Gremlins/Fridge

• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Mohawk's tormenting of Gizmo isn't just the standard Gremlin-being-mean, but because he remembers that Gizmo killed him the last time.
  • Mrs. Deagle believes that the gremlins are there to take her to Hell, which, in a way, might be exactly what they did.
  • When Gizmo gets wet, it produces more Mogwai. Unlike Gizmo, the Mogwais are mean and unruly. Assuming the reason why Gizmo maybe the only nice Mogwai is because he was raised to be a good creature. None of the other Mogwais were raised to be nice and cause chaos.
    • Or, to look at it another way, copies of anything never have the same quality as the original...
• Fridge Horror:
  • What would have happened if each of the Gremlins took the Sunblock solution (pun not really intended)? This could also count as Fridge Logic directed at the Brain Gremlin for not even considering the idea after injecting it in Bat Gremlin.
  • Gremlins + Atlantic Ocean. That is all.
    • However, it's quite likely that the salt content and other contaminants present in sea water make it unpure so as to be unfit for their reproduction. Freshwater lakes, however, including the GIANT ones in North America (which NYC is not that far away from)...
    • The very first draft of the script ends with Billy luring all the Gremlins to a greenhouse with one he has trapped in a toolbox (in the script, the Gremlins will go to any lengths to regain a lost member of the group). However, waking up in the hospital later, he realizes he never opened the toolbox. Cut to a worker cleaning out the greenhouse, seeing a nice brand-new toolbox, and putting it in his truck, only for him to get scared and toss it away when funny noises start coming from inside. It lands in a lake...
  • An offhand radio broadcast in the first film implies that the Marines were going to hose down the gremlins if it weren't for Billy and Gizmo killing them all first.
  • What would he have been like if Gizmo had become a Gremlin?
  • Possibly shown with "Earl". The novel states that even good Mogwai are converted into murderous sadists upon transforming into a Gremlin.
  • In one draft, wasn't Gizmo turned into Stripe?
• Fridge Logic:
  • How does a gender-flipping serum work on an asexual creature?
    • It doesn't. Look at the Gremlins' faces in the second movie, and I mean REALLY look, and you'll notice there is clear sexual dimorphism in the species. Of course, considering how they reproduce, it would fall under Purely Aesthetic Gender or something.
    • Even if we assume that the Gremlins are an agender species, a serum which would, in other species, cause Gender Flip could still have *some* effect on them. Apparently, that effect is the one we see, with the exaggerated appearance of some body parts, and the Gremlin in question thought it looked amusingly similar to a human female and ran with it.
  • You can't feed them after midnight, but he is never told what time in the morning he can start feeding them again... it's *always* after midnight!