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1!{{Trivia}} tropes for ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
2!!Trivia With Their Own Pages
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4* [[ReferencedBy/{{Gargoyles}} Referenced By]]
5* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Gargoyles}} What Could Have Been]]
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8* ActingForTwo:
9** Creator/KeithDavid gives voice to Goliath, his malevolent clone Thailog, Officer Morgan, and a couple of random thugs. Goliath and the thugs interact briefly, and he clashes with Thailog at least 3 times.
10** Creator/JeffBennett voices Owen, Brooklyn and most of the thugs he fought.
11*** Interestingly, [[spoiler:Owen's alter ego]], Puck, is not voiced by Bennett but rather by Creator/BrentSpiner.
12** Creator/MarinaSirtis voices both Demona and Margot Yale.
13** Creator/MichaelDorn voices both Taurus and Taurus's father (or rather, Proteus taunting Taurus by shapeshifting into his father). He also voices Coldstone.
14** Creator/JohnRhysDavies voices both (adult) Macbeth and Findlaech.
15** Creator/ClancyBrown voices Hakon, Tomas Brod and Wolf. Eventually, it's explained that Hakon is actually Wolf's distant ancestor, and Wolf, after stealing Hakon's battle axe, ends up encountering Hakon's ghost.
16** Creator/KathSoucie voices Princess Katharine, Mary, Maggie the Cat, Ophelia, and all three Weird Sisters.
17** Music/SheenaEaston voices Lady Finella, Molly/the Banshee and Robyn Canmore, as well as Fiona Canmore in the reading of the unproduced ''[[WesternAnimation/AtlantisMilosReturn Team Atlantis]]'' crossover "The Last" at the Gathering of the Gargoyles.
18** Creator/ScottCleverdon voices Rory Dugan and Jon Canmore.
19** Creator/CreeSummer voices Hyena, and also reprises Queen Kida of Atlantis in "The Last".
20* BadExportForYou:
21** Sweden originally never got the series proper; instead, it got a compilation movie put together with the 5 pilot episodes undubbed.
22** Later averted as of June 22, 2022, as the entire series is finally now available on Creator/DisneyPlus in Nordic countries, Sweden included. However, [[NoDubForYou there's still no dubbing available]]—only subtitles.
23* BannedEpisode: The episode "Deadly Force" was removed from rotation for a while, then re-aired with the scene of Broadway accidentally shooting Elisa with her own gun edited to remove the blood around Elisa's body.
24* BreakthroughHit: Creator/GregWeisman's fame as a showrunner all started with this series.
25* ChannelHop:
26** From syndication to Creator/{{ABC}} for the third season.
27** Once more in effect as the series was uploaded in full onto Disney's official Website/YouTube account, and later onto Creator/DisneyPlus.
28* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: Toronto-based Creator/LawrenceBayne voices Raven in his [[Recap/GargoylesS2Heritage first appearance]][[labelnote:*]]Raven's appearance in "Hunter's Moon" is unvoiced[[/labelnote]]. Bayne would return in Season 3 as an assassin in "Generations"
29* TheDanza: Elisa's undercover name is "Salli". The same first name of her voice actress, Creator/SalliRichardsonWhitfield.
30* DeletedScene: In the first run of the series, [[spoiler:Goliath was fighting Jon wearing a PowerArmor. At some point, the former pinned the latter on the floor and savagely pounded on his helm. Seeing that his hits weren't getting through, Goliath started ripping the armor when Elisa and Jason entered the scene. In later broadcasts the pounding sequence was cut.]]
31* EditedForSyndication:
32** Toon Disney initially banned the episode "Deadly Force" because the episode revolved around Elisa's near-fatal shooting by Broadway (who was playing around with her gun). In 2002, Toon Disney finally showed the episode, but the part where Elisa gets shot uses a fake zoom-in on Elisa's face to cover up the blood around Elisa's torso. A later scene in this episode has Broadway sobbing, but the sound effect lasts noticeably longer than the clip used.
33** On Toon Disney and the VHS video release of "Awakenings, Part Two," Xanatos's line "Pay a man enough, and he'll walk barefoot into Hell," was cut. The DVD version has the line uncensored.
34** In Toon Disney airings of "The Reckoning," Fang saying "Kinky" after witnessing Demona's transformation into a human is cut.
35** All reruns of ''The Goliath Chronicles'' have different end credits compared to the ABC run; the Buena Vista TV logo is replaced with the Walt Disney TV logo, and the background is different, too. This was to eliminate references to the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStoryTreats'', which were vignettes that were interspersed throughout the 1996-97 ABC Saturday Morning lineup, including commercial bumpers with the Green Army Men; the reason the credits were included was because ''Chronicles'' was positioned near the end of the block at 11:30 AM (presumably the last program, ''Series/FlashForward1996'', couldn't have the credits because it was produced in Canada, and neither could the ABC Weekend Specials which followed at 12:30).
36* ExecutiveMeddling:
37** The {{Retool}} of the third season was caused by Disney replacing the entire production team. There's also the matter of the higher fees that caused the comic's cancellation.
38** WordOfGod says that the trio's motorcycle and helicopter were mandated by higher-ups who wanted to be able to sell them as toys. Of course, the motorcycle blew up within five minutes of its debut, and the helicopter showed up in one episode and was then never mentioned again...
39** Laura San Giacomo's agent refused to let her be credited for the role of Fox, believing it would damage her reputation to be on an animated show.
40** A positive one. The highers-up liked the Hunters from the "City of Stone" arc and wanted them to return. This lead to the Hunter legacy as seen in the SeriesFinale.
41* FollowTheLeader: Made as Disney's answer to Creator/WarnerBrothers' own ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' as a DarkerAndEdgier show set in night yet still enjoyable for all audiences. The show was liberally staffed with ''Batman:TAS'' writers and story editors, including Michael Reaves (who wrote the majority of ''Gargoyles'' season 1, and much of the best of season 2) and Brynne Chandler Reaves (also responsible for a fair bit of season 1, and the highpoint ''City Of Stone'' episodes in season 2). Other ''Batman:TAS'' writers who pulled ''Gargoyles'' duty included Steve Perry, Marty Isenberg & Robert N. Skir, and Diane Duane & Peter Morwood (all of whom left after season 2.) Len Wein, who also worked on ''Batman:TAS'', wrote one episode of the much-derided season 3.
42* TheForeignSubtitle:
43** France: ''Gargoyles, the Angels of Night''
44** Italy: ''Gargoyles; the Awakening of the Heroes''
45* FridayNightDeathSlot: Metaphorically. The series was moved to Saturday mornings and then lobotomized to have it fit kid-vid expectations (see also ExecutiveMeddling).
46* HypotheticalCasting: While casting Hudson, his bio included a reference to Lou Grant's famous "I hate spunk!" line from ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', meaning they were looking to get an Creator/EdAsner type. However, they were able to get Asner himself for the part.
47* InternationalCoProduction: The third season was co-produced by Canadian animation firm Creator/{{Nelvana}}.
48* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
49** The series is available on DVD in its entirety[[note]]although the Season 2, Volume 1 DVD went into the Disney Vault some time near the end of TheNewTens[[/note]] with the exception of ''The Goliath Chronicles'', which is unlikely to ever get a DVD release anytime soon due to its dismal reception and even being considered [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] by Greg Weisman.
50** Greg Weisman has been pretty vocal that he has no plans to push for a DVD release. [[https://twitter.com/greg_weisman/status/498606185566588928]], [[https://twitter.com/greg_weisman/status/552687210676248576]].
51** ''The Goliath Chronicles'' is for sale digitally at the [=iTunes=] Store in the US for the curious.
52** As of 2019, the whole show is on Disney+.
53* KidsMealToy: Burger King had a set of four toys in 1995. There was a spinning Goliath figure, a color-changing Broadway figure, a pop-up book, and a color-changing cup.
54* LateExportForYou: The series didn't make it to Denmark, Norway or Finland (or properly debut in Sweden in its unabridged form) until '''''June 2022''''', exclusively on Disney+. That's over '''''27 years''''' after it initially debuted in America!
55* LicensedGame: For the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. It has Goliath, the Vikings, the 1000-year sleep to New York, The Steel Clan, and the Eye of Odin [[spoiler:and Demona]], but those are really the only things solidly tying it to the ''Gargoyles'' universe. The game itself was rather good, yet somewhat bland and empty. In September 2022, it was announced to be getting an UpdatedRerelease known as ''Gargoyles Remastered''.
56* LineToGod: Creator/GregWeisman has this in the form of the "Ask Greg" section of fansite [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/index.php Station 8]]. Notable for at least two reasons: one, that Weisman will answer any and all questions submitted to the site given enough time (so long as they meet the site's guidelines), and two, that the site has been in more-or-less constant operation since ''1997''.Overall, this has led to a searchable archive of well over '''14,000''' answered questions since Station 8 first opened. This may account, at least in part, for the truly ''massive'' smattering of WordOfGod entries on this show's pages.
57* TheMerch: [[http://gargwiki.net/Lex%27s_Helicopter Lex's Helicopter]] was created with the intention of being made for toys. Kenner, the company that made Gargoyles' toy line, declined to make a toy based on it, but did create one called the Night Striker which is very similar to it.
58* MidDevelopmentGenreShift:
59** The show was originally pitched as a comedy series. The basic premise remained the same: approximately one-thousand years ago, Gargoyles were not merely stone statues, but real flesh-and-blood creatures. But, unlike the noble protectors of the final shows, these Gargoyles were mischievous troublemakers who frequently drove the local humans nuts. This development went through several versions before being scrapped, in favor of the darker, more serious vision of the show.
60** The genre shift occurred right around the time of the L.A. race riots. Given that the theme of bigotry is an important part of the series' lore, the timing couldn't have been a coincidence.
61* NoExportForYou: Just try getting Disney to let you watch it online outside the United States...
62** [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes The DVDs are as rare as hens' teeth as well.]]
63** Thanks to the advent of Creator/DisneyPlus, however, this is fortunately averted in many countries, with the show being readily available on the platform in its entirety.
64* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Welshman Creator/JohnRhysDavies sounds much as he always does while voicing the Scot [=MacBeth=].
65* TheOtherDarrin:
66** Fang's sole line in "Metamorphosis" was done by Creator/JonathanFrakes, with Creator/JamesBelushi playing him for the rest of the series.
67** Creator/NanaVisitor was originally cast as Fox and did recordings, but producer Frank Paur [[https://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=8200 decided to recast her with]] Creator/LauraSanGiacomo; Visitor's voice can still be heard in "Leader of the Pack", as the computer voice in the Pack Attack Vehicle.
68* OutOfOrder: Season two of Gargoyles had 52 episodes, making it impossible to tell which would be ready on time. Hence, given the show's very tight continuity, the episodes had to be split into various "blocks" where episodes could be aired in any order within each block. Though they did still run into a problem with Owen's stone arm, as two episodes intended to air before it happened ended up being delayed.
69* PlayingAgainstType:
70** Actors were often cast opposite to their usual roles. Thailog was created mostly to showcase Keith David's talents as a villain, Thom Adcox [[spoiler:as future, evil Lexington]], Creator/MarinaSirtis as a member of the YuppieCouple, the list goes on. It even applies to guest stars, as Sheena Easton went from banshee to monster hunter Robyn Canmore, and Gregg Rainwater went from playing a man defending his home against a trickster in one appearance to playing another (more benevolent) trickster in the second.
71** Not to mention the obvious use of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Commander Riker and Counselor Troi]] as antagonists.
72* PromotedFanboy: Karine Charlesbois was a huge fan of the series and well known in the fandom. She was a staff member of [[FanConvention the Gathering]] and later became a pencil artist for the SLG Gargoyles' ''Bash'' and ''ComicBook/GargoylesBadGuys''.
73* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Lexington, who was confirmed to be gay, is voiced by gay actor Creator/ThomAdcoxHernandez.
74* RealLifeRelative: In the French dub, Magali Barney is the voice of Eliza Maza. Her father, Creator/JeanBarney, is the voice of several characters, such as Halcyon Renard and Matrix.
75* ReferencedBy: Click [[ReferencedBy/{{Gargoyles}} here]].
76* ScheduleSlip: The comic books. It's almost - ''almost'' - enough to make you ''glad'' SLG had to drop the series; it deserves better.
77* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
78** Season One was released on DVD in 2004, and Part One of Season Two was released in 2005. Part Two of Season Two was not released until ''2013''!
79** It seems that Disney never had any idea what to do with this series; they scheduled it ''once a week'' ([[FridayNightDeathSlot on Fridays]]) as opposed to every day like the other programs on the ''Disney Afternoon'' block, because there were only ''thirteen episodes'' for Season One, which means that they would've burned through the whole season in two-and-a-half weeks (assuming every episode was ready to air before the premiere, which they weren't).
80** Production was jerked around for Season Two, with the order for 52 episodes not being firmly settled until some weeks into starting, hamstringing them a bit. This is why there are so many gaps in premiere air dates (there would've been gaps anyway due to the volume of work, but Weisman has noted they lost extra time they could've used regardless).
81** They came up with [[MisaimedMarketing downright bizarre ideas for the toy line]]; there's no Pack action figures, but you can have Bronx dressed like a winged metal lion for some reason. The multi-part premiere episode was packaged with a ''board game'' for some reason.
82** Much of the original run of Season Two was pre-empted by the Creator/OJSimpson trial.
83* TechnologyMarchesOn:
84** Most notably those enormous 90s cell phones. Not to mention the huge boxy computer CRT monitors.
85** In ''Walkabout'', a research facility on nanotechnology still use data cartridges. Not for backups, but for running the Matrix program. Amusingly, Dingo's PowerArmor is equipped to play these things.
86* ViewersAreGeniuses: One anecdote from Greg Weisman's blog really shows the quality of audience this show garners. At a panel at one of the Gargoyles Gatherings, he was describing [[BelligerentSexualTension the sort of relationship]] he was envisioning for Brooklyn and Katana in Timedancer. He initially cited [[Series/{{Cheers}} Sam and Diane]]. Nobody got it. Then he mentioned [[Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing Benedick and Beatrice]]. The whole audience cracked up.
87* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Gargoyles}} Has its own page.]]
88* WordOfGay:
89** According to many posts at the website above, Lexington was this, but it was never implied or explicitly stated in the show. This was mentioned before the comic came out.
90** [[spoiler: In the comic book continuation, he meets a stag-headed male gargoyle of the London Clan named Amp who looks to be set up as a future LoveInterest. Creator/GregWeisman confirmed at the 2011 [=CONVergence=] ''Gargoyles'' panel that Lex has a crush on Amp, and in issue 6 of the Creator/DynamiteComics series it's made explicit when Broadway asks Lex how the long-distance thing with Amp is going]].
91* WordOfGod:
92** Creator Greg Weisman, who contributes to a fairly elaborate [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/ lexicon website]] outlining 1000 years worth of history for the series, including ones not yet produced. And with answers to questions ranging from politics to gargoyle sex to in-jokes.
93** After a song from another Weisman/Disney series, ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', was played on a boombox in the first issue of the ''ComicBook/GargoylesBadGuys'' comic, Weisman clarified that ''W.I.T.C.H.'' was fictional in the ''Gargoyles''-verse (which means that it was apparently produced in the mid-90s in-universe instead of the mid-2000s as in real life).
94** Boreas, Kiron, Taurus, Ekidna, Sphinx and the other New Olympians are apparently mixtures of human, Third Race, and various animals, and it shows.
95** Bruno was stated to be assembling a new security team.
96** In the planned spinoff ''Gargoyles 2198'', Demona would have taken a role somewhere between TheAtoner and TokenEvilTeammate.
97* WriterConflictsWithCanon: A few years after the show was canceled, Greg Weisman confirmed that Lexington was gay. In the show itself, he's just as attracted to female gargoyles as the rest of the trio and competed for Angela's affection in ''Turf.'' WordOfGod is that this was because of him closeted/not consciously aware yet of his orientation, pursuing Angela just because his brothers were, and Greg wasn't allowed to even imply Lex's orientation at all since it went against Disney's Standards and Practices of the time.

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