Gorillaz characters biography

Really Gets Around : He's had many, many sexual partners. Countless women have gone on record stating that he stole their wallets after sleeping with them. Really Years Old : He has apparently existed since the beginning of time. Chopper responded by punching him in the nose, breaking it. Resurrective Immortality : He has apparently been around since the dawn of time, though he has a definite birthdate and we've seen pictures of him as a baby.

His body is simply reborn every time he dies in an increasing state of decay. Sanity Slippage : Gets more and more corrupt and unstable with each passing Phase. By Phase 3, a game seems to have been made about seeing just how incomprehensible Murdoc can become. Sand In My Eyes : Whenever Murdoc gets teary-eyed, he blames his allergies or says that it's "eyeball sweat".

Sensitive Guy and Manly Man : Manly man to 2D's sensitive guy, though only in terms of sensitivity and temperament, as he's pretty foppish and effeminate himself. Signature Laugh : A throaty guffaw, which can be heard in almost every interview and media appearance. Occasionally, it devolves into random grunts and groans that don't even sound like noises a human can make.

M urdoc A lphonse N iccals. Word of God states that had Phase 3 not been Cut Shorthe would've been confirmed to be the Antichrist : the embodiment of all of mankind's sin destined to bring about the end of the gorillaz character biography. Slasher Smile : A master of giving these. When he bares his teeth, it can be very unsettling. Smoky Voice : A frequent smoker, Murdoc tends to slip into this during interviews.

Tends to overlap with Evil Sounds Raspybecause Murdoc isn't usually on his best behavior during said interviews. Smug Snake : While Murdoc genuinely is a talented musician, he'd be nothing if not for the other three's contributions to the band. Despite this, he is insistent that he is the sole creative force behind it. Sociopathic Hero : Has very little empathy for others, and is willing to do plenty of horrible things to help himself get ahead in life.

Spotlight-Stealing Squad : He enforces it to the point where he starts to get violent when 2D starts hogging his screen time. Stealing the Credit : Before The FallMurdoc made it a habit to try and claim that every album his band made was his sole creative invention; the first was heavily influenced by Russel's at the time superior musical expertise, Demon Days Album was masterminded by Noodle, and the third owed most of its brilliance to the musicians that Murdoc kidnapped and invited to Plastic Beach.

Step Up to the Microphone : "White Light" apparently, though it wasn't so much sung as whisper-rapped. He also gets to sing with Damon Albarn's voice in "Saturnz Barz" Straw Nihilist : He often espouses very pessimistic views about humanity and our future on this planet, with Plastic Beach being the metaphorical "end of the road" for where we're going as a species, though he mainly uses nihilism as an excuse for his unpleasant and hedonistic behaviour.

His look of disbelieving joy at the sight is notably one of the only times he's ever genuinely let out a smile that doesn't fall into Slasher Smile or Psychotic Smirk territory, and is absolutely wonderful to see.

Gorillaz characters biography

Tall, Dark, and Handsome : During Phase 1, which may explain his success with the ladies. Phased out over time, to the point where he looks like a gargoyle nowadays. Teeth-Clenched Teamwork : He and Russel sincerely hate each other, but both acknowledge the other's skill as a musician. Those Two Guys : Quickly became this with 2D due to the immediate chemistry their characters shared.

By Phase 2, they were rarely ever seen apart. Token Evil Teammate : While his bandmates are all flawed, they're also each fundamentally good people. Murdoc, on the other hand, is rather obviously very evil. Took a Level in Kindness : In Phase 4. While he's still a generally horrible human being, he seems to have backed down on the genuine super villainy that he pulled off in Phase 3.

He's also cleaned up his act around women. In Phase 6, he states on his Twitter account he's "changed," but considering his past actions that can be taken with a grain of salt. If anything, he's settling on being a slightly less malicious trouble-making goofball. Toxic Friend Influence : Supposedly, 2D was a fairly good kid before meeting him. Trrrilling Rrrs : When he's feeling hammy, he's prone to doing this.

Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness : He has a rather bad sense of personal hygiene, and he's generally a very, very unpleasant person to be around. Oh, and he may also be the Antichrist. Ungrateful Bastard : 2D really would've been better off not giving Murdoc a motorcycle ride in Aries. After Cracker Islandhe takes over the band's social media platforms to frame the rest of the group as not in their right minds, with whatever criminal activity allegedly taking place during or leading up to the events of the music video as All Part of the Show.

He spends Phases 1 and 2 constantly getting pestered by 2D, and ends up doing the same to him throughout Plastic Beach. Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist : Murdoc is a terrible person, but also a very amusing one. Villain Protagonist : He was an asshole in Phase 1 but he was at least relatively harmless and showed some level of compassion toward Noodle.

By Phase 3 he's lost any remotely positive trait that he previously possessed. Dialed back from Phase 4 onwards where, while still a horrible person, he no longer seems to be getting up to gorillaz character biography criminal scheming. Since then its mostly returned to normal, to how it used to be, if perhaps a bit less one-sided and antagonistic.

Walking Shirtless Scene : He's seen without a shirt almost as often as he's seen with one. When He Smiles : Murdoc's look of absolute joy at the end of the music video for "The Lost Chord" when 2-D comes back for him has to be seen to be believed. Younger Than They Look : Murdoc's substance abuse and terrible hygiene make him look significantly older than he is.

He looked like he could be in his late forties in Phase 2 when he was still in his thirties. Noodle as of Phase 6. Phase 5 Phase 4 Phase 3 Phase 2 Phase 1. Cartoon bands are no exception. A Japanese girl who arrived in a Fed Ex crate at age eight at Gorillaz' doorstep, not being able to speak a word in English note Aside from her own name, "noodle".

The Ace : Being a genetically-engineered super soldier, she was trained to excel at everything, from music to languages. All Asians Know Martial Arts : While stereotypical, her martial arts skill mostly derives from her super-soldier training in her backstory. She's matured in Phases 3 and 4 but is still has her badass qualities. Badass Driver : In Phase 4, she broke into Jaguar Racing's test track, took their Formula E racer for a joyride around the circuit, and beat the lap record.

Bifauxnen : In Phase 1 and to a much lesser extent Phase 2, her appearance is rather androgynous. Averted from Phase 3 onwards, where she is consistently drawn to be quite obviously female. Black Bead Eyes : Only in Phase 1; the few times she widened her eyes showed that she possessed these. Break the Cutie : She was incredibly bubbly in Phase 1, and still cheerful in Phase 2.

In Phase 3, she's almost never shown being happy since she's busy fighting for her life and had recently come back from the "dead". In Phase 4, with her troubles behind her and returning to a more stable life with her band members, she is shown to be happier. Calling Your Attacks : During one of the Gorillaz Bitez shorts, Noodle does a flurry of kicks, punches, and jabs, while shouting them out to intimidate Russel.

Cheerful Child : In Phase 1, she more or less constantly frolicked around madly without a care in the world. Cool Helmet : She nearly always wore her radio helmet in Phase 1, giving her a quirky edge. In Phase 4, the driving helmet she wore when breaking Jaguar Racing's Formula 1 speed record thus becoming their Global Ambassador counted as one as well.

Cool Mask : In Phase 3, she wore a mask with a cat face and ears. Used to hide her bruised face. Cool Shades : By Phase 4, she has started wearing nifty-looking sunglasses. Said logo also appeared on a shirt worn by 2D during Phase 1, though, so it may be intended as more of a Mythology Gag than any kind of comment on Noodle's character.

Cute Bruiser : She was originally trained to be a Super-Soldier and practiced martial arts. Dark and Troubled Past : Prior to joining Gorillaz, she was part of a Japanese government project which aimed to create 23 kid Super soldiersNoodle's specialty being music — thus why she is very talented in playing numerous musical instruments. She was the only one of those children to survivewhile the remaining 22 were killed when the project was abandoned.

She was rescued thanks to her creator, Mr. Kyuzo, who erased her memory — leaving a trigger Phase, "ocean bacon" — and escorted her to safety after reading the ad for a guitarist Murdoc placed online. Doorstop Baby : Prior to Phase 1, her gorillaz character biography, Mr. Kyuzo, mailed her by parcel to Kong Studios to answer an online ad for a guitarist to protect her from being killed by the Japanese government when their Tyke-Bomb project was scrapped.

Drives Like Crazy : Judging from the music video for "Valley of the Pagans," Noodle seems to have inherited this trait from her bandmates, to the point that her driving actually freaks Murdoc out. The first thing she does when the gang gets launched out of a portal into the world of Los Santos is to crash the car that they're in, and she continually swerves about the road and speeds to the point that they get in yet another police chase.

One has to wonder if the portal dropping them all just outside of Plastic Beach at the end of it was less random cruelty and more an act of mercy so that they wouldn't all get killed by her. Everyone's Baby Sister : She's the youngest and only female member of the band and functions as the shared Morality Pet of the three older male members. When she's put in harm's way, even Murdoc freaks out.

Expository Hair Style Change : In some Phase 1 images she sported a ridiculous haircut, which emphasized her childishness and the fact that the other three weren't proper guardians. Eyes Always Shut : Her eyes were often closed in Phases 1 and 2 — she later averts this, with her eyes constantly shown in Phase 4. Eyes Out of Sight : She wore her bangs long in Phase 2, hiding her eyes majority of the time.

She did not possess them in Phase 3, instead generally wearing a face-concealing mask. While she occasionally wears them in Phases 4 and 6, they are nowhere near as omnipresent as they were when she was a teen. Fanservice Pack : After becoming a adult, artwork starts to play up her sex appeal quite a bit. A sharp contrast to the androgynous kid she started out as.

Subsequent phases have steadily downplayed her stereotypical traits such as her broken English, constantly slit eyes and Funny Bruce Lee Noises into nonexistence. Girlish Pigtails : Wears a pair of very short ones in the "Saturnz Barz" music video, though it's mostly for fashion. Gratuitous Japanese : When she was introduced in Phase 1, Noodle spoke exclusively in Japanese, due to her lacking English speaking skills.

She later shies away from this trope after becoming fluent in the language in Phase 2, though she still breaks into it if she's frustrated or angry. Also, after her supposed death, the whole band split up and went their separate ways. For the third album, Murdoc only managed to get 2D, and even that he did by force. In a meta sense, Noodle's appearance represents the theme of the Phase and the music.

In Phase 1 she's an innocent kid with a backstory out of an anime, in line with the childish comic image of the band. In Phase 2 she's a teenager, much like the music, she's grown up and started taking herself more seriously. In Phase 3 when the music and story are at their darkest, she's thought to be dead for half of the Phase. In Phase 4 she's grown up, and laid back.

In the backstory to Phase 4, she mailed herself the same way back to the band. Inexplicably Awesome : In Phase 1, where her backstory was still unknown, she was a complete enigma. Back then, her obscenely prodigious guitar skills and talent for martial arts were simply chalked up to being because she was Noodle. Intergenerational Friendship : The bandmate closest to her in age is 2D, who is almost a full decade older than her.

Despite this, she's quite close with all three of them. Kyuzo, who created the "ocean bacon" trigger phrase to reactivate her memories before shipping her off to Kong Studios to protect her from the Japanese government. She regains her memories between Phase 1 and 2 after hearing the aforementioned trigger phrase. Like Brother and Sister : Noodle once described the three other members as brothers.

In particular, her relationship with 2D is closer to one between siblings than the more parentally-oriented relationships she has with Murdoc and Russel, and she's described it as a "special zen bond". After Phase 4, she's constantly looking out for him in case he becomes a victim of one of Murdoc's schemes. She intervenes at the end of "PAC-MAN" by pulling the plug on 2D's game and forcing him to snap back away from embracing an unhealthy form of escapism.

Meaningful Name : Racial stereotypes aside noodling is a common practice of guitar players during warm ups. Messy Hair : Similar to 2D her hair is in a spiky uneven messy style. Morality Chain : To Murdoc. During her disappearance in Phase 3, almost every hint of goodness inside of him disappeared. Fanservice : Ever since hitting puberty, she's begun wearing outfits that accentuate her figure.

Played up especially in Phase 4, where more and more pictures have emphasized her legs and thighs. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero : After Phase 3, she wound up separated from the group and ended up living with an elderly fisherwoman Thankfully, she corrected this mistake. Noodle People : No pun intended. Not quite to the same degree as 2D as she's developed some curves over time, but she's still twig-thin.

Despite this, her reaction to Murdoc bringing a camera crew into a room during the "MTV Cribs" segment shows her age. One of the Boys : While she's hardly unfeminine, Noodle spends most of her time with her three male bandmates. Though she is generally shown to have the most intellectual and refined interests of the group, she also seems to genuinely enjoy partaking in the same crass hobbies that the three men do.

Only Sane Woman : In Phase 2, she was the most sensible out of everyone else. Averted in other phases — she was pretty wacky herself in Phase 1, she's not around enough in Phase 3 to count, and everyone's mostly calmed down in Phase 4. Out of Focus : She has much less of a presence in Phase 3 due to spending most of it away from the rest of the band.

Despite this, though, it's clear that she was going to play a very important role during the phase's second half Perpetual Frowner : On the occasions where her face or at least her mouth was shown during Phase 3, she always sported a melancholy frown. Averted in Phase 4, where she frequently gives off the same cheeky grins that she did during the first two Phases.

Person of Mass Destruction : She was originally created with the intended purpose of being a One Woman Army to be used in military combat. While she's thankfully gone against her design, she still has the potential to become a force of destruction. Pink Means Feminine : Noodle starts wearing pink clothing during the Cracker Island era, even going so far as to dye her hair pink as well.

Pint-Sized Powerhouse : Mainly in Phase 1, when she was only ten years old. In the "Clint Eastwood" video, she knocks out one of the zombie gorillas with one punch, and in the G-Bite "Game of Death," she easily mops the floor with Russel during their mock fight. Even as an adult, she's a good head and shoulders shorter than the others but still the best of the four in a fight by a longshot.

Plucky Girl : An energetic and occasionally downright wacky girl who has no problem keeping up with her much older male bandmates in Phases 1 and 2. While she mostly averted this in Phase 3, due to being consistently portrayed as somber and mysterious, it's back in full force in Phase 4. During Phase 3, it was so unsightly that she wore a cat mask almost constantly to conceal it.

It's still visible after the unspecified Time Skip by DoYaThing but it has faded significantly and is obscured by her bangs. Defied in Phase 4 since it seems to have faded completely. Significant Wardrobe Shift : After her maturation in between Phases 1 and 2, she stops wearing the radio helmets and baggy jackets she wore in Phase 1, and starts wearing clothes that are more like what her bandmates wear.

The Smurfette Principle : The only female in the band. While two other women have temporarily played with the group one of them being her robotic doublethey both did so while Noodle herself was not present. Sole Survivor : Of the project instigated by the Japanese government that created 23 child super-soldiers, including her. The only reason she survived at all when the project was abandoned and purged was her creator, Mr.

Kyuzo, who wiped all her memories pertaining to her origin and shipped her off to Kong Studios in response to Murdoc's online ad for a guitarist. Token Good Teammate : The only member of the band who has never done anything morally questionable throughout her life, and more or less the only one who could really be described as a hero. Tomboy with a Girly Streak : While Noodle has developed plenty of traditionally feminine interests as she's grown up, the fact that she was raised by three unruly men can still be seen pretty clearly in her general behavior.

Trigger Phrase : "Ocean bacon", which brought back her erased memories before Phase 2 started. Tyke-Bomb : Was originally created as one by the Japanese government for a military project. Of the 23 kids created for the project, she's the only one still living, and thankfully gone against her design. Verbal Tic Name : Her name is derived from the sole English word she knew upon first joining the band.

She's since become fluent in several languages, English being one of them, but the name has stuck. Vocal Evolution : As she's gotten older, Noodle's voice has gone from high-pitched and childlike to deeper and more cohesive. Waif-Fu : Despite her tiny body, she easily curb stomped Russel when she was 10 years old. While the fight in question may or may not have only occurred in a video game, it was still clearly accurate to both of their physical capabilities.

Women Are Wiser : She is the only female in each situation, and is portrayed as being the most emotionally stable, intelligent and competent member of the band, compared to the ditzy, pill-popping 2D; the satanic, asshole-ish Murdoc; and the bitter, supernaturally disturbed Russel. Justified, in that she's aged from 10 to her mid's across that time, so it's expected that she'd look different.

You cracker-ass Russel comes from Brooklyn and is perhaps best known for being possessed by the souls of his dead friends, that he lost in a drive-by shooting. Ever since he has been the most psychically unbalanced out of the group, what with the demons inside him taking advantage at times. Russel himself is a melancholic, well-spoken person — even if our character quote doesn't quite prove it — who deeply cares for Noodle.

He provided drums for "Gorillaz" and " Demon Days Album ", but he was not invited to gorillaz character biography on "Plastic Beach" because nobody could find him. Of course, he didn't have this problem when Phase 3 rolled around. As of "DoYaThing"he is living with the rest of the band on Wobble Street, London, where he sleeps on the roof of the apartment, though Phase 4 seems to have retconned this and he has shrunken back down due to an incident in North Korea.

Anti-Hero : Russel is a goodhearted and caring person, but also a grouchy and highly unstable loner. Art Evolution : Went from being almost comically round in Phase 1 to much more realistically-shaped in the later phases. The Artifact : Somewhat. Russel's defining gimmick in Phase 1 was his ability to summon Del whenever he was unconscious.

As Del was removed from his body during the gap between Phase 1 and 2, Russel has struggled to find another trait that allows him to stand out alongside his bandmates, causing him to fall into the background. This is even lightly acknowledged in-universe, as Russel experienced a near total mental breakdown upon losing Del, stating multiple times that he felt like he had lost a part of himself in the process.

Attack of the Foot Whatever : Was a giant for all of Phase 3, but was eventually undone due to North Korea capturing him mistaking him for Pulgasariand feeding him nothing but rations of extremely poor quality. Bald Mystic : He's totally bald and is a world class drummer with close ties to the supernatural, what with being possessed by the souls of his dead friends.

In addition, he's one of the most rational and intelligent members of the band. Big Beautiful Man : He was even voted the third sexiest cartoon character of all time by Nerve. Big Eater : While he claims his weight is the result of a wheat allergy, he puts away ridiculous amounts of fast food constantly. The Big Guy : The biggest guy out of the group.

He's strong, serious and gruff, but also a Gentle Giant underneath it all. Brooklyn Rage : He's from Brooklyn and has anger-management problems. Something similar occurs after the video for Aries, where an exclusive image shows Russell full-on strangling Murdoc for injecting 2D with a truth serum, with Noodle physically trying to restrain him from beating Murdoc into a green mush.

Chaste Hero : Details are actually unknown, but he's the only one of the male band members who doesn't openly get around. Conspiracy Theorist : Seems to have settled into this characterization in Phase 4. Considering what he's been through, it's not hard to see why. Cosmic Plaything : His suffering isn't as blatant as 2D's, but it's there.

How did he get back to normal size, you might ask? The North Koreans more or less starved him into doing so by accident. Demonic Possession : Being possessed by spirits has been an issue for him since his childhood. Dark and Troubled Past : First demons made him attack his classmates, resulting in an exorcism that left him in a coma for four years.

Then he was the lone survivor of a drive-by shooting that killed all his friends. Demoted to Extra : Steadily falls into the background as the story goes on, to the point where he not only doesn't contribute any music to the album during Phase 3 but also doesn't speak a single line of dialogue. He's back in the spotlight somewhat in Phase 4, though his status as The Quiet One still makes him the weakest presence of the band.

Determinator : Swam to Plastic Beach on his lonesome in Phase 3. Genius Bruiser : He's as strong as he looks but is also surprisingly eloquent and well-read. He came from an upper-class family and was set to have a privileged education up until his first possession. Gentle Giant : He's big but also quite polite and very caring. Even more appropriate in Phase 3, where he grew so big that he had no problem picking up and throwing a whale — by eating polluted material on his way to Plastic Beach.

Heroic BSoD : This happened to him when the Grim Reaper eventually claimed the souls of his dead friends from his body. Heterosexual Life-Partners : Russel and Del, the ghost that was particularly open about haunting him. Russel claimed Del to be his "life-long soul-brother". I Am Big Boned : Insists that his weight is the result of a wheat allergy.

Informed Flaw : Russell supposedly has anger management issues by his own admission, but we rarely actually see him get angry. Though his status as The Quiet One might be to try to keep that aspect of his personality hidden from public view. Some of these have been confirmed, but nothing has gotten beyond planning stages, mainly due to conflicts between the band and studios involved.

InHewlett said "Ultimately we didn't think that feel we're in a position to make the kind of movie we want to make with Gorillaz at the moment. But I'd still like to make a full, lavishly-animated Gorillaz movie someday. A soundtrack album was recorded in the summer as well initially only digitally available though a CD version was released in It featured a basic outline of the main plot elements of the Opera, reworked into a "Journey to the East", with the characters finishing in the Beijing Olympic Stadium.

Gorillaz headlined the Pyramid Stage at Glastonburyas an immediate replacement for U2who dropped out of performing at the festival. At the end of Gorillaz released their next album The Fall made in the hotel rooms during their US tour. It was, when released, the first album to be recorded entirely on an iPad. The album was made available for free to Gorillaz fan club members for a limited time as a digital download — and hard copies were released to worldwide markets in the following year.

In AprilAlbarn told The Guardian that he and Hewlett had fallen out and that future Gorillaz projects were "unlikely". However, it was later announced by the duo that they had reconciled their difference — and that Noodle, Russel, Murdoc and 2-D would return with a new album in Another release was the single Sleeping Powder — supposedly written and recorded in a day.

Meanwhile, a solar energy-themed collaboration with E. ON, released inwould later win Gorillaz a Webby Award. A new album, The Now Nowwould follow in Murdoc was unable to enjoy the band's success for the time being as he was undergoing a stint in jail for an undisclosed malefaction; he was replaced on bass for Ace Copular — who most famously played Ace of the Gangreen Gang in the Powerpuff Girls TV series — for the recording of The Now Now; however, Murdoc would later break his way out of prison.

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The group is made up of four fictitious members: 2D, the singer and pianist, Murdoc Niccals, the satanic bassist, Noodle, the prodigy Japanese guitarist, and Russel Hobbs, the drummer possessed by spirits. Their eponymous first album, released inwas a huge success, propelling the group to the forefront of the international scene. Gorillaz is a true icon of contemporary music, combining music, art, animation and sound experimentation to deliver a complete and captivating artistic experience.

Gorillaz is a virtual music group created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett in