List of Gremlins

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The following is a list of Gremlins from Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

Contents 1 Gizmo 2 First Gremlins 2.1 The first batch 2.2 Earl 2.3 Stripe 2.4 Caroling Gremlins 2.5 Pub gremlins 2.5.1 Mugger 2.5.2 Flasher 2.5.3 Bogart 3 The New Batch 3.1 Mohawk 3.2 Brain 3.3 Daffy 3.4 Electric 3.5 Lenny 3.6 George 3.7 Vegetable 3.8 Bat 3.9 Greta 3.10 Elephant Gremlin

[edit] Gizmo

Gizmo was the source of all the gremlins. He is a brown and white mogwai who likes to sing and watch television.

Gizmo was first seen in the first Gremlins film when Randal Peltzer 'purchased' it from Mr. Wing, to give to his son, Billy, as a Christmas present. Billy's friend Pete comes in and accidentally spills water on Gizmo. The first batch of mogwai siblings (including Stripe), were a lot more mean spirited than Gizmo and deliberately manipulate Billy into breaking more of the rules. After the mogwais were fed after midnight they turn into pupas and then hatch as Gremlins. Four of these were killed within the Peltzer's home except for Stripe, which escapes and multiplies at the YMCA pool.

After defeating the army of gremlins in the movie theater, Billy went to stop Stripe from getting to the water again. Gizmo sneaked away from Kate, and tracked down Stripe using a little pink toy car in the toy section, which was destroyed when Gizmo crashed it in the garden department. He was able to kill Stripe by exposing him to the bright light. At the end of the first film, he was taken back to New York City by Mr. Wing until they would be more responsible.

In Gremlins 2: The New Batch, he was snatched by a scientist after the death of Mr. Wing and the destruction of his little shop. Gizmo was taken to the Splice o' Life inc. lab located in the Clamp cable network building, to be dissected. Fortunately, Billy heard a mailman sing the song Gizmo sang, and snuck Gizmo out of the lab. When Billy leaves Gizmo for a 'business meeting', Gizmo escapes and gets wet which spawns the second batch of gremlins which includes, Mohawk, Daffy, George, and Lenny.

Gizmo was stuffed in the air vent by the evil mogwais. Later, he was being tortured by Mohawk constantly in the movie. Then Gizmo gets tough and tries to work out to defeat Mohawk. He kills the mutated Mohawk, by setting him on fire with a flaming arrow. After they took care of the gremlins in the building, Billy and Kate take Gizmo home with them.

Gizmo also makes a cameo appearances in adult cartoons such as Family Guy and South Park.

[edit] First Gremlins

The following gremlins appear in the first film.

[edit] The first batch

Gizmo's first spawn, which included Stripe, conspired to trick Billy into feeding them after midnight. The resulting gremlins hatched and began to terrorize Billy's mother with varying success, four of these were killed off very quickly. The first gremlin seen in full view was feasting on gingerbread men. He continued eating out of the blender which Mrs. Peltzer switched on killing him. The second repeatedly threw plates at Mrs. Peltzer until she stabbed him numerous times. Mrs. Peltzer successfully killed the third Gremlin by forcing him into a microwave and switching it on (this scene caused a controversy in the United States). The fourth to be killed inside the house tried to kill Mrs. Peltzer by hiding in the Christmas tree and ambushing her. Billy arrived in time and killed the gremlin by chopping off his head with a sword which then landed in the lit fire place.

[edit] Earl

Earl was the first gremlin to appear, albeit very briefly. He was the sixth to be spawned when Billy took Gizmo to see his old science teacher, Roy Hanson. Billy demonstrated what happened when Gizmo came into contact with water. Hanson then kept Earl in a cage and conducted tests on him, taking blood samples which he appeared to hate. After the teacher left him within reach of food, Earl ate after midnight. After hatching as a gremlin he killed Hanson with a syringe (seemingly in retaliation for the earlier tests) and attacked Billy. He was killed with all the rest of the gremlins in the movie theater when it blew up.

It should be noted that shortly after his birth he showed a nature very similar to Gizmo, playing with him shortly after his birth, both creatures tapping on the box Gizmo was in smiling. He was the only gremlin who initially showed no animosity to Gizmo. While in Hanson’s care he didn’t show any maliciousness until Hanson leaves the food.

[edit] Stripe

Stripe was the main antagonist of Gremlins. When one of Billy's friends gets Gizmo wet, five new mogwai popped out of his back, one of which is Stripe. All of them look identical to Gizmo, except Stripe, he had a white stripe of fur on his head. Later all of the Mogwai, with the exception of Gizmo, eat after midnight and become gremlins. All of them are killed by Billy and his mom, but Stripe escapes to the YMCA where he jumps into the pool and creates thousands of new gremlins. Stripe and his offspring attack the town and eventually meet up at a movie theater to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Stripe leaves to go get candy. While he is gone, Billy and Gizmo blow up the movie theater leaving Stripe as the last gremlin. Later, Stripe and Billy fight in the toy store. Stripe approached a fountain and dipped his finger in the water, about to spawn more gremlins. In the end, Stripe is killed when Gizmo exposes him to sunlight.

Stripe made a cameo appearance on a BT Business Commercial.

[edit] Caroling Gremlins

A team of gremlins who conspired with Stripe to kill Mrs. Deagle. The Gremlins performed the movies theme tune dressed in Santa costumes on Mrs. Deagle's doorstep while another gremlin sabotaged her stairlift. A terrified Mrs. Deagle then used the stairlift to get away from the gremlins. Moments later she was catapulted by the out of control stairlift out of an upstairs window.

[edit] Pub gremlins

Various gremlins appear in the pub scene along with Stripe. Stripe himself was seen playing poker next to a gremlin posing as his female poker partner. This gremlin tips Stripe off that an opposing player is cheating, so Stripe shoots him.

[edit] Mugger

The mugger gremlin was in Kate's pub with the other gremlins. He wore a hat with three holes in it covering his face like a mask. He was about to shoot Kate with a gun until Billy drove his car through the pub with its headlights shining, stunning the creature.

[edit] Flasher

The flasher gremlin was a gremlin wearing a coat which he opens as if to flash Kate. He is one of the few Gremlins in the series to have not committed any on screen harm to anyone. This followed through to the sequel with another Gremlin doing the same thing. He was seen later in the movie theater watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs where he's killed.

[edit] Bogart

The Bogart gremlin was wearing a suit and fedora, much like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca. He's seen smoking a cigarette and digging jazz music by himself, much like a beatnik or hipster would. Later he is knocked out by a beer glass thrown by another gremlin.

[edit] The New Batch

The following Gremlins appear in the second film.

[edit] Mohawk

Mohawk a.k.a. the "Spider Gremlin" was the first leader of the gremlins in Gremlins 2: The New Batch later replaced by The Brain. He is more sinister and more evil than Stripe was, and obviously more ugly. He first started out as a black and white mogwai with sharp teeth and a white Mohawk like Stripe did. He was responsible for stuffing Gizmo in the air ventilation. He ate after midnight and turned into a gremlin, which was dark green and had large reptile like spines on his head which went down his back instead of Stripe's puff of hair at the top of his head. The first actual view that was given of him in the film to clue in what he will look like was when his spikes shot out of his pod like a jackknife. He was seen in full view when he was attacking a man in the security room, but was scared away when Billy shined a flashlight in his face. He constantly tortured Gizmo using electrical cords, a copier, Velcro, and a toy train. Mohawk tried to kill Billy in the lab with a machine gun, but missed Billy, shooting many test tubes and a gremlin. He mutated himself into a spider/gremlin composite by using the spider genome serum. He was killed in the movie by getting set on fire by Gizmo with a flaming arrow, which was actually a pencil with a bottle of White-Out shoved on the end.

[edit] Brain

Brain appears as a brown mutated gremlin with glasses and is voiced by Tony Randall. His mutation was caused by a mutagenetic brain-enhancing serum which he consumed in the Clamp Building laboratories; his intelligence was greatly increased as a result, and he gained spectacles out of nowhere. For a gremlin, he is well articulated and cultured and has a normal/human sounding voice, though his mischievous nature still prevails; with the absence of Mohawk, he prepares to lead all the gremlins to the world outside. At one point he contacts a stock broker, advising his clients to invest in "canned foods and shotguns", an obvious allusion to the chaos the Gremlins were going to wreak on society. He was also being interviewed by Grandpa Fred in one scene describing the gremlin-type of civilization, and shot a gremlin that was annoying him, an action that he agrees is not civilized but fun.

Brain was shown singing the all-gremlin version of "New York, New York". At the end of the movie, he was blasted with water and killed by getting electrocuted with the rest of the gremlins (comically, he finishes the song with his dying breath, his voice returning back to a normal gremlin voice indicating that the shock reverted him back to normal). In the original draft, Brain was supposed to have a different death: After singing "New York, New York", Gizmo shoots a dart that injects him with a helium serum, causing him to bloat like a balloon and float out a window to his doom. This was cut out.

In the novelization of the film by David Bischoff, he is named Mr. Glasses.

It should be noted that even though he could be interpreted as one of the main villains, and commercials for the movie depicted him keeping Gizmo bound and gagged, he and Gizmo have no screen time together in the movie.

[edit] Daffy

Daffy a.k.a. the "Dentist Gremlin" is a lighter shade of green than most gremlins, and a few thick yellow strands of "hair" that hang limply in the manner of the original incarnation of Daffy Duck. His most recognizable features are his large, round eyes, which whirl constantly in a chaotic manner. He is hyper and has a warped sense of humor, and is constantly laughing hysterically. He first appeared when Gizmo got wet and was bouncing across the room as a ball. Later, he was playing with paint and other types of things. Kate mistook him for being Gizmo, and took Daffy back to the apartment, which caused him to turn it into a disaster area. Before a Clamp security guard arrested Billy, he looked inside the bag which Daffy was in. Daffy leapt out of the bag and bit the police man's nose, then ran away. He was seen wreaking havoc on the cooking show. He was also seen sabotaging an elevator while Kate was inside. He knocked Billy unconscious, and strapped him to a dentist chair. Luckily Mr. Futterman scared him away using the light. Daffy is seen later in the crowd of gremlins wearing a mask. Shown in a deleted scene, Daffy, with George and Lenny, was killed by getting electrocuted. Named after Daffy Duck.

[edit] Electric

The electric gremlin consists of and has the power to absorb and control electricity. He obtained these powers by drinking a hormone in the genetics lab (this hormone is introduced when Billy first enters the lab, in a scene where twin scientist Martin and Lewis show Dr. Catheter the effect it has on sewer rats). He is also the one who killed Dr. Catheter. While Billy was talking to Mr. Clamp, he comes through an electrical outlet to try to kill them. Billy was able to trap him within the building's phone system by putting him on hold. He was used to kill the gremlins in the final scene of the movie and, at the same time, he was also killed by using too much of his power.

[edit] Lenny

Lenny is a brown gremlin with floppy ears and buck teeth. He has low intelligence. He caused mayhem at the cooking channel. He was one of the gremlins who spawned an army. He was seen in the toy department playing with a plush toy and then seen later in the climate control room with George. Shown in a deleted scene, Lenny, with George and Daffy, was killed by getting electrocuted. This character was partly based on Lenny in the book Of Mice and Men.

[edit] George

George is grouchy and tough, resembling Edward G. Robinson. He had the idea to put metal pots and pans in the microwave at the cooking show, which caused the sprinkler system to activate. He was seen in the toy department when he was building a Lego gremlin, but it was knocked over by Lenny. George seems to be unable to stand Lenny but, despite this, is seen directly next to him in every scene that the two are in. He, Lenny and Daffy were killed by getting electrocuted. Partly based on George in the book Of Mice and Men.

[edit] Vegetable

The vegetable gremlin was the first gremlin mutant and is half vegetable and half gremlin. He mutated after drinking the vegetable chemical in the Splice O' Life Inc. He also attacks somebody at the salad bar. A running gag involved The Vegetable Gremlin, in which a piece was taken from his back and put into martini. The gag was featured twice in the film. Once towards the end with a gremlin and, in a deleted scene, during the gremlin chaos scene with Microwave Marge. He was killed by getting electrocuted. At one point, after he attacks the salad bar, he appears to be leading the gremlins, but really Brain is.

[edit] Bat

The third gremlin mutation in the movie, was a hybrid of a bat. This occurred after a gremlin drank bat DNA. He was also injected with genetic sunblock by Brain and set free out of the Clamp building. When he was outside of the building, he attacked Mr. Futterman. Mr. Futterman won the battle by covering him with cement, which hardened as he flew away and landed on a pillar, turning him into a gargoyle.

[edit] Greta

The Female gremlin was another mutation after a gremlin drank a chemical that could change his gender (even though Gremlins are effectively asexual). The resulting creature was bright green with green hair; she wears a dress in two scenes and had big red lips. She is otherwise harmless, like Gizmo, except for her affections for Forster, one of Clamps management team. She was shown in the musical sequence numerous times. At the end of the movie, she 'married' Forster. She was the only gremlin in the film that was confirmed to have survived. She is also shown to be aggressive to other Gremlins, as in one scene, she Rejects George by slashing it across the face for trying to hit on her.

[edit] Elephant Gremlin

The elephant gremlin was supposed to be in Gremlins 2: The New Batch. He was described as being half elephant and half gremlin. He was deleted from the final cut of the movie.