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- Frank Welker, one of the all-time animal voice actors (he’s been doing Scooby-Doo since the beginning), was brought on to voice Stripe, the lead villain of the film.
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Mrs. Deagle is a secondary antagonist, but would probably be neck and neck with Stripe if they had pursued and left in the original plot line of her trying to sell out the whole town and turn it into a Pottersville.
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- Overview
- The Species Itself
- Gizmo
- First Gremlins
- The New Batch
- Mutation Gremlins
The following is a list of Gremlins from Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
Mogwai and Gremlins are described in the films to originate from Western Asia as part of Chinese mythology. The word "Mogwai" is Chinese for "demon". Mogwai appear as small rodents, resembling anthropomorphic hamsters or guinea pigs and are generally similar in appearance, but can have their own individual features. There appear to be two types of Mogwai, gentle types like Gizmo, and the more aggressive and troublesome type like the Mogwai that are spawned by Gizmo in the two films. The films include three rules that owners of Mogwai must acknowledge in order to look after them properly. These rules are neglected and abused in both films, Gizmo's owner, Mr. Wing, proclaiming that the United States of America is not ready to raise Mogwai. These three rules are:
•Do not expose Mogwai to bright lights. The reaction causes a Mogwai or Gremlin to either be killed via a gruesome melting process, as seen with Stripe in the first film, until the creature's own skeleton melts away. If exposed briefly, a Mogwai or Gremlin shows fright. Gizmo shows a deep dislike towards bright lights. The Gremlins are shown to be afraid of simply lit matches and fire.
•Do not get a Mogwai wet. The reaction with water, causes Mogwai or Gremlins to spawn other Mogwai. However, the creatures will spawn the same creature (e.g. A Mogwai spawns more Mogwai, a Gremlin spawns more Gremlins).
•Do not feed a Mogwai after midnight. Mogwai seem to instinctively desire to eat after midnight in order to advance to the Gremlin stage of their evolution, the original batch in the first film tricking Billy Peltzer into feeding them after midnight by altering the time on his alarm clock. Upon feeding after midnight, the Mogwai become encased in cocoons and go through a metamorphosis into the Gremlin form.
Gizmo was the source of all the gremlins to appear in the films. He is a brown and white mogwai who likes to sing and watch television. Unlike the rest of his species, Gizmo is kind, friendly, and harmless. He is voiced by Howie Mandel.
Gizmo was first seen in the original Gremlins film when Randal Peltzer 'purchased' it from Mr. Wing, by making a deal with the shopkeepers grandson, to give to his son, Billy, as a Christmas present. When Billy is showing Gizmo to his friend Pete he accidentally spills water on Gizmo spawning the first batch. The first batch of mogwai are mean-spirited and deliberately manipulate Billy into feeding them after midnight. After the mogwais were fed after midnight they turn into pupas and then hatch as Gremlins. Four of these were killed within the Peltzers' home; the survivor was their leader Stripe, which escapes and multiplies at a YMCA pool.
After defeating the army of gremlin by blowing up a movie theatre, Billy went to stop Stripe from getting to water. Gizmo, having escaped Kate (who was then holding him), was able to inadvertently kill Stripe by opening a shade, exposing him to bright light. At the end of the first film, he was taken back to New York City by Mr. Wing for safekeeping, but implies that one day he would give Gizmo back when they were "ready" to handle the responsibility of keeping him.
In Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Gizmo was taken by mad scientists, after the death of Mr. Wing and destruction of Mr. Wing's store, where he was going to be dissected. Fortunately, Billy, who worked in the same building that the mad scientists' labs was, heard a mailman sing the song Gizmo sang while he was making a delivery, and snuck Gizmo out of the lab. When Billy leaves Gizmo for a 'business meeting', Gizmo escapes and is wet by a stray blast from a waterfountain, which spawns the second batch of gremlins, the first ones being Mohawk, Daffy, George, and Lenny. Gizmo then found himself tortured by Mohawk. Recalling having seen Rambo earlier in the film, Gizmo constructs a makeshift bow and arrow, which he uses to set Mohawk on fire killing him, and a red headband. Afterwards, he was kept in a box so he wouldn't be harmed while the other gremlins were destroyed. Thereafter he rejoined Billy, and Billy's boss suggested modeling a new line of merchandise after Gizmo.
Gizmo was responsible for the destruction of leaders of both batches (Stripe met his demise following the destruction of his army, whereas Mohawk was destroyed before). It should be noted that Gizmo took a much more direct approach in Mohawk's destruction than Stripe's, as he shot Mohawk with a flaming arrow in the second movie, whereas he accidentally exposed Stripe to sunlight in the original. Gizmo had become much more assertive than he was in the first movie because, as Billy says, "they pushed him too far".
According to the novelization of the first film, mogwai are the result of genetic manipulations by an alien scientist to create a pet for children, but turned out mischievous and/or evil and the transformation mogwai can go through being totally unintended. Only one in a thousand are gentle, and as a result is hated by his brethren. Also, this previously mentioned mogwai is effectively immortal. As Gizmo is gentle, and has a long list of historical figures that have owned him, it is clear that he is this mogwai type. If this mogwai eats after midnight though, he will lose his longevity, becoming a typical gremlin. However, as this is never mentioned in the movie, the credence to this nature of the mogwai/Gizmo is unknown.
The First Batch
Gizmo's first spawn, which included Stripe, conspired to trick Billy into feeding them after midnight by apparently cutting the power cord to his clock leaving it stuck at 11:37 PM to make Billy believe it is not yet midnight. Apart from Stripe, none of the other members of are given names. Shortly after they become Gremlins, the first batch begin causing havoc in the Peltzers' house. Four of them are killed in the Peltzer's home shortly after their transformation, leaving Stripe and Earl the only survivors of the first batch, until their eventual deaths. An argument can be made that the first batch may have become evil because of their treatment, as Billy, in their mogwai form, gave them nowhere near the amount of attention he gave Gizmo. Most of the Gremlins died in the explosion of the Movie Theater.
Stripe
Stripe was the main antagonist of Gremlins. When one of Billy's friends accidentally douses Gizmo with water, five new mogwai popped out of his back, Stripe being the first one. All of them looked virtually identical to Gizmo (with a few minor changes, such as weight, fur or size features). Stripe, the vicious leader of the new Mogwai, had a white stripe of fur on his head (from which he was identified ). Even as a Mogwai, he showed his nasty, malicious nature: He spits on Gizmo and ties the family dog up in Christmas lights on the front porch. He and the other Mogwai eat after midnight and become Gremlins, Stripe maintaining his white tuft of hair and became downright evil. He attempts to harm Billy's family (and his former owner), and Gizmo, who was effectively his father. He managed to create an army of gremlins from himself (by jumping into a swimming pool), that wreaked havoc on the small town Billy lived in throughout the movie. He is quickly established as a survivor of the original batch, being the last of the original batch to survive, and then as the last surviving Gremlin in the film when the others are killed in a gas explosion. Stripe himself escaped, and pursued Gizmo and Billy to a department store Montgomery Ward, were they continuously battled. Eventually Stripe jumps into a water fountain in an attempt to reproduce by spawning new Gremlins. However, Gizmo, whom he often tortures in the film, douses him in sunlight and kills him. All that remained of Stripe after this lethal combination was a skeleton covered in green goo
Mr. Hanson's Gremlin
Mr. Hanson's Mogwai (in the novel he called him Earl) was the first Mogwai to be seen on screen as a gremlin, albeit very short. He was the sixth to be spawned when Billy took a Mogwai to see his old science teacher, Roy Hanson. Billy demonstrated what happened when a Mogwai come into contact with water. Hanson then kept Earl in a cage and conducted tests on him, taking blood samples which he appeared to hate and showed him no more affection than a hamster in a cage. Hanson was not an evil mad scientist (his students love him and he was very friendly), but he treated Earl just like an animal and not like an intelligent creature. After the teacher left him within reach of food, Earl ate his sandwich after midnight. Hanson was thrilled that his test object had pupated and freed him from the cage. During the school lesson the Gremlin freed himself and hid in the classroom. Hanson tried to lure him with sweets, but the gremlin killed or knocked him unconscious with a syringe (seemingly revenge for the blood tests) and attacked Billy. Before Billy could retaliate he escaped through a vent and later met up with the others. Since all the gremlins in the film are the same color, he is not identified in the crowd. He was killed with all the rest of the gremlins in the movie theater when it blew up. He has one of the (but not the) longest lifespans of any Gremlins, as he is one of two gremlins (who were originally mogwai and not simply spawned as a gremlin) to take part in the mass rampage. He is also the only Mogwai (besides Gizmo) who does not seem to start out with a malicious nature. When he is first spawned, he plays with the other Mogwai and seems to have temperament virtually identical to Gizmo. His time with Hanson seems to change him, making him much darker, aggressive and cruel and is implied that he became a Gremlin only to have the strength to kill his hated owner.
The following Gremlins appear in the second film. The new batch with the exception of Daffy had a completely different color scheme then the previous batch and Gizmo, being black and white as opposed to brown and white. Gizmo's former owner died, and his shop was demolished soon after. Gizmo was found by a group of scientists working in the Clamp b...
Mohawk
Upon drinking a serum he mutates into a half centaur half spider.
Vegetable
The Vegetable Gremlin was the first gremlin mutant and is half vegetable and half gremlin. He mutated after drinking vegetable DNA in the genetics lab, as the other scientists think he is a virus. He then later attacks somebody at the salad bar. A running gag involving The Vegetable Gremlin was vegetables be taken from his back by other characters, he is also seen as a bartender. He was killed by getting electrocuted and is also prone to belching.
Mr. Brain
Brain (alias "Creature" by Grandpa Fred in the TV-Show) 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. After acquiring his intellect, he replaced Mohawk as the leader of the gremlins. For a gremlin, he is well articulated and cultured and has a normal/human sounding voice, though his mischievous nature still prevails; he later prepares to lead all the gremlins to the world outside. At one point he contacts a stock broker, advising his clients to invest all they can in "canned foods and shotguns", an obvious allusion to the chaos the Gremlins were going to wreak on society. He was also interviewed by Grandpa Fred and described the gremlin desire for civilization and cultural identity, but then shoots a gremlin that was annoying him. Brain would admit that this action is not civilized but makes for fun, showing that he's just as evil as the rest of the Gremlins, but more reserved about it. Brain was shown singing the all-gremlin version of "New York, New York" at the end of the movie, then was blasted with water and killed by getting electrocuted with the rest of the gremlins. This song seems to like him very much, because he repeated it several times until his death. Just before he dies, it is implied that he reverted to a normal gremlin as a result of the electricity. As he dies he sings the words "New York, New York" in a normal gremlin voice, as opposed to his human voice... 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. Though he is one of the main villains, and commercials for the movie depicted him keeping Gizmo in a desk, he and Gizmo have no screen time together in the movie. Also he is the first gremlin leader in the movies to NOT be a Mogwai originally and directly spawned from Gizmo, as he was spawned from one of the gremlins.
Jan 31, 2023 · Another major deletion involved the fates of two other antagonists: Billy's strict boss Mr. Corben (Edward Andrews) and sleazy coworker Gerald (Judge Reinhold).
Aug 3, 2023 · Stripe is the primary antagonist in the first "Gremlins" film. He is named after the white mohawk stripe on his head and is identifiable by his malicious and cunning nature. Stripe leads the other gremlins in causing chaos and destruction.
Oct 20, 2023 · Q. In “Gremlins 2: The New Batch”, what is the name of the skyscraper where the new batch of Gremlins are unleashed? A. Clamp Premier Regency Trade Centre and Retail Concourse. Q. Who is the primary antagonist in “Gremlins 2: The New Batch”? A. The Brain Gremlin. Q. What kind of candy does Gizmo dance to in “Gremlins 2: The New Batch ...
Sep 25, 2023 · The gremlins’ reign of terror reaches its peak when they invade a movie theater, causing havoc and destruction. It is here that Billy devises a plan to defeat them once and for all. By exposing the gremlins to bright lights and then dousing them with water, he manages to destroy most of them.
Nov 29, 2023 · ‘Gremlins’ movies (& TV show) in order by release date. If you’re looking to rewatch the entire ‘Gremlins’ franchise this holiday season, you might want to know how many movies and shows about the Mogwai creatures came out over the years. Here’s a complete list by release date to let you dive right in: ‘Gremlins’ (1984)
