History Characters / GargoylesAntagonists

** For his actions against Cyberbiotics in ''Awakening'' he gets a measly six month prison term for receiving stolen property. WordOfGod is that he was originally held on multiple felony charges such as Industrial Espionage and Grand Larceny but since Eliza wanted to keep the Gargoyles' existence a secret he was able to plead down to a lesser charge.

* MamaBear: Seen in full force in "The Gathering." She was all and willing to kill Oberon when he attempted to take Alex. She even gave this line:
-->'''Fox:''' ''Over. My. Dead. Body.''

* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:With Fox. He's a human and she turns out to be part magic on her mother's side.]]

* MamaBear: Seen in full force in "The Gathering."

* GunsAkimbo: Makes use of two handguns in the ''Bad Guys'' comic.

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* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]], while he was developing toward his HeelFaceTurn.

One of the four Mutates transformed by Dr. Sevarius, and the only one to prefer his new transformed state. At first he's just TheLancer to Talon, but the events of "Kingdom" pit him directly against his former leader.

** EvenEvilHasStandards: Even ''she'' regretted doing that afterwards.

* NotSoDifferent: Demona and John Castaway.

* [[spoiler: TokenEvilTeammate]]: In proposed spin-off TimeDancer.

* [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu Did You Just Scam Xanatos?]]: In "Double Jeopardy". He plays Demona like a harp in "Sanctuary" and "The Reckoning", as well.

* 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 trustworthy, but nonetheless trust him enough not to smash them during the day.

* NothingPersonal: "You really ''are'' taking this much too personally, you know."

* 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 becoming good guys and true allies of the gargoyles.

* BiTheWay: At [=CONvergence=] 2014, [[WordOfGod Greg Weisman]] states that Fox is bisexual.

* FootPopping: Believe it or not, she done so while kissing Macbeth in human form.

* CryForTheDevil: Such moments are few and far between, but on rare occasions it's shown that Demona is a miserable prisoner of her own insanity.
--> '''Demona:''' The access code is... ''"alone."''

* KarmaHoudini: He has yet to receive any comeuppance for his crimes.

* DarwinistDesire: When he proposed to Fox, he pitched the union in these terms. Then when he realized that, no, he truly loves her.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He won't kill the Gargoyles during the day despite, albeit because it would be a waste of potential resources. He generally takes threats against his city with the same seriousness Goliath does.

** For his actions against Cyberbiotics in ''Awakening'' he gets a measly six month prison term for receiving stolen property. WordOfGod is that he was orignally held on multiple felony charges such as Industrial Espionage and Grand Larceny but since Eliza wanted to keep the Gargoyles' existence a secret he was able to plead down to a lesser charge.

* 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]]...)

* 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.

** 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.

* 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.

* VillainousValor: Xanatos doesn't scare easily, but even if he does, he doesn't quit, even the odds are against.

* 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....

* CulturedBadass: Alongside being a wily and determined figure (and worthy mate for Xanatos thereby), Fox is also well-read: She likes the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, but considers Nietzsche too "butch" for her tastes, and Kafka reminds her too much of the cockroaches that Hyena liked shooting rubber bands at in their prison cell.

* EyepatchOfPower: Not exactly an eyepatch, but that blue tattoo covering her right eye comes close enough.

* ItAmusedMe: The reason why she tried to take over her father's company by corperate sabotage, even though he would've given it to her if she asked him to - she thought it be more fun.

* {{Badass}}: In powered armor, he's a match for Goliath.

* 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.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She came close to this [[IgnoredEpiphany but then dismissed it.]]

** 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.

* 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.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone[=/=]IgnoredEpiphany: She came close to the former but then dismissed it.

* MeaningfulName[=/=]ThemeNaming: [[Literature/{{The Bible}} His first name is David, and he initially fights against a bigger enemy named Goliath.]]

* LadyInRed: As Dominique Destine.

* 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.

* XanatosGambit: [[TropeNamer Namesake]] of this and its spin-off trope, XanatosSpeedChess.

* 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.

* 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.

* [[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.

* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Women Love Their Daughters]]: She already hated humans, but hurting her daughter Angela will cause her to erupt with rage.

* TheUnfettered: ''Nothing'' is sacred for Demona, and no-one, with the possible exception of Angela, is not expendable in her quest to eradicate humanity.