History Recap / GargoylesS2TheMirror

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After Puck has turned all the humans in the city into Gargoyles, Lexington, Brooklyn, and Broadway look on in shock at what has happened, while doing so, a group of female Gargoyles wearing little clothing and their wings covering themselves walk by and smile at them rather flirtatiously. Judging by their expressions, no doubt Brooklyn and Broadway ([[WordOfGay though not Lexington]]) are thinking of one thing and one thing only right now. Lexington is busy summing up the situation as "kinda fun... but weird."
** A deliberate effort by the creators to make sure they avoided getting into trouble is one involving the name of the trickster debuting in this episode. The creators [[WhatCouldHaveBeen were originally considering naming Puck instead as "Robin Goodfellow"]] (an alias that Puck used in the play) over concerns that his name [[MondeGreen might be misheard by some]] as a certain rhyming four letter word that starts with an "F". They ultimately chose to stay with Puck, but made sure the voice actors were careful in how they pronounced his name.

* BittersweetEnding: Everyone in the city is returned to normal, but Demona gains the ability to move about in the daylight. The experience has also made Elisa reflect on her feelings and how she and Goliath are essentially StarCrossedLovers.

* ExactWords: "The human Elisa Maza is no more."

* WrongForTheRightReasons: Goliath repeatedly assumes that all the mayhem was purposefully caused by Demona to throw them off. What he can't know is that Demona never meant for any of it to happen, as Puck repeatedly screwed her over by deliberately misinterpreting her wishes.

* LiteralGenie: Puck pulls this when he feels like jerking Demona around. I.E. "Don't worry, I will do ''exactly'' what you ask." Thus fulfilling the letter of her wish while deliberately ignoring the spirit.

* RoleReversal: Goliath had always caught Elisa whenever she fell from a high place. When Goliath turned human in midair and fell, Elisa, now a Gargoyle, had to catch him.

** Shortly after Demona has summoned Puck and starts shouting commands, the latter protests this treatment by pointing to Titania's Mirror saying that "What does this look like to you, WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'s lamp?". This line was confirmed by the creators to be an in-joke about Disney's Aladdin, of which WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries was also concurrently on-air at the time.

* BeautifulAllAlong: Goliath realizes this about Elisa after seeing her transformed into a gargoyle in "The Mirror":

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Demona first summons Puck in "The Mirror", she says "You serve the human", referring to the fact that [[spoiler: Owen and Puck are the same being]]. Other episodes would hint at the same thing, but this one was the first and most noticeable.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "The Mirror," after Puck has turned all the humans in the city into Gargoyles, Lexington, Brooklyn, and Broadway look on in shock at what has happened, while doing so, a group of female Gargoyles wearing little clothing and their wings covering themselves walk by and smile at them rather flirtatiously. Judging by their expressions, no doubt Brooklyn and Broadway ([[WordOfGay though not Lexington]]) are thinking of one thing and one thing only right now. Lexington is busy summing up the situation as "kinda fun... but weird."

* LiteralGenie: Puck pulls this in "The Mirror" when he feels like jerking Demona around. I.E. "Don't worry, I will do ''exactly'' what you ask." Thus fulfilling the letter of her wish while deliberately ignoring the spirit.

* WhamEpisode: "The Mirror" established the Fair Folk as part of the setting, established a new attribute for Demona (the ability to turn Human during the day instead of stone), ''and'' started the transformation of Goliath and Elisa's relationship.

** Shortly after Demona has summoned Puck and starts shouting commands, the latter protests this treatment by pointing to Titania's Mirror saying that "What does this look like to you, Disney/{{Aladdin}}'s lamp?". This line was confirmed by the creators to be an in-joke about Disney's Aladdin, of which WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries was also concurrently on-air at the time.

* FakeMemories: Puck's transformations of humans into gargoyles is packaged with the belief that they've always been gargoyles and, in Elisa's case, that the gargoyles were humans. This seems to be to keep them from reacting to the transformation as strange, since Elisa's actual memories of events are untouched and it takes little scrutiny to notice a discrepancy.

A magical mirror is stolen by Demona who frees the mischievous Puck from it; purposely re-interpreting Demona's wishes, he makes the Gargoyles human and the humans gargoyles. In the chaos Goliath and the others are able to detain him and send Demona fleeing, but as a gift for the fun he'd had, Puck grants Demona to become human during the day instead of her vulnerable stone sleep.

* WhamEpisode: "The Mirror" established the Fair Folk as part of the setting, established a new attribute for Demona (the ability to turn Human during the day instead of stone), ''and'' started the transformation of Goliath and Elisa's relationship.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Elisa during her small stint as a gargoyle in this episode. Goliath certainly thought so.
* TheFairFolk: They are introduced into Gargoyles' cosmology, of they are known as the "Third Race" and the "Children of Oberon". The first of their number to be revealed is Puck who debuts in this episode.

* LiteralGenie: Puck pulls this in "The Mirror" when he feels like jerking Demona around.
* MagicMirror: Titania's Mirror (which is used throughout this episode) is one of two known ones (along with its twin, Oberon's Mirror) to exist in the Gargoyles universe.
* {{Meganekko}}: Elisa has this look while posing as a security guard at the museum.

* ShoutOut: This episode features allusions ShoutOut/ToShakespeare, more specifically to Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream with the introduction of Puck and also a mention of Oberon (when one of the thieves hired by Demona uses as his code word "Oberon sent me" and also in form of the beings of the Third race named as "Oberon's Children") before he would appear physically later on. For that matter, the episode as a whole is somewhat of a loose recreation of the play with Fairies wrecking havoc by spinning spells on unsuspecting people for amusement at the latter's expense, some characters being turned into other species, and some romantic developments (e.g. Goliath and Elisa's budding relationship) occur.

* HolierThanThou: The extremity of her [[KnightTemplar self-righteousness]] becomes apparent in "The Mirror". She orders a captured Puck to get rid of all the humans in Manhattan. In typical Puck fashion he does so... by changing them into Gargoyles. She completely overlooks the significance that this ability could have to her stated goal of 'saving' gargoyle-kind: she's merely infuriated that Puck is "giving them the gift of being a gargoyle."

* JackassGenie: Puck makes an effort to subvert this trope when he deliberately misconstrues Demona's wishes, not only to screw with her, but to avoid having to kill every human in the city. Though it is played straight at the end when Puck grants Demona's original wish of not turning to stone during the day by making her become human during the day instead. So it would be more accurate to say that Puck is indeed a JackassGenie, but he's only being a jackass toward Demona.

* JackassGenie: Puck makes an effort to subvert this trope when he deliberately misconstrues Demona's wishes, not only to screw with her, but to avoid having to kill every human in the city. Though it is played straight at the end when Puck grants Demona's original wish of not turning to stone during the day by making her become human during the day instead.

* BatmanGambit: Her plan to steal the Mirror of Titania involved this. While Elisa Maza and Goliath pursued her, pair of thieves, now free to take it by her luring the heroes away, swiftly wrapped up and removed the mirror from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then dropped it off to her house at the appointed time.

* CuteMonsterGirl: During her small stint as a gargoyle in this episode. Goliath certainly thought so.

* ShoutOut: This episode features allusions ShoutOut/ToShakespeare, more specifically to Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream with the introduction of Puck and also a mention of Oberon (when one of the thieves hired by Demona uses as his code word "Oberon sent me" and also in form of the beings of the Third race known as "Oberon's Children") before he would appear physically later on. For that matter, the episode as a whole is somewhat of a loose recreation of the play with Fairies wrecking havoc by spinning spells on unsuspecting people for amusement at the latter's expense, some characters being turned into other species, and some romantic developments (e.g. Goliath and Elisa's budding relationship) occur.

Demona returns in the episode [[Recap/GargoylesS2Vows "Vows"]] and Puck's next appearance is in [[Recap/GargoylesS2FutureTense "Future Tense"]], Part 1.

* ShoutOut: This episode features allusions ShoutOut/ToShakespeare, more specifically to Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream with the introduction of Puck and also a mention of Oberon (when one of the thieves hired by Demona uses as his code word "Oberon sent me" and also in form of the beings of the Third race known as "Oberon's Children") before he would appear physically later on.

Demona returns in the episode [[Recap/GargoylesS2Vows "Vows"]] and Puck's next appearance is in [[Recap/GargoylesS2TheGathering "The Gathering"]], Part 1.

* BatmanGambit: Her plan to steal the Mirror of Titania involved this. While Elisa Maza and Goliath pursued her, pair of thieves, now free to take it by her luring the heroes away, swiftly wrapped up and removed the mirror from the museum and then dropped it off to her house at the appointed time.

* AnimationBump: The first episode in the second season to get an improvement in animation and the second over all after the Awakening five part pilot.

* BrickJoke: At least it is one [[BlueAndOrangeMorality from Puck's point of view]]. Near the start of the episode Demona offhandedly mentioned that she would like to once be able to walk out during the daytime instead of turning to stone. At the end when Puck is demanding he offer her something for the "fun time" she took him out to in the last few hours, she demanded him to leave in which the disgruntled Puck decided to grant her previously mentioned desire, though in a fashion she would not approve, as her "reward".
* BullyingADragon:

* CuteMonsterGirl:

* HolierThanThou: The extremity of her attitude becomes apparent in "The Mirror". She orders a captured Puck to get rid of all the humans in Manhattan. In typical Puck fashion he does so... by changing them into Gargoyles. She completely overlooks the significance that this ability could have to her stated goal of 'saving' gargoyle-kind: she's merely infuriated that Puck is "giving them the gift of being a gargoyle."

* WhamEpisode: "The Mirror" established the Fair Folk as part of the setting ''and'' started the transformation of Goliath and Elisa's relationship.

* BatmanGambit: Her plan to steal the Mirror of Titania involved this. While Eliza Maza and Goliath pursued her, pair of thieves, now free to take it by her luring the heroes away, swiftly wrapped up and removed the mirror from the museum and then dropped it off to her house at the appointed time.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: One of the recurring themes for this episode.
* BrickJoke: At least it is one [[BlueAndOrangeMorality from Puck's point of view]]. Near the start of the episode Demona offhandedly mentioned that she would like to once be able to walk out during the daytime instead of turning to stone. At the end when Puck is demanding he offer her something for the "fun time" she took him out to in the last few hours, she demanded him to leave in which the disgruntled Puck decided to turn her into a human by day as her "reward".

* JackassGenie:
* Meganko: