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If Gizmo ate after midnight...


...and became a Gremlin, would he still act like Gizmo, or would he be a mean *beep* like the rest of them?

The other Mogwai were already little *beep* before they changed, so would Gizmo be nice still when he becomes a Gremlin??

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I've always wondered that myself.

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It's unlikely that Gizmo would even think of eating after midnight. When he was offered some chicken when the other mogwais ate, he declined, almost as if he knew what was going to happen if he did.

However, I don't understand, if Gizmo had an idea of what might happen, why he didn't try to tip off Billy in some way. I could have easily seen him stopping Billy before he even went downstairs to get the food, and even indicate that the clock cable was cut.

I'm so scared your little head will come off in my hands!

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My thoughts exactly. I was like ignore Gizmo knows why don't he tell? Although, I'm glad he didn't....Wouldn't have been much of a movie if he did.

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If Gizmo not ignore

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He might not have known that it was after midnight, but he might have thought, "well, it's late, I better not take any chances." Maybe he's made a hard-and-fast rule for himself that he doesn't eat after 11:30--just to be on the safe side.

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They probably already know it's after midnight, many animals have an internal clock so despite what our clocks say, they know what the true time is.
Also, I think the one that was in the science lab might have been a good one too before he took the blood, which caused it to resent him and become "evil".

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Or he just wasn't hungry.

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You have to question how self-aware Gizmo was or how much he knew. Gizmo was like a child. He knew certain things were forbidden, but didn’t know why. He just knew that he shouldn’t do them.

The other Mogwai probably didn’t know either. They knew it was wrong, but not why. Being mischievous little devils, they did it to see what happens. Just like a teenager that wants to do drugs the first time.

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If you remember Stripe pulled the plug on the electric clock so Billy thought it wasn't midnight yet. He was duped into feeding them and therefore Stripe and his idiot brothers turned into Gremlins. I think Gizmo was trained by the old man to not eat when he didn't need it.

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You know Gizmo is a fictional character right? he do what the script need him to do

More fantastic the history of a movie more plot holes you are going to find, just turn off your brain dont think much about it and enjoy the ride or little details like this would end ruin every movie you watch

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I feel like Gizmo is the most sensible one so he wouldn't, but even if Gizmo did, it may depends

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I thought it would have been interesting to see Gizmo as a 'good' gremlin. Then they could figure out some sort of plot device to change him back.

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It's been a long time but I believe this was addressed in the novelization. The Mogwai were depicted as being more intelligent. Something about Gizmo having experience and the others not acknowledging it.

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Yeah it was strange. They're from space and immortal. Weird stuff in the novelization.

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Also, we know that they cannot be fed after midnight but at what time in the morning does it become okay to feed them? At dawn? Is this addressed? I don't remember...

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There was a guy asking those kind of questions in a scene during Gremlins 2 but it was never taken seriously and looked into. Hopefully it never is... It's better to leave the fans speculating amongst themselves and on message boards like the one here.

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I feel like Gizmo would somehow become a "good" Gremlin who is not mischievous. Remember, Stripe and his cronies were all mischievous while they were still Mogwai.

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good question, i think he would a gremlin like the rest

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Why do they want to become gremlins anyway? Sabotaging the clock is order to be fed after midnight is a proactive choice but what's the motivation? It's more fun to be bad? Is it just instinct and the fluffy form is just a transitional phase?

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