![]() Finally, she became an overambitious bad apple and the only gargoyle to side with Xavier. Later, she was renamed "Dakota" (and swapped the ice cream for Chinese food). She was described as a scaly female Indiana Jones with a weakness for ice cream and a mortal fear of pigeons. A character called Georgette from early memos was promoted from the clan leader's love interest to clan leader. As the comedy treatment progressed, some of the gargoyles began to resemble the gargoyles we know today. ![]() Early documents from the comedy development suggest as many as twelve possible gargoyles, though the number was quickly thinned down to a more manageable cast size. The gargoyles themselves went through a lot of alterations. Aspects of the villainous sorcerer were later used for the Magus and the Archmage (and the idea of an ancestral ghost was used in "Vendettas"). Owen was promoted from sniveling aardvark to Xanatos' right hand man and the epitome of "straight man". Xavier, of course, evolved into David Xanatos. At one point, Xavier had a flunky named Mister Owen who had somehow been turned into an anthropomorphic aardvark. Over the various stabs at the comedy development, Xavier was described first as a lazy, spoiled, rich guy who couldn't handle real work, then as an unscrupulous businessman who partnered with inventor Morgan and profited from her talents until he grew tired of being outshone by her and kicked her out of the company. Now, however, he's stuck as a transparent ghost-like image and has to content himself with ordering his descendant around. Xavier is also a descendant of an ancient sorcerer (named "Sidero", "Xavier of Glint", or the more informal "Sorcy") who battled the gargoyles back in the day. On the villains side, the gargoyles' main foe was Xavier, a guy with very few morals and lots of inherited wealth. The name Morgan was eventually used as well. When the show was reimagined with more of a dramatic focus, Morgan stayed around, eventually became a detective, and was renamed Elisa Maza. She was tasked with teaching the gargoyles about the modern world and keeping them out of trouble. Morgan's day job went from museum curator to inventor to elementary school teacher. One character who persisted through many versions of the comedy development was Morgan, the gargoyles' human friend. However, some of the characters created in this early stage would later evolve into the final characters in the action-adventure series. The comedy development went through several versions before eventually being scrapped in favor of a more serious treatment of the subject matter. Now it's the twentieth century, the gargoyles are awake, and they are ready to party. The jostling from the castle being placed atop the skyscraper is enough to wake the sleeping gargoyles. Then a wealthy businessman moves the castle where the gargoyles are napping to the top of his skyscraper, largely because he can. Since gargoyles turn to stone whenever they fall asleep, they remain stone for the next thousand years. Eventually, the gargoyles are tricked into consuming 1000 year sleeping potion. But unlike the noble protectors of the finalized series, these gargoyles were mischievous troublemakers who frequently drove the local humans nuts. The basic premise remained the same: approximately one thousand years ago, gargoyles were not merely stone statues, but real flesh and blood creatures. Gargoyles was originally pitched as a comedy-adventure series, more in the vein of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, but in the modern world. But the series regulars were considered to be: The series revolved around the adventures of the Manhattan Clan and their human allies, and occasionally, their enemies. Now here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and we live again! Stone by day, warriors by night, we were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect-frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. During the opening title sequence of Gargoyles, clips from the show (many of them from the five-part pilot episode, "Awakening") are set to an instrumental score by Carl Johnson.ĭuring the second season, in order to familiarize new viewers with the show's backstory, Keith David (the voice of Goliath) provided a voice-over that played over the theme tune.
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