Originally posted by juggerman
was it actually established that he needed to feed on electricity to survive? i havent seen the movie in years so i really dont recall
I'm basing it on the fact he popped out of electrical wires.
And basic science. A creature made out of pure energy will can only last so long because energy dissipates, rapidly. Even comic characters with such power need to feed.
Originally posted by the ninjakIm pretty sure everything we know about gremlins or mogwai shows that they are far more magic based than science.
I'm basing it on the fact he popped out of electrical wires.And basic science. A creature made out of pure energy will can only last so long because energy dissipates, rapidly. Even comic characters with such power need to feed.
And what gave the Gremlin his new power was science based. Oh here we go.
Water killed the gremlin. Why? Water is an excellent distributer of electricity. So why did it kill the Gremlin when it could move through wires?
Because the water forced his form to dissipate the energy. Which is what air does but less forcibly.....I just thought of that. I'ms so smarts. 🙂
Originally posted by the ninjakhow long do you think he could last without feeding on electricity?
And what gave the Gremlin his new power was science based. Oh here we go.Water killed the gremlin. Why? Water is an excellent distributer of electricity. So why did it kill the Gremlin when it could move through wires?
Because the water forced his form to dissipate the energy. Which is what air does but less forcibly.....I just thought of that. I'ms so smarts. 🙂
Originally posted by thanos-prime
how long do you think he could last without feeding on electricity?
A minute?. Give or take. I really gotta watch this movie again though. I'm going off sheer memory. But my memories had him zipping around through wires. Hittig stuff then laughing then hitting the wires again. The water got him good.
I just read a run down of the Electric Gremlin.
The Electric Gremlin , also known as the Lightning Gremlin, is a mutant gremlin from Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Originally an ordinary gremlin, he drank an electrifying potion in the Clamp Center laboratory, an action which immediately transformed him into a bolt of sparking and animate gremlin-shaped electricity. While fast, lethal and extremely uncontrollable; it also happens he has no good sense of direction and randomly travels around.
The Gremlin can't control his movements, he's erratic as his form.
After his transformation, he disappeared into a power socket and was not seen again until Billy Peltzer accidentally turned on a laboratory lamp from which the Electric Gremlin shot out into the room. He electricutes the head scientist Doctor Catheter and then he yet again disappeared into an electrical socket. Later, he reappeared in Daniel Clamp's office and there Billy, who was having a conversation with Clamp, managed to trap him inside the telephone system, effectively putting him on "hold".
Towards the end of the story, when all the other gremlins, except for Mohawk who had already been killed by Gizmo and his leader role had been taken by the Brain Gremlin, were in the Center lobby, Billy remembered the Electric Gremlin which he had trapped inside the phone system and after getting some help to douse the gremlins in the lobby with water from a hose, he released the Electric Gremlin out over the wet gremlins, bouncing around among the gremlins and electrocuting them all to death. The Electric Gremlin soon lost control over himself and exploded which most likely killed him instantly, leaving only the electricity that was frying the other gremlins to death behind.
So he never existed outside of a powersource for very long in the film. And water killed him and anything nearby. Hope it doesn't start raining.
So yeah he doesn't have a long life span. Considering water killed it and it's erratic movements.