History Film / Gremlins2TheNewBatch

** There's actually a [[Heartwarming/Gremlins2TheNewBatch pretty nice story]] behind Maltin's cameo.

Gizmo is still living in Mr. Wing's old shop in Chinatown, New York when his keeper dies. The place is immediately demolished by the local Clamp corporation and Gizmo captured by a pair of scientists who operate out of the Clamp skyscraper. Billy and Kate, having recently started working in the ultra high-tech building, rescue Gizmo, but not before an unfortunate accident creates a new strain of Gremlins who overrun the structure and threaten the city. The fact that those scientists are conducting genetic research really doesn't help matters...

A video game adaptation also came out in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System and was considered to be superior to the film.

In 2016, Zach Galligan announced that Warner Bros. will be making a direct sequel to the film, while other sources have stated that ''Gremlins 3'' will be a reboot. Either way, the Gremlins franchise is not completely dead.

* BigApplesauce: The franchise moves from a small town in UsefulNotes/NewYorkState to New York City.

** Gizmo saves Marla and Kate from the spider-gremlin after TakingALevelInBadass.

* DomesticApplianceDisaster: Voluntary example with destructive intentions when a gremlin put metallic elements in a microwaves. It explode and that's exactly what he had in mind.
* DontTryThisAtHome: Many home viewings deliberately cut out the sequence where one of the gremlins fills an industrial microwave with pans, despite showing, quite graphically, exactly why you don't do it.

* GroinAttack: Kate delivers a very hard and swift kick to a gremlin's crotch after he flashes her, sending him flying.

** WordOfGod states that Mohawk, the new leader of the gremlins, was Stripe, the primary antagonist from the first film reborn. Fortunately, Gizmo sends him back to the grave for good. Whether this is a literal reincarnation or figurative (as in, they fulfill similar archetypes) is unclear, though it is implied to be the former as Mohawk goes out of his way to torment Gizmo for much of the movie, and in the first movie Gizmo was the character who killed Stripe.

** Outside those scenes, Creator/JohnAstin's a janitor, [[Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn Henry Gibson]] gets fired for smoking on the job, and football players Dick Butkus and [[Film/PoliceAcademy Bubba Smith]] get attacked at a salad bar. The kids from ''Series/SquareOneTV'' also appeared filming an episode of their show in the Clamp lobby. Creator/PaulBartel is the theater manager who tells Hulk Hogan he doesn't make the movies, only shows them.

* LaserGuidedKarma: At the very beginning of the movie, Kate is showing up for work at Clamp enterprises. An unnamed {{Jerkass}} shoves her down and runs into the revolving door. [[ContrivedCoincidence The revolving door malfunctions, spins like a top, and hurls him back through the line at a very high rate of speed.]] [[RealityEnsues He is taken away on a stretcher, in a neck brace moaning in extreme pain]] [[AssholeVictim while Kate watches him, smiling.]]

* OedipusComplex: It is the Mogwais/Gremlins who came directly from Gizmo who are most dedicated to torturing and tormenting him.

* StockScream: The Wilhelm Scream is heard as a victim is covered in gremlins and he falls off of a ledge.

In 2016, Zach Galligan announced that Warner Bros. will be making a direct sequel to the film, while other sources have stated that Gremlins 3 will be a reboot. Either way, the Gremlins franchise is not completely dead.

* 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. Until Murray poured cement on it, earning cheers from the onlooking crowd.

* CuteMonsterGirl: [[http://gremlins.wikia.com/wiki/Greta Greta]] the female gremlin. "Cute" being a relative term.

* TakeThatAudience: The control room security team who pose mocking questions about the Three Rules are [[AudienceSurrogate Audience Surrogates]] for the many fans [[Headscratchers/{{Gremlins}} who have posed similar skeptical questions]]. Billy’s eye roll and Mohawk’s attack illustrate the movie’s feelings about such endless hole-punching.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Mohawk]] learns this [[KillItWithFire the hard way]]. Lampshaded.

* BrickJoke: A particularly {{Meta}} example. In the opening animation, Daffy calls Bugs out on the 'fifty years' he's been hogging the spotlight. Bugs' first cartoon was in July 1940, fifty years before the film released in cinemas.

** Outside those scenes, Creator/JohnAstin's a janitor, [[Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn Henry Gibson]] gets fired for smoking on the job, and football players Dick Butkus and [[Film/PoliceAcademy Bubba Smith]] get attacked at a salad bar. The kids from ''Series/SquareOneTV'' also appeared filming an episode of their show in the Clamp lobby.

** And in the novelization, the Brain Gremlin locks the author into a closet and takes over the typewriter for a bit.

* ArtShift: The gremlins' designs between the first movie and this one has changed, from dark monsters to wackier and more colorful monsters. Chris Walas designed those of the first while Creator/RickBaker did those of the sequel.

* BornInTheTheatre, NoFourthWall, and PaintingTheMedium all at once!
** In the cinema version, as Dr. Catheter is making his impassioned plea about quitting genetic research, the film has a brain wrap (which is usually when the "brain" of a projector fails to sense the tension building up around it and allows the film to wrap forever, usually causing a film to "burn up"). Then, some of the Gremlins goof off within the projection booth, including showing an adult movie until Wrestling/HulkHogan threatens them.
** In the original home version, the film abruptly collapses into static, with a handful of StockFootage playing instead of the movie, until Creator/JohnWayne apparently tells them to run the movie.
** The novelization has the author locked out of his office while Brain Gremlin temporarily takes over for him.

[[BrickJoke with a price tag affixed to it]].
** A particularly {{Meta}} example. In the opening animation, Daffy calls Bugs out on the 'fifty years' he's been hogging the spotlight. Bugs' first cartoon was in July 1940, fifty years before the film released in cinemas.

* [[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 reminiscent of the original ''Die Hard.''

* RunningGag: Malfunctioning revolving doors

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Except for Fred, none of the humans make any attempt to reason with the Gremlins, [[ChaoticEvil not that it would have done any good]]. Instead, the humans simply work out how to kill them all, and none of them—even Fred—feel any sense of sadness in seeing them all fried and melted.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Daniel Clamp

** The smokeless ashtray Rand gifted to Mr. Wing at the end of the first film can be spotted in his shop... [[BrickJoke with a price tag affixed to it]].
** A particularly {{Meta}} example. In the opening animation, Daffy calls Bugs out on the 'fifty years' he's been hogging the spotlight. Bugs' first cartoon was in July 1940, fifty years before the film released in cinemas.

** George causes an explosion using a microwave, a ShoutOut to the infamous "Exploding Gremlin" scene in the first movie. He even glares and growls "Mi...cro....wave!" after noticing it.
** Kate starts to go into detail about a traumatic event that happened to her on the occurring holiday (here, Lincoln's birthday), but this time Billy tries to shut her up before she can finish.
** In the first film, Kate was flashed by a Gremlin in a trenchcoat while at the bar. In this film, the same thing happens... but [[GroinAttack she doesn't just take it]].
** Mohawk is the {{reincarnation}} of Stripe in the first movie.

** In the cinema version, as Dr. Catheter is making his impassioned plea about quitting genetic research, the film starts to break down and burn through, with some of the Gremlins, who goof off within the projection booth, including showing an adult movie until Wrestling/HulkHogan threatens them.

* CaptainErsatz: The character Fred plays on TV appears is a CaptainErsatz of Grandpa from ''Series/TheMunsters''. (Al LEwis, the actual Grandpa Munster, had been doing that for some time on [[Creator/{{TBS}} Superstation WTBS]], presumably to further the Clamp Cable Network being an expy of Turner Broadcasting.)

* CaptainErsatz: The character Fred plays on TV appears is a CaptainErsatz of Grandpa from ''Series/TheMunsters''. (He'd already been doing that for some time on [[Creator/{{TBS}} Superstation WTBS]], presumably to further the Clamp Cable Network being an expy of Turner Broadcasting.)
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Clamp and the police storming building at the end.

* BigApplesauce: The franchise moves from a small Midwestern town to New York City.

Gizmo is still living in Mr. Wing's old shop in Chinatown, New York when his keeper dies. The place is immediately demolished by the local Clamp corporation and Gizmo captured by a pair of scientists who operate out of the Clamp skyscraper. Billy and Kate, having recently started working in the ultra high-tech building, rescue Gizmo but not before an unfortunate accident creates a new strain of Gremlins who overrun the structure and threaten the city. The fact that those scientists are conducting genetic research really doesn't help matters..

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

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Mohawk, who's been pretty non-interested in leading the other gremlins throughout much of the film, gets killed while the greater part of the gremlins are still creating mayhem. The Brain gremlin effectively assumed his place beforehand.]]