Menu
Tons of awesome Goblin Slayer wallpapers to download for free. You can also upload and share your favorite Goblin Slayer wallpapers. HD wallpapers and background images. Desperado screenplay pdf. Doom Slayer got tricked by the demons again and is sent to another world where he meets Goblin Slayer and his Party. He decide to search for the portal to Hell that sent him there and destroy it once he's back in Hell.
Lower case sigma microsoft word for mac. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ShoutOut/GoblinSlayer
Go To
![Goblin Goblin](https://static.zerochan.net/High.Elf.Archer.full.2448174.jpg)
Given the amount of inspirations behind this series and its adaptations, all references to other works now have its own page.
- Goblin Slayer is one to many characters:
- His character design from the light novel is ripped straight from the Restless Armor, down to copying its pose in Super-Deformed.
- Characterization-wise, Word of God went on record stating he modeled Goblin Slayer after Batman and The Punisher: a Crazy-PreparedBadass NormalDeterminator waging a one-man crusade against those who destroyed his previous life.
- In the Manga, it's implied he looks like a combination of Emiya Shirou and Archer out of armor, as he wears an identical shirt to the former and his light-colored hair evokes the latter. The references continue with the ending credits in the Animated Adaptation, featuring Goblin Slayer running through a Field of Blades, similar to the appearance of Archer's 'Unlimited Blade Works'.
Advertisement:
- Priestess to the same-named Character Class from Dragon Quest III, though her hat and color scheme were changed up in the transition from the web novel to light novel.
- Cow Girl's placeholder in the original web novel was Aki Mikage: despite the different hair colors, Cow Girl has Aki's hair-style, works on a dairy farm and has affections for the male protagonist.
- Most assume High Elf Archer's one to the Elf from Dragon's Crown, but Word of God states she's based on Sinon, particularly her avatar's appearance in ALfheim Online, including her overall demeanor.
- Lizard Priest's original web novel placeholder character design and inspiration/guide for his physical profile was Kiyonari Urquiaga, a compassionate and kind humanoid reptilian and staunch ally to the protagonist.
- Spearman's facial appearance, spiky hair-style, demeanor, and Weapon of Choice are all lifted from Lancer Cú Chulainn, especially in the Manga. While he hasn't shown any Born Unlucky tendencies yet, Spearman's poor luck with women is a nod to Cú Chulainn's characteristic.
- Who else could Witch possibly be besides the Sorceress from Dragon's Crown, a Fanservice-inducingLady of Black Magic?
- Everything about Heavy Warrior screams Guts, from facial features, Weapon of Choice and fighting style. His finishing swing on a goblin champion at the farm raid in the Manga is essentially a Homage to the Black Swordsman, who oftenperforms ina similar manner with his BFS.
- Alter the shape of Female Knight's armor with a touch of blue and she looks like a dead ringer for Agrias Oakes, while her oversized triangular shield and focus on defense is a reference to Raquna Sheldon from Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl.
- Upon his introduction in Year One, Newbie Swordsman is an ersatz to the eponymous character of the Rance series, a SociopathicJerk with a Heart of Gold, minus Rance's Really Gets Around attitude and The Hedonist personality.
- Amazon to the same-named Character Class from Dragon's Crown, right down to appearance, outfit and Weapon of Choice.
- If the Motherly Side Plait and similar administrative position in the Adventurers Guild didn't give it away, Guild Girl is the fantasy version of Chihiro Senkawa.
- With regards to appearance and personality, Chosen Heroine's a combination of Haruhi Suzumiya and Najimi Ajimu wearing platinum armor. She also resembles Konno Yuuki, especially as shown in Year One.
- With her long braid hair-style, BFS, Amazonian Beauty traits and reputation as one of the greatest swordsmen in the land, Sword Saint could easily pass as Laura S. Arseid.
- Downplayed with Wizard Boy, who has the appearance of a teenage Negi Springfield, but is The Friend Nobody Likes, a Know-Nothing Know-It-All with a Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Half-Elf Wizard of the Ragged Party has the facial appearance and hair-style of Sucy Manbavaran, except the former wears a hood instead of Sucy's Nice Hat.
- Female Warrior of the Golden Party to Tatsuta: similar hair-style and color, body physique and Weapon of Choice.
- Burglar is Bilbo Baggins as a Grimdark, abusive, goblin-butchering Hermit Guru; that he asks a young Goblin Slayer in a Flashback the same riddle Bilbo uses against Gollum in The Hobbit makes the similarities deliberate.
- As with most muscular males of the archetype seen throughout popular Fantasy media, the Barbarian to the titular Conan the Barbarian.
- Though they have not made physical appearances in either the Light Novel or Manga yet, in the original web novel, Truth is represented by the same-named character from Fullmetal Alchemist, while Illusion is a reference to Ultimate Madoka.
- Rather than generic fantasy-based green-skins in the original web novel, the eponymous monsters of the series were an Expy to the Terraformars, creatures fueled by The Power of Hate with specific evolutionary traits and non-terrestrial origins.
- Intentional or not, the goblins' concept is similar to 'Tucker's Kobolds', infamous in the Dungeons & Dragons community as monsters known for being pathetic Cannon Fodder and usually dismissed by players. However, if given sufficient numbers, some nasty traps and a setting that puts the opposing party at a disadvantage, these kobolds can deal a Total Party Kill against a group of adventurers many times their Character Levels.
- Downplayed with the Giant Eye: due to The Scottish Trope, this monster is an In Name Only example to a beholder.
- Rhea Scout is a smarmier, more pretentious version of Chilchuck; like the latter, he's only interested in looting.
- After she cuts her hair, Noble Fencer’s appearance got compared a lot to one Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi in certain circles.
- The Manga appearance of the goblin priest serving as The Dragon of the goblin paladin in Volume 5 has a hooded black robe and face reminiscent of WarlordSkarsnik.
- Being a beautiful ice-themed Sorcerous Overlord who doubles as a vampire that makes her lair in forbidden snow-blanketed mountains, the Ice Witch is an Expy of the titular villainess from Caverns of the Snow Witch. Also, her character design in the Light Novel is comparable to Jadis, the White Witch.
Advertisement:
Advertisement:
- The series is essentially a love-letter to old-school Dungeons & Dragons:
- When Priestess registers at the Adventurers Guild in the beginning of the story, the registration form in the Manga has the same layout as a character sheet.
- Magic users are only able to cast a certain number of spells per day: for example, Priestess can use three 1st-level spells per day, just like a 1st level Cleric.
- The regenerating, spell-casting ogre in Volume 1 of the Light Novel is literally an Ogre Mage.
- Flaming oil, mostly frequented by Goblin Slayer, when used as a weapon, is a staple for experienced players with low-level parties; it even hits harder than Magic Missile!
- Surprise is a more important factor in combat than party numbers, gear or Character Levels; the Greenhorn Team learned this the hard way.
- In Volume 1, when Guild Girl briefly describes some monsters as 'those with blasphemous names and many eyes', it's accompanied in the Manga by a silhouette of a beholder; the aforementioned Giant Eye is clearly the latter.
- Goblin Slayer's handling of the notorious 'orc baby problem' was first posed in the adventure Keep on the Borderlands.
- Prior to the Water Town demon's transformation in Volume 2, this character cusses about Goblin Slayer killing his goblin minions and sealing away a gate mirror, peppering his dialogue with 'fudge' and 'fooey', while invoking the name of 'Gygax' to send him to hell.
- During Volume 8, when Goblin Slayer's party make their way into Capital City, the narrative states a poster is seen advertising a theatrical play called 'Spelljammer', based on an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons campaign set in outer space.
- In the old version of Chapter 3 of Goblin Slayer Side Story 2: Daikatana of Singing Death, one panel depicts a person with small horns on their head as one of the background characters, possibly hinting at the existence of tieflings in the setting.
- The title of the Dungeon & GoblinsCrossover campaign from DanMachi: Memoria Freese is an obvious reference to Dungeons & Dragons.
- In Chapter 27 of the Year OneManga, two books Arc Mage references about research include the 'Draconomicon' and 'Demonomicon', two actual sourcebooks for the Tabletop Game.
- Word of God is a self-admitted fan of Gamebooks from Fighting Fantasy. In Year One, a porcelain-ranked Goblin Slayer takes a goblin quest while a nearby adventurer takes a quest to kill 'an evil sorcerer on Firetop Mountain'. Guild Girl warns the latter to be careful as the sorcerer lives in a labyrinth, a reference to the 'Maze of Zagor'.
- A particular favorite of Fighting Fantasy from Word of God is the Spin-OffSorcery! series, as each of the first five volumes of the Light Novels (barring the fourth) borrows a major element/setting from the four titles: 'The Shamutanti Hills' is Volume 1 (Goblin Slayer and the Guild confront a goblin army in an open field), 'Kharé – Cityport of Traps' is Volume 2 (Goblin Slayer's party head beneath the populated Water Town), 'The Seven Serpents' is Volume 3 (Dark Elf's ability to produce a total of seven arms is a parallel to the titular Seven Serpents) and 'The Crown of Kings' is Volume 5 (Goblin Slayer's party infiltrate an ancient dwarven fortress).
- Combined with a Take That!, Goblin Slayer also references Dragon Quest: not only are Goblin Slayer and Priestess an Expy to pre-existing Dragon Quest entities, the Greenhorn Team at the start of the story (Warrior, Fighter, Priestess and Wizard) is an archetypal setup in many Role Playing Games. Some of the characters have appearances that wouldn't be out of place in the first three installments, with the girls wearing what would be a standard Gendered Outfit for their respective Character Class. Even the title of Goblin Slayer can be seen as an inverted Shout-Out: whereas Dragon Quest implies a low-level character working their way up the ranks in an adventure to fight high-level beasts like a titular dragon, Goblin Slayer implies no adventure at all, but a (presumably) high-level adventurer fighting low-level monsters.
- Dark Souls is loosely referenced, considering that magic in Goblin Slayer runs on similar Vancian Magic mechanics of the first two games, especially when some spells require catalysts and most defense- and healing-related spells are classified under 'Miracles'. Furthermore, that Sword Saint, upon meeting Goblin Slayer for the first time, assumed the fully armored character was some kind of undead, is a nod to The Chosen Undead, a protagonist in the Dark Souls franchise.
- When the Rookie Duo asks Guild Girl in the Brand New Day for some adventuring pointers, she says defense is key. In the Manga, an illustration of an armored soldier Dual Wielding two shields evokes the 'Giant Door Shield' from the Dark Souls 3Downloadable ContentThe Ringed City.
- The series is filled with J. R. R. Tolkien references, specifically The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit:
- When High Elf Archer shares an elf traveling ration with the party, it resembles Lembas in the Manga.
- Goblin Slayer's In-Series Nickname, given by High Elf Archer, is 'Orcbolg', a parallel to legendary swords such as 'Orcrist'.
- A subtle reference to the films comes before the end of Volume 1: when Female Knight is aghast that despite slaying a goblin champion, it's still only worth one gold coin, Guild Girl's response is identical in spirit to Gimli's retort of Legolas defeating an Olyphant, 'That still only counts as one!'
- Similarly, in Chapter 30 of the Year OneManga, when Dwarf Scout is poisoned and needs Elf Acolyte to heal her, their exchange hearkens to Gimli and Legolas' dialogue just before the Battle of the Black Gate:Dwarf Scout: 'Damn..never thought..I would owe..an elf..my life..'Elf Acolyte: 'Hmm. I sympathize. But..say rather than an elf..it's simply the help of a friend.'
- Similarly, in Chapter 30 of the Year OneManga, when Dwarf Scout is poisoned and needs Elf Acolyte to heal her, their exchange hearkens to Gimli and Legolas' dialogue just before the Battle of the Black Gate:
- In Volume 2 of the Light Novel, the party's fight against the Water Town goblins while trapped in an inescapable room is reminiscent of the Fellowship of the Ring's stand against Moria orcs, with the appearance of a goblin champion being a parallel to the cave troll.
- During Goblin Slayer's Flashback to the days when he was given Training from Hell by Burglar, one of the riddles the latter posed was 'What have I got in my pocket?', an exact word-for-word question Bilbo Baggins uses against Gollum in the fifth chapter of The Hobbit, 'Riddles in the Dark'.
- The title of the last chapter in Volume 2 of the Light Novel is called 'There and Back Again', the exact words of the subtitle to The Hobbit. The same words are re-used as part of the last chapter in Volume 4 called 'Of Going There and Back Again' and an interlude chapter in Volume 6, 'Of the Hero Who Went There and Back Again'.
- In Chapter 30 of the Manga, as Lizard Priest is eating roasted meatloaf with melted cheese topping, he says 'If all had such fine food and a bed to sleep in, there would be no more wars', he's paraphrasing one of Thorin Oakenshield's last lines of dialogue from The Hobbit.
- In Volume 7 of the Light Novel, High Elf Archer's cousin is named Shining Helm, which comes from a poem called 'The Fall of Gil-galad' that was sung by Samwise Gamgee before he and his hobbit companions reached Weathertop:His shining helm afar was seen;were mirrored in his silver shield.
- When Goblin Slayer visits the Shadowrunners in Volume 10 of the Light Novel, it's revealed Burglar is a Living Legend in this organization, who goes by epitaphs like 'Shinobi' and 'The One That Rode The Barrel'. The latter is another reference to Bilbo in The Hobbit, where he calls himself 'Barrel-rider' upon meeting the dragon Smaug.
- Aside from Heavy Warrior being a nod to Guts, another Berserk reference is loosely used via an illustration in the Manga during Goblin Slayer's He Who Fights Monsters monologue to Guild Girl: the titular character's monstrous visage over a pile of goblin corpses renders him like Guts in the Berserker's Armor when his Superpowered Evil Side takes control.
- In Chapter 49 of the Manga, Noble Fencer's brand on the back of her neck starts bleeding profusely when the Goblin Paladin appears, just like the Brand of Sacrifice on Guts' neck whenever an Apostle is around his vicinity.
- Another Conan the Barbarian reference is used in Volume 8 of the Light Novel: one of the spirits Dwarf Shaman commands is an ice spirit named 'Atali', based on the same-named character from the Conan short-story The Frost-Giant's Daughter.
- By the end of the eighth volume, Lizard Priest quotes a parable from Tunnels & Trolls, while the party prepares to face off against a goblin horde.
- Dragon's Crown references is already present via Witch and Amazon, but Chapter 6 in Volume 5 of the Light Novel is called 'Goblin's Crown', which is also the title of the Original Video Animation adapting the volume.
- During a discussion about the practicalities of research into creatures such as dragons and demons in Year One, Arc Mage deliberately names the Skaven, the same-named Rat Men from Warhammer.
- Keen-eyed fans have drawn comparisons between Goblin Slayer and Doom:
- The titular character is likened to the Doom Marine/Doom Slayer as both are Combat Pragmatists with an obscenely genocidal tendency for the species of their ire (goblins and demons, respectively), right down to being ready to tear their foes apart with their bare hands when enraged.
- The Doom allusions continue with an illustration from Volume 7 of the Light Novel, where Chosen Heroine and her party are fighting a horde of demons, with the former mimicking the Doom Marine's pose from the original game's cover art; simultaneously, a mountain-sized behemoth of a demon akin to the Titan in a lore entry of DOOM (2016) is vaguely visible in the background.
- By the end of the seventh volume, Chosen Heroine and her party has been holding back the Legions of Hell from pouring out of an ancient, unstable gateway, complete with her fighting off one of the demonic leaders, which is described as a 'Giant Spider with mechanical legs', referencing the Spider Mastermind Final Boss from Doom Episode 3 'Inferno' and Doom (2016).
- In the Manga, when High Elf Archer demonstrates curving an arrow shot that kills two goblin sentries in the fortress leading to the ogre, she quotes Clarke's Third Law almost verbatim, but replaces the word 'technology' with 'skill'. Furthermore, the degree of the 'arrow curve' is likened to Wesley Gibson's ability to curve a bullet.
- When Goblin Slayer asks for the Guild's help in the Animated Adaptation, Newbie Swordman stated that he became an adventurer on the same day as him, a Call-Back to the former's introduction in Year One.
- The 'spear wall' used by the adventurers in Volume 1 to counter a pack of goblin riders is identical to the same tactic William Wallace used to decimate the English Heavy Cavalry at the Battle of Stirling in Braveheart.
- In Volume 2, while poking around the Water Town bazaar, High Elf Archer finds a miniature of what is very clearly described as an Ultramarine Chapter Master.
- In the Manga, when the Water Town demon transforms to fight Chosen Heroine, it takes on an elongated appearance with a gaping maw similar to the Violator.
- The first chapter of Volume 3 of the Light Novel is called 'Harvest Moon'.
- When Goblin Slayer informs Arc Mage in Year One that he has seen goblins dig through walls to ambush him, she quotes 'the sound of frying bacon', a word-for-word line from Starship Troopers about how Bugs digging under the Mobile Infantry's ground-penetrating sonar is described as, while dismissing it as an inside joke when Goblin Slayer is confused by the reference.
- In Brand New Day, the two demons that ambush High Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman and Lizard Priest look like Red Arremers; the creatures even use that name in Pokémon Speak to make it clear it's intentional.
- When Rookie Warrior retrieves his sword back in Brand New Day, he decides to call it 'ChestBurster'.
- The chapter titles in Volume 7 of the Light Novel include 'Jungle Cruise', 'Heart of Darkness' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
- In the Flashback prologue of Volume 8, while her party is fighting a greater demon, the young Sword Maiden comments 'If it bleeds, we can kill it.'
- When Goblin Slayer's party arrives at Capital City in Volume 8, they see a large number of people playing various board games on the streets, most notably one group simulating the Black Death spreading across the entire world.
- For no real reason, Lizard Priest introduces Priestess as 'Noman' to the Sasquatches in Volume 9's Harefolk Village, seemingly just so the survivor of their fight makes a fool of itself to its fellows by loudly complaining that 'No man killed my brothers.'
- From the same scene, after Priestess kills the Sasquatch she was competing against, the party is not coy at all about bringing up historical accounts of small humans slaying giantkin with slings.
- Near the end of Volume 9, an on-the-ropes Goblin Slayer gives himself a pep talk that contains the line 'There is do or do not do. There is no try.' The same line is repeated in the Year OneManga when Arc Mage discusses Goblin Slayer's mentor Burglar.
- In Volume 10, Goblin Slayer introduces an underground network of outlawed or unregistered adventurers who do the government's dirty work, known as 'Shadowrunners'. To hammer the point home with this reference, Shadowrunners use jargon such as 'Mr. Johnson'note and 'Fixer'note within the correct context.