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Author: herbides

May 22nd 2013 at 4:47:35 AM

I'm not sure if this needs to be separate from "Griping About Gremlins" or if the description of that entry could simply stand to be broadened in scope to include things that are not explicitly named gremlins.

Okay, for creatures that are like gremlins but different...

Wouldn't Stitch from Disney's Movie "Lilo and Stitch" count? Although he's an alien genetic experiment / intergalactic criminal, he looks and acts like a gremlin. By extension, the pantheon of almost 700 individual bred-for-havoc creatures that appear in the television spin-off would also be gremlins.

Disney actually made a different version of "Lilo and Stitch" called "Stitchi" in Japan which kept several of the main alien characters but replaced all this human characters and changed the setting of the story from Hawaii to Okinawa. In the spin-off show for "Stitchi" the minor aliens are all based off of Okinawan and Japanese folklore characters, but are still basically gremlins.

Also in anime:
*In "Cardcaptor Sakura" the escaped Clow cards go around causing gremlin-esque havoc until they are captured.
*In "Jinrui wa suita itashimashita" Small, adorable little creatures that are called fairies that use their limitless magical powers perform gremlin-like hijinks, including a penchant for machinery, are the cause of the collapse of human civilization to a post-apocalyptic/pre-industrial level.

In Live action:
"Dead like me" has creatures called gravelins that cause fatal accidents by sabotaging machinery or setting up dangerous traps.

In western animation:

Hexxus from "Fern Gully" is an oily cloud, so he doesn't look very gremlin-like, but he is able to possess heavy machinery and control it.