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| 9 | [[center:[-[[Characters/{{Gargoyles}} Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/GargoylesTheManhattanClan The Manhattan Clan]] | [[Characters/GargoylesAllies Allies]] | [[Characters/GargoylesEnemyGargoyles Enemy Gargoyles]] | '''Antagonists''' | [[Characters/GargoylesOthers Others]]]]-] |
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| 13 | !Xanatos Enterprises |
| 14 | [[folder:David Xanatos]] |
| 15 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/JonathanFrakes |
| 16 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Nino Prester |
| 17 | -->'''Voiced by (MEX):''' Creator/OctavioRojas |
| 18 | -->'''Voiced by (POR):''' Creator/MarcioSimoes |
| 19 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/david_xanatos_3_4.png]] |
| 20 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into Hell."'']] |
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| 22 | 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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| 24 | * TheAce: He's handsome, charismatic, brilliant, and multi-talented. |
| 25 | * ActionDad: As he proved when Oberon tried to abduct Alex. |
| 26 | * AffablyEvil: Impeccably polite even 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. |
| 27 | * AlmightyJanitor: Inverted in his case. Xanatos is the richest man in the world and yet, he's just ranked number 36 in the Illuminati, 36 being the lowest rank possible in the organisation. |
| 28 | * AmazonChaser: For Fox. You can see them sparring. |
| 29 | * AntiHero: 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 his PetTheDog relationship with his family becomes much more pronounced. |
| 30 | * AntiVillain: Even prior to his HazyFeelTurn, Xanatos still had his own admittedly idiosyncratic moral code. He's ruthless and capable of great cruelty, but he'll always repay his debts and is willing to work with the Manhattan Clan when a mutual threat arrives. |
| 31 | * ArchEnemy: To Goliath initially, and others because he kinda-sorta stole their home and woke them up only to manipulate and betray them. |
| 32 | * BadassBookworm: This CEO is no pencil pusher. He designed power armor to fight Goliath on an even footing. |
| 33 | * BadassNormal: He can hold his own with Goliath and even ''[[PhysicalGod Oberon]]'' with his own gadgets and know-how. |
| 34 | * 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 was named for him, and it is because he ''always'' wins, for a certain degree of "winning". |
| 35 | * BeardOfEvil: The classic "bad guy" goatee. |
| 36 | * BerserkButton: |
| 37 | ** Quite subtle, but Hudson's needling him about his terror of growing old pushes key places. |
| 38 | --->'''Hudson:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Growing old terrifies you, doesn't it?]]\ |
| 39 | '''Xanatos:''' ''[[BlatantLies Nothing]]'' [[BlatantLies terrifies me]], [[BadassBoast because nothing is beyond my ability to change]]. |
| 40 | ** Befitting his prideful demeanor, he also hates being patronized; when Owen beats him in a sparring match at one point, he's annoyed, but threatens that he would fire Owen if he ever pretended to lose. |
| 41 | * BigBadDuumvirate: In the first half of the series, he's this with Demona when he's the most recurring, most intelligent, and most dangerous villain. Eventually, the two do split up and [[spoiler:by the end, while he doesn't quite make a HeelFaceTurn, he is edging more into dark AntiHero territory.]] |
| 42 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With Fox. David says this when asking for Fox's hand in marriage. |
| 43 | -->'''Xanatos:''' We're genetically compatible, highly intelligent, and have the same goals. It makes perfect sense to get married. |
| 44 | * BoringButPractical: [[spoiler:Puck once revealed himself to him and offered a choice: one wish from himself, the nigh-omnipotent fey, or a lifetime of loyal service from his powerless human guise, Owen. Xanatos chose Owen. Wishes are nice, but good help is hard to find. Or, on the other hand, he might have just [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor been aware of what he'd been getting into with the former]]. Knowing Xanatos, it's probably both.]] |
| 45 | * BrainyBrunette: He's a highly intelligent brunette scientist and businessman. |
| 46 | * 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.]] |
| 47 | * TheChessmaster: The pilot, especially. He moves the heroes like they were pieces until the end. |
| 48 | * ComplexityAddiction: The guy's a brilliant schemer and the defining master of the XanatosGambit. And he knows it, which means that he often engages in complicated schemes when something straightforward would do the job better. This notably comes back to bite him during "The Gathering" two parter, for despite all his scheming and planning, he literally has no allies to rely on during his darkest hour. This also backfires on him in "Double Jeopardy", when Sevarius admits to following all of "Xanatos'" (really Thailog's) commands to the letter, thinking it was part of one of his usual complex schemes and didn't request clarification. |
| 49 | * ConsummateLiar: Part of why the Gargoyles never completely trust him, it can be very hard to tell when he's lying and when he's telling the truth. |
| 50 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: When Lexington remarks on his "usual shady deals", he replies that "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. |
| 51 | * DarkIsEvil: David's main attire is of black clothing and he's one of the main antagonists against the Manhattan Clan. |
| 52 | * DarwinistDesire: When he proposed to Fox, he pitched the union in these terms. Though later he realized that, no, he truly loves her. |
| 53 | * DavidVsGoliath: Inverted. David is the small human who combats Goliath, the massive gargoyle, with his vast intellect and resources, but Xanatos is the villain. Their names even match. |
| 54 | * DeadpanSnarker: He has a very dry, sharp wit. |
| 55 | * {{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.]] |
| 56 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Creating a clone of Goliath and programming said clone to follow his own amoral view of the world, and to be as intelligent as him, is one of those rare times that Xanatos failed to fully consider the possible downfalls of his plans; the result, Thailog, is one of the few things that legitimately ''scares'' Xanatos. |
| 57 | * DontYouDarePityMe: When his martial arts sparring session with Owen leads to his first defeat against him, he vehemently told Owen he'd fire him on the spot if he so much as lets him win. He can take a loss if his opponent earns it, but if he's handed a win, he won't stand for it. |
| 58 | * EnemyMine: Xanatos had a habit of working with the Manhattan Clan, "City of Stone" being the first and most notable example. |
| 59 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Per WordOfGod her passing served as a huge factor in not only David's strained relationship with his father but also his fear of death. As for his father, Petros, while their relationship has become rather tenuous, David does genuinely care about him, the elder Xanatos being one of the few people whose opinion actually matters to him. |
| 60 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He legitimately cares for his assistant Owen, his wife Fox, and his son Alexander. While the latter two end up triggering a measured amount of redemption in him, even before that, he is very devoted to protecting the people closest to him. As noted above, he also genuinely loves both of his parents. |
| 61 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 62 | ** He generally takes threats against his city with the same seriousness Goliath does. He's much more likely to object to something on moral grounds than, say, Thailog or even the Weird Sisters. |
| 63 | ** Speaking of Thailog, even Xanatos was horrified that he played a hand in his creation, considering what a monster he turns out to be. Keep in mind, he had no regrets about turning Derek Maza into Talon, modifying the Pack into actual monsters (especially in Wolf's case), or creating Coldstone. For Thailog to be the one thing he regrets the most, that's saying a lot. |
| 64 | ** In "Future Tense", Goliath recognizes from the outset that "the real Xanatos at his worst" would not do the things he's seeing from the supposed future Xanatos. |
| 65 | ** If you go above and beyond to help his son, he will recognize that effort and pay you his gratitude in full. It's what leads him to allying himself with the Gargoyles at the end of Season 2. |
| 66 | ** While it may not have ''always'' been one of his standards, following the experience of almost having his son taken away he will ''not'' engage in any scheme that would separate a child from their parents. |
| 67 | ** When Fox wants to perform a hostile takeover of Halycon Renard's company, Xanatos expresses his concerns that [[spoiler: her father]]] is not a young man and will have his finances totally wiped out. |
| 68 | ** While ''Metamorphosis'' established he had no reservations about creating the Mutates, it also established a subtle distaste for Dr. Sevarius and his overacting. He notably has no problem making an example of Sevarius when he thinks he's betrayed him and states very plainly that he's only saving him from Talon because his brilliant, if unethical and monstrous ideas were well worth preserving. |
| 69 | * EvilGenius: He personally built (most of) the technology his billion dollar company sells, and stole the rest from a rival company. |
| 70 | * EvilPlan: He generally has two goals in mind; create supersoldier guards for his home (the gargoyles, the Steel Clan, the mutates etc.) and become immortal. His means are typically manipulation, theft, kidnapping, and attempted murder. |
| 71 | * EvilVirtues: Ambition, Hard Work, [[spoiler:Love]], Patience, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Determination, Loyalty, Honor. (Yeah, for being a villain, he has a lot of these.) |
| 72 | * {{Expy}}: [[WordOfGod According to Greg Weisman]], he is one to [[Characters/CaptainAtom Wade Eiling]] from [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Captain Atom]] a comics he worked on prior to creating Gargoyles. Like Xanatos, Eiling is another manipulative bastard who uses the hero in his schemes and shares the same dose of villainous valour. Weisman even uses the adjective "Eiling-esque" to describe Xanatos (see [[https://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=3381 here]]).[[invoked]] |
| 73 | * FakeAssassination: Stages an assassination attempt on himself in the episode "Her Brother's Keeper". For added effect, the assassins weren't actually told that the assassination had to be fake. |
| 74 | * FascinatingEyebrow: A frequent expression of his regarding the development of his plans or the moves of his enemies/pawns. |
| 75 | * FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. Though successful, he can be stubborn and loathes to ask for help in personal affairs which gets him in trouble when he chooses to mess with forces he cannot handle himself. He also takes great pride in his plans and is adamant to follow them through even when it would be better to listen to someone else's ideas. |
| 76 | * Fiction500: 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. |
| 77 | * 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 pure evil, so that's worth something). In the comic continuation, Goliath and Brooklyn remark that they're still wary of Xanatos, but nonetheless trust him enough to know he won't try to smash them during the day. |
| 78 | * GambitRoulette: The former [[TropeNamers trope namer]]. 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. |
| 79 | * GoneHorriblyRight: The creation of Thailog is a classic example. Xanatos wanted an ally as strong as Goliath, but with [[PragmaticVillainy his own "morality"]]. It doesn't take long for Thailog to decide he'd rather be running the show himself. The ending scene of "Double Jeopardy" sums it up quite well: |
| 80 | -->'''Owen:''' You mean that creature is still out there; it has the money, it's as powerful as Goliath... and it's smarter than you?\ |
| 81 | '''Xanatos:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Owen, I think I created a monster.]] |
| 82 | * GoodParents: He turns out to be a surprisingly good father to his son, Alex, even ignoring a call from the Illuminati, knowing it's not a wise thing to do. It helped by the fact that he almost lost him to Oberon in "The Gathering" two-part episode. Now he is trying to make every moment count. |
| 83 | * GorgeousGreek: He's the son of a Greek immigrant, and both handsome and suave in equal measure. |
| 84 | * GracefulLoser: Xanatos always takes losses well and considers revenge beneath him. This may be because he's enough of a [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] 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]]. In a lesser example, he has no issue when Owen defeats him in a sparring match, and when Owen asks if he should pretend to lose, Xanatos informs him that if he did, he would ''fire'' him. |
| 85 | * HappilyMarried: To Fox. After their marriage we see them playing chess as foreplay, raising their son, Alex, and other such domestic bliss that one forgets they are both villains. Fox only married him because she was in love with him, and he demonstrated his love for her in a undeniable fashion; begging his worst enemy and giving up a priceless magic artifact in return for help saving her. |
| 86 | * HazyFeelTurn: David never fully stops being an antagonist, but he does become a more moral AntiHero who has plenty of PetTheDog moments. David fully drops his antagonism towards Goliath and the Manhattan clan after the two-parter [[Recap/GargoylesS2TheGathering "The Gathering"]]. In it, Goliath ends up saving his son from being kidnapped by Oberon, and David promises to [[IOweYouMyLife do right by the Clan]] from that point forward. |
| 87 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: He has made thorough and effective use throughout the series of elaborate false flag operations to deceive people into thinking he's on their side. And while these nearly always work, they come with a massive downside that on one occasion Thailog exploits: the people used to working with him will follow ''any'' instructions they think are from Xanatos, no matter ''how'' ridiculous or seemingly against Xanatos's own interests they are, because they're so used to such things being part of a larger plan they can't fully comprehend. As such, when Thailog sends Sevarius an email pretending to be Xanatos giving him instructions to steal his statue from Xanatos, Sevarius just ''does it''. |
| 88 | %%* HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: In "The Edge". |
| 89 | * HumiliationConga: Suffers this ''hard'' during "The Gathering" two parter. Despite a lifetime of scheming, plotting, backstabbing and amasing a power base that makes him more powerful than most ''countries,'' there is nothing he can do to prevent Oberon- king of the third race- from taking his child. None of his specially created soldiers are there to aid him, and none of his technology is a match for Oberon's might. Notably, after Goliath- arguably Xanatos' greatest enemy at that point- convinces Oberon to spare his son, he eats a large piece of HumblePie and tells Goliath he owes him a debt he can never repay. Xanatos even looks suitably taken aback when Goliath rejects his statement of gratitude, seemingly finally realizing the full consequences of his actions for the first time ever. |
| 90 | * ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: He admits this outright during his chess game with his new bride, Fox. Since she won their chess game, he considered himself the real winner because he married someone he couldn't outsmart. |
| 91 | * ImmortalitySeeker: "What good are all the riches in the world if Fox and I [[LivingForeverIsAwesome can't enjoy them forever]]?" This is why he captured Hudson to test the Cauldron of Life in "The Price", cooperated with Demona in "City of Stone" (since she lied to him about the purpose of her spell), and tried to catch Coyote in "Cloud Fathers". This was also a crutch for him, as Hudson used this to spook Xanatos in order to escape his prison. |
| 92 | ** Notably, Xanatos could have wished for immortality when Puck offered him a choice of either one wish from him or a lifetime of service from Owen, but he chose Owen, being self-confident enough that he figured he would find another way to obtain eternal life. |
| 93 | * 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. |
| 94 | * InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:With Fox. He's a human and she turns out to be half fey on her mother's side.]] |
| 95 | * IronicName: His last name Xanatos is derived from Thanatos, the Greek god of death; something he tries to defy. |
| 96 | * {{Irony}}: For all his scheming and planning, not only do very few of Xanatos' plans actually acomplish their primary goal, but they soon blow up in his face afterwards. While he did score an unqualified win regarding Derek's mutation into Talon, Xanatos lost his loyalty soon afterwards. The Gargoyles and Thailog blew up in his face almost immediately, and his partnership with Demona came to an end during the events of "City of Stone." Tellingly, despite all of his efforts to secure a strong power base, he literally has ''no allies to rely on'' during the darkest hour of "The Gathering," and it was only due to the compassion of Goliath after his own personal growth during the World Tour arc that prevented his son from being kidnapped. |
| 97 | * ItsPersonal: |
| 98 | ** 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"). |
| 99 | ** Xanatos played this trope straight ''precisely once'', in "Double Jeopardy", and as a result he suffered his first unqualified defeat. |
| 100 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 101 | ** Likely the biggest one in the series; despite lying to the Manhattan Clan, trying to kill them in the pilot, and mutating people into creatures like the gargoyles, he has the most things go his way of any character in the series. He is HappilyMarried and able to keep his son, and even has gotten some approval from his father, which is something he struggled with for most his life. Granted, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty all that happened after the debacle with Oberon.]] |
| 102 | ** 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 Elisa wanted to keep the gargoyles' existence a secret, he was able to plead down to a lesser charge.[[invoked]] |
| 103 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Though famous for mostly avoiding karma, not even the namesake for XanatosGambit can completely escape karma forever. |
| 104 | ** All his schemes involving Derek and the mutates did not work out for him at all; not only did they turn on David after his intentions for them were revealed, but they elected to become close allies to the gargoyles. This is one of the only plans David has that ends in a total failure without any real side benefit for him. |
| 105 | ** Creating Thailog was a rare example of one of his plans going ''completely'' off the rails because he pushed his luck too far. He created someone like himself, but without his own moral inhibitions, and that person managed to become one of the few enemies who genuinely scares him and can cause real damage to his plans. |
| 106 | ** ''Everything'' regarding [[TheFairFolk Oberon]] is pretty much all the bad karma David has been building up through the series [[LaserGuidedKarma being unleashed on him all at once]] in a potent HumiliationConga. David's son is kidnapped by Oberon before his very eyes, David is completely powerless to stop him and he is left injured after trying to fight the king of fairies. Afterward, David is forced to swallow his pride and practically beg the Gargoyles for help to save his son. [[WordOfGod The creators themselves]] have mentioned this was David's karma for his villainous actions before, and he is noticebly [[TookALevelInKindness more benevolent to the gargoyles]] after they save his son.[[invoked]] |
| 107 | * LargeAndInCharge: Easily the tallest and broadest of the human cast. His skill set makes him a much smoother Lex Luthor with Jonathan Frakes' good looks. |
| 108 | * 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. |
| 109 | -->'''Goliath:''' Only ''you'' would regard love as a weakness. |
| 110 | * 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. Well, except that once: |
| 111 | --> '''Xanatos:''' ''(as Coldstone slowly stirs to life)'' [[ShoutOut It's alive!]] '''[[LargeHam Alive!]]''' ''(aside to Demona)'' [[{{IAlwaysWantedToSayThat}} I Always Wanted to Say That.]] |
| 112 | * TheManBehindTheMan: Mastermind behind the Pack. |
| 113 | * MarryForLove: Although he initially didn't believe it, his and Fox's marriage came about because, in the end, they truly love each other. |
| 114 | * MeaningfulName: [[Literature/{{The Bible}} His first name is David, and he initially fights against a bigger enemy named Goliath.]] Also his last name Xanatos is derived from Thanatos, the Greek god of death. |
| 115 | * MeaninglessVillainVictory: All his successes with manipulating Derek end up being meaningless: the 'mutates' he had designed to replace the gargoyles as his home's guardians desert him pretty quickly after discovering the truth behind their origins. |
| 116 | * MissingMom: According to [[WordOfGod Greg Weisman]], [[spoiler:Xanatos's mother is deceased and his father Petros is, unfortunately, a widower]].[[invoked]] |
| 117 | * MortalityPhobia: Embarks on all sorts of schemes to live forever, so that he and his wife Fox can enjoy being rich and powerful forever. |
| 118 | -->'''Xanatos:''' The Cauldron of Life. The legend says whoever bathes in it will live as long as the mountain stones.\ |
| 119 | '''Hudson:''' Ah, you wish to be... immortal.\ |
| 120 | '''Xanatos:''' Of course. What good are all the riches on Earth, if Fox and I can't enjoy them forever? |
| 121 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction when Thailog came into his own. He freely admits that he's created a monster. |
| 122 | * NerdInEvilsHelmet: |
| 123 | ** "[[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} It's alive! ALIVE!!!]] [[{{IAlwaysWantedToSayThat}} I Always Wanted to Say That.]]" |
| 124 | ** Also, at one point he has Goliath and Angela tied up and quips, "This is my first real stab at cliched villainy. How am I doing?" |
| 125 | * NobleDemon: As noted above, he's the same guy after his HazyFeelTurn, but his evilness drops a notch or two. |
| 126 | * 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 who he is, though, before the season is over, he's found [[PoweredArmor a solution]], and the episode "The Edge" is all about him testing himself in combat against Goliath. |
| 127 | * NothingPersonal: He thinks very little of revenge, and is generally more concerned with his own material benefit than he is about settling scores. He even views Goliath and to a lesser extent the rest of the Manhattan as friends, and treats them as such even when trying to kill them. |
| 128 | --> ''"You really ''are'' taking this much too personally, you know."'' |
| 129 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 130 | ** He's an excellent example of AffablyEvil--even though the clan defeats him multiple times, he's always civil with them and is completely uninterested in revenge. In "Double Jeopardy", however, when he thinks that Anton Sevarius has betrayed him, he confronts him in a TranquilFury and probably would have seriously harmed him, had he not figured out that something else was going on. |
| 131 | --->'''Xanatos:''' You know, Anton, I'm not by nature a vengeful man...but your behavior has forced me to make an exception. |
| 132 | ** In "The Price", despite his insistence that "''Nothing'' terrifies me, because nothing is beyond my ability to change." when Hudson notes that [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "Growing old terrifies you, doesn't it?"]], Xanatos then proceeds to throw out a few petty insults at the old gargoyle, something that would normally be beneath him, [[MortalityPhobia a sign of just how close to the mark Hudson had truly hit]]. |
| 133 | ** Also a minor one during "The Gathering". While Xantos usually appears cool and slightly detached, he doesn't take Owen [[spoiler:temporarily leaving him]] well at all, and spends some time contemplating how he could have [[spoiler:left him when facing such an imminent threat.]] |
| 134 | ** Another moment is when he's talking with Owen about the possibility of Thailog having managed to fake his death and remaining at large. Owen sums the situation up as "So the creature that's as strong as Goliath, has a fortune at his fingertips and apparently is smarter than you, is still around and is potentially a threat." Xanatos, in a completely subdued voice, remarks that he's created a monster, one that might very well prove to be a major threat to him in the future. |
| 135 | ** Xanatos, who is usually too proud to seek help and tries to remain calm under pressure, actually begs Goliath in tears to help him save Fox when he had realized the Eye of Odin had turned her into a ravenous beast that will starve to death. This is what gets the suspicious Goliath to agree despite his misgivings. |
| 136 | * PapaWolf: He truly loves his son. When Oberon was about to abduct Alex, Xanatos pulled out ''every'' weapon and defense he could use. |
| 137 | * PetTheDog: Xanatos does not acknowledge the existence of the MoralEventHorizon InUniverse, but he does believe in repaying debts of honor. |
| 138 | * PoweredArmor: He can keep up with the likes of Goliath in combat because he created a suit of high tech armor that resembles a gargoyle. |
| 139 | * PragmaticVillainy: Even in his original villainous mindset, Xanatos isn't out to destroy the gargoyles - he recognizes them as irreplaceable resources in various ways. |
| 140 | -->'''Owen:''' You've never said what you want done with the gargoyles. It would be easy enough to destroy them during the day.\ |
| 141 | '''Xanatos:''' Perhaps. But it seems so wasteful. |
| 142 | ** Best emphasized after he springs Fox from prison and she laments that he wasn't able to get his revenge on the Gargoyles. Xanatos cooly replies that revenge is a "Suckers' game." |
| 143 | * ReformedButNotTamed: 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, but the canon comics show they still play morally dubious games. |
| 144 | * {{Revenge}}: [[{{DefiedTrope}} Defied.]] "Revenge is a sucker's game." |
| 145 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: He originally freed the gargoyles by footing the "astronomical" expense to activate the CurseEscapeClause. Money is never an object to him. |
| 146 | * SelfMadeMan: He tells his father Petros that he is this because [[spoiler:he was given the instructions and seed money for his company by his older self via StableTimeLoop.]] His dad isn't impressed with it, though, and calls out his son for being more interested in money than honor. It's PlayedWith, though, in that [[spoiler:Xanatos did not actually think of the plan to enrich his past self on his own -- rather, he got instructions from his future self, who in turn got instructions from HIS future self and so on. If anything, one might say fate itself handed the beginnings of Xanatos' fortune to him, which explains in part why Petros isn't all that impressed with it even after learning how David did it]]. |
| 147 | * SmartPeopleKnowLatin: If you regard the fact that the spellbook 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. |
| 148 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: He is seen playing chess with Fox. With his intelligence and giving his penchant for scheming, this would be a natural hobby for him. |
| 149 | * SuperiorSuccessor: A meta example. As said in {{Expy}} above, Xanatos's creation was inspired by Wade Eiling, a villain from [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Captain Atom]]. However, while their courses of action are similar, Xanatos has a far higher rate of success and pulls off the MagnificentBastard trope a lot better than Eiling ever did in his days. |
| 150 | * TranquilFury: Even against Oberon, he stays calm, despite this being one of his most action-packed scenes. |
| 151 | * UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Largely played straight. His plans being revealed to the audience is typically a sign they won't go as he expects. |
| 152 | * UnwittingPawn: To Thailog in "Double Jeopardy". as he plays right into Thailog's plan. |
| 153 | * VengeanceFeelsEmpty: He acknowledges this trope by making his stance clear that "revenge is a sucker's game". He doesn't get bogged down by petty things like losing a fight, because [[XanatosGambit even that tends to further at least one of his other goals in some way]]. The only time when he did (albeit reluctantly) try to take revenge on anyone, he got OutGambitted. |
| 154 | * VillainHasAPoint: He's nothing if not [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]], so this trope is particularly evident when the heroes are... not so pragmatic. Most notably, in the middle of the "City of Stone" four-parter, when Goliath is about to attack Xanatos for helping Demona curse Manhattan, Xanatos has this to say: |
| 155 | -->'''Xanatos:''' Do you want vengeance, or a solution? |
| 156 | * VillainRespect: Despite being one of their greatest opponents, Xanatos has great respect for the Gargoyles- particularly Goliath and Hudson. Xanatos stated that he considers Goliath the greatest warrior ever and considered *holding his own against him* as a major achievment. With Hudson, he lets the older Gargoyle go after holding him prisoner after being impressed with Hudson's effforts. |
| 157 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Even after going to prison for several months due to the events of "Awakening", he manages to be this. |
| 158 | * VillainousValor: Even if things look impossible, he'll risk his life if the stakes are high enough. |
| 159 | * VillainsOutShopping: This trope is instrumental to his plan in "Her Brother's Keeper"; Elisa shadows Xanatos from the air while the villain is driving in order to get something incriminating on him. Unfortunately, Xanatos is well aware that Elisa is following him and casually notes "Let's go shopping" as a completely innocuous activity in order to frustrate her. As it turns out, he was specifically shopping for diamonds as the first step of his plan to win over Elisa's brother. |
| 160 | * 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. Petros Xanatos is a humble fisherman whose disappointment with his son stems from the latter's amoral ways. |
| 161 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Thailog is one of the few things in the world that actually scares the normally-unflappable Xanatos. |
| 162 | * WickedCultured: As a billionaire, he enjoys the finer things in life, such as living in an authentic Scottish castle. Originally he came from a poor background. |
| 163 | * WorthyOpponent: He deeply respects Goliath and actually rather likes the guy, not that it'll stop him from making Goliath a pawn or target of his latest scheme; the respect is a bit more grudging on Goliath's end, but it's still there, and Goliath is generally willing to ally [[EnemyMine with Xanatos]] if that's what it takes to defeat a greater threat. Tellingly, many of Xanatos's schemes in the series consist of creating an EvilKnockoff of Goliath that will serve him, ranging from MechaMooks that look like Goliath, a personal suit of PoweredArmor that looks like Goliath, pseudo-gargoyles (one of whom can easily be mistaken for Goliath at a distance), and finally an outright clone. Goliath really made an impression on him. |
| 164 | ** He evidently has shades of this for Hudson. When he kidnapped him, Hudson really did get to him mentally about his pursued of immortality. When Hudson managed to escape his prison through innovated means, and also doesn't bother Xanatos attempt at immortality, as long as it doesn't involve his clan, Xanatos lets him go, stating that he earned it. |
| 165 | * XanatosGambit: There is a reason for the [[TropeNamers namesake]] of this and its spin-off trope, XanatosSpeedChess. He always has multiple objectives in mind when he schemes, allowing himself to always benefit from even a few defeats. Almost. |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | [[folder:Owen Burnett]] |
| 168 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/JeffBennett |
| 169 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Stefano Mondini |
| 170 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Owen_8163.JPG]] |
| 171 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"Service is its own reward."'']] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | Xanatos' right-hand man and confidant, Owen is intelligent, capable and loyal -- the perfect employee. He runs interference for Xanatos, and helps with his day-to-day affairs. [[spoiler:He's actually Puck, a trickster spirit that became Owen for kicks, and because Xanatos is "many things, but never dull".]] |
| 174 | ---- |
| 175 | * AffablyEvil: So polite during villainous action that he borders on TheStoic. |
| 176 | * ArtificialLimbs: Invoked: WordOfGod is that most people believe Owen's petrified arm is simply an "eccentric prosthesis."[[invoked]] |
| 177 | * BattleButler: Be it fighting or carrying out Xanatos's plans, Owen does it quickly and efficiently. |
| 178 | * BoringYetPractical: Embodied. [[spoiler: In the past when Puck encountered Xanatos, he offered him a choice: A wish of anything Xanatos desired, or a lifetime of service. Xanatos chose the service. Completely boring service, nothing supernatural and utterly mundane, but incredibly competent and with unbreakable loyalty.]] |
| 179 | * CoDragons: With Coyote; Owen is Xanatos' right-hand man, while Coyote fights or leads the Pack at Xanatos' behest. |
| 180 | * CrazyPrepared: He prepared for the possibility of a PhysicalGod stealing his boss' son as soon as Fox declared her pregnancy. Sure enough, such a thing happened [[spoiler:because he knows how Oberon operates from working under him.]] |
| 181 | * CreepyMonotone: He never raises his voice no matter what fiendish deed Xanatos has him doing. |
| 182 | * DeadpanSnarker: He has quite a sharp wit to him, which is surprising given the rest of his persona. [[spoiler:Or not so surprising.]] |
| 183 | * DisabilitySuperPower: A fist made of stone hurts opponents more than one made of flesh and bone. Xanatos remarks that he makes "good use of his handicap". |
| 184 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: A spell petrifies his left hand and he uses it for extra-human punching power. [[spoiler:The fact that he's later revealed to be Puck disqualifies him.]] |
| 185 | * FantasticallyIndifferent: Owen hardly ever expresses surprise, anger, or concern, no matter what science fiction or fantasy magic scheme his boss has going on. Eventually we learn why he seems to have SeenItAll. |
| 186 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: A villain in glasses. [[spoiler:In fact, Puck based him on another such coldly calculating individual, though Owen is far more principled and less of a lick-spittle than Vogel.]] |
| 187 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Much like his employer, he loses his villain status over time.]] |
| 188 | * IcyBlueEyes: They help to emphasise his cool, detached, and stoic demeanor. |
| 189 | * ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler:Owen continues to exist because Puck finds Xanatos' life too much fun to miss]]. |
| 190 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:He knew there was no way he could stop Oberon, and admits he's completely outclassed, and so he left early. Then he came back.]] |
| 191 | * LanternJawOfJustice: While Owen is by no means a hero, he does have a jawline that could rival Judge Dredd. |
| 192 | * MoralityPet: He is the first character introduced that Xanatos treats with transparency and respect, "City of Stone" being a good example. |
| 193 | * NumberTwo: He serves as Xanatos's right-hand man, assisting him in all of his endeavors and representing him in business deals. His official job title is probably "Administrative Assistant". |
| 194 | * PaletteSwap: [[spoiler:He is literally a copy of Preston Vogel with a different hair color because Puck based "Owen" on Preston (though the audience meets Owen first).]] |
| 195 | * PunchClockVillain: He's not really "evil"; he's JustFollowingOrders and his boss is evil. |
| 196 | * SecretIdentity: [[spoiler:He's actually a persona of Puck.]] |
| 197 | * SmartPeopleKnowLatin: As evidenced by his ability to translate Demona's "Stone by night" spell. |
| 198 | * TheStoic: He took his hand turning to stone with a completely straight face, and no sign that he even considered it an inconvenience. [[spoiler:This is actually part of the appeal of being Owen for Puck; as the trickster himself says, "the Puck has played many roles, but never that of straight man".]] |
| 199 | * StraightMan: While Xanatos clearly enjoys what he does, Owen's role is to calmly enforce his employer's will no matter how fantastic it is, and stand stoically while he shouts things like "It's alive! ALIVE! ...I always wanted to say that". [[spoiler:Puck reveals that this is partially why he created Owen- since he was a trickster, he'd taken on a lot of roles, but "never that of the straight man".]] |
| 200 | * TakenForGranite: Has a stone arm after dipping it in the Cauldron of Life, [[PowerFist and he knows how to use it]]. |
| 201 | * UndyingLoyalty: David Xanatos could not ask for a more stalwart employee. [[spoiler:Despite knowing they have ''zero chance'' repelling Oberon, he sticks around.]] |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | [[folder:Fox]] |
| 204 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/LauraSanGiacomo |
| 205 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Isabella Pasanisi |
| 206 | -->'''Voiced by (JAP):''' Akiko Koike |
| 207 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Fox_599.PNG]] |
| 208 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"Oh, Daddy. You and your integrity. Asking for it wouldn't be any fun at all."'']] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | Xanatos's true love and equal, and the original leader of the mercenary team the Pack before parting ways with them. Formerly Janine Renard, she legally changed her name to Fox. |
| 211 | ---- |
| 212 | * ActionMom: As she proved when Oberon tried to abduct Alex. |
| 213 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: [[{{Reconstruction}} Reconstruction.]] Fox is well aware of [[AffablyEvil what]] [[BigBad kind of]] [[EvilGenius person]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive David is]] and loves him all the same. Xanatos, on the other hand, ultimately proves to truly [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes love Fox]] and they both end up HappilyMarried. |
| 214 | * AnimalMotifs: She's as cunning as a ''[[{{Pun}} fox]]''. Her signature mark is a blue colored, fox tattoo over her right eye. When Fox came into possession of the Eye of Odin, an exaggerated face of her inner self was revealed, transforming her into a werewolf/fox-like monster. Her last name "Renard" is the name given to the fox character in old French animal tales. |
| 215 | * AntagonisticOffspring: She tried a hostile takeover of her father's company, albeit in a FriendlyEnemy way. |
| 216 | * BigEgoHiddenDepths: She's proudly amoral and {{Ubermensch}}-like, stating her wish to live forever and rule the world casually. When she's turned into a werefox, however, it's quickly revealed that stripped to her most basic instincts Fox deeply hates herself, to the point where when she briefly sees Elisa as herself and goes berserk trying to kill her. |
| 217 | * BilingualBonus: Anyone who knows French instantly makes the connection between father and daughter well before the official reveal. |
| 218 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With David. He even lampshades this when asking for Fox's hand in marriage. |
| 219 | -->'''Xanatos:''' "We're genetically compatible, highly intelligent and have the same goals. It makes perfect sense to get married." |
| 220 | * TheChessmaster: The events of "Upgrade" were basically one big chess game she was playing with her husband. |
| 221 | * CulturedBadass: Alongside being a wily and determined figure (and worthy mate for Xanatos thereby), Fox is also well-read: she prefers Jean-Paul Sartre to Nietzsche or Kafka. |
| 222 | * CunningLikeAFox: [[MeaningfulName Duh]], even if Xanatos overshadows her, she still beat him in their "Upgrade" chess game. |
| 223 | * DarkActionGirl: She's a villainous badass. |
| 224 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: David Xanatos, a villainous corporate rival, to the point that her father disowned her from inheriting his company on account of it. (Though he would have still given it to her had she asked, which she declined to do because she thought corporate sabotage would be more fun.) |
| 225 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
| 226 | -->'''Hyena:''' (''hitting cockroaches with a rubber band slingshot'') Why do you read that stuff? |
| 227 | -->'''Fox:''' (''reading a book on Jean-Paul Sartre'') Because Nietzche's too butch and Kafka reminds me of your little friends over there. |
| 228 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Fox truly loves her husband, David and their son, Alexander, despite her villainous activities. |
| 229 | * EvilRedhead: As befits her name, Fox has red hair and rather dubious morals. |
| 230 | * EyepatchOfPower: Not exactly an eyepatch, but that blue tattoo covering her right eye conveys that impression. |
| 231 | * FieryRedhead: Downplayed. She is more determined than hot-tempered, and keeps a cool head almost all of the time. |
| 232 | * GoodParents: She turns out to be a surprisingly good mother to her son, Alex. |
| 233 | * HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Half human and half fey but she didn't know it herself until "The Gathering".]] |
| 234 | * HappilyMarried: To David. After their marriage we see them playing chess as foreplay, raising their son, Alex, and other such domestic bliss that one forgets they are both villains. Fox only married because she was in love with him and he demonstrated his love for her in a undeniable fashion; begging his worst enemy and giving up a priceless magic artifact in return for help saving her. |
| 235 | * HazyFeelTurn: As with Xanatos, after [[Recap/GargoylesS2TheGathering "The Gathering"]] she stops being directly antagonistic to the gargoyles but the two of them still very much operate under their own agenda. |
| 236 | * HiddenDepths: When Fox came into possession of the Eye of Odin, an exaggerated face of her inner self was revealed, transforming her into a werewolf/fox-like monster. This transformation could possibly represent Fox's ambition and feral ruthlessness to acquire what she desires, such as when she tried to steal her father's company. [[WordOfGod Greg Weisman]], however, has revealed that her transformation means this: ''"Werefox, predatory, self-hating, conflicted."''[[invoked]] |
| 237 | * HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: As she points out, Fox isn't a stage name, she legally changed her name to it. |
| 238 | * InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:With David. He's a human and she turns out to be part fey on her mother's side.]] |
| 239 | * ItAmusedMe: The reason why she tried to take over her father's company by corporate sabotage, even though he would've given it to her if she asked him to - she thought it would be more fun. |
| 240 | * TheLeader: Fox was the former leader of The Pack. |
| 241 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Inverted; her dad is a ''good'' scientist while she is a villain on top of which she betrayed him by falling for his villainous rival. |
| 242 | * MamaBear: Seen in full force in "The Gathering". Despite repeated statements that her magical ability has withered to nothing a threat to her son causes her to unleash a massively powerful blast of magic. She even gives this line when Oberon stated that Alex will be coming with him: |
| 243 | -->'''Fox:''' ''[[TranquilFury Over. My. Dead. Body.]]'' |
| 244 | * ManipulativeBitch: She could rival Demona in this area, as her Machiavellian schemes are enough to impress Xanatos and unfortunately cause a rift between her and her father Halcyon Renard. |
| 245 | * MarryForLove: While she fully agreed with David's listing of practical reasons for them to marry, while discussing his proposal she made a point of throwing out love as another potential reason. Both were fairly flippant about it ("I think we love each other, as much as two people such as ourselves are capable of that emotion."), but the events that followed would demonstrate quite clearly that the two were in fact deeply in love. |
| 246 | * 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. |
| 247 | ** Her birth name is revealed to be [[spoiler:Janine]], which means "Gift from God". Given how much her father loves her and mourns losing her to Xanatos, one can imagine it was intentional. [[spoiler:Her mother is also revealed to be Queen Titania, a LivingGod.]] |
| 248 | * MoralityPet: For [[CorruptCorporateExecutive David]]. The best evidence being the time she turned into a were-fox, and he was desperate to find her a cure. After giving up the Eye of Odin to save her, and then carrying her off bridal-style, Owen remarked that he "never looked more heroic". |
| 249 | * MsFanservice: A very beautiful, curvaceous redheaded lady who often wears [[SensualSpandex very form fitting outfits]] and can be [[TheTease quite seductive]] at times. |
| 250 | * OnlyOneName: She had her name legally changed from "Janine Renard" to "Fox". And not "Fox Renard" or "Fox Xanatos", though according to WordOfGod she doesn't object to being referred to collectively with her husband as "David and Fox Xanatos" for simplicity's sake. [[invoked]] |
| 251 | * ReformedButNotTamed: She's no longer an enemy to the clan, but that doesn't make her one of the good guys. |
| 252 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Orange hair, green eyes, and one of the most central antagonists the Manhattan Clan face. |
| 253 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: She beat Xanatos in chess, proving that she's as intelligent and scheming as him. |
| 254 | * TattooedCrook: Her EyepatchOfPower is blue and resembles a ''fox''. |
| 255 | * TheTease: Rather flirty sometimes, just ask Lexington. |
| 256 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fox is fond of manolos. |
| 257 | * {{Ubermensch}}: She even chose her own name, rather than keep the one her parents gave her - though it ''is'' an Anglicization of her surname. |
| 258 | * UnholyMatrimony: She's as greedy and amoral as Xanatos, and it's what draws them together. |
| 259 | * UnlimitedWardrobe: Notable for a series where most characters [[LimitedWardrobe always wear the same clothes]], Fox wears quite a variety of different costumes, and doesn't really have a "default" outfit like other characters. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | [[folder:The Pack]] |
| 262 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/ClancyBrown (Wolf), Creator/JimCummings (Dingo), Creator/MattFrewer (Jackal), Creator/CreeSummer (Hyena), Creator/JonathanFrakes (Coyote) |
| 263 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Claudio Fattoretto (Wolf), Enzo Avolio / Creator/FrancescoPannofino (Dingo), Antonio Sanna (Jackal), Micaela Esdra (Hyena), Nino Prester (Coyote) |
| 264 | |
| 265 | |
| 266 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pack.png]] |
| 267 | [[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Wolf, Dingo, Fox, Hyena, and Jackal.\ |
| 268 | [[labelnote:Click here to see Coyote.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coyote.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | 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: |
| 271 | |
| 272 | ** '''Fox''': See above. Original team leader (and Xanatos's significant other), 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. |
| 273 | ** '''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. |
| 274 | ** '''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). |
| 275 | ** '''Jackal''' and '''Hyena''': A brother/sister pair of twins, and probably the team's most depraved members; [[WordOfGod According to Weisman]], Jackal's a sociopath while Hyena's a psychopath.[[invoked]] |
| 276 | ** '''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. He tends to get [[TheyKilledKennyAgain thrashed by the gargoyles and rebuilt by Xanatos every time he appears]], with the successive versions obviously not human. Four versions of Coyote appeared in the series, and a fifth in the comics, with more to come, culminating in ''Gargoyles 2198''. |
| 277 | ---- |
| 278 | * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: In "Upgrade" Hyena rotates her leg all the way around to kick Lexington off her back. |
| 279 | * ActuallyADoombot: The first Coyote was revealed to be a robot, not the real Xanatos. |
| 280 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Not in the series itself, but WordOfGod is that, by 2198, Coyote will have become autonomous and turned to conquest.[[invoked]] |
| 281 | * TheAlcoholic: In the SLG comic, Dingo is watching a hockey game and littered his bed with bottles of alcohol. |
| 282 | * AnimalMotifTeam: They are a team of martial artists recruited by David Xanatos, who have a canine motif, complete with animal nicknames: Fox, Coyote, Dingo, Wolf, Jackal, and Hyena (although hyenas aren't technically canids). |
| 283 | * AnimalThemeNaming: They all have canine names to fit their "Pack" name, Hyena exluded since hyenas are feliforms rather than canines but certainly pack animals. |
| 284 | * ArmCannon: Coyote. Dingo with his PowerArmor. Hyena and Jackal with their cybernetics. |
| 285 | * AwesomeAussie: Dingo, natch. |
| 286 | * AxCrazy: Jackal and Hyena, and, to a lesser extent, Wolf. |
| 287 | * BadassCrew: They can do a decent job of keeping up with the gargoyles in a fight. |
| 288 | * BloodKnight: Again, Wolf. Dingo as well, to a lesser extent. |
| 289 | * BrokenPedestal: Lexington looked up to them until they were hired to hunt him and the rest of the clan. |
| 290 | * BrotherSisterTeam: Jackal and Hyena. Even when the Pack split up to work solo, these two stayed as a team. |
| 291 | * BullyingADragon: |
| 292 | ** You'd 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.]] |
| 293 | ** And then after Coyote unmasks to reveal who they think is Xanatos, Jackal's ready to have a go at him (having failed to assassinate him last time), [[{{hypocrite}} despite having earlier criticized Wolf for doing so]]. Dingo holds him back before he can do anything stupid. |
| 294 | * CameBackStrong: Every time Coyote is rebuilt, he gets upgraded with new weapons and gadgets. His fourth iteration was built with a melted-down [[AncientArtifact magical artifact]], which allows him to take on [[TheFairFolk Oberon's Children]], who are usually untouchable. |
| 295 | * ChainSawGood: Coyote 5.0. |
| 296 | * ChickenWalker: Coyote 2.0 and 3.0's legs are made like these. |
| 297 | * 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. |
| 298 | * DarkActionGirl: Hyena. |
| 299 | * DeadpanSnarker: Jackal & Hyena. |
| 300 | * TheDragon: Coyote acts on Xanatos' behalf, leading the Pack at his behest or helping secure his interests (such as ensuring that the Emir's attempts to summon Anubis go as Xanatos wants or helping him capture the trickster Coyote). |
| 301 | * EasilyForgiven: At the very least Hyena forgave Jackal for deaging her to a baby when he abused Anubis's powers, considering they were still a BrotherSisterTeam while working for Vogel in "The Green". Although it's unclear how much she remembers about that. Despite also being deaged, Wolf also accepted Jackal helping him break out in the sequel comic. |
| 302 | * ElectronicEyes: Jackal's left eye is cybernetic after his upgrade. One episode showed that it can extend out of its socket on a eyestalk. ''A really long eyestalk''. |
| 303 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: In "Upgrade", all of them get upgraded one way or another (except Fox, who was gone by then) - all by means [[CallBack previously introduced]] by Xanatos. |
| 304 | ** HalfHumanHybrid: Wolf. He chooses to become a wolfman mutate. |
| 305 | -->'''Coyote:''' ''(shows footage of Derek Maza/Talon)'' ...have you ever considered the bounties of genetic engineering? |
| 306 | ** {{Cyborg}}: Jackal and Hyena go this route. |
| 307 | -->'''Coyote:''' ''(shows footage of Coldstone)'' ...or maybe cybernetics is more your style? |
| 308 | ** PoweredArmor: Dingo. He eventually upgrades it ''again'' after his HeelFaceTurn, this time [[spoiler:merging with Matrix, an A.I.-controlled nanobot swarm]]. |
| 309 | -->'''Coyote:''' ''(shows footage of Xanatos in his his Exo-suit)'' ...and they say "Clothes Make the Man". |
| 310 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 311 | ** Dingo is simply disgusted with what the rest of the Pack opted to do to themselves without a second thought. He only opted for a new suit of armor, while Jackal, Hyena and Wolf all decide to basically forsake their humanity. It's part of the reason he left the Pack permanently. |
| 312 | ** Jackal seems disgusted with Hyena's open lust for Coyote. This is treated more as a base revulsion than a moral stance, however. |
| 313 | * FireForgedFriends: Dingo and Goliath started as enemies. Then in Australia, they fight together to save the world from the Matrix. In the end, they're not exactly friends, but it's safe to say they're no longer enemies. |
| 314 | * ForTheEvulz: Jackal, Hyena, and sometimes Wolf really fall into this one. |
| 315 | * GameFace: Not that Wolf can pass for human post-Upgrade, but one time his face transformed fully lupine. |
| 316 | * GoodFeelsGood: After Goliath and Dingo stops the Matrix's rampage by convincing him of law and order, Dingo admits that he misses being a hero and he was willing to give it another legitimate chance. |
| 317 | * HeelFaceTurn: Dingo, eventually. Fox's is more of a HazyFeelTurn, as she's ReformedButNotTamed. |
| 318 | * HotBlooded: Wolf is the one who's always eager for a fight, and he mentions multiple times how he wants to be the one to take down Goliath. Hyena also counts as this, if not as blatantly as Wolf. |
| 319 | * 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 [[Literature/TheMostDangerousGame General Zaroff]]. |
| 320 | * HuskyRusskie: The Dynamite comic book reveals that Wolf is Russian, as he's the son of Grisha Volkov, the head of New York's Russian mob. |
| 321 | * 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. |
| 322 | * LaughingMad: Jackal when he becomes the avatar of Anubis. |
| 323 | * MeaningfulName: Dingo's real name is Harry Monmouth, like Prince Hal in ''Theatre/HenryV'', one of the show's many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to Shakespeare. |
| 324 | ** While his first name has yet to be revealed, the comics show that Wolf's last name is very likely Volkov, as that's his father's last name. "Volk" is the Russian word for "Wolf". |
| 325 | * MotiveDecay: |
| 326 | ** Lampshaded. When introduced, The Pack were fearsome mercenaries, pulling jobs for money and the thrill of the hunt, which set them against the gargoyles. Come "Upgrade", they're robbing banks just to stay solvent, and do a pretty bad job at it. Nobody's happy that they've been reduced to petty thieves, until Coyote comes back, whereupon they gain the titular upgrades and break out of their decay. |
| 327 | ** The comics make some revelations, however, in a rather ironic way. ''ComicBook/GargoylesBadGuys'' has shown that Dingo was part of a gang of thieves in his native Australia, and we see the gang he's part of robbed an armored truck, so it's not too different from robbing banks. [[spoiler:Later on, Wolf is revealed to be the son of [[TheMafiya the leader of New York's Russian mafia]].]] |
| 328 | * MultinationalTeam: Aside from Coyote, all team members comes from different parts of the world. |
| 329 | ** Fox: Unknown, but since her father's name is "Renard", [[BilingualBonus which is French for "Fox"]], she might be French. |
| 330 | ** Wolf: Russian. |
| 331 | ** Hyena: Canadian. |
| 332 | ** Jackal: Canadian. |
| 333 | ** Dingo: Australian. |
| 334 | * NobleDemon: Before his HeelFaceTurn, Dingo was a fairly subtle example. He actively discouraged the Pack's infighting, went to break out the team when given sufficient resources, and when the bank job goes south, he cuts the fight with the Gargoyles short and carries the injured Jackal off. |
| 335 | * NoSell: Coyote 4.0 was built with iron from the Cauldron of Life, making it immune to magic. |
| 336 | * OddNameOut: Hyenas aren't canines, though they're often confused as such and also form packs. |
| 337 | * OmnicidalManiac: Jackal, endowed with the power of Anubis, tries to end all life on Earth [[ForTheEvulz for kicks]]. |
| 338 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Wolf, Jackal, and Hyena. Of the others, Coyote doesn't have any other name, Fox had hers legally changed from Janine Renard to just Fox, and Dingo started using his real name of Harry Monmouth more after he left. |
| 339 | * 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 as security for Fox's Matrix project. |
| 340 | -->'''Dingo:''' ''(after his teammates have become a mutant and cyborgs)'' I'm a partner in a freak show. |
| 341 | * PowerArmor: Dingo wears one, complete with RocketBoots, ArmCannon and it even comes with a remote control in case he needs to suit up rapidly. [[NoKillLikeOverkill Then it gets upgraded with nanotech.]] |
| 342 | * 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. |
| 343 | * PrisonsAreGymnasiums: After he's put away, Wolf is seen doing one-armed pushups inside his cell to Jackal's annoyance. |
| 344 | * 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. |
| 345 | * 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. |
| 346 | * QuirkyMinibossSquad: Although they eventually go their separate ways. |
| 347 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: All the Coyote robots' optics and Jackal's ElectronicEye are red. In Dingo's case, only his helm had red eyes. |
| 348 | * RevelingInTheNewForm: In order to be able to better take the fight to the gargoyles, Wolf was mutated into a wolfman by Sevarius, while Jackal and Hyena were turned to cyborgs (all while Dingo simply opted for an advanced suit of armor), and it's made clear that they feel zero remorse or second thoughts about these very permanent new bodies, instead embracing the new power it grants them. |
| 349 | * {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}}: Coyote 1.0 looks exactly like Xanatos, but later versions are rebuilt as an obviously robotic being. |
| 350 | * {{Robosexual}}: Hyena has the hots for Coyote even ''after'' the robot reveal. ''Especially'' after. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jackal]] considers this "sicker than usual". |
| 351 | * RoboticReveal: Used with Coyote 1.0. |
| 352 | -->'''Hyena:''' ''(shocked)'' A robot?! ''(smirks)'' Even ''better.'' |
| 353 | * RobotMe: Coyote 1.0 to Xanatos. |
| 354 | * RocketBoots: Dingo's armor has a pair of these. They are also present when he got a new armor from Matrix. |
| 355 | * SavageWolf: Wolf is certainly savage, and all the more so after mutating into a WolfMan. |
| 356 | * 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. |
| 357 | * SixthRanger: Coyote was never part of the Pack in its heyday. He came later. |
| 358 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Wolf feels this way regarding Goliath, to the point where it could be seen as an obsession. |
| 359 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: With Fox leaving the Pack, Hyena is the sole female of the group. |
| 360 | * TheSociopath: Jackal is this, per WordOfGod. His sister Hyena is a psychopath. The difference is that he has more self control (unless he gets his hands on absolute power, as in [[Recap/GargoylesS2Grief "Grief"]]) and is fully aware of how heinous what they do is, and doesn't care, while Hyena just blindly destroys things. [[invoked]] |
| 361 | * TheStarscream: |
| 362 | ** 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. |
| 363 | ** Jackal never really seemed happy working under Coyote either. After his robotization, he opted to put Wolf in charge over Coyote 2.0, and later destroys 3.0 when he gained the power of death. |
| 364 | * TheyKilledKennyAgain: Coyote is smashed every time he appears, but since he's a robot, he can be rebuilt. |
| 365 | * ThoseWilyCoyotes: Coyote, though Xanatos named him such as a reflection on ''his own'' Trickster nature; Coyote himself isn't particularly tricky. |
| 366 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Dingo. He's 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 (besides Fox, of course, who stayed behind), simply going for a suit of high-tech armor. [[spoiler:He eventually undergoes a HeelFaceTurn]]. |
| 367 | * 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. |
| 368 | * TwoFaced: After half of Coyote 1.0's face was torn off in the RoboticReveal, further versions always included the split face somehow. |
| 369 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: A flashback in the ''ComicBook/GargoylesBadGuys'' comic showed that Dingo was just a normal (albeit poor) kid working hard to get good grades. After [[MissingMom his mom disappeared]], he spent some time with a friend of hers who raised him into becoming a criminal. [[spoiler:What Dingo didn't know was that said "friend" had murdered her ''just moments earlier'']]. |
| 370 | * VillainDecay: Coyote never regains the competence and savvy he displayed in his first appearance. By late season 2 the entire Pack is hit with this, none moreso than Hyena and Jackal. The siblings appeared the most as reoccuring villains during the Avalon World Tour only to lose. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Time]] to Goliath and the others. |
| 371 | * VillainHasAPoint: As villainous as he is, Jackal is right that no one should hit a woman, as he warns Brooklyn when Brooklyn throws Jackal's sister Hyena against a wall, omitting the fact that Brooklyn was defending himself from Jackal's murderous sibling. |
| 372 | * VillainousFriendship: They all got along well with Fox. Once she was out of the picture, Jackal and Wolf qualified, while Hyena adored Coyote, but bickering was the general rule. |
| 373 | * WildHair: Hyena and Jackal both have wild hair, kinda like ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. |
| 374 | * WolverineClaws: Hyena and Jackal. It started with gloves with claws at their end, similar to [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger's claws]]. After their upgrade, the cybernetic claws could be extend to even greater length or fired like projectiles. |
| 375 | * WolverineWannabe: Hyena and Jackal are very much like evil versions of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. They are both Canadians, have WildHair, [[WolverineClaws fight with claws]] and fight like animals. |
| 376 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: According to WordOfGod, Wolf was born in 1957. By the time he debuts, he is thirty-seven years old, and with a head full of grey hair looks more like he is in his fifties. Apparently his hair is just naturally silver.[[invoked]] |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | [[folder:Dr. Anton Sevarius]] |
| 379 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/TimCurry |
| 380 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Sergio Di Stefano |
| 381 | -->'''Voiced by (JP):''' Yukata Aoyama |
| 382 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sevarius2_5566.PNG]] |
| 383 | [[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!''"'']] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | A freelance geneticist specializing in creating mutates and clones - for ''evil''! |
| 386 | ---- |
| 387 | * 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. |
| 388 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Not "love" per se, but Sevarius does have ''slight'' regard for his "son" Thailog, in a twisted, proud-of-what-his-own-genius-wrought sort of way. |
| 389 | ** 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. |
| 390 | * EvilBrit: Judging by the accent (well, his real one), he is a British-born MadScientist. |
| 391 | * TheEvilGenius: He is one of several people on Xanatos's payroll that is high on scientific skill and low on ethic. He is responsible for his bio-tech developments, such as the mutates. |
| 392 | * ForScience: He doesn't care what Xanatos does with his creations, he just wants to make and study them. |
| 393 | * ForTheEvulz: Why he does what he does. In addition to science, the money, and, of course the ''drama''! |
| 394 | * KarmaHoudini: He has yet to receive any comeuppance for his crimes, unless you count having to live under Xanatos's protection for fear of his own creations. |
| 395 | * LampshadeHanging: In "Double Jeopardy," he at one point 'breaks character' and starts asking if the reason Xanatos is threatening him is because they're being watched. Later he admits that because the instructions to do the whole thing came from Xanatos's computer, he thought that the entire endeavor was some sort of Machiavellian scheme of the type that Xanatos is typically known for. |
| 396 | * LargeHam: Did you expect anything less from ''Tim Curry''? 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. |
| 397 | * LaughablyEvil: Totally irredeemable, and is still a joy to watch thanks to his hamminess and gleefully reveling in being a MadScientist. |
| 398 | * MadScientist: And he is damn proud of it. The Mutates and Wolf's upgrade were his work. Technically he's more amoral than outright mad, but he's got the theatricality part down. |
| 399 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He is the best geneticist but has no morals at all, actually. |
| 400 | * PetTheDog: A minor but noteworthy moment. Sevarius gives Vinnie (then working as a security guard at Gen-U-Tech Systems) a friendly wave while heading to his parked car right before [[spoiler: Goliath]] abducts him. |
| 401 | * PlayingWithSyringes: His job, in a nutshell, is to tweak genetic information to create biological super soldiers for Xanatos. |
| 402 | * PsychoForHire: Of the MadScientist variety; while he initially works exclusively for Xanatos, Sevarius is later shown working for Demona and Thailog, and is mentioned to have hired his services out to other groups as well. |
| 403 | * TheSociopath: Sevarius has not the slightest shred of morality, scruples or empathy, seeing everyone as either means to get money or as guinea pigs for his experiments, and never shows any guilt or remorse for the lives he ruins. |
| 404 | * TheStarscream: Subverted in "Double Jeopardy." He attempts to extort $20 million from Xanatos in exchange for Thailog, but Sevarius thinks the entire thing was set up by Xanatos, and so he is playing the role that he thought Xanatos assigned him. He hadn't really turned against him (it was Thailog). While Sevarius is a freelance agent who willingly works with all sorts of depraved individuals, he never attempts to turn on Xanatos, the man is paying him to do what he loves after all. |
| 405 | * ThisCannotBe: Refreshingly, he has this reaction in issue #3 of the Dynamite Comics revival when it’s revealed that Talon and Maggie’s baby [[spoiler: seemingly]] didn’t inherit either one of his mutate parents’ traits and is just a regular human. He is so shocked and disgusted, he (under Thailog’s instruction) relinquishes the newborn without a moment’s hesitation. |
| 406 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Adopts a sort of French/German thing in his first appearance. Apparently for no other reason than to really get into his "mad scientist" role, since he took minimal pains to alter his appearance and didn't use a false name. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | [[folder:Bruno]] |
| 410 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/JeffBennett |
| 411 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bruno_7.jpg]] |
| 412 | |
| 413 | Xanatos's chief of security. |
| 414 | ---- |
| 415 | * MauveShirt: Best evidenced in "Monsters" [[spoiler:where he is the only security guard not to drown]]. |
| 416 | * MookLieutenant: Leads the security team, responsible from mundane tasks like guarding things, to corporate espionage. |
| 417 | * 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. |
| 418 | * SoleSurvivor: Of all Bruno's team, only he made out alive after the episode ''Monsters''. However, in the comics, he's been assembling a new team. |
| 419 | * VillainDecay: 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's crazy and magically charged fiancé Fox in her were-fox state, and by Tony Dracon, and easily subdued by Goliath in "Monsters". |
| 420 | [[/folder]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | !The Hunters |
| 423 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | A family of masked vigilantes who have hunted Demona over a millennium, attacking any other gargoyle that enters their sights as well. |
| 426 | ---- |
| 427 | * ActionGirl: Robyn and her great-aunt Fiona, now a retired Hunter. |
| 428 | * AntiVillain: Their base goal is somewhat noble: they oppose and hunt Demona, who is an evil gargoyle. The problem however is that they project their hatred of her onto all gargoyles and want to exterminate them, not realizing that Demona's practically the only evil gargoyle around (Thailog and Coldsteel also count, but the Hunters don't even know of their existence). Fortunately, they've rarely encountered any other gargoyles. |
| 429 | * ArchEnemy: Collectively, they have antagonized Demona for centuries and are responsible for the ''second'' destruction of her clan. While Hakon got the ball rolling, ''these'' guys are the real reason she's such a bitter and hateful genocidal murderer. |
| 430 | * ArcSymbol: The slashes that Demona left on Gillecomgain's face endure as the ever-present symbol of the Hunters, even after Gillecomgain himself has been dead and forgotten for a thousand years. [[spoiler:After the split among the Canmore siblings in "Hunter's Moon", the claw marks remain an important symbol; Robyn wears them as a RedeemingReplacement when she joins the Redemption Squad, and Jon has them as part of the Quarryman symbol on his uniform.]] |
| 431 | * BadassNormal: They are standard humans who hunt the superstrong and flight-capable gargoyles. Gillecomgain could match Demona evenly, although she was getting on in her age by then. |
| 432 | * CatchPhrase: The "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner It ends tonight!]]" flung toward [[PhraseCatcher Demona]]. |
| 433 | * DarkIsEvil: They all dress in dark colors when on the hunt. |
| 434 | * CycleOfRevenge: Related to MotiveDecay below, this is what keeps the feud going. The pattern appears to be "Hunter finds Demona, Demona either escapes or ''murders'' the Hunter, surviving family members swear revenge" on and on. This is absolutely the case for the modern Hunters Robyn, Jon and Jason. |
| 435 | * 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. |
| 436 | * DramaticIrony: The Hunters know that Demona is immortal, but they don't know the details of her immortality, and thus don't realize that per the terms of the Weird Sisters' spell, she can only go down in a MutualKill with Macbeth. Thus they are doomed to fail in their eternal vendetta. |
| 437 | * TheDreaded: Those who know of the Hunters know to fear them. |
| 438 | * EvilCounterpart: In a strange way, to Macbeth, seeing as they've pursued Demona for centuries to fulfill a vendetta that goes back to medieval Scotland. In ''City of Stone'', when Macbeth is at his most ruthless, he even wears their emblem to psych Demona out. |
| 439 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The Hunters' centuries-long crusade to kill Demona is, in fact [[AllForNothing pointless]]; Demona can only be killed by Macbeth, meaning that no matter how hard they try, the Hunters can never destroy "The Demon". |
| 440 | * 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. |
| 441 | * 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. |
| 442 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Gillecomgain through Canmore really did exist, historically, and the show mostly depicts their lives truthfully to the historical record (besides the gargoyle bits). |
| 443 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Given that the modern Hunters have little but FantasticRacism as a motive to hunt gargoyles other than Demona, they're really just as bad as she is. |
| 444 | * InTheHood: In addition to the mask, some hunters also wear a cloaked hood. |
| 445 | * 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. |
| 446 | * KnightTemplar: To the point that they ''threaten to kill their own allies'' for simply questioning their mission. Not actively denouncing it, ''questioning'' it. They also have a collective, recurring tendency to not care if humans get caught in the crossfire between themselves and the gargoyles. |
| 447 | * LegacyCharacter: From Gillecomgain (although Constantine invented the iconic Hunter mask) to Duncan, to Canmore, and so on. |
| 448 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: Although some of Canmore's descendants may be more misguided than evil. |
| 449 | * MirroringFactions: To Demona, though neither side would likely admit it. Jon Canmore is the most obvious and dramatic example. |
| 450 | -->'''Demona/Jon''': What have I... what have ''they'' done to you? |
| 451 | * MotiveDecay: The origins of the feud (Demona disfiguring Gillecomgain, which even ''Demona'' forgot about) have long been lost to history. The modern Hunters have no idea ''why'' they hunt gargoyles, just that it's what they do. |
| 452 | * {{Ninja}}: While they aren't ninjas per se, their masks and outfits certainly give the impression off. |
| 453 | * PowerArmor: Robyn and Jon make use of this against Demona. Unlike the ones made by Xanatos, they are huge and bulky, but are nonetheless deadly. Presumably, there was a third suit for Jason. |
| 454 | * TheRealRemingtonSteele: The first time the Hunter was seen in modern day, it was [[spoiler:Macbeth in disguise.]] |
| 455 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The Hunters' masks, depicting red slashes against black cloth, are the main reoccurring element in each of their costumes. Subverted with Robyn Canmore's HeelFaceTurn; she continues to wear the mask and call herself "Hunter" as leader of the Redemption Squad. |
| 456 | * SecretIdentity: Hence the masks. |
| 457 | * VanHelsingHateCrimes: 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]]." |
| 458 | * 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 the gargoyles of Wyvern Hill helped kill his father when they were under Hudson's leadership. |
| 459 | [[/folder]] |
| 460 | |
| 461 | [[folder:Gillecomgain]] |
| 462 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/CamClarke (as a boy), Creator/JimCummings |
| 463 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Antonio Sanna |
| 464 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gillecomgain_6002.JPG]] |
| 465 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"Look closely creature, 'tis your handiwork, done when I was but a boy. ''Remember?''"'']] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | 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. |
| 468 | ---- |
| 469 | * AgeGapRomance: Not so much romance as forced marriage, but Gillecomgain married Gruoch and he's older than her father. |
| 470 | * ArchEnemy: To Demona. While all Hunters despise her, as the one who began the vendetta he hates her more than anyone who has ever lived. To the point where he stops a battle with Macbeth to finish her off, letting his guard down. |
| 471 | * BastardUnderstudy: To King Constantine, as shown in the SLG comics. It was actually Constantine, inspired by Gillecomgain's scars, who devised the recurring design for the Hunters' masks. |
| 472 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: For Demona, her attack on the young Gillecomgain was an entirely unremarkable incident that she doesn't remember. |
| 473 | * 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. It's 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. |
| 474 | * DefiantToTheEnd: He kept trying to kill Demona, even when it would mean his own death. |
| 475 | * DirtyCoward: He uses Gruoch as a hostage when Macbeth takes the upper hand in their sword fight. |
| 476 | * DisproportionateRetribution: While wanting revenge on Demona for disfiguring him is understandable, wanting to drive all gargoyles to extinction over it is a bit much. |
| 477 | * DisneyVillainDeath: Which had its share of [[KarmicDeath karma]] to it; he killed Macbeth's father, and tried to kill Macbeth and Demona, by throwing them from a building. |
| 478 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: He was Duncan's hatchet man but was always out for himself in the end. |
| 479 | * FreudianExcuse: His strained relationship with his father and Demona disfiguring him left him with a burning hatred of gargoyles and a lot of mental issues, and his father’s death made him even worse. |
| 480 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Started as a farmboy and became a ProfessionalKiller and famed gargoyle slayer and then castle steward. |
| 481 | * HarmfulToMinors: Getting slashed in the face and nearly killed as a child would have some serious mental side effects. |
| 482 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: His quest for revenge against Demona and all gargoyles turned him into just as much a monster as he perceived them to be. |
| 483 | * InformedDeformity: Inverted, actually. When his father first sees his scars, he's rather dismissive of them, but they look pretty bad and last all the way into Gillecomgain's adult life. |
| 484 | * InTheHood: He wears the original hunter's mask when on business so no one can connect him with it. |
| 485 | * {{Jerkass}}: He took pleasure in rubbing his murder of Findlaech in Macbeth's face, and had no problem with mistreating his wife. |
| 486 | * 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. |
| 487 | * KickTheDog: He not only killed Findlaech, Macbeth's father, but he also [[ArrangedMarriage marries]] Gruoch and becomes the new High Steward of Moray, making poor Macbeth suffer. The SLG comic reveals that years earlier in battle, Gillecomgain nearly killed Bodhe, Gruoch's father. |
| 488 | * KilledOffForReal: Demona throws him off a balcony to his death. |
| 489 | * MotiveDecay: While he started off as wanting revenge on gargoyles, somewhere along the line he became a ProfessionalKiller who kills gargoyles on the side. |
| 490 | * MissingMom: Gillecomgain's mother is never seen or mentioned. |
| 491 | * OldSoldier: Even at fifty, he managed to hold his own against Demona and Macbeth. |
| 492 | * ParentalNeglect: When Demona scarred Gillecomgain when he was just a boy, he went to his father for comfort. However, his father just dismissed it as "just a fews scratches". Judging from his musings before confronting Demona earlier, he obviously had a strained relationship with his father. |
| 493 | * PragmaticVillainy: When ordered to assassinate Macbeth, Gillecomgain declines; Macbeth is of royal blood and popular among the people, and killing him might raise questions about how Macbeth's father met his own end. His reasoning is sound, but Duncan takes it for defiance, and Gillecomgain doesn't do himself any favors in the exchange. |
| 494 | * PsychoForHire: In addition to his gargoyle hunting, Gillecomgain also served Duncan as an assassin. |
| 495 | * ScarsAreForever: Gillecomgain's scars remained quite visible from the night Demona struck him until his death some 40 years later. |
| 496 | * SilentAntagonist: Invoked; he never speaks to Findlaech as an intimidation tactic, but he breaks his silence when he sees Demona. |
| 497 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Even in-universe, Gillecomgain is all but forgotten by the present day, yet his legacy survives in the form of the Hunters and the Quarrymen. |
| 498 | * 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. |
| 499 | * 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. |
| 500 | * TeensAreMonsters: He is shown as already being a violent, revenge-obsessed lunatic as a young man in the SLG comics. |
| 501 | * 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]]. |
| 502 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: He was just an innocent kid until Demona disfigured him [[KickTheDog despite the fact he posed no threat to her.]] |
| 503 | * VillainousLegacy: Gillecomgain was the first Hunter. The role survives even in the series' present day. |
| 504 | * WrongGenreSavvy: He seems to believe he is a heroic HunterOfMonsters, when he’s really nothing more than a ProfessionalKiller who commits VanHelsingHateCrimes. |
| 505 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When Gillecomgain starts getting a little too difficult to control, Duncan hangs him out to dry, revealing to Macbeth that Gillecomgain murdered his father in the hopes that the two will kill each other. |
| 506 | * YouKilledMyFather: Gillecomgain killed Macbeth's father Findlaech, under orders from Duncan. As soon as he finds out who the killer really was, Macbeth wastes no time in confronting Gillecomgain in the hopes of killing him. |
| 507 | [[/folder]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | [[folder:King Duncan]] |
| 510 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/NeilDickson |
| 511 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Roberto Chevalier |
| 512 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Duncan_5204.JPG]] |
| 513 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"There will always be a Hunter, my son. And there will always be the hunted."'']] |
| 514 | |
| 515 | 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. |
| 516 | ---- |
| 517 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Duncan, unlike his portrayal in Shakespeare as TheGoodKing, is shown in this series as a ruthless tyrant. If anything, his portrayal here is a lot closer to his historical counterpart. |
| 518 | * AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: |
| 519 | ** When Gillecomgain informed Duncan of Findlaech's death, he was happy because it shored up his claim to the throne. |
| 520 | ** [[spoiler:After his death, there was more cheering.]] |
| 521 | * 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. |
| 522 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Duncan's one and only redeeming trait is his love for his son, Canmore, who would grow up believing the best of his father and sought to avenge his death. |
| 523 | * 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. |
| 524 | * TheEvilPrince: He had Findlaech killed so that Macbeth could never become king. |
| 525 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Duncan was always paranoid that Findlaech and Macbeth were plotting to deny him the throne. The very night Duncan had him killed, Findlaech voiced his acceptance of Duncan's eventual rule and pledged his loyalty, while Macbeth would never have turned on Duncan if Duncan hadn't turned on him first. |
| 526 | * {{Irony}}: During all these years, Duncan put a lot efforts into killing Macbeth so he wouldn't usurp his crown. Not did only Macbeth never have such ambitions, all of Duncan's actions led to his own death and Macbeth becoming king. |
| 527 | * {{Jerkass}}: He seemed to revel in making Macbeth's life miserable. |
| 528 | * TheParanoiac: Duncan had Findlaech killed because he worried that the popular lord would try to place his own son on the throne of Scotland, betrayed Gillecomgain to his death when the Hunter's [[PragmaticVillainy well-reasoned pragmatism]] sounded a little too much like defiance, and spent years plotting against Macbeth on the off chance that he might betray Duncan. |
| 529 | * UngratefulBastard: He lays siege to Macbeth's lands after hearing the Weird Sisters' prophecy that he would one day reign as king despite the fact that Macbeth had just saved his life. |
| 530 | * XanatosGambit: By telling Macbeth that Gillecomgain murdered Finlaech, Duncan ensured one of two results: either Macbeth will kill Gillecomgain, eliminating the assassin that Duncan can no longer control, or Gillecomgain will kill Macbeth, eliminating a potential threat to Duncan's claim to the throne. |
| 531 | * 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. |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Canmore]] |
| 535 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/JDDaniels (as a boy), Creator/NeilDickson |
| 536 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Riccardo Rossi |
| 537 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Canmore_2992.JPG]] |
| 538 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"I am Canmore, son of Duncan. The true king of Scotland."'']] |
| 539 | |
| 540 | 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. |
| 541 | ---- |
| 542 | * AffablyEvil: He does not harm Gruoch, Macbeth's wife, and treats her fairly courteously, claiming he has no quarrel with her. |
| 543 | * AntiVillain: Canmore seems to genuinely view Macbeth as TheUsurper and Demona as his monstrous [[TheDragon Dragon]] and himself as [[RightfulKingReturns the Rightful King Returning]]. It is a fair point of view considering that Macbeth killed his father and made himself king instead of something like "regent" for Duncan. |
| 544 | * 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]]. |
| 545 | * TheBadGuyWins: After Macbeth's departure, Canmore ultimately killed Luach and won the throne of Scotland. |
| 546 | * 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 strikes Macbeth. |
| 547 | * DirtyCoward: Rather than face him in a straight fight, Canmore stabs Macbeth in the back while the latter is arguing with Demona. |
| 548 | * DragonInChief: To Edward the Confessor (who is something of a GreaterScopeVillain for the flashbacks in "City of Stone, part 4"); the English king took Canmore under his wing and gave him aid in reclaiming his throne, but it's Canmore doing all the heavy lifting in the campaign to claim the Scottish throne. |
| 549 | * FreudianExcuse: Being told your whole life that you were destined to be king, followed by seeing your father explode before getting shipped out of Scotland isn't exactly an ''ideal'' childhood. His experiences with Demona are also what led him to hate gargoyles as an adult. |
| 550 | * HarmfulToMinors: Seeing your father explode and fall off of a cliff can really damage a child's mind. |
| 551 | * KarmaHoudini: As per history, he succeeds in overthrowing Macbeth and becomes king of Scotland shortly thereafter. |
| 552 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: As can be inferred by the Hunter line continuing, though, Canmore’s victory was not forever and eventually something happened to him. What exactly occurred has not been revealed, but WordOfGod mentions that the Canmore family took up the Hunt for Demona again following a "mishap" involving Canmore and his son.[[invoked]] |
| 553 | * 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. |
| 554 | * UngratefulBastard: Macbeth spares his life and gets overthrown and stabbed for his generosity. |
| 555 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Luach got along well enough as children, but as adults, Canmore ultimately overthrew his cousin and killed him. |
| 556 | * YouKilledMyFather: Canmore's hatred for Macbeth and Demona is driven by them killing his father, Duncan. Canmore either refuses to believe or doesn't realise that Duncan was a ruthless tyrant who'd had Macbeth's father murdered. |
| 557 | [[/folder]] |
| 558 | |
| 559 | [[folder:Stuart Canmore, AKA Renaissance Hunter]] |
| 560 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Neil Dickson |
| 561 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Dario Penne |
| 562 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/renaissancehunter.png]] |
| 563 | |
| 564 | A Hunter who chases down Demona in a SteamPunk flying machine during the Renaissance era. |
| 565 | ---- |
| 566 | * AutomaticCrossbow: His flying machine includes one loaded with four massive bolts which can reload as he flies after Demona. |
| 567 | * BadassNormal: He actually did defeat Demona with his flying machine. Of course, her being immortal he thought he failed. |
| 568 | * InescapableNet: His machine can throw one in order to restrain gargoyles. It almost works on Demona, but she escapes when the net falls in the river. |
| 569 | * ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: He rides one across the skies of the city to hunt Demona. Equipped with net-thrower and crossbow bolts. |
| 570 | [[/folder]] |
| 571 | |
| 572 | [[folder:Charles Canmore]] |
| 573 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/DiedrichBader |
| 574 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charles_canmore.png]] |
| 575 | |
| 576 | Father to the three modern day Canmore siblings (Jason, Robyn, and Jon), and their predecessor as the Hunter. |
| 577 | ---- |
| 578 | * CurbStompBattle: Judging from Demona's amused laugh after she killed Charles, it must have been the shortest and easiest battle she ever had with a Hunter. |
| 579 | ** For reference, most Hunters Demona faced lasted minutes against her or forced her into a chase while she tried to find something that could turn the tables on them. Charles, despite being armed and facing Demona while she was holding an artifact on one arm, lasted ''seconds'' against her, receiving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown despite his advantage that ended with his death. |
| 580 | * DisneyVillainDeath: Although not much of a villain, Charles suffers this fate after losing his fight with Demona. |
| 581 | * GoodParents: He takes the time to assuage Jon's fears that he will be hurt fighting Demona. Unfortunately, Charles was wrong. |
| 582 | * HarmfulToMinors: Charles dies in front of his three children, none of whom are older than teenagers. |
| 583 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The fight is unseen. However, since Demona is unarmed and the only thing that's heard is the sound of blows landing, it is implied that she beat him up savagely before throwing him out of the tower. |
| 584 | * PosthumousCharacter: Charles was killed by Demona 16 years before his children arrive in New York. |
| 585 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Charles' death at Demona's hands makes his children's enmity with her [[ItsPersonal personal]], and drives them to hunt her, which ultimately results in the events of "Hunter's Moon". |
| 586 | * TemptingFate: "Don't worry, Jonny. I trained all my life for this. I cannot fail." [[CurbStompBattle Guess what happens next to Charles?]] |
| 587 | * VillainyFreeVillain: While he is one of the Hunters, Charles doesn't seem to have been an evil or even particularly aggressive man; he wanted Demona dead for the sake of his family's legacy, and if he ever attacked innocent gargoyles, it goes unmentioned. |
| 588 | [[/folder]] |
| 589 | |
| 590 | [[folder:Jason Canmore]] |
| 591 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/DiedrichBader, Creator/ScottCleverdon (as a boy) |
| 592 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Riccardo Rossi |
| 593 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JasonCanmore_9900.PNG]] |
| 594 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"We all suffered from my stubbornness, but I've finally come to my senses."'']] |
| 595 | |
| 596 | 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 identity 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 "[[Recap/GargoylesS2HuntersMoon Hunter's Moon]]". Unfortunately, he is then accidentally shot by his brother Jon and left paralyzed from the waist down]]. |
| 597 | ---- |
| 598 | |
| 599 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He's quite protective of his two younger siblings and teammates, though unfortunately not enough to listen to their arguments that, perhaps, not ''all'' the gargoyles are evil. |
| 600 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: He has a concealed blade in one of his wristguards. |
| 601 | * DatingCatwoman: Inverted; Jason falls for the heroic Elisa, although their relationship is ultimately not to be, as Elisa's heart belongs to Goliath. |
| 602 | * 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. |
| 603 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of the "Hunter's Moon" arc, he drops his Hunter activities.]] |
| 604 | * HowsYourBritishAccent: Diedrich Bader is the only one of the Canmore trio's actors who is American- rather than Scottish-born, and his accent when Jason is posing as a police officer is his real one. |
| 605 | * ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Jason poses as a detective to gather intel about the gargoyles. |
| 606 | * TheLeader: Of the modern Hunters, at least until he comes to his senses and is crippled. |
| 607 | * MoralMyopia: Has no problem with missiles being fired at a building full of innocent people. When Elisa enters it, he quickly rushes to save her. |
| 608 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Post-HeelRealisation, Jason is clearly regretful over the damage that's been done, a feeling that no doubt intensifies after Jon becomes Castaway and starts leading the Quarrymen]]. |
| 609 | * RedemptionEqualsAffliction: [[spoiler:His seeing the light directly results in him TakingTheBullet for Goliath and ending up paralyzed]]. |
| 610 | * RomanticFalseLead: To Elisa. They form a mutual attraction and even share a kiss, but in the end, Jason recognises that her heart belongs to someone else, though he doesn't yet know that's Goliath. |
| 611 | * SiblingTeam: With Robyn and Jon, his own actual siblings, he hunts down Demona with the goal of slaying her permanently. |
| 612 | * SleevesAreForWimps: Jason's Hunter attire has no sleeves, showing off [[HeroicBuild his toned arms]]. |
| 613 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: As an adult, Jason looks just like his father, albeit without Charles's mustache. They even share the same voice actor. |
| 614 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: Jason's rugged good looks attract Elisa's attention almost immediately. |
| 615 | * ViolentGlaswegian: At first, Jason is the most hot-blooded and aggressive of the Hunters, [[spoiler:though he calms down considerably post-HeelFaceTurn]]. |
| 616 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His accent sounds like a hybrid of Scottish and Mexican. |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:Robyn Canmore]] |
| 620 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/SheenaEaston |
| 621 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Tiziana Avarista |
| 622 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HunterRobynColor_1745.JPG]] |
| 623 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"I have spent my life ''hunting'' gargoyles. Or rather, ''wasted'' my life hunting gargoyles."'']] |
| 624 | |
| 625 | 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. |
| 626 | ---- |
| 627 | * ActionGirl: The Bad Guys comic displays ample proof that she's a very badass fighter. |
| 628 | * TheAtoner: Post-HeelFaceTurn, she seeks to atone for her crimes and redeem her family's bloody legacy. |
| 629 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Dingo in the ''Bad Guys'' spin-off. They argue frequently, and Dingo chafes under Hunter's command style, but they develop a fondness for one another despite that, sharing a smile as they escape from Eastcheap. WordOfGod is that they'll eventually marry, and in the timeframe of ''Gargoyles 2198'' their descendants, the Monmouths, will be in conflict with John's descendants, the Castaways. [[invoked]] |
| 630 | * BoxedCrook: In the ''Bad Guys'' comic, Robyn is recruited by the mysterious Director to lead the Redemption Squad under threat of imprisonment. |
| 631 | * DeadpanSnarker: Fitting her calm and cool demeanor, she gets in some decent snark, especially at her brothers' expense. |
| 632 | -->'''Jason''': Our father spent his ''life'' hunting the Demon! We vowed to destroy her and her monstrous race even if it takes a hundred years!\ |
| 633 | -->'''Robyn''': I'd rather get it over with tonight, Jason, if you don't mind. |
| 634 | * GoodIsNotSoft: As leader of the Redemption Squad, she doesn't hesitate to use force to assert her authority when necessary, drawing a gun on Dingo at one point for questioning her command. |
| 635 | * GunsAkimbo: Make use of two handguns in the ''Bad Guys'' comic. |
| 636 | * TheEvilGenius: In the team of her siblings, she appeared to have the greatest knowledge of the technology they used, such as the tracking devices. |
| 637 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of the "Hunter's Moon" arc, she realizes that gargoyles are not evil. Goliath risking himself to spare humans in a suicide dare against Demona convinced her.]] |
| 638 | * TheLeader: She's in charge of the Redemption Squad. |
| 639 | * NumberTwo: Robyn was Jason's second-in-command among the Hunters, offering cool-headed action to his fiery passion. |
| 640 | * TheReliableOne: Of the three siblins, Robyn is most competent and professional one. Most of the things she does end succeeding. |
| 641 | * SexySecretary: Briefly poses as Dominique Destine's new assistant in "Hunter's Moon". |
| 642 | * SiblingTeam: The Hunter team during "Hunter's Moon" is herself and her brothers, Jason and Jon. |
| 643 | * TheStoic: Much more calm and cool-headed than either of her brothers, which makes her ideal for wrangling the disparate personalities of the Redemption Squad. She even keeps her cool when Yama (angered by the threat of exposing the Ishimura Clan's existence to the world if he refuses to join the Squad) has his sword at her throat. |
| 644 | * TomboyishPonytail: Robyn ties her hair like a ponytail. There's hole at the top of her mask to let her ponytail out. In her civilian grab, she let her hair down which highlights the contrast with her aggressive and action-y Hunter persona. |
| 645 | * TroubledSympatheticBigot: As leader of the Redemption Squad, Robyn is trying to let go of her old prejudices towards gargoyles, even working well with Yama, but they still crop up from time to time, such as her minor freak-out when Sevarius tries to mutate her with Angela's gargoyle DNA. To be fair, no one likes to be involuntarily mutated. |
| 646 | [[/folder]] |
| 647 | |
| 648 | [[folder:Jon Canmore/John Castaway]] |
| 649 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Scott Cleverdon, J.D. Daniels (as a boy), Creator/AlanCumming ("The Journey") |
| 650 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Roberto Gammino |
| 651 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Castaway3_7430.JPG]] |
| 652 | [[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!"'']] |
| 653 | |
| 654 | 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. |
| 655 | ---- |
| 656 | * ArmCannon: His PowerArmor is equipped with a large and powerful cannon. |
| 657 | * AxCrazy: Or “Hammer-Crazy” for that matter. Following his FaceHeelTurn. When Vinnie expresses reluctance in the midst of Jon’s excessiveness, the latter immediately pounces on the former, trying to kill him on the spot via smashing his head like a watermelon and screaming that he is a “traitor”. This aspect of him is shown again when he aims to use lethal force on innocent civilians at a Halloween gathering simply because they dressed up as gargoyles. |
| 658 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Jon Canmore was weak-willed, but clear-headed, recognizing many truths that his siblings, in their hatred, were blind to. John Castaway is incredibly stubborn and bull-headed, blinding himself to the truths he once saw so clearly. Where he once tried to steer his siblings away from the Hunt, he now rejects any attempts at reasoning with him and dismisses his sister for no longer hunting gargoyles. |
| 659 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Before witnessing his older brother's apparent death at Goliath's hands, he really was the nicest of the three Canmore siblings. |
| 660 | * BigBad: In ''The Goliath Chronicles'', which was not the intent of Greg Weisman, who just had him as another member of the RoguesGallery. |
| 661 | * 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. The canonical comics followed the originally planned track of them being the same person. |
| 662 | * DirtyCoward: Of the moral variety; despite knowing that the Hunt was morally wrong, Jon always backed down in the face of Jason's forceful personality, and even when he has a chance to intervene, he just stays out of the fight. |
| 663 | * ExtremeDoormat: While at first he was the most reluctant of the Hunters to fight and the most willing to believe that not all the gargoyles were evil, he never really made much of an effort to stand up to his siblings, instead just meekly going along with their plans once they overruled him. This is an early sign of his weak convictions in the face of his emotional dependency on his siblings, which has tragic consequences when he thinks the gargoyles have killed one of them. |
| 664 | * FaceHeelTurn: He starts out as extremely reluctant in his villainy and quite willing to give up his life as a Hunter. It doesn't last. |
| 665 | * 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. |
| 666 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Post FaceHeelTurn. If you share and abide by his rigid views on gargoyles, he behaves like quite the gentleman. However, should you express the slightest apprehension to these views, the “gentleman” aspect goes flying out the window and reveals a very vindictive and warmongering side to him. |
| 667 | * {{Foil}}: One for Demona. He's a human who projects past transgressions onto all gargoyles, while Demona projects the same onto all humans. |
| 668 | * GeneralRipper: As leader of the Quarrymen, he champions aggressive action against the gargoyles, with little concern for anyone who gets caught in the crossfire. |
| 669 | * IgnoredEpiphany: Just like Demona's; after near-fatally wounding his brother, Jon has a moment where he [[HeelRealisation realises]] how badly he's gone wrong... [[RedemptionRejection only to reject it all]], [[NeverMyFault blame the gargoyles]], and flee, [[RevengeBeforeReason vowing revenge]]. |
| 670 | * IntrepidReporter: His undercover disguise was Jon Carter, reporter for [[FunWithAcronyms WVRN]]. |
| 671 | * LanternJawOfJustice: Despite being a villain, he sports an impressive jawline. |
| 672 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: In the wake of the trauma of their father's death, John's older siblings became this for him, to the point where all his previous reluctance for the work of the Hunters goes straight out the window as soon as one of them seemingly dies to a gargoyle. |
| 673 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Making him ironically similar to Demona. |
| 674 | * NeverMyFault: Jon briefly has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment after accidentally shooting Jason, only to then immediately double down and blame the Gargoyles for his actions. |
| 675 | * OnlySaneMan: For most of "Hunter's Moon", Jon is the only one of the Hunters to consider that Goliath's clan is neither aligned with Demona nor deserving of death. He even surmises that there are probably no more than six of them (the number of gargoyles Xanatos brought to New York from Scotland with Castle Wyvern; he's only slightly off, as Angela's recent arrival brought the Manhattan Clan to seven members). Unfortunately, this doesn't last; after Jason is seemingly killed, Jon becomes consumed by rage and loses his moral qualms. |
| 676 | * TheReveal: In the SLG continuation. That he’s [[spoiler:a member of the Illuminati]]. |
| 677 | * RocketBoots: His PowerArmor is equipped with these. |
| 678 | * SheatheYourSword: In the comics. On Halloween night, Jon tells the Quarrymen to leave their hammers at home, in order to avoid the bad publicity of "a Quarryman brought up on assault charges--for clouting a teenager in a gargoyle mask!" |
| 679 | -->'''Jon''': Hoods, yes! Hammers, no! |
| 680 | * SiblingTeam: With Jason and Robyn. |
| 681 | * ThatManIsDead: In the comic, he says something to this effect about his life as Jon Canmore when confronted by his sister. |
| 682 | * TokenGoodTeammate: He was until his total role reversal with Jason. |
| 683 | * TookALevelInBadass: Jon Canmore was a mere follower of his elder siblings, having no heart for the Hunt. John Castaway, on the other hand, is the ringleader of the Quarrymen, savvy, charismatic, and presenting a grave threat to the gargoyles. |
| 684 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: He was the nicest of his siblings, and ended up becoming the meanest. |
| 685 | * 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. |
| 686 | * ViolentGlaswegian: Subverted at first, where he's the least aggressive of the Hunters, but played straight after Jason seemingly dies, where Jon becomes more belligerent than Jason ever was. |
| 687 | [[/folder]] |
| 688 | |
| 689 | [[folder:The Quarrymen]] |
| 690 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quarrymen.png]] |
| 691 | |
| 692 | A KKK-esque group of gargoyle hunters formed by John Castaway. |
| 693 | ---- |
| 694 | * 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. The comics, though they didn't exactly get a lot of page time before the comics were cancelled, hold true to their original characterisation, and make it clear that with some exceptions (such as some henchmen who used to work with Macbeth and Fang) most Quarrymen and Manhattanites in general assume the gargoyles to be exceptionally dangerous animals rather than sapient targets of their FantasticRacism; a news broadcast early in the comics sees a radio host assuring his listeners that gargoyles cannot talk. |
| 695 | * CategoryTraitor: Any human seen as "Gargoyle Sympathizers" are this in their eyes, especially Elisa. They will attack them accordingly under that suspicion. |
| 696 | * DirtyCoward: The Halloween comic story shows just how cowardly the Quarrymen really are as Castaway leads them to attack a peaceful Halloween party because the Gargoyles are there as guests and people who "dare to dress as Gargoyles". Fortunately, Nashville, Bronx, and Fu-Dog put a stop to their plans before they could try to attack the party. When the three Gargoyles attack, most of the Quarrymen ran, screaming out that "no one said they'd actually fight back". |
| 697 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Wear hoods? Spread fear and bigotry against another race/species that mean them no harm and sworn to protect? Attack other humans just for sympathizing with them? If that's not remeniscent of the Ku Klux Klan, it's hard to tell what is. |
| 698 | * DubNameChange: The Italian dub uses the name "Giustizieri" [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast (aka, the Executioners)]], rather than the more direct translation. [[note]] the much less threathening "Cavapietre"[[/note]] |
| 699 | * IrislessEyeMaskOfMystery: Like the Hunters before them, none of their eyes are seen behind their hoods. |
| 700 | * FacelessGoons: Outside of meetings, they fight with their hoods on. |
| 701 | * FantasticRacism: Thanks to Castaway, the group is propagated with fear to oppose all gargoyles. |
| 702 | * {{Mooks}}: For Castaway. |
| 703 | * SpotlightStealingSquad: Very much so in ''The Goliath Chronicles''. |
| 704 | * ThunderHammer: The Quarrymen wield hammers that can discharge electric currents. This function is activated by cocking the hammer like a shotgun, and has enough power to smash statues. |
| 705 | [[/folder]] |
| 706 | |
| 707 | !The Illuminati |
| 708 | |
| 709 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 710 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/IlluminatiGargoyles_4935.JPG]] |
| 711 | |
| 712 | 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. |
| 713 | ---- |
| 714 | * AmbiguousSituation: The Society was founded by Sir Percival, who continues to lead it in the present day, but Percival's modern identity is unclear; prior to the comics, WordOfGod had described Duval as Percival, and indeed, Duval seems to do most of the day-to-day work running the Illuminati. However, the comics introduced Peredur (the Welsh name for Percival), who holds the top rank within the Illuminati, and the Stone of Destiny describes King Arthur as Peredur's "master". Greg Weisman has offered no explanations beyond stating that nothing had changed from his original plans. |
| 715 | [[invoked]] |
| 716 | * AncientConspiracy: Going back to Arthurian times; WordOfGod puts the Illuminati's founding at the mid-7th century, about 100 years after King Arthur's "death". [[invoked]] |
| 717 | * GreaterScopeVillain: |
| 718 | ** 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 continuations indicate they will end up in a more central role. |
| 719 | ** On an individual level, their leader and founder, Sir Percival, [[AmbiguousSituation whether he is Peredur or Duval]], would qualify for this role, as everything involving the Illuminati ultimately traces back to him. |
| 720 | * 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. |
| 721 | * HumbleBeginnings: An InUniverse Example. The six-issue prequel comic ''Dark Ages'' reveals that it started out as a small traveling acting troupe called The Light-Bringers. |
| 722 | * NebulousEvilOrganization: Their motivations and intentions are a complete mystery, and one it seems their agents are actively working to conceal. To wit, these three statements are made ''by the same Illuminati agent'' and ''on the same night'' to three different junior members. |
| 723 | --> '''Hacker''' ''(to [[SecretKeeper Bluestone]])'': We approve. The world's not ready for an inter-species confrontation. |
| 724 | --> '''Hacker''' ''(to [[ToUnmasqueTheWorld Xanatos]])'': The Society agrees. The world IS ready to accept gargoyles, one phase at a time. |
| 725 | --> '''Hacker''' ''(to [[FantasticRacism John Castaway]])'': In the end, we all desire the same thing- the complete destruction of the gargoyles! |
| 726 | * OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: They appear to secretly run the world, and the only thing known about their agenda is that it is somehow tied to the expected return of King Arthur. This was supposed to be at the end of the 22nd century - which according to WordOfGod will be the time of the Space-Spawn invasion in ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Gargoyles}} Gargoyles 2198]]'' - but the Manhattan Clan acted as a SpannerInTheWorks by waking him up early to help defend Avalon. [[invoked]] |
| 727 | * TheReveal: Whenever a character is revealed to have been a member for an unknown amount of time. For example: [[spoiler: Thailog]]. |
| 728 | * 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. |
| 729 | [[/folder]] |
| 730 | |
| 731 | [[folder:Peredur fab Ragnal]] |
| 732 | [[quoteright:229:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Peredur_6845.JPG]] |
| 733 | [[caption-width-right:229:''"Everything we planned... I must contact the upper echelons immediately!"'']] |
| 734 | |
| 735 | 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. |
| 736 | ---- |
| 737 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: He apparently founded the Illuminati to "make things right", the implications of which, along with Peredur's own motives, remain unknown. |
| 738 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: Weisman's mental voice actor for Peredur is Creator/JudeLaw. |
| 739 | * DecompositeCharacter: A strange case. Both he and Duval are hinted at being the Arthurian character Percival. WordOfGod is deliberately vague on which one. [[invoked]] |
| 740 | * 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. |
| 741 | * FallenHero: Once a knight of the Round Table, now the head of a nefarious organisation that all but controls the world. |
| 742 | * IAmXSonOfY: His name means "Peredur, son of Ragnal", referencing Percival's status as the illegitimate son of Sir Gawain and [[NomDeMom Lady Ragnal]]. |
| 743 | * 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. |
| 744 | * PrettyBoy: Quite the looker, to be sure. |
| 745 | * Really700YearsOld: If he is Sir Percival, he'd be nearly as old as Arthur himself. [[spoiler:In the ''Dark Ages'' prequel comic, it’s confirmed he was alive in 971 AD]]. |
| 746 | * ThisCannotBe: Peredur is shocked to learn that King Arthur had awoken; the Illuminati hadn't expected his revival for another 200 years, and his early awakening forces Peredur to re-evaluate all of the Society's plans. |
| 747 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: WordOfGod is that Peredur's goal is to "make things right". Exactly what this means is unclear, but his method for doing so was to found the Illuminati, which certainly gives some credence to the "extremist" part of the trope.[[invoked]] |
| 748 | [[/folder]] |
| 749 | |
| 750 | [[folder:Duval]] |
| 751 | [[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Duval2_2878.png]] |
| 752 | [[caption-width-right:181:''"Finally... Two!"'']] |
| 753 | |
| 754 | One of the two Twos of the Society. He resides in Castle Carbonek alongside Peredur and appears to have a bad relationship with Blanchefleur. |
| 755 | ---- |
| 756 | * BaldOfEvil: Whether he's evil or not is up for grabs, but he's certainly bald. |
| 757 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: While writing the comic, Weisman imagined Duval's voice to be that of Creator/EddieMarsan. |
| 758 | * {{Cyborg}}: He curiously has a lot of cybernetic implants. The reasons have yet to be explained. |
| 759 | * DecompositeCharacter: A strange case. Both he and Peredur are hinted at being the Arthurian character Percival. WordOfGod is deliberately vague on which one. [[invoked]] |
| 760 | * TheDragon: Apparently; he's one of the Society's highest-ranking members, and seems to be the only one, along with Blanchefleur, who has regular contact with Peredur. |
| 761 | * ElectronicEyes: His left eye is cybernetic. |
| 762 | * SicklyGreenGlow: His cybernetics emit it. |
| 763 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Both Duval and Blanchefleur work together in the Illuminati and are well-loved by Peredur, but they don't get along otherwise. |
| 764 | * TheUnseen: Until "Rock of Ages." |
| 765 | [[/folder]] |
| 766 | |
| 767 | [[folder:Quincy Hemings]] |
| 768 | [[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quincy.JPG]] |
| 769 | [[caption-width-right:215:''"Now don't get smart, boy."'']] |
| 770 | |
| 771 | The other Two of the Society, alongside Duval. He works as Chief Steward in the White House, and has been employed there in some capacity since Teddy Roosevelt's presidency, giving the Illuminati a man on the inside at the White House for almost every administration of the twentieth century. |
| 772 | ---- |
| 773 | * AlmightyJanitor: He just serves meals at the White House and yet, he's ranked number Two in the Illuminati. |
| 774 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: He bears a strong resemblance to Creator/MorganFreeman, whose voice Weisman imagined as Quincy's as he wrote the character's scenes. |
| 775 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He looks pretty spry for a man who's been the Illuminati's inside man in the White House for over 90 years. |
| 776 | [[/folder]] |
| 777 | |
| 778 | [[folder:Blanchefleur "Fleur"]] |
| 779 | [[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Blanchefleur_5051.JPG]] |
| 780 | [[caption-width-right:215:''"Bugger off!"'']] |
| 781 | |
| 782 | 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. |
| 783 | ---- |
| 784 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: While writing the comic, Weisman imagined Fleur's voice actor to be Creator/RhonaMitra. |
| 785 | * DefectorFromDecadence: In the planned spin-off ''Pendragon'', Fleur would have joined up with Arthur and Griff in their search for Merlin. |
| 786 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: She's known to be polite when addressing Xanatos, then she's scowling at Duval in her next panel. |
| 787 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Blonde and apparently good-hearted. |
| 788 | * Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:In the ''Dark Ages'' prequel comic, it’s confirmed she was alive alongside Shari and Peredur in 971 AD]]. |
| 789 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: She and Duval aren't fond of one another as she tells him "Bugger off!" instead of stating her rank to him. It appears to be one-sided as Duval politely explains that he's concerned for her. |
| 790 | * TokenGoodTeammate: To the Illuminati leadership, seemingly. |
| 791 | [[/folder]] |
| 792 | |
| 793 | [[folder:Shari]] |
| 794 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shari2_7656.jpg]] |
| 795 | [[caption-width-right:200:''"The story is told -- though who can say if it be true..."'']] |
| 796 | |
| 797 | 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 Shahrizad]], which is confirmed when she appears under that name in the spin-off ''Dark Ages'' comics. |
| 798 | ---- |
| 799 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: By looking at her, though WordOfGod defines her as Middle Eastern (Arab, to be exact). [[invoked]] |
| 800 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "The story is told--though who can say if it be true..." |
| 801 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: Modeled after actress Creator/ZehraFazal, who once portrayed Shari in a radio play at a fan convention. |
| 802 | * InSeriesNickname: ''Dark Ages'' reveals that she was revered as "The Dark Lady". |
| 803 | * NervesOfSteel: She's not remotely afraid of Thailog. |
| 804 | * PerkyGoth: Quite upbeat and friendly. |
| 805 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Given that she's hinted to be Shahrizad of the ''[[Literature/ArabianNights One Thousand and One Arabian Nights]]'' and the Illuminati have means of extending longevity. ''Dark Ages'' shows her in the tenth century as part of a troupe of players also including Peredur and Blanchefleur. |
| 806 | * ShadowArchetype: She and Thailog are one of the Elisa/Goliath relationship, as well as of Owen and Xanatos. Shari is the caretaker of Thailog, but there's no romance or loyalty between them. Instead it seems as if they play a game of who is controlling the other. |
| 807 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: When she tells her stories to Thailog, it's usually when they're playing chess with one another. |
| 808 | * TheOmniscient: Heavily implied. As revealed in the ''Dark Ages'' prequel comic’s text-only pages, she has an uncanny ability to accurately describe events that she wasn’t present for or involved in. |
| 809 | * TheStoryteller: She tells Thailog a story every night just before he turns to stone. |
| 810 | * UnreliableNarrator: By her own admission; after all, "who can say if it be true"? |
| 811 | [[/folder]] |
| 812 | |
| 813 | [[folder:Mace Malone]] |
| 814 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/EfremZimbalistJr |
| 815 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MaceMalone_1508.jpg]] |
| 816 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"You should see the dental plan."'']] |
| 817 | |
| 818 | 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." |
| 819 | ---- |
| 820 | * AffablyEvil: He's pretty friendly to Matt, and acts polite towards Goliath as well. |
| 821 | * AlliterativeName: '''Ma'''ce '''Ma'''lone. |
| 822 | * DeadpanSnarker: Mace has quite the wit, making a quip within minutes of meeting Matt. |
| 823 | -->'''Matt''': How accommodating of the Society to provide it's senior members with rejuvenation drugs.\ |
| 824 | '''Malone''': You should see the dental plan. |
| 825 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Malone visits the grave of his wife every year and made sure to attend her funeral. |
| 826 | * EvilOldFolks: Evil, and quite old. |
| 827 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: He wound up lost in the Hotel Cabal after trying to drive Goliath insane there. |
| 828 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Downplayed, as Mace certainly looks old but not to the extent he's said to be. Matt observes that he looks pretty good for someone that's almost 100-years-old, which he muses is due to the Illuminati providing rejuvenation drugs (which presumably focus on physical ability rather than appearance). |
| 829 | * SanitySlippage: Being left trapped in the hotel quickly takes a toll on Mace's sanity. He's left desperately checking door after door, all while sweating and increasingly twitchy. |
| 830 | -->'''Mace''': I'm close, so close! One more door. Yes! Just one more door! Just one more door, and I'm home free! |
| 831 | * SignedUpForTheDental: He jokingly suggests as much in his conversation with Matt Bluestone. |
| 832 | * VillainRespect: Mace is really quite impressed by Goliath's strength and fortitude as he watches the gargoyle fight his way through the Hotel Cabal. |
| 833 | * YouHaveFailedMe: The Illuminati leave him to starve to death stranded in the Hotel Cabal after he lets Goliath escape his grasp. |
| 834 | [[/folder]] |
| 835 | |
| 836 | [[folder:Martin Hacker]] |
| 837 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/MichaelBell |
| 838 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Roberto Del Giudice |
| 839 | [[quoteright:242:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hacker.gif]] |
| 840 | |
| 841 | 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. |
| 842 | ---- |
| 843 | * AffablyEvil: He's nice enough to Matt. |
| 844 | * FalseFriend: He was either of this or BigBadFriend 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. |
| 845 | * FBIAgent: And a mole there as well. |
| 846 | * TheMole: The Illuminati's man in the FBI. |
| 847 | * PlayingBothSides: On behalf of the Illuminati, Hacker tells Matt that the Society wants the gargoyles protected, tells Xanatos that the gargoyles should be gradually introduced to the world, and tells Castaway that the gargoyles should be destroyed. Which, if any, of these claims is the truth remains unknown. |
| 848 | * SmugSmiler: He keeps a smug smirk on his face while revealing his duplicity to Matt. |
| 849 | [[/folder]] |
| 850 | |
| 851 | [[folder:Falstaff/John Oldcastle]] |
| 852 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Falstaff_5840.JPG]] |
| 853 | [[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!"'']] |
| 854 | |
| 855 | 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.]] |
| 856 | ---- |
| 857 | * 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. |
| 858 | * BigEater: Just look at the size of him! |
| 859 | * BoisterousBruiser: Fun-loving, that's for sure. |
| 860 | * {{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. |
| 861 | * EvilMentor: To Dingo. |
| 862 | * TheFagin: He took Dingo under his wing as a child and raised him to be a criminal. |
| 863 | * FatBastard: Though he does an admirable job of acting like a BigFun. |
| 864 | * ALadyOnEachArm: He's introduced in the embrace of Mistresses Doll and Quickly, two members of his gang. |
| 865 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Falstaff wants the Redemption Squad to join the Illuminati by saying that the Illuminati are the good guys and he can prove it. He almost succeeds, but in having some members of the Squad meet some Illuminati members to further convince them of the Illuminati's supposed good will, Falstaff got Thailog to speak to Yama and Fang, the latter knowing well that Thailog is evil and traitorous, which leads to Fang realizing that the Illuminati cannot be trusted and subtly informing the Squad about it. In addition, Falstaff was prepared to have the Squad killed should they not join his side, but Fang informing the Squad about the Illuminati not being trustworthy cost Falstaff and his goons the element of surprise. |
| 866 | [[/folder]] |
| 867 | |
| 868 | [[folder:Fiona Canmore]] |
| 869 | [[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fionacanmore.JPG]] |
| 870 | [[caption-width-right:262:''"The hunt is but a small vignette in a much larger tapestry."'']] |
| 871 | |
| 872 | A former Hunter, who now works for the Illuminati. |
| 873 | ---- |
| 874 | * CanonImmigrant: Fiona originates from an episode of ''Team Atlantis'', the scrapped TV spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', where she would have been in her prime hunting Demona. She later made her way into ''Gargoyles'' canon in ''Bad Guys'', chronologically over 70 years after her encounter with Team Atlantis would have happened. |
| 875 | * RetiredBadass: Used to be a Hunter, then she trained new generations of Hunters. It's not entirely clear what exactly she does for the Illuminati. |
| 876 | [[/folder]] |
| 877 | |
| 878 | [[folder:The Norman Ambassador]] |
| 879 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/JeffBennett |
| 880 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_normanambassador.JPG]] |
| 881 | |
| 882 | An Illuminatus of unknown rank active in Scotland in 975 AD. |
| 883 | [[/folder]] |
| 884 | |
| 885 | !New York City Criminals |
| 886 | |
| 887 | !!The Dracon Crime Family |
| 888 | |
| 889 | [[folder:Tony Dracon]] |
| 890 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Richard Grieco |
| 891 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Sandro Acerbo |
| 892 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Dracon_9726.JPG]] |
| 893 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"We have a deal. My word as a Dracon."'']] |
| 894 | |
| 895 | A crime boss constantly harassed by the gargoyles. |
| 896 | ---- |
| 897 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Or at least he makes a few pervy remarks towards Elisa. |
| 898 | * ArchEnemy: To Elisa, though he's not a serious threat to the gargoyles themselves. Unless he's got high-tech weaponry. Broadway also despises him, to the same degree Brooklyn hates Demona and Lexington the Pack; notably, Broadway has been present every single time Tony has been thwarted by members of the Manhattan Clan. |
| 899 | * ArmsDealer: His business, at least in "Deadly Force". He's the reason half the criminals in New York have lasers. |
| 900 | * 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. |
| 901 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: When Goliath wonders how anyone could ever believe someone like Elisa could become corrupt in "Protection", Elisa [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this by saying that corrupt people like Tony will always find it easier to believe ''others'' will act like they. |
| 902 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He acts polite, especially with Elisa, but it's completely transparent. |
| 903 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: The reason he has a skunk stripe in later appearances is because Goliath and Broadway scared him ''really'' badly in "Deadly Force". |
| 904 | * MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: He continues his work as a crime boss from within his prison in "Turf." |
| 905 | * MobWar: Dracon is at war with Tomas Brod for controlling what's left of his criminal empire. |
| 906 | * MuggingTheMonster: He decides to run a ProtectionRacket in the gargoyles' neighborhoods, since it's not overtly violent. Gargoyles take protection [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy very seriously]] and labeling extortion as "protection" disgusts Goliath on a very personal level. He makes clear to Dracon (by way of nearly dropping him to his death) that if he weren't deferring to Elisa and human justice in this matter, he'd have killed him for it. |
| 907 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Take away the "n" from his last name, and you get the Latin word for dragon. |
| 908 | * SaveTheVillain: |
| 909 | ** Much to her annoyance, Elisa end up saving him from Tomas Brod, a rival criminal. |
| 910 | ** It happens again in the comics. Goliath saved his hide from the Pack when they were sent to get rid of him along with Brod. |
| 911 | * SmugSnake: He is ''way'' out of his league when it comes to dealing with the gargoyles. |
| 912 | [[/folder]] |
| 913 | |
| 914 | [[folder:Glasses]] |
| 915 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/RockyCarroll |
| 916 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_glasses.png]] |
| 917 | |
| 918 | Tony Dracon's right-hand man. |
| 919 | ---- |
| 920 | * BlackVikings: In a rare modern equivalent, a black consigliere. While every other member of Dracon's organization is a stereotypical suit-wearing, slick-haired Italian-American, the guy always at the boss's side is Glasses, a black man. WordOfGod confirms Glasses to be TheConsigliere, a role traditionally held only by pure-blooded Sicilians, and that there is indeed a story there, some personal history between Tony and Glasses, that allowed him to circumvent the Mafia's traditions.[[invoked]] |
| 921 | * TheDragon: To Tony Dracon. |
| 922 | * MeaningfulName: He's referred to as "Glasses" and he wears glasses. Go figure. |
| 923 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's only ever called "Glasses". His real name has never been revealed. |
| 924 | [[/folder]] |
| 925 | |
| 926 | [[folder:Pal Joey]] |
| 927 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/MichaelBell |
| 928 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_paljoey.JPG]] |
| 929 | |
| 930 | A recurring member of Dracon's organization. |
| 931 | ---- |
| 932 | * ButtMonkey: Takes much abuse from the gargoyles, then later is used to display how violent Dino can get for even small slights. |
| 933 | [[/folder]] |
| 934 | |
| 935 | [[folder:Dominic Dracon]] |
| 936 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/DarrenMcGavin |
| 937 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_dominic_7.png]] |
| 938 | |
| 939 | Tony Dracon's grandfather and the former partner of Mace Malone. Under the alias G.F. Benton, he still looks for the jewels Mace stole from him seventy years ago. |
| 940 | ---- |
| 941 | * AffablyEvil: Unlike his grandson. |
| 942 | * AllForNothing: Dominic's lifelong search for the jewels he and Malone stole ends with the elderly Dominic holding a bag of marbles, reading from a taunting note Malone left behind. He snapped and spent two years in Bellevue before being released. |
| 943 | * TheDon: [[spoiler: In name only. He's the Pater Familias of the Five Families - but due to his dementia, he's controlled by his granddaughter, and Antoinette has pledged her loyalty and control of the gangs to Demona.]] |
| 944 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Manages to secure an early release from prison due to a supposed onset of dementia. It's entirely an act, and one he doesn't particularly enjoy perpetuating despite accepting its necessity. [[spoiler: Later shown to be downplayed in that, while the "dotty old man act" that he disdains may be affected, he does suffer from genuine mental lapses and periods where he seems unaware of what's going on, relying on his granddaughter to direct him in such cases... which she takes full advantage of.]] |
| 945 | * OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:An (anti-) heroic example when his youngest son Dino threatens to off him and his granddaughter Antoinette with an explosive rigged to a dead-man's switch and reveals it was him who killed Dominic's older son Anthony, [[TranquilFury Dominic shoots him in the chest]] seemingly causing Dino to be blasted to smithereens with his own bomb.]] |
| 946 | * ScatterbrainedSenior: Deliberately invoked. In the comics, he pretends to suffer from dementia to secure an early prison release, as well as to make sure the dangerous Dino doesn't see him as a threat. [[spoiler: Except it turns out the latter isn't entirely an act, making this trope played straight.]] |
| 947 | * WorthyOpponent: Openly praises Elisa as this, saying that having people like her to [[HadToBeSharp sharpen themselves against]] was how the Dracon family was able to rise to prominence in the first place. |
| 948 | [[/folder]] |
| 949 | |
| 950 | [[folder:Antoinette Dracon]] |
| 951 | |
| 952 | Tony Dracon's twin sister. |
| 953 | ---- |
| 954 | * BerserkButton: She hates being called 'Toni', and yells at her grandfather, Dominic when he does it one too many times. Averted that she is too terrified of her uncle Dino to correct him when he does it. |
| 955 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She's part of a mob family but is appalled at the atrocities her uncle Dino commits and how far he's willing to push things, to the point that she goes to the Eyrie building to meet with Broadway and ask for his help in foiling Dino's plans. |
| 956 | * RememberTheNewGirl: She seemingly is acquainted with Owen even gaining access to the Eyrie building and knows Broadway's name. |
| 957 | * TokenGoodTeammate: She seems to want to keep the peace between the Five Families and protect innocent lives from her bloodthirsty Uncle Dino. She even provides information to the gargoyles in order to do so. [[spoiler: Averted when we find out that she's maneuvering her grandfather (who's not as sharp as he used to be) into being the head of the Five Families while she controls him - while Antoinette herself works for... Demona!]] |
| 958 | * WomenAreWiser: From what we've seen so far, she's more level-headed and more subtle than her brother, horrified by her uncle Dino's actions which and even asks for the gargoyles' help to stop Dino's implied plan to off Rosaria Sanchez and Peter Choi. [[spoiler: Averted, she was undermining Dino from the beginning not out of any sense of altruism, but to get rid of him, and maneuver her grandfather into the big chair so she could control him - and then she in turn could hand control of the mobs to Demona!]] |
| 959 | [[/folder]] |
| 960 | |
| 961 | [[folder:Dino Dracon]] |
| 962 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dino_dracon.png]] |
| 963 | Tony Dracon's uncle, who has spent an undetermined amount of time in Sing Sing. Makes his appearance in the Dynamite continuation. |
| 964 | ---- |
| 965 | * BigBadWannabe: He's set up as the BigBad of the ''Here In Manhattan'' arc, [[spoiler:but ultimately is a pawn in Demona's plan to seize control of the mobs.]] |
| 966 | * CainAndAbel: He wasn’t fond of his late older brother, Anthony (aka Tony’s and Antoinette’s father); derisively referring to him as “Golden Boy Anthony”. In fact, he admits in issue #12, he hated his brother’s guts so much [[spoiler:that he killed him himself]]. |
| 967 | * TheDreaded: His immediate family and the rest of the New York City underworld are terrified of his release from prison. |
| 968 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Upon his release from Sing Sing, he is picked up by Pal Joey, who accidentally sprays mud on Dino's shoes when parking the car. Dino seems to take this in stride, and even tells Joey not to bother getting the door for him, as it's not like he's royalty... then violently ''slams'' Joey's head into the dash, kicks him out of the car and takes the wheel himself, [[TranquilFury casually]] remarks that Joey needs to learn to drive more carefully if he wants to drive for him, and takes off without him. |
| 969 | * EvilUncle: Does not hold his nephew Tony in high regard, blaming him for the family's loss in status among the New York crime families. Explicitly tells Wolf that he would not hold it against him if Tony were to end up collateral damage during his intended Riker's break-in to assassinate his cellmate Brod; later, during the break-in, Wolf remarks to Tony's face that he got the impression Dino was ''hoping'' for such an outcome. |
| 970 | * HairTriggerTemper: Apparently had a reputation for this back in the day. In the present, he can sometimes come across as more level-headed, with Glasses even noting that he seems more measured in his responses to bad news than before his time in prison - but as his EstablishingCharacterMoment shows, it's really just that he's gotten better at suppressing his rage until the right moment to strike. |
| 971 | * ManipulativeBastard: Dino's first course of action upon being released from prison is to put the Dracon family at the very top of the New York crime syndicates by manipulating things in order to make the other families take themselves out. |
| 972 | ** He kidnaps two family members of crime bosses Choi Yingpei and Huracán Sanchez and makes it seem like one family kidnapped the other's teenager, pitting both crime families against one another. |
| 973 | ** He then later bombs the car of Russian mob boss Grisha Volvok in the style of explosive used previously by Jack Dane, which makes Grisha wish for retaliation against Dane's boss, Tomas Brod. All while his reputation as NOT being this keeps them from suspecting his hand in it all [[spoiler:at least until his attempt to draw Izaak Slaughter, who is a bit more savvy than the others and starts connecting the dots, into the conflict]]. |
| 974 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: Regarding Rosaria Sanchez and Peter Choy; he correctly deduced that they were in a secret romantic relationship, but came to this conclusion through the belief that two teenage relatives of separate crime bosses just happening to be in Central Park at the same time during the incident where they saved a boy from drowning was too big a coincidence. As the two explain after being kidnapped, it ''was'' in fact a total coincidence, and was actually how they met and fell in love. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Dino gets a good laugh at that.]] |
| 975 | * SmugSnake: Seems to run in the family, doesn't it? |
| 976 | * VillainousBreakdown: An epic one at the end of the "Here In Manhattan" story arc. |
| 977 | [[/folder]] |
| 978 | |
| 979 | !!Other New York Criminals |
| 980 | |
| 981 | [[folder:Jack Dane]] |
| 982 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/EdAsner |
| 983 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_jackdane.jpg]] |
| 984 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"If you find Malone, tell him I said he's a BUM!"'']] |
| 985 | |
| 986 | Mace Malone's stepson. In witness protection, Matt Bluestone tracks him down when looking for clues on the Illuminati. Later, he joins Tomas Brod's gang. |
| 987 | ---- |
| 988 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Is definitely not a great guy, but [[ExtremelyProtectiveChild his main reason for despising Mace Malone is that the man walked out on his mother when he was a kid]], and his voice becomes noticeably more subdued and somber when telling Matt where she was buried. |
| 989 | * RetiredBadass: A man in his late 70s who can be found pumping iron at the gym, and eventually un-retires when he hears a new criminal gang has come to town. |
| 990 | * TheStoolPigeon: Used to be a member of the Dracon gang during Dominic's rule, but at some point "turned rat" and testified against them in court, and subsequently was put into witness protection. |
| 991 | * VerbalTic: Can barely get through a sentence without calling someone a bum. He uses the word to describe Mace Malone no less than three times in the run of a few minutes. |
| 992 | [[/folder]] |
| 993 | |
| 994 | [[folder:Tomas Brod]] |
| 995 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/ClancyBrown |
| 996 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_brod.PNG]] |
| 997 | |
| 998 | |
| 999 | A Czech gangster who terrorizes the streets of Prague. Later moves to New York City. |
| 1000 | ---- |
| 1001 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Clancy Brown's third villainous role on this show; like Hakon and Wolf, Brod sports a deep, gravelly voice that helps identify him as a villain. |
| 1002 | * EvilVersusEvil: Engages in a vicious turf war against Dracon. |
| 1003 | [[/folder]] |
| 1004 | |
| 1005 | !Others |
| 1006 | |
| 1007 | [[folder:Hakon]] |
| 1008 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/ClancyBrown |
| 1009 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Francesco Pannofino |
| 1010 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/75622413_0c83_4e17_a683_1f65abb4e414.jpeg]] |
| 1011 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"I say those gargoyles are naught but chiseled stone. And even if they aren't, it's worth the risk for the plunder within!"'']] |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 | TheLeader of the Vikings who destroyed the Wyvern clan. [[spoiler:He is Wolf's ancestor.]] |
| 1014 | ---- |
| 1015 | * AbsoluteXenophobe: His massacre of the Gargoyle clan in ancient Scotland was supposed to be a clean sweep so no one would come after him. |
| 1016 | * AndIMustScream: For a time after his defeat in "Shadows of the Past", Hakon's soul is trapped alone in a cave to stew in his own hate. [[spoiler:Small wonder that he considered attaching himself to an axe and being carted around by Wolf to be a better way to go.]] |
| 1017 | * ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: His spirit is sealed inside of an ax that his descendant Wolf eventually finds.]] |
| 1018 | * BadBoss: Threatens one of his own men for questioning Hakon's plan to attack a castle protected by gargoyles just before sunset. [[BullyingADragon This henchman turns out to have been right]]. |
| 1019 | * BeardOfEvil: Shaggy, blond, and definitely bad-guy hair. |
| 1020 | * BloodKnight: He didn't balk at the idea of fighting the gargoyles. |
| 1021 | * CarryABigStick: The weapon he used to shatter the Gargoyles was a mace. |
| 1022 | * CoolHelmet: Sports an intimidating, black helmet decorated with an eagle standard. |
| 1023 | * DirtyCoward: When confronted by Goliath, Hakon tried to blame the Captain for the Wyvern massacre. [[BackstabBackfire Said accusation so enraged the Captain that he tackled Hakon off the cliff, to both of their deaths.]] |
| 1024 | * DisneyVillainDeath: While Hakon struggled with the Captain, they both wound up falling over a cliff to their deaths. |
| 1025 | * DumbMuscle: Never learned to read by his own admission, suggesting that the only thoughts he has going on up there is fighting and killing. |
| 1026 | * EvilSoundsDeep: A given for any villain played by Creator/ClancyBrown is the low and menacing tone. |
| 1027 | * FateWorseThanDeath: After his DisneyVillainDeath, he was stuck in a cave for over a thousand years with nothing to do but wallow in his own hate. |
| 1028 | * {{Gaslighting}}: He and the Captain spend much of "Shadows of the Past" tormenting Goliath with illusions to make him think he's going insane. Hakon enjoys it a ''lot'' more than the Captain does. |
| 1029 | * HateSink: He's a murderous, sadistic viking with no redeeming qualities. |
| 1030 | * NeverLearnedToRead: And proud of it! |
| 1031 | -->''Magic spells? HA! Makes me glad I can't read!'' |
| 1032 | * {{Revenge}}: As a ghost, he wants revenge against Goliath for being the indirect cause of his death. [[RevengeMyopia That Hakon gave Goliath a very good reason to want him dead doesn't enter his thinking]]. |
| 1033 | * ShoutOut: Violent killer of a raiding band in Pre-Modern Scotland voiced by Creator/ClancyBrown. [[{{Film/Highlander}} One wonders if there was any temptation to shoehorn in "There can only be One."]] |
| 1034 | * SpannerInTheWorks: He schemed with the Captain and Demona to takeover Castle Wyvern, but he refused to leave the stone gargoyles alone, leading to the Wyvern Massacre. |
| 1035 | * StarterVillain: The first villain in the series, and the man who set the whole thing off by leading to the Wyvern Massacre and its survivors living until the 20th century. |
| 1036 | * TokenMotivationalNemesis: His massacre of the Wyvern clan played a major role in forming the surviving gargoyles' personalities. |
| 1037 | * UncertainDoom: It's unclear what exactly happened to him when the axe was broken. Was he [[CessationOfExistence destroyed?]] [[DraggedOffToHell Excorcised?]] Or just [[AndIMustScream sent back to the ruins?]] |
| 1038 | * VillainousValor: He’s not one to back down when faced with a threat. When he notices he drew blood when Goliath caught his sword, he told his men the gargoyles weren’t invincible and ordered them to engage. |
| 1039 | * VillainHasAPoint: |
| 1040 | ** As noted in VillainousValor, if his enemy can bleed, then he has a shot at taking them down despite their fearsome appearance. |
| 1041 | ** He later decides to massacre the clan while they’re stone during the day, knowing his men would be unable to defeat them during the night, and removes the only remaining obstacle to his conquest. |
| 1042 | -->'''Hakon''': Do you think I survived this long by taking chances? |
| 1043 | [[/folder]] |
| 1044 | |
| 1045 | [[folder:The Archmage]] |
| 1046 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/DavidWarner |
| 1047 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Sergio Graziani ("Long Way to Morning" and "Vows"), Luigi Montini ("Avalon") |
| 1048 | [[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/EnhancedArchmage_2073.JPG]] |
| 1049 | [[caption-width-right:325:''"All my lovely magic..."'']] |
| 1050 | |
| 1051 | An evil wizard seeking ultimate power, defeated by Hudson and Goliath a thousand years ago, but later comes back with a vengeance. |
| 1052 | ---- |
| 1053 | * AndThenWhat: He asks his past self what he plans to do with the "ultimate power" once he has it. When he answers he hadn't thought that far ahead and planned to take over Scotland, the Archmage encourages him to [[TakeOverTheWorld think bigger]]. |
| 1054 | * TheArchmage: Well, duh, pretty self-explanatory... and he was just an ordinary if powerful wizard, before he became even more powerful during the Avalon arc, courtesy of the Eye of Odin [[spoiler: and eating the Grimorium whole]]. |
| 1055 | * ArcVillain: He takes center stage in the Avalon three-parter in Season 2, and doesn't menace the heroes beyond that arc [[spoiler:due to his death by the end]]. |
| 1056 | * 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. |
| 1057 | * BaldOfEvil: Bald, and evil, of course. He's also fairly old, so there's that. |
| 1058 | * BeardOfEvil: Quite a long WizardBeard to go with his EvilSorcerer look. |
| 1059 | * CardCarryingVillain: A stereotypical evil sorcerer, and he seems to ''really'' get a kick out of it. |
| 1060 | * DeadpanSnarker: When he's not engaging in LargeHam pontificating, the Archmage actually has quite a dry wit. |
| 1061 | -->'''Archmage''': ''[after the gargoyles defeat animated sand sculptures of the Archmage]'' Don't crow too loudly. After all, what have you achieved? You beat up a beach. At dawn, you all will die. Get used to it. |
| 1062 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Like his former pupil the Magus, his real name is unknown. Even WordOfGod isn't telling. [[invoked]] |
| 1063 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: His jaw drops when he sees the Magus abandon his spellbook. That the Magus did it to accompany his friends into Avalon seems totally lost on him. |
| 1064 | * EvilLaugh: Found of a menacing chuckle after his empowerment. |
| 1065 | * 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, either... [[invoked]] |
| 1066 | * EvilOldFolks: An old man with aspirations of tyranny and ultimate power. |
| 1067 | * EvilSorcerer: From obtaining powerful artifacts and cursing people with them, it's practically a lifestyle for him. |
| 1068 | * FantasticRacism: Has a low opinion of gargoyles, viewing them as "mangy beasts." Even Demona, his own protege, isn't exempt from being spat on for her non-human status. |
| 1069 | * FutureMeScaresMe/[[OtherMeAnnoysMe Past Me Annoys Me]]: His future self considers his past self a slow-witted fool lacking wide-enough ambition. Humorously, it's literally also [[spoiler:TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture]], too. |
| 1070 | * 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 it after that. |
| 1071 | * GreaterScopeVillain: The Avalon three-parter reveals he was the mastermind behind the actions of the Weird Sisters, including making both Demona and Macbeth immortal, thus kicking off their collaboration and centuries long enmity. |
| 1072 | * AGodAmI: After he gets the Grimorum, the Phoenix Gate and the Eye of Odin, he goes on this big power trip. |
| 1073 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:At the end of the Avalon three-parter, the power of the Grimorum, without the Eye of Odin, overpowers and kills him, and he never shows up in the series again after.]] |
| 1074 | * LargeHam: Quite possibly his most defining trait since it kept him from becoming a one-shot villain. |
| 1075 | * LoopholeAbuse: By literally ''eating'' the Grimorum, Archmage made its power a part of himself, allowing him to take outside magic into Avalon. |
| 1076 | * 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. |
| 1077 | ** 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 off the cliff, nearly killing him. |
| 1078 | * NoNameGiven: He's only ever referred to as "The Archmage". |
| 1079 | * NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Due to being saved by his future self. |
| 1080 | * PhlebotinumOverdose: Absorbing the magic of the Grimorum Arcanorum into himself allowed him to enter Avalon. Unfortunately, without the power-amplification of the Eye of Odin, it's more magic than his body can safely contain, and the Archmage is reduced to ashes. |
| 1081 | * 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]]...]] |
| 1082 | * {{Revenge}}: One of his motivation is revenge against Goliath, the other being ultimate power. |
| 1083 | * SmugSnake: Incredibly arrogant, and he's not all talk, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is. Case in point, as confident and assured as he sounds while discussing his impending plans with his past self, the Archmage didn't come up with a single word of it himself; [[StableTimeLoop he's just repeating what]] ''[[StableTimeLoop his]]'' [[StableTimeLoop future self told him]]. |
| 1084 | * StableTimeLoop: How he cheats death; the future him saved the past him who would then go on to save him and on and on. [[VoodooShark It raises a few more questions than it answers]]. |
| 1085 | * 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]]. |
| 1086 | * 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. |
| 1087 | * UngratefulBastard: Prince Malcolm saves the Archmage's life [[spoiler:from Wyvern, as the dragon tries incinerating the latter with his fire breath in retaliation for the Archmage attacking and blinding him in his left eye]]. Years later, the Archmage would attempt to kill Malcolm. |
| 1088 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:WordOfGod states that the Weird Sisters pretended to be TheDragon for him, when he was in fact theirs]].[[invoked]] |
| 1089 | * VillainTeamUp: With the Weird Sisters. |
| 1090 | ** WordOfGod has it that he and "Iago" (Coldsteel) used to scheme together while both still lived at Castle Wyvern. |
| 1091 | * WhyDontYaJustShootHim: This occurs in "Avalon" during his big fight with Goliath, who is very outclassed: |
| 1092 | -->'''Archmage''': I could destroy you with a word. |
| 1093 | -->'''Goliath''': [[GetItOverWith Then why don't you]]? |
| 1094 | -->'''Archmage''': Because I'm having too much fun! |
| 1095 | ** Even more glaring: he could have killed the gargoyles during daytime in their own lair in NY. He could have traveled in time and learned all of his enemies' secrets and weaknesses. Instead, he gave our heroes some time to prepare themselves and then got his ass kicked. |
| 1096 | *** Justified in that he was wearing the [[AmplifierArtifact Eye of Odin]], which, in addition to granting tremendous power, also makes the wearer "more like him/herself." The Archmage was ''already'' a petty, egomaniacal wizard obsessed with vengeance against all who slighted him... |
| 1097 | [[/folder]] |
| 1098 | |
| 1099 | [[folder:Constantine III]] |
| 1100 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_constantine.png]] |
| 1101 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Ian Buchanan |
| 1102 | |
| 1103 | A historical king of Scotland, portrayed here as an usurper to the throne and a cunning manipulator. He was the catalyst for 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. |
| 1104 | ---- |
| 1105 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: He tries to force Princess Katharine into marriage, prompting her to flee to the island of Avalon. |
| 1106 | * BaldOfEvil: After shaving his head in "Tyrants." This was done to mimic history, as the real Constantine was known as "Constantine the Bald." |
| 1107 | * {{Irony}}: Constantine wanted to avoid the same fate as his father, who was overthrown by his enemies and allied gargoyles. So he slew all the gargoyles he could find. However, the gargoyles were no longer allied with his enemies because of the Wyvern massacre. This new genocide drove the remaining gargoyles, with Brooklyn's help, to ally with Constantine's enemies and bring his downfall. |
| 1108 | * TheKingslayer: He stabbed Kenneth II, took the throne and put the blame on Finella, Mary, Tom and the Magus. |
| 1109 | * 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. |
| 1110 | * 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. |
| 1111 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: "As we understand it, the king makes the rules." |
| 1112 | * ShootTheMessenger: He orders a messenger from the Grim's army killed, despite the rules of war. |
| 1113 | * TheSociopath: Constantine has no problem manipulating Finella (who genuinely loves him), murdering Kenneth to steal his throne, or threatening gargoyle eggs to force Katharine's compliance. |
| 1114 | * UngratefulBastard: When Kenneth overthrew Constantine's father Culen, he attempted to break the cycle of violence between their families by acknowledging that the then-infant Constantine had no part in his father's tyranny and having him raised in his court alongside his own son and nephew. Even well into his adulthood Kenneth thought well of Constantine and defended him against Maol Chalvim's suspicions. Constantine repaid him by murdering him, seizing the crown for himself, and attempting to wipe out his entire family line. |
| 1115 | * TheUsurper: He murdered King Kenneth and stole his crown. |
| 1116 | [[/folder]] |
| 1117 | |
| 1118 | [[folder:Fang]] |
| 1119 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/JonathanFrakes ("Metamorphosis"), Creator/JamesBelushi (all other episodes) |
| 1120 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fang_0.jpg]] |
| 1121 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Yo, Goliath! How many gargoyles does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"'']] |
| 1122 | |
| 1123 | 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. Joins the Redemption Squad in the ''Bad Guys'' comics. |
| 1124 | ---- |
| 1125 | * BigBadWannaBe: Fang tries to get rid of Talon and take over the Labyrinth with Claw, Lou and Chaz as henchmen. His rule doesn't last longer than half an episode and he's imprisoned in the end. |
| 1126 | * TheBully: Tasked with protecting the weak in the Labyrinth, Fang instead pushes them around, demanding gifts like any schoolyard bully. |
| 1127 | * DirtyCoward: He likes his flight and energy projection abilities but shuns anything like a fair fight: while Talon and Claw do the heavy fighting he tends to pick on (seeming) lightweights like Lexington. When the mutates shift to their underground base he doesn't even have the guts to do his own thieving, preferring to send out homeless people to filch what they can and then shake them down. Once he joins the Redemption Squad, he still shows he can be this, but gets better about fighting more head-on than he usually does. |
| 1128 | -->'''Dingo:''' ''(holding Yama back from killing Fang)'': Yama, he's not worth it...\ |
| 1129 | '''Fang:''' ''(desperately)'' I'm not! I'm really not! |
| 1130 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: While Fang is not outright evil, he's still an unrepentant villain and bully with very few morals, even helping Sevarius mutate innocent people, children included, and was helping him try to mutate thousands of people celebrating New Year's at Times Square. But even he's horrified at [[spoiler:seeing one of the people he had a hand in helping Sevarius mutate commit suicide, giving Fang a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment as he realizes that the woman's death is partially his fault]]. And in contrast to several other villains in the series, Fang seems to actively try to avoid murdering people. |
| 1131 | ** He also gets two moments in the Bad Guys comic to showcase this trope, the first being when he ditches the team after they come under attack by flying robots, but he turns around a moment later and returns to join the fray, saving Yama's life in the process. The second is when, after realizing that the Illuminati aren't really made up of trustworthy and benevolent people as Falstaff made it seem, Fang subtly informs the team about it and they firmly take a stand against the Illuminati as was their original mission, rather than join the Illuminati's forces and all the power that could come with it. |
| 1132 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Fang was just a hobo living on the streets. After his mutation, he sees himself as superior and doesn't want to be cured. While he is physically stronger, he's just a lowly thug taking orders from someone else and is only a threat to humans. The gargoyles and the mutates have no problem kicking his ass. |
| 1133 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: The resident bully on both of the good-guy teams he's roped into joining. Hints are shown that he may not be as bad as it seems, though he clearly just really enjoys being a jerk. |
| 1134 | * LargeHam: To say he's exuberant is putting it mildly. Fang's almost as hammy as Sevarius. |
| 1135 | * LegoGenetics: Like all the mutates, he was meant to have catlike speed, bat-like flight, and an eel's bioelectrical discharges alongside a human consciousness, and the combination is shown very literally in his appearance. |
| 1136 | * NoIndoorVoice: His constant shouting is one of his most noticeable traits. |
| 1137 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until the comics reveal his real name, Fred Sykes. |
| 1138 | * RevelingInTheNewForm: Fang, unlike his fellow mutates, quickly comes to love his new mutated body and the abilities that come with it. Once a supposed cure is brought up in the episode The Cage, Fang quickly expresses his disinterest in it, saying he likes his new body. |
| 1139 | * SmarterThanYouLook: He comes across as nothing but a loud-mouth thug, but he's actually quite shrewd. To get Talon out of his way even if for a while, Fang easily manipulates him into rushing off to attack Xanatos by making him think Xanatos was the likely culprit behind Elisa's disappearance, then he managed to pull off a successful takeover of the Labyrinth that only failed because he thought the escaped Maggie wouldn't cause problems. And in the ''Bad Guys'' comic, Fang is the one who realizes that the Illuminati, specifically the team's host Falstaff, cannot be trusted; the mutate informs this to the rest of the Redemption Squad, but does so in a subtle way that his team notices but Falstaff and his goons (and even Thailog) do not. |
| 1140 | * SpannerInTheWorks: As pointed out above, Fang is the reason Falstaff fails at recruiting the Redemption Squad to the Illuminati's side, thus costing the organization a well trained team of fighters, including the highly advanced and potentially extremely dangerous artificial intelligence Matrix, as well as valuable intel in the Illuminati's enemy, the mysterious Director. Fang's actions of making sure the Squad knows the Illuminati can't be trusted also essentially saves the whole Squad's lives, as Falstaff was prepared to have them all killed should they refuse to join the Illuminati, but thanks to Fang, the Squad was able to attack before Falstaff and his crew could. |
| 1141 | -->'''Fang''': Hey, I've got experience in back-stabbing! Trust me, Fat-stuff was onto us! |
| 1142 | * TheStarscream: Talon doesn't want there to be 'a leader', yet asserts authority without realizing it. Fang figures he'd do a better job, although not until he's well-armed. |
| 1143 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Among the Labyrinth Clan, where he eventually morphs into TheStarscream, and even more obviously on the Redemption Squad. Though, as we glimpse in the Bad Guys comic, while he's willing to go as far as helping Sevarius kidnap and mutate innocent people, Fang does have standards [[spoiler: which starts being shown after Tasha's suicide and Fang realizing he's partly responsible for it]], and while still a massive jerk, he does stick with the team even when more than one chance pops up to either ditch them or join the Illuminati alongside them. |
| 1144 | [[/folder]] |
| 1145 | |
| 1146 | [[folder:The Matrix]] |
| 1147 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/JimCummings |
| 1148 | [[quoteright:203:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matrix_1.PNG]] |
| 1149 | |
| 1150 | A hive-mind artificial intelligence created by Anastasia Renard at Fox's request made up of nanobots, which it uses to come very close to destroying the world after escaping containment. By entering the Dream-time to communicate with it, Goliath and Dingo are able to convince it to fight for justice instead of universal perfection. |
| 1151 | |
| 1152 | * AntiVillain: In its debut, Matrix isn't trying to be malevolent or destructive; it's simply following its programming to an extent that Fox and Anastasia didn't foresee. Once Goliath and Dingo talk it down, Matrix is happy to pursue "law and order" alongside its new partner. |
| 1153 | * TheBlank: Its default form post-HeelFaceTurn is of a silver humanoid with no facial features apart from an expressive brow. |
| 1154 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: As an antagonist, it is convinced that order can only come from complete geometric perfection that destroys all life on Earth. Organic beings are also incapable of real-time communication with it in its expanding form because its thought processes are just too fast, except by entering the Dream-time, where all times are one. As a hero, its every thought and action is devoted to serving the version of "law and order" that Dingo has taught it, which is still a work in progress. |
| 1155 | * DoAnythingRobot: As a cluster of nanobots, it has a wider array of powers than nearly any other character in the show. |
| 1156 | * GreyGoo: Name-dropped by Anastasia as its original motivation; it makes its presence known as a constantly-expanding, all-consuming mass of silvery "slime" engulfing all into a crystal-like substance. Eventually confirmed to be nanomachines. |
| 1157 | * {{Nanomachines}}: It exists as a cluster of countless tiny machines that reform to accomplish tasks. |
| 1158 | * NotSoStoic: Shows emotion exactly once in all of its appearances: in the first issue of ''Bad Guys'', it looks upset when informed by Robyn that Dingo used to be a criminal. It gets over it fairly quickly when the Shaman reminds it that Dingo cannot continue to serve law and order if he goes to prison now. |
| 1159 | * OrderVersusChaos: It fights for order, first GreyGoo and then "law and order". |
| 1160 | * PowerArmor: Fuses with, and becomes, Dingo's power armor. |
| 1161 | * PungeonMaster: For an emotionless artificial intelligence, Matrix is not above being punny. |
| 1162 | -->'''Matrix''': Then we must disable our opponents.\ |
| 1163 | '''Mistress Quickly''': Easier said than done.\ |
| 1164 | '''Matrix''': Inaccurate. Your statement...\ |
| 1165 | (Matrix creates a puddle of itself around its feet, causing Mistress Quickly to slip and fall)\ |
| 1166 | '''Matrix''': ... lacks traction. |
| 1167 | * RedemptionDemotion: As a villain, was an endless supply of nanobots that threatened to destroy the world. As a hero, it is disconnected from the nuclear power plant that gave it its original power, and though it has enough nanobots to perform extremely complex tasks, it is limited to its immediate surroundings and does most of its fighting either as Dingo's armor or as a slender humanoid. It is still by far the most powerful member of the Redemption Squad. |
| 1168 | * SpellMyNameWithAThe: Was called "The Matrix" in its single TV appearance. Averted in the comic continuation, in which it is simply "Matrix", whether because that sounds more personal now that it's more personified or because the term "Film/TheMatrix" gained a very specific connotation in the years between the show and the comics. |
| 1169 | * StoryBreakerPower: Matrix once had the power to [[GreyGoo cover and reshape the entire world]]. Now it's in a humanoid shape and its range is limited to its surroundings. Justified, since it no longer has access to the energy of the nuclear power plant that boosted its capabilities. |
| 1170 | * VerbalTic: "Law and order". From the moment it hears Dingo say these words, the Matrix barely says a single sentence without referencing it. Lampshaded with Dingo calls it "Mr. One-Track Mind". |
| 1171 | [[/folder]] |
| 1172 | |
| 1173 | [[folder:Banquo and Fleance]] |
| 1174 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/FrankWelker (Banquo), Creator/BJWard (Fleance) |
| 1175 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_fleance.png]] |
| 1176 | [[caption-width-right:350:Fleance]] |
| 1177 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_banquo.png]] |
| 1178 | [[caption-width-right:350:Banquo]] |
| 1179 | |
| 1180 | Macbeth's henchmen. They later part ways with Macbeth and become Quarrymen. |
| 1181 | |
| 1182 | * BoyishShortHair: Fleance's wears her hair very short, fitting her aggressive demeanor. |
| 1183 | * CoDragons: For Macbeth, at least until they depart from his service to assume the same role for Castaway. |
| 1184 | * FantasticRacism: They are Quarrymen despite knowing full-well that gargoyles are sapient and benevolent. Indeed, they ''relish'' the thought of shattering Goliath. |
| 1185 | * GenderFlip: Fleance is a woman, though her Shakespeare counterpart is a man. |
| 1186 | * {{Irony}}: After spending most of their screentime in service to Macbeth, they sign up with the Quarrymen, led by a descendant of Macbeth's enemies Duncan and Canmore. |
| 1187 | * ShoutOutToShakespeare: They are named after two characters from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''. It's possible Macbeth, who has a fondness for his Shakespearean counterpart, gave them those names as code handles--or, as their names are never mentioned in dialogue, that the names are simply script placeholders. |
| 1188 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Fleance, typically quite masculine and aggressive, dons a light pink dress for Macbeth's wedding to "Dominique Destine". |
| 1189 | [[/folder]] |
| 1190 | |
| 1191 | [[folder:Proteus]] |
| 1192 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/RoddyMcDowall |
| 1193 | -->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Massimiliano Lotti |
| 1194 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/proteus_true_form.png]] |
| 1195 | |
| 1196 | One of the New Olympians. According to Taurus, the only one of the New Olympians who is evil. |
| 1197 | |
| 1198 | * AxCrazy: He tries to trigger an explosion that would destroy all of New Olympus, just for the hell of it. |
| 1199 | * {{Cyclops}}: Though his real form is that of a skinny, pale humanoid with a balding head, he often takes the form of a gigantic hairy cyclops. |
| 1200 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Proteus acts friendly with Taurus one moment, and gloats about murdering his father the next. |
| 1201 | * GenocideFromTheInside: He tries to destroy New Olympus and kill all of his own people [[ForTheEvulz for a giggle]]. |
| 1202 | * {{Irony}}: For a shapeshifter, he's not a great actor. His portrayal of Goliath is seriously flawed, and it doesn't take very long for Elisa to see through it. |
| 1203 | * KickTheDog: He shapeshifts into the form of Taurus' father, whom Proteus murdered, just to taunt him. |
| 1204 | * ManipulativeBastard: He's established as a dangerous sociopath who's more than willing to use his shapeshifting powers to trick and manipulate Goliath and Elisa into letting him escape and destroy everything. Too bad for him, ImpostorForgotOneDetail. |
| 1205 | * PerfectDisguiseTerribleActing: His mimicking of others' forms is perfect, but he makes at most only a token effort to adopt their mannerisms and usual speech patterns, so he usually can't fool anyone for very long. |
| 1206 | * TheSociopath: He is a sick and sadistic individual who finds pleasure in tormenting his victims and is willing to destroy his homeland and people before making his escape. |
| 1207 | * VoluntaryShapeshifter: He can change his shape into anyone and anything. |
| 1208 | [[/folder]] |
| 1209 | |
| 1210 | [[folder: Margot Yale]] |
| 1211 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/360px_margot.png]] |
| 1212 | [[caption-width-right:350: "Mister, you're living in a fantasy world!"]] |
| 1213 | -->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/MarinaSirtis (Margot, main series), Creator/TressMacNeille (Margot, ''The Goliath Chronicles''), |
| 1214 | |
| 1215 | * AscendedExtra: In the animated series, she was portrayed simply as a mildly annoying background character. However, as the series continued in comic book format, she was revealed to be a relentlessly judgmental city prosecutor who aims to have the public view the Gargoyles species as undeserving of humane treatment and nothing more than dumb animals. In the Dynamite Comics revival, she is depicted as a major obstacle against the main characters. |
| 1216 | * AggressiveCategorism: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] and with emphasis on the “aggressive” aspect of this trope. The majority of characters in this series have the benefit of past experiences to justify their stigmas against certain groups. Not so much Margot whose claims that gargoyles are nothing but bloodthirsty and brainless animals contradict her prior experiences with them. Even when Goliath proves her wrong in front of the entire court (in the Dynamite continuation), she still has the gall to treat him with belittling disdain. Her reasoning boils down to “gargoyles aren’t human; therefore, they have no humanizing features nor should they. And any humanizing trait they exhibit is merely a fluke that should be dismissed immediately. |
| 1217 | * AwfulWeddedLife: To put it mildly, Margot doesn’t think highly of Brendan - not wasting a minute to emasculate him whenever he tries to do something right; and even on their first appearance in the show, we see Margot lock Brendan out of their car (though he fails to notice it) when some thugs threaten them as Brendan tries fixing it. Brendan’s reactions indicate that having to put up with it is frying his nerves. |
| 1218 | * BullyingADragon: |
| 1219 | ** In issue #9 of the Dynamite comics continuity, when her attempts to frame Gargoyles as mindless and not sentient fall flat, Margot hopes to win her case of “proving” that Gargoyles are an absolute danger by [[InvokedTrope invoking]] and [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] this trope, hoping to provoke an angry reaction from Goliath as a means to “prove” her stance. Unfortunately for her, Goliath is savvy about this underhanded tactic and promptly calls her out on it in a calm and professional manner. |
| 1220 | ** She does this again to Elisa after the latter gives her testimony in issue #10, even leaning in close to Elisa’s face with a crap-eating grin as she condescendingly asks her to repeat her answer; almost as if she is goading Elisa into punching her in the face in front of the entire court to incriminate her alongside Goliath. |
| 1221 | * CosmicPlaything: See RecurringExtra. New York theoretically has tens of thousands of inhabitants, but Margot and her husband Brendan keep inadvertently penetrating TheMasquerade. |
| 1222 | * DeadpanSnarker: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Based on her body language and choice of words, she seems to fancy herself as one of these. However, most of her comments lack wit and keen observation, making her come off as unbearably elitist and judgmental instead of clever or sardonic. |
| 1223 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: As shown in the Dynamite continuation. Slighty [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in that she isn’t exactly “evil”, but still very antagonistic and biased. When Elisa professes her love for Goliath as part of her testimony, Margot undermines her attempt to humanize Goliath by insinuating that Elisa is just “unhealthily obsessed with a monster”. Out-of-context, it’s understandable that Elisa’s testimony could be perceived as such, but considering Margot’s poor treatment of her own husband, it’s very likely that even if Goliath was a human instead of a gargoyle, Margot wouldn’t empathize with Elisa’s genuine devotion and care for him. |
| 1224 | * FantasticRacism: Towards gargoyles. |
| 1225 | * FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Since the start of the series and up to this point, she hasn’t had a single encounter with a hostile gargoyle; not even with Demona, Thailog, or Coldsteel. Yet, the fact that there is another bipedal, humanoid species coexisting with humans on Earth is enough to make her feel repulsed and want to use her legal position to persecute them just for not being human. Slightly [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in that she might not want them dead (for now, at least), but she ''really'' doesn’t want them to be acknowledged for any human-like capabilities or qualities nor treated as intellectual equals to humans. |
| 1226 | * HateSink: A mildly unlikable character in her early appearances, she graduates to this in the comics continuations as she pettily [[CourtroomEpisode shoots down all of the arguments that gargoyles should be treated as equals to humans]] in the most snide and condescending ways, all despite her previous experiences proving her points incorrect (along with just being snide and condescending in general). And, compared to other antagonists, her reasons for hating gargoyles are very shallow - focusing solely on the superficial aspects and nothing else. Her disparaging attitude at Goliath’s “sentience trial” - including being a SmugSmiler - only adds to the flame. Also, most of her interactions with her husband involve her making him feel inferior or inefficient. |
| 1227 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She has been subjected to attempted muggings, armed robberies on the subway, and been taken hostage; in which the perpetrators were humans and the gargoyles were her rescuers each time. Who does she view as the bigger danger to New York’s citizens? Why, the gargoyles (a.k.a. her rescuers) of course!. In issue #10 of the Dynamite continuation, she even has the nerve to [[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription imply that Elisa is this]] after the latter provides her testimony about Goliath. |
| 1228 | * IRejectYourReality: In the 2022 revival comic (issue #5). As if being [[UngratefulBastard ungrateful]], a KnowNothingKnowItAll and [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]] wasn’t bad enough, she presents her case in court declaring that Gargoyles should be considered mindless animals and not people - scoffing at and denying claims that they are capable of thought, self-awareness or even speech. This, despite her presence and interaction with the Gargoyles in both the first part of the ''City of Stone'' arc and the first part of the ''Hunter's Moon'' arc, being rescued by the Gargoyles, having a short dialogue exchange with them (in the City of Stone episode), and being in close proximity enough to hear their properly-formed sentences and conversations with other characters; COMPLETELY derailing her claims that gargoyles aren’t capable of intelligence. |
| 1229 | * InSeriesNickname: In the Dynamite revival, during Goliath’s “sentience trial”, Lexington refers to Margot as “The Wicked Witch of the West Side”. |
| 1230 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: After the existence of the Gargoyles is revealed. In "The Journey", she rants against Macbeth in a news debate saying that the Gargoyles are a threat to society, basing solely on her own unproven opinions. In fact, everything she says about them is followed by a scene that completely contradicts it. She also weaponizes her position as Assistant District Attorney to insist that the public believe them to be incapable of benevolence or intelligence even when she has no evidence or past experiences to support these statements |
| 1231 | * MoralMyopia: In the Dynamite Comics continuation. In issue #10, her closing statement dictates that the court should rule in her favor because it is too small in scope to redefine the definition of humanity in regards to gargoyles’ rights. ''This'', coming from someone who spent the majority of the CourtroomEpisode using her legal position to define what is and what isn’t “human” on the city’s behalf despite being just a single person herself. |
| 1232 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In issue #9 of the Dynamite continuation, she states that Goliath shouldn’t be present in the courtroom for his trial because of the risk of him bodily harming everyone else present. When Goliath provides his testimony and proves that gargoyles are more than capable of being civil and intelligent, she immediately tries getting under his skin as a means to make him angry in order to win her case; thus, attempting to create the danger that she claimed to want to prevent. It gives the strong impression that, deep down, she couldn’t care less if she is right in her baseless claims about gargoyles or if she is doing a service to the public so long as she can live in a world where another humanoid, bipedal species isn’t treated as the intellectual equal to humans. |
| 1233 | * PersecutingProsecutor: Margot’s current role as of the Dynamite continuation. Beneath her dutiful claims that she wants to protect the human populace (specifically, New York’s) from homicidal and feral creatures is a woman who wants to prevent the human world from acknowledging another sentient race as being on the same social footing as humans simply because their mere existence ''dared'' to disrupt her perceived status quo. Her cross-referencing (which is portrayed as a combination of TwistingTheWords and {{Doublethink}}) even dictates that, regardless if the gargoyles didn’t do anything wrong or their actions are heroic, [[CategorismAsAPhobia the human individuals’ fear of them alone is enough to justify them not having any rights and subjecting them to degradation and objectification]]. She even goes as far as to have John Castaway, the leader of a notoriously violent gargoyle-hating group, testify on her behalf. |
| 1234 | * RichBitch: She is the ADA of NYC and has the salary and luxuries that come with the job. She is also a very grating person to be around. Not even her own husband is safe from her unpleasantries. And that’s not even getting into her crusade of {{Dehumanization}} against gargoyles… |
| 1235 | * SmugSnake: Being proven wrong won’t stop her snotty behavior and she will continue to put on an air of overwrought confidence to emphasize that she knows what she is talking about even if she is incorrect. |
| 1236 | * UngratefulBitch: This was initially out of fear. However, after the gargoyles' existence is revealed, Margot embodies this trope in a far nastier way. She is also this to Brendan. No matter how much he tries to do right by her, she always finds a reason to belittle him. |
| 1237 | [[/folder]] |
| 1238 | |
| 1239 | [[folder:Taro]] |
| 1240 | --> '''Voiced by (EN):''' James Saito |
| 1241 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taro_3.png]] |
| 1242 | |
| 1243 | A former citizen of Ishimura who left the town, became wealthy, and schemes to reveal its local gargoyles to the world. |
| 1244 | |
| 1245 | * ArmorIsUseless: Dressed in a samurai armor to take on Yama. Does nothing against his exploding fans, though. |
| 1246 | * CombatHandFan: Rather than swords, he uses a pair of electrified combat fans to subdue the Gargoyles. |
| 1247 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the end Yama, the Gargoyle he persuaded to help him, defeats him in combat. |
| 1248 | * HumiliationConga: Yama uses his own fans on him, leaves him stuck in the huge Gargoyle animatronic and then his attempts to claim that Gargoyles are real makes him look like a loony and is mocked by the press. |
| 1249 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He ''tries'' to pass himself as well-meaning, but even Yama eventually sees him as the greedy bastard he is. |
| 1250 | * SmugSnake: He's clever, but he's not as smart as he thinks he is. He is certainly no Xanatos. |
| 1251 | [[/folder]] |
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