Gordon

"We just have to believe!"

- **Gordon** to Ryan in A New Beginning

****Gordon**** is a big blue express engine on the North Western Railway. He is one of the main protagonists of The Sudric Legends.

## History

**Gordon** has lived and worked on the Island of Sodor for many years. He takes the express from Knapford to Vicarstown.

## Role in Plot

### Magic Railroad Arc

Due to a bridge out, **Gordon** ended up falling down a ravine and meeting Ryan. The two disliked each other at first during their many hours of being stuck. **Gordon** eventually went insane, or at least Ryan thought so, as **Gordon** claimed that he could magically rerail himself. **Gordon** wasn't insane as it turns out, and the two managed to escape the ravine. They located the Magic Buffers where Ryan was reluctant to enter, but **Gordon** was too excited and ran in, shoving Ryan in too.

During their adventures the two grew closer, due to their relationship with a new friend: Defect. After the latter's death, **Gordon** and Ryan were inspired to avenge him and they did so by defeating King Lowercase. After the chaos was over and the two were back on Sodor, they fixed up an old shed to live together in with Ninja Buddy.

### The Great Filler Race

**Gordon** participates in the race, but unfortunately derails at the finish line, losing the race, he is later seen outside Toby's Disco Shed with the other losers.

### Unwanted Guests Arc

After returning from the Great Railway Show in England, **Gordon** enters Ryan's shed, with steam spewing from his streamlining and hissing loudly, he tosses the broken shell across the room. He and Ryan then head out to take their rubbish to the dump, the streamlined shell being among it.

At the dump, **Gordon** tries to bury Ninja Buddy, but Ryan notices and stops him, the trio eventually return to the shed to find a note for them simply reading "Meet me at the container yard". They set off to see what's waiting for them there. When they arrive, the group is knocked out by gas from a decoy lemonade tanker.

**Gordon** and Ryan wake up in a prison cell together, a diesel then leads them to meet Duck, the top hat wearing psycho offers to give them anything they want in return for letting him keep Ninja Buddy to experiment on him. Ryan opts to throw dynamite at him, blow up the facility and save the mini, **Gordon** loses his tender in the explosion but quickly gets it back when it hits Ryan in the head.

As the group try to leave, they are ambushed by an enraged Duck, Ryan pulls out the mini cannon and fires Ninja Buddy at him, but it does nothing, Duck and Ryan charge at each other with their swords, but before they can start the fight, **Gordon** interrupts them opting instead to offer the mad scientist a deal.

The group shows Duck to the magic buffers, as the pannier monologues, Ryan shoves him into the buffers. Duck eventually comes to the shed, but he has now been reduced to a weak little mini, Ryan is amused by this and **Gordon** is annoyed that the engine who kidnapped and tried to kill him is now a resident.

A few days later, Ryan remodels their shed and gives **Gordon** a tour. Moments later, the Culdee Fell engines arrive, wanting to stay in the vacancy rooms. Once they entered the shed, **Gordon** asks what their story is, and the engines tell him. Ryan and **Gordon** allow them to stay, but moments later the Culdee Fell engines begin destroying the house, so **Gordon** and Ryan decide that they need to get rid of them.

Ryan wakes **Gordon** up early one morning and they plot for hours on how to get rid of their guests, but neither can come up with any good ideas. The next day, Ryan tries to calm **Gordon** down, but nearly gets shot by Godred when he goes to get the mail. After this, Ryan takes a train to the waste dump after a dispute with **Gordon**, who was left alone with the purple freaks. While Ryan is gone, **Gordon** heads to the Blue Mountain Quarry. Skarloey arrives and teases **Gordon**, asking if he was there because the express was cancelled, but **Gordon** told him he was there for another reason. **Gordon** asks if he could see a new machine that was at the quarry, but Skarloey angrily tells him no. **Gordon** then decides to ask someone more naive and his chance comes when Peter Sam puffs into view. **Gordon** mentally prepares himself, takes a deep breath, and then races over to Peter Sam, crying about how he couldn't see the new machine. He is curious about the new machine, but Skarloey yelled at him and told him to get lost! Peter Sam sympathizes with **Gordon** and leads him to the machine, as long as **Gordon** doesn't tell anyone he did it. Once they arrive at the drilling site, Peter Sam explains that the new machine is a type of Laser Drill, which intrigues **Gordon**.

**Gordon** returns home and a furious Ryan asks where he was, but **Gordon** says that he has made a magnificent discovery. **Gordon** tells the confused tank engine to follow him outside and the Culdee Fell engines wonder why. Ernest assumes it is some "homo shit" but it is actually a "truck with a giant fucking tumour on it", as Ryan puts it. **Gordon** has the laser drill positioned on a turntable and uncouples himself from his tender to demonstrate how the machine works. **Gordon** claims that it will be the solution to all of their problems as he fires up the machine. Ryan is sceptical, but the machine works well, so well that it sends **Gordon** flying backwards and knocks Ryan, as well as several trees, onto the ground. After he gets up, **Gordon** surveys the large hole in a brick wall that the machine had made and laughs hysterically. Ryan tells him to get rid of it, but **Gordon** spins around on the turntable and asks Ryan if he wants to try. The latter doesn't want the weapon pointed at him and backs away, but **Gordon** says it would be able to get rid of the purple weirdos once and for all. Ryan then leaves to get ready to go to the store, threatening **Gordon** that he'd better run if he came back and the machine was still there. **Gordon** is relieved that Ryan has left, because now he doesn't have to explain to Ryan that the machine broke as soon as it fired.

Ryan takes the Culdee Fell engines to the Vicarstown Shopping District while **Gordon** stays back at the shed and struggles to remove Shane Dooiney from a tall ledge. The mountain engine sobs and says he will stay there until he dies, but **Gordon** threatens to cut him into little strips and put him through a paper shredder. Ryan casually returns and **Gordon** asks him why it took so long, which leads to Ryan yelling at him about a supposed earthquake. Ernest diffuses the situation by proudly presenting four vans carrying Gordon's time of the month cheese. Everyone is confused, but Ryan has some good news. However, he is cut off by Eric. The latter arrives with an important announcement and informs the other mountain engines that they had been staying in Gordon and Ryan's Shed in the presence of a great danger. Eric refers to it as a wretched beast, which upsets **Gordon**, telling him not to talk about Greg like that. Ryan jumps back in shock as he notices the large red engine next to **Gordon** and asks who he is and when he got there. Greg says he has been there the whole time, and is surprised that Ryan doesn't remember him. Ryan is confused, but quickly gets back to the main conversation and asks what the danger Eric was referring to was. **Gordon** listens to the conversation and then asks Ryan what his good news is and the purple engine says he has finally found a way to get rid of the Culdee Fell engines. **Gordon** pounces on him angrily, thinking it's a joke, but Ryan nervously tells him it isn't and tells Ninja Buddy to go get "the stuff". Ninja Buddy leaves and returns with a truck full of lettuce. Ryan buffers up to it, yells at the purple weirdos, and tells them that if they want it, they can go get it. Ryan shoves the truck through the door in the back of the shed and the Culdee Fell engines, who are now in a primal-instinct-like mode, chase after it. **Gordon** watches in disbelief and says he guesses its over with. He then asks Ryan where the door goes, but the latter tells him it's for him to know and for **Gordon** to hope to god he never finds out.

## Personality

Gordon's important position as the engine who pulls the Express has made him proud, pompous and self-important, with a good reason too; he is the fastest engine on Sodor. He is extremely proud of this and is inclined to boast. He is goodhearted though, always willing to forgive and uses his superior strength to help smaller engines out of trouble.

## Abilities

* **Brute Force** - **Gordon** is very strong and fast and can shove enemies and large objects out of his way.
* **Believing** - If **Gordon** believes hard enough, he can rerail himself after he crashes.

## Equipment

* **Radio** - Gordon has a radio in his cab which he can use to communicate with others. He once used this to communicate with Phill at the Sodor Search and Rescue Centre.
* **Stolen Guns** - In A New World, **Gordon**, Defect and Ryan stole some guns. Though **Gordon** is never seen using them.
* **Smartphone** - **Gordon** has a smartphone that he used to play music.
* **Mini Cannon** - **Gordon** was given the Mini Cannon by Defect. It can contain and launch Minis, mainly Ninja Buddy, at enemies. He never uses it however, He gave the cannon to Ryan.
* **Laser Drill** - **Gordon** took the experimental laser drill from the Blue Mountain Quarry with the intention of using it on the Culdee Fell engines. However, he only ended up using it once, since it broke the second the laser was fired.
* **Reading Glasses** - **Gordon** has a pair of glasses to help him read.

Gordon's radioGordon and Ryan's stolen gunsGordon's smartphoneThe Mini Cannon
## Appearances

### **Episodes**

* **Magic Railroad Arc** - A New Beginning, A New World, Despair and Defect
* **The Great Filler Race**
* **Unwanted Guests Arc** - The Twat in the Hat, Fifty Shades of Purple, Operation #800080 and Gordon
* **South Eastern Railway Arc** - Ryan's New Friend (mentioned)
* **Jīnlóng Training Arc** - TBA

### **Specials**

* **ZERO**
* **Sudric Legends 89**

### **Web Videos**

* **2018** - The Stories
* **2021** - Prepping for the New Year and Valentine Validation

## Trivia

* **Gordon** has poor eyesight, this was first shown in the sixth episode when he needed glasses to read Duck's note.
* In episode 8, it is revealed that **Gordon** has a "time of the month" involving cheese. This is a reference to a time when Reina had briefly become addicted to cheese after eating it for the first time in nearly a decade.
* There is a running gag in the series which focuses on having Gordon's tender being forcibly separated from him. Examples include:
	+ The Twat in the Hat: Gordon's tender is separated when Ryan grabs him after throwing some dynamite in Duck's lair. It is then blown towards the two and hits Ryan in the head.
	+ Operation #800080: Gordon's tender is seen hanging from the crane in the shed after he and Ryan spend all night trying to come up with a good way to get rid of the Culdee Fell engines. He later willingly uncouples from his tender so that he can fit on a turntable while using the laser drill.
* **Gordon** received a headlamp in episode 7.
* Two models have been used for **Gordon** in the series so far:
	+ The 2013 Mattel Wooden Railway model.
	+ The 2011 Tomy Wooden Railway model. (Episodes 2, 4 and 6 only)
* Reina made a model of **Gordon** with his streamlined casing. The model is being made with a Connor and Ferdinand's tender with the wood being replaced by coal.