When the other mogwai pop out of Gizmo, they are already mischievous, and when they turn they become even more evil. It seems to imply that mogwai are already bad, and the transformation makes them worse. But Gizmo is extraordinarily kind. So if Gizmo was turned would he be evil, or would he still be kind?
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I don't think he would. Every other mogwai we've seen has been very obviously sinister, and we've seen about a dozen between the two movies. The whole gremlin species is basically mischief incarnate, and maybe in Gizmo's case it manifests in all the lousy things that keep happening to him. He may just be the bad luck Brian of the gremlin world.
If that's not the case, gizmo may just be defective in some way since we know nothing of his history.
Apparently, there was an animated show that delved into the history of the Mogwai. Take it with a grain of salt, because Expanded Universe nonsense, but apparently, they were created as part of a bet between two Asiatic deities regarding the capability of Mankind to be responsible. But the side opposing Humanity stacked the deck with the infamously fragile rules, and designed the Mogwai themselves to actively seek the failure state.
So in that sense, Gizmo is kind of defective in his benevolence.
A defect that benefits people, sounds like a politician to hope for