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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Gremlins of various sorts appear in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', in which they are usually portrayed as related to [[Our Goblins Are
** In ''[[Pathfinder]]'', gremlins are an evil, ugly, and small sub-type of fey who live to spread discord and mischief, usually through sabotage and dangerous pranks. The jinkin gremlin strongly resembles those in ''[[Gremlins]]''.
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* [[Mortasheen]] has the [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/dingnut.htm Dingnut.] It is normally a helpful mechanical monster, but in feral colonies, they often do imitate the behavior of gremlins.
* In ''[[The Questport Chronicles]]'', dimwitted gremlins act as servants for [[The Chessmaster|The Lord of Angels and Demons]].
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] often butts heads with the [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Simon the gremlin from ''[[Trollz]]'' plays this straight ''and'' averts this; while he's skilled at building magical machines, he has no aptitude for modern-day technology.
* An episode of ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' did this. [[Historical In-Joke|Apparently a gremlin sunk the Titanic in The Ghostbuster Verse]].
* Gremlins appear in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' where they are slippery and hard to catch and can only be caught if they're put to sleep by Hawaiian Folk Music.
* One of Ben's alien forms in ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'', Jury Rigg, is basically an alien gremlin. It's very good at taking machines apart (and has a powerful compulsion to do so that Ben can't control) and it's also very good at ''fixing'' them.
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