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Can I get some help here, please? I'm trapped in some sort of adhesive, polymer material and I'm on deadline!

—Marla Bloodstone, trapped in Mohawk's web.

Marla Bloodstone is an employee at Clamp Center. She has a habit of massive overreaction, calling the slightest problems nuclear meltdown disasters. She usually wears glasses, is a chain smoker and is also Billy Peltzer's boss. As Billy got a new job as a graphic artist (presumably having lost his former job due to the Kingston Falls bank being destroyed by the gremlins in the first film), he now works for Miss Bloodstone in the design section of the publicity department.

Appearance[]

Dressed as a 1980s businesswoman, Marla wears grey blazers that have padded shoulders and her ankle-length grey skirts each have a long slit up the back of about knee height to show off her nyloned legs. On both days, Marla wears glasses and high-heeled pumps. There are, however, subtle changes between her outfit on the first and second of the two days in which the film takes place.

On the first day, when Marla impresses Daniel Clamp and tries to seduce Billy Peltzer, she is wearing a form-fitting wraparound suit jacket with a black blouse.

On the second day, perhaps due to her failure to flirt with Billy, Marla's outfit is less modest, softer, and slightly more feminine. Her new, double-breasted suit jacket hangs more loosely around her torso and there is no blouse visible beneath it. Her golden wrist-chain is also absent.

Marla also wears a golden watch on her left wrist and a golden chain on her right, along with several brooches.

Personality[]

History[]

Gremlins 2: The New Batch[]

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Marla with Gizmo in a box.

Marla has had an inclination toward business administration all her life; at the age of four she was using her crayons to write memos to the other children. Her aptitude and ambition allowed her to climb the corporate ladder until, in her 30s, she has found herself managing a department designing new location grounds for Clamp.

Marla convinced Billy to date her and Billy somewhat reluctantly agreed, whereupon they went to a Canadian restaurant. While they were there Marla started flirting with him by rubbing her foot on his crotch giving him an erection and as he left she gave him a big kiss on his face which left a big red lipstick mark.

This caused problems for Gizmo and Kate Beringer (the latter accidentally getting Daffy with her home instead of Gizmo and getting upset at Billy). The next day, when Marla mentions about the date to Billy with Kate listening, Kate obviously got angry and told him that he will be in big trouble when the gremlin problem ends.

Near the end of the movie, Marla was seen, glasses in her hand, exasperatedly wandering the halls in search of help due to the failure of her office's lights. Distracted by the building's automated voice and unable to see properly, she then backed right into the Spider Gremlin's massive web and found her arms helplessly stuck, commenting that "This is new."

A later scene showed that Marla was still trapped in Mohawk's spider web and that her attempts to pull free with her high-heeled feet had backfired, for she was now completely suspended off the ground by the gluey fibers. Fortunately her requests for help attracted Kate, who had to decide whether to leave her behind or reluctantly help her. Marla confessed everything, and Kate removed her from the web using a pocket knife, but the two women found themselves cornered by the gremlin Mohawk, who had mutated into a spider gremlin.

Spider-Mohawk was about to kill them until Gizmo (dressed up like Rambo) came in and set Mohawk on fire with a small and flaming arrow... right before Murray Futterman rescued Marla and Kate while Billy rescued Gizmo. Afterwards, when the Gremlins were destroyed by electricity, Marla was seen holding Gizmo in a box.

After Clamp regained control of his business, he made Marla his new public relations manager and possibly showed some romantic interest towards Marla. She is last seen deciding to quit smoking and telling curious people about the gremlin incident.

Trivia[]

  • Marla wears a showy golden watch on her left wrist which is counterbalanced by a heavy golden chain on her right, giving the visual suggestion that she is a woman in shackles. This foreshadows her later becoming helplessly trapped in the spider-web of Mohawk. However, her brooches a miniature partial face-mask vaguely reminiscent of the Phantom of the Opera (referenced by the Phantom Gremlin in the film as well): the first day's is golden-brass and includes the eye and upper part of the face, while the second day's is pale ceramic and more broken, including only the nose and mouth. These brooches suggest that there is something deeper and troubled to Marla's character, which is buried beneath the facade she presents to the world.
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