Gordon

Personality
Gordon is one of the fastest and most powerful engines on Sodor. He is extremely proud of this and is inclined to boast. However, he is goodhearted, willing to forgive and use his strength to help smaller engines if they're stuck and need pulling out.

Gordon's position as the engine who usually pulls the Express has made him proud, pompous and self-important. His belief that "tender engines don't shunt" made him look down on tender engines who do shunt, but after being locked in the shed with Henry and James after going on strike to refuse shunting, he seemed to have mostly abandoned this philosophy, but still believes that tender engines are too big to be shunting.

Gordon oftens expects to get important jobs and either sulks when he does not, or gets jealous of those who do. Sometimes, Gordon can be a bully, particularly towards Edward, but following misadventures where Edward had to help him, Gordon had to acknowledge that despite being old, Edward is still a very useful engine. However, Gordon still sometimes doubts Edward, such as the time he didn't believe Edward could win a race against Spencer because he's only "a back engine" and "a waste of steam," but felt terrible for what he said when he saw Edward trying so hard, and decided to encourage him. He would soon stop belittling Edward for good after being tricked by Thomas, where he was tricked into getting stuck on Gordon's Hill again, learned his lesson and apologised to Edward saying that he promised not call him old or unreliable anymore.

Sometimes, Gordon shows a kinder side and gives the younger engines advice, usually after he has had some mishap as a result of his foolhardiness. Some of his advice is not exactly helpful, though, as James and Sir Handel have discovered.

As of the twentieth season, Gordon seems to have developed a tendency of pinning his faults on others, as shown when he blamed Henry over having to do his jobs for the day and vice-versa, or when he and the rest of the engines got in trouble for refusing to leave the shed at night, believing there was a ghost train (which was actually Henry with a coat of glow-in-the-dark paint), Gordon blamed Henry for the predicament.

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