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Demona

Voiced by (EN): Marina Sirtis

Voiced by (IT): Emanuela Rossi

Voiced by (MEX): Rocío Garcel

Voiced by (JP): Seiko Tamura

"I stayed alive because I don't trust anyone."

Goliath's former love and one of the co-conspirators in what became the Wyvern Massacre. Blaming humans for her misfortunes, she has spent the last thousand years seeking to exterminate them.

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• 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 failings, 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.
• Alto Villainess: At times, Marina Sirtis' portrayal could be qualified for this.
• The Apprentice: In her youth, she learned magic from the Archmage.
• Amazonian Beauty: Has very toned and well-defined muscles.
• Arch-Enemy: She practically collects them: the Hunters, Macbeth, Goliath, Brooklyn, Elisa... all of them have personal antagonism with her and she takes them all very seriously.
• Ax-Crazy: On occasion, she'll ignore other enemies in order to attempt to destroy Goliath or Elisa.
• Bad Boss: When her thieves fail to steal the D/I-7, the one who eludes arrest to report back to a very pissed off Dominique Destine is only spared by the approaching sunset.
  Dominique: You're lucky I always treat my employees with compassion. NOW GET OUT!
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Puck grants her wish not to turn to stone during the day anymore... by making her become human during the day! A bit of a subversion, as while she's horrified at first, she eventually adjusts and makes good use of the ability to act during the day and having a human face with which to do business in the human world.
• Beauty Is Bad: Very attractive, as well as untrustworthy, vicious, and insane.
• Being Evil Sucks: Demona's treacheries and plots against humanity have cost her everything she loves, destroyed countless lives, and left her alone and on the brink of insanity for centuries. The great tragedy of Demona's character is that she never realizes this and continues on her destructive path, which only prolongs her suffering.
• Berserk Button: She's got an entire console of berserk buttons, although her hatred of Elisa is probably the newest and most reliable. She'll put everything on hold to kill that particular human. Telling her that it's all her fault will set her off as well.
• Beyond Redemption: The "City of Stone" four parter secures her as this. Demona willingly embarks on the same type of massacre on the human population of New York that was visited upon the clan at castle Wyvern. Not for any grand plan. Not for any effort to take over the world. Simply to kill as many humans as possible while laughing all the while.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: She's the second most frequent villain after Xanatos, whom she works with - and her plans tend to be the most dangerous and destructive, since she's out for Revenge on the whole human race. She parts ways with Xanatos as of "City of Stone" but remains a threat to the heroes. She's also the main villain of "Hunter's Moon", which is effectively the Grand Finale for the canon show.
• Big Fancy House: Demona's house in NY is seen in "The Mirror". It's 5 stories tall, has 1 external garage for 2 cars, a fountain, a skylight at the top and a large satellite dish. There's a bunch of trees around the house and surveillance cameras used for security. We don't get to see much of the inside, but there's a large room with various artifacts.
• Boomerang Bigot: Turning human by day does nothing to make her despise humanity any less.
• Broken Ace: She's beautiful, intelligent, physically powerful, proficient in magic, as well as immortal. Yet despite all of these attributes, she's still held back from achieving her goals by her self-destructive nature and her inability to accept responsibility for her actions. This eventually takes its toll on her mental stability preventing her from experiencing the peace of mind she desperately craves.
• Bullying a Dragon: Demona binds Puck in cold iron and forces him to do her bidding, while never considering that he greatly outshines her in terms of raw power, which could come back to bite her badly should he ever be free. Once freed, he does exactly that.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Demona disfiguring Gillecomegain was an entirely forgettable deed to her that wound up defining Gillecomegain's entire life and starting the legacy of the Hunter. By the time Gillecomegain confronts her about it, she's completely forgotten about him. Even in the present, Demona honestly has no idea why the Hunters have been pursuing her for so long (by the present day, however, neither do the Hunters).
• Carry a Big Stick: Demona's primary weapon is a mace (in the present day, she also has a fondness for various energy rifles).
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She has ultimately betrayed just about every group she has ever worked with. (Most notably the Wyvern Clan in the backstory of "Awakening", the Manhattan Clan in "Awakening" present time, Macbeth in the backstory of "City of Stone", Xanatos in "City of Stone" present time, and Thailog in "The Reckoning"). Unlike most instances of this, the end result is shown, with Demona being miserably alone because of it.
• Color Me Black: Demona has a vicious, genocidal hatred of humans. When she makes a magical wish that she didn't turn to stone during the day, Puck (whom Demona had just angered) grants it by having her turn into a human during the daylight hours.
• Cool Crown: More like a tiara, but it has that look. She was basically the Wyvern Clan's queen, after all (she was both Goliath's mate and his Number Two).
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: "Dominique Destine" uses her company as a means to an end of her Evil Plan.
• 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 she does get complete immortality. 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.
• Cute Little Fangs: As shown on the rare occasion when she smiles, and the not-so-rare occasions when she snarls, she shows the racial teeth of her kind.
• The Cynic: Demona believes the worst in everyone. Even Macbeth, whom she had known and been allied with for decades, was betrayed the instant that he said something that might be interpreted as an intent to betray her at some point in the future.
• Dark Action Girl: Evil, seductive, and a very skilled warrior.
• Debt Detester: After Macbeth helped her kill Gillecomgain (Demona herself having helped Macbeth twelve years prior), she was glad to be "even" with Macbeth. An odd example; the debt Demona detested was one that Macbeth owed to her.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Tragic Villain. While she deep down does regret and realize the error of her actions, the pain of it prevents her from accepting it long enough to act on thus continuing to bring misery on herself and others, making her more pitiful then sympathetic.
• Didn't Think This Through: While quite intelligent and cunning in her own right, Demona often displays a lack of forethought, which winds up foiling some of her plans.
  • The plan to betray Castle Wyvern to the Vikings was doomed from its inception; Demona failed to realize that Goliath would never leave the castle unprotected, nor that the Captain of the Guard wouldn't be able to stop Hakon and his men from destroying the gargoyles in their sleep (one man against an army of Vikings with every reason to fear the gargoyles and no reason to spare them was never going to end well). The consequences of her short-sightedness were catastrophic.
  • Betraying Macbeth to Canmore; not only would Macbeth have never betrayed Demona, but Demona failed to consider that Canmore hated her just as much as he did Macbeth. The end result of this ill-conceived plan saw Demona struck down, her clan destroyed by Canmore, and Demona more alone than ever.
  • In "The Mirror" she binds Puck in cold iron and has him carrying out her will, while never considering that a) a Child of Oberon in general and a known trickster specifically might not make as effective a servant as she might have hoped, and b) mistreating someone who greatly outmatches her in both magic and cunning can cost her dearly once they are freed.
• Dirty Coward: She fled from Castle Wyvern before the massacre, not warning any of her fellow gargoyles of the impending attack, clearly afraid of both the consequences of her treachery and that the Vikings couldn't be trusted.
• Disney Death: Her link with Macbeth ensures that she "dies" if she's close enough to him when he "dies". As mentioned in Macbeth's section, this happened when Canmore stabbed Macbeth in "City of Stone", and when Elisa shot Demona herself in "Sanctuary".
• A Dog Named "Dog": Played with. She's not a literal demon but does resemble one somewhat, and is named Demona. The inspiration for the name was likely Macbeth's comment that she "fought like a demon".
• Driven to Villainy: Her background was fleshed out in "Vows" and "City of Stone", which shows her descent into villainy. Her plan with the Vikings went south, but she thought she could reveal herself to her clan later and make up some story of escaping coincidentally. Then she found them in perma-stone. She spent decades hiding from and stealing from humans to survive and feed a new clan. She might have turned a corner after allying with Macbeth but her paranoia got the better of her, and her second clan perished. That sealed the deal.
• Dude Magnet: Downplayed. Several men have been drawn to Demona, most notably Goliath, Thailog and Macbeth (as Dominique Destine).
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Played straight with her daughter, Angela, whose safety is the only thing she considers a higher priority than her overwhelming desire for the destruction of humanity. It's sadly twisted if not outright subverted with Goliath, as while she does have some feelings for him (according to Puck), she is more than willing to kill him for opposing her fanatical goals. Demona does genuinely fall in love with Thailog - only for him to try to kill Angela and create a clone of her and Elisa Maza named Delilah to replace her.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Usually subverted - she is treacherous and cold, and genocide is her greatest ambition. But even she regretted manipulating her own daughter.
• Everything Sounds Sexier in French: As Dominique Destine, she pretended to be of French origin when seducing Macbeth.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Even before her true Start of Darkness, her initial plan to betray the humans of Castle Wyvern so that her fellow gargoyles could live there in peace falls apart because she fails to realize that the others would always choose to protect others over seeking out those that hurt them. Later, despite having been allies with Macbeth for nearly forty years, she had no trouble whatsoever believing that he would readily betray her and her clan for his own gain. The consequences of her reaction to both of these were, to say the least, devastating for all involved. This is all due to her intense paranoia and prejudice. This extends to the climax of "Hunter's Moon" when she practically brags about her grand genocide scheme to the Manhattan Clan, apparently refusing to believe all of them would never go along with it, and instead oppose her to the point of risking their own lives to do so.
  Demona: You'll thank me for this later.
  Brooklyn: Don't hold your breath.
• Evil Counterpart: A pretty extreme example as she reflects darker aspects of Goliath, Elisa, Angela, and Brooklyn; the ability to lead others to ruin and tragedy, a protector that had gone Knight-Templar, hatred of humans as opposed to love of them, and a second in command willing to seize power from their leader at any cost instead of one who was reluctant about becoming a leader and bearing the responsibilities that come with it respectively.
• Evil Laugh: One example is when (she thought) she had poisoned Elisa.
• Evil Matriarch: She loves Angela so much, she's willing to kill humanity to protect her. Well, she was going to kill humanity anyway, but she really does love Angela.
• Evil Plan: The total and complete extinction of the human race in revenge for her clan is her goal.
• Evil Redhead: She switched from a generally Fiery Redhead to an outright villain after her fall from grace.
• Evil Sorceress: She learned sorcery from the Archmage and uses it to inflict pain and suffering on others.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Voiced by Marina Sirtis, and using Sirtis' best villainous contralto - when she's not in a rage, that is.
• Evil Versus Evil: She ends up in conflict with the Hunters, Xanatos, and Thailog, which underscores her genocidal mania in different ways; the first is a reflection and the later two how tragic her motivations are.
• Expy: Of Magneto to a small extent, but to William Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth to a far greater extent.
• Extremity Extremist: Downplayed as she uses her body equally to fight, but Demona shows that she uses her legs to fight with greater frequency than most gargoyles by using kicks, leg pushes, and leg throws. The latter is also a Signature Move as using every object she finds as a battering weapon.
• Face–Heel Turn: In her Backstory, she betrayed her clan and fell more and more to evil with each passing conflict.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Beneath that pretty face and beautiful body lie a truly twisted and sadistic mind.
• Fallen Heroine: She used to be on Goliath's side, but is now obsessed with committing genocide against humanity because of her psychotic delusions that all humans are evil.
  • Played with. Flashbacks show that she always had a dark side and her villainous qualities were always present, but she was still fundamentally good. If anything, her refusal to acknowledge or learn from her mistakes has amplified her negative qualities and extinguished her positive qualities.
• Fantastic Racism: She utterly despises humanity. Attempting to destroy them is her only goal and motivation in her endless life.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Demona's default outfit has an uneven top: its left side is missing.
• Faux Affably Evil: Sometimes she manages to cork up her seething fury long enough to present a friendlier attitude. It usually doesn't last long.
• Femme Fatalons: Not just her gargoyle talons, but even as Dominique Destine, she files her fingernails into sharp points.
• Fiery Redhead: As hot-tempered as her hair color implies.
• Foot Popping: Believe it or not, she did so while kissing Macbeth (in her human form) when she was pretending to love him.
• Freudian Excuse: Most of Demona's problems are her own fault, but it all stems from the fact she was mistreated by the humans her clan protected at Castle Wyvern and was tired of watching her family and lover be abused by ungrateful bigots. She then lost her clan to the Vikings when they betrayed her, which instilled a lifelong mistrust of humans.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: In the past, Demona was mistreated by the humans she protected in Castle Wyvern. She watched her clan be destroyed by the Vikings, and set out to rebuild a new clan of gargoyles of the last of her kind, only for them to be destroyed, leaving her miserably alone for centuries. But as Goliath pointed out, Demona herself was the one that caused the destruction of her first clan because she was the one to betray the castle to the Vikings, because of her and the Captain of the Guard's short sighted plan for the Vikings to take the humans and leave the gargoyles. She was also responsible for scarring Gillecomgain's face when he was just a child during a raid for food on his family's farm, turning the kid's heart to hatred toward her kind and turning him into the Hunter, who would proceed to massacre the entire Sruighlea Cell of her second clan and pose a dire threat to the rest of it. And her second clan was destroyed because she herself betrayed Macbeth to Canmore because she suspected Macbeth's plan to betray her, only for Canmore to betray her in turn and destroy her clan. The Weird Sisters force Demona to face the truth of her actions, only for her to ignore the truth later.
  The Weird Sisters: You must give them the code.
  Demona: I will have vengeance for the betrayal of my clan. Vengeance for my pain.
  The Weird Sisters: But who betrayed your clan? And who caused this pain?
  Demona: The Vikings destroyed my clan.
  The Weird Sisters: Who betrayed the castle to the Vikings?
  Demona: The Hunter hunted us down.
  The Weird Sisters: Who created The Hunter?
  Demona: Canmore destroyed the last of us.
  The Weird Sisters: Who betrayed Macbeth to Canmore?
• Future Me Scares Me: She went back in time to convince her past self that humans were evil and she should wipe them out. Her past self was horrified of her aggression and hatred but, unfortunately, this sets up the Stable Time Loop that turned her into "future me" in the first place.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: After her second clan was murdered, she effectively swore off consorting with anyone else ever again; needless to say, this choice really did a number on her mental health (among other things).
• Green-Eyed Monster: She still grudgingly carries feelings for Goliath, but characteristically this just means she tries to murder any hypotenuses that look Goliath's way, particularly Elisa Maza.
  • In "The Mirror", Puck even points this out when he briefly uses Titania's Mirror to reflect Demona's innermost desire, à la the Mirror of Erised.
    How quaint; after all these centuries, still carrying a torch. Well, if that's what you want, I could make him love you again, piece of cake... Given your charming personality.
• Gut Feeling: After Goliath refused to take the other gargoyles away from the castle with him, even with the Captain of the Guard's assurance that he would protect them, Demona clearly sensed what the coming day would bring. She even almost warned a few of her rookery siblings, but changed her mind at the last second and fled just before dawn, and cried a single tear as the sun rose.
• Heel Realization: A couple times, she realizes that she is the biggest threat to gargoylekind. Unfortunately, she proves herself a grand champion at ignoring them.
• Her Own Worst Enemy: Her paranoia and inability to acknowledge her mistakes have caused her nothing but misery and caused her to lose everything she cared about. But her refusal to acknowledge that anything could possibly be her fault results in her repeating this cycle over and over again.
• Horrible Judge of Character: As a consequence of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, Demona has a massive blind spot when it comes to how moral other people are. She believed that Macbeth would willingly betray her and her clan to the English (who were led by Macbeth's enemy the Hunter, and despite Macbeth having been a loyal ally of Demona's for seventeen years), and at different points, believed that Goliath, Brooklyn, Coldstone, and Angela could all be brought around to her way of thinking about humanity. She also genuinely believed that Thailog (who had previously turned on and tried to kill his own creators) cared about her and could be trusted.
• Hot Witch: She's conventionally attractive even by human standards, wears little clothing and is an extremely powerful and knowledgeable witch.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Her strongest belief is that humans are vile, violent, and untrustworthy, and much worse than any other species, such as gargoyles.
• 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 and Quarrymen traditions, whose sole purpose is to destroy all gargoyles with extreme prejudice. Yet she had the gall to say Goliath would be the death of all of them? If anything, she was the one who nearly caused gargoyle extinction.
  • She claims that Goliath had been corrupted by humanity, yet Demona has, over the years, become more "human" than Goliath ever has, such as being quicker to accept Angela as her daughter where Goliath held on to the gargoyle idea of children being part of the clan rather than more individual family ties.
  • In "The Mirror" she is infuriated when Puck turns the entire population of New York into gargoyles, even though that kind of power would allow her to create the salvation for the gargoyle race that she always claimed she wanted. However, what she really cares about is her hatred for humanity, and so the thought never occurs to her. Instead, she demands that the gargoyles be turned back into humans so that she can kill them properly.
  • Demona was enraged and disgusted when she thought Macbeth was going to betray her to the Hunter in 1057. She responded by betraying him to the Hunter first.
  • In Sanctuary, Demona and Thailog are lovers. Demona accuses Goliath of being jealous and paranoid of their love. In reality, Demona is jealous of Goliath's love with Elisa and is truly paranoid herself.
  • Demona tells Angela that as gargoyles they must always look out for one and another and accuses Goliath of losing sight of that notion. Has she forgotten how she betrayed and abandoned the clan in 994?
• Hypocrite Has a Point: For as much as her hatred of humanity is borne out of her refusal to take responsibility for her own actions, even the Manhattan Clan acknowledge she makes some good points. As it stands, Demona is right that humanity has always treated gargoyles abysmally out of bigotry, regardless of how noble the gargoyles behave. The reason she's a villain is because she herself is equally bigoted against humanity, and views them all as inherently evil much like the bigots she criticizes.
• Ignored Epiphany: Once, the Weird Sisters asked her a series of Armor Piercing Questions that forced her to realize that she had no one to blame for her pain but herself in order to get Demona to reveal a vital access code. A minute later, she's back to making excuses and blaming others.
• Immortal Immaturity: She is proud of being stronger and "younger" than Hudson, but she's gained less wisdom from her thousand years of living than he gained from one natural gargoyle lifetime (plus a thousand year sleep).
  Hudson: But I know something that you don't, something that only comes with age. I know how to wait.
• Irony:
  • While Demona has repeatedly declared herself to despise all of humanity, she is by far the most human like of all the gargoyles encountered. Barring the spell that turns her into a human during the day, she is the more acclimated to human society, is more familiar with their technology, expresses human values such as vengeance and bigotry, and values aspects like money and possessions which other clans do not possess.
  • Demona rejected the gargoyle way of protecting others and as a result has spent most of her 1000 years of existence alone, not even aware of other gargoyle clans and fully believing she was the last of her kind. The Manhattan Clan, on the other hand, was able to discover the existence of multiple gargoyle colonies throughout the world, simply by sticking with their mission of protecting others. Had Demona not been so blinded by rage, she could have found another community to join and become a part of.
• Irrational Hatred: Towards Elisa. Word of God states that she despises Elisa far more than even the Hunters, both for being the object of Goliath's affections and for being a living contradiction to her "humans are evil and hate gargoyles" philosophy.invoked
• It's All About Me: A tragic example. Demona always puts her desires above other people even when she's not consciously trying to and stews in self-pity, resulting in her making numerous poor decisions that hurt the people around her. What Demona ultimately wants is a family and to no longer be alone, but she's too paranoid to actually accept it and too prideful to ever admit she was wrong, resulting in her sabotaging her own happiness repeatedly.
• Karmic Transformation: Puck grants her wish to not turn into a statue at daytime... by making her change into a human instead. Naturally, Demona is horrified by this, but learns to (begrudgingly) live with it.
• Kick Chick: She uses her legs in combat far more than most other gargoyles do, everything from basic kicks to lifting her opponents in the air with her legs and feet.
• Kick the Dog:
  • She slashes Gillecomgain's face out of little more than spite towards the human race. This act of petty cruelty ends up having serious consequences for Demona, Macbeth, and countless gargoyles.
  • Her and Thailog's scheme against Macbeth in "Sanctuary", which involved seducing Macbeth and convincing him to fall in love with her, is exceptionally cruel, even by Demona's standards.
• Kill All Humans: Her primary goal in life is extinction of humanity by any means necessary.
• 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.
• Knight of Cerebus: She is one of the most dangerous villains in the series and her involvement in anything is then taken deadly serious by the Manhattan Clan.
• Lady Macbeth: Shades of this in her relationships with Goliath by encouraging him to force Hudson to step down as clan leader, Macbeth (ironically, Demona is more like Lady Macbeth than Macbeth's actual wife), and even Xanatos by bringing him tempting immortality spells. It is 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 doomsday.
• Magic Knight: She uses her powerful magic and formidable combat skills about evenly.
• Mama Bear: Would rather pull an Enemy Mine than let Angela be hurt.
• Manipulative Bitch: Many of her schemes revolve on twisting the emotions of others to procure their help, such as showing Brooklyn the worst of humanity to get the Grimorum. She even pulled this on Angela, her own daughter. It failed badly.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Her alias "Dominique Destine" literally means "Divine Destiny".
  • Macbeth gave her the name "Demona" because he said she fought like a demon.
• Mirror Character:
  • Demona and Jon Canmore/John Castaway.
  Demona: [in "City of Stone"] What have I... what have they done to you?!
  Jon: [in "Hunter's Moon"] What have I done? What have I... what have they done?!
  • Also Demona and Goliath when they both want revenge against the Hunters for nearly killing Angela. When presented with a choice to save an innocent life or pursue revenge, they both chose the former. (Goliath saving Katharine rather than killing Hakon and the Captain; Demona saving the young Macbeth rather than killing Gillecomgain.)
  • Demona and Goliath again in "Hunter's Moon, part 3" where Demona invoked this trope to Goliath after the latter wanted revenge against the Hunters. It doesn't last.
• Ms. Fanservice: One of the most attractive females in the cast, and not especially shy about it.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She came close to regretting her misdeeds on at least one occasion, but then dismissed it.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Demona the demon.
• Never My Fault: 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 should feel.
  Demona: You tricked me! You had me under a spell! None of this was my fault! It was the humans, always the humans!
  Goliath: You have learned nothing.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She protests her goal is to make a better world for gargoyles and killing all humans is her preferred method. It should be noted few Gargoyles in the series can be considered evil, much less bear a desire to kill humans, and her goal is more to reject any notion it's her fault her clans have been killed off by her poor decisions. Case in point, she used Puck to wish for a world where there were no humans, he turns all the humans into gargoyles. She is not happy her supposed utopia has been made reality as she did not want humans to be given the "gift" of being a gargoyle, she wanted it via human genocide.
• Opposites Theme Naming: By coincidence, her name is opposite in theme to Angela's. When Macbeth gave Demona her name in 1040, he didn't even know that she had an unhatched child, let alone that said child would be named Angela.
• Painful Transformation: Her shift to human during the day and back again. The only saving grace for her is when Macbeth is in range, he gets to feel it too. It is lampshaded in "High Noon".
  Macbeth: Is it supposed to hurt that much? I thought you said that the changeling Puck turns you into a human during the day as a gift.
  Demona: Puck's gifts always come with a price.

The first transformation, at the end of "The Mirror", was apparently painless. Word of God is that Puck made that a special case, so as not to spoil the surprise.invoked

• The Paranoiac: A particularly tragic case of this trope as her paranoia, hatred, and anger have dealt just as much damage (if not more) to herself as it did to those within reach of her.
• Parental Abandonment: Even knowing that one of the eggs from the Wyvern Rookery was her own, she didn't lift a talon to stop the Magus and Katherine from "stealing" them.
• Perpetual Frowner: Her default expression is a cynical scowl.
• Pet the Dog: Few and far between, but her hatred of Goliath and of all humanity doesn't prevent her from feeling protective (in her own twisted way) toward the rest of the Clan, whom she still hopes to convince that she is right.
• Phrase Catcher: Demona is often on the receiving end of the "It ends tonight!" yelled by the Hunters.
• Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: She used to be Goliath's mate and second-in-command. But then she became genocidal and bitter, so they come to blows often.
• Psychological Projection: This is a subtle element of her personality, and one of her overriding flaws. Demona is easily convinced her allies are trying to betray her and prone to paranoia about it. Yet Demona repeatedly betrays the people close to her over and over again, even kickstarting her own misery by betraying her own clan for admittedly understandable albeit unjustifiable reasons. Her paranoia thus is a result of the fact that she would quickly leap to betrayal if it benefited her, and she thinks everyone else shares this trait.
• The Queenpin: At the end of the "Here In Manhattan" arc, we learn that Antoinette Dracon has been working for Demona all along and, through her, has given Demona complete control of the New York City underworld.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her Glowing Eyes of Doom are red, and she plays this seven shades of straight compared to Angela.
• Revenge Before Reason: In the past, she maimed random peasants out of her hatred. Her schemes now tend to involve more cunning, and she has little to lose, but before the series' beginning, she had a nasty habit of spiting others despite poor circumstances. Most dangerously, she tended to betray those whose existence protected her people, even if they were unpleasant, to others who would show no such courtesy and kill them without a second thought - both times resulting in her clan being wiped out.
• Revenge by Proxy: "Then their descendants shall pay. I will have blood for blood!"
• Rich Bitch: As her human alias Dominique Destine, she's amassed a large amount of wealth and success from the company she runs and yet still treats her employees with the same contempt and aggression she does with her enemies.
• The Rival: Demona sees Elisa as this. Oddly enough, whenever the two women are on even ground—by Elisa becoming a gargoyle or Demonca becoming a human—Elisa is her clear superior in combat.
• Secret Identity: While not proud of her ability to be human during the day, she conceals her identity under the name Dominique Destine.
• Shadow Archetype: To Goliath, showing what he'd become and the consequences if he ever gave in to his desire for revenge.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Her wedding to Macbeth proved this as she was quite the beautiful bride.
• She Who Fights Monsters: Never shown better than in "City of Stone", where she takes to smashing petrified humans with a mace, much like when Hakon massacred her clan. Demona herself, however, would view this as poetic justice.
• Signature Move:
  • Demona enjoys bludgeoning her rivals with any weapon she can find. It reflects her violent and vindictive personality.
  • Reflecting her experience, Demona likes to take her opponents by surprise with leg throws. If she's in a disadvantage, she will use gravity and/or leverage to pick up her opponent with her legs or her feet and then throw them above her head, giving her time to recover. Ironically enough, Angela once did this move to her when trying to teach her how to fight, much to Demona's fury.
• Slasher Smile: Another of her favored expressions.
• Sleeps in the Nude: According to Word of God, she gets a few hours of sleep during the day like this.invoked
• Sole Survivor: After Canmore overthrew Macbeth, Demona is the only gargoyle left of her clan.
• Tautological Templar: Demona wants to destroy humanity to punish them for enslaving and wiping out her species and for all the persecution she personally has suffered, incapable of facing how everything that happened to her is just her fault, blaming others for not "appreciating" her efforts to "protect" her people.
• Token Evil Teammate: In the proposed spin-off Gargoyles 2198, she teams up with the new Manhattan Clan to fight against the Space Spawn.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Justified. The treatment she and her clan received at the hands of humans was atrocious. It makes her far more bitter over the centuries. Now she is ruthless, coldhearted, and willing to kill innocent people, and even her own kind just to get back at humans.
• Tragic Villain: She seems to be aware, on some level, of her evil, but can't stop doing it or even consciously admit it to herself because that would require her to admit that much of the suffering she's experienced over her millennium-long life was her own fault. So, instead, she lashes out at the world around her in the hope that, if she kills enough humans (and anyone else who gets in her way), it'll be enough to make the hurting stop.
• The Unfettered: Nothing is sacred for Demona, and no one, with the possible exception of Angela, is not expendable in her quest to eradicate humanity.
• Ungrateful Bitch: When she learned that Princess Katherine had a hand in raising and protecting Angela and her siblings, she was quite displeased. Likely remembering how she treated the Gargoyles, she scoffed that the human treated them better.
• Unholy Matrimony: She was a couple with Thailog, until he betrays her. Yes, she hooked up with her ex-husband's evil clone.
• Unskilled, but Strong: It's quite apparent that despite 1000 years of experience, Demona really isn't that capable in a fight. She heavily relies on powerful weapons or sorcery to be a threat. Case in point, when she has to fight Elisa on equal terms, in both occasions Demona is on the losing end of the fight.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Most of the main events of the story started because of her including the destruction of the clan at Castle Wyvern, the creation of The Hunter, and of course her own paranoia about humanity itself.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was a Nice Girl, but her hatred of humans and their general contempt of her, and her paranoia of those that were kind to her, twisted her into something that was not.
• Villainous Breakdown: A slow degradation over centuries, starting near Knight Templar territory; by 1995 she's a full-blown villain with genocidal ambitions. On rare occasions, it's seen that Demona harbors a lot of misery, a wretched prisoner of her own insanity.
  Demona: The access code is... "alone".
  • Then seconds later, she goes into this again for a completely different reason, ranting and raving about how her scheme was ruined and how everyone else is to blame but herself. See Ignored Epiphany above.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • Despite her extremist methods, she's not wrong how most of humanity fear them for being different. Her attitude would have changed for the better if the humans in the past were kinder to her clan and others after weren't trying to hunt her for centuries.
  • How she manipulated Brooklyn in "Temptation". As Goliath lampshades, she cherry-picked examples of humans being violent and intolerant toward each other (robberies, Domestic Abuse, and homicide), and spun it as a reason for why Gargoyles should remain in hiding and give up trying to live among humans.
• Waif-Fu: Despite being a smaller-than-average gargoyle, Demona can fight on even terms with heavyweights like Goliath and Thailog. The series does point out that Demona's combat prowess is boosted by centuries of experience, functional immortality, and being madder than a bull elephant in must.
• Wasted Beauty: She is genuinely attractive and beautiful, but her past transgressions towards everyone that has tried to help her in the past combined with her inability to take responsibility for her actions leave her constantly alone and isolated when everything is said and done.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Her accent sounds like a mix of RP British, American, Irish and Scottish.
• When She Smiles: She has a really beautiful genuine smile, which is rarely ever seen because of her malicious nature.
• With Us or Against Us: "If you are not my ally, then you are my enemy."
• Woman Scorned: She had this reaction when she thought Macbeth had betrayed her in the past.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: By the end of "City of Stone", it's hard not to feel sorry for her, even though she's long since crossed the line.
• Working with the Ex: When imprisoned by the Hunters, she works with Goliath to escape. This also counts as a case of Enemy Mine.
• Would Hurt a Child: Slashing Gillecomgain's face created the Hunter, and his legacy that haunts her to this very day. During her "City of Stone" killing spree, her trail of destruction passed in front of a toy store... draw your own conclusions.
• You Are What You Hate: Thanks to Puck's sense of humor, whenever the sun is up she becomes human. She does use it to her advantage.
• You Fool!: She calls Goliath and the Manhattan Clan fools. A lot.
• You Need to Get Laid: According to Word of God, it's one of the reasons (in a very long list) why Demona is very bitter. Centuries alone and periodically going into heat probably didn't do any good for her mental health.invoked

Thailog

Voiced by (EN): Keith David

Voiced by (IT): Alessandro Rossi

"And waste my life playing guardian angel night after night for a decrepit city infested with inferior humans? Where's the profit in that?"

Goliath's clone, designed to combine his physical attributes with Xanatos's intelligence and ruthlessness. Uncharacteristically, Xanatos didn't foresee this project would cause him problems.

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• Antagonistic Offspring: He's technically the son of Goliath and they clearly do not like each other.
• Artificial Family Member: While the two are enemies and don't care for one another, Goliath still considers Thailog his own person and acknowledges him as a son.
• Batman Gambit: His premier episode has him hire Sevarius to 'kidnap' him from Xanatos - using funds wired from one of the latter's accounts. Turns out he was banking on Sevarius assuming it was part of Xanatos' Machiavellian schemes.
• BFG: Thailog uses a huge laser rifle after his debut episode. Its design is distinct from Xanatos's rifles, suggesting it's tailored to his personal specifications.
• Big Bad Ensemble While he did not appear as often as Xanatos, Macbeth, and Demona, he's surely just as dangerous, has no moral qualms and some of his plans imply that he aims to become a threat as great as them.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: In the comics, his bracers has not one, but four hidden blades.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He knows he's evil and he's quite proud of it.
• The Chessmaster: He takes after and surpasses Xanatos in scheming; he's responsible for Xanatos's first unqualified defeat.
• Clone Degeneration: In the non-canon The Goliath Chronicles, Thailog (along with all the other cloned gargoyles) succumb to a cloning-related illness that causes all of them to permanently turn to stone, even at night.
• Clones Are People, Too: While disgusted at Xanatos for cloning him, Goliath admits that Thailog isn't to blame and, at Elisa's insistence, comes to consider him a son. He even calls Xanatos out on considering him a mere "copy":
  Xanatos: Well, I should have known no copy could live up to the original.
  Goliath: That copy was a living being.
• Combat Pragmatist: Make no mistake- Thailog does not fight fair. He lacks the desire to engage in direct combat, often maneuvering his enemies into positions where they eliminate each other. When he does fight, he always tries to have some advantage over his opponent.
• Composite Character: In-Universe, he's made up of Goliath's DNA, giving him both the physical traits and voice of his progenitor, and the cunning and intelligence of Xanatos.
• Cultured Badass: Much like Xanatos and Goliath, he is far from a brute. He enjoys reading and can do so in many languages, and he styles himself like an ancient Greek.
• Dark Is Evil: He has black skin in contrast to Goliath's purple and sure as hell he's evil.
• Deadpan Snarker: Another other thing he got from Xanatos. Mix in his wit with Goliath's voice and you get Thailog.
  Goliath: Where's Demona, where's Macbeth!?
  Thailog: The newlyweds seem to be having a difference of opinion. I thought it'd best not to take sides.
  Elisa: Newlyweds? It sounds like they're killing each other!
  Thailog: I sincerely hope so.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He refuses to join the Manhattan Clan when Goliath tries to persuade him not to go down Xanatos' path, seeing it pointless and finding Goliath too soft to admire.
  Goliath: Money is a necessary evil in Xanatos' world, not ours. Join my clan. Join your clan.
  Thailog: And waste my life playing guardian angel night after night for a decrepit city infested with inferior humans? Where's the profit in that?
• Evil Counterpart: To both Goliath and Xanatos. He's Goliath's evil clone, but he also embodies the depths of evil of which Xanatos would become capable of if he lost the last threads holding him to his humanity. Both characters see Thailog as one of their most dangerous enemies, if not the most.
• Evil Knockoff: The purpose of his creation was for Xanatos to have an ally with all of Goliath's power, but his own morality, ambitions, and intelligence.
• Eviler than Thou: Pulls this with Xanatos and Demona, reducing them to pawns.
  • Owen and Xanatos discuss about it in "Double Jeopardy":
  Owen: You mean that that creature is still out there? It has the money. It's as powerful as Goliath. And it's smarter than you?
  Xanatos: Owen, I think I created a monster.
• Evil Laugh: Indulges in this more than any other villain in the series. He even lampshades it as his "maniacal laugh" in the comics.
• Evil Sounds Deep: A given, since he shares Goliath's voice actor, but is evil.
• Evil Twin: Obviously. However, what makes Thailog unique is that he is the evil twin physically to Goliath while also to some extent a mental twin to Xanatos. While he has Goliath's strength, he has none of his compassion or nobility... or combat prowess. And while he is as smart as Xanatos, he also lacks his more nobler qualities as well. Unlike Xanatos, Thailog has no interest in fighting fair, and is happy to engage in revenge for the sake of it.
• Fantastic Racism: He outright declares humans to be inferior, and thinks that protecting them is a waste of his time. Unlike Demona though, he doesn't possess an obsessive hatred of humans, he's just apathetic and doesn't care about them one way or another.
• Faux Affably Evil: Thailog is charismatic, and even seems friendly towards his enemies at times, but unlike Xanatos, it's all either an act or an expression of sadism.
• Genius Bruiser: As smart as Xanatos and as strong as Goliath; that was the point of his creation.
• 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.
• Greed: He's motivated by and prioritizes money over all else, even his own personal safety. He once rushed into a burning oil rig to reclaim his money rather than actually try to escape.
• Guns Akimbo: Thailog uses two smaller guns, one each in hand in the SLG Comic.
• It's All About Me: A defining trait that sets him apart from Xanatos and Demona, Thailog is concerned with his benefit alone and never displays the capacity to care about anything but himself.
• Jerkass: Thailog is not a nice guy. He feigns feelings for Demona as a plan to send her to her death, and when he had clones of the Manhattan clan made, he kept their intelligence deliberately limited and commented that all they need to know is "Obey Thailog."
• 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.invoked
  • Averted in the (non-canon) The Goliath Chronicles, where Thailog not only suffers from a fatal case of Clone Degeneration, but his attempts to steal a cure for himself from Dr. Sevarius backfires horribly on him, leading him to suffer the humiliation of being betrayed himself before dying.
• Lack of Empathy: He never shows remorse for all the bad things he does or not even pity for all the people he hurts. His quote under his picture says all.
• 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.
• Manipulative Bastard: He has Xanatos's cunning and is the only person to get one over on him. He also had Demona totally fooled into thinking he loved her.
• Morality Pet: Subverted. He cared about Goliath as much as someone like him could and even planned to share money with him, which is as selfless as Thailog gets. But seeing Goliath's kind nature made him decided he was not worth it.
• Obviously Evil: He's all black as coal complete with demonic red eyes and spooky white hair. Definitely evil.
• Palette Swap: The chemical process used to rapidly age Thailog had the minor side effect of changing his natural skin and hair color and the color of his eye glow. Word of God is they went this route to avoid making Thailog look too identical to Goliath.invoked
• Phlebotinum Rebel: He rebelled against Xanatos in no time at all.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In contrast to Demona, Thailog isn't interested in exterminating all humans. Thailog is driven by profit and personal gain, something easy to achieve with humans who have a running economy. In a world without humans, gargoyles would continue the tradition of honor and protection. Thailog wouldn't gain anything from that.
• Rapid Aging: Thailog would have grown at the natural rate of a real gargoyle, but Sevarius used a special chemical treatment to artifically age Thailog to the same physical age as Goliath.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A side-effect from the accelerated growth process is the red eyes, which Goliath certainly does not possess.
• The Reveal: In the SLG continuation. That he’s a member of the Illuminati.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Almost. Word of God is nobody wanted to ask Keith David to pronounce "Htailog". However, it still qualifies if the letter thorn is taken into account, as it was in use in 994 A.D. Scotland: Þailog would be Goliaþ backwards.invoked
• Shadow Archetype: To Xanatos, showing what a monster he'd be if their ego and ambition overcame their morality. Tellingly, Thailog's creation is one of the few things Xanatos openly regretted.
• Smart People Play Chess: He's very intelligent due to his programming and is seen playing chess, just like one of his fathers.
• The Sociopath: Thailog cares for nobody except himself, and gives no damns at all about morality. He's a cunning manipulator who can feign romantic love for Demona, but will easily discard her without a second thought once it becomes convenient for him (i.e. inheriting her wealth), or he grows tired of her (by creating a more obedient clone of Demona to be his new sexual partner).
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Creates an identity for himself named "Alexander", in honor of the Macedonian conqueror. That's also what Xanatos chose to name his son, for the same reason. It's not too big a coincidence, since Xanatos programmed his own amorality and ambition into the guy. The comics give us another example in that when beaten in a game by someone who could be called a servant, they both have the exact same conversation with both Xanatos and Thailog giving the same answer
  Owen/Shari: Would you rather I lose on purpose?
  Xanatos/Thailog: I'd fire you if you did.
• That Thing Is Not My Child!: Inverted. Goliath is disgusted at Xanatos's use of his DNA, but admits that Thailog isn't to blame and deserves freedom. In the same amount of time, however, Thailog decides that Goliath is too soft to admire.
• Tragic Villain: Despite what a cold-blooded monster Thailog is, there's still an element of tragedy to him. He had no say in being created by his first "father" and programmed by his second to act as he does. And when seeking a relationship with his third "father" Thailog reacts with genuine rage over being rejected. Goliath was very on point when declaring that he, Xanatos and Sevarius had all failed him.
• Turned Against Their Masters: He spent his early life being subliminally indoctrinated by Xanatos. Of course, this was going to happen.
• Underestimating Badassery: On multiple occasions, the heroes and other villains assume that Thailog is either naive or not fully aware of the situation, assuming his lack of experience is the reason for his actions. They learn far, far too late that Thailog is not only aware, but he's the one manipulating others.
• The Unfettered: Takes this even further than Xanatos, lacking any of his humanizing traits or his sense of honor.
• Unholy Matrimony: He was a couple with Demona, until he betrays her.
• Viler New Villain: Xanatos had proven himself an honorable character and potential semi-ally by this point. Thailog was created with all his Machiavellian traits but lacked his redeeming one and is introduced pulling an Eviler than Thou on Xanatos, effectively taking his place as recurring antagonist.
• White Hair, Black Heart: The page image drives home the former. Need we say more about the latter?
• Wicked Cultured: Takes the first name "Alexander" when indirectly posing as a reclusive financial wizard, after Alexander the Great, for whom he harbors admiration (something he has in common with David Xanatos, hence Alex's name). 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.invoked

Coldsteel

"The raw energy! The unrivaled power. I AM Coldsteel."

Voiced by (EN): Xander Berkeley

Voiced by (IT): Sergio Graziani

A robotic gargoyle, formerly a flesh-and-blood member of the Wyvern clan before his death in the Wyvern massacre until his resurrected soul was one of the three used to animate the cyborg body Coldstone. His soul was separated and subsequently transferred into the robotic body "Coldsteel".

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• All There in the Script: Before being separated and given the name Coldsteel, the scripts referred to him as Iago. Being a traditional gargoyles, this wasn't a name he ever had, just ease of reference for the scripts.
• Back from the Dead
• Combat Tentacles: Coldsteel's weapons in his new body are steel cords that emerge from his hands.
• Deadpan Snarker: Iago/Coldsteel is hardly short of dry quips.
• Enemy Within: Iago/Coldsteel started as one of the three souls in the Mind Hive of Coldstone and would both manipulate Coldstone himself and take control of their body.
• Enemy Without: Iago/Coldsteel becomes this after gaining his own body.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: Coldsteel, especially by the high standards set by this show, is shallow. His Villainous Crush on Coldfire is mostly an afterthought; primarily, he's just an evil gargoyle who wants to betray and kill his clanmates for reasons never explained. This fits in somewhat with his basis in Shakespeare's Iago, whose stated motivations fluctuate from scene to scene.
• Large Ham: When he acquires his new robotic body, he really hams it up the scene. See the above quote.
• Manipulative Bastard: Iago loves turning Coldstone against the rest of the clan. Go figure.
• Mistaken for Cheating: Some time in the past Desdemona was crying about something and Goliath comforted her. Iago uses this to manipulate Othello into thinking Goliath is trying to steal his beloved from him, and Othello/Coldstone naturally goes berserk.
• Stalker with a Crush: Iago/Coldsteel has a fixation on Desdemona/Coldfire, who thoroughly rejects his advances.
• Token Evil Teammate: Iago/Coldsteel was this for the Wyvern Clan. While the clan was just and noble (with even Demona still being a Face at the time), he was deceitful, self-seving and cruel. Word of God states that he worked for the Archmage for a bit and was even banished (temporarily) by Goliath for his trouble-making before the Wyvern massacre.invoked

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