History Headscratchers / Gremlins

** This bothered me too until I realized that were someone to say this to us in real life instead of on a movie screen in a film we can gleefully ponder the (il?)logical intricacies of, we wouldn't be nearly so anal about the wording. Most people would immediately take it to mean, "Don't feed them at any time during the night after midnight," and time zones would be the last consideration on their minds because they would take it for granted that ''of course'' it refers to whatever time zone they're in. Still night hours? No daylight yet? Check. 12:00 A.M. has arrived (unless you have a really good clock always kept in sync by the U.S. naval observatory site, it's best to play it safe with the exact minute) in your own time zone? Check. Then don't feed them. Simple as that. Daylight savings time is an artificial convention recently imposed in the past couple of centuries, and nothing more than semantics, so it obviously wouldn't count any more than it would if everyone in the country universally started agreeing to call midnight twenty-nine-o'clock for no reason. It's still midnight. And unless you happen to be in one of those weird polar regions where it's always daylight, I don't see how any further conundrums should occur. And even if they did, they don't occur in the film. [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife We really need to get a life.]]

* What ''is'' Gizmo's real name? In the context of the movie, is the name "Mogwai" referring to the species, and/or Gizmo? When Mr. Wing, at the end of the first movie, tells Billy that "Mogwai will be waiting", is he referring to Gizmo by name, or his species?

* What ''is'' Gizmo's real name? In the context of the movie, is the name "Mogwai" referring to the species, ''as well'' as Gizmo's real name? When Mr. Wing, at the end of the first movie, tells Billy that "Mogwai will be waiting", is he referring to Gizmo by name, or his species?

** Their break line is cut by a gremlin, and their car crashes; the only person who gets worse comeuppance is Mrs. Deagle.

*** I thought this as well: perhaps the mogwai metabolism can sense when the sun is exactly opposite to where the mogwai is standing at the moment and he cannot feed until the sun's gamma starts to hit directly upon the place where the mogwai is.

** Iit seems to be that it has to be is liquid water, it also seems to have to touch their backs to start producing, you might argue that in 2 gizmo got some on his head, but he didn't fully react for a few seconds,until the water ran down his back, thats just my theory,also it seems the amount of water and not the length of time determines how many are produced, in 1 a Mogwai got a droplet of water from a dropper and only produced one other, otherwise he would have produced more from simply having the water on him.

*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Oh]]. [[MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere Moving on, nothing to see here...]]

** 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.

** It is heavily implied that the evil Mogwai did it with Stripe pretending to be asleep and then opening his eyes when Billy leaves his bed to investigate the dog's cries. And it must propably been an extensive team effort with the dog more confused then panicked and only starting to howl when it was left outside to freeze.

** 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.

** 1) Wow, you've perused 5000 years of recorded history and artwork from one of the largest countries in the world in its entirety and can remember all of it? How long did that take? 2) Fiction tends to have some breaks from reality, shocking concept I know.

that would lead into the sequel but that was not the case.

* No mention of this scene yet? In the first movie, two policemen drive up to a house to see a man screaming for help as a bunch of gremlins maul him. The two officers look at each other, decide they're uncomfortable and drive off, leaving the man to his death. And this is NEVER addressed! By the very definition of their job, these two policemen just murdered a man through inaction. Yet do they ever receive any comeuppance? Never! I can't even watch the film anymore without that scene leaving me fuming.

* What happened to the gremlin at the school? I guess we can assume he made it to the theater and was killed with the others but this was never explained. When first watching this movie I was wondering if at the end of the movie we would see he survived and that would lead into the sequel but that was not the case.