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'''Goliath''' was born in [[938]] in [[Wyvern]], [[Scotland]]. By the time he was 37 human years old (18 1/2 [[Gargoyle|gargoyle]] years old), he had already become the mate of the female gargoyle who would become known as [[Demona]]. The two watched the marriage ceremony of [[Malcolm, Prince|Prince Malcolm]] of Wyvern and [[Elena, Princess|Princess Elena]] of [[Normandy]], and exchanged tokens- the halves of the [[Phoenix Gate]]- to seal their vows of love, pledging to be together "now and forever." Goliath found a name for his love, calling her his "Angel of the Night."
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[[Image:Goliath.PNG|thumb|400px|Goliath]]
  
Goliath eventually became the gargoyle who would become known as [[Hudson]]'s second-in-command. At that point Hudson was referred to as Mentor. By [[984]], Demona was trying to convince Goliath that Hudson's time had passed, and that Goliath should become leader. Goliath disagreed with his mate. He went along with Hudson and Demona to retrieve the ''[[Grimorum Arcanorum]]'' from the [[Archmage]]. This was so that the [[Magus]] could cure Prince Malcolm, whom the Archmage had poisoned. They managed to catch up with the Archmage, and during the resulting battle, Hudson's left eye was rendered useless, and Goliath was the one who saved the day by retrieving the ''Grimorum''. This turn of events led Hudson to pass the burden of leadership to Goliath. Goliath made Demona his second-in-command. It was around this time that Goliath got his name, after the Philistine giant in the Bible. Between 984 and [[994]], Demona and Goliath had at least one egg, which was put with the other eggs in the Rookery.
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'''Goliath''' was the leader of the [[Wyvern Clan]], and is now the leader of the [[Manhattan Clan]]. Frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years, Goliath strives to survive, adapt, and thrive in the modern age as he leads his clan forward making new friends and defending their protectorate from new (and old) foes.
  
Goliath remained leader until the tragic events of 994. He and Hudson were lured into chasing [[Vikings]], led by [[Hakon]], that had recently attacked [[Castle Wyvern]]. Demona and Castle Wyvern's [[Captain of the Guard]] wanted Goliath to take the entire clan to capture them, but Goliath figured he could scare them away all by himself. He did take Hudson with him, however, because he needed his tracking skills. When they finally caught up to the Vikings, they discovered that they had only sent their horses away to lure them away from the castle. They could not get back to Castle Wyvern before sunrise... and when they got there the next night, the entire clan had been shattered while they slept in stone sleep, including (he thought) his Angel of the Night. There were only four other survivors, 3 young gargoyles and a gargoyle beast (who would later become [[Brooklyn]], [[Broadway]], [[Lexington]], and [[Bronx]]) who had been punished to stay in the Rookery for scaring some humans that were harassing them. Goliath had understood that they were just defending themselves, but he had to put them in the [[Rookery]] in the interest of human/gargoyle relations.
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==History==
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===Dark Ages===
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[[Image:Goliath_Mentor_The_Reach.jpg|thumb|300px|Goliath eagerly learning from Mentor.]]
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{{CIT|The [[gargoyle]] later known as Goliath hatched with his [[rookery]] in the year [[Timeline#Before 994|938]].}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1465] In time, he and the young gargoyle he called his [[Demona|Angel]] began to notice each other, with (at least) Angel anticipating becoming his mate. By the year 971, he was already one of the more noteworthy young warriors in the clan. In that year, [[Prince Malcolm]] made an alliance with the Wyvern Clan's [[Hudson|Rhydderch]], in an effort to help his brother, [[Kenneth II]], win the crown from [[Culen|King Culen]]. Before the battle began, the clan leader ordered Goliath's generation to remain at [[Wyvern Hill]], much to the frustration of Goliath's rookery sister, [[Hyppolyta]]. While Goliath did not want to challenge his Rhydderch's decision, the young warrior did not want to better understand it. His leader explained that, facing the prospect that there could be casualties – [[human]]s and gargoyles alike – he needed capable warriors to protect Wyvern Hill and its rookery. ''([[The Reach|"The Reach"]])''
  
The six went after the Vikings with a vengeance, especially Goliath. The gargoyles' attack scared Hakon into trying to run with [[Katharine, Princess|Princess Katharine]] as a hostage. The Captain of the Guard went with him. Goliath tracked them to a seaside cliff. When Goliath discovered that the Captain was the betrayer, his rage was great. But when Hakon told Goliath that the Captain was the one who had shattered Goliath's clan, the Captain became so angry that he attacked the Viking, causing the two to plummet from the cliff to their deaths. This tortured Goliath further, for, as he said, "I've been denied everything... even my revenge!"
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The next night, Goliath and his rookery brothers and sisters watched from the cliffside as their elders engage in the battle below. Trouble soon developed when Hyppolyta and Angel suddenly jumped into the skirmish. While the advantage appeared to be with Kenneth's various forces, the two young gargoyles' disobedience would lead to not only the death of one of Goliath's rookery mothers, [["Verity"]], but in Angel's capture as well. Unwilling to remain at his post any longer, Goliath descended upon her captor, King Culen, demanding her release. To ensure her safety, the clan's Rhydderch had to assure both his infuriated rookery son and the humans he had aligned with that he would not abandon his rookery daughter nor let the tyrant king escape. The following evening, the clan's [["Lefty"|second-in-command]] reported the whereabouts of [[Culen's Mountain Stronghold]], and – after the [[Archmage]] provided the initial distraction – the clan's Rhydderch and Goliath made short work of King Culen and his men. While the gargoyle leader rescued Culen's son [[Constantine III]], Goliath freed his love. In the days that followed, Goliath and the rest of the clan would participate in a [[Wind Ceremony]] for the casualties they suffered from the conflict. ''([[The Draw|"The Draw"]], [[The Oath|"The Oath"]])''
  
It was at that point that the peasant boy [[Tom]], a friend to the gargoyles, called Goliath to come help his friends. When Goliath, Katharine, and Tom returned, they found that the Magus, in a fit of grief-induced madness (he thought that Hakon had killed Katherine, whom he loved), had cast a spell that turned the five other gargoyles permanently to stone, "until the castle rose above the clouds." He believed that if they hadn't come, Katherine would not have died. Unfortunately, the counterspell had been burned by Hakon, so the Magus was unable to reverse it. Both the Magus and Katherine felt they owed him a great debt, so he had them do two things. First, they were to take care of the eggs in the Rookery. Second, he had the Magus cast the spell one more time... on Goliath, who did not wish to live alone.
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When Malcolm was bestowed the title Prince of Wyvern, he invited the clan's Rhydderch (whom he began to call [[Hudson|Mentor]]) to continue their alliance, believing that mutually protecting each other's people day and night to be strategically advantageous for everyone. A castle was soon commissioned on Wyvern Hill, with humans assisting in the construction during the day, and Goliath and his rookery brothers and sisters continuing in the evening. One human, the [[Captain of the Guard]], would work the nightshift with the gargoyles, becoming acquainted with Goliath and his rookery siblings. ''([[The Promise|"The Promise"]], [[The Dream|"The Dream"]])''
  
1000 years later, industrialist [[Xanatos, David|David Xanatos]] fulfilled the terms of the spell, and moved Castle Wyvern- with all six stone gargoyles- to the top of his skyscraper, the [[Eyrie Building]], in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]. The Castle was now above the clouds, and when night fell, Goliath and his clan awoke. He was overjoyed to see them. He then spoke with the man who had moved the castle, David Xanatos. He explained that it had 1000 years since the spell had been cast, and that the gargoyles were the last of their kind. There was no rest for them, though, because a [[Commandos|mercenary force]] raided Castle Wyvern and supposedly stole three computer disks. The gargoyles helped Xanatos repel the invaders, and Xanatos gave his thanks- but Goliath simply stated that he would never trust humans again.
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When the [[Dragon|dragon]] [[Wyvern (Dragon)|Wyvern]] attacked the unfinished fortress at Wyvern Hill, Goliath took to the skies with Mentor's other gargoyle warriors to successfully drive back the dragon. ''([[The Pledge|"The Pledge"]])''
  
It was soon after this battle that [[New York Police Department|NYPD]] detective [[Elisa Maza]] came up to Castle Wyvern to investigate falling rubble and automatic weapons fire sounds coming from the Castle. She was given an explanation for the commotion by Xanatos, but she was not fully satisfied, and snuck back into the castle. She encountered Bronx, and in her panic from this unexpected sight she aimed her gun at him- and Goliath snuck up and crushed it. This scared her so much that she slipped and fell from the castle walls, and plummeted to the street below. Goliath swooped down and caught her, saving her life. Because of this act, the initial terror quickly wore off, and Goliath carried her back up to the castle and told her his story. She quickly became a friend to the gargoyles. They agreed to meet the next night.
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{{CIT|As time passed, he was bestowed the name "Goliath" and compared to the strength and battle-prowess of the Philistine giant who fought and was slain by the young David; on a darker note, the name also evoked the fear that most humans held towards gargoyles, given that its original was one of the best-known villains in the Bible.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1456] Thus, even by [[Timeline#994|994]], Goliath was the only gargoyle in the [[clan]] to bear a name, and it is likely that even he did not view it as anything more than an odd human label. ''([[Awakening Part One|"Awakening: Part One"]])''
  
The next night, Elisa and Goliath went on a gliding tour of Manhattan. Even this early, there was something special growing between the pair. They then strolled through Central Park, where the same mercenary team that had attacked Castle Wyvern attacked Goliath. With Elisa's help, the two managed to escape, and Elisa discovered that the mercenaries had found them with a tracking device that had somehow been placed on Goliath's person. Unfortunately, Goliath could not get back to Castle Wyvern before the sun rose, and- to Elisa's shock- he turned to stone. The mercenaries had nearly caught up with them, so Elisa led them away and tricked them into thinking her dead. Goliath was amazed when he awoke to find that Elisa had protected him all day.
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[[Image:Goliath_Mentor_Long_Way_to_Morning.png|thumb|left|300px|Mentor passes leadership on to Goliath in 984.]]
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[[Image:GoliathDemona.png|thumb|right|300px|Goliath and his [[Angel of the Night]].]]
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In 975, they parted the [[Phoenix Gate]] between them as a token of their love for each other. {{CIT|They lost their virginity to each other that night.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=15094]  Together, they conceived an [[egg]] {{CIT|in 987}}. [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1694][http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=7564]  This egg would later hatch into [[Angela]]. Goliath's love for Angel may well have been deeper than hers for him, however, since even then, she was, to a certain extent, using him for her own goals (in particular, her growing hatred of humans, and her ambition for power), though Goliath never suspected it. ''([[Vows|"Vows"]], [[Long Way To Morning|"Long Way To Morning"]])''
  
He returned to Castle Wyvern, and was surprised to find that his Angel of the Night was still alive. They were reunited, and Demona insisted that they should help Xanatos retrieve the "stolen" disks from [[Cyberbiotics]] in gratitude. He agreed, and they made a plan. Xanatos informed them that the three disks were in three locations- a [[Station 1|tower on an island]] just off the coast of Manhattan Island (the [[Trio]] were assigned to this disk), an [[Station 2|underground lab]] (Hudson and Bronx went for this one), and a [[Fortress 1|massive air fortress]] in the skies over Manhattan. Goliath and Demona went to retrieve this disk.
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In 984, Mentor was blinded in one eye by the Archmage and abdicated from his position of leadership. He appointed Goliath (who was already his second-in-command by then) to take his place. Goliath led the gargoyles faithfully for the next ten years, defending the castle from its enemies. Human antipathy towards the gargoyles grew steadily in [[Castle Wyvern]] during this time, particularly after the death of Prince Malcolm and the accession of [[Princess Katharine]].  Many of the gargoyles, particularly Angel, came to resent the humans for their disdainful attitude towards the gargoyles. But Goliath steadfastly continued to protect the humans, understanding that they treated the clan as they did because they were afraid of it and it seemed strange and alien to them, and hoping that relations between the two races would improve in time to come. ''("Long Way To Morning", "Awakening: Part One")''
  
Goliath and Demona managed to sneak onto the air fortress, but Goliath soon discovered that his mate had changed. She was now cruel and uncaring, causing destruction towards humans for no apparent reason. This was pinnacled by her short-circuiting the power core of the air fortress, causing it to plummet into [[New York Harbor]]. After this, Goliath started to leave to meet Elisa again, to which Demona reacted with hostility. He realized that his Angel was not as he remembered her, and left.
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When he met with Elisa, she informed him that Xanatos had lied to him, that the disks Goliath and his clan had "retrieved" were actually Cyberbiotics property. To further prove that Xanatos was lying, she had checked on the insignia that she had found on the tracking device, and had found that the insignia was for a [[Scarab Corporation|robotics firm]] belonging to [[Xanatos Enterprises]], which indicated that Xanatos himself had probably placed the tracking device on him. Basically, Goliath had a choice- he could trust Elisa or trust Xanatos. To his credit, he trusted Elisa.
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===The End of an Old Life===
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[[Image:DeniedRevenge.png|thumb|300px|left|Goliath denied his revenge.]]
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[[Image:Goliath_Stone_At_Night_Awakening_Part_Two.png|thumb|300px|right|Stone at night.]]
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By 994, however, Angel and the Captain of the Guard had had enough of the gargoyles' poor treatment, and decided to betray Katharine and her people to Hakon and his [[Viking]]s. However, Goliath unwittingly helped foil their plan; when they urged him to take all the gargoyles away to pursue the Vikings, he refused, feeling that it would leave Castle Wyvern open to attack in their absence. Instead, he took just Mentor with him. The Captain consequently had to change his plan to have Hakon attack in the daytime, resulting in the [[Wyvern Massacre]]. Goliath and Mentor returned to find the rest of the clan dead, except for the [[Trio]] and the [[Gargoyle Beast|gargoyle beast]] known as [[Bronx]] (whom Goliath had sent down to the [[Rookery#The Wyvern Rookery|rookery]] for getting into a fight with some of the humans) and Angel, who had fled the castle to hide herself. Goliath believed her to be among the dead, however, and was grief-stricken. ''([[Awakening Part Two|"Awakening: Part Two"]], [[City of Stone Part One|"City of Stone" Part One]])''
  
The two headed separately to Wyvern, and Elisa was proved correct- having found Goliath and the rest of the clan uncontrollable, he brought their replacements, robotic gargoyles called the [[Steel Clan]], online using the stolen Cyberbiotics data. He then preceded to have the Steel Clan attack their flesh-and-blood counterparts. Goliath arrived in time to stop one of the five Steel Clan Robots from attacking a vulnerable Brooklyn and Lexington, and helped destroy the other robots.
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He quickly led the other surviving gargoyles to the Vikings' camp at the [[Archmage's Cave]], for the purpose of both rescuing the humans and avenging the slaughter of his clan. While the other gargoyles were fighting the Vikings, Goliath cornered Hakon and the Captain of the Guard, with Princess Katharine as their prisoner, at the edge of a cliff nearby, and learned of the Captain's treachery. When he lunged at them in their fury, Hakon and the Captain fell off the cliff to their deaths; Katharine fell as well, but Goliath was able to rescue her. In his absence, however, the [[Magus]], believing the Princess to be dead, had [[Sleep Spell|cursed]] the other gargoyles so that they would [[Stone Sleep|sleep]], locked in stone, "until the castle rose above the clouds". Because Hakon had burned the page with the [[Magic|counter-spell]] on it, the Magus was powerless to undo what he had done. Goliath, filled with grief and despair at being completely alone, first entrusted the clan's eggs to Princess Katharine, and then asked the Magus to cast his spell upon him as well.
  
It was then that Demona revealed her true colors, and attacked Goliath when his guard was down. She revealed that she was an accomplice to the betrayal at Castle Wyvern, and that the Captain had sworn to protect the clan, but Demona didn't trust him, and that is why she survived. She offered Goliath one last chance to join her in a crusade against humanity, but he refused, and Demona decided that if Goliath was not her ally then he was her enemy. She would have killed Goliath had Elisa not come in at that moment and tackled her, knocking her aim off so that the missile she hired hit the castle tower nearest to them, causing it to collapse and knock both Elisa and Demona off the castle walls. Goliath managed to save Elisa, but not Demona, who was rendered unable to glide by falling debris. Angered by this turn of events, Goliath grabbed Xanatos and held him over the edge of the Eyrie Building, saying "She wanted me to destroy humanity! I think I'll start with you!" Elisa managed to convince him not to drop him, saying that would make him no better than Xanatos. Hudson agreed. Goliath decided to turn him over to Elisa, who had him arrested on charges of receiving stolen property. Goliath and his clan were safe- for the time being.
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Even with Xanatos in prison, the gargoyles still had many crises to overcome. They fought the [[Pack]], had to deal with Elisa's shooting, stopped [[Dracon, Tony|Tony Dracon]]'s gun-dealing, and defeated a mind-controlling spell cast by Demona upon Goliath. They overcame all these challenges.
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===Awakening===
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[[Image:XanatosGoliath.PNG|thumb|left|300px|Xanatos and Goliath.]]
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[[Image:ShakeHands.PNG|thumb|right|250px|Goliath and Elisa truly become allies.]]
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[[Timeline#1994|A thousand years later]], Goliath and his clan were awakened by [[David Xanatos]], when he purchased Castle Wyvern and moved it to the top of the [[Eyrie Building]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], thus fulfilling the terms of the spell's undoing. ''("Awakening: Part Two")''
  
During this time, Elisa had been trying to convince Goliath to take the clan and leave Castle Wyvern, since it was no longer a safe place for the clan to stay, but Goliath stubbornly refused. When [[Macbeth]] was hired by Xanatos to drive the gargoyles out, he captured Brooklyn, Lexington, and Bronx. Goliath chased after him, and Elisa managed to convince Hudson and Broadway to leave. Goliath was angered by this, but Hudson and Broadway convinced him that it was necessary. Goliath angrily agreed to leave, but not until he left an angry message for Xanatos via [[Burnett, Owen|Owen]]- the clan is leaving, but they would be back to reclaim their home. This intensified the grudge that Goliath had towards Xanatos.
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Xanatos and Demona had carried out this scheme together, hoping to use Goliath and his clan for their own ends, and began by duping them into stealing three computer disks from [[Cyberbiotics]], which they had deluded Goliath into thinking had been stolen from Xanatos. Goliath was temporarily overjoyed at discovering that Demona was still alive, but that joy faded as he gradually came to discover how she had changed over the centuries. Also, the same night that the gargoyles awoke in New York for the first time, Goliath met [[Elisa Maza]], who had come to the castle to investigate the disturbances caused by the initial clash between the clan and [[Xanatos Goon Squad|Xanatos's thugs]]. He rescued her when she fell off the top of the castle wall in fear of him, and the two of them soon came to become friends, particularly after Elisa risked her life to protect him in his stone sleep from the Commandos in [[Central Park]]. It was Elisa who revealed Xanatos's true nature to Goliath, warning him in sufficient time that he was able to foil Xanatos and Demona's attempt to destroy the clan with their new [[Steel Clan]] robots, once it became clear to them that the gargoyles would not be quite so useful to their schemes as they had originally intended. ''("Awakening: Part Two", [[Awakening Part Three|"Awakening: Part Three"]], [[Awakening Part Four|"Awakening: Part Four"]], [[Awakening Part Five|"Awakening: Part Five"]])''
  
The clan moved into the [[Clock Tower|clock tower]] above Elisa's [[23rd Precinct|police precinct]] station, but this did not lessen the conflicts they had to face. They fought a plethora of foes, including Xanatos and his Steel Clan, Demona, and the Pack. Even during this, they still were not sure exactly what it was that they protected. The first confrontation with [[Coldstone]], one of Goliath's rookery brothers from Castle Wyvern brought back to life as a cyborg, allowed them to determine what it was. They protected the entire island of Manhattan from all that threatened it.
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Although Xanatos was sent to prison in the immediate aftermath of the Steel Clan's defeat, he still owned the castle, and Elisa urged Goliath to leave it with his clan and find a new home. Goliath refused, unwilling to leave his last link to the 10th century, but after the gargoyles were attacked there by [[Macbeth]], and [[Lexington]], [[Brooklyn]], and Bronx were temporarily captured, he finally gave in and moved, reluctantly, to the [[Clock Tower]], though vowing to someday return and win the castle back from Xanatos. ''([[The Thrill of the Hunt|"The Thrill of the Hunt"]], [[Enter Macbeth|"Enter Macbeth"]])''
  
There were many threats to protect Manhattan from. The Pack returned with a vengeance, under the leadership of the android, [[Coyote]]. They made enemies, then allies, of [[Talon]] and the [[Mutate|mutates]]. Coldstone returned, as did Xanatos, and Macbeth and Demona.
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Despite his anger and grief at having had to leave Castle Wyvern, Goliath settled into the Clock Tower soon enough. During his first winter in New York, he began to learn more about Elisa's work as a detective and her vow, as part of the NYPD, to protect the innocent citizens in the city from criminals. Realizing how much this echoed his own vow to protect the castle, Goliath used this as inspiration to redefine his role as a protector, taking a new oath that henceforth, he and his clan would protect the inhabitants of New York, both human and gargoyle, particularly through foiling criminals. ''([[Reawakening|"Reawakening"]])''
  
Demona summoned the [[Oberon's Children|Child of Oberon]], Puck, and tried to get him to do what she wanted. He complied, but not in the way she wanted. She told Puck to get rid of the human Elisa Maza- so he turned her into a gargoyle. However, this had an unexpected effect on Goliath and Elisa. There were some feelings between them, but being the same species intensified these feelings and made the two confront them. Goliath was willing to admit these feelings, but Elisa was more reluctant to.
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Goliath was torn between his growing love for Elisa and his mating bond with Demona. When Xanatos invited Goliath to be the best man at his wedding to [[Fox]], and told him Demona would be there, Goliath made one last attempt to save their long-ago love. However, any hopes of this were permanently destroyed when Demona used these hopes to regain the other half of the Phoenix Gate, which Goliath had still kept through the centuries. She took Goliath, David Xanatos, his father [[Xanatos, Petros|Petros Xanatos]], Fox, and herself back in time to the year [[975]] in an attempt to alter history in her past self's favor. Goliath stopped her, and himself tried to change history for the better. Unfortunately, both Goliath and Demona discovered that history is immutable. Having failed in changing Demona, Goliath finally realized that there was no way they would ever be together again.
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===Expanded Protectorate, Expanded Worldview===
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[[Image:Goliath6.png|thumb|left|300px|Goliath as a human and Elisa in "The Mirror".]]
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Goliath took to his new role well enough, but remained torn in his heart; he still had his old feelings for Demona, despite her having turned evil, and longed to have her back with him, but was also developing new feelings for Elisa (feelings which grew stronger when [[Puck]] temporarily transformed her into a gargoyle, bringing those feelings he didn't know he had to the surface). ''("Vows", [[The Mirror|"The Mirror"]])''
  
During the "City Of Stone" incident, Goliath was able to convince Macbeth not to kill his immortal foe, Demona, and helped the [[Weird Sisters]] temporarily convince Demona to give up her vengeful ways. He made an ally of the owner of Cyberbiotics, Halcyon Renard. He met his "son," a clone of himself named [[Thailog]]. At first he was repulsed by what he called an abomination, but Elisa convinced him to accept Thailog as a son. Unfortunately, Thailog turned out to have a personality modeled after Xanatos's, and tried to kill his three "fathers," namely Xanatos, [[Sevarius, Anton|Dr. Anton Sevarius]], and Goliath, as well as Elisa. They escaped, but despite this, Goliath saw him as a sort of wayward son.
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Demona took advantage of Goliath's "torch-carrying" for her by tricking him into giving her his piece of the Phoenix Gate, which to him was only a token of her love, and using it to transport herself and Xanatos to the year 975, accidentally taking Goliath along with them. Goliath became involved in an effort by the Demona of the present to subvert the Demona of 975, and urged the younger version of Demona to not follow that dark path, but remain true to her vows of love.  
  
Eventually, Tom, the friend of the gargoyles from 994, returned, and enlisted Goliath's help to help save the former eggs of Goliath's clan from the Archmage and his forces. Elisa and Bronx accompanied Tom and Goliath to [[Avalon]]. On the way there, Tom explained that to save the eggs and Princess Katherine from [[Constantine]], a usurper of the Scottish throne who wanted Katharine as his queen, the Magus took them to the mystical island of Avalon, where time moved more slowly. In that space of time, the eggs had hatched and the hatchling gargoyles were now fully grown. When they arrived at Avalon, Goliath encountered three nembers of the [[Avalon Clan|Avalon Clan]], [[Gabriel]], [[Boudicca]], and [[Angela]], whom he recognized as his and Demona's daughter. However, because it was the gargoyle way for the children of the clan to belong to the whole clan and not specific parents, he did not make this fact known. Elisa quickly deduced this on her own, though, because Angela had physical similarities to Demona and Goliath.
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Unfortunately, his hopes of changing Demona for the better in the present failed, since history is immutable; after discovering that the Demona of [[Timeline#1995|1995]] still had abandoned her love for him in favor of her hatred for humanity, he had to face, at last, the fact that they would never be together again. ''("Vows")''
  
With Goliath, Elisa, and Bronx's help, the three humans and the Avalon clan defeated the Archmage and his warriors. Goliath decided to keep the [[Eye of Odin]] and the Phoenix Gate, so as to ensure that no one would ever use them again. Angela craved more adventure, so she went with the three on the skiff to go to the "real world." Unfortunately, they did not realize that "Avalon does not send you where you want to go, Avalon sends you where you need to be." And thus began the Avalon World Tour.
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Goliath had other adventures following his first journey to the past. He met [[Halcyon Renard]], the CEO of Cyberbiotics, and with his help, learned to finally take responsibility for his part in the Cyberbiotics raid. He also discovered the existence of Thailog, a clone of him made by Xanatos, who was even more villainous than Xanatos ever was; Goliath viewed Thailog (with a little help from Elisa) as his son and made the effort to reach out to him, which Thailog contemptuously rejected. In the time to come, Thailog would become one of Goliath's most deadly adversaries. ''([[Outfoxed|"Outfoxed"]], [[Double Jeopardy|"Double Jeopardy"]])''
  
During the Avalon trip, the quartet had many adventures around the world. Goliath confronted the shadows of his past at the former site of Castle Wyvern, namely the ghosts of Hakon and the Captain of the Guard, who had gained formidable supernatural powers from a mysterious temple in the [[Archmage's Lair|Archmage's lair]]. They used illusions to try to drive Goliath insane, and when that failed, they tried to use the temple to drain Goliath's life force into themselves, but the Captain could not betray Goliath again, and he ruined the transfer, redeeming himself and sending his spirit to the afterlife. Hakon, on the other hand, was trapped in the rubble of the temple, albeit temporarily.
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Any notion of settling into their new lives would soon be disguarded. In November 1995, Goliath became badly injured after another altercation with the Pack. The incident convinced Hudson (and Goliath in turn) that he needed to pick a new second-in-command. After a month of avoiding the decision from the unfounded concern that it might drive a wedge between the Trio, Goliath chose Brooklyn. Weeks later, a grown-up [[Guardian|Tom]] came from [[Avalon]] to New York, and warned Goliath of the Archmage's attack upon Avalon. Goliath, Elisa, and Bronx accompanied Tom there, to meet the [[Avalon Clan]] for the first time, including Angela, the biological daughter of Goliath and Demona. After Goliath defeated the Archmage, he, Elisa, Bronx, and Angela left Avalon to return to New York. But since Avalon sends one, not where one wants to go, but where one ''needs'' to be, it would be months before they finally came home. ''([[Upgrade|"Upgrade"]], [[Avalon Part One|"Avalon" Part One]], [[Avalon Part Two|"Avalon" Part Two]], [[Avalon Part Three|"Avalon" Part Three]])''
  
They next fought [[Raven]] in the Pacific Northwest, and then they went to [[Loch Ness]]. There, they had to stop Dr. Sevarius from kidnapping the [[Loch Ness Monster|Loch Ness Monsters]] and using them as lab animals. Angela was captured by him, and he tested her DNA, discovering that she was Goliath's daughter. This information surprised her. Because of her human upbringing, she tried to treat Goliath as her father, but Goliath kept reminding her that it was not the gargoyle way, and that she should regard the whole clan as her family.
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Goliath had more adventures during the "[[Avalon World Tour]]" of a personal nature. He encountered the ghosts of the Captain of the Guard and Hakon in the Archmage's Cave, and finally made his peace with the Captain.  He used the Phoenix Gate to take him back in time to [[Timeline#995-1994|1940]], to rescue [[Griff]] in the [[Battle of Britain]] and bring him forward in time. He also briefly donned the [[Eye of Odin]] in order to battle [[Odin]], but came dangerously close to becoming corrupted by it, only saved by Angela's intervention. But perhaps the most important thing that happened to him during this odyssey was his acknowledgement of Angela as his daughter. He was reluctant to do this when he learned of their biological link, for it ran contrary to gargoyle instinct {{CIT|and felt like favoritism to him and was also worried about what Angela would do when she learned that Demona was her biological mother}}. [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1430]  So he rejected her urges to accept her as his child for a long while. But in the end, [[Diane Maza]] persuaded him to reconsider his treatment of her, arguing that giving special treatment to the only child traveling with him did not run contrary to the Gargoyle Way. Goliath acknowledged his daughter at last, to her great joy. ''([[Shadows of the Past|"Shadows of the Past"]], [[M.I.A.|"M.I.A."]], [[Eye of the Storm|"Eye of the Storm"]], [[Monsters|"Monsters"]], [[Mark of the Panther (episode)|"Mark of the Panther"]])''
  
After the events involving the [[Golem]] in [[Prague]], Angela and Goliath's confrontations over this point began to grow more heated. In [[Paris]], Goliath tried to conceal his daughter from Demona and protect Angela from the knowledge that Demona was her mother. Despite his efforts, he was unsuccessful. He also encountered Thailog, who had now become Demona's new mate. He still saw Thailog as his misguided son, and he tried to convince Thailog that Demona was using her. However, he had it backwards. In actuality, Thailog was manipulating Demona. This pretty much convinced Goliath that Thailog was not a wayward son, but truly a villain. Thailog's plot- which involved getting Demona to marry Macbeth as Dominique Destine, then manipulating them into killing each other so that he gained both of their fortunes, since he was Demona's sole business partner- was foiled by the travelers.
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As the four companions neared New York at last, near the end of the world tour, Goliath had one last, horrendous, adventure, when Puck visited upon him an illusion in which they had returned to New York, but forty years in the future, by which time Xanatos (or, more accurately, a traitorous Lexington masquerading as [[Xanatos Program|Xanatos]]) had taken over the city, and was preparing to take over the entire planet from there. Puck's motive was to trick Goliath into giving him the Phoenix Gate; Goliath finally realized, almost at the last moment, what was going on here, and to prevent future attempts to seize the Gate, threw it away into the timestream, hoping that it would be lost there forever. ''([[Future Tense|"Future Tense"]])''
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Goliath returned to New York, to become involved in an attempt by [[Oberon]] and [[Titania]] to kidnap the new-born [[Alexander Fox Xanatos|Alexander Xanatos]]. Goliath was unwilling to see even his greatest enemy deprived of his child, and so led his clan against Oberon to thwart him; they were defeated, but after Fox mustered up enough of her "halfling strength" to strike Oberon with a spell, Goliath used the incident to persuade the [[magic]]al rulers to let Alex stay in the human world and be tutored in magic. Xanatos, grateful to Goliath for this act, promised to do whatever he could to repay the gargoyles; Goliath was skeptical, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. ''([[The Gathering Part One|"The Gathering" Part One]], [[The Gathering Part Two|"The Gathering" Part Two]])''
  
There were still many adventures. They traveled to [[London]], where Goliath was forced to break his vow against using the Phoenix Gate to discover what had happened in [[1940]] that had made the English gargoyles [[Una]] and [[Leo]] angry at him. He returned to the present with the gargoyle [[Griff]]. He had to do this to follow fate, because he and Griff disappeared while fighting [[Nazis]] during the [[Blitz]] of 1940. As a result, Una and Leo became bitter and angry towards Goliath. Then they battled the Pack in [[Egypt]], the [[Banshee]] in [[Ireland]], and the [[Matrix]] in the [[Australia|Australian]] [[Outback]]. In [[Nigeria]], they battled [[Anansi]], and Goliath finally accepted Angela as his daughter, something which made her overjoyed. In [[Norway]], Goliath was forced to don the Eye of Odin to battle [[Odin]] himself. Its power corrupted him as it did the Archmage and Fox, but after he nearly killed Angela, he tore off the Eye, and Odin regained it. They battled [[Proteus]] on [[New Olympus]], [[Jackal]] and [[Hyena]] in [[Guatemala]], [[Nokkar]] on [[Easter Island]], [[Taro]] in [[Ishimura]], [[Japan]], Xanatos and Coyote 4.0 in [[Arizona]], and then they returned to Avalon.
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Not long afterwards, [[Jason Canmore|Jason]], [[Robyn Canmore|Robyn]], and [[John Castaway|Jon Canmore]] came to New York in search of Demona, and while hunting for her, came upon Goliath, Hudson, and Angela. Mistaking Angela for Demona, they attacked and almost killed her. Goliath angrily vowed revenge, and so began a terrible feud between his clan and the [[Hunters]] that resulted in the destruction of the Clock Tower, the exposure of the gargoyles to the public, and Elisa almost dying when a battle between Goliath and Jason inadvertently knocking her off the top of a dam. In the final battle with the Hunters at [[Saint Damien's Cathedral]], however, Elisa finally arrived and managed to stop Goliath from killing the Hunters, and he, having come to his senses, quickly followed that with thwarting a genocidal scheme that Demona had developed to destroy all humanity. The gargoyles were trapped by the [[Gargoyle Taskforce]] in the cathedral afterwards, and almost captured, but Xanatos came to their aid and gave them shelter at the castle, in gratitude for their having saved his son from Oberon earlier. In the immediate aftermath, Goliath and Elisa finally admitted the feelings that they had developed for each other, and she kissed him for the first time. ''([[Hunter's Moon Part One|"Hunter's Moon" Part One]], [[Hunter's Moon Part Two|"Hunter's Moon" Part Two]], [[Hunter's Moon Part Three|"Hunter's Moon" Part Three]])''
  
In Avalon, they were forced to face [[Oberon]], the rightful lord of the island. Goliath, Angela, and Gabriel were chosen to face him in a contest to decide if the Avalon inhabitants would be allowed to remain. Oberon defeated the three, even though his power was reduced, but in the meantime, Tom had forged an iron bell, working off of clues that [[Titania]] had dropped, and rang it. The bell caused Oberon pain, but Tom stopped before the last ring that would have killed Oberon. Impressed by their show of mercy, Oberon made Goliath's clan immune to his sorcery, and made them the honor guard of Avalon. The quartet then returned to their quest.
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===The Journey Continues===
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[[Image:Goliath_Your_Witness.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Goliath on the stand.]]
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[[Image:GoliathElisaLove.png|thumb|right|300px|Goliath and Elisa declare their love.]]
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Goliath and Elisa were soon afterwards the first targets of [[John Castaway]] in his war against the gargoyles, but rescued by [[Vinnie Grigori|Vinnie]]. ''([[Nightwatch (episode)|"Nightwatch"]], [[The Journey (SLG)|"The Journey"]])''
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On [[Halloween]] of [[Timeline#1996|1996]], Elisa was asked on a date by her coworker [[Morgan Morgan|Officer Morgan]] – an offer she initially refused, because of her relationship with Goliath. However, because of this offer, as well as a conversation with Jason Canmore, Elisa came to believe that the practical difficulties of a relationship between a gargoyle and a human were too great to overcome. Certain things that she wanted from a long-term relationship (including children) were impossible to attain with Goliath. That evening, she ended their relationship, and encouraged him to pursue a relationship with [[Delilah]], which he did by inviting her to a masquerade ball to be held at the Eyrie Building. ''([[Invitation Only|"Invitation Only"]])''
  
When the travelers were en route to their next destination, Puck created an elaborate dream world for Goliath in an attempt to acquire the Phoenix Gate, because he believed he could use the Gate to bribe Oberon out of summoning him to the Gathering. The Gathering was a call for all of Oberon's Children to return to Avalon. In this dream world, the quartet of travelers returned to Manhattan 40 years into the future, in the year [[2036]]. Without them there, [[Xanatos Program|Xanatos]] had taken over Manhattan and had turned it into his own island nation. Brooklyn led a small resistance force with Demona, who was his mate, Broadway, who was now blind, Lexington, who was now a cyborg, [[Claw]] of the mutates, who was now wingless, and [[Bluestone, Matt|Matt Bluestone]]. Goliath went with the others to defeat Xanatos and rescue Elisa and Angela, who had been captured by the Steel Clan. During this, everyone but himself and Elisa were killed, and Lexington was revealed to be the real ruler of Manhattan. He had used a computer image of Xanatos as a disguise so he could "run the show unmolested." When Goliath called him a traitor, Lexington attacked him, and Goliath threw him into a mass of computers which exploded, causing a chain reaction that Goliath and Elisa barely escaped. When Elisa asked for the Gate, as Brooklyn and Demona had before her, he was ready to let her take it- but the fact that she wanted Goliath to put it in her hands and would not take it herself made Goliath suspicious, and Goliath realized that this was not Elisa. This forced Puck to reveal himself, and he explained why he had created the dream world. However, when Goliath called it a dream, Puck asked him "was it a dream... or a prophecy?" Goliath asked him which it was, but Puck refused to tell him. Upon returning to the waking world, Goliath immediately threw the Phoenix Gate, uncontrolled, into the timestream, so that it would be beyond the reach of all who would desire it. The quartet then continued on their journey.
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Elisa, who had been invited to the same ball, finally accepted Morgan's offer and brought him. This "double date" (an idea of [[Greg Weisman]]'s that he revealed long before the publication of the comic) only served to make Goliath and Elisa understand how much they meant to each other, but before any sort of reconciliation could be achieved the party was crashed by Thailog, who had come to collect Delilah, and stabbed Goliath in the gut. Goliath was then tortured by Thailog, and might have perished if not for the intervention of the rest of the gargoyles, as well as [[Jay Sato|Dr. Sato]].  Realizing that it could no longer be denied, Goliath and Elisa finally declared their mutual love. ''([[Masque|"Masque"]], [[Bash|"Bash"]])''
  
To their joy, they returned to Manhattan- only to have to face Oberon, who wanted to abduct Xanatos's newborn son, [[Xanatos, Alexander Fox|Alexander]], so that he could be trained to use his latent mystical abilities on Avalon. After Oberon was hit by a magical blast from Fox, whose half-fay powers were supposedly withered to nothing, Goliath used this to convince Oberon that Alexander could be trained in his mystical powers without going to Avalon. Oberon agreed, and also allowed Puck, who had also defended Alexander, to remain as his teacher- although Oberon punished him by limiting the usage of his powers to the training or protection of Alexander. Goliath, Angela, Bronx, and Elisa remained in New York.
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A few nights later, he told Elisa that he would not hold her to any words said when he was on the verge of death, and reminded her of the things he could not give her and her desire for a normal life. Elisa replied that "normalcy is so over-rated." Overjoyed, the two kissed. ''([[The Rock|"The Rock"]])''
  
During their adventures, Goliath and Elisa's love for another had grown. They faced their greatest threat during the events centering around the [[Hunter's Moon]]. During it, Elisa got a new partner named [[Canmore, Jason|Jason Conover]], who had many of the traits that had attracted Elisa to Goliath. After Angela was nearly killed by the [[Hunters]] in an attack by them, Goliath swore that he would kill them for what they did. This, and the fact that it seemed he might lose Elisa to Jason Conover, made him furious. In a retaliatory attack on the Hunters' [[Huntership|airship]], he and Demona, who was his, Brooklyn's, and Lexington's temporary ally, tried to kill two of the three Hunters. Unfortunately, the female Hunter, [[Canmore, Robyn|Robyn Canmore]], had planted a tracking device on them that the Hunters used to find their home- and destroy it. To gain revenge for this, Goliath forced Lexington to help him track down the Hunters' airship, which was concealed near a dam. Broadway and Elisa came to help, but during the battle with the Hunters, both Jason Canmore/Conover and Elisa fell to their seeming deaths. Both Goliath and Jon Canmore became consumed with anger and hatred, and, in a climactic battle in [[Saint Damien's Cathedral|St. Damien's Cathedral]], [[Canmore, Jon|Jon Canmore]] and Goliath faced off, and Goliath was stopped just short of killing Jon when Elisa came in, and told him that Jason Canmore, the Hunter, had saved her. He was amazed that she was alive. Jon tried to get Jason to join him in destroying the gargoyles, but Jason refused, saying that the hunt was over. At that moment Brooklyn, who had gone to stop Demona, whom the Hunters had come to stop, cried out in pain. Goliath started off to help him, but Jon panicked and fired at Goliath- and Jason jumped in the path of the blast himself. This made Jon's sanity snap, and he flew off, exclaiming that the hunt was not yet over. Goliath stopped Demona's genocidal plan, which involved using science and [[Fulfillment Spell|sorcery]] to create a plague that would wipe the Earth of all intelligent life save gargoyles, who were protected by a mystical statue called the [[Praying Gargoyle]]. Goliath smashed the statue, forcing Demona to abandon her 500-year-old plan. However, earlier, Jon Carter/Canmore had broadcast that the gargoyles were responsible for the clock tower's destruction, and Xanatos came and just barely saved them from the police and a bloodthirsty anti-gargoyle mob.
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In January, [[Timeline#1997|1997]], as Goliath was pondering the future of his clan, he was overjoyed by the return of Coldstone and Coldfire to the clan, as well as shocked by the arrival of the newly aged Brooklyn along with his mate [[Katana]], their son [[Nashville]], their beast [[Fu-Dog]], and their [[Egwardo|egg]]. With his clan now doubled in size since they first awoke, Goliath was filled with renewed hope. ''([[Phoenix|"Phoenix"]])''
  
The clan moved back into their ancestral home, and Xanatos finally called off their feud, as part of his debt to the clan for saving his son from Oberon. On the highest tower of Wyvern, just before sunrise, Goliath and Elisa finally admitted their love for one another, and Elisa kissed him for the first time.
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In May, 1997, while on patrol with Hudson, Goliath was captured by the Gargoyle Taskforce and incarcerated at [[Rikers Island]], in chains and with a [[Shock-Collar|shock-collar]] on. An attorney named [[Tobe Crest]] filed a lawsuit on the gargoyle's behalf which led to a hearing where his very sentience became the subject of debate. Brooklyn attempted to break Goliath out, but the clan leader refused to leave, determined to have his night in court. ''([[Tale Old as Time|"Tale Old as Time"]], [[Render Unto Caesar|"Render Unto Caesar"]], [[Underwater|"Underwater"]])''
  
A little while later, Goliath and Elisa made an attempt to go on a sort of date, but their night was interrupted by a new anti-gargoyle group named the [[Quarrymen]], which was founded by a man named [[Castaway, Jon|Jon Castaway]], who was really the last of the Hunters. [[Grigori, Vinnie|Vinnie]], an odd man whose life was prone to indirect gargoyle interference, and who had gained revenge on Goliath for this by hitting him with a cream pie, had reluctantly joined the Quarrymen, but when Castwawy tried to kill Goliath and planned to kill Elisa, he betrayed the group and helped save the pair.
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Despite saving the life of a [[Renqvist|prison guard]] when [[Wolf]], [[Jackal]], and [[Hyena]] broke into the prison in an attempt on the life of [[Tomas Brod]], Goliath still faced challenges in the courtroom with [[Margot Yale]] arguing against his sentience as witnesses such as Halcyon Renard, John Castaway, and others were brought to the stand. Finally, against Goliath's wishes, Crest called Elisa to the stand and, under oath, she revealed her relationship with Goliath – everything about their relationship. Finally, [[Ian Roebling|Judge Roebling]] ruled that Goliath was both sentient and had the same rights as any other citizen (partially due to a bribe from Xanatos, unbeknownst to Goliath) and set the gargoyle free. Ignoring the press, Goliath received news that Renard was on his death bed and took off to see his friend. ''([[Your Witness|"Your Witness"]], [[New Rules|"New Rules"]])''
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Upon arriving at Fortress-2, Preston Vogel escorted Goliath to Renard's private suite, where Xanatos, Fox, Owen, Anastasia, and Alexander were already gathered. As Renard laid out his wishes, he left Goliath with legal ownership and control of two percent of Cyberbiotics (instantly making Goliath one of the richest individuals in Manhattan). Goliath was reluctant to accept the inheritance but accepted as Halcyon entrusted him to guard Alexander's inheritance and teach him to use it with integrity. Shortly after, Renard passed away. ''([[Young At Heart|"Young At Heart"]])''
  
==Future Plans - Ask Greg==
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Goliath than returned to the castle and reunited with his clan. He was confronted by Coldstone who attempted to air his concerns and reservations of the entire ordeal but was called away by Elisa. Immediately he expressed concerns about the repercussions she would face for her testimony, but as Elisa began to tell him about he NYPD's offer they were interrupted by the arrival of [[Antoinette Dracon]]. Antoinette informed them of her uncle, [[Dino Dracon|Dino Dracon's]] plans to bomb five police precincts and bring the wath of the NYPD down on his rivals. The gargoyles disposed of the bombs and Goliath led the attack on the summit being held by the crime lords in an attempt to resolve their issues and end their gang war (making it clear that they weren't friends and he'd do everything in his power to protect Manhattan from their criminal activities). Following the summit and the apparent death of Dino Dracon, Goliath accepted the police's offer and formally joined the Gargoyle Taskforce. He was welcomed at a public ceremony and given a badge by [[Maria Chavez]]. ''([[Cold Comfort|"Cold Comfort"]])''
Goliath and Elisa would have discussed their relationship and decide to keep it platonic. In an effort to "see other people", Goliath would have gone on a double date with [[Delilah]] as his date and Elisa dating either Jason Canmore or [[Morgan, Morgan|Morgan]]. The outcome would have been Goliath and Elisa realizing that they belonged together. At some point the two of them would have had a [[Commitment Ceremony]]. By [[2198]], Goliath is dead and his descendent; [[Samson]] is leading the Resistance against the [[Space-Spawn]].
 
  
==Apocrypha - The Goliath Chronicles==
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Goliath and Elisa's relationship seemed to quiet down for a while, but Goliath still had many adventures, many of which involved the Quarrymen. Among other things, Goliath went on trial, his "son" Thailog became permanently petrified by a clone-degenerative virus, something that hit Goliath hard, he was sent into another dream world where he was human and married to Elisa by Titania, he was turned into a mind-controlled slave by the [[Illuminati Society|Illuminati]] scientist [[Nexus, Dr.|Dr. Nexus]], and he nearly lost Elisa's trust when he was impersonated by an escaped Proteus. Finally, Goliath and the rest of the clan were lured into a Quarryman trap and thought dead by the entire city, with the exception of Angela and Bronx. They were being taken to face trial on charges of terrorism committed by the clan, but the Quarrymen attacked the train that was transporting them in an attempt to destroy them. Xanatos had saved the clan, and they rescued Angela and Bronx as well as the humans on the train, much to the humans' surprise. Goliath faced down Jon Castaway, and defeated him for the last time. The gargoyles saved the train, and the Quarrymen were sent to jail while the gargoyles were finally accepted.
 
  
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[[Image:GoliathElisa2.png|thumb|left|360px|Goliath and Elisa.]]
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{{CIT|Eventually, Goliath and Elisa would hold some sort of [[Commitment Ceremony]] (probably before 1999) and, further down the road, adopt and raise a child together.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=652][http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1432]  {{CIT|[[Greg Weisman]] confirmed at the [[Gathering of the Gargoyles|2004 Gathering]] that it is from this adopted child that [[Nicholas Natsilane Maza]] will be descended.}}
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{{CIT|At some point between [[Timeline#1998-2197|2004 and 2188]], Goliath would sacrifice his life for some unknown purpose. However, it is known that shortly after his death, and in no small part due to his great sacrifice, the [[United Nations]] would adopt the [[Gargoyle Minority Protection Act]] which granted gargoyles full "sentient rights", established the [[Gargoyle Nation]] and made hunting gargoyles a crime.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/comment/archive/index.php?archive_date=2006-03-06][http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/comment/archive/index.php?archive_date=2009-02-02]
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Physically, Goliath is an impressive figure, a tall and powerfully-built gargoyle with lavender skin and dark hair. He is one of the mightiest warriors alive, and even his most formidable opponents cannot easily defeat him. He is also a bold and fierce gargoyle, and his wrath is something that can be terrible to behold. While a level-headed figure in general, and a good leader, he can be very stubborn at times (such as in his refusal to abandon Castle Wyvern), or sometimes even become bitterly vengeful (as in his feud with the Hunters). But he is no mere savage, and his emotions can be held in check by his strong sense of justice and morality. He takes his role as a protector seriously, and will willingly put his life in danger to keep New York or his clan from harm.
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In another way, Goliath has shown himself to be something more than a fierce gargoyle warrior. He is literate{{CIT|, having been taught how to read by Demona back in the 10th century,}} and has a particular fondness for the classics, such as Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky {{CIT|(he also enjoys Faulkner and Joyce)}}. [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=188][http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1582]  Mingled in with his gargoyle instincts is a thoughtful, philosophical nature; he often ponders about the world and how it has changed since the time that he grew up in. He also eagerly learns all that he can about it from Elisa. His wisdom and sense of hope have helped him endure the fear and prejudice displayed by humans towards gargoyles, not yielding to it as Demona has done, as he continues to understand that humans treat gargoyles thus because they are afraid of them, and hopes that they will change for the better in the future, that someday, their races will be at peace.
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Goliath has been shown to have a very forgiving nature. He did not get angry at Brooklyn for helping Demona trap him with her slavery spell and he forgave the Captain of the Guard for his role in the Wyvern massacre, in both of these cases Goliath saw that they were well intentioned, never meant him any harm, and were genuinely remorseful. When Talon and the mutates learned the truth about Xanatos, Goliath immediately forgave them for believing he was responsible for their mutations. He accepted [[Dingo]]'s desire to redeem himself as genuine. Despite many adversarial encounters, he seems to be on friendly terms with Macbeth (Goliath may be particularly able to empathize with Macbeth as he too has felt the sting of Demona's betrayal). He accepted Xanatos's offer of friendship, though cautiously and more out of necessity. He held out hope longer than any of his clanmates that Demona could be redeemed, although in the end even he was forced to accept that she is a lost cause.  At the same time Goliath has also been shown to have a vengeful nature which often conflicts with his forgiving nature. When Goliath faced Hakon and the Captain of the Guard he had to choose between revenge and saving Princess Katharine, who had always mistreated him. Goliath chose to save Katharine, this turned out to be a wise decision as Katharine became a devoted "mother" to the clan's eggs, but even after learning this Goliath regretted that he did not have a chance to kill Hakon and the Captain (even though they died anyway). When Goliath mistakenly believed [[Tony Dracon]] shot Elisa, he pursued Dracon with violent fury, and only refrained from killing him due to a last minute confession from Broadway. Goliath's vengeful streak was on full display after the Hunters almost killed Angela, having mistaken her for Demona. Goliath's thirst for vengeance led to the Hunters finding and destroying the Clock Tower and Elisa apparently falling to her death. Rather than see how much vengeance had cost him, Goliath doubled down and swore to avenge Elisa as well. As Goliath became increasingly obsessed with revenge, he became more of a mirror for Jason Canmore (just as Jon Canmore ended up becoming a mirror for Demona), in the end both came to their senses in time to stop Demona from killing the entire human race. In a reversal of the usual cartoon trope, Goliath, the hero, is more driven by revenge than Xanatos, the villain, who sees revenge as "a sucker's game".
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{{CIT|'''938'''. ''March''.}} Hatches at Wyvern Hill. [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1465]
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'''971'''. A young warrior, he saves Angel from Culen's Mountain Stronghold. He later helps in the construction of Castle Wyvern. {{CIT|Goliath is named by Prince Malcolm.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1456]
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'''975'''. ''November 1''. Splits the Phoenix Gate with Angel, and vows his love for her. ''("Vows")''
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'''984'''. Tracks the Archmage to [[Archmage's Cave|his cave]] along with [Mentor and Angel.  Catches the ''[[Grimorum Arcanorum]]'' before it falls into a chasm.  After this adventure, Mentor abdicates as leader of the Wyvern Clan and Goliath takes command. ''("Long Way to Morning")''
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'''994'''. ''September 30''. Sends the [[Trio]] and the gargoyle beast later known as Bronx to the rookery for getting in a fight with some [[human]]s. Later takes Mentor along with him to track the [[Viking]]s that have previously attacked them, unknowingly foiling Angel and [[Captain of the Guard|Robbie]]'s plan to rid the castle of the humans. They change the plan so that the Vikings attack [[Castle Wyvern]] during the day. ''("Awakening: Part One", "City of Stone" Part One)''
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''October 1''. Goliath realizes he's been tricked but can't get to the castle in time. Wyvern Massacre occurs.  Mourns Angel, thinking she was killed.  Goliath and the other survivors attack the Viking camp to save the humans.  Saves [[Princess Katharine]] from [[Hakon]] and the Captain. Comes back to find his friends [[Sleep Spell|turned]] to [[Stone Sleep|stone]] by the Magus, who thought the gargoyles caused the death of the Princess.  Goliath asks Katharine to watch over the [[egg]]s before asking the Magus to place the sleep spell upon him. ''("Awakening: Part One", "Awakening: Part Two")''
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'''1940'''. A time traveling Goliath helps [[Griff]] fight the [[Nazi Party|Nazis]] in [[London]] during the [[Battle of Britain]]. ''("M.I.A.")''
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'''1994'''. ''October 4''. Goliath and the others awaken at Castle Wyvern after the breaking of the sleep spell.  The Manhattan Clan is born.  The gargoyles meet David Xanatos, who broke the spell by placing the castle above the clouds. A group of [[Xanatos Goon Squad|commandos]] attack the castle.  They "steal" three diskettes and escape. ''("Awakening: Part Two")''
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''October 5''. Goliath saves [[Elisa Maza]]'s life after he scares her and she falls off the castle. He arranges to meet her the next night right before being asked by Xanatos to get his disks back. Goliath meets with Elisa again and they take an aerial tour of Manhattan. In [[Central Park]], they are attacked by the Commandos again.  They escape but Goliath has been hit with a tranquilizer dart and has no choice but to turn to stone at the coming dawn. ''("Awakening: Part Three", "Awakening: Part Four")''
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''October 6''. Wakes up to find that Elisa has watched over him during the day.  Their friendship is cemented. Goliath returns to the castle and is reunited with Demona.  She and Xanatos convince him to get the disks back. Goliath and Demona attack [[Fortress-1]] and Demona destroys it.  Goliath is disturbed by her behavior.  He meets with Elisa who tells him the disks were the property of [[Cyberbiotics]] and that Xanatos had been using the gargoyles. ''("Awakening: Part Four", "Awakening: Part Five")''
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''October 7''. Returns to the castle to find Steel Clan robots attacking his clan. After the robots are defeated, Demona reveals she has been working against the clan and she tells Goliath of her plan that led to the Massacre.  She reveals her name and is about to shoot Goliath but Elisa tackles her.  Both Demona and Elisa fall off the castle, and Goliath saves Elisa before mourning the loss of his love once again. Elisa stops him from killing Xanatos, who is arrested for receiving stolen property. ''("Awakening: Part Five")''
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''November 5''. [[Lexington]] convinces Goliath to meet [[The Pack]]. The [[Pack]] attacks them but are defeated. ''("The Thrill of the Hunt")''
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''November 12''. Lured to the [[Cloisters]] by [[Brooklyn]], where Demona casts a spell on Goliath from the ''Grimorum Arcanorum'', enslaving his mind. ''([[Temptation|"Temptation"]])''
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''November 13''. Elisa uses the spell to free Goliath's mind. ''("Temptation")''
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''November 15''. [[Owen Burnett|Owen]] gathers genetic material from Goliath. ''([[Double Jeopardy|"Double Jeopardy"]])''
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'''1995'''. ''January 3''. [[Macbeth]] attacks the gargoyles, and abducts Brooklyn, Lexington, and Bronx.  Goliath confronts Macbeth at his mansion, who reveals he is after Demona and that he named her.  The gargoyles escape and Macbeth flees. ''("Enter Macbeth")''
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''January 4''. Elisa, who has been trying to get Goliath to leave the castle, finally convinces him to do so with the help of Hudson and [[Broadway]].  The gargoyles move into the Clock Tower above the [[23rd Precinct]].  ''("Enter Macbeth")''
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''January 20''. Walks into a trap set up by Demona in order to try to reason with her.  Demona shoots Goliath with a laser cannon, but he survives the night, thanks to Hudson's assistance. ''("Long Way to Morning")''
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''February 3''. Accompanies Elisa on her shift, and confronts [[Coldstone]] in [[Times Square]]. Battle between the gargoyles, Coldstone, and Demona takes place at the [[George Washington Bridge]].  Goliath falls into the icy water but is saved by Coldstone, and then saved by him again when Demona shoots at him, supposedly sending Coldstone to his doom.  Goliath declares his clan's new purpose; to protect the citizens of Manhattan. ''("Reawakening")''
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''September 9''. Raids the [[Gen-U-Tech Systems|Gen-U-Tech]] lab along with Brooklyn and Lexington in order to free [[Maggie the Cat|Maggie]], just as [[Anton Sevarius]] seems to be giving [[Talon|Derek Maza]] a cure.  Goliath kicks Sevarius into an eel tank, supposedly killing him, and destroying Derek's chance for a cure.  Derek becomes a [[mutates|mutate]] permanently and blames Goliath for his condition. ''([[Metamorphosis|"Metamorphosis"]])''
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''September 20''. Confronts Coldstone again and enters his mind via [[RECAP]] in order to side with [[Coldstone|"Othello"]] and [[Coldfire|"Desdemona"]] against [[Coldsteel|"Iago"]] and a program designed by Xanatos.  Goliath is successful and returns to his body, but Coldstone is rendered temporarily dormant thanks to a virus. ''([[Legion|"Legion"]])''
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''September 28''. Demona summons Puck using [[Titania's Mirror]]. Puck transforms all the humans of Manhattan into gargoyles, and turns the gargoyles themselves into humans.  Mayhem ensues, but Puck is captured and then released by Goliath after he changes everyone back to normal.  Goliath realizes his feelings for Elisa go deeper than friendship and tries to talk to her about it, but she cuts him off. ''("The Mirror")''
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''October 31''. Xanatos asks Goliath and Elisa for help in getting the Eye of Odin away from [[Fox]], which they refuse.  Goliath attends a Halloween block party with Elisa at Greenwich Village and dances with her.  The [[were]]fox attacks and Goliath aids Xanatos in removing the Eye from her.  Goliath takes possession of the Eye. ''([[Eye of the Beholder|"Eye of the Beholder"]])''
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''November 6''. Attends the wedding of Fox and Xanatos, which is really a trap to get him to give his half of the Phoenix Gate to Demona.  Travels back to 975 with Demona and tells her younger self to remember to keep her vows of love.  He returns back to the present, and seeing that Demona is unchanged, realizes that he has lost her forever. ''("Vows")''
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''November 11''. Agrees to ally with Xanatos to help him break Demona's "stone by night" spell. ''([[City of Stone Part Two|"City of Stone" Part Two]])''
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''November 14''. Goliath and the clan are saved by Elisa and "Othello" at [[Belvedere Castle]] while in stone sleep.  They have been captured by the [[Weird Sisters]] working through Demona and Macbeth as part of their plan to obtain the Phoenix Gate, Eye of Odin, and ''Grimorum Arcanorum'' from the Clock Tower. ''([[High Noon|"High Noon"]])''
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''November 15''. Injured during a fight with the Pack.  Hudson tells him to choose a second in command amongst the trio. ''("Upgrade")''
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''November 17''. Captured by Halcyon Renard while following [[Fortress-2]].  He works with Renard to save the ship after [[Preston Vogel|Vogel]] and Fox try to sabotage it. ''("Outfoxed")''
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''November 24-25''. The clan is introduced to [[Matt Bluestone]] who involves Goliath in his plan to bust [[Mace Malone]] and the [[Illuminati]].  He's put through his paces at the [[Hotel Cabal]] before escaping with Matt. ''([[Revelations|"Revelations"]])''
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''November 29''. Makes a bad first impression with Thailog until Elisa convinces him that the clone is his son.  Thailog chains Goliath up in an oil rig along with Elisa, Xanatos and Sevarius.  Working together they escape, and after a failed attempt to reason with Thailog, Goliath fears that he's failed him. ''("Double Jeopardy")''
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''December 14-15''. Captured by the upgraded Pack along with Elisa, Hudson, and Bronx.  They are saved by the Trio, and Goliath chooses Brooklyn as his second-in-command. ''("Upgrade")''
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''December 19''. Goliath and Broadway help Elisa bust Tony Dracon during his protection racket scheme. Goliath eats a jalapeño pepper before yelling out the infamous [[Jalapeña|catchphrase]]. ''([[Protection|"Protection"]])'' Later he informs Elisa that he's seen the mutates back at the [[Eyrie Building]] and the two of them confront a resistant [[Talon]]. ''([[The Cage|"The Cage"]])''
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''December 20''. Goliath kidnaps Sevarius in order to try to force a cure for the mutates out of him.  Elisa convinces him to release him right before Talon attacks Goliath.  He's nearly killed by Talon, but Xanatos arrives and Talon realizes his error.  Goliath acknowledges that Elisa is part of his clan. ''("The Cage")''
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''December 28''. Departs to [[Avalon]] with [[Guardian|Tom]], Elisa, and Bronx.  There, he is introduced to his rookery children and meets Angela for the first time. ''([[Avalon Part One|"Avalon" Part One]], [[Avalon Part Two|"Avalon" Part Two]])''
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''December 30''. Fights with the enhanced Archmage during the Avalon battle.  He manages to remove the Eye of Odin from him, causing the ''Grimorum Arcanorum'' to destroy the Archmage.  Goliath reclaims the Eye and the Phoenix Gate. ''([[Avalon Part Three|"Avalon" Part Three]])''
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'''1996'''. ''January 1-2''. Departs from Avalon aboard the [[Skiff|skiff]] with Elisa, Angela, and Bronx.  Start of the Avalon World Tour. ''("Avalon" Part Three)''  Arrives at Wyvern Hill where the spirits of Hakon and the Captain of the Guard slowly drive him mad, attempting to steal his life force.  Goliath forgives the Captain after the latter switches sides and saves his life, and the ghost ascends. ''("Shadows of the Past")''
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''January 17''. At [[Loch Ness]], Angela discovers from Sevarius that Goliath is her biological father. ''("Monsters")''
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''January 20''. In [[Prague]], Goliath helps convince Renard to abdicate his soul from the [[Golem]].  Goliath realizes that fate is responsible for the Avalon World tour, and decides to see it through to the end. ''([[Golem|"Golem"]])''
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''January 21''. In [[Paris]], Goliath encounters Demona and Thailog.  Angela learns that Demona is her biological mother, something that troubles Goliath greatly, and he refuses to acknowledge her as his daughter. ''([[Sanctuary|"Sanctuary"]])
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''January 23''. Arriving in [[London]], Goliath meets [[Leo]] and [[Una]] of the [[London Clan]], who blame him for the loss of Griff.  Using the Phoenix Gate, Goliath travels back to 1940, and brings Griff forward to the present time. ''("M.I.A.")''
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''May 2''. Enters the [[Dreamtime]] with [[Dingo]] in [[Australia]] and helps him in convincing the [[Matrix]] from destroying the world. ''([[Walkabout|"Walkabout"]])''
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''May 16-17''.  In [[Nigeria]], [[Diane Maza]] gives Goliath some advice about child-rearing.  After deafeating [[Anansi]] per a suggestion by Angela, Goliath accepts her as his daughter. ''("Mark of the Panther")''
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''May 20-21''. Attempting to retrieve his Eye from Goliath, Odin lures the skiff to [[Norway]].  He kidnaps Elisa, which motivates Goliath to don the Eye himself and become a quasi-[[avatar]] for Odin. [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?rid=417]  A power-hungry fascist, Goliath nearly kills his companions and Odin until Angela brings him to his senses and he removes the Eye.  Odin reclaims his eye. ''("Eye of the Storm")''
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''May 24-26''. Meets the gargoyles of the [[Mayan Clan]] in [[Guatemala]], and helps them defend their home from [[Jackal]] and [[Hyena]]. ''([[The Green|"The Green"]])''
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''June 14-15''. Meets the [[Ishimura Clan]] in [[Japan]], and is abducted along with the other gargoyles by [[Taro]] for his [[Gargoyle Theme Park]].  The gargoyles are liberated with the help of Elisa and [[Hiroshi]]. ''([[Bushido (episode)|"Bushido"]])''
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''July 4-6''. Back on Avalon, Goliath is forced to battle with [[Oberon]] along with Angela and [[Gabriel]].  Later, Oberon decrees Goliath's clan part of his honour guard and immune to his [[magic]]. ''([[Ill Met By Moonlight|"Ill Met By Moonlight"]])''
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''July 8''. Passes out on the skiff and given a horrible nightmare vision from Puck of a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, as per Puck's plan to obtain the Phoenix Gate.  After Goliath awakens, he tosses the gate into the time stream. ''("Future Tense")''
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''July 9-July 10''. Goliath and the others return home.  Not long after he learns of Oberon and Titania's plan to kidnap Alexander, and the clan joins forces with Xanatos and Renard to stop them.  Thanks to a magical outburst by Fox, Goliath convinces Oberon to let Alexander stay, with Puck as his tutor.  Xanatos tells Goliath that he owes him for saving his son. ''([[The Gathering Part One|"The Gathering" Part One]], [[The Gathering Part Two|"The Gathering" Part Two]])''
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''August 1-2''. Goliath and Hudson are attacked by [[Wolf]] and Hakon's ghost.  Goliath defeats Wolf just before Vinnie shows up swearing revenge, and hits Goliath in the face with a banana-cream pie. ''([[Vendettas|"Vendettas"]])''
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''October 24''. Encounters the [[Hunters]] for the first time.  Angela is badly wounded during the fight and Goliath swears vengeance.  Elisa saves her using CPR.  Later, Goliath witnesses Elisa kissing [[Jason Canmore|Jason Conover]] from her balcony.  Doubly upset, he enters the [[Hunters' Airship]] along with Lexington and Brooklyn and encounters Demona.  The gargoyles are captured, and Goliath forms an alliance with Demona before escaping, but not before Robyn Canmore plants a tracer on him. ''("Hunter's Moon" Part One, "Hunter's Moon" Part Two)''
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''October 25''. Using the tracer, the Hunters find the gargoyles and blow up the Clock Tower.  The gargoyles save themselves just in time.  Goliath declares fresh vengeance. Jon Canmore reports on the news that the gargoyles destroyed the Clock Tower, exposing them to the public at large. ''("Hunter's Moon" Part Three)''
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''October 26''. Goliath tracks down the hunters and a fight breaks out on a dam.  Elisa tries to break up the fight but is knocked off the dam along with Jason.  Goliath attempts to rescue her, but is unsuccessful.  Intent on revenge, the whole clan tracks the Hunters to [[Saint Damien's Cathedral]], who are there to stop Demona from carrying out her [[Operation Clean Slate]] plan.  Goliath is about to kill Jon, but is brought to his senses by the arrival of Elisa and Jason.  Jon shoots at Goliath, but Jason takes the blast, causing him to be paralyzed from the waist down.  Jon flees, and the gargoyles attempt to stop Demona. Goliath sabotages her plan by destroying the [[Praying Gargoyle]], and then catches the vial containing the virus before it shatters.  Leaving the cathedral, the gargoyles are cornered by an angry mob and the Gargoyle Taskforce, but Xanatos arrives and rescues them. ''("Hunter's Moon" Part Three)''
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''October 27''. The gargoyles reclaim Castle Wyvern.  Just before dawn, Elisa and Goliath admit their feelings for each other, and she kisses him for the first time. ''("Hunter's Moon" Part Three)''
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''October 29''. Goliath goes to visit Elisa, and the two of them are attacked by Jon Canmore posing as the [[Quarrymen|Quarryman]] John Castaway.  They are pursued to the ruined Clock Tower and are nearly killed, but saved by Vinnie's intervention. ''("Nightwatch", "The Journey")''
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''October 31''. Elisa goes to the castle and breaks up with Goliath.  Heartbroken, he agrees at her insistance to bring [[Delilah]] to Xanatos's Masque later that evening.  At the party, Goliath tries to reason with Elisa, but she flees.  Thailog arrives at that moment with the [[clones]], under the pretense of reclaiming Delilah.  While waiting for her arrival, Thailog stabs Goliath in the gut with a dagger from his gauntlet. ''("Invitation Only", "Masque")''
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''November 1''. A fight breaks out between the Manhattan clan and the clones.  Thailog flees after he obtains blood samples from each member of the clan.  While Goliath is being tended by [[Jay Sato|Dr. Sato]], he and Elisa declare their mutual love and kiss. ''("Bash")''
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''November 4''. Elisa indicates to Goliath that she wants to pursue a relationship with him, and he kisses her after she strokes his hair. ''("The Rock")''
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'''1997'''. ''January 10th.'' Goliath is reunited not only with Hudson and Lexington from their adventure in the United Kingdom, but also Brooklyn, who was accidentally sent dancing through time by the [[Phoenix (entity)|Phoenix]] that was inside the Phoenix Gate. While it was mere seconds after he departed for the rest of the clan, for Brooklyn forty years have passed. He does not return alone. Goliath is greeted to his mate Katana, their son Nashville, the gargoyle beast Fu-Dog and an unhatched gargoyle egg, nicknamed Egwardo. ''([[The Gate|"The Gate"]], "Phoenix")''
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''May 14th.'' Goliath aids in the rescue of Mary and Maggie the Cat from Thailog and Sevarius at the [[Nightstone Unlimited Building]]. There, Maggie and Talon's son, [[Michael Peter Maza]] is born. ''([[Miracle Child|"Miracle Child"]])'' [https://twitter.com/Greg_Weisman/status/1676772018338017281]
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''May 15th.'' [[Peter Choy]] and [[Rosaria Sanchez]] are kidnapped by [[Dino Dracon]] and his men in [[Central Park]]. Goliath is captured and imprisoned by the [[Gargoyle Taskforce]] while confronting the masked perpetrators. Hours after Goliath awakes incarcerated at [[Rikers Island]], lawyer Tobe Crest files a motion regarding the legal rights for the gargoyle. The following evening, Brooklyn, Coldfire, and Coldstone attempt to break Goliath free from Rikers, but he refuses to leave, preferring to have his night at court. ''("Tale Old As Time", "Render Unto Caesar", "Underwater")''
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''May 18th.'' Wolf, Hyena, and Jackal attack Rikers Island. Goliath saves not only Tomas Brod and Tony Dracon, but Riker prison guard [[Renqvist]]. ''([[Mayday|"Mayday"]])''
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''May 19th.'' Goliath's hearing begins. He is given a chance to speak on his own behalf and is cross-examined by Margot Yale. ''("Your Witness")''
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''May 20th.''  The second night of Goliath's hearing.  Elisa takes the witness stand.  With some behind-the-scene encouragement from Xanatos, Judge Roebling ultimately rules in Goliath's favor, declaring him both sentient and deserving the same rights as humans. After he is released from custody, Goliath is notified by Owen that he is needed on Fortress-2. Renard is on his death-bed. Before he passes away that night, Renard gives control of his company to his daughter and grandson (with Vogel as his proxy), with Goliath inheriting a tie-breaking share as well. ''("Your Witness", "New Rules", "Young At Heart")''
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''May 21st.'' Goliath and the rest of the clan foil Dino Dracon's plans to detonate bombs throughout Manhattan, as well as prevent him from taking out the heads of the competing [[Six Families|Five Families]]. ''("Cold Comfort")''
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''July 19''. {{CIT|Goliath makes a bargain.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?rid=579]
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'''1997-1999'''. {{CIT|Sometime during this time, Goliath and Elisa hold a Commitment Ceremony.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=1432]
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'''2004'''. ''August 6''. {{CIT|Goliath is briefly forced into hiding.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?rid=587]
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'''2004-2188'''. {{CIT|At some point between these years, Goliath sacrifices his life for an unknown cause, resulting in the [[United Nations]] adopting the Gargoyle Minority Protection Act.}} [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/comment/archive/index.php?archive_date=2006-03-06][http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/comment/archive/index.php?archive_date=2009-02-02]
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==Appearances==
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{| style="width:100%"
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* [[Awakening Part One|"Awakening: Part One"]] (First Appearance)
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* [[Awakening Part Two|"Awakening: Part Two"]]
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* [[Awakening Part Three|"Awakening: Part Three"]]
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* [[Awakening Part Four|"Awakening: Part Four"]]
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* [[Awakening Part Five|"Awakening: Part Five"]]
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* [[The Thrill of the Hunt|"The Thrill of the Hunt"]]
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* [[Temptation|"Temptation"]]
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* [[Deadly Force|"Deadly Force"]]
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* [[Enter Macbeth|"Enter Macbeth"]]
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* [[The Edge|"The Edge"]]
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* [[Long Way to Morning|"Long Way to Morning"]]
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* [[Her Brother's Keeper|"Her Brother's Keeper"]]
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* [[Reawakening|"Reawakening"]]
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* [[Leader of the Pack|"Leader of the Pack"]]
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* [[Metamorphosis|"Metamorphosis"]]
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* [[Legion|"Legion"]]
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* [[A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time|"A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time"]]
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* [[The Mirror|"The Mirror"]]
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* [[Eye of the Beholder|"Eye of the Beholder"]]
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* [[Vows|"Vows"]]
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* [[City of Stone Part One|"City of Stone" Part One]]
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* [[City of Stone Part Two|"City of Stone" Part Two]]
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* [[City of Stone Part Three|"City of Stone" Part Three]]
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* [[City of Stone Part Four|"City of Stone" Part Four]]
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* [[High Noon|"High Noon"]]
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* [[Outfoxed|"Outfoxed"]]
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* [[Revelations|"Revelations"]]
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* [[Double Jeopardy|"Double Jeopardy"]]
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* [[Upgrade|"Upgrade"]]
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* [[Protection|"Protection"]]
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* [[The Cage|"The Cage"]]
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* [[The Price|"The Price"]]
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* [[Avalon Part One|"Avalon" Part One]]
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* [[Avalon Part Two|"Avalon" Part Two]]
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* [[Avalon Part Three|"Avalon" Part Three]]
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* [[Shadows of the Past|"Shadows of the Past"]]
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* [[Heritage|"Heritage"]]
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* [[Kingdom|"Kingdom"]] (Mentioned Only)
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* [[Monsters|"Monsters"]]
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* [[Golem (episode)|"Golem"]]
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* [[Sanctuary|"Sanctuary"]]
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* [[M.I.A.|"M.I.A."]]
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* [[Grief|"Grief"]]
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* [[The Hound of Ulster|"The Hound of Ulster"]]
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* [[Walkabout|"Walkabout"]]
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* [[Mark of the Panther (episode)|"Mark of the Panther"]]
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* [[Pendragon|"Pendragon"]] (Mentioned Only)
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* [[Eye of the Storm|"Eye of the Storm"]]
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* [[The New Olympians|"The New Olympians"]]
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* [[The Green|"The Green"]]
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* [[Sentinel (episode)|"Sentinel"]]
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* [[Bushido (episode)|"Bushido"]]
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* [[Cloud Fathers (episode)|"Cloud Fathers"]]
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* [[Ill Met By Moonlight|"Ill Met By Moonlight"]]
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* [[Future Tense|"Future Tense"]]
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* [[The Gathering Part One|"The Gathering" Part One]]
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* [[The Gathering Part Two|"The Gathering" Part Two]]
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* [[Vendettas|"Vendettas"]]
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* [[Turf|"Turf"]] (No Lines)
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* [[The Reckoning|"The Reckoning"]]
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* [[Possession|"Possession"]]
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* [[Hunter's Moon Part One|"Hunter's Moon" Part One]]
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* [[Hunter's Moon Part Two|"Hunter's Moon" Part Two]]
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* [[Hunter's Moon Part Three|"Hunter's Moon" Part Three]]
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* [[Nightwatch (episode)|"Nightwatch"]]
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* [[The Journey|"The Journey"]]
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* [[Invitation Only|"Invitation Only"]]
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* [[Masque|"Masque"]]
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* [[Bash|"Bash"]]
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* [[Reunion|"Reunion"]]
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* [[The Rock|"The Rock"]]
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* [[Rock and Roll|"Rock & Roll"]] (Mentioned Only)
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* [[Rock of Ages|"Rock of Ages"]] (No Lines)
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* [[The Gate|"The Gate"]] (Mentioned Only)
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* [[Tyrants|"Tyrants"]] (No lines)
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* [[Phoenix|"Phoenix"]]
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* [[Losers|"Losers"]] (Mentioned Only)
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* [[A Little Crazy|"A Little Crazy"]]
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* [[Idyll or Nightmare|"Idyll or Nightmare"]]
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* [[Miracle Child|"Miracle Child"]]
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* [[Tale Old as Time|"Tale Old as Time"]]
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* [[Render Unto Caesar|"Render Unto Caesar"]]
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* [[Underwater|"Underwater"]]
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* [[Everywhere|"Everywhere"]]
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* [[The Reach|"The Reach"]]
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* [[Mayday|"Mayday"]]
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* [[The Draw|"The Draw"]]
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* [[Your Witness|"Your Witness"]]
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* [[The Oath|"The Oath"]]
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* [[Trick-Or-Treat|"Trick-Or-Treat"]]
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* [[New Rules|"New Rules"]]
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* [[The Promise|"The Promise"]]
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* [[Young At Heart|"Young At Heart"]]
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* [[The Dream|"The Dream"]]
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* [[The Pledge|"The Pledge"]]
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* [[Cold Comfort|"Cold Comfort"]]
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* [[Questions|"Questions"]]
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|}
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==Apocrypha==
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===''[[:Category:Gargoyles Meets The Spectacular Spider-Man Meets Young Justice|Gargoyles Meets The Spectacular Spider-Man Meets Young Justice]]''===
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While [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spectacular_Spider-Man_villains#Norman_Osborn_.2F_Green_Goblin Green Goblin] attacks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spectacular_Spider-Man_villains#L._Thompson_Lincoln_.2F_Tombstone_.2F_Big_Man L. Thompson Lincoln], the deposed Big Man of Crime, Goliath swoops in to stop a pumpkin bomb from hitting Lincoln.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spectacular_Spider-Man_main_characters#Peter_Parker_.2F_Spider-Man Spider-Man] arrives and mistakes Goliath as another of Green Goblin's creatures. The ensuing fight between Goliath and Spider-Man ends when Goliath turns to stone, leaving Spider-Man alone with the Green Goblin.  Spider-Man stopped a pumpkin bomb from hitting the stone Goliath, thrown from Goblin while trying to escape.
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The following night Goliath learns from [[Zafiro]] and [[Obsidiana]] about Demona's smuggling activities and from Elisa about Demona's break-out at Ravencroft Institute. They also get a call from from Matt Bluestone asking for back-up at at an OsCorp vault. Once there, Goliath eventually caught up with Demona, who now possessed both the [[Religious Studies 101: A Handful of Thorns#The Spear of Destiny|Spear of Destiny]] and the [[Religious Studies 101: A Handful of Thorns#The Crown of Thorns|Crown of Thorns]]. Unaffected by the relics' magicks, Goliath battles with Demona, reaching for the Crown. Electro blasts electricity toward Goliath, but he continues but he While the two struggled, Spider-Man managed to web the Crown of Thorns off Demona's head, causing an explosion of mystic energy.
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In the aftermath, Elisa gets a call from Spider-Man, who, while on speaker phone, now sees that Goliath does "the super-hero thing without the tights". Goliath also understands that Spider-Man's protectorate is his "neighborhood". ''([[Religious Studies 101: A Handful of Thorns|"Religious Studies 101: A Handful of Thorns"]])''
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The Manhattan Clan learns that a mystical artifact known as the Hand of [[Brother Valmont|Valmont]] is at risk of being stolen from the Museum of Natural History. Most of the clan, including Goliath, departs to keep an eye on the museum, but they soon realize that the museum was largely a distraction for Demona to kidnap [[Egwardo]] from Castle Wyvern's rookery.
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Following her defeat, Goliath is later approached by Batman and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man Iron Man], both trying to recruit the gargoyle to the [http://youngjustice.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League Justice League] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_%28comics%29 Avengers], respectively.  Xanatos interrupts them and asks both billionaires to join his club "Rich Boys with Big Toys" instead. Goliath and Elisa allow the three to sort it out amongst themselves.  ''([[Recruits|"Recruits"]])''
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<!--Was not lucky enough to see these myself in 2016 or 2018, but I did see Goliath mentioned in the credits on their respective pages.-->''(Other appearances: [[The Cosmos|"The Cosmos"]], [[Musicology 101: Songs of the Theme|"Musicology 101: Songs of the Theme"]])''
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===''[[The Goliath Chronicles]]''===
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After the [[Hunter's Moon]] and the Quarrymen's initial attack, Goliath and Elisa's relationship seemed to quiet down for a while. Goliath still had many adventures, several of which involved the Quarrymen. Among other events, Goliath went on trial; his "son" [[Thailog]] became permanently petrified by a degenerative virus, something that hit Goliath hard; he was sent into another dream world where he was human and married to Elisa by [[Titania]]; he was turned into a mind-controlled slave by the Illuminati scientist [[Dr. Nexus]]; and he nearly lost Elisa's trust when he was impersonated by an escaped [[Proteus]]. ''([[And Justice For All|"And Justice For All"]], [[Genesis Undone|"Genesis Undone"]], [[...For It May Come True|"...For It May Come True"]], [[To Serve Mankind|"To Serve Mankind"]] [[Seeing Isn't Believing|"Seeing Isn't Believing"]])''
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Finally, Goliath and the rest of the [[Manhattan Clan|clan]] were lured into a Quarryman trap and thought dead by the entire city (but secretly saved by Xanatos). Only Angela and Bronx "survived," and they were taken to face trial on charges of terrorism committed by the clan. The Quarrymen attacked the train that was transporting them in an attempt to destroy them, and the clan rescued Angela and Bronx as well as the humans on the train, much to the humans' surprise. Goliath faced down John Castaway, and defeated him for the last time. The gargoyles saved the train, and the Quarrymen were sent to jail while the gargoyles were finally accepted. ''([[Angels In the Night|"Angels In the Night"]])''
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==Production Background==
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[[Image:Goliath_Pitch.PNG|thumb|400px|Elisa and Goliath from the series' pitch. Note the pendant on a chain that was dropped from his final design.]]
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'''Voice Actor:''' [[Keith David]]
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Goliath was not part of the original comedy development of ''Gargoyles''. He first appeared as the title character of "The Gargoyle", the first attempt at turning the show into an action-drama. In this proposed show, "the gargoyle" was the immortal magical creation of an evil wizard who becomes a hero in the modern world. [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?rid=313]
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Some of the names considered for Goliath included "Gar", "Griffin", "Lear", "Calaban", "[[Othello (play)|Othello]]", "Atlas", "Stone", "Prometheus", and "Titan". [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?rid=325][http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?rid=328]
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In addition to the figurines from [[Applause Figures|Applause]] and action figures from [[Kenner Action Figures|Kenner]] during the show's original run, Goliath was also released as a sculpt by both [[Goliath (Bowen Designs)|Bowen Designs]] in 2009 and [[Goliath (Electric Tiki)|Electric Tiki]] in 2011.
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==See Also==
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*{{wikipedia2|Goliath_(Gargoyles)|Goliath (Gargoyles)}}
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Revision as of 21:22, 16 April 2024

Goliath

Goliath was the leader of the Wyvern Clan, and is now the leader of the Manhattan Clan. Frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years, Goliath strives to survive, adapt, and thrive in the modern age as he leads his clan forward making new friends and defending their protectorate from new (and old) foes.


History

Dark Ages

Goliath eagerly learning from Mentor.

The gargoyle later known as Goliath hatched with his rookery in the year 938. [1] In time, he and the young gargoyle he called his Angel began to notice each other, with (at least) Angel anticipating becoming his mate. By the year 971, he was already one of the more noteworthy young warriors in the clan. In that year, Prince Malcolm made an alliance with the Wyvern Clan's Rhydderch, in an effort to help his brother, Kenneth II, win the crown from King Culen. Before the battle began, the clan leader ordered Goliath's generation to remain at Wyvern Hill, much to the frustration of Goliath's rookery sister, Hyppolyta. While Goliath did not want to challenge his Rhydderch's decision, the young warrior did not want to better understand it. His leader explained that, facing the prospect that there could be casualties – humans and gargoyles alike – he needed capable warriors to protect Wyvern Hill and its rookery. ("The Reach")

The next night, Goliath and his rookery brothers and sisters watched from the cliffside as their elders engage in the battle below. Trouble soon developed when Hyppolyta and Angel suddenly jumped into the skirmish. While the advantage appeared to be with Kenneth's various forces, the two young gargoyles' disobedience would lead to not only the death of one of Goliath's rookery mothers, "Verity", but in Angel's capture as well. Unwilling to remain at his post any longer, Goliath descended upon her captor, King Culen, demanding her release. To ensure her safety, the clan's Rhydderch had to assure both his infuriated rookery son and the humans he had aligned with that he would not abandon his rookery daughter nor let the tyrant king escape. The following evening, the clan's second-in-command reported the whereabouts of Culen's Mountain Stronghold, and – after the Archmage provided the initial distraction – the clan's Rhydderch and Goliath made short work of King Culen and his men. While the gargoyle leader rescued Culen's son Constantine III, Goliath freed his love. In the days that followed, Goliath and the rest of the clan would participate in a Wind Ceremony for the casualties they suffered from the conflict. ("The Draw", "The Oath")

When Malcolm was bestowed the title Prince of Wyvern, he invited the clan's Rhydderch (whom he began to call Mentor) to continue their alliance, believing that mutually protecting each other's people day and night to be strategically advantageous for everyone. A castle was soon commissioned on Wyvern Hill, with humans assisting in the construction during the day, and Goliath and his rookery brothers and sisters continuing in the evening. One human, the Captain of the Guard, would work the nightshift with the gargoyles, becoming acquainted with Goliath and his rookery siblings. ("The Promise", "The Dream")

When the dragon Wyvern attacked the unfinished fortress at Wyvern Hill, Goliath took to the skies with Mentor's other gargoyle warriors to successfully drive back the dragon. ("The Pledge")

As time passed, he was bestowed the name "Goliath" and compared to the strength and battle-prowess of the Philistine giant who fought and was slain by the young David; on a darker note, the name also evoked the fear that most humans held towards gargoyles, given that its original was one of the best-known villains in the Bible. [2] Thus, even by 994, Goliath was the only gargoyle in the clan to bear a name, and it is likely that even he did not view it as anything more than an odd human label. ("Awakening: Part One")

Mentor passes leadership on to Goliath in 984.
Goliath and his Angel of the Night.

In 975, they parted the Phoenix Gate between them as a token of their love for each other. They lost their virginity to each other that night. [3] Together, they conceived an egg in 987. [4][5] This egg would later hatch into Angela. Goliath's love for Angel may well have been deeper than hers for him, however, since even then, she was, to a certain extent, using him for her own goals (in particular, her growing hatred of humans, and her ambition for power), though Goliath never suspected it. ("Vows", "Long Way To Morning")

In 984, Mentor was blinded in one eye by the Archmage and abdicated from his position of leadership. He appointed Goliath (who was already his second-in-command by then) to take his place. Goliath led the gargoyles faithfully for the next ten years, defending the castle from its enemies. Human antipathy towards the gargoyles grew steadily in Castle Wyvern during this time, particularly after the death of Prince Malcolm and the accession of Princess Katharine. Many of the gargoyles, particularly Angel, came to resent the humans for their disdainful attitude towards the gargoyles. But Goliath steadfastly continued to protect the humans, understanding that they treated the clan as they did because they were afraid of it and it seemed strange and alien to them, and hoping that relations between the two races would improve in time to come. ("Long Way To Morning", "Awakening: Part One")


The End of an Old Life

Goliath denied his revenge.
Stone at night.

By 994, however, Angel and the Captain of the Guard had had enough of the gargoyles' poor treatment, and decided to betray Katharine and her people to Hakon and his Vikings. However, Goliath unwittingly helped foil their plan; when they urged him to take all the gargoyles away to pursue the Vikings, he refused, feeling that it would leave Castle Wyvern open to attack in their absence. Instead, he took just Mentor with him. The Captain consequently had to change his plan to have Hakon attack in the daytime, resulting in the Wyvern Massacre. Goliath and Mentor returned to find the rest of the clan dead, except for the Trio and the gargoyle beast known as Bronx (whom Goliath had sent down to the rookery for getting into a fight with some of the humans) and Angel, who had fled the castle to hide herself. Goliath believed her to be among the dead, however, and was grief-stricken. ("Awakening: Part Two", "City of Stone" Part One)

He quickly led the other surviving gargoyles to the Vikings' camp at the Archmage's Cave, for the purpose of both rescuing the humans and avenging the slaughter of his clan. While the other gargoyles were fighting the Vikings, Goliath cornered Hakon and the Captain of the Guard, with Princess Katharine as their prisoner, at the edge of a cliff nearby, and learned of the Captain's treachery. When he lunged at them in their fury, Hakon and the Captain fell off the cliff to their deaths; Katharine fell as well, but Goliath was able to rescue her. In his absence, however, the Magus, believing the Princess to be dead, had cursed the other gargoyles so that they would sleep, locked in stone, "until the castle rose above the clouds". Because Hakon had burned the page with the counter-spell on it, the Magus was powerless to undo what he had done. Goliath, filled with grief and despair at being completely alone, first entrusted the clan's eggs to Princess Katharine, and then asked the Magus to cast his spell upon him as well.


Awakening

Xanatos and Goliath.
Goliath and Elisa truly become allies.

A thousand years later, Goliath and his clan were awakened by David Xanatos, when he purchased Castle Wyvern and moved it to the top of the Eyrie Building in Manhattan, New York City, thus fulfilling the terms of the spell's undoing. ("Awakening: Part Two")

Xanatos and Demona had carried out this scheme together, hoping to use Goliath and his clan for their own ends, and began by duping them into stealing three computer disks from Cyberbiotics, which they had deluded Goliath into thinking had been stolen from Xanatos. Goliath was temporarily overjoyed at discovering that Demona was still alive, but that joy faded as he gradually came to discover how she had changed over the centuries. Also, the same night that the gargoyles awoke in New York for the first time, Goliath met Elisa Maza, who had come to the castle to investigate the disturbances caused by the initial clash between the clan and Xanatos's thugs. He rescued her when she fell off the top of the castle wall in fear of him, and the two of them soon came to become friends, particularly after Elisa risked her life to protect him in his stone sleep from the Commandos in Central Park. It was Elisa who revealed Xanatos's true nature to Goliath, warning him in sufficient time that he was able to foil Xanatos and Demona's attempt to destroy the clan with their new Steel Clan robots, once it became clear to them that the gargoyles would not be quite so useful to their schemes as they had originally intended. ("Awakening: Part Two", "Awakening: Part Three", "Awakening: Part Four", "Awakening: Part Five")

Although Xanatos was sent to prison in the immediate aftermath of the Steel Clan's defeat, he still owned the castle, and Elisa urged Goliath to leave it with his clan and find a new home. Goliath refused, unwilling to leave his last link to the 10th century, but after the gargoyles were attacked there by Macbeth, and Lexington, Brooklyn, and Bronx were temporarily captured, he finally gave in and moved, reluctantly, to the Clock Tower, though vowing to someday return and win the castle back from Xanatos. ("The Thrill of the Hunt", "Enter Macbeth")

Despite his anger and grief at having had to leave Castle Wyvern, Goliath settled into the Clock Tower soon enough. During his first winter in New York, he began to learn more about Elisa's work as a detective and her vow, as part of the NYPD, to protect the innocent citizens in the city from criminals. Realizing how much this echoed his own vow to protect the castle, Goliath used this as inspiration to redefine his role as a protector, taking a new oath that henceforth, he and his clan would protect the inhabitants of New York, both human and gargoyle, particularly through foiling criminals. ("Reawakening")


Expanded Protectorate, Expanded Worldview

Goliath as a human and Elisa in "The Mirror".

Goliath took to his new role well enough, but remained torn in his heart; he still had his old feelings for Demona, despite her having turned evil, and longed to have her back with him, but was also developing new feelings for Elisa (feelings which grew stronger when Puck temporarily transformed her into a gargoyle, bringing those feelings he didn't know he had to the surface). ("Vows", "The Mirror")

Demona took advantage of Goliath's "torch-carrying" for her by tricking him into giving her his piece of the Phoenix Gate, which to him was only a token of her love, and using it to transport herself and Xanatos to the year 975, accidentally taking Goliath along with them. Goliath became involved in an effort by the Demona of the present to subvert the Demona of 975, and urged the younger version of Demona to not follow that dark path, but remain true to her vows of love.

Unfortunately, his hopes of changing Demona for the better in the present failed, since history is immutable; after discovering that the Demona of 1995 still had abandoned her love for him in favor of her hatred for humanity, he had to face, at last, the fact that they would never be together again. ("Vows")

Goliath had other adventures following his first journey to the past. He met Halcyon Renard, the CEO of Cyberbiotics, and with his help, learned to finally take responsibility for his part in the Cyberbiotics raid. He also discovered the existence of Thailog, a clone of him made by Xanatos, who was even more villainous than Xanatos ever was; Goliath viewed Thailog (with a little help from Elisa) as his son and made the effort to reach out to him, which Thailog contemptuously rejected. In the time to come, Thailog would become one of Goliath's most deadly adversaries. ("Outfoxed", "Double Jeopardy")

Any notion of settling into their new lives would soon be disguarded. In November 1995, Goliath became badly injured after another altercation with the Pack. The incident convinced Hudson (and Goliath in turn) that he needed to pick a new second-in-command. After a month of avoiding the decision from the unfounded concern that it might drive a wedge between the Trio, Goliath chose Brooklyn. Weeks later, a grown-up Tom came from Avalon to New York, and warned Goliath of the Archmage's attack upon Avalon. Goliath, Elisa, and Bronx accompanied Tom there, to meet the Avalon Clan for the first time, including Angela, the biological daughter of Goliath and Demona. After Goliath defeated the Archmage, he, Elisa, Bronx, and Angela left Avalon to return to New York. But since Avalon sends one, not where one wants to go, but where one needs to be, it would be months before they finally came home. ("Upgrade", "Avalon" Part One, "Avalon" Part Two, "Avalon" Part Three)

Goliath dons the Eye of Odin

Goliath had more adventures during the "Avalon World Tour" of a personal nature. He encountered the ghosts of the Captain of the Guard and Hakon in the Archmage's Cave, and finally made his peace with the Captain. He used the Phoenix Gate to take him back in time to 1940, to rescue Griff in the Battle of Britain and bring him forward in time. He also briefly donned the Eye of Odin in order to battle Odin, but came dangerously close to becoming corrupted by it, only saved by Angela's intervention. But perhaps the most important thing that happened to him during this odyssey was his acknowledgement of Angela as his daughter. He was reluctant to do this when he learned of their biological link, for it ran contrary to gargoyle instinct and felt like favoritism to him and was also worried about what Angela would do when she learned that Demona was her biological mother. [6] So he rejected her urges to accept her as his child for a long while. But in the end, Diane Maza persuaded him to reconsider his treatment of her, arguing that giving special treatment to the only child traveling with him did not run contrary to the Gargoyle Way. Goliath acknowledged his daughter at last, to her great joy. ("Shadows of the Past", "M.I.A.", "Eye of the Storm", "Monsters", "Mark of the Panther")

As the four companions neared New York at last, near the end of the world tour, Goliath had one last, horrendous, adventure, when Puck visited upon him an illusion in which they had returned to New York, but forty years in the future, by which time Xanatos (or, more accurately, a traitorous Lexington masquerading as Xanatos) had taken over the city, and was preparing to take over the entire planet from there. Puck's motive was to trick Goliath into giving him the Phoenix Gate; Goliath finally realized, almost at the last moment, what was going on here, and to prevent future attempts to seize the Gate, threw it away into the timestream, hoping that it would be lost there forever. ("Future Tense")

Goliath and Elisa

Goliath returned to New York, to become involved in an attempt by Oberon and Titania to kidnap the new-born Alexander Xanatos. Goliath was unwilling to see even his greatest enemy deprived of his child, and so led his clan against Oberon to thwart him; they were defeated, but after Fox mustered up enough of her "halfling strength" to strike Oberon with a spell, Goliath used the incident to persuade the magical rulers to let Alex stay in the human world and be tutored in magic. Xanatos, grateful to Goliath for this act, promised to do whatever he could to repay the gargoyles; Goliath was skeptical, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. ("The Gathering" Part One, "The Gathering" Part Two)

Not long afterwards, Jason, Robyn, and Jon Canmore came to New York in search of Demona, and while hunting for her, came upon Goliath, Hudson, and Angela. Mistaking Angela for Demona, they attacked and almost killed her. Goliath angrily vowed revenge, and so began a terrible feud between his clan and the Hunters that resulted in the destruction of the Clock Tower, the exposure of the gargoyles to the public, and Elisa almost dying when a battle between Goliath and Jason inadvertently knocking her off the top of a dam. In the final battle with the Hunters at Saint Damien's Cathedral, however, Elisa finally arrived and managed to stop Goliath from killing the Hunters, and he, having come to his senses, quickly followed that with thwarting a genocidal scheme that Demona had developed to destroy all humanity. The gargoyles were trapped by the Gargoyle Taskforce in the cathedral afterwards, and almost captured, but Xanatos came to their aid and gave them shelter at the castle, in gratitude for their having saved his son from Oberon earlier. In the immediate aftermath, Goliath and Elisa finally admitted the feelings that they had developed for each other, and she kissed him for the first time. ("Hunter's Moon" Part One, "Hunter's Moon" Part Two, "Hunter's Moon" Part Three)


The Journey Continues

Goliath on the stand.
Goliath and Elisa declare their love.

Goliath and Elisa were soon afterwards the first targets of John Castaway in his war against the gargoyles, but rescued by Vinnie. ("Nightwatch", "The Journey") On Halloween of 1996, Elisa was asked on a date by her coworker Officer Morgan – an offer she initially refused, because of her relationship with Goliath. However, because of this offer, as well as a conversation with Jason Canmore, Elisa came to believe that the practical difficulties of a relationship between a gargoyle and a human were too great to overcome. Certain things that she wanted from a long-term relationship (including children) were impossible to attain with Goliath. That evening, she ended their relationship, and encouraged him to pursue a relationship with Delilah, which he did by inviting her to a masquerade ball to be held at the Eyrie Building. ("Invitation Only")

Elisa, who had been invited to the same ball, finally accepted Morgan's offer and brought him. This "double date" (an idea of Greg Weisman's that he revealed long before the publication of the comic) only served to make Goliath and Elisa understand how much they meant to each other, but before any sort of reconciliation could be achieved the party was crashed by Thailog, who had come to collect Delilah, and stabbed Goliath in the gut. Goliath was then tortured by Thailog, and might have perished if not for the intervention of the rest of the gargoyles, as well as Dr. Sato. Realizing that it could no longer be denied, Goliath and Elisa finally declared their mutual love. ("Masque", "Bash")

A few nights later, he told Elisa that he would not hold her to any words said when he was on the verge of death, and reminded her of the things he could not give her and her desire for a normal life. Elisa replied that "normalcy is so over-rated." Overjoyed, the two kissed. ("The Rock")

In January, 1997, as Goliath was pondering the future of his clan, he was overjoyed by the return of Coldstone and Coldfire to the clan, as well as shocked by the arrival of the newly aged Brooklyn along with his mate Katana, their son Nashville, their beast Fu-Dog, and their egg. With his clan now doubled in size since they first awoke, Goliath was filled with renewed hope. ("Phoenix")

In May, 1997, while on patrol with Hudson, Goliath was captured by the Gargoyle Taskforce and incarcerated at Rikers Island, in chains and with a shock-collar on. An attorney named Tobe Crest filed a lawsuit on the gargoyle's behalf which led to a hearing where his very sentience became the subject of debate. Brooklyn attempted to break Goliath out, but the clan leader refused to leave, determined to have his night in court. ("Tale Old as Time", "Render Unto Caesar", "Underwater")

Despite saving the life of a prison guard when Wolf, Jackal, and Hyena broke into the prison in an attempt on the life of Tomas Brod, Goliath still faced challenges in the courtroom with Margot Yale arguing against his sentience as witnesses such as Halcyon Renard, John Castaway, and others were brought to the stand. Finally, against Goliath's wishes, Crest called Elisa to the stand and, under oath, she revealed her relationship with Goliath – everything about their relationship. Finally, Judge Roebling ruled that Goliath was both sentient and had the same rights as any other citizen (partially due to a bribe from Xanatos, unbeknownst to Goliath) and set the gargoyle free. Ignoring the press, Goliath received news that Renard was on his death bed and took off to see his friend. ("Your Witness", "New Rules")

Goliath joins the Gargoyle Taskforce.

Upon arriving at Fortress-2, Preston Vogel escorted Goliath to Renard's private suite, where Xanatos, Fox, Owen, Anastasia, and Alexander were already gathered. As Renard laid out his wishes, he left Goliath with legal ownership and control of two percent of Cyberbiotics (instantly making Goliath one of the richest individuals in Manhattan). Goliath was reluctant to accept the inheritance but accepted as Halcyon entrusted him to guard Alexander's inheritance and teach him to use it with integrity. Shortly after, Renard passed away. ("Young At Heart")

Goliath than returned to the castle and reunited with his clan. He was confronted by Coldstone who attempted to air his concerns and reservations of the entire ordeal but was called away by Elisa. Immediately he expressed concerns about the repercussions she would face for her testimony, but as Elisa began to tell him about he NYPD's offer they were interrupted by the arrival of Antoinette Dracon. Antoinette informed them of her uncle, Dino Dracon's plans to bomb five police precincts and bring the wath of the NYPD down on his rivals. The gargoyles disposed of the bombs and Goliath led the attack on the summit being held by the crime lords in an attempt to resolve their issues and end their gang war (making it clear that they weren't friends and he'd do everything in his power to protect Manhattan from their criminal activities). Following the summit and the apparent death of Dino Dracon, Goliath accepted the police's offer and formally joined the Gargoyle Taskforce. He was welcomed at a public ceremony and given a badge by Maria Chavez. ("Cold Comfort")


Future

Goliath and Elisa.

Eventually, Goliath and Elisa would hold some sort of Commitment Ceremony (probably before 1999) and, further down the road, adopt and raise a child together. [7][8] Greg Weisman confirmed at the 2004 Gathering that it is from this adopted child that Nicholas Natsilane Maza will be descended.

At some point between 2004 and 2188, Goliath would sacrifice his life for some unknown purpose. However, it is known that shortly after his death, and in no small part due to his great sacrifice, the United Nations would adopt the Gargoyle Minority Protection Act which granted gargoyles full "sentient rights", established the Gargoyle Nation and made hunting gargoyles a crime. [9][10]


Characteristics

Physically, Goliath is an impressive figure, a tall and powerfully-built gargoyle with lavender skin and dark hair. He is one of the mightiest warriors alive, and even his most formidable opponents cannot easily defeat him. He is also a bold and fierce gargoyle, and his wrath is something that can be terrible to behold. While a level-headed figure in general, and a good leader, he can be very stubborn at times (such as in his refusal to abandon Castle Wyvern), or sometimes even become bitterly vengeful (as in his feud with the Hunters). But he is no mere savage, and his emotions can be held in check by his strong sense of justice and morality. He takes his role as a protector seriously, and will willingly put his life in danger to keep New York or his clan from harm.

In another way, Goliath has shown himself to be something more than a fierce gargoyle warrior. He is literate, having been taught how to read by Demona back in the 10th century, and has a particular fondness for the classics, such as Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky (he also enjoys Faulkner and Joyce). [11][12] Mingled in with his gargoyle instincts is a thoughtful, philosophical nature; he often ponders about the world and how it has changed since the time that he grew up in. He also eagerly learns all that he can about it from Elisa. His wisdom and sense of hope have helped him endure the fear and prejudice displayed by humans towards gargoyles, not yielding to it as Demona has done, as he continues to understand that humans treat gargoyles thus because they are afraid of them, and hopes that they will change for the better in the future, that someday, their races will be at peace.

Goliath has been shown to have a very forgiving nature. He did not get angry at Brooklyn for helping Demona trap him with her slavery spell and he forgave the Captain of the Guard for his role in the Wyvern massacre, in both of these cases Goliath saw that they were well intentioned, never meant him any harm, and were genuinely remorseful. When Talon and the mutates learned the truth about Xanatos, Goliath immediately forgave them for believing he was responsible for their mutations. He accepted Dingo's desire to redeem himself as genuine. Despite many adversarial encounters, he seems to be on friendly terms with Macbeth (Goliath may be particularly able to empathize with Macbeth as he too has felt the sting of Demona's betrayal). He accepted Xanatos's offer of friendship, though cautiously and more out of necessity. He held out hope longer than any of his clanmates that Demona could be redeemed, although in the end even he was forced to accept that she is a lost cause. At the same time Goliath has also been shown to have a vengeful nature which often conflicts with his forgiving nature. When Goliath faced Hakon and the Captain of the Guard he had to choose between revenge and saving Princess Katharine, who had always mistreated him. Goliath chose to save Katharine, this turned out to be a wise decision as Katharine became a devoted "mother" to the clan's eggs, but even after learning this Goliath regretted that he did not have a chance to kill Hakon and the Captain (even though they died anyway). When Goliath mistakenly believed Tony Dracon shot Elisa, he pursued Dracon with violent fury, and only refrained from killing him due to a last minute confession from Broadway. Goliath's vengeful streak was on full display after the Hunters almost killed Angela, having mistaken her for Demona. Goliath's thirst for vengeance led to the Hunters finding and destroying the Clock Tower and Elisa apparently falling to her death. Rather than see how much vengeance had cost him, Goliath doubled down and swore to avenge Elisa as well. As Goliath became increasingly obsessed with revenge, he became more of a mirror for Jason Canmore (just as Jon Canmore ended up becoming a mirror for Demona), in the end both came to their senses in time to stop Demona from killing the entire human race. In a reversal of the usual cartoon trope, Goliath, the hero, is more driven by revenge than Xanatos, the villain, who sees revenge as "a sucker's game".

Upon joining the NYPD's Gargoyle Taskforce, his badge number was 92994.

Timeline

938. March. Hatches at Wyvern Hill. [13]


971. A young warrior, he saves Angel from Culen's Mountain Stronghold. He later helps in the construction of Castle Wyvern. Goliath is named by Prince Malcolm. [14]


975. November 1. Splits the Phoenix Gate with Angel, and vows his love for her. ("Vows")


984. Tracks the Archmage to his cave along with [Mentor and Angel. Catches the Grimorum Arcanorum before it falls into a chasm. After this adventure, Mentor abdicates as leader of the Wyvern Clan and Goliath takes command. ("Long Way to Morning")


994. September 30. Sends the Trio and the gargoyle beast later known as Bronx to the rookery for getting in a fight with some humans. Later takes Mentor along with him to track the Vikings that have previously attacked them, unknowingly foiling Angel and Robbie's plan to rid the castle of the humans. They change the plan so that the Vikings attack Castle Wyvern during the day. ("Awakening: Part One", "City of Stone" Part One)

October 1. Goliath realizes he's been tricked but can't get to the castle in time. Wyvern Massacre occurs. Mourns Angel, thinking she was killed. Goliath and the other survivors attack the Viking camp to save the humans. Saves Princess Katharine from Hakon and the Captain. Comes back to find his friends turned to stone by the Magus, who thought the gargoyles caused the death of the Princess. Goliath asks Katharine to watch over the eggs before asking the Magus to place the sleep spell upon him. ("Awakening: Part One", "Awakening: Part Two")


1940. A time traveling Goliath helps Griff fight the Nazis in London during the Battle of Britain. ("M.I.A.")


1994. October 4. Goliath and the others awaken at Castle Wyvern after the breaking of the sleep spell. The Manhattan Clan is born. The gargoyles meet David Xanatos, who broke the spell by placing the castle above the clouds. A group of commandos attack the castle. They "steal" three diskettes and escape. ("Awakening: Part Two")

October 5. Goliath saves Elisa Maza's life after he scares her and she falls off the castle. He arranges to meet her the next night right before being asked by Xanatos to get his disks back. Goliath meets with Elisa again and they take an aerial tour of Manhattan. In Central Park, they are attacked by the Commandos again. They escape but Goliath has been hit with a tranquilizer dart and has no choice but to turn to stone at the coming dawn. ("Awakening: Part Three", "Awakening: Part Four")

October 6. Wakes up to find that Elisa has watched over him during the day. Their friendship is cemented. Goliath returns to the castle and is reunited with Demona. She and Xanatos convince him to get the disks back. Goliath and Demona attack Fortress-1 and Demona destroys it. Goliath is disturbed by her behavior. He meets with Elisa who tells him the disks were the property of Cyberbiotics and that Xanatos had been using the gargoyles. ("Awakening: Part Four", "Awakening: Part Five")

October 7. Returns to the castle to find Steel Clan robots attacking his clan. After the robots are defeated, Demona reveals she has been working against the clan and she tells Goliath of her plan that led to the Massacre. She reveals her name and is about to shoot Goliath but Elisa tackles her. Both Demona and Elisa fall off the castle, and Goliath saves Elisa before mourning the loss of his love once again. Elisa stops him from killing Xanatos, who is arrested for receiving stolen property. ("Awakening: Part Five")

November 5. Lexington convinces Goliath to meet The Pack. The Pack attacks them but are defeated. ("The Thrill of the Hunt")

November 12. Lured to the Cloisters by Brooklyn, where Demona casts a spell on Goliath from the Grimorum Arcanorum, enslaving his mind. ("Temptation")

November 13. Elisa uses the spell to free Goliath's mind. ("Temptation")

November 15. Owen gathers genetic material from Goliath. ("Double Jeopardy")


1995. January 3. Macbeth attacks the gargoyles, and abducts Brooklyn, Lexington, and Bronx. Goliath confronts Macbeth at his mansion, who reveals he is after Demona and that he named her. The gargoyles escape and Macbeth flees. ("Enter Macbeth")

January 4. Elisa, who has been trying to get Goliath to leave the castle, finally convinces him to do so with the help of Hudson and Broadway. The gargoyles move into the Clock Tower above the 23rd Precinct. ("Enter Macbeth")

January 20. Walks into a trap set up by Demona in order to try to reason with her. Demona shoots Goliath with a laser cannon, but he survives the night, thanks to Hudson's assistance. ("Long Way to Morning")

February 3. Accompanies Elisa on her shift, and confronts Coldstone in Times Square. Battle between the gargoyles, Coldstone, and Demona takes place at the George Washington Bridge. Goliath falls into the icy water but is saved by Coldstone, and then saved by him again when Demona shoots at him, supposedly sending Coldstone to his doom. Goliath declares his clan's new purpose; to protect the citizens of Manhattan. ("Reawakening")

September 9. Raids the Gen-U-Tech lab along with Brooklyn and Lexington in order to free Maggie, just as Anton Sevarius seems to be giving Derek Maza a cure. Goliath kicks Sevarius into an eel tank, supposedly killing him, and destroying Derek's chance for a cure. Derek becomes a mutate permanently and blames Goliath for his condition. ("Metamorphosis")

September 20. Confronts Coldstone again and enters his mind via RECAP in order to side with "Othello" and "Desdemona" against "Iago" and a program designed by Xanatos. Goliath is successful and returns to his body, but Coldstone is rendered temporarily dormant thanks to a virus. ("Legion")

September 28. Demona summons Puck using Titania's Mirror. Puck transforms all the humans of Manhattan into gargoyles, and turns the gargoyles themselves into humans. Mayhem ensues, but Puck is captured and then released by Goliath after he changes everyone back to normal. Goliath realizes his feelings for Elisa go deeper than friendship and tries to talk to her about it, but she cuts him off. ("The Mirror")

October 31. Xanatos asks Goliath and Elisa for help in getting the Eye of Odin away from Fox, which they refuse. Goliath attends a Halloween block party with Elisa at Greenwich Village and dances with her. The werefox attacks and Goliath aids Xanatos in removing the Eye from her. Goliath takes possession of the Eye. ("Eye of the Beholder")

November 6. Attends the wedding of Fox and Xanatos, which is really a trap to get him to give his half of the Phoenix Gate to Demona. Travels back to 975 with Demona and tells her younger self to remember to keep her vows of love. He returns back to the present, and seeing that Demona is unchanged, realizes that he has lost her forever. ("Vows")

November 11. Agrees to ally with Xanatos to help him break Demona's "stone by night" spell. ("City of Stone" Part Two)

November 14. Goliath and the clan are saved by Elisa and "Othello" at Belvedere Castle while in stone sleep. They have been captured by the Weird Sisters working through Demona and Macbeth as part of their plan to obtain the Phoenix Gate, Eye of Odin, and Grimorum Arcanorum from the Clock Tower. ("High Noon")

November 15. Injured during a fight with the Pack. Hudson tells him to choose a second in command amongst the trio. ("Upgrade")

November 17. Captured by Halcyon Renard while following Fortress-2. He works with Renard to save the ship after Vogel and Fox try to sabotage it. ("Outfoxed")

November 24-25. The clan is introduced to Matt Bluestone who involves Goliath in his plan to bust Mace Malone and the Illuminati. He's put through his paces at the Hotel Cabal before escaping with Matt. ("Revelations")

November 29. Makes a bad first impression with Thailog until Elisa convinces him that the clone is his son. Thailog chains Goliath up in an oil rig along with Elisa, Xanatos and Sevarius. Working together they escape, and after a failed attempt to reason with Thailog, Goliath fears that he's failed him. ("Double Jeopardy")

December 14-15. Captured by the upgraded Pack along with Elisa, Hudson, and Bronx. They are saved by the Trio, and Goliath chooses Brooklyn as his second-in-command. ("Upgrade")

December 19. Goliath and Broadway help Elisa bust Tony Dracon during his protection racket scheme. Goliath eats a jalapeño pepper before yelling out the infamous catchphrase. ("Protection") Later he informs Elisa that he's seen the mutates back at the Eyrie Building and the two of them confront a resistant Talon. ("The Cage")

December 20. Goliath kidnaps Sevarius in order to try to force a cure for the mutates out of him. Elisa convinces him to release him right before Talon attacks Goliath. He's nearly killed by Talon, but Xanatos arrives and Talon realizes his error. Goliath acknowledges that Elisa is part of his clan. ("The Cage")

December 28. Departs to Avalon with Tom, Elisa, and Bronx. There, he is introduced to his rookery children and meets Angela for the first time. ("Avalon" Part One, "Avalon" Part Two)

December 30. Fights with the enhanced Archmage during the Avalon battle. He manages to remove the Eye of Odin from him, causing the Grimorum Arcanorum to destroy the Archmage. Goliath reclaims the Eye and the Phoenix Gate. ("Avalon" Part Three)


1996. January 1-2. Departs from Avalon aboard the skiff with Elisa, Angela, and Bronx. Start of the Avalon World Tour. ("Avalon" Part Three) Arrives at Wyvern Hill where the spirits of Hakon and the Captain of the Guard slowly drive him mad, attempting to steal his life force. Goliath forgives the Captain after the latter switches sides and saves his life, and the ghost ascends. ("Shadows of the Past")

January 17. At Loch Ness, Angela discovers from Sevarius that Goliath is her biological father. ("Monsters")

January 20. In Prague, Goliath helps convince Renard to abdicate his soul from the Golem. Goliath realizes that fate is responsible for the Avalon World tour, and decides to see it through to the end. ("Golem")

January 21. In Paris, Goliath encounters Demona and Thailog. Angela learns that Demona is her biological mother, something that troubles Goliath greatly, and he refuses to acknowledge her as his daughter. ("Sanctuary")

January 23. Arriving in London, Goliath meets Leo and Una of the London Clan, who blame him for the loss of Griff. Using the Phoenix Gate, Goliath travels back to 1940, and brings Griff forward to the present time. ("M.I.A.")

May 2. Enters the Dreamtime with Dingo in Australia and helps him in convincing the Matrix from destroying the world. ("Walkabout")

May 16-17. In Nigeria, Diane Maza gives Goliath some advice about child-rearing. After deafeating Anansi per a suggestion by Angela, Goliath accepts her as his daughter. ("Mark of the Panther")

May 20-21. Attempting to retrieve his Eye from Goliath, Odin lures the skiff to Norway. He kidnaps Elisa, which motivates Goliath to don the Eye himself and become a quasi-avatar for Odin. [15] A power-hungry fascist, Goliath nearly kills his companions and Odin until Angela brings him to his senses and he removes the Eye. Odin reclaims his eye. ("Eye of the Storm")

May 24-26. Meets the gargoyles of the Mayan Clan in Guatemala, and helps them defend their home from Jackal and Hyena. ("The Green")

June 14-15. Meets the Ishimura Clan in Japan, and is abducted along with the other gargoyles by Taro for his Gargoyle Theme Park. The gargoyles are liberated with the help of Elisa and Hiroshi. ("Bushido")

July 4-6. Back on Avalon, Goliath is forced to battle with Oberon along with Angela and Gabriel. Later, Oberon decrees Goliath's clan part of his honour guard and immune to his magic. ("Ill Met By Moonlight")

July 8. Passes out on the skiff and given a horrible nightmare vision from Puck of a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, as per Puck's plan to obtain the Phoenix Gate. After Goliath awakens, he tosses the gate into the time stream. ("Future Tense")

July 9-July 10. Goliath and the others return home. Not long after he learns of Oberon and Titania's plan to kidnap Alexander, and the clan joins forces with Xanatos and Renard to stop them. Thanks to a magical outburst by Fox, Goliath convinces Oberon to let Alexander stay, with Puck as his tutor. Xanatos tells Goliath that he owes him for saving his son. ("The Gathering" Part One, "The Gathering" Part Two)

August 1-2. Goliath and Hudson are attacked by Wolf and Hakon's ghost. Goliath defeats Wolf just before Vinnie shows up swearing revenge, and hits Goliath in the face with a banana-cream pie. ("Vendettas")

October 24. Encounters the Hunters for the first time. Angela is badly wounded during the fight and Goliath swears vengeance. Elisa saves her using CPR. Later, Goliath witnesses Elisa kissing Jason Conover from her balcony. Doubly upset, he enters the Hunters' Airship along with Lexington and Brooklyn and encounters Demona. The gargoyles are captured, and Goliath forms an alliance with Demona before escaping, but not before Robyn Canmore plants a tracer on him. ("Hunter's Moon" Part One, "Hunter's Moon" Part Two)

October 25. Using the tracer, the Hunters find the gargoyles and blow up the Clock Tower. The gargoyles save themselves just in time. Goliath declares fresh vengeance. Jon Canmore reports on the news that the gargoyles destroyed the Clock Tower, exposing them to the public at large. ("Hunter's Moon" Part Three)

October 26. Goliath tracks down the hunters and a fight breaks out on a dam. Elisa tries to break up the fight but is knocked off the dam along with Jason. Goliath attempts to rescue her, but is unsuccessful. Intent on revenge, the whole clan tracks the Hunters to Saint Damien's Cathedral, who are there to stop Demona from carrying out her Operation Clean Slate plan. Goliath is about to kill Jon, but is brought to his senses by the arrival of Elisa and Jason. Jon shoots at Goliath, but Jason takes the blast, causing him to be paralyzed from the waist down. Jon flees, and the gargoyles attempt to stop Demona. Goliath sabotages her plan by destroying the Praying Gargoyle, and then catches the vial containing the virus before it shatters. Leaving the cathedral, the gargoyles are cornered by an angry mob and the Gargoyle Taskforce, but Xanatos arrives and rescues them. ("Hunter's Moon" Part Three)

October 27. The gargoyles reclaim Castle Wyvern. Just before dawn, Elisa and Goliath admit their feelings for each other, and she kisses him for the first time. ("Hunter's Moon" Part Three)

October 29. Goliath goes to visit Elisa, and the two of them are attacked by Jon Canmore posing as the Quarryman John Castaway. They are pursued to the ruined Clock Tower and are nearly killed, but saved by Vinnie's intervention. ("Nightwatch", "The Journey")

October 31. Elisa goes to the castle and breaks up with Goliath. Heartbroken, he agrees at her insistance to bring Delilah to Xanatos's Masque later that evening. At the party, Goliath tries to reason with Elisa, but she flees. Thailog arrives at that moment with the clones, under the pretense of reclaiming Delilah. While waiting for her arrival, Thailog stabs Goliath in the gut with a dagger from his gauntlet. ("Invitation Only", "Masque")

November 1. A fight breaks out between the Manhattan clan and the clones. Thailog flees after he obtains blood samples from each member of the clan. While Goliath is being tended by Dr. Sato, he and Elisa declare their mutual love and kiss. ("Bash")

November 4. Elisa indicates to Goliath that she wants to pursue a relationship with him, and he kisses her after she strokes his hair. ("The Rock")


1997. January 10th. Goliath is reunited not only with Hudson and Lexington from their adventure in the United Kingdom, but also Brooklyn, who was accidentally sent dancing through time by the Phoenix that was inside the Phoenix Gate. While it was mere seconds after he departed for the rest of the clan, for Brooklyn forty years have passed. He does not return alone. Goliath is greeted to his mate Katana, their son Nashville, the gargoyle beast Fu-Dog and an unhatched gargoyle egg, nicknamed Egwardo. ("The Gate", "Phoenix")

May 14th. Goliath aids in the rescue of Mary and Maggie the Cat from Thailog and Sevarius at the Nightstone Unlimited Building. There, Maggie and Talon's son, Michael Peter Maza is born. ("Miracle Child") [16]

May 15th. Peter Choy and Rosaria Sanchez are kidnapped by Dino Dracon and his men in Central Park. Goliath is captured and imprisoned by the Gargoyle Taskforce while confronting the masked perpetrators. Hours after Goliath awakes incarcerated at Rikers Island, lawyer Tobe Crest files a motion regarding the legal rights for the gargoyle. The following evening, Brooklyn, Coldfire, and Coldstone attempt to break Goliath free from Rikers, but he refuses to leave, preferring to have his night at court. ("Tale Old As Time", "Render Unto Caesar", "Underwater")

May 18th. Wolf, Hyena, and Jackal attack Rikers Island. Goliath saves not only Tomas Brod and Tony Dracon, but Riker prison guard Renqvist. ("Mayday")

May 19th. Goliath's hearing begins. He is given a chance to speak on his own behalf and is cross-examined by Margot Yale. ("Your Witness")

May 20th. The second night of Goliath's hearing. Elisa takes the witness stand. With some behind-the-scene encouragement from Xanatos, Judge Roebling ultimately rules in Goliath's favor, declaring him both sentient and deserving the same rights as humans. After he is released from custody, Goliath is notified by Owen that he is needed on Fortress-2. Renard is on his death-bed. Before he passes away that night, Renard gives control of his company to his daughter and grandson (with Vogel as his proxy), with Goliath inheriting a tie-breaking share as well. ("Your Witness", "New Rules", "Young At Heart")

May 21st. Goliath and the rest of the clan foil Dino Dracon's plans to detonate bombs throughout Manhattan, as well as prevent him from taking out the heads of the competing Five Families. ("Cold Comfort")

July 19. Goliath makes a bargain. [17]


1997-1999. Sometime during this time, Goliath and Elisa hold a Commitment Ceremony. [18]


2004. August 6. Goliath is briefly forced into hiding. [19]


2004-2188. At some point between these years, Goliath sacrifices his life for an unknown cause, resulting in the United Nations adopting the Gargoyle Minority Protection Act. [20][21]

Appearances

Apocrypha

Gargoyles Meets The Spectacular Spider-Man Meets Young Justice

While Green Goblin attacks L. Thompson Lincoln, the deposed Big Man of Crime, Goliath swoops in to stop a pumpkin bomb from hitting Lincoln. Spider-Man arrives and mistakes Goliath as another of Green Goblin's creatures. The ensuing fight between Goliath and Spider-Man ends when Goliath turns to stone, leaving Spider-Man alone with the Green Goblin. Spider-Man stopped a pumpkin bomb from hitting the stone Goliath, thrown from Goblin while trying to escape.

The following night Goliath learns from Zafiro and Obsidiana about Demona's smuggling activities and from Elisa about Demona's break-out at Ravencroft Institute. They also get a call from from Matt Bluestone asking for back-up at at an OsCorp vault. Once there, Goliath eventually caught up with Demona, who now possessed both the Spear of Destiny and the Crown of Thorns. Unaffected by the relics' magicks, Goliath battles with Demona, reaching for the Crown. Electro blasts electricity toward Goliath, but he continues but he While the two struggled, Spider-Man managed to web the Crown of Thorns off Demona's head, causing an explosion of mystic energy.

In the aftermath, Elisa gets a call from Spider-Man, who, while on speaker phone, now sees that Goliath does "the super-hero thing without the tights". Goliath also understands that Spider-Man's protectorate is his "neighborhood". ("Religious Studies 101: A Handful of Thorns")

The Manhattan Clan learns that a mystical artifact known as the Hand of Valmont is at risk of being stolen from the Museum of Natural History. Most of the clan, including Goliath, departs to keep an eye on the museum, but they soon realize that the museum was largely a distraction for Demona to kidnap Egwardo from Castle Wyvern's rookery.

Following her defeat, Goliath is later approached by Batman and Iron Man, both trying to recruit the gargoyle to the Justice League and the Avengers, respectively. Xanatos interrupts them and asks both billionaires to join his club "Rich Boys with Big Toys" instead. Goliath and Elisa allow the three to sort it out amongst themselves. ("Recruits")

(Other appearances: "The Cosmos", "Musicology 101: Songs of the Theme")

The Goliath Chronicles

After the Hunter's Moon and the Quarrymen's initial attack, Goliath and Elisa's relationship seemed to quiet down for a while. Goliath still had many adventures, several of which involved the Quarrymen. Among other events, Goliath went on trial; his "son" Thailog became permanently petrified by a degenerative virus, something that hit Goliath hard; he was sent into another dream world where he was human and married to Elisa by Titania; he was turned into a mind-controlled slave by the Illuminati scientist Dr. Nexus; and he nearly lost Elisa's trust when he was impersonated by an escaped Proteus. ("And Justice For All", "Genesis Undone", "...For It May Come True", "To Serve Mankind" "Seeing Isn't Believing")

Finally, Goliath and the rest of the clan were lured into a Quarryman trap and thought dead by the entire city (but secretly saved by Xanatos). Only Angela and Bronx "survived," and they were taken to face trial on charges of terrorism committed by the clan. The Quarrymen attacked the train that was transporting them in an attempt to destroy them, and the clan rescued Angela and Bronx as well as the humans on the train, much to the humans' surprise. Goliath faced down John Castaway, and defeated him for the last time. The gargoyles saved the train, and the Quarrymen were sent to jail while the gargoyles were finally accepted. ("Angels In the Night")

Production Background

Elisa and Goliath from the series' pitch. Note the pendant on a chain that was dropped from his final design.

Voice Actor: Keith David

Goliath was not part of the original comedy development of Gargoyles. He first appeared as the title character of "The Gargoyle", the first attempt at turning the show into an action-drama. In this proposed show, "the gargoyle" was the immortal magical creation of an evil wizard who becomes a hero in the modern world. [22]

Some of the names considered for Goliath included "Gar", "Griffin", "Lear", "Calaban", "Othello", "Atlas", "Stone", "Prometheus", and "Titan". [23][24]

In addition to the figurines from Applause and action figures from Kenner during the show's original run, Goliath was also released as a sculpt by both Bowen Designs in 2009 and Electric Tiki in 2011.

See Also