Ushio and Tora: The youkai Fusuma has many things in common with the western gremlin, being a greenish, sky-bound monster who hunts planes and wrecks them apart to feed on the passengers.

In Rosario + Vampire, one was used to sabotage a plane the main characters were using to travel to China.

Everybody then immediately wakes up and the plane is set back in gear just in time. But just as she prepares to draw on everyone's faces, she is swept off the plane by a strong gust of wind. Meowth spots a familiar shape on the plane's wing and it turns out to be Jigglypuff! She then starts to sing, not only making everyone fall asleep once again, but also causing the plane to take a violent dive.

Unfortunately, the plane is as old as Alexander and his Noctowl and during the flight Ash and his friends (along with a stowaway Team Rocket) must work together to help Alexander navigate through a treacherous storm and keep the plane from falling apart. PokГ©mon: The Original Series: In ' Throwing in the Noctowl', Ash, Misty and Brock meet an old pilot named Wings Alexander, who agrees to give them a ride back to Olivine City.In Negima! Magister Negi Magi when shadow-demon summons comes to Mahora, Nanaka Earhart from aviation club calls them gremlins.Humanoid Monster Bem: Impu, the gremlin from the hospital.This is a subtrope to Peeve Goblins and Our Goblins Are Different. Of course, the folklore gobelin was usually used by less-than-innocent sailors as a scapegoat for their misgivings. The gobelin would set up shop on a ship, start tangling ropes, scaring seamen and stealing their stuff.

One possible precursor of the gremlin is the 'sea gobelin', a solitary goblin from the Age of Sail Nautical Folklore. Although the name may have been derived from an Olde English word, gremian, which means 'to vex', this obviously makes them Newer Than They Think. They only began to penetrate mainstream culture during World War II see below under Literature. Especially found around airfields or on airplanes, as they originated as a story told by British pilots starting in roughly the 1920s to explain various mechanical failures on their planes (and, rarely, to explain inexplicable lack of failure). Gremlins are mythical little creatures who are said to live solely to infest mankind's machinery and tear it apart, either just to be mischievous (or downright evil), or in an insanely curious attempt to figure out how various devices work.

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