Our Goblins Are Wickeder: Difference between revisions

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*** They seem to be intelligent enough to be much more dangerous than a common animal, but almost impossibly stupid by the standards of sentient creatures—basically, a whole race of [[The Ditz|ditzes]].

{{quote|"Missed me," said the goblin, waggling his forked tongue. It was a testament to the goblin's stupidity that he could be trapped in a melting vehicle during a lockdown with an LEP officer firing at him, and still think he had the upper hand.}}

~~***~~* [[Fridge Logic|It should be noted that Goblins are 100 percent fireproof (One even snorts a fireball to blast Mulch with the "Double Barrels"), so he likely wasn't in immediate danger from the melting vehicle]] [[Too Dumb to Live|the gun on the other hand...]]

::* [[Fridge Logic|It should be noted that Goblins are 100 percent fireproof (One even snorts a fireball to blast Mulch with the "Double Barrels"), so he likely wasn't in immediate danger from the melting vehicle]] [[Too Dumb to Live|the gun on the other hand...]]

* [[Bruce Coville]]'s goblins (in ''Goblins in the Castle'' and the short story "The Stinky Princess"), while definitely weird, are mostly snarky and pragmatic, and tend to be a lot more decent than many human characters.

** Coville's book and children's stage play "The Dragonslayers" features "goons", which are plainly run-of-the-mill dimwitted goblins who serve as henchmen to the witch antagonist.