When Can You Feed Mogwai Again

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• Given the massive potential for danger that a mogwai could spawn, and the noesis of what they're capable of, why would whatsoever sane person even would allow a mogwai to alive? If a gremlin outbreak has happened before, as is implied in the motion-picture show, yous remember everyone would desire to impale every last mogwai there is.
  • Look at the terminate of the movie. Yes, killing Gizmo would be the logical thing to avoid more death and devastation since the potential threat is still at that place, but the Peltzers don't even think about it because he is but as well damn cute (plus, the fact that information technology is not actually the lilliputian dude'southward error).
• If the rules are so of import, then why not tell them of the consequences? The kid just said to non wet them or feed them later midnight, just never says WHAT happens if you do.
  • And honestly if y'all found out that breaking said rules would pb to an apocalypse of homicidal monsters, would you even want to buy it every bit a pet? Or consider selling it? Or fifty-fifty doing anything bated from "kill the mogwai for the good of all humanity"?
    • Some people just want to lookout man the world burn.
  • or the kid had no idea of the consequences of the rules, but that his Grandfather said them to him, simply until the kid was to inherit the place he would not disembalm the full ruleset just the basics, need-to-know style.
• Alright, here'due south 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 past the sun, but not the lights in the Peltzer house, the lights at Dorry'southward Tavern, the lights at the movie theater, or the lights in the convenience shop? Those lights are obviously bright enough to light up those buildings, and so why aren't the gremlins killed by those lights?
  • Considering 1) bogus low-cal is never shown as beingness able to kill Gremlins or Mogwai, information technology just hurts/scares them, about probable specifically because it makes them think of sunlight, or 2) all of the places yous list had fairly dim lights, either past default or, in the case of the Peltzer house, because they'd deliberately lowered the lights in well-nigh of the rooms to make Gizmo comfortable or three) it might be that there is something that is in sunlight that isn't an artificial low-cal.
  • Almost bogus indoor lights aren't nearly as vivid equally full natural sunlight; it only seems similar to us, considering our pupils dilate indoors to let in more than of what'south bachelor. Unless we're talking about a 24-hour workplace where the management has shelled out extra for sunlight-quotient lighting, to keep their night-shift workforce fully "clock-shifted" and non groggy on the job, light bulbs ain't gonna cut it.
• Something always bugged me near this movie, and thus far whatsoever attempt past others to clear it up has failed. Information technology's almost the tertiary rule. "Never feed him after midnight". Just when, exactly, is "after midnight"? Every single day of the yr is preceded by the midnight of the previous day, making every single time of the day "afterwards midnight". So, when does a mogwai get feedable?
  • Maybe information technology's the 12-6AM period.
  • This bothered me besides, I came upward with two possible explanations. Either it'due south the "witching 60 minutes", midnight until one, once it becomes ane:00 AM you tin feed it over again. Or it could too hateful just any of the predawn hours.
  • And when is it midnight? the world is separate into time zones so while its evening in America (or the East coast of) its gone midnight in Great britain. As well what about summer and winter clock settings?
  • Here's a thought: Later on midnight means "after midnight". You know, afterward twelve am? Seriously, when somebody tells yous "We'll meet at five pm", practise you fret about which fourth dimension zone they're talking about? No, of class not, because information technology's plainly the 1 you're currently in! Why start wondering about that hither? Unless the movie takes place right on the border between two time zones, there's not much to inquire nigh. Of course, you lot have to wonder if this is adjusted to fit daylight savings whatsits, just apart from that it seems pretty clear.
    • I'd judge that it's anytime between when the moon is highest in the sky and dawn, then it'd yet be midnight in whatsoever fourth dimension zone the Mogwai happened to be in.
    • ...except that the simply fourth dimension the moon is straight overhead at midnight is when the moon is full. During other phases, information technology rises and sets at unlike times (the new moon is directly overhead at noon)
    • You're not the just person to be bothered by this one
    • Might I add that this whole discussion is hilariously lampshaded in the 2nd film?
    • I don't care most the whole "midnight changes around the world" matter, I'm bothered by the fact that "after midnight" is too vague for me. That point is never addressed in the movies.
    • They are basically trivial magic creatures. Magic knows when midnight is. A Sorcerer Did It. (Or if y'all follow the novelization or whatever, aliens, but same departure in do.)
  • And that bugs me, a lot. Everyone is willing to discuss how international timezones affects mogwai, NOBODY is willing to define "afterwards midnight" to me.
    • Information technology ways "after midnight".
  • Oddly enough, I accept never been annoyed past this at all. I take always causeless it meant "don't feed him in the hours after midnight and before dawn ", according of course to the local hour and not to what time is information technology in another hemisphere or somewhere else (?). It was never literally explained, truthful, but considering the fact that the picture show is basically a (dark) fairy tale, these weird and vague rules were kind of appropriate, I felt. I approximate "Never feed him later on midnight!" merely sounded cooler than "No late night snacks afterwards dinner and before breakfast!".
    • I would assume the dominion refers to the astronomical midninght (halfway between sunset and sunrise), regardless of time zones and DST. This doesn't normally coincide with 24:00 on the clock ...
  • I'd accept no problem with it if it was magic, just all the novelizations mention that the mogwai were genetically engineered...
    • Which is why those novelizations accept e'er been incredibly stupid to me. Everything makes and so much more sense if the mogwai are magic; the rules punish you for being irresponsible with them. The sheer amount of convoluted logic you have to invoke to explain them past any means other than magic is just listen-boggling.
  • This bothered me too until I realized that were someone to say this to us in existent life instead of on a movie screen in a film we can gleefully ponder the (il?)logical intricacies of, nosotros wouldn't be well-nigh so anal near the wording. Most people would immediately take information technology to mean, "Don't feed them at any time during the night after midnight," and time zones would be the final consideration on their minds because they would accept it for granted that of course information technology refers to any time zone they're in. Yet night hours? No daylight yet? Check. 12:00 A.M. has arrived (unless yous have a actually 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 fourth dimension zone? Cheque. And then don't feed them. Simple as that. Daylight savings time is an bogus convention recently imposed in the past couple of centuries, and cypher more semantics, so information technology patently wouldn't count any more than it would if everyone in the country universally started agreeing to call midnight 20-nine-o'clock for no reason. It's still midnight. And unless you lot happen to be in one of those weird polar regions where it's e'er daylight, I don't see how any further conundrums should occur. And even if they did, they don't occur in the film. Nosotros really need to go a life.
    • Look, y'all're saying a biological function tin factor in time zone considerations? I telephone call foul.
    • Biological sensitivity to tidal forces. Don't ask why it'south attuned to the solar tidal force instead of the stronger but less circadianly constant lunar tidal strength.
    • I thought this besides: mayhap the mogwai metabolism can sense when the sun is exactly opposite to where the mogwai is continuing at the moment and he cannot feed until the sun's radiation starts to hit directly upon the place where the mogwai is.
    • 12:00 AM? Fuhgeddaboudit! I'chiliad non feeding them after 10:50 at night if I know the gamble!
    • You're calling foul on biological science not taking into effect time zone considerations in this movie? Seriously, that'due south where you're drawing the line of ridiculousness?
  • I also always figured that the time when you can't feed them starts at 12:00 AM, determined by whatever time zone you lot are in, and dawn, which will be specific to your detail area. Afterwards sunrise, you are gratis to feed them...until it'due south 12 AM again.
• Here's an interesting question: What would happen if y'all were to bring a mogwai across the polar circle? ^note On par with how do Muslims follow the Ramadan in the polar regions. On the second thought, only don't.
• I think the constabulary that bugs me the most is the dominion of water. In other words, do not let them be touched by water. First of all, how much water will affect them? If it's whatsoever corporeality, that ways the mogwai is going to be affected as soon equally it's exposed to air (remember, there are water vapors in the air). 2nd, most of the food you eat needed water to be cooked, right? So why isn't that affecting the mogwai?
  • This was really addressed in the novels and comic books: information technology has to be clear, liquid water. Non-liquid water (such every bit steam or snow) or h2o mixed with something else (such as orangish juice or vodka) won't work.
    • As all the boozer gremlins happily demonstrated.
    • Really? Well, then, why did they not include that rule? Sure, information technology has no place in the moving-picture show considering it cannot exist used dramatically. Notwithstanding, if they said this, information technology would have at to the lowest degree shut up the doubters like me.
    • Because people who write movies don't really consider shutting up doubters similar y'all a priority.
    • And why did the chlorinated water in the pool piece of work?
    • Probably because the water-chlorine ratio was and then steep that the chlorine couldn't nix the reaction. Every other averted instance has involved fairly minor amounts of water mixed with other chemicals.
    • Completely pure h2o is never encountered in normal life, anyways, and then in that location must be a limit when the concentration is and then much the "water" is no longer considered h2o, but something else. Ane could probably make a prissy science project out of this; dilute orange juice or something in ever increasing amounts of h2o until you tin can make up one's mind the maximum concentration that volition cause reproduction, to three significant figures!
    • Sure, find me a Gremlin and I'll get right on it!
    • I smell a Gremlins 3 moving-picture show ...
    • Maybe as a precaution we should use sports drinks for all our water, like in Idiocracy.
    • Does sea water make the form?
  • Maybe it has to exercise with the temperature of the water likewise.
  • Let's discard the whole "engineered by aliens" matter from the novel for a moment and assume that Mogwai and Gremlins are some style of magical creature like a faerie or oni or whatsoever. If the rule about feeding is governed by our perception of midnight (meaning that what we consider midnight counts equally midnight for the purposes of feeding them, whether it'southward strict astrological midnight or non), and then the rule about getting them moisture is probably governed by our perception of water. Do we consider snow to be water? "Frozen h2o!" But do nosotros consider it to be water? No, we consider it to be snow. Booze is mostly water, merely exercise nosotros remember of information technology every bit water because of this? No. Only we do consider the water in a pool to exist water, no affair how much chlorine you add together.
  • It seems to be that it has to be is liquid water, information technology also seems to take to touch their backs to kickoff producing, yous might argue that in 2 gizmo got some on his head, merely he didn't fully react for a few seconds,until the water ran downward his back, thats merely my theory,also information technology 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.
• At the end of the film, when Gizmo's elderly keeper Mr. Wing reclaims him, the old guy's remarks nearly Western attitudes to nature Problems Me. Yeah, he did accept grounds to be bellyaching with Randall for buying the mogwai under-the-table, and yeah, the Peltzers did act like jerks who need a lecture on pet intendance from Victoria Stilwell. Merely going across accusations of personal carelessness, and claiming that "your society" doesn't sympathise Nature's creatures? Er, hello? Y'all're traditional Chinese, buddy! Doesn't your ain society's "understanding" of Nature's creatures consist of A) how to melt them, and B) what parts of them to grind upwards for quack medicines and aphrodisiacs? There'south a ton of real-world endangered species that'd be thriving today, without your culture's concept of "understanding", and then get off your high horse about Gizmo watching telly.
  • You mutter nigh his narrow minded attitude about western people with a racist comment... Yep sounds about righy.
    • It'due south actually a perfectly valid sentiment expressed in a racist mode. Western society utterly tramples over some of nature's gifts, Eastern over others. Humans are human that mode.
    • Whatever the intention of the mutter, it does have a point: Traditional Chinese culture isn't particularly respectful towards nature compared to Traditional Western civilisation, and so Mr. Wing's dressing down of the Peltzer family unit misses the mark. But if nosotros tin't find an In-Universe caption, we must recollect that the flick was released in 1984, when anyone looking exotic enough (such equally an one-time Chinese fellow) would qualify equally a Magical Asian with hidden and arcane wisdom beyond Western comprehension.
  • Bear witness a fiddling more respect for Charlie Chan, will yous?
  • No, the trouble with Mr. Wing'due south speech is that none of it applies to Baton. Billy proved he was pretty damn set to heighten a mogwai; it was his obnoxious neighbor kid that got Gizmo moisture, and it was his obnoxious dad who wanted to market Gizmo & Co. as pets. Billy did the responsible affair by bringing a mogwai to the science teacher for analysis, going later Stripe, and then going to the constabulary when the situation got out of paw. And after the police proved useless, Baton saved the entire town, at not bad gamble to his life and limb. Distressing, Mr. Wing, but Baton Peltzer earned that little muppet.
  • It was still Baton who brutal for the "stopped clock" trick pulled by the other mogwai, and unwittingly fed them after midnight. He clearly underestimated that almost mogwai actually want the rules to be cleaved, so they tin can be transformed into their more than powerful forms. He likewise underestimated how dangerous they can exist even in mogwai form, since he never suspected that they might be responsible for the attempted murder of his dog (though to be fair, at least one other character in the moving picture had explicitly sworn a expiry wish on him). Mr. Wing did at to the lowest degree acknowledge the bond that Baton had formed with Gizmo, and that he might be set "one 24-hour interval". What always bewitched me regarding Wing's voice communication was his attitude toward television...given that it was inspiration from characters he'd seen on TV which enabled Gizmo to save the twenty-four hours in both movies. Fly doesn't know that, I suppose, only I'chiliad not sure what point the film's making.
  • In the novel, information technology was an accident with the clock, the Mogwai were hungry and Stripe noticed the Television receiver was powered to a wire, he fleck through the wire to try and get Baton'southward attention at effectually 11:30, he bit through the incorrect wire. 30 minutes afterward, Billy switched off the TV, realized the Mogwai were hungry and got them food subsequently checking the time.
    • Why would Billy have whatsoever reason to think the Mogwai would really desire to break the rules? Since the rules themselves are rather vague well-nigh the consequences of breaking them, (Sure, tell usa that exposing it to calorie-free may impale information technology, simply don't tell us feeding it later on midnight may kill us), y'all couldn't really wait Baton to exist on guard for that. Yeah, Billy was essentially raising an brute he had no way to sympathize, but that was his dad'south fault, non his. If Mr. Wing had shown upwardly a few hours before, I don't think we'd have seen him driving a VW into a bar, blowing up a movie house, or tracking a homicidal gremlin through a department store. And, while we're on the bailiwick, Gizmo's kind of a slacker in this regard, likewise. He knew what Stripe and the other Mogwai were up to, and didn't try to warn Billy at all. And in Gremlins 2, if Gizmo had simply stayed put like he was told, none of the events of the movie would have happened. Every character in the motion-picture show is simply asking for gremlin anarchy *except* for Baton.
    • I suppose it's just a thing of Billy getting involved in something that he doesn't sympathize, no thing how level his head and how expert his intentions. True, information technology was his father who brought the Mogwai home in the kickoff place, confronting Wing'due south wishes, but he gave it to Billy (and was absent for most of the picture anyway), so responsibility for ensuring that the rules weren't broken ultimately rested upon his son. It's never stated what breaking rules two and three will actually practise, but it'southward however fabricated articulate that they're to exist avoided at all costs. As for Gizmo, he seemed genuinely unaware that the other Mogwai had just tricked Billy into breaking the third rule - at the time, he was merely repulsed by their lack of tabular array manners, and didn't eat the craven himself because he presumably wasn't hungry. You could argue that he too let his baby-sit downwards (since he knows, either by instinct or past experience, that the other mogwai are no good, and becomes terribly depressed the moment they're spawned) or maybe he only felt powerless to stop them at this stage (although Billy is able to fight the gremlins from the outset, Gizmo doesn't learn to do so until the climax, when he kills Stripe). When the mogwai get into their cocoon stage, he suddenly become very agitated - I got the impression that those petty cries of his were intended as warnings, but neither Billy nor his mother could understand him. Despite their bond, Gizmo is, for the most office, unintelligible to Billy (he was surprised that Mr. Wing could understand him at the end). I agree that almost of the other characters in both movies were just asking for it, though, and that Baton is presented in a much more favourable calorie-free by comparison. I suppose that'due south why his rewards are a) being promised that he and Gizmo volition be reunited one mean solar day at the end of the first movie and b) being reunited with Gizmo and really getting to proceed him in the second.
  • Empty-headed Rabbit, lectures most nature are from Asians, elves, aliens and Indians only!
  • The Chinese don't allow wild animals breed apace and run rampant across town.
• If Gizmo ate after midnight and morphed into a gremlin, would he become evil? His "children" were hateful from the very nascence merely what about him? Bluntly, information technology'd be pretty cool to have a "nice" gremlin fighting the others.
  • I always got the impression that Gizmo is the only proficient Mogwai; and that's the reason the other guys detest him; he'south a goodie two shoes amid a crew of psychopaths. I've e'er inferred from the fact that he enjoys music, and watching TV and likes to sing for Mr Wing; he's visible bothered by getting wet, shows genuine sorrow and business organisation when he notices the other mogwais eating by midnight and he resolves to fight Stripe to the finish.
  • This is discussed in the WMG section: the popular theory is that if a mogwai is exposed to water confronting its volition, their offspring will be Always Cluttered Evil. If the mogwai wilfully exposes itself to water, it can choose the Character Alignment of it'southward offspring. What a proficient mogwai morphs into if it eats after midnight is beyond me...
  • I e'er saw the reproduced Mogwai as just bad seeds but not nearly as bad as the Gremlins, and that being transformed into a Gremlin brings out the bad side. Gizmo would turn evil if fed subsequently midnight, simply he might be less evil than the others.
    • Supported by the novelization: Less than ane% of Mogwai are good-natured. "Bad" mogwai are mischievous, and fifty-fifty potentially harmful, but still less dangerous than gremlins (in the novel, mogwai are genetically hardwired to be incapable of even contemplating harming some other of their own species). And Gizmo tells Stripe that he'd exist as violent and short-lived as the others if he exploited "the third underground".
  • If Gizmo would plough evil when turned into a gremlin, why wouldn't the gremlins merely forcibly plough him into one of them?
    • Probably because they hate/despise their male parent enough that they don't call up he's deserving of condign one of them. They would see their evil nature as a great gift.
    • Maybe they are not that clever.
  • Remember, when Gizmo's offered food after midnight, he turns it downward. He either found it unappetizing, wasn't hungry, or he may take some sense that it's subsequently midnight and he shouldn't, merely wasn't able to properly convey this to Billy. Or he simply idea "It'south tardily, I'd better not accept any chances despite what the clock says", he's a adequately smart fiddling 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 offset place.
• Mr. Futterman mentions the gremlins as the things that acquired mechanical issues during WWII, but the mogwai was bought from a Chinese store, in a Chinatown and has a Cantonese proper noun. Information technology was Japan that we fought in WWII. It just seems similar a stretch that the writers would try to connect the ii like that.
  • The writers didn't make upwardly the office about the Gremlins sabotaging planes. Gremlins are actual folkloric creatures who are supposed to exercise but that and had been depicted in media long before the moving-picture show. As for the Chinese shop, it simply fits (in a racist, oriental kind of sense) that the mysterious generic Asian (Chinese) guy would take certain mysterious mythological creatures such as Gremlins.
  • The sometime man also never refers to the monsters as gremlins, and he's probably the merely one who would know their proper noun. Baton is the one who started calling them that. He had recently had a chat with Mr. Futterman about little monsters that wreck things, was now faced with footling monsters that wreck things, and decided to apply that term. Might qualify as an Ironic Repeat.
  • China was as well fighting Japan during World War II. It was a World War after all, non just United states v Japan. I don't remember the verbal quote but I doubt Mr. Futterman was implying that it was annihilation to do with the Japanese anyway. Information technology was just an observation.
  • Variations of sprites be in folklore all over the world. Who says gremlins tin can't exist between ii nearby countries in the same continent?
  • Mogwai actually are creatures of Chinese folklore (They're a type of sprite). And, according to the myths, when it rains, Mogwai..well...get horny and start to breed like rabbits (hence the whole "H2o=Babies for Mogwai/Gremlins" scenario). The film merely merged the two mythologies together to course a single creature.
  • Japan had previously conquered China in the early on 20th century, and so information technology wouldn't be surprising that some Mogwai/Gremlins made it to Japan via soldier/politician/idiot who wanted a fascinating pet.
• No mention of this scene even so? In the commencement movie, two policemen drive up to a business firm to see a human screaming for help as a bunch of gremlins maul him. The two officers look at each other, make up one's mind they're uncomfortable and drive off, leaving the human to his death. And this is NEVER addressed! Past the very definition of their job, these two policemen just murdered a human being through inaction.
  • Their restriction line is cutting past a gremlin, and their car crashes; the just person who gets worse comeuppance is Mrs. Deagle.
  • Actually, given that the movie takes place in the U.S., Warren five. District of Columbia says that their job description doesn't force them to provide private protection to people. That said, they had never seen gremlins in their lives before, so understandably they were unnerved. Mind you, they seemed rather callous about it.
  • Dominion of Funny (the scene was played in a comedic light). And yes, as another troper has noted, they practice receive their comeuppance.
  • You retrieve them driving off is bad? Originally they were even more callous; Frank (the sheriff) was supposed to say "The hell with him!" every bit he rolls upwardly the machine window and speeds off. Spielberg objected to this, and and then the line was cut, although yous can even so run into the actor mouthing the line.
  • They were pretty bad cops to begin with. Both were drinking on duty (granted, on Christmas Eve in a very pocket-sized and sleepy boondocks, but notwithstanding.) Then they were probably however a footling drunkard when that happened. And they're small-boondocks cops, who probably don't deal with many crisis situations in the first identify. They were just out of their chemical element. Moreover, the whole scene was crafted because, as Joe Dante says in the commentary, "Whenever yous have a motion picture like this, and constabulary, yous take to accept a scene with the police force, and information technology'south ever the same scene." Billy at the police station and then the police leaving "Santa" to die then getting killed is simply a way to go the cops out of the motion picture then Billy (and Gizmo) tin exist the hero, without making the audience feel too bad virtually 2 cops being killed.
  • The guy died? I was under the impression that the Gremlins did were annoying and probably harm him but didn't kill him, on camera at least.
• I hope Chuck Jones didn't become bothered by any Gremlins.
  • Nah, if he had, then his concept of a gremlin would have looked a lot more like metamorphosed mogwai than an imp wearing footie pyjamas (jump suit?) with a missile nose sticking out each side of its head.
    • I assume non, since he has a cameo in the first motion picture.
• Another outcome on the H2o Dominion. How is Gizmo supposed to stay hydrated?
  • By drinking orange juice, Coke and Pepsi. Equally I said before, the comic books and novel explicitly demonstrated that only clear, pure, liquid water works on mogwais.
    • Aren't carbonated drinks dehydrant?
    • That's a myth propagated by the same people that remember you demand to potable 7 glasses of water a mean solar day.
    • Caffeine is diuretic, hence somewhat dehydrating. Carbonation doesn't add to or reduce a potable's hydration effect.
  • Also, the dominion is "don't get them wet." A simple beverage of water may not do information technology.
  • Who said they even need water?
    • Exactly. They're like kangaroo rats.
• How come nobody ever told Mrs. Deagle that Animate being Cruelty is a criminal offense?
  • Even if someone had the guts to do so, she wouldn't care.
• Why do the Peltzers accept a toy robot in the stocking if their only kid is a teenager?
  • In that location are enough of adults that enjoy toy robots.
  • But inquire whatever adult Transformers fan. Merely don't go into whatsoever specifics.
  • I'one thousand in my 30's and I have a footling wind-upward robot on my computer desk right now.
  • Doylist caption: The various versions of the script waffled back and forth with how one-time (and how mature) Billy was supposed to be, and elements of earlier drafts where he was significantly younger remain (his ten-year-old all-time friend, love of comics and toys, etc.)
  • Who said the gifts in that stocking were specifically Billy'southward? The toy robot may take been a gag gift for Billy's inventor dad, something for him to put on his piece of work desk for fun. Or information technology might have even been a gift for Gizmo — many people put upwardly stockings for the family pet. And Gizmo had already shown a propensity for playing with toys.
• Regarding the death of Mr. Hanson, what is kept in an elementary school science class that tin can exist injected into a person to kill them? When Baton finds Hanson, you tin still see in that location'south some clear fluid of some sort inside the syringe. And so what did he get injected with?
  • Who said it was the liquid that killed him? Gremlins are quite well equipped in that section 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 expressionless?
    • I thought the implication was that the gremlin injected an air chimera into his bloodstream and gave him an embolism. Are y'all sure the syringe had anything in it?
  • I always tough that the Gremlin just killed him (With claws, bites, knifes, bazookas, falling pianos... they are gremlims, afterwards all) and finally, he put the syringe in his ass "equally revenge" for what he did before. The syringe made the scene more than fun for me when I saw the movie every bit child, equally it was a "funny, slapstick death", instead of but plain horror.
• Does the rule literally require them to be FED after midnight, or merely to EAT subsequently midnight? And if and then, what are the requirements of existence "fed" (apparently snatching a sandwich off a counter is acceptable). I ask this because it seems like it would make information technology unbelievably like shooting fish in a barrel for a mogwai who wanted to transform to do so. All he has to do is palm a tiny corporeality of nutrient (assuming in that location isn't a minimum corporeality), and eat it after midnight, which makes the clock trick seem rather pointless.
  • Aye, it would exist very piece of cake for an ill-tempered Mogwai to transform. That'south part of the point, you have to exist very responsible to be trusted with one.
  • If you think near it, when he unwittingly feeds the other mogwai, Billy offers Gizmo a piece of chicken, just Gizmo declines, and then the dominion ought to be no-eating, however if you don't feed them their chances of eating driblet dramatically, so the no feeding rule makes sense as a prophylactic measure out. Still it could besides be possible that the mogwai may not really know what happens if they eat later on midnight and all of them were but eating out of hunger.
• This one falls nether the MST3K Mantra, obviously, but it confuses me every bit to why Mogwai/Gremlins seem in hurting when water is splashed on them. Biologically, conception should exist pleasant, to encourage organisms to do it as much every bit possible. However Gizmo is clearly in pain when he gets water on himself.
  • It'southward not conception, it'southward giving birth, which is generally regarded as feeling unpleasant.
  • Also, near creatures don't necessarily receive any pleasure from sex as breeding tends to be a fairly clockwork thing. Information technology's pleasurable for humans precisely because it's so damn painful for us and we don't have a peculiarly stiff clock virtually information technology.
  • If the mogwai were indeed engineered, making their procreation painful would actually be a smart (if callous) measure to forestall them from breeding uncontrollably.
• How did the mogwai manage to wrap the dog in christmas lights and hang it from the pole, all without anyone hearing? Or was information technology actually Mrs. Deagle?
  • Information technology is heavily implied that the evil Mogwai did it with Stripe pretending to be asleep then opening his eyes when Billy leaves his bed to investigate the dog's cries. And it must probably been an all-encompassing squad effort with the canis familiaris more than confused so panicked and only starting to howl when information technology was left outside to freeze.
• Why didn't Billy ask the sheriff and his deputy to take a look at his house? That should prove not only that the Gremlins exist, only the kind of mayhem just four of them tin cause. It might not convince them that there are more of them, but seeing that one-half of Baton'south story is true, they should exist more inclined to believe the other half.
  • They do seem to exist lazyu, incompetent cops, besides beingness already groggy and reluctant to do whatsoever bodily work on Christmas Eve.
• Gizmo sure was cute, but Billy already had a dog. Would a second pet really be his dad'south get-go pick equally a perfect gift?
  • Lots of families accept multiple pets.
• What happened to the gremlin at the schoolhouse? I guess we can assume he made it to the theater and was killed with the others simply this was never explained. When kickoff watching this movie I was wondering if at the end of the movie nosotros would meet he survived and
  • that would atomic number 82 into the sequel but that was non the instance.
• Chinese civilization is essentially 5,000 years of recorded history and artwork apropos nature. And yet somehow, there seem to be no Chinese pieces of art or writings which warn about the Gremlins whatsoever.
  • They do, to some extent, only but in that universe
  • Chinese emperors were known to deliberately burn down and destroy any records from earlier their reigns. This fifty-fifty carried to Mao Zedong.
• Wait, if only clear water tin crusade the spawning of more Mogwai and Gremlins, why did the Puddle, which should exist full of Chlorine, spawn more Gremlins?
  • Scientific respond: ratios. The pool had a high enough h2o to chlorine ratio to count as "h2o," while beer, soda, and and so on does not. Mystical answer: Mogwai and Gremlins are magical creatures, and so what affects them is governed by our perceptions. Beer is non h2o, it is beer; orange juice is non water, it is orange juice; but water in a swimming puddle or paintbrush cleaning glass is water, no affair how much chlorine or paint is mixed with it.
  • Chlorine swimming pools have to be tested every darn day or so to see how much chlorine is left in it, and have more added until it gets into the right range. A meaning amount of chlorine only happens if you "stupor" the pool, which ways y'all can't apply it for pond until the chlorine level falls. Give information technology but a couple of days of forgotten maintenance (or deliberate waiting before draining the water out), and the chlorine level is so low that it doesn't even register on the exam strips.
    • Which makes sense, as the puddle was presumably closed for Christmas and not being re-treated with chlorine daily with nobody using it.
• Am I reading too much into things, or was the implication of the Santa scene supposed to be that its the REAL Santa getting attacked by the Gremlins, and the cops merely assumed it was an player? Which is somehow supposed to add to the general blackness one-act of the evening's events?
  • The cops identify the homo by name (Dave something) and note "he plays Santa every twelvemonth," meaning he's just a guy who goes effectually Kingston Falls on Christmas Eve pretending to be Santa.
• How did Rand Peltzer become the Mogwai abroad from New York City undetected? It's bad enough he brought his son domicile a new pet with some pretty hefty strings fastened. Taking a live creature out of the city could have led to police attention and much worse.
  • You seem to be inferring that Rand would have had to fly dwelling house with Gizmo, only that'south not the case. He takes him from the Chinatown in NYC to his hometown, Kingston Falls which is established in the lore every bit a small boondocks also in New York land. Given he'southward shown driving back to Kingston Falls again in the third act, we can infer that he drove there at the start of the movie. So by travelling past car, there'south very fiddling chance that police could pick up on him transporting a Mogwai out of NYC to upstate; he was able to easily conceal the animate being just walking out of the store and through Chinatown in the case Gizmo came with.
  • Bear also in listen that this is the mid-1980s, when slipping things through a checkpoint was easier.
• Are the Peltzers or Mr. Wing at all liable for the damage and vandalism inflicted upon the town by the gremlins? Who would qualify as the owner? Mr. Wing seems to remember thet the kid gave the mogwai to Rand without his permission and the Pelzers think they owned it because they exchanged coin to get one.
• Why is Mr. Hanson projecting an educational movie to a grade in a school building on Christmas Eve? Practise schools in New York Country open up that late in the twelvemonth?
• What is Gizmo's real name? In the context of the pic, 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?
• When Stripe multiplies in the pool at the YMCA shouldn't he be spawning mogwais instead of gremlins it doesn't make sense cuz I thought only Gizmo was able to multiply.

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