Characters / Gargoyles: The Manhattan Clan

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General

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• Achilles' Heel: They're completely helpless while in stone sleep.
• Badass Family: They're closer to this than True Companions, as gargoyles of the same clan (even if they're not directly blood-related) consider each other family.
• Being Good Sucks: The gargoyles are saviours of the city and the world, but they are constant victims of racism, insults and ungratefulness from humans. Nevertheless, they keep doing what's right and help humanity.
• Break the Cutie: In succession, "The Thrill of the Hunt," "Temptation" and "Deadly Force" all act to break some hard truths about the world to Lexington, Brooklyn and Broadway respectively, often initiated out of their own naïvete (Lexington for revealing himself to the Pack, Brooklyn for trusting Demona's word, and Broadway for mishandling a gun).
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: A gargoyle's primary purpose/instinct is to protect, which is why they spend their waking hours fighting crime in New York. Goliath and Hudson are the most dedicated believers in this.
  Hudson: A gargoyle can no more stop protecting the castle than breathing the air.
  Goliath: Gargoyles protect. It is our nature, our purpose. To lose that is to be corrupt, empty, lifeless.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: The gargoyles were all born in the 10th century, and were frozen in stone for 1,000 years before waking up in 1990's-era Manhattan. All things considered, they've managed to adapt pretty well.
• Good Is Not Soft: The clan do what's morally right, but that doesn't mean they they'll go easy on crooks. Looking like scary winged hellish creatures certainly helps.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Brooklyn even lampshades their "publicity problem" in "Hunter's Moon". Greg Weisman has alluded to that being only temporary. After saving the city a few times, the Clan becomes a branch of the NYPD and eventually, due to Goliath's as-yet unspecified sacrifice sometime in the future, the United Nations declares the gargoyle species a protected race, acknowledges its sentience, and creates a Nation for the Gargoyles to found.invoked
• Location Theme Naming: Aside from Goliath, all of them have named themselves after various locations in New York City. This is lampshaded in the first episode when Hudson brings up how absurd naming them is and when pointed out that the river he pointed to is named the Hudson River, he decided to name himself after it.
• No Need for Names: In the tenth century, the gargoyles had no tradition of using individual names amongst themselves. Only the clan's leaders—Goliath and his predecessor Hudson, who was called "Mentor" by Prince Malcolm—were ever given names, and they mostly saw them as little more than odd human affectations. After their awakening in twentieth-century Manhattan, the younger gargoyles decide they like the idea of names to reflect their new lives and enthusiastically choose names they picked up during their exploration of their new home, while the elder Hudson remains fairly ambivalent to the concept and takes his mostly just to humor Elisa.
• Not Quite Flight: As they themselves state, they can't fly, only glide on wind currents.
• The Power of the Sun: Anton Sevarius hypothesizes that their stone form is a means of absorbing solar energy; otherwise, such large and powerful creatures would need to consume a lot of calories every night.
• Really 700 Years Old: Even discounting a gargoyle's naturally slow aging (half the rate of humans; they don't age while in stone sleep), all of the Manhattan Clan (except Elisa) qualify: Goliath, Hudson, Bronx, and the Trio were all frozen in stone sleep for 1,000 years, and Angela was born on Avalon, where time flows much more slowly than in the outside world, making her chronologically about 940 (biologically, about 19).
• The Remnant: Of the Wyvern Clan; they're the sole survivors after the events of the Wyvern Massacre, and only survived because Goliath and Hudson were away at the time, while the Trio and Bronx were locked away in the rookery.
• Restored My Faith in Humanity: Elisa helped to restore their faith and trust in humanity after the events of the Wyvern Massacre.
• Weakened by the Light: During the daytime, they turn to stone and are completely immobilized. However, it should be noted that unlike typical examples of the trope, the purpose of this is to sleep (and it's a timed biological process that happens when the sun rises, no matter if the light touches them or not). Also, they are in a sense strengthened by the light, since they absorb solar radiation during stone sleep even though they never see the sun.
• Weirdness Magnet: The clan can't seem to catch a break and have met with lots of weird stuff you wouldn't expect in the medieval era, from sorcery to magical creatures. And then, this skyrockets when they find themselves in the 20th century.

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Goliath

"There is both good and evil in all of us, human and gargoyle alike."

Voiced by (EN): Keith David

Voiced by (IT): Alessandro Rossi

Voiced by (JP): Taiten Kusunoki

Voiced by (MEX): Mario Sauret

Voiced by (POR): Maurício Berger

Goliath is the leader of the Manhattan Clan, and the series' protagonist.

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• Action Dad: To his rookery children and biological daughter, he is a fierce defender.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Goliath is recognized as the powerhouse of the Manhattan Clan in addition to being its leader. This is not a coincidence. Demona said during a flashback that his strength is why he should lead.
• Badass in Distress: The worse part is in the comics where the authorities have captured Goliath.
• Beast and Beauty: The Beast to Elisa's Beauty. In fact, in "Eye of the Beholder", Elisa dresses up as Belle for Halloween.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Once you earn his trust, he's as collected and patient as can be, and will protect you with his life. Betray that trust, or worse, betray the trust of his clan members, and he won't let you forget it.
  • Harming any of Goliath's clan provokes a terrifying rage from the gargoyle leader; he was so frightening that even a Blood Knight like Hakon was reduced to cowardice when Goliath confronted him after the Wyvern massacre. In the present day, he nearly kills Tony Dracon after believing that he shot Elisa, punches a hole through Macbeth after he seemingly killed Hudson (thankfully, it was neither the real Macbeth nor the real Hudson, but Goliath's wrath was a sight to behold), and when the Hunters nearly kill Angela, Goliath swears revenge and spends the better part of two episodes raging against them.
• Big Good: The official leader of the Manhattan Clan and thus of Manhattan's defense against supervillains.
• The Big Guy: Filled this role back when he was Hudson's Second In Command, and technically he still is the largest member of the Clan, though Broadway also fills this role.
• Character Development: Goliath goes through some interesting character development from the Avalon World Tour as well. For example, back in "City of Stone" he said "Death is never the answer; life is!" But when the Emir took this statement to its logical conclusion in "Grief," and his imprisonment of Anubis meant that nobody could die (and if death really never is the answer, is that a bad thing?) Goliath realized that preventing anyone from dying is just as bad as killing them, and he fought to break the binding spell and free Anubis.
• Cultured Badass: He's a big strong dude but he has a thing for libraries. See Genius Bruiser.
• Deadpan Snarker: Once in a blue moon. For example:
  Goliath: Your manipulations have failed, Xanatos. I don't suppose you have a Plan D?
• Death Glare: Due to his thick brow ridges, it can sometimes be hard to read Goliath's emotions, but he is an undisputed master of this trope, nonetheless. And if his eyes start glowing, well, you'd better start running for your life.
• Determinator: Goliath never gives up.
• Driven to Suicide: A metaphorical suicide; after the Wyvern massacre and the curse on the other survivors, Goliath has two requests of Princess Katharine and the Magus: that they look over the eggs in the clan's rookery, and that the Magus place the sleeping spell on him as well, so that he could be with the last remnants of his clan. The spell wouldn't have killed Goliath, but he didn't expect to ever wake up. Greg Weisman even describes this act as a "suicide".
• Establishing Character Moment: In the first episode of the series, Goliath and Demona enter the dining hall after being invited by the Captain of the Guard so Princess Katherine could recognize their efforts in defendingthe castle. After getting rebuffed, Goliath seems to snarl, spread his wings... and then fold them over his shoulders, bowing as a sign of respect. Shortly, he admonishes Demona for her frustration with the humans, explaining that humans and Gargoyles merely have different ways and it's not something to be concerned with. This shows that while Goliath may appear to be a terrifying beast, he is a reasonable and compassionate soul.
• Evil Laugh:
  • In "Enter Macbeth," he lets out a pretty sinister laugh when he reveals the flaw in Macbeth's fundamentally flawed Batman Gambit.
  • In "Double Jeopardy," Hudson (who wasn't around for that scene in "Enter Macbeth") gets a line that's hilarious in context:
  Hudson: D'ye even know how to laugh maniacally?
• The Fettered: He is doggedly devoted to the gargoyle way (protection of those who cannot protect themselves). Though, when his anger gets the better of him, he quickly becomes The Unfettered and shows why it's such a good thing he keeps himself in check the way he does.
• Foil: To David Xanatos. Each zigs where the other sags.
  • While Goliath is A Father to His Men, someone who values honor, integrity and family, Xanatos is a duplicitous schemer who primarily regards people as how useful they are to him. Goliath regards love as a strength, Xanatos regards love as a sign of weakness that could be exploited. And while Goliath is often tempted by the need for revenge, Xanatos regards revenge as "A sucker's game."
• Genius Bruiser: On his nights off-duty, he can usually be found with his nose in a book. Given the onward march of history and culture in the last millennium, he has a lot of catching up to do.
• Gentle Giant: He's a very tall and heavily-muscled guy, but is content to leave other people alone as long as they're not committing any evil deeds.
• Good Is Not Dumb: Highly intelligent, and while he can occasionally be fooled you can never do it the same way twice. Xanatos found this out the hard way in "Eye of the Beholder."
• Guile Hero: For as much as a warrior Goliath is, his persuasion skills are just as powerful and essential. He's proven to be an excellent mediator, ending a fight or dire situations when needed through simply talking, instead of fisticuffs. This is best shown when Oberon was moments away from taking Xanatos and Fox's son, Goliath managed to talk him out of it by pleasing his godly ego. Reminder, Oberon wiped the floor with everyone beforehand.
• Heartbroken Badass: Due to the murder of most of his clan and Demona's treachery, he has a LOT of emotional baggage that occasionally spills over into REVENGE!
• The Hero: He's the main good guy in the show's cast, and insists on following "the Gargoyle Way", which is classically heroic in that it basically means "protect your clan, protect your home, and protect those who can't protect themselves".
• Heroic Build: Goliath's a big dude, that's for sure, and it scares evil do-ers when he looms over them.
• Heroic Resolve: Even after everything he's lost and all that he's suffered, Goliath remains devoted to doing the right thing. In those rare moments it seems like he won't...pray you have the strength to run.
• Heroic Sacrifice: According to Word of God, Goliath will meet his end in a deadly sacrifice of some kind. Greg Weisman has, as of this writing, kept all other details to himself. Given that Greg has also stated he will out-live Elisa, the two events may be linked. invoked
• Heroic Spirit: Goliath allows nothing to corrupt his noble spirit.
• Honor Before Reason: Goliath is prone to this:
  • At the end of season 2, Demona was on the verge of killing all humans. That would mean, no more hatred toward their kind, no more fear of being shattered during the day and no more hiding. Instead, Goliath saved humanity and has forsaken their chance for safety.
  • In the comics, Goliath has been imprisoned by the authorities. Brooklyn attempts to bust him out of jail, but Goliath chooses to remain captive and orders him to leave because he wants to go through the hearing process and give humanity the chance to do the right thing.
  • This happens again when the Pack comes to kill him, Dracon, Brod and the jailer. Goliath subdues the Pack and refuses again to escape.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: While Elisa is of average height for a human woman, she's small when compared with the huge Goliath.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: More like "If You Kill Xanatos, You Will Be Just Like Demona", Elisa uses this argument to talk Goliath out of killing Xanatos at the climax of "Awakening, Part 5."
• Interspecies Romance: Him (a gargoyle) and Elisa (a human). It's done with much better timing and respect for the characters than usual. Despite their Superman-style initial meeting, they start out as Platonic Life-Partners. Were it not for certain events brought about by Demona and Puck, they may have gone on that way; instead, there was a sudden burst of UST, leading to a moving Better as Friends moment after which they remained friends due to the considerable obstacles in the way of their being together...for a while.
• Knight Templar: Under the effects of the Eye of Odin or whenever a member of his clan is hurt, such as in "Deadly Force" when he believed the gangster Tony Dracon had nearly killed Elisa, he can be quite scary and ruthless in his pursuit of justice and protection. He only calmed down after Broadway admitted it was his fault because he was playing with Elisa's gun and it went off by accident (though Goliath still destroyed Dracon's stolen weapon shipment to keep them off the streets).
• Knight Templar Parent: He becomes temporarily bloodthirsty after the Hunters nearly kill Angela.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Adding to his chiseled good looks and heroic demeanor.
• Large Ham: On a number of occasions, especially when he's angry.
  I've been denied everything...EVEN MY REVENGE!
• The Leader: He replaced Hudson pre-series and led the Manhattan Clan until he left for Avalon. At that point, he put Brooklyn in charge. While he values wisdom, the others follow him because they believe in him.
• Love Hurts: Goliath loved Demona deeply, and when he believed she had been killed along with most of the rest of the clan, it hurt him deeply. When she was revealed to be alive only to betray him, it hurt him even deeper. Being forced to watch his "Angel of the Night" hate him and go against everything the Gargoyles are supposed to believe only twists the knife ever deeper.
• Luke, You Are My Father: To Angela. He knew; he just didn't think it was a huge deal because of the gargoyles' cultural attitude towards children, namely that they're the children of the entire community. Elisa's mother had to talk a little sense into him to get him to be a little more affectionate to her in that regard.
• Named After Somebody Famous: After the biblical character Goliath, which is explained to be in-universe in the first episode. This backfired a little, as Princess Katherine pointed out that his Biblical namesake was a bully, which didn't help his kind's reputation one bit.
• Nice Guy: Goliath has a noble personality and unlike Demona, he continues to understand that humans treat gargoyles thus because they are afraid of them, and hopes that they will change for the better in the future, that someday, their races will be at peace. He is also somewhat cordial to his foes—to a point.
• Not So Stoic: He's usually a pretty low-key guy, but eating his first jalapeño both jolted him and became a minor catchphrase.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: While he's unquestionably the good guy of this series, there are times when he loses himself, his honor, and his good heart to revenge if tragedy strikes. Notably, when the Hunters almost killed Angela, he practically lost it and almost killed them in a rage.
• Odd Name Out: He's the only one of his clan who doesn't follow the others' Location Theme Naming, though this is justified since he got his name long before they were brought to New York.
• Papa Wolf: Do NOT EVER harm any member (human and gargoyle) of Goliath's clan. You'll be wishing you hadn't, especially if you nearly kill his daughter.
• Parental Abandonment: While Goliath did abandon Angela, he also asked the Magus and Katharine to take care of her and the rest of the eggs in his stead. Demona also tacitly agreed to let the Magus and Katharine take care of her by not stopping them from "stealing" her. However, the Magus, Katharine, and Tom turned out to be better parents for her than Goliath or Demona would have been.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Unsurprising since Goliath is from a millennia past and doesn't keep up with pop culture like the Trio and Hudson do, but in the comics he at one point obliviously asks Elisa if the caped crusader might be of help, after she hears him observe criminals "are superstitious and cowardly" and asks if Goliath was deliberately quoting him. He wasn't.
• Post-Kiss Catatonia: At the end of the Hunter's Moon trilogy, Goliath is subjected to this by Elisa, then was frozen in stone by the sun before he could react.
• Pride: Amazingly enough, this is probably his greatest flaw. Not the overt kind of arrogance, mind you, but a stubborn assured-ness in his decisions that occasionally overrides common sense. What makes Goliath the hero he is, is his ability to swallow his pride when necessary and admit when he was proven wrong.
• Purple Is Powerful: Goliath is an impressive figure, a tall and powerfully-built gargoyle with lavender skin and dark hair.
• Rags to Riches: As a gargoyle, he sees no need to accumulate materialistic wealth of any kind. This doesn't stop Halcyon Renard from naming him as his third beneficiary after his daughter Fox and grandson Alexander, with Goliath receiving 2% of Renard's Cyberbiotics fortune and thus a tie-breaking vote. Xanatos comments that it might not make him as rich as Thailog, but that's still a lot of zeroes to suddenly come into his possession.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Despite his noble personality, Goliath tends to forget that "death solves nothing" if it looks like one of his clan is dead.
• Save the Villain: It seems he has a nasty habit of doing this:
  • Goliath saves Fox when she was turned into a werefox and was close to burn up her body.
  • He saves Xanatos' son who was about to be taken away by Oberon.
  • In the comics, while in jail, he saves Dracon, Brod and his jailer from the Pack who came to kill them all.
• Single Tear: Goliath sheds a single tear after he turns to stone when he thought Elisa died at the dam.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Sometimes he can tangle with super-strong robots; other times, a single human can give him trouble.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: From a gargoyle (and Elisa's) standpoint; his human form in "The Mirror" reflects this.
• Team Dad: As is tradition in Gargoyle culture, he is the "father" of the entire clan, regardless of which members he sired himself. And heaven help you if you try to harm any of them.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: He does not have a problem with killing enemies in the heat of battle, but does when it comes to executing helpless or subdued foes. He can, however, be pushed into disregarding this, notably in the second season finale after he comes to believe that the Hunters killed Angela. But even then, he didn't take too much time to make sure that they were dead after he knocked them out.
• Warrior Poet: A wise and philosophical gargoyle, as well as an immensely skilled warrior.
• Working with the Ex: For a brief moment in "Hunter's Moon, Part 3," Goliath and Demona team up to escape the Hunters. It doubles as an Enemy Mine.
• World's Best Warrior: Xanatos has referred to Goliath as "the greatest warrior alive"; considering that the only forces that can consistently defeat him in one-on-one combat are robotic juggernauts and semi-omnipotent magical beings, this doesn't seem to be hyperbole (he has conceded that Demona and Macbeth would give him trouble, but in those cases his foes had literally centuries of experience, so he still deserves credit for holding his own).
• Worthy Opponent: He may not particularly like Xanatos or the way he does things, but he does respect the man as an opponent, helping him rescue Fox from her Eye of Odin-induced transformations when the man finally broke down and asked for his help. He has a much less antagonistic type of relationship with Macbeth, even comforting the man after the woman he loved was revealed to be Demona under a curse from Puck to turn into a human every day.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
  • Goliath has this reaction when Xanatos requests he be his best man for his wedding to Fox in "Vows".
  • In "Sanctuary", Goliath gets this when Demona starts flaunting her new relationship with Thailog, saying it was "love at first flight".
    Goliath: Love, Demona? You no longer know the meaning of the word! Hate is what you live for now!
• You Make Me Sick: Goliath has always been disgusted by Demona due to her irrational hatred of the Clan and the human race, but then goes into this when she and Thailog created the clones of the Clan, dubbing them her "new Clan".
  Goliath: If you truly believe these poor creatures to be your clan, then you've sunk even lower than I could imagine.

Brooklyn

"This has nothing to do with what I want."

Voiced by (EN): Jeff Bennett

Voiced by (IT): Marco Mete

Voiced by (JP): Yasuyuki Kase

Voiced by (MEX): Herman López

Voiced by (POR): Alexandre Moreno

Goliath's second-in-command. While once impetuous and a thrill seeker, Brooklyn soon grows into his reluctant role as the secondary leader and becomes more serious and a skilled tactician.

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• Been There, Shaped History: During his time hopping adventure, it would have been Brooklyn who planted the seeds of having Demona and Xanatos meet, which would lead to Castle Wyvern being constructed on top of the skyscraper that would break the curse, with help from Owen/Puck.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With his mate Katana. Word of God says that their relationship, especially early on, would be akin to Sam Malone and Diane Chambers, or to put it in another way, Benedick and Beatrice. invoked
• Berserk Button: Mentioning Demona around him really riles him up. Aside from the whole "Goliath's genocidal ex-wife" thing, she manipulated and betrayed him specifically to obtain a spell to brainwash Goliath.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: He's the only character that has ever done this. In the SLG comics, after being sent back to the Dark Ages by the Phoenix he bemoans the fact that his lack of historical knowledge means he can't anticipate the consequences of his plans. He then turns to the audience to deliver a Space Whale Aesop.
  Brooklyn: You never know when a giant flaming magical time-traveling bird is gonna swallow you whole and spit you out in the tenth century. So hit those books, kids.
• The Chains of Commanding: The stress of leadership is what initially causes him to withdraw from the role in "Kingdom." His Character Development for the episode sees him get over this, ending with Brooklyn stepping up as leader in Goliath's absence.
• Character Development: Graduates from an impetuous and naïve youth to becoming second-in-command to Goliath.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Temptation" was the first, although he's also the main character in "Kingdom". He receives an extended one during the TimeDancer arc in the comics.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's the most likely of all the Manhattan Clan to be sarcastic or sour in his comments.
  Brooklyn: Yeah, use the Force, Lex.
• The Dulcinea Effect: What sparks his ill-fated attraction to Maggie, whom he first meets as a scared Mutate hiding from Gen-U-Tech mercenaries. He's determined to be the one to save her, even though it's obvious to everyone else that he's getting ahead of himself and that Maggie's terrified of him.
• Eyepatch After Time Skip: At some point during the adventures referred to in Time Dancer, Brooklyn loses the use of his left eye and starts wearing a patch over it.
• Future Badass: Brooklyn returned from his travels through time older, wiser, and having taken a few levels in badass.
• Heartbroken Badass: Three or four times before finally finding a mate.
• Hero of Another Story: His time traveling adventures were intended to be the subject of a spin-off. His story, between leaving tenth century Scotland and returning home 40 years or 40 seconds (depending on your point of view) after he left, remains untold.
• Hopeless Suitor: In the TV series, his love life is basically one big cosmic joke. Every woman he's been attracted to didn't care to look his way and paired off with someone else: Maggie (got together with Talon), Angela (got together with Broadway), Delilah (got together with Malibu, his own clone)...
  Brooklyn: (after seeing Delilah with Malibu) Oh you have GOT to be kidding me...
  • He eventually finds a love that requites his feelings in Katana. They even have a son named Nashville and daughter Tachi.
• In-Series Nickname: In the 10th century, the Captain of the Guard's daughter Alesand nicknamed him Caesar, at least in her own mind.
• Interspecies Romance: Subverted. Maggie, of the Mutates, never returned his affections.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Brooklyn gets snarkier as time goes on, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't care, and definitely doesn't mean that he stops doing the right thing.
• The Lancer: Compared to Goliath, he is less confident, more hot-blooded, and leans more toward brains than brawn.
• Leeroy Jenkins: After 'Temptation', he can't restrain himself from headlong assault whenever Demona turns up. Eventually, The Chains of Commanding teach him some restraint.
• Number Two: He gets promoted as such after he displays a usually cool calculating nature guiding a superior talent for tactics.
• Red Is Heroic: Brooklyn has a red skin tone.
• Shipper on Deck: For Goliath and Elisa. He is seen with a look of approval with Lexington and Broadway when they watch Goliath and Elisa dancing during Halloween.
• The Strategist: A Tactician actually, but one eventually able to plan and organize his comrades into assaults that can defeat anybody.
• Sword and Gun: After his time-dancing, he carries a longsword, a katana, a laser cannon and a gun.
• Totally Radical: Often peppered in some kid-friendly 90's slang in his dialogue during earlier episodes.

Broadway

"You made one mistake, Tony. You messed with my partner. And when someone messes with your partner, you're supposed to do something about it."

Voiced by (EN): Bill Fagerbakke

Voiced by (IT): Massimo De Ambrosis

Voiced by (JP): Akimitsu Takase

Voiced by (MEX): Jorge Santos

Voiced by (POR): Jorge Vasconcellos

A Big Eater and a bit of a culture addict, who develops a particular liking for detective movies.

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• Acrofatic: He's very quick and maneuverable for his pudgy size.
• Badass Adorable: Broadway is a sweet guy, but he is scary when provoked.
• Berserk Button: Guns, particularly when they're being used by people to hurt and terrorize people. However he's OK with Elisa using one, because he trusts her not to abuse it.
• Beware the Nice Ones: It's hard to piss him off, but when it does happen...WATCH OUT!
• Big Eater: His Establishing Character Moment in "Awakening" has him eat while fighting. He even knocks out a Viking with a drumstick.
• Big Beautiful Man: Pudgy he may be but he's pretty handsome at that. And Angela certainly thinks so.
• Big Fun: Broadway loves a good time.
• The Big Guy: His general role whenever he's teamed with Lexington and Brooklyn, or Elisa is to throw his weight around.
• Blue Is Heroic: Broadway has a cyan (light-blue) skin tone.
• Character Development: Broadway grows from being a gluttonous, illiterate goof to a studious amateur detective. And don't forget the aforementioned episodes about firearms.
• Conspicuous Trenchcoat: He wears this on occasion, which he picked up when he became obsessed with detective stories and novels.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's a lot more dangerous than his goofy demeanor implies.
• Cultured Badass: Becomes one through Character Development. By the time of the comics, he is a big Shakespeare fan.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Deadly Force." focuses on him and his gun problem. He and Elisa get a shared one in "The Silver Falcon."
• Doesn't Like Guns: Following "Deadly Force," guns are one of the few things that'll make him mad.
  Broadway: What's this?! A new kind of gun? A new way to KILL PEOPLE?
• Eye Scream: His future self in Puck's nightmare vision in "Future Tense" has lost both his eyes, leaving the sockets completely empty.
• Fat Flex: He tries doing this in the very first episode when declaring that "all of nature trembles at my passing!" Lexington pokes his belly and undoes it.
• Genius Ditz: Broadway is initially portrayed as being generally less intelligent, or at least less erudite, than the other gargoyles. For one thing, he started off illiterate; for another, he seems more susceptible to pop culture influences; Hudson had both of these qualities, but he was also a canny veteran warrior. He's also the Plucky Comic Relief Big Eater. However, he matures rapidly through the series, unleashing the soul of a poet, and becoming a skilled detective as well. And, naturally, a fine chef.
• Gentle Giant: For such a big guy, you'll never find a sweeter soul than Broadway.
• Guile Hero: After "Deadly Force," Broadway shifts his hero worship of police from action movies to detective stories, and his attitude follows suit. He's not the smartest of the clan, but he subtly becomes less violent than any of them, excepting perhaps Lexington.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: First with Elisa (Cool Big Sis), and now also with Angela (eventually, his girlfriend). He's big and wide, while the two ladies are comparatively smaller than him.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: He was initially a big fan of guns (in movies, at least) until he accidentally shot Elisa. It terrified him and led directly to Doesn't Like Guns.
• Improvised Weapon: He once used a turkey leg to knock out a soldier in a castle raid early in the series.
• In-Series Nickname: In the 10th century, the Captain of the Guard's daughter Alesand nicknamed him Charlemagne, at least in her own mind.
• Never Learned to Read: He even brags about it, early in "Lighthouse in the Sea of Time". Hearing Macbeth eloquently relate the story of Merlin opens Broadway's eyes to the power of the written word, to the point that he starts seeing reading as its own kind of magic. After that, he relishes reading and becomes a Shakespeare fanboy...who loves reading to his girlfriend.
• Nice Guy: Broadway is a loyal, reliable, friendly and quite intelligent and was the main focus of several of the show's more thought-provoking episodes. This is what actually allows him to win over Angela.
• Platonic Life-Partners: He is the closest to Elisa of all the Manhattan Clan besides Goliath.
• Reckless Gun Usage: Having not realized it was fully loaded and accidentally shot Elisa with it, he learned the hard way that guns are not toys. It's become a Berserk Button since.
• Shipper on Deck: For Goliath and Elisa. He is seen with a look of approval with Brooklyn and Lexington when they watch Goliath and Elisa dancing during Halloween.
• Stout Strength: Heavyset, and very strong.
• Strong Family Resemblance: As revealed by her appearance in the Dark Ages prequel comics, Broadway shares his skin color, fin-shaped ears, bald head and knobby horns with his biological mother, "Verity"; meanwhile his girth, bat-like wings, and underbite more resemble his biological father (Hudson).
• Trademark Favorite Food: Jalapeños.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Broadway isn't exactly ugly, but is certainly less attractive than the other members of his clan, to the point that he looks kinda goofy or buffoonish, which, combined with Angela's hotness qualifies them for this trope.

Lexington

"It's nice to know there are still some heroes left."

Voiced by (EN): Thom Adcox Hernandez

Voiced by (IT): Simone Mori

Voiced by (JP): Yasuyuki Kase

Voiced by (MEX): Carlos Íñigo

Voiced by (POR): Cláudio Galvan

The Manhattan Clan's technology expert.

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• Badass Adorable: While he's the smallest and youngest-looking of the clan (though actually the same age as Brooklyn and Broadway), Lexington is just as capable a warrior as his fellow gargoyles. His ability to utilize technology to his advantage makes it even better.
• Badass Bookworm:
  • Lexington's the technical brains of the clan, and his smarts are a force to be reckoned with.
  • The Dark Ages spinoff reveals he's the one who taught the Captain of the Guard's daughter Alesand to read and write.
• Berserk Button: The Pack enrages him, due to a huge Broken Pedestal moment.
• Beware the Nice Ones: As the first Coyote found out firsthand; Lex blew a hole through the robot's torso, and his anger towards the rest of the Pack shows that he may well have been willing to the same to any of them as well.
• Big Brother Instinct: He's a surrogate brother for baby Alex Xanatos, and is the one most often seen taking care of him after the kid's own parents.
• Character Development: Grows less naive and (unfortunately) more paranoid. Thankfully, the events of "Leader of the Pack" help him sort out his priorities, namely that the safety of his clan is more important than his personal vendetta against The Pack.
• Characterization Marches On: Though he is later confirmed as gay by Greg Weisman, during the run of the show he displays as much attraction to female gargoyles as the rest of the trio, especially in "Turf" where the three are competing for Angela's affection. Word of God is that this was Lex being closeted/not consciously aware yet of his orientation, and pursuing Angela just because his brothers were.invoked
• A Day in the Limelight: "The Thrill of the Hunt" gives him the focus for his fascination with the Pack, and the need for the clan to connect with people outside the clan. He also gets quite a bit of focus in the Stone of Destiny arc in the comics, along with Hudson.
• Face–Heel Turn: In the Bad Future, he grows angry that Goliath "abandoned" the clan and uses the backup personality of Xanatos to enslave New York, intending to do the same to the world. Fortunately, it seems that future is not destined to pass thanks to Goliath getting back to New York (that and the whole thing was a trick made by Puck).
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: During the third season, Lexington makes it clear that he hasn't really forgiven Fox for her part of using him. Fox makes it clear that since "They all live under the same turrets now", she wants to start over. Lexington, for Alex's sake, is willing to give it a try.
• Friend to All Children: He's great with Alex, and would do anything to keep him safe.
• Gadgeteer Genius:
  • This is a gargoyle who was born in the 10th century, yet learned how to re-assemble a motorcycle and use a computer (along with other gadgets) in the span of a few months. Specifically, the gargoyles awaken in modern times on October 4, 1994; on November 7, he starts working on an old motorcycle and by November 11 has fully fixed it and customized its look. A couple of months later, when he manages to crash-land a helicopter, it takes him less than a day to fully fix it, customize its look and fly it as though he had been doing it his whole life.
  • By the time of the Gargoyles 2198 spinoff, Xanatos Enterprises will be the Lexington-Xanatos Corporation. Including the popular LXM (Lexington-Xanatos-Matrix) series of robot assistants made in Lex's image.
• Hero-Worshipper: He initially naively admires the Pack. Once he sees their true colors, he takes a complete turnaround and spends the most of the series with a special hatred for them (though he at least comes to an uneasy truce with Fox due to his affection for her son, Alex).
• Honest Corporate Executive: Presumably, as one of the namesakes of the Lexington-Xanatos Corporation in the future.
• In-Series Nickname: In the 10th century, the Captain of the Guard's daughter Alesand nicknamed him Alexander, at least in her own mind.
• Instant Expert: He catches on to 20th-century technology very quickly.
• It's Personal: He feels this way towards the Pack and, at several points, has to remind himself that protecting his clan takes precedence over getting revenge.
• Keet: As described by his voice actor Thom Adcox-Hernandez, he is quite eager and energetic.
• Nice Guy: One of the most approachable members of the Clan.
• Older Than They Look: Despite his reedy voice and small stature, Lexington is the same age as Brooklyn and Broadway.
• Shipper on Deck: For Goliath and Elisa. He is seen with a look of approval with Brooklyn and Broadway when they watch Goliath and Elisa dancing during Halloween. And he gives this line:
  " They should have Halloween more often."
• Shorter Means Smarter: The smallest of the Manhattan clan, and also the one who can figure out computers and gasoline motors only a week after waking up in the 20th century.
• The Smart Guy: He developed considerable tech-savvy in a very short time so the clan delegates tech stuff to him.
• Straight Gay: According to Word of God, he is homosexual, but it never came up in the show because he wasn't stereotypical about it, and is seen flirting with Angela and competing for her affections with the rest of the trio. There's also the fact that it was against Disney's Standards and Practices of the time. In the comic continuation, he has a Ship Tease with a male London Clan gargoyle named Staghart, which is eventually confirmed when Broadway asks him how the long-distance thing with Staghart is going. invoked
• Took a Level in Cynic: After having a Broken Pedestal moment with the Pack, Lexington briefly decided to adopt a paranoid mindset. "I'm never trusting anyone again!"

Hudson

"But I know something you don't — something that only comes with age: I know how to wait."

Voiced by (EN): Ed Asner

Voiced by (IT): Sandro Iovino

Voiced by (JP): Shigenori Souya

Voiced by (MEX): Esteban Siller (eps 1-31), Alejandro Villeli (ep. 32 onwards)

Voiced by (POR): Domício Costa

Previous leader of the Wyvern clan. Now he spends most of his days watching television and enjoying his well-earned rest.

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• Acrofatic: While being much older than the rest and about as heavy-set as Broadway, he's still astoundingly agile.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Before ceding his position to Goliath, he was the leader. Incidentally, it wasn't his strength that made him formidable but his wisdom.
• Baritone of Strength: Hudson sports a resonant, rumbling voice that demonstrates his age and experience as a warrior.
• Cool Old Guy: His age hasn't slowed Hudson down in the badass department, and he shares interests with the younger, teenager, gargoyles such as shows like The Pack.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's less prone to wry observations than the Trio, but he has his moments.
  Goliath: Surely you know I'm not in the habit of playing childish pranks and laughing maniacally in the dark.
  Hudson: Do ye even know how to laugh maniacally?
• Eye Scream: A blast from the Archmage blinded one of his eyes.
• Genius Bruiser: Though well-past his prime, he easily outsmarts Xanatos and Demona when forced to fight them alone. He's very insightful, as well, seeing past Xanatos' confidence to recognise his fear of death, becoming one of only two opponents (the other being Oberon) to actually rattle Xanatos.
• Handicapped Badass: He can only see through one of his eyes but he can still track his foes through cunning.
  • In the non-canon third season, he is beginning to show signs of going blind, necessitating an operation. Even while his eye is healing, he can still fight while blindfolded.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Carries his trademark sword. In fact, at the start of the series, he is the only member of the clan that regularly uses a handheld weapon, which underscores this trope.
• Immortality Through Memory: Is shown to have this belief near the end of "The Price", where after spending the entire episode pointing out Xanatos' fear of death, leaves the man with an Armor-Piercing Question regarding his legacy.
  Hudson: A friendly word of advice. True immortality isn't about living forever, man. It's about what you do with the time you have. When all your scheming's done, what will your legacy be, Xanatos?
• Manly Facial Hair: The clan's past leader and one of their most experienced, formidable fighter, and also the only gargoyle warrior in the main cast to have such an impressive beard.
• Mentor Archetype:
  • He was Goliath's teacher in the backstory. His title among Goliath's generation was even "Mentor", which was given to him by Prince Malcolm because he had acted as a mentor to him and Prince Kenneth in the battle against Culen, as seen in Gargoyles Dark Ages issue #3.
  • When Goliath went missing and Brooklyn had to take the helm, Hudson was a Trickster Mentor, subtly poking and needling him until he finally stepped up and issued direct orders.
• More Senior Subordinate: When Hudson started Feeling Their Age, he stepped down as clan leader and passed the job to Goliath, who made Demona his second-in-command. After Demona left the clan, Goliath wanted Hudson to to be his second-in-command, but Hudson insisted Goliath choose one of the Trio, who were eighty years (four generations) younger than Hudson himself and twenty years (one generation) younger than Goliath and Demona.
• My Greatest Failure: Being unable to protect Prince Malcolm from being poisoned in 986 haunts him even in the present.
• Never Learned to Read: Like Broadway, but he finds this inability greatly embarrassing. He eventually learns and seems to especially enjoy reading newspapers.
• Old Master: A downplayed version, since he's not as formidable as Goliath or Demona. But he can still win fights, generally by trickery or a Batman Gambit. In "Leader of the Pack," he's able to fight off three of the Pack at once, while surrounded, when any member of the Trio generally has trouble taking them on one-on-one.
• Old Soldier: He's the oldest of the clan and, while he's not as physically fit as he used to be, he still holds his own. He's even addressed as such, particularly in the days before he was given a name. (Demona still tends to call him this.)
• Retired Badass: He used to be The Leader of the clan, but stepped down in Goliath's favor. He currently enjoys spending time in his comfy armchair either reading the newspaper or watching television with Bronx (and Cagney while Goliath, Elisa, and Bronx were Walking the Earth). Though he can still prove why he was Goliath's predecessor as leader of the clan when the situation calls for it.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: When Elisa asked for his name the first time they met, the then-nameless gargoyle went off on a rant about humans' obsession with labeling everything. He asks if the sky or the nearby river need names to define them, only for Elisa to flatly say that the river was named the Hudson. Dumbfounded, he decided that he would simply be "the Hudson" also.
• Sinister Scimitar: A notable aversion: his weapon of choice is a modest-sized curved sword (possibly some sort of saex), but he's one of the most noble and honorable characters in the show.
• Talking the Monster to Death: He was captured by Xanatos in 'The Price', and after breaking out of his cage, actually reasoned with Xanatos and walked out freely.
• Team Dad: As Goliath would say, he is the "grandfather" for the entire clan. His relationship with the Trio, and later Angela, is like that of a grandfather even though Word of God says he's Broadway's biological father. His oldest biological child was a member of Goliath's generation, which means he likely has a biological grandchild in the Avalon Clan. In gargoyle culture, the Trio and Goliath are all considered his "rookery children" regardless of if they are his biological children or not.invoked
• Unknown Relative: He's the biological father of Broadway, but among gargoyles this relation isn't culturally significant and even if they are aware of it (Broadway shares many physical traits with both Hudson and his mate) it would make little, if any, difference to them. Hudson is already one of Broadway's several rookery fathers either way: all the children are considered children to all the parents who produced eggs in that year.
• Warrior Therapist: Established in "The Price," where he both fights and tricks his way out of Xanatos' trap, all the while needling him with astute observations. Xanatos is practically an archetype of unflappable panache, and Hudson still manages to push his buttons...and then give him some friendly advice.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: In 'The Price', Hudson points out the downside of immortality to Xanatos.
  Hudson: What you seek demands a heavy price. I have been alive for over 1,100 years. Most of my clan is dead and dust. And I am a stranger in a strange land. Demona and Macbeth are immortal; has it brought them happiness?

Bronx

Voiced by (EN): Frank Welker

A quadrupedal creature, similar in general appearance to a bulky mastiff but with many gargoyle-like characteristics. Generally acts as their loyal hound (and gets more than his share of comedy relief moments.)

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• Action Pet: Bronx is capable of holding his own in battle and even took on a dragon-sized serpent-worm monster.
• All Animals Are Dogs: Bronx acts like a dog, with a pinch or two of Amplified Animal Aptitude. Word of God says he's a gargoyle beast, a species separate from but closely related to gargoyles. While they superficially resemble dogs, a better analogy for their relation to gargoyles would be the relation between humans and chimpanzees.invoked
• Amplified Animal Aptitude: Downplayed; he's bright, and can follow simple commands, but the series bible is clear that he's still basically a dog. In "City of Stone," for instance, while he's wary of Demona, all his former clan-member has to do is scratch him behind the ears, speak calmly and back off from Elisa and he's content to lay there while she attempts to sabotage Xanatos's plan.invoked
• Angry Guard Dog: His foes and enemies are greeted with barks and bites.
• Ascended Extra: Prior to "Avalon," Bronx tended to have very little face time, an unfortunate side effect of having no wings and no ability to speak. Also, of course, a dog(-like creature) attacking any human is pretty tough to arrange on a family-oriented show without offending somebody. The World Tour increased his presence quite a bit.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's as friendly as any of the Manhattan Clan and at times acts like a Big Friendly Dog — but in combat he's ferocious. In "Leader of the Pack," for instance, he tackles what appears to be Xanatos and viciously bites his face off, with the Robotic Reveal as only thing stopping this from being as grisly as it sounds.
• Big Damn Heroes: His role in most fight scenes is to blindside and tackle a villain right after they've gotten the better of one of the clan.
• Big Friendly Dog: He's docile with friends and allies.
• A Day in the Limelight: The episodes "The Hound of Ulster" and "A Bronx Tale" give him unusual focus.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: If there's someone or something wicked, dangerous, and/or supernatural nearby, Bronx will probably bark and growl in its direction.
• Friend to All Children: He loves Alex, and his kindness towards kids carries over into the Goliath Chronicles as well as the final issue of the Marvel comics run, and in the Halloween special, Bronx immediately gets along with Gnash's new human friends, looking happy as can be at Susan petting him and calling him and Fu-Dog adorable.
• Gentle Giant: For a hulking gargbeast, Bronx is incredibly sweet to his friends.
• Heroic Dog: At least, if we're prepared to relax the definition of 'dog', then he fills the role of a dog who assists in accomplishing heroic acts, such as Timmy in a Well plots.
• Team Pet: He's basically the clan's pet dog.
• Wall Crawl: The only clan member who can't glide, but he's strong enough to dig his claws into brick or concrete and haul himself up the sides of buildings.

Joined later in the series

Elisa Maza

"A good detective trusts no one."

Voiced by (EN): Salli Richardson-Whitfield

Voiced by (IT): Rossella Acerbo

Voiced by (JP): Yuko Kato

Voiced by (MEX): Dulce Guerrero

Voiced by (POR): Iara Riça

A detective with the NYPD's 23rd precinct, Elisa is the first friend the gargoyles make after the curse is broken. As such, she takes it upon herself to introduce them to their new world. She becomes very close to them, particularly Goliath, and is later considered a part of the clan.

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• Action Girl: She can hold her own just as well as any of the gargoyles. She's an NYPD detective, after all. In fact, gravity is shown to be her only vulnerability.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Is an honorary member of a gargoyle clan, and has met wizards and spirits but doesn't believe in the Illuminati or common urban legends. Until she met Puck in "The Mirror," she didn't believe in elves or faeries either. Hudson lampshaded the latter, telling Elisa that the Third Race were "as real as I (a gargoyle) am, if the stories be true."
• Back from the Dead: A very realistic example after Broadway accidentally shoots Elisa, she nearly dies and is clinically dead for a few moments when her heart temporarily stops. The doctors revive her with a defibrillator.
• Badass Normal: In "Eye of the Beholder," a feral, transformed Fox has Elisa cornered, is holding her up by the shoulder of her jacket, and seems to be about to sink her teeth into her. Elisa's response is to smack Fox in the face with a sack of flour. She can also confront Demona directly.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She's the most prominent female character in the show on the side of good. Her normal attire averts this, but she swaps to midriff-baring outfits for her undercover work as a Dirty Cop in "Protection" as well as her time as a Gargoyle in "The Mirror". The former is for looking less professional than her standard and the latter appears to be standard among gargoyles.
• Beast and Beauty: She's the beauty with Goliath as the beast. This is Lampshaded in "Eye of the Beholder," where she dresses up as Belle for Halloween.
• The Commissioner Gordon: Of the "Heroes are obscure and/or feared and their police friend isn't at the top of the police totem pole" variety.
• Cool Big Sis: She looks out for the younger Gargoyles, who also look up to her, especially Broadway following the events of "Deadly Force." She also often gives them presents like toy cars and video games. In terms of her relationship to her actual siblings, she obviously loves them very much, but Beth lives apart from the family and Derek is more than a little vocal about how involved (or not) he wants her to be in his life.
• Cute Monster Girl: During her small stint as a gargoyle in "The Mirror", she was quite pretty. Goliath certainly thought so, but the "monster" part wouldn't count in his case.
• Damsel out of Distress: She gets in a lot of trouble, but usually gets back out without having to wait to be saved. The only distressing situation she can't rescue herself from is falling off tall buildings.
  Elisa: (slipping out of her shackles) You work with handcuffs as much as I do, you pick up a few things.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's very quick-witted.
• Deuteragonist: Elisa is the second main focus after Goliath.
• Dude Magnet: She's attracted the attention of a lot of men over the series, from Goliath and Jason Canmore to Tony Dracon and Thailog.
• Easy Amnesia: Suffered this in "Sentinel" due to an alien mistaking the gargoyles for an invasive alien race that filled her with false memories.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Was briefly turned into a gargoyle; that not only included being able to glide under her power for once, but also the Super-Strength to go with it.
• Enhanced Punch: In "The Mirror" when Elisa gets temporarily turned into a Gargoyle, she uses her newfound strength to sock Demona in the kisser to protect the humanized Clan from her.
• Evil Costume Switch: When she fakes being a dirty cop in "Protection" she switches out her normal attire for a more revealing one consisting of a black jacket, a blue top that shows off her midriff and cleavage, and high-heeled boots. Of course, it was all part of the act.
• Fair Cop: A very attractive police detective.
• The Fettered: Even though she hates Xanatos, she wouldn't break the law to take him down.
• Guile Heroine: What's made her an effective and respected member of the clan besides being The Face and their connection to the world is her quick thinking. Broadway once turned to stone in midair and she saved him by shooting down a pile of rugs to give him a soft landing. Goliath was both grateful and in awe at such ingenuity.
• Has a Type: As noted by the writers, Goliath and Jason Canmore are both strong, dark and brooding types with inner pain.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: While Elisa is of average height for a human woman, she's small when compared with the huge Goliath.
• Identity Amnesia: Suffered this in "Sentinel"; Nokkar, assuming that the gargoyles are evil aliens who have brainwashed Elisa, wipes her memory to "save" her. Despite this, Elisa's instincts allow her to remember her friendship with the gargoyles, and the effect eventually wears off.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Part of the reason she kept the gargoyles a secret, even in situations where they themselves suggested she tell certain individuals, is because she kind of liked being their only human confidante.
• I'll Take That as a Compliment: Her response when Brooklyn in "Temptation" and Taurus in "The New Olympians" call her a credit to humans.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Go look up a picture of Salli Richardson, then compare to a screen still of Elisa. We'll wait.
• Interspecies Romance: Her (a human) and Goliath (a gargoyle). It's done with much better timing and respect for the characters than usual. Despite their Superman-style initial meeting, they start out as Platonic Life-Partners. Were it not for certain events brought about by Demona and Puck, they may have gone on that way; instead, there was a sudden burst of UST, leading to a moving Better as Friends moment after which they remained friends due to the considerable obstacles in the way of Interspecies Romance...for a while.
• Irony: She's used to being both protector and liaison for the gargoyles in the wider world yet on New Olympus, she's seen as the freak for being human while the gargoyles can walk out in the open.
• I Work Alone: Initially, she's very resentful at being assigned a partner in Matt, but eventually warms up to him. This is at least in part because it makes it harder for her to sneak away and see the Clan.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Owns a rescue-cat named Cagney.
• Ms. Fanservice: Not to the degree of Demona, but Elisa is an extremely beautiful young woman that wears nothing but super tight outfits that show off her legs and buttocks. There was also that time she dressed as a thug while working undercover, not to mention her temporary sting as a Gargoyle herself.
• Nice Girl: Elisa is kind-hearted, brave, and doesn't judge anyone based on physical appearances.
• Reckless Gun Usage: As she lives alone, Elisa initially tended to simply leave her service weapon lying around. She gets a lot smarter about it after "Deadly Force", where Broadway accidentally shoots her while playing with the gun.
• Red Is Heroic: Her trademark red jacket. Forgoing it for something black is part of her cover as a dirty cop.
• Second Love: To Goliath, as his relationship with his first mate, Demona, is broken beyond repair.
• Secret-Keeper: Deconstructed; keeping the gargoyles a secret puts a severe strain on her relationship with her partner Matt (who hates secrets in general) and her family, both of whom call her on it. Later, she admits that her reasons for doing so were partly selfish, wanting to feel special as their only ally.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: She proved this in "Eye of the Beholder" with her Belle costume, and again in the graphic novel with her Jasmine costume.
• Shout-Out: As mentioned before, Elisa cosplays as Belle on Halloween. Later in the comic, she cosplays as Jasmine at a Halloween party.
• Smoking Barrel Blowout: Does this with Demona's laser rifle after disarming and shooting said owner with it.
• The Smurfette Principle: The only lead female character, at least until Angela shows up.
• Strong as They Need to Be: More egregiously than Goliath for always being strong enough to wrestle Demona over her laser rifle for as long as the plot requires yet the aforementioned stint as a gargoyle was treated as a The Dog Bites Back Curb-Stomp Battle.
• Swapped Roles: Elisa would usually be protected by Goliath and the Clan against things no human could handle and especially from heights. In "The Mirror" when their races get swapped, Elisa had to save Goliath from falling off a building as well as protect the now human Clan from Demona.
• Team Mom: After she is de-facto adopted into the Manhattan Clan, she becomes the mother of the clan.
• This Means War!: When she discovers what Xanatos did to her brother Derek, she snarls at him, "This is it. You're going down."
• Token Human: The only human member of the Manhattan Clan.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Hot dogs.
• Twofer Token Minority: Indigenous American and African-American, and a woman in a traditionally male career. Word of God states that her being this underlies her open-mindedness towards the gargoyles that wouldn't have come as easily if she had been a white man.invoked
• Ultimate Job Security: She remains a valued member of the police force, despite the unexplained loss of several guns and her six-month disappearance. The last one becomes justified in that the police decide to use her six-month disappearance to have her go undercover into a gang that popped up during her absence and wouldn't be familiar with her as a police officer.
  • Word of God is that Cpt. Chavez used to work under Elisa's father and is a friend of the family, so she tends to cut Elisa a bit more slack than normal. Also, Elisa apparently has a pretty solid arrest/conviction record, even before the gargoyles showed and started helping her.invoked
• Unfazed Everyman: After meeting the Gargoyles and everything else that followed, Elisa becomes this.
  Elisa: Matt, I don't care about U.F.O.s, Lochness monsters, or secret societies. Believe me, the world is strange enough as it is.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: After she confronts Oberon in "Ill Met by Moonlight," she admits that she had been bluffing with her gun and she didn't have any bullets. Then she quips that, fighting the king of the faeries, she would probably need silver bullets anyway. Katharine corrects her; while silver is effective against vampires and were-beasts, the Fair Folk are vulnerable to Cold Iron. This scene is deleted from the reruns, for some reason.
• The Xenophile: Elisa hasn't shown any hostility or disdain to anyone who isn't human and she has her fair share of unusual encounters: gargoyles, mutates, The Fair Folk, Olympians, robot, cyborgs and an alien. She befriend them all as long as they are good people.
• You Have to Believe Me!: Her efforts to convince Derek that Xanatos is not a good guy boiled down to her word because she couldn't tell him about the gargoyles, and Derek wasn't convinced by the "Xanatos is evil because he's evil" argument. Even after he was mutated into a winged-panther man with electric-eel powers, he still wouldn't believe her claims that Xanatos was the bad guy (though Xanatos had cleverly made sure of that) until the man himself spilled the beans.

Angela

"I was raised by humans. There's no reason we can't all live in harmony!"

Voiced by (EN): Brigitte Bako

Voiced by (IT): Barbara De Bortoli

Voiced by (JP): Junko Takeuchi

Voiced by (MEX): Rebeca Patiño (normal voice), María Fernanda Morales (some eps.)

Voiced by (POR): Silvia Goiabeira; Adriana Torres ("Turf")

The biological daughter of Goliath and Demona. Born and raised on Avalon, she joins Goliath in order to see what the world outside is like and to better know her father.

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• Action Girl: She can handle herself in a fight.
• Affirmative Action Girl: She was specifically introduced to address the lack of a positive female gargoyle in the main cast.
• All-Loving Heroine: Angela truly believes that gargoyles and humans can co-exist peacefully together, a belief that she says came from the fact that she was raised by humans.
• Badass Adorable: Cute, sweet, and naïve, but can kick ass with the best of them.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She is one of the very few female gargoyles that averts this in the show proper, covering her midriff despite being gentle and feminine (probably to provide a contrast between her and her psychotic mother Demona) - but then plays it straight in the comics.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Angela is the sweetest and gentlest of the Clan, but she's as fierce a warrior as any of them.
• Brainy Brunette: She's highly intelligent.
• Calling the Old Woman Out: In "The Reckoning", Angela is furious when Thailog reveals that Demona already knew she's her daughter and had attempted to try and sway Angela to her way of thinking. She does not accept Demona's excuse of "trying to make her understand", as all she sees is nothing more than a ploy to turn her against Goliath and the Clan for her own selfishness.
  Angela: You are capable of anything. I HATE you.
• Cute Monster Girl: Very attractive, especially by gargoyle standards.
• Deadpan Snarker: Often has a dry remark handy.
• Dude Magnet: She's an attractive female Gargoyle, which is no wonder why Brooklyn, Broadway, and Lexington became more than infatuated by her. To be fair, Angela's the first female Gargoyle the three laid eyes on in a long time who wasn't Demona.
• Happily Adopted: Like the Avalon Clan, she was raised by the Magus, Katharine, and Tom, and loves them all.
• Head-Turning Beauty: When you're the only female of their species within a few-thousand-mile radius (who isn't a genocidal ex-wife...) you're going to get a lot of appreciative looks.
• The Heart: Definitely the most naïve and least worldly of the cast, and also the most confident that humans and gargoyles can co-exist peacefully.
• It Runs in the Family: Goliath's fears that Demona's hatred and paranoia will affect Angela's personality, but it is ultimately subverted.
• Meaningful Name: Just happens to have a karmically opposite name to Demona. The Magus, Katharine, and Tom couldn't have known that Macbeth had given Demona her name eighteen years prior.
• Morality Pet: Angela is the only character in the entire series that Demona wholeheartedly cares for; Goliath even lampshades that Demona's love for her only daughter is the first sign that Demona is capable of redemption.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her tunic in the cartoon series was simply cut and not revealing. The one in the comics, on the other hand, has a slit in the middle that goes down to her exposed midriff.
• Nice Girl: Angela is caring, brave, and open-minded.
• Raised by Humans: Angela, alongside the rest of her rookery-siblings, was raised by a small group of humans in Avalon for most of her life before she encountered the surviving Manhattan Clan. This gave her a greater trust and relation to humans than most other gargoyles.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Her white mini-dress is a lot less revealing that Demona's, who wears a midriff-baring top and a Loincloth. This is to make Angela look like a "good girl" contrasted by Demona's "bad girl".
• Shipper on Deck: Word of God is she's rooting for Goliath and Elisa to hook up. Being raised by humans, she sees nothing wrong with it. invoked
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Angela ultimately chose Broadway, as he saw her as the person she was, rather than simply an object to be won.
• Sixth Ranger: She joined the Manhattan clan well after the start of the series.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She is clearly the child of Demona and Goliath — she is the spitting image of her mother (sans the perpetual expression of cynicism), and her hair and skin coloration match her father. Elisa notices this immediately, quickly deducing that Angela is Goliath and Demona's daughter.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Broadway isn't exactly ugly, but is certainly less attractive than the other members of his clan, to the point that he looks kinda goofy or buffoonish, which, combined with Angela's hotness qualifies them for this trope.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Goliath is her biological father (as much as he says it doesn't matter) and she really wants to make him proud of her.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: The exact opposite of her mother concerning views on humans. "I was raised by humans. There's no reason we can't all live in harmony."

Joined in the comic continuation

Coldstone

"There are forces at war within me, and until that battle is decided, no living gargoyle is safe...from Coldstone."

Voiced by: Michael Dorn (EN)

Voiced by: Michele Gammino (IT)

A gargoyle cyborg created by Xanatos and Demona from the remains of three of the lost in the Wyvern massacre, and animated by a combination of science and sorcery. Unfortunately, the three souls inhabiting the body don't always get along; two are mates, but the third is jealous and wants the female for himself. They were collectively known as just "Coldstone" until near the end of the series, when Xanatos created two additional robot bodies so each of the three had their own; now the main personality is Coldstone, his mate is Coldfire, and the evil one is Coldsteel.

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• All There in the Script: Before being separated and given their "Cold_____" names, the scripts referred to the individual gargoyles as Othello, Desdemona and Iago. Being traditional gargoyles, these aren't names they ever actually used, just ease of reference for the scripts.
• Arm Cannon: A laser built into his right arm that appears to be the same sort of technology as the Steel Clan.
• Back from the Dead: One of the many casualties of the Wyvern massacre, then brought back a thousand years later through Demona's sorcery into the Coldstone amalgamation made with pieces of his shattered body.
• Changed My Mind, Kid: Coldstone and Coldfire officially rejoin the Manhattan Clan at the end of the SLG comic continuity.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Coldstone/Othello isn't a bad guy, but he certainly has his flaws, being quick to anger and at times, needing a push to do the right thing, such as in "High Noon", where Desdemona and the Weird Sisters had to convince him to intervene and remove their body from Iago's control. He also distrusts humans enough that, while he cares for his clan, he is willing to act as The Mole for Demona's latest scheme after witnessing the events of Goliath's trial.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Not in reference to Othello'spersonality, but when Iago is in control, Coldstone's voice doesn't change its timbre but it is more sinister sounding.
• Frankenstein's Monster: The circumstances of his creation by Xanatos and Demona are very similar to the monster in the classic story. Xanatos even uses the classic "It's Alive!" line when Coldstone is first brought online.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: When Coldstone is afflicted with a virus that awakens his other two (previously) dormant personalities, Coldfire acts as his good shoulder angel while Coldsteel acts as his evil shoulder angel.
• Healing Factor: Coldsteel's new body is shown being able to self-repair parts of its body.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Iago's corrupting presence kept Coldstone at arms' length from the rest of the clan for much of the series as an untrustworthy Wild Card until the personas were finally separated. His experiences and cynicism also cause him to pledge his loyalty to Demona in the aftermath of the mob battle and Goliath's trial despite initially rejecting her stance on humans, albeit maintaining the interest of the Clan's safety.
• Hollywood Cyborg: To the point where one leg has a length of cybernetics connecting his calf to his ankle.
• Hot-Blooded: Othello/Coldstone.
• Living Statue: He is a collection of three shattered gargoyles brought to life through Demona's sorcery. In her words, "cold stone brought to life".
• Mind Hive: When he, Iago, and Desdemona were sharing the same body.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He's an undead cybernetic stone gargoyle with multiple personalities.
• Phlebotinum Rebel: He turned on Xanatos and Demona when he realized that there should be more to life than mere survival.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
• Theme Naming: Coldstone's name was a Line-of-Sight Name from Demona's description of him. Xanatos created two new robot bodies for the gargoyles trapped in the Mind Hive and dubbed them Coldsteel and Coldfire to keep a theme.
• Unknown Relative: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point. When Angela first meets him and points out that Gabriel is clearly his biological son, he noticeably doesn't get the point of the term "biological", and later when remarking on how he can't risk his evil brother taking control and harming his children, he is looking at Angela, showing he considers her just as much one of his rookery children as he would Gabriel should they ever meet.

Coldfire

"To do nothing is not the gargoyle way."

Voiced by (EN): C.C.H. Pounder

Voiced by (IT): Stefanella Marrama

Othello's mate, whose spirit was trapped inside the cyborg body of Coldstone, until she was transferred and subsequently housed inside the robotic body constructed by Xanatos dubbed "Coldfire".

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• All There in the Script: Before being separated and inhabiting her new robotic body with the name Coldfire, the scripts referred to her as Desdemona. Being traditional gargoyles, the name Desdemona wasn't a name she ever actually used, just ease of reference for the scripts.
• Back from the Dead: One of the many casualties of the Wyvern massacre, then brought back a thousand years later through Demona's sorcery, due to pieces of her shattered body being incorporated into the Coldstone amalgamation, and later transferred to her own robot body as Coldfire. In one issue of the Dynamite comics she notes that she has no memory of what may have happened to her soul in the millennium in-between, musing that perhaps such knowledge is not permitted in the world of the living.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Zig-zagged. Coldfire/Desdemona is a female gargoyle who gets little characterization beyond being Coldstone's Love Interest, and true to female gargoyle fashion, she wears a midriff-baring outfit in her non-cybernetic form (which in her case looks like a Chainmail Bikini).
• Changed My Mind, Kid: She and Coldstone officially rejoin the Manhattan Clan at the end of the SLG comics continuity.
• Healing Factor: As with Coldstone and Coldsteel, her new body is shown being able to self-repair parts of its body using nanotechnology.
• Playing with Fire: Coldfire's flamethrowers, hence her name.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the Blue for her mate Coldstone's Red.
• Religious Bruiser: Is just as much a trained warrior as any in the clan, but in the tenth century was also interested in following the gargoyles' spiritual traditions as a "warrior-priestess". In the present, she is more introspective than her mate about the nature of their current status as souls trapped in artificial bodies, musing on what may have happened in the time between when they were killed and brought back.
• Theme Naming: Coldstone's name was a Line-of-Sight Name from Demona's description of him. Xanatos created two new robot bodies for the gargoyles trapped in the Mind Hive and dubbed them Coldsteel and Coldfire to keep a theme.
• Unknown Relative: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point.

Katana

"I would accept the name—but would not allow it to define me."

Brooklyn's mate, hailing from the Ishimura Clan during the Edo Period.

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• Action Girl: Like all gargoyles of her clan, she's trained in Bushido, which includes the practice of martial arts.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Greg stated that in Katana and Brooklyn's early relationship there would "be conflict," and then mentioned Benedick and Beatrice.invoked
• Cute Monster Girl: An obviously good-looking gargoyle with her beak at just the right size for feminine cuteness.
• Dual Wielding: A katana and wakizashi combo.
• Jidaigeki: From the Edo period, actually.
• Katanas Are Just Better: She wields a katana as her main weapon along with a wakizashi in her off-hand.
• Late to the Punchline: Justified, both in that English is not her first language and that names are not a gargoyle tradition so she likely gave little thought to Brooklyn's choice, but the pun of naming their second egg "Egwardo" goes completely over her head for years. It's only after joining her mate's clan and Broadway expressing concern about the name that she realizes something's up.
  Broadway: Are you really naming the baby "EGG-wardo"?
  Katana: Why? Is there a problem with the name? Brooklyn, does it carry some significance in your tongue I am unaware of?
  Brooklyn: Uh, don't sweat it, Katana... It's just a place-holder 'til the kid hatches and we get a feel for her or him.
  Katana: (glares) It's a joke name, isn't it?
• Mama Bear: In her first appearance, when Angela asked to hold her egg, she seemed at least hesitant. In the first issue of the 2022 comic book series, she and others return from patrol moments before the sun comes up and she immediately insists to Brooklyn on checking on their egg in the rookery before stone sleep catches them. In the 2023 Halloween special, she is very concerned about Gnash going trick-or-treating on his own and sends Bronx and Fu-Dog to tail him, then when Castaway surprises Gnash and is about to strike him with his hammer, Katana puts a swift and firm stop to his attempt, bringing Castaway to his knees.
• Paper Fan of Doom: Some fans are stored on her belt.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue, black-haired gargoyle to Brooklyn's red, white-haired coloration. Given the nature of their relationship, it would be logical to assume the metaphor extended to their personalities as well, with Katana being cool and patient to Brooklyn's more hot-headed nature.
• They Call Him "Sword": Female example. Her name is Katana and she uses a katana.
• Tranquil Fury: In the Halloween special, Castaway, who was previously struggling to fight Gnash, takes the youthful gargoyle by surprise and is about to strike him with his hammer. Katana shows up out of nowhere, grabs Castaway's wrist and squeezes hard, making the hunter cry in pain, drop his hammer and fall to his knees, and notably, she's absolutely silent and stoic as she does this.
• Tsundere: This could be inferred from Word of God's description of her Belligerent Sexual Tension with her mate.invoked

Nashville

"I've been on a pirate ship and a flying saucer, but never a subway car."

Brooklyn and Katana's son.

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• A Day in the Limelight: Gnash is the protagonist of the Dynamite Halloween special.
• Birds of a Feather: In issue #2 of the 2022 comic, he quickly bonds with Hudson when he asks if they can watch Celebrity Hockey together, as that is Hudson's favorite show.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Spends most of his time during the early Dynamite comics being a surly brat with a bad attitude. It makes sense when one realizes he's the only gargoyle his age in Manhattan, has no friends to hang out with, and his parents won't even let him go out on patrol. When he gets to go out on Halloween and meets human children who are roughly about his age that he gets to hang out with, his attitude improves considerably.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Both played straight and sort of subverted in the Halloween special; while he does of course pass off his gargoyle nature as a very realistic costume, he specifically dresses as Blackbeard, and corrects anyone who identifies his costume as "Blackbeard as a gargoyle" because (he claims in a way that implies the knowledge comes first-hand) Blackbeard was a gargoyle.
• In-Series Nickname: Prefers to be called Gnash, "with a silent G!".
• Interspecies Friendship: In the Halloween special, Gnash meets Terry Chung and Billy and Susan Greene while out trick-or-treating, as they compliment his "costume" and he then sticks around with them during the evening. It doesn't take long for them to find out that Gnash is an actual gargoyle, and they happily welcome him as a new friend.
• Location Theme Naming: Like his dad, Gnash is named after a place. Issue #6 of the 2022 comic hints that the source of the name is the USS Nashville, possibly the location where his egg was laid during the Timedance.
• Older Than They Look: Due to the gargoyle aging process, he is 20, but is physically and mentally around the equivalent of a 10-year-old human.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite being a child, Gnash is still a gargoyle, and thus much stronger than the average human. Alongside Bronx and Fu-Dog, Gnash wipes the floor with the Quarrymen (though most were foolishly not expecting gargoyles to actually fight back) and he more than holds his own against John Castaway, a trained gargoyle hunter.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Inherited Katana's hair and skin color, and Brooklyn's horns, beak, and hairstyle.

Fu-Dog

Brooklyn's gargoyle beast, picked up from the Xanadu Clan in Ancient China.

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• Berserk Button: As shown in issue #2 of the 2022 comic, Fu-Dog is fiercely protective of Egwardo and instantly becomes threatening when anyone approaches the egg, with the exception of Brooklyn and his family, and fellow guard Bronx. Twice must Katana calm him down by stating that the people who approached the egg (Broadway and Coldfire) are part of the clan.
• Friend to All Children: A trait he shares with Bronx. Fu-Dog is very protective towards young Gnash and his still unhatched sibling, and immediately gets along swimmingly with Gnash's new human friends.
• Meaningful Name: Fu-dogs or fu-lions are protective statues in China.
• Team Pet: He has the same role as Bronx in Brooklyn's family.
• Undying Loyalty: To Brooklyn.

Tachi

Gnash's little sister, still an egg in the graphic novel (nicknamed "Egwardo"); due to hatch in 1998.

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• Family Theme Naming: Like her mom, Tachi is named after a type of Japanese sword.

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The Tenth Century Wyvern Clan

Verity

Hudson's mate, a wise soul whose counsel he often sought.

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• All There in the Manual: "Verity" is her nickname in the script, not a name she actually used. It's a reference to her penchant for speaking truths, which her mate refers to in-universe as verities.
• Call-Forward: When advising Hudson/Mentor to ally with Prince Malcolm, she says that "human problems often become gargoyle problems", a maxim Goliath will repeat in "M.I.A."
• Foregone Conclusion: Hudson was already a widower in the Middle Ages portion of the pilot, so his mate must have died at some point prior to that.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced in the first issue of the Dark Ages spin-off, and killed in battle in the second.

Lefty

A one-armed gargoyle who served as Hudson's second-in-command before Goliath.

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• All There in the Manual: "Lefty" is his nickname in the script, not a name he actually used. It's a reference to only his left arm remaining.
• An Arm and a Leg: At some point prior to 971 A.D., "Lefty" lost his right arm. A comment he makes in the first issue of Dark Ages implies it happened when someone came upon him during stone sleep.
• Dissonant Laughter: When diving into the fray against Culen's forces he lets out a loud laugh (not unlike what another blue-skinned, red-haired gargoyle would often be known to do).
• Unknown Relative: By Word of God, he is Demona's biological older brother, whom he resembles, though as gargoyles they don't know or care about this.invoked

Hyppolyta

Goliath and Demona's headstrong rookery sister.

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• All There in the Manual: "Hyppolyta" is her nickname in the script, not a name she actually used.
• The Berserker: Her combat style. Lefty even specifically name-drops this trope in regards to her.
• Blood Knight: Very eager to take part in battle, so much so that she flagrantly defies Hudson's order for her and her rookery siblings to stay out of the battle with Culen's forces in case things went badly, convincing Demona to join her, and clearly relishes the combat once she swoops in.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: In Dark Ages she is 33 - the gargoyle equivalent of a 16-year-old human - and is openly resentful and defiant when the clan leader (who is both one of her rookery fathers and her biological father, though only the former matters in gargoyle culture) gives her orders she doesn't like.
• Sibling Rivalry: Most of her interactions with her rookery siblings involve her antagonizing them in some way, and she seems to have a particular disdain for Goliath.
• Unknown Relative: By Word of God, she is the eldest biological child of Hudson and Verity (she has inherited Hudson's skin color and Verity's hairlessness) and biological sister of Broadway and True, though as gargoyles they don't know or care about this fact. Hudson, Verity and the other Wyvern gargoyles of their generation consider Hyppolyta and all the others of her generation their rookery children regardless of blood relation.invoked

Antiope

The Trio's rookery sister who hangs out with them.

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• In-Series Nickname: Unlike most of the other 10th century gargoyle characters whose nicknames are All in the Manual, "Antiope" is actually used in-universe as the name Robbie's daughter Alesand assigns to her for the benefit of her human need to have names to refer to her new friends by. It's unknown yet if the gargoyle herself ever used it.
• Interspecies Friendship: Alesand quickly befriends Antiope and the Trio, and calls the former in particular her new best friend.

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