#murdoc gorillaz edit

[the-cpu-system]

Hello Murdoc nation 😼

[dethkrypt]

19-2000. requested by @gopostal

[pepep02]

Humanz Gorillaz edit!!

My arm hurts

[bajaja-blast]

Average pb listening experience (at least for me)

[sonnewolfie009]

My 3 comfort characters :0

[pretty-cool-british-girl]

The sound feels like something he would do idk.

[lady-of-lavender]

Oh em gee, I return from the dead w a murdoc edit?!?!?!?

[batwingarts]

Gorillaz on a gorilla sofa.

And a tribute I made back in 2022.

Happy 24th birthday to the self titled gorillaz album! Gorillaz means so much to me especially the phase 1 era.

💚

[angryplebianart]

August 15, 1997. D-Day. When it all began.

[oursonwesleykindaglows]

My blorbos rn could not be more different:

[irradiatedtea]

Made a silly edit of this official art to make their heights more accurate to my personal vision…(also moved them closer together so its a bit more of a group picture hihi)

[slavhew]

murdoc for character opinions

god. murdoc. im admittedly not deep in enough to hard assess my opinions from 2018 vs now, but let's give a quick run through.

i love murdoc. but he's also hard to talk about. so i think its best to jump forward to what i find most compelling about him: it's someone's capacity to grow and change even relatively late in life.

He has a start in life that, speeding over all of THAT, leaves him a very vapid, self centered and cruel person by the time the band becomes a thing. Bit by bit, tooth by pulled tooth, he learns to see things differently.

And this is where that "canon isn't real if i dont look at it"- the continued existence of gorillaz's storyline depends on there being an antagonist, and that is historically Murdoc's role. So a lot of that development will get retconned, glossed over, etc. I don't really blame JH for that anymore, that's just how these things often go with properties that have this kind of extended shelf life.

Murdoc is a person that distills all his hurt into anger, excuses his loneliness as being "by choice" and buries trauma under ego, posturing and hypersexual behavior. But as it is when you form bonds with people, tentative as they might be, they change you. Phase 3 is the climax of this, and phase 6 was both the """final""" relapse of his bad tendencies (post TNN cough) and the end of his arc with The Lost Chord.

THAT ALL BEING SAID, he's silly to me. I count all the material of him being Oddly Polite or giggly as canon whether it's Phil Cornwell breaking character or not.

Murdoc has two faces: one for the paps, and another for the fans. One crude and attention seeking, and a softer more relaxed one for when he ACTUALLY gets to discuss his interests and the music he makes. He plays the media like a fiddle, since having eyes on him is an old skill he's long since mastered.

My possible divergences from fanon at large? I haven't been in touch lately, but I remember some interpretations being popular that I disagree with, so I'll just state my takes:

He's not iredeemable or stupid or remorseless, he grows to care about his bandmates very early on but is VERY slow on the uptake of identifying that affection, and he's much smarter than he lets on. Also no beef to people who ship 2doc but man it is just not my cup of tea. They're coworkers slash fffrriiienndsss?? who needle each other constantly.

AS FOR HEADCANONS: very simple.

A lot of his stunts in the public eye are coordinated- when he said he refuses to get on the stage on other people's terms, this includes the paps. If he's going to be hated, he might as well do that with intention and style

That being said, it's also a self-made excuse to be a debaucherous asshole as well as how he justifies the overindulgence to himself.

Selling his soul had progressive effects on his appearance

green skin, pointy ears, pointier teeth. he used to wear a red contact. he doesn't have to anymore!

the red eyes would be bilateral but in phase 5 the eye injury resulted in anisocoria- bowie-esque. He isn't sure if this is another manifestation of his deal for musical success, or karma.

because of his reduced vision and MULTIPLE stints in prison he is jumpier than ever

he has an unibrow! the fringe hides it because it grows back too fast, and murdoc is vain.

he used to have a fuller face, but as of phase 2 the stardom (drugs, poor self-care) started affecting his appearance. Phase 3 was even more brutal in terms of this. by the time phase 4 rolled around and he got clean, the buccal fat was gone for good, courtesy of plain aging!

short, skinny and not in the healthy way. again, phase 1-2 sees him develop a beer gut under xylophone ribs, phase 3 he's at his worst health-wise. Phase 4 and 6 see him put some real padding on, finally. (5 is a step back due to incarceration)

phase 5 issss fiiiineee... but i prefer respect-false-iconz (aka ezracaution)'s canon divergent exploration of it, The Code

lastly: projection? brother that's the bisexuality, shortness, edginess for show and anger issues. that's just text.

[dethkrypt]

GORILLAZ - DIRTY HARRY MV (2005) gifset requested by @tazomby

[underground-stars]

🏴‍☠️ to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Plastic Beach, here is a visualiser / menu intro concept I edit a time ago for a possible Gorillaz game inspired by the franchise Five Nights at Freddy's by Scott Cawthon, starring one of the iconic characters beside the main four: Cyborg Noodle 🏝️⚡️🎸 I'm not a game dev, only a enjoyer from FNAF & others indie productions. but you can feel free to try something abt this! hope you all like! please, consider subcribe on my channel🪼

[zombiebastian]

I'm literally so proud of this edit you guys, I was listening to the Mandela Catalogue remix of Heaven Says and this part of the song reminded me so much of Plastic Beach I had to make an edit of it (even though I'm not great at it)

Credits:

Song: Heaven says Mandela Remix by Z Sharp Studios

Footage:

-music videos by Gorillaz

-Rhinestone Eyes fan music video by richard van as

[dynamic-swap-au-archive]

Genuinely in awe of how well this fits, this is real canon dialogue, To Me

art source ! [Link]