History Film / Gremlins

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Averted. The Gremlins aren't even safe from each other.

* LighterAndSofter: The first film compared to the original script, where the gremlins usually killed and ate people in exceedingly horrific ways. Also the second film to the first, which set out to be much sillier and slapsticky rendition than the occasionally dark first one (compare Kate's Santa monologue with the way a similar one is treated in the sequel).

[[http://gremlins.wikia.com/wiki/Gremlins_3 A second sequel is rumored to be in the works]]. An animated series for Creator/HBOMax called ''Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai'' was confirmed in 2020, which features the adventures of a young Mr. Wing and Gizmo as the boy learns to become the BigGood who would be the only man trustworthy to safely contain the ''mogwai''. Characters from the franchise also appeared in Franchise/{{Lego}} form in the video game ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions''. Gizmo and Stripe also appear as playable characters in ''VideoGame/{{Multiversus}}''.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The gremlins' murder of Mrs. Deagle.

* BittersweetEnding: The Gremlins have been defeated and everything is safe again, but Gizmo has to go back to Chinatown with Mr. Wing, who delivers a withering TheReasonYouSuck to the family for the chaos they unwittingly unleashed. However, seeing the bond Gizmo has developed with Billy, Mr. Wing acknowledges that Billy may one day be the one to take care of Gizmo.

* GamblingBrawl: A group of Gremlins are playing poker in the bar when one of them tries to cheat. Stripe pulls out a gun and shoots the other Gremlin dead on the spot, which causes the rest of his ilk to [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor burst into laughter]].

[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} Cute. Clever. Mysterious. Dangerous.]]]]

* GrossUpCloseUp: The fried chicken scene.

*** Most likely the latter, as Stripe was able to start spawning more gremlins by simply dipping his finger in a fountain, but it's been consistently shown that only liquid water (and not snow or beer or other liquids) cause gremlins to multiply.

** They most likely have to have water spilled on their torso area combined with the fact that gremlins are most likely cold-blooded and couldn't melt the snow with their body heat

-->'''-- Rand Peltzer'''

* NobodyCanDie: Sort of RetCon. In the first movie we see Mrs Deagle's body and a number of humans seem to die offscreen. But early in the second movie Kate mentions that fortunately nobody got killed.
** Deagle might have just been knocked out. But one wonders how the science teacher survived. Maybe Kate was lying.

* AllThereInTheManual: The Novelization has a prologue that explains that [[spoiler:Mogwais were genetically engineered by an alien scientist called the Mogturmen as the perfect companion. However, the vast majority of Mogwais turned out to be dangerous, not to mention the unforeseen Gremlin problem. Gizmo is one of the few Mogwais to turn out right (labelled 'Eternals').]]

* DartboardOfHate: Poor Gizmo is himself strapped to the dartboard not long after the Gremlins emerge from their cocoons, who then proceed to chuck darts at him, showing how much their contempt for him as grown. The scene serves as a meta one for the filmmakers as well, who made it to express their own frustration in how difficult it was to make the small Gizmo puppet work alongside the much larger gremlins.

* TheCameo: Creator/ChuckJones is the man who compliment's Billy's drawing skills at the bar early in the film. Jim [=McKrell=] (host and announcer of a few game shows, most notably ''Celebrity Sweepstakes'') and a young [[Series/TheHollywoodSquares Tom]] [[Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos Bergeron]] (then a personality at WBZ-TV 4 in Boston) make appearances as TV news reporters.

* AloneWithThePsycho: After seeing the gremlin that had attacked Mr. Hanson, Billy immediately knew that his mother was in danger and quickly raced back home.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: On top of telling a woman and her children that she will not allow them so much as a day's extension in their delayed payment and she will have them kicked out of their home on Christmas Eve, Mrs. Deagle establishes she is a complete monster by threatening to snatch Billy's dog and toss the poor thing in her drier in revenge for the dog accidentally smashing her porcelain snowman (Billy offers to pay her back and she insists she will not accept anything less than the dog's life as retribution).

** And the original script compared to the first film. The script includes such scenes as the Mogwai eating Barney (before they turn into Gremlins), killing Billy's mom immediately after they turn (and throwing her dismembered head down the stairs just as Billy walks in the front door and thus landing at his feet...imagine that image welcoming you home as you walk unsuspectingly into your house), a UsefulNotes/McDonalds full of half-eaten burgers (by people) and half-eaten people (by Gremlins). Oh, and Gizmo turned into a Gremlin, indistinguishable from any of the others.

[[http://gremlins.wikia.com/wiki/Gremlins_3 A second sequel is rumored to be in the works]]. An animated series for Creator/HBOMax called ''Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai'' was confirmed in 2020, which features the adventures of a young Mr. Wing and Gizmo as the boy learns to become the BigGood who would be the only man trustworthy to safely contain the ''mogwai''. Characters from the franchise also appeared in Franchise/{{Lego}} form in the video game ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions''. Gizmo and Stripe also appear as playable characters in ''VideoGame/MultiVersus''.

[[http://gremlins.wikia.com/wiki/Gremlins_3 A second sequel is rumored to be in the works]]. An animated series for Creator/HBOMax called ''Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai'' was confirmed in 2020, which features the adventures of a young Mr. Wing and Gizmo as the boy learns to become the BigGood who would be the only man trustworthy to safely contain the ''mogwai''. Characters from the franchise also appeared in Franchise/{{Lego}} form in the video game ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions''.

* AllThereInTheManual: The Novelization has a prologue that explains that [[spoiler:Mogwais were genetically engineered by an alien race called the Mogturmen as the perfect companion. However, the vast majority of Mogwais turned out to be dangerous, not to mention the unforeseen Gremlin problem. Gizmo is one of the few Mogwais to turn out right (labelled 'Eternals').]]

* BittersweetEnding: The Gremlins have been defeated and everything is safe again, but Gizmo has to go back to Chinatown with Mr. Wing. The sequel has a happier one however.