Gerald Hopkins is a resident of Kingston Falls, who works at the Kingston Falls Bank. Hopkins is an opportunistic person who begs a good relationship with Roland Corben, in hopes of taking over. He is a rival of Billy Peltzer.
Appearance[]
Personality[]
Despite his opportunistic personality, Hopkins is an arrogant bully who doesn’t care about his employees often teases them (like Billy) when they’re at risk at termination. He’s also a possible womanizer as he’s shown flirting with Kate. In the a deleted scene from the film, due to the Gremlin attack, he’s shown to have gone insane as he’s reduced to making wild accusations towards Billy complete with a maniac grin thus making him unfit to work.
History[]
Gremlins[]
Hopkins first appears when Barney, Billy's dog, angrily leaps out at Mrs. Ruby Deagle from under the desk in the bank. Both Corben and Hopkins are spiteful towards Billy about this and take the over-reactive lying lady to first aid to comfort her.
He next meets Billy at Dorry's Tavern where he jokes around and bullies Billy, admitting proudly that he would have had Billy fired straight away without any hesitation if the bank was his. As he continues to snipe at Billy with his sneery, cheesy comments, Kate reveals herself to be a daily evening waitress except for Thursdays and Hopkins attempts to ask her out. But Kate does not find him impressive, nor does she even like him. Much to Billy's pleasure, she refuses.
Deleted scene[]
In a deleted scene, during the Gremlin rampage, it is revealed that Mr. Corben was killed by the Gremlins, but Hopkins locked himself into the vault of the bank. Despite Billy, Kate and Gizmo’s attempt to assist him out, Hopkins doesn't want to come out and makes an assumption that they will only let him out so that Billy could assume the role as junior vice-president of the bank now that Mr. Corben is gone and that Hopkins would become the manager of the bank, so the trio just leave him there. This is an indication that Hopkins may have lost his mind during this scene.
The novel confirms Hopkins state of insanity, who planned on opening the bank for the "little people", which is what he called the Gremlins. It also reveals that Mr. Corben was killed by the Gremlins after not being able to make out what they were saying.
After the Gremlin attack, Gerald was probably institutionalized for losing his sanity during the attack, leaving the bank to receive less corrupt management and the poor more time to pay off their debts (such as Mrs. Harris).
He is not shown much in the movie, due to most of his scenes being cut from the film. However, he clearly does not care for his employees as shown in his scenes.
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