Interspecies Romance: With Elisa. It's done with much better timing and respect for the characters than usual. Despite their Superman-style initial meeting, they start out as Platonic Life Partners. Were it not for certain events brought about by Demona and Puck, they may have gone on that way: instead there was a sudden burst of UST, leading to a moving Better as Friends moment - after which they remained friends due to the considerable obstacles in the way of Interspecies Romance; for a while.
The Leader: He replaced Hudson pre-series and led the clan until he left for Avalon. At that point he put Brooklyn in charge. While he values wisdom the others follow him because they believe in him.
Luke, You Are My Father: To Angela. He knew; he just didn't think it was a huge deal because of the gargoyles' cultural attitude towards children, namely that they're the children of the entire community.
Papa Wolf: Do NOT EVER harm any member (human and gargoyle) of Goliath's clan. Believe me, you'll be wishing you hadn't.
Knight Templar Parent: He becomes this temporarily after the hunters nearly kill Angela.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Despite his noble personality, Goliath tends to forget that "death solves nothing" if it looks like one of his clan is dead.
Tall, Dark and Handsome: From a gargoyle (and Elisa's) standpoint; his human form in "The Mirror" reflects this.
Thou Shalt Not Kill: He does not have a problem with killing enemies in the heat of battle, but does when it comes to executing helpless or subdued foes. He can, however, be pushed into disregarding this, notably in the second season finale after he comes to believe the Hunters killed Angela. But even then, he didn't take too much time to make sure that they were dead after he knocked them out.
Sure the city shows an ugly face sometimes, but there is more to it than that. There's beauty here; moms that sing to their kids, the way my mom used to.
A detective with the NYPD's 23rd precinct, Elisa is the first friend the gargoyles make after the curse is broken. As such, she takes it upon herself to introduce them to their new world. She becomes very close to them, particularly Goliath, and is later considered a part of the clan.
Arbitrary Skepticism: Is an honorary member of a gargoyle clan and has met wizards and spirits but doesn't believe the Illuminati or common urban legends.
Back from the Dead/Not Quite Dead: A very realistic example after Broadway accidentally shoots Elisa, she nearly dies and is literally dead for a few moments when her heart temporarily stops. Luckily she is saved in time before the worst happened during her surgery to remove the bullet.
Badass Damsel: She can take care herself pretty well in most situations.
Badass Normal: With special emphasis on the Badass. In one episode, a feral, transformed Fox has Elisa cornered, is holding her up by the shoulder of her jacket, and seems to be about to sink her teeth into her. Elisa's response is to smack Fox in the face with a sack of flour.
Secret Keeper: Deconstructed; keeping the Gargoyles a secret puts a severe strain on her relationship with her partner Matt and her family, both of whom call her on it. Later she admits that her reasons for doing so were partly selfish, wanting to feel special as their only ally.
Ultimate Job Security: She remains a valued member of the police force, despite the unexplained loss of several guns and her six-month disappearance. The last one becomes justified in that the police decide to use her six-month disappearance as an excuse to have her go undercover into a gang that popped up during her absence.
What Could Have Been: Originally, she was going to be a Mulatta (half African-American, half Mexican-American) and her name was going to be Elisa Chavez.
Wrong Genre Savvy: After she confronts Oberon in "Ill Met by Moonlight," she admits that she had been bluffing with her gun, and she didn't have any bullets. Then she quips that, fighting the king of the faeries, she would probably need silver bullets anyway. Katharine corrects her; while silver is effective against vampires and weres, faeries are particularly vulnerable to cold iron. This scene is deleted from the reruns, for some reason.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Though given that no one ever comments on it it is most likely a quirk of the artstyle representing glossy black hair.
You Have to Believe Me: Her efforts to convince Derek that Xanatos was not a good guy boiled down to this.
Goliath's second-in-command. While once impetuous and a thrill seeker, Brooklyn soon grows into his reluctant role as the secondary leader and becomes more serious and a skilled tactician.
All Love Is Unrequited: Maggie, Angela, Delilah...Season 2 wasn't kind to his love life.
He gets a few in the series proper too, such as the episode where he's promoted to second-in-command, and the episode after Goliath and Elisa leave for Avalon where he finally shows some well-earned authority.
Deadpan Snarker: The worse his lovelife get the more bitter it becomes. To the point where it's really not funny anymore...
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to most of the other blue-tempered of his clan.
Sword and Gun: After his timedancing, he carries a longsword and gun.
White-Haired Pretty Boy: Like Goliath, he can be considered this to other gargoyles, but his human form in "The Mirror" is what really makes him fit this trope.
Broadway
Voiced by Bill Fagerbakke
You made one mistake, Tony. You messed with my partner. And when someone messes with your partner, you're supposed to do something about it.
A Big Eater who develops a liking for detective movies.
Guile Hero: After "Deadly Force," Broadway shifts his hero worship of police from action movies to detective stories, and his attitude follows suit. He's not the smartest of the clan, but he subtly becomes less violent than any of them, excepting perhaps Lexington.
Cyborg: In Puck‘s nightmare vision in Future Tense.
Gadgeteer Genius: This is a gargoyle who was born in the 10th century and yet learned how to re-assemble a motorcycle and use a computer (along with other gadgets) in the span of a few months.
Heel Face Turn: He turns evil in Puck‘s nightmare future vision in Future Tense. This doesn‘t appear to happen in the show's real timeline, though perhaps as a reflection of this his clone Brentwood does end up siding with Thailog in the comics.
Hero Worshipper: He initially naively admires the Pack. Once he realizes their real natures he takes a complete turn-around and spends the rest of the series with a special hatred for them.
Instant Expert: He catches on to 20th century technology very quickly.
It's Personal: He feels this way torwards the Pack and at several points has to remind himself that getting revenge on them is still less important than protecting his clan.
Keet: As described by his voice actor Thom Adcox-Hernandez.
My Greatest Failure: Being unable to protect Prince Malcolm from nearly being killed in the past haunts him even in the present.
Never Learned To Read: Like Broadway, but he is greatly embarassed by this instead. He eventually learns and seems to especially enjoy reading newspapers.
The Obi-Wan: Slips into this because his great age also grants him great wisdom.
Old Soldier: He's even adressed as such before he gets a name.
All Animals Are Dogs: We never get a straight answer on what exactly Bronx is, a non-sentient subspecies of Gargoyles or what, but he certainly acts like a dog. Word Of God says he's a gargoyle beast; a species seperate but closely related to gargoyles. While they superficially resemble dogs, a better analogy for their relation to gargoyles would be the relation between humans and chimpanzees.
Demoted to Extra: Prior to "Avalon," Bronx tended to have very little face time - an unfortunate side effect of having no wings and no ability to speak. Also, of course, a dog(-like creature) attacking any human is pretty tough to arrange on a family-oriented show without offending somebody. The World Tour increased his presence quite a bit.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue, black-haired gargoyle to Brooklyn's red, white-haired coloration. Given the nature of their relationship, it would be logical to assume the metaphore extended to their personalities as well, with Katana being cool and patient to Brooklyn's more hot-headedness.
Tsundere: Could be inferred from Word Of God's description. Whether or not she could be described as a gargoyle Akane...less so.
The Voiceless: Only appeared in four or so panels, and not a single line of dialogue.
Allies
Humans in medieval Scotland
The Captain of the Guard
Voiced by Ed Gilbert
No, I cannot let this happen again.
The captain of the Wyvern Castle guard, at the start of the series he is sympathetic to the gargoyles and identifies with them more than with the human population of the castle. Trying to grant a better life to the clan, he betrays the castle to Hakon's band of vikings, expecting them to drive out the humans while leaving the castle to the gargoyles. The plan backfires when Hakon shatters all the gargoyles anyway and tries to put the blame on the captain. Both of them plummet to their deaths before Goliath can have revenge on either of them.
Finding Judas: He had sympathetic reasons for betraying Katharine, and even after the betrayal he did everything he could to keep her alive.
Heel Face Revolving Door: Started out as a friend of the Gargoyles. Then he betrays the castle to the Vikings (albeit for sympathetic reasons) and then a thousand years later tries to get revenge on Goliath as a ghost. In the end though, he betrays Hakon
Redemption Equals Death: Played with. He was already dead, but continued on as a ghost. Not long after he redeems himself though, he finally gets to pass on
The ruler of Castle Wyvern. She initially fears the gargoyles and only begrudgingly allows them to stay and defend the castle. After Goliath saves her life from Hakon, she comes to see the error of her ways and does her best to defend the eggs from the gargoyle rookery, moving them to the magical island of Avalon and raising them as her own children.
Fantastic Racism: Initially hated gargoyles as muchh as any human. After the attack and spending some time on Avalon she inverts this trope and calls the newborns my eggs.
Freudian Excuse: She hated gargoyles because her father used them as boogeymen to scare her into obedience.
Harmful to Minors: One of the first instances she sees of the gargoyles as a young girl is Hudson failing to protect her father Prince Malcolm from being killed, which stresses this point even further.
Mama Bear: To the gargoyle hatchlings on Avalon, as a brainwashed Demona finds out the hard way.
What I did to the gargoyles a thousand years ago was unforgivable. I owed to Goliath to tend the eggs.
The castle mage of Wyvern and Princess Katharine's advisor. He is responsible for the Manhattan Clan living to the present day, cursing them to remain as statues for a thousand years in a fit of rage when he believes them to have caused Katharine's death. He tries to atone by raising the eggs from the Wyvern rookery on Avalon, but is later killed by the Weird Sisters when the Archmge attacks the island.
For Want of a Nail: His spell that immobilized the Gargoyles started the whole story and most of the main events that took place over the course of 1000 years.
Red Herring: The pilot blatantly tries to make the viewer suspect he will be a bad guy, going as far as to have the captain wear a white cloak and have Ed Gilbert do an impression of Jeff Bennet's voice when he is conspiring with Hakon.
Voiced by J. D. Daniels (as a boy), Gerrit Graham (as an adult)
A young boy who befriends the gargoyles at Castle Wyvern. After the Wyvern massacre he accompanies Princess Katharine and the Magus to the mystical island of Avalon to tend to the surviving gargoyle eggs.
Nice Guy: Both as a child and as an adult, in fact he's the only human during the medieval prologue in "Awakening" besides the Captain who is completely accepting and unprejudiced torwards the gargoyles.
Early-Bird Cameo: Is briefly shown driving with Chavez in "Deadly Force" before being introduced in "The Edge." (Chavez even notes his previous involvement in the preceding case.)
Friend on the Force: He uses much more of his power as a policeman to help the Manhattan clan than Elisa does, such as pestering Xanatos to ensure their well-being once they move back into the castle. Once he becomes the head of the Gargoyle Taskforce, he actively uses his position as someone who is supposed to be hunting them to protect them, and he's none too shy about it.
As noted above, the Illuminati do exist and eventually induct Matt into their ranks because they're were impressed at his perseverance in trying to prove it.
Early in the series, he believed the Gargoyles are real despite "proof" that they're robots.
What The Hell Heroine: He gives one of these to Elisa after she reveals the gargoyles' existence to him (he already kind of knew, anyway). But he was angry because she didn't tell him.
Jeffrey Robbins
Voiced by Paul Winfield
A blind author who befriends Hudson and teaches him the value of reading.
Disability Superpower: That he can't see a spell being cast means that he can't be directly affected by (human) magic. This serves him well in "City of Stone," though he doesn't know it.
Retired Badass: He lost his eyesight while fighting in Vietnam.
Halcyon Renard
Voiced by Robert Culp
Integrity is never easy. It's a daily struggle, a costly struggle.
The founder and head of Cyberbiotics, a successful technology firm. Turned cynical by a series of perceived betrayals, he begins to re-consider his view after meeting Goliath.
Badass Grandpa: When Oberon was going after his grandson, he piloted his ship to stop the guy. He also one-shots Goliath with a gadget in his wheelchair.
Honor Before Reason: He admits that his value of integrity over everything else has cost him dearly throughout his life.
Humans Are Bastards: He thinks. He hates it when people don't take responsibility for their own actions.
What Have I Become?: He wanted to escape his old and crippled body by possessing a magic golem, then Goliath told him how stupid this was.
The Mutates
Derek Maza / Talon
Voiced by Rocky Carroll
In the Labyrinth justice prevails, even for those who don't believe in it.
Elisa's younger brother. He starts out as a pilot in the NY police force, but is manipulated into becoming Xanatos's helicopter pilot late in the first season. Xanatos and Anton Sevarius later use him as a test subject in their experiments to create their own gargoyle-like beings, resulting in Derek being mutated into a panther/bat/eel hybrid and renaming himself "Talon". He becomes the leader of the Labyrinth Clan, providing homes and protection for the homeless of New York.
My Beloved Smother: This is initally inverted when his mother is the only member who supports his idea of working for Xanatos and following his own path in life.
A young homeless woman who is duped by Sevarius into becoming a test subject for his mutate program. Out of the mutates she is initially the least accepting of her transformation and sees herself as a "monster" until Talon talks some sense into her.
Death Seeker: In "The Cage" she almost becomes one. When Sevarius prepares an "antidote" to the mutation, she is willing to risk drinking what is almost certainly poison because she doesn't think living as a monster is worth it.
Odd Name Out: She is the only one of the four mutates who keeps her human name after the transformation (well, almost, she is often referred to as "Maggie the Cat" by other characters).
Voiced by Michael Dorn (Coldstone), Xander Berkeley (Coldsteel) and CCH Pounder (Coldfire)
There are forces at war within me and until that battle is decided, no living gargoyles is safe... from Coldstone.
A gargoyle cyborg created by Xanatos and Demona from the remains of three of the lost in the Wyvern massacre, and animated by a combination of science and sorcery. Collectively known as just "Coldstone" until near the end of the series, when Xanatos created two additional robot bodies so each of the three had their own.
Artistic License - Biology: Even after relaxing the standards for an imaginary species and again for bionic support systems, a body with immune systems from three (four?) different sources should be suffering a lot of health problems. Possibly justified by the fact that Coldstone was created by a combination of Xanatos' science and Demona's magic, and the normal rules of gargoyle biology (such as stone sleep during the day) don't apply to Coldstone.
The more things change, the more they stay the same!
A gargoyle from London, Griff fought in the Battle of Britain and was brought to the year 1996 by a time-travelling Goliath. He later befriends the returned King Arthur and joins him in his quest to find Merlin, receiving a knighthood in the process.
Brainy Brunette: He's smart enough to help King Arthur figure out the riddle that leads him to Manhattan and Exalibur.
The Lancer: To King Arthur; a young and inexperienced buck accompanying the old veteran.
The Lost Lenore: He is strongly implied to have been this to Una.
Heartbroken Badass: She is strongly implied and confirmed by Word Of God to have been in love with Griff before his disappearance in the war, explaining her very strong reaction to Goliath's appearance in their store.
Leo
Voiced by Gregg Berger
Una's mate and one of the shopkeepers of Into the Mystic.
Heel Realization: He realizes that he and Una were partially taking out their own guilt on Goliath and his friends and releases Angela and Elisa after they have been taken captive.
Constance
A gargoyle of the London Clan resembling a wild boar. She helps the Manhattan Clan out during their attempt to protect the Stone of Destiny.
Empowered Badass Normal: Twice over. Started out a Badass Normal, then acquired immortality courtesy of the Weird Sisters and Demona, then learned sorcery at some unspecified point.
Death Seeker: Initially. Even some of his later schemes seem suicidal, though that may be because he knows that nothing can kill him except Demona.
Fantastic Racism: Averted, unlike many other humans who were wronged by Demona. He focuses his hatred pretty much exclusively on her and doesn't have much of a problem with any other gargoyles.
Magic Knight: He's primarily a straight-forward fighter, but has been shown to be a capable sorcerer on several occasions.
Noble Demon: Even more than Xanatos. He can be extremely ruthless when he feels it's called for, but he is also a firm believer in duty and honor. Goliath nearly breaks him out from under the Archmage's brainwashing by reminding him of this fact.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: His initial plans were all about goading Demona into killing him because he couldn't stand living forever. After "City of Stone" Goliath talks him out of it and he looks for things to occupy himself. While he never belives Living Forever Is Awesome, he doesn't want to die anymore.
Worthy Opponent: One of the only humans who can match Goliath in hand-to-hand combat without genetic enhancements, Powered Armor or the like, but also an opponent who share's the gargoyle leader's old-school warrior's values.
Younger Than He Looks / Older Than He Looks: He's legitimately been both — when he was 35, he traded his youth to Demona in exchange for an alliance, and aged to 52, thus looking older than he really was. However, said trade wound up making them both immortal at that age, so he has continued to look 52 even on reaching his present-day age of roughly one thousand.
I will prove my worthiness, though I have to pull Excalibur from a hundred stones!
Yes, THAT King Arthur. Per the Arthurian mythos, he is initially kept in a magical slumber on the island of Avalon, but is awakened by Elisa seeking assistance during the Archmage's attack on the Avalon clan. After the Archmage's defeat, he heads out into the world to seek his old sword Excalibur and his old friend Merlin.
Badass: He's a warrior king. Macbeth, no slouth himself, refers to him 'the best'.
Walking the Earth: What he proceeds to do after the Archmage's defeat. His search for Merlin was intended as the basis of its own spin-off, Pendragon, which unfortunately was never made (though the Stone of Destiny arc in the comics continuation is essentially a preview of it).
Fate Worse Than Death: After his Disney Death, he was stuck in the castle he raided for over a thousand years with nothing to do but wallow in his own hate.
Horny Viking: Mercifully, he and the other vikings don't wear horned helmets, but they still fit the trope.
Kill Em All: His massacre of the Gargoyle clan in ancient Scotland.
Goliath's former love and one of the co-conspirators in what became the Wyvern massacre. Blaming humans for her misfortunes, she has spent the last thousand years seeking to exterminate them.
The Aloner: Seeing nearly all of the Wyvern Clan slaughtered by the vikings, followed by decades of watching the remnants of her species being slaughtered by the Hunter and his human allies (often through her own fault, though she remains in denial about that), have left her completely, helplessly, maddeningly alone. Centuries of endless pursuit by the Canmore dynasty (See "The Hunters" below) have made her even more bitter.
Anti-Villain: Demona is not an example of this trope, but a big point is made about how she thinks she's a clear-cut Type III, when she isn't. If anything, she's a deconstructed type II (this tragic villain is tragic because of her own self-destructive tendencies more than anything, and being sympathetic does not excuse her crimes).
Big Bad: She's the second most recurring villain after Xanatos, and her plans tend to be the most dangerous and destructive, since she's out for Revenge on the whole human race. She's also the main villain of "Hunter's Moon," which is effectively the Grand Finale for the canon show.
Cursed with Awesome: Twice. First when she's linked to Macbeth so neither can die except at the hand of the other. There is a fairly hefty downside, but still IMMMORTALITY!. Then, Puck gives her a parting "gift" of human form during the day. She's angry at first, but it's a big help for her nefarious plans.
Debt Detester: After Macbeth helped her kill Gillecomgain (Demona herself having helped Macbeth twelve years prior), she was glad to be "even" with Macbeth.
Evil Matriarch: She loves Angela so much, she's willing to kill humanity to protect her. Except she was going was going to kill humanity anyway, but she really loves Angela.
Evil Plan: The total and complete extinction of the human race.
Hot Witch: She does have magical abilities after all.
Hypocrite: Demona sees herself as the self-proclaimed savior of her race, and that Goliath and those who stand with him will be the death of the race. Never mind the fact that she herself caused the birth of the Hunter, their generations, and indirectly the Quarrymen, whose sole purpose is to destroy they Gargoyles with extreme prejudice. And she had the gall to say Goliath with be the death of all of them? If anything, SHE was the one who nearly caused Gargoyle extinction.
Knight Templar: Subverted; she's convinced herself her cause is noble, but it's really just her lashing out at the world due to all the pain she's brought upon herself.
Lady Macbeth: Shades of this in her relationships with Goliath, Macbeth and even Xanatos. Inverted with her relationship with Thailog, as he's far more straightforwardly evil and is really using her to advance his own ends.
Living Forever Is Awesome: There is no deadline for her to exterminate humans. She can keep trying until Doom's Day.
Magic Knight: She uses her powerful magic (she's probably the strongest mortal mage in the show, not counting the Archmage's enhanced form) and formidable combat skills about evenly.
Never My Fault: Employed in a very serious fashion. If there is one defining character flaw for Demona, this is it. Most of her troubles and emotional agonies are entirely her fault, and her refusal to admit any responsibility on her part is the basis for her bitterness AND her racism, all of which she formed mostly to avoid the overwhelming guilt she would feel.
Goliath: None of this would have happened if it weren't for you. Demona: Don't say that, Goliath!
Significant Green Eyed Redhead:In the end of "City Of Stone" when she gives Goliath the access code to save the city, you can see she still has Green Eyes in her gargoyle form.
Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into Hell.
Billionaire responsible for breaking the Magus' spell over the Gargoyles. Determined, practical and brilliant, he searches for eternal life and comfort, and finds something altogether different.
Affably Evil: Impeccably polite to his enemies. He seems to legitimately like Goliath most of the time, although the feeling is almost never mutual.
Anti-Hero: After his sort-of-Heel Face Turn. He's still an amoral machiavellian bastard, but one who's willing to at least partially work with the gargoyles rather than always against them and whose Pet the Dog relationship with his family is much more pronounced.
Badass Normal: He can hold his own with Goliath and even Oberon with his own gadgets and know-how.
The Bad Guy Wins: 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 the trope for this is named after him
Big Bad: Especially in the first half of the series, when he's the most recurring, most intelligent, and arguably most dangerous villain. By the end, while he doesn't quite make a Heel Face Turn, he is edging more into dark Anti-Hero territory.
Break the Haughty: Seen in "The Gathering" All the technology and wisdom, aided by the Manhattan Clan, his father, and his father-in-law, could not stop Oberon from reaching his new born son.
Captain Ersatz: Considering the series' genesis as a Hellboy adaptation, he appears to be loosely modeled on Roderick Zinco, a billionaire who helped the main antagonists in the Wake the Devil story arc and despite being a bit of a sycophantic dupe is pretty damn devious, going so far as to sell sabotaged equipment to the BPRD, who never actually learn of his involvement even after he accidentally blows himself up. Gets a bit of a Recursive Adaptation in the B.P.R.D. comics with Zinco's successor Mr. Pope who has a much more active interest in the occult and wears a suit of Power Armor. Perhaps as a parody of Xanatos' renowned hyper-competence, he too ends up turning out to be an Unwitting Pawn of the real villains' cosmic schemes who is all too aware of what a mess he's made of things.
The Chessmaster: The original movie especially. He moves the heroes like they were pieces until the end.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: "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.
Determinator: "Nothing terrifies me, because nothing is beyond my ability to change." Implied to ultimately be averted when his wife and child are threatened, and by Thailog's existence.
Enemy Mine: Xanatos had a habit of working with the Manhattan Clan, "City of Stone" being the first and arguably most notable example.
Evil Genius: He personally built the technology his billion dollar company sells.
Evil Virtues: Ambition, Hard Work, Love, Patience, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Determination, Loyalty, Honor. (Yea, for being a Big Bad, he has a lot of these.)
Fiction 500: He had an entire castle airlifted from Scottland to New York just to see if the gargoyles on it would wake up. That takes serious excess cash.
Friendly Enemy: He rather likes the Manhattan Clan, although the feeling isn't mutual (although they eventually stop thinking of him as a pure evil, so that's worth something).
Heel Face Turn: Kind of. It's less that his personality changes and more that his priorities shift.
The non-canon "third season" The Goliath Chronicles has Xanatos and Fox become good guys and true allies of the gargoyles. The canonical comics by Greg Weisman show that they remain villainous and conniving despite the gargoyles living on top of them.
Ink Suit Actor: A strange aversion by weird coincidence. Although Xanatos looks almost exactly like Jonathan Frakes, he was designed before Frakes was cast in the role.
Explicitly averted. 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.
Notably, Xanatos played this trope straight precisely once, in "Double Jeopardy," and as a result he suffered his first ( arguably only) unqualified defeat.
Love Is A Weakness: When Fox is turned into a beast, he maintains a clinical view on the situation, expressing only that his inability to get her back was an unforeseen circumstance and his desire to get the jewel that turned her in the first place. He attempts several plans, all of which fail to get her back — it is only towards the end when she is nearing death that he reveals his desperation and gives up the jewel to have her back. Afterwards, he tells Goliath coolly that he now knows Xanatos' weakness.
Goliath: Only you would regard love as a weakness.
Noble Demon: As noted above, he's the same guy after his Heel Face Turn, but his evilness drops a notch or two.
Non-Action Big Bad: First few episodes only; while a more-than-competent fighter by human standards, he just doesn't have what it takes to compete with the likes of Goliath. Being the consummate Magnificent Bastard, though, before the season is over, he's found a solution.
Self-Made Man: Via Stable Time Loop. His dad isn't impressed with it, though, and calls out his son for being more interested in money than honor.
Smart People Know Latin: If you regard the fact that the spell book of the Magus that Xanatos read (the Grimorum Arcanorum) was written in latin. The author was the chief advisor of Caesar Augustus.
Tranquil Fury: Even against Oberon, he stays calm, despite this being one of his most action-packed scenes.
Well Done Son Guy: He thought he could impress his dad by being a Self-Made Man, but it's not until he shows himself as a Papa Wolf that he finally gets his dad's praise.
Wicked Cultured: As a billionaire, he enjoys the finer things in life, such as living in an authentic Scottish castle. As for how he became a billionaire....
Xanatos' right-hand man and confidant. Smart, capable and loyal — the perfect employee. He's actually Puck, a trickster spirit that became Owen for kicks, and because Xanatos is "many things, but never boring."
Battle Butler: To Xanatos. Be it fighting or carrying out plans, Owen does it quickly and efficiently.
Creepy Monotone: He never raises his voice no matter what fiendish deed Xanatos has him doing.
Deadpan Snarker: Surprising given the rest of his persona. Or not so surprising.
Disability Super Power: A fist made of stone hurts more than one made of flesh and bone. Xanatos remarks that he makes "Good use of his handicap".
Empowered Badass Normal: Or so it seems after a spell petrifies his right hand and he uses it for punching. The fact that he's later revealed to be Puck disqualifies him.
Meaningful Name: As pointed out in Cunning Like a Fox, it's a given, but her given name is also meaningful. "Renard" is the name given to the fox character in old French animal tales. There has been talk about the coincidence of Goliath having a nemesis named "David." When you consider that "Janine" is a feminine version of "Jonathon"...
Unlimited Wardrobe: Notable for a series where most characters always wear the same clothes, Fox wears quite a variety of different costumes, and almost doesn't really have a "default" outfit like othe characters.
The Pack
A group of mercenaries-turned-TV stars organized and funded by Xanatos, though after their first encounter with the Manhattan Clan they were arrested and turned to crime for good when Xanatos broke them out of prison. The members are:
Fox (Laura San Giacomo): See above. Original team leader, but when the Pack broke out of prison she stayed behind to serve out her sentence. She ultimately got an early release for good behavior - just as Xanatos planned, of course.
Wolf (Clancy Brown): The biggest guy on the team and most likely to go straight to brute force. A descendant of Hakon, the viking that sacked Castle Wyvern.
Dingo (Jim Cummings): The tactical expert. He eventually got fed up with the Pack being reduced to common criminals, and found he missed being considered a hero like he was on TV; prompting him to leave the group as well. He eventually got picked up by the Redemption Squad (see below).
Jackal (Matt Frewer) and Hyena (Cree Summer): A brother/sister pair of twins, and probably the team's most depraved members - Word Of God is that he's a sociopath, she's a psychopath.
Coyote (Jonathan Frakes): A new member who engineered the prison breakout, replacing Fox as team leader. At first thought to be Xanatos, but was soon revealed to be a robot in his likeness. Tends to get thrashed and rebuilt by Xanatos every time it appears, with the successive versions obviously not human.
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Not in the series itself, but Word Of God is that by 2198 Coyote will have become autonomous and turned to conquest.
Brother-Sister Team: Jackal and Hyena. Even when the Pack split up to work solo, these two stayed as a team. Which leads to...
Incest Subtext: Hyena and Jackal seem really close to each other.
When Jackal kills Coyote Hyena complains that he always kills the guys she likes, meaning it's not the first he does it. This can be easily taken as jealousy.
The Man Behind the Man: Xanatos, who is (usually) the ultimate string-puller, but never actually works with the team in the field.
For the Evulz: Jackal, Hyena, and sometimes Wolf really fall into this one.
Heel Face Turn: Dingo, eventually. Fox's is more of a Hazy Feel Turn (she left the team to be with Xanatos - they're a lot better than they used to be, but not quite full "Faces" yet).
Name's the Same: Xanatos pits Coyote 4.0 against Coyote the mythical Native American trickster. The latter threatens to sue for copyright infringement. (Xanatos: "Think of it as a homage.")
No Sell: Coyote 4.0 was built with iron from the Cauldron of Life, making it immune to magic.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Wolf, Jackal, and Hyena. Of the others, Coyote doesn't have any other name, Fox had hers legally changed, and Dingo started using his real name more after he left (it's Harry Monmouth, by the way).
Only Sane Man: Fox and Dingo, which is why the latter eventually quit (Fox basically just got a better offer).
Punch Clock Villain: 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.
Psycho for Hire: 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.
The Starscream: 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.
Transhuman Treachery: 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 Heel Face Turn.
Two-Faced: After half of Coyote 1.0's face was torn off in the Robotic Reveal, further versions always included the split face somehow.
Tony Dracon
Voiced by Richard Grieco
We have a deal. My word as a Dracon.
A crime boss constantly harassed by the gargoyles.
Arch-Enemy: To Elisa, though he's not a serious threat to the gargoyles themselves. Unless he's got high-tech weaponry.
Big Bad Wannabe: 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.
An evil wizard seeking ultimate power, defeated by Hudson and Goliath a thousand years ago, but later comes back with a vengeance.
Ascended Extra: The Archmage was originally as just a one-shot villain for "Long Way to Morning." Greg Weisman 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.
Evil Mentor: To the Magus, and to Demona in her youth. Word Of God is that it was he who first gave her a taste for power, though she'd never admit it. His cruelty towards her can't have improved her attitude about humans, etiher...
And Ra's al Ghul. In fact, David Warner's incredibly sinister voice acting was what got the character promoted from a minor one-shot flashback villain to Big Bad of an epic three-parter.
Motive Decay: A fairly minor example, but when first introduced the Archmage seems mostly interested in getting revenge on Prince Malcolm and doesn't appear to regard Goliath as much more than a pawn. During the Avalon arc Goliath has suddenly become the main target of his vengeance and he never mentions Malcolm (or for that matter Hudson, the actual leader of the gargoyles as far as he knew) although from his point of view it hasn't been very long since that vendetta took up most of his time.
Justified considering that Goliath was the one who took the Grimorum from him, and thus ended his plan to kill Prince Malcolm, along with the fact that Goliath dodging his final attack caused him to fall in the cliff nearly killing him.
Take Over the World: 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 the big picture.
Took a Level in Badass: 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.
Even more glaring: he could have killed the gargoyles during daytime in their own lair in NY. He could have travel in time and learn all of his enemies' secrets and weaknesses. Instead, he give our heroes some time to prepare themselves and then got his ass kicked.
Justified in that he was wearing the 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...
Large Ham: 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.
Though to be fair, it's mainly because he finds playing the role of a Large Ham to be fun.
A family of masked vigilantes who have hunted Demona over a millennium, attacking any other gargoyle that enters their sights as well.
The Hunters in general:
Disproportionate Retribution: 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 pretty much became a cycle of You Killed My Father.
The Family That Slays Together: The Canmores became this with whole generations training for nothing but Demona's death. According to the Bad Guys comic Spin-Off, some still are.
The Real Remington Steele: The first time the Hunter was seen in modern day, it was Macbeth in disguise.
Knight Templar: To the point that they threaten to kill their own allies for simply questioning their mission. Not actively denouncing it, questioning it.
You Killed My Father: 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.
Look closely creature, 'tis your handiwork, done when I was but a boy. Remember?
The original Hunter. He began his vendetta against the gargoyle race in the 10th century when an unprovoked Demona slashed his face, leaving him permanently scarred.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: For Demona, her attack on the young Gillecomgain was an entirely unremarkable incident that she doesn't remember.
Clark Kenting: Gillecomgain's face was slashed by Demona, leaving obvious scars. Those same kind of scars are on his mask, yet no one knew he was the Hunter until his death.
Possibly justified by the fact that Constantine invented the symbol of the Hunter, so people may have associated the red-striped black mask (or face paint) with Constantine rather than Gillecomgain.
There will always be a Hunter, my son. And there will always be the hunted.
Macbeth's cousin and the King of Scotland during most of his life. The character here is depicted more closely to his historical counterpart than the character in Shakespeare's play and is decidedly less sympathetic. He is the actual forefather of the Hunters that came to follow.
And There Was Much Rejoicing: When Gillecomgain informed Duncan of Findlaech's death, this was Duncan's response.
Disney Villain Death: 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.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: 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.
Jerk Ass: He seemed to revel in making Macbeth's life miserable.
Ungrateful Bastard: He lays siege to Macbeth's lands after hearing the Weird Sisters' prophecy that he would one day reign as kings despite the fact that Macbeth had just saved his life.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: 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.
Canmore
Voiced by Neil Dickson
I am Canmore, son of Duncan. The true king of Scotland.
Duncan's son, better known as 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.
Affably Evil: He does not harm Gruoch, Macbeth's wife, and treats her fairly courteously, claiming he has no quarrel with her.
Harmful to Minors: Seeing your father explode and fall off of a cliff can really damage a child's mind.
Karma Houdini: As per history, he succeeds in overthrowing Macbeth and becomes king of Scotland shortly thereafter.
Last Name Basis/One Steve Limit: 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.
We all suffered from my stubbornness, but I've finally come to my senses.
The oldest of the modern-day Canmore siblings and the leader of the modern-day Hunters. Under the guise of policeman Jason Conover he has a brief romantic relationship with Elisa before his identiry as a Hunter is revealed. Though he is initially the most fierce and outspoken of the modern-day Hunters, he comes to see the gargoyles as they really are at the conclusion of the "Hunter's Moon multiparter". Unfortunately, he is then accidentally shot by his brother Jon and left paralyzed from the waist down.
General Ripper: 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.
I have spent my life hunting gargoyles. Or rather, wasted my life hunting gargoyles.
The middle child of the modern-day Canmore siblings and Jason's second-in-command. After Jason's appearant death during the hunt, she comes to realize the pointlessness of the vendetta and eventually makes a full Heel Face Turn. In the SLG comic spin-off Bad Guys she becomes the leader of the Redemption Squad (see bellow).
What have I done? What have I... what have they done! I will have my revenge, the hunt is not over!
The youngest of the modern-day Canmore siblings. Jon is initially by far the most reluctant and sympathetic to the gargoyles out of all the Hunters, but after being briefly convinced that Jason was murdered by Goliath he becomes convinced that the gargoyles must be destroyed. He consequently adopts the identity of "John Castaway" and forms a new gargoyle-hunting organization called the Quarrymen.
Composite Character: Inverted. 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.
Evil Counterpart: To be precise, an evil human counterpart to the already evil Demona.
A historical king of Scotland, portrayed here as an usurper to the throne and a cunning manipulator. He was the catalyst to Princess Katharine, the Magus and Tom fleeing to Avalon with the Wyvern gargoyle eggs. The comic continuation shows him forming a twisted sort of father-son relationship with young Gillecomgain and designing the emblem of the Hunters.
And Now You Must Marry Me: He tries to force Princess Katharine into marriage, prompting her to flee to the island of Avalon.
Bald of Evil: After shaving his head in "Tyrants". This was done to mimic history, as the real Constantine was known as "Constantine the Bald".
Manipulative Bastard: 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.
Predecessor Villain: 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.
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 turn out to bequite real. Some of the central antagonists of the series are members, including Xanatos, who is a lower-echelon member. Ponder that.
Bigger Bad: The Illuminati Society as a whole; a group of chessmasters so skilled and influential that Xanatos is at the bottom of their hierarchy, but they're only directly involved in one episode and indirectly in a handful of others. The comic continuation indicates that they would have ended up in a more central role had the series continued.
Hidden Agenda Villain: Reinforced in the comic, where Martin Hacker gives three Illuminati operatives three contradictory statements on what the Illuminati wish to do with the gargoyles.
You Are Number Six: 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 666 members all in all, a fact not gone unnoticed by the fans.
Peredur fab Ragnal
Everything we planned... I must contact the upper echelons immediately!
The leader of the Illuminati, and presumably the same person as Sir Percival, a knight of King Arthur's round table. He resides in Castle Carbonek and appears to maintain immortality with the use of the Holy Grail.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Well, we don't know enough about him to properly classify hims as "evil", but he's the head of a society that's morally dubious at best, and claims to love both Duval and Blanchefleur.
Orcus on His Throne: 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.
Out Gambitted: Xanatos successfully keeps the real Stone of Destiny to himself and hands a replica to Peredur. Not that it matters, since the spirit of destiny has no single vassal.
Unreliable Narrator: By her own admission; after all, "who can say if it be true"?
Mace Malone
Voiced by Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
You should see the dental plan.
A New York gangster who has been kept alive beyond his normal lifespan by the Illuminati's life-rejuvinating drugs. He was one of the Illuminati's main links to the underworld.
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.
Big Bad Friend / False Friend: He was either of these to Matt, though it's unclear whether he truly considers Matt a friend. At the very least, it's implied that Hacker got Matt expelled from the FBI, so there's that.
When you've got the world's biggest henhouse... who else could possibly guard it...? Except an old fat fox!
The Illuminati's treasurer and the self-styled "King of Thieves". He was Dingo's mentor and father figure while growing up, after the unfortunate passing of Dingo's mother. Her death on Falstaff's hands, that is.
Affably Evil: Lovingly raising a child and teaching him how much fun a life of crime can be minutes after secretly murdering that child's mother? You don't get much more Affably Evil than that.
Expy: Weisman does so love his Shakespeare references... Falstaff is somewhat unique within the Gargoyles universe in that he and his band appear to have modelled themselves on Shakespeare's characters rather than being Shakespeare's in-universe inspirations for creating these characters like Oberon, Macbeth and the Weird Sisters.
Genius Bruiser: As smart as Xanatos and as strong as Goliath.
Gone Horribly Right: Xanatos wanted someone who was as powerful as Goliath but shared his own, profit-oriented, worldview. Because that couldn't possibly backfire.
Has Three Daddies: He refers to Goliath, Sevarius and Xanatos as his "three fathers." Guess which ones he takes after the most.
Karma Houdini: According to the comic continuation, he survived the fire in "The Reckoning" and regained control of Nightstone Unlimited.
Word Of God: "He survived. The Thailogs of the world always survive." Which makes sense, since the fire in "Double Jeopardy" didn't kill him either.
Large Ham: He probably gets it from Sevarius, and similarly plays up his performances when he deems the scene appropriate for it. Described by Weisman as "a bit of a performer," the things he says can't necessarily be taken at face value. On the other hand, like Demona, he can be chillingly cold when he wants to be.
Laughably Evil: Unlike Xanatos, Thailog has no redeeming qualities, and yet still manages to be highly entertaining.
Sdrawkcab Name: Almost. (If the letter thorn were still in use, Þailog would be Goliaþ backwards.)
That Thing Is Not My Child: Inverted. Goliath is disgusted at Xanatos' use of his DNA, but admits that Thailog isn't to blame and deserves freedom. In the same amount of time, however, Thailog decides that Goliath is too soft to admire.
Turned Against Their Masters: He spent his early life being subliminally indoctrinated by Xanatos. Of course this was going to happen.
Wicked Cultured: Took the first name "Alexander" when indirectly posing as a reclusive financial wizard after Alexander the Great, for whom he harbors admiration. In the comics continuation, he takes this a step further by lounging in a toga. According to Word Of God, he also speaks many languages, French included.
The Quarrymen
A KKK-esque group of gargoyle hunters formed by John Castaway.
Card-Carrying Villain: 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.
Diminishing Villain Threat: 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 changed fiance, Tony Dracon, and easily subdued by the Goliath in Monsters.
Mauve Shirt: Best evidenced in Monsters Where he is the only security guard not to drown
Mook Lieutenant: Leads the security team, responsible from mundane tasks like guarding things, to corporate espionage.
Put on a Bus: 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.
Word Of God states he was assembling a new security team.
Others
New York civilians
Margot Yale & Brendan Quarters
Voiced by Marina Sirtis and Par Fraley
The very cynical Assistant District Attorney and her husband.
A police officer in the NYPD and a friend of Elisa's.
Donut Mess with a Cop: He's seen eating donuts in "Temptation", though the sight of Brooklyn gliding in the air on a motorcycle convinces him to go off sugar.
Nice Guy: Consistently nice, and does not get upset with Elisa when he realizes in "Bash" that he's just her rebound guy.
Recurring Extra: He starts out as one, but gradually gets slightly larger roles in the series, culminating in his date with Elisa in "Masque" and "Bash".
Halcyon Renard's right-hand man and confidant. Smart, capable, but not all that loyal — the near-perfect employee. No blood relation to Owen Burnett.
Expy: At first glance, he's just a Palette Swap of Owen Burnett and, indeed, when he first appeared, he was negatively received by audiences who thought the writers only knew how to write one kind of executive. Subverted in that, in-universe, it's Owen who's an Expy of Vogel.
The Starscream: Unlike Owen to Xanatos, Vogel has no problem with turning on Renard when offered enough money. However, when Fox's plan to sabotage Fortress-2 threatens to kill Renard and the staff in Cyberbiotics tower, he's quick to turn back to Renard's side.
Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: They do manage to do some pretty serious damage in "The Gathering" at one point by hitting him with an iron harpoon. It clearly hurts, but it also makes him really mad...
Graceful Loser: Surprisingly so. While he will do anything to win, if you manage to actually defeat him he will prove himself quite cordial and respectful.
The Juggernaut: Xanatos, his fammily and the Clan Manhatan tried everything they got at hand to prevent him from kidnapping Alex, including swords, force feild, flying robots, highly-powered lasers, magic and even an iron harpoon in his chest. All for nothing (and the iron harpoononly make things worse!).
Immortal Immaturity: Word Of God has stated that he was actually relatively humble compared to many of his people before banishing them from Avalon. Of course, by the time of the series, many of them learned greater humility. Believing that he had no lessons to learn, Oberon had remained largely the same.
Remembered I Could Fly: When he initially tried to attack Xanatos' tower, he became enraged at the idea of them trying to keep him out (and succeeding with the help of a forcefield), causing him to become gigantic and attempt to just smash through. It isn't helped by interference from the Gargoyles and Halcyon Renard. It seems as though he'll fail when Renard manages to surround him in an energy cage, until Oberon calms down enough to realise he's not using good judgement, and simply shrinks down to pass through the bars, conjures freezing rain to keep the Gargoyles and Renard's robots and airship off his back, and simply phases through the ground around the tower (bypassing the forcefield completely).
Women Are Wiser: Though, bizarrely, Oberon claims she used to be a Royal Brat, which is why he divorced her. Word Of God says that she underwent a lot of Character Development in their 1,001-year separation, while Oberon stayed more or less the same.
One of the Children of Oberon described in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night's Dream," a prankster who relishes his independence.
Becoming the Mask: He loved being Owen so much he risked defying Oberon just so he could hang out with Xanatos and Fox for a few more centuries, or at least long enough for his employers to live out their lives. Later it gets Deconstructed when Oberon forces him to be Owen forever.
His first reaction to this is a Big "NO!", almost immediately followed by Owen's trademark stoic acceptance.
Mind Screw: His Bad Future plot during the Avalon arc. Also counts as a Batman Gambit to get the Phoenix Gate. Goliath figures him out at the crucial moment. Leading to a Big "NO!" followed by "I was soooooooo close!"
Three powerful Children of Oberon who interfere in the series from time to time, particularly where Demona and Macbeth are concerned, loosely adapted from the Three Witches of Macbeth as well as various Three Goddess myths. Their goals and motives are their own.
Gambit Roulette: Their plan to use Demona, Macbeth and the Archmage to regain control of Avalon would be one, except that the Sisters seem to have some ability to see the future and therefore could predict where their pawns would end up.
Hijacked by Ganon: The Archmage takes over their plan to re-gain Avalon and uses it for his own purpoes. Also subverted, in that by doing so he was still helping them achieve their goals anyway.
Hive Mind: They're less three separate beings and more one being with three distinct aspects.
A trickster Child of Oberon from Native American mythology who frequently assumes the form of a raven. He has his eyes set on conquering Queen Florence Island.
Manipulative Bastard: He plays Goliath like a harp throughout most of the episode in which he appears, making him believe Grandmother is a villain and he himself a persecuted gargoyle.
Karma Houdini: He gets off scot free and is later seen attending the Gathering.
Death Takes a Holiday: While the Emir and the Pack imprison him, everyone on Earth is prevented from dying (though we never actually see the consequences of this).
Everybody Hates Hades: Refreshingly averted. Though he both looks and sound rather sinister, Anubis is not portrayed as a villain and the episode featuring him in fact has the moral that death is a natural part of life that must be accepted.
A Child of Oberon residing in Ireland who prides herself on her destructive siren voice.
Composite Character: Cromm-Cruach in Irish legends is not connected to Banshees in any way.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: Oberon gags her mouth in "The Gathering, Part I" for disobeying his summons to Avalon, preventing her from using her siren voice.
One-Winged Angel / Scaled Up: Her form as Cromm-Cruach, a large cross between a dragon and a larva with squeletical face.
Poisonous Friend: She deliberately plays this part to Rory Dugan in order to prevent him from discovering his true nature as Cu Chullain's reincarnation.
A trickster Child of Oberon residing in Nigeria in the form of a spider.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When the battle starts to turn against him he rather pathetically offers to "spin wishes" for the heroes and grant them treasures beyond counting.
Deal with the Devil: His stock in trade. He made both Fara Maku and Tea Gora were-panthers in exchange for them hunting for him, but as Elisa's mother Diane points out, his gifts always come at a price.
Weaksauce Weakness: He was defeated when his web was cut down because he was too fat to move properly on the ground.
Odin
Voiced by W. Morgan Shepperd
The chief god of the Norse pantheon and a powerful Child of Oberon. The Eye of Odin, a magical Amplifier Artifact that appears many times throughout the series, originally belonged to him.
Handicapped Badass: He is missing his eye until the end of his first episode.
Poor Communication Kills: If he had just explained his intentions and who he was to Goliath, Goliath would most likely have given the Eye to him. Odin even admits at the end of his starring episode that he is out of practise dealing with mortals.
A team made out of people who previously fought the Manhattan Clan, organized by persons unknown and led by Robyn Canmore. The stars of comic-book Spin-OffBad Guys. The members are the Hunter (Robyn), ex-Pack member Dingo, artificial intelligence Matrix, Japanese gargoyle Yama, and the mutate Fang.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Robyn and Dingo. Fang lampshades it. Word Of God is that they'll eventually marry, and their descendants will play some part in the timeline of Gargoyles 2198.
