This is especially shown when Randall's wife, Billy Peltzer was the owner of Gizmo in the first film. Gizmo has shown a love for TV, which he developed while in the Peltzers' cared for him in the first movie. He doesn't seem to have a single mean bone in his body, making him an Eternal, or Mogwai who refuses to be evil. Barney and Gizmo both appeared to dislike Stripe and the other Mogwai, however, as Gizmo was seen playing with Barney when Billy first showed his father the new Mogwai that Gizmo had spawned. While Mr. Wing found the idea of the mogwai watching TV ridiculous, it has proven to be useful for Gizmo as in the first film, he watched a movie involving a race and he became interested in cars, or as he called them 'Vroom-Vroom.' Both Gizmo and the gremlins were mass-produced as action figures, and Topps printed This additional release brought its gross up to $153,083,102.By February 1985, the film had grossed $59.6 million internationally, including $17 million in Japan.While some critics criticized the film's depictions of violence and greed—such as death scenes, Kate's speech, and the gremlins' gluttony—for lacking comic value, scholar Charlotte Miller instead interpreted these as a Another scholar drew a connection between the microwave scene and urban legends about pets dying in microwave ovens. Manufacturers including LJN produced versions of Gizmo as dolls or stuffed animals, the latter of which became a popular high demand toy during the holiday season of 1984. Not to mention, making an effective bow and arrow out of office supplies. It should be noted that Gizmo took a much more direct approach in Mohawk's destruction than Stripe's, as he shot Mohawk with a flaming arrow in the second movie, whereas he indirectly destroyed Stripe by exposing him to sunlight in the original. In response to this and to similar complaints about Randall returns home to Kingston Falls where he gives the All of the Gremlins are killed except Stripe, who escapes the house to a local As morning approaches, Billy chases Stripe into the store, where Stripe attempts to use a water fountain to spawn more gremlins. After local authorities dismiss Billy's warnings, they later rescued Billy's girlfriend Afterwards, Mr. Wing arrives at the Peltzer house to pick up Gizmo, scolding Randall for being so careless in looking after the Mogwai but informs Billy that he will take care for him again when he is ready before leaving. Gizmo appeared to care about Barney, and he even said goodbye to "Woof Woof" when Mr. Wing came to take him back to Chinatown, something he said to only one other character, Billy.

However, as that was never mentioned in the movie, the credence to this nature of the mogwai/Gizmo is unknown.

It seemed to be fate, however, when Gizmo crashed and flew into the air, right where a string hung that would pull open a tarp that would expose the sunlight from the hidden window to the plants and Stripe. He used to be owned by Mr. Wing until the old man's death, whereafter Gizmo escaped from his store after it was being destroyed. Due to this, it became part of a rising trend in film, which had received a boost from Spielberg's E.T.

Then Gizmo became much more assertive than he was in the first movie because, as Billy said, "they pushed him too far."

If this mogwai eats after midnight though, he will lose his longevity, becoming a typical gremlin. Randall Peltzer was the man who had "bought" Gizmo and given him to his son, Billy, as a Christmas present.

When Stripe tricked Billy into feeding him and the other Mogwai that had been spawned after midnight, Gizmo appeared to have been trying to warn Billy, although it proved ineffective. Barney also showed up right after Gizmo had killed Stripe. Gizmo knows how to work that electrical keyboard, turning on a television, operating a toy car, playing a trumpet, and well just being plain adorable. It was only after The rules otherwise, were observed when Billy's friend Then the next morning, Gizmo saw some cocoons that were left by the ill-will Mogwais and in horror, he known that something bad will happen, and it really started to show as they hatched into Gremlins a few hours later, Then they tied him up on Billy's darts board, and they shot multiple darts at him, and then they send him down into a laundry chute where Billy eventually found him after four of the Gremlins were dealt with by him and Lynn. Gizmo is one of the Team Pack characters in LEGO Dimensions. After Stripe and the other Mogwai hatched into gremlins, they tortured Gizmo.