As early as the second episode, Greene sets himself up as a credible threat by transforming Sam’s grandfather into a green pearl, pulling his jaw wide open, and swallowing the old man whole.
Later in the episode, he makes it clear to Elle that now that she’s seen what he can do, he is never going to let her leave his employ. Keep in mind that Elle isn’t much older than 10 year old Sam.
Meng Po may seem like a sweet old innkeeper, but years of isolation have driven her to extreme measures to keep her customers around… namely brewing a tea that steals memories and contains them in a swirling cloud above her inn. And she is willing to have her customers tied up so she can force feed it to them too.
The Jiangshi. To be clear, the first thing they do is hop onscreen and impale an unwary bandit with their claw, causing the bandit to turn into one of their number.
Claw viciously kills the ship's captain and casually takes his hat from his corpse.
Mr. Greene does NOT care in the least that the Gremlins murdered all of his men and just casually hires them as a replacement. First killing a lot of them with a light spell before killing another group in the middle of his conversation with their leader.
The Goddess Nuwa would have easily taken care of the Gremlin problem if she wasn't horribly poisoned by the Gremlins and Mr. Greene. She looks like she is in terrible pain and her veines turn black. Greene outright tells her bluntly that she will die if she does not surrender and receives the antidote.
Episode 8 is full of this. Mr. Greene devours a living Mogwai to obtain immortality and we get to see the horrified reactions of his victim as well as the children and Gizmo. Then the Gremlins cut off his right hand and in pure Body Horror Claw uses the Clay Knife of Creation to horribly shrivel his left hand away into nothing. Mr. Greene is so horrified that he faints from shock. Then Claw uses the same knife to turn all the other Mogwai but Gizmo into Gremlins and it is made very clear that she just spared him to completely break him.
Episode 9 has its moments. As if Claw developing an obsessive possession over Gizmo wasn't bad enough, she uses the Clay Knife to make herself grow to the size of a two story building.
Episode 10 has pretty gruesome endings for the villains. Greene kills Claw by opening a portal to Tahiti...in the middle of broad daylight. And Greene dies when the kids trick him into turning himself into a cockroach with the Clay Knife...which promptly falls on him and cuts him in half.
At the end of the episode, it's revealed that Noggin is still alive and still a Gremlin thanks to the ring he wears that makes him immune to magic. And what's the first thing he does when he escapes onto a boat? Eat some chickens alive.
