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Gargoyles

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This article is about Gargoyles, the television show. For the stone statues, see Gargoyle.

Gargoyles was the title of a Walt Disney animated series that aired from 1994 to 1997 featuring a clan of six flying creatures that turned to stone by day. Led by the gargoyle Goliath in the year 994, their job was to protect the humans of Castle Wyvern on the coast of Scotland until a Viking massacre killed all the others of their clan and a magic spell trapped them in their stone forms for a millennium. Finally waking up in modern day Manhattan, the gargoyles must adapt to this new world as they protect the citizens of New York (most of whom don't even believe they exist) and face new and old enemies with the help of their new human friend (and possible love interest for Goliath), NYPD detective Elisa Maza.

Gargoyles in medieval times didn’t have names, as it wasn’t their custom. Goliath only had one because it was given to him by the Prince of the castle. In the modern world they find that having names would make things easier for humans (particularly Elisa), so the five choose names from New York landmarks.

The series was known for its very complex plot arcs and surprising amount of serious drama for a Disney cartoon; it is often mentioned alongside The Real Ghostbusters as one of the best American cartoon series ever. Also, a remarkably large number of voice actors for the show had been actors on various Star Trek series.

Table of contents
1 The Gargoyles
2 Episodes
3 Fandom
4 External links

The Gargoyles

Episodes

A total of 78 episodes. Each episode ran 30 minutes per episode including commercials. The 3rd and final season aired on ABC as The Goliath Chronicles, without the involvement of series creator Greg Weisman (except for "The Journey", the first episode of the season); these episodes, "The Journey" apart, are considered inferior in quality by many fans and ignored in much of the fan fiction.

Season 1

  1. Awakening, Part I
  2. Awakening, Part II
  3. Awakening, Part III
  4. Awakening, Part IV
  5. Awakening, Part V
  6. The Thrill of the Hunt
  7. Temptation
  8. Deadly Force
  9. Enter MacBeth
  10. The Edge
  11. Long Way to Morning
  12. Her Brother's Keeper
  13. Reawakening

Season 2

  1. Leader of the Pack
  2. Metamorphosis
  3. Legion
  4. A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
  5. The Mirror
  6. The Silver Falcon
  7. Eye of the Beholder
  8. Vows
  9. City of Stone, Part I
  10. City of Stone, Part II
  11. City of Stone, Part III
  12. City of Stone, Part IV
  13. High Noon
  14. Outfoxed
  15. Revelations
  16. Double Jeopardy
  17. Upgrade
  18. Protection
  19. The Cage
  20. The Price
  21. Avalon, Part I
  22. Avalon, Part II
  23. Avalon, Part III
  24. Shadows of the Past
  25. Heritage
  26. Kingdom
  27. Monsters
  28. Golem
  29. Sanctuary
  30. M.I.A.
  31. Grief
  32. The Hound of Ulster
  33. Walkabout
  34. Mark of the Panther
  35. Pendragon
  36. Eye of the Storm
  37. The New Olympians
  38. The Green
  39. Sentinel
  40. Bushido
  41. Cloud Fathers
  42. Ill Met By Moonlight
  43. Future Tense
  44. The Gathering, Part I
  45. The Gathering, Part II
  46. Vendettas
  47. Turf
  48. The Reckoning
  49. Possession
  50. Hunter's Moon, Part I
  51. Hunter's Moon, Part II
  52. Hunter's Moon, Part III

Season 3 (The Goliath Chronicles)

  1. The Journey
  2. Ransom
  3. Runaways
  4. Broadway Goes Hollywood
  5. A Bronx Tail
  6. The Dying Of The Light
  7. And Justice For All
  8. Genesis Undone
  9. Generations
  10. ...For It May Come True
  11. To Serve Mankind
  12. Seeing Isn't Believing
  13. Angels In The Night

Fandom

In reaction to displeasure with the episodes of Season 3, a group of fans created an ongoing virtual season fan fiction series, The Gargoyles Saga, to continue the franchise along a more desirable direction.

The unusual romantic subtext between between Goliath (a gargoyle) and Elisa (a human) was fodder for quite a bit of discussion on the Internet, particularly about its appropriateness. A later episode of the series, set during Halloween, had the two dancing together in open view with Eliza in the yellow dress of Disney's Belle character.

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