#so incest isn’t far fetch for Greek mythology

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I need to get an English copy because I was sure I was misreading it but this is my third read… belles fairy aunt says that she is the queens niece… the queen who is mother of the beast. They aren’t cousins right?? Am I missing something?!?!

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As disturbing as Claw’s attraction to Gizmo is, I can almost- almost see why she chose him as a potential mate. It’s not like she had a lot of good options. Snout and Noggin are brothers and every other male (those that are male- as Noggin did refer to the clan as ‘brothers and sisters’) seem to be more single minded than her.

Now, if she managed to somehow survive to the 80’s and met Stripe and/or Mohawk, and assuming they are separate characters and not her reincarnations, I’d say they’d make good mate candidates. Stripe, while not linguistically advanced like Noggin or Brain, he’s still fairly intelligent. Probably on par with Claw herself. Mohawk on the other hand, is incredibly strong, being able to K.O an adult man with one punch. Claw can hold her own in battle too…I.g, taking on the fox spirits.

Or she’s just attracted to brave little mogwai…like Gizmo…who just so happens to be her dad-brother😅

Though to be fair…incest isn’t all that uncommon among animals or in all forms of mythology, so…I guess that’s where the creators were going with it.😅

Yeah I can see why she likes Gizmo compared to all the other gremlins too! They seem to have annoyed her throughout the show (like the one who said "I love you" with the skull that she promptly slapped away, or the one who accidentally hit her with a bottle top in the club scene) so Gizmo not only being super cute but also very brave might have been appealing to her compared to the rest.

Now, as much as I like the idea of her being a reincarnation of Stripe and/or Mohawk, I absolutely LOVE the idea of her meeting either of them in the future and being a separate gremlin, I think she'd love them. He's just as evil as the rest, but Stripe is way more reserved and cunning than the others, just like Claw. And then Mohawk being super strong would probably appeal to her as well, and after Gizmo rejecting her she probably wouldn't mind Mohawk beating him up like he does in the 2nd movie😅

The form of mythology I'm most familiar with is Greek mythology and yes they've got a LOT of incest happening there, and I know Chinese has a bit of it too so not too far fetched considering Claw and Gizmo are mythical creatures 😅But I do have somewhat of a weird theory that might make their relationship not so weird:

So gremlins and mogwai seem to reproduce asexually or at least that's the closest comparison you could make with the whole "multiplying in water" thing. The drawback to this method of reproduction though is that there's no genetic diversity in the offspring. So maybe to combat this, every now and then a gremlin is spawned that isn't related to any of the others so that they can mate with another one of their kind and have offspring that are genetically different, thereby ensuring their species can adapt better in the future. It doesn't make a lot of sense in the real world since that's not a thing that can actually happen, but since mogwai and gremlins are magical creatures and it's a fantasy show, I'd say anything goes when magic is involved. So maybe Claw is one of these gremlins that isn't directly related to the others. The only thing I don't like about this theory is that it would mean Claw isn't a sister to Snout, Noggin, and Gaptooth and I really like them being siblings to each other, so maybe not 😒