Cultural Impact
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- Freakazoid!'s minisegment "The Lawn Gnomes" is a parody of Gargoyles, featuring a race of lawn gnomes who were cursed in AD 995 Denmark to turn to stone during the day because they caused too much mischief. The 1995 episode "Freakazoid is History" also featured Freakazoid listening to a gargoyle who bears resemblance to Goliath, during which a loose parody of the Gargoyles musical score and melodramatic exposition from the gargoyle is heard.
- Greg Weisman wrote a story for DC Comics' JLA Showcase 80-Page #1, published in February 2000. Weisman's story was set during the time of the Justice League Europe and titled "Flashback of Notre Dame". The story has Captain Atom, the JLE and Plastique meeting a group of gargoyles at the cathedral Notre Dame de Paris. After an misunderstanding battle, the JLE help the gargoyles return to their home island Brigadoon. This version of the clan are more batlike than the characters they parodied and have names based from Paris: Behemoth (Goliath), Diabolique (Demona), Seine (Hudson), Angelique (Angela), Montparnasse (Broadway), Montmartre (Brooklyn), Champs-Élysées (Lexington), Left Bank (Bronx), Thomeheb (Thailog), Cyrano (Othello), Christian (Iago) and Roxanne (Desdemona).
- The 2001 Pioneer LDC English dubbing version of the anime series 3×3 Eyes (the English voice cast featured members of the Gargoyles cast including David, Bako, Fagerbakke, Adcox-Hernandez and Ed Asner) has Gargoyles homage scenes, including a homeless man humming the Gargoyles theme song and a character who says "What could make claw marks in solid stone?"
- In the episode 14 of the anime series The Big O ("Roger the Wanderer", 2003), there are three stone gargoyles that bear a striking resemblance to Brooklyn, Broadway and Lexington on a rooftop as Roger Smith wanders through a memory of Paradigm City (the Gargoyle resembling Broadway appears to have Goliath's jaw).
- In the episode 45 of X-Men: Evolution ("No Good Deed", 2003), during the staged "heroics" montage, Avalanche knocks a stone gargoyle statue, which bears a resemblance to Broadway, off a building in order for Blob to catch, preventing it from smashing into a crowd of people below.
- In the episode 21 of the second season of W.I.T.C.H. ("U Is For Undivided", 2006), parts of the city transformed into a medieval type setting. A couple shown in the middle of it are Brenda and Marco, respectively based on the Gargoyles yuppie couple Margot and Brendan; Pat Fraley voiced both Brendan and Marco.
- The first episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man ("Survival of the Fittest", 2008), which was written by Weisman, has Spider-Man swinging past a few gargoyle statues, two of whom resemble Hudson and Broadway. Another scene in this episode depicts a statue of Broadway being smashed on a helicopter pad by Spider-Man, in his attempt to flee from Vulture and an attacking helicopter.
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