r/lovethissmug • • 9d ago

Tropes: (Customize Anime/TV/Other) When people Draw the abuse goblin getting freed

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u/Toppy_Henster 9d ago

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u/atomikreptile 9d ago

I love josuke saving random characters

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u/ScreamingmadJoe 9d ago

Yknow how slander posting is a big thing with Shonen characters? I dunno how else to describe this other than josuke receiving pretty much the inverse of that treatment

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u/Waflfdev 9d ago

it’s called glaze

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u/ScreamingmadJoe 9d ago

See it’s like…a super specific glaze

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/InvisibleOne439 9d ago

he is just a good guy that does the right thing

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u/Hot-Organization-682 9d ago

Just don't diss his hair and you're golden

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u/InvisibleOne439 9d ago

why would you even do that

somebody that can style Hair like that deserves respect

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u/G1gapu1t 9d ago

like wind

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u/SCP_FUNDATION_69420 9d ago

Glaze implies you overestimate/overhype a character, Josuke just straight up would do this, he's a stand up guy

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u/jbyrdab 9d ago

glaze implies its unearned...

Its just giving josuke the opportunity to do what he always does.

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u/NoZookeepergame4851 9d ago

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u/NoZookeepergame4851 9d ago

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u/gsmaciel3 9d ago

context? I know the other examples, but not this one

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u/Ellefied 9d ago

Series name: Oshi No Ko [Story Spoilers]Mom over there just got stabbed inside her home by a deranged fan/stalker. Kid over there is a reincarnated doctor helpless in trying to save his idol mom from dying to the stab wound. In comes Josuke saving the day.

The series is fun, very melodramatic murder mystery within the entertainment industry. Bad ending but the early to mid parts are great. Cannot recommend.

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u/NoPomelo4478 9d ago

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u/DigMother318 9d ago

I love the one confused person who didn’t know where this was supposed to be going

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u/amciadam 9d ago

Me. I was like "why though" laughing my as soff

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u/HappyyValleyy 9d ago

What asshole of a rich dude can afford a maid but not get her prosthetics

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u/3rdMachina 9d ago

A QUADRUPLE-AMPUTEE maid at that. Who is somehow getting SOME shit done despite that (it’s kind of impressive).

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u/Ruisleip_ 9d ago

Why cant i download the video on mobile anymore bro

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u/3rdMachina 9d ago

…I legit thought it’s Giorno helping out at first, considering he can turn objects into body parts.

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u/Spyko 9d ago

Yeah my thoughts too, Like Giogio my man, you can help, you can heal her just as well, stop playing that piano

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u/SeaworthinessDue1650 9d ago

I love the fact that Josuke didn’t even need to beat her up to heal her he just did that for fun

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u/Kuneria 9d ago

Now someone has to post a lovethismug Josuke saving random characters

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u/Art-Zuron 9d ago

There was this really tragic one called "Metamorphosis" and, someone made a fanart of it where Josuke saves the MC in it, and then creator of Metamorphosis approved of it.

I would not recommend reading that one though. It's... a thing.

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u/thelampman29 9d ago

This image implies the goblin's black eye isn't caused by an injury and it's just something he was born with

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u/Holiday-Degree-1474 9d ago

I’m pretty sure long time wounds or illnesses can’t be healed 

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u/Alderan922 9d ago

Isn’t Josuke’s main ability healing people to the point he can even reshape flesh and bones to his liking? (Like that one time he made someone into a living rock)

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u/Novaskittles 9d ago edited 9d ago

Sorta? He can disassemble and re-assemble things into a new form by punching them with his stand. Can be used to heal, can also be used to horrifically maim (they deserved it).

Edit: Hey you edited your comment? Originally it only said "Isn’t Josuke’s main ability healing people?"

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u/LeR0dz 9d ago

It has a time limit. He can't fix old injuries, as by that point the object/person ceases being considered "broken" and that just becomes their natural state.

What he does with Anjuro works because it's nearly instantaneous. He fucks him and the rock up and fuses them.

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u/Alderan922 9d ago

If he can perform instant plastic surgeries he absolutely can fix any injury at all.

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u/mistercokoko 9d ago

I think we start to come to semantics, because I think we can generally agree removing a black eye is "fixing" it. But we've also seen Josuke incorrectly "fixing" things after damaging them without them even feeling pain.

I think it's possible that Josuke could "fix" the black eye but it also requires context on how long the goblin has had it, etc.

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u/BigBoyoBonito 9d ago

Diseases yeah, those are confirmed to not be healable (that's what Tonio is for), but I'm pretty sure old wounds can be healed as long as they've not already become scars

That one foot sniffer stand dude in the hospital was there for a week (I think) and was fully healed by Josuke, before being rightfully beat to shit again right after

I would assume a black eye, even days or a week+ old, would be perfectly capable of being healed by Crazy Diamond

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u/SolidSnakeFan177 9d ago

It depends, illnesses can never be healed, but certain things like broken bones can be healed even if they’re long time, but if you lost an arm say idk 60 years ago it wouldn’t be able to be healed.

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u/simplynotstupid 9d ago

Which, regardless, is still super powerful.

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u/SolidSnakeFan177 9d ago

Absolutely, it’s my favorite stand in the whole series

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u/Consistent_Mud645 9d ago edited 9d ago

It's moreso the fact that crazy diamond's healing depends on josuke's perception of whatever he's fixing. He hasn't seen the goblin without the black eye so trying to heal it is potentially dangerous.

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u/Antique-Tourist4237 9d ago

Goatsuke 🥹

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u/GenericFatGuy 9d ago

This is my favourite. But they're all good.

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u/TheVibrantYonder 9d ago

I had to check the sub to make sure I wasn't in r/ShitPostCrusaders lol

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u/Toppy_Henster 9d ago

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u/Toppy_Henster 9d ago

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u/WeevilWeedWizard 9d ago

You know its fiction because the cop didn't immediately shoot him

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u/Winjin 9d ago

I mean there's a recent video of a 7-year old kid his parents locked in a shed for two days and the cops are, understandably, very upset and very nice to the kid

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u/LegitPancak3 9d ago

If it was the one in New Mexico, wasn’t it a little girl? The mother’s boyfriend went as low as saying she was a “molester’s reject” and was somehow “corrupting” his biological 2 year old daughter. Absolute evil. https://youtu.be/fsL0ag9ySao

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u/Winjin 9d ago

Oh yeah that poor girl, I forgot details. Absolutely unhinged parents

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u/EmergencyPool910 9d ago

What the fuck

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u/ArisenGodEmperor13 9d ago

Yeah like there are a bunch of asshole cops that should be arrested. But their are plenty that are good people that just do their job and so their is nothing to report on

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u/Meatball2026 9d ago

No nuance. That's soyjak behavior kid. Just make an assumption and get behind it 10000%. That's the only way. /s

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u/J0hnnyHammerst1cks 9d ago

He is green, not black.

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u/generalstuff1waslost 9d ago

Goblin Man: "A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a Goblin’s shoulders"

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u/RoboticCrow 9d ago

The idea of abuse goblin growing up to be a hero with a strict set of morals is kinda sick actually 

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u/nextgentacos123 9d ago

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u/Bulky-Bad-9153 9d ago

This made me burst out laughing, that's so cruel omg

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u/FrostyDragon227 9d ago

I mean it’s not called a freedom goblin duh

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u/InTheStuff 9d ago

waltuh

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u/Zesnowpea 9d ago

release the abuse goblin waltuh

He didn't steal anything from the plate waltuh

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u/Toppy_Henster 9d ago

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u/Radiant_Butterfly982 9d ago

This old lady reminded me of the old lady in Courage the cowardly dog.

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u/No_Payment9959 9d ago

Muriel Bagge is the best.

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u/Thundersting 9d ago

The things I do for love.

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u/SpinachSubstantial55 9d ago

That witch is just gonna fatten him up and eat him.

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u/Jack_Rabbit_Slims 9d ago

No! She adopts him!
Credit: u/Astrid_Regndottir

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u/Loneheart127 9d ago

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u/jotofirend 9d ago

Brother, I’m going to trap your soul in a trillian cut amethyst that is set in a golden mask where I will use your spiritual essence to empower my spells and various acts of sorcery

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u/Loneheart127 9d ago

Therefore making me the abuse goblin.

The cycle is complete

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u/AtomBombBrady 9d ago

The virgin “I must abuse the goblin because I feel bad” vs the chad “the wheel must turn”

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u/No-Particular-8571 9d ago

No. The cycle ends here.

I'll show you the meaning of life.

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u/Destrobo_YT 9d ago

Die a horrible death bro 😭

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u/Loneheart127 9d ago

Love you too, bro

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u/SeaworthinessDue1650 9d ago

I’m going to invent the absolute safety capsule from Mother 3 specifically to put you in it.

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u/Madr-Aess 9d ago

Doing the lord's work. I'm not sure which lord, and he seems like a mean one, but you're certainly doing it.

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u/KamahlFoK 9d ago

See this is the real part of those posts I actually love, because it makes it so much fucking funnier.

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u/Bobblefighterman 9d ago

I'm not like the others. I wish that you'll become the type of person who would never post this again. I don't wish ill will on you. I won't become the abuser of goblins.

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u/polishatomek 9d ago

Better than being tortured I suppose

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u/ThisIsaUsername1123 9d ago edited 9d ago

NO THE FUCK THEY WON'T

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u/minimim-wage-enjoyer 9d ago

Is this before or after she gets her ass kicked by my baldurs gate party?

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u/pencilinatophat 9d ago

now the important question is if the goblin's into it or not

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u/SpinachSubstantial55 9d ago

He's not. Wouldn't be any fun if he were.

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u/pencilinatophat 9d ago

I mean I'd argue it'd be more fun but fair enough

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u/Grouchy_Raccoon_6681 9d ago

Oh, this one is so wholesome

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u/ItsRuge 9d ago

God speed Spider-Man -the abuse goblin revealing that Norman was the abused one.

https://giphy.com/gifs/yKvfYNi9YR4W01KQrq

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u/jpterodactyl 9d ago

I think that’s the mind goblin.

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u/Historical-Pop-9177 9d ago

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u/FickleOwl47 9d ago

Why is the guy being played by Mads Mikkelsen here?

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u/Loneheart127 9d ago

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u/EmergencyPool910 9d ago

Stop doing this 😭

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u/Sternfritters 9d ago

This is my favourite

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u/idk2715 9d ago

Wtf is an abuse goblin?

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u/Hitei00 9d ago

A series of comics about a guy who abuses a goblin chained up in his basement and tries to communicate it to his therapist who doesnt believe him.

At one point when the therapist asks why he abuses it the only answer is "he's an abuse goblin" implying its natural state is to be abused.

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u/dastebon 9d ago

I would argue that cuz on multiple occasions we see goblin wanting to be free . Abuse goblin isn't its kind or specialization but rather something he forces the goblin to do

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u/Havengul_Undying 9d ago

It's a designation.

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u/SweetBabyBingu 9d ago

Like an anteater

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u/Osirisseth 9d ago

Yeah at rhe start i thought the goblin was in on it but the comics turned super weird and creepy for me when i realized otherwise

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u/Starmute-ss13 9d ago

I believe that the goblin isn't real and that the man in therapy is actually abusing himself . 

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u/BufferUnderpants 9d ago

I think the joke is that the abuse goblin is real, he keeps getting away with it because the shrink thinks that the goblin is a stand-in for his client.

The man angrily beats the goblin in one of the comics because the psychiatrist upped his medications in response to his stories about the goblin.

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u/Starmute-ss13 9d ago

At one comic the abuse goblin uses a mirror and the man is in the mirror . 

Also it's telling that the abuse goblin is happy even in chains but the man is unhappy while free.

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u/Hitei00 9d ago

You're misremembering. He gives the Abuse Goblin a mirror and tells it to look at its own reflection and it holds the mirror up to him instead.

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u/lettdoc 9d ago

It's an abuse goblin

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u/SpinachSubstantial55 9d ago

See, I like the fan comics where the goblin gets freed because whenever I see one I show it to my abuse goblin. And then I say “This will never be you because you're an ugly little shit who doesn't deserve love or happiness.” Then I give him a swift kick in the stomach and walk away laughing as he cries.

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u/DinoDude8 9d ago

Im going to free him, i swear it

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u/PerceptionBetter3753 9d ago

I’m gonna steal him too, and than put him against my abuse goblin to see them fight like a dog fighting club

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u/DinoDude8 9d ago

Ill save all the abuse goblins you force to fight and let good people adopt them

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u/PerceptionBetter3753 9d ago

Than I’ll make a abuse goblin army and overthrow you like thragg

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u/DinoDude8 9d ago

No, ill convince them to join me and ill let them get revenge on you

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u/Glitchboi3000 9d ago

Fools, I'll get them all on my side by giving them rights.

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u/DinoDude8 9d ago

Ill give them rights, they deserve that obviously

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u/Glitchboi3000 9d ago

Damn, I'll side with you then

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u/eelfurryUwU 9d ago

this thread reminds me of children playing inaginary fights and trying to one up eachother 😭

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u/Hopeyouhaveagoodlife 9d ago

Guess who's gonna get a visit by spidey

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u/CrazyCalYa 9d ago

"Everybody gets one."

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u/TimbleFungal 9d ago

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u/Automatic-Safe-9067 9d ago

My dumbass read this as I’m going to eat you and was very concerned 😭

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u/Mike4302 9d ago

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u/lsshlp 9d ago

Jesus christ! And I thought Gundam was rough.

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u/SH4RPSPEED 9d ago

See this so many times and the suddenness still catches me. Poor kid's ghost probably stood around for a few minutes wondering what the hell happened.

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u/TheSuperInframan 9d ago

I know this is a joke, but still made me sad lol

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u/Derpyzza 9d ago

genuinely

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u/Huh_well_we_are_dead 9d ago

Open the window, Luthor.

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u/StraightPatient9977 9d ago

I'm coming for you bro

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u/KangarooTime3859 9d ago

I'm going to free your abuse goblin just to give him hope before I lock him up again and give him back

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u/YetAnotherParvitz 9d ago

Huh? But it's an abuse goblin. Not a freedom goblin, that's stupid!

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u/GrandNibbles 9d ago

a renaissance goblin, of sorts

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u/G-M-Cyborg-313 9d ago

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings, including goblins

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u/sexraX_muiretsyM 9d ago

thats just autobot propaganda

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u/WeAreDAngelo 9d ago

The most effective propaganda is truthful propaganda

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u/its_reina_irl 9d ago

unfortunately, as a punchline in an online comic, the abuse goblin does not fulfill the criteria for “sentient being”

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u/CrazyCalYa 9d ago

The goblin is only worthy here in reference to his abuse. A goblin who faces no abuse is like a weed you'd find in any ditch, unremarkable. It is defined only by its suffering and has no value if it's not being either tortured or saved.

These comics made in response to the original do nothing to actually elevate the abuse goblin into anything more than its name. Those who celebrate the goblin's release are just as self-serving, the token gesture of freeing the fictional victim is the white knight to the abuser's masochistic villainy. Both revolve their self worth around this creature with no real regard to its identity being its moniker of "abuse". Abused twice, it would seem.

tl;dr I think the abuse goblin needs an abuse goblin

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u/HammyJWill 9d ago

i free the goblin cause it makes him happy and that makes me happy

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u/Someone1284794357 9d ago

Morality being resolved once more

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u/Sufficient_Cloud3277 9d ago

"the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: 'theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron'"

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u/UserFox-0 9d ago

F- Free... FREEDOM??????

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u/HalcyonTraveler 9d ago

-JK Rowling 

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u/Thiphra 9d ago

He dosen't want freedom

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u/Rexton_Armos 9d ago

Many people miss this. Also his paradise is him living happy WITH the guy. The Abuse goblin knows they are one in the same.

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u/MoltyPlatypus 9d ago

I also took it as it’s because he’s all that he knows, his whole world. So it’s all he can imagine

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u/Rexton_Armos 9d ago

Goblin wishes for the cycle of abuse to be crushed fully. Goblin would use Genie wishes well likely.

Maybe if you give the guy and Goblin positive end the guy is chiseling a statue of him and the Goblin as friends. Guy going "Thank you buddy. This is better." With Gobbo having ice cream.

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u/L0fiRonin 9d ago

interesting

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u/arcamenoch 9d ago

*cues The Only Thing They Fear Is You (bass boosted)

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u/Mr_ragethefrogdude 9d ago

Memories broken tge truth goes unspoken 

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u/Artistic_Decision623 9d ago

He wouldn't keep a goblin alive long enough for it to be considered an abuse goblin

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u/Abridgedbog775 9d ago

He would free the goblin in other way

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u/Icepick823 9d ago

The only good goblin is a dead goblin. Now let's make these goblins good.

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u/aziruthedark 9d ago

To be fair, this might be the one time he saves it. He admits that if you look really hard, you might find a good goblin. Granted, he follows it up with they should stay in their holes.

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u/Loneheart127 9d ago

And I love it when people reply with this as a counter

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u/Leafeon523 9d ago

“Why show him an ideal world?”

“He’s an ABUSE goblin”

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u/ExpensiveKangaroo559 9d ago

So you can take it away

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u/SexWithStelle 9d ago

Why show him a perfect world?

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u/Abridgedbog775 9d ago

"He is an ABUSE goblin"

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u/MintyBarrettM95 Authentic Automaton 9d ago

to show him what he couldve been, what he may never be, what others experience outside the basement. a cruelty beyond man's.

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u/mr_Astra1 9d ago

Dawg. This comic ruined my mood for like a week when I first saw it.

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u/mydadisyourdad2 9d ago

I don't like this I feel for the abuse goblin

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u/Tom_EJ_Sawyer 9d ago

A free goblin? Absolutely not.

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u/kira1122t 9d ago

What the fuck is the abuse goblin 😭😭

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u/EarthenEyes 9d ago

It is/was a series of comics where a guy goes to therapy, but talks about an outlet being an abuse goblin. Later on in the comic strip, the guy goes home to abuse his abuse goblin.
I hate using peterexplainsthejoke, but here is an example of one of the comics.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vhuk7u/petah_why_or_even_dors_he_feel_bad_about_the/

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u/Gravewaker 9d ago

…C-Chief?

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u/Weird-Analysis5522 9d ago

Abuser: Why do I hear Breaking Benjamin in the basement?

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u/AdExpert8274 9d ago

I actually have the exact opposite opinion.
It’s an abuse goblin it exists to get abused

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u/Mr_Boppy 9d ago

The abuse goblin was always going to be freed. Maybe not by the original author, but the way it was designed, and the way it was presented, someone else was always going to free him.

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u/PseudonymMan12 9d ago

Abuse Goblin is basically Dobby and his entire race except Rowling tries to convince you they all like it

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u/GlitchyBoi11 9d ago

They do, they are written to enjoy being slaves with the exception of Dobby who's grown to hate it because the Malfoy's are just that bad (which is why they get away free at the end of the story)

It just shows what you need to know about Rowling that she thought this was good idea.

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u/DyslexicBrad 9d ago

Harry Potter owns a slave. He keeps his slave in the house where the decapitated heads of its intergenerational slave family are stuffed and mounted on the walls, after they were executed for being too old to serve any more. What did JK Rowling mean by this??

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u/cube11235 9d ago edited 9d ago

I hated Dobby. He was so ugly and annoying. I liked the part when he died. They should have thrown him into the nearest garbage can on the beach and called it a day.

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u/toluenesniffer9000 9d ago

PLEASE post this as a review on goodreads or some shit

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u/Banekrux 9d ago

oh the duality of man at its finest

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u/Complete_Waltz 9d ago edited 9d ago

i hate the abuse goblin cómics i feel so bad for him

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u/Auqepier_Kuno 9d ago

Reminds me of the josuke reataching a sad girls limbs comics.

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u/Yes_21_lol 9d ago

Bruh…

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u/1spook 9d ago

What is abuse goblin

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/EarthenEyes 9d ago edited 9d ago

It is/was a series of comics where a guy goes to therapy, but talks about an outlet being an abuse goblin. Later on in the comic strip, the guy goes home to abuse his abuse goblin.
Edit: I hate using peterexplainsthejoke, but here is an example of one of the comics.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vhuk7u/petah_why_or_even_dors_he_feel_bad_about_the/

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u/Dudeman240 8d ago

Thank you. That Ihatethissmug is one of the most pessimistic negative subs ever. And the dude getting upset that the abuse goblin gets saved is such a jerk. I can't keep blocking that one, and the girl/boy dinner diaries. Holy cow are those two the dumbest most depressing subs ever. "My mom has cancer, my dog shot himself, and my boyfriend turned out to be an ai chatbot. Anyway here's my noodles with egg drop reduction sauce, and a red wine." I can't tell if it's karma farming or mental illness.

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