Goliath (Gargoyles)

> "*We are defenders of the night. We are gargoyles!*"
> ― Goliath
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**Goliath** is the protagonist of the 1994 animated series "Gargoyles."

## Background

Goliath was born into a clan of gargoyles in 938 AD. He was named by the king of Castle Wyvern, King Malcolm. Although the princess, Katharine, thought the name belonged to a beast as it referred to the biblical character of the same name, Goliath was known to not be savage. Goliath later settled down and mated with another gargoyle who he called his angel of the night. When his gargoyle mate began to conceive a plan against the humans who did not respect their kind, Goliath and his mentor were sent out on a mission as the sun began to rise. When Goliath returned to his castle, he believed his entire clan had been smashed to pieces. Goliath brought the survivors along to a raid against the vikings he believed were responsible. He rescued the princess, but the viking leader and the captain of the guard Goliath's mate conspired with fell to their deaths. When a grief-stricken magus mistakenly believed the princess died, he cursed the remaining clan members to turn to stone. When Goliath discovered this, he was distraught and asked the magus to turn him to stone as well to join his brothers in solitude.

Approximately one thousand years later, playboy billionaire David Xanatos heard of the superstitious tales surrounding the Castle Wyvern. He paid a great deal to purchase the castle himself. The terms of the spell were that the gargoyles would be free of their permanent stone sleep if the castle made it above the clouds. David Xanatos took the castle and had it perched atop his skyscraper, where the spell began to break. Goliath and his brothers lived again. However, the gargoyles would soon discover that David Xanatos had ulterior motives and rebelled against him. Upon meeting with Elisa Maza, a police officer in Manhattan, they decided to free themselves of Xanatos and defend Manhattan.

## Stats

**Attack Potency:** **Building Level** (Slammed a steel clan gargoyle into a wall and made it explode, generally slices metal apart easily)

**Speed:** **Supersonic** (Faster than a WWII era biplane. Faster than his mentor Hudson, who avoided bullets in the sewer. Outran Matrix, who was originally going to spread and assimilate the entire world in about a day. Avoided the Archmage's electricity)

**Durability:** **Building Level** (Took an anti-aircraft missile with little injury. Survived getting blown up by a landmine that took out chunks of a building. Took Coldstone's laser, capable of this much damage)

**Hax:** Limited **Flight**, Limited **Regeneration**, Resistance to **Electricity Manipulation** (Has survived tasers and cut power lines), **Mind Manipulation** (Snapped out of some spells, but Greg Weisman claims whether Goliath could resist such magic regularly is a case-by-case situation)

**Intelligence:** **Above Average** (Regularly reads and has fought in numerous wars, outsmarted Oberon)

**Stamina:** **High** (Capable of fighting as long as the sun is down, but losing sunlight during stone sleep is like missing a meal)

## Powers, Techniques, and Equipment

### Powers

* **Superhuman Physical Characteristics**
* **Enhanced Senses**
* **Self-Sustenance**: Does not require air. Feeds off of sunlight.
* **Flight**: Seems to be capable of flight including ascent, but requires a high place to take off.
* **Regeneration**: Can regenerate with stone sleep, but seems to be incapable of healing severe wounds such as missing limbs.

## Minor Feats

### Attack Potency/Strength

* Threw a werewolf into a steel garage door and dented it
* Throws two of the Pack through a brick wall
* Fought off multiple assailants after being tranquilized
* Lifted a solid rock gargoyle and threw it
* Broke through a security cell and destroyed two robots with the bars

### Speed/Reactions

* Outflew a WWII biplane
* Avoided electricity from the Archmage
* Caught up to a jet after its takeoff
* Has numerous instances of dodging lasers

### Durability/Endurance

* Fought off multiple assailants while being tranquilized
* Survived hits from Wolf where he was thrown dozens of floors upward
* Took a grenade
* Survived lasers from Xanatos' brand, which can destroy rocks
	+ Coldstone destroyed a bank lock door

### Skill/Intelligence

* Outsmarted Oberon
* Took out multiple assailants after being tranquilized
* Fought in multiple wars, including those between other castles as well as WWII
* Quickly learned to read and is the most frequent reader of the gargoyles
* Foiled numerous plans of David Xanatos, who apparently has plans lettered A through Z

## Weaknesses

* Requires solar energy to function
* Cannot operate during the day
* Often becomes enraged and loses control if loved ones are in danger