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Goliath's former love and one of the co-conspirators in what became the Wyvern massacre. Blaming humans for her misfortunes, she has spent the last thousand years seeking to exterminate them.
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* TheAloner: Seeing nearly all of the Wyvern Clan slaughtered by the vikings, followed by decades of watching the remnants of her species being slaughtered by the Hunter and his human allies (often through her own fault, though she remains in denial about that), have left her completely, helplessly, maddeningly alone. Centuries of endless pursuit by the Canmore dynasty (See "The Hunters" below) have made her even more bitter.
* TheApprentice: In her youth, to the Archmage.
* ArchEnemy: She practically collects them. The Hunters, Macbeth, Goliath, Brooklyn, Elisa...
* AxCrazy: On occasion.
* {{Badass}}: The real reason why Macbeth and his subjects called her Demona: She fights like a demon.
* BareYourMidriff: In her default outfit.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Puck grants her wish not to turn to stone during the day anymore...by making her become human during the day!
* BerserkButton: She's got an entire console of berserk buttons, although her hatred of Elisa is probably the newest and most reliable.
* BigBad: She's the second most recurring villain after Xanatos, and her plans tend to be the most dangerous and destructive, since she's out for {{Revenge}} on the whole human race. [[spoiler:She's also the main villain of "Hunter's Moon," which is effectively the GrandFinale for the canon show]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Xanatos, until "City of Stone."
* CarryABigStick: Demona other WeaponOfChoice is a mace (the other being various laser rifles).
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She has ultimately betrayed just about every group she has ever worked with. (Most notably the Wyvern Clan in the backstory of "Awakening," the Manhattan Clan in "Awakening" present time, Macbeth in the backstory of "City of Stone," Xanatos in "City of Stone" present time, and Thailog in "The Reckoning.")
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: As Dominique Destine.
* CursedWithAwesome: ''Twice''. First when [[spoiler:she's linked to Macbeth so neither can die except at the hand of the other. There is a fairly hefty downside, but still IMMMORTALITY!]]. Then, [[spoiler:Puck gives her a parting "gift" of human form during the day. She's angry at first, but it's a big help for her nefarious plans]].
* CuteLittleFangs: As showed off on the rare occasion that she smiles, and the not so rare occasion that she snarls
* TheCynic: Demona believes the worst in ''everyone''. Even Macbeth, whom she had known and been allied with for decades, was betrayed the instant that he said something that ''might'' be interpreted as an intent to betray her.
* DarkActionGirl: Evil, seductive, and a very skilled warrior.
* DebtDetester: After Macbeth helped her kill Gillecomgain (Demona herself having helped Macbeth twelve years prior), she was glad to be "even" with Macbeth. An odd example; the debt Demona detested was one that Macbeth owed ''to'' her.
* DisneyDeath: Her link with Macbeth ensures that she "dies" if she's close enough to him when he "dies." As mentioned in Macbeth's section, this happened when Canmore stabbed Macbeth in "City of Stone," and when Elisa shot Demona herself in "Sanctuary."
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Women Love Their Daughters]]
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: As Dominique Destine. She drops the accent later however.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Despite having been allies with Macbeth for nearly forty years, she had no trouble whatsoever believing that he would readily betray her and her clan for his own gain. The consequences of her reaction to this were, to say the least, devastating for all involved.
* EvilCounterpart: A pretty extreme example as she's one to [[UpToEleven Goliath, Elisa, and Angela.]]
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* EvilMatriarch: She loves Angela so much, she's willing to kill humanity to protect her. Well, she was going to kill humanity ''anyway'', but she really loves Angela.
* EvilPlan: The total and complete extinction of the human race.
* EvilRedhead: She's evil, and she's a redhead.
* [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorceress]]: Another given; she's evil, and she's a sorceress.
* FaceHeelTurn: In her BackStory.
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* FantasticRacism: She utterly despises humanity.
* FauxAffablyEvil: On the rare occasion that she isn't a walking pile of seething, omnicidal rage.
* FemmeFatalons: Not just her gargoyle talons, but even as ''Dominique Destine'', she files her fingernails into sharp points.
* FieryRedhead: As hot-tempered as her hair colour implies.
* ForWantOfANail: Most of the main events of the story started because of her including the destruction of the clan at Castle Wyvern, the creation of The Hunter, and of course [[spoiler: [[FutureMeScaresMe her own paranoia about humanity itself.]]]]
* FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:Which, unfortunately, sets up the StableTimeLoop that turned her into "future me" in the first place.]]
* FootPopping: Believe it or not, she done so while kissing Macbeth in human form.
* GreenEyedMonster: She still grudgingly carries feelings for Goliath, but characteristically this just means she tries to [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder any hypotenuses that look Goliath's way]], particularly Elisa Maza.
* HeelRealization: Has these several times, for a BigBad. Unfortunately, she proves herself a grand champion at [[IgnoredEpiphany ignoring them]].
* HeroesWantRedheads: She was Goliath's mate, after all. Averted when her true personality showed.
* HotGirlsAreBitches: Very attractive, as well as untrustworthy, vicious, and quite possibly insane.
* HotWitch: She does have magical abilities after all.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Demona sees herself as the self-proclaimed savior of her race, and that Goliath and those who stand with him will be the death of the race. Never mind the fact that she herself caused the birth of the Hunter, their generations, and indirectly the Quarrymen, whose sole purpose is to destroy all Gargoyles with extreme prejudice. And she had the gall to say Goliath would be the death of all of them? If anything, SHE was the one who nearly caused Gargoyle extinction.
** She claims that Goliath had been corrupted by humanity, yet Demona has, over the years, become more "human" than Goliath ever has.
** In ''Sanctuary'', Demona and Thailog are lovers. Demona accuses Goliath of being jealous and paranoid of their love. In reality, Demona is jealous of Goliath's love with Elisa and is truly paranoid herself.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Her strongest belief.
* IgnoredEpiphany: One time, the Weird Sisters lead her on a series of questions that forced her to realize that she had no one to blame for her pain but herself. She promptly forgot this a minute later.
* ImmortalImmaturity: She is proud of being stronger and "younger" than Hudson.
* KillAllHumans: Her primary goal in life.
* KnightTemplar: Subverted; she's ''convinced'' herself her cause is noble, but it's really just her lashing out at the world due to all the pain she's brought upon herself.
* LadyInRed: As Dominique Destine.
* LadyMacbeth: Shades of this in her relationships with Goliath, Macbeth and even Xanatos. Inverted with her relationship with Thailog, as he's far more straightforwardly evil and is really using her to advance his own ends.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: There is no deadline for her to exterminate humans. She can keep trying until Doom's Day.
* MagicKnight: She uses her powerful magic (she's probably the strongest non-Child-of-Oberon mage in the show, not counting the Archmage's enhanced form) and formidable combat skills about evenly.
* MamaBear: Would rather pull an EnemyMine than let Angela be hurt.
* ManipulativeBitch: She even pulled this on Angela, her own ''daughter''. It failed '''badly'''.
** EvenEvilHasStandards: Even ''she'' regretted doing that afterwards.
* MeaningfulName: Her alias "Dominique Destine" literally means "Divine Destiny."
** Also [[spoiler:Macbeth]] gave her the name "Demona" because he said she fought like a demon.
* MsFanservice: One of the most attractive females in the cast, and not especially shy about it.
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Have I...]] [[IgnoredEpiphany What Have THEY Done?]]: She came close to this but then dismissed it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Demona the demon.
* NeverMyFault: Employed in a ''very'' serious fashion. If there is one defining character flaw for Demona, this is it. Most of her troubles and emotional agonies are entirely her fault, and her refusal to admit any responsibility on her part is the basis for her bitterness AND her racism, all of which she formed mostly to avoid the overwhelming guilt she would feel.
-->'''Demona:''' You tricked me! You had me under a spell! None of this was my fault! It was the humans, always the humans!\\
'''Goliath:''' You have learned nothing.
* OppositesThemeNaming: By coincidence, her name is opposite in theme to Angela's. When Macbeth gave Demona her name in 1040, he didn't even know that she had an unhatched child, let alone that said child would be named Angela.
* NotSoDifferent: Demona and John Castaway.
** Also Demona and Goliath [[spoiler:when they both want revenge against the hunters for nearly killing Angela. And when presented with a choice to save an innocent life or pursue revenge, they both chose the former. (Goliath saving Katharine rather than killing Hakon and the Captain; Demona saving the young Macbeth rather than killing Gillecomgain.)]]
** Demona an Goliath again in [[spoiler: "Hunter's Moont, part 3" where Demona invoke this trope to Goliath after the latter wanted revenge against the Hunters. It doesn't last.]]
* PainfulTransformation: Her shift to human during the day and back again. Lampshaded in "High Noon."
--> '''Macbeth''': I thought you said that the changeling Puck turns you into a human during the day as a gift.\\
'''Demona''': Puck's gifts always come with a price.
* ParentalAbandonment: Even knowing that one of the eggs from the Wyvern Rookery was her own, she didn't lift a talon to stop the Magus and Katharine from "stealing" them.
* PetTheDog: Few and far between, but her hatred of Goliath and of all humanity doesn't prevent her from feeling protective (in her own twisted way) toward the rest of the Clan, whom she still hopes to convince that she is right.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Goliath.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her GlowingEyesOfDoom are red, and she plays this seven shades of strait compared to Angela.
* RevengeByProxy: "Their descendants shall pay. I will have blood for blood!"
* SecretIdentity: As Dominique Destine, she conceals her true self.
* SheCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler: Her "wedding" to Macbeth proved this.]]
* ShesGotLegs: Long and uncovered.
* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Never shown better than in "City of Stone", where she takes to smashing [[TakenForGranite petrified]] humans with a mace, much like when Hakon massacred her clan. [[NeverMyFault Demona herself]], however, would arguably view this as poetic justice.
* TheUnfettered: ''Nothing'' is sacred for Demona, and no-one, with the possible exception of Angela, is not expendable in her quest to eradicate humanity.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Thailog, [[spoiler:until he betrays her]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: She ''was'' a NiceGirl, who was constantly mistreated by humanity which resulted in her present state.
* TheVamp: Towards Brooklyn in "Temptation".
* WaifFu: Despite being a smaller-than-average gargoyle, Demona can fight on even terms with heavyweights like Goliath and Thailog. The series does point out that Demona's combat prowess is boosted by both centuries of experience, as well as being [[InsaneEqualsViolent crazier than a shithouse rat]].
* WhenSheSmiles: She actually has a really beautiful genuine smile, which is rarely ever seen because of her [[SlasherSmile malicious nature.]]
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: "If you are not my ally, then you are my enemy."
* WomanScorned: She had this reaction when [[spoiler: she thought Macbeth had betrayed her in the past.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: By the end of City of Stone, it's hard not to feel sorry for her, even though she's long since passed the MoralEventHorizon.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: [[ForWantOfANail Slashing Gillcomgain's face created the Hunter, and his legacy that haunts her to this very day.]]]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Whenever the sun is up, at least.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: According to WordOfGod, it's one of the reasons (in a very long list) why Demona is very bitter. Centuries alone and being periodically in the heat didn't do any good to her mental health.
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[[folder:Thailog]]
!!Thailog
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/KeithDavid
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[[caption-width-right:325:And waste my life playing guardian angel for a decrepit city infested with inferior humans...where's the profit in that?]]
Goliath's clone, designed to combine his physical attributes with Xanatos's intelligence and ruthlessness.
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* {{Badass}}: Outsmarting ''Xanatos'' certainly qualifies him.
* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Keith David.
* BigBad: WordOfGod is that he would have likely evolved into this had the series continued. Shades of it can be seen in the comic continuation.
* CardCarryingVillain: He knows he's evil and he's quite proud of it.
* TheChessmaster: He takes after and surpasses Xanatos in this regard.
* CloneDegeneration: In the non-canon ''The Goliath Chronicles''.
* CulturedBadass: Much like Xanatos.
* [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Did You Just Scam Xanatos?]]: In "Double Jeopardy". He plays Demona like a harp in "Sanctuary" and "The Reckoning", as well.
* EvilCounterpart: To both Goliath and Xanatos.
* EvilerThanThou: Pulls this with Xanatos and Demona, reducing them to pawns.
* EvilLaugh: Indulges in this more than any other villain in the series. He even lampshades it as his "maniacal laugh" in the comics.
* EvilSoundsDeep: A given, since he shares Goliath's voice actor.
* EvilTwin: Goliath's
* GeniusBruiser: As smart as Xanatos and as strong as Goliath.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Xanatos wanted someone who was as powerful as Goliath but shared his own, profit-oriented worldview. Because that couldn't ''possibly'' backfire.
* ItsAllAboutMe: A defining trait that sets him apart from Xanatos and Demona, Thailog is concerned with his benefit alone and never displays the capacity to care about anything but himself.
* {{Jerkass}}: Thailog is an asshole. He feigns feelings for Demona as a plan to send her to to her death, and when he had clones of the Manhattan clan made, he kept their intelligence deliberately limited and commenting all they need to know is "Obey Thailog."
* [[HasTwoMommies Has Three Daddies]]: He refers to Goliath, Sevarius and Xanatos as his "three fathers." Guess which ones he takes after the most.
* KarmaHoudini: According to the comic continuation, he survived the fire in "The Reckoning" and regained control of Nightstone Unlimited.
** WordOfGod: "He survived. The Thailogs of the world ''always'' survive." Which makes sense, since the fire in "Double Jeopardy" didn't kill him either.
*** [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou Not The Fire That Kills You]].
* LargeHam: He probably gets it from Sevarius, and similarly plays up his performances when he deems the scene appropriate for it. Described by Weisman as "a bit of a performer," the things he says can't necessarily be taken at face value. On the other hand, like Demona, he can be chillingly cold when he wants to be.
* LaughablyEvil: Unlike Xanatos, Thailog has no redeeming qualities and yet still manages to be highly entertaining.
* ManipulativeBastard: With shades of Magnificence.
* OedipusComplex: He tries to kill Goliath, had a relationship with Demona, and even created a hybrid clone of Demona and Elisa when he tired of Demona.
* PhlebotinumRebel: He rebelled against Xanatos in no time at all.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: A side-effect from the accelerated growth process.
* SdrawkcabName: Almost. (If the letter thorn were still in use, Þailog would be Goliaþ backwards.)
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Inverted. Goliath is disgusted at Xanatos's use of his DNA, but admits that Thailog isn't to blame and deserves freedom. In the same amount of time, however, Thailog decides that Goliath is too soft to admire.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: He spent his early life being subliminally indoctrinated by Xanatos. Of course, this was going to happen.
* TheUnfettered: Takes this even further than Xanatos, lacking any of his humanizing traits or his sense of honor.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Demona, [[spoiler:until he betrays her]].
* WickedCultured: Took the first name "Alexander" when indirectly posing as a reclusive financial wizard after Alexander the Great, for whom he harbors admiration. In the comics continuation, he takes this a step further by lounging in a toga. According to WordOfGod, he also speaks many languages, French included.
[[/folder]]
!Xanatos Enterprises
[[folder:David Xanatos]]
!!David Xanatos
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JonathanFrakes
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[[caption-width-right:325:Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into Hell.]]
Billionaire responsible for breaking the Magus' spell over the Gargoyles. Determined, practical and brilliant, he searches for eternal life and comfort, and finds something altogether different.
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* AffablyEvil: Impeccably polite to his enemies. He seems to legitimately like Goliath most of the time, although the feeling is almost never mutual.
** In the non-canon ''Goliath Chronicles'', he eventually becomes a benefactor and friend to the clan. In the comic continuation, Goliath and Brooklyn remark that they still don't consider Xanatos 100% trustworthy, but nonetheless trust him enough not to smash them during the day.
* AmazonChaser: For Fox. You can see them sparring.
* AntiHero: After his sort-of-HeelFaceTurn. He's ''still'' [[NominalHero an amoral Machiavellian bastard]], but one who's willing to at least partially work with the gargoyles rather than always against them and whose PetTheDog relationship with his family is much more pronounced.
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]], while he was developing toward his HeelFaceTurn.
* ArchEnemy: To Goliath initially, and others.
%%* AwesomeMcCoolname
* {{Badass}}: In powered armor, he's a match for Goliath.
* BadassBeard: A neatly trimmed, and very stylish goatee.
* BadassBookworm: This CEO is no pencil pusher.
* BadassNormal: He can hold his own with Goliath and even ''[[PhysicalGod Oberon]]'' with his own gadgets and know-how.
* TheBadGuyWins: On occasion this blatantly happens, although usually it's more that he is able to accomplish a secondary objective under the noses of the Manhattan Clan. There's a reason [[XanatosGambit the trope for this is named after him]].
** MeaninglessVillainVictory: All his successes with manipulating Derek turns into this since after "Metamorphosis", Derek and the other mutated humans don't make another appearance until well into the second season, which ends with them learning Xanatos manipulated them.
* BeardOfEvil: The classic "bad guy" goatee.
* BerserkButton: Quite subtle, but Hudson's needling him about his terror of growing old pushes key places.
* BigBad: In the first half of the series, when he's the most recurring, most intelligent and arguably most dangerous villain. [[spoiler:By the end, while he doesn't quite make a HeelFaceTurn, he is edging more into dark AntiHero territory]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Demona, until "City of Stone."
* BoringButPractical: [[spoiler: Puck once appeared to him and offered a choice: one wish from himself, the nigh-omnipotent fey, or a life time of loyal service from his powerless human guise, Owen. Xanatos chose Owen. Wishes are nice, but good help is hard to find.]]
* BrainyBrunette: He's highly intelligent.
* BreakTheHaughty: Seen in "The Gathering." [[spoiler:All the technology and wisdom, aided by the Manhattan Clan, his father and his father-in-law, could not stop [[PhysicalGod Oberon]] from reaching his newborn son.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Considering the series' genesis as a ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' adaptation, he appears to be loosely modeled on Roderick Zinco, a billionaire who helped the main antagonists in the ''Wake the Devil'' story arc and despite being a bit of a sycophantic dupe is pretty damn devious, going so far as to sell sabotaged equipment to the BPRD, who never actually learn of his involvement even after he accidentally blows himself up. Gets a bit of a RecursiveAdaptation in the ''{{ComicBook/BPRD}}'' comics with Zinco's successor Mr. Pope who has a much more active interest in the occult and wears a suit of PowerArmor. Perhaps as a parody of Xanatos's renowned hyper-competence, he too ends up turning out to be an UnwittingPawn of the real villains' cosmic schemes who is all too aware of what a mess he's made of things.
* TheChessmaster: The original movie especially. He moves the heroes like they were pieces until the end.
* ConsummateLiar: Part of why the Gargoyles never completely trust, it can be very hard to tell when he's lying and when he's telling the truth.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: "A man's gotta make a living." We seldom see what that ''means'' but it usually it has to do with high-tech weaponry and medicine.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Xanatos has a contingency for almost everything.
* DarwinistDesire: When he proposed to Fox, he pitched the union in these terms. Then when he realized that, no, he truly loves her.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a very dry, sharp wit.
* {{Determinator}}: "Nothing terrifies me, because nothing is beyond my ability to change." [[spoiler:Implied to ultimately be averted when his wife and child are threatened, and by Thailog's existence.]]
* EnemyMine: Xanatos had a habit of working with the Manhattan Clan, "City of Stone" being the first and arguably most notable example.
* EvilGenius: He personally built (most of) the technology his billion dollar company sells, and stole the rest from a rival company.
* EvilVirtues: Ambition, Hard Work, [[spoiler:Love]], Patience, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Determination, Loyalty, Honor. (Yea, for being a BigBad, he has a lot of these.)
* FascinatingEyebrow: A frequent expression of his.
* {{Fiction 500}}: He had an entire castle taken apart, shipped from Scotland to New York and reassembled on top of a skyscraper, just to see if the gargoyles on it would wake up. That takes serious discretionary cash.
* FriendlyEnemy: He rather likes the Manhattan Clan, and Goliath in particular, although the feeling isn't mutual (although they eventually stop thinking of him as a pure evil, so that's worth something).
* GambitRoulette: The former TropeNamer. Some of his plans require things in the exact right place to go the exact way he needs to them to, "Metamorphosis" being a prime example.
* GracefulLoser: Xanatos always takes losses well and considers revenge beneath him. This may be because he's enough of a MagnificentBastard to rarely completely lose against the Manhattan Clan: [[XanatosGambit even if they foil his primary objective, he usually is able to accomplish something else thanks to their actions. On occasion, the "secondary" objective was what he wanted anyways]].
* HappilyMarried: To Fox.
* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: In "The Edge."
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: He admits this outright during his chess game with his new bride Fox.
* ImmortalitySeeker: "What good are all the riches in the world if Fox and I [[LivingForeverIsAwesome can't enjoy them forever]]?"
* InkSuitActor: A strange aversion by weird coincidence. Although Xanatos looks almost exactly like Jonathan Frakes, he was designed before Frakes was cast in the role.
* ItsPersonal:
** Coolly defied. Xanatos spent enough money to build a skyscraper expressly to free the gargoyles, funds advanced robotics, cloning and bio-engineering facilities without showing any concern for the costs involved, and spends not a cent on revenge, ever. (He says it's "a sucker's game.")
** Notably, Xanatos played this trope straight ''precisely once'', in "Double Jeopardy," and as a result he suffered his first (arguably only) unqualified defeat.
* KarmaHoudini: Likely the biggest one in the series. Despite lying to the Manhattan Clan, trying to kill them in the pilot, mutating people into creatures like the Gargoyles, he has the most things go his way of any character in the series, being HappilyMarried and being able to keep his son, and even has gotten some approval from his father, something he struggled with for most his life. Granted, he did have to fight Oberon before he achieved most of those things, and WordOfGod is that Oberon ''was'' his karma.
* LoveIsAWeakness: When Fox is turned into a beast, he maintains a clinical view, admitting only a desire to recover the jewel that did it and that her transformation was an unforeseen circumstance. He [[XanatosSpeedChess attempts several plans]], all of which fail--it is only towards the end, when she is near death, that he reveals his desperation and gives up the jewel to have her back. Afterwards, Xanatos coolly observes that Goliath now knows his weakness.
-->'''Goliath:''' Only you would regard love as a weakness.
* MadScientist: Downplayed. Xanatos is shown to be a skilled roboticist--he's explicitly shown working on Coldstone, and is implied to have designed much of the technology used by the Steel Clan, Coyote and his own PoweredArmor--but it's rarely focused on compared to other aspects of his character, and he generally avoids falling into stereotypical MadScientist tropes or mannerisms (well, that one time he and Demona brought Coldstone to life, [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat he just couldn't resist]]...)
* TheManBehindTheMan: Mastermind behind the Pack.
* MarryForLove: Although he initially didn't believe it, his and Fox's marriage came about because, in the end, they truly love each other.
* MayDecemberRomance: He's 11 years older than Fox.
* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful]] ThemeNaming: [[Literature/{{The Bible}} His first name is David, and he initially fights against a bigger enemy named Goliath.]]
* MiddleManagementMook: [[spoiler:He ''intentionally'' holds the lowest rank possible within the Illuminati, so he gets the perks of being a member at all, but without too many eyes on his activities.]]
* MissingMom: According to [[WordOfGod Greg Weisman]], [[spoiler:Xanatos's mother is deceased and his father Petros is unfortunately a widower]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction when Thailog came into his own.
--> "Owen, I think I created a monster."
* NothingPersonal: "You really ''are'' taking this much too personally, you know."
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: "[[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} It's alive! ALIVE!!!]] IAlwaysWantedToSayThat."
* NobleDemon: As noted above, he's the same guy after his HeelFaceTurn, but his evilness drops a notch or two.
* NonActionBigBad: First few episodes only; while a more-than-competent fighter by human standards, he just doesn't have what it takes to compete with the likes of Goliath. Being the consummate MagnificentBastard, though, before the season is over, he's found [[PoweredArmor a solution]].
* PapaWolf: He truly loves his wife and kid.
* PetTheDog: Xanatos does not acknowledge the existence of the MoralEventHorizon, but he does believe in repaying debts of honor.
* PoweredArmor: How he can keep up with the likes of Goliath in combat.
* ReformedButNotTamed: Seemingly so. It's less that his personality changes and more that his priorities shift.
** The non-canon "third season" ''The Goliath Chronicles'' takes this all the way with Xanatos and Fox become good guys and true allies of the gargoyles.
* {{Revenge}}: Defied. "Revenge is a sucker's game."
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: How he originally freed the gargoyles. Money is never an object to him.
* SelfMadeMan: [[spoiler:Via StableTimeLoop.]] His dad isn't impressed with it, though, and calls out his son for being more interested in money than honor.
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: If you regard the fact that the spell book of the Magus that Xanatos read (the Grimorum Arcanorum) was written in latin. The author was the chief advisor of Caesar Augustus. The only reason why he had to ask Owen for the translation of Demona's spell in "City of Stone" was that he had not heard the incantation himself, and Owen had.
* TranquilFury: Even against Oberon, he stays calm, despite this being one of his most action-packed scenes.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Largely played straight. His plans being revealed to the audience is typically a sign they won't go as he expects.
* UnwittingPawn: To Thailog in "Double Jeopardy."
* VillainsOutShopping: Instrumental to his gambit in "Her Brother's Keeper."
* VillainousValor: Xanatos doesn't scare easily, but even if he does, he doesn't quit, even the odds are against.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He thought he could impress his dad by being a SelfMadeMan, but it's not until he shows himself as a PapaWolf that he finally gets his dad's praise.
* WickedCultured: As a billionaire, he enjoys the finer things in life, such as living in an authentic Scottish castle. As for how he ''became'' a billionaire....
* XanatosGambit: [[TropeNamer Namesake]] of this and its spin-off trope, XanatosSpeedChess.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Owen Burnett]]
!!Owen Burnett
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JeffBennett
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[[caption-width-right:325:Service is its own reward.]]
Xanatos's right-hand man and confidant. Smart, capable and loyal -- the perfect employee. [[spoiler: He's actually Puck, a trickster spirit that became Owen for kicks, and because Xanatos is "many things, but never boring."]]
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* AffablyEvil: So polite he borders on TheStoic.
* BattleButler: To Xanatos. Be it fighting or carrying out plans, Owen does it quickly and efficiently.
* CreepyMonotone: He never raises his voice no matter what fiendish deed Xanatos has him doing.
* DeadpanSnarker: Surprising given the rest of his persona. [[spoiler:Or not so surprising.]]
* DisabilitySuperPower: A fist made of stone hurts more than one made of flesh and bone. Xanatos remarks that he makes "good use of his handicap."
* TheDragon: To Xanatos. His official job title is probably "Administrative Assistant".
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Or so it ''seems'' after a spell petrifies his right hand and he uses it for punching. [[spoiler: The fact that he's later revealed to be Puck disqualifies him.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: A villain in glasses.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Much like his employer.]]
* IcyBlueEyes: They help to emphasise his cool detached, stoic demeanor.
* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler:Owen continues to exist because Puck finds Xanatos's life too much fun to miss]].
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler: He knew there was no way he could stop Oberon, and admits he's completely outclassed.]]
* PunchClockVillain: He's not really "evil"; he just works for Xanatos.
* SecretIdentity: [[spoiler:Actually a persona of Puck.]]
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: As evidenced by his ability to translate Demona's "Stone by night" spell.
* TheStoic: He took his hand turning to stone with a completely straight face, and no sign that he even considered it an inconvenience.
* StraightMan: While Xanatos clearly enjoys what he does, Owen's role is to calmly enforce his employer's will and carry out his plans.
* TakenForGranite: Has a stone arm after dipping it in the Cauldron of Life.
** [[PowerFist And he knows how to use it]].
* UndyingLoyalty: For David Xanatos. [[spoiler:Despite knowing they have ''zero chance'' repelling Oberon, he sticks around.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fox]]
!!Fox
--> '''Voiced by''': Laura San Giacomo
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[[caption-width-right:325:Oh, Daddy. You and your integrity. Asking for it wouldn't be any fun at all.]]
Xanatos's true love and equal. Formerly Janine Renard, she legally changed her name to Fox.
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* ActionMom: As she proved when Oberon tried to abduct Alex.
* AntagonisticOffspring: To her father, albeit in a FriendlyEnemy way.
* BilingualBonus: Anyone who knows French instantly makes the connection between father and daughter well before the official reveal.
* TheChessmaster: The events of "Upgrade" were basically one big chess game she was playing with her husband.
* CunningLikeAFox: [[MeaningfulName Duh]], even if Xanatos overshadows her.
* DarkActionGirl: She's a villainous badass.
* DeadpanSnarker
--> '''Hyena''': (''hitting cockroaches with a rubber band slingshot'') Why do you read that stuff?
--> '''Fox''': (''reading a book on Jean-Paul Sartre'') Because Nietzche's too butch and Kafka [[GeniusBonus reminds me of your little friends over there]].
* EvilRedhead: As befits her name.
* EyepatchOfPower: Not exactly an eyepatch, but that blue tattoo covering her right eye comes close enough.
* FieryRedhead: More determined than hot-tempered, however.
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Though she didn't know it herself until "The Gathering."]]
* HappilyMarried: To David.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: As she points out, Fox isn't a stage name, she legally changed her name to it.
* LadyMacbeth: Not that Xanatos wasn't ''already'' amoral, mind you...
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Inverted; her dad is a ''good'' scientist, but she betrayed him by falling for his villainous rival.
* MamaBear: Seen in full force in "The Gathering."
* MarryForLove: Despite initially believing her marriage to David to be a subversion.
* MayDecemberRomance: Fox is 11 years younger than David.
* MeaningfulName: As pointed out in CunningLikeAFox, it's a given, but her given name is also meaningful. "Renard" is the name given to the fox character in old French animal tales. There has been talk about the coincidence of Goliath having a nemesis named "David." When you consider that "Janine" is a feminine version of "Jonathon"...
* ReformedButNotTamed: She's no longer an enemy to the clan, but that doesn't make her one of the good guys.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: A rare villainous version.
* TattooedCrook: Her EyepatchOfPower is blue and resembles a ''fox''.
* {{Ubermensch}}: She even chose her own name, rather than keep the one her parents gave her.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Notable for a series where most characters [[LimitedWardrobe always wear the same clothes]], Fox wears quite a variety of different costumes, and almost doesn't really have a "default" outfit like other characters.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Pack]]
!!The Pack
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/ClancyBrown (Wolf), Creator/JimCummings (Dingo), Matt Frewer (Jackal), Creator/CreeSummer (Hyena), Creator/JonathanFrakes (Coyote)
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[[caption-width-right:325:Left to right: Coyote (2.0 version), Fox, the upgraded versions of Wolf, Hyena, Jackal, and Dingo.]]
A group of mercenaries-turned-TV stars organized and funded by Xanatos, though after their first encounter with the Manhattan Clan they were arrested and turned to crime for good when Xanatos broke them out of prison. The members are:
** '''Fox''': See above. Original team leader, but when the Pack broke out of prison she stayed behind to serve out her sentence. She ultimately got an early release for good behavior - just as Xanatos planned, of course.
** '''Wolf''': The biggest guy on the team and most likely to go straight to brute force. A descendant of Hakon, the viking that sacked Castle Wyvern.
** '''Dingo''': The tactical expert. He eventually got fed up with the Pack being reduced to common criminals, and found he missed being considered a hero like he was on TV; prompting him to leave the group as well. He eventually got picked up by the Redemption Squad (see below).
** '''Jackal''' and '''Hyena''': A brother/sister pair of twins, and probably the team's most depraved members; [[WordOfGod According to Weisman]] that Jackal's a sociopath while Hyena's a psychopath.
** '''Coyote''': A new member who engineered the prison breakout, replacing Fox as team leader. At first thought to be Xanatos, but was soon revealed to be a robot in his likeness. Tends to get [[TheyKilledKennyAgain thrashed and rebuilt by Xanatos every time it appears]], with the successive versions obviously not human. Four versions of Coyote appeared in the series, and a fifth in the comics.
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* ActuallyADoombot: The first Coyote.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Not in the series itself, but WordOfGod is that, by 2198, Coyote will have become autonomous and turned to conquest.
* AnimalThemeNaming: They all have canine names.
* ArmCannon: Coyote. Dingo with his PowerArmor. Hyena and Jackal with their cybernetics.
* AwesomeAussie: Dingo, natch.
* AxCrazy: Jackal and Hyena, and, to a lesser extent, Wolf.
* BadassBaritone: Wolf, being voiced by Creator/ClancyBrown.
* BadassCrew: They can do a decent job of keeping up with the gargoyles in a fight.
* BadassGrandpa: Wolf.
* BloodKnight: Again, Wolf. Dingo as well, to a lesser extent.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Jackal and Hyena. Even when the Pack split up to work solo, these two stayed as a team.
* BullyingADragon: You think Wolf would have some sense and not pick a fight with Coyote, after he just saw him ripping an iron gate with his hands? How about after Coyote zapped him with just one hand? [[TooDumbToLive Nope]].
* ChainSawGood: Coyote 5.0.
* CombatPragmatist: Dingo is the go-to guy for long-range weapons and explosives. The rest of the team are all hand-to-hand combat junkies.
* CrushKillDestroy: Though normally rather calm and competent, Coyote tends to do this.
* DarkActionGirl: Hyena
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: All of them get upgraded one way or another (except Fox, who was gone by then).
** {{Cyborg}}: Jackal and Hyena.
** HalfHumanHybrid / GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Wolf.
** PoweredArmor: Dingo. He eventually upgrades it ''again'' after his HeelFaceTurn, this time [[spoiler: merging with an AI-controlled nanobot swarm]].
* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: Fox, later Coyote
** TheDragon: Wolf, the most powerful after Fox/Coyote and the most likely to [[TheStarscream try and take over]] from the latter.
** EvilGenius: Dingo, the team's weapons and tactics expert (and also the one with the most common sense).
** TheBrute: Jackal
** DarkChick: Hyena
** TheManBehindTheMan: Xanatos, who is (usually) the ultimate string-puller, but never actually works with the team in the field.
* ForTheEvulz: Jackal, Hyena, and sometimes Wolf really fall into this one.
* GutturalGrowler: Dingo ([[Creator/JimCummings of course]]) and Wolf, especially after the latter's upgrade.
* HeelFaceTurn: Dingo, eventually. Fox's is more of a HazyFeelTurn, as she's ReformedButNotTamed.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In "The Thrill of the Hunt," although the game in question is gargoyles rather than humans. Wolf's motives in particular resemble those of [[TheMostDangerousGame General Zaroff]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Poor Coyote is often the victim of this. Two times by Goliath using a rail track/construction beam and once by Elisa with a spear.
* LaughingMad: Once Jackal become the avatar of Anubis.
* NoSell: Coyote 4.0 was built with iron from the Cauldron of Life, making it immune to magic.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Wolf, Jackal, and Hyena. Of the others, Coyote doesn't have any other name, Fox had hers legally changed, and Dingo started using his real name more after he left (it's [[spoiler: Harry Monmouth]], by the way).
* OnlySaneMan: Fox and Dingo, which is why the latter eventually quit (Fox basically just got a better offer). Notably, during or after Dingo's Heel Face Turn, his first job is for Fox.
* PrimaryColorChampion: The entire group has yellow, red, and blue as theme colors. Possibly justified as being TV costumes, but that doesn't explain keeping them even after their show ends.
* PsychoForHire: The core Pack covers the whole spectrum; Jackal and Hyena are clearly this; Dingo is a perfectly sane mercenary and Coyote is just doing what Xanatos programmed him to; Wolf is a vicious brute who falls somewhere in between.
* PunchClockVillain: Dingo, definitely; he's just there for the paycheck, and gets increasingly disgusted with his teammates' craziness. Coyote might also count, since he's just following his programming.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Although they eventually go their separate ways.
* {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}}: Coyote 1.0 looks exactly like Xanatos, but later versions are rebuilt as an obviously robotic being.
* {{Robosexual}}: Hyena has the hots for Coyote. ''After'' the reveal. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jackal]] considers this "[[{{Squick}} sicker than usual]]."
* RoboticReveal: Used with Coyote 1.0
* RobotMe: Coyote 1.0 to Xanatos.
* SavageWolf: Take a wild guess.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After their first encounter with the Gargoyles, Fox and Wolf end up in prison, then Jackal and Hyena try to take revenge on Xanatos, and they end up in prison as well. Dingo, however, decided to flee to Europe rather than get stuck with the rest of them. Dingo did return with Coyote 1.0 to break them out eventually. When they fought the Gargoyles with their upgrades, Dingo decided to bail after seeing them lose and having lost faith in his comrades because of how eager they were to give up their humanity and any pretense of being good guys. This time he severed ties permanently, though he did take a job from Fox.
* SixthRanger: Coyote
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: With Fox leaving the Pack, Hyena is the sole female of the group.
* TheSociopath: Jackal is this, per WordOfGod. His sister Hyena is a psychopath.
* TheStarscream: Wolf seems to work fine with Fox, but he clearly doesn't like Coyote and tries several times to take leadership of the Pack from him. It never works.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Coyote is smashed everytime he appears, but since he's a robot, he can be rebuilt.
* ThoseWilyCoyotes: Coyote, though Xanatos named him such as a reflection on ''his own'' Trickster nature; Coyote himself isn't particularly tricky.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Dingo. He's arguably the sanest of the bunch, and the only one who, given the chance, didn't mutilate or mutate himself when the Pack received their upgrades.
* TranshumanTreachery: Sort of, as the treacherous ones were the ones who chose transhumanism when offered; Dingo was uneasy with it and was the one to eventually have a HeelFaceTurn.
* TwoFaced: After half of Coyote 1.0's face was torn off in the RoboticReveal, further versions always included the split face somehow.
* WolverineClaws: Hyena and Jackal.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Anton Sevarius]]
!!Dr. Anton Sevarius
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/TimCurry
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[[caption-width-right:325:For science, which, as my associate Fang indicated, must move ever forward. Plus there's the money... and I do love the ''drama!'']]
A freelance geneticist specializing in creating mutates and clones - for ''evil!''
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* BadBadActing: Averted in his first appearance, but every other time he tries to fake something, it's almost painful how bad he is. And hilarious.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Though it was in the non-canon Goliath Chronicles, Sevarius seemed to genuinely care about the "Little Anton" genetic gargoyle monstrosity he had created out of the main gargoyles' DNA, and seemed honestly saddened by his death.
* TheEvilGenius: Professionally.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: The Mutates and Wolf's upgrade were his work.
* ForScience: "Plus there's the money...and I do love the ''drama!''"
* ForTheEvulz: Why he does what he does. In addition to science, the money, and, of course the ''drama''!
* KarmaHoudini: He has yet to receive any comeuppance for his crimes.
* LargeHam: Did you expect anything less from ''TimCurry''? In his first appearance, he intentionally played a stereotypical (and older) mad scientist as part of a ruse. He finds playing the role of a LargeHam to be fun.
* MadScientist: And he is damn proud of it.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: No morals at all, actually.
* PlayingWithSyringes: His job in a nutshell.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bruno]]
!!Bruno
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JeffBennett
Xanatos's chief of Security.
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* DiminishingVillainThreat: In his debut, he and the team had the still-adjusting gargoyles on their toes. In "Metamorphosis," he and another guard still proved powerful foes. Eventually, he's being slapped around by his boss' crazy and magically changed fiance, Tony Dracon, and easily subdued by Goliath in "Monsters."
* MauveShirt: Best evidenced in "Monsters" [[spoiler:where he is the only security guard not to drown]].
* MookLieutenant: Leads the security team, responsible from mundane tasks like guarding things, to corporate espionage.
* PutOnABus: Of all of the Xanatos staff, he is the least seen, and after the first season episodes, he disappears until "Monsters," and after that he doesn't appear again.
** He reappears in the comics, still in his old job.
[[/folder]]
!The Hunters
[[folder:In General]]
!!The Hunters in general:
A family of masked vigilantes who have hunted Demona over a millennium, attacking any other gargoyle that enters their sights as well.
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* ArchEnemy: Collectively, to Demona.
* BadassNormal: Every single one of them.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The original Hunter, Gillecomgain, devoted his life to kill Demona because she slashed his face. The next ones just did it because she didn't get along with Duncan and Canmore. After that, it became a cycle of YouKilledMyFather.
* TheDreaded: Those who know of the Hunters know to fear them.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Canmores became this with whole generations training for ''nothing'' but Demona's death. According to the ''Bad Guys'' comic SpinOff, some still are.
* FantasticRacism: Towards gargoyles. Gillecomgain because Demona disfigured him, Duncan because they were a threat to him, Canmore because he blamed Demona for his father's death, and the modern Hunters because they've really known nothing else all their lives.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Given that the modern Hunters have little but FantasticRacism as a motive, they're really [[NotSoDifferent just as bad]] as Demona.
* TheHunter: Duh.
* IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery: The Hunters of the past avert this trope by having fully visible eyes. The Hunters of Gargoyles' present (as exemplified by Robyn as shown in the picture under her entry) play this trope straight possibly implying some sort of device is built into their masks.
* KnightTemplar: To the point that they ''threaten to kill their own allies'' for simply questioning their mission. Not actively denouncing it, ''questioning'' it.
* LegacyCharacter: From Gillecomgain (although Constantine invented the iconic Hunter mask) to Duncan, to Canmore, and so on.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Although some of Canmore's descendants may be more misguided than evil.
* TheRealRemingtonSteele: The first time the Hunter was seen in modern day, it was [[spoiler: Macbeth in disguise.]]
* SecretIdentity: Hence the masks.
* VanHelsingHateCrime: Jason leads them to this when they learn of the existence of the Manhattan Clan, even going so far as to say "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything The only good gargoyle is a dead gargoyle]]."
* YouKilledMyFather: Most of the Hunters have had this as the reason for their grudge. Specifically, Gillecomgain's grudge against Findlaech, Malcolm Canmore's grudge against Macbeth, and Jason, Robyn, and Jon's grudge against Demona. Even Constantine is implied to hate gargoyles specifically because they killed his father.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gillecomgain]]
!!Gillecomgain
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/CamClarke (as a boy), Creator/JimCummings
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[[caption-width-right:325:Look closely creature, 'tis your handiwork, done when I was but a boy. ''Remember?'']]
The original Hunter. He began his vendetta against the gargoyle race in the 10th century when an unprovoked Demona slashed his face, leaving him permanently scarred.
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* BadassGrandpa: Even at fifty, he managed to hold his own against Demona and Macbeth.
* BastardUnderstudy: To King Constantine, as shown in the SLG comics.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: For Demona, her attack on the young Gillecomgain was an entirely unremarkable incident that she doesn't remember.
* ClarkKenting: Gillecomgain's face was slashed by Demona, leaving obvious scars. Those same kind of scars are on his mask, yet no one knew he was the Hunter until his death.
** Possibly justified by the fact that Constantine invented the symbol of the Hunter, so people may have associated the red-striped black mask (or face paint) with Constantine rather than Gillecomgain.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He kept trying to kill Demona, even when it would mean his own death.
* DirtyCoward: He uses Gruoch as a hostage when Macbeth takes the upper hand in their sword fight.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Which had it's share of [[KarmicDeath karma]] to it; he killed Macbeth's father, and tried to kill Macbeth and Demona, by thowing them from a building.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: To Duncan.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Started as a farmboy and became a ProfessionalKiller and famed gargoyle slayer.
* HarmfulToMinors: Getting slashed in the face and nearly killed as a child would have some serious mental side effects.
* HeroKiller: To Findlaech.
* GutturalGrowler: A given for any character played by Creator/JimCummings.
* InTheHood: When he kills Findlaech.
* KarmicDeath: He killed Macbeth's father by pushing him off of a castle wall; twelve years later, Demona and Macbeth kill him by pushing him off of that same castle wall.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The reason he betrays Duncan.
* PsychoForHire: In addition to his gargoyle hunting, Gillecomgain also served Duncan as an assassin.
* ScarsAreForever: Gillecomgain's scars remained quite visible from the night Demona struck him until his death some 40 years later.
* TheSociopath: As an adult, Gillecomgain was a heartless killer who treated his own wife like she was nothing, had no loyalty to his king, and had no problem tormenting Macbeth by using the woman he loved as a human shield.
* StandardHeroReward: Inverted, as he and Duncan are both villains. Nevertheless, Duncan did reward him with the stewardship of Clan Moray and later Gruoch's hand in marriage as a reward for assassinating Findlaech.
* TeensAreMonsters: He is shown as already being a violent, revenge-obsessed lunatic as a young man in the SLG comics.
* UnknownRival: Demona wasn't ''unaware'' of Gillecomgain, since he became a fairly major thorn in her side, but even after he is unmasked she has [[ButForMeItWasTuesday no idea why he's so fixated on killing her]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Until he ran into Demona.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Not a particularly sympathetic example, but it was Gillecomgain's suffering at Demona's hands that drove him to villainy.
* WouldHitAGirl: Obviously Demona, and he has no problem using Gruoch as a HumanShield.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Duncan]]
!!King Duncan
--> '''Voiced by''': Neil Dickson
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[[caption-width-right:325:There will always be a Hunter, my son. And there will always be the hunted.]]
Macbeth's cousin and the King of Scotland during most of his life. The character here is depicted more closely to his historical counterpart than the character in [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Shakespeare's play]] and is decidedly less sympathetic. He is the actual forefather of the Hunters that came to follow.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: When Gillecomgain informed Duncan of Findlaech's death, this was Duncan's response.
** [[spoiler:Also after his death.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Of the Weird Sisters' magic.]]
* BeardOfEvil: As an older adult.
* DisneyVillainDeath: The writers consciously tried to avert this by having Macbeth defeat him by throwing a magic orb given to him by the Weird Sisters at him, but Duncan's electrocuted body then falls over a cliff anyway.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Ever paranoid that Macbeth would try to usurp his crown, Duncan could not believe that Macbeth was actually loyal to him. He is clearly surprised, for example, when Macbeth saves his life.
* EvilCounterpart: To Macbeth.
* TheEvilPrince: He had Findlaech killed so that Macbeth could never become king.
* {{Jerkass}}: He seemed to revel in making Macbeth's life miserable.
* UngratefulBastard: He lays siege to Macbeth's lands after hearing the Weird Sisters' prophecy that he would one day reign as kings despite the fact that Macbeth had just saved his life.
* XanatosGambit: By telling Macbeth that Gillecomgain murdered Finlaech, Duncan ensured one of two results: either Macbeth will kill Gillecomgain, eliminating the assaassin that Duncan can no longer control, or Gillcomgain will kill Macbeth, eliminating a potential threat to Duncan's claim to the throne.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He reveals Gillecomgain's identity as the Hunter to Macbeth after he becomes too hard to control, ensuring a fight to the death between the two.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Canmore]]
!!Canmore
--> '''Voiced by''': J.D. Daniels (as a boy), Neil Dickson
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[[caption-width-right:325:I am Canmore, son of Duncan. The true king of Scotland.]]
Duncan's son, better known as [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Malcolm]]. He took up the mantle of the Hunter to avenge his father's death on Macbeth's hands and take back what he saw as his rightful place on the throne.
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* AffablyEvil: He does not harm Gruoch, Macbeth's wife, and treats her fairly courteously, claiming he has no quarrel with her.
* AntiVillain: Canmore seems to genuinely view Macbeth as TheUsurper and Demona as his monstrous [[TheDragon Dragon]] and himself as [[RightfulKingReturns the Rightful King Returning]].
* AvengingTheVillain: Canmore took up the Hunter's Mask to avenge Duncan. He's not happy when [[SpeakIllOfTheDead Macbeth says that his father was an evil man]].
* TheBadGuyWins: After Macbeth's departure, Canmore ultimately killed Luach and won the throne of Scotland.
* CombatPragmatist: When Canmore confronts Macbeth, they're about to duel. Demona then show up and Macbeth has a argument with her. Canmore take advantage of this and mortally strike Macbeth.
* HarmfulToMinors: Seeing your father explode and fall off of a cliff can really damage a child's mind.
* KarmaHoudini: As per history, he succeeds in overthrowing Macbeth and becomes king of Scotland shortly thereafter.
* LastNameBasis / OneSteveLimit: He is never referred to with his first name, Malcolm, to avoid confusion with the fictional Prince Malcolm who had earlier appeared in the series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jason Canmore]]
!!Jason Canmore
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/DiedrichBader, Scott Cleverdon (as a boy)
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[[caption-width-right:325:We all suffered from my stubbornness, but I've finally come to my senses.]]
The oldest of the modern-day Canmore siblings and the leader of the modern-day Hunters. Under the guise of policeman Jason Conover he has a brief romantic relationship with Elisa before his identiry as a Hunter is revealed. Though he is initially the most fierce and outspoken of the modern-day Hunters, [[spoiler:he comes to see the gargoyles as they really are at the conclusion of the "Hunter's Moon multiparter". Unfortunately, he is then accidentally shot by his brother Jon and left paralyzed from the waist down.]]
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* {{Badass}}: Enough of one to lead the modern-day Hunters.
* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Creator/DiedrichBader.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Torwards his two younger siblings and teammates.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder
* DatingCatwoman: A male villain example with Elisa.
* GeneralRipper: He hates gargoyles with a passion at the beginning of the "Hunter's Moon" arc, owing in no small part to Demona's murder of his father.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of the "Hunter's Moon" arc.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Has no problem with missiles being fired at a building full of innocent people. When Elisa enters it, he quickly rush to save her.
* TheLeader: Of the modern Hunters, at least until he comes to his senses and is crippled.
* RomanticFalseLead: To Elisa.
* SiblingTeam: With Robyn and Jon.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Very much so.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Robyn Canmore]]
!!!Robyn Canmore
--> '''Voiced by''': Sheena Easton
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[[caption-width-right:325:I have spent my life ''hunting'' gargoyles. Or rather, ''wasted'' my life hunting gargoyles.]]
The middle child of the modern-day Canmore siblings and Jason's second-in-command. After Jason's appearant death during the hunt, she comes to realize the pointlessness of the vendetta and eventually makes a full HeelFaceTurn. In the SLG comic spin-off ''Bad Guys'' she becomes the leader of the Redemption Squad (see bellow).
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* {{Badass}}: [[WordOfGod Greg Weisman]] has compared her to {{Franchise/Batman}}.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Dingo in the ''Bad Guys'' spin-off.
* BlondesAreEvil: At first.
* BoxedCrook: In the ''Bad Guys'' comic.
%%* GunsAkimbo
* TheEvilGenius: Comes across as this within her sibling team.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of the "Hunter's Moon" arc.]]
* TheLancer: To Jason while part of the Hunter group.
* TheLeader: Of the Redemption Squad.
* SexySecretary: Briefly acts like one for Dominique Destine in "Hunters Moon".
* SiblingTeam: With Jason and Jon.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jon Canmore/John Castaway]]
!!!Jon Canmore / John Castaway
--> '''Voiced by''': Scott Cleverdon, J. D. Daniels (as a boy), Creator/AlanCumming ("The Journey")
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[[caption-width-right:325:What have I done? What have I... what have ''they'' done! I will have my revenge, the hunt is not over!]]
The youngest of the modern-day Canmore siblings. Jon is initially by far the most reluctant and sympathetic to the gargoyles out of all the Hunters, but after being briefly convinced that Jason was murdered by Goliath he becomes convinced that the gargoyles must be destroyed, which only intensifies after he accidentally cripples the returned Jason and is unable to handle his guilt so he projects it on the gargoyles (the same way that Demona projects hers on humanity). He consequently adopts the identity of "John Castaway" and forms a new gargoyle-hunting organization called the Quarrymen.
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* AffablyEvil: He's quite a gentleman.
* AntiVillain: He starts out as extremely reluctant in his villainy and quite willing to give up his life as a Hunter.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Before witnessing his older brother's apparent death at Goliath's hands, he really was the nicest of the three Canmore siblings.
* BadassMustache: Sports one after adapting the moniker of Castaway.
* BigBad: In ''The Goliath Chronicles''.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Less so than his siblings. At first, anyway.
* DecompositeCharacter: The writers of the ''Goliath Chronicles'' largely treated John Castaway as a separate character from Jon Canmore and only made extremely vague connections between the two. By the time of "Angels in the Night" their motives and personalities come across as drastically different.
* EvilCounterpart: To be precise, an evil human counterpart to the already evil Demona.
* FantasticRacism: Like all the Hunters, but his is less extreme than Jason's at first. When he thinks that Goliath killed Jason, however, Jon becomes fanatically hateful of all gargoyles.
* GeneralRipper: As leader of the Quarrymen.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Just like Demona's.
* LanternJawOfJustice: He has one despite being a villain.
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God What Have I...]] [[SubvertedTrope What Have THEY Done?]]: Making him ironically similar to Demona.
* SiblingTeam: With Jason and Robyn.
* ThatManIsDead: He says something to this effect about his life as Jon Canmore when confronted by his sister in the comic.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He was until his total role reversal with Jason.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the comics, he takes great care to uphold the public persona of the Quarrymen as a necessary, benevolent protection force. In ''The Goliath Chronicles'', he couldn't care less, but somehow manages to be a well-regarded industrialist anyway.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Constantine III]]
!!Constantine III
--> '''Voiced by''': Ian Buchanan
A historical king of Scotland, portrayed here as an usurper to the throne and a cunning manipulator. He was the catalyst to Princess Katharine, the Magus and Tom fleeing to Avalon with the Wyvern gargoyle eggs. The comic continuation shows him forming a twisted sort of father-son relationship with young Gillecomgain and designing the emblem of the Hunters.
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: He tries to force Princess Katharine into marriage, prompting her to flee to the island of Avalon.
* BaldOfEvil: After shaving his head in "Tyrants." This was done to mimic history, as the real Constantine was known as "Constantine the Bald."
* ManipulativeBastard: He dupes Finella, the woman who loves him, into luring King Kenneth to his demise under the pretense of wanting to tell him of their intentions to marry in private.
* PredecessorVillain: To the Hunters, in that he tutored Gillecomgain in gargoyle-shattering and appears to have designed to Hunter emblem to be used as war paint.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: "As we understand it, the king makes the rules."
* ShootTheMessenger: He orders a messenger from the Grim's army killed in the comic despite the rules of war.
* TheUsurper: He murdered King Kenneth and stole his crown.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Quarryemen]]
!!The Quarrymen
A KKK-esque group of gargoyle hunters formed by John Castaway.
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* CardCarryingVillain: In ''The Goliath Chronicles'', the Quarrymen couldn't care less about public safety and were also apparently aware that the gargoyles were trying to protect people, which is odd given that when Castaway recruits them in the first episode, they are just normal, concerned citizens who genuinely believe the gargoyles are a menace to society.
* DropTheHammer: Their weapon of choice is a big-ass, electrified sledgehammer that can shatter a [[TakenForGranite sleeping]] gargoyle in one hit, and badly injure a live one.
* FacelessGoons: Much like the Ku Klux Klan.
* FantasticRacism: Against gargoyles.
* {{Mooks}}: For Castaway.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Very much so in ''The Goliath Chronicles''.
[[/folder]]
!The Illuminati
[[folder:In General]]
!!The Illuminati as a whole
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The Illuminati are an ancient secret society said to secretly rule and manipulate the world. Initially, the Illuminati are treated as just one of Matt Bluestone's many crackpot conspiracy theories, but as the series progresses, they [[RealAfterAll turn out to be]] [[AllMythsAreTrue quite real]]. Some of the central antagonists of the series are members, including Xanatos, who is a ''lower''-echelon member. Ponder that.
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* AncientConspiracy: Going back to Arthurian times.
* BiggerBad: The Illuminati Society as a whole; a group of [[TheChessmaster chessmasters]] so skilled and influential that Xanatos is at the bottom of their hierarchy, but they're only directly involved in one episode and indirectly in a handful of others. The comic continuation indicates that they would have ended up in a more central role had the series continued.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Reinforced in the comic, where Martin Hacker gives three Illuminati operatives three contradictory statements on what the Illuminati wish to do with the gargoyles.
* YouAreNumberSix: Illuminati must identify themselves to each other by rank, which each tier having an amount of members of the same number (one One, two Twos, etc.); the lowest rank is Thirty-Six. Xanatos, Thailog, Matt Bluestone and John Castaway are all Thirty-Sixes. Peredur fab Ragnal, the Fisher King, is One. That gives them [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]] members all in all, a fact not gone unnoticed by the fans.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peredur fab Ragnal]]
!!!Peredur fab Ragnal
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[[caption-width-right:229:Everything we planned... I must contact the upper echelons immediately!]]
The leader of the Illuminati, and presumably the same person as Sir Percival, a knight of King Arthur's round table. He resides in Castle Carbonek and appears to maintain immortality with the use of the Holy Grail.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: He apparently founded the Illuminati to "make things right", the implications of which, along with Peredur's own motives, remain unknown.
* [[BlondGuysAreEvil Blond Guys are Morally Ambiguous]]: The Illuminati's hands are definitely not clean, and Peredur's the head of the organisation.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Weisman's mental voice actor for Peredur is Jude Law.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, we don't know enough about him to properly classify him as "evil", but he's the head of a society that's morally dubious at best, and claims to love both Duval and Blanchefleur.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He has only made a very brief appearance in the SLG comic, but if Matt's theories about the Illuminati hold any ground he has to be one of the most powerful people in the Gargoyles universe.
* PrettyBoy: Quite the looker, to be sure.
* Really700YearsOld: If he is Sir Percival, he's be nearly as old as Arthur himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Duval]]
!!Duval
[[quoteright:181:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Duval2_2878.png]]
[[caption-width-right:169:Finally... Two!]]
One of the two Twos of the society. He resides in Castle Carbonek alongside Peredur and appears to have a bad relationship with Blanchefleur.
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* [[BaldOfEvil Bald of Ambiguous Evil]]: Whether he's evil or not is up for grabs, but he's certainly bald.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: While writing the comic, Weisman imagined Duval's voice to be that of Eddie Marsan.
* {{Cyborg}}: He curiously has a lot of cybernetic implants. The reasons have yet to be explained.
* TheDragon: Apparently.
* SicklyGreenGlow: His cybernetics emit it.
* TheUnseen: Until "Rock of Ages."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blanchefleur]]
!!!Blanchefleur
[[quoteright:215:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Blanchefleur_5051.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:215:Bugger off!]]
One of the three Threes in the Illuminati society, and Peredur's wife. She resides with him in Castle Carbonek and appears to have a bad relationship with Duval.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: While writing the comic, Weisman imagined Fleur's voice actor to be Rhona Mitra.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blond and apparently good-hearted.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the planned spin-off "Pendragon", Fleur would have joined up with Arthur and Griff in their search for Merlin.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Seemingly.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shari]]
!!Shari
[[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shari2_7656.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:325:The story is told -- though who can say if it be true...]]
Introduced in the comic continuation, Shari is a mysterious girl with a high standing in the Illuminati (one of the nine Nines), who first appears in the Labyrinth, pretending to be one of the homeless who live there. When Thailog attacks, she volunteers to go warn Goliath, but never does. She currently aids Thailog as his assistant. Strongly implied to be [[Literature/ArabianNights Scheherazade]].
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: By looking at her, though WordOfGod defines her as Arabic.
* CatchPhrase: "The story is told--though who can say if it be true..."
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Modeled after actress Zehra Fazal, who once portrayed Shari in a radio play at a fan convention.
* PerkyGoth: Quite upbeat and friendly.
* ShadowArchetype: She and Thailog are one of the Elisa/Goliath relationship, as well as of Owen and Xanatos.
* TheStoryteller: She tells Thailog a story every night just before he turns to stone.
* UnreliableNarrator: By her own admission; after all, "who can say if it be true"?
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mace Malone]]
!!Mace Malone
--> '''Voiced by''': Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MaceMalone_1508.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:325:You should see the dental plan.]]
A New York gangster who has been kept alive beyond his normal lifespan by the Illuminati's life-rejuvenating drugs. He was one of the Illuminati's main links to the underworld. He was ranked "somewhere in the high twenties."
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* AffablyEvil: He's pretty friendly to Matt, and acts polite towards Goliath as well.
* EvilOldFolks: Evil, and quite old.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He wound up lost in the Hotel Cabal after trying to drive Goliath insane there.
* SanitySlippage: It doesn't take long for the Hotel to get to him.
* SignedUpForTheDental: He jokingly suggests as much in his conversation with Matt Bluestone.
* YouHaveFailedMe / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Illuminati leave him to starve to death stranded in the Hotel Cabal after he lets Goliath escape his grasp.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Martin Hacker]]
!!Martin Hacker
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/MichaelBell
An FBI agent and Matt Bluestone's former partner. During Matt's FBI days, Hacker made sure he would stick to wild goose chases in his quest to expose the Illuminati. Later on he becomes the one to induct Matt into the Illuminati and the FBI liaison for the Gargoyle Taskforce. One of the 32 Thirty-Twos.
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* AffablyEvil: He's nice enough to Matt.
* BigBadFriend / FalseFriend: He was either of these to Matt, though it's unclear whether he truly considers Matt a friend. At the very least, it's implied that Hacker got Matt expelled from the FBI, so there's that.
* FBIAgent: And a mole there as well.
* TheMole: The Illuminati's man in the FBI.
* SmugSmiler: He keeps a smug smirk on his face while revealing his duplicity to Matt.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Falstaff/John Oldcastle]]
!!Falstaff / John Oldcastle
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Falstaff_5840.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:325:When you've got the world's biggest hen-house...who else could possibly guard it...? Except an old fat fox!]]
The Illuminati's treasurer and the self-styled "King of Thieves." He was Dingo's mentor and father figure while growing up, after the unfortunate passing of Dingo's mother. [[spoiler:Her death at Falstaff's hands, that is.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Lovingly raising a child and teaching him how much fun a life of crime can be [[spoiler:minutes after secretly murdering that child's mother]]? You don't get much more AffablyEvil than that.
* BigEater: Just look at the size of him!
* BoisterousBruiser: Fun-loving, that's for sure.
* {{Expy}}: [[Theatre/HenryIV Weisman does so love his Shakespeare references...]] Falstaff is somewhat unique within the ''Gargoyles'' universe in that he and his band appear to have modeled themselves on Shakespeare's characters rather than being Shakespeare's in-universe inspirations for creating these characters like Oberon, Macbeth and the Weird Sisters.
* EvilMentor: To Dingo.
* TheFagin: He took Dingo under his wing as a child and raised him to be a criminal.
* FatBastard: Though he does an admirable job of acting like a BigFun.
* ALadyOnEachArm: He's introduced in the embrace of Mistresses Doll and Quickly, two members of his gang.
[[/folder]]
!Others
[[folder:Hakon]]
!!Hakon
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/ClancyBrown
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hakon_5383.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:325:Don't leave me here alone! Not without anyone to hate!!!]]
TheLeader of the vikings who destroyed the Wyvern clan. [[spoiler:He is Wolf's ancestor.]]
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* AnAxeToGrind: Hakon binded his soul to an axe to escape the cave he was trapped in.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: He's actually a literal version of this when his spirit is sealed inside of an ax that his descendant Wolf eventually finds.]]
* BeardOfEvil: Shaggy and blond.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Well, he is a Viking.
* BloodKnight: He didn't balk at the idea of fighting the gargoyles.
* CarryABigStick: The weapon he used to shatter the Gargoyles.
* DirtyCoward: When confronted by Goliath, Hakon tried to blame the Captain for the Wyvern massacre.
* DisneyVillainDeath: While Hakon struggled with the Captain, they both wound up falling over a cliff to their deaths.
* EvilSoundsDeep: A given for any villain played by Creator/ClancyBrown.
* FateWorseThanDeath: After his DisneyDeath, he was stuck in the castle he raided for over a thousand years with nothing to do but wallow in his own hate.
* [[HornyVikings Horny Viking]]: Mercifully, he and the other vikings don't wear horned helmets, but they still fit the trope.
* KillEmAll: His massacre of the Gargoyle clan in ancient Scotland.
* NeverLearnedToRead: And proud of it!
* SpannerInTheWorks: For the Captain's and Demona's plan, leading to the Wyvern Massacre.
* StarterVillain: The first villain in the series, and arguably the man who set the whole thing off.
* TokenMotivationalNemesis: His massacre of the Wyvern clan played a major role in forming the surviving gargoyles' personalities.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tony Dracon]]
!!Tony Dracon
--> '''Voiced by''': Richard Grieco
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Dracon_9726.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:325:We have a deal. My word as a Dracon.]]
A crime boss constantly harassed by the gargoyles.
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* ArchEnemy: To Elisa, though he's not a serious threat to the gargoyles themselves. Unless he's got high-tech weaponry.
* ArmsDealer: His business, at least in "Deadly Force".
* BigBadWannabe: In a lot of superhero stories, a mob boss as powerful as Dracon would be bad news, but here he's thoroughly outclassed by both the gargoyles themselves and most of the other villains.
* LockedIntoStrangeness / SkunkStripe: After his initial encounter with the gargoyles.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: He continues his work as a crime boss from within his prison in "Turf."
* SmugSnake: He is ''way'' out of his league when it comes to dealing with the gargoyles.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Archmage]]
!!The Archmage
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/DavidWarner
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/EnhancedArchmage_2073.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:325:All my lovely magic...]]
An evil wizard seeking ultimate power, defeated by Hudson and Goliath a thousand years ago, but later comes back with a vengeance.
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* AscendedExtra: The Archmage was originally as just a one-shot villain for "Long Way to Morning." Creator/GregWeisman didn't think there was that much to the character...until David Warner recorded his lines. Based on Warner's performance, Weisman saw potential to bring the Archmage back and as a greater threat.
* BaldOfEvil: Bald, and evil, of course.
* BeardOfEvil: Quite a long one, at that.
* CardCarryingVillain: A stereotypical evil sorcerer, and he seems to ''really'' get a kick out of it.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His real name is unknown. Even WordOfGod isn't telling.
* EvilLaugh
* EvilMentor: To the Magus, and to Demona in her youth. WordOfGod is that it was he who first gave her a taste for power, though she'd ''never'' admit it. His cruelty towards her can't have improved her attitude about humans, etiher...
* EvilOldFolks: An old man with aspirations of tyranny and ultimate power.
* EvilSorcerer: For him, it's practically a lifestyle.
** TheArchmage: [[CaptainObvious Well, duh]].
* FutureMeScaresMe / [[OtherMeAnnoysMe Past Me Annoys Me]]: Humorously, technically it's literally also [[spoiler: TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture]], too.
* GenericDoomsDayVillain: To be expected since he was originally planned as a one-shot villain with nothing to flesh him out. He wants power, considered taking over Scotland, and then decides to TakeOverTheWorld, and didn't even seem to have a plan as to what he would do with after that.
* AGodAmI: After he gets the Grimorum, the Phoenix Gate, and the Eye of Odin, he goes on this big power trip.
* LargeHam: Quite possibly his most defining trait since it kept him from becoming a one-shot villain.
* LoopholeAbuse: By literally ''eating'' the Grimorum, Archmage made its power a part of himself, allowing him to take outside magic into Avalon.
* MotiveDecay: A fairly minor example, but when first introduced the Archmage seems mostly interested in getting revenge on Prince Malcolm and doesn't appear to regard Goliath as much more than a pawn. During the Avalon arc Goliath has suddenly become the main target of his vengeance and he never mentions Malcolm (or for that matter Hudson, the actual leader of the gargoyles as far as he knew) although from his point of view it hasn't been very long since that vendetta took up most of his time.
** Justified considering that Goliath was the one who took the Grimorum from him, and thus ended his plan to kill Prince Malcolm, along with the fact that Goliath dodging his final attack caused him to fall in the cliff nearly killing him.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Due to being saved by his future self.
* PhysicalGod: Graduates to one after absorbing the magic of the Grimorum and wielding the Eye of Odin, which seemed to make him more powerful than the Weird Sisters. [[spoiler: When he loses the Eye, [[PowerIncontinence on the]] [[KarmicDeath other hand]]...]]
* SmugSnake: Incredibly arrogant, and he's not all talk, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is.
* StableTimeLoop: How he cheats death; the future him saved the past him who would then go on to save him and then....
* TakeOverTheWorld: Initially, he didn't even know what to do with his newfound powers and set his sights on Scotland, until his future-self told him of [[TakeOverTheWorld the big picture]].
* TookALevelInBadass: He goes from being a one-shot villain appearing in a flashback who is easily defeated by Goliath to a much more powerful force to be reckoned with.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:WordOfGod states that the Weird Sisters pretended to be TheDragon for him, when he was in fact theirs.]]
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: This occurs in "Avalon" during his big fight with Goliath, who is very outclassed:
-->'''Archmage''': I could destroy you with a word.
-->'''Goliath''': [[GetItOverWith Then why don't you]]?
-->'''Archmage''': Because I'm having too much fun!
** Even more glaring: he could have killed the gargoyles during daytime in their own lair in NY. He could have travel in time and learn all of his enemies' secrets and weaknesses. Instead, he give our heroes some time to prepare themselves and then got his ass kicked.
*** Justified in that he was wearing the [[AmplifierArtifact Eye of Odin]], which, in addition to granting tremendous power, also makes the wearer "[[UpToEleven more like him/herself]]." The Archmage was ''already'' a petty, egomaniacal wizard obsessed with vengeance against all who slighted him...
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
!Evil Gargoyles
[[folder:Demona]]
!!Demona
--> '''Voiced by''': Marina Sirtis
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Demona_5641.png]]
[[caption-width-right:325:What have I... what have ''THEY'' DONE TO YOU?!]]
Goliath's former love and one of the co-conspirators in what became the Wyvern massacre. Blaming humans for her misfortunes, she has spent the last thousand years seeking to exterminate them.
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* TheAloner: Seeing nearly all of the Wyvern Clan slaughtered by the vikings, followed by decades of watching the remnants of her species being slaughtered by the Hunter and his human allies (often through her own fault, though she remains in denial about that), have left her completely, helplessly, maddeningly alone. Centuries of endless pursuit by the Canmore dynasty (See "The Hunters" below) have made her even more bitter.
* TheApprentice: In her youth, to the Archmage.
* ArchEnemy: She practically collects them. The Hunters, Macbeth, Goliath, Brooklyn, Elisa...
* AxCrazy: On occasion.
* {{Badass}}: The real reason why Macbeth and his subjects called her Demona: She fights like a demon.
* BareYourMidriff: In her default outfit.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Puck grants her wish not to turn to stone during the day anymore...by making her become human during the day!
* BerserkButton: She's got an entire console of berserk buttons, although her hatred of Elisa is probably the newest and most reliable.
* BigBad: She's the second most recurring villain after Xanatos, and her plans tend to be the most dangerous and destructive, since she's out for {{Revenge}} on the whole human race. [[spoiler:She's also the main villain of "Hunter's Moon," which is effectively the GrandFinale for the canon show]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Xanatos, until "City of Stone."
* CarryABigStick: Demona other WeaponOfChoice is a mace (the other being various laser rifles).
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She has ultimately betrayed just about every group she has ever worked with. (Most notably the Wyvern Clan in the backstory of "Awakening," the Manhattan Clan in "Awakening" present time, Macbeth in the backstory of "City of Stone," Xanatos in "City of Stone" present time, and Thailog in "The Reckoning.")
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: As Dominique Destine.
* CursedWithAwesome: ''Twice''. First when [[spoiler:she's linked to Macbeth so neither can die except at the hand of the other. There is a fairly hefty downside, but still IMMMORTALITY!]]. Then, [[spoiler:Puck gives her a parting "gift" of human form during the day. She's angry at first, but it's a big help for her nefarious plans]].
* CuteLittleFangs: As showed off on the rare occasion that she smiles, and the not so rare occasion that she snarls
* TheCynic: Demona believes the worst in ''everyone''. Even Macbeth, whom she had known and been allied with for decades, was betrayed the instant that he said something that ''might'' be interpreted as an intent to betray her.
* DarkActionGirl: Evil, seductive, and a very skilled warrior.
* DebtDetester: After Macbeth helped her kill Gillecomgain (Demona herself having helped Macbeth twelve years prior), she was glad to be "even" with Macbeth. An odd example; the debt Demona detested was one that Macbeth owed ''to'' her.
* DisneyDeath: Her link with Macbeth ensures that she "dies" if she's close enough to him when he "dies." As mentioned in Macbeth's section, this happened when Canmore stabbed Macbeth in "City of Stone," and when Elisa shot Demona herself in "Sanctuary."
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Women Love Their Daughters]]
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: As Dominique Destine. She drops the accent later however.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Despite having been allies with Macbeth for nearly forty years, she had no trouble whatsoever believing that he would readily betray her and her clan for his own gain. The consequences of her reaction to this were, to say the least, devastating for all involved.
* EvilCounterpart: A pretty extreme example as she's one to [[UpToEleven Goliath, Elisa, and Angela.]]
%%* EvilLaugh
* EvilMatriarch: She loves Angela so much, she's willing to kill humanity to protect her. Well, she was going to kill humanity ''anyway'', but she really loves Angela.
* EvilPlan: The total and complete extinction of the human race.
* EvilRedhead: She's evil, and she's a redhead.
* [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorceress]]: Another given; she's evil, and she's a sorceress.
* FaceHeelTurn: In her BackStory.
%%* {{Fallen Hero}}ine
* FantasticRacism: She utterly despises humanity.
* FauxAffablyEvil: On the rare occasion that she isn't a walking pile of seething, omnicidal rage.
* FemmeFatalons: Not just her gargoyle talons, but even as ''Dominique Destine'', she files her fingernails into sharp points.
* FieryRedhead: As hot-tempered as her hair colour implies.
* ForWantOfANail: Most of the main events of the story started because of her including the destruction of the clan at Castle Wyvern, the creation of The Hunter, and of course [[spoiler: [[FutureMeScaresMe her own paranoia about humanity itself.]]]]
* FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:Which, unfortunately, sets up the StableTimeLoop that turned her into "future me" in the first place.]]
* FootPopping: Believe it or not, she done so while kissing Macbeth in human form.
* GreenEyedMonster: She still grudgingly carries feelings for Goliath, but characteristically this just means she tries to [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder any hypotenuses that look Goliath's way]], particularly Elisa Maza.
* HeelRealization: Has these several times, for a BigBad. Unfortunately, she proves herself a grand champion at [[IgnoredEpiphany ignoring them]].
* HeroesWantRedheads: She was Goliath's mate, after all. Averted when her true personality showed.
* HotGirlsAreBitches: Very attractive, as well as untrustworthy, vicious, and quite possibly insane.
* HotWitch: She does have magical abilities after all.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Demona sees herself as the self-proclaimed savior of her race, and that Goliath and those who stand with him will be the death of the race. Never mind the fact that she herself caused the birth of the Hunter, their generations, and indirectly the Quarrymen, whose sole purpose is to destroy all Gargoyles with extreme prejudice. And she had the gall to say Goliath would be the death of all of them? If anything, SHE was the one who nearly caused Gargoyle extinction.
** She claims that Goliath had been corrupted by humanity, yet Demona has, over the years, become more "human" than Goliath ever has.
** In ''Sanctuary'', Demona and Thailog are lovers. Demona accuses Goliath of being jealous and paranoid of their love. In reality, Demona is jealous of Goliath's love with Elisa and is truly paranoid herself.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Her strongest belief.
* IgnoredEpiphany: One time, the Weird Sisters lead her on a series of questions that forced her to realize that she had no one to blame for her pain but herself. She promptly forgot this a minute later.
* ImmortalImmaturity: She is proud of being stronger and "younger" than Hudson.
* KillAllHumans: Her primary goal in life.
* KnightTemplar: Subverted; she's ''convinced'' herself her cause is noble, but it's really just her lashing out at the world due to all the pain she's brought upon herself.
* LadyInRed: As Dominique Destine.
* LadyMacbeth: Shades of this in her relationships with Goliath, Macbeth and even Xanatos. Inverted with her relationship with Thailog, as he's far more straightforwardly evil and is really using her to advance his own ends.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: There is no deadline for her to exterminate humans. She can keep trying until Doom's Day.
* MagicKnight: She uses her powerful magic (she's probably the strongest non-Child-of-Oberon mage in the show, not counting the Archmage's enhanced form) and formidable combat skills about evenly.
* MamaBear: Would rather pull an EnemyMine than let Angela be hurt.
* ManipulativeBitch: She even pulled this on Angela, her own ''daughter''. It failed '''badly'''.
** EvenEvilHasStandards: Even ''she'' regretted doing that afterwards.
* MeaningfulName: Her alias "Dominique Destine" literally means "Divine Destiny."
** Also [[spoiler:Macbeth]] gave her the name "Demona" because he said she fought like a demon.
* MsFanservice: One of the most attractive females in the cast, and not especially shy about it.
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Have I...]] [[IgnoredEpiphany What Have THEY Done?]]: She came close to this but then dismissed it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Demona the demon.
* NeverMyFault: Employed in a ''very'' serious fashion. If there is one defining character flaw for Demona, this is it. Most of her troubles and emotional agonies are entirely her fault, and her refusal to admit any responsibility on her part is the basis for her bitterness AND her racism, all of which she formed mostly to avoid the overwhelming guilt she would feel.
-->'''Demona:''' You tricked me! You had me under a spell! None of this was my fault! It was the humans, always the humans!\\
'''Goliath:''' You have learned nothing.
* OppositesThemeNaming: By coincidence, her name is opposite in theme to Angela's. When Macbeth gave Demona her name in 1040, he didn't even know that she had an unhatched child, let alone that said child would be named Angela.
* NotSoDifferent: Demona and John Castaway.
** Also Demona and Goliath [[spoiler:when they both want revenge against the hunters for nearly killing Angela. And when presented with a choice to save an innocent life or pursue revenge, they both chose the former. (Goliath saving Katharine rather than killing Hakon and the Captain; Demona saving the young Macbeth rather than killing Gillecomgain.)]]
** Demona an Goliath again in [[spoiler: "Hunter's Moont, part 3" where Demona invoke this trope to Goliath after the latter wanted revenge against the Hunters. It doesn't last.]]
* PainfulTransformation: Her shift to human during the day and back again. Lampshaded in "High Noon."
--> '''Macbeth''': I thought you said that the changeling Puck turns you into a human during the day as a gift.\\
'''Demona''': Puck's gifts always come with a price.
* ParentalAbandonment: Even knowing that one of the eggs from the Wyvern Rookery was her own, she didn't lift a talon to stop the Magus and Katharine from "stealing" them.
* PetTheDog: Few and far between, but her hatred of Goliath and of all humanity doesn't prevent her from feeling protective (in her own twisted way) toward the rest of the Clan, whom she still hopes to convince that she is right.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: To Goliath.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her GlowingEyesOfDoom are red, and she plays this seven shades of strait compared to Angela.
* RevengeByProxy: "Their descendants shall pay. I will have blood for blood!"
* SecretIdentity: As Dominique Destine, she conceals her true self.
* SheCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler: Her "wedding" to Macbeth proved this.]]
* ShesGotLegs: Long and uncovered.
* [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Never shown better than in "City of Stone", where she takes to smashing [[TakenForGranite petrified]] humans with a mace, much like when Hakon massacred her clan. [[NeverMyFault Demona herself]], however, would arguably view this as poetic justice.
* TheUnfettered: ''Nothing'' is sacred for Demona, and no-one, with the possible exception of Angela, is not expendable in her quest to eradicate humanity.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Thailog, [[spoiler:until he betrays her]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: She ''was'' a NiceGirl, who was constantly mistreated by humanity which resulted in her present state.
* TheVamp: Towards Brooklyn in "Temptation".
* WaifFu: Despite being a smaller-than-average gargoyle, Demona can fight on even terms with heavyweights like Goliath and Thailog. The series does point out that Demona's combat prowess is boosted by both centuries of experience, as well as being [[InsaneEqualsViolent crazier than a shithouse rat]].
* WhenSheSmiles: She actually has a really beautiful genuine smile, which is rarely ever seen because of her [[SlasherSmile malicious nature.]]
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: "If you are not my ally, then you are my enemy."
* WomanScorned: She had this reaction when [[spoiler: she thought Macbeth had betrayed her in the past.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: By the end of City of Stone, it's hard not to feel sorry for her, even though she's long since passed the MoralEventHorizon.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: [[ForWantOfANail Slashing Gillcomgain's face created the Hunter, and his legacy that haunts her to this very day.]]]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Whenever the sun is up, at least.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: According to WordOfGod, it's one of the reasons (in a very long list) why Demona is very bitter. Centuries alone and being periodically in the heat didn't do any good to her mental health.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Thailog]]
!!Thailog
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/KeithDavid
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ThailogCU_3755.png]]
[[caption-width-right:325:And waste my life playing guardian angel for a decrepit city infested with inferior humans...where's the profit in that?]]
Goliath's clone, designed to combine his physical attributes with Xanatos's intelligence and ruthlessness.
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* {{Badass}}: Outsmarting ''Xanatos'' certainly qualifies him.
* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Keith David.
* BigBad: WordOfGod is that he would have likely evolved into this had the series continued. Shades of it can be seen in the comic continuation.
* CardCarryingVillain: He knows he's evil and he's quite proud of it.
* TheChessmaster: He takes after and surpasses Xanatos in this regard.
* CloneDegeneration: In the non-canon ''The Goliath Chronicles''.
* CulturedBadass: Much like Xanatos.
* [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Did You Just Scam Xanatos?]]: In "Double Jeopardy". He plays Demona like a harp in "Sanctuary" and "The Reckoning", as well.
* EvilCounterpart: To both Goliath and Xanatos.
* EvilerThanThou: Pulls this with Xanatos and Demona, reducing them to pawns.
* EvilLaugh: Indulges in this more than any other villain in the series. He even lampshades it as his "maniacal laugh" in the comics.
* EvilSoundsDeep: A given, since he shares Goliath's voice actor.
* EvilTwin: Goliath's
* GeniusBruiser: As smart as Xanatos and as strong as Goliath.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Xanatos wanted someone who was as powerful as Goliath but shared his own, profit-oriented worldview. Because that couldn't ''possibly'' backfire.
* ItsAllAboutMe: A defining trait that sets him apart from Xanatos and Demona, Thailog is concerned with his benefit alone and never displays the capacity to care about anything but himself.
* {{Jerkass}}: Thailog is an asshole. He feigns feelings for Demona as a plan to send her to to her death, and when he had clones of the Manhattan clan made, he kept their intelligence deliberately limited and commenting all they need to know is "Obey Thailog."
* [[HasTwoMommies Has Three Daddies]]: He refers to Goliath, Sevarius and Xanatos as his "three fathers." Guess which ones he takes after the most.
* KarmaHoudini: According to the comic continuation, he survived the fire in "The Reckoning" and regained control of Nightstone Unlimited.
** WordOfGod: "He survived. The Thailogs of the world ''always'' survive." Which makes sense, since the fire in "Double Jeopardy" didn't kill him either.
*** [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou Not The Fire That Kills You]].
* LargeHam: He probably gets it from Sevarius, and similarly plays up his performances when he deems the scene appropriate for it. Described by Weisman as "a bit of a performer," the things he says can't necessarily be taken at face value. On the other hand, like Demona, he can be chillingly cold when he wants to be.
* LaughablyEvil: Unlike Xanatos, Thailog has no redeeming qualities and yet still manages to be highly entertaining.
* ManipulativeBastard: With shades of Magnificence.
* OedipusComplex: He tries to kill Goliath, had a relationship with Demona, and even created a hybrid clone of Demona and Elisa when he tired of Demona.
* PhlebotinumRebel: He rebelled against Xanatos in no time at all.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: A side-effect from the accelerated growth process.
* SdrawkcabName: Almost. (If the letter thorn were still in use, Þailog would be Goliaþ backwards.)
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Inverted. Goliath is disgusted at Xanatos's use of his DNA, but admits that Thailog isn't to blame and deserves freedom. In the same amount of time, however, Thailog decides that Goliath is too soft to admire.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: He spent his early life being subliminally indoctrinated by Xanatos. Of course, this was going to happen.
* TheUnfettered: Takes this even further than Xanatos, lacking any of his humanizing traits or his sense of honor.
* UnholyMatrimony: With Demona, [[spoiler:until he betrays her]].
* WickedCultured: Took the first name "Alexander" when indirectly posing as a reclusive financial wizard after Alexander the Great, for whom he harbors admiration. In the comics continuation, he takes this a step further by lounging in a toga. According to WordOfGod, he also speaks many languages, French included.
[[/folder]]
!Xanatos Enterprises
[[folder:David Xanatos]]
!!David Xanatos
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JonathanFrakes
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[[caption-width-right:325:Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into Hell.]]
Billionaire responsible for breaking the Magus' spell over the Gargoyles. Determined, practical and brilliant, he searches for eternal life and comfort, and finds something altogether different.
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* AffablyEvil: Impeccably polite to his enemies. He seems to legitimately like Goliath most of the time, although the feeling is almost never mutual.
** In the non-canon ''Goliath Chronicles'', he eventually becomes a benefactor and friend to the clan. In the comic continuation, Goliath and Brooklyn remark that they still don't consider Xanatos 100% trustworthy, but nonetheless trust him enough not to smash them during the day.
* AmazonChaser: For Fox. You can see them sparring.
* AntiHero: After his sort-of-HeelFaceTurn. He's ''still'' [[NominalHero an amoral Machiavellian bastard]], but one who's willing to at least partially work with the gargoyles rather than always against them and whose PetTheDog relationship with his family is much more pronounced.
* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]], while he was developing toward his HeelFaceTurn.
* ArchEnemy: To Goliath initially, and others.
%%* AwesomeMcCoolname
* {{Badass}}: In powered armor, he's a match for Goliath.
* BadassBeard: A neatly trimmed, and very stylish goatee.
* BadassBookworm: This CEO is no pencil pusher.
* BadassNormal: He can hold his own with Goliath and even ''[[PhysicalGod Oberon]]'' with his own gadgets and know-how.
* TheBadGuyWins: On occasion this blatantly happens, although usually it's more that he is able to accomplish a secondary objective under the noses of the Manhattan Clan. There's a reason [[XanatosGambit the trope for this is named after him]].
** MeaninglessVillainVictory: All his successes with manipulating Derek turns into this since after "Metamorphosis", Derek and the other mutated humans don't make another appearance until well into the second season, which ends with them learning Xanatos manipulated them.
* BeardOfEvil: The classic "bad guy" goatee.
* BerserkButton: Quite subtle, but Hudson's needling him about his terror of growing old pushes key places.
* BigBad: In the first half of the series, when he's the most recurring, most intelligent and arguably most dangerous villain. [[spoiler:By the end, while he doesn't quite make a HeelFaceTurn, he is edging more into dark AntiHero territory]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Demona, until "City of Stone."
* BoringButPractical: [[spoiler: Puck once appeared to him and offered a choice: one wish from himself, the nigh-omnipotent fey, or a life time of loyal service from his powerless human guise, Owen. Xanatos chose Owen. Wishes are nice, but good help is hard to find.]]
* BrainyBrunette: He's highly intelligent.
* BreakTheHaughty: Seen in "The Gathering." [[spoiler:All the technology and wisdom, aided by the Manhattan Clan, his father and his father-in-law, could not stop [[PhysicalGod Oberon]] from reaching his newborn son.]]
* CaptainErsatz: Considering the series' genesis as a ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' adaptation, he appears to be loosely modeled on Roderick Zinco, a billionaire who helped the main antagonists in the ''Wake the Devil'' story arc and despite being a bit of a sycophantic dupe is pretty damn devious, going so far as to sell sabotaged equipment to the BPRD, who never actually learn of his involvement even after he accidentally blows himself up. Gets a bit of a RecursiveAdaptation in the ''{{ComicBook/BPRD}}'' comics with Zinco's successor Mr. Pope who has a much more active interest in the occult and wears a suit of PowerArmor. Perhaps as a parody of Xanatos's renowned hyper-competence, he too ends up turning out to be an UnwittingPawn of the real villains' cosmic schemes who is all too aware of what a mess he's made of things.
* TheChessmaster: The original movie especially. He moves the heroes like they were pieces until the end.
* ConsummateLiar: Part of why the Gargoyles never completely trust, it can be very hard to tell when he's lying and when he's telling the truth.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: "A man's gotta make a living." We seldom see what that ''means'' but it usually it has to do with high-tech weaponry and medicine.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Xanatos has a contingency for almost everything.
* DarwinistDesire: When he proposed to Fox, he pitched the union in these terms. Then when he realized that, no, he truly loves her.
* DeadpanSnarker: He has a very dry, sharp wit.
* {{Determinator}}: "Nothing terrifies me, because nothing is beyond my ability to change." [[spoiler:Implied to ultimately be averted when his wife and child are threatened, and by Thailog's existence.]]
* EnemyMine: Xanatos had a habit of working with the Manhattan Clan, "City of Stone" being the first and arguably most notable example.
* EvilGenius: He personally built (most of) the technology his billion dollar company sells, and stole the rest from a rival company.
* EvilVirtues: Ambition, Hard Work, [[spoiler:Love]], Patience, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Determination, Loyalty, Honor. (Yea, for being a BigBad, he has a lot of these.)
* FascinatingEyebrow: A frequent expression of his.
* {{Fiction 500}}: He had an entire castle taken apart, shipped from Scotland to New York and reassembled on top of a skyscraper, just to see if the gargoyles on it would wake up. That takes serious discretionary cash.
* FriendlyEnemy: He rather likes the Manhattan Clan, and Goliath in particular, although the feeling isn't mutual (although they eventually stop thinking of him as a pure evil, so that's worth something).
* GambitRoulette: The former TropeNamer. Some of his plans require things in the exact right place to go the exact way he needs to them to, "Metamorphosis" being a prime example.
* GracefulLoser: Xanatos always takes losses well and considers revenge beneath him. This may be because he's enough of a MagnificentBastard to rarely completely lose against the Manhattan Clan: [[XanatosGambit even if they foil his primary objective, he usually is able to accomplish something else thanks to their actions. On occasion, the "secondary" objective was what he wanted anyways]].
* HappilyMarried: To Fox.
* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: In "The Edge."
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: He admits this outright during his chess game with his new bride Fox.
* ImmortalitySeeker: "What good are all the riches in the world if Fox and I [[LivingForeverIsAwesome can't enjoy them forever]]?"
* InkSuitActor: A strange aversion by weird coincidence. Although Xanatos looks almost exactly like Jonathan Frakes, he was designed before Frakes was cast in the role.
* ItsPersonal:
** Coolly defied. Xanatos spent enough money to build a skyscraper expressly to free the gargoyles, funds advanced robotics, cloning and bio-engineering facilities without showing any concern for the costs involved, and spends not a cent on revenge, ever. (He says it's "a sucker's game.")
** Notably, Xanatos played this trope straight ''precisely once'', in "Double Jeopardy," and as a result he suffered his first (arguably only) unqualified defeat.
* KarmaHoudini: Likely the biggest one in the series. Despite lying to the Manhattan Clan, trying to kill them in the pilot, mutating people into creatures like the Gargoyles, he has the most things go his way of any character in the series, being HappilyMarried and being able to keep his son, and even has gotten some approval from his father, something he struggled with for most his life. Granted, he did have to fight Oberon before he achieved most of those things, and WordOfGod is that Oberon ''was'' his karma.
* LoveIsAWeakness: When Fox is turned into a beast, he maintains a clinical view, admitting only a desire to recover the jewel that did it and that her transformation was an unforeseen circumstance. He [[XanatosSpeedChess attempts several plans]], all of which fail--it is only towards the end, when she is near death, that he reveals his desperation and gives up the jewel to have her back. Afterwards, Xanatos coolly observes that Goliath now knows his weakness.
-->'''Goliath:''' Only you would regard love as a weakness.
* MadScientist: Downplayed. Xanatos is shown to be a skilled roboticist--he's explicitly shown working on Coldstone, and is implied to have designed much of the technology used by the Steel Clan, Coyote and his own PoweredArmor--but it's rarely focused on compared to other aspects of his character, and he generally avoids falling into stereotypical MadScientist tropes or mannerisms (well, that one time he and Demona brought Coldstone to life, [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat he just couldn't resist]]...)
* TheManBehindTheMan: Mastermind behind the Pack.
* MarryForLove: Although he initially didn't believe it, his and Fox's marriage came about because, in the end, they truly love each other.
* MayDecemberRomance: He's 11 years older than Fox.
* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful]] ThemeNaming: [[Literature/{{The Bible}} His first name is David, and he initially fights against a bigger enemy named Goliath.]]
* MiddleManagementMook: [[spoiler:He ''intentionally'' holds the lowest rank possible within the Illuminati, so he gets the perks of being a member at all, but without too many eyes on his activities.]]
* MissingMom: According to [[WordOfGod Greg Weisman]], [[spoiler:Xanatos's mother is deceased and his father Petros is unfortunately a widower]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction when Thailog came into his own.
--> "Owen, I think I created a monster."
* NothingPersonal: "You really ''are'' taking this much too personally, you know."
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: "[[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} It's alive! ALIVE!!!]] IAlwaysWantedToSayThat."
* NobleDemon: As noted above, he's the same guy after his HeelFaceTurn, but his evilness drops a notch or two.
* NonActionBigBad: First few episodes only; while a more-than-competent fighter by human standards, he just doesn't have what it takes to compete with the likes of Goliath. Being the consummate MagnificentBastard, though, before the season is over, he's found [[PoweredArmor a solution]].
* PapaWolf: He truly loves his wife and kid.
* PetTheDog: Xanatos does not acknowledge the existence of the MoralEventHorizon, but he does believe in repaying debts of honor.
* PoweredArmor: How he can keep up with the likes of Goliath in combat.
* ReformedButNotTamed: Seemingly so. It's less that his personality changes and more that his priorities shift.
** The non-canon "third season" ''The Goliath Chronicles'' takes this all the way with Xanatos and Fox become good guys and true allies of the gargoyles.
* {{Revenge}}: Defied. "Revenge is a sucker's game."
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: How he originally freed the gargoyles. Money is never an object to him.
* SelfMadeMan: [[spoiler:Via StableTimeLoop.]] His dad isn't impressed with it, though, and calls out his son for being more interested in money than honor.
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: If you regard the fact that the spell book of the Magus that Xanatos read (the Grimorum Arcanorum) was written in latin. The author was the chief advisor of Caesar Augustus. The only reason why he had to ask Owen for the translation of Demona's spell in "City of Stone" was that he had not heard the incantation himself, and Owen had.
* TranquilFury: Even against Oberon, he stays calm, despite this being one of his most action-packed scenes.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Largely played straight. His plans being revealed to the audience is typically a sign they won't go as he expects.
* UnwittingPawn: To Thailog in "Double Jeopardy."
* VillainsOutShopping: Instrumental to his gambit in "Her Brother's Keeper."
* VillainousValor: Xanatos doesn't scare easily, but even if he does, he doesn't quit, even the odds are against.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He thought he could impress his dad by being a SelfMadeMan, but it's not until he shows himself as a PapaWolf that he finally gets his dad's praise.
* WickedCultured: As a billionaire, he enjoys the finer things in life, such as living in an authentic Scottish castle. As for how he ''became'' a billionaire....
* XanatosGambit: [[TropeNamer Namesake]] of this and its spin-off trope, XanatosSpeedChess.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Owen Burnett]]
!!Owen Burnett
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JeffBennett
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[[caption-width-right:325:Service is its own reward.]]
Xanatos's right-hand man and confidant. Smart, capable and loyal -- the perfect employee. [[spoiler: He's actually Puck, a trickster spirit that became Owen for kicks, and because Xanatos is "many things, but never boring."]]
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* AffablyEvil: So polite he borders on TheStoic.
* BattleButler: To Xanatos. Be it fighting or carrying out plans, Owen does it quickly and efficiently.
* CreepyMonotone: He never raises his voice no matter what fiendish deed Xanatos has him doing.
* DeadpanSnarker: Surprising given the rest of his persona. [[spoiler:Or not so surprising.]]
* DisabilitySuperPower: A fist made of stone hurts more than one made of flesh and bone. Xanatos remarks that he makes "good use of his handicap."
* TheDragon: To Xanatos. His official job title is probably "Administrative Assistant".
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Or so it ''seems'' after a spell petrifies his right hand and he uses it for punching. [[spoiler: The fact that he's later revealed to be Puck disqualifies him.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: A villain in glasses.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Much like his employer.]]
* IcyBlueEyes: They help to emphasise his cool detached, stoic demeanor.
* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler:Owen continues to exist because Puck finds Xanatos's life too much fun to miss]].
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler: He knew there was no way he could stop Oberon, and admits he's completely outclassed.]]
* PunchClockVillain: He's not really "evil"; he just works for Xanatos.
* SecretIdentity: [[spoiler:Actually a persona of Puck.]]
* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: As evidenced by his ability to translate Demona's "Stone by night" spell.
* TheStoic: He took his hand turning to stone with a completely straight face, and no sign that he even considered it an inconvenience.
* StraightMan: While Xanatos clearly enjoys what he does, Owen's role is to calmly enforce his employer's will and carry out his plans.
* TakenForGranite: Has a stone arm after dipping it in the Cauldron of Life.
** [[PowerFist And he knows how to use it]].
* UndyingLoyalty: For David Xanatos. [[spoiler:Despite knowing they have ''zero chance'' repelling Oberon, he sticks around.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fox]]
!!Fox
--> '''Voiced by''': Laura San Giacomo
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[[caption-width-right:325:Oh, Daddy. You and your integrity. Asking for it wouldn't be any fun at all.]]
Xanatos's true love and equal. Formerly Janine Renard, she legally changed her name to Fox.
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* ActionMom: As she proved when Oberon tried to abduct Alex.
* AntagonisticOffspring: To her father, albeit in a FriendlyEnemy way.
* BilingualBonus: Anyone who knows French instantly makes the connection between father and daughter well before the official reveal.
* TheChessmaster: The events of "Upgrade" were basically one big chess game she was playing with her husband.
* CunningLikeAFox: [[MeaningfulName Duh]], even if Xanatos overshadows her.
* DarkActionGirl: She's a villainous badass.
* DeadpanSnarker
--> '''Hyena''': (''hitting cockroaches with a rubber band slingshot'') Why do you read that stuff?
--> '''Fox''': (''reading a book on Jean-Paul Sartre'') Because Nietzche's too butch and Kafka [[GeniusBonus reminds me of your little friends over there]].
* EvilRedhead: As befits her name.
* EyepatchOfPower: Not exactly an eyepatch, but that blue tattoo covering her right eye comes close enough.
* FieryRedhead: More determined than hot-tempered, however.
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Though she didn't know it herself until "The Gathering."]]
* HappilyMarried: To David.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: As she points out, Fox isn't a stage name, she legally changed her name to it.
* LadyMacbeth: Not that Xanatos wasn't ''already'' amoral, mind you...
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Inverted; her dad is a ''good'' scientist, but she betrayed him by falling for his villainous rival.
* MamaBear: Seen in full force in "The Gathering."
* MarryForLove: Despite initially believing her marriage to David to be a subversion.
* MayDecemberRomance: Fox is 11 years younger than David.
* MeaningfulName: As pointed out in CunningLikeAFox, it's a given, but her given name is also meaningful. "Renard" is the name given to the fox character in old French animal tales. There has been talk about the coincidence of Goliath having a nemesis named "David." When you consider that "Janine" is a feminine version of "Jonathon"...
* ReformedButNotTamed: She's no longer an enemy to the clan, but that doesn't make her one of the good guys.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: A rare villainous version.
* TattooedCrook: Her EyepatchOfPower is blue and resembles a ''fox''.
* {{Ubermensch}}: She even chose her own name, rather than keep the one her parents gave her.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Notable for a series where most characters [[LimitedWardrobe always wear the same clothes]], Fox wears quite a variety of different costumes, and almost doesn't really have a "default" outfit like other characters.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Pack]]
!!The Pack
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/ClancyBrown (Wolf), Creator/JimCummings (Dingo), Matt Frewer (Jackal), Creator/CreeSummer (Hyena), Creator/JonathanFrakes (Coyote)
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[[caption-width-right:325:Left to right: Coyote (2.0 version), Fox, the upgraded versions of Wolf, Hyena, Jackal, and Dingo.]]
A group of mercenaries-turned-TV stars organized and funded by Xanatos, though after their first encounter with the Manhattan Clan they were arrested and turned to crime for good when Xanatos broke them out of prison. The members are:
** '''Fox''': See above. Original team leader, but when the Pack broke out of prison she stayed behind to serve out her sentence. She ultimately got an early release for good behavior - just as Xanatos planned, of course.
** '''Wolf''': The biggest guy on the team and most likely to go straight to brute force. A descendant of Hakon, the viking that sacked Castle Wyvern.
** '''Dingo''': The tactical expert. He eventually got fed up with the Pack being reduced to common criminals, and found he missed being considered a hero like he was on TV; prompting him to leave the group as well. He eventually got picked up by the Redemption Squad (see below).
** '''Jackal''' and '''Hyena''': A brother/sister pair of twins, and probably the team's most depraved members; [[WordOfGod According to Weisman]] that Jackal's a sociopath while Hyena's a psychopath.
** '''Coyote''': A new member who engineered the prison breakout, replacing Fox as team leader. At first thought to be Xanatos, but was soon revealed to be a robot in his likeness. Tends to get [[TheyKilledKennyAgain thrashed and rebuilt by Xanatos every time it appears]], with the successive versions obviously not human. Four versions of Coyote appeared in the series, and a fifth in the comics.
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* ActuallyADoombot: The first Coyote.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Not in the series itself, but WordOfGod is that, by 2198, Coyote will have become autonomous and turned to conquest.
* AnimalThemeNaming: They all have canine names.
* ArmCannon: Coyote. Dingo with his PowerArmor. Hyena and Jackal with their cybernetics.
* AwesomeAussie: Dingo, natch.
* AxCrazy: Jackal and Hyena, and, to a lesser extent, Wolf.
* BadassBaritone: Wolf, being voiced by Creator/ClancyBrown.
* BadassCrew: They can do a decent job of keeping up with the gargoyles in a fight.
* BadassGrandpa: Wolf.
* BloodKnight: Again, Wolf. Dingo as well, to a lesser extent.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Jackal and Hyena. Even when the Pack split up to work solo, these two stayed as a team.
* BullyingADragon: You think Wolf would have some sense and not pick a fight with Coyote, after he just saw him ripping an iron gate with his hands? How about after Coyote zapped him with just one hand? [[TooDumbToLive Nope]].
* ChainSawGood: Coyote 5.0.
* CombatPragmatist: Dingo is the go-to guy for long-range weapons and explosives. The rest of the team are all hand-to-hand combat junkies.
* CrushKillDestroy: Though normally rather calm and competent, Coyote tends to do this.
* DarkActionGirl: Hyena
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: All of them get upgraded one way or another (except Fox, who was gone by then).
** {{Cyborg}}: Jackal and Hyena.
** HalfHumanHybrid / GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Wolf.
** PoweredArmor: Dingo. He eventually upgrades it ''again'' after his HeelFaceTurn, this time [[spoiler: merging with an AI-controlled nanobot swarm]].
* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: Fox, later Coyote
** TheDragon: Wolf, the most powerful after Fox/Coyote and the most likely to [[TheStarscream try and take over]] from the latter.
** EvilGenius: Dingo, the team's weapons and tactics expert (and also the one with the most common sense).
** TheBrute: Jackal
** DarkChick: Hyena
** TheManBehindTheMan: Xanatos, who is (usually) the ultimate string-puller, but never actually works with the team in the field.
* ForTheEvulz: Jackal, Hyena, and sometimes Wolf really fall into this one.
* GutturalGrowler: Dingo ([[Creator/JimCummings of course]]) and Wolf, especially after the latter's upgrade.
* HeelFaceTurn: Dingo, eventually. Fox's is more of a HazyFeelTurn, as she's ReformedButNotTamed.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In "The Thrill of the Hunt," although the game in question is gargoyles rather than humans. Wolf's motives in particular resemble those of [[TheMostDangerousGame General Zaroff]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Poor Coyote is often the victim of this. Two times by Goliath using a rail track/construction beam and once by Elisa with a spear.
* LaughingMad: Once Jackal become the avatar of Anubis.
* NoSell: Coyote 4.0 was built with iron from the Cauldron of Life, making it immune to magic.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Wolf, Jackal, and Hyena. Of the others, Coyote doesn't have any other name, Fox had hers legally changed, and Dingo started using his real name more after he left (it's [[spoiler: Harry Monmouth]], by the way).
* OnlySaneMan: Fox and Dingo, which is why the latter eventually quit (Fox basically just got a better offer). Notably, during or after Dingo's Heel Face Turn, his first job is for Fox.
* PrimaryColorChampion: The entire group has yellow, red, and blue as theme colors. Possibly justified as being TV costumes, but that doesn't explain keeping them even after their show ends.
* PsychoForHire: The core Pack covers the whole spectrum; Jackal and Hyena are clearly this; Dingo is a perfectly sane mercenary and Coyote is just doing what Xanatos programmed him to; Wolf is a vicious brute who falls somewhere in between.
* PunchClockVillain: Dingo, definitely; he's just there for the paycheck, and gets increasingly disgusted with his teammates' craziness. Coyote might also count, since he's just following his programming.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Although they eventually go their separate ways.
* {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}}: Coyote 1.0 looks exactly like Xanatos, but later versions are rebuilt as an obviously robotic being.
* {{Robosexual}}: Hyena has the hots for Coyote. ''After'' the reveal. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jackal]] considers this "[[{{Squick}} sicker than usual]]."
* RoboticReveal: Used with Coyote 1.0
* RobotMe: Coyote 1.0 to Xanatos.
* SavageWolf: Take a wild guess.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After their first encounter with the Gargoyles, Fox and Wolf end up in prison, then Jackal and Hyena try to take revenge on Xanatos, and they end up in prison as well. Dingo, however, decided to flee to Europe rather than get stuck with the rest of them. Dingo did return with Coyote 1.0 to break them out eventually. When they fought the Gargoyles with their upgrades, Dingo decided to bail after seeing them lose and having lost faith in his comrades because of how eager they were to give up their humanity and any pretense of being good guys. This time he severed ties permanently, though he did take a job from Fox.
* SixthRanger: Coyote
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: With Fox leaving the Pack, Hyena is the sole female of the group.
* TheSociopath: Jackal is this, per WordOfGod. His sister Hyena is a psychopath.
* TheStarscream: Wolf seems to work fine with Fox, but he clearly doesn't like Coyote and tries several times to take leadership of the Pack from him. It never works.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Coyote is smashed everytime he appears, but since he's a robot, he can be rebuilt.
* ThoseWilyCoyotes: Coyote, though Xanatos named him such as a reflection on ''his own'' Trickster nature; Coyote himself isn't particularly tricky.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Dingo. He's arguably the sanest of the bunch, and the only one who, given the chance, didn't mutilate or mutate himself when the Pack received their upgrades.
* TranshumanTreachery: Sort of, as the treacherous ones were the ones who chose transhumanism when offered; Dingo was uneasy with it and was the one to eventually have a HeelFaceTurn.
* TwoFaced: After half of Coyote 1.0's face was torn off in the RoboticReveal, further versions always included the split face somehow.
* WolverineClaws: Hyena and Jackal.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Anton Sevarius]]
!!Dr. Anton Sevarius
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/TimCurry
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[[caption-width-right:325:For science, which, as my associate Fang indicated, must move ever forward. Plus there's the money... and I do love the ''drama!'']]
A freelance geneticist specializing in creating mutates and clones - for ''evil!''
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* BadBadActing: Averted in his first appearance, but every other time he tries to fake something, it's almost painful how bad he is. And hilarious.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Though it was in the non-canon Goliath Chronicles, Sevarius seemed to genuinely care about the "Little Anton" genetic gargoyle monstrosity he had created out of the main gargoyles' DNA, and seemed honestly saddened by his death.
* TheEvilGenius: Professionally.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: The Mutates and Wolf's upgrade were his work.
* ForScience: "Plus there's the money...and I do love the ''drama!''"
* ForTheEvulz: Why he does what he does. In addition to science, the money, and, of course the ''drama''!
* KarmaHoudini: He has yet to receive any comeuppance for his crimes.
* LargeHam: Did you expect anything less from ''TimCurry''? In his first appearance, he intentionally played a stereotypical (and older) mad scientist as part of a ruse. He finds playing the role of a LargeHam to be fun.
* MadScientist: And he is damn proud of it.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: No morals at all, actually.
* PlayingWithSyringes: His job in a nutshell.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bruno]]
!!Bruno
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JeffBennett
Xanatos's chief of Security.
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* DiminishingVillainThreat: In his debut, he and the team had the still-adjusting gargoyles on their toes. In "Metamorphosis," he and another guard still proved powerful foes. Eventually, he's being slapped around by his boss' crazy and magically changed fiance, Tony Dracon, and easily subdued by Goliath in "Monsters."
* MauveShirt: Best evidenced in "Monsters" [[spoiler:where he is the only security guard not to drown]].
* MookLieutenant: Leads the security team, responsible from mundane tasks like guarding things, to corporate espionage.
* PutOnABus: Of all of the Xanatos staff, he is the least seen, and after the first season episodes, he disappears until "Monsters," and after that he doesn't appear again.
** He reappears in the comics, still in his old job.
[[/folder]]
!The Hunters
[[folder:In General]]
!!The Hunters in general:
A family of masked vigilantes who have hunted Demona over a millennium, attacking any other gargoyle that enters their sights as well.
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* ArchEnemy: Collectively, to Demona.
* BadassNormal: Every single one of them.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The original Hunter, Gillecomgain, devoted his life to kill Demona because she slashed his face. The next ones just did it because she didn't get along with Duncan and Canmore. After that, it became a cycle of YouKilledMyFather.
* TheDreaded: Those who know of the Hunters know to fear them.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Canmores became this with whole generations training for ''nothing'' but Demona's death. According to the ''Bad Guys'' comic SpinOff, some still are.
* FantasticRacism: Towards gargoyles. Gillecomgain because Demona disfigured him, Duncan because they were a threat to him, Canmore because he blamed Demona for his father's death, and the modern Hunters because they've really known nothing else all their lives.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Given that the modern Hunters have little but FantasticRacism as a motive, they're really [[NotSoDifferent just as bad]] as Demona.
* TheHunter: Duh.
* IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery: The Hunters of the past avert this trope by having fully visible eyes. The Hunters of Gargoyles' present (as exemplified by Robyn as shown in the picture under her entry) play this trope straight possibly implying some sort of device is built into their masks.
* KnightTemplar: To the point that they ''threaten to kill their own allies'' for simply questioning their mission. Not actively denouncing it, ''questioning'' it.
* LegacyCharacter: From Gillecomgain (although Constantine invented the iconic Hunter mask) to Duncan, to Canmore, and so on.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Although some of Canmore's descendants may be more misguided than evil.
* TheRealRemingtonSteele: The first time the Hunter was seen in modern day, it was [[spoiler: Macbeth in disguise.]]
* SecretIdentity: Hence the masks.
* VanHelsingHateCrime: Jason leads them to this when they learn of the existence of the Manhattan Clan, even going so far as to say "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything The only good gargoyle is a dead gargoyle]]."
* YouKilledMyFather: Most of the Hunters have had this as the reason for their grudge. Specifically, Gillecomgain's grudge against Findlaech, Malcolm Canmore's grudge against Macbeth, and Jason, Robyn, and Jon's grudge against Demona. Even Constantine is implied to hate gargoyles specifically because they killed his father.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gillecomgain]]
!!Gillecomgain
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/CamClarke (as a boy), Creator/JimCummings
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[[caption-width-right:325:Look closely creature, 'tis your handiwork, done when I was but a boy. ''Remember?'']]
The original Hunter. He began his vendetta against the gargoyle race in the 10th century when an unprovoked Demona slashed his face, leaving him permanently scarred.
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* BadassGrandpa: Even at fifty, he managed to hold his own against Demona and Macbeth.
* BastardUnderstudy: To King Constantine, as shown in the SLG comics.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: For Demona, her attack on the young Gillecomgain was an entirely unremarkable incident that she doesn't remember.
* ClarkKenting: Gillecomgain's face was slashed by Demona, leaving obvious scars. Those same kind of scars are on his mask, yet no one knew he was the Hunter until his death.
** Possibly justified by the fact that Constantine invented the symbol of the Hunter, so people may have associated the red-striped black mask (or face paint) with Constantine rather than Gillecomgain.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He kept trying to kill Demona, even when it would mean his own death.
* DirtyCoward: He uses Gruoch as a hostage when Macbeth takes the upper hand in their sword fight.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Which had it's share of [[KarmicDeath karma]] to it; he killed Macbeth's father, and tried to kill Macbeth and Demona, by thowing them from a building.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: To Duncan.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Started as a farmboy and became a ProfessionalKiller and famed gargoyle slayer.
* HarmfulToMinors: Getting slashed in the face and nearly killed as a child would have some serious mental side effects.
* HeroKiller: To Findlaech.
* GutturalGrowler: A given for any character played by Creator/JimCummings.
* InTheHood: When he kills Findlaech.
* KarmicDeath: He killed Macbeth's father by pushing him off of a castle wall; twelve years later, Demona and Macbeth kill him by pushing him off of that same castle wall.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The reason he betrays Duncan.
* PsychoForHire: In addition to his gargoyle hunting, Gillecomgain also served Duncan as an assassin.
* ScarsAreForever: Gillecomgain's scars remained quite visible from the night Demona struck him until his death some 40 years later.
* TheSociopath: As an adult, Gillecomgain was a heartless killer who treated his own wife like she was nothing, had no loyalty to his king, and had no problem tormenting Macbeth by using the woman he loved as a human shield.
* StandardHeroReward: Inverted, as he and Duncan are both villains. Nevertheless, Duncan did reward him with the stewardship of Clan Moray and later Gruoch's hand in marriage as a reward for assassinating Findlaech.
* TeensAreMonsters: He is shown as already being a violent, revenge-obsessed lunatic as a young man in the SLG comics.
* UnknownRival: Demona wasn't ''unaware'' of Gillecomgain, since he became a fairly major thorn in her side, but even after he is unmasked she has [[ButForMeItWasTuesday no idea why he's so fixated on killing her]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Until he ran into Demona.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Not a particularly sympathetic example, but it was Gillecomgain's suffering at Demona's hands that drove him to villainy.
* WouldHitAGirl: Obviously Demona, and he has no problem using Gruoch as a HumanShield.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King Duncan]]
!!King Duncan
--> '''Voiced by''': Neil Dickson
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[[caption-width-right:325:There will always be a Hunter, my son. And there will always be the hunted.]]
Macbeth's cousin and the King of Scotland during most of his life. The character here is depicted more closely to his historical counterpart than the character in [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Shakespeare's play]] and is decidedly less sympathetic. He is the actual forefather of the Hunters that came to follow.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: When Gillecomgain informed Duncan of Findlaech's death, this was Duncan's response.
** [[spoiler:Also after his death.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Of the Weird Sisters' magic.]]
* BeardOfEvil: As an older adult.
* DisneyVillainDeath: The writers consciously tried to avert this by having Macbeth defeat him by throwing a magic orb given to him by the Weird Sisters at him, but Duncan's electrocuted body then falls over a cliff anyway.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Ever paranoid that Macbeth would try to usurp his crown, Duncan could not believe that Macbeth was actually loyal to him. He is clearly surprised, for example, when Macbeth saves his life.
* EvilCounterpart: To Macbeth.
* TheEvilPrince: He had Findlaech killed so that Macbeth could never become king.
* {{Jerkass}}: He seemed to revel in making Macbeth's life miserable.
* UngratefulBastard: He lays siege to Macbeth's lands after hearing the Weird Sisters' prophecy that he would one day reign as kings despite the fact that Macbeth had just saved his life.
* XanatosGambit: By telling Macbeth that Gillecomgain murdered Finlaech, Duncan ensured one of two results: either Macbeth will kill Gillecomgain, eliminating the assaassin that Duncan can no longer control, or Gillcomgain will kill Macbeth, eliminating a potential threat to Duncan's claim to the throne.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He reveals Gillecomgain's identity as the Hunter to Macbeth after he becomes too hard to control, ensuring a fight to the death between the two.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Canmore]]
!!Canmore
--> '''Voiced by''': J.D. Daniels (as a boy), Neil Dickson
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[[caption-width-right:325:I am Canmore, son of Duncan. The true king of Scotland.]]
Duncan's son, better known as [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} Malcolm]]. He took up the mantle of the Hunter to avenge his father's death on Macbeth's hands and take back what he saw as his rightful place on the throne.
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* AffablyEvil: He does not harm Gruoch, Macbeth's wife, and treats her fairly courteously, claiming he has no quarrel with her.
* AntiVillain: Canmore seems to genuinely view Macbeth as TheUsurper and Demona as his monstrous [[TheDragon Dragon]] and himself as [[RightfulKingReturns the Rightful King Returning]].
* AvengingTheVillain: Canmore took up the Hunter's Mask to avenge Duncan. He's not happy when [[SpeakIllOfTheDead Macbeth says that his father was an evil man]].
* TheBadGuyWins: After Macbeth's departure, Canmore ultimately killed Luach and won the throne of Scotland.
* CombatPragmatist: When Canmore confronts Macbeth, they're about to duel. Demona then show up and Macbeth has a argument with her. Canmore take advantage of this and mortally strike Macbeth.
* HarmfulToMinors: Seeing your father explode and fall off of a cliff can really damage a child's mind.
* KarmaHoudini: As per history, he succeeds in overthrowing Macbeth and becomes king of Scotland shortly thereafter.
* LastNameBasis / OneSteveLimit: He is never referred to with his first name, Malcolm, to avoid confusion with the fictional Prince Malcolm who had earlier appeared in the series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jason Canmore]]
!!Jason Canmore
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/DiedrichBader, Scott Cleverdon (as a boy)
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[[caption-width-right:325:We all suffered from my stubbornness, but I've finally come to my senses.]]
The oldest of the modern-day Canmore siblings and the leader of the modern-day Hunters. Under the guise of policeman Jason Conover he has a brief romantic relationship with Elisa before his identiry as a Hunter is revealed. Though he is initially the most fierce and outspoken of the modern-day Hunters, [[spoiler:he comes to see the gargoyles as they really are at the conclusion of the "Hunter's Moon multiparter". Unfortunately, he is then accidentally shot by his brother Jon and left paralyzed from the waist down.]]
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* {{Badass}}: Enough of one to lead the modern-day Hunters.
* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Creator/DiedrichBader.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Torwards his two younger siblings and teammates.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder
* DatingCatwoman: A male villain example with Elisa.
* GeneralRipper: He hates gargoyles with a passion at the beginning of the "Hunter's Moon" arc, owing in no small part to Demona's murder of his father.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of the "Hunter's Moon" arc.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Has no problem with missiles being fired at a building full of innocent people. When Elisa enters it, he quickly rush to save her.
* TheLeader: Of the modern Hunters, at least until he comes to his senses and is crippled.
* RomanticFalseLead: To Elisa.
* SiblingTeam: With Robyn and Jon.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Very much so.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Robyn Canmore]]
!!!Robyn Canmore
--> '''Voiced by''': Sheena Easton
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[[caption-width-right:325:I have spent my life ''hunting'' gargoyles. Or rather, ''wasted'' my life hunting gargoyles.]]
The middle child of the modern-day Canmore siblings and Jason's second-in-command. After Jason's appearant death during the hunt, she comes to realize the pointlessness of the vendetta and eventually makes a full HeelFaceTurn. In the SLG comic spin-off ''Bad Guys'' she becomes the leader of the Redemption Squad (see bellow).
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* {{Badass}}: [[WordOfGod Greg Weisman]] has compared her to {{Franchise/Batman}}.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Dingo in the ''Bad Guys'' spin-off.
* BlondesAreEvil: At first.
* BoxedCrook: In the ''Bad Guys'' comic.
%%* GunsAkimbo
* TheEvilGenius: Comes across as this within her sibling team.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of the "Hunter's Moon" arc.]]
* TheLancer: To Jason while part of the Hunter group.
* TheLeader: Of the Redemption Squad.
* SexySecretary: Briefly acts like one for Dominique Destine in "Hunters Moon".
* SiblingTeam: With Jason and Jon.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jon Canmore/John Castaway]]
!!!Jon Canmore / John Castaway
--> '''Voiced by''': Scott Cleverdon, J. D. Daniels (as a boy), Creator/AlanCumming ("The Journey")
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[[caption-width-right:325:What have I done? What have I... what have ''they'' done! I will have my revenge, the hunt is not over!]]
The youngest of the modern-day Canmore siblings. Jon is initially by far the most reluctant and sympathetic to the gargoyles out of all the Hunters, but after being briefly convinced that Jason was murdered by Goliath he becomes convinced that the gargoyles must be destroyed, which only intensifies after he accidentally cripples the returned Jason and is unable to handle his guilt so he projects it on the gargoyles (the same way that Demona projects hers on humanity). He consequently adopts the identity of "John Castaway" and forms a new gargoyle-hunting organization called the Quarrymen.
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* AffablyEvil: He's quite a gentleman.
* AntiVillain: He starts out as extremely reluctant in his villainy and quite willing to give up his life as a Hunter.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Before witnessing his older brother's apparent death at Goliath's hands, he really was the nicest of the three Canmore siblings.
* BadassMustache: Sports one after adapting the moniker of Castaway.
* BigBad: In ''The Goliath Chronicles''.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Less so than his siblings. At first, anyway.
* DecompositeCharacter: The writers of the ''Goliath Chronicles'' largely treated John Castaway as a separate character from Jon Canmore and only made extremely vague connections between the two. By the time of "Angels in the Night" their motives and personalities come across as drastically different.
* EvilCounterpart: To be precise, an evil human counterpart to the already evil Demona.
* FantasticRacism: Like all the Hunters, but his is less extreme than Jason's at first. When he thinks that Goliath killed Jason, however, Jon becomes fanatically hateful of all gargoyles.
* GeneralRipper: As leader of the Quarrymen.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Just like Demona's.
* LanternJawOfJustice: He has one despite being a villain.
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God What Have I...]] [[SubvertedTrope What Have THEY Done?]]: Making him ironically similar to Demona.
* SiblingTeam: With Jason and Robyn.
* ThatManIsDead: He says something to this effect about his life as Jon Canmore when confronted by his sister in the comic.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He was until his total role reversal with Jason.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the comics, he takes great care to uphold the public persona of the Quarrymen as a necessary, benevolent protection force. In ''The Goliath Chronicles'', he couldn't care less, but somehow manages to be a well-regarded industrialist anyway.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Constantine III]]
!!Constantine III
--> '''Voiced by''': Ian Buchanan
A historical king of Scotland, portrayed here as an usurper to the throne and a cunning manipulator. He was the catalyst to Princess Katharine, the Magus and Tom fleeing to Avalon with the Wyvern gargoyle eggs. The comic continuation shows him forming a twisted sort of father-son relationship with young Gillecomgain and designing the emblem of the Hunters.
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: He tries to force Princess Katharine into marriage, prompting her to flee to the island of Avalon.
* BaldOfEvil: After shaving his head in "Tyrants." This was done to mimic history, as the real Constantine was known as "Constantine the Bald."
* ManipulativeBastard: He dupes Finella, the woman who loves him, into luring King Kenneth to his demise under the pretense of wanting to tell him of their intentions to marry in private.
* PredecessorVillain: To the Hunters, in that he tutored Gillecomgain in gargoyle-shattering and appears to have designed to Hunter emblem to be used as war paint.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: "As we understand it, the king makes the rules."
* ShootTheMessenger: He orders a messenger from the Grim's army killed in the comic despite the rules of war.
* TheUsurper: He murdered King Kenneth and stole his crown.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Quarryemen]]
!!The Quarrymen
A KKK-esque group of gargoyle hunters formed by John Castaway.
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* CardCarryingVillain: In ''The Goliath Chronicles'', the Quarrymen couldn't care less about public safety and were also apparently aware that the gargoyles were trying to protect people, which is odd given that when Castaway recruits them in the first episode, they are just normal, concerned citizens who genuinely believe the gargoyles are a menace to society.
* DropTheHammer: Their weapon of choice is a big-ass, electrified sledgehammer that can shatter a [[TakenForGranite sleeping]] gargoyle in one hit, and badly injure a live one.
* FacelessGoons: Much like the Ku Klux Klan.
* FantasticRacism: Against gargoyles.
* {{Mooks}}: For Castaway.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Very much so in ''The Goliath Chronicles''.
[[/folder]]
!The Illuminati
[[folder:In General]]
!!The Illuminati as a whole
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The Illuminati are an ancient secret society said to secretly rule and manipulate the world. Initially, the Illuminati are treated as just one of Matt Bluestone's many crackpot conspiracy theories, but as the series progresses, they [[RealAfterAll turn out to be]] [[AllMythsAreTrue quite real]]. Some of the central antagonists of the series are members, including Xanatos, who is a ''lower''-echelon member. Ponder that.
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* AncientConspiracy: Going back to Arthurian times.
* BiggerBad: The Illuminati Society as a whole; a group of [[TheChessmaster chessmasters]] so skilled and influential that Xanatos is at the bottom of their hierarchy, but they're only directly involved in one episode and indirectly in a handful of others. The comic continuation indicates that they would have ended up in a more central role had the series continued.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Reinforced in the comic, where Martin Hacker gives three Illuminati operatives three contradictory statements on what the Illuminati wish to do with the gargoyles.
* YouAreNumberSix: Illuminati must identify themselves to each other by rank, which each tier having an amount of members of the same number (one One, two Twos, etc.); the lowest rank is Thirty-Six. Xanatos, Thailog, Matt Bluestone and John Castaway are all Thirty-Sixes. Peredur fab Ragnal, the Fisher King, is One. That gives them [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]] members all in all, a fact not gone unnoticed by the fans.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Peredur fab Ragnal]]
!!!Peredur fab Ragnal
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[[caption-width-right:229:Everything we planned... I must contact the upper echelons immediately!]]
The leader of the Illuminati, and presumably the same person as Sir Percival, a knight of King Arthur's round table. He resides in Castle Carbonek and appears to maintain immortality with the use of the Holy Grail.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: He apparently founded the Illuminati to "make things right", the implications of which, along with Peredur's own motives, remain unknown.
* [[BlondGuysAreEvil Blond Guys are Morally Ambiguous]]: The Illuminati's hands are definitely not clean, and Peredur's the head of the organisation.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Weisman's mental voice actor for Peredur is Jude Law.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, we don't know enough about him to properly classify him as "evil", but he's the head of a society that's morally dubious at best, and claims to love both Duval and Blanchefleur.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He has only made a very brief appearance in the SLG comic, but if Matt's theories about the Illuminati hold any ground he has to be one of the most powerful people in the Gargoyles universe.
* PrettyBoy: Quite the looker, to be sure.
* Really700YearsOld: If he is Sir Percival, he's be nearly as old as Arthur himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Duval]]
!!Duval
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[[caption-width-right:169:Finally... Two!]]
One of the two Twos of the society. He resides in Castle Carbonek alongside Peredur and appears to have a bad relationship with Blanchefleur.
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* [[BaldOfEvil Bald of Ambiguous Evil]]: Whether he's evil or not is up for grabs, but he's certainly bald.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: While writing the comic, Weisman imagined Duval's voice to be that of Eddie Marsan.
* {{Cyborg}}: He curiously has a lot of cybernetic implants. The reasons have yet to be explained.
* TheDragon: Apparently.
* SicklyGreenGlow: His cybernetics emit it.
* TheUnseen: Until "Rock of Ages."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Blanchefleur]]
!!!Blanchefleur
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[[caption-width-right:215:Bugger off!]]
One of the three Threes in the Illuminati society, and Peredur's wife. She resides with him in Castle Carbonek and appears to have a bad relationship with Duval.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: While writing the comic, Weisman imagined Fleur's voice actor to be Rhona Mitra.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blond and apparently good-hearted.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the planned spin-off "Pendragon", Fleur would have joined up with Arthur and Griff in their search for Merlin.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Seemingly.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shari]]
!!Shari
[[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shari2_7656.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:325:The story is told -- though who can say if it be true...]]
Introduced in the comic continuation, Shari is a mysterious girl with a high standing in the Illuminati (one of the nine Nines), who first appears in the Labyrinth, pretending to be one of the homeless who live there. When Thailog attacks, she volunteers to go warn Goliath, but never does. She currently aids Thailog as his assistant. Strongly implied to be [[Literature/ArabianNights Scheherazade]].
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: By looking at her, though WordOfGod defines her as Arabic.
* CatchPhrase: "The story is told--though who can say if it be true..."
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Modeled after actress Zehra Fazal, who once portrayed Shari in a radio play at a fan convention.
* PerkyGoth: Quite upbeat and friendly.
* ShadowArchetype: She and Thailog are one of the Elisa/Goliath relationship, as well as of Owen and Xanatos.
* TheStoryteller: She tells Thailog a story every night just before he turns to stone.
* UnreliableNarrator: By her own admission; after all, "who can say if it be true"?
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mace Malone]]
!!Mace Malone
--> '''Voiced by''': Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
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[[caption-width-right:325:You should see the dental plan.]]
A New York gangster who has been kept alive beyond his normal lifespan by the Illuminati's life-rejuvenating drugs. He was one of the Illuminati's main links to the underworld. He was ranked "somewhere in the high twenties."
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* AffablyEvil: He's pretty friendly to Matt, and acts polite towards Goliath as well.
* EvilOldFolks: Evil, and quite old.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He wound up lost in the Hotel Cabal after trying to drive Goliath insane there.
* SanitySlippage: It doesn't take long for the Hotel to get to him.
* SignedUpForTheDental: He jokingly suggests as much in his conversation with Matt Bluestone.
* YouHaveFailedMe / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Illuminati leave him to starve to death stranded in the Hotel Cabal after he lets Goliath escape his grasp.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Martin Hacker]]
!!Martin Hacker
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/MichaelBell
An FBI agent and Matt Bluestone's former partner. During Matt's FBI days, Hacker made sure he would stick to wild goose chases in his quest to expose the Illuminati. Later on he becomes the one to induct Matt into the Illuminati and the FBI liaison for the Gargoyle Taskforce. One of the 32 Thirty-Twos.
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* AffablyEvil: He's nice enough to Matt.
* BigBadFriend / FalseFriend: He was either of these to Matt, though it's unclear whether he truly considers Matt a friend. At the very least, it's implied that Hacker got Matt expelled from the FBI, so there's that.
* FBIAgent: And a mole there as well.
* TheMole: The Illuminati's man in the FBI.
* SmugSmiler: He keeps a smug smirk on his face while revealing his duplicity to Matt.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Falstaff/John Oldcastle]]
!!Falstaff / John Oldcastle
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[[caption-width-right:325:When you've got the world's biggest hen-house...who else could possibly guard it...? Except an old fat fox!]]
The Illuminati's treasurer and the self-styled "King of Thieves." He was Dingo's mentor and father figure while growing up, after the unfortunate passing of Dingo's mother. [[spoiler:Her death at Falstaff's hands, that is.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Lovingly raising a child and teaching him how much fun a life of crime can be [[spoiler:minutes after secretly murdering that child's mother]]? You don't get much more AffablyEvil than that.
* BigEater: Just look at the size of him!
* BoisterousBruiser: Fun-loving, that's for sure.
* {{Expy}}: [[Theatre/HenryIV Weisman does so love his Shakespeare references...]] Falstaff is somewhat unique within the ''Gargoyles'' universe in that he and his band appear to have modeled themselves on Shakespeare's characters rather than being Shakespeare's in-universe inspirations for creating these characters like Oberon, Macbeth and the Weird Sisters.
* EvilMentor: To Dingo.
* TheFagin: He took Dingo under his wing as a child and raised him to be a criminal.
* FatBastard: Though he does an admirable job of acting like a BigFun.
* ALadyOnEachArm: He's introduced in the embrace of Mistresses Doll and Quickly, two members of his gang.
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!Others
[[folder:Hakon]]
!!Hakon
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/ClancyBrown
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hakon_5383.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:325:Don't leave me here alone! Not without anyone to hate!!!]]
TheLeader of the vikings who destroyed the Wyvern clan. [[spoiler:He is Wolf's ancestor.]]
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* AnAxeToGrind: Hakon binded his soul to an axe to escape the cave he was trapped in.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: He's actually a literal version of this when his spirit is sealed inside of an ax that his descendant Wolf eventually finds.]]
* BeardOfEvil: Shaggy and blond.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Well, he is a Viking.
* BloodKnight: He didn't balk at the idea of fighting the gargoyles.
* CarryABigStick: The weapon he used to shatter the Gargoyles.
* DirtyCoward: When confronted by Goliath, Hakon tried to blame the Captain for the Wyvern massacre.
* DisneyVillainDeath: While Hakon struggled with the Captain, they both wound up falling over a cliff to their deaths.
* EvilSoundsDeep: A given for any villain played by Creator/ClancyBrown.
* FateWorseThanDeath: After his DisneyDeath, he was stuck in the castle he raided for over a thousand years with nothing to do but wallow in his own hate.
* [[HornyVikings Horny Viking]]: Mercifully, he and the other vikings don't wear horned helmets, but they still fit the trope.
* KillEmAll: His massacre of the Gargoyle clan in ancient Scotland.
* NeverLearnedToRead: And proud of it!
* SpannerInTheWorks: For the Captain's and Demona's plan, leading to the Wyvern Massacre.
* StarterVillain: The first villain in the series, and arguably the man who set the whole thing off.
* TokenMotivationalNemesis: His massacre of the Wyvern clan played a major role in forming the surviving gargoyles' personalities.
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[[folder:Tony Dracon]]
!!Tony Dracon
--> '''Voiced by''': Richard Grieco
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Dracon_9726.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:325:We have a deal. My word as a Dracon.]]
A crime boss constantly harassed by the gargoyles.
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* ArchEnemy: To Elisa, though he's not a serious threat to the gargoyles themselves. Unless he's got high-tech weaponry.
* ArmsDealer: His business, at least in "Deadly Force".
* BigBadWannabe: In a lot of superhero stories, a mob boss as powerful as Dracon would be bad news, but here he's thoroughly outclassed by both the gargoyles themselves and most of the other villains.
* LockedIntoStrangeness / SkunkStripe: After his initial encounter with the gargoyles.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: He continues his work as a crime boss from within his prison in "Turf."
* SmugSnake: He is ''way'' out of his league when it comes to dealing with the gargoyles.
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[[folder:The Archmage]]
!!The Archmage
--> '''Voiced by''': Creator/DavidWarner
[[quoteright:325:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/EnhancedArchmage_2073.JPG]]
[[caption-width-right:325:All my lovely magic...]]
An evil wizard seeking ultimate power, defeated by Hudson and Goliath a thousand years ago, but later comes back with a vengeance.
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* AscendedExtra: The Archmage was originally as just a one-shot villain for "Long Way to Morning." Creator/GregWeisman didn't think there was that much to the character...until David Warner recorded his lines. Based on Warner's performance, Weisman saw potential to bring the Archmage back and as a greater threat.
* BaldOfEvil: Bald, and evil, of course.
* BeardOfEvil: Quite a long one, at that.
* CardCarryingVillain: A stereotypical evil sorcerer, and he seems to ''really'' get a kick out of it.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His real name is unknown. Even WordOfGod isn't telling.
* EvilLaugh
* EvilMentor: To the Magus, and to Demona in her youth. WordOfGod is that it was he who first gave her a taste for power, though she'd ''never'' admit it. His cruelty towards her can't have improved her attitude about humans, etiher...
* EvilOldFolks: An old man with aspirations of tyranny and ultimate power.
* EvilSorcerer: For him, it's practically a lifestyle.
** TheArchmage: [[CaptainObvious Well, duh]].
* FutureMeScaresMe / [[OtherMeAnnoysMe Past Me Annoys Me]]: Humorously, technically it's literally also [[spoiler: TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture]], too.
* GenericDoomsDayVillain: To be expected since he was originally planned as a one-shot villain with nothing to flesh him out. He wants power, considered taking over Scotland, and then decides to TakeOverTheWorld, and didn't even seem to have a plan as to what he would do with after that.
* AGodAmI: After he gets the Grimorum, the Phoenix Gate, and the Eye of Odin, he goes on this big power trip.
* LargeHam: Quite possibly his most defining trait since it kept him from becoming a one-shot villain.
* LoopholeAbuse: By literally ''eating'' the Grimorum, Archmage made its power a part of himself, allowing him to take outside magic into Avalon.
* MotiveDecay: A fairly minor example, but when first introduced the Archmage seems mostly interested in getting revenge on Prince Malcolm and doesn't appear to regard Goliath as much more than a pawn. During the Avalon arc Goliath has suddenly become the main target of his vengeance and he never mentions Malcolm (or for that matter Hudson, the actual leader of the gargoyles as far as he knew) although from his point of view it hasn't been very long since that vendetta took up most of his time.
** Justified considering that Goliath was the one who took the Grimorum from him, and thus ended his plan to kill Prince Malcolm, along with the fact that Goliath dodging his final attack caused him to fall in the cliff nearly killing him.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Due to being saved by his future self.
* PhysicalGod: Graduates to one after absorbing the magic of the Grimorum and wielding the Eye of Odin, which seemed to make him more powerful than the Weird Sisters. [[spoiler: When he loses the Eye, [[PowerIncontinence on the]] [[KarmicDeath other hand]]...]]
* SmugSnake: Incredibly arrogant, and he's not all talk, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is.
* StableTimeLoop: How he cheats death; the future him saved the past him who would then go on to save him and then....
* TakeOverTheWorld: Initially, he didn't even know what to do with his newfound powers and set his sights on Scotland, until his future-self told him of [[TakeOverTheWorld the big picture]].
* TookALevelInBadass: He goes from being a one-shot villain appearing in a flashback who is easily defeated by Goliath to a much more powerful force to be reckoned with.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:WordOfGod states that the Weird Sisters pretended to be TheDragon for him, when he was in fact theirs.]]
* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: This occurs in "Avalon" during his big fight with Goliath, who is very outclassed:
-->'''Archmage''': I could destroy you with a word.
-->'''Goliath''': [[GetItOverWith Then why don't you]]?
-->'''Archmage''': Because I'm having too much fun!
** Even more glaring: he could have killed the gargoyles during daytime in their own lair in NY. He could have travel in time and learn all of his enemies' secrets and weaknesses. Instead, he give our heroes some time to prepare themselves and then got his ass kicked.
*** Justified in that he was wearing the [[AmplifierArtifact Eye of Odin]], which, in addition to granting tremendous power, also makes the wearer "[[UpToEleven more like him/herself]]." The Archmage was ''already'' a petty, egomaniacal wizard obsessed with vengeance against all who slighted him...
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