Gogs •
Gogas – The "grandfather figure" of the Gog family and elderly patriarch of the clan. Gogas is derived from two Welsh words 'go' and 'cas'. They translate into English as 'quite' and 'nasty': a quite accurate description of the sometimes-maniacal grandfather. Gogas has a bald patch, white hair, and unkempt facial hair. He is completely senile, hot-headed, uncouth and crude, and wants to do things all his own way. His most prized possession is his club, and his solution to pretty much any problem is to bash it with it. Gogas is surprisingly one of the more physical of the group, often being the first to fight off giant bears and hungry dinosaurs with his club, although this is down to his craziness rather than bravery. At night, he snores like a wailing
coyote. In the "Gogwana" special, Gogas is given a small
backstory. •
Goglas – The "father figure" of the clan. From the Welsh language word 'goglais' which translates to 'tickle'. Goglas is the middle-aged son of the elderly "grandfather figure" Gogas. Goglas has a
Neanderthal-like face, shoulder length dark hair, and a dark cropped beard. Goglas is a slobby and lazy lay-about, mostly concerned with idling around and living life his own way. Although he occasionally goes out hunting, he is often the first to run away from danger and abandon his family in cowardly fashion and is not averse to leaving them behind in such situations. Goglas often fights with his teenage son Ogo and his bear-like wife Ogla who, despite often crudely fighting with him, also gives him somewhat unwanted affection. •
Ogla – The "mother figure" of the clan, and Goglas' mate. Ogla is derived from 'Oglau' and is the colloquial North Walian Welsh word for 'smell'. Enormous, bear-like and bossy, she is the matriarch of the family. None dare challenge her. Though at times disgusted and disliking of the rest of her family, she does care for them deep down, particularly her baby Gwj, when she is not kicking Gwj around. Ogla keeps her dark hair tied with bones. •
Ogo – The son and firstborn of Goglas and Ogla. Ogo is named after creators Siôn Jones and Deiniol Morris' history teacher during their schooldays. 'Ogo' being a shortened version of
ogof, the Welsh word for 'cave'. Ogo is a teenager. Has a
simian expression and has ginger hair which sometimes appears blonde. This is due to inconsistent film developing because the model itself has ginger hair. He is extremely slow and dim-witted, the dumbest of the clan, yet is constantly trying to impress and follow the orders of the others. He always fails however and usually gets covered in mess or his teeth knocked out. Most of the rest of the time, all he does is pick his nose and eat it, or chases animals such as centipedes and eats them instead. •
Igi – The
hippie and
pacifist daughter, presumably a teenager like Ogo, although younger than Ogo. She has shoulder-length black hair which also covers her eyes. Igi is the smartest of all the Gogs, even something of a genius many millennia ahead of her time, drawing things such as scientific equations and blueprints of cars, planes and helicopters on rocks. She invents things such as a bird-costume and a hot-air balloon made out of a dinosaur's carcass in the half-hour special
Gogwana. She is the quietest and least obscene member of the clan. However, also being the smallest and physically weakest, Igi is often victimized or misunderstood, or left behind when the rest are fleeing from danger. Her grandfather Gogas hits her over the head with a club when he sees her advanced drawings, although they give Gogas the idea to build a swing for baby Gwj, which subsequently has been mistakenly taken as some ceremonial building such as
Stonehenge. •
Gwj – The infant and second son and lastborn of Goglas and Ogla. His name is derived from the nickname of co-originator Deiniol Morris' brother-in-law. It also has elements of the term of endearment "coochie coo" used for babies. He is cute at a first glance, but is actually very brave, tough and sneaky. Gwj is sometimes subjected to the same cartoonish violence as the others and kicked off screen by the others when they cannot be doing with him, although Gwj is never injured and indeed seems the hardiest of the entire clan, laughing in the face of danger instead of running away from danger like the rest of them. What Gwj spends most of his time doing is crying and screaming (Composer Arwyn Davies sampled the screams and weaved them into the theme tune of the Gogs series), and the other Gogs have to desperately find ways to get him to stop. Besides that, he often defecates and gets into horrible messes a lot, and into very sticky situations (usually at the same time). Gwj often has snotty, horrible colds, and sometimes
blows snot at the screen.
Cannibal tribe Main antagonist of
Gogwana. •
Cannibal pygmies •
Cannibal chieftain Animals Ray the T-Rex A major supporting character and the primary
antagonist of the show, Ray is a ravenous
Tyrannosaurus rex who is frequently attempting to eat the Gog family clan and is constantly stalking them wherever they go. In the first episode, when the characters are introduced in the opening credits, the T-Rex is said to be named Ray. Ray is used a designation for the T-Rex at other points in the show also. The name was in homage to the artist, designer and early model animator
Ray Harryhausen. Ray's obsession with the Gogs may be as much down to revenge as hunger, as also in the first episode Ray is thwarted from eating the Gogs by having his private parts burnt by fire. In the second episode, Oglas and Ogo flee from the small dinosaur, only to discover a massive T-Rex which chases them off a cliff. Ray continues to appear in several episodes in the first series and in the half-hour special
Gogwana. Ray's depiction is inconsistent. In the first episode Ray is smaller and faster (perhaps a juvenile T-Rex), and in the film Gogwana he is depicted as slower but larger and generally more menacing. In Gogwana Ray, who is again stalking the Gogs, inadvertently saves them when he eats the new antagonist, the Cannibal King. There are other assorted dinosaurs featured throughout the episodes, but Ray is the only one who makes more than one appearance. One model was made for the series episodes, and a larger, more menacing model was made for use in Gogwana.
Other animals seen • A prehistoric
mole is a recurring animal in the first series. Gogas is often seen trying to club the mole. • In the sixth episode, Igi sees a giant eagle flying above the ground, which inspires her to make a bird costume. The eagle was almost hit by an arrow from Oglas and Gogas's bow-and-arrow. • In the third episode, Oglas and Ogo find a human sized,
Therizinosaur eating leaves. It soon notices them and continues to beat them up with martial arts. • In the seventh episode, Ogo is attacked by a
Metridiochoerus whilst tied to a tree. The boar then chases Oglas and Gogas, making them fall down a hole. The tree Ogo is attached to is thrown over the pit. The boar continues to urinate and defecate on them until Ogla scares the boar away. • In the third episode, a thunderstorm occurs, driving the Gogs to find shelter. Ogo climbs up a tree and finds a leaf to shelter under, which came from a
pteranodon's nest. It then carries Ogo in the air and, later in the show, Ogla as well. These creatures are seen numerous times throughout the show. • A
Brontosaurus is seen in the third episode where it died apparently from old age and again in the fifth episode where another one fell into a crack in the ground that opened during a volcanic eruption, however it poked its head up, meaning it survived. •
Trilobites are seen in the final half-hour special
Gogwana, which although were marine animals in reality they are seen scuttling along the ground, alongside many other creatures with which they did not co-exist. • A
Gigantopithecus mother and its baby appeared in a second-season episode. The mother had lost her baby and had mistakenly taken Girj, she later got her baby after having a fight with Ogla who tried to get Girj back; however, her baby had stolen Gogas's club and hit her on the head with it. • A
Triceratops skull is seen in the desert, also in
Gogwana. In the same scene numerous creatures are seen – a pair of unidentified furry desert creatures, perhaps the ancestors of rabbits, vultures, and a desert
Dimetrodon. The Gogs take refuge in the hulking carcass of a dead
woolly mammoth which had evidently veered mistakenly into the desert. • An
Allosaurus the one-time antagonist appears in one episode babysitting and about to eat Girj while still asleep and trying to eat Ogo but gets killed off by Igi who saves their lives. • A
Yeti, another one-time main antagonist appeared in the final episode of the second series. Ogo encounters the angry Yeti while fishing. Gogas with a sore back comes to the rescue yet the Yeti fixes Gogas's back when it grabs him and chases after Ogo riding on his frozen father Oglas like a snowmobile. Luckily Girj was hiding in backpack filled with fishes to knock the yeti off. Eventually when the Yeti is feeling happy by wearing Oglas's footwear and made friends with Gogas, who is enjoying eating fish and chatting with the Yeti. • A
Cave Bear appeared in the second season. It went into the Gogs cave looking for a place to hibernate whilst they were out fishing and then forced the Gogs out when they came back. After several unsuccessful attempts to get it out they managed to lure it out using some fish. • A
Hypsilophodon appeared in a second-season episode. It encountered the Gogs and was captured by them. However, before they could eat it, they got into an argument and whilst rowing the Hypsilophodon managed to chew through the ropes that held it and escaped. • In "Gogwana", a dead
Dimetrodon is seen as the Gogs are exploring the jungle oasis. It is later inflated into a large
hot air balloon in the final sequence to help the Gogs escape the cannibal tribe. ==List of Gogs episodes==