It’s time for another episode of Jalapeña! 🌶️🗿 — and this week we’re talking about the real glow-up episode of Gargoyles…
“Upgrade.”
This is the one where The Pack decides that being regular, smug, cable-TV mercenaries just isn’t enough… so they go full cyberpunk nightmare fuel.
Cyborg Hyena and Jackal
Werewolf on steroids.
Discount Iron Man.
In this episode of Gargoyles, we break down how “Upgrade” turns The Pack from Saturday morning villains into genuinely terrifying threats and, somehow, still doesn't work.
We talk about:
🔥 The body-horror energy of 90s cybernetic enhancement
🐺 Why Wolf becoming an actual werewolf is somehow the most subtle change
🤖 Jackal and Hyena going full mechanical chaos gremlin
🦾 Dingo's Iron Man cosplay can't armor up his offensive Australian stereotype
🗿 Goliath realizing he is fighting a biotech arms race
“Upgrade” is one of those episodes where the tone shifts hard. The action escalates. The villains level up. And suddenly Gargoyles isn’t just gothic Shakespeare in Manhattan, it’s techno-dystopian madness with claws.
If you grew up with this show, you remember how intense this felt. If you’re rewatching it now, you’re probably realizing how bold it was for a 90s animated series to go this hard on villain reinvention.
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