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[[File:goblins.jpg|frame|It's [[Artifact of Doom|the shield]] you have to worry about.]]

 

{{quote|'''Thaco:''' We are NOT jumping off this roof to our deaths!

''([[Beat Panel|long pause]])''

 

'''''[http://www.goblinscomic.com/ Goblins]: Life Through Their Eyes''''' is a webcomic written, penciled, and colored by Tarol Hunt, nicknamed Thunt, following the adventures of a band of, well, goblins, as they fight off evil [[Player Character|adventurers]]. It's a role reversal of the typical adventure RPG ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', though familiarity with the game isn't required to understand what's happening.

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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Well, it is an RPG world, but a sewer with ''sculptures'' in it is pushing things a bit....

* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]:

* [[Advancing Wall of Doom]]: A wall full of spikes makes one of the Maze of Many's rooms a [[Timed Mission]].

* [[Alternate Universe]]: The Maze of Many allows multiple versions of Kin, Minmax and Forgath to exist in the same place at once. [[All There in the Manual|There's a list of realities]] [http://duke.a-comics.ru/fmk/ here].

* [[Exclusively Evil]]

** Seemingly a [[Deconstruction]] of the trope. The Goblins and such are portrayed as creatures who are just trying to survive in a world where they are seen as mere XP Fodder.

** It's also [[Justified]] in the case of the Elite Guard: In one scene Thaco compares the Elite Guards' motivations to those of the standard city guard, and for the rest of the comic, it's okay to assume that the Elite Guards are Always [[Lawful Evil]]. Ears the Paladin confirms this with his Detect Evil ability.

{{quote|'''Saves-a-Fox:''' Okay, now try a skin coloured one.

'''Grem:''' You mean a white one?

'''K'seliss:''' She means a green one.

'''Saves-a-Fox:''' I mean an ''orange'' one! }}

** {{spoiler|Fortunately, the souls the demon owns were apparently released when she was banished from the Material Plane.}}

* [[Angrish]]: A mild case of it, in terms of speechless anger, {{spoiler|when Chief has just prayed to his god that there'd be no guards around the corner; [http://goblinscomic.com/08012008 this is his reaction]}}.

* [[Arc Words]]

** "That's clever", at least in the early episodes.

* [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]

* [[Artifact of Doom]]

** The Axe of Prissan, which imprisons a demon of near godlike power. If the Axe goes 13 months in the hands of an evildoer, it will break free.

** Possibly Dellyn Goblinslayer's as well.

** An alternate Minmax also possesses crystalline arms that may fit this.

* [[As You Know]]: {{spoiler|Psion Minmax}} feels the need to tell {{spoiler|his version of Kin}} that he's killed her 817 times, and that she remembers them all, along with some other exposition that she really should know by now.

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]

** Goblinslayer {{spoiler|just before he dies.}}

* [[Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat!]]

** Goblinslayer again.

** Shortly afterward, Kin.

{{quote|'''Kin:''' Don't throw the spear!

'''Kin:''' I can't keep them back for ''long''! They're going to rush in here in a moment, and that's our only melee weapon!

''(Chief throws the magic spear, and it reappers in his hand)''

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Minmax

* [[Automatic Crossbows]]: Kore fights with [[Guns Akimbo|two of these]].

* [[Badass]]

** Thaco (of the [[Badass Grandpa|grandpa]] variety), definitely. And Complains, while fighting.

** Say what you will about Kore, but he is badass.

** Same goes for Goblinslayer, to a lesser extent.

** Dies-Horribly {{spoiler|when under the control of his artificial arm}}.

{{quote|'''Demon:''': I'm going to rip you apart!

** And K'seliss's spiky dewlap creates the impression of reptilian [[Perma-Stubble]].

* [[Badass Boast]]

{{quote|'''Grem:''' I am a goblin prince. I know when to fight.

'''Dies-Horribly:''' I AM A ''COWARD!'' I KNOW WHEN TO '''RUN!''' Come on! }}

** See Dies' line in [[Badass]].

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Fumbles, or rather Señor Vorpal Kickass'o, tries to invoke this trope with his fake mustache.

* [[Balance Between Good and Evil]]: Defied. Forgath believes in this, but Kin tells him rather bluntly that, throughout the multiverse as a whole, [[Crapsack World|Evil is winning]].

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: A good reason not to use the random-effect magic shield Complains picks up. Alternately, a good reason ''TO'' use it if utterly and hopelessly outnumbered.

{{quote|'''Minmax:''' The strength bonus from raging is totally awesome!}}

* [[Bar Brawl]]: Minmax vs. Goblinslayer.

* [[Battle Aura]]: Called Individual Magical Effect (I.M.E.) in-story.

* [[Battle Cry]]:

* [[Battle in the Rain]]: The first fight between the goblin warcamp and the adventurers.

* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: Part of the backstory for minor character Sticks involves him bluffing a Brassmoon guard into thinking he's not an orc, but a soldier who's been polymorphed into an orc to infiltrate an army of orcs who are besieging the city.

** Complains {{spoiler|after Chief's death. He starts drawing upon his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], getting ready to fight Kore.}}

* [[Best Served Cold]]:

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Gender-flipped by Dies-Horribly and Grem.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Bifurcated Weapon]]: Thaco's Cane-swords.

* [[Big Bad]]: Multiple of these, one for both of the major plot arcs, and another even bigger bad who seems likely to be a part of the comic's culmination.

{{quote|'''Forgath:''' Okay then... Who dies first?}}

** This exchange.

'''Big-Ears:''' [http://www.goblinscomic.com/08142007/ Then come and get it.] }}

** Played straight by Minmax on [http://goblinscomic.com/03092010 this page,] then [[Defied Trope|defied]] by Forgath on the next.

* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Dellyn may be a sadistic psychopath who enjoys torture, rape, and murder, but he genuinely weeps when he is shown {{spoiler|[http://www.goblinscomic.com/11272007/ Saral Caine's dead body]}}.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Minmax may be a powergamer, a jerk, and have all the mental prowess of a brick, but bragging about {{spoiler|raping female monsters}} in front of him may just get you thrown through a window. {{spoiler|Even if you're Dellyn Goblinslayer}}.

* [[Everything's Deader with Zombies]]: There is an [http://www.goblinscomic.com/02182011-3/ undead equivalent party] in the Maze of Many.

{{quote|'''Forgath:''' That seems like the most obvious, clichéd...}}

* [[Skewed Priorities]]: Kore wants to eradicate '''all''' evil. He's murdering kids, not-evil people, and torturing to avoid it taking him longer to do this. [[Hypocrite]] would be a compliment.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Evil humans can contort their faces in some... interesting ways, although it's implied that this is as much a matter of their victim's perception of them.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Female goblins aren't welcome in the war camp unless they are spellcasters, hence why Young-and-Beautiful the fortune teller is the only woman (?) around. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]], [http://www.goblinscomic.com/08142005/ by the way]:

{{quote|"'''''Even [[The Smurfs]] had one woman!!'''''"}}

 

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