As it doesn't make sense to me that bludgeoning damage (maces, clubs, warhammers) would be very effective against something without a skeletal system. Personally, I tend to make my slimes highly resistant to physical weapons, while highly vulnerable to heat. Simply put, it is an intuitive leap that the majority of people make automatically, & once they've encountered it, they tend to go along with the idea without question, because it doesn't tax their suspension of disbelief. The same can be said of creatures with words like "frozen", "ice", or "frost" in the name. Because of the inherent watery nature of the word, & the semi-liquid state most slimes are depicted as, most people automatically attach a dualistic counterpoint to them, due to the inherently combative nature of most RPGs.
When English speakers commonly use the word, "slime" outside of a videogame context, they are often describing something very wet in nature. I would say that it commonly emerges as a trope because of both imagery used to depict them, as well as their very name "slime".
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