All Trolls Are Different - TV Tropes All Trolls Are Different You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share Do not feed.note The one with the frizzy hair is an actual troll from Scandinavia. The rest are from (L-R) World of Warcraft , Sacrifice , The Hobbit , Frozen , Dungeon Keeper , and The Boxtrolls . Thor: I think trolls should be hardworking blacksmiths, toiling away underground forging magical weapons. Hades: No! Trolls should be vile monsters, living under bridges and harassing goats! Pig: You're both wrong! Trolls should be tiny wrinkled men with big poofy hair that are collected by old women! — The Order of the Stick (depicting the gods during the creation of the world) Elves have Pointy Ears and live for a very long time out in the magical forest. Dwarves live underground, dig up jewels, and are short and like to grow long beards. Merpeople live underwater, have sea-creature features, and sing . And Trolls... Err? Well, they're always big, ugly, brutal, and stupid, right?

Except when they're small, Ugly Cute and friendly. Should they be giants with scaly green skin that rapidly heal from any injury except fire or acid? Or something that's literally made of rock and gets smarter when it's in the cold ? Or are they grey-skinned aliens from another universe that can use computers and wear glasses ? Tusked and mohawked practitioners of Hollywood Voodoo ? Or perhaps something that guards bridges from errant goats? Or could they simply be beings who entertain themselves at the expense of others? All right, let's admit it. Trolls are diverse. It's not even a matter of everyone wanting them to be different ; there are so many clashing ideas of trolls in mythology itself that it's hard to decide what they are. Pretty much the only standard thing about trolls is that they are ugly- or at least Ugly Cute . So, really, you can't blame modern creators for putting their own spin on trolls. If there is any consistency, it is that the less cute the troll, the meaner the troll , but even that tends to be subverted. Quite a few depictions of Trolls have them as being vulnerable to fire .

Some fictional interpretations give them ridiculously fast regenerative powers , such that they can heal themselves even as you're cutting them down making them frighteningly invincible. In these interpretations, fire is the only way to prevent their injuries from healing and thus the only way to defeat them. Others have them harmed or petrified by sunlight. Many of the differences stem from language barriers. When translating a myth from another culture, it was common habit for a previously unknown creature to be stamped as a troll. The names Ogre, Giant, and Troll were also interchangeable for many storytellers, resulting in further confusion. Even within Scandinavian folklore trolls are extremely diverse, and range from magical mischievous goblins to huge dumb giants who roamed the forest and could sniff out a Christian man's blood. Part of this comes from the isolated nature of Scandinavian communities; localized versions of monsters destroying crops and eating your porridge appeared. The word troll in Norse languages, similar to trolleri/trylleri which means magic, is basically a blanket term for any creature that's strange, unusual, poorly understood, seemingly supernatural or vaguely inhuman, similar to the Japanese concept of youkai .

Has nothing to do with trolling (which is actually named after a method of bait-fishing), except when it does . open/close all folders Anime & Manga In Axis Powers Hetalia , one of Norway's mystical friends is a gigantic green troll that protects him. The trolls from the Berserk series are nasty, nasty predatory monsters straight out of the Qliphoth, a nightmare realm connected to the astral world, that have taken to carrying women off from villages for breeding purposes . Like many of Kentaro Miura's monsters, Berserk's trolls are Mix-and-Match Critters , and in their case look like a hairy cross between a rat, a monkey and a pig. One of the friendlier youkai that appears in Dororo is called a troll, at least in the English version. Here it's a green-skinned humanoid with a swollen head that points the way to buried treasure. In Saint Seiya , one of Hades' Specters is Troll Ivan. His armor represents the troll as a humanoid being with pointy ears, claws and a tail. Trolls in Slayers (likely based on the ones in Dungeons & Dragons ) are rather primal creatures, around twice the height of the average human and come in a large array of colors .

They posses an incredible Healing Factor that allows them to recover lost limbs in a matter of seconds. Some people are capable of making deals with them, but most avoid them; a rather good idea, seeing as they go in a ravenous frenzy of pillaging and destruction the second Shabranigdu is unleashed into the world, which happens quite often, it would seem. A minor character is part troll and part werewolf — he has human-level intelligence and apparently stronger regenerative abilities than a normal troll. Obviously a Munchkin ... Arts . Comic Books Astro City : "The trolls of Glittertind" are shown to be one of the factions that rise up to repel the Enelsian invaders . The trolls essentially look like large (in the 15 ft-range) big-nosed and coarse-featured humans who dress in stereotypical 19th-century Norwegian clothes and are strong enough to bodily hurl alien tanks into the ocean. Black Moon Chronicles : In this case, similar in abilities and weaknesses to both D&D and Warhammer trolls, but 20+ feet tall, with a more-or-less caucasian skin tone, giant noses, and they look a bit like they came out of Jim Henson 's creature shop.

Bodie Troll - The titular character is small, furry and absolutely cute. Something he hates because he wants to be scary. Oh and he has a taste for dried roots and moldy bread. ElfQuest trolls are short, stocky, warty, grey-green, ugly and materialistic. They are also more technologically advanced than most of the rest of the world, live underground, and have beards, making them stand-ins for Dwarves . Naturally, the elves and trolls don't get along well . And when you cross an elf with a troll you apparently get a Dwarf who's a Magnificent Bastard Trickster with a major Freudian Excuse. At the climax of the graphic novel Foiled, this is revealed to be Avery's true form. Gold Digger Trolls are green-skinned tall and strong humanoids who heal fast and grow larger and stronger with age. Young ones of both sexes are often quite attractive . They've got something of a reputation as being less civilized, but that's largely because of prolonged wars with the elves that wrecked a lot of their old civilization; there are plenty of smart trolls including martial artists and archmages and as a species they come off no worse than the other humanoids.

They have a grudge against elves, but that goes both ways and isn't universal. There's some evidence trolls and elves are even distant relatives. Due to its policy that All Myths Are True , Hellboy ends up with more types of troll than you can shake a Red Right Hand at. The trolls of Lanfeust are 7-8 feet tall fur-covered humanoids that live in their own villages. They eat anything that comes their way, can survive just about anything you throw at them, and smash first, ask questions very rarely. At least two different kinds of trolls have appeared in the Marvel Universe . The first are Asgardian trolls, exemplified by Thor-villains Ullik and Geirrodur. Asgardian trolls very much resemble the Scandinavian trolls mentioned below, but are superhumanly strong — Ullik is on par with Thor, for example. The second kind were a group of myriad-seeming humanoid creatures of various colors who, among other things, hunted a young mutant for his ability to transmute elements; this group has had two story appearances to date spanning four comics. A third "troll" type exists, but he is an alien, not a mythical creature.

Pip Gofern (aka Pip the Troll) is minor royalty of the Laxadazian race, and more resembles a short, hornless, potbellied satyr than a troll - including in his appetites. One-time Thunderbolts member Troll is half-Asgardian, half-Asgardian troll, and looks like a teenage human girl with Wild Hair . Finnish comic book Ontot Kukkulat ("Hollow Hills") features trolls who used to be Neanderthals until their Eldritch Abomination god transformed them to save them as a species. They are seven-foot tall humanoids with jet-black skin, wild mane and wolf-like jaws and claws. They can use illusions to appear like humans or anything else they want, or even turn invisible, but any reflection or shadow reveals their true form. They are practically immortal unless killed, in which case they dissolve into crude oil ("black blood of Mother Earth"). They have a fairly civilized society in danger of being wiped out by modern humanity, but they have fair helpings of Blue and Orange Morality , for example being obliged to ritually mutilate and eat all humans who end up in their underground homes.

Poison Elves trolls are like taller, uglier elves with horns and the ability to reproduce by bleeding . In the case of Dark Trolls they are also 15 feet tall. They were created to destroy all life. Elves were made from trolls with the evil burned off by mystic flames to make a counter force. In Golden Age Captain Marvel Jr. comics, trolls were a race of cute, tiny magical people. The guys were just funny-looking, but the girl, Ny-O, was very pretty, albeit having a head the size of a bobble-head doll relative to her body. Sojourn features Trolls who look more than a little like the Uruk-Hai from The Lord of the Rings films, being human-height but bulky, green- or brown-skinned, with glowing green eyes and often with massive horns. They were first an Always Chaotic Evil mook army, and eventually became a Proud Warrior Race who were more attuned to nature than humans. In "A Beautiful Tale", a story in the adult comic XXXenophile , trolls are a species possessed of superhuman strength and glaring sexual dimorphism .

We only ever see the females (called "huldra") who are sharp-toothed Cute Monster Girls with long tufted tails. Comic Strips In Dilbert , trolls are human-sized creatures who work in the accounting department, which for some reason resembles a castle dungeon. It's stated several times that the trolls were once humans who slowly mutated. This partially happened to Dilbert once. One regular character in Broom Hilda was Irwin Troll, a Cloud Cuckoo Lander Friend to All Living Things who looked like a human-sized hairball with arms, legs, and a face. Fairy Tales In The Cat on the Dovrefell , they invade the home at Christmas time. Same thing in Tatterhood In Soria Moria Castle , they have three, or six, or nine heads, own swords and magic potions because the swords are too heavy for anyone to lift without the potion, and live in castles with no one in the lands about except the princesses they hold captive. Fan Works Like Harry Potter , in Alexandra Quick , Trolls are none too possessed of smarts, making them ideal for dull, monotonous work. Hence Wizarding America employs them in tollbooths for the Automagicka.

A Future of Friendship, A History of Hate : The second challenge Twilight has to pass in order to rescue her friends from Ruinate is a bridge guarded by Craggle, a troll made out of rock — specifically, a mineral that blocks magic (keeping her from just teleporting past him). He's rather dimwitted, but also seems to have an honor code, as he not only gives her a fair chance to get past him, but when she saves him falling to his death upon his defeat, he not only lets her pass, but saves her from a pack of shalehounds . In Under The Northern Lights , Tarandroland is home to trolls called Stalu (after a Sami myth in real life). They are huge, misshapen cervines who live deep in forests and use forest lakes for gardens. They are infamous for eating reindeer. They are actually moose, driven to hiding after the genocidal efforts of the reindeer. While they might be hostile in self-defense, they most certainly don't eat people.

George knows this in With Strings Attached and The Keys Stand Alone : The Soft World, as he observes one kind in the former and becomes a second kind (the classic Dungeons & Dragons kind) twice in the latter. Films — Animation The Boxtrolls are short, Ugly Cute scavengers who wear discarded cardboard boxes (to the point of living in them, like a turtle's shell), live in the Absurdly Spacious Sewer beneath the town of Cheesebridge, and love to tinker. The citizens of Cheesebridge see them as a menace (mostly thanks to the propaganda spread by Mr. Snatcher ), but they're Not Evil, Just Misunderstood . The trolls in Frozen are small, have rock bodies, and are very friendly to people going as far as to use their magic to help them. They, however actually like trolling (Pun intended) when they try to get Kristoff and Anna married the first time they see them together. Would you believe that "Totoro", in My Neighbor Totoro , is actually a mispronunciation of troll? Totoro is the leader of a family of friendly forest monsters, and he looks like a big, furry cat-owl-rabbit thing.

In the Norwegian dub, the word "ogre" is replaced with the word "troll". Apart from being green and lacking a tail, Shrek looks like the Scandinavian idea of a troll, anyway. In the Swedish dub (a closely related language), Shrek is a "swamp troll". In the fourth movie , a troll is seen briefly, being mistaken for Shrek. They're slightly taller and bulkier than ogres. Or at least, that particular one was anyway. This is interesting because the tie-in video games had already brought in trolls as a type of enemy. Of course, they looked completely different. A Troll in Central Park had a friendly troll who was tiny with big ears, a tail that ends in a tuft of fur, and a literal " Green Thumb " that could make plants grow. He's the only troll that looked and acted like this in the movie though, and all the other trolls are ugly human-sized flower-hating monsters with warts, large thick tails, and a thumb that turns objects into stone. The title characters of Dreamworks Animation 's Trolls are small, colorful, cheery Ugly Cute beings, deliberately designed after the Troll dolls.

Films — Live-Action In Absentia trolls are huge insect creatures which live beneath tunnels and bridges. They abduct humans who enter their territory and trap them in their dimension. It's possible to barter with them, though you'll have to figure out the rules on your own , but it's ill-advised as it also attracts their attention to those around you. The troll in Cat's Eye is a vicious, small creature who emerges out of children's bedroom walls to kill them by stealing their breath. While intelligent, it can't talk, but does have humanlike clothing and a small knife for defense. In Ernest Scared Stupid , Ernest faces off against a troll named Trantor who his ancestor Phineas Worrell sealed under a great oak tree long ago . Trantor was big and ugly and liked to go after children, who he turned into little wooden dolls which gave him his power and who could use the voice of anyone he turned into a doll. He could only be stopped by "the heart of a child and a mother's care," which turned out to be unconditional love and... milk. In Hellboy II: The Golden Army , creatures of every shape and size are seen at the Troll Market.

At least some of them aren't trolls, but the one creature explicitly identified as a troll was spindly-limbed and hairless, casting a glamour to make her look like an old human woman. She also eats cats (which our cat-loving half-demon protagonist takes some serious issue with) and is terrified of canaries. Troll The troll in this movie is a small, ugly, hairy creature that used to be an elf. He turns other people into other mythological creatures. The trolls in the infamous Troll 2 aren't trolls at all, but goblins. There are no trolls whatsoever in the movie, and it has nothing to do with the original. As if to prove a point or something, there are two different films called Troll 3 and a Troll 4, and not a one of the sequels has anything to do with the original Troll film. Truly, All Trolls are different. The Norwegian film The Troll Hunter shows off this trope like a peacock displaying his feathers.

Let's see, you've got a very large three-headed forest troll, a big aquatic brutish troll that lives under a bridge and has a taste for small woolly hoofed mammals, a whole pack of large furry cave trolls, and a colossal mountain troll who looks like what would happen if Clover was romantically involved with Gaius . All of them react badly to sunlight (or, more specifically, UV radiation) and can smell Christians . Trolls in Willow are smelly, vicious apelike brutes who hate Nelwyns. Literature In the Age of Fire series, trolls are large, bulbous creatures that walk more on their hands than their feet, have sensory nodes instead of heads, and both eat and excrete from the same orifice. Oh, and it's implied that they're aliens brought along by an Ancient Astronaut . And then there's the hybrid creatures created in the last book by Infamnia and Rayg breeding regular trolls for decades on meals of dragon blood and flesh, giving them dragon attributes, like wings and horns. Trolls in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series are mindless subterranean predators with retractable talons, venomous tusks, dreadlocks, and horns.

And they are big. In John Ajvide Lindqvist's short story The Border, trolls look like unusually ugly humans, have a great sense of smell, and steal human babies and replace them with their own . A few trolls appear in Brian Froud 's books, such as Faeries. He mentions that the friendly, furry species of troll is sometimes called a "Trow" (the Shetland word for trolls) - right after explaining that human names for the various kinds of Faery creatures are arbitrary. Indeed, there doesn't seem to be a set "rule" for what creature gets to be called a troll or a goblin or so on. His book, Trolls, expands upon them. They're described as a mostly peaceful race of Extreme Omnivores (all those stories about them being brutes stem from encounters with bad trolls who like eat people and other trolls) whose culture has a fascination with storytelling.

Appearance wise, they tend to vary-ranging from the shape of the nose, to skin pigmentation, to number of heads -but a common feature is a long tail that they tie trinkets to, each one telling a different tale: pieces of wood represent passionate love stories, feathers, quirky comedies, stones, fables with hard lessons, and bones, sorrowful tragedies. Very rarely a born troll maidens, who resemble beautiful human woman, save for some unique quirk-pointy ears, tails, brambles growing from their backs, etc. - who occasionally find love among humans . They are cherished among trolls for their mortality- while a troll maiden will outlast most humans , comparing her lifetime to a regular troll is like comparing a wild flower to a tree . Tanngnost in Brom's The Child Thief resembles a huge satyr and is apparently the Only Sane Man in Avalon. Although not called a troll, the short, squat, neanderthallic Moss Man who raises Peter and plays the role of Sink-or-Swim Mentor also fits. In Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear's A Companion To Wolves trolls fit into the "big ogrish" type physically.

They can also move through rock and earth as easily as humans do through water and have a hivelike setup with a queen as the only fertile female, sterile female worker/soldiers and males whose only function is to impregnate the queen. In William King's Warhammer 40,000 novel Space Wolf , the trolls are Chaos-warped humanoids, which, in the Poul Anderson /D&D tradition, are harmed mostly by fire . Trolls in The Spiderwick Chronicles are massive, vicious, hideous swamp-dwelling monsters. Arthur Spiderwick himself has got... a bit of a beef with them. The Trolls of Tales of Kolmar are all long dead, and as such never get described. But as the Trelli they were one of the four sentient species - the others being Kantri , Raksha , and Gedri - who were asked to choose between order and chaos. It's mentioned that Trelli had "only the merest beginnings of speech" but still conveyed their wish to not be governed by these Powers, which was "the seed of their ending". Only their name survives - there is a place on that world called the Trollingwood.

In The Traitor Son Cycle , trolls are surprisingly slim and nimble large Horned Humanoids . It's speculated that they were an artificially-created warrior race, but in the present day, they're just another species of Wild creatures. The Neil Gaiman 's short story "Troll Bridge" features a troll with a nose keen enough to "smell the dreams you dreamed before you were born". And it eats a person's life and takes their place, leaving them, in exchange, to take the place of the troll. Trolls in Ursula Vernon 's universe are knobbly, semi-intelligent, generally benevolent, and related to goats. In Greg Maguire's Wicked books trolls are the squat albinos who toil in the mines for the emeralds that make up the emerald city. It's not clear whether they are a separate race of creatures from munchkins and humans or whether "troll" is just an unflattering, possibly racist nickname for this one demographic of people. Live-Action TV We meet a Troll a few times in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and he is a fierce, hairy giant man with horns like a water buffalo. He has an... interesting back-story that involves Anya.

He owns a Troll God's hammer. The fact that it is a godly weapon is not established until they need it to be , and how Olaf came to own it is never mentioned. At first, from Olaf being over two metres tall, it seems that Buffyverse trolls are very large — but we later find out that Olaf, a magically transformed human, was that size BEFORE he became a troll, and is by far the biggest troll his fellow villagers had ever seen. Antonio, the Troll in Charlie's Nightman play , is a disreputable landlord/pimp who demands a "Troll Toll" in exchange for access to his boy's soul. Charlie: But, Frank, you keep pronouncing it boy's hole! In Knightmare 's first season the troll is huge (His head is larger than the dungeoneer), has horns and shaggy grey hair. He'll cheerfully eat people but is also susceptible to bribery and flattery. Then there's Oakley who's a "Tree Troll" and is an Ent Expy .

In later seasons a third type of Troll appears who are pretty much human looking, made of living stone (making them look like statues when at rest), about twenty feet tall and not very bright. Their King, a particularly smart example "Has a vocabulary of twenty words, some of them pronouns and can count up to five." And finally there are Mire Trolls described as even larger than normal trolls but "squishier." Lady Catrina, the troll in the Merlin episode "Beauty and the Beast", is humanoid, but slightly shorter and fatter. She has a warty, ugly face with tusks, and is dirty and greedy, enchanting Uther to become queen and get his money. She loathes human food and prefers feasting in her nest on a diet of rotting fruit. Trolls here apparently have powerful magic that has the ability to prevent a human from seeing their true form and allows the troll to control them when used to enchant an amulet that the troll then convinces the victim to wear. Their blood, which is green, is used to do this. They can create a potion that allows them to take on human form temporarily.

The only way to break their magic is for the victim (Uther in this case) to cry tears of true remorse. Robert Troll, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe counterpart of Robert Trow, is a troll who could very well be a human without much difference; he's the same size and roughly as nice as any of them. He sometimes speaks in a kind of gibberish language called "troll talk", and even has a short song entirely in it. The best part - "Trow" actually means troll in some dialects of British English. The Noddy Shop had a family of trolls that were tiny, ugly-cute people. The mother and father were mischievous rather than outright mean, while the son didn't want to be that way. In Once Upon a Time trolls are of the large, ugly and greedy variety and yes, live under a bridge, at least the only ones we've seen so far do. But there are also Rock Trolls from Frozen . So there are literally at least two different kinds of troll in Once. In the "Flying Fairy School" segments of Sesame Street , trolls are squat fireplug-like creatures, completely covered with shaggy hair.

As with other Sesame Street monsters, trolls are goofy but nice. In So Weird , a troll runs a Scandinavian restaurant at the base of a drawbridge. Disguising herself as an unassuming elderly woman, she transforms visitors into vegetables for failing to answer trivia questions. Trolls in The 10th Kingdom are human-sized, ugly, with overdone mullets, and an obsession with leather. Especially shoes. It isn't clear if the shoe fetish is a racial trait or not, all of the trolls who exhibit it are immediate family. Despite their human size, they are incredibly strong. At one point one was hit by a car, leaving a deep indent in the front of the car but barely moving the troll. Music All of Trollfest's music is about Trolls, which are somewhat Goblin-like, love mead and eat Christians. They also speak some weird combination of German and Norwegian, but some also speak English. There are many individual Trolls like the hunter Jeger Meister , the beekeeper Brumlebassen or Brakebein, the hero of their second album, who is searching for the Legendary beer.

Myths & Religion In a significant number of legends from the Orkneys and Shetland Islands, trolls (trowe, from the Scots word) are explicitly described as shorter than humans, or even really small. They are also both shy and mischievous, as well as possessing a fondness for music. Hypothesizing, this may be due to cultural cross-pollination between the British goblin and the Scandinavian troll. Also, the word "trowe" is thought to be synonymous with old Norse's "svartalv", as they are depicted in nearly the same way. As pointed out at the top of the page, a lot of myths paint contradictory pictures of trolls. Hence the trope name. Depending on the myth, they range from well-meaning and friendly, but terribly dim-witted and sometimes inadvertently harmful creatures to cruel man-eating monsters that abduct and devour children. And that's just their disposition. Getting started on ranges in size, ability, and other attributes would take up the whole page. Not just true of trolls, but of mythological creatures in general. Originally, the terms Dark Elf and Dwarf were used interchangeably for the same creatures.

It wasn't until the late Middle Ages that they were widely differentiated. Trolls are just particularly noticeable since most myths just have a couple versions of each other but can generally agree on most aspects of a given creature. Troll legends agree that they are roughly humanoid in shape — and nothing else, despite a tendency for malevolence. In some Scandinavian myths, trolls are pictured as roughly man-sized, hairy, swarthy and ugly beings who dwell in the mysterious forest. Trolls usually possess great mineral wealth, to the point that "rich as a troll" is still a figure of speech. Sometimes they switch one of our babies for one of their own, so they can use the human baby as a worker; the changeling doesn't really fit with human society, so it returns to the forest at some point. Plus, the worse the troll baby is treated, the worse the real baby gets it. If you treat it good enough, you might even get your baby back. And even this part varies. Some changeling stories instead say you should abuse the child, so that the troll will realize it made a bad trade and take its child back.

Icelandic trolls are considered the same as ogres and range from being about double the size of humans to being taller then mountains. They also eat children. Icelandic folklore is fairly consistent in that its trolls usually turn to stone if they are exposed to sunlight. There is also a version that turns to stone at the ringing of church bells, which would explain why trolls are so rare nowadays. When it comes to mythological trolls, Kaja Foglio's adaptation of The Cat on the Dovrefjell actually hit the nail on the head. Certain legends even described the males of the species as being hideously ugly, but the females ( tails and occasional other weird features notwithstanding ) as quite attractive by human standards. (For an example of this in modern media, do a Google search for "Cutefase.") The beautiful troll females described in the story above (as well as in the Foglios' XXXenophile story, see the comic books folder) are known as Huldra. To further complicate matters, Huldra are considered to be related to both trolls and The Fair Folk . They prefer human men, though.

This is consistent with actual Norse Mythology , in which a huldra (or huldre) is generally speaking a beautiful, if temperamental woman with a cow tail and unusual strength; they're both trolls, The Fair Folk , and confusingly, also a type of "Alf" (Elf, that is). Another mythological creature comparable to trolls in their vagueness is the Bunyip, a creature in Aboriginal and Australian folklore . About the only common feature any rendition of the bunyip has is that it lives in swamps, and sometimes it's basically an Ultimate Evil . Most traditional Norwegian trolls are very large — ranging from slightly taller than a man to twice as tall as a tree. They live in the mountains, generally near large forests. Some may seem moss-grown; most are dimwitted. Certain trolls also burst and turn to stone in the sunlight, which kills them. All trolls can be killed like any other creature, they are just very hard to kill because of their size and strength. Besides these general characteristics, few fairy tales portray the trolls the same way as another. The most famous might be the one who lived under a bridge and tried to capture goats. One story has trolls with multiple heads.

Another tells of a very stupid troll who was tricked into cutting his own belly open. Yet another troll kidnapped girls and took them into his own to marry them. (If they wouldn't he tore their heads off. Somehow everyone got better.) Trolls are truly diverse creatures . In Skáldskaparmál a troll describes her kind as dwelling on the moon, sucking up the wealth of jotnars , destroying a sun, serving seers, guarding graves and swallowing a wheel of heaven. Given that previous paragraphs were about Thor spending all day crushing trolls with a hammer, little of this was likely true but does suggest they are extremely arrogant. To make matters worse, in Norwegian myth the word troll can be applied to almost any member of The Fair Folk , of which some are more obviously troll-like then others, but when it comes to naming and separating those creatures it is actually rather consistent: Plain "Troll" or "Rise": Large, often evil, humanoids living in mountains. Often have pieces of landscape (like moss or trees) growing on them, multiple heads and other deformations. Are more prone to be vulnerable to sunlight than other variants.

"Skogstroll" (Forest Troll): Similar to the above, but forest-dwelling and often smaller (still larger than a human though). Often considered the same as the English Ogre . "Havtroll" (Sea Troll): Similar to those above, but lives in the sea. Its body is covered in seaweed and its face is like that of a fish. Stories about this variant are increasingly rare. "Nisse" or "Tomte"(depending on region): Small and friendly—thought somewhat mischievous—creature living in and near farms. Can be compared to more traditional depictions of Leprechauns . It's important to note that a "Nisse" or "Tomte" is considered to the personification of a farm or the spirit of the farm's original owner. "De underjordiske" (the subterraneans): Small, usually evil creatures that live underground. Steal children either by swapping infants with one of their own (a ï¿½byttingï¿½/changeling) or abducting lone children in the forest at night.

"Hulder" (hidden) or ï¿½Skogsrå (forest lady): Beautiful women with cow-tails (and in some stories, a hole in their back. Somehow). Giving in to their seduction is usually not a good idea . Note however that "hulderfolk" is also used to refer to The Fair Folk in general. "Nøkk": Shape-shifting water-dweller that lures people to lakes or rivers and drowns them. Always male. Usually sings too, but is not a siren . A reoccurring plot point in the Icelandic sagas where some of the lesser known gods are called trolls by people who do not recognize them but can clearly tell they are not human. The men that know better are sometimes able to get these gods on their side. In Sami mythology, trolls are evil spirit invaders from another realm or basically another name for demons. Irish mythology holds that humans had to fight a long bitter war to wrest control of the land of Ireland from a race of foul, lumpen, mis-shapen, not especially intelligent, creatures with no table manners called the Fomorians - trolls by any other name.

Given the cultural interplay between Ireland and Scandinavia, it is possible ideas concerning trolls cross-fertilised each other's folklore and mythology. Pro Wrestling Lithuanian Snow Troll of Chikara , who is very small and purple. Tabletop Games At least they can all cheat their way out of death, usually by regenerating (Eventide has one that uses persist instead)... Magic trolls are also often hexproof—that is, unable to be targeted by opponents' spells. The modern pattern for trolls is pretty consistent: Green, with regeneration, hexproof, or both. The hexproof part is so iconic (though primarily through the efforts of the previously-linked Troll Ascetic) that before it was known officially as "hexproof", the ability "cannot be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control" was often known by the Fan Nickname "troll shroud" (after the keyword "shroud" for "cannot be the target of spells or abilities [controlled by anyone]"). Trolls in RuneQuest 's Glorantha are a bit bigger than humans with pale fur and snout-like faces, and are about as smart. They're Extreme Omnivores and practice ritual cannibalism in lieu of burial rites.

They are a Dying Race due to an ancient curse that causes most of their children be born as deformed, dim Trollkin. They're a lot like Blizzard-style Orcs , in fact, though a bit bigger and stronger. Scion : Ragnarok has two mechanically-similar breeds of troll. One type are the children of the troll-wives; the other is the result of giving a giant's eitr (mutative blood) to a dwarf. Shadowrun 's trolls are pretty much the embodiment of the Mighty Glacier — massive, powerful, built like a tank, but slow both physically and mentally. They also tend to have random horns, warts, and bony ridges all over their body. So they're big, ugly, mean... and pretty much the best guys to have on your side in a fight. Daniel, Bear Shaman: If trolls were really as dumb as they're made out to be there wouldn't be too many troll runners. We'd all be dead of our own idiocy by now. It's stated that trolls are literally slow-witted. They can be quite intelligent, but they just don't think as quickly as a human.

The fact that the smartest humans are "smarter" than the smartest trolls is based on this deficiency, rather than lower intellect. The tie-in novel Changelingï¿½the protagonist of which was a brilliant rich kid who'd goblinized ï¿½went into detail on this. Once Peter adjusted to troll thought processes, it was clear that he was still pretty damn sharp (even if he did spend a lot of time playing it down ). In Runner Havens, a troll is on Hong Kong's board of directors. His name is Tai Kong. It goes without saying his nickname is "King". In the supplement Dunkelzahn's Secrets, there is a list of candidates the dragon Dunkelzahn defeated to become President of the UCAS (what the USA became) - the republican candidate, Anne Penchyk, is a troll. In a Brazilian RPG setting called Tormenta, Trolls are Plant-people (well, maybe fungus people, can't remember), thus justifying their vulnerability to fire and regeneration. They are of the tall, mean and brainless monster variety.

There is also a monster race from another dimension, can't remember the name, but they share the extreme sexual differences from some Troll tales: the women are beautiful and elf-like, and the men are big, brutish, with green hair and four arms, but both are good. In the tabletop board game Trollhalla players play as trolls who are sick of sitting under bridges extorting travelers for cash (or simply eating them) and instead go out for a seafaring adventure. To sack and plunder islands full of mortified monks, panicked princesses, and tasty pigs & peasants, of course. Trolls in Warhammer are pretty much the same, only adding on a ridiculously-caustic stomach acid, capable of digesting rock, that they like to vomit on their foes/victims. And even then, there are at least three kinds of trolls in the Warhammer universe. Chaos Trolls are even weirder due to living so close to the Realm of Chaos . Their regenerating powers cause them to mutate even more than other races. What makes this even worse is the existence of Throgg, the Troll King. After having his head cut off, it grew back, only this time with a mutation giving him genius intellect .

Suffice to say, he was a nasty surprise to the Empire, who were used to Trolls being complete morons. And there are others out there in the sort of related Warhammer 40,000 galaxy, the most famous of which are probably the Ice Trolls of Fenris who are not made of ice but are vulnerable (slightly) to fire. In Polish tabletop steampunk RPG Wolsung Steam Pulp Fantasy , trolls are a playable race. The game uses all three basic stereotypes of a troll. Troll children are fairytale trolls - small, big-headed, tricksters with magical powers. When they grow up, they resemble huge, muscular humans with flaming red hair, have an obsession with honor, and tend towards very explosive personalities. A male troll technically grows larger through his entire life, and he gets meaner. Old trolls with every period of rage become one step closer to becoming monsters. And in women, emotion and compassion die, turning them into fairy-tale witches. Theater According to Peer Gynt , the only difference between trolls and men is that men say "be yourself" and trolls say "be yourself enough".

Toys LEGO brand building bricks depict trolls as either green men with tusks and red eyes that you'd be forgiven for mistaking for Orcs , or traditional troll-sized dumb brutes . Some of the giant trolls are tan, but they're still called trolls. As mentioned briefly above, a number of years ago, it was something of a fad to collect small plastic humanoid toys that had large, brightly-coloured hair and were referred to as Trolls. And even then, they brought out a toyline aimed at MEN. MANLY MEN. with muscular, barbaric trolls who (according to the wrapping) were the enemies of the cutesy girly ones. Though they still sported the same hairdos. Original Scandinavian troll dolls were more Ugly Cute , and lacked the Anime Hair . They were created by a Danish fisherman in the 1950s.

Video Games Generally speaking, trolls in video games have a habit of allying themselves with orcs or goblins ( Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne ), or both (which was the case in Battle for Wesnoth and Warcraft II, in which the goblins left the Horde in the third game, even though they still have some ties with them as evident in World of Warcraft ). They also have an extreme tendency towards "regeneration", which depending on the game might just make them slowly regain health, might fully heal in a matter of seconds if not killed fast (especially if everything in the game regains health in real time), may make them rise from the dead, and is almost always hindered in some equally inconsistent way by fire (and sometimes, though not always, by acid). The Trolls of the AdventureQuest Worlds universe rule one half of the Bloodtusk Ravine (the other half being Horc territory). They have a love of literature and art, are quite adept in the use of magic, and in the art of combat are unparalleled strategists.

Physically, they're not much larger than regular humans and have skin coloration ranging from a greenish blue to dark blue, with males having big ears and differently-sized noses and tusks depending on the troll, and females being Cute Monster Girls . Trolls in Ancient Domains of Mystery come in two distinct flavors, the standard hostile Trolls and "civilized" Trolls, the latter of which is a playable race. Hostile Trolls are basically garden-variety, while player Trolls start off considerably chaotic (though not as much as Orcs), suffer massive price penalties with Dwarf, Elf and Gnome shopkeepers, and have the lowest maximum hunger and second-lowest lifespan of any of the player races. That said, their Healing Factor can make them borderline game breaking if playing as a Healer. In the 2004 game, The Bard's Tale , Trow (What people called Trolls on the Orkney Islands) are short, Goblin-like creatures that are an annoyance in the beginning. That is, until your average enemy becomes Clock-Work Knights and ten-foot tall undead Vikings .

Even then there are two varieties of Trow: Kunal Trow are the bigger, more violent type, while Peerie Trow are the smaller, cunning variety. A Kunal Trow'll rip your guts out, a Peerie will sing about it later. Trolls in Castle Crashers are huge-eyed black humanoidish stick-wielding forest creatures possibly made of hair. They are produced from the mouth of an insane crying black fuzzy square face with legs called a Big Troll. Ostensibly, these are hairballs of the "Giant Troll," a weeping cat-like monster of immense proportions and questionable motivation has hair that resembles its supposed progeny's "fuzzy" make up. You can (with a bomb) unlock a "Troll Orb" as one of many circular "animal" spirits. It does allows you to slowly regenerate health, so there's that. The Trolls are a street gang in City of Heroes who all have green skin and grow horns and super strength as they move up in rank. These are all side-effects of a super steroid that they abuse called Superadine.

They also tend to have stunted speech , but this is just an extremely limited side effect of the Superadine — a Troll retains their basic level of intelligence, even if they do start talking like a stereotypical caveman. And since the players can have green skin, horns, and the same superpowers, there are quite a few Troll heroes and villains out there. A lot of the player-made ones are cute monster girls since The Trolls are an all-male street gang. Trolls in Dark Age of Camelot were a playable race in the Midgard realm who looked like hunchbacked, gray-skinned versions of The Thing . Trolls in Drakensang are large humanoid giants full of hair who likes to eat "sweet stuff", especially honey and "sweet dust" (sugar). Other than this, they're quite likeable. In the second game you can fight a two trio of troll, but they're very dangerous. Trolls in Dungeon Crawl come in a few different varieties of fast-healing unarmed melee brutality, each one nastier than the last: trolls, deep trolls, rock trolls, and iron trolls.

Trolls are also a playable race, notable for being able to eat everything, needing to eat everything due to lightning-fast metabolism, and not being very good at any class or role except for aforementioned unarmed melee brutality. To their credit, though, they are amazing at it. Dwarf Fortress features two types of trolls: The common "troll", a basically sentient but slow-witted beast which Goblins sometimes use as living battering rams to break fortress doors and cause havoc. Description text tells that trolls are "huge humanoid monsters with coarse fur, large tusks and horns." Now that shearing has been implemented, they are also goblins' source of wool which combined with their gray fur and black skin may mean they look quite a lot like giant, monstrous, humanoid sheep. They also have cyan-coloured blood, for some reason. These trolls are slow learners, but over their 800-1000 year lifespans can acquire a skilled trade, leading to butchers/bakers/candlestick makers accompanying a goblin invasion. Though they function the same in gameplay, individual members are about as different as any other sentient race .

The "night trolls" are a type of Night Creature (night troll is the common term, but each variant has a procedurally generated name like "moon hag", "shadow ogre", etc.) They are inherently hideous humanoids, but randomly generated and ergo completely different from even each other. The main consistency is that they butcher and eat sentients and steal mates of the opposite sex from nearby villages to breed with , turning their stolen mates into lesser versions of themselves . Trolls in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion are big ape-like beasts with green, moss-like fur and three eyes . They have low-level health regeneration and can be killed by normal means, but are especially vulnerable to fire. These were foreshadowed by the Trollbone armor in Morrowind, where the skull possessed a third eye socket. They return (albeit with darker fur) in Skyrim , with Frost Trolls generally appearing in snowier regions. The Elder Scrolls: Arena borrowed Dungeons & Dragons trolls. Unlike some of the other inconsistencies between Arena and later titles, this is never really addressed, beyond their more dramatic regenerative capabilities being written off as a myth. Trolls in Final Fantasy XI are large, bulky, plate-armor wearing mercenaries.

They, in the past, were allies of the player-friendly Empire of Aht Urhgan, but turned against them and are now in the employ of Moblins (Goblins with fancy armor). The Locust in Gears of War are arguably a Not Using the Zed Word or Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" version of trolls, given some of the parallels to the "repulsive underground dweller hostile to man" version of trolls — including being considered legendary monsters. They vary from diminutive humanoids to enormous pseudo-arthropods, using teeth, claws, or guns — either scavenged from humans, or their own designs — and seem to actually be fairly intelligent. Trolls in the Gothic series are huge ape-like creatures with massive arms and short legs, brown fur and incredibly tough skin, but no regeneration. A young troll is a tough fight for two skilled warriors, a fully grown troll requires the main character to be up to borderline-demigod prowess or competent at circle strafing , and the even bigger and scarier-looking black troll is stronger yet. Their punches will also send you flying. Luckily, there is a spell called "shrink monster" that will - well, you figure it out.

Trolls in Guild Wars are largely confined to the continent of Tyria. They appear somewhat reptilian with a single eye and tusks. They're roughly humanoid but possess no neck and have bony spurs along their shoulders. While they are all warriors, many have the healing ability "Troll Unguent" usually reserved for rangers. In the sequel Guild Wars 2 trolls appear to be an entirely different species, having a classic slouch caveman posture, digitigrade feet, and bat-like features. They have some rudimentary intelligence as they wear loinclothes, craft basic shelters, and display tribal markings. Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok , being based on Norse mythology, uses the classic trolls who are big green-skinned brutes, who are none too bright, fight with a club, and turn to stone in the daylight. As a nod to D&D, they also regenerate in combat. Their leader is the two-headed Thrivaldi who fancies himself a Chess Master (and is really, really too stupid for that). The Trolls found in Kameo are what most would consider to be "standard" Trolls, to the point of being generic.

Brutish, violent, fairly dim and always spoiling for a rumble. However, there are some sub-species that are encountered along the way, some lethal (Fire Trolls, Ice Trolls and Shadow Trolls) and some not so lethal (small Trolls who hide in metal balls, Trolls that are part plant). The "normal" Trolls stand out from the magical folk of the game by having a unique affinity with machines; a trait which forged the foundation of a shaky truce until Thorn (a "cunning Troll") took control of the entire race and began yet another war. Trolls show up as a form of Giant Mook in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning . They're big, hairy monsters with stone-like skin who use tree trunks as clubs. In Logical Journey of the Zoombinis , we have Pizza Trolls. They resemble animated dead trees , and love pizza . Unfortunately for the Zoombinis, they are also extremely picky about the toppings they will eat. In Magicka , Trolls appear as large brutish giants with a small healing factor which can be counteracted by fire, but can still be killed with other elements.

they also come in various Underground Monkey varieties, each with increasing levels of strength and speed. Their intelligence is debatable, as some varieties seem little more than animals, others use weapons advanced as BFGs , and the impressive ruins explored in the second to last chapter (which includes doors with magick based locks, some electronic equipment, and copius amounts of lava) was created by the trolls, leaving them as potential genius bruisers . Majesty took the regeneration of trolls very literally, having them ooze together in the middle of the city to wreak havoc and then melt into a green puddle when defeated. Their appearance clearly points to Dungeons & Dragons as inspiration. In Bungie Studio's old Myth series of strategy games, there were the Trow (an alternate spelling of "troll") who were twelve foot tall giants with bodies like stone. The Trow are immortal unless killed, and incapable of reproduction (all existing Trow having been created by the god Nyx at the beginning of the world according to the Trow's own legends.) They are capable of surviving anything short of dismemberment , and wear belts of skulls about their waists.

When fighting creatures smaller than they are (which is to say, most creatures) their combat techniques generally involve kicking those creatures across the landscape with messy results . Trolls in Nethack have a large chance of spontaneously reviving if their corpse isn't taken care of in some way, like being eaten, disintegrated, or thrown underwater (fire does NOT, by the way, really help in this case). However, they lose a level every time and have a chance of not coming back anyways. They tend to make decent pets for the careless. In Puzzle Quest , trolls are large, grayish creatures with the annoying habit of regenerating health, though they are still perfectly killable. During a sidequest, however, you are told something that basically amounts to them being able to regenerate even after being eaten , which can be prevented by ingesting poison. In RIFT , trolls are fairly standard hulking, stony-skinned brutes. What makes them different is that they are former servants of an ancient race of titans, who are not intelligent enough to form language, but can understand psychic messages left behind by the titans. Some of them have chosen to obey the giants , who used to be the middle managers between the titans and the trolls.

Also, Asha Catari has one for a bodyguard. In RuneScape , trolls have stony skin , are incredibly stupid , will eat literally anything and live in caves inside mountains. Occasionally trolls will raid human settlements for food . However, trolls are not always hostile and just don't seem to understand that humans would rather not be eaten. Trolls are named after the first thing they attempt to eat, leading to names like "My Arm" and "Dad". In Sacred , Trolls are ape-like lanky creatures. Trolls in Sacrifice are large, green humanoids with a Healing Factor that lack heads and have their faces on their chests instead. They serve the goddess of life, Persephone, and are as such benign. Pyro has a creature known as a firefist, which is a troll with flamethrowers attached to its fists — due to the resulting burns, they do not regenerate. Both variants communicate purely through Hulk Speak . Spellforce trolls are large, grey-skinned humanoids who speak entirely in "whine", can do marvellous things with rocks, and are about the only Dark race with decent missile attacks that don't count as magical. Their turrets are also ludicrously overpowered .

Trolls in Stonekeep are corrupted faeriefolk, and look as such (kind of like evil hobbits). They cannot cross iron spikes driven into the ground and have an aversion to faerie garb—if you equip yourself entirely in faerie clothing, you become completely immune to the attacks of trolls, even though you look very stupid doing so. In Tibia , trolls are a weak race of hominids with no special powers, but with an apparent appetite for dogs. A clan of swamp trolls are seen worshipping a soccer ball . The Swamp Trolls are green, and can poison the player, regular Trolls are brown as are Island Trolls, which wield Marlins as swords. There's also a blue race called Ice Trolls. The trolls of Total Annihilation: Kingdoms are generic monster men from Zhon, slightly stronger than most humans. Trolls in the World of Warcraft universe are almost as varied as the other examples on this page due to being split into several subraces. They live in tribal societies, are tall with short blue or grey fur, have three fingers and toes, often speak with an Afro-Caribbean or Cuban accent, practice Hollywood Voodoo , and have varied regenerative powers .

Males have long ears, big noses, large tusks, and walk with a hunch. Females have slightly pointed ears, normal noses, small tusks, and walk upright. They live in all climes, usually adapting to the environment and forming distinct clans of Frost Trolls, Jungle Trolls, Desert Trolls, etc. Trolls were once the great superpower of Azeroth, with ancient civilizations spanning the major continents, but they're generally in decline these days, displaced by being on the losing end of many, many wars with other races. Trolls are also typically savage , cannibalistic , and almost universally antagonistic , both against other races (particularly humans and PARTICULARLY elves of all stripes) and against different tribes of trolls. The Forest Trolls had a brief alliance of convenience with the Horde during Warcraft II , but after the war effort faltered they quickly reverted back to a sense of general hostility toward Horde peoples. There are notable exceptions: The Darkspears are a small tribe of jungle trolls long persecuted by their own kind who ally with the new Horde when the orc leader Thrall saves their lives.

Two other troll tribes ally with the Horde much later, though they don't seem to be very extensively assimilated into the larger faction. A few years back a great many troll tribes banded together in an unprecedented campaign of cooperation to reassert their authority in the world, but these efforts failed. In general, trolls seem a big genetically unstable. Night Elves, and by extension all derivative elves, were originally a band of trolls who changed after exposure to the Well of Eternity , although this point is still somewhat controversial, as the elves themselves don't really like the notion. Dire trolls are a genetic anomaly that causes some trolls to grow to gargantuan proportions. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings gives a nod to the mythological notion of trolls being made of stone and petrify in sunlight. In reality , trolls are giant, butt-ugly humanoids, but made of flesh and blood all the same. According to the lore, they have a penchant for construction and alcoholism, and will often build bridges and charge travelers toll to cross them. The toll is always quickly blown on booze.

Their relationship with humans residing in the area is often positive, as it is cheaper to pay the troll to maintain the bridge than to have other humans do it. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt changes it up. Trolls are smaller and far less humanoid than their Assassins of Kings variants. Instead, they are rotund creatures with bodies made primarily of stone, with the exception of a soft, fleshy abdomen. Their man-eating tendencies are also played up quite a bit. However, just like in the previous game there are many that are reasonable (if dim), and even friendly to humans and other races. A couple of examples include a troll who served the Redanian army by guarding their boats ( by ripping them apart and building a barricade around where they used to be . At least he tried.), and another who reigns as the Champion of Champions among fist fighters. Web Comics ...or, y'know, as a reference to the actual (monstrous) trolls . Web Original The trolls in Arcana Magi work for a Evil Corporation . One troll is on the Board of Directors while another troll works as their technology tester. Chicken And Moose has Jethro Troll, a bridge dwelling rock singer.

A variation on this shows up in the Metafictional wiki based on Tycho's Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs . In the entry on Orcs it is mentioned that no-one can agree what on what an orc actually looks like. Frederik KT Andersson's trolls suffer from "thick blood": pure trolls will degenerate into slavering monsters in only a few generations. Thus they try to breed with humans every now and then. Trolls have made cameo appearances on Gaia Online in various promo art, even having special troll items released. As Gaia relies a lot on internet culture for inspiration, Gaian Trolls are a bizarre combination of the bridge dwelling troll, and the internet kind. The troll in The League of S.T.E.A.M. 's webisode "Big Trouble" is of the big, dumb, lumbering kind. Also rather blind. Animated troll dolls appear in the lonelygirl15 episode My Mom's A Freak!. The online Spec Evo project A Scientific Fantasy trolls are descended from the extinct primate Gigantopithecus, many different species are members of the Troll family: Satyrs, Minotaurs, Alpine Hunchbacks, Yetis and Sasquatches.

Most species of Troll are semi-intelligent and Alpine Hunchbacks in particular will be found working in factories in what can essentially be called legalised slave labour. Trolls in Tales from My D&D Campaign are mostly standard D&D trolls, but as a result of some meddling by a dark god, they can eventually regrow their bodies from nothing more than their jawbone, even if they were killed by fire or acid. Since the jawbone itself cannot be destroyed by any known force, this makes trolls true immortals. Trolls in Tales of MU are said to have been made by the gods out of leftovers, as they come in many different heights, limb arrangements, and numbers of heads. It seems to be treated like a profession in The Troll's Introductory Handbook , a story from The Wanderer's Library . Western Animation Barbie & The Diamond Castle featured a troll that looked just like a short, bald guy that happened to have greenish-brown skin, carried a scimitar, and threatened to eat anyone who couldn't answer his riddle. The Trolls from The World of David the Gnome are based on the Scandinavian troll myths: hairy, ugly, man-sized creatures who turn to stone in sunlight, and are extremely greedy.

Even Dora the Explorer has a troll. He is a short, hairy humanoid with a huge beard who lives under a bridge. He claims to be grumpy , but it seems like he really just likes to sing a song that says he's grumpy . He also asks Dora riddles every time she tries to cross his bridge. Trolls The Real Ghostbusters appear in episode "Troll Bridge" as Always Chaotic Evil taking control of the New York bridge and more similar to the folkloric depiction. In Extreme Ghostbusters Trolls eat metal and multiply by mitosis. On Goldie & Bear , the troll is a cranky toddler equivalent who throws a tantrum and blocks the bridge because he was woken up from his nap. Fortunately, Bear's Mama Bear is a master troll tamer and knows that the troll can be dealt with by using a firm tone, giving him a blankie and teddy bear, and redirecting him back below the bridge to curl up to finish his nap. Alternatively, giving him a balloon will also work, if you extract a promise from him to go back and finish the nap in exchange for it.

In The Little Troll Prince trolls are small, ugly underground dwelling and Always Chaotic Evil but the title character gains redemption and is turned into a gnome. The '90s cartoon Magical Super Trolls features trolls who live like humans Beneath the Earth . Some of them possess magic powers, and 3 of them are granted super powers. Mustakrakish the Lake Troll from Metalocalypse is several stories tall with red skin, gangly limbs, claws, and fangs. It appears to hate (or enjoy destroying) modern technology, or at least high-tension electrical lines, and its only weaknesses seem to be lullabies (which put it to sleep in the bottom of a lake ) and sharp objects lodged in its throat. And it's summoned with The Power of Rock . Do note that the Scandinavian members of Dethklok recognize it. The Grundles in My Little Pony are themselves very diverse in appearance. All of them are varying degrees of Ugly Cute and they all have very sweet personalities. A few other kinds of trolls appear in the series (such as Niblik from "The Magic Coins"), and pretty much follow the Grundles' standard.

Troll | Monster Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Trolls can often be found under bridges A stone sculpture of a Troll. A troll is a common creature in folklore and fairy tales, and stem from both Norse Mythology and Scandinavian Mythology, so that's where some of the variation in the creatures existence comes from. Trolls are said to live in communities, and have a "king". Places in which they live include under bridges, in caves, and, generally, a fair distance from human society. Trolls are nasty creatures. Their diet consists of human and animal flesh and are known for stealing children, and sometimes swapping it with their own, and raping women, which may result in the pregnancy and birth of a half-troll. Appearances Edit Depending on the region from which accounts of trolls stem, their appearances vary greatly; trolls may be ugly and/or slow-witted, or they can look and, mostly, behave like humans, with no particularly grotesque features about them, though the latter form is not that common. Some movies in which Trolls appear: 3 Billy Goat's Gruff The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Discworld Frozen Troll hunter Some trolls are also known to inhabit such places as Norway.

Some trolls may not be related to the goblin or ogre as ogre's have quite low intelligence and the troll uses it's intelligence [which is quite high] to hunt and goblins are quite mischievous like gremlins and mainly stay in packs. The troll only stays in packs dependent on the conditions, nature and needs of the troll. Trolls are mainly depicted as having large noses if they live subterranean because they have adapted to better smelling. Trolls are also depicted as having tough skin, that can only be penetrated by specially made weapons.

Question: What type of monster tends to live under bridges?
Answer: Trolls