Swarming goblins that bury you in numbers and eat your face *aren't* funny.
"Swarming goblins that bury you in numbers and eat your face" is redundant. You can just say "goblins."
One goblin though by himself... he pops out of the darkness, shouts some curses at you like a big man, and then he fires his crossbow... and then when the shot bounces off your armor and doesn't bother you at all, he screams in panic and runs off back into the darkness.
No, he doesn't. He sees you and scampers off into the dark, without stupidly announcing his presence, in a manner consistent with how he's described in the Monster Manual. The 3E SRD, which is the only version of the Monster Manual I've got access to right this instant, describes goblins as "cowardly" and "maliciously ingenious." An ingenious coward does not try to take on a (relative) giant singlehandedly with a crossbow unless he's desperate. He's not going to act like a moron for the sake of comedy.
Individual adventure writers can do what they like, but we're talking about how goblins will be portrayed in the core material here, so I'm basing my take on how they've been portrayed in the core material of past editions. I'm not aware of any Monster Manual that suggests goblins think they can bully humans one-on-one. Quite the contrary, in fact. We've got plenty of comic relief monsters, from the flumph to the duckbunny. We don't need another one.
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