You can be somebody that you’re really not. It’s so much more fun than playing a good guy. The charm and humor that Weisman wanted for the character, who would always be the hero of his own story, was perfectly captured by Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jonathan Frakes. His complex schemes became such a model for future villains that he’s even the namesake of a TV trope. The result was David Xanatos, a genius billionaire who remained a dangerous adversary throughout the show’s run because he always had so many redundant plans that he somehow emerged victorious even after seemingly being defeated by the heroes. “What if you had a handsome villain who would say things like, ‘Revenge is a sucker’s game.’ He wasn’t into being a villain. “Bruce Wayne in the comics I read growing up was charming and a guy that you’d admire,” Weisman tells IGN. When Weisman and Bates teamed up to write for Gargoyles, they designed their primary villain by taking that quality but stripping away Eiling’s cruelty and intolerance, instead fusing him with another comic book character’s traits - those of Bruce Wayne! In addition to dealing with the gargoyles' attempts to adjust to modern New York City, the series also incorporated various supernatural threats to their safety and to the world at large.Weisman had worked with Cary Bates on the DC Comics series Captain Atom, where the series’ antagonist, General Wade Eiling, always had plots within plots. While trying to adjust to their new world, they are aided by a sympathetic police officer named Elisa Maza and quickly come into conflict with the plotting Xanatos. Most are betrayed and killed by humans while petrified and the remainder are magically cursed to sleep-i.e., be frozen in stone form until the castle "rises above the clouds." A thousand years later in 1994, billionaire David Xanatos purchases the gargoyles' castle and has it reconstructed atop his New York skyscraper, the Eyrie Building, thus awakening Goliath and the remainder of his clan.
In 994, the clan lives in a castle in Scotland. The series features a species of nocturnal creatures known as gargoyles that turn to stone during the day, focusing on a clan led by Goliath. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and we live again! We are defenders of the night! We are 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.
One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled.
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