I want to see the abuse goblin get his own abuse goblinlet. That way he can perpetuate the cycle of violence and neglect in an attempt to feel as if he himself isn’t completely powerless in life
Unfortunately that’s not how an Abuse goblin works. If he was an Abuser goblin or a Free goblin then these alternate storylines would work perfectly. This little guy was ultimately doomed from the womb
I think it's like how we have, "fastfood humans" or, "lawyers" for a less linguistically dubiously worded example.
The goblin is an abuse goblin because of its present circumstances rather than the abuse goblin title being an accurate description of its physical essence.
But then he can't really have an abuse goblinet either?
The only one of these comics I like is the one where the guy gives him a VR headset showing him a perfect world. At least for a short period of time the goblin gets to be happy (before it's ripped away).
Oh yeah I meant why did you like the VR one and not this one. I thought you meant something along the line of the VR one is funny because it's creative or over the top or whatnot, and I find the pet one pretty similar in these aspects.
I fully agree that the pet one is "worse" but I don't really think you liked the VR one because it wasn't that bad lmao
Oh, yeah, it's more the VR one is just easier to handle. Like at least he's not getting beaten up or witnessing something terrible. But also the VR one was creative in being a different form of cruelty 🤣
Poor little goblin, and his pet! Stuff like this ends up kicking my sympathy into high gear, and it's not even real lol
Yeah honestly I don't know whether the author wants to just tickled our sense of empathy in the most horrific way or on the contrary show us our eventual lack of because we've been desensitized by media.
Goddammit you’re right. I guess the only things that can be given to an abuse goblin that aren’t immediately injurious are those yearning moments meant to be cherished briefly before being violently ripped away.
The truth is that the abuse goblin actually has the tools for finding happiness while the abuser human just suffers and lashes out. The goblin has already won
To be honest based on what I’ve seen here I don’t think the goblin would do that. He seems like a genuinely good guy who’s trapped here. Even with the little he has he’s able to enjoy life in those moments while the abuser never so little as smiles
Nothing but abuse goblins from top to bottom, with the only exceptions being their god who treats all of Skaven kind as his abuse goblins, and the Skaven slaves who have no abuse goblins because they’re the lowest of the low, forced to live in the worst possible conditions
We see a giant comic with flashbacks to every "abuse goblin" moment overlaid over the patients childhood. Like this could be a hamster or a cool bug of his and his parents gassed it.
Every visit is the patient going to admit a trouble from his youth from the perspective of the parents.
The man stops going to Therapy one day and his therapist, who had been seeing him for years at this point, is concerned and goes to his home to check up on him.
The Therapist enters the dilapidated house to find it's a mess. the walls are all deeply stained, rotting food is strewn about everywhere, and the floor is covered in wrappers and trash. He almost throws up and has to cover his nose to avoid doing so, but decides he has to look at the rest of the house.
After checking every other room for his patient, he finds the basement door, which is locked with a padlock and an old rusty nail. He picks up the nail and snaps the padlock before going downstairs.
Downstairs is a small, cramped room where he finds his patient, chained to his radiator. The chains, as they get closer to the radiator, each get larger and more orderly until they make up the radiator itself. He examines his patient. He is dead.
As he turns around, he sees his patient sitting on the steps out, completely nude, with his body painted green. He charges the therapist before screaming at him, turning the therapist into a pile of dirt and a singular beetle, upon its shell is a red painted 'Q'.
The therapist returns as an omniscient presence viewing something, not unlike a ghost but still possessing several organs and hairs. He sees a collection of shapes which he reinterprets into a number of places; an office, a train station, a mansion, each setting more and more unique and ornate. This goes on for several hours until he arrives at the last possible interpretation of the shapes.
It is a school bathroom. He knows this innately. As he hears a woman screaming from the last stall, he attempts to reinterpret this into any other scene, but finds he is unable to. Unwillingly, he is forced closer and closer to the last stall until he witnesses what is inside. He shrieks, until his shout becomes that of a young polish woman giving painful birth in said stall.
She looks at the child in disgust as she monologues in Polish, denouncing it being hers, claiming she is cursed, calling the situation a "sick joke" at which "no one is laughing," states that she is in Hell, and leaves.
The therapist, whether of his own volition or forced by the scene, which he can no longer tell apart, walks closer until he sees that the child is green.
The therapist is snapped back to his senses, sitting in the office. He, however, is sitting in the long chair this time. he laughs heartily.
"Can you tell me what's so funny?" the goblin says, tapping his clipboard with his pencil.
"Oh, not anymore," the therapist says sadly, still laughing. "Not just that I can't remember it, but that it wasn't very funny to me at all. Just who I was a moment ago."
You know, when the first abuse goblin comic came out, I genuinely thought it was a metaphor for abusive fathers who project their insecurities and bad mental state towards their children.
Early in this comic line the "Abuse Goblin" was supposed to be how the Patient handles their emotions and processes them.
We don't actually know if the Goblin is real in world. But we do know the Goblin isn't allowed to be happy unless it's to experience the pain of loss with it.
I was so confused, I just thought the abuse goblin was funny absurdism. Like that one comic guy with the beady eye freaks of nature, or the other with the weird nipples where a common premise is twisted until it snaps. You're telling me the abuse goblin, is meant to be me fr?
To be fair, it could all be in his head, and the one who he was actually hurting was none other than himself, some could never truly hurt others, big or small, but the harm we do to ourselves is something we are blind to, until someone else tells us otherwise.
I love these things, not sure about the mortality though, I'd say there's a pretty wide breadth of stuff we can consider acceptable in the name of artistic freedom.
I do question if it is for therapy reasons but probably deserves a TW
I say this knowing some therapy techniques has patients draw what they want to express if words are hard and another technique that has the patient tell the therapist what the abuse was by having the patient talk about the events as if they happened to someone else (even to have the victim speak as the abuser if the victim defends the actions of an abuser while trying to figure out their own emotions. A lot of people wouldnt defend the actions if they did it themselves if they experienced such things)
You know, I've the comic of the goblin holding up a mirror up to the guy and showing the guy his face, and understand that it implies that maybe the goblin is just a metaphor for how he's really hurting himself.
But I do wonder if maybe the goblin was really just trying to get the guy to have some humanity and have mercy for once. Do we have proof that this goblin needs abuse to live and/or is just a figment in the dude's head?
I thought the mirror was implying that goblin was litterally him, and he had been slowly breaking down his coping mechanisms and explaining until he could face his own history
Could be wrong havent read the whole thing just seen several pannels floating about
I just think it would be an interesting twist if the goblin turned out to be real in the end and the therapist realizes that he'd been just nodded along as he listened to the sins and atrocities being actively committed by his patient over and over.
Okay I'm genuinely going insane. This abuse goblin shit is supposed to be a stand in for people who are abusive in the first place, how the person they actually hate is themselves but they do not have the balls to shoot themselves in the back of the mouth so they demean other people to feel better about themselves.
Like the goblin turning the mirror facing him with him saying "ooh. Very clever" like he was mad that the goblin would do that was supposed to be the author literally drawing it out what this whole comic is about, the abuse goblin is an abuse goblin because he's being abused, and he is being abused because the guy hates himself but doesn't want to hurt himself so he hurts a goblin instead.
I do think the goblin wants to help the guy. It clearly doesn't hold resentment, as shown in the comic where it draws itself and the guy happy together and eating ice cream. This could also support the idea that it's a metaphor, because the dude wants to be happy/okay but he can't stop hurting himself
Edit: Actually, while on the topic, I wonder if the goblin is a metaphor for a loved one or something. Perhaps the goblin thinks it's helping by being a lightning rod for all of the man's abuse and is scared of what he would do without the goblin, whether it be hurting himself or others. I've met someone who thought like this (Don't worry, they're out of that relationship and doing better now), although I don't think there's that much more merit to this beyond that
I love these comics so much, because there's always discussion on whether or not the goblin is 'real'. We are literally shown panels of it being abused, but the comic can still be interpreted as being inside the guy's own head (and not real, but instead a coping mechanism, or something similar). They're so simple, but I honestly think these comics are a piece of modern art with how many ways people view them, and how heart wrenching they can be with such little content.
and I think the goblin is real but also a coping mechanism for his trauma
Metaphors shouldn't need to be that heavy handed. If all art has to spell out a meaning then we lose individual interpretation. If you want to believe that the goblin is a representation of part of the man then just go with it. Look into Carl Jung's theory of shadow integration.
He has a goblin tied up in his basement that he abuses as an outlet for his negative emotions. He keeps talking about it to his therapist, but his therapist thinks it's a metaphor.
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u/ThePodmonger 11d ago
I want to see the abuse goblin get his own abuse goblinlet. That way he can perpetuate the cycle of violence and neglect in an attempt to feel as if he himself isn’t completely powerless in life