Quote Originally Posted by NontheistCleric View Post
Maybe standards for goblin chiefs just aren't that high. I mean, the only other two we've actually seen in the comic are Chief and Duv, and they weren't excellent at the job either.
Chief was actually prophesied to be a bad chief, though.

For the first book, when Complains was the one pointing out the ridiculous and artificial restrictions the goblins lived under and planning out actually effective ways of fighting the adventurers, I would have gone "well, duh" at the suggestion that he'd be an amazing chief. Unfortunately, in the time between then and the angel actually saying as much, Ellipsis entirely dropped that aspect of the setting and flanderized Complains from "complains about things that are manifestly stupid" to "just complains constantly with or without an actual reason, usually without."