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The bank and I have the same purpose in life, to make money, not to support a lot of...deadbeats.

—Ruby Deagle's greedy attitude

Ruby Deagle is the secondary antagonist in Gremlins. She is a Kingston Falls resident who is rather cold-hearted. She controlled the bank of Kingston Falls, and was really the only wealthy person in Kingston Falls. She is survived by her husband, Donald Deagle who died from an unknown cause, but left her with a large amount of wealth. According to the novelization, Mrs. Deagle has a nephew named Douglas.

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She was first shown holding a broken plastic snowman's head. She was in her usual grumpy mood. A local mother named Mrs. Harris, who had two starving children, owed Mrs. Deagle an unspecified amount of money, presumably a mortgage or car loan, and the loan had come due. Mrs. Harris said that she had earned money doing sewing work and Mr. Harris had taken a day worker job away from Kingston Falls, but Mrs. Harris gave no creditability to those sources of income, calling the Harrises "deadbeats". She asked for mercy, saying, "But Mrs. Deagle, it's Christmas!", and Mrs. Deagle responded, "Well, now you know what to ask Santa for, don't you?" She then approached Billy Peltzer, an employee of her bank.

Upon entering the bank, she asked Billy Peltzer for his dog, Barney, because she believed that Barney broke her imported Bavarian snowman. When she began to threaten him for the dog, Barney jumped out from underneath Billy's cubicle and "attacked her". She quickly got nasty and threatened both Billy and Barney, by growling, "I'll get you...When you least expect it! Oh my heart, oh my heart!"

Later on, Stripe and his fellow Mogwai attempted to kill Barney by stringing him up in Christmas lights, but was saved by Billy. However, Billy considered Mrs. Deagle the chief suspect in this act of animal cruelty, due to her rant that she wanted Barney dead.

In a deleted scene, it is revealed that a lot of the residents of Kingston Falls lost their jobs due to the fact that Mrs. Deagle closed down the city's factory and that the people who lost their jobs couldn't afford to pay their house payments, and so Deagle took advantage of that by making the bank foreclose on all of their mortgages. In another deleted scene, it is revealed that she closed down the noodle factory that Murray Futterman worked at. She also plans to foreclose every home and buy them out for Hitox Chemical Company Construction.

Afterwards, when the gremlins were unleashed and attacked Kingston Falls, they killed her in their destructive manner. In her home, Mrs. Deagle was shown with her natural white hair, which reveals she wore a red wig in public to conceal this. She was feeding her cats, included Kopek and Cacao, when she began hearing Christmas carolers, much to her annoyance, while one of the gremlins snuck into her mansion and made her chair-elevation railway go extremely fast while the others distracted her by singing Christmas carols (actually singing the movies theme song in the words, "Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah"). She was about to throw water on them, but she quickly realized that they weren't human, but monsters that she never seen before. She immediately ran back to her house and lock the door in horrid fear. When she looked out at her window, she screamed in fear believing they’re devils coming for her, because of her sins. She suffered from a heart attack while she was heading to her chair-elevation railway to hide upstairs. She said she's not ready to die, then pressed the up button to her chair elevation railway. One of the Gremlins had been tampering with the chair's mechanism, which caused it to go haywire and be turbo-charged like an amusement park ride. Mrs. Deagle screamed in horror as she was taken on a wild ride, and the out of control chair dislodged itself from the railway and crashed through a window in the top floor, launching Mrs. Deagle out onto her front lawn where she died on impact when the chair crashed on her front lawn. Shortly afterwards, Sheriff Frank and Deputy Barney were on patrol and saw the accident, where the sheriff identified the body as Ruby Deagle. Although shocked at seeing this, his tone of voice suggested that it was a somewhat deserved fate for Mrs. Deagle.

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The dead body of Ruby Deagle

Later on, the gremlin responsible for killing Mrs. Deagle was seen wearing her red wig and clothing in Dorry’s Pub.

In the Novel, the scene is described in better detail, saying that when Mrs. Deagle opened the doors, she at first thought the Gremlins were humans in costumes, getting the water to spill on them. In the process, two sneaked into her house, and she quickly realized they weren't human. One began to eat the cat food she had for her cats, causing the cats to get angry and make noise. Mrs. Deagle was distracted by this, and went to clean up the spilled cat food after the Gremlin had left it and ran into the dining room. While she was distracted, the other Gremlin hacked into her chair-elevation railway. Mrs. Deagle got into the chair, and began her journey up. The radio later confirms that she was killed, and landed far away from her house, indicating her chair was tampered with.

The Gremlins had totally destroyed the bank of Kingston Falls after Mrs. Deagle died. Kingston Falls possibly went bankrupt or another bank manager took over such as Gerald Hopkins. Mrs. Deagle had also worn a red wig, possibly to hide her age, although many knew that she was an elderly old witch as it was and refused to listen to her. Deagle did not get along with a single person in Kingston Falls (with the exception of all those who worked at the bank, excluding Billy and Kate Peltzer).

The last time Mrs. Deagle is mentioned is when the news the next day reports about an investigation into the bizarre demise of Mrs. Ruby Deagle, the widow of convicted stock swindler Donald Deagle. The report goes on to say that she drafted up plans to build a chemical plant in Kingston Falls known as Hitox Chemical Company. The building permit was posthumously disapproved, and the state legislature also decided to outlaw the production of those planned chemicals in New Jersey, ensuring that Hitox Chemicals never came into existence.

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  • Even YouTube video of her demise cracks a joke about it with the title The Deagle has Landed.
  • She is similar to Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol (both are misers who refuse to help the poor) and Miss Almira Gulch from The Wizard of Oz (both are mean spirited women who dislike the protagonists' dog).
  • The gremlin that was responsible for her death has been given the name Deagle Gremlin by fans of the film.
  • In the sequel, Kate is nearly killed in a similar manner to Ruby Deagle. This time it backfires and ends up killing multiple Gremlins.
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    Gremlin wearing Deagle's clothing

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