Goldirox

"SORRY... ME BE MORE ACCURATE. MINER FIND ONE LUMP, SO NEED TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE MORE. THAT BETTER?"

Goldirox
Dragon Quest Builders 2

Japanese name	ゴルドン
Romaji	Gorudon
Race	Gold golem Warning: Spoilers! Click expand to view content Previously: Human (unclear) Stone golem Copper golem Silver golem

Goldirox (ゴルドン, Gorudon^?, lit. Gordon/Golden) is a character in Dragon Quest Builders 2. He appears on the island of Khrumbul-Dun.

Appearance and Personality[edit | edit source]

Goldirox, at first, appears to be a standard stone golem, with a stone brick body and blue eyes. After the Builder first imbues him with five lumps of copper ore, his face turns into copper but the rest of his body remains the same. In his copper golem form, his whole body turns copper and his eyes turn yellow. In his silver golem form, his body turns silver and his eyes turn blue again. In his gold golem form, his body turns gold and his eyes turn back to yellow. As he slowly regains his power, he slowly begins to stand up, going from sitting to kneeling to crouching to standing (see Gallery).

Like all golems, he talks very bluntly - with fragmented, improper sentences that get his point across quickly and efficiently - and only with capital letters. Goldirox is also one of Babs' many admirers, and desires her hand in marriage.

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His equippable Golden Gauntlets look like large rectangular golden shields strapped to the dorsal side of his forearms, with large diamond semicircles embedded on the outside. Their diameters face outwards instead of inwards, and when Goldirox puts his arms up they form a complete circle.

If the Builder fails to dodge or shield the Madusa's petrifying magic, Goldirox will turn into a stone golem again and sink to the floor. Upon giving him a gold ingot, he will regain his strength and turn back into a gold golem.

Appearances[edit | edit source]

Dragon Quest Builders 2[edit | edit source]

Goldirox appears at first as a nameless stone golem, buried beneath layers of rubble. After he is excavated, he immediately requests lumps of copper, silver, and gold ore to regain his strength. When he is told by Babs that the mines are collapsed, he goes and opens them up with a huge punch. Den and Magrog arrive at the scene, startled by the sudden loud boom, and the latter realises then that the monster is actually the gold golem Goldirox, the guardian of the mines spoken of in a common Khrumbul-Dunnian legend. Apparently, around the end of the Golden Age - when the metal in the mines had been turned to stone by the Madusa - Goldirox had disappeared. It is later revealed that he had been buried away by the Children of Hargon.

He asks the miners to provide 1000 lumps of copper, 3000 lumps of silver and 5000 lumps of gold for him to reach his prime again. When he reaches his gold form, Babs throws a party and dances for the miners, but is shot down by the Madusa turning her to stone. Goldirox is visibly distraught.

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During the construction of the Gold Bar in an attempt to coax the shiny-flashy-sparkly-hating Madusa out of hiding, Ordelia tells the Builder of another famous Khrumbul-Dunnian tale of love and loss. She tells them about a lady with lovely long hair that came to the island who quickly fell in love with a dashing bachelor boy. Unfortunately, he had too many admirers, and she grew so jealous she strangled the man with her hair and fled into the mines to hide herself. She tells the Builder that she theorizes that the maiden was Madusa and the man was Goldirox, and the latter confirms that most of the story was true except for the fact that Madusa did not kill him, only took his power and broke 'his precious', the Echo Flute. Den suggests that she kept the other half of the flute in the underground temple as a keepsake. It is unclear whether Madusa and Goldirox had actually been human, or if it was just an adaptation of true events.

Goldirox requests the Builder to find diamonds while the Gold Bar is under construction, to build a pair of Golden Gauntlets. He would use them to create a shield and reflect Madusa's petrifying beams when the people take her down. After they defeat her in battle, the Builder obtains the Heartstone she had stolen from Goldirox. He tells them to use it to create the Golden Glow, and they can use it to break the curse on Babs and restore the Golden Age. However, he told the people that using the Golden Glow on himself would make him disappear, but not die, as he would live on in the face of the Gold Bar and watch over Khrumbul-Dun. After Babs is freed from her curse, the Khrumbul-Dun folk party all night, and she gets a chance the next morning to have a heart-felt talk with Goldirox's spirit before she leaves to join the citizens of the Isle of Awakening.

Abilities[edit | edit source]

At certain points in the story, when able to be mounted, Goldirox has all standard golem abilities. He can smash large areas of blocks and deal large amounts of damage to enemies. Like other golems, he also knows the skill Forbearance.

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When he receives the Golden Gauntlets, he is able to create a shield that can reflect Madusa's petrifying beams back at her, turning her to stone and leaving her vulnerable for attack.

Etymology[edit | edit source]

His original Japanese name "Gorudon" (Golden) is likely given because he is a golden golem.
- Character-based languages follow this naming convention.
His localised English name "Goldirox" is a play on words, in which he is made of Gold and specialises in rocks, particularly bringing ores back to the mines and also smashing them up.
- His name could also be a play on the name Goldilocks, in which going through three forms and/or three different bars (copper/silver/gold) to settle on one definitive final form could be a parallel to Goldilocks going through three chairs/bowls of porridge/beds before settling on a definitive perfect one.
- Other localisations of his name in most latin-based languages also follow this naming convention.
In Spanish, his name "Geodoro" may be a mix of the suffix "geo" meaning "earth/ground/land" with presumably the Spanish word for "golden" ("dorado", [masculine]) and/or for "gold" ("oro"). It could also be a variation of the name "Teodoro" which has origins in the Spanish language meaning "God" (Teo) and "gift" (doros), having the combined meaning of "Gift of God" or "Divine Gift", alluding to his role in the story as what helps Babs kickstart the revival of the Golden Age.

Other Languages[edit | edit source]

Language	Translation	Meaning
Español	Geodoro	Uncertain intended meaning (see Etymology).
Français	Bougredor	A spin on the French name for "Goldilocks" (Boucles d'or; noting that "d'or" means "golden"). "Bougre" is an old-fashioned term that refers to a guy or a bloke. It is also used as a mild swear, but its use is similarly very old-fashioned.
Deutsch	Goldbrökchen	A slight variation of the German name for "Goldilocks" (Goldlöckchen).
Italiano	Roccioli d'oro	A slight variation of the Italian name for "Goldilocks" (Riccioli d'oro; noting that "d'oro" means "golden").
한국어	골든 (Goldeun)	Korean transliteration of "Golden".
中文	戈顿 (Gēdùn)	A Chinese interpretation of his Japanese name, "Gorudon".
中文 (繁體)	戈頓 (Gēdùn)	Ditto.