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** Brain shoots a fellow gremlin for being annoying. It's obvious the guy knows that a part of every civilization is corruption and murder.
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** [[BlueandOrangeMorality The Chinese don't let wild animals breed rapidly and run rampant across town.]]
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****Probably because the water-chlorine ratio was so steep that the chlorine couldn't null the reaction. Every other averted instance has involved fairly small amounts of water mixed with other chemicals.
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** Japan had previously conquered China in the early 20th century, so it wouldn't be surprising that some Mogwai/Gremlins made it to Japan via soldier/politician/idiot who wanted a fascinating pet.
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** Also, the sheer amount of gremlins versus what was available.
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** Some species can do both (or have other types of reproduction options), depending on the situation.
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** Also, most creatures don't necessarily receive any pleasure from sex as breeding tends to be a fairly clockwork thing. It's pleasurable for humans precisely because it's so damn painful for us and we don't have a particularly strong clock about it.
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** For all we know, the Brain Gremlin did inject himself with the genetic sunblock (which was different from the bat serum) offscreen once he saw that it worked; it wasn't the sun that killed him. The others likely didn't know what it was.
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* In the second movie if there was a serum that removes gremlins' only weakness (and gives wings!), why didn't they instantly jump all over that stuff? At least why didn't the smart one inject himself with it?
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** Either he is no longer in the picture or he and his grandad had one hell of a falling out. When Forster sees how sick Mr. Wing is he immediately decides that they can wait for him to die. Inference: Forster knows that Wing either has no heir to pass the shop to, or his only heir is someone willing to sell to Clamp against his grandfather's obvious wishes.
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** Either he is no longer in the picture or he and his grandad had one hell of a falling out. When Forster sees how sick Mr. Wing is he immediately decides that they can wait for him to die. Inference: Forster knows that Wing either has no heir to pass the shop to, or his only heir is someone willing to sell to Clamp against his grandfather's obvious wishes.wishes; seeing how quickly the kid went behind Mr. Wing's back to sell Gizmo, the old man's family selling the place against his wishes is actually pretty plausible.
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** Either he is no longer in the picture or he and his grandad had one hell of a falling out. When Forster sees how sick Mr. Wing is he immediately decides that they can wait for him to die. Inference: Forster knows that Wing either has no heir to pass the shop to, or his only heir is someone willing to sell to Clamp against his grandfather's obvious wishes.
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* How could Kate possibly mistake Daffy for Gizmo long enough to take him home? I'll give her a pass on physical resemblance as she didn't know Gizmo for that long. She probably can't tell one mogwai from another and those two are at least somewhat similar in fur colors. But come on, she spent enough time around Gizmo to know he's not a hyperactive lunatic. And given how paranoid she is about the entire situation, wouldn't any deviation be enough to send up a warning flag?
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** Just because a species can reproduce asexually, it doesn't necessarily follow that they are themselves asexual or hermaphroditic.
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* I hope ChuckJones didn't get bothered by any Gremlins.
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* I hope ChuckJones Creator/ChuckJones didn't get bothered by any Gremlins.
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** [[KillBill Silly Rabbit]], lectures about nature are from Asians, elves, aliens and Indians only!
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** [[KillBill [[Film/KillBill Silly Rabbit]], lectures about nature are from Asians, elves, aliens and Indians only!
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* Wait, why would the GenderBender potion in the second movie even work on a Mogwai or Gremlin? They're a species that reproduces asexually, so logic would lead one to the conclusion that they don't have a gender.
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** Yes, it would be very easy for an ill-tempered Mogwai to transform. That's part of the point, you have to be very responsible to be trusted with one.
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** It's not conception, it's giving birth, which is generally regarded as feeling ''un''pleasant.
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** Remember, when Gizmo's offered food after midnight, he turns it down. He either found it unappetizing, wasn't hungry, or he may have some sense that it's after midnight and he shouldn't, but wasn't able to properly convey this to Billy. Or he simply thought "It's late, I'd better not take any chances despite what the clock says", he's a fairly smart little guy. Anyway, simple answer: Gizmo wouldn't turn evil by transforming simply because he'd do everything in his power to avoid transforming in the first place.
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** Let's discard the whole "engineered by aliens" thing from the novel for a moment and assume that Mogwai and Gremlins are some manner of magical creature like a faerie or oni or whatever. If the rule about feeding is governed by our perception of midnight (meaning that what we consider midnight counts as midnight for the purposes of feeding them, whether it's strict astrological midnight or not), then the rule about getting them wet is probably governed by our perception of water. Do we consider snow to be water? "Frozen water!" But do we consider it to be water? No, we consider it to be snow. Alcohol is mostly water, but do we think of it ''as'' water because of this? No. But we ''do'' consider the water in a pool to be water, no matter how much chlorine you add.
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*** They are basically little magic creatures. Magic knows when midnight is. AWizardDidIt. (Or if you follow the novelization or whatever, aliens, but same difference in practice.)
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*** It means "after midnight".
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*** You're calling foul on biology not taking into effect time zone considerations in ''this'' movie? Seriously, [[ArbitrarySkepticism that's where you're drawing the line of ridiculousness]]?
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** Because 1) artificial light is never shown as being able to kill Gremlins or Mogwai, it just hurts/scares them, most likely specifically because it makes them think of sunlight, and 2) all of the places you list had fairly dim lights, either by default or, in the case of the Peltzer house, because they'd deliberately lowered the lights in most of the rooms to make Gizmo comfortable.
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* This one falls under the MST3KMantra, obviously, but it confuses me as to why Mogwai/Gremlins seem in pain when water is splashed on them. Biologically, conception should be ''pleasant'', to encourage organisms to do it as much as possible. Yet Gizmo is clearly in pain when he gets water on himself.
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* Does the rule literally require them to be FED after midnight, or simply to EAT after midnight? And if so, what are the requirements of being "fed" (apparently snatching a sandwich off a counter is acceptable). I ask this because it seems like it would make it unbelievably easy for a mogwai who wanted to transform to do so. All he has to do is palm a tiny amount of food (assuming there isn't a minimum amount), and eat it after midnight, which makes the clock trick seem rather pointless.
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* Alright, here's a doozy for you. the rule that bothers me the most is the first one: Don't expose a mogwai or gremlin to bright light. Why is it that Stripe is killed by the sun, but not the lights in the Peltzer house, the lights at Dorry's Tavern, the lights at the movie theater, or the lights in the convenience store? Those lights are obciously bright enough to light up those buildings, so why aren't the gremlins killed by those lights?
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* Here's an interesting question: What would happen if you were to bring a mogwai beyond the polar circle? [[hottip:*:On par with how do Muslims follow the Ramadan in the polar regions.]] On the second thought, just don't.
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* Here's an interesting question: What would happen if you were to bring a mogwai beyond the polar circle? [[hottip:*:On circle?[[note]]On par with how do Muslims follow the Ramadan in the polar regions.]] [[/note]] On the second thought, just don't.
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** I always tough that the Gremlim just killed him (With claws, bites, knifes, bazookas, falling pianos... they are gremlims, after all) and finally, he put the syringe in his ass "as revenge" for what he did before. The syringe made the scene more fun for me when I saw the movie as child, as it was a "funny, slapstick death", instead of just plain horror.
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** This is discussed in the WMG section: the popular theory is that if a mogwai is exposed to water against its will, their offspring will be AlwaysChaoticEvil. If the mogwai willfully exposes itself to water, it can choose the GridAlignment of it's offspring. What a good mogwai morphs into if it eats after midnight is beyond me...
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** This is discussed in the WMG section: the popular theory is that if a mogwai is exposed to water against its will, their offspring will be AlwaysChaoticEvil. If the mogwai willfully exposes itself to water, it can choose the GridAlignment CharacterAlignment of it's offspring. What a good mogwai morphs into if it eats after midnight is beyond me...
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*** Probably because they hate/despise their father enough that they don't think he's deserving of becoming one of them. They would see their evil nature as a great gift.
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*** I thought the implication was that the gremlin injected an air bubble into his bloodstream and gave him an [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_embolism embolism.]] Are you sure the syringe had anything in it?
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** Who said it was the liquid that killed him? Gremlins are quite well equipped in that department themselves. The syringe could've been a sedative or just some random stuff it jabbed into him, because, well, crazy and evil. And was it even confirmed that the man was dead?
