Claw (Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai)

Claw was a gremlin and the leader of The Old Batch that spawned in 1920. She is a major, later main antagonist in Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. She formed an alliance with Riley Greene but betrayed him later.
Claw was a gremlin and the leader of The Old Batch that spawned in 1920. She is a major, later main antagonist in Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. She formed an alliance with Riley Greene but betrayed him later.
Personality
History
Secrets of the Mogwai
Claw was one of Mogwai from the old batch that was born from the water in a gourd that was accidentally spilled over by Sam Wing. After her birth, she looked at Sam and his family with a sinister look with her long claw like nails. She jump out of the Chinese cabinet going around the shop along with the other Mogwai. As Grandpa Wing explain the rules of the creatures, she along with the Mogwai, ran under the table he shines light at them and she starts screaming "Bright light, Bright light!" and she ran and try look for cover. She notices food on the counter top and is about the eat it before Grandpa Wing grabs Claw, him explaining to never feed a Mogwai after midnight. Claw gets mad and grabs his chin hair and tries to scratch him but he and Sam put her and the rest of the Mogwai in a storage truck so they couldn't escape.
Soon after, she and the Mogwai try to escape but Gizmo managed to calm them down with a song that sent them to sleep. After Sam and Gizmo falls asleep in alley hiding from Riley Greene and his henchmen, Claw, along with the other Mogwai, notices this as the opportunity to escape. Claw uses her claw to cut a hole in the storage trunk and escapes. The four Mogwai roamed around the alley where Claw and the Mogwai found their way to the streets of Shanghai wandering around the streets of Shanghai claw not paying attention almost got ran over by a bicycles. Furious, Claw slashes one of the bicycle's back tire. Snout notices a dumplings restaurant and proceeds to head inside the restaurant along with Snout, Noggin, and Gaptooth they managed to make their way in and hide under a table her and the Mogwai's separate to find food she manages to climb up a red lantern and crash down and scared a customer her and the Mogwai's start destroying and eating everything in sight and she eats a dumpling right after midnight. Soon after Sam and Gizmo awake, they notice that they have escaped they start looking for them and came across the dumpling restaurant they were in they found them the cocoon state. Later, Greene wakes up after being knocked out by Elle in the same restaurant, where he notices Claw hatching out of the cocoon, transformed from a Mogwai to a dangerous Gremlin
As one of Riley greene henchman runs out the dumpling restaurant claw manger to grab him and pull him back into the restaurant Claw, along with the other Mogwai transformed from mogwai to dangerous destructive gremlin. As they attack Greene's henchmen one of them try to apprehend claw she launch at one of the henchmen and bit off his finger he managed to get claw in the cage as she was playing with his finger and pretending to smoke it like if it was a cigar. Soon after her along with the other gremlins arrived at Greene's Factory in cages Claw still has one of the henchmen finger in her mouth she teases him with it before she swallows it and laughs at him.
On Riley's ship, the mogwai reach the captain's cabin and shut the ship's lights off. The captain finds out and is attacked by a mogwai, who then takes control of the helm.
On Riley's ship, the mogwai begin to attack everyone and take control of everything. Meanwhile, Fong and Hon are also surprised by the appearance of a mogwai in Greene's office. The mogwai starts throwing things at them until they make it disintegrate in a liquid. Another one comes in, and Fong manages to kill it with the ceiling fan. They are approached by many more, but Fong eventually finds a wand that is able to kill them instantly.
Hon and Fong walk through Greene's ship until they enocounter Riley himself. Fong points the wand at him, which holds a bright light, which Riley says means instant death to a mogwai, but does nothing to him. They run away from him, but stop when they see mogwai attacking a henchman. Since they stop, Riley approaches them from behind and freezes them.
Using the wand, Riley kills many mogwai at once and demands a parlay with their leader. The lead mogwai pops out, so Riley says that he could take them out easily, but since they took out his crew, he needs to get to the Valley of Jade. He asks the mogwai, whom he names Claw, what she would like in return, to which the mogwai responds the ship so she can travel. Riley agrees to her terms and they become allies.
As the children walk through Ghost City, Riley's ship approaches as well. Riley tells his mogwai to go because he knows the key is around there somewhere. Riley asks a mogwai where to find the key, but he is not helped while Fong and Hon begin to wonder if their son is there as well. Riley questions his mogwai when they try to sing in order to make the portal open as well. He finds a mogwai who can sing, so it does and makes the portal open. Riley enters, followed by his mogwai.
Riley walks fascinated while his mogwai create chaos all over the place. Meanwhile, he is being watched by Radish, so he tells Theodora that they need to warn them. A creature tells Riley about goddess Nuwa, so he tells Claw about a new task.
Looking up, Nuwa sees Greene's mogwai. Sam says that they did not break all of the rules, as Nuwa says that she would need to clean up their mess. However, she realizes that her magic is not working and starts feeling bad after drinking a bottle. Greene's mogwai attack Sam and Elle as Riley tries to enter the tavern. Riley tells her to hand over the mogwai.
The mogwai wreak havoc across town while Riley tells Elle to hand over the mogwai, saying he will forgive her if she does. Inside the tavern, Nuwa, Gizmo, Sam, and Elle hide from them. Nuwa complains that if Elle had not tried to go inside the portal, then she would not be poisoned and Gizmo would be safe at home. Elle fights off the rogue mogwai while Radish shows up, saying that he thought he and Theodora should warn them that Greene and the rest of the mogwai were there.
The evil mogwai keep attacking Sam and Elle, so Sam lights a fire, which scares off the rest of the mogwai. Riley still waits outside, telling his mogwai to wait until the poison takes effect because he prefers to win when he fights. However, when he sees that his mogwai are scared because of the fire Sam lit, he goes inside the tavern. He asks where his mogwai, the goddess and the children are. He believes he found Sam, but is surprised to see Radish there instead, who he shoots at in order to push him away.
Evil mogwai laugh outside and join Riley as he makes his way to the Bagua room. Nuwa closes the door and tells Administrator to prepare a portal to the Valley of Jade. She tells Sam and Elle that they would be going through the portal as well. Nuwa tells them to try not to mess everything up as she hands them passports, mentioning that she would be trying to hold them off as much as possible. Everybody tells her to go with them, but she refuses, saying goodbye to Gizmo.
Fireworks go off in Shanghai as everybody celebrates the Chinese New Year. However, the celebration is interrupted by the portal Riley opens through which many evil mogwai fall. The mogwai cause chaos all over the city as Claw jumps into town with Gizmo with the knife of creation in her mouth. Gizmo tickles her belly, causing her to laugh, but Claw regains control and uses the knife to help the mogwai cause even more chaos.
At Madame Claw's which is full of mogwai playing cards and music, Gizmo is being kept by Claw. Elle walks into the bar while Gizmo attempts to threaten Claw, but he is forced to dance when she shows him the knife of creation. Gizmo tries to run away and is put in a cage by Claw, being forced to dance.
Elle attacks the mogwai at Madame Claw's, which confuses Claw. She begins to use the knife of creation while Elle walks up to Gizmo, releasing him from his cafe. However, she is pushed into the middle of Madame Claw's where she is attacked by Claw. Sam, Fong and Hon use bright lights to distract Claw and the rest of the mogwai, which allows Elle to grab Gizmo and run with him. Sam walks up to Gizmo and Elle, telling his mogwai friend that he would never leave him again.
Sam tells Elle that they should steal the knife of creation back so they could turn all the bad mogwai into good ones. Elle says that she agrees, so her, Sam and Gizmo declare that they would do it for Nuwa. Sam manages to knock Claw down, but she takes the knife back and uses it to become enormous. She starts attacking everyone as Sam, Gizmo and Elle leave Madame Claw's.
Claw starts destroying everything in her path, as Fong is able to save Elle from a falling structure. Sam and Hon see this, trying to lift the structure and worrying about Fong.
As mogwai wreak havoc across all over town, Claw walks around looking for Gizmo and crushing everything in her way. Claw searches for Gizmo as she imagines both of them living a romantic life together and even getting married. She calls out for Gizmo, who is still hiding.
Mogwai keep the chaos going all over town as Riley moves through the streets asking for their leader. He sees Claw from across the city and wants the knife back, but trips on his way there, declaring that he would use the knife to grow his hands back and to stop their laughing.
Claw holds on to the knife, as Sam, Elle and Gizmo watch her. As they are about to start their plan in order to get the knife back, however, Claw swallows it. Sam says that he could make a laxative, but Elle suggests tricking her into eating explosives. As they talk, Gizmo leaves and throws himself into Claw's mouth, causing her to choke.
Gizmo sees the knife stuck to one of Claw's teeth and attempts to reach for it, but is attacked by evil mogwai inside Claw's mouth. Claw burps them out and Gizmo manages to grab the knife.
As Elle and Sam rush towards Riley, he uses the knife to grow his hands back. Gizmo bites him in order to escape from his hands. As Riley begins to declare himself a god, Claw sneaks up from behind him and grabs him. Riley congratulates her for her boldness, saying that he would fulfill her dream of seeing the world, but she refuses, crushing him. However, Riley opens up a portal to Tahiti, which shines a bright light and causes all the mogwai excruciating pain.
Claw lets Riley go as she orders every single one of them to kill Greene. As she begins to melt, she reaches for him, but ends up exploding.

## Trivia

* She is the second canonical gremlin with a female identity, the first being Greta from *Gremlins 2: The New Batch* but unlike the latter, she's naturally one without taking anything that altered her DNA.
* Like Stripe and Mohawk, Claw expressed a twisted attachment to Gizmo, even uttering the same phrase Stripe often said toward Gizmo. However, while the former two were hostile to Gizmo and hated him, Claw held affection for Gizmo and desired to have him as a pet or companion.
	+ In addition, her death of being exposed to sunlight is similar to that of Stripe.