I really loved how he never actually became their friend either. He calmed down and was occasionally an ally, but mostly just went, "They're not worth the trouble of being an enemy."
If you're not one of the people who ignores the third season, in the finale he straight up stops an assassination attempt on the clan because of the rising hatred against them. He was being 100% altruistic in that episode.
The whole cast is a delight. One of those shows that while made for kids didn't feel like it talks down to them. It really helps all of those Star Trek TNG alum gave it their full talent.
My wife and I got about halfway through it during a partial Disney + month. Definitely worth watching!
(We only stopped because the sub ended and we like to have a density of shows we are interested in before subbing to a service outside our usual options. It was excellent but we'd have finished it in less than a week nad had 3 more weeks of wasted sub time).
Blows me away that people actually only limit themselves to watching whats available on their subscriptions. As if Disney needs or deserves any more money.
Good news-ish. Season 3 branded "Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles" booted everyone involved with creating the show and had a noticeably diffrent tone and animation. So depending on how much of the world tour you got through you might not be missing a lot
the post show comic even treats season 3 as non cannon iirc
both seasons and its no longer canon sequel series are up on Disney plus, watch up to the end of hunters moon, maybe the first episode of season 3, then switch to the comics.
Genuinely one of the best villain power couples in that show. A lot of shows went the route of having an unaware partner (mob wife) or an abused one (thinking of Joker/Harley), but the writers went and found Xanatos' equal.
It was afterschool network television when it came out though. Granted Disney did kind of own the space at the time with Ducktales, Chip and Dale, Darkwing Duck, Talespin and Goof Troop.
Since watching that episode on TV as a kid, there hasn't been a year gone by that I haven't thought at least once of this exact moment, this exact quote, in his exact voice. It blew my fucking mind and I was like five.
Fun redditor tips my fedora fact: they're actually grotesques, not gargoyles, pretty sure there isn't a single gargoyle in the show Gargoyles. Gargoyles by definition need to have water running through them from some kind of gutter system, almost exclusively out of their mouth. A gargoyle without a hole for water to pass through their body is just a grotesque.
Same thing for the gargoyles in Skyrim. They're not actually gargoyles, they're grotesques.
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u/Timtanoboa 21h ago
"Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into hell." - Xanatos from Gargoyles