Gorillaz

by Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett

Step into the fractured, animated world of Gorillaz — where Kong Studios pulses with creative chaos, Plastic Beach rises from the ocean, and four misfit musicians navigate fame, conspiracy, and the surreal edges of reality. Part band, part mythology, entirely unlike anything else.

20 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• 2D — The hollow-eyed, sweet-natured lead vocalist of Gorillaz, perpetually dazed, perpetually melodic, and perpetually put-upon by Murdoc.
• Ace — The streetwise, leather-clad stand-in bassist from the Gangreen Gang who stepped in for Murdoc during his imprisonment — a surprisingly stable additio
• Cyborg Noodle — A mechanical replica of Noodle built by Murdoc during her apparent absence — technically a bandmate, spiritually something much more disturbing.
• Del the Ghost Rapper — The spirit of Russel's deceased best friend, who lives within Russel's body and emerges to rap, advise, and commune with the living.
• Evangeline — Russel's deceased first love — a girl from Brooklyn whose memory anchors him and whose absence shaped the man he became.
• Mr. On / Geep — The strange, shifting manager-figure and liaison between the Gorillaz and the music industry — half fixer, half mystery.
• Murdoc Niccals — The green-skinned, self-described Satanist bassist who founded Gorillaz through force of will, ego, and a suspicious amount of dark luck.
• Noodle — The prodigious Japanese guitarist of Gorillaz — a child supersoldier who grew into the band's conscience, its most dangerous member, and arguably its
• Paula Cracker — The band's original drummer before Russel, and 2D's ex-girlfriend — her departure from both relationships happened simultaneously and traumatically.
• Russel Hobbs — The soulful, possessed drummer of Gorillaz — a gentle giant from Brooklyn whose body serves as a vessel for the spirits of his departed friends.
• The Boogeyman — The supernatural entity associated with Murdoc's Satanic dealings — a figure from the darker layers of the Gorillaz cosmology that Murdoc has courted

Locations

• El Mañana Windmill Island — The floating windmill island from the El Mañana music video — the site of Noodle's apparent death and one of the most traumatic chapters in Gorillaz h
• Kong Studios — The crumbling Hertfordshire manor house that serves as Gorillaz's home, recording studio, and ongoing disaster — a place where creativity and chaos sh
• Murdoc's Winnebago — Murdoc's perpetually running mobile home parked in the Kong Studios courtyard — his personal domain, and a place no one else enters without consequenc
• Noodle's Room — Noodle's room in Kong Studios — immaculate, precise, and subtly alarming in a way visitors can't immediately place.
• Plastic Beach — Murdoc's island studio in the South Pacific, constructed from compressed oceanic garbage — a paradise and a prison depending on who you ask.
• The Kong Recording Studio — The basement recording studio at Kong Studios — where the music actually gets made, under conditions that would concern most producers.

Items

• El Diablo Bass — Murdoc's supernatural bass guitar — an instrument with a history as murky and possibly cursed as its owner.
• Noodle's Guitar — Noodle's primary electric guitar — an instrument as precisely cared for as everything else in her life, and capable of sounds that seem to exceed its
• The Crossroads Contract — The Faustian agreement Murdoc claims to have made at a crossroads in Stoke-on-Trent — the source of his supernatural luck, his green skin, and his out

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