Thursday, January 13, 2011

In Memory Of. . . .

These are my favorite goth girls who only appeared in just one episode.

Electra in Hercules and the Complex Electra (Hercules the Animated Series) Hercules fell in love with this nonconformist and changed his looks into that of a beat nick because Electra doesn't like heroes and even wrote a poem denouncing them. She hangs out in an ancient-Greek styled goth club, and has the power to summon Furies (bird-like monsters) whenever she's angry. Actually, in the real myth of Electra, she's Agamemnon's daughter who plotted revenge against her traitor mother and stepfather for murdering her father after the Trojan War. That's darkness within. 
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Malaria in Grim in Love (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy). The episode is alongside "Crushed!", the episode where Mandy also fell in love. Of course, she’s the one the Grim Reaper fell in love with (better get your hopes up, fellow admirers of Death). She’s somewhat fashioned from Morticia Addams, and the first thing she said to Grim is “You just sucked the life out of me.” Their love montage is pretty goth, in the cemetery and in a zombie club. But in the end, Malaria’s gothness shattered when she found out that Grim is the real deal.
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Tak from Invader Zim. That show is one of my very top favorite cartoons of all time. Another delight is that it's created by Jhonen Vasquez, the author of the goth comics Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and its many spin-offs. Too bad the show was canceled before Tak became the main antagonist in future episodes (doom be hailed upon Nick!). Yap, Tak only appeared once in the episode Tak: The Hideous New Girl. She became a fan favorite right away because she became Zim's Valentine and also a very vengeful rival because Zim unwittingly destroyed her chances to be an Elite Irken Invader. Together with her cat-disguised SIR unit, Mimi, Tak almost destroyed Earth using meat, but Zim and Dib worked together to stop her. But she'll be back. I only wish.....
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Argent in Calling All Titans! (Teen Titans Go). I though Raven was the only goth super heroine in the show. But there's Argent and she's totally into the goth scene and fashion. She even asked for a black communicator to go with her outfit, instead of the original yellow one. In the episode, she meets Starfire and becomes an honorary Titan, but she is soon captured by the Brotherhood of Evil because they want her super power. Argent can fire crimson energy beams, and can use that energy to form objects, similar to the abilities of the Green Lantern. She could also fly at high altitudes and speeds. She's freakin' awesome, and cute. In the original comics, she's half-alien, summoned during her sweet sixteen party and instead of crimson, her plasmas were silver, like her skin, and usually turned into daggers.
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Laetitia Bowers in New Girl in Town (As Told by Ginger). Though the show is now rarely seen on Nickelodeon, I still remember that episode. The new girl is a goth named Laetitia. She always brings a skull around, even at the cafeteria, but she admitted that it’s plastic. Her father is a mortician and drives his daughter around in a hearse. The mean girls at school rumored that he accidentally embalmed his wife. In the episode, Ginger and her friends hosts a party in Laetitia’s old Victorian house. Ginger’s brother is a bit goth, too, or maybe just weird. In the episode, he so wanted to crash their funeral house party and to get stuffs from the morgue. 
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Morose in I'll Be Home For Misery (Ruby Gloom). Misery hosted a family reunion. All who attended are female, look like her, names start with M, and each has their own disaster to suffer. Morose is the one closest to the culture of "goth". She's very fashionable; her dress pattern is called "the abyss, on a dark night, in the middle of nowhere." She has a voodoo doll that she walks around on a leash. She's depressed most of the time, shouting "Why! Why! Why!" and disliking playful children. But she rocks out loud, playing the keyboards and singing in a band until the whole house literally falls down.
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Molly in Wishing Well (The Fairly Odd Parents). The episode features Timmy and other kids, Molly and Dwight in Wishing Well, a boot camp for godchildren with Over Wishing Disorder. Timmy over wished for anything he likes while the wimpy Dwight over-wished for anything he needs. As for Molly, she's an ill-tempered goth with a rude and tough attitude. Maybe she over-wished her godmother, Swizzle, for selfish whims and demands. Like her godmother, Molly doesn't like to be touched and would shout..
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The Lizz in The Rizzle (The Replacements). Riley and her friends met Lisa, the coolest and baddest it-girl in high school. According to Riley, among the many reasons were that Lisa plays badminton, has a car and "...'she's so cool' is also reason 17. That's how cool she is." Riley became friends with her when Lisa told Sierra, the mean girl, to "cheese off". But Riley had to dump her friends so she can hang out with her. When Riley became "the Rizzle", she also became bad and even told her friends and mom to "cheese off" (I'm liking the phrase). The Lizz really became her bad influence, she even forced Riley to go to a Night Weasels concert in Gloomy Valley.
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Kristin in The Ballad of Scary Mary (Sym-Bionic Titan). Octus and Kimmy drag Ilana and Lance with them to an annual school event in the woods known as a Scary Mary party. It is apparently to honor a girl who supposedly died in those woods. Lance is the only one not feeling the party vibe so he chooses to just hangout beside the van until a goth girl shows up and they begin talking. She appears to have a crush on Lance, jokingly telling him they're "soulmates." But Lance rushed off without a word to her to see Octus and Ilana. She's not surprised because every time she says "Hi" to him, he totally blows her off. However, at the end of the same episode, Lance walks past her in the school hallway, surprising her as he simply tells her, "Hey".
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Cassandra in Rednecks and Broomsticks (The Simpsons). I love this episode because it's about Lisa, witchcraft and based on the movie "The Craft". Cassandra is a part of a Wiccan group who invited Lisa to join them. The other unnamed members were a pink haired girl with a snake tattoo on her arm, and the other girl is a chubby one. Lisa was skeptical at first but their spells came true. I love the clever jokes about witchcraft especially when Bart rejoiced when he thought Lisa is on the dark side. But ever-religious Flanders (who also thinks Harry Potter is evil) got the coven arrested. In the court trial, Cassandra was addressed as Gwendolyn Nightshadow. But she admitted, "....is not even my real name. It's Stacey...Stacey Deathsatan."

For more one-time goth girl characters, 
go to Punks in Threes and One-Goth Cartoons
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