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Peter Maza
- Voiced by (EN): Michael Horse, Gregg Rainwater (young)Voiced by (IT): Luciano De Ambrosis, Riccardo Rossi (young)
Elisa's Indigenous (primarily Hopi) father, a cop like her and Derek.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: For 40 years, he turned his back on his father's beliefs. Even after his wife reported that magic exists and meeting with the Gargoyles face-to-face, he still refuses to acknowledge the existence of magic. Only at the very end does he pulls a last minute change of heart and saved Coyote the Trickster from Xanatos.
- Changed My Mind, Kid: He refuses to assist Elisa, Beth and the Gargoyles to save Coyote the Trickster. He shows up at the last minute to help our heroes.
- Hates Their Parent: He resented his father and believed he was holding him back, leading to him leaving for NYC and never coming back.
- I Reject Your Reality: Peter doesn't believe in his father's beliefs 'til the very end, even with evidence to the contrary. Probably because he would have to admit that he was dead wrong for 40 years.
- Parting-Words Regret: The end of "Cloud Fathers" reveals that his father passed away some time before the episode, and they were never able to reconcile. It's implied that part of the reason he rejects the evidence of magic around him is that it would prove his father right and deepen his guilt over leaving, and once he admits to himself that his father was right, he visits his grave to apologize.
- Skeptic No Longer: At the end of Cloud Fathers, he admits he was wrong about rejecting his father's traditional ways.
Diane Maza
- Voiced by (EN): Nichelle NicholsVoiced by (IT): Vittoria Febbi
"If love is about growing closer, then it's also about letting go."
Elisa's Nigerian-American mother.
- Good Parents: Helps Goliath to see his relationship with Angela from a human perspective; thereafter he acknowledges her as his daughter.
- Mr. Exposition: She plays this role in "Mark of the Panther," giving Anansi's background and explaining how the trickster first started enslaving the werepanthers to serve him.
- Never Mess with Granny: She's old enough to be a grandmother, but still a force to be reckoned with. When the Manhattan Clan faces off against Anansi, she joins the fight and uses a staff to hack away at the webbing supporting him.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: During the battle against Anansi, the spider begs for mercy, offering the group whatever they wish if they let him live. An unimpressed Diane snarls "Your gifts always come with a price trickster!" and keeps up the attack.
- The Storyteller: She serves this role while living in a village in Nigeria, telling the local children about the legend of Anansi. Angela is so impressed by her skill that she first assumes that Diane is the chief of the tribe, given how everyone looks up to and respects her. Later, Anansi himself calls her "storyteller," indicating that even he knows of her talent.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While her husband, Peter, agrees with Elisa that Derek working for Xanatos would be a bad idea, Diane instead supports her son, and ultimately she's the one who gives him the final push and convinces him to work for Xanatos, which eventually led to Derek being mutated.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Says this word-for-word regarding spiders.
Beth Maza
- Voiced by (EN): Monica Allison ("The Cage"), Roxanne Beckford ("Cloud Fathers")Voiced by (IT): Cristina Boraschi
Elisa's little sister, who attends college in Arizona.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Appeared in the non-canon Marvel comic before she ever appeared on the show.
- Genre Savvy: She's quick to correctly deduce that the supposed security guard at Xanatos's dig site who looks remarkably like her father is actually the trickster Coyote, whom she knows of from her studies in Native American folkore, and that he was not on Xanatos's side and was aiding them instead.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: While her sister and brother both followed their father into the police force, Beth shares their mother's interest in anthropology and their family's heritage. Although in Beth's case, she studies Native American culture while Diane focuses on African culture.
- Shipper on Deck:
Word of God states that when Elisa and Goliath reveal their relationship to Elisa's family, Beth will be the only one who will be fully supportive of them being a couple (Diane won't understand but will try her best to be supportive, while Peter and Derek will not approve of the relationship).
Carlos Maza
- Voiced by (EN): Michael Horse
Peter's father. The two had a strained relationship when Peter ran away from home in 1960.
- Posthumous Character: Throughout "Cloud Fathers", Elisa and Beth question Peter about visiting Carlos, which Peter refuses. At the episode's end, they visit Carlos's grave.
New York Civilians
Brendan Quarters
- Pat Fraley (Brendan, "Awakening"), Cam Clarke (Brendan, other episodes)
"Give it a rest, Margot."
The husband of the Assistant District Attorney, Margot Yale. Often seen alongside her.
- Awful Wedded Life: To put it mildly, Margot doesn’t think highly of Brendan - not wasting a minute to emasculate him whenever he tries to do something right; and even on their first appearance in the show, we see Margot lock Brendan out of their car (though he fails to notice it) when some thugs threaten them as Brendan tries fixing it. Brendan’s reactions indicate that having to put up with it is frying his nerves.
- Heel–Face Turn: In the animated series, he was portrayed as fearful and prejudiced against the Manhattan Clan alongside his wife. However, by the time of the SLG comics, it appears that he has wised up to the fact that the Manhattan Clan are actually benevolent and don’t mean any harm (especially in the wake of his horrible wife’s recruitment as an advisor for the Gargoyle Task Force) as he attends Xanatos’s Masque party dressed as a Gargoyle; and even rushes to get a doctor for Goliath when the latter was stabbed by Thailog. Downplayed in that he was never portrayed as “evil” and its still ambiguous just how much his view has changed.
- Henpecked Husband: Considering he is married to Margot Yale, this is par for the course.
- Informed Flaw: Invoked by Margot. She quips that Brendan "need[s] to call a repairman to plug in the coffee maker", but considering her snobbery, her word should be taken with a grain of salt.
- Killed Off for Real: Demona smashed him and his wife while they were turned into statues in "City of Stone." However, since they appear in later episodes, it seems this has been retconned. Word of God says that it was a couple who had similar appearances to them, but weren’t Brendan and Margot.
- Mythology Gag: Going forwards, versions of him and Margot (named Brenda and Marco) once appeared in a season 2 episode of another Disney action series, W.I.T.C.H.; Greg Weisman worked on that season.
- Recurring Extra: The trope was, in fact, once named after them: 'Yuppie Couple.'
- Ungrateful Bastard: Despite starting out as this due to fear, it’s eventually subverted in the SLG comics. He witnesses the Clan's fight with Thailog and the clones, and rushes to get a doctor when Goliath is seriously injured.
Vinnie Grigori
- Voiced by (EN): Jeff BennettVoiced by (IT): Francesco Pezzuli
A strange man who, throughout the series, suffers various unnoticed misfortune because of the gargoyles, and eventually gets fed up.
- Catchphrase: "Can you believe it?"
- Chekhov's Gunman: Downplayed, but in "Vendetta" we find out how many times the gargoyles have, by complete accident, ruined his life.
- The Chew Toy: He was victim to a number of misfortunes over the course of the series, usually at the hands of the gargoyles.
- Cloudcuckoolander: His idea of revenge on Goliath was to hit him with a banana cream pie.
- I Call It "Vera": Mr. Carter.
- Edible Ammunition: A large and heavy bazooka called "Mr. Carter," eventually revealed to only fire banana cream pies.
- Everyone Has Standards: Getting revenge is OK as long as it's non-lethal. On the other hand, killing people for revenge is out of the question. Even if that person is a gargoyle.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Ends on this with Goliath in the SLG Comics. After Vinnie refuses to murder both Elisa and Goliath under Castaway’s commands, Castaway flies off the handle trying to kill Vinnie; prompting Goliath to save his life from the Quarryman/Hunter. They part on friendly terms, with the strong implication that Vinnie will eventually encounter the Ishimura clan.
- If I Wanted You Dead...: He could've killed Goliath, but decided there were better ways to get revenge than that.
- Minion with an F in Evil: During his brief stint as a Quarryman.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: A very obvious and good imitation of John Travolta.
- Only Sane Man: For all his abnormalities, Vinnie is surprisingly rational compared to other antagonists. For one thing, he's one of the few people in the show who doesn't let his need for vengeance consume him. When joined up with the Quarrymen, he's the only one with notable reservations about killing the gargoyles and ultimately saves Goliath and Elisa.
- Put on a Bus: He leaves to take on a security job in Japan at the end of "The Journey."
- Revenge: The only person in the series to get any satisfaction from it. Mainly because it was restrained to giving Goliath a Pie in the Face, and once it was done that was enough for Vinnie and he moved on.
- Shout-Out: An imitation of Travolta with a weapon named Mr. Carter? Hmm...
- Unknown Rival: Goliath had absolutely no idea who he was.
Capt. Maria Chavez
- Voiced by (EN): Rachel Ticotin, Elisa Gabrielli ("Revelations")Voiced by (IT): Maria Pia Di Meo
The captain in charge of Elisa's precinct.
- Da Chief: Hard, but understanding.
- Fair Cop: A police captain who's easy on the eyes.
- Hero of Another Story: While the rest of the cast is in Gargoyles, Captain Chavez is in Hill Street Blues. Aside from breaking up particle-beam smuggling rings, of course.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She's a pretty good person to work for.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In the Dynamite Comics. In the aftermath of Goliath's trial, she chews out both Elisa and Matt for not revealing they'd had relations with the Gargoyles for a long time, pointing out how unnecessary and damaging it was in the long-term.
Officer Morgan Morgan
- Voiced by (EN): Keith DavidVoiced by (IT): Lucio Saccone
A police officer in the NYPD and a friend of Elisa's.
- Ascended Extra: He was originally supposed to just be a generic, nameless cop for Elisa to interact with in the premiere, but Greg Weisman liked Keith David's performance so much that he opted to keep bringing the character back, which led to a name, a personality, and slightly more to do.
- 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."
- Repetitive Name: Inspired by a former classmate of Greg Weisman's.
- Romantic Runner-Up: To Elisa.
- Tuckerization: Morgan was named after one of Greg Weisman's classmates in high school. His full name is Morgan Lord Morgan III.
Ian Roebling
- Voiced by (EN): Roger Rees
Judge Ian Roebling is a Justice of the Peace who officiated Fox and Xanatos' wedding in the Season 2 episode "Vows". He also presided over Goliath's hearing in the Dynamite Comics comic continuation of the series.
- Nice Guy: A fair judge who accepts gargoyles after the initial shock of his first learning of them, he's quite friendly and kind towards Goliath when they next meet and keeps the existence of Goliath and his clan secret at all times. And though he keeps things fair at Goliath's hearing, giving both sides the proper opportunity to present their cases, he ultimately rules in Goliath's favor, stating that the obviously sentient gargoyles are deserving of the same rights as humans, and gives Goliath his freedom. While it's revealed afterwards that Xanatos paid him most handsomely for his role at the hearing (heavily hinting that Xanatos pulled strings to make it so it was Judge Roebling who presided over the case), and despite the fact that he knows he's very likely to receive backlash from the public and his fellow judges for his decision, Judge Roebling ultimately made said decision because he felt it was the right thing to do.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He never reveals during Goliath's hearing that he and Goliath already knew each other (though logically, doing so would get him removed as the presiding judge due to conflict of interest), and keeps things fair and impartial at all times.
- Secret-Keeper: He's among the first humans in New York to fully learn of the existence of gargoyles and the fact that they are sentient, and keeps it to himself. The reason Xanatos chose him to officiate his and Fox's wedding and learn about gargoyles was precisely because Xanatos knew the judge was a trustworthy person.
Preston Vogel
- Voiced by (EN): Peter ScolariVoiced by (IT): Enrico Di Troia
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.
- Ambiguously Jewish: In "Golem", he helps conduct the ritual to transfer his boss's consciousness into the Golem, chanting in Hebrew while wearing a tallit. Whether this is indicative of him actually being Jewish is never made clear.
- Conscience Makes You Go Back: Despite betraying Renard, Vogel couldn't bring himself to leave the old man to die.
- Contagious Heroism: Working with the moral Halcyon Renard and Goliath's good character has rubbed off on him.
- Everyone Has Standards: It's heavily implied that despite being The Starscream at the time, the Contagious Heroism above had already gotten him used to Renard's policy of taking responsibility for his actions, such as saying how it was his own fault for not putting Goliath in a more secure prison.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: For a long while, but he got better.
- Identical Stranger: He looks like a Palette Swap of Owen Burnett. Subverted in that they aren't strangers—Owen is a persona of Puck's that took inspiration from Vogel as the most "wooden" mortal he knew of, and they even both worked for Renard simultaneously for a time until Owen jumped ship to Xanatos. There's no love lost between them.
- Oblivious to His Own Description: Does not see any similarities between himself and Owen Burnett.
- Psycho Supporter: He was behind the rainforest logging operation in "The Green" and hired Hyena and Jackal to fight the Mayan Clan, all without Renard's knowledge or permission.
- 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.
- The Stoic: Although less so than Owen. Indeed, "Owen's" persona was constructed specifically by Puck as an attempt to "out-Vogel Vogel".
- Yes-Man: Shows some signs of this. "You're a genius, sir," indeed.
The Jogger
- Voiced by (EN): Pat Fraley ("Awakening"), Jeff Bennett ("High Noon"), Thomas F. Wilson ("The Journey")
A civilian often seen jogging around the city.
- Iconic Outfit: A gray sweatsuit and "I Love New York" ball cap.
- Recurring Extra: Much in the same way as Margot and Brendan.
Phil Travanti
- Voiced by (EN): Jeff Bennett
Morgan's partner on the police force.
- Recurring Extra: Seen throughout the series, usually in gags.
Dr. Sato
- Voiced by (EN): Robert Ito
- Does Not Like Guns: After operating on Elisa's gunshot wound, he can be heard muttering "Guns..." to himself.
- One-Shot Character: One of the few one-shot characters to appear prior to the World Tour arc and probably the only one from the first season, quite unusual given the series' love of reusing characters. Indeed, the Series Bible directly suggests using Dr. Sato in any plot where a doctor would be required, but this never happened. He did make a return in the comic continuation.
- Secret-Keeper: In the comics he becomes this for both the Manhattan Clan and the Labyrinth Clan after first helping to prevent Goliath from bleeding to death after Thailog stabbed him, then later when he checks on Maggie, who got injured in Thailog's attack at the Labyrinth, and discovers she's pregnant.
Travis Marshall
- Voiced by (EN): Charles HallahanVoiced by (IT): Giorgio Lopez
A New York City news anchor.
- Mr. Exposition: Provides valuable news exposition throughout the series.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: He never lets his viewers forget that Xanatos and Fox are both convicted felons.
Chung Family
A family often seen in the comics continuation, consisting of Ambassador Amanda Chung, her young son Terry, and her nephew Tri who is an NYPD detective in the Gargoyle Taskforce. An older, teenaged Terry and his mother were meant to be major characters in the spinoff The New Olympians, as the New Olympians would have decided to make themselves known to humanity after Terry was rescued from drowning by a New Olympian girl named Sphinx, and Amanda would have been appointed the UN ambassador to New Olympus.
- Interspecies Friendship: Alongside his friends Billy and Susan Greene, Terry meets Nashville while trick-or-treating on Halloween in 1997. Initially impressed by his "costume", before the night is over the truth is revealed and the three humans happily accept the young gargoyle as a new friend.
Tobe Crest
A defense attorney who represents Goliath in court after he is captured by the Gargoyle Taskforce.
Children of Oberon
In General
Children of Oberon In General
Also called the Third Race, because they evolved after gargoyles and humans, emerging from the magical energies of the planet. The Children all have powerful magic and functional immortality, and are ruled by Lord Oberon and Queen Titania. All fairies, gods and great spirits from folklore and mythology are Children of Oberon. Their homeland is the magical island of Avalon. Note that they aren't Oberon's literal children; they're called that because he's their pater familias. Word of God is that Oberon and Titania have one son and one daughter together, and Oberon also has some children by human women (including Merlin).
According to Word of God, the Third Race used to be known as the Children of Mab (Mab is Oberon's crazy mother who is now Sealed Evil in a Can). If the series had continued, the gargoyles would have had to help Oberon and Titania combat a freed Mab at some point.
- Alien Non-Interference Clause: Roughly one thousand years ago, Oberon decreed that the Third Race is forbidden from meddling directly in human affairs. While Oberon and his Children are all magically bound to obey this law, it's still possible for them to find loopholes. Acting as a servant to a mortal is one (as when the Weird Sisters make their pact with the Archmage, or when Puck is bound by the Mirror of Titania).
- All Myths Are True: All of them exist in human mythology from all around the world (Banshee, Anansi, Coyote, Odin) or in human literature (Oberon, Titania, Puck). While the myths capture the general character, in this universe they aren't neccessarily entirely accurate.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: As Oberon's Children are closer to The Fair Folk personality-wise, this isn't too surprising. They appear to have some form of ethical code, but to humans and gargoyles alike they are a Wild Card more than anything.
- Cold Iron: Their main weakness; their magic cannot directly affect any iron construct, but creative members of the Third Race can use magic on the environment to get rid of it (AKA: shockwave iron robots with a mighty wind). Unless they're in direct contact with it, with prevents them casting any spells.
- The Fair Folk: Given their amoral behavior, powers and vulnerability to iron, there's no better way to describe the Children of Oberon. Note that even members of the Third Race who like humans and gargoyles have created dangerous situations for them that could have gotten them seriously injured at best.
- Flight: Oberon and a few of his children are capable of flying. Though it's unclear whether the others can't or simply chose not to.
- Immortality: You won't see any of them dying of old age anytime soon. While they can be slain, it is extremely difficult to do so. Word of God is that even they don't know for sure if it's possible for them to ultimately expire of old age, but thus far none of them ever have.
- Lack of Empathy: Zig-zagged. They are capable of caring about others in their own unique way, as demonstrated by the more benevolent members like Titania, Coyote, Grandmother and even Puck. Word of God says that even Oberon cares somewhat about humanity in a way someone might care about a pet. That said, their own interests will be of higher priority to them than your well-being. And they might have a good laugh at your misfortune while they're at it.
- Land of Faerie:
- They all come from Avalon, but they've been banished for centuries (until midway through Season 2) to live in various places in the mortal world - Banshee lived underneath the Irish barrows, Anansi lived in an abandoned African Lost City, etc. Note that even Puck, who likes living among humans, was horrified at the prospect of never seeing Avalon again.
- Avalon exists in a kind of pocket reality where it's A Year Outside, An Hour Inside and its skiffs can access any place in the outside world where there's a body of water. However, Greg Weisman confirmed that if the whole planet Earth were to be blown up or something, Avalon would be destroyed with it. In other words, it's not really Another Dimension but part of the Earth specifically, just a very strange and magical part that can't actually be placed on a map.
- Loophole Abuse: The Children, and Oberon himself, get creative in finding ways around his "not able/allowed to interfere with mortals" law, which physically prevents their magic from working unless they can do the mental gymnastics to justify it. For example, it doesn't apply if they're in mortal disguise only doing things a mortal could. Or if the whole city is under a magical sleep and oblivious to what's happening. Or if they've been bound to serve a mortal. Or if a mortal happens to be careless with their words and a member of the Third Race just so happens to be within earshot.
- One Myth to Explain Them All: Nearly all mythic beings in the Gargoyles universe—notably excepting the gargoyles themselves—are Oberon's Children, and considered part of the same species. That includes the Norse and Egyptian gods, the Fae of British folklore, and several spirits from Native American mythology, though notably some are mixed groups - not all of the Titans or Aesir specifically were Children of Oberon, merely most.
- Physical God: Most of them, some even being the actual beings from mythology.
- Pure Magic Being: According to Greg Weisman this is what they are. The will o' the wisp used by Macbeth in "Pendragon" is an evolutionary ancestor of theirs.
- Really 700 Years Old:
- They have been around for millenia, but as Shapeshifters and beings of pure magic you wouldn't know that from looking at them.
- Interestingly, as a race they are the youngest of Earth's sentients, however, and both gargoyles and humans pre-date them, hence their being acknowledged as "the Third Race". Really the fourth, if you count the Lost Race that Word of God says evolved first of all and left behind the megaliths seen in "Shadows of the Past". Word of God also says the Children appeared before the Lost Race went extinct, so they probably came into being during the Stone Age and their oldest members, like Queen Mab, could date back to that time.
- Rhymes on a Dime: In contrast to mortal magic, which usually requires speaking spells in the language they were originally written in, the Third Race generally come up with rhyming verses on the fly to focus their power into spells. Oberon himself is powerful enough to forego the rhyming entirely, and some members use different methods to focus their magic (like Banshee who seems to have weaponized her voice in general).
- Shapeshifters Do It for a Change: Word of God has it that the Third Race in Gargoyles have this kind of sexuality. They didn't start out with any concept of gender or sex, but they've "learned" about sexuality from humans, and can assume whatever form they please. The New Olympians are descended from offspring of the Third Race with both humans and lower animals. Gargoyles also treats the myth of Loki and Sleipnir (see above) as a true story. When asked what they get up to on Avalon, Greg's answer included lovemaking as well as duels and games, and he confirmed there will be more of them by the time the Gathering is over.
- Super-Toughness: According to Word of God, they can be killed, but it's extremely difficult, as they can recover from blows that would otherwise be considered fatal.
- Took a Level in Kindness: You know how capricious and manipulative they appear now? Word of God is that they were actually worse before being exiled. Living among mortals was meant to mellow them out.
- Unexplained Recovery: Banshee and Anansi are both apparently destroyed in their debut episodes, but show up at the Gathering none the worse for wear. It's very hard to actually kill one of the Oberati.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: More than a few Children of Oberon proved to be capable of changing their forms. Word of God claims that the Children don't have a "true form", only a form they are comfortable with. There are some examples of involuntary Morphic Resonance, though, such as Odin always having an empty eye socket until he gets his MacGuffin back, and Banshee's gag remaining in whatever form she takes until Oberon is satisfied she's learned her lesson.
- Wild Card: Virtually all of them qualify due to their Blue-and-Orange Morality and Chaotic Neutral-tendencies.
Lord Oberon
- Voiced by (EN): Terrence MannVoiced by (IT): Roberto Chevalier ("Ill Met By Moonlight" and "The Gathering: Part One"), Angelo Nicotra ("The Gathering: Part Two")Voiced by (POR): Guilherme Briggs
"Oberon does not compromise. OBERON COMMANDS!!!"
The all-powerful and rather prideful Lord of the Third Race, likewise taken from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night's Dream."
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Fittingly enough, his skin is a light shade of royal blue, likely to avoid associating Oberon with a specific real-life ethnicity.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Grows to giant size in an attempt to take Xanatos and Fox's son to Avalon.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: The reason his 'Children' obey isn't just out of respect for traditional authority: it's because he can make them.
- Bad Boss: Zig-zagged. He's polite to the Weird Sisters, but very dismissive towards Puck, who, in all fairness, wasn't doing much to endear himself to his master.
- Badass Cape: Wears a big white one. It also doubles as a portal, as Brooklyn and Angela found out the hard way.
- Berserk Button: Given his Control Freak-tendencies, challenging his authority in any way is unsurprisingly a good way to get on his bad side very fast.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Oberon's morals are quite inhuman. He's extremely polite while in a good mood, but he'll nonchalantly murder people simply over what he sees as trespassing on his land. He gave his word about the Gargoyles being allowed to stay in Avalon if he could be defeated, and he kept it gracefully. But by his next appearance in "The Gathering," despite promising that his magic would no longer be able to harm the gargoyles, he has no problem finding loopholes in that agreement. Despite his claim about not compromising, he does compromise by the end of the episode. He also has an interesting definition of not being heartless; essentially telling Xanatos and Fox they have one whole hour with their newborn son before coming to take him away forever.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: In "Ill Met By Moonlight", he nerfs himself by his own choice to give Goliath and the Avalon Clan a chance.
- Cold Iron: It is his bane. Whether being stabbed by an iron harpoon or the knell of an iron bell, he is weakened by both. That said, he can stand up to such attacks better than any of the Childen; Word of God is that the iron harpoon would have killed a lesser member of the Third Race. Oberon was merely impaired, and, although reduced to a withered shell of his former self, was still more than powerful enough to fight off all resistance.
- Control Freak: His magic forbids the Third Race from (directly) meddling in human affairs, he banished them all from Avalon for a thousand years, and then after that thousand years are up he summons them all back and forbids them to go back to the mortal world until he decrees the Gathering is over at some unspecified future date. Defying or challenging his authority is, unsurprisingly, a great way to piss him off.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: After spending most "Ill Met By Moonlight" toying with the Gargoyles by manipulating the island of Avalon to attack them, they manage to goad him into fighting personally. He turns himself into diamond and swiftly defeats them in hand to hand combat without them managing to scratch him.
- Deadpan Snarker: Not to the same degree as some of his children, but he will occasionally make some dry quips.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu??: "Ill Met by Moolight," sees the immortal fae lord driven to his knees by the sound of a bell. However, this is averted in "The Gathering" because nothing his opponents use has any serious effect on him. The worst of it is hitting him with an iron harpoon. It clearly hurts, but it also makes him really mad...
- Dynamic Entry: Oberon makes his entry by making lots of rumbling noises and raising a platform made of rock for him to stand on, complete with lightning flashes.
- Exact Words: He swears to make himself no stronger than a "child" in his contest against Goliath and the Avalon clan. Goliath notes this means he is as strong as any "Child of Oberon" which will still put him in the low level Physical God-tier.
- The Fair Folk: Their Lord, in fact, which comes with the dissembling behavior, magic, and strange morality.
- 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.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's easily angered by shows of defiance.
- Happily Married: To Titania. That hasn't always been the case, though, as their relationship used to be rocky enough for the two to divorce a thousand years ago. Shortly before beginning the Gathering, they re-married to their mutual delight.
- I Gave My Word: Defied. He promises that his magic will not hurt the gargoyles, but when he fights them next, declares that "my decrees are MINE to interpret!" and uses magic to impede them, just in ways that don't involve casting spells directly on them.
- Immortal Immaturity: Word of God has stated that he was actually relatively humble compared to many of his people (notably Titania) before banishing them from Avalon. Of course, by the time of the series, several of them learned greater humility (notably Titania). Believing that he had no lessons to learn, Oberon remained largely the same.
- It's Personal: Oberon seems to take Puck's ignoring the Gathering much more personal than the Banshee doing so. While he was content having the Weird Sisters bring him the latter, Oberon personally goes to search for Puck, and is a great deal harsher in punishing him for his defiance. Puck is the only one of Oberon's children explicitly stated to be his servant, so that might have played into it as well.
- Jedi Mind Trick: Oberon pulls this off and pulls David's pistol out of his hands in almost the exact same manner in which Vader did to Han.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Oberon can be quite polite and reasonable as long as someone or something isn't riling him up. However, if he perceives someone is challenging his authority he can become quite difficult.
- Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Oberon's word is law over the Third Race... and he is not a merciful lord.
- The Juggernaut: Xanatos, his family and the Manhattan Clan tried everything they had at hand to prevent him from kidnapping Alex, including swords, force fields, flying robots, highly-powered lasers, magic and even an iron harpoon in his chest. All for nothing (and the iron harpoon only made things worse!).
- Just the First Citizen: Oberon titles himself as "Lord" of the Third Race, rather than assuming a monarch's title as his mother, Queen Mab did. According to Greg Weisman, the title is Oberon's semi-skewed attempt to be more egalitarian than his tyrannical mother.
- Knight Templar: Very zealous in his moral code, and arguably hypocritical. See Well-Intentioned Extremist below as well.
- Large Ham: "Oberon does not compromise. Oberon COMMANDS!" - Not too surprising, given that he is the lord of a race of superpowered shapeshifters, who are nearly all large hams themselves.
- Magma Man: Avalon's volcano, like the rest of the island, obeys his commands. "Lake of fire, heed my say!/Seize with hands of flame my prey!"
- Mystical White Hair: The Lord of the Third Race, Oberon has white hair.
- No Hero to His Valet: Puck is none too happy about serving Oberon, and would rather hang out on Earth than go back to Avalon. All though this could just be Puck disliking servitude in general, rather than Oberon in particular.
- Not So Above It All: Puck states that not even Oberon is above bribery, as he intended to use the Phoenix Gate to avoid the Gathering a bit longer.
- Physical God: Possibly the single most powerful being yet seen in the Gargoyles universe, even among others in the Third Race deemed as Gods in their homelands. There appears to be no limit to the scope or range of his magic and he is effectively immortal. The only known being more powerful than he is, according to Word of God, is his own mother, Mab.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: He has shades of it. He is constantly dressed in fancy battle armour, and considers Odin and the Banshee fighting at the Gathering to be marvellous sport. Oberon will also show respect to people putting up a good fight (if they don't push it too much) and is a surprisingly Graceful Loser. Word of God states that the Gathering will usually involve small battles and contests of various sorts, among other things.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Of a sort. According to Word of God, he is far better than his insane mother, was considered highly benevolent by the standards of a thousand years ago, did banish the Third Race with the intent of them learning humility, is generally thought of by them as a good king and has shown a willingness to forgive and compromise as long as no one is riling him up.
- Remembered I Could Fly: When he initially tried to attack Xanatos's tower, he became enraged at the idea of them trying to keep him out (and succeeding with the help of a force field), 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 realize 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 phases through the ground around the tower (bypassing the force field completely).
- Royal "We": Often refers to himself with this.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: At the end of "Ill Met by Moonlight" Oberon decreed that his magic would not affect the gargoyles of Goliath's clan. When he faced them down in "The Gathering", however, he was more than happy to use magic against them, just indirectly. "My decrees are mine to interpret!"
- Third-Person Person: Oberon doesn't constantly refer to himself that way, but he will tap into this when being dramatic.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Oberon isn't especially clever with his magic, relying largely on brute force. As indicated by the Remembered I Could Fly example, this works so often he's hardly ever needed to think when it comes to dealing with an obstacle.
- The Usurper: According to Word of God, he overthrew his mother Queen Mab to become the leader of the Third Race. He's considered an improvement.
- Villainous Cheekbones: Very sharp, although the degree to which he counts as a villain is debatable.
- Villain Respect: He does show it when he meets someone who would dare challenge him. When David Xanatos dared to face him for trying to take his son, Oberon commended him for facing impossible odds for it.
- World's Strongest Man: Being a Physical God, Oberon is the most powerful force encountered in the series. He was never even defeated or tired out and would've taken baby Alexander if Titania hadn't ended the conflict. Only Mab is more powerful according to Word of God.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: According to Greg Weisman
, from his point of view taking Alex was the right thing to do, seeing him being raised by humans the same way one would see a child potentially crippled.
Queen Titania
- Voiced by (EN): Kate MulgrewVoiced by (IT): Stefanella Marrama
Another powerful member of the Third Race. Titania married Oberon at one point, but divorced him sometime before the tenth century. They reconcile their relationship 1000 years later.
- Abusive Parents: Downplayed. She loves Fox and openly demonstrates her care for her, but she's also willing to put her daughter through ridiculous danger and emotional torment all in the aims of sparking her magical potential. When this trait is revealed, Fox is much less friendly to her mother.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: She has a sea-green complexion in her true Fair Folk form.
- Amicable Exes: Although divorced, Anastasia and Halcyon still care about each other and are perfectly civil when they show up to celebrate baby Alex's birth.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: In her true form, her outfit shows off her stomach as she no longer has to act or dress like a human grandmother.
- Break the Haughty: She used to be a lot more arrogant and cruel before her banishment.
- The Chessmaster: The events of "The Gathering" occurred according to her designs.
- Evil Redhead: Downplayed. "Evil" is debatable, but Antagonistic Redhead, at least considering the grief she put her daughter through.
- The Fair Folk: Their Queen, and very magical and tricky indeed.
- Fairy Sexy: One of the fair folk, and quite a knockout.
- Fiery Redhead: Zigzagged. As Titania, she was known to be quite arrogant in her youth before maturing, but still has a playful side. Not so much as Anastasia who has a different hair color and temperament.
- Happily Married: To Oberon, and to Halcyon, before she tired of him. Both men have a very high opinion of her, even while separated.
- Hartman Hips: She's the whole package, but has very prominent hips.
- The High Queen: As she observes sarcastically, Oberon's authority is not absolute as long as he's married.
- Hot Witch: She's pretty vain, and has exceptional powers of magic.
- Impossible Hour Glass Figure: Titania has an impossibly thin waist given her build. Then again, she probably can take any form she desires.
- Interspecies Romance: She (a fey) was married to Halycon Renard (a human) before she tired of him.
- Manipulative Bitch: At times.
- It's heavily hinted that, if not outright stated, that between the events of "Ill Met By Moonlight" and "The Gathering," Titania was telling all involved what they needed to hear in order to make the end justify the means. In the former, her influence arranges for the clan raised by Princess Katharine and Tom to remain on Avalon, and in the latter, over the course of the prolonged battle with Oberon that she basically instigated, Fox's latent magical powers finally surface, which means that Alex can remain with her and David, while Puck (who doesn't want to go to the Gathering anyway) can be left to stay, caring for and training Alex in magic from the get-go.
- May–December Romance: Double subverted. As Anastasia, it was implied she was younger than the elderly looking Halycon, but flashbacks showed that the former was equally young and handsome when they first met. However, then it's revealed that she is Queen Titania, a member of the Fair Folk. Meaning that she's way older than he is.
- Ms. Fanservice: Word of God classifies her as this, and proud enough to flaunt it off.
- Noble Demon: She's manipulative, but she has surprisingly benign ends for her actions like saving Katharine, Tom and the "eggs" from being killed by Oberon and allowing them to stay on Avalon.
- Only Sane Woman: 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.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Per Word of God, the reason she dresses like she does is "She's got it, she flaunts it."
- Took a Level in Kindness: According to Oberon, she was far nastier before her thousand-year exile.
- The Woman Behind the Man: She's a good deal more cunning than Oberon and can influence him behind the scenes.Titania: On Avalon, Oberon's word is law.
Katharine: Does that mean he's always right?
Titania: Not while he's married.
Puck
- Voiced by (EN): Brent SpinerVoiced by (IT): Vittorio Stagni
"Serving humans is fun. They have a sense of humor."
One of the Children of Oberon described in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night's Dream," a prankster who relishes his independence, and resents being Oberon's servant.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After Oberon banished him from Avalon for eternity and strips him of his powers, Puck begs him to reconsider, stating he'll do anything.
- Almighty Janitor: He's a powerful fae but in the hierarchy of the Third Race, he holds the rank of Oberon's servant (something he does not enjoy).
- Batman Gambit: When properly motivated, Puck can come up with brilliant schemes that rely on how he predicts people will react under certain circumstances.
- 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.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He provides this lesson to Demona, as well as being on the receiving end of this trope.
- Tries to get Oberon to let him stay with Xanatos and Fox a little longer, for their lifespan at least. Since he managed to piss Oberon off so much, he eternally bars Puck from Avalon ("No, wait! Not eternally!") and forbids him from using magic except when protecting or instructing Xanatos's son. Puck later finds out that's a pretty damn big loophole and starts teaching Alexander before he can even talk.
- During "The Mirror" Demona tries to force the trickster to do her bidding. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
- Benevolent Genie:
- "The Mirror" plays with this trope by having Puck act as a benevolent genie not to Demona the wish-maker, but her would-be victims of wish-induced genocide. When she orders Puck to destroy "that human" Elisa, and "get rid of all humans," he deliberately misconstrues her meaning by turning them into gargoyles so he doesn't have to kill them. He also uses his magic to avoid causing serious harm to Goliath's Clan when Demona turns her wrath on them, mostly.
- Berserk Button: Puck's is only pushed once, in his first appearance, but the consequences are monumental. Imprison him? Well you are trying to extract wishes from a Jackass Genie, so good luck with that, but that's just part of the game and its not like he isn't used to servitude. Tell him to go away when he is offering you actual help? That's just rude and he won't be happy.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Puck might be nice enough on the surface and a bit of Cloud Cuckoo Lander, but he has a keen mind, a love for chaos, and quite a bit of magic at his disposal.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Like the rest of Oberon's Children, Puck's set of morals doesn't seem to revolve around good and bad. He gleefully messes with humans and gargoyles alike, though he appears to have a certain degree of fondness for humanity. While Puck isn't explicitly benevolent, he is fairly affable, albeit tricky, and not particularly malevolent just for the heck if it. He also honours his deal with Xanatos and doesn't seem to mind Demona manhandling him too much, but interestingly enough is severely pissed off after Demona rejects his offer of repayment.
- Bored with Insanity: Part of his motive for becoming the dour and wooden-seeming Owen. "The Puck has played many roles over the millennia ...but never that of Straight Man."
- Break the Haughty: Puck's detached, wise-cracking persona absolutely shatters for a moment, after Oberon banished him from Avalon and stripped him of his powers. He even pleads with him to reconsider.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: A mild form. Puck usually does things for his own amusement and is generally fine with working some harmless mischief. As "Future Tense" and "Possession" highlight, Puck can be a brilliant schemer when it comes down to it, with Goliath usually unable to figure out what's happening until Puck spells it out to him.
- Cast as a Mask: An interesting example, as while Owen is voiced by Jeff Bennett and not Puck's voice actor, Brent Spiner, Owen and Puck have similar-sounding voices, with the only noticeable differences being their respective vocal pitches and speech patterns.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: As befits both a fae and a trickster, it can be difficult for humans to follow his train of thought.
- Cold Iron: Like the rest of the Third Race, Puck is vulnerable to iron, which is exploited by Demona to force him into her service.
- Deadpan Snarker: Puck has a snide sense of humor, best shown in "The Mirror", where he throws sarcasm and backtalk at Demona at every opportunity.Demona: I am too vulnerable during the day. I don't want to turn to stone anymore.
Puck: Of course, you want to stroll down 5th Avenue in the sunshine. I'm sure you'll fit right in. - Evil Is Petty: Well, Blue-and-Orange Morality is petty at any rate, but after already putting Goliath through a literally nightmarish ordeal, he can't resist a final stab at him, by suggesting his nightmare might have been a prophecy, purely out of spite at having his plan foiled.
- Eye Beams: When channeling his powers, Puck's eyes will start to glow ominously, and eye beams will often follow.
- Exact Words:
- Puck is very skilled in using people's exact words against them, as it is in general a huge part of his modus operandi in working around his master's Obstructive Code of Conduct, which forbids any direct interference in mortal affairs. It's also great for messing with Demona.
- On a different note, he also takes this stance towards his agreement with Xanatos, according to Greg Weisman. He does get a "lifetime of service" from Owen; but this also means that knowledge from the Puck that Owen the human could have no way of knowing of is off limits to Xanatos as well (come the Gathering and those lines are beginning to blur a bit).
- The Fair Folk: He's manipulative and very unpredictable, with most of his actions dictated by his (potentially dangerous) sense of humor.
- Fairy Trickster: Owing to his Shakespearean origin, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck is also this here, often using trickery to get what he wants, such as constructing a nightmare future to coerce Goliath into handing over the Phoenix Gate. Of course, given Oberon's Law forbids his Children from directly interfering with mortals, one could say he's this by necessity, as are all the Fae.
- Friendly Enemy: He's usually in service to one of the gargoyles' adversaries, but he likes having the gargoyles around and bears them no personal animosity. It's understandably slightly one-sided, as Goliath is well aware whom he is dealing with, and is naturally a bit wary of him.
- Great Gazoo: "The Mirror" shows him capable of affecting the bodies and minds of every mortal on Manhattan Island - using Titania's Mirror as an amplifier. Although he has limits (which is fortunate, because one of Demona's first commands was to eliminate all of humanity.)
- I Just Want to Be Free: He's come to enjoy his freedom that came with his thousand-year-exile and he's not looking forward to returning to Avalon (and by extension Oberon's service) anytime soon.
- Invisibility: He sometimes makes use of that power, ironically enough less so for causing mischief, but simply to stay undetected.
- It Amused Me: A high source of motivation for Puck to do anything is whether or not he will have a good time doing so, and in general seems to have a distaste for boring and humorless people. He puts up with Demona after figuring out how to make things more entertaining (for himself, mind you), he-as-Owen ditched Anastasia and Halcyon Renard as employers because they were too boringly nice whereas Fox and Xanatos created more chaos, and while genuinely helping the Gargoyles in "Possession" he does so in an overly complex manner because it's fun.Goliath: Puck! I should've known. But why this subterfuge?Puck: Hey, I live for subterfuge!
- Jackass Genie: Demona offended him immediately - no surprises there - which unleashed this side of him. Even his parting gift was a little masterpiece of nastiness. Puck sincerely wanted to grant her one last wish as a thank you for all the fun he'd had that night, but then she insulted him by telling him to just go away, so he granted her desire to be able to experience the daytime by making her turn into the one thing she hated most, a human, every day. By Word of God, he even suppressed the transformational pain the first time, just to surprise her.
- Large Ham: He can be more subtle if it suits his plans, but when Puck appears in person he will make sure to steal the show.Puck: Heeeeeeere's PUCK!
- Laser-Guided Karma: Given his own propensity for Loophole Abuse, it's only fitting that Oberon eventually gives Puck a taste of his own medicine. Due to Puck ignoring the Gathering on the basis that he wanted to stay with Xanatos and Fox as Owen, Oberon eventually obliges by exiling Puck for eternity from Avalon, and restricting him to only using his magic when it comes to protecting and training Alexander.
- Liberty Over Prosperity: Would rather stay in the mortal world than return to the paradisiacal Avalon, but doesn't want to be restricted from Avalon, either. He seems to prize his freedom and independence more than anything. In fact, he only voluntarily serves one person, Xanatos, who just managed to impress him that much.
- Literal Genie: During "The Mirror," where he's bound in iron and compelled to obey his summoner, but free to (mis)interpret their commands as he wants.Puck: Don't worry. I will do exactly as you ask.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Puck has long flowing hair and is quite easy on the eyes.
- Loophole Abuse: If you somehow manage to trap Puck into your services, you need to make your orders inescapably clear. Even then, he'll find a way around it. In Demona's case, he "gets rid of all humans" by turning them into gargoyles. When Oberon forbids him from using any magic except when protecting and instructing Xanatos's son, he starts teaching the kid before he's old enough to talk.
- Loveable Rogue: He thoroughly enjoys causing chaos, and puts Goliath through a nightmarish ordeal in "Future Tense" for utterly selfish reasons, but Puck goes out of his way to avoid killing humans when Demona orders him to in "The Mirror", turning them into gargoyles instead (not that he was keen on helping her in the first place, but still). He is also shown to have a sense of honour (sort of); he honours his deal with Xanatos and is shown to spontaneously help the gargoyles solve their Coldstone problem in "Possession", albeit in the most complex manner he could think of.
- Manipulative Bastard: Shown in "Future Tense" and even more so in "Possession", where he skillfully plays both the heroes and the villain like a fiddle all the way through, in order to achieve his goal.
- Master of Illusion: Puck turns out to be quite nifty with illusions, as "Future Tense" illustrates. His Bad Future plot during the Avalon arc was a nightmare that drove Goliath to the brink of the Despair Event Horizon. It 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 sooo close!". Even afterwards he can't resist a final jab at Goliath, suggesting that it might have been a prophecy instead of a nightmare, and then refusing to tell him which.
- Mystical White Hair: Puck sports long white hair, and is a powerful fae.
- Near-Villain Victory: The one time he directly antagonized Goliath was in a grand scheme to make the gargoyle give him the Phoenix Gate. His Bad Future illusion drove Goliath to the point where he offered the Phoenix Gate to Puck (disguised as Elisa) but failed at the last second because "Elisa" kept insisting that Goliath physically give her the Gate rather than simply picking it up, tipping him off that something was wrong.
- Obstructive Code of Conduct: Becomes a plot-point in Future Tense, where Oberon's laws prevent him from simply taking the Phoenix Gate and instead require the owner to literally hand it over to him. Additionally, since the Gathering Puck can now only use his powers when he is protecting or teaching Xanatos' son.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Rhyming apparently helps focusing his magic, though he isn't too formal about it.Puck: Humans love a battle hearty, so does Puck! Come on, let's party!
- Shapeshifter Mode Lock: As of "The Gathering", Puck is now trapped in the form of Owen, unable to access his powers, unless he is training or protecting young Alexander. So speaks Oberon.
- Shapeshifting Trickster: Being a Child of Oberon, he is a natural shapeshifter, and able to use that ability to great effect in both, "Future Tense" and "Possession", and loves causing trouble in general.
- Spell My Name with a "The": He will occasionally refer to himself as "the Puck", though it doesn't seem like he did so out of an over-inflated ego. Interestingly enough, Oberon once referred to Puck like that as well, giving off the impression "Puck" is more of a title than a name. note
- Take a Third Option: He tried to anyway. Unwilling to attend the Gathering just yet, but not wanting to draw Oberon's wrath on himself either, Puck tried to persuade Oberon to "forget about the child and put off the Gathering for a few more centuries". Unfortunately Oberon was too annoyed by the whole ordeal (Puck's antics included), that he wasn't willing to compromise. He ultimately ends up banished from Avalon forever, which was not what he had in mind.
- Third-Person Person: Like Oberon, Puck every now and then talks about himself this way. Must be a Third Race thing...Puck: Puck is many things, but never a poor guest.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He can be quite manipulative when he has a goal in mind, and he loves causing chaos, but he's still friendly enough to hold a conversation with, and given the antics the other Children of Oberon can swing themselves up to, Puck's caused mischief is relatively harmless. This is due to Oberon banishing him and all the other Children for about a millennia to mellow them out. A throwaway line from Titania that the banishment was enough for "even Puck to mend his manners" indicates that he was a whole lot worse prior to the banishment.
- Troll: In "The Mirror", Puck spends the entire episode messing around with Demona for his personal amusement, by purposefully misinterpreting her wishes, with her never coming anywhere close to her original goal.
- Wild Card: While being fairly easy to get along with in general, Puck is extremely unpredictable, and may turn against you if it suits his plans, then come around and help you moments later.
- You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: The only time Puck respectfully addresses Oberon as "my Lord" is after the latter has stripped him of his powers, and Puck tries to plead with him, showing how much the punishment stung. To be clear, we are talking about the fae who previously referred to his king as "Big Daddy Oberon".
The Weird Sisters
- Voiced by (EN): Kath Soucie
"All things are true."
From left to right: Phoebe, Seline, and Luna
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.
- The Ageless: True of most of the Children of Oberon, but it's a plot point during "Avalon."Archmage: [Revenge] will take... some time.
Seline: What is 'time' to an immortal? - Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: The Weird Sisters, who all take the same form at the same time, appearing as a trio of creepy little girls, old crones, aged female gargoyles, or voluptuous young 20-somethings, as befits whom they are speaking to at the time, though they can still be told apart apart by hair color (blonde, black, white). The little girls are seen by the Manhattan Clan, the old crones are seen by Macbeth and Duncan, and the old gargoyle hags are seen by Demona. Meanwhile the 20-somethings are their preferred form, seen by the audience and other Children of Oberon as well as any characters not implied to see them differently (although humans will see them in period/job-appropriate attire). Word of God has stated that only the Third Race and the audience ever see them for what they truly are.
- Most notably, at the end of "City of Stone", they simultaneously appeared in different forms to different characters: Macbeth still saw them as old hags, Goliath still saw them as little girls, and Xanatos saw them as young adult women, all at the same time.
- Beauty Is Bad: The forms that they show to Xanatos and the viewer are attractive (in an mystic-fey-like manner) and definitely dangerous and manipulative (again, they are fey).
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In their first few appearances they present themselves as moral guardians, but they're really working with the Archmage with a hidden agenda to destroy the gargoyles' family on Avalon. Their act is good enough that when Demona and Macbeth reappear in "High Noon", Goliath assumes they must have somehow escaped the Weird Sisters' custody, when in fact they're working for the Sisters under a compulsion.
- Can't Argue with Elves: At the very least, they're convincing enough that other characters don't really bother to actually engage them with facts and just get to fighting.
- The Chessmaster: They've been more or less running Demona and Macbeth's lives for over 900 years, and Word of God is that they were playing the Archmage for a fool as well.
- Creepy Triplets: Mysterious at best, downright unsettling at worst.
- The Dividual: Subverted. It happens very rarely, but every so often one of them will act independently of the others. Seline, the Sister of Vengeance, gives Macbeth the tool he needs to kill Duncan as messily and painfully as possible, one of the rare times she's unaccompanied by the others. Word of God is that each represents a distinct motivation (Fate, Vengeance, and Grace) and these forces can even be in conflict with each other without the sisters being consciously aware of it (explaining their sometime fickleness).
- Dragons With An Agenda: To the Archmage during "Avalon", by leading him into thinking he was in charge when he was a pawn in their scheme.
- The Fair Folk: They are not malevolent out of the blue, but they're easily offended. Sometimes they'll advise other characters against 'evil' actions, but at other times they're pretty wicked themselves.
- Evil Is Petty: Or Blue-and-Orange Morality is petty, possibly. It was their job to keep everybody out of Avalon until Oberon returned, and the Magus caused them to fail by reflecting their owl Forced Transformation spell back at them. They even agree to the Archmage's thousand-year plan for revenge, just to settle their score with the Magus. They go out of their way to go after him when their plan is working.
- 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 (as well as living long enough to course correct them whenever necessary).
- Greater-Scope Villain: Of at least the first half of the series, as their manipulations of Demona, Macbeth and the Archmage set the stage for a lot of the conflicts throughout the thousand year time skip and into the present day. It's implied both in-universe and via Word of God that they may be the true Big Bad of the series, however their motives are so inscrutable that whether they will actually ascend to the position or remain in the background manipulating others, only time will tell.
- The Hecate Sisters: As a reference to the Maiden/Mother/Crone mythology, they appear in disguises of various ages. Demona sees them as three elderly female gargoyles, Macbeth sees them as three elderly human women, Goliath sees them as three innocent little human girls, etc.
- Word of God says that, depending on which sister is in ascendance at the moment, they are the three Graces, the three Fates/Norns or the three Furies, but also that they always have aspects of all three identities.
- Hijacked by Ganon: The Archmage takes over their plan to re-gain Avalon and uses it for his own purpose. It is 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.
- Hot Witch: Well, Witches.
- Hypocrite: Before revealing themselves to be antagonists to the gargoyles, they say things like "all life is precious" and even talk about the futility of the Cycle of Revenge. Vengeance is actually one of the three sides of their nature, and in a flashback to their first confrontation with Princess Katharine's group, they call their pleas for sanctuary, "Meaningless chatter over meaningless lives".
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Hair color is the only way to tell them apart. Phoebe has golden hair (and is the most outwardly pleasant one), symbolizing Grace; Luna has Mystical White Hair and is the most detached, symbolizing Fate; and Seline is a Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette who symbolizes Vengeance.
- Loophole Abuse: They want to go to Avalon to get revenge, but Oberon's law forbids it because all the Children have been banished from the island. However, Oberon's law also says that a member of the Third Race has to obey a human whom they've agreed to serve. They put themselves into the Archmage's service knowing that he'll order them to go to Avalon, which gives them a valid excuse if Oberon finds out.
- Mystical White Hair: All three of them are highly mystical; Luna is probably the most mystical of the three, and has white hair.
- Pyrrhic Victory: While they get the Magus to go all out in their fight, which ultimately proves fatal in his old age, he still manages to beat them by binding them with iron chains, keeping them from going to aid the Archmage. As well as still proving he's the better magician regardless and that they, fey creatures, have to live with the knowledge that a human bested them; an old, frail human who lacked a magic book to boost his power.
- Theme Naming: All three of their names are those of moon goddesses.
- Villain Has a Point: In "City of Stone", they force Demona to acknowledge that she was responsible for a lot of her own misery. She later rejects this, but the fact that they were able to get through to her at all (even if only briefly) speaks volumes.
- We Are as Mayflies: Although they verbally acknowledge in "City of Stone" that human lives have some value, they're pretty casual about manipulating mortals and placing them in danger.
- Wild Card: Any time the Sisters appear, all bets are off as to whether they'll be good guys, bad guys or observers.
Raven
- Voiced by (EN): Lawrence BayneVoiced by (IT): Francesco Pannofino
A trickster Child of Oberon (featuring prominently in the lore of the First Nations of North America, particularly the Pacific Northwest) who frequently assumes the form of a raven. He has his eyes set on conquering Queen Florence Island.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: He takes on a gargoyle-like form to win Goliath and Angela's trust.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's very snarky, especially to his enemies.
- Karma Houdini: He gets off scot-free and is later seen attending the Gathering.
- 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.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He tried to use Goliath to get rid of the remaining humans of this island for him, because fighting is just "so messy", and indeed would have been fine with Natsilane not believing in him at all, as that would have meant he wouldn't have to duel with him. Eventually, as Goliath prepares to confront him, Raven tells the gargoyle instead to calm down, as he had no quarrel with him, even though being a Child of Oberon he easily could have defeated him.
- Ravens and Crows: He's one of the most famous supernatural depictions. Oddly enough, he appears to have bat-like spiked wings in humanoid form.
- Shapeshifting Trickster: As a Child of Oberon he is a natural shapeshifter, and one of the more malevolent trickster figures, both of which are highlighted in his debut episode.
- Underestimating Badassery: He didn't think much of Natsilane, a college student with no experience with the supernatural or being a chief. Despite some initial hesitation, Natsilane ended up defeating him in their fight (thanks to the magic relics Natsilane obtained).
Grandmother
- Voiced by (EN): Amentha Dymally
A benevolent Child of Oberon who protects Queen Florence Island and advises Chief Natsilane.
- Cool Old Lady: She takes the form of an elderly woman and uses every loophole she can to help the people of Queen Florence Island.
- Defector from Decadence: 'Grandmother' shows no sign of the arrogance that many other Children of Oberon display, and seems entirely benevolent to her adopted human 'family'.
- Good Old Ways: She's insistent that Natsilane must fulfill his traditional obligations, however he may disdain the supernatural.
- The Mentor: To Natsilane. She can't interfere more directly due to Oberon's laws.
- World-Healing Wave: After Raven is banished, she restores Queen Florence island by shifting her hair into a wave of water.
Anubis
- Voiced by (EN): Tony JayVoiced by (IT): Luca Ward
"[D]eath is the ultimate fairness. Rich and poor, young and old, all are equal in death. You would not wish to see the Jackal God play favorites."
Death personified in the cosmology of pharaonic Egypt, and the patron deity of the embalmers.
- All Are Equal in Death: Said word-for-word.
- Dark Is Not Evil: For a god of death, Anubis is not at all malevolent — it's just his job.
- 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).
- Don't Fear the Reaper: Anubis is neither evil nor antagonistic.
- Everybody Hates Hades: Refreshingly averted. Though he both looks and sounds rather heinous, 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. Word of God is that not all Third Race death gods are necessarily as responsible as he is, though.
- Fusion Dance: Forced to merge with two different mortals in his debut episode. He has next-to-no influence over the fused form and whomever he's bound to is the one who has control.
- The Grim Reaper: Anubis has this role, which he regards as an obligation to be fair.
- Hijacking Cthulhu: With the scroll of Thoth, Jackal, and later the Emir, take over Anubis's powers.
- Not So Above It All: When the Banshee is embarrassed during the Gathering he laughs along with the other Children of Oberon.
- Obviously Evil: Subverted. He's got a low voice by Tony Jay, he's a death god who dresses like a Nepharious Pharaoh, and is a black jackal deity. He's actually a neutral and fair arbiter of a difficult topic.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Regards death as "the ultimate fairness" and is adamant about not showing favoritism.
- The Stoic: Doesn't lose his cool despite being imprisoned. Even when giving his warnings, he stays calm.
- Voice of the Legion: Whenever fused with someone.
The Banshee/Molly/Crom-Cruach
- Voiced by (EN): Sheena Easton (Banshee/Molly), Frank Welker (Crom-Cruach)Voiced by (IT): Cristina Boraschi
A Child of Oberon residing in Ireland who prides herself on her destructive siren voice.
- Becoming the Mask: Greg Weisman says that she actually did develop feelings for Rory while posing as his girlfriend "Molly", though she's very much in denial about them.
- Compelling Voice: As she puts it, her voice can seduce and mesmerize as well as bring pain beyond imagining. At one point, she uses this to hypnotize Rory into following her home and thinking the events of the night before were just a dream.
- Composite Character:
- Crom-Cruach in Irish legends is not connected to banshees in any way.
- She represents all banshees of legend as one character. She also has aspects of the Greek myth of the sirens.
- Word of God from Greg Weisman suggests that legends of the Morrigan refer to the Banshee, though this is only after a fan told him about the Morrigan and her love/hate relationship with Cu Chullain on Ask Greg, as he wasn't familiar with her.
- 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.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Still attractive in her ghostly form, less so as Crom-Cruach, the Death-Worm.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Odin even makes fun of her for it.
- Heel–Face Turn: She was supposed to undergo this if Heroes of Ulster ever got the greenlight. Probably would've been a case of Love Redeems since Rory was her boyfriend before he remembered he was a mythical Irish superhero.
- Morphic Resonance: Her gag will remain in whatever form she takes until Oberon can "hear true humility in [her] silent plea".
- Manipulative Bitch: Spends most of her debut trying to manipulate Rory from discovering his identity.
- One-Winged Angel: Her form as Crom-Cruach, a large cross between a dragon and a larva with a skeletal face.
- Our Banshees Are Louder: Duh. She has the scream and the spectral appearence, though unlike the original one she can transform into a monstrous wurm.
- Psycho Supporter: She deliberately plays this part to Rory Dugan, encouraging delinquency in order to prevent him from discovering his true nature as Cu Chullain's reincarnation. Although Word of God is that her relationship with him wasn't entirely just an act, and some of her suggestions to him were actually good ones (moving away to where there are jobs, for example, would get him out of her hair, but is also sound advice).
- Super-Scream: She is the Banshee, after all.Banshee: When the Banshee keens, men DIIIIIIIIIE!
- Unexplained Recovery: While Anansi is also apparently slain, he simply vanishes, implying he may have just teleported away. Banshee, though? Her monster form dies, and her ghost form emerges from its mouth, gives one last wail and dissolves. Seems pretty final...but she still shows up at the Gathering.
Anansi
- Voiced by (EN): LeVar BurtonVoiced by (IT): Claudo Fattoretto
A trickster Child of Oberon residing in Nigeria in the form of a spider.
- Adaptational Villainy: Anansi in the original African Mythology usually is presented as heroic despite being a Trickster God. This one is a villainous Manipulative Bastard.
- 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.
- Big Eater: Like African Elephant big.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Smart as he is, he'd rather have other people gather his food for him. Even when he confronts the heroes he just swipe at them with his legs in rather slow movements.
- 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.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Which, given his size, is to be expected.
- Eye Scream: On the receiving end when his own panther servant jumps on his head and swipes at his eyes.
- Fatal Flaw: A mixture of overconfidence and, mostly, sloth: he wants to create many more servants to feed him, but he never stops to consider the fact that they could turn on him. And while he's powerful, unspecified years of sloth and eating have reduced him to a fat and slow beast who can barely defend himself or walk on his own power.
- Fat Bastard: So fat, in fact, that he can't fight the heroes once his webs have been cut. And his goal is to become even fatter.
- Giant Spider: Huge spider, even resides in a city shaped like a web. Deconstructed in that his size is so large he's mostly unable to maneuver on ground.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Anansi's gluttony left him so fat that he couldn't keep fighting after his web was cut.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: We don't see the spear sink into his flesh, but he does disappear in a flash of light and a scream of pain.
- Karma Houdini: He escapes and is later seen attending the Gathering. That being said, he did take a spear to the belly before said Gathering.
- Manipulative Bastard: He manipulated the original were-panther, and the subsequent were-panthers, into hunting his food for him.
- Trickster God: The trickster god of Africa.
- Villainous Glutton: Since he made the pact with the Panther Queen, his main objective was to obtain more and more food for himself. Deconstructed as he grew so fat and out of shape he's not a formidable threat once his only asset, the web, is cut down.
- 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 (EN): W. Morgan SheppardVoiced by (IT): Sergio Graziani
The chief of the Aesir 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 until it was separated from him as part of a "mystic trade."
- Bears Are Bad News: His favorite alternate form appears to be that of a polar bear.
- Black Cloak: His cloak of stars.
- Cool Horse: Sleipnir, his horse with a black, starry-hide, medieval-style gold barding and can fly. Word of God is Sleipnir is another member of the Third Race who can shapeshift, which is used to explain why he did not have eight legs. In real life, trying to animate eight legs would have been too costly.
- Defrosting Ice King: Odin starts off rather distant and off putting, but by the end warms up to the Gargoyles and admits he handled the situation poorly.
- Eye Scream: No matter what form he takes, until he gets his Eye back, he always appears to have an empty eye socket. Word of God (from the above "Ask Greg" link) is that this is an exception to the Children's usual Voluntary Shapeshifting. It's most likely that the artifact called the Eye of Odin is a separated portion of his essence, and the empty socket represents this 'disability'.
- Handicapped Badass: He is missing his eye until the end of his first episode.
- Horny Vikings: Odin's outfits are either a black starry-cloak wanderer disguise or a fantasy viking outfit complete with white fur cloak and horned helmet.
- An Ice Person: Odin's magical powers are primarily form of weather manipulation common to the north from summoning blizzards to ice shields.
- Morphic Resonance: As noted above, he is always missing an eye in every form until the Eye of Odin is restored to him.
- Physical God: As physical as any of the Third Race. Despite being less powerful than Oberon, Odin is one of the few members of the Third Race who considers himself a god.
- 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 practice dealing with mortals.
- Shock and Awe: Aside from cold weather Odin can summon storms and lighting bolts.
Coyote
- Voiced by (EN): Gregg RainwaterVoiced by (IT): Riccardo Rossi
A trickster figure of First Nations lore (particularly in the Southwest).
- Badass in Distress: He is captured by Xanatos and nearly forced into granting him immortality.
- Blow You Away: He can also manifest as a whirlwind, which he uses to trash Xanatos' construction equipment.
- Cold Iron: Like the rest of Oberon's Children, Coyote is vulnerable to iron, which is exploited by Xanatos, who captures him in a modified robot.
- Deadpan Snarker: Well, he is a trickster. See the remark about trademark infringement.
- Doppelgänger: The form Coyote assumes for most of "Cloud Fathers" is an imitation of young Peter Maza. Word of God is that he likes the "Native American James Dean" look.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted and Played for Laughs. The characters constantly have to take care not to confuse Coyote the Trickster with Coyote the robot.David Xanatos: Ironic isn't it, one Coyote catching another?
Coyote: I should sue you for trademark infringement! - Reverse Psychology: He tries to use it in order to push Elisa's father Peter Maza into accepting his heritage.
- Shapeshifting Trickster: And the most light hearted of the four of them. Being a Child of Oberon he is a natural shapeshifter, an asset he repeatedly used in "Cloud Fathers", in order to manipulate the events to his desired outcome.
- Those Wily Coyotes: He's a depiction of the Ur-Example.
- Trickster God: He's very clever, and his tactics seem to be whatever amuses him. Though he seems to be more on the benevolent side of the scale, as opposed to Raven and Anansi.
The Lady of the Lake
- Voiced by (EN): B. J. Ward
The keeper of Excalibur, who now resides in a lake in Central Park.
- Decomposite Character: According to Word of God, Gargoyles goes with the 'Lady of the Lake and Nimue are two separate characters' interpretation of the mythos. In fact, the two of them and Morgana were the three women who took Arthur to Avalon. And Nimue is the actual third daughter of Igraine and Gorlois and biological half-sister of Arthur, while Morgana (who is for once not merged with her sister Morgause) is the changeling Nimue was swapped with.
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: She is the Lady of the Lake after all. She helps Arthur regain Excalibur.
- Water Is Womanly: Naturally, being an inhumanly beautiful being in a blue gown with a connection to water who's kind and wise.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: All the Gargoyles stop to comment on how inhumanly gorgeous she is, even Lexington.
Citizens of Medieval Scotland
Findlaech
- Voiced by (EN): John Rhys-DaviesVoiced by (IT): Renato Mori
Macbeth's father.
- Disney Villain Death: Inverted; the heroic Findlaech is thrown to his death by the villainous Gillecomgain.
- Improvised Weapon: Confronted by the Hunter unarmed, Findlaech managed to hold his own for a while by grabbing a nearby platter.
- Nice Guy: Findlaech was a good, earnest man, loyal to his king, hospitable to his guests, and a good father to his son.
- Strong Family Resemblance: As a grown man, Macbeth bears a very strong resemblance to his father.
Bodhe
- Voiced by (EN): Ed Gilbert
Macbeth's father-in-law and advisor.
- All for Nothing: Bodhe often advised Macbeth to cave to Duncan and later Canmore's English allies out of fear of their retribution. However, it did little good since Duncan's paranoia ensured he was never satisfied with Macbeth's loyalty and betrayed Macbeth anyway, and advising him to ditch the gargoyles to appease Canmore's English allies just prompted an eavesdropping Demona to desert him first, wrongly assuming that Macbeth would take his advice and betray her.
- Dirty Coward: He is constantly urging Macbeth to take cowardly actions.
- Freudian Excuse: He was nearly killed as a boy by Gillecomgain, and his father was betrayed and murdered by one of his own allies; it's really no surprise that Bodhe would grow up to be a cautious man, even if he did turn out to be quite a coward.
- Parents as People: He clearly loves his daughter Gruoch, but lacks the courage to openly defy King Duncan for her happiness, though it's also clear that he caves out of concern for her material comfort and safety.
Gruoch
- Voiced by (EN): Emma SammsVoiced by (IT): Giorgia Lepora
The wife of Gillecomgain, and later Macbeth.
- All for Nothing: She advised Macbeth to disappear after dying and coming back to life so his unnatural presence wouldn't jeopardize their son's campaign against Canmore, and declined to go with him to be there for their son. In the end, it did little good since her son died fighting Canmore a year later, and she was Driven to Suicide after she lost her whole family.
- Damsel in Distress: Whenever Macbeth fights Gillecomgain and Gruoch happens to be nearby, you can bet she ends up being this, since she's a Proper Lady and Gillecomgain Would Hit a Girl.
- Driven to Suicide: Per Word of God, after losing her husband, son and father to Canmore, Gruoch tragically took her own life.
- Fantastic Racism: Furious at Demona's treachery of Macbeth, Gruoch curses both Demona and all gargoyles.
- Historical In-Joke: She is once referred to by her title, "Lady Macbeth." The Shakespeare character was supposedly inspired by her, though here she is nothing like that villainous woman. In fact, the fictional Lady Macbeth is much more comparable to Demona, who would have played her if the episode "The Weird Macbeth" had been made.
- The Load: During Macbeth's fights with Gillecomgain, Gruoch's presence proved less than helpful due to being a non-combatant. First she accidentally distracted Macbeth while he was fighting the Hunter, then was almost thrown over the castle wall two separate times, then was later used as a Human Shield by Gillecomgain.
- Marry for Love: She was willing to run away with Macbeth and live as fugitives rather than marry Gillecomgain as King Duncan ordered. She was married to Gillecomgain anyway, but thankfully wound up marrying Macbeth after all.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Luach died fighting Canmore, although Gruoch was not long in following her son to the grave.
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Played with. It's clear from her first meeting with Macbeth that their fathers were planning to arrange them to be married, but they hit it off right away. Then averted when King Duncan ordered her to enter a loveless marriage to Gillecomgain instead, then played straight again when Gillecomgain died and she was free to marry Macbeth anyway.
- Proper Lady: Soft, gentle, elegant, graceful, polite, well-spoken, good-mannered, Blue Blood, House Wife and mother, and no combat skills whatsoever. She's probably the biggest example of the series.
- Silver Fox: Even at old age, she looks as beautiful as in youth except for her gray hair.
Luach
- Voiced by (EN): Jeff BennettVoiced by (IT): Luca Ward
Macbeth's son.
- Heroic Bastard: If he is Macbeth's biological son, Luach followed in his father's heroic footsteps despite being born out of wedlock.
- Historical Domain Character: Like most characters from Macbeth's backstory, one with a lot of artistic license. Luach is especially notable because the historical Macbeth's son was in fact named Lulach.
- Killed Offscreen: Luach was ultimately killed by Canmore a year after his father was "killed".
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Luach was conceived during his mother's brief marriage to Gillecomgain, but it's not entirely clear as to whether he's the son of Gillecomgain or of Macbeth. Either way, Macbeth raised Luach as his own after he and Gruoch wed. It is possibly subverted in that there is no implication that Gillecomgain and Gruoch were married longer than a single day and were probably not married long enough to consumate the marriage, not that it could have been stated in the series.
- Nice Guy: Luach is undoubtedly a kind and courageous young man.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Cleverly played with, he looks as much like his father as Macbeth looked like his father, making it quite likely he is. At the same time all those traits can be found on his mother's side of the family, save for wavy hair that resembles Gillecomgain's. Not helping matters is that Macbeth and Gillecomgain are first cousins, meaning he probably exhibits features common to the Moray men.
- The Good Prince: He was a heroic young man who put right first and had steadfast loyalty to his allies.
- Undying Loyalty: Towards Demona and her clan. When Bodhe suggests to Macbeth and Luach that betraying the gargoyles would buy them favor with the Englishmen who follow Canmore and could likely get them to turn on Canmore in favor of Macbeth, Luach is instantly outraged, making it clear that he refuses to betray the allies that have fought by their side for so long.
Mail Brigti
- Voiced by (EN): Jim Cummings (1952)
Gillecomgain's father, an ally of King Constantine.
- Abusive Parents: He responds to his son being horribly slashed across the face by a gargoyle by scolding him for whining.
- No Name Given: He is merely "Gillecomgain's Father" until the comics continuation.
- Parents as People: His appearances in the comics have him showing clear concern over his son's growing bloodthirst, as well as Constantine's rather creepy interest in the boy.
Demona's Clan, AKA Moray Clan
- Voiced by (EN): John Rhys-Davies (Demona's Second)
The small clan Demona pulls together after the shattering of Clan Wyvern.
- All There in the Script:
- The mate of Demona's Second, who dies in Constantine's rain of arrows, is called "Sacrifice" in the script.
- The very young gargoyle who says they need to perform a wind ceremony for the dead is called "True" in the script, and is Hudson's biological daughter and Broadway's biological sister.
- One of the gargoyles bears a striking resemblance to Brooklyn, because he is in fact Brooklyn's older sibling, called "Brooksbro" in the script.
- Dying Race: They are the last gargoyle clan in Scotland, and are killed in the final skirmish between Macbeth's people and Canmore's; this ends up subverted, however, in that there is a Loch Ness clan, whom the generations of Canmores clearly missed the existence of (likely because they live in partially submerged caves beneath the Loch and are focused on protecting the Loch Ness monsters rather than humans).
- I'm Standing Right Here: Demona's Second is visibly shocked when an aged Demona muses, while gliding right beside him, that there's no one besides her capable of leading the gargoyles.
World Tour Encounters
Natsilane
- Voiced by (EN): Gregg RainwaterVoiced by (IT): Sandro Acerbo
A member of the Haida Nation on Queen Florence Island, destined to battle Raven and become the chief.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Natsilane has beaten a Child of Oberon on his first battle ever.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Until accepting his destiny as chief, he goes by Nick instead of his birth name, Natsilane.
- Instant Expert: Natsilane defeated Raven, a Child of Oberon, in his first battle ever, despite knowing nothing about magic and combat. It helps that he was using magically empowered weapons handed down from his ancestors.
- Magic Versus Science: He is a very scientifically-minded man, refusing to believe Grandmother's stories of the supernatural until he sees the supernatural with his own eyes.
- Skeptic No Longer: After meeting the gargoyles, he embraces his heritage and fight to protect the land of his forefathers.
Nessie and Big Daddy
- Voiced by (EN): Frank Welker
The Loch Ness Monster and her mate, two examples of a group of plesiosaurs who have survived into the modern day. The Avalon World Tour travelers rescue them from Dr Sevarius's sinister plan to use their DNA in his creations. Word of God is that an amphibious clan of gargoyles also exists at Loch Ness and protects the plesiosaurs.
- Gentle Giant: Despite their monstrous appearance, they are generally friendly with humans and gargoyles unless they feel threatened.
- Stock Ness Monster: They're the typical "stylized plesiosaur" design for Loch Ness Monsters.
Max Loew
- Voiced by (EN): Scott Weil
A Czech youth whose ancestor, Rabbi Loew, once commanded the Golem.
- Ambiguously Jewish: It's not ambiguous if you know what you're looking at, but the fact that Max and the various elements appearing in his episode are of Jewish origin is never explicitly stated.
The Emir
- Voiced by (EN): Tony Shalhoub
An Egyptian emir who seeks to summon Anubis to return his dead son to life.
- Death Equals Redemption: The Emir, finally able to understand the truth of life and death, restores the lost life energy Jackal stole then seemingly perishes. He also destroys the Temple to prevent the power of Anubis from ever being misused again. While it is not elaborated what became of him (or indeed Anubis, until the jackal god cameos in "The Gathering") Goliath expresses the belief that, if there is any proper justice in this world or the next, that he is with his son in the afterlife.
- Foreshadowing: He was mentioned by Owen long before he debuted.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He brings the temple down upon himself to prevent Anubis's power being abused again. Goliath hopes he is with his son and at peace.
- Motive Rant:Emir: Death stole my only child before I had a chance to say goodbye. To hold him again, I will move Heaven and Earth with my bare hands!
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: The Emir notes he never even got to share one last moment with his son before he died.
- No Man Should Have This Power: The Emir's final act is to destroy the temple to prevent anyone else from acquiring Anubis's power. After seeing what Jackal did, one can understand where he's coming from.
- Outliving One's Offspring: His young son died in a car crash, and he is determined to rectify this. He realizes in the end that death is eternal.
Rory Dugan
- Voiced by (EN): Scott CleverdonVoiced by (IT): Riccardo Rossi
"Skills may rust indeed, but true friendship stays bright."
A rebellious Irish youth who discovers he is the reincarnation of the folk hero Cu Chullain. Would have been the protagonist of the Heroes of Ulster spinoff.
The Shaman
- Voiced by (EN): James Avery
An Australian Aboriginal shaman who guides Dingo on his path to redemption.
Fara Maku and Tea Gora
- Voiced by (EN): Don Reed (Fara), Roxanne Beckford (Tea)
A Nigerian villager and his ex-girlfriend, a city-dwelling poacher.
- Deal with the Devil: Fara made a deal with Anansi so that he could become a werepanther and make Tea stay with him.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: A justified example. Tea wanted to go to the city to learn and have a normal life, but Fara, not wanting her to leave, cursed her. Now, anytime that she gets frustrated or angry, she will turn from a human into a panther, with no control over it. This renders her unable to have a normal life.
- Our Werebeasts Are Different: Fara is turned into a werepanther by Anansi, and he in turn infects Tea by clawing her. According to Word of God, each werepanther has a one-time ability to turn another person by scratching them, which Tea has yet to use. Their werepanther form is fully animal-like, unlike Fox's humanoid werefox form after the Eye of Odin transformation.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Tea seeks revenge on Fara for turning her into a werepanther by killing every panther she can find.
Erik and Gunther Sturlisson
- Voiced by (EN): Cam Clarke (Erik), J.D. Daniels (Gunther)
A Norwegian father and son who aid the World Tourists in their encounter with Odin.
- Unfazed Everyman: They don't ask Elisa any questions about her suspicious arrival and take the existence of gargoyles and Norse mythology in stride.
The New Olympians
- Voiced by (EN): Michael Dorn (Taurus), Dorian Harewood (Boreas, Talos), Charity James (Ekidna), Rob Paulsen (Helios), Frank Welker (Kiron)Voiced by (IT): Angelo Nicotra (Taurus)
Taurus
Boreas
Talos
Ekidna
Helios
Kiron
The descendants of humans, animals and the Greek gods (who were in fact Children of Oberon), who live on a secret island full of magic and advanced technology. Would have been the subject of their own spinoff series if the various proposed Gargoyles spinoffs had gotten off the ground.
- All There in the Manual: Their origin is only spelled out in statements by Greig Weisman on his website.
- Always Lawful Good: According to Taurus, Proteus's evil disposition is completely unique among all the New Olympians.
- Fantastic Racism: They don't care for the way humanity treated their ancestors and view all humans as criminals and monsters.
- Flaming Hair: Helios.
- Heinz Hybrid: By Word of God, they are descended from Children of Oberon hybridizing with both humans and lower animals, and possibly gargoyles, and the resulting hybrids continuing to hybridize with each other over the generations, with some family members possibly looking quite different from each other.
- Jerkass: Helios and Ekidna act like complete jerks to Elisa, and lead the angry mobs against her. Most of the others are more polite but still prejudiced.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: Taurus is a descendant of the Minotaur.
- Snake People: Ekidna is a gorgon.
- Spell My Name With An S: Ekidna and Kiron's names are spelled with a "k" when, in proper Greek, they'd be spelled with a "ch".
Dr. Arnada
- Voiced by (EN): Clyde Kusatsu
A doctor on Rapa Nui.
- Secret-Keeper: Becomes a companion for Nokkar along with Duane and Morwood-Smyth.
Nokkar
- Voiced by (EN): Avery Brooks
"The megaliths were a lasting tribute. Erected by the natives I befriended long ago, and swore to protect."
An alien sentinel stationed on Rapa Nui.
- Alternate Landmark History: His face was the inspiration for the moai.
- Determinator: Remains at his post, completely alone and ever vigilant, even though for all he knows his war ended thousands of years ago.
- Long-Lived: He's been at his station for thousands of years, and was intended to be a major character in the spinoff Gargoyles 2198, where the Space Spawn have finally invaded Earth. By Word of God, he is not immortal, merely very long-lived.
- Outside-Context Problem: While the series had long established that All Myths Are True and that advanced technology exists, an extraterrestrial character still managed to come out of left field.
Hiroshi
- Voiced by (EN): Ric Young
A citizen of Ishimura, one of the many protectors of the local gargoyles.
- Cool Old Guy: A noble defender of gargoyles who is capable in a fight.
- Friend on the Force: Hiroshi is the police constable of Ishimura.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Asks one of Taro's mooks where the snack bar is before taking him out with a roundhouse kick.
Master Dawa and Sangpo
The master of a Tibetan monastery who aids Coldstone during his self-imposed exile, and one of his students.
- Cool Old Guy: Dawa; from the sudden appearance of gargoyles in his monastery to a revivified cyborg containing three souls in one body, he takes it all in stride.
- Language Barrier: Sangpo doesn't speak English, and struggles to understand what is going on between the travelers and Coldstone (though he's empathetic enough to discern that Coldstone's evil personality never actually took control during the conflict).
- Martial Pacifist: Dawa teaches his students archery, but strictly as a tool for focus and meditation; he scolds Sangpo for resorting to it so quickly for violence upon spotting the gargoyles.
- Sophisticated as Hell: Often Dawa will begin what seems to be a Koan or spiritual moral, only to finish it with something snarky or irreverent.(regarding his students shooting at the gargoyles) "As for your fellow acolytes, their souls are fortunate... that their bodies are such lousy shots."
(to Sangpo asking what the gargoyles are saying) "Listen with your heart, Sangpo... if that doesn't work, I'll translate later."
Others
Petros Xanatos
- Voiced by (EN): W. Morgan SheppardVoiced by (IT): Sandro Sardone ("Vows"), Gianni Vagliani ("The Gathering")
David Xanatos' father, a humble Greek fisherman, who dislikes his son's Machiavellian, materialistic ways.
- Action Survivor: A professional fisherman, without his son's genius or wealth. "Vows" shows where David gets his unflappable resourcefulness from - Petros is strangely unfazed by gargoyles or time travel. He doesn't graduate to full use of this trope, though, until his family is being threatened by a Physical God in "The Gathering", and actually had the balls to fire an iron harpoon at Oberon, an actual god.
- Deadpan Snarker: At the end of an adventure where he witnessed his son take an antique coin and give it to an Illuminati agent in the past to be given to himself in his young adult years and sold for seed money for his business ventures, Petros gives him as a wedding present... a single penny. It might not be worth much now, but in a thousand years, who knows? And why money, when David is already flush with billions? Because money is the only thing that David seems to value.
- Good Is Not Nice: He's far more honest and moral than his Corrupt Corporate Executive son, but he's also much more blunt and grumpy.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Petros and Xanatos may look similar, but they live completely different lives, one of which Petros wishes his son didn't have. Long has he wished that his son simply grew up to be a humble fisherman like him.
- Morality Pet: Not to the point of influencing him to change his ways, but Petros is one of the few people whose opinion of him David seems to ascribe any degree of value to.
- Papa Wolf: Fired a harpoon at Oberon to protect his grandson.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Prefers to make an honest living, in contrast to his own son.
- So Proud of You: When he sees the lengths his son goes through to protect his son (Petros's grandson) from a Physical God he finally tells David that he is proud of him because David has finally found something he values more than money or power.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Petros is basically an older version of David with grey hair and a mustache instead of a beard.
- Unfazed Everyman: Oh look, my son has become an amoral billionaire. And discovered a long lost non-human race. And fallen in love with a criminal mastermind. And has gotten mixed up in the Illuminati, ancient sorcery and time travel. Now if only he'd discover a conscience.
Cagney
Gilgamesh
- Voiced by (EN): Frank Welker
Jeffrey Robbins's seeing-eye dog.
- All There in the Script: She's only ever called "Gilly" in dialogue, with only the credits indicating that it's short for Gilgamesh.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Growls when Macbeth arrives at Jeffrey's house.
- Gender-Blender Name: Her full name is Gilgamesh, which was a male hero-king in Sumerian mythology.
- Licked by the Dog: Reacts positively to the gargoyles, even licking Hudson's hand when he awakes from stone.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Naturally, as a seeing-eye dog, she is loyal, intelligent, and capable.
Professor Lydia Duane and Dr. Arthur Morwood-Smyth
- Voiced by (EN): B. J. Ward (Duane), John Rhys-Davies (Morwood-Smyth)
Two professors of archaeology who discovered the Scrolls of Merlin. Elisa later encounters them again on Rapa Nui.
- Secret-Keeper: Elisa suggests that Nokkar entrust them with his secret.
- Stuffy Brit: They are very stereotypical stuffy English intellectuals.
The Stone of Destiny
"Do not dream of possessing me, mortal."
- Voiced by (EN): Frank Welker
The sentient magical stone from which King Arthur drew the sword Excalibur.
- All Myths Are True: Judging by Shari's stories and the Stone's own claims, the Stone is every magical stone spoken of in myth, as the Spirit of Destiny can manifest itself through any stone. Following an incident where Xanatos, the Illuminati, Arthur, and Macbeth all tried to either obtain or protect the Stone, wherein several copies of the Stone came into play, it manifested itself through all of them to speak to each man simultaneously.
- Badass Boast: Has a pretty epic one that it gives out simultaneously across time and space to any presumptuous mortals.
- Excalibur in the Stone: Though not actually seen, there is a slot in the Stone where Excalibur used to be (and it was explicitly Excalibur).
- Sophisticated as Hell: Speaks very grandly when interacting with mortals. When left alone alongside the Holy Grail, however, the two artifacts greet each other with a simple exchange of "Hey."
The Redemption Squad
A team made out of people who previously fought the Manhattan Clan, organized by persons unknown and led by Robyn Canmore. The stars of the Comic Book Spin-Off Bad Guys. The members are the Hunter (Robyn), ex-Pack member Dingo, artificial intelligence Matrix, Japanese gargoyle Yama and the mutate Fang.
Tropes about the individual members of the squad before they came together can be found under Antagonists and Allies.
- Anti-Hero: The whole squad.
- Anti-Villain: The whole squad, with the exception of Fang, the Token Evil Teammate.
- The Atoner: Again, all except 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.
- Berserk Button: Yama has three. One is having his swords broken, another is threatening his clan, and the last one is if people mock the dead, which Fang finds out the hard way, as Yama punches him to the floor and nearly decapitates him after he makes a tasteless joke when a new mutate named Tasha commits suicide.
- Boxed Crook: Again, the whole squad.
- Dark Action Girl: Robyn
- Everyone Loves Blondes: Eventually Dingo for Robyn.
- Good Feels Good: Dingo. He was originally a thief and mercenary before joining the Pack and pretending to be a hero. When the Pack went back to being mercenaries and bad guys, he realized he'd actually liked being a hero. After splitting off from the others, he undergoes his Heel–Face Turn.
- Heel–Face Turn: All of them except for Fang.
- Meaningful Name: Dingo's real name is Harry Monmouth, like Prince Hal in Henry V, one of the show's many Shout Outs to Shakespeare.
- Multinational Team: Robyn is Scottish, Dingo is Australian, as is Matrix in a way, Yama is Japanese and Fang is American.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Especially between honorable Yama and scumbag Fang.
- Token Evil Teammate: Out of all the members of Redemption Squad, Fang is clearly the only one who is not interested in actual redemption and only cooperating under threat. Although it seems probable that he would have inevitably undergone Character Development if the series ran longer.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Yama can't return to the Ishimura Clan until he feels he has redeemed his honor.
