Goblins should be silly little guys that don't give a fuck. Sucks that some shitty writers have turned them into an anti-semetic caricature.
I like silly little guys.
I want a fantasy thing where the goblin is the hero. Let goblins win for once.
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Norman Spinrad pointed this out in 1972 when he wrote The Iron Dream and that should've been the end of the conversation (the dude's weird anti-USSR brainworms aside)
I'd kind of like to see an anime adaptation of Iron Dream for obvious reasons, but at the same time it would also be an inconceivably bad idea for obvious reasons.
Goblin Slayer already exists
I did mention GS in another comment, but the point here I guess is the pseudo-metatextual element (the authorship of the work, which itself should probably be part of the story at least in like a prologue/epilogue fashion) hitting you over the head with "this is an evil fantasy born of racist ideology" rather than "this is cool and edgy like the Punisher but with SV that we totally dislike".
Yeah, I get you. I just thought it was funny (in a fucked up way) how much Goblin Slayer is an unironic version of the text-within-a-text of The Iron Dream.
I agree, I was more just trying to think through what would or wouldn't prevent the "Starship Troopers is epic!" problem