Talk:Goliath/@comment-79.7.174.185-20141003171935/@comment-106.68.255.135-20141007153840

Mate, have you even read up on your history? Elephants have been used as instruments of war as far as the times of the ancient Romans, and I might add that it took nearly an entire van guard of an army to take one down only after figuring out how to deal with them. And even then, since Goliaths are based off of elephants, there is a large layer of thick hide and a large layer of fat to get through before something like a sword or spear could even get to the anything worth cutting. And they have an extra layer of defence with that white bone stuff on them. If you can smash a large iron spike in the back of its head you can kill it instantly, but as the show as demonstrated these people are too bright.

So to answer your question, the reason Goliaths are creatures you don't want to mess with, is because it only takes a single gun shot to piss them off and it takes an army to take only one down.