History Film / Gremlins2TheNewBatch

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Only in the movie version, but the Brain Gremlin tests the Genetic Sunblock on the Bat Gremlin, but we don't see him use it on anyone else. However, how else could a group of Gremlins be messing about in front of the bright light of the film's projector?

* UnexplainedRecovery: The Futtermans sure seem to have recovered well from that whole snow plow thing in the first movie (it is mentioned in the first movie that they survived, but you have to listen carefully to hear it).

** Also, in the opening credits, Daffy complains about how Bugs has been riding the WB shield for 50 years, only for it to malfunction. In the closing credits, Daffy engages in near-constant LampshadeHanging and attempts to take over the job of Porky Pig.

* Foreshadowing: Only in the movie version, but the Brain Gremlin tests the Genetic Sunblock on the Bat Gremlin, but we don't see him use it on anyone else. However, how else could a group of Gremlins be messing about in front of the bright light of the film's projector?

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Before the Brain gremlin drank the brain serum, he was just a cannon fodder.

* {{Hammerspace}}: Where the Brain Gremlin gets his glasses from.

* ItAmusedMe: As Brain points out, shooting one of his less mature brethren in the face with a pistol is fun, "but in no sense civilized".

** Daniel Clamp is Donald Trump, who falls in love with a woman named Marla. [[DeaderThanDisco Well, it was funny at the time.]]

-->'''Clamp:''' That's a good question Bill – how do you know so much about them?
* KarmicDeath: Dr. Catheter and Mohawk
* KillItWithFire combined with YouHaveToBurnTheWeb.

* ApatheticCitizens: Murray gets attacked by a winged Gremlin in ''broad daylight'' (thanks to an injection that helped it overcome that weakness) on a crowded New York sidewalk. In all superimposed footage at least, no one seems to notice.

* ImMelting: The Gremlins’ ultimate fate. Bonus points for explicit WizardOfOz reference, with the witch’s hat and directly quoting the phrase itself!

* PragmaticAdaptation: A weird quasi-case. When the movie was put on video, Dante realized the sequence of the Gremlins BreakingTheFourthWall and taking over the projection room wouldn't fit the new format, so he made a completely different version of the scene where they cause the VCR to eat the tape. Then they start changing channels ("[[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny Could that have been a... gremlin?]]") until Creator/JohnWayne shoots at them and orders them to put the tape back in.

* ShoutOut: This ''is'' a Joe Dante film, after all, so you ''will'' be getting WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1956'' references (including the pod from the original film!), and all of the referential gags to ''Film/{{Batman}}'', ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925'', and other WarnerBrothers properties. Look fast for a pair of DC Comics (another Warners company) on the cabinet behind Billy's desk.

** The electric Gremlin's ultimate fate remains unclear.

** The character Fred plays on TV appears is a CaptainErsatz of Grandpa from TheMunsters.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In both their mogwai and gremlin forms,the 4 main gremlins,Mohawk,George,Lenny and Daffy, look remarkably different from the other ones.

* PragmaticAdaptation: A weird quasi-case. When the movie was put on video, Dante realized the sequence of the Gremlins {{Breaking The Fourth Wall}} and taking over the projection room wouldn't fit the new format, so he made a completely different version of the scene where they cause the VCR to eat the tape.

* GenreSavvy: Everybody from the first movie knows how to deal with the Gremlins.
** See ContinuityNod.
** Billy tries to stop Kate from telling her new "tragic childhood memory" speech.
** The first thing the new Mogwai do is get Gizmo out of the way.

** Or they can sense what they perceive to be weakness.
** Also, remember they did come out of him, so it's possible they share memories (which would also explain why Mohawk is so determined in his tormenting this time: he remembers that Gizmo killed him).
*** The Bat Gremlin flew towards the Fluttermans and attacked them.
** Alternately, they inherit Gizmo's memories and know that he would attempt to take them out from those.

** There's actually a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/Gremlins pretty nice story]] behind Maltin's cameo.

* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard with Gremlins]]: Inverse of how this trope usually goes. Normally, it is taking the premise of ''Film/DieHard'' and recycling it into a new setting. Here, it is taking the premise of the original ''Gremlins'' and transplanting it into a setting remenicient of the original ''Die Hard.''

* ShoutOut: This ''is'' a Joe Dante film, after all, so you ''will'' be getting WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and ''InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' references (including the pod from the original film!), and all of the referential gags to ''Film/{{Batman}}'', ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925'', and other WarnerBrothers properties. Look fast for a pair of DC Comics (another Warners company) on the cabinet behind Billy's desk.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It shows how it's a 1990 film with references to ''Film/{{Batman}}'', DonaldTrump and Marla Maples' affair, colorization jokes and so on.

* ChaoticEvil: The Gremlins embody Type 4, despite Brain’s claim about wanting civilization.

* {{Expy}}: Clamp is obviously Donald Trump, but it wasn't til near the end that people didn't put two and two together in that Billy's supervisor's name as ''Marla''.
** There's a good amount of Ted Turner in there as well, what with the cable networks, the 'End of the World' tape on-deck, and his colorizing old black and white films (shown in a deleted scene where he colorizes a scene from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'').

* TakeThat: One of the guys who's lampshading the possible problems with The Rules and being something of a smartass about it. Not only does he get attacked by a gremlin, the thing hauls off and ''punches'' him. Bonus points for it being Archie Hahn playing the hapless skeptic (he's conisdered a [[TheScrappy scrappy]] amongst fans of the UK [[WhoseLineIsItAnyway "Whose Line?']]), and thus this scene is somewhat popular amongst those fans.

* LighterAndSofter: While the first film was (somewhat) more serious in tone, the sequel is played more for laughs.

-->'''Daffy:''' [[MarathonMan Is it ''safe''?!?!]]

* TheDogBitesBack: Gizmo personally takes out Mohawk, who had been personally tormenting him throughout the first half of the movie.

* ApatheticCitizens: Murray gets attacked by a winged Gremlin in ''broad daylight'' (thanks to an injection that helped it overcome that weakness) on a crowded New York sidewalk, and no one seems to notice.

* AllThereInTheScript: Official merchandise for the film has revealed that the other mogwai/gremlins are named Daffy (the hyperactive one), [[Literature/OfMiceAndMen George (the big-lipped one), Lenny (the bucktoothed one)]], and Mohawk (the one that becomes the [[spoiler:Spider Gremlin]]).

* ReverseCerebusSyndrome

** There's a good amount of Ted Turner in there as well, what with the cable networks and the 'End of the World' tape on-deck.

''Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' is the 1990 sequel to ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.

Gizmo is still living in Mr. Jang's old shop in Chinatown, New York when his keeper dies. The place is soon demolished by the local Clamp corporation and Gizmo captured by a pair of scientists. Billy and Kate, having recently started working in the Clamp building, rescue Gizmo but not before an unfortunate accident creates a new strain of Gremlins who soon occupy the entire building.

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