20 Horror Movie Characters Everyone Underestimated

20. Lynn Peltzer - Gremlins

All hail the most badass of horror movie mothers - Lynn Peltzer (Frances Lee McCain) in Gremlins.

The sweet, nurturing mother of protagonist Billy (Zach Galligan), Lynn seems like she doesn't have physical violence in her no matter the situation, but she proved us all categorically wrong when the gremlins ran amok in her kitchen.

Cue Lynn single-handedly killing three of them - pureeing one with a blender, stabbing another to death with a kitchen knife, and forcing a third into a microwave where it was exploded into gooey chunks.

Does it really get cooler than shouting "Get out of my kitchen!" while repeatedly driving a blade into the soft flesh of a gremlin? 

Most viewers likely expected Lynn to be a damsel-in-distress who Billy has to save, but she instead took an active role in battling the gremlins and ultimately killed more of the critters on-screen than any other human character in either movie.