- Story Arc: Avalon Mystic Tour
- Characters: Goliath, Elisa, Angela, Bronx, and Erik and Gunther Sturluson
- Enemy(ies): Odin
Goliath and the others arrive in Scandinavia where Elisa and Angela's lives are put into peril by Odin who seeks to claim his eye. Goliath dons the talisman in order to prevent it, but becomes more of a danger to his friends than his enemies by its sheer power.
Odin returns in "The Gathering Part 1".
This Episode contains the following Tropes:
- A God Am I: While not uttered directly during his fight with Odin, Goliath later laments that this was more or less exactly his mindset with the Eye corrupting him.
- Batman Gambit: Angela snaps Goliath out of it by staying in the collapsing fissure and "pleading" for the help of her father. Elisa admits that was a risky move... she wishes she thought of.
- Catchphrase: Odin's seems to be "We Shall See" which is appropriate for a norse god with one eye and great wisdom, many of his plans and attacks are not straight-forward, prompting his opponents to underestimate him, leading to his catchphrase.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Odin and Goliath both admit in the end that they could have avoided all this drama if they had both handled things better.
- Knight Templar: The Eye exaggerates Goliath's protective instincts until he becomes one of these. Eventually he locks everyone in a cave "for their own protection".
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Once the Eye-enhanced Goliath has gotten his charges to safety (by imprisoning them), he challenges Odin to come out and stop fighting. He appears in a bolt of lightning, wearing full battle armor (before and after the fight, it was a simple cloak) and ready to throw down.Odin: "Very well, gargoyle!"
- Manipulative Bastard: A rare case where Goliath becomes this. Goliath orders Angela, Elisa, Bronx, and the Sturlusons to relocate due to a blizzard being done by Odin. However, Angela learns that Goliath is the one making the storm and doing so in order to have them locked away so that they are not around to be endangered during his duel with Odin. Everyone else was not pleased with Goliath's deception and imprisonment.
- Morphic Resonance: A plot point, as the polar bear who attacks them to gain the Eye of Odin equally is missing one of his own, just like the old man who tried to barter with them earlier in the episode. Goliath quickly (and correctly) puts together they are one and the same because of this fact, and reasons they are capable of sorcery.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Goliath when he realizes he has endangered his daughter's life.
- Mythology Gag: In this case in reference to the series' toyline. Kenner's Gargoyles line gained a notoriety among fans of the series for doing too many "alternate" takes on the gargoyles in a super-powered mode and not enough characters from the television series. The creators were willing to indulge in this by having Goliath take on a super enhanced state via the Eye of Odin. Ironically this one time that the series offered them an actual enhanced version of one of the main gargoyles for inspiration, the makers of the toyline rejected it!
- Norse Mythology: The Gargoyles end up encountering and battling Odin.
- Papa Wolf: What ultimately helps Goliath become the only one to willingly forsake the Eye after donning it... his daughter Angela in danger.
- Poor Communication Kills: Almost in this case. If he had just explained his intentions and who he was to Goliath, Goliath may have just given the Eye to him. Odin even admits at the end that he is out of practice dealing with mortals.
- Shock and Awe: With the Eye draining away Odin's powers, even Goliath gets to enjoy throwing the occasional thunderbolt right back at the God of Storms.
- Shout-Out: Erik and Gunther Sturluson's surname is borrowed from Snorri Sturluson (1179 - 1241), the medieval Icelandic author of the Prose Edda, one of the leading primary sources for Norse mythology.
