Editing World of Warcraft (section)

====Goblins====
[[Goblin]]s are basically [[gnome]]s, but green and Swiss capitalist and with a [[Skaven|general disregard for the safety of whoever's using their creations (including themselves)]]. To make the obligatory comparison to Warhammer, they are basically a fluffy hybrid of [[Skaven]], [[Orcs & Goblins|Plains Goblins]], and [[Ork]] [[Mekboy|Mekboyz]] all rolled into one with their minds only revolving around money/gold, excitement, and sex (usually in that order), that is never the less still more stable then its component parts. Technically as a race they're free agents that refuse to ally with or against any of the superpower factions, but the Horde happens to be the highest bidder usually and the Alliance doesn't usually want them when they already have one race of technologically inclined midgets in the Gnomes (who have a rivalry with Goblins based on engineering philosophy although how violent this rivalry depends on the individual since they've been seen both engaging in attempted genocide, or working together to create a fucking permanent podrace track in the middle of the desert (which after being flooded became about hovercraft races)). They're also WAAAAAAAAY too into holidays, either because its a great money maker or because they're just obsessive and things like <strike>Christmas</strike> Winterveil lights and fireworks make their (usually short) lives worth living. 

The Goblins that joined the Horde are only a part of their race called the Bilgewater Cartel who tend to be New Jersey expies complete with bad pop culture and a combination of 1800's industrialization and 1980's pop culture living in a fantasy world. 

In the short-lived RPG, [[hobgoblin]]s were goblins transformed into giant, super-strong but dimwitted purple-skinned versions of themselves through alchemy. Of course, the transformation killed them after, like, 3 years, but their goblin masters didn't see the downfall in that.

There was a plotline involving the goblins basically having gained sapience and genius-level intelligence from a chemical when they used to be monkey-like critters that the troll empire used as slaves, but now the chemical that gave them their brains is all running out because they've squandered it, but it was dropped.

Goblin women are one of the foundations of the [[shortstack]] meme.
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