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Gangle is one of the main characters of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Marissa Lenti. She is a humanoid made of ribbons trapped in the Digital Circus along with five other victims.
Appearance[]
Gangle appears to be made up of four candy red ribbons that form a humanoid shape. Her face is a white porcelain mask with black eyes and mouth. Her body consists of the main mass of the ribbons that curl, making a spring shape that spirals four times, two ribbons that form her legs, and a single ribbon for her arms (one end is the right arm, while the other end is her left arm). Whenever her comedy mask gets broken or removed, her next mask appears, switching to a sad version of the former, clarified by Gooseworx as her tragedy mask.
It is said when she holds her breath her mask starts spinning.
In "Fast Food Masquerade", Gangle changed her mask for the one Zooble gave her, now having her left eye with a white pupil and her right eye white with a black pupil. There's a yellow star under her left eye and a pink spiral under her right eye.
Personality[]
Gangle's emotions and behavior are influenced by which mask she is currently wearing. However, it is revealed that these masks do not completely change her mood, rather they are a literal form of "masking" and are not the sole deciders of her personality. The masks merely change the way Gangle's feelings are presented. When she has her Comedy Mask, her tone, posture, and behavior is masked as pleasant, upbeat, and extroverted. Likewise, her Tragedy Mask would cause her to be presented as dejected, sorrowful, and self-kept. Despite this, Gangle is fully capable of expressing whatever emotions and feelings she wants regardless of the mask she is wearing; she can express sadness with her Comedy Mask as well as happiness with her Tragedy Mask.
Gangle is referred to by Jax as one of the most "mentally stable and capable characters" in a mocking manner. Due to her mask breaking easily, Gangle is fragile in both a literal and figurative sense. Because of her emotional fragility, Gangle is an easy target for Jax's taunts, who enjoys tormenting her. Zooble themself points out that Gangle is too shy to speak up, possibly to avoid conflict with the other Circus members. Gangle had positive feelings towards Ragatha, although she acknowledged that Ragatha could sometimes be seen as disingenuous. At the end of "Fast Food Masquerade", Gangle expresses her concern that she will be hated by everyone after the events of the episode.
In "Fast Food Masquerade", Gangle develops a new personality with a new mask given to her by Zooble. While wearing this mask, she becomes outgoing and confident, but also bossy, controlling and manic. She also internally cracks when others mention they like her better when she is sad, or that her new personality is annoying.
Biography[]
"PILOT" (Episode 1)[]
Gangle first appears in the episode "PILOT." She is introduced in the opening theme song, but Pomni knocks over Jax, who falls onto Kinger, who in turn tumbles into Gangle. She lands face-first, which causes her comedy mask to break, making her cry and showing her next, sadder, mask. Jax is seen stepping on her comedy mask, cracking it even more, making Gangle sob in response.
Gangle later pipes up during a conversation quietly saying, "What about Zooble?" Showing her concern for the other performer. Gangle gets paired up with Kinger to find Zooble and deal with The Gloinks. Later in the episode, Gangle reappears with Kinger, as they're gazing down a pitch-black hole, where they can hear Zooble distantly screaming. Gangle has to remind Kinger that they saw one of the Gloinks carry Zooble's pieces down there, seemingly startling Kinger.
She then asks Jax how Kaufmo is doing, saying that she hopes he isn't mad at her for not laughing at his jokes. Jax then throws a bowling ball at Kinger, who smacks against Gangle, pulling her down. Jax goes down the hole with them, and they all tumble down a long and fun-shaped slide, entering The Gloink Queen's Nest.
After Jax states that he doesn't want to help Zooble anymore, Kinger and Gangle play rock-paper-scissors to see who will go and save Zooble. Gangle loses, saddening her, while Kinger looks ecstatic about getting to help Zooble. After the Gloink Queen is defeated, Gangle shows confusion and is surprised when she learns that Kaufmo was abstracted.
On their way out, Jax offers to let Gangle go first, but changes his mind immediately after muttering: "No, wait, why would I say that?" and shoves Gangle onto the floor, and she enters last. At the end of the episode, she can be seen eating the digital feast with the other performers discussing compost with the rest of the group. She appears to be eying Pomni with worry, asking her if she is feeling alright (even though the dialogue is inaudible).
"Candy Carrier Chaos!" (Episode 2)[]
Gangle is seen at the Tent with the rest of the crew (except Zooble) getting pushed into the portal by Caine, although she doesn't say anything much. In the Candy Canyon Kingdom, when they are walking to the castle, she expressed how much she likes the place, before a mannequin charges into her and breaks her comedy mask.
When the crew goes to the truck, Jax runs to it saying, "I call shotgun", before ironically forcing Gangle to drive after he is not pleased by the sound of the horn. Later when the crew is driving to catch the bandits, Jax says, "You drive over to the other truck and I'll shoot'em repeatedly until they're unrecognizable", before Gangle says, "I feel like that violates some kind of convention". When Gangle refuses to comply with what Jax wants, he threatens her on revealing about the "figurine thing", making her laugh in a forced manner before ramming into the bandits shortly after.
When the group returned to the circus, they attended Kaufmo's funeral. When it was Gangle's turn to speak, she showed a drawing of her and Kaufmo then began crying as she recounted her memories of her abstracted friend.
"The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor" (Episode 3)[]
Gangle was seen on the couch taking notes on Pomni's special power when she holds her breath, it is revealed at Gangle's mask spins when she holds her breath, she enters the Mildenhall Manor with the rest of the crew (except Zooble). Jax throws her Comedy Mask into a door which turns out to be the scary door, causing her to be disappointed, she follows Ragatha and Jax into the normal door and meets Martha Mildenhall, who invites them to have tea, after the tea the group heads to the main entrance of the mansion where they learn they have to wait for the others before they can leave and she asks Ragatha how long that would be. After Pomni and Kinger reunited with the rest of the group Gangle asks if they remember to retrieve her Comedy Mask causing both of them to realize they forgot.
"Fast Food Masquerade" (Episode 4)[]
Gangle is seen in The Tent playing softball with Jax and Ragatha, which results in Jax accidentally breaking her comedy mask.
While Jax and Ragatha argue, Zooble pulls Gangle aside to show her something in their room. In Zooble's room, Zooble pulls a plastic comedy mask from the "Zooble" box, containing all of Zooble's pieces. Zooble explains that the plastic comedy mask may be more durable, as it isn't made of a glass-like/fragile material. Gangle tries on the comedy mask, to which she says in reply to Zooble's question of how it feels, "It feels… Normal."
Caine pulls Pomni, Jax, Ragatha, Zooble, and Gangle to the center of the tent to share the day's adventure which is "The Curse of The Violent Psychopath Butcher", to which Pomni dislikes the idea, and asks if they could chill with the horror, and that she really does not want it to be like last time, to which Zooble asks what happened last time, before Pomni explains what happened. Caine calls everyone critics, and asks them to come up with a better one, to which Zooble responds that they do, and asks Caine if he's checked the Suggestions box at all, to which Caine responds by saying that he forgot they even had one. Gangle suggests that they pick a more "normal" adventure, to which Caine pulls out a suggestion for the cast to spend the day working at a fast food restaurant. Gangle agrees, and Caine deems Gangle as the shift manager, to which Gangle mentions she was a shift manager at some point, possibly before she entered the circus.
At the "Spudsy's" restaurant, Gangle starts up the shift for everyone, and gets into "manager mode".
Jax throws Ragatha into a fryer, to which Gangle calls Caine and suggests a punishment for bad employees, to which Caine agrees, with a vague answer to what the punishment will be.
At lunch hour, Gangle asks Jax to clean the bathroom, which she describes as a "biohazard". Jax refuses, and says that he prefers Gangle when she's sad, to which the sound of breaking glass is heard (meaning she cracked emotionally) and Gangle drags Jax to an empty room as a dated "employee training video" plays. In the tape, Gangle says the viewer is thinking they (the viewer) wants be a comic artist and then launch a web comic, adding it's cool to have dreams before she says the viewer's dreams are completely unrealistic and need to stop trying, implying that Gangle could've been an aspiring webcomic author/artist before entering the circus, but was discouraged by others.
In the employee training video, Gangle asks if the viewer is smiling, to which Jax replies "no", before the music stops, and Gangle asks "Why not?" as cartoonish extendable arms then tie Jax to a chair and bring him closer to the screen, as Gangle says it's time for their re-evaluation as a mind-control/hypnosis-type video plays, flashing between Gangle's comedy mask and tragedy mask.
Gangle approaches Ragatha to request she does her work properly, and help her with her work, to which Ragatha says "Why are you even the boss anyways? I feel like I'm way more responsible than you.", which Gangle replies by suggesting Ragatha just does as she's told so she doesn't end up hurt, and attempting to motivate Ragatha. Ragatha replies with "No offense, but you're kind of annoying when you have your happy mask.", which is followed by a close-up of Gangle, and the sound of glass cracking (again meaning she cracked internally), and Gangle asking Zooble to help with Ragatha in a depressed tone, while heading to a corner.
Jax asks Gangle if the clock is broken, to which Gangle replies almost losing the sense of reality; "Is it broken? Or are we the broken ones? How long has this shift really gone on for? Six hours? 8? 24? A week? A year? Does time even move in here? Will we ever go home? Will we ever achieve our dreams?" Before being cut off by the sound of her watch beeping and coming back to "reality", and replying "Oh wait, yeah that clock's broken."
At dinner time, Gangle walks into an alley alone, takes off her plastic comedy mask, sighs, and screams into her hands, before being caught by Pomni taking out the garbage, who asks if she's okay. Gangle replies "My comedy mask is usually broken by now…" Pomni asks if she has anyone to talk to, and suggests talking to Ragatha, to which Gangle replies "Heh. Oh, Ragatha. I love her, but… After a while, it gets kind of hard to tell how genuine she's actually being.", before putting back on her plastic comedy mask and saying, "Anyway, we can't spend all night out here talking about our feelings. We've got work to do!" followed by a weak laugh, before she walks back into the building.
After Ragatha, Jax, and Zooble leave, Gangle is depressingly walking around the building after standing there for roughly an hour, before Pomni offers to close the restaurant for Gangle, before Gangle leaves, and stares at the road on the street, before throwing her plastic comedy mask into the sky, smiling, and running onto the road, dancing and staring at a street lamp, before tripping, and staring at the truck racing towards her.
The scene then cuts to an office with Caine going over Gangle's performance review, and said she did a good job, but "cut her own shift short, went a little kooky, and ran out into oncoming traffic." Caine then offered that she could put the blame onto Pomni, Jax, Ragatha, or Zooble, to which Gangle takes responsibility.
At the tent, Zooble approaches Gangle, who's drawing an anime/manga character on a notepad, and asks why she's so far away from the other cast members, to which Gangle replies with a sniff: "I messed everything up... The mask didn't work. And now I don't think anybody wants to talk to me anymore." And Zooble replies "I still like talking to you. Look, the new mask was a bust. So, what? I'm sure we'll find something that works eventually." before taking Gangle to hang out with the rest of the cast, and says to bring Gangle's art, which she is most likely embarrassed of due to what people thought of it before she entered the circus.
Trivia[]
- Gangle is said to enjoy drawing, specifically anime.[2]
- Gangle is seen sketching during the opening of The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor.
- Gangle's favorite anime is Azumanga Daioh.[3]
- She has watched One Piece, and her favorite character is Chopper.[4]
- During the "Training Tape" section of Fast Food Masquerade, Gangle begins projecting her feelings, mentioning that she "wanted[s] to be a comic artist" and "eventually launch [her own] a manga-inspired webcomic".[5]
- Gangle mentions that in her past life she used to work as a shift manager at a fast food place before she entered the circus.
- It was stated by Gooseworx during GLITCHX 2023 that Gangle only has two masks.[6]
- Her tragedy mask appears to be more durable than her comedy mask; while the latter broke after a single fall, the former endured two similar hits with no visible damage.
- Gangle has a place where she stores her broken comedy mask.
- In one of the TADC photos published by Glitch[7], one of Gangle's broken masks on the wall resembles the "Dorcelessness" face from the video "BLUE_CHANNEL: THALASIN", an analog horror short by Gooseworx unrelated to The Amazing Digital Circus. Gooseworx has stated that this is intended as just an easter egg.[8]
- Gangle's masks are based on the Sock and Buskin or "Comedy and Tragedy" symbol, an icon that dates back to Ancient Greek theater depicted by a pair of masks, one frowning (tragedy) and one smiling (comedy).
- According to Gooseworx on GLITCHX 2023, Jax came up with her name.[9]
- Gangle's name is a play on the words referring to her gangly body.
- The word "gangle" is a verb for moving ungracefully. I.e. "He gangled down the street."
- It was confirmed by Gooseworx on Tumblr that Gangle had a body pillow with an unspecified character on it.[10]
- It was mentioned by Gooseworx in a Tumblr post that Gangle and the others were talking about compost at the table at the end of the pilot episode.[11]
- Gangle's design is inspired by Kedamono from Popee the Performer.
- Gangle is the main protagonist in the Fast Food Masquerade.
- A running gag so far is Gangle's comedy mask being broken (mostly on purpose by Jax), thus displaying her tragedy mask. Fast Food Masquerade reveals that the comedy mask is just used to make her look happy, not actually change her emotion. It is shown that she can smile even with the tragedy mask.
- When she holds her breath, her mask starts spinning.
- She has an embarrassing secret revolving around a "figurine" and possibly Ragatha, which Jax is aware of and uses to blackmail Gangle into performing acts that endanger others and herself.
- This changes in the Latin American dub referring only to the fact that Gangle has drawings about Ragatha.
- As stated in Fast Food Masquerade, being a shift manager was Gangle's job at one point.
- When Gangle is sketching in The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor, she's holding her pencil with her left ribbon, hinting that she may be left-handed.
- Conversely, when Gangle is sketching in Fast Food Masquerade, she's holding her pencil with her right ribbon, suggesting that she's ambidextrous.
Other language VAs[]
| Language | Voice Actor | Localized name |
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| Arabic | غادة القمودي (Ghada Al-Qammoudi) | غانغل |
| Dutch | Lune van der Meulen | Gangle |
| Filipino | Jennifer Friolo | Gangle |
| French | Mathilde Carmes | Gangle |
| German | Lara Tronschel | Gangle |
| Greek | Effie | Gangle |
| Hindi | Shilpi Pandey | Gangle |
| Hungarian | Nikolett Hack | Gangle |
| Indonesian | Melati Pertiwi Putri | Gangle |
| Japanese | 王怜馨 (Wang Lianxin) | ガングル |
| Polish | Magda „Natsumi” Domagała | Gangle |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Ana Helena de Freitas | Gangly |
| Portuguese (Brazil Old) | Vii Zedek | Gangly |
| Russian | Екатерина Гершкович (Yekaterina Gershkovich) | Гэнгл |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Denisse Leguizamo | Gangle |
| Thai | จุฬาภา ลานจิตรไมตรี (Chulapa Lanjitmaitri) | แกงเกิ้ล |
| Turkish | Alisa Mikaela Esenler (Pilot, 1st dub) | Gangle |
| Ukrainian | Карина Шкребетько (Karina Shkrebetko) | Лантух |
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