Gargoyles | From Waterspouts to Monsters

Peering down from high ledges with their garish facial expressions, gargoyles have long held the duty of protecting the innocent from the forces of evil...and masonry from rain water. While primarily their purpose is that of waterspouts, the design of gargoyles is rooted in medieval folklore of dragons and priests. Their unique designs have led to their appearances in later folklore and fiction, as creatures who remain still during the day but become active at night to battle evil...or perhaps to attack the unwary!
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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.
MUSIC:
"Monks of the Dark Abbey" by Brandon & Derek Fiechter
"Theme from Gargoyles" Disney
CLIPS:
"Gargoyles: Guardians of the Gate" 1994
"Ghostbusters" 1984
"Gargoyles" Disney 1994
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[@Jodipo]

One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night, We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and we live again! We are defenders of the night! We are Gargoyles!

[@jacobshore5115]

Should’ve figured I’d see this here!

[@ChromePwny]

Fk yeah

[@Steveirwin4477]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that still remembers that TV show that only ran for three seasons that's also not forget Doctor who from the 1970s the third Doctor played by John pertee

[@kendellstewart2090]

The Best Gargoyles ever together with Eliza.

[@sherylcascadden4988]

@@Steveirwin4477 John Pertwee is my favorite Doctor.

[@FuckProWhites]

Goliath: A gargoyle doesn't whine. He ROARS!

[@elizabethcoen]

Truer words ever spoken. Although, due to past trauma, I sometimes feel like I've lost my ability to "roar". That is, because of my traumatic high school years, my confidence has shrunk dramatically and thus, I can't "roar" at all.

[@madambutterfly1997]

So grateful that you mentioned Disney’s masterpiece series.

[@comettamer]

Absolutely. It is a brilliant pice of animated genius.

[@Private-Potato]

As a Doctor Who fan, you don’t know how happy I was to see the gargoyle from the Jon Pertwee era of the series.

[@magicvampirelver1321]

Those episodes were awesome

[@soccerandtrack10]

I only know the weeping angle type aleins,not the older 1s.

[@och70]

The 'Gargoyles' cartoon was great stuff. Fond memories of it.

[@Duelinator]

I knew you’d mention Disney’s Gargoyles by the near end of this clip. I loved that show.

[@aidanhever3369]

The favorite creatures of Quasimodo, Batman, and Spiderman.

[@Steveirwin4477]

Fun fact Keith David the voice of Goliath from the original 1994 gargoyles wants to remake it and I think they're in the process of it now not only that Jordan Peele wanted to make a live action adaptation of the gargoyles but Disney said no

[@sleeplesssongbird7625]

You have truly made my night, thank you Steveirwin05. 😃💜

[@Kaijugan]

Oooh! Sounds interesting

[@sebastiansilverfox6912]

While in concept, I would love to see the show remade or spun off, the reality is that I just don't trust them to make a good show anymore. Disney and others are far too bent on politics and churning out nostalgia-bait and the resulting show would be garbage. I think, if done right, a good CGI version would be epic. Make it more thought provoking with fewer conclusions to philosophical issues and relate genuine problems of the human condition where characters may wrestle with them but the show doesn't try and preach at you. In other words, treat the audience as though they actually can think for themselves and don't demean then by demonizing them. The original had it's moments of greatness in this regard. It also had its share of cringe-filled moments (especially in the later episodes) that lacked nuance and depth altogether.

[@Kaijugan]

@@sebastiansilverfox6912 Mind giving examples to back up these claims? Also, I'm not entirely sure that a CGI show would be better or even work. I've seen CGI shows, they either do really well or flop out of the gate. Plus, the original animation was fine. So why change it?

[@Kaijugan]

Funny thing is I hear there's a new wave of tie in comics coming soon. And there's even toys coming out

[@sleeplesssongbird7625]

I love Gargoyles, the stories that have come to be based on them is fascinating! And the TV show was one of my earliest childhood memories that I still enjoy. This made my day and helped me out of a bad mood thank you for the video. :)

[@mecahhannah]

Me too and I have the complete series I love it

[@bjgoodrich5864]

Brooklyn is my favorite gargoyle! 😻

[@DaughterofAnubis]

Mine too. Not gonna lie!

[@howardhavardramberg7160]

I love gargoyles and grotesques for gothic world building settings in stories

[@RainPhoenixTilla]

I don't know if this is a weird coincidence. Or just amazing timing. My wife today knows I'm a huge fan of the television show gargoyles. So while she was at Target today she went and bought me a demona plushie from the show gargoyles. Then I turn on my KZbin subscription and I see this video on gargoyles. 😳

[@comettamer]

Perfect day.

[@elizabethcoen]

Funny you mention that: I was also at my local Target a few months ago and got myself a Goliath plushie.

[@trisharaichatterjee2578]

growing up gargoyles was my favorite show. and I watched it faithfully. It took me a while to get a Disney+ account. And when I finally got it I was amazed by the fact that I had not only learned a lot from the show, but the internet as well.

[@Actionfan19]

I remember hearing the story of these creatures in my high school art class.

[@madambutterfly1997]

Gargoyles are amazing lore wise and design wise

[@dracone4370]

I've encountered versions of La Gagouille that describe the creature as a "great serpent" that possesses the power to "drink rivers dry," but they could never agree on the monster's gender; some did refer to it as male, while others claimed it is female since it was also attributed as being the progenitors of the gargoyles. The Disney animated series Gargoyles is still one of my favorite shows, even if the third season got a bit derailed thanks to executive meddling. That series gave Gargoyles their own culture and history, even going as far as to explain their young are hatched from eggs and are raised communally as children of the clan without specifying direct parentage so that they know they are truly children of the clan; it's stated that for Gargoyles to actually have names, traditionally, is a divergence from the norm.

[@LacertaZilla2024]

I been in love with gargoyles ever since I first watched the tv series it was amazing and magnificent every episode was awesome beyond words

[@dragowolfraven3806]

Should have known that gargoyles would show up here. I miss that cartoon.

[@sarahhurst140]

I love how in depth & detailed your content is, cuz I always learn something new from your videos, & love it, too! Extremely well done, yet again, my friend! Absolutely!👍🌹🎀💜🌍

[@mecahhannah]

Agreed 💯

[@blaircolquhoun7780]

The 1990s cartoon Gargoyles was about gargoyles that came to life after the sun went down. There were also gargoyles in a Jonny Quest cartoon and there was also a 1972 movie about gargoyles appropriately called Gargoyles.

[@rosemoon8116]

watched the 1972 one on youtube once

[@blaircolquhoun7780]

@@rosemoon8116 I saw it on TV back in the mid-late 1970s. It's MST3K material now.

[@al145]

As an american boy from the early 90s-2000s, i barely know what a gargoyle is, other than the cartoon. i dont think i would really know they exist otherwise

[@TylerRakstis]

Fitting how you use the gargoyles in Notre Dame de Paris as excellent examples. Heck some I can identify as the main basis for Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. Like that's Laverne 1:04, and the humanoid looking goat is Hugo 1:27.

[@rjmckenzie4706]

I'm so happy to made this video, I was legit thinking about the gargoyles series that Disney made back in the 90s, that was and still is a awesome show. Also you forgot to mention from the Disney version of the hunchback of notre dame. In Toronto on some old buildings we have gargoyles and there freaky.

[@yolman25]

Do more supernatural folklore videos! Halloween is just around the corner 🎃. Your content is amazing. Keep on the good work ❤️

[@beaudoty3465]

1,000 years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night. We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now here in Manhattan, the spell is broken AND WE LIVE AGAIN!!! We are defenders of the night. WE ARE GARGOYLES!

[@karissarasmussen567]

Goliath is that you 😳

[@LuigiCotocea]

​@@karissarasmussen567The narrator yes!

[@comettamer]

During refurbishment of Paisley Abbey in Scotland, some of the gargoyles had to be replaced. As they were quite high up, it took the church some time to realize one of the stonemasons had modeled one gargoyle in particular after a Xenomorph from the movie Aliens. The church was indeed amused, and it has remained since.

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodGeek99]

This was awrsome! Love gargoyles

[@JakeMLGF]

Oh yeah, as soon as I saw the title, I thought 'He's going to mention the Disney show, isn't he?'

[@kelvinmarzan3107]

I watched gargoyles on my phone and rise of the gargoyles on TV

[@Docmain3]

Yeah, buddy! This was the monster video I voted to see.

[@LacertaZilla2024]

Don’t forget the gargoyles from the I Frankenstein movie

[@Tigerbrown44]

I went to school at the University of Cincinnati back in the 80’s. One of the women’s dormitories, Memorial Hall, had gargoyles leaning from it. I dated a woman who had salvaged a gargoyle from some bulding supply store. It was squatting on it’s haunches, with cloven hooves, horns, and wings. It was anatomically correct. She put a circular piece of glass on top of him and used him as a coffee table.

[@laurawhitenight6521]

My neighbor has a life-size one in his front yard.

[@You_Are_Romantic]

Always loved them

[@s3.14dervision]

I have always been fascinated by gargoyles. I love them; they're so cool and truly artistic. Like a cherry on a sundae, beautiful architecture just isn't finished without them. You're never fully dressed without a gargoyle..😂

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

There is a gargoyle character in the fighting game called Killer Instinct named Gargos

[@incubustimelord5947]

In Marvel Comics, there was a super hero called the Gargoyle and two super-villains, one called Gargoyle and the other called the Grey Gargoyle. There was even a gargoyle-like hostile alien race called the Stonians.

[@DaughterofAnubis]

I’m so impressed of this video of yours! From mentioning the series to the basics of what a gargoyle is. Thanks to you, I’ve fallen in love with these creatures. (My favorite gargoyle in the series had to be Brooklyn, though.)

[@omnitrix1279]

The part about trying not to blink at the end just about killed me. Somebody call the Doctor.

[@Kaijugan]

You could have had the Gargoyles theme playing the entire video...

[@MythologyUnleashed]

We felt it was best saved for the right moment! And besides, the Gregorian chant music in the background was gorgeous!

[@Kaijugan]

@@MythologyUnleashed I'm not complaining. Just thought it'd fit is all. Though I'm always down for some choir music.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

These are our angels of the night, the protectors when we sleep, the fighters who scare off evildoers

[@christianchauhan23]

💛 all your video's mate 👍.

[@robbabcock_]

Great video!

[@kevinobill4818]

Ah yes, I am very familiar with Gargoyles and I did remember the Disney tv show very often, they have characteristics are very similar to Dragons which are my most favorite legendary creatures. Wait, Gargoullie has a nickname “Goji” like Gojira?

[@01Milkchocolate.]

Lol, thanks for the Doctor Who reference. 😆

[@sturg0353]

Awesome video!!

[@rosemoon8116]

I haven't watched the disney show in years and I don't know why I dream about it every now and then. Everytime I do, Iask myself "why do I dream about a show I haven't watched in years?"

[@edwardleonetti2492]

Hey Gargoyle more food! (Cheech and Chong)

[@jasonsantos3037]

Gargoyles are a fascinating creatures. 😈🐉

[@karenritter2574]

The animated show was good but severely underrated. Good tale for today.

[@LacertaZilla2024]

So gargoyles are the earliest version of Batman

[@mecahhannah]

Awesome

[@user-sr7wp5cr7f]

"But whatever you do, try not to blink" Okay, you just made me think of SCP-173

[@marlonsamuels4471]

I loved watching that cartoon

[@nazeersadek6705]

Great video guys I’ve always known gargoyles come from European folklore but it’s nice to know its origin is actually French

[@LuigiCotocea]

8:50 And oh yes they can! -Dr who (refference to weeping angels)

[@0fficialdregs]

i knew when you mentioned 1994, you would talk about the best damn cartoon ever

[@robertlamb7513]

Loved that cartoon as a kid

[@TheCanadiangirl4]

loved that disney cartoon when I was a kid

[@user-zd7lm7ge1t]

Cool 😎 like all 😊 your videos

[@brainlock72]

Don't Blink!? That's an entirely different sort of stone creature! IYKYK

[@guntherthequizmaster9515]

Long ago, it was believed that gargoyles could protect a place from evil. 😈

[@richewilson6394]

OMG I saw a picture of a gargoyle of a person like mooning themselves outwards so that the water would come spurting out of his cheeks on his butt I was like I would love to see that thing when it would rain really hard LOL.

[@nc1237]

The cartoons gargoyles is my favorite new cartoon show ❤

[@orionpaxx9236]

Just who is the narrator?

[@mikailthomas1466]

"I cannot fly I merely glide on the air." -Goliath.

[@LuigiCotocea]

Me: Well that's sad!

[@hannahmowen9437]

Yep just wish that Disney would make a live-action Disney’s Gargoyles movie!

[@s.beccari4678]

Calling the gargoyle Boss sounds proper...

[@brianjordan3841]

At this point u can’t talk about the mythology of Gargoyles n the effects they’ve had on pop culture without bringing up the classic Disney cartoon it’s unavoidable n inevitable

[@unholyberserker6669]

I love the show gargoyles

[@gregwasserman2635]

At Ohio State, Orton Hall, which houses part of the Geology Department, have gargoyles in the form of prehistoric beasts.

[@user-zd7lm7ge1t]

I love gorgoyles

[@paulsarnik8506]

What about the early 70's TV movie Gargoyles? 🤓😎✌🏻

[@durwinpocha2488]

It is written that here, there lived Gargoyles. Before the human beings. The Gargoyles lived, as then as today the gargoyles have more rights to live here. Than do you, I or any other human being.....

[@AishaVonFossen]

I wanna see a Grumpy Cat gargoyle. 😹😹😹😹

[@ninetailednaruto11a]

I'm surprised you didn't include the Death Vader one at the Washington National Cathedral.

[@paulsarnik8506]

Never understood why demons and spirits would be scared of statues?👹🦧🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏻

[@theorca3275]

Goliath and his clan weren't monsters from Disney's Gargoyles.

[@lachlainegordon806]

Can pet da dawgggg

[@SilverWolfMage]

#Myth100k

[@kathleensawyer2543]

#mythsdecember2022

[@jchrg2336]

Haha

[@willjames1124]

I assumed gargoyles developed from the ugly stone, dragonslayer, old man of Harrow. About a thousand years ago in Europe, if they built a Christian site on pagan ground they had one stone in the wall with a carved monster face. It was to chase off the old bad spirits. A church a mile from me was built over an old monastic site that was built on a Viking settlement. That church has an ugly stone...

[@willjames1124]

But there is a bigger mystery. Why are they sometimes called The Old Man Of Harrow? I guessing he was no beauty..

[@marchdoesvlogs9823]

Wait but there's such thing as Gargoyles the *cartoon* where the creatures presented themselves as *heroes* . Know what I'm saying?

[@LuigiCotocea]

Yes Gargoyles Tv Series 1994

[@wmdkitty]

"And whatever you do, try not to blink." I kinda hate you for that.

[@aggadi]

Rama-Manas sounds Indian name.