Demona Is Her Own Worst Enemy 

... like trump

@@har8397 Bite your tongue. Demona's nowhere *near* that awful.

@@Gogoglovitch Yeah. Demona was always trying to ensure that her clan would survive. Trump? More like making sure HE survives.

@@har8397 It amazes me how rent free one man can be

The tears tells you in her heart she knows she is wrong but believes it is a matter of survival. The centuries of being hunted and having her mind destroyed.

Zachary Hawley yep her own personal dark nightmare.

She won't. She won't change. 'Cause she can't. She won't, and she can't.

The Story of Gargoyles from 13:30 to 14:10 if she would’ve known the eggs 🥚 were moved to Avalon and the gargoyles wasn’t smashed a castle wavering she would never had a black heart

@@Blueman2018 Maybe or maybe not. Angela did reveal to Demona that Katherine, The Magus, and Tom scurried them to safety where the humans raised her and the other gargoyle children like their own, and Demona dismissed it. She was still beyond furious that her own child was raised by humans, and I don't think Demona would've ever accepted it that a human would've taken in a clan like that. It was always too unthinkable for her. Demona always hated humans and had an immense distrust of them. She wanted to attack Katherine when Katherine openly insulted the clan in their presence and it was only Goliath that held her back. Goliath was the one who was always willing to co-exist with humans, even if it was just for a mutual survival among the races, but Goliath hoped for even better where gargoyles and humans could live together. I'm not sure how Hudson really felt about that prospect but he trusted and understood Goliath's judgment. The "kids" were afraid of humans but didn't really hate them. Demona did and she didn't understand why Goliath was willing to live with humans like this. She only agreed to honor his decision because he was the clan's leader and her love. Demona always had a disdain for humans, so much so she agreed to sack the castle. She was a part of that plan. She didn't go back at sunrise because she didn't even trust that human ally enough. So when the sack went bad and most of the clan was decimated and wiped out, with Goliath and the others trapped in an eternal stone sleep, it shattered whatever good heart she still had. To her, it confirmed every worse thing she ever believed about humans. Refusing to acknowledge her responsibility in what happened. If Demona had known Katherine, the Magus, and Tom were planning on escaping with the eggs to safety, she would've slaughtered them and took the eggs for herself. Where they would be raised to hate humans just as much as she does. And they may have been killed like the rest of Demona's second clan when she turned against MacBeth.

Pity she could not let go of her hatred of humanity. Nearly every threat to the Gargoyles that has risen she inadvertently created all because of her hatred towards mankind.

Aren't there any other villains in the show besides Demona or Xanatos?

​@@canadavatarplenty but theyre the main villans

Sure kid

@@Pottasium92 bruh

Xanathos is the main reason...he spent a fortune importing that castle to Manhattan breaking that sleep curse

+cherrieblossomgurl Indeed, and yet despite all that I can't excuse her. In the end, she did it all to herself.

+GregXB3 exactly!

I actually seem to recall reading somewhere that one of the subplots of the planned final season would have been Demona reluctantly reforming and rejoining her clan in order to be closer to her daughter

Kinda makes sense because in one episode where Goliath, Elisa and Angela went to the future Demona was with the clan.

cherrieblossomgurl That wasn't a real future at all. It was an illusion created by Puck.

The only way they could murder some people and still keep it G to PG

@@EbonFang_92 That is also why Klingon blood was pink in Star Trek The Undiscovered Country, so it could be shown on screen! According to the show, there was other intelligent life such as Minotaur's, I think Centaurs which lived on New Olympus. Demon's operation 'Clean Slate' would have killed them also!

Imagine that lady coming back to life to suddenly not have any arms...like a living nightmare

​@@pwnranger3496imagine waking up and suddenly bleeding to death from your shoulders * shivers *

And then we see the Hunter leap onto the same logic, completing the never ending circle.

John Canmore, who later on became John Castaway said the exact same thing when he shot his brother Jason.

They love their Shakespeare in this show. It makes it

She'd make a great politician

Thats a woman for you.

+Bucket Think Tank-Right. Exactly. Demona is permanently trapped in the tragedy of her own making where she can't even have the "mercy" of death to free her from how much pain she actually has. The immense guilt and trauma that her actions have led to the deaths of far more gargoyles than humans ever have. She can't reconcile that, accept that. She has to believe that what she has done led to something better, even if she has been left with no one and nothing. Where she can't even have a relationship with her daughter because of who she is. Demona hates everyone but she hates herself even more deep down. She can't live with herself and yet, due to the curse, she has to, forever, or until MacBeth finally kills her to release them both from the curse. And she has too much pride to want to die at the hands of a sworn enemy. Demona was always a flawed individual. Self motivated, selfish, willing to butt heads, shirks against authority, and doesn't allow herself to trust anyone, human or gargoyle. She was going to attack Katherine when Katherine openly insulted the gargoyles and would've if Goliath didn't hold her back. She kept on coaxing Goliath to take over from Hudson because she saw him as too old and too unfit for leadership. And she was probably always like that even before Goliath met her. When she knew Goliath and she loved him, where they saw each other as eternal soulmates, it was really Goliath that allowed her to share her heart more to where she was a little bit more compassionate and considerate. And when Goliath was stuck in a permanent stone sleep until the spell was lifted, that was really when Demona lost all of that heart and compassion. Because when Demona went back in time to encourage her younger self to join her in her vengeance, the younger Demona couldn't do it. Even when Demona proved what was going to happen, her younger self refused to join her, because Goliath showed her even the potential of something better. She believed in better with Goliath and was a better individual because of Goliath. It was her love for him once where she was willing to try to be better. But all of that is gone now. Demona is no longer even the woman Goliath loved once. Where she hates even him because she changed. He didn't. He's still a good individual. She is not.

Demona couldn't warn her clan about the Viking attack because it would have exposed her as being part of that plan.

@@Elly3981 Or she could have lied about eavesdropping on the captain about his plan.

@@davidcaldwell4916 True. I guess Demona panicked in the moment and probably didn't think of it.

@@Elly3981 She was always hasty and never thought things through most of the time. Demona thinks she knows best due to living 1000 years walking the Earth, but she learned nothing, she never gained knowledge or wisdom, her growth as a person was stunted long before she became linked with Macbeth.

poor Demona

Dude I have not watch this series in years. I rememberd that password and said it exactly as she said it. One of the most memorable moments of the whole show.

+DawCawAnalyst-This is the only true time I legitimately feel sorry for Demona. And I think it's a too brief glimpse into the "humanity" she actually hides inside. She sacrificed everything for her blood feud with humans, she lost everyone that ever mattered to her. Goliath is very much her heart and with him gone, I think that's a big reason why she became so monstrous. Where she turned even against him-he didn't change. She did. Losing him broke her. It made her lose what compassion and heart she ever did have. She dedicated her life to destroying humans, never even completely trusting MacBeth, her closest human ally, because she always suspected he would turn against her too eventually. And when it looked even remotely like MacBeth did, even though he never did, Demona was willing to severe their alliance completely. Demona can't trust anyone. She loves no one anymore. And her endless need for vengeance has left her with no one and nothing where she is all alone. And deep down, she acknowledges that is all she ever has. This is the one of the only few times in the series she is willing to cry openly. The Weird Sisters only show her, remind her of what she already knows. They probably had their own motivation for doing so, they probably needed to break her enough so they could take over her mind. But they definitely knew where to hit and hit in the heart of what Demona truly knows. What she usually refuses to admit and accept. Because after the spell is lifted, she shrugs this off that she was just under a spell, nothing more. She will never let go of her hate as long as she lives. And as long as the Weird Sisters curse is in effect, she can live forever that way, miserable and always alone.

I saw it as a Child in german and they dubbed it "Alarm" wich means "Alert", guess the Translators it would be too dark for the Audience to translare directly, it hitted me right in the Feels years later when i understood English

Merete Nora so true and even Storm said that in X-Men to Jubilee that people fear what they don't understand.

+Merete Nora yeah indeed, it's very true, we as humans feel we're so superior, we are somewhat but just like super heroes i.e. superman, sci-fi- star trek- Vulcans, andorians etc. or gargoyles-gargoyles, that all these beings are fictional supposedly, it does raise a interesting point that we're not alone and there is presumably something superior than humankind. instead of befriending it, we fear it because we don't understand.

+Merete Nora true fear blinds us cripples the mind to change turns any kind creature into a beast of anger and hate

Blake Hamilton so true and she reminds me of Phaeton from ExoSquad, because both of them were genocidal to humans.

stainshield reminds me of countless characters I've seen in various series

I second that. Plus I like how "access code" could also be interpreted as a metaphor (or something, not a literary expert) for her soul, her state. Ah, I ruined it - simply wanted to ponder on what else could"access code" mean.

Best show. Never really sern something go this deep. Macbeth, illuminati, eye of oden? "How does it feel to be so close to death and rejuvnation at the same time?" Kids show? These quotes have been hardwired still remember...

Very sad indeed, the cartoon was way ahead of itself us.

they literally do not make them like this anymore. That moment is all the more epic and powerful knowing that it is at the very end of a crazy 3 part episode with tons of insightful backstory. The storytelling, voice acting, animation and music in this show are incredible. I am not embarrassed at all to admit I enjoy it as an adult.

"Disney never tried something like this again". What about Gravity Falls?

TheJustin4848 Disney got rid of that after the first season and it's sub channel DIsney XD had to pick it up

Disney should tries to make a complex character like Demona.

Umm...Gargoyles the show is made by Disney.

Marina Sirtis or the Gargoyle? Ahahaha!

Funny, because there actually have been hand drawn cartoons to come out over the past few years and cartoons during day time television.

I thought this was a different video. The animation in this series is great.

It’s also animated by TMS who did Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Rescue Rangers, Batman and Superman the Animated series. Did I mention Lupin the Third and Detective Conan.

luminozero I think the curse ensures that only Macbeth or Demona can actually kill the other person, though it's been like 12 years since I've seen the show so it might be different.

Jewbear1884 They both live until one destroys the other. Demona releasing the plague would be her killing Macbeth. Unless she has to do it by hand, which would make no sense at all. After all, Macbeth tried to kill Demona by dropping her on a spike, and all indications were that it would have worked.

luminozero Maybe Macbeth wanted to die, and the terms of the curse just means that one of them has to *cause* the death of the other rather than straight up killing them by hand?

+luminozero well magic is basically like laws, theres specifics and theres loopholes theres a chance demona would have to kill him personally, a plague would kinda be indirect with no real personal intent behind it so demona would have to either drop the plague near macbeth with the intent of killing him for it to work.... but then theres the loophole of that gargoyle statue... if it hadnt been destroyed then it would have protected demona in gargoyle form and shed have lived...... countered by the fact if she turned into human form during the day, then if the virus didnt kill her then the fact shes human the statue wouldnt protect her and macbeths death would trigger her death

Greg Weisman has implied on his ask blog that Demona is somewhat suicidal.

Can't help but love Red Heads man, even tho they're all crazy!

Luna Mai/ Mr Robin I got the same feelings for Broly on Z. You're not weird. 😉

Luna Mai/ Mr Robin if u were to ask me there are no good or bad guys. It all depends on perspective, the situation, and what you believe to be right or wrong. In Demora's case she was more misguided than anything else. All she wanted was to help her kind but she just made things worse with her efforts. I don't blame her for that. No one can see the future. Her only problem is that she blames humans instead of owning up to her actions. Also if u ask me the best characters are the ones made out to be villains. They are the ones with he vision and dreams and don't give a damn about what people think about them. Then they act on those dreams. What people hate them for is killing and manipulating people but lets be honest everyone is going to die eventually. Those that fight for what they believe in and work to achieve their goals in a short life earn my respect

Civil War I agree completely

Gal is a proper word.

When I heard this I immediately thought of our sisters today. Modern women.

If Demona would be mo-cap anyway, then let Marina do it.

@@GregXB3 All the Gargoyles would be motion capture. But I think they should do the same kind of motion capture they did for Thanos. Speaking of which, I think Josh Brolin would be a fantastic Goliath. If Disney wanted to make a live action film based on the cartoon, now that I would pay to see. Just keep it as far away from Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson as possible. Let the Joss Whedon write and direct it but let him have full control. Here's my fan casting of the characters. Goliath - Josh Brolin Demona - Lana Parrilla Hudson - Iain Glen Brooklyn - James Franco Broadway - Seth Rogen Lexington - Michael Cera Xanatos - Liam Neeson Elisa - Zoe Saldana Narrator - Anthony Hopkins If this is the cast, and it's written and directed by Joss Whedon, and he has complete control over it, then it'll be perfect.

@@davidstone281 If we are going to do mo-cap then Keith David and only Keith David as Goliath. And while I might be okay with Joss Whedon directing, I want Greg Weisman writing and controlling it.

"The massacre was your fault, you stupid bitch!" - Greg Weisman, 2005. Creator of Gargoyles and Demona.

oh I see, that's the first time I read that quote, but I didn't say she was completely right, I said somewhat right in general, not completely right, she is not infallible, I do know and admit that she was responsible for the castle massacre and the other things, but not really entirely her fault

Something I think worth noting: they definitely show Demona as hating humanity from day one. But its only after discovering she has lost Goliath to another woman that she turns straight up genocidal. The wrath of a woman scorned, after all.

Daniel Ryan She had been planning to destroy all of humanity for, at least, 500 years as the series finale shows.

"Could have". He already was.

Even dragon monsters can be drama queens

Alpha: but too late my friend Elisa kisses him😡

Was “Gargoyles” a holodeck program?

She was a far better character than Jet. Honestly, I don't see much they have in common. But I love Demona and Jet annoyed the shit out of me. I do agree that Marina Sirtis did fantastic work.

@@GregXB3 i said personality said nothing about who was a better character

Not in TimeDancer, that would have been "Gargoyles 2198"

She had 1000 years.

I notice you didn't mention the Shakespearean Lady Macbeth.... who was the largest influence on the character.

@@GregXB3 I didn't know.

No. Pretty sure that Xanatos is Evil Odysseus and Demona is Lady Macbeth.

@@GregXB3 I was talking about Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis.