Trivia

In the original draft of the script, instead of Stripe being a Mogwai who becomes a Gremlin, there was no Stripe the Mogwai, and Gizmo was supposed to turn into Stripe the Gremlin. Executive producer Steven Spielberg overruled this plot element because he felt Gizmo was cute and audiences would want him to be present at all stages of this movie. This became stressful for Chris Walas , who had designed the Gizmo puppet only for the actions that happened in the first half of the movie. This explains why Gizmo doesn't do much of anything in the second hand of the movie but give reaction shots, until the very ending when he kills Stripe (also Spielberg's idea). See more