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{{quote|GARGOYLE, n.
A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into [[Take That|a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building]]. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents. |''
In [[Real Life]], gargoyles are statues of grotesque humans and animals designed to ward off evil spirits and channel rainwater from rooftops and spit it out, (hence ''gargling'') away from the building to prevent damage from erosion. Most commonly found on large buildings such as cathedrals.
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== [[Collectible Card Game]] ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has a few gargoyle-themed cards, such as the [[Gratuitous Japanese|Ryu-Kishin]], which even has a [[Monster Clown]] variant.
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** Fitting with the set's theme of playing gothic, horror, and gothic horror tropes to the hilt, ''Innistrad'''s [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=227083 Manor Gargoyle] fits the description above--normally stone, inanimate, and indestructible, it can be animated and becomes vulnerable (though still fairly hardy) and becomes indestructible again once it returns to stone.
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* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' gargoyles are ambush predators that lie perfectly still, passing for stone statues.
** Unless you're playing the old Basic/Expert/etc version, in which they're constructs.
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* [[Our Monsters Are Different]] example verging on [[In Name Only]]: Gargoyles in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' are Tyranid air-attack creatures aka Hellbats. They can't turn into stone, but may have got their name from their tendency to perch atop a [[Giant Flyer|larger Tyranid flier]] called a Harridan.
* In ''[[Rifts]]'', Gargoyles come in five types: The standard Gargoyle, Wingless G'''u'''rgoyles, Tiny Gargoylites, and the Gargoyle Lords and Mages, who have the ability to turn to living stone for short periods of time. The largest concentrations are found as Mooks for the Demons of Hades and serving the [[Cosmic Horror|Splugorth]], but a large Empire of them is found in Europe, and is fighting the Human NGR with high-tech weapons and [[Humongous Mecha]] of their own.
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