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Peeve Goblins are simple characters or personifications who are portrayed as the ones responsible for the various mundane annoyances you face in life. If the embodiment of hangryness would be your typical hairy bugbear who goes on a rampage whenever it gets hungry, then the peeve goblin equivalent would be some invisible gnome who sprinkles sparkly hangry dust on you every time your stomach growls. In general, these guys only exist to suck the fun out of your day and make it slightly more sour than it already is. If you ever lost your pen cap at some point and have no idea where it is, it's because there's some small creature following you around who steals everything you drop, and loves nothing more than watching you pull your hair out in frustration as you search everywhere for the cap. Your car is breaking down in the middle of the highway? Some gremlins just replaced your oil with mouthwash. Did you just lose two hours of work put into writing an email or article on your computer? We at TV Tropes are all too familiar with these little bastards. For advertisers, the "just so" nature of peeve goblins' antics is what makes them perfect anti-mascots for their commercials, setting them up as problems you can quite literally punch in the face to make them go away, but only with the help of the advertised product. Other times they will be portrayed as either No-Selling or messing with every other competing product, or themselves representing everything wrong/irritating about said competing products. Examples of peeve goblins aren't just limited to small annoyances; some can also be directly responsible for greater-scale problems such as war, hatred, disease, etc. Some examples of The Fair Folk tend to exhibit this behaviour too. Related to the "Just So" Story. Supertrope to Griping About Gremlins, which is about similar creatures that mess up machinery or other equipment. See also Nightmare Weaver, an entity who only seems to live for giving you bad dreams. Compare Painting the Frost on Windows, for those who run nature. Contrast with Product as Superhero. See also Talking Pest, an advertising-specific trope that runs on the same principle. |
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Goblins that appear in Pact and Pale are described as "creatures of filth, vulgarity, and the basest, and the ugliest of human actions." They love disturbing and disgusting humans and gain sustenance from it. They also have enormous variation in size and power with the smaller ones being the equivalent of "rude jokes in the process of being told ad-nauseum" but more powerful Goblins are "mistaken for dark and twisted gods." They're so varied that Our Goblins Are Different still applies to them on an individual level but being disgusting and inconvenient to humans is an important part of understanding them. | |
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The Far Side: "Car Key Gnomes" shows two garden-gnome like figures in a nightly living room picking a ring of keys from a pair of trousers hanging over a chair, with the apparent intent of hiding it under the couch cushions. "Door Ding Gnomes at Work" depicts two elf-like beings in a parking lot using hammers to create small dents on the sides of cars. |
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Teen Titans Go! episode "P.P." has a variation by being about the Titans' pet peeves, animalistic creatures that represent their respective person's Berserk Button and go wild with them whenever it gets pushed. They eventually learn to tame them like actual pets. The villain of the week happens to be the P.P. Goblin, a neurotic little imp-like creature who has an entire pack of pet peeves of his own that he trained into his personal army of attack dogs. | |
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Shen Comix often uses concepts like Life, Anxiety, etc. depicted as (often muscular) humanoids who torment the creator's Author Avatar in various ways, ranging from simply pestering him to downright beating him up. | |
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The Family Circus has an intangible creature called "Not Me" and his Distaff Counterpart "Ida Know" who live to sabotage the grownups' day to make the kids look bad. They think this is hilarious. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Unbalanced Load", Rocko has to rescue his lucky shirt from the Gripes, critters who live behind the walls of the laundromat and mess with people's laundry (stealing socks, tearing or burning clothes, etc). | |
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In the Discworld story Hogfather, the titular Santa Claus analogue vanishes, which leaves a surplus of unbound Belief left over that manifests itself in a new crop of Peeve Goblins. Examples include the Verruca Gnome, who goes around handing people unsightly foot warts; the Hair Loss Fairy, who hides under your hat and yanks out your hair; the Eater of Socks, a tiny elephant-like creature with a habit of consuming only one sock from a given pair; the birdlike Stealer of Pencils with its pencil sharpener-like beak; and the Oh God of Hangovers. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Jabberwocks, monstrous and rare Chaos creatures, are a recurring bogeyman among Imperial peasants and tend to be blamed for ills that strike without apparent cause — for instance, if a line of washing is blown over by the wind, it's said that the Jabberwock came and knocked it down. | |
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Yo-Kai Watch: The titular Yo-kai are spirits who are responsible for everyday annoyances and problems plaguing humanity, who can be battled and befriended by the protagonists. | |
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The Borrowers is about a group of small beings called Borrowers who borrow humans' belongings without asking. This trope is Played With in that they always take objects and items which they're certain humans won't notice when they go missing, and avoid borrowing personal items which will be noticed by humans, thus risking being discovered. | |
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On Neopets, sometimes the creators blame little creatures called Meepits for technical glitches. | |
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The Sims 4: Although the creatures themselves do not actually appear, one of the lot traits is called "Gremlins", in which appliances on the lot randomly break. The icon for this lot trait is a goblin-like hand with Creepy Long Fingers. | |
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Book of Imaginary Beings: Elves, described here as the strictly fairytale kind of tiny, mischievous beings, seemingly live just to cause people trouble. Among other things, they're the ones to blame when you get tangled hair and sudden painful stitches — the first by tying it into knots, the second by shooting tiny arrows that vanish into the skin without a trace. | |
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One Piece: In the Dressrosa arc, there exist a local legend where "fairies" will steal some minor item from people's belongings without them noticing it until later. They're actually lilliputian dwarves who live in a nearby small island; they are allowed to do this by the king, Riku Dold III, as an apology for his ancestors oppressing the dwarves. | |
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In Dead Like Me, Gravelings are responsible for causing fatal mishaps, and thus their presence helps the Reapers figure out where and when to collect the next soul. | |
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In The Rape of the Lock, a gnome upsets a bag over Belinda's head, causing her even more distress over the theft of her hair and leading to a massive battle of the sexes. | |
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Pokémon: Klefki is a keyring-like Steel/Fairy Pokémon that steals and collects people's keys. Impidimp, a Dark/Fairy 'mon modeled after mischievous imps and goblins, feeds on the negative energy released when people are frustrated. Consequently, it often sneaks into people's houses in order to steal and hide small objects, so that it can feed on their frustration as they turn their homes upside-down to look for the stolen items. |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd: The Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin is an almost literal example; a green-skinned Great Gazoo who messes up video games for his own amusement. | |
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Touhou Project: Discussed in the book Symposium of Post-mysticism. Since supernatural beings in Touhou run on Clap Your Hands If You Believe, and the Outside World (AKA the real world) has grown skeptic to superstitions, almost no new youkai are being born there. Most of them are "Murphy's youkai" like imps that hide the TV's remote control, which exist only for a moment before running out of belief and poofing out of existence again. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! we have the Anti-Fairies, an Evil Counterpart Race to fairies who are responsible for bad luck. They appear wherever someone triggers a superstition, and they use their magic to make it come true. | |
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Winnie the Pooh (2011) has Owl and the others blame all manner of problems on a creature called the Backson, who supposedly vandalizes books and laundry, messes up your house, and causes all manner of minor issues. | |
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In Moshi Monsters, whenever the server experiences a crash, a message explaining that "a naughty server monster caused a crash" will appear. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies stole it. A machine breaks and you didn't disrespect the Machine Spirit? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him. Machine Spirits themselves tend to fall into this category whenever a vehicle or weapon suffers a malfunction with no immediately apparent cause. Lasgun misfires? The Machine Spirit is displeased because you forgot to polish it. Land Raider refuses to start? It's offended because you called it a "bucket of bolts" a few days ago. Your bolter keeps firing for a moment after you release the trigger? It's acquired a taste for blood... or it's just that dedicated to killing in the God-Emperor's name. In a metafictional context, the behaviour of the Machine Spirit serves as an In-Universe explanation for... well, bad dice rolls with vehicles or attacks, though the exact cause of the failure is often left up to the GM. All this being said, this trope actually tends to Zig-zag it, due to heavy implications that machine spirits are actually real; though the lore tends to be somewhat vague on just how real they are at times, or how far their influence upon the machine itself actually is. Suffice to say, however, the machine-worshipping Adeptus Mechanicus are very quick to blame any malfunctions without an apparent cause on the machine spirits, rather than, say, poor maintainence or the fact that much of their equipment is literally thousands of years old. |
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In Nomine: Imps are minor infernal spirits charged with hindering and inconveniencing humans without actually causing physical or spiritual harm, such as by hiding car keys, draining batteries, or tampering with birth control. | |
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Something Happens introduces various "minor bogeymen" in a guest strip. Pulling your bedsheet away, resetting your alarm clock, keeping the toilet occupied, making disturbing noises... | |
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South Park: The Underpants Gnomes go out of their way to steal underwear (and are thus the cause of underwear that go missing) as part of their Missing Steps Plan to get rich quick. | |
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Disgusting McGrossface: Subverted; the boy blames messes on a creature named "Disgusting McGrossface", but then it turns out that Disgusting doesn't exist and the boy was just lying. | |
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Family Guy: In one cutaway, Peter, angry his dryer apparently kept stealing one of his socks, climbed in only to discover a portal to Narnia. It was the satyr Mr. Tumnus who was stealing the socks. | |
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Stitch from Lilo & Stitch is a tiny, genetically engineered creature designed and programmed to cause mass chaos both large scale as well as minor, like stealing everyone's left shoe. | |
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[title of show]: In the song Die Vampire! Die!, the titular vampires are responsible for Writer's Block. | |
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