Editing Gremlin (section)

==In media==
===Film===
* In 1943, [[Bob Clampett]] directed ''[[Falling Hare]]'', a ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon featuring [[Bugs Bunny]]. Inspired by [[Roald Dahl]]'s book and Walt Disney's proposed film, this short is one of the earliest films to include multiple gremlins, though only one was consequential.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/merry_melodies_falling_hare ''Merrie Melodies: Falling Hare''] at [[Internet Archive]] Movie Archive (The film is now in public domain) {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722212953/https://archive.org/details/merry_melodies_falling_hare |date=22 July 2010 }}</ref> It features Bugs Bunny in conflict with a gremlin, first at an airfield and then in an airborne plane. It was followed in 1944 by ''[[Russian Rhapsody (film)|Russian Rhapsody]]'', another ''Merrie Melodies'' short showing Russian gremlins (modeled on Warner Brothers animation staff) sabotaging an aircraft piloted by [[Adolf Hitler]]. The gremlin in "Falling Hare" has a color scheme reflecting one used on [[U.S. Army Air Forces]] [[training aircraft]] of the time, using dark blue (as on such an aircraft's [[fuselage]]) and a deep [[Chrome yellow|orange-yellow]] color (as used on the wings and [[empennage|tail surfaces]]).
* The 1944 romantic comedy ''[[Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]'' had animated gremlins with an uncredited [[Mel Blanc]] providing the voice.
* The 1981 animated film ''[[Heavy Metal (film)|Heavy Metal]]'' contains a segment titled "B-17" had creatures referred to as "Gremlins" in which the sole surviving pilot of a battle weary aircraft is ravaged by the reanimated corpses of his fellow crew.
* The 1984 film ''[[Gremlins]]'', produced by [[Steven Spielberg]] and directed by [[Joe Dante]], is loosely inspired by Roald Dahl's characters, featuring evil and destructive monsters which mutate from small furry creatures. Murray Futterman, a WWII veteran calls the creatures "Real Gremlins". A sequel followed in 1990, called ''[[Gremlins 2: The New Batch]]''.
* In ''[[Cast a Deadly Spell]]'', a 1991 HBO [[television film]], gremlins are said to have been "brought back from the [[Pacific Ocean|pacific]]" to the United States in [[World War&nbsp;II]] and are seen damaging cars and houses.
* In ''[[Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa]]'' (2008), Alex sees Mort (mistaking him for a gremlin) messing with the engine and falling off the aircraft.
*In the movie franchise ''[[Hotel Transylvania]]'' the gremlins are seen as guests of the monster hotel built by [[Count Dracula]].
*A batlike gremlin appears in the 2020 film ''[[Shadow in the Cloud]]''. The film starts with a depiction of gremlins in WW II circa posters as a creative scapegoat used by airmen to deflect negligence in maintenance and responsibility for their aircraft. Once the protagonist boards the aircraft, she finds an actual gremlin is sabotaging the aircraft. The creature looks like a cross between a large bat with razor-sharp claws and a monkey with a long tail. The gremlin sabotages the aircraft by taking out an engine, attacking the protagonist in the lower turret and another crew member in the upper turret.

===Television===
[[File:PubTThou01.jpg|thumb|right|[[William Shatner]] and the Gremlin (far shot, not in full costume) in ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "[[Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]" (1963)]]
* A 1963 episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'', "[[Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]" directed by [[Richard Donner]] and based on the short story of the same name by [[Richard Matheson]], featured a gremlin attacking an airliner.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q742103|title="The Twilight Zone" TV series}}</ref> In the original television episode, the gremlin appears as a stocky ape-like creature which inspects the aircraft's wing with the curiosity of an animal before damaging it. [[William Shatner]] plays a passenger named Bob Wilson (just recovered from a mental breakdown) who sees the gremlin (played by [[Nick Cravat]]) on the aircraft's wing as he tries to warn the stewardess and other airplane staff members about it. Upon realizing that the gremlin's work on the wing would cause the airplane to crash, Bob steals a sleeping [[sky marshal]]'s revolver and causes a breach in the auxiliary exit to shoot the gremlin. When the airplane lands, Bob is removed from the aircraft on a stretcher in a straitjacket. [[Rod Serling]] narrates that Bob Wilson's conviction will not be long as the final scene shows that the gremlin left evidence of Bob's claim in the form of a damaged wing. This episode was remade as a segment of ''[[Twilight Zone: The Movie]]'' (1983) with [[John Lithgow]] playing a similar character called John Valentine.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q1330737|title="The Twilight Zone" movie}}</ref> John Valentine (who is depicted as suffering from [[aviatophobia]]) sees the gremlin and tries to warn the people on the airplane as the gremlin intentionally damages the wing. After stealing an airplane security guard's gun and breaking open his window, John opens fire on the gremlin which defends itself by breaking the gun and flies away when the airplane nears the airport. John is taken away in a straitjacket as the maintenance crew discovers unexplained damages and claw marks on the wing to the surprise of the passengers nearby.
* The 1975 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[The Ark in Space]]" is set on a supposedly impervious, yet now decrepit space station. In it, the Doctor's companion [[Harry Sullivan (Doctor Who)|Harry Sullivan]] explains the station's fate, saying, "Gremlins can get into everything, old girl. First law of the sea."
* A gremlin makes an appearance in a [[Treehouse of Horror IV|Halloween special]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (original airdate: 28 October 1993) paralleling ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''{{'}}s "[[Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]", (the segment is even named "Terror at 5½&nbsp;Feet") in which the gremlin (with its vocal effects provided by [[Frank Welker]]) attempts to destroy the wheel of [[Bart Simpson]]'s school bus. Bart ends up using a flare gun to get it off the bus only for it to land on [[Ned Flanders]]' car. Bart is taken away in a straitjacket and later sees the gremlin outside of the ambulance holding Ned's severed but still living head.
* The ''[[Eek! The Cat]]'' episode "The Eex Files" (original airdate: 5 November 1994) starts out with Eek on an aircraft beside a man claiming to see someone outside on the wing. Of course when he looks, there is no one there. At the end of the episode, Eek is dropped off by an alien on the wing of the aircraft and meets the gremlin, then promptly offers to help him "find his wallet". The final scene shows the half-crazed man looking out the window and "spazzing out" when he sees them both tearing up the wing.
* A ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' [[List of Tiny Toon Adventures episodes#Specials|special]] titled "Night Ghoulery" (original airdate: 25 August 1995) includes a spoof of ''[[Night Gallery]]'', with [[Babs Bunny]] presenting in [[Rod Serling]]'s style. It has a segment named "Gremlin on a Wing", which parodies "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", with [[Plucky Duck]] in William Shatner's place, accompanied by [[Hamton J. Pig]] in an aircraft, and a gremlin similar to that which appeared in the [[Bugs Bunny]] short ''Falling Hare''.
* In the ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' episode "The Man Who Cried Clown" (original airdate: 8 December 1997), which is part of "The Zone Where Normal Things Don't Happen Very Often," Johnny sees an evil clown on the wing of the aircraft and is having difficulty convincing the pilots and anyone of its existence which even included a cameo by someone resembling William Shatner who quotes "Oh no you don't! I'm not falling for that again." When he catches and beats up the clown in the airplane's restroom, he is confronted and informed by a pilot that the clown in question and another clown were needed to keep the aircraft in balance during flight. The pilots and some nearby people beat up Johnny and make him take the incapacitated clown's place.
* At the end of episode 9 of ''[[Muppets Tonight]]'', [[Miss Piggy]] sees a gremlin outside of her airplane window. William Shatner is seen sitting next to her as he claims that he has been complaining about the gremlin for years, but nobody does anything about it.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Don't Forget the Motor City" (original airdate: 3 December 1987) has the Ghostbusters traveling to [[Detroit]] to battle gremlins who are sabotaging a factory run by a fictional analog of [[General Motors]].
* A gremlin appears in the ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' episode "The Tale of the Curious Camera" (2 March 1994). After getting his portraits back from the basketball team, Matt finds that he didn't show up in the photos. To make it up to him, the photographer gives him an antique camera because it has apparently chosen him. Matt soon learns that anything or anyone he takes a picture of will have something bad happen to it whether he wants it or not. It is discovered that a gremlin inhabits the camera.
* In the ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends]]'' episode "Gordon and the Gremlin" (original airdate: 16 September 1998), gremlins are blamed for [[Gordon the Big Engine|Gordon]]'s fire not lighting and problems with the turntable. This episode references ''Gremlins'' (1984).
* In the ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Grease" (original airdate: 25 September 1997), the Ghostbusters have to capture a gremlin that was damaging New York's machines, while at the same time the [[FBI]] believes them to be the cause of the sabotage.
* In ''[[So Weird]]'' (1999), the gang stop at a town called "Simplicity" where gremlins are destroying everything mechanical. In the fiction of the episode, gremlins were the original inventors and were upset with humans for taking their technology for granted. The gremlins are only appeased by the gang re-writing a locally based tech conglomerate's jingle to be about simple living.
* In the cartoon series ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'', the episode "Jake Takes the Cake" (original airdate: 26 August 2005) features gremlins who mess with any type of mechanical devices and cause a lot of trouble until they are put to sleep and captured.
* The 2013 entry for the ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series titled ''[[Kamen Rider Wizard]]'' features a Phantom known as Gremlin. His human name Sora is Japanese for "sky", possibly an allusion to planes. He wields a pair of swords modeled after scissor blades, reflecting the claims that gremlins use scissors to cut wires in biplanes.
* The ''[[Ben 10]]'' alien, Juryrigg, looks like a gremlin and is known to break down and modify machines.
* The 2010 ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series, ''[[Tensou Sentai Goseiger]]'' featured the antagonistic cryptid-themed monster group [[List of Tensou Sentai Goseiger characters#Yuumajuu|Yuumajuu]]. One of their members is the bratty Waraikozou of the Gremlin, who has the secondary theme of [[flea]]. Like stereotypical gremlins, Waraikozou is capable of destroying mechanical objects.
* ''[[Mr. Bogus]]'' are a gremlin like and based on the French / Belgian clay animation series of shorts simply titled, Bogus.
* An animated television series based on the 1984 film ''Gremlins'' was released for HBO Max, entitled ''[[Gremlins (TV series)|Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai]]''. It was released in 2023 following delays. It serves as a prequel to the original films, expanding on the lore of the small furry creatures known as Mogwai, who painfully multiply when wet and become evil Gremlins when fed after midnight, as well as how the Wing family, namely 10 year old Sam, came into possession of Gizmo.

===Radio===
* On 21 December 1942, [[CBS]] aired "Gremlins", a whimsical story written by [[Lucille Fletcher]], on an episode of [[Orson Welles]]'s patriotic radio series ''[[Ceiling Unlimited]]''. [[U.S. Army Air Forces]] officers discuss their experiences with the irritating creatures, and conclude that feeding them transforms them into an asset rather than a hindrance to aviation.<ref>Smith 2010, p. 218.</ref><ref>[http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=radio&p=157&item=R88:0197 ''Ceiling Unlimited''{{snd}}"Gremlins"] at the [[Paley Center for Media]]; retrieved 28 May 2012</ref>
* On 3 Dec 2021, Tasgeel Podcast produced a Gremlin influenced short audio film "The Trip".<ref>{{cite web |title=مسلسل (تمانية) - الحلقة الأولى - الرحلة |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-besXc6RIM |via=YouTube |access-date=13 January 2022}}</ref>

===Music===
* On [[Robert Calvert]]'s 1974 concept album ''[[Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters]]'', the ''Song of the Gremlin'' and the ''Song of the Gremlin Part 2'', describing how gremlins sabotage all man's attempts to fly.
* Used in Kodak Black's 2022 song "Super Gremlin".

===Literature===
* The 1947 novel by Roald Dahl, ''[[Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen]]'', had the Gremlin leader as the protagonist of the second half of the book. He is described as leading an ancient nature-loving race away from the wars between humans and trying to let his race survive the destruction of humanity.
* The first issue of the ''[[Monster in My Pocket]]'' comic book series has Gremlin prominently among the good monsters.  He is able to create fire from his fingertips.  In the second through fourth issues, this power is given to Hobgoblin, and Gremlin is never seen again.
* In the micro-series of the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (comic book)#Micro Series|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' comic book series, there is a species called Cloud Gremlins, which cast a spell in Ponyville. In the end, they are defeated by Rainbow Dash.
* In ''[[The Paladin Prophecy]]'', the main character is attacked while on a plane, by creatures he calls "gremlins"
*''Gremlin Americanus: A Scrap Book Collection of Gremlins'' by artist and pilot Eric Sloane may predate the Roald Dahl publication. Published in 1942 by B.F. Jay & Co, the central characters are characterized as "pixies of the air" and are friends of both RAF and USAAF pilots. The gremlins are mischievous and give pilots a great deal of trouble, but they have never been known to cause fatal accidents but can be blamed for any untoward incident or "bonehead play", qualities that endear them to all flyers.<ref name="Sloane">Sloane, Eric. ''Gremlin Americanus: A Scrap Book Collection of Gremlins''.  New York, B.F. Jay & Co., 1944, 1943, First edition 1942.</ref>{{refn|On the front pastedown endpaper, Sloane's book featured a sketch of an aircraft in flight, with the pilot saying, "The Gremlins will get you if you don't watch out!!" and giving a thumbs up.<ref name="Sloane"/>|group=N}}
*''Ssh! Gremlins by H.W.'', illustrated by Ronald Neighbour ("Neb" of the ''Daily Mail''), published in 1942 by H. W. John Crowther Publication, England, features numerous humorous illustrations describing the gremlins as whimsical but essentially friendly folk. According to "H.W.", contrary to some reports, gremlins are a universal phenomenon and by no means only the friends of flying men.<ref>Wilson, Herbert Wrigley (H.W.). ''R. A. F. Book of the Season: Ssh! Gremlins by H.W.'' London: H. W.  John Crowther Publication, 1942.</ref>{{refn|The booklet was published posthumously as Wilson had died in 1940.|group=N}}

===Card games===
* In the 2016 released set of ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', ''[[Kaladesh]]'', Gremlins (portrayed as four-armed, human-sized mammals with [[anteater]]-like snouts) appear on the technologically progressive plane and destroy the artifacts and inventions of many people on the plane, and are considered a public safety hazard. This was the first gremlin card in Magic since Gremlin Mine printed in the 2011 set ''[[New Phyrexia]]''. Prior to that, the earliest gremlin card was Phyrexian Gremlins printed in the 1994  ''[[Antiquities]]'' set.
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game]]'', the cards "Feral Imp", "Des Feral Imp" and "King of the Feral Imps" are based on gremlins.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}

===Video games===
* In 1984, the video game ''[[Gremlins (video game)|Gremlins]]'' was released as a tie-in to the [[Gremlins|film of the same name]].
* In 1990, ''[[Gremlins 2: The New Batch (video game)|Gremlins 2: The New Batch]]'' was released, also a tie-in to the [[Gremlins 2: The New Batch|film of the same name]].
* In 1992, an enemy named Gremlin appears in ''[[Monster in My Pocket]]'' as the boss of stage four.
* In the ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' games (2010, 2012), Gremlins assist [[Mickey Mouse]] after he releases them.
* In ''[[Spiral Knights]]'' (2011), Gremlins serve as an enemy faction and multiple different enemies.
* In ''[[Skylanders]]'', gremlins appear in game, however they shown as [[rabbit]]-like creatures than humanoid.
* In the 2016 video game ''[[XCOM 2]]'', the Specialist soldier class utilises drones called GREMLINs for a range of actions in combat.
* In ''[[Pokémon Sword and Shield]]'', Impidimp and Morgrem are Dark/Fairy type Pokémon based on the gremlin.
* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', the gremlins are small intelligent underground creatures that can cause great disorder by playing with levers.
* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic III|Heroes of Might and Magic 3]]'', gremlins are first-level recruitable creatures from the town, Tower.
* In ''[[Slay the Spire]]'', gremlins are a recurring enemy throughout the game.