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Brooklyn is a gargoyle, a founding member/2nd in command of the Manhattan Clan, and was once a part of the destroyed Wyvern Clan. He makes up the Trio with his rookery brothers, Lexington and Broadway.
History
Brooklyn in 971 A.D.[3]
Brooklyn first appears as a young red gargoyle. While playing with a gargoyle beast with one of his rookery brothers, a young peasant boy named Tom approached Brooklyn. The boy and the gargoyle chatted amiably until the boy's mother, Mary, threw a stick at Brooklyn, calling him a beast. Brooklyn lost his temper, and he, his brother, and the gargoyle beast pretended to attack the peasants. Goliath and his mate broke up the conflict. Goliath sent the guilty gargoyles, one of their brothers, and the gargoyle beast to the rookery as punishment which saved them from the attack on the castle led by Hakon. The next night, along with the surviving members of the Wyvern Clan, he participated in an attack on Hakon and his men. The Magus, thinking Princess Katharine was dead because of the gargoyles' attack, decided to cast the spell which held them all in a stone sleep for a thousand years.[2]
In 1994, Xanatos broke the spell holding the survivors in stone sleep. The newly formed clan was reunited with Goliath's mate, and were tricked by Xanatos into committing crimes on his behalf. Goliath's mate revealed she was in league with Xanatos, and attacked the Manhattan Clan. Shortly after Demona deceived her clan[2], she tricked Brooklyn into being disloyal to Goliath, turning him into a mindless slave. Brooklyn was forced to stop her and he eventually helped to break the spell that controlled Goliath's mind.[4] Now he has a very deep feeling of resentment for Demona and he will attack her if he comes across her.
Brooklyn later chased after a shadowy figure in an alleyway that he thought was Demona, but this had proven to be false. It was actually a mutate known as Maggie Reed, a human who was turned into a cat. Brooklyn soon found himself in a position to rescue her, but he gets shot with a tranquilizer dart. Broadway saves him, but Brooklyn wants to help the human/feline hybrid. He soon takes a liking to her.[5] Maggie warmed up to Brooklyn, but the two never formed a relationship that would last forever.[6]
Brooklyn has proven himself to be an incredibly skilled leader worthy of leading the Trio. When Goliath, Bronx and Eliza were absent, Brooklyn quickly took charge of the Trio, utilizing all of the skills he knew that Goliath would be proud of.[6] When Goliath came back after the extended absence with his daughter Angela, he became enveloped in a rivalry with Broadway and Lexington for her love. Sadly for Brooklyn, Angela chose Broadway for her mate. But, she's still flirting with him. Since Broadway has Angela and Maggie has Talon, Brooklyn turns his attention toward Delilah of the Labyrinth Clan, but her attentions were diverted by Goliath who took her on a date at Eliza's request. After helping fight off Thailog with his clan, Brooklyn noticed that Delilah displays no interest in him, and would continue without a romantic partner, until he finds the Phoenix Gate.
Brooklyn comes into possession of the Phoenix Gate after Goliath had thrown it into the timestream, whereupon he would be thrust into a forty-year journey during which he would acquire a new gargoyle beast named Fu-Dog and a female gargoyle named Katana who would become his mate and mother of his children, Nashville and Tachi. He first arrived in 997 AD.[7] There he aided Mary and Finella (last seen trying to keep the Grimorum away from Constantine)[8] he persuaded Demona and her clan to help Kenneth III defeat Constantine. After the battle won, the Phoenix appeared to whisk Brooklyn away to another era (though not shown, he brings Mary and Finella along with him) after 40 years of traveling through the time stream, Brooklyn returned to his original time 40 seconds with his family later on.[9]
Appearance
Brooklyn debuted in Awakening as a young male gargoyle with a slimmer physique than his rookery brothers, red skin, black eyes, a long beak-like mouth and jaw, and a wild mane of snow-white hair. He also has two horns sticking out of his forehead. He often appears slouching and kneeling probably because of his small talons. He also wears a dark blue tunic-like wrap around his lower half.
After forty years traveling through time,Brooklyn has grown older, his legs are now longer and thicker, closer in proportion to Goliath's, allowing him to stand more upright. He now wears armor and eyepatch over his left eye. He also carries a futuristic rifle, a blaster, a katana, and a Scottish broadsword.[9]
His new appearance greatly resembles Puck's future vision, as he has a much larger and muscular build and wears battle armor around his upper build, wrists, and ankles.[10]
Age
Though not stated out right in the series, Brooklyn hatched in 958, and was approximately thirty-six at the time of the Wyvern Massacre, which is the gargoyle biological equivalent to eighteen. After the curse is broken in 1994, Brooklyn, like the rest of his clan, gained a further thousand years (for the purpose of simplicity these will not be counted as part of his age).[2] Three years later at the age of thirty-nine (about nineteen), Brooklyn came into contact with the Phoenix Gate, and spends the next forty years, from his perspective, traveling through time before returning forty seconds later, from the perspective of the witnesses, now at age seventy-nine, the gargoyle biological equivalent to about thirty-nine, making him 10 years biologically older than Goliath.
Personality
Though many of the characters undergo some form of character growth over the course of the show, perhaps none did more so than Brooklyn. As the series went on, Brooklyn evolved from a self-assertive, reckless, quick-tempered youth into an even-tempered and level-headed leader. While most of his clan mates became fixated on some new modern concepts, Brooklyn never did, aside from a brief early interest in motorcycles. Instead, his interests were mostly focused on his duties, to his clan and to the city, and romance. The only other to do this was Goliath, which may be why he was able to develop into a capable leader.
In the modern day, Brooklyn displays a reckless and cynical attitude on occasion, but he has also been a capable tactician and leader, as evidenced by his promotion to Goliath's second. He took his name from the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn likes exploring, and finding out more about human ways. In his adolescence, he even wore sunglasses because they were "cool." (and never mind the fact that sunglasses at night are pointless) He's a perceptive gargoyle, and has a certain fondness for making wisecracks and cynical quips at times. But beneath his thrill-seeking and comic exterior, Brooklyn has a lonelier, almost "gothic melancholic" side.
Brooklyn's best asset is his keen calculating nature; for instance, he is a master tactician capable of orchestrating assaults that often leave the most formidable foes reeling.[11]
Later, Brooklyn harbored a deep disgust for Demona and her willingness to harm her former clan in her quest to destroy humanity, which he rightfully views as insane and hypocritical. This started when Demona tricked him into double-crossing Goliath and allowing Demona to gain control of the lead Gargoyle via a spell.[4] As such, he is prone to attack her on sight, much to the impatience of the clan who value his calculating nature.[12]
During an extended absence by Goliath, Elisa Maza, and Bronx, Brooklyn took control of the clan and led them with all the masterful skill Goliath knew he had.[6]
Brooklyn is known for having bad luck with romances. His first apparent crush, on a human-turned-mutate named Maggie Reed, ended badly, with her accusing him of her condition and saying he was a monster who wanted to keep her a monster.[5] Though they became friends afterwards,[6] she entered into a relationship with Talon, another mutate.[6] Brooklyn also pursued Goliath's daughter Angela as a mate, and was heartbroken when she chose Broadway instead. This streak of romantic misfortune continued with a particularly frustrating turn when the female clone hybrid, Delilah, passed him over for his own clone, Malibu.[13] Shortly after, Brooklyn was whisked away by the Phoenix Gate (which transforms into a Phoenix) on a time travelling odyssey.[7] During which his misfortune with romance finally ended as he found true love in Katana, a gargoyle from Clan Ishumaru he met during the Feudal Period of Japan, becoming not only his mate, but also the mother of his two children.
Gallery
Image Gallery for Brooklyn. Click here to see all of the images, featuring Brooklyn.
![Brooklyn posing as a biker.[4]](/wiki/File:Images.jpeg "Images.jpeg (5 KB)")
Trivia
- When the character design of Brooklyn was in the process of being finalized the creators and animators consciously made him red in color due to the fact that Brooklyn was meant to be a "hot-head."
- Brooklyn bears a strikingly similar appearance to the gargoyle seen on the box art of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
- Brooklyn's unseen adventure through time would be seen in the unmade spinoff, TimeDancer.
- He and Fu-Dog and later Katana would be main characters in Gargoyles 2198. They would arrive in that era in the second episode, with Brooklyn being the POV type character. He would make efforts not to learn too much about his clan's future as he hopes to make it back to his time someday. He would later leave and come back again with Katana.
- In the early days of the comedy development, the leader of the clan was a gargoyle named Nick. Nick was great at coming up with plans, but not so great at coming up with plans that worked. He was also very much interested in the women of virtually any species, though his interests were seldom - if ever - returned. When the much more capable Dakota became the clan's new leader, Nick was renamed first "Trouble" then "Amp." Amp got another shot at leading the clan when Dakota became Demona and joined up with the bad guys. He developed a cool dude attitude and was supposedly "easily tempted by... temptation." Though he apparently looked more like Lexington, Amp was an obvious forerunner of Brooklyn. The name "Amp" showed up again as a nickname for the London Clan gargoyle Staghart, though so far, no one other than Lexington uses it.
- Some of the other names considered for this character were "Nasti," "Static," and "Moe."
- Brooklyn's appearance after he returns from his TimeDance directly references his appearance in two other episodes. He can be seen wearing a black patch over his left eye in "Eye of the Beholder" and can be seen wearing the exact same armor and be 40 years older in "Future Tense." The only completely new elements to his appearance are his weapons.
- His voice actor Jeff Bennett also provided the Brooklyn-accented voice for Duke L'Orange from the Mighty Ducks (TV Series)
- Brooklyn and L'Orange also wear eye patches. Brooklyn wears his on the left eye while L'Orange wears his on the right.
Appearances
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2. Awakening, Part Two 3. Awakening, Part Three 4. Awakening, Part Four 5. Awakening, Part Five 6. The Thrill of the Hunt 7. Temptation 8. Deadly Force 9. Enter MacBeth 10. The Edge 11. Long Way to Morning 12. Her Brother's Keeper 13. Reawakening |
2. Metamorphosis 3. Legion 4. A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time 5. The Mirror 6. The Silver Falcon 7. Eye of the Beholder 8. Vows 9. City of Stone, Part One 10. City of Stone, Part Two 11. City of Stone, Part Three 12. City of Stone, Part Four 13. High Noon |
15. The Price 16. Revelations 17. Double Jeopardy 18. Upgrade 19. Protection 20. The Cage 21. Avalon, Part One 22. Avalon, Part Two 23. Avalon, Part Three 24. Shadows of the Past 25. Heritage 26. Monsters |
28. Sanctuary 29. M.I.A. 30. Grief 31. Kingdom 32. The Hound of Ulster 33. Walkabout 34. Mark of the Panther 35. Pendragon 36. Eye of the Storm 37. The New Olympians 38. The Green 39. Sentinel |
41. Cloud Fathers 42. Ill Met By Moonlight 43. Future Tense 44. The Gathering, Part One 45. The Gathering, Part Two 46. Vendettas 47. Turf 48. The Reckoning 49. Possession 50. Hunter's Moon, Part One 51. Hunter's Moon, Part Two 52. Hunter's Moon, Part Three |
2. Ransom 3. Runaways 4. Broadway Goes Hollywood 5. A Bronx Tail 6. The Dying Of The Light 7. And Justice For All 8. Genesis Undone 9. Generations 10. ...For It May Come True 11. To Serve Mankind 12. Seeing Isn't Believing 13. Angels In The Night | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes & References
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