The essential episodes of Gargoyles
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Gargoyles — each pick states its reason.
- 01
In 994, a band of Vikings attack castle Wyvern in Scotland, but are driven back by the gargoyles protecting it. While retreating, they vow revenge... and someone in the castle may just want to help them with that.
- 02
Goliath returns to the castle to find all but a handful of his clan destroyed, and the humans abducted. The gargoyles defeat the Vikings and rescue the captives, but a tragic misunderstanding leaves them cursed to remain stone statues day and night... until a rich 20th century businessman takes an interest in them.
- 03
Not satisfied with Xanatos's explanation for the strange happenings around his tower, Detective Maza decides to take a look around the castle by herself. Xanatos wants the Gargoyles help in retrieving some stolen data.
- 04
Broadway accidentally shoots Elisa with her gun. Wracked with guilt, he takes her to the hospital and then goes off on his own to take his frustration out on an criminal he can find. When the others hear, they assume it was the work of a gangster Elisa was investigating, and set out to take him down - permanently.
- 05
Concluding that science and sorcery alone are not enough to stop the gargoyles, Demona and Xanatos try to combine them. Employing a mixture of rubble from gargoyles destroyed at Castle Wyvern in 994 AD and Xanatos' cybernetics, they create and awaken Coldstone.
- 06
Someone is taking people off the street and turning them into gargoyle-like creatures. Unsurprisingly, the trail leads to leads to one of Xanatos's labs and the noted geneticist, Anton Sevarius.
- 07
Demona steals a magical mirror to summon an elf named Puck. She forces him to use his magic against Goliath and the humans. However, the result is not quite what she had in mind...
- 08
Matt Bluestone disappears while looking into his pet obsession - the Illuminati. When Elisa investigates, Broadway insists on tagging along.
- 09
Xanatos and Fox are getting married, and the groom asks Goliath to be his best man. Unsurprisingly, it turns out to be another of Xanatos's schemes, this time to obtain an piece of an artifact Goliath has - the Phoenix Gate, capable of opening doorways through time.
- 10
Tommy, the boy Goliath and his clan befriended 1000 years ago, arrives in Manhattan. He needs help in Avalon. Goliath, Elisa, and Bronx go with him to help and see what happened to the Gargoyle eggs.
- 11
Goliath and Elisa meet with Katherine and the Mage. Under attack from the Archmage, Demona, Macbeth, and 3 of Auberon's children, Elisa knows they'll need more allies in the up coming fight. She goes to wake a human who has been on the island for a long time.
- 12
With the Archmage's millennia-spanning plot nearing completion, Goliath decides they must try to recapture one of the items that gives the magician his power. Meanwhile, Elisa and the Magus investigate the legend of the sleeping King - Arthur Pendragon.
- 13
After learning that the Clan survived the destruction of the clock tower, the Hunters expose their existence to the public while Demona prepares her masterplan to exterminate humanity.
- 14
Anti-gargoyle group, The Quarrymen organizes to rid Manhattan of gargoyles.
- 15
The gargoyles are blamed for damage done by the Quarrymen.
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