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* [[Precision F-Strike]]: [http://www.goblinscomic.com/10122010-3/ Shit.]
* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Big Ears's second axe is a major artifact that contains a powerful demon.}}
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: After he gets his {{spoiler|second axe. It also comes with a magic armor.}}
{{quote|''"Paladins get the best stuff at third level!"''}}
 
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{{quote|''"You know, in the old days we depended on ingenuity rather than feats, the strength stat used a forward slash as a decimal point... and there were no such thing as Drow. I '''miss''' the old days."''}}
 
Thaco is the oldest goblin in the Goblin Adventuring Party, which is why he's named after an outdated ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' defense mechanic. He's also Complains's father. Thaco already had a lot of combat experience at the start of the story, and when the others chose character classes, he became a monk.
 
* [[Badass]]
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* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: [http://www.goblinscomic.com/04152006/ It ends poorly.]
* [[The Woobie]]
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Subverted.
{{quote|''"Which class did you choose?"''
''"[[Master of None|All of them]]."'' }}
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Dies Horribly is a timid, fearful goblin who is separated from the Goblin Adventuring Party during the attack on the warcamp.
 
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: After fufilling his fate, he spent just over a page actually dead}}
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: A firm believer of this.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Dies loses an arm, but Klik makes him a living metal replacement. He doesn't like it because it's hard to control.
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* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Subversion! While it looked like he was going to sell his soul for the artifact he needed but [[Exact Words]] ended up meaning he sold it for a worthless bauble, thanks to [[Loophole Abuse]], he inadvertently got out of the deal and was resurrected.}}
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: The badassery he shows in the Well of Darkness has shades of this, his arm more or less controlling his actions while he kills the demons. He doesn't remember his actions after he snaps out of it, and the alternate personality also seems to be very possessive of its "father" (whether that's Klik or Dies himself hasn't been revealed).
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: After fulfilling (what he believed was) his fate, Dies Horribly finally had enough of everything making his life (and even death) miserable and took several levels of Bad Ass. ''On the spot.''
 
=== Grem ===
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* [[Cutting the Knot]]: His solution to every problem he comes across, ranging from locked doors to magical guardians that want to kill him, is violence.
{{quote|''"[http://www.goblinscomic.com/07192010/ Okay, I've tried absolutely everything. There is no way to open this door.]"''}}
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: From his point of view. To lizardfolk in this 'verse, fighting, eating, and mating are aspects of the same thing, so he's horrified to find himself forced into fighting things which he can't eat.
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: If it's made of meat, he'll try to eat it. Even clearly decaying, or even undead, meat.
* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: He gets around his 'don't fight what you can't eat' taboo by using one [[Mecha Mook]] as a club to beat the stuffing out of the rest of them. After all, the [[Mecha Mook]] was doing the actual *hitting*.
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** {{spoiler|[[I'm Melting]]: Type A.}}
* [[Lizard Folk]]
* {{spoiler|[[Taking You with Me]]: Already dying from a wasting, flesh-liquifying disease, K'Seliss used his final moments to ''bite the head off'' a huge, undead horror.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: His last act was to [[Defiant to the End|taunt]] the horror's corpse.}}
 
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{{quote|''"Klik"''}}
 
A strange flying metal sphere that was sitting around in the goblin warcamp. [[Tastes Like Friendship|It follows Dies Horribly around after he helps it recover.]]
 
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]
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* [[Screw Destiny]]: Her motto. {{spoiler|But, as Dies explains to her, [[You Can't Fight Fate]].}}
* [[Simple Staff]]: And she is very good at using it too.
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: {{spoiler|Literally; she broke goblin law to take fighter levels.}}
 
 
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* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: His right eye was injured but healed back up, and the iris has been white ever since.
* [[Morph Weapon]]: His new sword seems to be an unusual variant of this, where it can take on the properties of other materials that it touches.
* [[The Munchkin]]: Naturally; "minmaxer" is another name used in [[Dungeons and& Dragons]] for a munchkin.
** Partially averted, though, as (quite unlike a true munchkin) he actually allows his "chosen flaws" to affect his life.
* [[Power of the Void]]: Minmax's new sword Oblivious. Originally a [[Morph Weapon]], it permanantly copied nothing after Minmax sticks it into an oblivion hole. As a result, it cannot be affected spatially or temporally unless Minmax wields it, and is powered by ignorance.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Subverted. Minmax's new suit of magical armor is bright pink... and he hates it. However, it's able to change to any color the wearer likes; he just hasn't realised this fact yet. {{spoiler|During the battle with Not-Walter he finally (accidentally) turns it red.}}
* [[Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training]]: The whole point of minmaxing is that Minmax has traded away just about every simple non-combat trick he can think of for more combat prowess. These include the ability to read for a +1 to hit bonus, the ability to wink for Weapon Proficiency: Furniture, and the ability to rhyme on purpose for Improved Unarmed Strike. As mentioned however above, it comes back to bite him sometimes.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Almost lost his eye fighting Complains, and still has a [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|vertical scar over the area.]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The only thing keeping him alive, his prodigious stats aside, is Forgath [http://www.goblinscomic.com/02042011/ predicting and preventing the shenanigans that would otherwise kill him.]
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: He is visibly grief-stricken when he sees {{spoiler|Sarral Caine's decapitated corpse.}} Normally that wouldn't be so much of a [[Pet the Dog]] moment except it's the ''only'' humanizing moment he has the whole story.
* {{spoiler|[[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: What he did to Kin was enough to make Minmax, normally of the type to consider all monsters worth killing for the XP, go ballistic on his ass.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Rasputinian Death]]: Being humiliatingly defeated by his favored enemy,<ref>For those unfamiliar with [[Dungeons and& Dragons]], Rangers get a ton of combat bonuses against their favored enemy type</ref> having his [[Hannibal Lecture]] turned on its ear, being told by one of his oldest opponents he's [[Not Worth Killing]], and losing an ear right before he loses his position, his pride, and is reduced to an angry drunk. Shortly thereafter Dellyn is thrown through a window, slashed and pummeled, set on fire, beaten over the head with a table, and finally stabbed to death repeatedly.}}
* [[Torture Technician]]: He sadistically vivisects captured monsters in order to learn their weaknesses.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]
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* [[Big Bad]]: He is thus far the closest thing to a [[Big Bad]] for the entire series, dramatically overshadowing even Dellyn Goblinslayer in power and perhaps even cruelty, and a living avatar of everything the Goblin Adventuring Party stands against. He is also {{spoiler|the first villain to have killed a main character and member of the G.A.P, namely Chief.}}
* [[Black and White Insanity]]
* [[Bow and Sword Inin Accord|Bow and Axe in Accord]]: his preferred tactic seems to be pincushioning foes with his [[Guns Akimbo|pair of]] [[Automatic Crossbows]], but he's no slouch in melee and is capable of slicing up any enemy who manages to get close to him.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: {{spoiler|He tortures Chief, using Lay on Hands to keep him alive, to lure the goblin party via his screams.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: See [http://www.goblinscomic.com/09172005/ here] and [http://www.goblinscomic.com/09182005/ here] to sum it up simply. Note that this is just the climax of his massacre of a whole tavern of relatively peaceful orcs, goblins, ogres and the like.
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{{quote|''Ha ha! Yeah, right. As if "Walter" would be the name that the ancients gave me before time began! Ha ha! That gag never gets old!''}}
 
A huge, hulking demon who appears due to an ill-timed request by Forgath and co. for more challenge. By the rules for demons in the Goblins setting, anyone who ''did'' know his true name would gain control over him. Minmax tried to guess it and failed (although the demon briefly tricked him into thinking it was "Walter," leading to his common [[Fan Nickname]]).
 
An alternate version of the demon is later seen in the Maze of Many, where an alternate Minmax guessed correctly. {{spoiler|He deliberately tells Kin his true name so that she can banish—and therefore free—him.}}
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* [[Healing Factor]]: Any wounds he receives from a non-holy weapon regenerate within seconds.
* [[I Know Your True Name]]
* [[Nothing Personal]]: He just has to kill anyone his master orders him to kill.
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: The name thing is explicitly a houserule, not part of the normal D&D rules the setting is based on.
** His appearance (and abilities) also resembles that of a D&D [http://pds.egloos.com/pds/1/200505/30/59/c0015659_1928083.jpg Pit Fiend], which is a ''devil'' ([[Fantastic Racism|and would kill you painfully for calling it a 'demon']]) more than [http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/dx0809tt_balor.jpg a D&D demon] (he also summoned other devils during his first appearance). This implies the setting possibly houseruled demons and devils into a single faction.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: More like a Punch Clock Antagonist (he's still genuinely ''evil'', after all); the alternate version of him outright says he has nothing personal against our Minmax and Forgath, he's just required to kill them because the guy who knows his true name ordered him to.
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]: His initial appearance was based on the 'Grudge Monster' variant of this trope, though the heroes successfully fled.
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