
Gargoyles is an American animated series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Buena Vista Television, and originally aired from October 24, 1994 to February 15, 1997. The series features a species of nocturnal creatures known as gargoyles that turn to stone during the day. After spending a thousand years in an enchantedly petrified state, the gargoyles (who have been transported from medieval Scotland) are reawakened in modern-day New York City, and take on roles as the city's secret night-time protectors.
Gargoyles was noted for its relatively dark tone, complex story arcs, and melodrama; character arcs were heavily employed throughout the series, as were Shakespearean themes. The series also received favorable comparisons to Batman: The Animated Series. A video game adaptation and a spin-off comic series were released in 1995. The show's storyline continued from 2006 to 2009 in a comic book series of the same title, produced by Slave Labor Graphics.
The series features a species of nocturnal creatures known as gargoyles that turn to stone during the day, focusing on a clan led by Goliath. In the year 994, the clan lives in a castle in Scotland. Most are betrayed and killed by humans and the remainder are magically cursed to sleep—i.e., be frozen in stone form—until the castle "rises above the clouds." A millennium later, in 1994, billionaire David Xanatos purchases the gargoyles' castle and has it reconstructed atop his New York skyscraper, the Eyrie Building, thus awakening Goliath and the remainder of his clan. While trying to adjust to their new world, they are aided by a sympathetic female police officer, Elisa Maza, and quickly come into conflict with the plotting Xanatos. In addition to dealing with the gargoyles' attempts to adjust to modern New York City, the series also incorporated various supernatural threats to their safety and to the world at large.
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Goliath | Keith David | MarioSauret | Taiten Kusunoki | Maurício Berger | Thomas Fritsch | Benoît Allemane | Alessandro Rossi | Vladimir Gerasimov | Pablo Adán | Valeriy Kukhareshin | Chén MíngYáng | Ami Mandelman | ||||
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Brooklyn | Jeff Bennett | Herman López | Yasuyuki Kase | Alexandre Moreno | Uwe Büschken | Philippe Peythieu | Marco Mete | JuanAntonio Arroyo | ||||||||
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Lexington | ThomAdcox Hernandez | Carlos Íñigo | Masayuki Kato | |||||||||||||
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Broadway | Bill Fagerbakke | Gérard Surugue | Momi Levy | |||||||||||||
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Hudson | Ed Asner | Esteban Siller | Domício Costa | Juan FernándezMejías | ||||||||||||
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Bronx | Frank Welker | |||||||||||||||
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Angela | Brigitte Bako | MaríaFernanda Morales | Junko Takeuchi | Valérie Karsenti | Barbara DeBortoli | Orna Katz | ||||||||||
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Demona | Marina Sirtis | Rocío Garcel | Marie Vincent | Olga Golovanova | Lillian Barreto | |||||||||||
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Elisa Maza | Salli Richardson | Dulce Guerrero | Magali Barney | Rossella Acerbo | Olga Golovanova |
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