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| 13 | [[center: [-[[Characters/GoblinSlayer Main Character Index]]\ |
| 14 | '''[[Characters/GoblinSlayerTravelingCompanionsAndLovedOnes Traveling Companions and Loved Ones:]]''' ([[Characters/GoblinSlayerGoblinSlayer Goblin Slayer]])\ |
| 15 | '''Adventurers Guild:''' ([[Characters/GoblinSlayerAdventurersGuildMembers Guild Members]] | [[Characters/GoblinSlayerAdventurersGuildStaff Staff]])\ |
| 16 | '''Other Characters:''' [[Characters/GoblinSlayerOtherSignificantPlayers Other Significant Players]] | [[Characters/GoblinSlayerVillagers Villagers]] | [[Characters/GoblinSlayerTheGods The Gods]] | '''Antagonists''']]-] |
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| 20 | !Goblins |
| 21 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 22 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayergoblins.png]] |
| 23 | ->''"If you looked hard, you might be able to find ''one''. But in the end, the only good goblins are the ones who '''NEVER''' show their faces to the light of day."'' |
| 24 | -->-- '''Goblin Slayer''' |
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| 26 | The very monsters that the Goblin Slayer is killing in his crusade. They're known for attacking various villages in the story. |
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| 28 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: The barbaric, ugly, and unhygienic goblins are essentially this to most of the female cast due to their MarsNeedsWomen nature. While they can reproduce with women of any species, the women they tend to lust after are usually conventionally attractive humans and elves, and being the evil little bastards that they are, they always try to take the women they target by force. Though a closer reading shows that the narration flip-flops a lot on whether goblins have a similar view of and desire for beauty as humans, or [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad strongly revile human aesthetics and get off more on marring them with their filth.]] Of course, these two perspectives can be easily reconciled by factoring in goblins’ rampant sour grapes mentality and the fact that, to them, [[{{Sadist}} sex and torture are incomplete without the other.]] |
| 29 | * AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: A goblin at the bottom of the pecking order will whine about how its bosses are superfluous blowhards preventing anything getting done. That same goblin placed in a position of authority a few days later will espouse how leaders like him are on top by merit of their vision and the only ones getting any work done. |
| 30 | * AintTooProudToBeg: A goblin feels absolutely zero compunction in rolling over crying for its life. The fact it will instantly attempt to bury a knife in the one causing its self-abasement once they relent helps, but mostly it’s because a goblin values literally nothing except its own hide. |
| 31 | * AlienBlood: Goblin gore is mentioned at several points to be weirdly darker and more viscous than human blood. |
| 32 | * AlienFairFolk: [[spoiler:Goblin Slayer's sister would tell him that goblins came from one of the sky's moons, specifically the green one. A peek into a portal mirror reveals goblins working a machine made entirely out of human bones under a pitch-black sky, surrounded by endlessly-stretching fields of green sand]]... |
| 33 | * AliensAreBastards: If they are indeed from the green moon, they are definitely this, as they are horrible monsters who are intelligent enough to understand right from wrong and just don't care. |
| 34 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Make no mistake, these guys are some of the vilest depictions of your standard fantasy goblin in modern fiction. To put it ''mildly'', their entire existence rests on making people's lives as horribly miserable as can be. This trope ends up discussed, with Priestess (horrified at Goblin Slayer killing goblin newborns) asking whether a good goblin could exist. Slayer replies that, even if such a thing is possible, it is simply not worth risking when the much more likely alternative is [[AdaptiveAbility letting loose upon the world a goblin that is now wise to his tricks and could teach his race to counter them or even utilize them for their own nefarious goals.]] |
| 35 | * AmbushEnemy: Their only major advantage besides their raw numbers is their ability to harness the element of surprise to outmaneuver and pounce on adventurers that stumble through their dens. |
| 36 | * AnimalEyes: All goblins have beady, bulging, solid-yellow eyes with horizontal pupils, resembling a goat, or perhaps an octopus or frog. On some of them, the pupils have become [[ExoticEyeDesigns distorted or somehow broken up]]. |
| 37 | * AssholeVictim: The whole point of any time when Goblin Slayer finds a nest is watching him give the goblins inside what's coming to them, and watching them get killed without mercy is quite enjoyable. |
| 38 | * AxCrazy: Goblins are psychotic little gremlins that enjoying tearing apart and/or raping their victims. |
| 39 | * BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Zigzagged trope. It is occasionally stated that goblins are disgusted by the sight of humans, and the few times we get SympatheticPOV from one they tend to view human civilized life as anathema. These assertions kinda fly in the face of all the explicit scenes of goblins literally drooling over good-looking fresh prey, and how every goblin of significant intelligence or ambition is trying to coopt or mimic human technology and culture to lift his race out of the muck. The stated sentiments only make sense as attempts by the goblins to delude themselves into believing they are as contemptuous of humans as humans are of them, and deny the reality that the goblins are unilaterally envious of and dependent on the richness of the races they prey upon. |
| 40 | * BaldOfEvil: For whatever reason, few if any goblins seem to have a full head of hair. This seems to be a sign of rank or evolution, as no standard goblin has any hair, but hobs, champions, and lords have beards and/or a crown of hair (while still bald). One small goblin was seen with a beard and identified as a pirate goblin, but whether that beard was real or just for the joke is unknown. |
| 41 | * BambooTechnology: [[spoiler: In Volume 2, Goblin Slayer peeks through the Water Town goblins' PortalNetwork and sees a group of goblins hand-operating a giant machine in a green desert. Whatever it is (the manga and anime suggest something like a mill) it was apparently made primarily of bones.]] |
| 42 | * BastardBastard: Every single goblin is a ChildByRape and part of an AlwaysChaoticEvil race, so they are literal "bastards" by every definition of the word. |
| 43 | * BeneathNotice: Goblins owe their success as career raiders in massive part to the fact that, outside of occasional recruitment into multipolar evil armies, they are limited to attacking the boonies and fringes of society, and at that only in intermittent cycles. The aristocracy are barely aware of the occasional frontier hamlets wiped out, and dismiss it as the perils of expanding civilization and lack of vigilance so long as the problem doesn't spread more. |
| 44 | * BrilliantButLazy: Goblins seemingly can learn new skills borderline instantly, and have consistently demonstrated across multiple volumes that when forced to build, they are capable of perfectly serviceable if not particularly fine craftsmanship. Nothing is really stopping them from setting up a functional and constructive society, save their own obsession with living only in service to their rapacious appetites. |
| 45 | * CannonFodder: To adventurers, to other monsters, and even to each other. As long as an objective is eventually completed, the death toll matters little to goblins. |
| 46 | * CarryABigStick: At their most feral, without a stable civilization to steal from (such as in the depths of a dungeon) they have nothing but crude clubs and branches as weapons. |
| 47 | * ChildByRape: Every single goblin by default is one. ''And there's no end to them.'' |
| 48 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: [[SubvertedTrope Not at all]]. They know from an early age that [[InvokedTrope acting helpless]] can easily gain an adventurer's mercy, which is why Goblin Slayer doesn't give them any just like the adults. |
| 49 | * ClassicVillain: All goblins in this setting are unapologetically evil creatures that embody vice and sin- in a rare instance of someone representing all seven of the Deadly Sins. They are a species of vengeful monsters that will never let go of a grudge (Wrath). They are able to devour any living creature, with the sole exception seemingly being other goblins (Gluttony). They look upon other beings with a desire for their achievements and possessions (Envy). They will steal anything of value that they can get their hands on (Greed). Despite having great potential to evolve and adapt, they usually refuse to put in the work to do so unless it becomes necessary (Sloth). They desire females of other species in order to reproduce and would brazenly try to rape women even in the middle of a fight (Lust). Above all else, they are all narcissists who view themselves as better than everybody else and thus believe they are entitled to commit their horrifying actions (Pride). |
| 50 | * ColdBloodedTorture: When they aren't raping their kidnapped victims, they are committing this. There is no rhyme or reason for it, and they don't care if they prematurely kill the victim in the middle of their fun. After all, they can always just capture more. While this is largely true of any male captives, they can, however, display enough rage for a given act to skip right over the raping, in regards to females, and go straight to torture, given enough incentive. |
| 51 | * CombatPragmatist: All goblins are fully aware of their physical and mental weaknesses, and do everything they can to give themselves an edge, including utilizing PoisonedWeapons that will kill adventurers even if the initial stab doesn't do any serious damage, will strike their legs to knock them down when the opportunity is available, outright gang up and dog-pile on anybody that isn't strong enough to resist, and will even take to PlayingPossum in order to strike when their guards are down. |
| 52 | * CreateYourOwnHero: A typical, unremarkable goblin raid against a pioneer hamlet resulted in the traumatization of a young FarmBoy who, after being picked up for some TrainingFromHell that calcified his vindictive resolve, would go on to become Goblin Slayer and launch a years-long personal crusade in which he has killed thousands if not tens of thousands of goblins across the land almost single-handedly. |
| 53 | * CreativeSterility: A point that is made and hammered on constantly is that goblins never make anything for themselves. Anything they have that is more sophisticated than a bundle of sharpened sticks and bones was either stolen or achieved through the instruction and coercion of a more educated, out-of-species taskmaster. However, evidence suggests that lack of goblin culture is due more to unwillingness to create rather than inability, as goblins that are taught can work with their hands without issue, Goblin Slayer believes they could and would be forced to develop cultivation if there were no other sapient species to prey on, and [[spoiler:the probable goblin homeland seen through the portal in Volume 2 shows them running some form of industrial machine by themselves.]] |
| 54 | * CrocodileTears: Juvenile goblins play up what cuteness they have to weep as they beg for their lives. They grow out of this skill as they physically mature, even as they remain just as willing to debase themselves for mercy, but certain smart goblins (like the lord) see the value in relearning to cry on command for the extra pity point. |
| 55 | * CycleOfRevenge: It's never explicitly stated what started and who's responsible for the escalating series of attacks that eventually resulted in the goblins' trademark hatred and fervent pursuit of the destruction of human civilization, but they clearly see themselves as part of such a cycle against all other races. As Goblin Slayer notes, [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar it will only end when one side is completely eradicated]]. |
| 56 | * DeadGuyOnDisplay: Goblins will occasionally string up and showcase the bodies of their victims, either as bait for traps or just the boast of an especially egotistical boss. |
| 57 | * DecapitatedArmy: As demonstrated by the Water Town nest, a big horde that sees its leader/best fighter get taken down will turn tail and flee for their lives without a thought. |
| 58 | * DeviousDaggers: The first goblins Priestess encounters are cave-dwellers who sneak through the tunnels and fight with poisoned daggers. |
| 59 | * DiabolusExNihilo: An entire race of them. Goblins are universally, and damn near uniformly, sociopathic, covetous, and predatory. They have no form of community beyond squatting together in the armpits of the world until they have enough numbers to go pillaging human settlements, no higher ambitions than being boss of their own posse and carrying off all the food and women they can get their filthy claws on, no interest in negotiation or self-betterment, and no recorded history. Characters idly speculate and make tall-tales about where they even come from, and Goblin Slayer is firmly of the opinion that attempting to rehabilitate or make peace with them is an utterly futile idea, a view that becomes shared by others quickly and easily. |
| 60 | * DirtyCoward: No matter how strong they become, a goblin will remain a coward at heart. From lowly child to reigning lord, the probability of fleeing at danger and abandoning fellow goblins to their fates remains roughly the same. Unfortunately, it is because of this that they are an everlasting threat, because goblins avoid attacking heavily-populated areas and only prey on weak frontier towns and villages who barely have the resources to resist them. [[spoiler:Only one type of goblin [[AvertedTrope averts]] this and there's [[ThePaladin a good reason he does]] and [[MagicKnight not without help.]]]] |
| 61 | * DisasterDominoes: A riled-up goblin horde crowding in from all directions is a nightmare scenario even for high-level adventurers, but as Goblin Slayer demonstrates in Volume 9, a masterful combatant can trip up one goblin and take another dozen out at once from sheer knock-on collateral effect. |
| 62 | * DominantSpeciesGenes: When they rape a woman of another species (human, elf, etc.), the child is always a pure-blood goblin. |
| 63 | %%** This is due to goblins not so much impregnating the woman, as essentially laying goblin-spawning embryos into the uteral area (so there is no mixing of DNA) which is also part of their only week long gestation period, which feeds into how they reproduce so quickly. |
| 64 | * DressedToPlunder: Quite a few of the boat-riding goblins underneath the Water Town dress like pirates, [[RapePillageAndBurn appropriately enough]]. |
| 65 | * DrivenByEnvy: Nothing is ever good enough for goblins, because they know that somewhere out there a human has it better, and the thought perpetually drives them to murder. |
| 66 | * EliteMooks: 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. |
| 67 | * EnfantTerrible: Goblins are instinctive liars and backstabbers even in their child-stage. In Volume 6 Goblin Slayer and High Elf Archer encounter a whelp that just barely left the nest and still had babyfat that palmed a knife even as it cried for its life, and the goblin lord of Volume 1 beat to death an adventuress that showed him mercy when he was even younger. |
| 68 | * EntitledBastard: Goblins regard the world as their oyster and are sociopathic to the point of solipsism. Nevermind being shocked to ever find themselves in a position of peril at another’s hands, they are outraged anyone even tried to resist their attempts to take what they want to begin with. To forgive a goblin and let it go is seen by it as the only correct course of action, and an invitation for it to put you down instead, with no second thoughts. |
| 69 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Gruesomely averted. Apparently, goblin children have been known to eat the women that gave birth to them shortly after their mothers' deaths. |
| 70 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Goblins have absolutely zero concept of love, compassion, or any other kind of positive bond. In the first chapter, the goblin that picks up Wizard’s staff wears an expression of genuine confusion when she demonstrates emotional attachment to it, and they intellectually understand camaraderie just barely enough to realize that [[ForcedToWatch torturing adventurers in front of each other]] causes [[LoveIsAWeakness additional distress]] in captives. |
| 71 | * EvilEvolves: Goblins, being {{Explosive Breeder}}s, follow what is known as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_curve Type III Survivorship Curve]]. Younger specimens of goblins are the most numerous and stupidest of the horde, and naturally are killed in droves. However, any survivors that manage to run will nurse grudges and learn, becoming stronger, and intelligent with age. They mature into self-sufficient "Wanderers" with the leadership capacities to lead new hordes, starting the cycle all over, and are consequently much, much harder to kill. [[spoiler:Lords, Champions]], Riders, Shamans, and Hobgoblins are in this category, and they are all capable of squaring off against even experienced adventurers. Hence, why Goblin Slayer is so keen on [[LeaveNoSurvivors nipping the problem]] [[WouldHurtAChild in the bud.]] |
| 72 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The closest thing to a joke a goblin ever makes is pointing at a BreedingSlave and laughing at her misery. |
| 73 | * EvilIsNotAToy: The Desert Kingdom had a dangerously risky plan to breed a nest of goblins to serve as soldiers. The end result was a mutiny. |
| 74 | * EvilIsPetty: They live only to steal from and hurt others, and will go out of their way to taunt or psychologically torment their victims if the opportunity is made apparently, such as when one breaks Wizard’s prized staff when it notices her begging for it. |
| 75 | * EvilIsSterile: While they are fast learners, goblins have no culture or ability to invent anything of their own. They'd rather just steal whatever they desire, and anything more advanced than their trademark debauchery is done through mimicry. [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the goblin paladin who was given divinely enhanced intellect among other blessings that makes him so intelligent he can [[AwesomenessByAnalysis copy fighting styles by sight]], anticipate his opponent's actions, and turn a savage goblin horde into disciplined warriors while instilling camaraderie and a genuine desire to lay down their lives for a greater cause. He's even more intelligent than a goblin lord and is creative enough to have his people actively plan and build things as opposed to just copying. The goblin's ability to learn quickly and spread their knowledge among their own kind means that if the paladin's horde and the paladin himself aren't killed then more goblin paladins may be created. Even killing him and his horde is no guarantee as if it was done once, it could be done again. Or even that what they learned won't somehow be passed on.]] |
| 76 | * EvilLaugh: Many goblins express themselves with nasally spates of laughter. One goblin in the anime lets out a particularly bone-chilling chuckle just before it starts to rape Fighter. |
| 77 | * EvilSmellsBad: It's been stated several times that goblins smell terrible. Apparently, the scent is similar to rotting flesh. Priestess almost throws up a number of times getting too close to them. |
| 78 | * EvilerThanThou: Goblins are not powerful compared to many of the threats in the world, and there are villains and monsters who are easily more dangerous and can easily cause more damage to the wider world. However, goblins are notoriously hated and well known for easily being ''one of the most cruel and sadistic'' creatures, being willing to use methods of cruelty and torment that far exceed what many higher tiered foes would even consider doing, at least on a personal level. |
| 79 | * EvolutionPowerUp: The second half of what makes them such a threat besides [[NotSoHarmlessVillain their unexpected savagery and spite]] is that goblins are capable of unlocking new powers, inhuman physical might, and even mental acumen through continuous or radical growth. |
| 80 | * ExplosiveBreeder: A thoroughly horrifying twist on the "breed like rabbits" analogy, as all goblins are [[ChildByRape forcibly bred from other species]]. Considering how '''many''' of these new (literal) bastards pop out of the ground all the time, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil do the math]]. Even worse; the time from conception to the birth of ''multiple'' goblin children from a single mother is '''less than one week.''' In Volume 1, Goblin Slayer discovers four goblin children in a den and remarks that they would have numbered ''fifty'' before long. |
| 81 | * ExpressDelivery: While the exact details aren't very clear (like the precise time frame and the average numbers of goblins that are born from the same birth), it's been made apparent the gestation cycle for a woman that is pregnant with a child is unnaturally quick, as one woman can give birth to multiple goblins after one week. |
| 82 | * FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: While goblins are born in a similar way to regular reproduction using a woman's womb, the actual process is nowhere near normal, as it takes less than a week for a goblin to fully form and be birthed, while regardless of the species biology for the reluctant mother, all goblins are born exactly the same, taking on none of the mother's traits unlike regular interspecies children, strongly implying that the internal process is completely alien to nature in design. |
| 83 | * TheFarmerAndTheViper: The only thing that an adventurer is going to get out of sparing a goblin straggler after clearing a nest is a wanderer with a fresh batch of knowledge of adventurer fighting techniques, experience in exploiting human magnanimity, and [[ItsPersonal redoubled hatred of the player races]]. This applies ''especially'' to [[EnfantTerrible goblin whelps]]. |
| 84 | * ForTheEvulz: No goblin has any higher purpose for raiding, raping, and torturing than feeding their own carnal appetites. They explicitly lack the capacity to gain fulfillment through less abusive practices. |
| 85 | * GoalOrientedEvolution: Some of Goblin Slayer's comments suggest that the specialized tier older goblins develop into is determined through choice of the goblin itself. |
| 86 | * GrassIsGreener: [[spoiler:All evidence points to goblins indeed coming from the moon, that moon indeed being inhospitably barren, and the goblin invasion indeed being driven primarily by a covetous drive to claim the fertile Earth as theirs to exploit.]] |
| 87 | * GreenEyedMonster: All goblins harbor a deep and all-consuming font of envy and resentment in what passes for their souls, exacerbated by the perpetual squalor of their lives and homes and their refusal to actively change any of it. They steal whatever they can, let it get destroyed from lack of maintenance, and do nothing but curse others for having nicer things. A good illustration of this comes from the goblin viewpoint chapter in Volume 4, where a goblin who took a spear from a captured adventurer decides he wants the belt his brother took instead, only to become outraged and possessive when he realizes his brother wants the spear as well. |
| 88 | * GroinAttack: According to Goblin Slayer, the groin area is a vital spot for goblins. He even kills one by throwing an axe in the crotch. |
| 89 | * GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Unless they're taking back women for use as {{Breeding Slave}}s, goblins massacre anyone they can't be manipulated into working for. In turn, everyone else will try to kill goblins without remorse. The series makes it abundantly clear that goblins are AlwaysChaoticEvil to such a degree that the only way this war ends is with one side totally wiped out. |
| 90 | * HairTriggerTemper: Goblins are described as always sullen or infuriated, always looking for the slightest figment of an excuse to lash out, and always thinking they are entirely justified in their aggreivement. |
| 91 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Goblins do tend to get bisected as a matter of course in fights. Most prominently in Volume 16, when Lizard Priest picks one up over his head, tears it in two through brute strength without even cutting it, and tosses the halves to either side. |
| 92 | * HatedByAll: Absolutely nobody has anything positive to say about goblins. At least four major characters desired nothing but their complete extinction in at least one point for justified reasons, and many others are perfectly aware how vile and monstrous they are. |
| 93 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: Every individual goblin views all non-goblins as wretched animals that exist to be subjugated and preyed upon until death, and all other goblins besides itself as dopey, fair-weather cronies to exploit and dispose of for its own gain. In Volume 5 of the light novel, Goblin Slayer is first alerted that something ''very'' different is happening when he finds a goblin who was given first aid by another of its kind, since normally a wounded goblin would be left to its own devices. |
| 94 | * HateSink: A very rare case where this trope applies to a ''whole species'' instead of an individual. You'd be very hard-pressed to find any instances where you can sympathize with such creatures. Even then, they will rapidly and cheerfully yank that moment away with a fresh example of their vile cruelty. The franchise makes it clear that species-wide extinction is pretty much the only desired outcome when it comes to goblins. |
| 95 | * TheHedonist: Goblins are ''firm'' believers in instant gratification, and will help themselves to food or women as much and as fast as the opportunity is presented unless someone is on hand to physically restrain them from jumping crotch-first into sating their desires. |
| 96 | * HellishPupils: Usually they are portrayed with BlankWhiteEyes, but the occasional GrossUpCloseUp in later chapters reveals bulging, goat/octopus-like eyeballs with a ''cluster'' of small, uneven pupils around the center one, with branches of them stretching to each corner of the eyes. |
| 97 | * HeroKiller: The crux of the series is in reviving the lethality and brutality of goblins even as they are still seen as 1st level fodder. It's not just rookies they take down either; more than one mid-level Steel or Sapphire party has been completely wiped out by the monsters over the course of the series. |
| 98 | * HisOwnWorstEnemy: The whole reason the goblins are so ruthless and sadistic is due to vengeance against other races for the destruction of their homes and slaughter of their race. They feel justified in what they do, but they conveniently ignore the fact they go out of their way to kill anyone that isn't a goblin and happily kidnap and rape any woman they manage to grab on to. If anything, the goblins have only themselves to blame for the onslaught of their people. |
| 99 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Goblin Slayer loves nothing more than turning goblin tactics back against their practitioners, who are too arrogant and shortsighted to ever think they could be beaten at their own games. The most direct example of this is in Volume 2, when the Water Town goblins lock the party in a mausoleum and pump poison gas in. Goblin Slayer seals all the holes leaking gas, and notes that the blowback will have suffocated a number of them before they managed to regroup and start breaking into the room they had sealed to get away from the gas. |
| 100 | * HomeFieldAdvantage: Goblins are excellent climbers and diggers with InnateNightVision and an enhanced sense of smell, stacking the deck heavily in their favor when it comes to counter-ambushing adventurers raiding their caves. |
| 101 | * TheHorde: The most common and savage of the "Unpraying", the monstrous races and servants of the Demon Lords and Evil Gods, goblins are obsessively hostile and completely incapable of being reasoned with. Guild Girl ruefully notes that even evil lizardmen tribes and other traditionally villainous humanoid races are still open to the possibility of negotiations, and have at least [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy moderately constructive cultures]]. Goblins are just ravaging marauders with no inclination of rising above their basest impulses. |
| 102 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Nobody calls out goblins for being barbaric, wasteful, stupid, and arrogant more than other goblins, or with less self-awareness. |
| 103 | * HumanShield: Particularly crafty goblins are able to recognize that their female captives that can no longer serve as breeding slaves still have value as deterrents against adventurer attacks. |
| 104 | * ILoveTheDead: If they have few captive women, goblins have little qualms about continuing to abuse a fresh corpse before getting around to eating it. |
| 105 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While every goblin is an entitled and arrogant toerag that genuinely thinks it should be the rightful lord of everything it sees, they also are at least subconsciously painfully aware of how stupid and wasteful they are in comparison to the praying races and enact their raids partly from a spiteful desire to ruin what others have that they are incapable of building. |
| 106 | * InnateNightVision: They can see in the dark just fine and use it to their advantage. Unfortunately for them, this leaves them vulnerable to sudden bright lights (such as Priestess's Holy Light spell), which Goblin Slayer takes advantage of on numerous occasions. |
| 107 | * InstantExpert: {{Downplayed}}, but goblins are [[BrilliantButLazy amazingly quick to absorb new skills for how dimwitted and oafish they are reputed to be]]. The main reason Goblin Slayer is so adamant about leaving no survivors is because he is sure that even one goblin just seeing his traps and techniques and living to tell of it would then be able to reverse engineer his strategies and pass those new skills on to the rest of its race in time. [[spoiler: This can work against them sometimes, such as in Volume 5 when the Snow Mountain goblins copy Goblin Slayer's loosened-arrowheads trick under the assumption that those arrows must be better in all circumstances than how they were preparing them before if an adventurer is doing it, only for them to prove less effective than usual when they try to use them on the armored target that is Goblin Slayer himself]]. |
| 108 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: When goblins are stealing supplies or guarding their nests, they go about it quietly and resentfully. The only time they spoil for a fight and are truly fired up is when they have the promise of a sweet defenseless girl to beat into the ground for the trouble. War rape is such an omnipresent and overpowering motivator for goblins that a substantial fraction of any horde is liable to drop everything and get to rutting if they get on top of a female victim that very instant, with no concern for the situation of the ongoing battle as a whole or the vulnerable target they present by not containing themselves until the aftermath. |
| 109 | * IrrationalHatred: Goblins despise everything but themselves, but they have a special hate for humans that manifests through a number of almost contradictory resentments and spites. Goblins simultaneously look down on humanity, want to take all it has built, and blame it for their own miserable lot in life. |
| 110 | * ISurrenderSuckers: Goblins will without fail shamelessly grovel for pity and then attempt to backstab an adventurer that spares their life the ''instant'' they turn around after seeing them beg. |
| 111 | * ItCanThink: |
| 112 | ** Goblins are dumb and weak, but they are also resourceful enough to know how to set traps, as well as to make use of wolves as sentry dogs. |
| 113 | ** What is most concerning about goblins is their learning capacity; Goblin Slayer implies many of the tools and skills the creatures use are crude imitations of adventurers'. If that's not enough, hordes under servitude can be taught effectively by their masters, making them even more a hassle than goblins already ought to be. For example, they've already at some point figured out that if they see a light in the darkness, then chances are an adventurer is nearby to kill. |
| 114 | ** Goblin Slayer routinely points out their [[ComedicSociopathy "culture of humor"]] and penchant for grandiosity as evidence of their potential for civilization building and that rehabilitating them with education won't work. |
| 115 | * 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 its stuff up for grabs, the sooner the world will be set right in its mind. |
| 116 | * {{Jerkass}}: As Goblin Slayer describes it, they will sometimes just point at a brutalized or dying captive and start laughing. Mocking or celebrating others’ pain seems to be the only kind of ''enjoyment'', let alone "humor", they are capable of. |
| 117 | * KarmicDeath: With every foul KickTheDog moment they commit, you're going to ''want'' the death of every goblin to be as violent as Goblin Slayer can muster. |
| 118 | * TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Every goblin is born thinking they can rule the frontier and take whatever they want, be it food, women, or somebody's life. Every goblin massacred by Goblin Slayer is reminded of their proper place in the world -- that of bloody smears staining the armor of adventurers. |
| 119 | * 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 hearing her demand it returned. Needless to say, goblins hand these moments out like candy. |
| 120 | * KlingonPromotion: If allowed, a goblin will have no problem killing a leader to take his place. Goblins can make peace with this idea because they assume they can temporarily use the leader for their own ends as long as he stays alive. |
| 121 | * LackOfEmpathy: Every single goblin is a self-obsessed and pitiless savage who would watch every other creature on Earth die with a smile. This extends to the rest of their race and even their nest-mates; no goblin has any genuine camaraderie with any other one, and the closest they get to mourning their dead is feeling personally affronted that a filthy adventurer would dare rob them of a spare meat shield and prospective crony. [[spoiler:This is [[AvertedTrope averted]] with the introduction of the goblin paladin class as his divinely enhanced intelligence and his divine blessings allow him to instill purpose and valor in the goblins around him which effectively changes his horde into a true army. Goblin Slayer makes it a point of putting an end to him because the thought of more goblin paladins actually organizing the little bastards and giving them a common purpose beyond their own self-interest is utterly terrifying.]] |
| 122 | * LargeRunt: Inverted. The goblins in the abandoned dwarven settlement and those raiding the Viking villages in Volume 14 are noted by Goblin Slayer to be unusually well-muscled and tall enough for "their heads to come level with his upper chest", which would put them at roughly four and a half feet in stature compared to the barely over three feet of goblins in his home region. He also notes a few occasions were he faces off with a goblin leader or specialist fighter that is clearly not a full hobgoblin or other evolution but has still grown enough to stand level with a short human, such as the [[spoiler:dragon]] rider in volume 11 or the berserker-imitating ship captain goblin also from volume 14. |
| 123 | * LeeroyJenkins: Their greed, short-sightedness, and arrogance ensues that their attack strategy is never more complex than "charge in as fast as you can and start grabbing the spoils. There's no way ''we'' will be the ones to bite it". Most egregious in Volume 10, when the goblins storming the mansion try to sidestep and ignore ''[[TheBigGuy Lizard Priest]]'' to hurry and get their clutches on Priestess in the middle of a battle. |
| 124 | * LittleGreenMen: Goblins in this series are technically aliens, and fully meet this physical standard. |
| 125 | * LoveIsAWeakness: To an extent they are capable of comprehending the concepts of empathy and bonds between people, but they find the very ideas risible and just another symptom of the inferiority of the races they prey upon, taking a particularly ugly glee in torturing loved ones in front of each other and destroying prized possessions for that extra dose of despair. |
| 126 | * LustMakesYouDumb: They sometimes rape women on the middle of the battlefield ''while the battle is still going'', which frequently gets them killed. |
| 127 | * MadeOfPlasticine: Base level goblins will explode into LudicrousGibs at the slightest blow from any of the heroes (barring [[SupportPartyMember Priestess]]). |
| 128 | * MagikarpPower: Goblins are genuinely {{Mooks}} a dime a dozen, with all the intelligence and individual effectiveness as that implies. Older goblins that have survived the gauntlet of adventurers for years though, they are a much different story. Some become leaders who ensure the survival of their horde, much to the detriment of everything else. Others grow strong enough to give elite adventurers a run for their money. [[spoiler:A rare few, such as goblin lords, throw off the characteristic stupidity altogether and develop intelligence on par, if not exceeding that, of a human]]. |
| 129 | * MarsNeedsWomen: Regardless of race, any pregnancy sired by goblins will only result in another goblin. [[FanDisservice Recall those children and the kidnapped girls]] in the introductory arc. The trope is even more fitting [[spoiler:given the hints that Goblin Slayer's sister's story that goblins hail from the green moon is actually true]]. |
| 130 | * {{Mooks}}: Because of their [[AlwaysChaoticEvil malevolence]] and relative ease to control through [[DirtyCoward fear]] and the [[RapePillageAndBurn promise of plunder and women]], goblins are sometimes utilized by other nasties who happen to be in the market for expendable, nasty minions. Most times goblins roam the countryside in unassociated packs, establishing nests or engaging in banditry, becoming a very real threat to the immediate area, though considered more of a minor to intermediate threat in the grand scheme of things. It's only when they grow enough in numbers to become [[TheHorde a horde]] are they considered to be a true threat. |
| 131 | * MoralMyopia: Whenever the story switches perspectives to that of the goblins, it is made very clear that they vehemently oppose humans and adventurers for slaughtering them in droves, taking away their children and homes to leave them with nothing. They are justified in their vengeance... [[NeverMyFault so says the wantonly sadistic thieves and rapists who actively prey on the weak without remorse or acknowledgement of consequences]]. |
| 132 | * TheMutiny: A goblin horde has no qualms about immediately turning on a leader that they have lost fear of, even in the middle of battle. The goblin lord in ''Year One'' gets shanked for trying to flee, and the goblin paladin has to drum up a stampede to chase after the party to prevent his troops from just abandoning the fort altogether. |
| 133 | * MysticalPregnancy: Any woman, regardless of race, that is impregnated by a goblin will give birth to a goblin. Additionally, gestation of a goblin child is unnaturally quick, with a woman being able [[ExpressDelivery to give birth to multiple goblins in about a week]]. It's revealed in Chapter 30 of the manga that a woman being used as a BreedingSlave by the goblins is expected to have a life span of just under 2 weeks if they are not saved before then, further cementing proof of the quick gestation cycle. |
| 134 | * {{Narcissist}}: Goblins as a whole are self-obsessed to a pathological degree; unwaveringly convinced of their personal superiority and legitimately outraged that no other beings are willing to just bow to their whims. |
| 135 | * NeverMyFault: Goblins barely recognize their own kind as thinking beings, let alone other races. Any reaction against a goblin exercising its cruelty is seen as an unreasonable and uncalled for affront to its dignity and freedom. |
| 136 | * {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es!: |
| 137 | ** The reason there are so many goblins running around in the world is due to the fact that there is so little reward in goblin-related quests. People who ask to rid their farm of goblins often do not have the money to pay a proper adventurer to do so. Due to so many adventurers rejecting these quests, the goblins are allowed to RapePillageAndBurn with free rein. |
| 138 | ** Because nobody save Goblin Slayer is actually doing ''any'' of these quests, the Guild has no choice but to send newbie adventurers en masse to deal with the problem at their nests... some of whom are ill-prepared to deal with the actual threat the goblins themselves pose. Those that survive and succeed are promoted straight-away without any fuss. |
| 139 | ** According to Goblin Slayer, the problem is made even worse when people allow fleeing goblin children to live, letting them run away to grow up strong enough to get their vengeance. |
| 140 | ** Not helping matters at all are central governing bodies like the Capital, who are too focused on the Demon Lord, politics, and internal affairs to spend any effort protecting the outskirt villages settling the frontier, where the majority of goblin raids (and other monster attacks) occur. Villagers are forced to rely on adventurers they can't afford, when even a lonely military outpost could have sufficed in repelling the frontier's threats. |
| 141 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: The goblin's atrocities also led to the birth of their worst nightmare, Goblin Slayer. This is a relentless crusader hellbent on hunting any and all goblins he can until either they go extinct or he dies. |
| 142 | * NocturnalMooks: While seen active at all times of day, Goblin Slayer says they are naturally most alert at nighttime, and they prefer to raid villages under cover of darkness. |
| 143 | * NonstandardCharacterDesign: The Goblins are drawn semi-realistically with heavily exaggerated and hideous facial features unlike most other characters. Even the Troll, while hideous-looking isn't drawn in such detail. It almost sounds like these things aren't even supposed to exist in the first place. |
| 144 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: In spite of all the havoc they wreak on villages, most goblins really are just CannonFodder in the grand scheme of things. Every other species shown in the story (outside of rats) has individually proven to be far more destructive than even what a whole horde could possibly muster. Which, admittedly, doesn't say great things about the world. Still, at least one can take some small comfort in that most monsters are more likely to "kill" when attacking than to [[FateWorseThanDeath "abduct"]]... |
| 145 | ** Whether intentional on their or a patron's part or not, goblins have successfully invoked and exploited this trope by almost never independently escalating their raids from the occasional razed frontier settlement. It's noted that all it would take to ''force'' the king to respond militarily to the goblin horde is for them to start seriously threatening the trade routes and established towns of the heartland, but that never happens in significant ways no matter how strong their numbers are. |
| 146 | * TheNoseKnows: On top of their InnateNightVision, goblins are credited with an exceptional sense of smell, which is why Goblin Slayer keeps his equipment covered in grime. |
| 147 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Novice adventurers tend to significantly underestimate the threat goblins represent due to how weak they are individually. The Guild also provides less than stellar rewards for resolving goblin-related problems, largely due to poor villages being the ones who submit them. This makes goblin hunting unattractive and fuels a misconception that weak monsters result in low prize money. |
| 148 | * NotWorthKilling: One of the reasons why goblins still continue to exist is because they are so relatively weak and not a threat to major cities and kingdoms. It's just not worth the expense and effort to raise an army to march into the wilderness and purge them when there's so many more serious threats to deal with. |
| 149 | * OneGenderRace: Female goblins don't exist. ''Every single last'' goblin is born a male; hence their constant need to hunt for the females of ''other'' races just to multiply. |
| 150 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Goblin Slayer always makes a mental note whenever he sees or hears of a goblin behaving outside of the norm. The little beasties are creatures of habit and typically driven by their base desires first and foremost, so ''something'' must be powerful and fearsome enough to force a change of self-conduct. A vivisected corpse found in an alleyway? Captured victims not being raped already after a certain amount of time? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Knowledge on how to make and row boats?]] All of these make for important details. |
| 151 | * OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Weirdly enough for a work all about goblins, subverted. Their behaviors and antics in ''Goblin Slayer'' aren't too far away from what you'd find in flavor text of many fantasy {{RPG}}s. Rather, it's how said antics are examined through the eyes of other characters that makes them fearsome instead of amusing. They are also very much in the Tolkien-ish mold, being an unrepentantly evil, feral, and cave-dwelling species. That being said, as the series goes on and lore on them gets more detailed, they start to differentiate themselves by combining a number of more niche or obscure facets from other works together into one background; being a OneGenderRace who must [[MarsNeedsWomen reproduce with females of other species]] is a distinct departure from most mainstream depictions (though still a relatively common monster trait in [[Manga/{{Berserk}} certain]] hardcore {{Seinen}} works and particularly edgy {{Hentai}}), them being capable of EvolutionPowerUp is fairly unique outside of some video games, and [[spoiler:the fact that they are probably literal alien invaders to the setting is novel outside of the ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' and ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' settings]]. |
| 152 | * OurOrcsAreDifferent: While these are definitively goblins, they seem to have some of the attitude of typical fantasy orcs, and the larger varieties can be seen as straight analogues. Compounding this is that "proper" orcs do not exist in the ''Goblin Slayer'' setting; "orc" is simply the elvish word for goblin, which harkens back to Tolkien. |
| 153 | * OutWithABang: Goblins have been known to kill their female captives in this manner, with poor [[SacrificialLion Noble Knight]] being the most notable example. However, this does apply to several goblins themselves, as Goblin Slayer is perfectly fine with killing goblins when they have their pants down, which he does in Volume 2 of ''Year One''. |
| 154 | * ThePawnsGoFirst: A favorite tactics among many of the {{Arc Villain}}s throughout the series, with the goblins being the pawns. Justified, as in most cases all goblins are TheStarscream who would not hesitate kill their bosses, whether they be goblins or non-goblins, should said leaders be caught in a compromising position. |
| 155 | * PlanetOfHats: Every goblin to a one in this world is barbaric, stunted, self-absorbed, sexually predatory, lazy, hateful, and buffoonish. It’s merely a variance of degrees. It is a slight {{Reconstruction}} of the trope as the story goes into a bit of depth as to how they came about (they are experience fodder for a CosmicChessGame, and the [[KillerGameMaster kind of god]] that would design and use them is front and center in the narrative) and stay the way they are (pathological slothfulness and entitlement prevents them from even contemplating self-improvement, a CycleOfRevenge keeps resentment between them and civilized races forever running hot, and the fact they have [[MarsNeedsWomen no women of their own]] means that they couldn’t go their own way apart from others even if they wanted to.) |
| 156 | * PoisonedWeapons: They make poison out of toxic herbs and their own waste, and rub it liberally on their blades. |
| 157 | * {{Pride}}: More than the borderline feral savagery, more than the surprise lethality, more than the rape, what defines the goblins of this series is an all-but psychotic entitlement complex and conviction of their own invincibility. Nothing can convince a goblin that the world doesn’t just exist for their abuse, that it doesn’t have the right or capacity to kill its leader and subjugate its fellows as the new boss, or that any adventurer poses a strong threat to their life. |
| 158 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In a world where there are fifty thousand kinds of monsters (no exaggeration), many of the main characters see goblins as one of the most, if not the most, evil creatures because they commit such actions as rape, despite being among the weakest tier of monsters. At least higher tier monsters like dragons and rock eaters will kill their prey without dragging out their misery. There are other hostile species like ogres that also commit this act, but since they are much fewer in numbers, Goblin Slayer considers these monsters beneath goblins despite having more raw power. |
| 159 | * RapePillageAndBurn: In addition to raiding lone villages, they're also known to rape women... even worse of a matter if you're an [[{{Elfeminate}} elf woman]]. Though it's noted that this is a gradual process led by smarter goblin leaders instead of constant, full-blown, directionless onslaughts -- a goblin band typically raids villages first, stealing resources to form nests, build up their strength, as in taking food and/or females. If left unchecked, they then come rampaging down on such villages once they're strong and numerous enough. |
| 160 | * TheResenter: The leading cause of intra-goblin violence is one specimen feeling that a nestmate has cheated his way into claiming better loot or hogging breeding time with the captives. Goblins are barely less malicious towards their kin than to outside races under the best circumstances, and will kill to rectify what they see as shortchanging. |
| 161 | * RobbingTheDead: Throughout Volume 2, Goblin Slayer notes that every pack of goblins he and his team have come across all have unusually good equipment, and wonders where it's all coming from. He gets his answer when he finds the source of all the groups is a huge goblin nest living directly underneath a mausoleum built especially for adventurers just outside Water Town. |
| 162 | * {{Sadist}}: An entire race of them, or else goblins wouldn't have been treated with nearly as much fear by their victims. In Volume 10, the driver of the goblin battle wagon fantasizes about running Priestess over with his tank, and is as or more gratified by the thought of her death as the idea of capturing her as a SexSlave. In Volume 11, it's stated by the a goblin in a point-of-view segment that the Desert Kingdom guards have to whip them to refrain from damaging their provided breeding slaves, and the goblins hate them for it because ''they don't even enjoy sex if they aren't also torturing their victim to the point of death during the act.'' |
| 163 | * ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Goblins will turn tail the instant they realize they are not on the winning side of an engagement. The do both the "panicked rush to flee" style, such as in Volume 2 when Goblin Slayer successfully intimidates a horde into fleeing pell-mell while they cry and wet their pants, and the "abandoned with disgust" type, in Volume 5 when two goblin peons spit and show their backs to the goblin paladin when the party escapes his fort. |
| 164 | * SinisterSchnoz: Long and hooked as a vulture's beak, to a one. |
| 165 | * SmugSnake: Goblin Slayer mentions this will lead to their downfall; goblins think they're so superior to everything else that they can't fathom that other beings can copy their tactics and use it against them. So goblins fall for tricks and traps every time. |
| 166 | * TheSociopath: A [[ShownTheirWork remarkably textbook example]] that encompasses an entire race. Goblins are born without any empathy or ability to self-reflect; they do not, will not, and more importantly ''cannot'' recognize the pain they inflict on their victims. They see themselves as the superior race against common sense, and feed into that sense of superiority by degrading others through deception and assault. At the same time, they are blind as to why some people would hunt them down as a result, [[NeverMyFault instead vowing to continue raping and murdering as revenge for something that was their own fault to begin with]]. Not that goblins need much more motivation anyway, because their short-term thinking and inability to delay gratification means they will almost never pursue anything beyond their destructive impulses. They don't even care for their own brethren, backstabbing and abuse being commonplace within their ranks. Most damningly, like any cornered sociopath they will default to [[WoundedGazelleGambit cheap sympathy-ploys]] akin to slipping a mask on -- there's no genuine sorrow present, just the hope that someone falls for their lies. The rank and file goblins act like low functioning sociopaths, while the smarter and more cunning classes of goblins act like high functioning ones. |
| 167 | * SoleSurvivor: Nearly all "higher-tier" goblin types (except for riders) start off as wanderers; runaway, last living members of their original nests who travel across the land leading hand-to-mouth existences that either end with them starving to death out on their own... [[MagikarpPower or achieving evolution and then status in a new horde]]. |
| 168 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: {{PlayedWith}}; on the one hand goblins absolutely ''are'' the weakest, dumbest, and most pathetic of the sapient monster races, but on the other hand they are also far more lethal than anyone on either side gives them credit for and a combination of factors has led to them actually being more successful {{Hero Killer}}es and settlement destroyers than many more sophisticated Chaos races. |
| 169 | * StarfishLanguage: In the manga, whenever goblins actually talk, their speech is rendered as large runic symbols scattered across their speech bubbles that often extend out of their boundaries. |
| 170 | * TheStarscream: They are noted to always be plotting ways to make others take the fall for their mistakes or mug their fellows for trophies, and all of them dream of knocking off their leader so they can be in charge. It is also mention in Volume 6 that goblins are known to kill their non-goblin bosses, like ogres and demons, should they be weakened enough for the horde to overtake them. Although there are a few exception to this, depending on who is leading the horde. |
| 171 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: It surprisingly takes a lot to rattle a goblin on a warpath. They can see their fellows get cut down in droves by adventurers and still convince themselves that they could never fail and be killed like that. |
| 172 | -->No, each assumed he was the exception. He was smart. He wasn’t like the others. He was better. |
| 173 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Anytime there is a goblin point-of-view passage, it'll be at least 70% the goblin ranting about how short-sighted, clumsy, and frivolous its fellows are, and how it [[TemptingFate is so much more on the ball than the others mere seconds before the section ends with Goblin Slayer executing the narrating goblin.]] |
| 174 | * TemptingFate: The SympatheticPOV of goblins tends to almost always involve excessive trash-talking about how inevitable their victory is and how inferior the adventurers are right before they get put down contemptuously. Crowning example would be the volume 14 nest leader, who goes on for a solid page and a half that his magic axe makes him invincible only for Goblin Slayer to cut his arm off mid-sentence. [[ExaggeratedTrope That same goblin comes to at the end of the naval battle and concludes that he has proven his undefeatable nature and can rebuild]] despite being down a limb, stripped of his gear, covered in burns, his entire horde dead, and stuck on a capsized boat. Cue the downed sea-devil crushing him. |
| 175 | * ToServeMan: Goblins will eat anything they can find, but they especially like the taste of human flesh. |
| 176 | * TooDumbToFool: Goblin Slayer says that the idea of a scarecrow for goblins would be of limited if any effectiveness, as a goblin would only approach human property in the first place if it had backup as part of a raiding party, and thus would more likely try to jump the scarecrow for materials than try to avoid it. This is just one example, but in general he feels goblins are too impulse-driven and full of low cunning for anyone to reliably bait them without his level of insight into their preferred tactics and what triggers their fear and rage. |
| 177 | -->'''Goblin Slayer:''' Goblins are stupid, but they are not fools. |
| 178 | * TrickedToDeath: Though largely TooDumbToFool by Goblin Slayer's repeated assertion, he has been able to bait them a number of times. Most notably in Volume 3, where he sets a row of traps for the approaching horde with glass beads marking the triggers. The goblins easily spot them, laugh, and walk right past them... into the backup row of traps with glass beads marking the ''safe'' walking spots. |
| 179 | * TunnelKing: Their one natural talent is that they excel at digging, to the point of being able to burrow through solid walls as an ambush maneuver. |
| 180 | * UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Goblins are near universally unhygenic, splattering blood, waste, and spoiled food all over their homes, possessions, and bodies with no care for upkeep or maintenance. |
| 181 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: PlayedWith. For all intents and purposes, most of the things that adventurers believe about goblins ''are'' true; they're small, weak, cowardly, stupid, go down easily, and even a child could be seen as an even match for one in combat, which a lot of village children who decided to become adventurers can attest to. The problem is that people tend to focus solely on these aspects of them while ignoring their strengths, such as how deadly they can be in a group, or god forbid as an army, and how their use of traps and trickery can more than make up for these weaknesses. There's also the fact that these traits only really apply to basic [[{{Mook}} Mooks]], while largely ignoring the stronger and deadlier variants such as hobgoblins or goblin champions, who are at least stronger than your average human and and in some cases have lived long enough to gain something resembling combat skill. |
| 182 | * UngratefulBastard: A goblin whose life is spared thinks only two thoughts: “what a soft-hearted fool that human is,” and “how painfully should I kill them for making me actually fear for my life?” In volume 11 a horde is literally given everything they ever wanted; a human patron supplies them with shelter, equipment, food, women, and opportunities for raiding complete with backup, and the goblins are just ''more dissatisfied than ever'' because they don't get to abuse their handouts as much as they want, have to obey a regiment, and assume the soldiers in the fort above their cave have better things and just lay around all day and night. |
| 183 | * VillainousCrush: Due to their MarsNeedsWomen nature, most goblins tends to lust after many of the attractive heroines within the cast. |
| 184 | * VillainsWantMercy: Goblins have no genuine warrior's pride 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. |
| 185 | * WeakButSkilled: Downplayed. Regular goblins are not only weak, but they are very lacking in any real fighting skill, being more reliant of swarm tactics than anything else. That being said, they are also fast learners, [[spoiler: as shown when one survives a modified arrow designed to leave the point in there and they reverse-engineer it]], and they're able to use traps, poisons and deception to make up for the gap in strength. |
| 186 | * WouldHurtAChild: This alone would be bad enough, but they ''specifically'' seek out young girls to kidnap for their complete defenselessness. |
| 187 | * WombHorror: The things literally exist to rape and sexually torture anyone they get their hands on, and it is not abstracted in anyway. On top of that, goblin mothers have a tendency towards DeathByChildbirth and getting mauled to death by their own infants. |
| 188 | * YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Most goblins have gleaming gold eyes. |
| 189 | * ZergRush: Goblins alone are weak, and dumb as a brick; but most low-level adventurers underestimate them due to the low reward of the quest. Thus, they can find themselves subject to this when they're ill-prepared. Even when adventurers aren't ill-prepared, they often succumb to this tactic because, no matter how easily they die, when it's one against a hundred, the odds are against the adventurers. It's mentioned that part of the reason adventurers who are high-leveled don't go after them is because it's high-risk and low-reward, and goblin-related deaths are downright nasty. |
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| 192 | [[folder:Hobgoblins]] |
| 193 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerhob.png]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | Goblins that have grown larger and put on more muscle. They act as bodyguards for nests. |
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| 197 | * TheBrute: Of the goblin race, easily big enough to single-handedly manhandle the average young adult adventurer in-universe. |
| 198 | * EliteMooks: Rarely become leaders of hordes, shown instead to mostly become the top enforcers of the actual leaders or remain solitary wanderers. |
| 199 | * EvolutionaryLevels: Clearest cut example among the goblin sub-types; while all goblins become bigger and stronger continuously throughout their lives, hobgoblins develop radically different physical frames and more than double in body mass. They're also the only ones so far to be shown to have a third tier, with a rare few hobgoblins growing even further, enough to become the legendary, ogre-like goblin champions. In ''Year One'' Arc Mage theorizes at length that they are an atavistic throwback to plains-roaming Ice Age ancestors. |
| 200 | * GroinAttack: When a hobgoblin in ''Year One'' [[HumanShield holds up a captive woman bond to his forearm]], Goblin Slayer aims low. 'Thrown sword straight to the junk' low. And then he kicks the knife deeper into the groin. |
| 201 | * GuttedLikeAFish: In ''Year One'', Goblin Slayer stabs a hob through the stomach and it causes a ragged hole through which its intestines start coiling out. The hob ''continues running and swinging at him.'' Goblin Slayer feels the need to pulp its skull after getting it down and afterwards starts aiming for the head on them. |
| 202 | * HighPressureBlood: The first hob Goblin Slayer ever fought was finally downed by a stab through the throat which caused a veritable explosion of blood to jet out of both the front and back of his neck. |
| 203 | * HumanShield: |
| 204 | ** One hobgoblin in Volume 4 (and in ''Brand New Day'') attempted to get Goblin Slayer to back down by holding a captive adventurer hostage. Goblin Slayer did drop his sword... and then [[GroinAttack punted the hob hard enough to crack his pelvis]] as it watched the weapon hit the ground. |
| 205 | ** This happens twice in ''Year One''. Both times, Goblin Slayer immediately defuses the situation by throwing a knife in the crotch or stabbing it directly in the crotch. |
| 206 | * {{Kevlard}}: One hobgoblin in ''Year One'' Volume 2 is able to harmlessly absorb the young Martial Artist's gut punches thanks to its sheer girth. |
| 207 | * MadeOfIron: The hobgoblin Goblin Slayer fought in his first quest in ''Year One'' could power through a broken sword lodged in its throat, electrocution, and getting an arm chopped off. The second one he fights in Volume 2 of the spin-off continues swinging even with a sword stuck in its gut. |
| 208 | * MagicalDefibrillator: The hob from Goblin Slayer’s first quest seemed to die from getting stabbed through the throat, but then it was accidentally resuscitated after being used as a shield against a shaman’s Thunderbolt. |
| 209 | * MetronomicManMashing: Hobs seems to like grabbing adventurers by the foot and swinging them into cave walls. |
| 210 | * OurOrcsAreDifferent: Hobs look the Tolkien-esque part, they behave the Tolkien-esque part, so they are the closest you're ever gonna get to having orcs in this setting. |
| 211 | * PunchCatch: Hobgoblins, despite their lumbering appearances, have deceptively quick reflexes and are able catch blunt attacks with relative ease. It's probably best to avoid performing high kicks around these guys, just ask Fighter and Martial Artist. |
| 212 | * RasputinianDeath: Because of how strong and bulky they are, it’s almost impossible for [[WeakButSkilled Goblin Slayer]] to kill them in one hit, especially in ''Year One''. So to ascertain they stay down, he tends to lay well into them. The first one he ever fought was shocked, dismembered, and throat-stabbed twice. The second was stabbed in the stomach, hit on the head with a club five times (its brains were exposed on the second hit) and then disemboweled just to make sure. |
| 213 | * StoutStrength: They tend to be rather corpulent. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Goblin Shamans]] |
| 217 | [[quoteright:296:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shaman.jpg]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | Goblins that have gained the ability to use magic. They often lead nests. |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | * ArcVillain: One serves as this during Goblin Slayer's first mission in ''Year One''. A different, more powerful Shaman would later serve as the main antagonist in Volume 7. |
| 222 | * BornLucky: The goblin shaman of Volume 7 would love to claim that his amassing a major horde, claiming the ancient fortress, gaining control of Mokele Mbembe, and poisoning the river was all the result of his skill and foresight, but in actuality it was all just freakish good fortune and the subtle manipulations of demons. |
| 223 | * CharmPerson: [[spoiler:Volume 7 of the light novel has the ultimate threat be a Shaman with such potent magic that he can tame and command a giant hydra to do his bidding.]] |
| 224 | * EvilGenius: They are not quite smart enough, but in terms of overall goblin intelligence they qualify. They display leadership skills, integral to an effective horde, and have the capacity to learn basic spells and build sophisticated traps. |
| 225 | * ForcedSleep: The one spell the Volume 7 shaman gets to cast is Sleep Cloud. That spell alone incapacitates the entire party and nearly spells their doom. |
| 226 | * GlassCannon: They are at most moderately more durable than ordinary goblins, but they can cast devastating spells, which is why Goblin Slayer often advises a ShootTheMageFirst approach when it comes to them. |
| 227 | * MadeOfIron: Less so than hobs or champions, but Goblin Slayer does note that shamans are deceptively resilient and able to survive an extra few blows despite remaining the same size as normal goblins, fully averting SquishyWizard. |
| 228 | * MagicMissileStorm: The shaman fought at the end of Volume 6 knows Magic Arrow, and can fire so many energy bolts that not even Witch's Counterspell can get rid them all. |
| 229 | * PlayingPossum: The brand of goblin most likely to pull this trick when injured, not that Goblin Slayer ever falls for it. |
| 230 | * ShockAndAwe: Shamans during the raid of the farm are capable of using lightning magic. The first shaman Goblin Slayer faces in ''Year One'' also has the magic capacity to liberally spam Thunderbolt spells during their fight. The first Shaman seen in the series also seemed to have been preparing to cast a lightning spell before being interrupted by a thrown sword. It is fairly safe to say this sort of magic seems to be the shamans' favorite. It's easy to see why, a lightning bolt is less lethal than a fireball to the face, but equally painful and debilitating, [[ElectricTorture the perfect type of magic for a race of sadists who like to play with their prey]]. This can be quite versatile, as one shaman showed ''Year One'' when it [[NotTheIntendedUse accidentally]] [[MagicalDefibrillator recuscitated]] a fallen hobgoblin with a Thunderbolt spell. |
| 231 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Tend to express this sentiment; particularly the chronologically first one faced by GS, who liberally whacks all his surviving followers with his staff when he discovers that his entire horde put together couldn't put down a solitary greenhorn adventurer. |
| 232 | * TooImportantToWalk: The first shaman Goblin Slayer ever faces forces his underlings to carry him into battle on a small, bone-constructed litter. |
| 233 | * TrapMaster: Goblin Slayer credits them as the primary architects of den defenses. |
| 234 | * TheUsualAdversaries: Due to the fact that baseline goblins aren't a substantial threat to the MainCharacters without a leader, and the noted extreme rarity of champions, lords, and people able or willing to collaborate with their kind, shamans appear with increased frequency in the later light novels and spin-offs, and are by far the most often seen "evolved" goblins and the go-to [[MonsterOfTheWeek target of small, secondary hunts that take up only a few pages]]. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Goblin Riders]] |
| 238 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblin_riders.jpg]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | Goblins that have tamed captured wolves to the point they can use them as mounts. |
| 241 | ---- |
| 242 | * BeastOfBattle: Well-stocked hordes would already use a wolf as an AngryGuardDog, but the riders lead them directly into battle. |
| 243 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Having the mental faculties to train a wolf to this extent shows a level of maturity well ahead of the curve of a bog-standard goblin, but the pay-out is these specimens never acquire the magic potential of shamans or increased stature of hobgoblins. Goblin Slayer also notes that they only ever develop in hordes that are extremely large and with easy access to resources, making the practice seem almost like a status-symbol for well-off raiders. |
| 244 | * GiantSpider: Though mostly only seen using various kinds of wolves as mounts, Goblin Slayer in Volume 10 does state that they also can tame dog-sized monstrous arachnid. |
| 245 | * HorseArcher: In volume 11, riders finally become skilled enough to shoot from warg-back. |
| 246 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: Use wolves as this, serving as a bona fide cavalry unit for particularly numerous and aggressive hordes. |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Goblin Champions]] |
| 250 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblin_champion.png]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | Heroes of the goblin race, those that have become large enough to even be seen as ogres in terms of strength. One serves as the main antagonist of Volume 2 of the light novel. |
| 253 | ---- |
| 254 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: The anime changed the goblin lord's pack of champions into hobgoblins during the farm raid arc. Only two of the goblins are identified as champions among the {{Elite Mook}}s. This is likely done to downplay goblin champions being seen as {{Degraded Boss}}es (see below). |
| 255 | * ArcVillain: One serves as the main antagonist of Volume 2/the Water Town arc. |
| 256 | * AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: In contrast to shamans and lords, self-grown champions have [[DumbMuscle almost no capacity for effective leadership or planning]], becoming leaders of hordes by feat of physical dominance. |
| 257 | * AxCrazy: The Water Town goblin champion loses what little composure he had after his first fight against Goblin Slayer, and rips apart his own men in a blind fury to try and kill him. |
| 258 | * BadBoss: The leader of Water Town barely qualifies as a boss. His horde only follows him because he's the biggest, he himself has no plans or sophisticated set-up, and he mostly fights by himself and sees his subordinates as meat shields, if he acknowledges their presence in the midst of battle at all. In the manga he attempts to punch through Priestess' Protection by ''throwing'' one of his own minions at the barrier, splattering him to no avail. He's even ''worse'' in his reappearance, [[GiantFootOfStomping stomping on a peon who runs from Goblin Slayer]], and slicing through his own men like sheet paper just to get at him. |
| 259 | * TheBerserker: The Water Town champion in its second fight goes into a blood frenzy at the mere sight of Goblin Slayer, striking at him with absolutely no care how many of its minions get caught in the crossfire. |
| 260 | * BlindedByRage: The first time it fought Goblin Slayer, the Water Town champion was a cautious and deadly opponent that could counter him and nearly kill him in one hit. The second time, it is so enraged by its injuries it rushes into battle and swings its club willy-nilly, and Goblin Slayer can corral it with contemptuous ease. |
| 261 | * BossInMookClothing: These things are strong enough that only Silver-ranked adventurers can stand up to them when they come out en masse during the raid of the farm. |
| 262 | * BoxingLessonsForSuperman: The distinction between hobgoblins and champions has less to do with build (seeing as the former can already exceed average humans in size and strength) as the phenomenon of champions living through enough battles to pick up decent, durable gear and at least some inkling of proper martial arts. |
| 263 | --> '''Heavy Warrior''': I thought they were just really big goblins, but this thing knows how to ''fight!'' |
| 264 | * BulletproofHumanShield: Goblin Shield actually, but the Water Town champion blocked Goblin Slayer's sneak attack by picking up a little goblin and making him take the blade to the ribs. |
| 265 | * CarryABigStick: They often carry clubs. |
| 266 | * CrossPoppingVeins: The Water Town champion has veins standing out all across its face when it sees Goblin Slayer again after getting an eye ripped out. |
| 267 | * DegradedBoss: Play out effectively like this in the anime due to [[PragmaticAdaptation a reshuffling of the major battles of Volumes 1 and 2]]; the Water Town chief is a particularly strong and well-equipped champion that comes the closest to killing Goblin Slayer and friends of any monster yet and has to be taken on twice and cheesed through [[RocksFallEveryoneDies environmental warfare]] to finally put down, and this time is fought before the goblin lord and his pack of ten or so rank-and-file champions that get put down with little difficulty by a squad of properly kitted Silver adventurers. The anime tries to downplay this by changing all but two of the pack from champions to hobgoblins. |
| 268 | * TheDragon: These kinds of goblins tend to be this. During the farm raid arc, a pack of champions (they were reduced to [[CoDragons two champions]] in the anime) served as this to a goblin lord. The Water Town goblin champion was implied to have been one for [[spoiler:Dark Elf]]. |
| 269 | * DumbMuscle: In spite of likely being the heaviest hitters of the horde, champions evidently don't have much in ways of brainpower. Goblin Slayer was able to easily rodeo one and trick it into swinging several times, killing countless goblins in droves. |
| 270 | * EpicFlail: One champion during the battle for the farm in the manga [[ImprovisedWeapon fashions one]] out of a net tightly packed with large stones swung on a rope. |
| 271 | * EyepatchOfPower: The Water Town champion has to wrap a large swath of bandages around his face to cover the hole where Goblin Slayer ripped out his eye. He is not appreciative of the new look, nor the persistent phantom pain. |
| 272 | * EyeScream: Goblin Slayer rips the eye out of the champion leading the horde in the Water Town. |
| 273 | * GiantMook: Their base size utterly dwarfs even the very biggest and most muscular of human fighters seen and they edge out [[GentleGiant Lizard Priest]] in height and breadth. Ones allowed to monopolize horde resources can grow even further until they rival ogres in size, as demonstrated by the Water Town boss. |
| 274 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: During the battle of the farm, one champion gets a hold of an adventurer and throws him halfway across the valley with enough force to bounce, leave a crater, and hit a boulder with a splat. Several other fighters are sent sprawling to avoid the human missile, and one rookie that sees the mangled corpse left behind [[StressVomit vomits in horror]]. |
| 275 | * HisOwnWorstEnemy: The Water Town champion would go on a berserk rampage when experiencing the slightest bit of panic or rage, mowing down dozens of his own troops as he flailed at his actual enemy, succeeding only in creating an opening for them to press a counterattack. This combined with his incredibly simplistic thinking and cowardice in the face any resistance at all lead him to slink away in defeat from a battle he still had a near-assured chance of winning, giving his prey a chance to regroup with his own forces greatly diminished. |
| 276 | * HungryMenace: Despite displaying lust for Priestess, the Water Town champion would rather feast on her flesh than violate or torture her. A monster that size probably would place first priority on its appetite. |
| 277 | * ItsPersonal: The Water Town champion has a rabid grudge against Goblin Slayer after getting its eye ripped out, having its lackeys make banners of it to show his thirst for revenge and flying into a berserk rage at the sight of the man who did it. |
| 278 | * KingMook: A particularly large champion leads his own horde in the sewers of the Water Town. Most of his page-space just shows how bad an idea it is to let TheBrute set his own rules, as this particular horde has no organization, no base defenses, and the champion [[BadBoss ends up killing most of his horde himself through friendly fire]]. |
| 279 | * KungShui: In the second fight with the party the Water Town champion becomes so indiscriminate with its swings that it begins bringing down the walls of the chamber they're in, [[spoiler:which is exactly what Goblin Slayer wanted]]. |
| 280 | * LargeAndInCharge: The goblin champion leading the horde beneath the Water Town is a towering brute, easily rivaling Volume 1's ogre in both height and physical power. |
| 281 | * LecherousLicking: In the manga, the Water Town champion drags his tongue across Priestess' face with a sneer in between taking bites out of her shoulder. |
| 282 | * MoralMyopia: In Goblin Slayer's rematch with the champion in Volume 2, he lures it into pancaking goblins several times in a row. The champion becomes angrier and angrier with every failed attack and blames Goblin Slayer for his companions' deaths, when perhaps the lug should have stopped after the first swing. [[{{Hypocrite}} That's not counting an earlier moment when he used a fellow goblin as a meat shield without hesitation]]. |
| 283 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: The Water Town champion's remaining eye gets a bloody-looking red cast over it in the manga as it lashes out at goblin slayer in a mad rush for vengeance. |
| 284 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The Water Town Champion doesn't care if it kills its entire horde in collateral damage. It doesn't care if it collapses the labyrinth on top of itself. What it cares about is if it can beat Goblin Slayer into a paste for tearing out its eye. |
| 285 | * ToServeMan: [[spoiler:Volume 2's champion was in the middle of eating Priestess before Goblin Slayer strangles him into stopping]]. |
| 286 | * UnstoppableRage: When it sees Goblin Slayer again, the Water Town champion charges and starts swinging and doesn't slow down for anything in its way, be it large debris or its own goblin lackeys. |
| 287 | * VillainousBreakdown: First being strangled by the hair garrote, then the pain of losing its eye to Goblin Slayer drives the Water Town champion almost feral, and encountering him again incites a blind fury that quickly brings the chamber they are fighting in down. |
| 288 | -->'''Water Town Goblin Champion:''' What…?! [[WhatTheHellAreYou What is this thing?]] Die! Get off of me…! Die! Why won't it let go? [[WhyWontYouDie Why doesn't it die?]] [[HorrifyingTheHorror What in hell is it?!]] Die! Hurry and die! Die die die! |
| 289 | * WhatTheHellAreYou: Mixed alongside WhyWontYouDie, the Water Town champion asks both these questions repeatedly in an increasingly panicked tone as it tries and fails to shake Goblin Slayer off after he gets up from being knocked across the room and starts strangling it. |
| 290 | [[/folder]] |
| 291 | |
| 292 | [[folder:Goblin Lords]] |
| 293 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese), Jacob Browning (English) |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[quoteright:252:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblin_lord.jpg]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | Kings of the goblin race, these goblins have gained intellect and ambition, allowing them to command hordes to great effectiveness. |
| 298 | ---- |
| 299 | * AdaptationDistillation: Most of the goblin lord's past that was shown from the manga was omitted out in the anime. |
| 300 | * AdaptationalCurves: The light novel illustrations for the third ''Year One'' story arc depict the fat goblin lord as several times the height of regular goblins, and with more than enough muscle to offset his blubber. |
| 301 | * AllEncompassingMantle: The goblin lord leading the assault on the farm wears a rough, voluminous cloak with a fur collar. |
| 302 | * ArcVillain: Of Volume 1, particular during the farm raid arc, while another recently evolved goblin lord serves as the main villain for the third arc of ''Year One''. |
| 303 | * ArmorPiercingAttack: The goblin lord is strong enough and his battleaxe well-made enough to cave in Goblin Slayer's buckler in one hit, cut through it in two, and sunder it completely and break Goblin Slayer's wrist in three. |
| 304 | * BadBoss: Beheads his scout and personal aide out of hand for criticizing him, sends the remainder of his forward army out against the adventurers despite being outmatched to cover his retreat while they die, considers his troops worthless, and his flashbacks reveal he had a habit of literally shoving his fellows at adventurers as a distraction technique while still a grunt. |
| 305 | * BeardOfEvil: A short fringe of ratty black hair framing his jawline. |
| 306 | * CarpetOfVirility: His flashbacks show he has a large patch of greasy back hair across his chest. Being a goblin (with all the [[DirtyCoward traits]] [[SmugSnake that]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil implies]]) it's an indicator of his repulsiveness. |
| 307 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: {{Justified|Trope}}; Goblin Slayer has an exceptionally difficult time as he's used to fighting multiple weak opponents in an enclosed space. Here's he's fighting a single opponent with far more powerful weapons and armor than he has in an open clearing with plenty of room for the Goblin Lord to get around him. |
| 308 | * CoolCrown: Befitting the acquired title of lord, the one we see wears a helmet-like winged crown, with antlers outfitting as the wings. [[WardrobeWound He gets extra pissed when Goblin Slayer knocks it off with a slash of his sword]]. |
| 309 | * CrocodileTears: The goblin lord in the climax of the first volume could make himself cry on command. He evidently used this trick to great effect, getting at least a half-dozen adventuresses to spare him out of pity, until Priestess and Goblin Slayer crossed his path and could see right through his waterworks. |
| 310 | * CrossPoppingVeins: His veins bulge with adrenaline and frustration when he is confronted by Goblin Slayer, and as the fight between them drags on, they just throb worse and extend across more of his face like [[Manga/OnePiece Doflamingo]]. |
| 311 | * DareToBeBadass: Weirdly enough. The goblin lord in the first light novel presents a RousingSpeech to drive its horde up in an excited fervor, while simultaneously displaying its eloquence (at least in its own tongue). |
| 312 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: The goblin lord in the first light novel. Given the premise of the story, you would assume he would be the final or a late stage antagonist. Instead, he is defeated very early in the overall story. At least the anime went out of its way to change up the sequence of advents from the light novels so that he would be the final villain of Season 1. This is lampshaded in-series where Goblin Slayer and many of the other characters have pointed out that the next couple of {{Arc Villain}}s after the goblin lord actually have a lower threat level than this particular monster and the massive army he had under his command. |
| 313 | * TheDreaded: [[ExperiencedProtagonist Goblin Slayer]] doubts his chances of ''surviving'' a fight against a lord by himself, and evidence of one near the farm sends him booking to tell Cow Girl DontAskJustRun immediately. News of a horde on the march with a lord at the helm has the veteran adventurers, quick to brush goblins off and disparage Goblin Slayer any other time, regard each other with genuine sobriety and worry. That should tell you all you need to know about the threat they represent. |
| 314 | * EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Particularly in the manga, where his speech when commanding other goblins or thinking of his next move can become almost flowery at points. |
| 315 | * EvilCounterpart: The sole survivor of its family, giving birth to a vehement grudge against its attackers that lasts a lifetime. It gets stronger from its encounters, gets more cunning, cycling through different weapons and methods until it ascends to the top rank among its contemporaries. And Goblin Slayer has been aware of that since the very beginning. |
| 316 | * EvilGenius: To the point where they can form strategies and match wits with humans when push comes to shove. Although, it says something about both them and goblins in general that it takes a dedicated EvolutionPowerUp on par with gaining SuperStrength or magical prowess simply to make a goblin capable of ''long-term planning''. |
| 317 | * EvilGloating: Wasted so much time lord over Goblin Slayer's beaten down body that Priestess could block his final blow with a barrier, when he turns and sees her, he just stood around some more and mused about how he'd like to kill her until she cast the second Protection and trapped him. |
| 318 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: In the manga the goblin lord that attacks the farm seems to have multiple misshapen pupils in each eye. |
| 319 | * FatBastard: The goblin lord encountered in ''Year One'' is shorter and plumper than Volume 1's goblin lord. |
| 320 | * FearsomeFoot: The goblin lord in the end of Volume 1 is given extremely long, muscled, dinosaur-like digitigrade legs in the manga adaptation, which are shown off prominently when he [[TrampledUnderfoot crushes the severed head of his servant while fleeing the battlefield]]. It is worth noting that not only is this feature unique to him (or at least not nearly as pronounced in other goblins), but his flashback shows that his foot configuration [[EvolutionPowerup became more warped and animalistic with age and development of his eventual lordly cunning]]. |
| 321 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Started as just another goblin whelp, pitiable-looking enough that an adventurer didn't even want to kill him, but grew to be a ruthless and bloodthirsty MonsterLord with enough power at his command that Goblin Slayer himself needed to buy the services of the entire rest of the Adventurers Guild to oppose him. |
| 322 | * GeneralRipper: The one that attacks the farm leads a horde of over one hundred goblins with uncommon discipline, and his capacity for deferred gratification has refined, not restrained, his natural goblin bloodlust. |
| 323 | * GoalOrientedEvolution: Discussed in ''Year One''. Its been theorized by Arc Mage that these types of goblins will come to be when a horde of goblins have enough resources to start a campaign to establish a "goblin kingdom" and thus a form of strong leadership is needed among them. Arc Mage has pointed out that it is very unlikely for a horde to ever get to that point, as most of the time a goblin nest would be wiped out by adventurers before then, which is likely meant to explain the rarity of this particular type of goblin. |
| 324 | * GodzillaThreshold: He is first villain that required the help of nearly every member of the Adventurer's Guild in order for Goblin Slayer to defeat him. |
| 325 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a large slash across his face and a chunk taken out of the right corner of his mouth. |
| 326 | * HopeCrusher: Is disappointed and disgusted when Goblin Slayer stoically bears his beatings and threats of torture, saying that killing adventurers is no fun if they do not show fear. |
| 327 | * HumanShield: The goblin lord that attacks the farm once bested an adventurer by holding a woman hostage, then running them both through with a flamberge. During said attack on the farm, it literally tied several female slaves no longer able to bear young to large shields for use by its army's vanguard and shaman escort to trip up and demoralize human attackers. Fortunately, Goblin Slayer had the know-how and resources to safely knockout the wielders and recover the girls. |
| 328 | * IronicEcho: Nonverbal, meta variant; The composition of the panels where he finally strikes down Goblin Slayer, gives a triumphant battle-high grin over his body, then recoils as he registers the sword in his gut, are near shot-for-shot repeats of how Warrior from Chapter 1 gets the tables turned on him just before he is swarmed and killed. |
| 329 | * ISurrenderSuckers: The lord leading the raid of the farm has a tendency of doing this. It performed this on an adventurer as a child, [[spoiler:braining her with a rock once her back was turned]]. It retreated from battle the moment its horde was being pushed back, intending to try again after replenishing numbers with its stock of captured women. It tried to prostrate while under [[spoiler:Priestess']] mercy, lying through its teeth as it begged to be let go. [[spoiler:Goblin Slayer saw to make certain it never surrenders again]]. |
| 330 | * ItCanThink: All goblins display this trope to some extent, but Lords express it the best with near-human levels of intelligence and cognition. |
| 331 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The fact that Volume 1's goblin lord achieved his status in the first place means that he's been screwing over people and fellow goblins alike for a long, long time. His backstory only offers a glimpse of the many atrocities he's committed and gotten away with. Naturally, Goblin Slayer is there to finally punch his overdue ticket. |
| 332 | * KickThemWhileTheyreDown: Repeatedly stomps on Goblin Slayer with relish when he collapse from their fight, though he gets bored quickly when the adventurer fails to [[HopeCrusher display sufficient pain or despair.]] |
| 333 | * TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Applies to all goblins, but this one in particular gets it good: [[spoiler:After Priestess ensnares it between two Protection walls like a pressed cockroach, Goblin Slayer slips in his broken sword and crushes the lord's windpipe]]. |
| 334 | * KnowWhenToFoldThem: Is perfectly able and willing to abandon a fight and a horde that he knows he is about to lose. His inner monologue while running away implies that the farm raid isn't the first time he has cut his losses to start over from scratch. [[spoiler:Too bad for him that Goblin Slayer is the one adventurer that leaves no survivors]]. |
| 335 | * TheLeader: They play this role to their goblin hordes, with Goblin Slayer remarking that they have exceptional leadership abilities. It's the very reason they're called "lords" in the first place. |
| 336 | * LeanAndMean: The lord from the Farm Raid Arc stands almost twice as tall as his baseline grunts, and though he's packed on quite a bit of muscle throughout his violent life, it's almost all in his legs, [[DirtyCoward a feature he has no qualms of utilizing to cut a hasty dash away from the first sign of danger]]. |
| 337 | * MadeOfIron: Laughs off Goblin Slayer's sword breaking off between his lower ribs as a "minor wound", and proves it's not just bravado talking by liberally stomping on him without agitating the injury, and when [[spoiler:Priestess presses the blade in deeper with her barriers, it barely causes any additional damage and he still keeps struggling.]] Goblins must have very small and/or resilient lungs. |
| 338 | * MonsterLord: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Goblin lords are considered the pinnacle form of their kind, and their capacity for uniting and organizing scores of other goblins under their direction is viewed as just as much of a special power/characteristic as a shaman's spellcasting or a champion's quintupled muscle mass. |
| 339 | * OffhandBackhand: When the assault on the farm starts to visibly be pushed back, his MookLieutenant standing directly beside him turns and starts screaming at him angrily [[StarfishLanguage in gobbledygook]]. The lord just swings his arm back without even a twitch of warning, neatly decapitating him with his axe before sending in the goblin champions to attack...and then turning tail and fleeing into the woods. |
| 340 | * OutGambitted: The goblin lord encountered at the end of Volume 1 has lived his life in preparation to leading a march through the human frontier. He has spent years amassing a horde of over a hundred strong, about half of whom are specialized ranks, including no less than ''ten'' specimens of the near-mythic [[BossInMookClothing goblin champion]]. He leads smart, he has all his ducks in a row, he uses legitimate tactical maneuvers such as cavalry charges on the enemy's flanks and a vanguard with a HumanShield wall to provide cover for his spellcasters. By all measures he was poised to steamroll the outlying farmland. It's merely his misfortune that his march brought him immediately up against Goblin Slayer, a man with near-psychic understanding of goblin thinking and fighting, and Guild Girl, a girl that understands the true danger of goblins and has access to the funds to bribe veteran adventurers into finally taking his kind on seriously. |
| 341 | * ProperlyParanoid: When you're a goblin, there's never a situation where you're wrong to run away. [[spoiler:When you're a goblin in Goblin Slayer's sights, there's [[OutGambitted nowhere you can run]] that will save your hide]]. |
| 342 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: 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. The powerful enchanted weapon he looted from a victim might have something to do with it, not to mention simply having enough intelligence to actually learn fighting techniques instead of just flailing like a child the way most goblins do. |
| 343 | * ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: Thinks back smugly on the many, many female adventurers he tricked into letting their guard down and then killed while attempting the same stunt on Priestess. [[spoiler: She isn't fooled for a second.]] |
| 344 | * SlasherSmile: Grins maniacally at the sight of humans falling before him. |
| 345 | * SmugSnake: As detailed above, he is legitimately a high-level threat physically, intellectually, and resources-wise, but is simply edged-out by Goblin Slayer and friends. Also helping his case is that his DirtyCoward nature mitigates his arrogance and lets him recognize [[KnowWhenToFoldThem when it's best to just give up]], but it's still not enough to prevent him from assuming he holds the upper-hand when entering a fight or gloating if it looks like fortune has turned in his favor. |
| 346 | * TheStrategist: According to Goblin Slayer, a lord has to forgo achieving magic potential like a shaman or building the extreme bulk of a hob in order to develop the analytical, problem-solving mindset needed to discipline a horde to the extent they do. Again, it says a lot about goblins that instilling halfway-decent long-term planning and large-scale organizational skills takes as much dedication and resources as extreme body-building or learning how to cast spells. |
| 347 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Writes off the failure of his attempted assault as a result of the uselessness of his rank troops. |
| 348 | * ThisCannotBe: As he gives up the battle for lost and flees through the woods, he's left impotently asking the air why and how so many adventurers mustered against him and knew ''exactly'' how to counter every single tactical maneuver he made. Enter Goblin Slayer. |
| 349 | * ThwartedCoupDeGrace: Had Goblin Slayer knocked out on the ground and dead to rights, battle-ax lifted high and ready to come down on his head... until Priestess came out of the bushes and cast her Protection miracles. |
| 350 | * ToThePain: Spends pages at a time describing the kind of graphic tortures and violations he has in mind for Goblin Slayer and Priestess. They don't react due to how hardened they are against goblin cruelty ([[LanguageBarrier and maybe also because they don't actually understand goblin-tongue]]). |
| 351 | * WardrobeWound: Bites out a curse at Goblin Slayer under his breath for knocking his helmet-crown from his head with a sword-slash to the face. |
| 352 | * WeWillMeetAgain: [[SubvertedTrope His attempted retreat was predicted and cut off from the beginning]], but the main story goblin lord does have to sense to fall back and collect his reserve forces and personal captives while the adventurers mop up his main attack force with the goal of rebuilding, and gives a quite sinister mission statement to capstone his flashback in the manga. |
| 353 | -->'''Goblin Lord:''' If I survive... another moment will come. I will learn, and I will improve. I have the cunning. I will rise again. |
| 354 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: |
| 355 | ** Killed an adventurer while still just a toddler-equivalent by playing up his defenselessness and fear until she turned her back. |
| 356 | ** Tried doing it once more to [[spoiler:Priestess]] the moment he realized his arrestor wouldn't be intimidated into releasing him. He plays his pitiful groveling for all its worth. This time around, it ends in abject failure. |
| 357 | * 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 pressed for breath and trying to play up how pathetic he was. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Goblin Paladins]] |
| 361 | !'''WARNING:''' Due to the [[WalkingSpoiler nature]] of this character, spoilers relating to Volume 5 are unmarked. |
| 362 | !!Goblin Paladins |
| 363 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese), Jacob Browning (English) |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[caption-width-right:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinpaladin.jpg]] |
| 366 | |
| 367 | |
| 368 | An utterly new breed of goblin encountered and fought by Goblin Slayer's party in Volume 5. Even smarter than a lord, as well equipped and martially skilled as a veteran adventurer -- the new pinnacle of goblinkind and heralded as the "hero" of the goblin race. |
| 369 | ---- |
| 370 | * AdaptationalUgliness: The goblin paladin becomes substantially squatter or bulkier in each new medium he is depicted in. In the light novel illustrations he has the bodily proportions of a short and slim young man, the movie makes him [[TopHeavyGuy half-a-head taller and broader at the shoulders than Goblin Slayer but still slender around the middle,]] and finally the manga makes him broad as a metal-plated pigeon. |
| 371 | * ArcVillain: Of Volume 5 and its movie adaptation ''[[TheMovie Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown]]''. |
| 372 | * ArmorPiercingAttack: His stolen silvered sword can easily cut through Goblin Slayer's shield and armor. Goblin Slayer is able and willing enough to allow such an attack to punch through so he can catch hold of it, stealing back the sword as the original owner requested. |
| 373 | * BishonenLine: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; the paladin still has the face of a setting-typical [[{{Gonk}} goblin]], but he is of completely human stature and body type, as opposed to the hunched or animalistic stances of his lesser kin, and his way of carrying himself is likewise almost noble. |
| 374 | * TheBlacksmith: At least intended to become one; his ultimate goal was for him and his horde to learn how to craft iron weapons and armor for themselves. |
| 375 | * BlingOfWar: His helmet and shield have gold accents, and then there's the jeweled sword he took from a noblegirl. |
| 376 | * BrightIsNotGood: His armor is boldly painted and his silvered sword cuts a white line through the air, and he is probably the most dangerous goblin to ever exist. |
| 377 | * ButterFace: RareMaleExample, at least in the light novel; the goblin paladin is just below average height for a human, has the profile of a fit and lithe fighter under his armor, and has no noticeable hunch or other major anatomical deviance (such as the goblin lord's digitigrade quasi-talons). Such a pity that his head is wholly untouched by his BishounenLine, and remains as heavy and [[SinisterSchnoz outsize-featured]] as a normal goblin, if anything even more incongruous than most with the clash of his body. |
| 378 | * TheChosenOne: Basically this of the goblin race; certainly, few if any of the others of his kind have ever received divine favor, and the cult most of his followers were a part of got it in their heads to coronate him as the great leader of their race. |
| 379 | * {{Counterspell}}: Can whip this out on the fly to disable a Snare that Dwarf Shaman had set directly in front of his charging army. |
| 380 | * DarkMessiah: Was to be crowned this to goblinkind after completing his metamorphosis into this new class of higher goblin. Sadly for the goblins, Goblin Slayer showed up that very day to crash the ceremony and put him down before he could live up to expectations. |
| 381 | * EvilCounterpart: Even more so than the goblin lord, the paladin is the closest any goblin has yet come to being an "anti-Goblin Slayer"; he counters many of Goblin Slayer's assumptions about goblin capabilities at construction and teamwork, they match blow for blow physically, and in the light novel he even has a similar build to the human and wears armor and helmet nearly identical to his. |
| 382 | * EvilGenius: Goblin Slayer credits him with a [[EmpoweredBadassNormal divinely boosted learning capacity]]. He's learned combat techniques from observing adventurers well enough to give Goblin Slayer a run for his money, can devise counters to an opponent's fighting style just from seeing any of their moves once, and instills enough discipline in his ranks to get them to actively build complex structures and perform sophisticated religious rituals. Goblin Slayer twists this against him, reusing a maneuver that he knew the Paladin would have learned from and would counter in a specific way in order to trap his sword and leave him open to attack. |
| 383 | * EvilVirtues: Half of the threat he poses lies in his unprecedented ability to instill these in the Goblin masses he controls. |
| 384 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: The manga gives him a blazing light trail waving of the edge of one pupil, [[EvilCounterpart exactly the same]] as Goblin Slayer. |
| 385 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: While outwardly self-possessed, his brief point-of-view segment exposes him as painfully fearful for his status before launching into a suicidal charge after Goblin Slayer's party when they manage to humiliate him, both because he's well aware how ready and quick his minions would be to lose respect for him if they fully get away, and also because he personally cannot bear the thought of a group of adventurers reducing him back down to "just a mere goblin." |
| 386 | * KnightlySwordAndShield: Weilds a jeweled ovular shield with a pointed bottom and Noble Fencer's stolen sword. |
| 387 | * LightIsNotGood: Beyond his white armor, the goblin paladin is explicitly a "Holy Knight" and in a major twist, he is not a blackguard of some generic GodOfEvil, despite his affiliation with an evil cult. He is instead the devotee of the God of Wisdom and Knowledge. |
| 388 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Makes enough use of his shield to actually survive trading blows with Goblin Slayer twice. |
| 389 | * MagicKnight: Comes with being a paladin of the God of Wisdom. A skilled spellcaster specializing in healing and reinforcement magic who is also a skilled warrior, he's one of Goblin Slayer's most dangerous foes to date. |
| 390 | * MonsterKnight: The illustration depicting his fight with Goblin Slayer shows him in brightly painted plate armor and wielding a kite shield alongside his stolen silvered sword. |
| 391 | * NoCureForEvil: {{Averted}}; the biggest red flag to Goblin Slayer that something unprecedented is behind the Snow Mountain horde is when he sees a goblin he had shot with a poisoned arrow back on the battlefield with a magically-healed scar. |
| 392 | * {{Paladin}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Epithets don't lie]] -- his power and intellect are bolstered by his making a pact of devotion to the divine. |
| 393 | * PiousMonster: In a novel twist, here is a religious fantasy villain who worships one of his setting's ''non-evil'' deities. |
| 394 | * ReligionOfEvil: In an odd twist, he has teamed up with one (specifically the "Cult of the Green Crescent Moon" that worships his kind's home) but is himself inducted in a different, not-necessarily-evil faith. |
| 395 | * RoyalRapier: Noble Fencer's AncestralWeapon is even more ornate than the goblin lord's axe, befitting the goblin that can be seen as an evolution on what was the pinnacle of their kind's prestige. |
| 396 | * SpikesOfVillainy: His helmet contains a trio angled spikes on top, forming an arc with the horns at the sides. |
| 397 | * ThisCannotBe: Cannot abide by the idea that a group of adventurers destroyed his fort, freed his captives, and got away, for if they could best and humiliate him so handily that would make him "just a mere goblin." |
| 398 | * TopHeavyGuy: The manga depiction of the paladin renders him as almost cartoonishly barrel-chested, with limbs ever-so-slightly too stubby for such a solid trunk. |
| 399 | * UnstoppableRage: Uses the spell "Lunacy" to drive his subjects into a fearless berserker frenzy to run down Goblin Slayer's party. |
| 400 | * VillainousValour: All traces of goblin cowardliness have long since been burned out of him. He doesn't hesitate for an instant to leap through fire and collapsing walkways to pounce on his foes. He can even instill this in his lowly subjects, who display an unheard of level of camaraderie and competence for a goblin horde, with one even ''willingly laying down his life'' and [[TakingTheBullet jumping in front of an arrow]] for him. |
| 401 | * WalkingSpoiler: Its entire existence is a major reveal for the plot of the fifth volume. |
| 402 | * WeakButSkilled: The goblin paladin is one of the series' most dangerous combatants, but that comes more from its boosted intelligence and swordplay than its actual physical strength; it's an especially strong goblin, but it's no hob or champion. Goblin Slayer was able to wrestle a weapon out of its hands once he manages to get a good grip. |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[folder:Goblin Priest]] |
| 406 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinpriest.jpg]] |
| 407 | Another new class of goblin, one with divinely gifted powers, encountered in Volume 8. |
| 408 | ---- |
| 409 | %%* ArcVillain: Of Volume 8. |
| 410 | * BloodMagic: [[spoiler:Priestess is initially stumped at 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]]. |
| 411 | * BodyMotifs: The boss priest of the Volume 8 dungeon nest has covered every available inch of exposed skin with tattoos of red, clawed hands as a sign of his devotion, and forced each member of his horde to get one to match. |
| 412 | * DeflectorShield: His principle spell is an extremely powerful '''Protection''' that can withstand the concentrated offense of the whole party combined, [[spoiler:until Priestess cuts off its material component by turning the blood on the floor to water]]. |
| 413 | * ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: [[spoiler:His magic is fuelled entirely by physical components, namely blood, so he feels no physical or mental strain when casting and can freely berate his lackeys while keeping his shields up as an afterthought]]. |
| 414 | * SinisterMinister: They lead their fellow goblins in organized religious rituals, but are no less narcissistic or depraved than any of their wretched flock. |
| 415 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:When his spells get cut off and he gets cut down, he pulls himself onto a demon's altar and commits ritual-suicide to bring the Demon Lord back to kill Goblin Slayer]]. |
| 416 | * TattooedCrook: The Volume 8 priest gave each of his horde-members a tattoo of a hand as a symbol of their cult. Princess notes that he himself has further covered every bit of his exposed skin in a rippling tapestry of them. |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
| 418 | |
| 419 | [[folder:Dragon Riding Goblin]] |
| 420 | An unusual goblin that simply got on the back of a sleeping dragon, this ArcVillain appears in Volume 11. |
| 421 | ---- |
| 422 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: For the record, this goblin is ''not'' controlling a red dragon - he simply ''thinks'' he is as he jumped on the back of a sleeping dragon and was riding it while the dragon was grumpy with the sudden awakening. |
| 423 | * ChainPain: Initially wielded a chain, which he used to kill the goblin originally leading the riot. It’s replaced with a spear while armoring up though. |
| 424 | * DragonRider: He wishes. The volume 11 rider was just disturbing a half-asleep dragon by kicking its neck, and it would have eaten him if it woke up all the way. |
| 425 | * EvilIsBigger: The biggest, nastiest member of the desert horde isn't quite hob-sized, but is too beefy to easily ride even an enhanced warg. The bulk helps keep him seated on a dragon's neck though. |
| 426 | * HornsOfBarbarism: Steals a helmet with horns as he suits up. |
| 427 | * LargeAndInCharge: He's a moderately larger than average goblin, which allowed him to assert dominaince over his brethren. |
| 428 | * OffWithHisHead: Goblin Slayer finally kills him by throwing a magic sword through his neck and decapitating him after the dragon finally goes back to sleep. |
| 429 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Evidently glanced out a window and saw the giant mantas about to destroy the desert fort, and made haste to flee into the tunnels [[spoiler: with the map to the sleeping dragon]]. |
| 430 | * TooDumbToLive: A goblin jumped on the back of a '''dragon''' - do the math. |
| 431 | [[/folder]] |
| 432 | |
| 433 | [[folder:Fire Goblin]] |
| 434 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/firegoblin.jpg]] |
| 435 | |
| 436 | Yet another run-of-the-mill goblin, but one who wields a fiery staff, seen during Volume 13. |
| 437 | ---- |
| 438 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: Goblin Slayer notes that this goblin is just an average one, not a shaman or priest, who simply got his hands on an overpowered magic wand. |
| 439 | * AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome: Not only was his wand the only reason he was a threat, but it seems it also was able to passively boost his intelligence to be able to wield it more effectively, as the narration states he became rapidly dumber when he lost his grip on it. |
| 440 | * ArcVillain: Minor one for Volume 13, upon stealing the Fire Spirit's magic staff. |
| 441 | * EvilIsBurningHot: The only Magic it had access to was fire and energy blast spells. |
| 442 | * FrickinLaserBeams: Made liberal use of a spell that shot heat rays from its wand. |
| 443 | * MagicWand: Managed to loot the cursed sarcophagus of a wizard for a staff that had an indefinite number of fire spells sealed in it. |
| 444 | * MeteorSummoningAttack: Was confident it could copy the Star of Muala spell with its high-tier wand. [[spoiler: Sadly for it, the wand was knocked out of its grasp by a Fumble spell before it could complete the attempt.]] |
| 445 | * PlayingWithFire: His plundered wand granted him access to a plethora of fire-based magic. |
| 446 | [[/folder]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | !Other Antagonists |
| 449 | [[folder:Ogre]] |
| 450 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Riki Kagami (Japanese), Creator/MarcusDStimac (English) |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ogre.png]] |
| 453 | |
| 454 | A minor antagonist occupying an ancient man-made fortress, he made his name in infamy for possessing both incredible strength and magical prowess. He was granted an army of goblins by one of the Demon Generals, which naturally draws the attention of Goblin Slayer and his team. |
| 455 | ---- |
| 456 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Not so much as "misnaming" as it is "forgetting"; Goblin Slayer never bothered to remember the ogre's name. The ogre took offense with that. |
| 457 | * {{Archenemy}}: His brother calls Goblin Slayer this when he struggles to catch and kill him to get revenge for his family. |
| 458 | * ArrowCatch: Grabs one of Elf's arrows out of the air when the party tries to rush him. Does it again when she tries to interrupt his spell-casting, though he's distracted enough that all he can do is let them pierce his free hand, [[HealingFactor to little real effect]]. |
| 459 | * BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: The two ogres seen are shown to favor crude giant blunt weapons that contrast their GenuisBruiser status with their brutishly bloodthirsty personalities, such as the Ogre using a massive club or his brother using a giant metal warhammer. |
| 460 | * CallAPegasusAHippogriff: Referred to as an ogre, but functions more like an {{Oni}}, given its relative intelligence, iron club and powerful magic abilities. |
| 461 | * CarryABigStick: As expected of Oni, he wields an iron club (specifically an Aribo, for those curious). |
| 462 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Yeah, he may be an evil sadist at heart, but [[spoiler:getting bisected and repeatedly stabbed to finish the job]] is a nasty way to die. |
| 463 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: [[spoiler:In Volume 9, it is revealed that he has a brother, who is recruited into the Evil Sect on the promise that he will get to lure in and kill Goblin Slayer if he helps Ice Witch seize control of the northern region]]. |
| 464 | * EyeScream: Elf shoots his eye out. [[HealingFactor He almost instantly grows it back when he pulls it out]]. She learns from this and in Volume 9 notches her arrow so it snaps in half and stays lodged in his brothers eye socket. |
| 465 | * GeniusBruiser: Despite his massive, muscular appearance, he's no slouch in the mental departments either, as he's able to command a nest of goblins and possess mighty magical powers in addition to that. |
| 466 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:A Gate scroll is a surprisingly devastating weapon with the right mindset and tons of sea water]]. |
| 467 | * HealingFactor: It's bad enough that most attacks can't even draw much blood, but he also sports a powerful regenerative ability that can restore a destroyed eyeball within seconds. [[spoiler:It's a shame for him that he can't regenerate his entire body from the torso down]]. |
| 468 | * HeroKiller: Has personally killed at least a few high-profile Silver-ranked adventurers in his past. His infamy and strength is what leads a Demon General to ordain him a captain of the armies of chaos with a goblin army at his command. |
| 469 | * HostageSituation: The ogre's Brother in Volume 9 has two female adventurers held captive. When Goblin Slayer evades him for too long, he has them crucified in the middle of the abandoned village and loudly proclaims his intention to torture them to death if Goblin Slayer doesn't come out of hiding by noon. |
| 470 | * HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Threatened to make Priestess his "plaything" despite being roughly three times the size of a human with thighs bigger then her whole body. |
| 471 | * HumiliationConga: The ogre is put under this in the end. After proving himself to be capable of taking on the entire party single-handedly, [[spoiler:Goblin Slayer simply one-shots him with an improvised water jet cutter. He is outraged that Goblin Slayer would reserve that kind of power just to massacre goblins, basically equating him to the mere mooks. In his final moments, he could only cry fearfully and curse Goblin Slayer for considering him beneath notice, as the latter stabs him repeatedly with a simple sword to finish him off]]. And just to add the final insult to injury, [[spoiler:Goblin Slayer hardly recalls ogre's existence afterwards, much less his name. Only a couple days later, he had to be reminded by Priestess that they ever encountered one]]. |
| 472 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Priestess stopping his Fireball brought as much of his attention to her as it did contempt. He takes sadistic pleasure in taunting her comrades on how, after he kills them, he will take her as [[ToServeMan food]], [[MarsNeedsWomen a goblin bearer]], or [[SexSlave his personal toy]]. |
| 473 | * KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:How Goblin Slayer ultimately puts this monster down. No, not by drowning him. By ''bisecting him''. His brother on the other hand does get conventionally drowned in Volume 9 when Goblin Slayer causes him to fall into a frozen lake and Dwarf Shaman uses magic to slow him so much he can't swim or jump out before he runs out of air.]] |
| 474 | * LargeAndInCharge: Is easily twice the height of Lizard Priest if not more, who's no slouch when it comes to size himself. Then there is the case of his army, but Goblin Slayer had already taken care of that problem. |
| 475 | * MarsNeedsWomen: Maybe not to the same extent as goblins, but he has stated that he intends to rape Priestess and High Elf Archer if he is able to capture them alive. |
| 476 | * {{Oni}}: Is certainly this, rather than [[OurOgresAreHungrier its other naming counterpart]]. The loincloth, characteristic iron club, and ability to cast magic gives it away. |
| 477 | * PlayingWithFire: It mainly uses a Fireball spell in its fight with the party. In the ogre's case, however, his fireball is akin to throwing ''a miniature sun''. |
| 478 | * RunningGag: He becomes one. At some point in a novel, Goblin Slayer will wonder what an ogre is, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday never mind the fact that he killed one]]. |
| 479 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Subverted. Orge is one of the strongest singular opponents that Goblin Slayer had to fight, and has more raw power than some of the {{Arc Villain}}s, but he ends up being just a StarterVillain. |
| 480 | * StarterVillain: The very first challenge the party faces together and the first significant non-goblin threat Goblin Slayer has faced since he became a veteran if not ever, the quest that ends with his demise marks the beginning of Goblin Slayer's road to becoming a "true" adventurer. |
| 481 | * SuperToughness: Part of the reason why he is such a challenge is because blades can't penetrate his skin. Even soft tissue like his eyes, which would be obvious weak points, is rendered fruitless due to his natural regeneration. [[spoiler:Of course, as Goblin Slayer proves, there is a limit to his durability]]. |
| 482 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: {{Defied}}, then DoubleSubverted -- he charges at the group with his club while Dwarf was chanting to cast an elemental spell, quipping at him if he really thought he'd let them just cast with impunity. Elf then [[EyeScream shoots him in the eye]], and Dwarf can just pick up where he left off in his chant while he's distracted to no ill effect. |
| 483 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: He entertains this notion twice with his massive Fireball, intending to char the whole team into cinders in one fell swoop. The first time was stopped by Priestess casting Protection twice. [[spoiler:The second has Goblin Slayer return the favor in kind]]. |
| 484 | * ThisCannotBe: Recovers consciousness enough to furiously demand answers as to what happened to him after being bisected by Goblin Slayer's water jet, then spends his final moments screeching in outrage over Goblin Slayer continuing to dismiss him as a lesser threat than goblins. |
| 485 | * WakeUpCallBoss: He is introduced with a brief history detailing how he killed countless adventurers, many of them Silver-ranked, and it shows: No one in the party could inflict anything more than ScratchDamage on him, and he comes dangerously close to killing them all multiple times. Goblin Slayer is forced to change tactics after a single swing seriously injures him. |
| 486 | * YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Nearly two years after his death, his brother partners with the Evil Sect and moves to the northern mountains for the chance to hunt the killer.]] |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | [[folder:Giant Eye]] |
| 490 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gianteye.png]] |
| 491 | |
| 492 | A multi-eyed monster found in the sewer labyrinth of Water Town in Volume 2, guarding the Gate mirror. |
| 493 | ---- |
| 494 | * AntiMagic: Its main eye can fire a beam of Dispel Magic, which renders Priestess unable to cast miracles while she's ensnared within the eye's line of sight. |
| 495 | * {{Counterspell}}: It’s worth noting that its Dispel Magic eyebeam takes out one of Priestess' daily spells before it was actually completed, when all the other times a spellcaster got interrupted through more mundane tactics they could later finish the incantation or switch to a different spell without using another charge. |
| 496 | * DisintegratorRay: The multiple eyes that stick out from its stalks can all fire beams that can melt rock like a hot knife through butter, which includes Dwarf Shaman's Spirit Wall. |
| 497 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: {{Lampshaded}} by Dwarf Shaman when Goblin Slayer actually comes up with the name Giant Eyeball for it, because what’s a more concise descriptor for this thing? |
| 498 | * EyeScream: The second Giant Eye fought by Goblin Slayer, Heavy Warrior, and Spearman gets crushed under the bulk of its dead lackey, which partially pulps its main eye. |
| 499 | * FlunkyBoss: The second one in volume 12 summons a giant undead servant to fight for it. |
| 500 | * GiantEyeOfDoom: When encountered, this type of monster is always described as appearing from the darkness already staring at the heroes. |
| 501 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Goblin Slayer is saved from a Giant Eye in ''Year One'' by an elf picking up the magic sword he had passed over previously and bisecting the monster vertically as it charged its eye-beam. |
| 502 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 503 | ** The Disintegrate ability of its smaller eyes is ultimately what does the Giant Eye in, as Goblin Slayer devises a plan to make itself blow up by tricking it into firing its lasers at a decoy in an enclosed space filled with powder in the air, igniting a fire and creating a loud explosion that engulfs the entire room and kills the monster. |
| 504 | ** The second one in the Chaos-ruined city is flattened by the body of the very minion it summoned to fight for it. |
| 505 | * LudicrousGibs: A charred carcass stuck on the ceiling is all that remains of it once it's caught in the enclosed explosion that Goblin Slayer set up with flour acting as powder. |
| 506 | * MakeThemRot: Goblin Slayer encounters a variant of Giant Eye monster in ''Year One'' with just the one main eye that it able to shoot a beam of decay, which kills a goblin and nearly melts his own armor. |
| 507 | * NoNameGiven: These monsters are never properly named, even by the narration. Supposedly, it's too eldritch to say. In volume 12, the second one just gets labeled B.E.M., or Big Evil Monster. |
| 508 | * NoSell: The Giant Eye that Goblin Slayer fights in ''Year One'' is apparently immune to mundane weapons, and was completely unbothered by him hitting it directly in the eye with a club. It was less immune to magical weapons. |
| 509 | * {{Oculothorax}}: It's a giant eyeball with multiple stalks that each have a smaller eye on their end. True to the trope, it also floats in the air, and its powers revolve around EyeBeams that can either dispel magic (the main eye) or disintegrate anything (the smaller ones). Lizard Priest assumes that it's an agent of Chaos and one of the monsters [[TheScottishTrope whose name must not be spoken of]]. |
| 510 | * TheScottishTrope: {{Parodied}} – Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast owns the rights to the term "Beholder". When encountered, Lizard Priest {{lampshade|Hanging}}s that it's a monster "whose name you're not supposed to speak", a reference to Wizards' strict product identity as they have not released the term for open {{Tabletop Game|s}} license. |
| 511 | * SerialNumbersFiledOff: It behaves pretty much exactly like a Beholder from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', down to protecting an AntiMagic beam from its primary eye, but is not referred to as such (due to copyright issues). {{Parodied}} InUniverse, see TheScottishTrope above. The English dub of the anime gets an extra dig in with this, as Lizard Priest shows the party the creature while saying, "Behold!" |
| 512 | * SmugSnake: The one in volume 12 speaks common, and spends most of it's page time gloating at the adventurers about to cut it down. |
| 513 | * WritingAroundTrademarks: These things are clearly meant to be Beholders. They can't be called that, but the author will make it obvious in every other way; from the description, to the method of attack, to garbling the name in PokemonSpeak, to having Spear Man and Heavy Warrior rate it's power at 13, "14 in its home" (which is precisely the Challenge Rating and caveat applied to the Beholder in D&D 5e.) |
| 514 | * YouWannaGetSued: When discussing it with the party, Lizard Priest describes it as "one of those creatures whose name you are never supposed to speak" - because it's obviously a beholder, but that term is copyrighted by Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast. |
| 515 | [[/folder]] |
| 516 | |
| 517 | [[folder:Rhea Scout]] |
| 518 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Mutsuki Iwanaka (Japanese), Creator/GarretStorms (English) |
| 519 | |
| 520 | [[quoteright:334:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerrheascout.png]] |
| 521 | |
| 522 | A former Steel-ranked adventurer who was disgraced after it was discovered he was hoarding loot for himself from his party. |
| 523 | ---- |
| 524 | * AgentPeacock: Hoarded money from his team to buy a fresh set of armor he thought would make him look good, [[spoiler:but beneath his callous foppishness is a decently competent and highly vicious fighter.]] |
| 525 | * AgonizingStomachWound: How Goblin Slayer puts him down in the manga. |
| 526 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: He puts on an air of charm and agreeableness to disarm people, but underneath he's a cowardly, greedy, cutthroat scammer who'll pull a knife on anyone who catches on to his schemes. |
| 527 | * CrossPoppingVeins: One stands out on his cheek as he gets dressed down by Guild Girl for filching treasure and trying to cover it up. |
| 528 | * DaydreamSurprise: Guild Girl’s call-out session on his crimes gets cut short by him attempting to stab her in fury, only to be countered by Goblin Slayer grabbing him before he connects and caving in his cheek with one punch, at which point it’s revealed the exchange of blows was a hallucination playing out in Rhea Scout's head as he seethed on the couch. |
| 529 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Rhea Scout dies differently in both the manga and the light novel. In the latter, Goblin Slayer guts him like a fish, while in the manga, Goblin Slayer still kills him, but with a knife to the lung while crushing his throat.]] |
| 530 | * DirtyCoward: Admits in his internal monologue that he actually doesn't care about being promoted because he hates putting himself in dangerous situations and is content to take easy quests and hoard any loot he lucks into for profit. |
| 531 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Dark Elf in Volume 3, after the elf lost his previous dragon in Volume 2, the Water Town goblin champion]]. |
| 532 | * DualWielding: [[spoiler:While jumping Goblin Slayer and attempting to slash him, he pulls a second dagger out with his off-hand to parry an incoming hack from his opponent's short sword.]] |
| 533 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Is so self-centered and mercenary in his outlook that he sees Goblin Slayer’s fixation on killing goblins as him merely sticking with small fry to minimize his chances of dying, like he himself does. |
| 534 | * EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:He doesn't even bother to follow Dark Elf's orders during the Harvest Festival, opting to instead ambush Goblin Slayer and Guild Girl to take revenge on them.]] |
| 535 | * EvilMakesYouUgly: [[spoiler:By the night of his death, his fall from grace and vengeful rampage have left him with a haggard figure, bulging eyes, green-painted face, and frothing mouth, making him very, ''very'' goblin-like in appearance.]] |
| 536 | * FatalFlaw: Wrath. When Guild Girl points out his crimes and her reasons for demoting him, he seriously considers threatening and hurting her, were it not for Goblin Slayer, who would bash his skull in if he tried. [[spoiler:Blaming his shame on Goblin Slayer for not vouching for him, Rhea Scout later joins Dark Elf and his [[TheHorde goblin army]] in a bid to [[DisproportionateRetribution kill Goblin Slayer as painfully and as slowly as possible]], showing that he can hold grudges for a long time. At this point, [[RevengeBeforeReason consumed by vengeance and using any means necessary to achieve it]], he's little different from a goblin.]] In the end, [[spoiler:Goblin Slayer uses this against him, pretending to fall to his poisoned darts and then, then Rhea Scout is distracted with gloating over his victory, [[BackStab hits him with a sneak attack]] and [[GuttedLikeAFish guts him like a fish]].]] |
| 537 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He's quite civil when things go his way, but [[BerserkButton doing anything to him that makes him look bad to others]] will enrage him. |
| 538 | * FlechetteStorm: Pulls out some darts and quite a few throwing knives [[spoiler:in his fight with Goblin Slayer]]. |
| 539 | * FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler:Can run rings around Goblin Slayer when he ambushed him and Guild Girl, with Goblin Slayer admitting he can't get a lock on him, let alone land a hit. But then once he lets his guard down he gets grabbed and put down like a scrub.]] |
| 540 | * GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:On top of the demotion incident that sparked his rampage, he claims to also hate Goblin Slayer for being so popular with women, and for how his friendship with Guild Girl seems to have eased his rise through the ranks.]] |
| 541 | * GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:Dies when he gets slashed in the stomach by Goblin Slayer after a failed attempt at killing the latter. In the manga it's a punctured lung and a crushed windpipe.]] |
| 542 | * HandsomeLech: Fairly bishie-looking for a Hobbit {{expy}}, and the first hint we get that the guy is scum is when he starts having sleazy thoughts about Guild Girl. |
| 543 | * HateAtFirstSight: Feels repulsed by Goblin Slayer the first time they actually come face to face, before they even come into conflict. |
| 544 | * HateSink: Unlike other Adventurers, he's clearly made to be as unlikeable as possible. From stealing his fellow squadmate's equipment and income to teaming up with the Dark Elf to leching on Guild Girl, you're unlikely to find another non-goblin this venal in the setting. |
| 545 | * {{Hobbits}}: Here called "rheas". He's a fairly stereotypical specimen of an Eastern-style not-Halfling - a spoon-eared TokenMiniMoe whose kind is the designated rogues of the fantasy setting in question, [[spoiler:though he takes the negative implications of such traits to their extreme conclusion, his NinjaLooting habits in particular making him more in common with a [[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Kender]][[note]] who by nature are more kleptomaniacs than straight-up thieves[[/note]] than a Hobbit]]. |
| 546 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[spoiler:Turned to Guild Girl and threatened to make her "suffer" before killing her once he thought he'd killed Goblin Slayer. Goblin Slayer takes that as his cue to get up and backstab the little shit.]] |
| 547 | * InASingleBound: [[spoiler:Leaps from the balcony at the far end of the quite long guild hall to come down squarely on top of Goblin Slayer standing right against the entryway.]] |
| 548 | * InTheHood: Wears a cloak and keeps the hood up while wandering the festival to keep anyone from recognizing him. |
| 549 | * ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Joins the side of the Unpraying and helps Dark Elf's attempt to sack the frontier town and summon Hetaconcheir, solely out of his grudges against Guild Girl for kicking him out of town and Goblin Slayer for standing by and defending her in that decision.]] |
| 550 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: When he's just been demoted and banned, he pulls his knife and tries to attack Guild Girl. He's immediately punched in the face by Goblin Slayer... only for it to be revealed that his failed attack was all played out in his head, and instead storms off, vowing revenge. |
| 551 | * MadEye: [[spoiler:In the manga, the only facial feature distinguishable from under his hood when attacking Goblin Slayer and Guild Girl is one eye; one heavily cross-hatched, uneven, [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises pinprick-pupiled]], grotesquely oversized eye.]] |
| 552 | * MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Mixed with EvilGloating. He beats Goblin Slayer's (seeming) corpse while crowing over his victory and lambasting the man as ([[EvilCannotComprehendGood in his view]]) a hypocritical coward profiting from nepotism and hoarding female admirers, all of which fueled his resentment.]] |
| 553 | * NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:He blames Goblin Slayer entirely for his demotion and humiliation despite having made the choice of committing crimes that resulted in such.]] |
| 554 | * NinjaLooting: His major crime that gets him demoted and banned from town. Evidence of how much he is scalping his fellows of money can be seen in just how shabby and ragged the rest of his party are in comparison to himself and the previous Steel-rank crew from Volume 1. And it just shows how callous he is, considering one of them is working as an adventurer to support his family. |
| 555 | * PoisonedWeapons: [[spoiler:The goblins provide him with a toxin to coat his blades with when he attacks Goblin Slayer and Guild Girl]]. It almost works too, except that [[spoiler:he didn't know Goblin Slayer wore extra chainmail armor underneath his leather and metal breastplate, which stopped the poisoned darts from penetrating]]. |
| 556 | * PrefersGoingBarefoot: InvertedTrope; as Rheas are Hobbit-analogues, they are noted to typically prefer to go barefoot, except he is explicitly noted to have taken up wearing boots, a fashion statement he shows off with some vanity. It's one of the things that is noted as being not quite right about him. |
| 557 | * PsychologicalProjection: Resents Goblin Slayer for (in his eyes) being a DirtyCoward who only takes "easy" tasks and gets ahead by seducing women. Rhea Scout is very clearly projecting. |
| 558 | * ReverseGrip: Wields his off-hand dagger in an ice-pick grip to parry attacks. |
| 559 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Was fully willing to invade town with a goblin horde and help summon a GodOfEvil to the material plane, that's how much he wanted a chance to kill Goblin Slayer and Guild Girl. |
| 560 | * {{Sadist}}: Nowhere near the extent of goblins, but the instant he lays eyes on Guild Girl, he starts fantasizing about engaging in KinkySpanking "until she cries". |
| 561 | * SuspiciousSpending: How his theft eventually comes to light, being able to buy fancy new gear while his teammates are barely scraping by. |
| 562 | * StopBeingStereotypical: Guild Girl caps off her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by saying that the report of his behavior is just going to reinforce prejudices against rheas and scouts as untrustworthy natural thieves. [[VillainHasAPoint Scout internally calls her out on being sanctimonious for going there.]] |
| 563 | * VillainousBreakdown: When Guild Girl corners him on his NinjaLooting habit, he scrambles for an excuse before suddenly snapping and contemplating just stabbing her, only barely holding back because of Goblin Slayer’s [[KillingIntent silent counter-threat]], and walking out looking visibly deranged from impotent rage. [[spoiler:He then goes so far as to partner with the Evil Sect and a goblin horde to pursue revenge, and even months later can work himself up into a berserker frenzy at the memory, and dies with his face contorted with insane hate.]] |
| 564 | -->''"What!? This doesn't make any sense! All I did was filch a treasure chest and you run me out of town?!"'' |
| 565 | * WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: His eyes bulge grotesquely and his pupils become pinpricks whenever he's enraged, caught in a lie, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs enraged at being caught in a lie.]] |
| 566 | * WouldHitAGirl: |
| 567 | ** [[spoiler:He had thoughts of murdering Guild Girl as early as his first appearance, and attempts it during Volume 3]]. |
| 568 | ** Even before that, the first thought he has when meeting Guild Girl is "She's so innocent... I want to spank her until she cries." |
| 569 | [[/folder]] |
| 570 | |
| 571 | [[folder:Dark Elf]] |
| 572 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerdarkelf.jpg]] |
| 573 | |
| 574 | A summoner and remnant of Evil Sect, the nebulous cult operating beneath Water Town until a Platinum-ranked hero took it down. He attacked Goblin Slayer's town on the night of the Harvest Festival in a bid to summon Hecatoncheir, the hundred-handed giant. |
| 575 | ---- |
| 576 | * AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: The arms he sprouts from calling upon Hecantocheir are much larger and grotesque-looking in the manga adaptation, enough to lift him into the air and serve as a set of legs (though the novel text described him doing that anyway, so it's really just buffing their appearance to match.) |
| 577 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:A well-placed throw of a mambele slices off the arm carrying his magic artifact, disabling his arrow deflection]]. |
| 578 | * AnnoyingArrows: Due to Hecatoncheir's protection, he deflects piercing projectiles with ease. [[spoiler:Once deprived of that protection though, he gets an arrow straight through his throat]]. |
| 579 | * ArcVillain: Of Volume 3 and the TheManBehindTheMan of Volume 2. |
| 580 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: His eyes turn inky black with white rings when he mutates and charges at Goblin Slayer. |
| 581 | * BodyMotifs: His magic artifact, his transmutation spell, and his choice of demonic patron all evoke a lot of extra hands. On top of this, his cloak has several gold ornaments in the shape of eyes. |
| 582 | * CardCarryingVillain: He calls himself an apostle of anarchy and a [[ReligionOfEvil servant of the gods of chaos]]. |
| 583 | * CarryABigStick: Before he found his HandOfGlory Artifact he apparently wielded a flanged mace. |
| 584 | * DisintegratorRay: His strongest spell not part of a greater ritual. |
| 585 | * EvilIsHammy: This dude just simply won't shut up. An interlude title in the light novel even lampshades it: "Of The Mastermind, Quite Full Of Himself Behind The Scenes". |
| 586 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: His eyes gain white rings as a byproduct of his growth of additional arms. |
| 587 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 588 | ** The goblins Goblin Slayer had been exterminating lately were nested in odd locations such as faraway mines instead of dens, and take too long to touch their captives before they could be rescued. Additionally, the usual torrent of goblin-slaying quests flooding the bulletin boards have trickled to a complete stop. As Goblin Slayer notes, there is almost always an outside factor that could have goblins behaving so erratically and reserved. |
| 589 | ** He was one of two cloaked figures seen lurking around town while everyone was preparing the Harvest Festival. His presence had been noted by both Goblin Slayer and High Elf Archer, but they went on with their business instead of investigating closer. |
| 590 | * HandOfGlory: The dark artifact he is lead to by the Chaos Gods is a preserved severed arm. On top of serving as a MagicFocusObject and being the key to a summoning ritual for Hecatonchier, it gives him access to unique powers such as an arrow-proof shield and the ability to grow giant extra arms. |
| 591 | * HeroKiller: He and his goblin underlings managed to wipe out an adventuring party that tried to stop him claiming his hand of glory artifact, and he claims to have fought and prevailed against dozens of adventurers of all stripes over his many centuries. |
| 592 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He was the one who supplied the rhea traitor with the goblins' stock of poisoned blades. Goblin Slayer, having already taken care of the rhea and filched a poisoned knife for himself, cuts the Dark Elf to seal his fate]]. |
| 593 | * HotBloodedSideburns: The manga gives him small but noticeably bushy sideburns (which is more than most [[{{Elfeminate}} male elves]] [[PermaShave ever get]]) and he is also notably more maniacal and irascible than the typical elf antagonist. |
| 594 | * InTheHood: Wears a hood when in human towns to hide that he's a dark elf. |
| 595 | * LoopholeAbuse: How he's beaten. By Dark Elf, and High Elf Archer's account, the Arrow Deflection enchantment stops arrows; it does ''not'' guarantee the same degree of protection against Goblin Slayer's mambele. |
| 596 | * MadEye: While his hoods up, one eye is always larger and brighter than the other, and will bug out greatly during fits of rage or in religious ecstasy at being granted a vision. |
| 597 | * MagicKnight: Is a strong and skilled duelist on top of being a high-level caster. |
| 598 | * TheManBehindTheMan: |
| 599 | ** He was a member of the sect conducting dark rituals within Water Town's labyrinth, and thus had a hand producing the goblin infestation. And, [[spoiler:considering his fondness for human sacrifices, the vivisected girl whose discovery initiated the whole investigation into the sewers in the first place may very well be his handiwork]]. |
| 600 | ** He was responsible for there being relatively quiet goblin activity before the Harvest Festival in Volume 3, seeing as he was preparing them for a march into town. |
| 601 | * MissionFromGod: He received a vision from his Dark God that drove him to start the events of Volume 3. |
| 602 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: Because he is an apostle of Hecatoncheir, he can cast a spell that grows five additional arms from his back, granting a total of seven. The spiritual arm granted as a protective enchantment would add to become eight. |
| 603 | * NightmareFace: Particularly after growing his giant arms, his face has a disturbing tendency to twist into a mask of grotesque, elongated features whenever he gets pissed at something Goblin Slayer did or said. |
| 604 | * NightmareFetishist: Repeatedly calls the goblins under his command "adorable." |
| 605 | * NoManOfWomanBorn: Because he is protected by Hecatoncheir's enchantment, [[AnnoyingArrows arrows aimed at him are simply caught out of the air and nullified]]. This becomes a problem when [[TakingYouWithMe he attempts a last-ditch spell at death's door]] and is too distant to be stopped by most other means. [[spoiler:So Goblin Slayer chucks a unique throwing knife at him. Because it was designed to slash instead of pierce, the weapon successfully lops off the Dark Elf's arm]]. |
| 606 | * OurElvesAreDifferent: One of the relatively rare examples of a Dark Elf from Japanese media that actually conforms to the classic Western idea of Dark Elves as wicked schemers instead of just being the usual Japanese Dark Elf (i.e. a Wood Elf with dark skin). |
| 607 | * {{Pride}}: His interlude chapter title states that he's very full of himself. He also takes offense when Goblin Slayer considers him less troublesome than the goblin lord, since he takes himself seriously as a member of the Evil Sect. |
| 608 | * ScaryTeeth: He has very blocky and strong teeth, which become slightly pointed whenever he's expressing particularly savage intent. |
| 609 | * SlasherSmile: Whenever his ego or bloodlust grow out of control, he pulls a huge, grotesquely maniacal grin full of sharp teeth. |
| 610 | * SmugSnake: Is absolutely convinced that he is predestined by the dark gods to successfully bring about the apocalypse, and refuses to believe he could fail in his mission or even consider the need to fall back and regroup in the face of a mountain of setbacks and lost resources he himself lists off. In the light novel he boasts to himself about killing the Failed Heroine easily, only to have it shown in the manga that he barely survived their encounter. |
| 611 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: While marching on the frontier town, he is forced to admit to himself that his schemes have been getting thwarted over and over in the last several months, but he angrily insists that the summoning of Hetaconcheir is still on schedule and he will succeed. Enter Goblin Slayer. |
| 612 | * SummoningArtifact: The biggest factor that makes him a threat is an artifact resembling a HandOfGlory. Granted to him by the gods of chaos ([[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan implied to be]] [[KillerGameMaster Truth]]]]), it allows him to grow arms and manifest a ghostly limb of Hecatoncheir that plucks arrows straight out of the air. He intended to use it to summon the real deal during the events of Volume 3. |
| 613 | * TaintedVeins: The capillaries of his eyelids turn black when he pures himself up with transformation magic. |
| 614 | * TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He was already pissed off when Goblin Slayer managed to land a single strike on him, but when it turned out the wound was fatally poisoned, he mustered all of his reserves into a last spell that would have wiped the party out. An arrow through the neck prevented him from finishing the incantation]]. |
| 615 | * WaveMotionGun: His Disintegrate spell in the manga is an absolutely ''massive'' laser that clean-burns a smoke cloud and fries several goblins and the Dragon-tooth Warriors to ash. |
| 616 | * WhipSword: His sword has an enchantment on it that causes the blade to extend and flex when it hits a shield to wrap around and lash an opponent from behind or above. |
| 617 | * YouAreAlreadyDead: Goblin Slayer manages to just graze him with a knife he rubbed with the poison of the special darts he gave Rhea Scout. It takes a few minutes to start taking its toll, but when it does and he's told what's happening to him he knows he's doomed and jumps to trying to pull a TakingYouWithMe in an instant. |
| 618 | [[/folder]] |
| 619 | |
| 620 | [[folder:Giant Vermin]] |
| 621 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayergiantvermin.jpg]] |
| 622 | |
| 623 | Giant Rats and Giant Cockroaches in the sewers. The lowest missions available, below even goblin clearing, but still dangerous if not properly prepared for beforehand. |
| 624 | ---- |
| 625 | * AirborneMook: The extra-Giant Cockroach can also still easily take to the air, |
| 626 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: The Giant Cockroaches are as long as a man is tall. |
| 627 | * ExtremeOmnivore: One particularly large giant cockroach ate an entire sharp metal sword. |
| 628 | * KingMook: The climatic fight of the Rookie Duo's DayInTheLimelight as a cockroach that is twice the size of its already giant brethren. |
| 629 | * 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 (somewhat of a GeniusBonus as cockroaches, despite their reputation for being gross and filthy, are actually known to [[NeatFreak almost compulsively groom themselves]]). |
| 630 | * RatStomp: ''The'' easiest quest available at the adventurers guild. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Hapless or underequipped rookies still die easily and gruesomely to these hog-sized, man-eating vermin.]] |
| 631 | * RodentsOfUnusualSize: The giant rats are at least the size of large hunting dogs. |
| 632 | * ToServeMan: Adventurers that die to them get eaten. |
| 633 | [[/folder]] |
| 634 | |
| 635 | [[folder:Wolves]] |
| 636 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerwolves.jpg]] |
| 637 | |
| 638 | Wild canines that pose a constant threat to livestock and travelers. Goblins and other monster can occasionally tame them. Come in magically empowered or monstroiusly interbred varients, such as wargs. |
| 639 | ---- |
| 640 | * AngryGuardDog: Large and well-stocked goblin hordes will appoint these beasts alongside their lookouts. |
| 641 | * AttackAnimal: Goblin Slayer gets jumps by two at once in a goblin cave in ''Year One'' Volume 2. |
| 642 | * CanisMajor: A warg is described as being bigger than Priestess in Volume 10. |
| 643 | * DireBeast: Wargs are over twice the size and visciousness of garden variety wolves. |
| 644 | * EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal: According to Goblin Slayer, goblins have no qualms of slaughtering their dogs when resources get lean. |
| 645 | * HellHound: Wargs are called this, and are showed to be tougher and more ferocious in a fight than normal wolves. |
| 646 | * MoodyMount: The wolves goblins ride and "train" are usually just broken-in enough to not try to prey on goblins and go in the direction they are prodded. They flee back to the woods if their masters get killed or knocked off. |
| 647 | * SavageWolves: Usually drawn as feral, mangy, and blood-crazed, especially when leashed by goblins. |
| 648 | [[/folder]] |
| 649 | |
| 650 | [[folder:Evil Wizard]] |
| 651 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evil_wizard.png]] |
| 652 | |
| 653 | An evil wizard that Heavy Swordsman, Spearman, and Goblin Slayer team up to hunt down together in Volume 4. |
| 654 | ---- |
| 655 | * AlienBlood: Stated to have "blue-black" blood in the light novel. |
| 656 | * ArcVillain: Acts as one for Volume 4/Chapters 6-7 of the ''Brand New Day'' manga. |
| 657 | * BaldOfEvil: In the ''Brand New Day'' manga. |
| 658 | * CaughtMonologuing: He rises up before Goblin Slayer, Spearman, and Heavy Warrior to start a prepared speech on how futile it is to fight him. Goblin Slayer throws a sword into his chest two sentences in. |
| 659 | * DestinationDefenestration: Since he claims he cannot be killed by human hands, Goblin Slayer's party opts to simply drop him from the tower and let gravity do the work, with Heavy Warrior kicking him off while he's still gagged. An audible "plonk!" later, the Evil Wizard no longer moves. |
| 660 | -->'''Spearman:''' Huh. Dead as a doornail. |
| 661 | * EvilGloating: Starts a prepared speech when Spearman, Heavy Warrior, and Goblin Slayer make it to the top of his tower. He barely gets two lines out before Goblin Slayer chucks a sword through his lung, [[NoManOfWomanBorn which only really shut him up for a little bit]]. |
| 662 | * ExactWords: As Heavy Warrior notes, he says he can’t be killed, not that he can’t die. |
| 663 | * FlamingSkulls: His face is noticeably gaunt to the point it can be mistaken for an actual skull, and when powering up, flames wreathe around his head. |
| 664 | * InsultBackfire: Calls Heavy Warrior, Spearman, and Goblin Slayer "uncouth barbarians" as they charge into the midst of his gargoyles. Heavy Warrior counters by slashing through them and declaring they are "great barbarians". |
| 665 | * InterimVillain: Is just a random evil spellcaster off to the side between Volume 3's Dark Elf (who was TheManBehindTheMan to several high-power goblin nests and pawn of choice of the GreaterScopeVillain), and Volume 5's [[spoiler:next evolution of the goblin threat]]. Hell, the hunt for him isn't even the central focus of the volume. His arc is used only as a side story in the manga, and he is defeated in the same chapter that he is introduced in. |
| 666 | * KarmicDeath: Spent weeks sending his gargoyles out to kill anyone one who approached his turf, and then Goblin Slayer and friends put an end to him the same way his creatures liked to kill; dropping him from on high. Being dropped by Goblin Slayer adds to the karma since one of his gargoyles' victims included a priestess like his own companion. |
| 667 | * MageTower: Operates out of one, possibly gifted to him by a Chaos God. Its height is integral to Goblin Slayer's method of killing him, which leads his partners to quip they would have had a far more difficult trip if it had been an underground labyrinth instead. |
| 668 | * NoOntologicalInertia: Averted. One of the pre-made adventures in the tabletop game takes place in the aftermath of the boys killing him, with the premise that his mage tower is still around and the interior that was bypassed in volume 3 is full of magic tomes and items that goblins, brigands, and evil cultists are making off with, as well as magically enhanced beasts and malfunctioning golems that are escaping into the surrounding countryside. |
| 669 | * NightmareFace: In the ''Brand New Day'' manga, his face resembles a {{Flaming Skull|s}}, but with skin on it, which makes him look creepier. |
| 670 | * NoManOfWomanBorn: He believes he is protected from harm by a prophecy that states he "cannot be slain by human hands." Goblin Slayer points out that all they need to do is use [[DestinationDefenestration indirect means that leave nature as the direct killer]] to put an end to him. |
| 671 | * OurGargoylesRock: Creates and controls these for defense to clear out the area around his base. |
| 672 | * OurLichesAreDifferent: He is clearly meant to resemble a lich, with his NightmareFace, BlackCloak, and ritual-fueled ResurrectiveImmortality. His AlienBlood make it clear that he is not human. |
| 673 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: Due to his NoManOfWomanBorn magical protection, he can rise again from any fatal injury so long as it was caused by a direct mortal killer. He is not immune to small injuries as Goblin Slayer's tear gas clearly hurts him and Spearman breaks his teeth to stop him from casting spells. |
| 674 | * ShockAndAwe: Can empower his Lightning spell to be strong enough to conjure a complete thunderstorm. |
| 675 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Subverted. While the king ranks his threat level as above goblins (if still below demons,) Evil Wizard was defeated far more easily than the previous {{Arc Villain}}s before him. |
| 676 | * SquishyWizard: While some of magical feats are impressive, it doesn't take Spearman much effort to bind him once the wizard was exposed to Goblin Slayer's tear gas. He also becomes completely helpless once Spearman gags him. |
| 677 | * SummonMagic: How he gets new gargoyles as opposed to crafting them. |
| 678 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: Defied. Evil Wizard attempts to monologue about his ambitions and plans to Heavy Warrior's party when he is interrupted with a sword to the chest via [[CombatPragmatist Goblin Slayer.]] Spearman is not amused. |
| 679 | -->'''Spearman:''' Hey, hey, you could at least let him finish. Is this it?\ |
| 680 | '''Goblin Slayer:''' There is no need for us to confront him head-on. |
| 681 | * UndignifiedDeath: Spearman binds him in magic webbing, knocks out several teeth to make him incapable of talking or spellcasting, and then complains to Goblin Slayer and Heavy Warrior about how to get rid of him, to which the former suggests tossing him off the tower and the latter enacts by literally booting him over the railing. While all three make fun of how much of a non-threat he was. |
| 682 | [[/folder]] |
| 683 | |
| 684 | [[folder:Troll]] |
| 685 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblin_slayer_troll.png]] |
| 686 | An ugly monster found among the goblins in Volume 6. |
| 687 | ---- |
| 688 | * ArcVillain: Of the first half of Volume 6. |
| 689 | * BodyHorror: It's absolutely covered in enormous boils and patches of its skin constantly slough off. [[spoiler:After Goblin Slayer flash-freezes its petrified body, the still-alive troll became covered in cracks and gashes]]. |
| 690 | * DiabolusExNihilo: The troll in Volume 6 had no reason to be sharing a den with goblins, and it is all but confirmed that Truth bent reality just to have a tough monster there to kill the Doomed Party. More humorously, Spy in Volume 10 can't tell for the life of him if the Troll in the Wine Merchant's house was a guard monster, sent by a conflicting run to destroy evidence, or what. It's just there to complicate his heist. |
| 691 | * DumbMuscle: Acts and is treated as a glorified hobgoblin, and if anything is even more brutish than the average one. |
| 692 | * HealingFactor: Extremely dangerous for its ability to rapidly regenerate its wounds. Although its healing factor does have it limits [[spoiler:as the wounds it receives from nearly being LiterallyShatteredLives were unable to heal]]. |
| 693 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:Goblin Slayer induces thermal shock on its petrified skin, causes its body to explode. Although it managed to stay alive as its skin returned back to flesh, the troll was in no condition to defend itself from Goblin Slayer's party finishing it off]]. |
| 694 | * TakenForGranite: It turns to stone when exposed to sunlight, [[spoiler:or a Light miracle.]] |
| 695 | * ThisBearWasFramed: After the shadowrunners make their getaway, the Water Town guard decide to just blame the troll for the break-in, theft, ''and'' planting of evidence at the mansion, to save paperwork. |
| 696 | * WeakenedByTheLight: As stated in TakenForGranite, however the troll will only be petrified if light continue to shine on it. |
| 697 | * WeakToFire: Its other known weakness. Although the one encounter in Volume 6 was able to keep fighting even after Goblin Slayer set it on fire. |
| 698 | * YourHeadASplode: A burst noggin from a heavy-caliber flintlock seems to be enough to put down a troll for good. Unless it fell in a canal and simply drowned as it regenerated. |
| 699 | [[/folder]] |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[folder:Mokele Mbembe]] |
| 702 | [[quoteright:337:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mokele_mbembe.png]] |
| 703 | A dinosaur-like entity found in the river of the Elves' Forest Kingdom. |
| 704 | ---- |
| 705 | * BeastOfBattle: [[spoiler:A goblin shaman]] manages to put a saddle on it and hypnotize it into letting goblins on its back, though in practice the riders only aggravate it into stampeding and can barely steer it. |
| 706 | * CallAPegasusAHippogriff: It's a [[MixAndMatchCritters mix of Brontosaurus and Stegosaurus]] described as a [[OurHydrasAreDifferent single-headed juvenile hydra]] and named after the Congo Basin mythological creature [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe Mokele Mbembe]]. |
| 707 | * DinosaursAreDragons: Described as a hydra or lesser dragon, and visually looks like a purple ''Brontosaurus''. |
| 708 | * MakingASplash: In reference to its mythological roots, the elves state that it has control over water and they refuse to fight it even when it attacks them for fear it will then stop the river in retaliation. |
| 709 | * MokeleMbembe: A mokele-mbembe resembling a sauropod with pink-purple plates running down its neck and spine, which lives in the rivers around the elf kingdom. It's also stated to actually be a young hydra. |
| 710 | * OurHydrasAreDifferent: It's stated to be a hydra, the extra heads just have yet to come with age. |
| 711 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: In the light novel illustration its eyes blaze red. [[spoiler:Also counts as MindControlEyes.]] |
| 712 | * SemiDivine: Lizard Priest hails it as a god-sired beast. |
| 713 | * TimeAbyss: Is older than High Elf Archer (2000 years) probably older than Shining Helm (8000 years, assuming he's comparable in age to his wife) and potentially older than their grandfather (back towards the dawn of the world). And it's apparently still a juvenile. |
| 714 | [[/folder]] |
| 715 | |
| 716 | [[folder:Sea Serpent]] |
| 717 | [[quoteright:400:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerseaserpent.jpg]] |
| 718 | A giant serpentine fish that was disrupting fishing spots of a coastal village. Goblin Slayer's party mistakenly agree to hunt it in the beginning of Volume 8. |
| 719 | ---- |
| 720 | * MercyKill: High Elf Archer shoots it in the eye to spare it a prolonged death by suffocation. |
| 721 | * NonIndicativeName: Though it is called a serpent, it's fully piscine, something Goblin Slayer exploits to kill it easily. Afterwards he prefers the more accurate moniker of "Long Fish" when referring back to it. |
| 722 | * NoSell: It secretes a thick mucus that blocks High Elf Archer's arrows. |
| 723 | * SeaMonster: It was a giant fish shaped like a snake that threatened fishing boats directly and indirectly. |
| 724 | * SupernaturalSuffocation: Goblin Slayer has Dwarf Shaman cast Water Walk on it, making it flop around on the surface of the ocean. Because it is actually a fish, it can’t breathe out of water, and it slowly asphyxiated until High Elf Archer managed to put it down. |
| 725 | [[/folder]] |
| 726 | |
| 727 | |
| 728 | [[folder:Sasquatches]] |
| 729 | |
| 730 | A race of man-eating mountainous ape-men. A group appearing in Volume 9 in service of Ice Witch. |
| 731 | ---- |
| 732 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: Dwarf Shaman and Lizard Priest charge into their cave hacking off toes and feet in the climatic skirmish, and the poor off-guard Sasquatches are left flat on their backs crying over their mangled feet. |
| 733 | * BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: A variant that are sapient and capable of speech. |
| 734 | * DecapitatedArmy: [[spoiler:Once Priestess announces that the Ice Witch has fallen, they completely lose their nerves and head for the hills, leaving the cursed drums behind.]] |
| 735 | * DumbMuscle: Very easily played for fools. |
| 736 | * TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Borderline case; the yetis (and even Ice Witch) are noted to speak in overblown Yakuza slang (complete with referring to each other as brother all the time), would rather screw with their victims in mind games than attack outright, and can be routed quite easily. They're still savage ape-men that can and will eat people alive if they get their hands on them. |
| 737 | * HungryMenace: Are preying the harefolk, and racketeering them for hood. All they are motivated by is a chance to feed. |
| 738 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: When they believe they have Priestess in a trap, they gloat about how they intend to torture her and eat her alive. |
| 739 | * KnowWhenToFoldThem: The last sasquatch racketeer runs home when his fellows are cut down by Lizard Priest. The survivors of the final battle bolt for the hills when Priestess announces she killed Ice Witch. |
| 740 | * MagicMusic: Ice Witch gives them a set of enchanted drums that cause extended blizzards when played together. |
| 741 | * NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler:Priestess declined to give orders to hunt the remaining yetis down once the battle with the Ice Witch was over. She didn't see a need to; [[CorruptTheCutie they weren't goblins.]]]] |
| 742 | * OurGiantsAreBigger: The narration exposits that they are devolved descendents of giantkin, and they remain about ten feet tall. |
| 743 | * ToServeMan: [[spoiler:Volume 2's champion was in the middle of eating Priestess before Goblin Slayer strangles him into stopping]]. LittleBitBeastly people work too, as poor Bunny Boy can attest. |
| 744 | * VillainSong: Twice sing a short marching song about how they'll kill and eat everyone during the EndlessWinter they summoned. |
| 745 | [[/folder]] |
| 746 | |
| 747 | [[folder:Ice Witch]] |
| 748 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/icewitch.jpg]] |
| 749 | |
| 750 | An evil sorceress in Volume 9 who launches a reign of terror in the northern mountains in winter. |
| 751 | ---- |
| 752 | * AlienBlood: Her blood is rendered dark and viscous from foul, [[spoiler:necromantic]] magic. |
| 753 | * AnimeHair: Those spikes on her head aren’t a crown. She wears her hair piled in a BeehiveHairdo [[BeyondTheImpossible in three segments]], that come to noticeable points. Presumably she freezes her hair in position to maintain the style. |
| 754 | * {{Archenemy}}: Considers Priestess to be the primary threat of the party, and prioritizes confronting her. |
| 755 | * ArcVillain: Of Volume 9. |
| 756 | * CastsNoShadow: The first major hint that she more than just an evil enchantress. |
| 757 | * EndlessWinter: Was aiming for this with the rituals she and her yeti henchmen were doing with their Ice Drums. |
| 758 | * EvilIsDeathlyCold: Very much her theme in power, appearance, and moniker. |
| 759 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Her eyes shine in the gloom of her windowless cave hideout. |
| 760 | * HellishPupils: Her eyes are slightly slitted. |
| 761 | * HolyBurnsEvil: The blessed silver arrow that seals her doom chars her fingers off when she tries to pull it out of her chest. |
| 762 | * AnIcePerson: Much of her magic evokes blizzards. |
| 763 | * ImproperlyParanoid: She doesn't quite trust her yeti henchmen enough to believe they won't stab her in the back one day. [[spoiler:So she keeps the silver arrows needed to kill her (and various other spoils) inside a tunnel too small for the ape-men to ever squeeze through. Humans can enter just fine though, forcing her to confront them head-on and put herself at risk.]] |
| 764 | * LesbianVampire: Muses to herself about how young human women are her favorite victims to drink from, with LecherousLicking to punctuate the sentiment. |
| 765 | * LightIsNotGood: Is near-completely white in skin and hair, along with having a heavy association with snow and ice, but is an utterly unrepentantant monster. |
| 766 | * LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Puts Priestess in a trance where she sees Goblin Slayer asking her to hand over the magic Silver Arrow she took from the Ice Witch and come away with him on a different quest. She sees through it when she realizes that Goblin Slayer's warm attitude and casual praise is just an affectation of how she wishes he would act towards her]]. |
| 767 | * NavelDeepNeckline: Her outfit is off the shoulders with a plunging neckline. |
| 768 | * NavelWindow: Her outfit has NavelDeepNeckline down to her waist, but is pinned closed at the solar plexus to frame her belly button. |
| 769 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: By the time everyone has taken a shot at her, the only thing left of her is a small pile of ash immediately blown away by the wind, and a tiny splash of blood spurted on Priestess' cheek. |
| 770 | * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:A healing miracle cast by Priestess burns her body severely. Then Harefolk Hunter fires a silver arrow directly into her chest, sealing her fate, followed by Apprentice Cleric coming in with a Smite spell that hits the projectile like a lightning rod and reduces her to a bloodstain.]] |
| 771 | * TheNoseKnows: She smells Priestess before she sees her. |
| 772 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler:High Elf Archer realizes she's not properly alive when she sees Ice Witch has no shadow, and when Priestess is hypnotized by her, she is dimly aware that her neck has been bitten.]] |
| 773 | * PestController: One of her abilities include summoning a horde of giant rats at her beck and call. |
| 774 | * PragmaticVillainy: While she thinks it would be nice if she and her circumstantial allies really could conquer the nation or even the world with the curse of EndlessWinter, her private and far more realistic goal was to use the mobilization of ice monsters as cover to move to a good-sized human town and lay low for a couple hundred years of easy predation in a fresh blood bank. |
| 775 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her blood-red eyes are the only spot of color on her body. |
| 776 | * ReviveKillsZombie: [[spoiler:Priestess casts a Heal spell on her that causes her body to start disintegrating.]] |
| 777 | * SilverHasMysticPowers: [[spoiler:It kills vampires too in this setting.]] |
| 778 | * {{Stripperific}}: Priestess comments on the sheer brevity of her outfit. |
| 779 | * SuperSmoke: She can turn herself into a gust of living snowflakes that lets her slip by obstacles and ambush key targets. |
| 780 | * TakingYouWithMe: Even as she burns to death, she tries to attack Priestess as final spiteful retaliation. |
| 781 | * UndeathlyPallor: She's a vampire who is as pale as the snow she conjures. |
| 782 | * {{Yukionna}}: She is AnIcePerson that [[spoiler:happens to have traits of a vampire/undead]]. |
| 783 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Her hair is white as crystal, and she is a petty, sadistic, predatory undead. |
| 784 | [[/folder]] |
| 785 | |
| 786 | [[folder:Undead]] |
| 787 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/undeadyearone.jpg]] |
| 788 | [[caption-width-right:350:Undead from ''Year One'']] |
| 789 | |
| 790 | Zombies, flesh golems, and sundry other necromantic things that Goblin Slayer's party and other end up fighting in Volume 10. |
| 791 | ---- |
| 792 | * BodyOfBodies: Some sort of "chimera" made of stitch-together bodies ends up being the main threat sent to despoil the Earth Mother temple by the forces of Chaos. Whatever it is, it's got multiple heads and sets of arms. |
| 793 | * TheCaligula: A high-level undead in ''Year One'' was in life a warrior-king who went insane and started massacring his own people, and raised them as a zombie army after being revived himself. |
| 794 | * ClownCarGrave: The goblin zombies Goblin Slayer and crew have to take out rise dozens at a time out of a small, muddy burial mound. |
| 795 | * FeralVampires: "Nightwalker" ghouls are a endgame-level monsters nearly or just as strong as proper vampires, they're just completely berserk. |
| 796 | * FleshGolem: The chimera-thing the Ragged Party have to take on is made of several fused bodies. |
| 797 | * OurBansheesAreLouder: The enemy vampire in volume 16 offhandedly mentions he'll need to destroy High Elf Archer's body after he kills her because strong elvish woman exposed to necromantic magic are known to spontaneously rise again as banshees sometimes. |
| 798 | * OurGhoulsAreCreepier: This setting's ghouls are of the rabid, "demi-vampire" kind. |
| 799 | * OurKoboldsAreDifferent: Kobolds in this world are merely a specific type of skeleton construct made with the mixed and matched bones of animals, fossils, and beastfolk. |
| 800 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: |
| 801 | ** In genral not really; slow, senseless, relentless, and can be destroyed be sanctifying a funeral place. Not much more to them then that. |
| 802 | ** That being said, there are evidently different kinds of zombies that can be made. The Dungeon of the Dead in ''Daikatana'' causes a localized ZombieApocalypse that is explicitly ''not'' restless dead. Sanctified corpses are still susceptible to rising, and TurnUndead has limited effect in destroying them. |
| 803 | * PlagueZombie: According to the prologue of ''Daikatana'', when the Dungeon of the Dead was opened and the demons began invading, a number of epidemics were also unleashed on the kingdom, including one that made zombies out of the victims. How the disease works is a mystery, as it evidently wasn't wholly necromantic in nature and typical counters to dark magic were of limited effect against the zombies it spawned. |
| 804 | * PoisonousPerson: The chimera that attacks the temple exudes a miasma that Half Elf Wizard needs to ward against so it can actually be approached and fought. |
| 805 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Ghouls have burning crimson eyes even in the enchanted pitch of the Dungeon of the Dead. |
| 806 | * ReducedToDust: A killed ghoul will crumble to ash even from a strike with a mundane sword. |
| 807 | * 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. |
| 808 | * SealedEvilInACan: The crazy zombie king in ''Year One'' was contained only when his own surviving subjects performed a ritual to bury his city deep underground. Dark Elves mistakenly free him while trying to summon the Demon Lord. |
| 809 | * ZombieGait: The goblin zombies do not rush Goblin Slayer's team and cannot move faster than a laborious shuffle. |
| 810 | [[/folder]] |
| 811 | |
| 812 | [[folder:Manticore]] |
| 813 | |
| 814 | Another sent by the forces of Chaos to attack the Earth Mother temple in Volume 10. |
| 815 | ---- |
| 816 | * BeastWithAHumanFace: Described as having the head of an old man. |
| 817 | * BewareMyStingerTail: Has the tail of a giant scorpion. |
| 818 | * ItCanThink: Half Elf Wizard says it is capable of spellcasting, and it apparently reacts with shock when she seemingly starts killing her own fellow adventurers in the middle of a fight. |
| 819 | * OurManticoresAreSpinier: Not really any different from the basic version, with the exception of it being stated that it can cast magic. |
| 820 | * PantheraAwesome: Most of its body is that of a giant lion. |
| 821 | * PoisonousPerson: It's sting has an extremely potent venom. |
| 822 | [[/folder]] |
| 823 | |
| 824 | [[folder:Wine Merchant]] |
| 825 | |
| 826 | A rich trader from Water Town who comes to Frontier Town in an effort to corner its wine market through shady means. |
| 827 | ---- |
| 828 | * ConspicuousConsumption: He rides in such an absolutely massive and gaudily decorated carriage that even his chaffeur looks down condescendingly on passerby. He enormous riverside mansion was in the middle of renovations when he gets arrested and his family still takes pains to ensure the exterior looks immaculate. |
| 829 | * DealWithTheDevil: The forces of Chaos talk him into and help his aggressive takeover scheme to undermine the Earth Mother temple and buy up Cow Girl Uncle's farm, to deny the Adventurer's Guild fallback positions when their army attacks the town. |
| 830 | * FatalFlaw: Greed. He had a windfall a while before Volume 10 starts and invested all the money back into expanding the trade. When business slowed again he was in hock and desperate for anyway to increase his fortune again, no matter who else's lives he had to destroy to do it. |
| 831 | * FramingTheGuiltyParty: Spy and Changeling get ahold of a contract made between Wine Merchant and his co-conspirators in Water Town and plant it in the house of the captain of the city watch, thus framing him for their burglary on top of exposing his collusion. |
| 832 | * TheGhost: Never once seen by any of the primary cast, he operates and is disposed of entirely off-screen. |
| 833 | * LesCollaborateurs: Sold out to the demon hordes over his business and renovation debts. |
| 834 | * MaliciousSlander: Is the one behind the rumors of Grape Nun being a "goblin daughter", which is obvious to everyone when he moves to town and starts muscling in on the wine market when said gossip has barely begun circulating, let alone left town or actually impacted the temple's wine business. |
| 835 | * PetTheDog: He gave a job in his vineyard to a disabled ex-soldier, and [[NiceToTheWaiter treated him and the rest of staff well enough]] that a good chunk of them stayed to defend his home when he was disgraced and arrested. |
| 836 | [[/folder]] |
| 837 | |
| 838 | [[folder:Prime Minister]] |
| 839 | |
| 840 | The interim ruler of the Desert Kingdom after Desert Princess' parents were assassinated by his NumberTwo. He attempts to force her to give him the crown. |
| 841 | ---- |
| 842 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: The narration notes that he is just as disgusted as Desert Princess with his guard captain's schemes. Doesn't stop him from using them to his benefit. |
| 843 | * EvilChancellor: Is a medieval Arabic setting complete without one? |
| 844 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Has bluish-black skin as a mark of dark elf ancesty. |
| 845 | * KarmaHoudini: Is not encountered by any of the adventurers in the Desert Kingdom and continues his tyranny and imprisonment of the rightful ruler. [[spoiler: A more local hero takes up the cause to expire his KarmaHoudiniWarranty.]] |
| 846 | * LesCollaborateurs: Uses goblins to terrorize the commoners of his nation. In fainess to him it wasn't his idea, but then if he actually cared he could put a stop to it at any time. |
| 847 | * NotMeThisTime: He wasnt the one to ally with goblins, nor did he assassinate the old king. That was entirely on his idiot second-in-command. Which isn't to say he's much better than him. |
| 848 | * PuppetKing: Used the old king as one, until his overeager guard captain got it in his head to dispose of him. The succeeding princess has been rather less malleable. |
| 849 | * {{Sadist}}: Vents his frustrations by psychologically torturing Desert Princess, who believes he has the natural cruelty endemic to many pure dasrk elves. |
| 850 | * SinisterScimitar: Carries one at all times, mostly to brandish at an uppity Desert Princess. |
| 851 | * SmugSnake: For all the power he currently holds over Desert Princess, she has no qualms calling him out as foolish, prideful, manipulative, shallow, and lacking in sincere knowledge or courage. |
| 852 | * TheUsurper: Attempting this with Desert Princess, though she's proving too strong-willed to publicly submit. |
| 853 | [[/folder]] |
| 854 | |
| 855 | [[folder:Guard Captain]] |
| 856 | The second-in-command of the Prime Minister. He's the one that is raising goblins and killed Desert Princess' father. |
| 857 | ---- |
| 858 | * AgentPeacock: Takes excessive pride in his study of fine art, but is a competent enough fighter to cut his way through the goblin horde overrunning his garrison and reach his office by himself. |
| 859 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Never stopped to consider all the ramifications of his plan to harness goblins, such as how uncontrollably they really are or how much everyone around him considers it a disgusting idea. [[spoiler: His plan to leverage a dragon is similarly poked holes in; the first victim of a sleeping dragon would almost certainly be the moron that woke it up.]] |
| 860 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His internal monologue throughout his short point-of-view segment is full of exactly the same sort of narcissism, short-sightedness, responsibility-dodging, vindictiveness, and entitlement the narrative constantly describes as intrinsic to goblins. People who never met him personally can accurately peg him as essentially a goblin in the skin of a man. |
| 861 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: It can't even comprehend fellow villains being merely less evil. This man is completely unable to understand why everyone, from the Prime Minister to the Desert Princess to the soldiers under his command, reacts with disgust and contempt towards his attempted scheme of deliberately breeding a disposable army of goblins. |
| 862 | * TheHeavy: TheDragon to the Prime Minister, but the only one of the two currently actively doing evil stuff on more than a personal basis. |
| 863 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Was intending to get Noble Fencer alone to seduce her, and everything else we know about him indicates he wouldn't take no for an answer. Thankfully he never gets the chance to get close to her. |
| 864 | * IndustrializedEvil: Set up an entire ranch-style operation to funnel female slaves into a goblin cave, even going so far as to stop the goblins from killing or pointlessly torturing any. |
| 865 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Absolutely convinced that he is a brilliant, cultured, desirable paragon that everyone else is refusing to acknowledge the greatness of. |
| 866 | -->'''Guard Captain:''' Why doesn’t anyone see me for the jewel that I am?! |
| 867 | * KilledMidSentence: He was in the middle of yelling over his shoulder for Spy to help him look for his map when a bullet to his eye belatedly informed him that the other man was not one of his attendants. |
| 868 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Worships the God of Wisdom, and thinks of his sudden idea to tame goblins as divine inspiration, though he's not sure, and the plan had... significantly more holes in it than previous confirmed cases. |
| 869 | * MoreDespicableMinion: Is demonstrably more unhinged and sadistic than his benefactor the Prime Minister. They also provide a {{Deconstruction}} of the dynamic while they're at it; the Guard Captain feels hurt by and resentful of his boss's disgust at his methods to the point of [[TheStarscream planning betrayal]], and the minister himself is abjectly unable to reel in his own right hand man's worst impulses, such as setting up a goblin breeding camp or prematurely assassinating the sultan, which only end up screwing with the time-table of his long-planned coup, demoralizing the rest of his lackeys, and steeling the resolve and contempt of the Desert Princess as she watches him enable the out-of-control atrocities and try to play them off as still part of his machinations. |
| 870 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Claims to have done what he did for the good of the country, but the more his internal monologue goes on the clearer it is that he cares about nothing but his own aggrandizement. |
| 871 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Goblin Slayer's party causes his penned goblins to riot, his response is to cut his way through the wild melee between them and his garrison staff to his office so he can run off with the map to [[spoiler: the dragon he discovered]] as possible leverage for his next power play. He finds a second group already in his space and gunning for his head personally. |
| 872 | * TheStarscream: Fully intended to kill the Prime Minister next and marry the Desert Princess to become the undisputed head of state. He dies in his fort with all his plans imploding around him. |
| 873 | * VillainousBreakdown: He is frothing at the mouth as he wades his way through the goblin riot in his garrison and tears his office apart looking for his map to [[spoiler: the dragon's lair]], internally ranting about how he is going to declare war on the western Kingdom for what he is convinced was their sabotage and how he deserves to be ruler of the Desert Kingdom and subjugate all the women he desires. |
| 874 | * WickedCultured: Internally brags about being "educated in the singing of ballads and the ways of etiquette", to the point of claiming those as some of the virtues that prove he is fit to be his country's next ruler. |
| 875 | [[/folder]] |
| 876 | |
| 877 | [[folder:Dragons]] |
| 878 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerdragon.jpg]] |
| 879 | |
| 880 | A large red dragon sleeping in the desert. Desert Regent and his goblins intended to provoke it to rampage as a last resort to conquer Desert Kingdom. Also a large green dragon fought by the Golden Party in ''Daikatana''. |
| 881 | ---- |
| 882 | * BreathWeapon: The red drgon shoot some fire, while the green dragon spits super-heated poison gas. |
| 883 | * FeedItABomb: Samurai Captain kills the green dragon by exploding its gas in its throat with Firebolt. |
| 884 | * GreenAndMean: The ''Daikatana'' dragon is dark green and a far more active threat than the red one. |
| 885 | * MiniBoss: The green dragon was a rare and highly dangerous mob that sometimes showed in the dead-end of the fourth floor of the Dungeon of the Dead. |
| 886 | * MyBloodRunsHot: Dragon blood can scald a melee fighter severely if they get splashed. |
| 887 | * NonMaliciousMonster: This dragon was not involved with the plot of the Volume 11 baddies and only desires to sleep. When half-roused by a runaway goblin, it lashes out on instinct only. |
| 888 | * NoSell: Arrows bounce off even the red one's eyelids, magic ricochets from its enchanted scales, and almost everything else is buffetted back by its wingbeats. |
| 889 | * PoisonousPerson: The green dragon had a deadly axphisiating poison attack. |
| 890 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: The green dragon had dark red eyes and was one of the strongest challenges in the top half of the Dungeon of the Dead. |
| 891 | * {{Sleepyhead}}: The young red dragon in the desert is hibernating, wishes to continue hibernating, and is easily sent back to hibernating when the goblin bothering it is taken care of. |
| 892 | [[/folder]] |
| 893 | |
| 894 | [[folder:Wyvern]] |
| 895 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerwyvern.jpg]] |
| 896 | |
| 897 | Winged, BreathWeapon-lacking, lesser kin to true dragons, wyverns are still incredibly strong and vicious creatures. |
| 898 | ---- |
| 899 | * ClipItsWings: Female Knight downs at least one by leaping off a castle wall, severing a wing in midair, and allowing a mob of soldiers to stab it the rest of the way to death after it crashes in the courtyard. |
| 900 | * DiabolusExNihilo: One shows up out of nowhere just to chase the Rookie party as soon as they mop up a goblin nest. Quite Literally, as it's an adventure-seed from the Gods' current campaign. |
| 901 | * EvilIsPetty: Wants to violently kill the Rookie Party because they were in eyeshot while it was in a bad mood. |
| 902 | * EyeScream: The Rookie Party escape it by throwing a blanket laced with poisoned glass shards in its face. Shortly afterwards, High Elf Archer shoots a different one in the eye and through the brain, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill back out the other eye and down into its heart]]. |
| 903 | * HairTriggerTemper: Merely encountering the Rookie Party was enough to make it want to kill them on principle. |
| 904 | * ItCanThink: It's sapient enough to get a point-of-view segment, as is actively malicious. |
| 905 | * NoSell: An arrow shot down its throat barely chokes it for a moment, and a Holy Smite just briefly dazzles its vision. |
| 906 | * SuperPersistentPredator: It readily acknowledges eating the three members of the Rookie Party isn't worth the energy of killing them. It's willing to stake them out for hours or days out of ''spite''. |
| 907 | * WorfEffect: The immediate next chapter after the Rookie Party barely scratch and evade one opens with Female Knight hacking off the wing of another with one sword-swing, and High Elf Archer shooting one in the brain from afar. |
| 908 | [[/folder]] |
| 909 | |
| 910 | [[folder:Peryton]] |
| 911 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerperyton.jpg]] |
| 912 | |
| 913 | A monster that Priestess fights in Volume 12, on a quest with High Elf Archer, Witch, and Female Knight. |
| 914 | ---- |
| 915 | * BatOutOfHell: [[spoiler: In the manga adaptation, its true form when Priestess burns away its illusionary defenses is a demon that looks like a bear-sized giant bat.]] |
| 916 | * DeadlyGas: The smoke it forms from is lethally toxic for soldiers to come in contact with. |
| 917 | * HopeCrusher: It's role during the seige is to demoralize the human troops inside the fort by showing off its invulnerability and proclaiming their immanent death. |
| 918 | * {{Intangibility}}: Cannot by hit by weapons or most spells, [[spoiler:until the shadows cloaking it are burnt away]]. |
| 919 | * ItCanThink: The fact it is intelligent and can speak is essential to the heroines' plan to take it down. |
| 920 | * LivingShadow: Formed from smoke and shadow. |
| 921 | * ParadoxPerson: Witch claims it is this, both existing and not existing, though there is a trick to making it one or the other, [[spoiler:exposing the real monster behind the illusion]]. |
| 922 | * OurPerytonsAreDifferent: This one has the body of a giant bird and merely the head of a stag. [[spoiler:It's also merely a LivingShadow guise or projection of a demon or warlock]]. |
| 923 | * RiddleOfTheSphinx: Wins a game a riddles against Priestess by asking it, and she becomes convinced it could only be some sort of shapeshifter. He actually becomes so affronted by her lack of education that he neglects to take her life as is now his right and tries to explain the correct answer to her. |
| 924 | * SuperSmoke: Turns into smoke to pass into the border fort unimpeded. |
| 925 | [[/folder]] |
| 926 | |
| 927 | [[folder:Giant Spider]] |
| 928 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/giantspideryearone.jpg]] |
| 929 | |
| 930 | A monstrous arachnid fought in the sewers of the Chaos-infested city of Volume 12. Several slightly smaller ones show in ''Year One'' as mounts for dark elves. |
| 931 | ---- |
| 932 | * AllWebbedUp: The territory of the Volume 12 specimen is of course absolutely festooned in giant webs that gum-up Heavy Warrior's sword. |
| 933 | * AnimalisticAbomination: The one in Volume 12 is possibly corrupted by Chaos magic and only vaguely looks like an actual spider. |
| 934 | * FragileSpeedster: The Volume 12 one scurries through the gloom of its dungeon room like a dark wind, but when finally pinned it gets absolutely crushed in two hits. |
| 935 | * GiantSpider: Called as such because they are as such. |
| 936 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: ''Year One'' has a horde of hog-sized specimen being used as steeds by dark elves patrolling in the sunken city and surrounding caverns. |
| 937 | * InASingleBound: The one in Volume 12 is capable of impressively fast and far leaps, even for its size, to evade Spearman. |
| 938 | * PoisonousPerson: Their fangs drip venom. |
| 939 | [[/folder]] |
| 940 | |
| 941 | [[folder:Chaos Marine]] |
| 942 | A huge undead warrior that serves the Giant Eye of Volume 12. |
| 943 | ---- |
| 944 | * AnimatedArmor: [[spoiler:It's revealed to be just a shell kept moving with wires and rune-carved crystals]]. |
| 945 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: It's defeated by Goblin Slayer cutting its hand off through a chink at the wrist, then Spearman capitalizes by casting Magic Missile up the hole in its arm. |
| 946 | * FallenHero: Was once a mighty champion of Order in the Age of the Gods, slaying countless demons and monsters, but now its dead body is desecrated and made to fight in the name of Chaos. |
| 947 | * HeadlessHorseman: It's missing a head and enters the battlefield with the sound of hoofbeats. Spearman and Heavy Warrior initially think its a dullahan. |
| 948 | * LiteralDisarming: Goblin is the first to wound it by slicing off the hand holding its sword. |
| 949 | * NoSell: Its armor easily withstands Heavy Warrior's strongest blows and Spearman's enchanted polearm. |
| 950 | * OurCentaursAreDifferent: It's mistaken for a calvary unit, but doesn't have a mount and would be too big for one. |
| 951 | [[/folder]] |
| 952 | |
| 953 | [[folder:Rock Eater]] |
| 954 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rockeater.png]] |
| 955 | |
| 956 | A giant fifty meter long worm/centipede-like creature that serves as the main antagonist to a [[PlotThreads B-plot]] in Volume 1 of ''Goblin Slayer: Side Story Year One''. |
| 957 | ---- |
| 958 | * ArchEnemy: To Newbie Swordsman after it killed his ImpliedLoveInterest, Half-Elf Ranger. |
| 959 | * ArcVillain: Serves as a BigBadEnsemble with the goblins in Volume 1 of ''Side Story Year One''. |
| 960 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Its outer shell is hard to penetrate, even with magically enhanced weapons. However, Newbie Swordsman was able to injury it by attacking its inner mouth and Heavy Swordsman was able to inflict a deep cut on it by attacking between the plates. [[spoiler:Spearman was able to give the killing blow by impaling it in the eye]]. |
| 961 | * BigBadEnsemble: With the goblins in Volume 1 of ''Year One''. While Goblin Slayer is busy fighting goblins, the other adventurers like Newbie Swordsman and Spearman are dealing with this thing. |
| 962 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: This thing is a giant worm/centipede-like monster. |
| 963 | * CallAPegasusAHippogriff: Martial Artist is always confused when people talk about it because she personally refers to the beast as "Olgoi-Khorkhoi", which is the native name for the Mongolian Death Worm. |
| 964 | * {{Cyclops}}: A giant fifty meter long monster with a single eye. |
| 965 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Rock, slimes, people, this monster eats just about anything. |
| 966 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler:After a long, drawn out fight with the Adventurer's Guild, Spearman was able to kill it by impaling its single eye]]. |
| 967 | * FlunkyBoss: The Adventurer's Guild was forced to fight this monster and a horde of slimes that the rock eater seemed to be controlling. After the rock eater was killed, the slimes dispersed. |
| 968 | * GodzillaThreshold: When the Guild learned about this creature, their first response was to send an entire army of adventurers after it, including the then Porcelain-ranked Spearman, Witch, Heavy Swordsman, and Female Knight. This clearly showed how much more dangerous this monster was compared to many of the other creatures shown. |
| 969 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: This monster's mouth is full of multiple rings of teeth that tear any unfortunate prey it catches into ribbons, like poor Half-Elf Ranger and Steel-ranked Scout. |
| 970 | * NonMaliciousMonster: Unlike most of the antagonists on this list, the rock eater is a giant feral monster that doesn't display any sadistic tendencies other than trying to survive. |
| 971 | * RockMonster: Its outer shell seems to be made out of rocks. |
| 972 | * TheSymbiote: Has a commensalistic relationship with the acidic blobs. Whenever it carved out new tunnels, blobs seeped through cracks into them to prey upon any outside creatures that came to investigate the new passages. It's worth noting that the huge and deadly swarm of slimes hanging over the adventuring troop's heads retreated back into their crevices the ''instant'' the rock eater died and went still. |
| 973 | * TheWorfEffect: A single rock eater in the prequel was a massive threat that swallowed low-to-mid ranked adventurers whole in a flash and needed an entire company of fighters led by a Bronze-rank to take it down. Chosen Heroine killed three fiendishly enhanced specimens with a single swing of her sword as a demonstration of her sheer combat ability. |
| 974 | [[/folder]] |
| 975 | |
| 976 | [[folder:Warlock]] |
| 977 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblin_slayer_warlock.png]] |
| 978 | |
| 979 | An evil mage commanding a small horde of goblins that was encountered by Young Warrior and Martial Artist's party in the abandoned mines. He later ends up killed by Spearman and Witch. |
| 980 | ---- |
| 981 | * AnArmAndALeg: His hand gets chopped off by Young Warrior. |
| 982 | * BaitAndSwitchBoss: For Spearman and Witch's B-plot. They quickly deal with him with little effort on their part, only to have to go against the more dangerous cockatrice. |
| 983 | * BlackCloak: Wears an outfit similar to Evil Wizard. |
| 984 | * CanonForeigner: He doesn't actually appear in the light novel and was added in to the manga version of ''Year One'' Volume 2. Additionally, during Spearman and Witch's monster-hunting in the mines, while in the light novel they comment that there are signs of a wizard that was killed there, in the manga they meet and kill the Warlock himself. |
| 985 | * CurbStompBattle: While his encounter with Young Warrior and Martial Artist's party ended with the group barely making it out alive, his later encounter with Spearman and Witch results in his swift demise, through a combination of a Silence spell and Spearman slicing his head off. |
| 986 | * DoppelgangerSpin: Creates illusory clones of himself to buy time to charge up a big spell, and is crafty enough to have the last clone left pretend to be about to cast a spell to keep attention on it. |
| 987 | * AnIcePerson: He casts a blizzard spell at the Misfit Party when he first encounters them. |
| 988 | * NightmareFace: It resembles a skull. |
| 989 | * OffWithHisHead: How he ends up dying, courtesy of Spearman cutting it off with a single spear blow. |
| 990 | * SquishyWizard: He's an incredibly skilled and powerful mage, capable of taking on an entire party with only some effort. However, after getting his magic silenced, he goes down with great ease. |
| 991 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He seems very similar to Evil Wizard, whom Goblin Slayer encountered in Volume 4/Brand New Day. |
| 992 | * TheWorfEffect: He was able to overwhelm Young Warrior and Martial Artist's party and they were forced to retreat, establishing himself as a big threat. However, Spearman and Witch make quick work of him later on to show their effectiveness as a team and that they are much stronger than normal adventurers. |
| 993 | [[/folder]] |
| 994 | |
| 995 | [[folder:Cockatrice]] |
| 996 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayercockatrice.jpg]] |
| 997 | |
| 998 | A cockatrice Spearman and Witch run into while on a quest in the abandoned mines. |
| 999 | ---- |
| 1000 | * BasiliskAndCockatrice: It's a cockatrice. |
| 1001 | * TheDragon: Apparently it was the Warlock's "guard dog" for his treasure. |
| 1002 | * DragonTheirFeet: Survives slightly longer than its master, before Spearman impales it's heart. |
| 1003 | * MixAndMatchCreature: Has a giant rooster-like body, large bat wings, and a snake's head for a tail. |
| 1004 | * TakenForGranite: As can be expected from a cockatrice, it can turn things to stone. However, unlike most other cockatrices in fiction, this one can also turn non-living things such as the ground to stone as well, and does so by stabbing with its beak as opposed to eye-contact or its breath. |
| 1005 | [[/folder]] |
| 1006 | |
| 1007 | [[folder:Dark Elf Cultists]] |
| 1008 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerdarkelfcultists.jpg]] |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 | A mob of demon-worshipping dark elves encountered in the B-plot of the third arc of ''Year One''. |
| 1011 | ---- |
| 1012 | * CyanidePill: One wounded survivor of the skirmish in the sunken city surreptitiously downs a poison vial before Barbarian starts interrogating him in earnest. |
| 1013 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: The ones in the sunken city attempt a ritual to bring the Demon Lord back to life. It goes off despite the interruption of the Barbarian with Young Warrior's party, only for their coffin to turn out to hold the body of some random human king that [[TheCaligula destroyed his own kingdom]], who immediately starts chopping their heads off and calling up his personal zombie army when he gets up. |
| 1014 | * HorseArcher: The hunting party encountered in the sunken city all ride giant spiders, and most of them use bows. |
| 1015 | * HumanSacrifice: Their necromantic ritual involved buying dozens of human slaves to nail to a giant column after chopping their limbs off. When the ritual reaches its climax the sacrificed bodies scream and start melting. |
| 1016 | * MageMarksman: One dark elf could cast Fire Bolt on his arrows to make his shots explosive. |
| 1017 | * ReligionOfEvil: They worship the Demon Lord as their god, and strive to help him destroy the world. |
| 1018 | [[/folder]] |
| 1019 | |
| 1020 | [[folder:Slimes]] |
| 1021 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goblinslayerslime.jpg]] |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 | Living clumps of red or black gelationous matter. A frequent hazard to newbie adventurers in cave systems. |
| 1024 | ---- |
| 1025 | * AmbushingEnemy: Their capacity to hide completely out of sight and lunge for people's heads (along with having no way to tell if one is poisonous or not) is what makes them considered a tougher foe than goblins in a straight fight. |
| 1026 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Seem to operate like the ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' 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. |
| 1027 | * BlobMonster: Your basic fantasy slime, considered only barely more dangerous to fight than a goblin. |
| 1028 | * CeilingCling: They are fond of oozing through ceilings to drop on top of prospective meals. |
| 1029 | * GiantMook: Goblin Slayer, Heavy Warrior, and Spearman encounter a slime the size of a small hill in Volume 12. [[FakeUltimateMook The latter two view it with withering contempt, as its sheer bulk prevents it from lunging at them with speed, and their own weapons are long enough to puncture its vital core with no issue.]] |
| 1030 | * HollywoodAcid: Certain slimes are capable of melting through metal and flesh in seconds. Fortunately for the Golden Party, the ones in ''Daikatana'' werern't toxic. Unfortunately for a background adventurer in ''Year One'', the slimes in that story were. |
| 1031 | * ItCanThink: Allegedly, certain varieties of slime are intelligent and can even use magic. |
| 1032 | * KillItWithFire: DownplayedTrope. Sword Maiden uses fire magic to hurt a slime and loosen its grip enough for Half-Elf Scout to cut it off Female Warrior's face. |
| 1033 | * PoisonousPerson: Certain slimes are poisonous to the touch, though those haven't been seen yet. |
| 1034 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: All the slimes encountered so far as described as red, black, or mixed, with the color combined with their texture giving the impression of [[EvilIsVisceral living, moving gore or organs.]] |
| 1035 | * SinisterSuffocation: They can drop down on an adventurer's head and envelop them, drowning them with their mass and then consuming them after they die. |
| 1036 | [[/folder]] |
| 1037 | |
| 1038 | [[folder:"Scruffy Men"]] |
| 1039 | Adventurers turned bushwhackers or highwaymen that compulsively murder weaker newbies for more loot. |
| 1040 | ---- |
| 1041 | * BanditClan: Nearly a dozen of them form a group and set up a base camp in the Dungeon of the Dead that becomes a major enough hazard that parties set out to end them. |
| 1042 | * DemonicPossession: It's speculated that they are driven to the lengths they have gone by influence by the "spirit of Death" flowing out of the Dungeon. |
| 1043 | * ForTheEvulz: They have no way to spend their gold, squatting in the dungeon as they do. Its speculated they only continue their actions at this point because its all they remember and they think its fun. |
| 1044 | * GoldFever: Adventurers who are OnlyInItForTheMoney are susceptile to having their greed magnified to the point that they start turning on their fellows just to be able to hoard more gold and gear. |
| 1045 | * HeroKiller: They set up a whole operation devoted to killing off any low-to-mid leveled adventurers they could get their hands on. |
| 1046 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: They stopped fighting the Non-Prayer Races and have effectively become another kind of them. |
| 1047 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Are not above abusing any female newbies they get their hands on. |
| 1048 | * ImAHumanitarian: The flesh of the rookies they prey on is the only fresh sustenance available in the Dungeon. |
| 1049 | * LargeAndInCharge: Their leader is a vicious bear of a man who is uncommonly tall and burly. |
| 1050 | * SerialKiller: By the time they made camp in the Dungeon, murdering newbies had become a compulsion for them. |
| 1051 | * ISurrenderSuckers: One faked penitence to Sword Maiden when his companions all bit it. She saw right through him. |
| 1052 | * UnfriendlyFire: Used to kill drunk newbies behind back of inns, then moved to ambushes in the Dungeon to better cover themselves, though it wasn't long before people caught on again and started to hunt them down. |
| 1053 | * WasOnceAMan: No one considers them rightfully human after moving into the Dungeon and all they have done. |
| 1054 | * YourHeadAsplode: Sword Maiden cracked apart the skull of one for trying to jump her after an attempt at mercy. |
| 1055 | [[/folder]] |
| 1056 | |
| 1057 | [[folder:Ninjas]] |
| 1058 | Black-clad, masked, and lightning-fast hand-to-hand-combatants in the Dungeon of the Dead of ''Daikatana''. |
| 1059 | ---- |
| 1060 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: Samurai Captain isn't sure if they're corrupted adventurers or monstrous humanoids behind full-body covering combat attire. |
| 1061 | * BareFistedMonk: Mostly fight with hands and feet, reinforced by steel guards. |
| 1062 | * CriticalHitClass: The strikes are precise, but have enough force to slash open flesh with bare hands. |
| 1063 | * EliteMooks: Some of the deadliest regularly-encountered foes of the Dungeon mid-levels. Two of them act as auxilliaries for the Fallen Party. |
| 1064 | * FlechetteStorm: Can fling caltrops and throwing stars in a pinch. |
| 1065 | * HighlyVisibleNinja: Their red and white masks are practically beacons in the dimness of the Dungeon, and their garb is a giveaway of their fighting style to those familiar with Eastern lands. |
| 1066 | * ImpromptuTracheotomy: Their favorite killing move is a spearhand blow that can slice of hands. |
| 1067 | * KingMook: One of the monsters that the Golden Party encounter in the bottom of the Dungeon of the Dead is a "Master Ninja", distinguished by wearing a stiff pointed kerchief instead of a tiger mask, and strong enough to fight alongside a trio of greater demons in the ninth floor. |
| 1068 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: Most of them wear highly stylized, white-and-red tiger masks. |
| 1069 | * RazorSharpHand: They can allegedly ''decapitate'' with a well-aimed barehand chop. |
| 1070 | * SmokeOut: In the party's first battle against them, Female Bishop and Female Mage try to burn them with a fireball, but they just use it as cover to slip out of the room. |
| 1071 | * StockNinjaWeaponry: Though they prefer fisticuffs, they do have kunai and shuriken and such. |
| 1072 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: The Golden Party immediately and viciously move to slaughter the two ninjas that serve as back-up to the Fallen Party, yet go on to take extreme pains and risk to take out the Fallen Party itself nonlethally. |
| 1073 | [[/folder]] |
| 1074 | |
| 1075 | [[folder:Demons]] |
| 1076 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/watertowndemon.jpg]] |
| 1077 | [[caption-width-right:350:Water Town demon]] |
| 1078 | |
| 1079 | Evil spirits from the pits of hell that seek to destroy the cities of Man and overthrow the gods. [[VillainOfAnotherStory Every adventurer that isn't Goblin Slayer or his supporters considers these to be the principal threat in the setting]]. |
| 1080 | ---- |
| 1081 | * AlienBlood: The greater demon Female Knight slays is stated to have blood "the color of muddy water". The ones the Golden Party fight have "brackish" blood the same blue-black as their bodies. |
| 1082 | * AnArmAndALeg: Lizard Priest tears a wing off of another lesser demon in Volume 10. The Chieftain also ripped the legs off a bee demon barehanded. |
| 1083 | * BeeAfraid: The viking Chieftain supposedly once wrestled a giant bee demon to death. |
| 1084 | * BigRedDevil: High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman, and Lizard Priest fought two lesser demons when they first partnered up that were described as red-skinned gargoyles. |
| 1085 | * ColdIron: The group says that this metal [[SilverHasMysticPowers and others]] are particularly effective as weapons against the demons, though not strictly necesssary at their power levels. |
| 1086 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: Both times High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman, and Lizard Priest have to take on a single or pair of low-to-mid-rank demons, it's a lengthy and risky back and forth that requires a good bit of strategic maneuvering to pull off. Heavy Warrior and Female Knight are able to hack through entire bands of lower demons and bisect a greater demon respectively with one hit each. Possibly slightly Justified by them accompanying an apparently famous demon-hunting group during that fight (who would presumably be able to enchant their weapons or tell them [[AttackItsWeakPoint the most effective way to hit them]]), but still. |
| 1087 | * CuteMonsterGirl: A greater demon is described as resembling a beautiful blue-skinned drider. |
| 1088 | * DeathByIrony: The flying demon of Volume 10 tried to divebomb the ground to kill Lizard Priest after being grabbed. Lizard Priest instead broke its wings and slammed it into the earth while leaping off it to cushion his fall. |
| 1089 | * DemonLordsAndArchdevils: There is one Demon Lord over all others, who keeps threatening to destroy the world, getting killed by TheChosenOne (or a particularly lucky RagTagBunchOfMisfits) and [[DeathIsCheap coming back to do it all over again about once a decade]]. He has sixteen Demon Generals that serve directly under him and recruit/organize the mortal monsters, though it's unclear if they can resurrect as he does or if new ones are appointed when they get cut down. |
| 1090 | * DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:At least one demon general survived the defeat of the Demon Lord by Chosen Heroine, hiding in the countryside and making plans to raze her hometown as revenge. Chosen Heroine finds him and puts him down with ease]]. |
| 1091 | * {{Dreamwalker}}: Succubi can usually only affect people by entering their dreams, though a location with strong demonic activity can allow them to partially manifest in the material world. |
| 1092 | * EvilIsBurningHot: The demons the party are seen fighting have the ability to spit fire balls. |
| 1093 | * GruesomeGoat: One of the lesser demons Heavy Warrior cuts through at the end of Volume 10 has the head of a goat. |
| 1094 | * HolyBurnsEvil: As would be expected, the godly light of Holy Smite can melt succubi into nothing. |
| 1095 | * KingMook: Greater Succubi are a stronger variant of the demon type that can fully materialized in the physical world independently, and is considered a probable hopeless endeavor to fight by a party that at the time had already successfully killed a dragon. |
| 1096 | * LivingShadow: Succubi usually can only manifest so far as an undulating bit of black smog in the waking world. |
| 1097 | * {{Magitek}}: [[spoiler: One of the last major encounters the Golden Party has before destroying the Dungeon of the Dead is a wandering MiniMech piloted by what they assume is a small slug demon]]. |
| 1098 | * PoisonousPerson: The spider-demon has venomous spurs on its legs. |
| 1099 | * TheRemnant: Even when the Demon Lord is killed, a number of demons of all ranks remain on the physical plane, guiding the Evil Sect and the mortal monsters in an effort to rebuild their strength and resurrect their leader. |
| 1100 | * ShapeShifter: One quest that Spearman, Witch, High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman, and Lizard Priest all go on together is to take out a demon disguised as a human that had started a cult in a farming village. The demon taking refuge in Water Town that Chosen Heroine kills also takes the form of a human warlock. Succubi can make themselves look like the women of their victims' dreams. |
| 1101 | * ShockAndAwe: Succubi can cast a wider variety of spells, and the ones the Golden Party face use Lightning. |
| 1102 | * ShootTheMageFirst: The first demon in Volume 10 guns straight for Priestess, and it is stated that killing clerics is always a demon's first priority, for reasons both pragmatic and of principle. |
| 1103 | * SirSwearsALot: The Water Town demon belts out a laundry list of cusses in the wake of Goblin Slayer killing his goblin minions and sealing his portal mirror, peppered generously with [[GoshDarnItToHeck "fudge" and "fooey"]] and invoking [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Gary Gygax]] to send him to hell. |
| 1104 | * SmugSnake: The Water Town demon rants over how Goblin Slayer and friends could have foiled his "perfect" plan of just releasing a swarm of goblins into the city sewers to scare Sword Maiden. One of the Chaos Gods actually physically manifests just to call out his laziness and short-sightedness, before [[YouHaveFailedMe bluntly refusing to grant him any boons and leaving him for dead when Chosen Heroine bursts into his lair]]. |
| 1105 | * SpiderPeople: One greater demon found in Volume 10 is has the top half of a woman and the body of a spider. |
| 1106 | * {{Stripperific}}: The drider-demon is described as having barely enough armor to cover its soft spots. |
| 1107 | * SuccubiAndIncubi: Incubi and Succubi exist, though they usually are just immaterial dream demons that at most induce mild euphoria as they drain their victims vitality. |
| 1108 | * TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Succubi seem to be specialized to drink humans, to the point that being forced to link minds with [[InsectoidAlien Myrmidon Monk]] causes them substantial injury from the sheer incompatibility. |
| 1109 | * VampiricDraining: Succubi absorb life energy even as they suffocate their victims. |
| 1110 | * VillainOfAnotherStory: Pose a constant/cyclical existential threat to the entire world, but Goblin Slayer couldn't give a damn about them; that's what the rest of the Guild's adventurers are for. |
| 1111 | [[/folder]] |
| 1112 | |
| 1113 | [[folder:The Demon Lord]] |
| 1114 | The greatest, most powerful of all demons, who exists to bring about the destructive reign of the demon race. While he technically counts as the BigBad of the world, Goblin Slayer's dedicated focus on goblins relegates him to being the GreaterScopeVillain instead. |
| 1115 | ---- |
| 1116 | * AlienBlood: When cut, he has blood that is black as ink. |
| 1117 | * AnimalBattleAura: [[spoiler: Is able to coalesce the gathered souls and energy of the adventurers and monsters he has absorbed into a black pheonix of death magic that he tries to attack Female Bishop with]]. |
| 1118 | * ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: The red katana that Black Hat Wizard wields is the focal point of the Dungeon of the Dead's curse, which allowed him to both possess the man and forcibly direct the rampant death magic of the place into feeding himself]]. |
| 1119 | * {{BFS}}: The Demon Lord in ''Daikatana'' fights with an odachi roughly as tall as he is, and he is ''tall''. |
| 1120 | * BigBad: Of the ''Daiakatana'' series, the first villain in the franchise to be an overarching threat that is journeyed towards rather than an incidental ArcVillain. |
| 1121 | * BloodKnight: Samurai Captain looks into his eyes and sees a thing twisted by its obsession with proving and adding to its strength by killing everything else. |
| 1122 | * BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler: Sword Maiden, while channeling the Supreme God, is able to destroy almost all of his shadow and death magic enhancements, but even without them he remains a superhumanly strong and skilled MagicKnight]]. |
| 1123 | * CastingAShadow: Wraps himself in a cloak of magic darkness that bolster his size and presence. |
| 1124 | * ClippedWingAngel: [[spoiler:A goblin priest sacrifices himself to bring the Demon Lord partly back to life to kill Goblin Slayer in Volume 8. He only comes back as an arm -- a fully cognizant, ambulatory, spellcasting arm that is still strong enough that it could have killed the whole party in a straight fight]]. |
| 1125 | * DeathFromAbove: [[spoiler:Priestess destroys the Demon Lord's reconstructed arm by baiting it into an elevator shaft, then sealing it with Protection after calling the elevator down. The arm realizes her ploy and has just enough time to punch through her barrier... but not enough to climb back out before it gets pressed.]] |
| 1126 | * DevourTheDragon: It is stated that the life force of every monster killed in the Labyrinth of Death is absorbed by him to bolster his power. While one would assume this would be part-and-parcel of [[YourSoulIsMine traditional demon powers]], according to Sword Maiden in VideoGame/MemoriaFreese this is actually a boon that [[GeniusLoci the dungeon itself]] grants to the being it designates as its boss monster. |
| 1127 | * DyingCurse: [[spoiler: Attempted to incant some malediction on Samurai Captain after being dealt a mortal blow. He was interrupted by Half Elf Scout literally punching his head off]]. |
| 1128 | * EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Though it might have been due to the dungeon operating under ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''-esque rules, the partially resurrected Demon Lord in Volume 8 is so grotesque that just looking at his disembodied arm is enough to fray High Elf Archer's sanity]]. |
| 1129 | * EvilIsDeathlyCold: [[spoiler:The Demon Lord himself, in contrast to his flame-spitting minions, mostly just uses Blizzard spells during his battle against Goblin Slayer's party]]. |
| 1130 | * EvilOverlord: The overall master of demons, undead, and likely all other monsters in the setting. |
| 1131 | * FantasticNuke: The Demon Lord at full-strength can cast Fusion Blast by himself. |
| 1132 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Is noted to speak to the Golden Party with the tone of an old acquaintance catching up on idle gossip, but is nothing but malevolent. |
| 1133 | * FlunkyBoss: Summons a massive horde of ghouls to swarm the Golden Party when he gets bored in the first round of their fight. |
| 1134 | * {{Foil}}: Samurai Captain has a lengthy internal monologue comparing his ChallengeSeeker ways to the Demon Lord's BloodKnight tendencies, and ultimately claims that where he sees fighting and monster-slaying as merely his physical feat of choice, [[GracefulLoser is okay with failure]], and [[NotAfraidToDie doesn't particularly care if he lives or dies]], the Demon Lord is a sadist that loves bloodshed for its own sake, can't accept or even believe in himself losing, and is utterly consumed by his desire to be the last thing alive after killing everyone else. |
| 1135 | * ForTheEvulz: Wants to make it very clear to the Golden party that he doesn't actually have some grand plan to take over the world; he fights and kills because he likes to fight and kill, and while he has amassed an army and cultivates his strength, that is in service of seeking more fights and bolstering his own ego. |
| 1136 | * FromASingleCell: [[spoiler:The Demon Lord's arm contains his full spirit, which notes that it could eventually regenerate its whole body if it kills enough people, starting with Goblin Slayer's party.]] |
| 1137 | * GodOfEvil: The Demon Lord is noted to have power on par with the full-on Dark Gods, and can even [[spoiler:grant miracles to the goblin priest of Volume 8]]. |
| 1138 | * GreaterScopeVillain: He is the greatest threat the world has ever known, with the danger inherent to his very existence bringing everybody across the globe to combine their efforts to make sure he dies and stays dead. However, since the story follows Goblin Slayer, he's mostly relegated to the background, with the most plot relevance being when his influence affects goblins and other foes that Goblin Slayer's party runs into. [[spoiler:Well, except for that one time where a goblin priest managed to partially revive him to face Goblin Slayer's party in Volume 8]]. |
| 1139 | * HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler: Who precisely Black Hat Wizard was and what his intentions were to begin with are forever a mystery, because he was enthralled by the Demon Lord from the moment he first encountered the red blade]]. |
| 1140 | * ICanStillFight: [[spoiler: Insists he isn't done and tries to pry the spear pinning him to a wall out before he receives a double coup de grace]]. |
| 1141 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Female Warrior gets one for her dead sister by running him straight through with her spear and nailing him to a wall.]] |
| 1142 | * JustToyingWithThem: He can fight 1-vs-6 against the Golden Party, some of the most powerful adventurers alive at that point in time, and be able to treat the fight mostly as a joke [[spoiler: at least before Samurai Captain gets a HeroicSecondWind]]. |
| 1143 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Why precisely he has a Japanese-style greatsword as his principle weapon beyond RuleOfCool is never brought up. |
| 1144 | * LetsGetDangerous: When Samurai Captain [[spoiler: somehow manages to break his red katana]], he is forced to admit he underestimated them, needs to fight seriously, and activates a power-boosting BattleAura. |
| 1145 | * LivingShadow: The second ''Daikatana'' manga depicts the Demon Lord as a two meter tall, humanoid figure made of a black smoky substance. |
| 1146 | * LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler: The spatial warping within the Dungeon of the Dead is so bad that when the magic holding it together dies with him the lower floors immediately begin collapsing in on themselves]]. |
| 1147 | * {{Necromancer}}: On top of everything else he can do, he can also bring back dead adventurers as [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier feral vampiric ghouls.]] |
| 1148 | * NotMeThisTime: Makes a point to inform the Golden Party that he didn't actually create the curse within the Dungeon of the Dead, he just took it over when Black Hat Wizard brought him in. |
| 1149 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: What actually puts him down is Half-Elf Thief jumping in from the side and ''karate chopping'' his neck hard enough to send his head bouncing across the room]]. |
| 1150 | * OmnicidalManiac: He wants to personally kill everyone and everything alive that can get through his armies and stand against him, just to prove he is the strongest and absorb their souls to add to his strength. |
| 1151 | * OrcusOnHisThrone: As far as has been shown, when he broke into the mortal world ten years ago it seems he just sent his armies out to wreck havoc at their own discretion while he hunkered down in the Labyrinth of Death, daring the humans to try to come kill him, and passively powering up from absorbing the souls of attempted challengers which fell to the monsters and traps guarding him. |
| 1152 | * PossessingADeadBody: [[spoiler: Black Hat Wizard's body gave up the ghost during the Golden Party's fight with Female Bishop's former team, which gave him complete control of it. He thanks them for arranging that for him]]. |
| 1153 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His body and clothes are pitch-black, his sword and smile are glowing red, and he is one of the greatest evils of this world. |
| 1154 | * RedBaron: When fought by the Golden Party in the ActionPrologue of ''Daikatana'', Samurai Captain refers to the Demon Lord as the "Red Blade" and "embodiment of Death". |
| 1155 | * SarcasticClapping: Gives a slow round of applause to the Golden Party for actually making it to his throne room. |
| 1156 | * SealedEvilInACan: Seems to have been entombed within the Dungeon of the Dead after his defeat. |
| 1157 | * SlouchOfVillainy: One page in the second ''Daikatana'' manga features a striking shot of the Demon Lord fully stretched out lounging on an elevated throne in the Labyrinth of Death with his sword propped at his side. |
| 1158 | * SwordBeam: He can shoot bolts of death magic from his sword in a pinch. |
| 1159 | * ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: The moment he becomes most disbelieving and off-guard is when Female Bishops performs the Call God miracle and gets possessed by the Supreme God]]. |
| 1160 | * VillainRespect: Says that he considers the Golden Party to be the best in the crop of humanity, and praises them for being the ones to face him properly. |
| 1161 | * WreckedWeapon: [[spoiler: Samurai Captain breaks off the tip of the Daikatana, the cursed red blade that holds the power of the Dungeon of the Dead, in a clash of swords. It doesn't actually affect the magic, and the sword still has a lethal edge, but it limits the Demon Lord's reach and confidence in round 2]]. |
| 1162 | [[/folder]] |
| 1163 | |
| 1164 | [[folder:The Shade]] |
| 1165 | Some sort of cosmic shadow monster that enters the world riding on a meteor. Chosen Heroine kills it. |
| 1166 | ---- |
| 1167 | * AlmightyIdiot: It has no consciousness of its own initially, and when it tried to copy the thought patterns of another creature, the only ones available were [[TheGoomba goblins]]. |
| 1168 | * TheAssimilator: It grows stronger and smarter by absorbing living creatures into itself, and probably was going to try to eat the entire world. |
| 1169 | * AttackAttackAttack: It's only move against Chosen Heroine and her party was to lash out at them with tendrils, a consequence of basing its thoughts on a goblins simplistic sense of tactics. |
| 1170 | * EldritchAbomination: Whatever this thing was, it's matter and nature was unknowable and indescribable, [[LovecraftLite though far from undefeatable]]. |
| 1171 | * EvilIsNotAToy: The local evil cult and their corrupt noble patrons had the idea that they could summon this thing, fuse it with the Demon Lord, and somehow control it for world conquest. It's a mercy to them that their plan failed before it began and they were put down. |
| 1172 | * EvilIsVisceral: The color and texture of its "skin" is described as like the innards of an animal turned inside-out. |
| 1173 | * LivingShadow: Described as a fleshy, amorphous darkness. |
| 1174 | * VillainOfAnotherStory: Is only tangentially related to the offending goblins and demons of the A-plot, and is very much contained by Chosen Heroine and the King's actions without bothering the main characters. |
| 1175 | [[/folder]] |
| 1176 | |
| 1177 | [[folder:Undead King]] |
| 1178 | A lich of phenomenal power, bent on reshaping the very earth and killing thousands to complete a spell of grand design. |
| 1179 | ---- |
| 1180 | * AntiMagic: Can use Dispel to utterly strip away every one of Chosen Heroine's, Sword Saint's, and Sage's buffs. |
| 1181 | * TheArchmage: Said by the narration to be one of the absolute strongest spellcasters in the world, opposite Sage. |
| 1182 | * CastingAShadow: Much of his magic involves the animation and solidification of darkness. |
| 1183 | * EvilIsDeathlyCold: Said to keep his throneroom at a chill that could kill a normal human in short order. |
| 1184 | * EvilWearsBlack: Said to be dressed in a robe as dark as a starless sky. |
| 1185 | * GiantHandsOfDoom: Attempted and nearly succeeded in crushing Chosen Heroine to death in a big Force Hand spell. |
| 1186 | * GodhoodSeeker: All his vile acts; the raising of an army of the dead, the unleashing of swarms of monsters on the countryside, the mass human sacrifices, the alliance with demons and forces of Chaos, it was all just part of a scheme to open a portal into the divine realm and ascend. |
| 1187 | * HumanArchitectureHorror: Part of his inner sanctum has an amalgamation of undead fused to the walls, evidently as part of his magic ritual to terraform his dungeon into one of the [[ThinDimensionalBarrier Four Corners.]] |
| 1188 | * {{Irony}}: Dismisses Chosen Heroine's victory over him as her being puppeted by the gods. He has no way of realizing that he himself [[DiabolusExNihilo only exists because the gods needed a big villain]] for their campaign. |
| 1189 | * LaserBlade: Can create a "force-sword" with magic as a last-ditch effort to cut down the heroes. |
| 1190 | * MakeThemRot: Tried to kill Chosen Heroine with a Withering spell, but Sage reversed the effects. |
| 1191 | * {{Necromancer}}: Made himself an undead, made a vast army of undead, and made part of his base is out of undead. |
| 1192 | * OccultBlueEyes: His eyes are decribed as glowing pale-blue. |
| 1193 | * OneHitKill: Tried to hit Chosen Heroine with a spell of Instant Death, but Sword Saint interrupted it. |
| 1194 | * OurLichesAreDifferent: Has turned himself into a high-level undead. |
| 1195 | * SkullForAHead: His face has been nearly reduced to a dull white skull. |
| 1196 | * StormOfBlades: Can raise a tunnel of turning swords in an effort to stop the heroes from approaching him. |
| 1197 | * TakenForGranite: Cast a Petrify spell on Chosen Heroine, but her buffs and sheer vitality shook it off in a moment. |
| 1198 | * TheUnfettered: Does not seek to conquer or destroy the world, but his devotion to his quest to ascend is strong enough that he cares not for ruining a country as fuel for his rituals. |
| 1199 | * UnskilledButStrong: Has no learning in swordplay, but tries to compensate with his sheer might as a greater undead. |
| 1200 | * VillainRespect: Is genuinely (if condescendingly) impressed by Sword Saint just charging through his blade barrier. |
| 1201 | * WeAllDieSomeday: Justifies his destructive and grotesque sacrifice of thousands of innocents by pointing out that humans are mortal, so their deaths may as well contribute to the rise of a new immortal. |
| 1202 | * YoureNothingWithoutYourPhlebotinum: While lying broken and beaten, he spitefully claims that the three heroines only defeated him because the gods were guiding their hands. Chosen Heroine counters by pointing out he’s the one trying to get on the gods’ level, so he should have been able to beat their champions. |
| 1203 | [[/folder]] |
| 1204 | |
| 1205 | [[folder:Fire Spirit]] |
| 1206 | |
| 1207 | The ghost of a powerful but arrogant pyromancer that was entombed in a cave connected to the ruins holding the practice dungeon in Volume 13, awoken when a goblin steals his staff from his coffin. |
| 1208 | ---- |
| 1209 | * CaughtMonologuing: He prattles on so much that the Scrawny Girl blindsides him ''twice.'' |
| 1210 | * EnhancedArchaicWeapon: Wields a whip woven of steel cables, and channels powerful fire magic through it. |
| 1211 | * EvilGloating: Incessantly goes on about how the Scrawny Girl is beneath him and about to die. |
| 1212 | * EvilIsBurningHot: In death his spirit is suffused with fire mana. |
| 1213 | * EvilIsHammy: Loves the sound of his own voice. The Scrawny Girl considers him pompous. |
| 1214 | * FatBastard: Is repeatedly described as corpulent by the Scrawny Girl, and his interactions with her expose him as a bullying and egotistical thug with magic. |
| 1215 | * NotEnoughToBury: He incinerates a giant snake so thoroughly that literally nothing is left. No ashes, no smoke, not even ''a smell of anything having been burnt.'' As clean an immolation as possible. |
| 1216 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler: Dies desperately calling a time-out when the Scrawny Girl whips out the [[MeteorSummoningAttack Star of Muala]] scroll.]] |
| 1217 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: He is not translucent or intangible, nor does he have any overt necromantic theme to his binding or manifestation. |
| 1218 | * PlayingWithFire: A wizard of no small power and a specialty in flame magic in life, as a phantom he can incinerate a giant snake with a flick of his wrist. |
| 1219 | * SealedEvilInACan: He was entombed with his magic items in the dungeon for a reason. |
| 1220 | * SmallNameBigEgo: For all he's a decently strong and nasty pyromancer, he's a footnote in the story proper let alone the world at large. The Scrawny Girl is unimpressed by how he can't even guard his coffin from plundering goblins. |
| 1221 | * WasOnceAMan: Though he's long dead and come back as a spirit, he is not the product of necromancy, and the narration continually refers to him as some sort of quasi-demon. |
| 1222 | [[/folder]] |
| 1223 | |
| 1224 | [[folder:Jupiter's Ghost]] |
| 1225 | |
| 1226 | What remains of an apprentice wizard that experimented with duplication magic to disastrous results. |
| 1227 | ---- |
| 1228 | * AssimilationPlot: The thing is driven by an instinctive urge to spread through the entire world and consume anything and anyone enveloped in its mass. |
| 1229 | * BodyHorror: It is almost literally a giant magic cancer on the world. |
| 1230 | * BodyOfBodies: And its continually adding more bodies to grow. |
| 1231 | * DoomMagnet: Reputed to bring disaster, though Sage argues it's just as likely to be the byproduct of a deeper source of calamity hidden in the Western Frontier. |
| 1232 | * EldritchAbomination: Vast and grotesque enough that beholding it causes sanity damage. |
| 1233 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: What was meant to be a clone army ended up being a potentially world-ending FleshGolem. |
| 1234 | * NotTheIntendedUse: The technique of casting Other Self through Other self is explicitly an "errata" or "exploit" in the setting's magic system, though one that had disastrous consequences on the munchkin that discovered it. |
| 1235 | * MesACrowd: A mage tried to mass-produce clones of himself, they ended up making this thing. |
| 1236 | * RedBaron: "Jupiter's Ghost" is a proper nickname out of the characters' mouths for it, and a rather fancy one too. |
| 1237 | * SelfDuplication: The threat all began with erroneous application of the Other Self spell. |
| 1238 | * SorcerersApprenticePlot: Tried to shortcut into more power by having his Other Self clones cast Other Self themselves. The result when the spell went fully out of control is this thing. |
| 1239 | * WasOnceAMan: A simple apprentice wizard messed up a spell and became a world-threatening horror. |
| 1240 | [[/folder]] |
| 1241 | |
| 1242 | [[folder:Sea-Devil]] |
| 1243 | |
| 1244 | A giant sea monster that is the true killer of the Viking ships trying to root out the northern goblin nest. |
| 1245 | ---- |
| 1246 | * CombatTentacles: It is basically a giant head mounted on a writhing nest of scores of sharp-suckered tentacles. |
| 1247 | * TheDreaded: Sea monsters are basically the only creature Vikings will admit to fearing, and only suddenly surfacing while fighting goblins is enough to make most of them start panicking. |
| 1248 | * HolyBurnsEvil: It is stated to be a Chaos-touched godbeast, and as such consecrated fire does extra damage when a burning ship hits it. |
| 1249 | * HungryMenace: Its attacks are motivated by a desire to feed. |
| 1250 | --> He existed to eat, and so long as he existed, he ''would'' eat. |
| 1251 | * TheJuggernaut: Its size and strength is unparalleled by any monster before it, and even after dealing two mortal blows the Vikings and the party are unsure if it really died or just went back to its underwater stupor. |
| 1252 | * KrakenAndLeviathan: It is not just a random sea-monster, but regarded as a god-beast, and it is so big and fearsome that looking at it out of water causes sanity damage. |
| 1253 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: Is eventually brought down by Goblin Slayer driving a burning ship into its mouth, admittedly synchronized with an empowered Viking warchief landing a critical blow as well. |
| 1254 | * RedBaron: It's called a couple of things by the narration, but the most significant proper moniker is "The Greed". |
| 1255 | * {{Sleepyhead}}: It floats underwater in a half-asleep doze with no concept of time until something causes enough commotion on the surface to rouse it to try eating it. |
| 1256 | [[/folder]] |
| 1257 | |
| 1258 | [[folder: Immortal Sorcerer]] |
| 1259 | |
| 1260 | A random necromancer operating near Water Town during volume 15. |
| 1261 | ---- |
| 1262 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: Is incredibly egotistical and convinced of the superiority of his dark magic, to the point that he smugly decides to not interfere with Priestess' attempts to undo his curse because he thinks she's that outclassed. |
| 1263 | * BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: He is intensely disgusted by pretty or pleasant things. he had this trait back when he was a normal person, and black magic corruption has only exacerbated it. |
| 1264 | * BodyOfBodies: [[spoiler: His body is a shadowy mass holding the heads of every person whose life he has absorbed.]] |
| 1265 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: He is noted to have killed hundreds and have absolutely no appreciation for the damage he has caused in his wake. |
| 1266 | * CameBackWrong: His emotions are noted to be muted and confused immediately following each resurrection. |
| 1267 | * DealWithTheDevil: His trick of immortality is stated in passing to have come from a demon. |
| 1268 | * DeflectorShields: Can cast a Force Field spell against Goblin Slayer's assault. |
| 1269 | * DiabolusExNihilo: Shows up with practically no build-up. Goblin Slayer mentions that his contact in the Rogue's Guild was talking about how an "immortal sorcerer" was skulking around when the party goes looking for a goblin nest at his insistence, and suddenly this dude is the mastermind of everything. |
| 1270 | * MagicalGesture: He traces runes in the air to get around being Silenced by Priestess. |
| 1271 | * NeverMyFault: He holds grudges over being ridiculed as a young man, which he feels justifies all his crimes since. |
| 1272 | * ThePawnsGoFirst: He initially was just planning to let his goblins roadblock the party as he completed his sacrifice of Silver Blaze, but when they pushed through close enough he decided to turn around and deal with them himself first. |
| 1273 | * NotQuiteDead: Gets his brain crushed and is buried under rubble, but nobody in the party believes that was enough to wipe out his stored lifeforce and they all joke that in a century or two someone will accidentally unearth him. |
| 1274 | * {{Pride}}: His biggest flaw and indeed character trait is his giant, fragile ego. |
| 1275 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: If he gets cut down, he gets back up by [[spoiler: consuming one of the lives sealed inside of him.]] |
| 1276 | * ShockAndAwe: Knows a wide-range lightning spell. |
| 1277 | * SurroundedByIdiots: He has no respect for his goblin lackeys. |
| 1278 | * ThisCannotBe: Is floored by the realization that Priestess was able to counter his curse with Purify. |
| 1279 | * VampiricDraining: How his immortality works; [[spoiler: by splashing someone with his blood, he channels their lifeforce or soul into his body, which can then be burnt whenever he suffers lethal damage to restore his strength.]] |
| 1280 | * WhosLaughingNow: He was mocked relentlessly for his ambitions as a novice wizard in his youth, which drove him to become a life-stealing monster. |
| 1281 | * WorthyOpponent: While condescending to her, Priestess is still the only member of the party he expresses anything other than disdain towards, and he genuinely wants to see if she can out-cast him and avoid being reduced to a goblin plaything. |
| 1282 | [[/folder]] |
| 1283 | |
| 1284 | [[folder: Vampire]] |
| 1285 | |
| 1286 | A vampire encountered in Volume 16 because he was sleeping in the same abandoned temple the staff of the Earth Mother was left in. |
| 1287 | ---- |
| 1288 | * AndIMustScream: Goblin Slayer stuffs him in a BagOfHolding, which is described as a pitch-black, soundless void with nothing to touch or find purchase with. At least his time in it was short before Goblin Slayer let him out to torch to death. |
| 1289 | * BeatItByCompulsion: He has the oldschool vampire need to count small object being thrown at him. His internal monologue suggests that this not a true compulsion but rather a {{Geas}} that would kill him if he ever ignored it. Nonetheless, he freezes up to count whenever it happens, and that becomes instrumental in the party surviving and later triumphing in their short clashes with him. |
| 1290 | * BurnTheUndead: 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. |
| 1291 | * EvilIsVisceral: He is noted to wear dark-red armor that somehow resembles the flesh of an animal skinned alive or turned inside-out. |
| 1292 | * HealingFactor: He has high-speed regeneration, to the point of not being phased for even a second when Goblin Slayer throws a club at the back of his head hard enough to splatter his brains. |
| 1293 | * InnateNightVision: When the party tries to use a cloud cover spell to throw him off, he internally brags that vampires have heat vision. |
| 1294 | * {{Irony}}: He complains that the goblins that have overrun his resting place are worthless as sentries and peons for fending off adventurers, only for the narration to wryly note that it is only thanks to the goblin horde making High Elf Archer use up all her personal stock of arrows clearing them out before he entered the fray that he avoided having a length of blessed wood buried in his chest immediately, a fact neither he nor the party he is fighting ever fully realize, or would appreciate if they found out. |
| 1295 | * KlingonPromotion: Brought up by him when he notes that in vampire circles, the only possible way to rise in rank is through this, as the elder generations do not die naturally or have reason to retire. He complains it's a barbaric and counterproductive system, but he still fully intends to "rise to the top" as it were. |
| 1296 | * TheMinionMaster: 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. |
| 1297 | * SuperSenses: On top of heat-vision, he has an expanded field of view along with HyperAwareness, and that's just his sight enhancements. |
| 1298 | * WolverineClaws: His nails can extend into rending knives. |
| 1299 | * WoodenStake: They can be used to kill vampires, but only if the wood is consecrated or otherwise enchanted, as he gloats after a NoSell of Goblin Slayer braining him with a plain wood club. |
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