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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Fictional mischievous creature</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the fictional creature. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Gremlin_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Gremlin (disambiguation)">Gremlin (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Gmelin_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Gmelin (disambiguation)">Gmelin</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gremlins_think_it%27s_fun_to_hurt_you._Use_care_always._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535381.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Gremlins_think_it%27s_fun_to_hurt_you._Use_care_always._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535381.jpg/170px-Gremlins_think_it%27s_fun_to_hurt_you._Use_care_always._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535381.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Gremlins_think_it%27s_fun_to_hurt_you._Use_care_always._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535381.jpg/255px-Gremlins_think_it%27s_fun_to_hurt_you._Use_care_always._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535381.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Gremlins_think_it%27s_fun_to_hurt_you._Use_care_always._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535381.jpg/340px-Gremlins_think_it%27s_fun_to_hurt_you._Use_care_always._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535381.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1977" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>A World War II gremlin-themed industrial safety poster</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>gremlin</b> is a mischievous fictional creature invented at the beginning of the 20th century to originally explain malfunctions in <a href="/wiki/Aircraft" title="Aircraft">aircraft</a>, and later in other machinery, processes, and their operators. Depictions of these creatures vary widely. Stories about them and references to them as the causes of especially inexplicable technical and mental problems of pilots were especially popular during and after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pq_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pq-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ahd_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ahd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Use of the term in the sense of a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft first arose in <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> (RAF) slang among British pilots stationed in <a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, and <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India</a> in the 1920s, with the earliest printed record in a poem published in the journal <i>Aeroplane</i> in Malta on 10 April 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later sources have sometimes claimed that the concept goes back to <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, but there is no print evidence of this.<sup id="cite_ref-Hazen_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hazen-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is evidence of an even earlier reference in the 1920s, stating that the term was used in the RAF to refer to a lowly menial person,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as a low-ranking officer or enlisted man saddled with oppressive assignments.<sup id="cite_ref-ahd_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ahd-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aviation_origins">Aviation origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Aviation origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:B-1B_Gremlin_Nose_Art.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/B-1B_Gremlin_Nose_Art.jpeg/220px-B-1B_Gremlin_Nose_Art.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/B-1B_Gremlin_Nose_Art.jpeg/330px-B-1B_Gremlin_Nose_Art.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/B-1B_Gremlin_Nose_Art.jpeg/440px-B-1B_Gremlin_Nose_Art.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2770" data-file-height="1870" /></a><figcaption>Gremlin depicted in <a href="/wiki/Nose_art" title="Nose art">nose art</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Rockwell_B-1_Lancer" title="Rockwell B-1 Lancer">Rockwell B-1 Lancer</a> aircraft of the <a href="/wiki/28th_Bomb_Wing" title="28th Bomb Wing">28th Bomb Wing</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Although their origin is found in myths among airmen claiming that gremlins were responsible for sabotaging aircraft, the <a href="/wiki/Folklorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Folklorist">folklorist</a> John W. Hazen states that some people derive the name from the <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> word <i>gremian,</i> "to vex",<sup id="cite_ref-Hazen_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hazen-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while Carol Rose, in her book <i>Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia</i>, attributes the name to a portmanteau of Grimm's Fairy Tales and <a href="/wiki/Fremlin%27s_Brewery" title="Fremlin's Brewery">Fremlin Beer</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> According to <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Words" class="mw-redirect" title="World Wide Words">Paul Quinion</a>, it is plausible that the term is a blend of the word "goblin" with the name of the manufacturer of the most common beer available in the RAF in the 1920s, Fremlin.<sup id="cite_ref-pq_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pq-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An early reference to the gremlin is in <a href="/wiki/Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator">aviator</a> <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Gower" title="Pauline Gower">Pauline Gower</a>'s 1938 novel <i>The ATA: Women with Wings</i>, where Scotland is described as "gremlin country", a mystical and rugged territory where scissor-wielding gremlins cut the wires of <a href="/wiki/Biplane" title="Biplane">biplanes</a> when unsuspecting pilots were about.<sup id="cite_ref-merry_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-merry-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An article by Hubert Griffith in the servicemen's fortnightly <i>Royal Air Force Journal</i> dated 18 April 1942, also chronicles the appearance of gremlins,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although the article states the stories had been in existence for several years, with later recollections of it having been told by <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a> <a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire" title="Supermarine Spitfire">Spitfire</a> pilots as early as 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> This concept of gremlins was popularized during World War II among airmen of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> (RAF) units,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in particular the men of the high-altitude Photographic Reconnaissance Units (PRU) of <a href="/wiki/RAF_Benson" title="RAF Benson">RAF Benson</a>, <a href="/wiki/RAF_Wick" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF Wick">RAF Wick</a> and <a href="/wiki/RAF_St_Eval" title="RAF St Eval">RAF St Eval</a>. The flight crews blamed gremlins for otherwise inexplicable accidents which sometimes occurred during their flights. Gremlins were also thought at one point to have enemy sympathies, but investigations revealed that enemy aircraft had similar and equally inexplicable mechanical problems. As such, gremlins were portrayed as equal opportunity tricksters, taking no sides in the conflict, but acting out their mischief from their own self-interest.<sup id="cite_ref-Sasser_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sasser-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In reality, the gremlins were a form of "<a href="/wiki/Buck_passing" title="Buck passing">buck passing</a>" or deflecting blame.<sup id="cite_ref-Sasser_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sasser-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This led John Hazen to note that "the gremlin has been looked on as new phenomenon, a product of the <a href="/wiki/Machine_age" class="mw-redirect" title="Machine age">machine age</a> – the age of air".<sup id="cite_ref-Hazen_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hazen-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The concept of gremlins as a scapegoat was important to the morale of pilots according to the author and historian Marlin Bressi: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"Gremlins, while imaginary, played a very important role to the airmen of the Royal Air Force. Gremlin tales helped build morale among pilots, which, in turn, helped them repel the Luftwaffe invasion during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a> during the summer of 1940. The war may have had a very different outcome if the R.A.F. pilots had lost their morale and allowed Germany's plans for <a href="/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion" title="Operation Sea Lion">Operation Sea Lion</a> (the planned invasion of the U.K.) to develop. In a way, it could be argued that gremlins, troublesome as they were, ultimately helped the Allies win the war." Bressi also noted: "Morale among the R.A.F. pilots would have suffered if they pointed the finger of blame at each other. It was far better to make the scapegoat a fantastic and comical creature than another member of your own squadron."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote><p> Examples of Gremlins can be seen in the IBCC Digital Archive. </p><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 134.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 132.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gremlins_are_floor_greasers%5E_Watch_your_step%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535378.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="World War II posters warning of gremlins"><img alt="World War II posters warning of gremlins" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Gremlins_are_floor_greasers%5E_Watch_your_step%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535378.jpg/199px-Gremlins_are_floor_greasers%5E_Watch_your_step%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535378.jpg" decoding="async" width="133" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Gremlins_are_floor_greasers%5E_Watch_your_step%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535378.jpg/299px-Gremlins_are_floor_greasers%5E_Watch_your_step%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535378.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Gremlins_are_floor_greasers%5E_Watch_your_step%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535378.jpg/399px-Gremlins_are_floor_greasers%5E_Watch_your_step%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535378.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1996" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">World War II posters warning of gremlins</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 132px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 130px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gremlins_love_to_pitch_things_at_your_eyes._Wear_safety_goggles._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535379.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gremlins_love_to_pitch_things_at_your_eyes._Wear_safety_goggles._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535379.jpg/195px-Gremlins_love_to_pitch_things_at_your_eyes._Wear_safety_goggles._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535379.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gremlins_love_to_pitch_things_at_your_eyes._Wear_safety_goggles._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535379.jpg/293px-Gremlins_love_to_pitch_things_at_your_eyes._Wear_safety_goggles._Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535379.jpg 1.5x, 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width="132" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Gremlins_will_push_you_%27round%5E_Look_where_you%27re_going%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535380.jpg/296px-Gremlins_will_push_you_%27round%5E_Look_where_you%27re_going%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535380.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Gremlins_will_push_you_%27round%5E_Look_where_you%27re_going%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535380.jpg/394px-Gremlins_will_push_you_%27round%5E_Look_where_you%27re_going%5E_Back_up_our_battleskies%5E_-_NARA_-_535380.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1973" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 137.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 135.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Gremlins_will_get_you_if_you_don%27t_watch_out%5E_-_NARA_-_535062.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/The_Gremlins_will_get_you_if_you_don%27t_watch_out%5E_-_NARA_-_535062.jpg/203px-The_Gremlins_will_get_you_if_you_don%27t_watch_out%5E_-_NARA_-_535062.jpg" decoding="async" width="136" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/The_Gremlins_will_get_you_if_you_don%27t_watch_out%5E_-_NARA_-_535062.jpg/305px-The_Gremlins_will_get_you_if_you_don%27t_watch_out%5E_-_NARA_-_535062.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/The_Gremlins_will_get_you_if_you_don%27t_watch_out%5E_-_NARA_-_535062.jpg/407px-The_Gremlins_will_get_you_if_you_don%27t_watch_out%5E_-_NARA_-_535062.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2036" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 144.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 142.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%22WHY_HELP_GREMLINS%22_-_NARA_-_516157.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/%22WHY_HELP_GREMLINS%22_-_NARA_-_516157.jpg/214px-%22WHY_HELP_GREMLINS%22_-_NARA_-_516157.jpg" decoding="async" width="143" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/%22WHY_HELP_GREMLINS%22_-_NARA_-_516157.jpg/321px-%22WHY_HELP_GREMLINS%22_-_NARA_-_516157.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/%22WHY_HELP_GREMLINS%22_-_NARA_-_516157.jpg/428px-%22WHY_HELP_GREMLINS%22_-_NARA_-_516157.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2139" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popularization_by_Roald_Dahl">Popularization by Roald Dahl</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Popularization by Roald Dahl"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hawker_Hurricane,_Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight_Members%27_day_2018_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Hawker_Hurricane%2C_Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight_Members%27_day_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Hawker_Hurricane%2C_Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight_Members%27_day_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Hawker_Hurricane%2C_Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight_Members%27_day_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Hawker_Hurricane%2C_Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight_Members%27_day_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Hawker_Hurricane%2C_Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight_Members%27_day_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Hawker_Hurricane%2C_Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight_Members%27_day_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1476" data-file-height="998" /></a><figcaption>Royal Air Force pilot and author <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a> flew a <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane" title="Hawker Hurricane">Hawker Hurricane</a> during WWII which he incorporated into his 1943 children's novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gremlins" title="The Gremlins">The Gremlins</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>British author <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a> is credited with getting the gremlins known outside the Royal Air Force.<sup id="cite_ref-rodl_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rodl-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He would have been familiar with the myth, having carried out his military service in <a href="/wiki/No._80_Squadron_RAF" title="No. 80 Squadron RAF">80 Squadron</a> of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. Dahl had his own experience in an accidental crash-landing in the <a href="/wiki/Western_Desert_(North_Africa)" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Desert (North Africa)">Western Desert</a> when he ran out of fuel. In January 1942, he was transferred to <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> as Assistant <a href="/wiki/Air_attach%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Air attaché">Air attaché</a> at the British Embassy. It was there that he wrote his first children's novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gremlins" title="The Gremlins">The Gremlins</a>,</i> in which "Gremlins" were tiny men who lived on RAF fighters. In the same novel, Dahl called the wives of gremlins "<a href="/wiki/Fifinella" title="Fifinella">Fifinellas</a>", their male children "Widgets", and their female children "<a href="/wiki/Flibbertigibbet" title="Flibbertigibbet">Flibbertigibbets</a>". Dahl showed the finished manuscript to <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Bernstein,_Baron_Bernstein" title="Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein">Sidney Bernstein</a>, the head of the <a href="/wiki/British_Information_Services" title="British Information Services">British Information Service</a>, who came up with the idea to send it to <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-rodl_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rodl-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The manuscript arrived in Disney's hands in July 1942, and he considered using it as material for a live action/animated full-length feature film, offering Dahl a contract.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film project was changed to an animated feature and entered pre-production, with characters "roughed out" and storyboards created.<sup id="cite_ref-Conant_2008,_p._43_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Conant_2008,_p._43-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Disney managed to have the story published in the December 1942 issue of <a href="/wiki/Cosmopolitan_(magazine)" title="Cosmopolitan (magazine)"><i>Cosmopolitan</i></a> magazine. At Dahl's urging, in early 1943, a revised version of the story, again titled <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gremlins" title="The Gremlins">The Gremlins</a></i>, was published as a picture book by <a href="/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House">Random House</a>. (It was later updated and re-published in 2006 by <a href="/wiki/Dark_Horse_Comics" title="Dark Horse Comics">Dark Horse Comics</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1943 publication of <i>The Gremlins</i> by Random House consisted of 50,000 copies, with Dahl ordering 50 copies for himself as promotional material for himself and the upcoming film, handing them out to everyone he knew, including the British ambassador in Washington <a href="/wiki/Edward_Wood,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax" title="Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax">Lord Halifax</a>, and the US First Lady <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> who read it to her grandchildren.<sup id="cite_ref-rodl_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rodl-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book was considered an international success with 30,000 more sold in Australia but initial efforts to reprint the book were precluded by a wartime paper shortage.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reviewed in major publications, Dahl was considered a writer-of-note and his appearances in Hollywood to follow up with the film project were met with notices in <a href="/wiki/Hedda_Hopper" title="Hedda Hopper">Hedda Hopper</a>'s columns.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film project was reduced to an animated short and eventually cancelled in August 1943, when copyright and RAF rights could not be resolved. But thanks mainly to Disney, the story had its share of publicity, which helped in introducing the concept to a wider audience. Issues #33–41 of <i><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney%27s_Comics_and_Stories" title="Walt Disney's Comics and Stories">Walt Disney's Comics and Stories</a></i> published between June 1943 and February 1944 contained a nine-episode series of short silent stories featuring a Gremlin Gus as their star. The first was drawn by Vivie Risto, and the rest of them by <a href="/wiki/Walt_Kelly" title="Walt Kelly">Walt Kelly</a>. This served as their introduction to the <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic book</a> audience as they are human gremlins who lived in their own village as little flying human people. </p><p>While Roald Dahl was famous for making gremlins known worldwide, many returning Air Servicemen swear they saw creatures tinkering with their equipment. One crewman swore he saw one before an engine malfunction that caused his <a href="/wiki/B-25_Mitchell" class="mw-redirect" title="B-25 Mitchell">B-25 Mitchell</a> <a href="/wiki/Bomber" title="Bomber">bomber</a> to rapidly lose altitude, forcing the aircraft to return to base. Folklorist Hazen likewise offers his own alleged eyewitness testimony of these creatures, which appeared in an academically praised and peer-reviewed publication, describing an occasion he found "a parted cable which bore obvious tooth marks in spite of the fact that the break occurred in a most inaccessible part of the plane". At this point, Hazen states he heard "a gruff voice" demand, "How many times must you be told to obey orders and not tackle jobs you aren't qualified for? – This is how it should be done." Upon which Hazen heard a "musical twang" and another cable was parted.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Critics of this idea state that the stress of combat and the dizzying heights caused such hallucinations, often believed to be a coping mechanism of the mind to help explain the many problems aircraft faced while in combat. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> Differences between Dahl versions </caption> <tbody><tr> <th></th> <th>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gremlins" title="The Gremlins">The Gremlins</a></i></th> <th>In <i><a href="/wiki/Sometime_Never:_A_Fable_for_Supermen" class="mw-redirect" title="Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen">Sometime Never</a></i> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Habitat </th> <td>Formerly in the prima forest and swamps of England, later in hangars (the Spandules, a different breed of Gremlins, live in clouds)</td> <td>In one forest in England before the <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a> then moved underground </td></tr> <tr> <th>Food source </th> <td>Used <a href="/wiki/Postage_stamp" title="Postage stamp">postage stamps</a></td> <td>Snozzberries </td></tr> <tr> <th>Social Structure </th> <td>Uncertain; rivalry between gremlins of different habitats; no established families</td> <td>Ruled by one Leader, human-like society </td></tr> <tr> <th>Intelligence </th> <td>Comparable to children, no clear culture of their own</td> <td>Fully comparable to human; read human books </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_media">In media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In 1943, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Clampett" title="Bob Clampett">Bob Clampett</a> directed <i><a href="/wiki/Falling_Hare" title="Falling Hare">Falling Hare</a></i>, a <i><a href="/wiki/Merrie_Melodies" title="Merrie Melodies">Merrie Melodies</a></i> cartoon featuring <a href="/wiki/Bugs_Bunny" title="Bugs Bunny">Bugs Bunny</a>. Inspired by <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>'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.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Russian_Rhapsody_(film)" title="Russian Rhapsody (film)">Russian Rhapsody</a></i>, another <i>Merrie Melodies</i> short showing Russian gremlins (modeled on Warner Brothers animation staff) sabotaging an aircraft piloted by <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>. The gremlin in "Falling Hare" has a color scheme reflecting one used on <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Air_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Air Forces">U.S. Army Air Forces</a> <a href="/wiki/Training_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Training aircraft">training aircraft</a> of the time, using dark blue (as on such an aircraft's <a href="/wiki/Fuselage" title="Fuselage">fuselage</a>) and a deep <a href="/wiki/Chrome_yellow" title="Chrome yellow">orange-yellow</a> color (as used on the wings and <a href="/wiki/Empennage" title="Empennage">tail surfaces</a>).</li> <li>The 1944 romantic comedy <i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Doesn%27t_Live_Here_Anymore" title="Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore">Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore</a></i> had animated gremlins with an uncredited <a href="/wiki/Mel_Blanc" title="Mel Blanc">Mel Blanc</a> providing the voice.</li> <li>The 1981 animated film <i><a href="/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(film)" title="Heavy Metal (film)">Heavy Metal</a></i> 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.</li> <li>The 1984 film <i><a href="/wiki/Gremlins" title="Gremlins">Gremlins</a></i>, produced by <a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> and directed by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Dante" title="Joe Dante">Joe Dante</a>, 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Gremlins_2:_The_New_Batch" title="Gremlins 2: The New Batch">Gremlins 2: The New Batch</a></i>.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Cast_a_Deadly_Spell" title="Cast a Deadly Spell">Cast a Deadly Spell</a></i>, a 1991 HBO <a href="/wiki/Television_film" title="Television film">television film</a>, gremlins are said to have been "brought back from the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">pacific</a>" to the United States in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and are seen damaging cars and houses.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Madagascar:_Escape_2_Africa" title="Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa">Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa</a></i> (2008), Alex sees Mort (mistaking him for a gremlin) messing with the engine and falling off the aircraft.</li> <li>In the movie franchise <i><a href="/wiki/Hotel_Transylvania" title="Hotel Transylvania">Hotel Transylvania</a></i> the gremlins are seen as guests of the monster hotel built by <a href="/wiki/Count_Dracula" title="Count Dracula">Count Dracula</a>.</li> <li>A batlike gremlin appears in the 2020 film <i><a href="/wiki/Shadow_in_the_Cloud" title="Shadow in the Cloud">Shadow in the Cloud</a></i>. 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.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PubTThou01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/PubTThou01.jpg/220px-PubTThou01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/PubTThou01.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="325" data-file-height="257" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/William_Shatner" title="William Shatner">William Shatner</a> and the Gremlin (far shot, not in full costume) in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">The Twilight Zone</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet" title="Nightmare at 20,000 Feet">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a>" (1963)</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>A 1963 episode of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)" title="The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)">The Twilight Zone</a></i>, "<a href="/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet" title="Nightmare at 20,000 Feet">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a>" directed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Donner" title="Richard Donner">Richard Donner</a> and based on the short story of the same name by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson</a>, featured a gremlin attacking an airliner.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. <a href="/wiki/William_Shatner" title="William Shatner">William Shatner</a> plays a passenger named Bob Wilson (just recovered from a mental breakdown) who sees the gremlin (played by <a href="/wiki/Nick_Cravat" title="Nick Cravat">Nick Cravat</a>) 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 <a href="/wiki/Sky_marshal" title="Sky marshal">sky marshal</a>'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. <a href="/wiki/Rod_Serling" title="Rod Serling">Rod Serling</a> 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie" title="Twilight Zone: The Movie">Twilight Zone: The Movie</a></i> (1983) with <a href="/wiki/John_Lithgow" title="John Lithgow">John Lithgow</a> playing a similar character called John Valentine.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Valentine (who is depicted as suffering from <a href="/wiki/Aviatophobia" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviatophobia">aviatophobia</a>) 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.</li> <li>The 1975 <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i> serial "<a href="/wiki/The_Ark_in_Space" title="The Ark in Space">The Ark in Space</a>" is set on a supposedly impervious, yet now decrepit space station. In it, the Doctor's companion <a href="/wiki/Harry_Sullivan_(Doctor_Who)" title="Harry Sullivan (Doctor Who)">Harry Sullivan</a> explains the station's fate, saying, "Gremlins can get into everything, old girl. First law of the sea."</li> <li>A gremlin makes an appearance in a <a href="/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_IV" title="Treehouse of Horror IV">Halloween special</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i> (original airdate: 28 October 1993) paralleling <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">The Twilight Zone</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s "<a href="/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet" title="Nightmare at 20,000 Feet">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a>", (the segment is even named "Terror at 5½ Feet") in which the gremlin (with its vocal effects provided by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Welker" title="Frank Welker">Frank Welker</a>) attempts to destroy the wheel of <a href="/wiki/Bart_Simpson" title="Bart Simpson">Bart Simpson</a>'s school bus. Bart ends up using a flare gun to get it off the bus only for it to land on <a href="/wiki/Ned_Flanders" title="Ned Flanders">Ned Flanders</a>' 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.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Eek!_The_Cat" title="Eek! The Cat">Eek! The Cat</a></i> 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.</li> <li>A <i><a href="/wiki/Tiny_Toon_Adventures" title="Tiny Toon Adventures">Tiny Toon Adventures</a></i> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Tiny_Toon_Adventures_episodes#Specials" title="List of Tiny Toon Adventures episodes">special</a> titled "Night Ghoulery" (original airdate: 25 August 1995) includes a spoof of <i><a href="/wiki/Night_Gallery" title="Night Gallery">Night Gallery</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Babs_Bunny" class="mw-redirect" title="Babs Bunny">Babs Bunny</a> presenting in <a href="/wiki/Rod_Serling" title="Rod Serling">Rod Serling</a>'s style. It has a segment named "Gremlin on a Wing", which parodies "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", with <a href="/wiki/Plucky_Duck" class="mw-redirect" title="Plucky Duck">Plucky Duck</a> in William Shatner's place, accompanied by <a href="/wiki/Hamton_J._Pig" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamton J. Pig">Hamton J. Pig</a> in an aircraft, and a gremlin similar to that which appeared in the <a href="/wiki/Bugs_Bunny" title="Bugs Bunny">Bugs Bunny</a> short <i>Falling Hare</i>.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bravo" title="Johnny Bravo">Johnny Bravo</a></i> 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.</li> <li>At the end of episode 9 of <i><a href="/wiki/Muppets_Tonight" title="Muppets Tonight">Muppets Tonight</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Miss_Piggy" title="Miss Piggy">Miss Piggy</a> 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.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Real_Ghostbusters" title="The Real Ghostbusters">The Real Ghostbusters</a></i> episode "Don't Forget the Motor City" (original airdate: 3 December 1987) has the Ghostbusters traveling to <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a> to battle gremlins who are sabotaging a factory run by a fictional analog of <a href="/wiki/General_Motors" title="General Motors">General Motors</a>.</li> <li>A gremlin appears in the <i><a href="/wiki/Are_You_Afraid_of_the_Dark%3F" title="Are You Afraid of the Dark?">Are You Afraid of the Dark?</a></i> 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.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Thomas_the_Tank_Engine_%26_Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends">Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends</a></i> episode "Gordon and the Gremlin" (original airdate: 16 September 1998), gremlins are blamed for <a href="/wiki/Gordon_the_Big_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordon the Big Engine">Gordon</a>'s fire not lighting and problems with the turntable.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Extreme_Ghostbusters" title="Extreme Ghostbusters">Extreme Ghostbusters</a></i> 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 <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> believes them to be the cause of the sabotage.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/So_Weird" title="So Weird">So Weird</a></i> (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.</li> <li>In the cartoon series <i><a href="/wiki/American_Dragon:_Jake_Long" title="American Dragon: Jake Long">American Dragon: Jake Long</a></i>, 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.</li> <li>The 2013 entry for the <i><a href="/wiki/Kamen_Rider" title="Kamen Rider">Kamen Rider</a></i> series titled <i><a href="/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Wizard" title="Kamen Rider Wizard">Kamen Rider Wizard</a></i> 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.</li> <li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Ben_10" title="Ben 10">Ben 10</a></i> alien, Juryrigg, looks like a gremlin and is known to break down and modify machines.</li> <li>The 2010 <i><a href="/wiki/Super_Sentai" title="Super Sentai">Super Sentai</a></i> series, <i><a href="/wiki/Tensou_Sentai_Goseiger" title="Tensou Sentai Goseiger">Tensou Sentai Goseiger</a></i> featured the antagonistic cryptid-themed monster group <a href="/wiki/List_of_Tensou_Sentai_Goseiger_characters#Yuumajuu" title="List of Tensou Sentai Goseiger characters">Yuumajuu</a>. One of their members is the bratty Waraikozou of the Gremlin, who has the secondary theme of <a href="/wiki/Flea" title="Flea">flea</a>. Like stereotypical gremlins, Waraikozou is capable of destroying mechanical objects.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Bogus" title="Mr. Bogus">Mr. Bogus</a></i> are a gremlin like and based on the French / Belgian clay animation series of shorts simply titled, Bogus.</li> <li>An animated television series based on the 1984 film <i>Gremlins</i> was released for HBO Max, entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Gremlins_(TV_series)" title="Gremlins (TV series)">Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai</a></i>. 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.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On 21 December 1942, <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> aired "Gremlins", a whimsical story written by <a href="/wiki/Lucille_Fletcher" title="Lucille Fletcher">Lucille Fletcher</a>, on an episode of <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a>'s patriotic radio series <i><a href="/wiki/Ceiling_Unlimited" title="Ceiling Unlimited">Ceiling Unlimited</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Air_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army Air Forces">U.S. Army Air Forces</a> officers discuss their experiences with the irritating creatures, and conclude that feeding them transforms them into an asset rather than a hindrance to aviation.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 3 Dec 2021, Tasgeel Podcast produced a Gremlin influenced short audio film "The Trip".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On <a href="/wiki/Robert_Calvert" title="Robert Calvert">Robert Calvert</a>'s 1974 concept album <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Lockheed_and_the_Starfighters" title="Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters">Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters</a></i>, the <i>Song of the Gremlin</i> and the <i>Song of the Gremlin Part 2</i>, describing how gremlins sabotage all man's attempts to fly.</li> <li>Used in Kodak Black's 2022 song "Super Gremlin".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The 1947 novel by Roald Dahl, <i><a href="/wiki/Sometime_Never:_A_Fable_for_Supermen" class="mw-redirect" title="Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen">Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen</a></i>, 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.</li> <li>The first issue of the <i><a href="/wiki/Monster_in_My_Pocket" title="Monster in My Pocket">Monster in My Pocket</a></i> 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.</li> <li>In the micro-series of the <i><a href="/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic_(comic_book)#Micro_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (comic book)">My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic</a></i> 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.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Paladin_Prophecy" title="The Paladin Prophecy">The Paladin Prophecy</a></i>, the main character is attacked while on a plane, by creatures he calls "gremlins"</li> <li><i>Gremlin Americanus: A Scrap Book Collection of Gremlins</i> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Sloane_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sloane-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Ssh! Gremlins by H.W.</i>, illustrated by Ronald Neighbour ("Neb" of the <i>Daily Mail</i>), 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.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Card_games">Card games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Card games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the 2016 released set of <i><a href="/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering" title="Magic: The Gathering">Magic: The Gathering</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Kaladesh" title="Kaladesh">Kaladesh</a></i>, Gremlins (portrayed as four-armed, human-sized mammals with <a href="/wiki/Anteater" title="Anteater">anteater</a>-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 <i><a href="/wiki/New_Phyrexia" class="mw-redirect" title="New Phyrexia">New Phyrexia</a></i>. Prior to that, the earliest gremlin card was Phyrexian Gremlins printed in the 1994 <i><a href="/wiki/Antiquities" title="Antiquities">Antiquities</a></i> set.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_Trading_Card_Game" title="Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game">Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game</a></i>, the cards "Feral Imp", "Des Feral Imp" and "King of the Feral Imps" are based on gremlins.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Video games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In 1984, the video game <i><a href="/wiki/Gremlins_(video_game)" title="Gremlins (video game)">Gremlins</a></i> was released as a tie-in to the <a href="/wiki/Gremlins" title="Gremlins">film of the same name</a>.</li> <li>In 1990, <i><a href="/wiki/Gremlins_2:_The_New_Batch_(video_game)" title="Gremlins 2: The New Batch (video game)">Gremlins 2: The New Batch</a></i> was released, also a tie-in to the <a href="/wiki/Gremlins_2:_The_New_Batch" title="Gremlins 2: The New Batch">film of the same name</a>.</li> <li>Gremlin is the boss of stage four, "Towering Catastrophe" in the 1992 <i><a href="/wiki/Monster_in_My_Pocket" title="Monster in My Pocket">Monster in My Pocket</a></i> video game. He rides a crane hook onto the screen, throws three round objects, then rides off the screen, and can come and go from the top or either sioe of the screen. Apart from always initially appearing from the top, his direction is randomised. He himself must be dodged, although the hook itself passes behind the player. If the final blow is struck while the crane is in motion, Gremlin is flung farther off the crane. As with the other bosses, he seeks a rematch near the end of the game. Othar than the playable characters, Vampire and the Monster (of Frankenstein), the 14 monsters explicitly established as on the "good" side led by Vampire (which was said to outnumber the "evil" side led by Warlock) are all omitted from the game except for Gremlin and Hobgoblin, who both appear as enemies to the good monsters in stage four.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Epic_Mickey" title="Epic Mickey">Epic Mickey</a></i> games (2010, 2012), Gremlins assist <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Mouse" title="Mickey Mouse">Mickey Mouse</a> after he releases them.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Spiral_Knights" title="Spiral Knights">Spiral Knights</a></i> (2011), Gremlins serve as an enemy faction and multiple different enemies.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Skylanders" title="Skylanders">Skylanders</a></i>, gremlins appear in game, however they shown as <a href="/wiki/Rabbit" title="Rabbit">rabbit</a>-like creatures than humanoid.</li> <li>In the 2016 video game <i><a href="/wiki/XCOM_2" title="XCOM 2">XCOM 2</a></i>, the Specialist soldier class utilises drones called GREMLINs for a range of actions in combat.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Sword_and_Shield" title="Pokémon Sword and Shield">Pokémon Sword and Shield</a></i>, Impidimp and Morgrem are Dark/Fairy type Pokémon based on the gremlin.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress" title="Dwarf Fortress">Dwarf Fortress</a></i>, the gremlins are small intelligent underground creatures that can cause great disorder by playing with levers.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_III" title="Heroes of Might and Magic III"><i>Heroes of Might and Magic 3</i></a>, gremlins are first-level recruitable creatures from the town, Tower.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Slay_the_Spire" title="Slay the Spire">Slay the Spire</a>, gremlins are a recurring enemy throughout the game.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fearsome_critters" title="Fearsome critters">Fearsome critters</a> folkloric creatures that arose contemporaneously with that of the gremlin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Femlin" title="Femlin">Femlins</a>, female gremlins featured in <i>Playboy</i> magazine</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifinella" title="Fifinella">Fifinella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Froggy_the_Gremlin" title="Froggy the Gremlin">Froggy the Gremlin</a>, a character on an American TV show in the 1950s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gremlin_Graphics" class="mw-redirect" title="Gremlin Graphics">Gremlin Graphics</a>, the now defunct video games studio</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jinn" title="Jinn">Jinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klabautermann" title="Klabautermann">Klabautermann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kobold" title="Kobold">Kobold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Machine_Elf" class="mw-redirect" title="Machine Elf">Machine Elf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AMC_Gremlin" title="AMC Gremlin">AMC Gremlin</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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claims: "It was not until 1922 that anyone dared mention their name."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dahl claimed that the gremlins were exclusively a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> icon and he originated the term, but the elf-like figures had a very convoluted origin that predated his original writings.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dahl was given permission by the <a href="/wiki/Air_Ministry" title="Air Ministry">British Air Ministry</a> to work in Hollywood and an arrangement had been made that all proceeds from the eventual film would be split between the RAF Benevolent Fund and Dahl.<sup id="cite_ref-Conant_2008,_p._43_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Conant_2008,_p._43-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The book had an autobiographical connection as Dahl had flown as a Hurricane fighter pilot in the RAF, and was temporarily on leave from operational flying after serious injuries sustained in a <a href="/wiki/Crash_landing" class="mw-redirect" title="Crash landing">crash landing</a> in <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>. He later returned to flying.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In 1950, Collins Publishing (New York) published a limited reprint of <i>The Gremlins.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">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.<sup id="cite_ref-Sloane_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sloane-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The booklet was published posthumously as Wilson had died in 1940.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-pq-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pq_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pq_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-gre1.htm">gremlin</a> on <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Words" class="mw-redirect" title="World Wide Words">World Wide Words</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ahd-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ahd_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ahd_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=gremlin">gremlin</a> in the American Heritage Dictionary</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=gremlin&searchmode=none">"gremlin"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Online_Etymology_Dictionary" title="Online Etymology Dictionary">Online Etymology Dictionary</a>.</i> Retrieved: 12 October 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cZ88p_bSt1EC&pg=PA115"><i>Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus</i></a>. Lewisville, TX: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-618-45450-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-618-45450-1">978-0-618-45450-1</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hazen-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hazen_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hazen_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hazen_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hazen 1972, p. 465.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190727125241/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gremlin">"GREMLIN English Definition and Meaning"</a>. Lexico.com. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/gremlin">the original</a> on 27 July 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 August</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=GREMLIN+English+Definition+and+Meaning&rft.pub=Lexico.com&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lexico.com%2Fen%2Fdefinition%2Fgremlin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGremlin" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-merry-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-merry_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Merry 2010, p. 66.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.angelfire.com/id/100sqn/gremlins.html">"The Gremlin Question"</a>. <i>Royal Air Force Journal</i>, Number 13, 18 April 1942.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Laming, John. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/gremlins.htm">"Do You Believe In Gremlins?"</a> <i>Stories of 10 Squadron RAAF in Townsville</i>, 30 December 1998. 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Jay & Co., 1944, 1943, First edition 1942.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilson, Herbert Wrigley (H.W.). <i>R. A. F. Book of the Season: Ssh! Gremlins by H.W.</i> London: H. W. John Crowther Publication, 1942.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li>Carson, Rick. <i>Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way.</i> Minneapolis, Minnesota: Quill, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06052-022-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06052-022-9">978-0-06052-022-9</a>.</li> <li>Conant, Jennet. <i>The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington.</i> New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7432-9458-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7432-9458-4">978-0-7432-9458-4</a>.</li> <li>Dahl, Flight Lieutenant Roald. <i>The Gremlins: The Lost Walt Disney Production.</i> Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2006 (reprint and updated copy of 1943 original publication). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59307-496-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59307-496-8">978-1-59307-496-8</a>.</li> <li>De La Rue, Keith. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://delarue.net/gremlins.htm">"Gremlins."</a> <i>delarue.net,</i> updated 23 August 2004. Retrieved: 11 October 2010.</li> <li>Donald, Graeme. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QlmwkeBINiYC&pg=PA147"><i>Sticklers, Sideburns & Bikinis: The Military Origins of Everyday Words and Phrases.</i></a> Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2008. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84603-300-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84603-300-1">978-1-84603-300-1</a>.</li> <li>Gower, Pauline. <i>The ATA: Women with Wings.</i> London: J. Long, limited, 1938.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/roald-dahl/gremlins.htm">"Gremlins."</a> <i>Fantastic Fiction, a British online book site/biography source.</i> Retrieved: 11 October 2010.</li> <li>Hazen, John W. "Gremlin." <i>Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend</i>. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1972. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-308-40090-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-308-40090-0">978-0-308-40090-0</a>.</li> <li>Merry, Lois K. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oBIi6ezWZ0IC&pg=PA66"><i>Women Military Pilots of World War II: A History with Biographies of American, British, Russian and German Aviators.</i></a> Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., 2010. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-4441-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-4441-0">978-0-7864-4441-0</a>.</li> <li>Sasser, Sanford Jr., ed. <i>The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aviation and Space, Volume 6.</i> Los Angeles: A.F.E. 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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., 2010'. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-4525-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-4525-7">978-0-7864-4525-7</a>.</li> <li>Sturrock, Donald. <i>Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl.</i> New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-5082-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4165-5082-2">978-1-4165-5082-2</a>.</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gremlin&action=edit&section=16" 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style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_comics" title="Science fiction comics">Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_magazine" title="Science fiction magazine">Magazines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_novels" title="List of science fiction novels">Novels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_publishers" title="List of science fiction publishers">Publishers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_short_stories" title="List of science fiction short stories">Short stories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Stage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_opera" title="Science fiction opera">Opera</a></li> <li><a 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fiction on television">European</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_science_fiction" title="Japanese science fiction">Japanese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_anime" title="List of science fiction anime">Anime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokusatsu" title="Tokusatsu">Live-action</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._television_science_fiction" title="U.S. television science fiction">U.S.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_themes" title="List of science fiction themes">Themes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Space_architecture" title="Space architecture">Architectural</a></th><td 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href="/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_fiction" title="Organ transplantation in fiction">Organ transplantation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parasites_in_fiction" title="Parasites in fiction">Parasites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prosthetics_in_fiction" title="Prosthetics in fiction">Prosthetics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sex_and_sexuality_in_speculative_fiction" title="Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction">Sex and sexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symbiosis_in_fiction" title="Symbiosis in fiction">Symbiosis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Physical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ansible" title="Ansible">Ansible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_holes_in_fiction" title="Black holes in fiction">Black holes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extrasolar_planets_in_fiction" title="Extrasolar planets in fiction">Extrasolar 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fiction">Time travel</a> (<a href="/wiki/Time_viewer" title="Time viewer">Viewer</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warp_drive" title="Warp drive">Warp drive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wormholes_in_fiction" title="Wormholes in fiction">Wormhole</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Psychological</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Group_mind_(science_fiction)" title="Group mind (science fiction)">Group mind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mind_uploading_in_fiction" title="Mind uploading in fiction">Mind uploading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psionics" title="Psionics">Psionics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simulated_consciousness_in_fiction" title="Simulated consciousness in fiction">Simulated consciousness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Social</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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takeover</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astronomical_engineering" title="Astronomical engineering">Astroengineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holography_in_fiction" title="Holography in fiction">Holography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_robots_and_androids" title="List of fictional robots and androids">Robots</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cyborgs_in_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyborgs in fiction">Cyborgs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-replicating_machines_in_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-replicating machines in fiction">Self-replicating machines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simulated_reality" title="Simulated reality">Simulated reality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_spacecraft" title="List of fictional spacecraft">Spacecraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tachyons_in_fiction" title="Tachyons in fiction">Tachyons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weapons_in_science_fiction" title="Weapons in science fiction">Weapons</a></li></ul> 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navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_film" title="Fantasy film">Film</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_television" title="Fantasy television">television</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fantasy_anime" title="List of fantasy anime">Anime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_fantasy_films" title="Lists of fantasy films">Films</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_fantasy_films" title="List of highest-grossing fantasy films">highest-grossing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sword_and_sorcery_films" title="List of sword and sorcery films">S&S</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fantasy_television_programs" title="List of fantasy television programs">Television programs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a 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title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9erie" title="Féerie">Féeries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_podcast" title="Fantasy podcast">Podcasts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balrog_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Balrog Award">Balrog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Fantasy_Award" title="British Fantasy Award">British Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crawford_Award" title="Crawford Award">Crawford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon_Awards" title="Dragon Awards">Dragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandalf_Award" title="Gandalf Award">Gandalf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Gemmell_Awards_for_Fantasy" title="David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy">Gemmell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Fantasy_Award" title="International Fantasy Award">International Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Fantasy_Novel_Award" title="Japan Fantasy Novel Award">Japan Fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s_d%27Or" title="Méliès d'Or">Méliès d'Or</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythopoeic_Awards" title="Mythopoeic Awards">Mythopoeic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_Awards" title="Saturn Awards">Saturn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A4htifantasia_Award" title="Tähtifantasia Award">Tähtifantasia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_fandom" title="Fantasy fandom">Fandom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_art" title="Fantastic art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fanspeak" title="Fanspeak">Fanspeak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filk_music" title="Filk music">Filk music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_fandom" title="Harry Potter fandom"><i>Harry Potter</i> fandom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Inklings" class="mw-redirect" title="The Inklings">The Inklings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft_fandom" title="Lovecraft fandom">Lovecraft fandom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythopoeic_Society" title="Mythopoeic Society">Mythopoeic Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien_fandom" title="Tolkien fandom">Tolkien fandom</a></li> <li><a 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R. R. Tolkien">Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Convention" title="World Fantasy Convention">World Fantasy Convention</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_trope" title="Fantasy trope">Tropes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Legendary_creature" title="Legendary creature">Creatures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angel" title="Angel">Angels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demon" title="Demon">Demons</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">Devils</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghoul" title="Ghoul">Ghouls</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elemental" title="Elemental">Elementals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy" title="Fairy">Faeries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Familiar" title="Familiar">Familiars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire-breathing_monster" title="Fire-breathing monster">Fire-breathing monsters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon" title="Dragon">Dragons</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gargoyle_(monster)" title="Gargoyle (monster)">Gargoyles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imp" title="Imp">Imps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jinn" title="Jinn">Jinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nymph" title="Nymph">Nymphs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shapeshifting" title="Shapeshifting">Shapeshifters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Werecat" title="Werecat">Werecats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werewolf" title="Werewolf">Werewolves</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skin-walker" title="Skin-walker">Skin-walkers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernatural#Spirit" title="Supernatural">Spirits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talking_animals_in_fiction" title="Talking animals in fiction">Talking animals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Undead" title="Undead">Undead</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Personifications_of_death" title="Personifications of death">Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">Ghosts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lich" title="Lich">Liches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mummy_(undead)" title="Mummy (undead)">Mummies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skeleton_(undead)" title="Skeleton (undead)">Skeletons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vampire" title="Vampire">Vampires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zombie" title="Zombie">Zombies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unicorn" title="Unicorn">Unicorns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y%C5%8Dkai" title="Yōkai">Yōkai</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_stock_characters" title="List of stock characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barbarian" title="Barbarian">Barbarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caveman" title="Caveman">Caveman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damsel_in_distress" title="Damsel in distress">Damsel in distress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_lord" title="Dark lord">Dark lord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donor_(fairy_tale)" title="Donor (fairy tale)">Donor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragonslayer" title="Dragonslayer">Dragonslayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy_godmother" title="Fairy godmother">Fairy godmother</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hero" title="Hero">Heroes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magician_(fantasy)" title="Magician (fantasy)">Magicians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occult_detective_fiction" title="Occult detective fiction">Occult detective</a> <ul><li><a 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