Witch, and Female Knight survive the events...]]
* Year 1 Chapter 13 averts the typical "blobs melting clothes" hentai-humour in a very terrifying way by HAVING A BLOB MELT AN ADVENTURER'S FACE ALIVE WHILE HE SCREAMS IN ANGUISH FOR HELP. Even worse, when a paladin casts a Miracle Light spell, it's revealed that there are a lot of blobs residing on the ceiling above them...

* Remember: There *are no* female Goblins; which is why they rape whenever they can ''just to procreate and keep the species alive.'' ExplosiveBreeders or not, considering the ''hundreds'' of new Goblins born per-province every year... well, do the maths... or then again better not.

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[[WebVideo/JonTron Ew! I don’t like ‘em! I don’t like goblins! Raughh!]]
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* We meet the Sword Maiden. She's described as a very beautiful and powerful woman, a former [[TheAce Gold-ranked Adventurer]] revered for taking down an Evil God and saving the world. However, there are scars lining her body, and she hides her eyes behind a black cloth because they were ''[[EyeScream burned]]'' blind. What fearsome creature did this to her? Goblins. Everything they normally did to any other woman, they did to her and left her ''terrified'' of them, in spite of being one of the strongest people in the world.

* Chapter 22 has the Labyrinth quest run afoul the moment Goblin Slayer failed to take the Goblin Champion by surprise. He's consequently hit with so much force his body flies across the room, crashes into a coffin, and shatters the solid stone just as easily as his bones. Because of this, Priestess loses focus on her Protection miracle, causing all hell to break loose - Lizard Priest, Dwarf Shaman, and High Elf Archer are easily overwhelmed under a sea of goblins. Worst of all, Priestess is left alone with the Champion in a disturbingly familiar CallBack to the first chapter, right down to the poor girl [[BringMyBrownPants pissing herself again]]... except there's no one to save her this time. [[{{Gorn}} The monster proceeds to rip her shoulder out]] ''[[ImAHumanitarian with its teeth]]''.

** The Goblin Slayer himself ascends into something all too terrifying. For being broken, battered, smashed and nearly gored, he still rips out a Goblin Champion's eye with his bare, shattered hand, and in the midst of tearing its throat apart with an improvised garrote of hair that was even cutting his own hands. It's at this point that he rises from being an obsessed AntiHero to almost seeming like an AxCrazy, Goblin-goring man that treads the line of being AmbiguouslyHuman (though it's really just being a raw {{Determinator}}). Thankfully, this is enough to cause the Goblins to flee and leave his party be, which lets him cool down - and [[HeroicRROD pass out from his near-mortal injures.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[OhCrap Fighter knows what's coming]]. [[RapeAsDrama It's not pretty]].]]

* Year 1 Chapter 27 reveals the existence of a threat that fans of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' would be familiar with, the Skaven. This means that the existence of the people of ''Goblin Slayer'' is just one ambitious ratman away from being extinguished, with the saving grace being that if they're anything like the original, then they would be too busy backstabbing each other.

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* Year 1 Chapter 27 reveals the existence of a threat that fans of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' would be familiar with, [[spoiler: the Skaven]]. This means that the existence of the people of ''Goblin Slayer'' is just one ambitious [[spoiler: ratman]] away from being extinguished, with the saving grace being that if they're anything like the original, then they would be too busy backstabbing each other.

* Year 1 Chapter 14 is rather close to being GS's darkest hour. While it was thankfully revealed that he wasn't knocked out cold because of his helmet, he went after the goblin (who had ran out of the fenced village) due to his "Must Kill Goblin" mindset. The result? He didn't realize it was luring him for a surprise attack from several other goblins who hadn't entered. He was then constantly beaten up by the few goblins until he was presumably out cold. While it isn't exactly a nightmare fuel, the very thought that Goblin Slayer was taken down that easily can be an extremely unpleasant thought...

''Goblin Slayer'' already sets the tone by introducing its titular character in the wake of violence and blood. However, the events leading up to this introduction has sent both manga and light novel fans reeling from the sheer {{Gorn}} and NauseaFuel involved, and never forgets to remind just ''how'' an inhuman race of sadists and rapists with a vehement hatred for humanity can inflict terror on the helpless.

*** Even worse, Chapter 13 shows what happens when one spares goblin children: One female adventurer made the mistake of sparing a goblin kid and got bashed to death by said kid for her trouble. The next few pages then detail how said goblin survived in situations where others of his kind would die, to the point that he tricked and killed a rather high-level adventurer and took his axe. [[FromNobodyToNightmare This goblin grows to become the Goblin Lord, the mastermind behind the attack on the farm in previous chapters]]. Without Goblin Slayer's knowledge, the defenders would have been outmaneuvered and slaughtered.

*** [[spoiler: In volume 8 he skins a goblin with a tattoo to study it, and the rest of the party barely react.]]

* In volume 2 of the Light Novel, we meet the Sword Maiden. She's described as a very beautiful and powerful woman, a former [[TheAce Gold-ranked Adventurer]] revered for taking down an Evil God and saving the world. However, there are scars lining her body, and she hides her eyes behind a black cloth because they were ''[[EyeScream burned]]'' blind. What fearsome creature did this to her? Goblins. Everything they normally did to any other woman, they did to her and left her ''terrified'' of them, in spite of being one of the strongest people in the world.

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* Year 1 Chapter 13 averts the typical "blobs melting clothes" hentai-humour in a very terrifying way by HAVING A BLOB MELT AN ADVENTURER'S FACE ALIVE WHILE SHE SCREAMS IN ANGUISH FOR HELP. Even worse, Witch cast a Miracle Light spell and revealed there are a lot of blobs residing on the ceiling above them...

*** [[FridgeHorror Imagine if Goblin Slayer does this right in front of his current party (Priestess,Shaman Dwarf,High Elf Archer and Lizardman Priest).]] There's no telling how different their relationship would be, and how strained it would become...

** Thanks to Goblin Slayer's intervention, the girls held prisoner within the nest are finally freed. The central focus is on Fighter however, freshly stripped nude and sporting [[ThousandYardStare glazed-over eyes]]. A discarded plaything, limp as a ragdoll, all the while looking... [[{{Squick}} moist]]. She's clearly suffered a HeroicBSOD that she's not coming back from.

* Chapter 22 has the Labyrinth quest run afoul the moment Goblin Slayer failed to take the Goblin Champion by surprise. He's consequently hit with so much force his body flies across the room, crashes into a coffin, and shatters the solid stone just as easily as his bones. Because of this, Priestess loses focus on her Protection miracle, causing all hell to break loose - Lizard Priest, Dwarf Shaman, and High Elf Archer are easily overwhelmed under a sea of goblins. Worst of all, Priestess is left alone with the Champion in a disturbingly familiar CallBack to the first chapter... except there's no one to save her this time. [[{{Gorn}} The monster proceeds to rip her shoulder out]] ''[[ImAHumanitarian with its teeth]]''.

** This moment is adapted in episode 7 of the anime, and Priestess's screams of pain is ''chilling'', and echoes through the scene for a good few minutes.

* The first chapter of the Gaiden Manga shows just how Goblin Slayer's village was destroyed while he was forced to hide. Not only were the men killed first, but the women were stripped and raped while screaming for help, including the younger ones, while he was forced to hide and listen as it happened to his sister. Then, when he comes out after the majority had left, he finds that corpses everywhere (including those of Cow Girl's parents), some missing pieces of their body while hanged with their eyes wide in terror, before nearly being killed until he was saved by a passing Rhea.
* Near the end of Chapter 7 of the GS Gaiden: Year 1 manga, a party whom Goblin Slayer had temporarily worked with went to explore a mine to hunt blobs (as the monk mentioned that doing so would earn them a good portion of money). What gives this a spot in the Nightmare Fuel category isn't the blobs or goblins, for once. Instead, it's a gigantic worm creature known as a "Rock Eater" that not only looks terrifying enough just for one page, but has also devoured one of the party members in a gruesome manner - only her face (with her left eye... well, punctured) and leg can be seen peeking from its [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily maw]].
** In the same chapter, Goblin Slayer pins down a goblin and guts it like a fish as it screams bloody murder. Right in front of said party. When one of the horrified members asked what he was doing, [[DissonantSerenity he just flatly stated that he's performing "research" while yanking out the goblin's intestines.]]
*** [[FridgeHorror Imagine if Goblin Slayer does this right in front of his current party (Priestess,Shaman Dwarf,High Elf Archer and Lizardman Priest).]] There's no telling how different their relationship would be, and how strained it would become...

** Oh, it gets ''worse''. There are hints dropped that goblins actually are ''not'' the typical ExplosiveBreeders, and that women impregnated by goblins instead produce one or, rarely, two goblin sons after a 9 month gestation. Which makes their enormous population even '''worse'''.

* Chapter 12 establishes that goblins have the capacity to use {{Human Shield}}s. Captured, battered, hardly-breathing women, bleeding from various cuts and bruises, tied to wooden boards in uncomfortable and humiliating positions with their limbs contorting at odd angles. Some of the victims appear distressingly young. And the horde attacking Cow Girl's farm possess enough girls to form an entire row.

*** Alternatively in manga, Noble Knight doesn't look any worse than any other girl that was captured and raped by goblins but are still alive, and she had no injuries that looked particularly fatal, so a manga reader might assume that she is still alive. The only actual confirmation of her death is the experienced Goblin Slayer assuming that too much time has passed for there to be a survivor. If one truly thought she is still alive at this point, it does give the bleak implication that Goblin Slayer may have accidentally burned alive a broken and traumatized woman, and never realized it since, as stated above, the roaring flames wiped away all the evidence.

*** Alternatively in manga, Noble Knight doesn't look any worse than any other girl that was captured and raped by goblins but are still alive, and she had no injuries that looked particularly fatal, so a manga reader would likely assume she is still alive. The only actual confirmation of her death is the experienced Goblin Slayer assuming that too much time has passed for there to be a survivor. If one truly thought she is still alive at this point, it does give the bleak implication that Goblin Slayer may have accidentally burned alive a broken and traumatized woman, and never realized it since, as stated above, the roaring flames wiped away all the evidence.

** The manga shows the goblins in the process of violating the Knight, who is dead at the point, and the others suffering the above-mentioned fates. The next and last time they are shown, they are just listless corpses that quickly disappear behind roaring flames, wiping away the evidence as if nothing happened in the first place.

** The newbie Warrior being ripped to pieces when his sword is caught on the cave ceiling due to it being too long to effectively use in such tight quarters. One goblin triumphantly hoists a severed arm up in its hands. When the Priestess finally sees what was left of him, she immediately [[StressVomit throws up]].

* The first chapter of the Gaiden Manga shows just how Goblin Slayer's village was destroyed while he was forced to hide. Not only were the men killed first, but the women were stripped and raped while screaming for help, including the younger ones, while he was forced to hide and listen as it happened to his sister. Then, when he comes out after the majority had left, he finds that corpses everywhere, some missing pieces of their body while hanged with their eyes wide in terror, before nearly being killed until he was saved by a passing Rhea.