Referenced By / Gargoyles

Gargoyles

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Fan Works

• The Heart Trilogy: In the epilogue of Heart of Fire, Smaug calls his love interest Kathryn his angel of the night, Goliath's former nickname to Demona.
• Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: In the Intermission, Lio discusses the show and the Xanatos Gambit in regards to his friend stopping an incident regarding "The Fifth Sun" by Team Flare/
• The Stronger Evil: While reading the newspaper in the ninth chapter, Valerie comes across an article about homeless people spreading stories of gargoyles in New York.

Literature

• The Dresden Files: In the months between Changes and Ghost Story, Marcone has a stone castle flown over from Scotland, brick by brick, and rebuilt. Surprisingly, mega-nerd Butters doesn't seem to have made the connection: he calls it the Batcave instead.

Live-Action Films

• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): During the closing credits, Goliath can be seen alongside other Disney Afternoon cartoon characters on a billboard for a Fictional Video Game called Disney Afternoon Fight Fest.

Video Game

• AdventureQuest: The description for a Gargoyle says that it won't be found on a clock tower in New York.
• Overwatch: Reaper's "Soldier: 24" skin, while already a reference to Soldier: 76's Strike Commander Morrison skin, can call to mind Albert Wesker and David Xanatos.
• Saints Row IV: When Keith David is making his public speech, many people in the crowd are holding signs of "I love Goliath".

Webcomics

• El Goonish Shive: NP: "An NPC by any other name", the naming of the Cleric has tons of shout-outs running through Ellen's head◊, with the third-to-last end-half involving ending with "Lexington Goliath Bronx B".

Western Animation

• Amphibia: In "True Colors", among the things in a book contain information about the Calamity Box is a drawing of Goliath.
• DuckTales (2017): In "The Last Adventure!", recurring character Manny the Headless Man-Horse speaks in his real voice (provided by Keith David) for a change. In order to help Lena against the Phantom Blot, Manny changes into his true form, which takes cues from Goliath and is accompanied by a take on this show's theme song.
  Manny: I LIVE AGAIN... again.
• Freakazoid!:
  • The episode "Lawn Gnomes" is a parody of the first episode, with brave and honorable castle grotesques replaced with cowardly and amoral garden gnomes.
  • Another episode has Freakazoid sitting on a high rise grotesque made to look like Goliath. Not-Goliath is explaining the long and complicated story of his people and would not stop until he was offered a Pez Dispenser.
• Phineas and Ferb: Among the ten thousand monsters gathered by Phineas and Ferb is a Gargoyle resembling a green Goliath.
• Robot Chicken:
  • A sketch from "Secret of the Booze" has a husband say "And now back to Disney's Gargoyles" before he has sex with his wife, which annoys her.
  • "Cheese Puff Mountain" has a sketch where Goliath turns to stone by day and some pigeons poop all over him. Xanatos kicks Goliath off his perch, but then slips on the pigeon poop and falls off the perch himself.
  • A sketch from "Musya Shakhtyorov in: Honeyboogers" has Goliath defecate behind a bush as he turns to stone. Elisa is impressed when she sees that even Goliath's poop has been petrified.
  • A sketch from "May Cause Light Cannibalism" features Goliath and Elisa having sex on the rooftop of a building. Goliath then turns to stone by day, causing the two to fall through the roof.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man:
  • In the series premiere, there are a great many gargoyles shown, in reference to director Greg Weisman's series of the same name, also set in New York.
  • In Season 2, Mysterio is aided by small robots resembling gargoyle-like imps. As a bonus, they're voiced by Jeff Bennett (Brooklyn), Thom Adcox-Hernandez (Lexington), and Cree Summer (Hyena). In "Opening Night" (written by Weisman), Jonah sees the imps fighting Spider-Man and says someone should give these guys their own show.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Savage Opress is not the first villain played by Clancy Brown, who had been transformed into a monster, and is related to a Predecessor Villain who had caused great loss to the heroes.