tomboy014: Did a Gargoyles rewatch after a Danny Phantom rewatch, and… have you ever noticed how sim
tomboy014: Did a Gargoyles rewatch after a Danny Phantom rewatch, and… have you ever noticed how similar Vlad and Xanatos are?They’re both suit-wearing multi-millionaire CEOs with goatees, ponytails and ties to the supernatural. Both are rich enough to get away with being labeled “eccentric” and have large companies that span multiple industries, so they’d have offices in New York, Chicago, LA, and other big cities. As a result, they’d repeatedly run into each other at different social functions. I like to imagine them as “reverse frenemies.” Public friends that secretly hate each other.The two are in constant competition, through charitable donations, awards, physical acquisitions corporate takeovers, etc. Vlad tends to take it more personally. Xanatos denies that it bothers him, but Vlad always manages to get under his skin.Xanatos can’t figure out how Vlad is always able to undermine all his plans. No matter how much he bribes, threatens, or manipulates the Board, CEO’s, politicians, etc. Vlad somehow manages to get things to always go his way. Even worse, no one knows why they sided with him afterwards (clones and possession FTW). It drives him nuts.Vlad can’t figure out why he can’t possess Xanatos or why his ghost minions can’t harm him.Owen/Puck knows about both of their ties to the supernatural and is keeping it to himself. This is the funniest thing he’s seen in a century.He does everything in his power as Owen to keep Xanatos safe, like keeping anti-ghost charms hidden or stitched into the linings of Xanatos’ suit jackets, or blood blossoms hidden in Fox’s wedding bouquet.Vlad and Xanatos have each influenced the other in subtle and not-so-subtle ways over the years. Xanatos managed to buy his favorite football team. And so what if Vlad has a castle? He can get his own castle, a bigger castle, a real castle…! Owen, we need to buy a magic castle!Xanatos definitely sent Vlad a wedding invitation out of pure spite and the chance to rub his happiness in Vlad’s face. The wedding is what finally pushed Vlad over the edge, and he finally adopted his cat, Maddie. This. Proves. NOTHING!Things between the two of them eventually slow after Xanatos becomes a dad and Vlad finds himself tied down by his mayoral duties, but this was mostly because of Fox. She was not about to become a politician’s wife, thank you very much. Eventually, they’d both find out about the other and are both confused and more than a little insulted that neither of them is the other’s greatest nemesis. It’s an infestation of living statuary and a 14-year-old child from Illinois. -- source link
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