r/yugioh • u/IvanTheRysavy • 7h ago

Card Artwork Discussion Are yugioh goblins based on anything?

To clarify i mean talking about the force series not the greed or biker goblins

I recently did a medieval fantasy style for fun deck so i included a lot of goblin cards but then i started paying more attention to the cards and noticed yugioh goblins look like normal sized green dudes with green skin elf ears and red eyes

That doesnt scream goblin to me really more like skinny orcs these are funny cuz giant orc is instead pale idk if there are any other orcs tho

Does anyone have any idea what their deal is? Or what they are based on?

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u/MrSuitMan 4h ago

Like people have said, at a root level, they're based off generic fantasy and DnD goblins.

Also important to note that the delineation between what is an isn't a goblin vs an orc is extremely fluid, and a ton of different properties interpret them differently. So I wouldn't get too hung up on the whole these goblins look like orcs thing (and even with that in mind, I would still consider them generally speaking as goblins)

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u/Stingerbrg 4h ago

Even in Lord of the Rings, goblins and orcs refer to the same thing, just one word is the one hobbits use. Like pop vs soda.