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'''Gmork''' is a fictional villainous character from ]'s '']''. In the motion picture, the name is spelled G'mork. |
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There are differences in how Gmork is portrayed and the circumstances that befall Gmork when the book and the motion picture are compared. |
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His physical appearance is that of a large wolf-like creature. Gmork is capable of speech. In the book, Gmork makes a reference to the Manipulators as the ones behind the ]. In the movie the Nothing itself is the main antagonist throughout the storyline, and Gmork is its agent.<!--I believe he did mention some "force behing the Nothing" in the movie, too.--> |
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Gmork's primary mission in the Neverending Story is to track down and kill the young warrior ]. In the book, he never manages to catch up with Atreyu, because the latter uses the magical powers of the monster ]'s poisonous bite to travel instantaneously to the ]. In the movie, Gmork almost manages to kill Atreyu in the Swamps of Sadness, but Atreyu is barely rescued by the ]. |
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In the book, Atreyu meets up with Gmork in Spook City, where Gmork is chained to the stones of the city. He tells the story of how he has been hunting a boy named Atreyu, but lost him early on. He then got caught up with the Princess of Darkness in Spook City who, upon hearing of his goal for ], chained him to a wall and leapt into the Nothing. Atreyu, who has been employing a play on words with the term 'nobody' to hide his identity, now reveals it while the Nothing closes in on all sides. Gmork proceeds to laugh a cacophonous laugh until he dies, which happens to precede him starving to death. In the movie Gmork meets Atreyu once again later in the plot, where the young warrior manages to kill the beast. |
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In the book, Gmork's evil lives on after he dies and his body lashes out and grabs Atreyu in its jaws when he comes near. Being held by Gmork, however, prevents Atreyu from being able to give in to the overpowering urge exerted by the Nothing to throw himself into it. |
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