Sure, human heroine Elisa Maza was fantastic, but Demona could fly, do magic, was immortal, and her design was just completely awesome.ĭemona’s backstory was revealed slowly over the series, with the answer to how and why she was immortal not coming until the four-episode “City of Stone” arc where we saw in flashback how she struggled both to survive and to overcome her defining character flaw: her failure to take personal responsibility for her actions. All the main good Gargoyles are male until more than halfway into the series, so as a young girl watching the show, I was interested in and rooted for the only female Gargoyle, Demona, in part because didn’t have any other options. For one, Gargoyles does have a Smurfette problem. And sometimes, you understood where they were coming from.ĭemona, in particular, is someone that I personally sympathized with a lot when I watched the series in its initial run on the Disney Afternoon when I was young, and who I still vibe with as I rewatch the series now on Disney+. ![]() They were great not just because most of them were voiced by Star Trek alums, but because they were smart, ruthless and so interesting. Both Demona (voiced by Marina Sirtis) and the other primary antagonist of the series, Xanatos (Johnathan Frakes) were evil in a way that was so much fun to watch and even sometimes root for. ![]() ![]() And the best characters on Gargoyles were the villains.
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