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Gargoyles is a Walt Disney animated series that aired from 1994 to 1997 featuring a clan of six flying creatures that turned to stone by day. Led by the gargoyle Goliath in the year 994, their job was to protect the humans of Castle Wyvern on the coast of Scotland until a Viking massacre killed all the others of their clan and a magic spell forced them to sleep in their stone forms for a millennium. Finally waking up in modern day Manhattan, the gargoyles must adapt to this new world as they protect the citizens of New York (most of whom don't even believe they exist) and face new and old enemies with the help of their new human friend (and possible love interest for Goliath), NYPD detective Elisa Maza.
Gargoyles in medieval times didn't have names, as it wasn't their custom. Goliath only had one because it was given to him by the Prince of the castle. In the modern world they find that having names would make things easier for humans (particularly Elisa), so the five choose names from New York landmarks.
The series was known for its very complex plot arcs and surprising amount of serious drama for a Disney cartoon; it is often mentioned alongside The Real Ghostbusters as one of the best American cartoon series ever. Also, a remarkably large number of voice actors for the show had been actors on various Star Trek series.
1 The Gargoyles
- Goliath (leader)
- Hudson (elder and former leader, now advisor)
- Brooklyn (second-in-command with a knack for strategy)
- Broadway (overweight and good-natured)
- Lexington (smallest and a technical whiz)
- Bronx (gargoyle beast)
- Angela (courageous daughter of Goliath, joins mid 2nd season)
2 Other Characters
- Elisa Maza (NYPD detective; friend of the Gargoyles and love interest for Goliath)
- David Xanatos (billionaire, nemesis and later ally of the gargoyles)
- Owen (aid to Xanatos, really the immortal trickster PuckPuck is a mischievous pre-Christian nature spirit, a " woodwose" in the archetype of the Horned God. The pagan trickster was reimagined in Old English puca cf. Old Norse puki Christianized as "devil") as a kind of half-tamed woodland sprite, leading folk)
- MacbethMacbeth is also a Scottish clan. William Rimmer, depicting the witches' conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based loosely on the historical King Macbeth of Scotland. Scholars think it an archetypal Ja (former King of Scotland who was eternally bound to Demona so that they shared their individual pain and the only way for them to die was for one to kill the other. The two had formed an alliance for many years until she overheard him and thought he was planning on betraying her)
- Demona (A tortured gargoyle with a tragic past who wants to save her people by any means necessary. She was Goliath's mate and is now his enemy. When a plan to rid the humans from Castle Wyvern went horribly awry, killing most of her clan, she fled. She has lived through the thousand years through a spell cast by the Weird Sisters and has tried to wipe out humanity on more than one occasion for the way they have constantly persecuted her kind. She blames humanity for how she and her kind have suffered through the years. Though her actions are questionable, her cause is noble and she isn't that bad a person.)
- Coldstone (resurrected stone gargoyle, contained in him are the personalities of three gargoyles, whose character and relationships mirror the principle characters of the play, OthelloThis page is about the Shakespeare play, for the board game, see Othello board game. Othello: The Moor of Venice is a play by Shakespeare written about 1603. Othello is a tragedy, like Hamlet Macbeth and King Lear''. Shakespeare probably wrote Othello aft.)
- Matt Bluestone (Elisa's partner and friend to the clan, he believes in aliens and the IlluminatiThis is an article about groups called Illuminati''. For information on the games, see Illuminati (game) and Illuminati: New World Order''. For the novels, see The Illuminatus! Trilogy''. The Illuminati is the name of many groups, modern and historical, r, which actually exist in Gargoyles)
- Weird Sisters (Phoebe, Selene, Luna, they are Oberon's Children who bound Demona and Macbeth together to act as soldiers and agents in their revenge against the Magus)
- The Archmage (the enemy of the gargoyle clan in the Dark Ages, he though the use of a time loop gains the ultimate powers he desires and recruits the Weird Sisters into his plan to make Avalon his headquarters for world domination)
- Thailog (Goliath's clone, programmed to see the viewpoint of the world from Xanatos's perspective)
- Anton Sevarius (A geneticist with the professional ethics of Josef MengeleJosef Mengele ( March 16, 1911 February 7, 1979) was a Nazi doctor who performed experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz which were condemned as murderously sadistic and participated in the selections of people to be sent to the gas chambers. Mengele's nick who has worked for almost everyone ranging from Xanatos to Thailog)
- Tony Dracon (organized mob figure in New York, he knows about the gargoyles and has a score to settle against Elisa)
