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* ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'' is the most known movie, despite being unrelated to planes or machinery in general -- here, gremlins are short, reptilian and large-eared humanoids who delight in cruelty and mayhem in general. They do sabotage some machinery and vehicles [[ItAmusedMe for the fun]] and ForTheEvulz. These movies were so popular that they have largely displaced the earlier World War II-era depiction of Gremlins thanks to PopculturalOsmosis.

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* ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'' is the most known movie, despite being unrelated to planes or machinery in general -- here, general.
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gremlins are short, reptilian and large-eared humanoids who delight in cruelty and mayhem in general. They do sabotage some machinery and vehicles [[ItAmusedMe for the fun]] and ForTheEvulz. These movies were so popular that they have largely displaced the earlier World War II-era depiction of Gremlins thanks to PopculturalOsmosis.
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* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'''s gremlins like to sneak into your fortress from the caverns below, [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo pulling levers]], opening cages, and messing with various other machinery as they go, and running away once spotted. The popular way to get rid of them is to set up some SchmuckBait in the caverns to make them HoistByHisOwnPetard.

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* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'''s gremlins like to sneak into your fortress from the caverns below, [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo pulling levers]], opening cages, and messing with various other machinery as they go, and running away once spotted. The popular way Ironically, this gives a practical purpose to get rid of them is to set up some SchmuckBait in the caverns community's memetic habit of [[InventionalWisdom buildings machine that exists just to make them HoistByHisOwnPetard.kill their operator]].

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