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Gmork is a fictional villainous character from Michael Ende's The Neverending Story. In the motion picture, the name is spelled G'mork.

There are differences in how Gmork is portrayed and the circumstances that befall Gmork when the book and the motion picture are compared.

His physical appearance is that of a large, wolf-like creature, capable of human speech. The film shows him as having short, dark, blue-black fur and luminous green eyes, as well as more fangs than those of an ordinary wolf. In the book, Gmork makes a reference to the Manipulators as the ones behind the Nothing. In the movie, he refers to himself as serving "The power behind the Nothing".

Gmork's primary mission in the Neverending Story is to track down and kill the young warrior Atreyu. In the book, he never manages to catch up with Atreyu, because the latter uses the magical powers of the monster Ygramul's poisonous bite to travel instantaneously to the Southern Oracle. In the movie, Gmork almost manages to kill Atreyu in the Swamps of Sadness, but Atreyu is rescued by the luckdragon Falkor.

In the book, Atreyu meets up with Gmork in Spook City, where Gmork is chained. He tells that he has been hunting a boy named Atreyu, but lost him early on. He then met the Princess of Darkness, who, upon hearing of his goal for Fantastica, chained him to a wall and leapt into the Nothing. Atreyu, who has been employing a play on words using the term 'nobody' to hide his identity, now reveals it while the Nothing closes in on all sides. Gmork proceeds to laugh cacophonously until he dies. This meeting occurs in the movie as well; Gmork, however, is not depicted as tied, and does not name "Manipulators" as the power behind the Nothing. He attacks Atreyu, impaling himself on an improvised stone knife held by the young warrior.

In the book, Gmork's evil lives on after he dies; 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.

In the novel G´mork tells Atreyu that he is part of both human and fantasy world; this has led some to speculate that G´mork is the representation of Author Michael Ende.

Notes

• In the end credits of the film, Alan Oppenheimer is not credited for voicing the G'mork.

• The closed captions for Gmork's dialogue are colored green, not white as standard captions are.

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