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** "The year is 1984, I buy a ticket to watch ''Dune'' and ''Ghostbusters''. The year is 2021, I buy a ticket to watch ''Dune'' and ''Ghostbusters''. The year is 2024, I buy a ticket to watch ''Dune'' and ''Ghostbusters''.[[labelnote:explanation]]Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' came out in 1984, the same year as ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''. ''[[Film/Dune2021 Dune: Part One]]'' came out in 2021, the same year as ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', and ''Film/DunePartTwo'' came out in 2024... the same year as ''Film/GhostbustersFrozenEmpire''. Often illustrated with [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan alone on Mars]].[[/labelnote]]
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Works in this franchise with their own YMMV pages:
!!Films
!!Films
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!!Comic Books
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* ''YMMV/TransformersGhostbusters''
!!Video Games
* ''YMMV/Ghostbusters1990''
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* ''YMMV/GhostbustersIDWComics''
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!!Western Animation
* ''YMMV/TheRealGhostbusters''
* ''YMMV/ExtremeGhostbusters''
* ''YMMV/TheRealGhostbusters''
* ''YMMV/ExtremeGhostbusters''
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* {{Fanon}}:
** Both Egon and Janine are AmbiguouslyJewish, so they're both commonly interpreted as Jewish, but not very religious.
** Egon's line "My parents didn't believe in toys" from ''Film/GhostbustersII'' has led some viewers to believe Egon's parents to have been strict (whether tough but well-meaning, or straight-up AbusiveParents) who raised Egon to be a scientist like them and thought toys distracted from this. Others interpreted them as just eccentric parents who believed Egon just didn't need toys. Fanon ideas about his mother include that she's nicer than his father (since she was a MyBelovedSmother in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'') and that her name is Katherine.
** Venkman's mother is sometimes speculated to be [[MissingMom dead]], owing to the ''Real Ghostbusters'' episode "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic", where he behaves as though she is.
** Some fans have come up with the idea that Egon [[TheTeetotaler doesn't drink]], because of the scene in the first movie where he drinks Coke while his friends drink beer. Due to his personality, some have further posited that he doesn't drink because he doesn't want alcohol to affect his logical abilities.
** Winston is often believed to have been in the military, based on the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen previous version of him]] who was an ex-marine. Some also say he fought in Vietnam.
** Some fans have speculated that Egon is either gay or aro-ace to explain his ObliviousToLove behaviour. Others think, based on him having apparently had a daughter in '83 according to ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', that he doesn't want love due to a bad experience with a previous lover, while some think he ''does'' like Janine back but doesn't know how to express his feelings.
** Some fans think Ray sleeps with a Dopey Dog plush, due to him hugging one in ''The Real Ghostbusters'' episode "The Boogieman Cometh".
** Due to it being heavily implied Peter, Ray, and Egon have known each other since college, some fans believe that either Egon or Ray was Peter's roommate, and/or that Egon prevented Peter from flunking.
** Both Egon and Janine are AmbiguouslyJewish, so they're both commonly interpreted as Jewish, but not very religious.
** Egon's line "My parents didn't believe in toys" from ''Film/GhostbustersII'' has led some viewers to believe Egon's parents to have been strict (whether tough but well-meaning, or straight-up AbusiveParents) who raised Egon to be a scientist like them and thought toys distracted from this. Others interpreted them as just eccentric parents who believed Egon just didn't need toys. Fanon ideas about his mother include that she's nicer than his father (since she was a MyBelovedSmother in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'') and that her name is Katherine.
** Venkman's mother is sometimes speculated to be [[MissingMom dead]], owing to the ''Real Ghostbusters'' episode "The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic", where he behaves as though she is.
** Some fans have come up with the idea that Egon [[TheTeetotaler doesn't drink]], because of the scene in the first movie where he drinks Coke while his friends drink beer. Due to his personality, some have further posited that he doesn't drink because he doesn't want alcohol to affect his logical abilities.
** Winston is often believed to have been in the military, based on the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen previous version of him]] who was an ex-marine. Some also say he fought in Vietnam.
** Some fans have speculated that Egon is either gay or aro-ace to explain his ObliviousToLove behaviour. Others think, based on him having apparently had a daughter in '83 according to ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', that he doesn't want love due to a bad experience with a previous lover, while some think he ''does'' like Janine back but doesn't know how to express his feelings.
** Some fans think Ray sleeps with a Dopey Dog plush, due to him hugging one in ''The Real Ghostbusters'' episode "The Boogieman Cometh".
** Due to it being heavily implied Peter, Ray, and Egon have known each other since college, some fans believe that either Egon or Ray was Peter's roommate, and/or that Egon prevented Peter from flunking.
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** Did you know? 1981 was the year that- [[SuddenlyShouting AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!]][[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZeJVR_9R1k This video]] of Slimer saying this line has gone viral, with many using it to JumpScare their friends.[[/labelnote]]
** Did you know? 1981 was the year that- [[SuddenlyShouting AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!]][[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZeJVR_9R1k This video]] of Slimer saying this line has gone viral, with many using it to JumpScare their friends.[[/labelnote]]
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* FirstInstallmentWins: The first film is an undisputed classic. [[ContestedSequel Fans are split about the second film.]] The cartoon and video game? Even more so. ''Film/Ghostbusters2016''? Don't even start. ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' is generally well-liked though.
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* FirstInstallmentWins: The first film is an undisputed classic. [[ContestedSequel Fans are split about the second film.]] The cartoon and video game? Even more so. ''Film/Ghostbusters2016''? Don't even start. ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' is generally well-liked though. The phrase "lightning in a bottle" is frequently used to describe the original 1984 movie, as it features a cast of seasoned comic actors in the height of their prime giving some career-highlight performances, where most sequels and adaptations hinge more on the novelty of the core "supernatural extermination service" premise rather than on the quality of the humor, to decidedly mixed results.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Egon/Janine is more popular in the fanbase over Louis/Janine, mainly due to the chemistry between them in the first movie along with the [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters cartoon]]. Interestingly, the pairing was going to be canon in early drafts of the script, with the attraction obvious on both sides and with a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue showing that the two went and got ''married in Vegas''.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Winston is generally agreed to be criminally underused in the sequel and most spin-offs. Thankfully averted in the ongoing comic, IDW comics, which gave him his own subplot, and a handful of spotlight issues.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin: One of the (admittedly many) criticisms lobbied against the 2016 reboot was how the vast majority of the male characters are portrayed as bumbling idiots for the sake of propping up the reboot's titular all-girl team. But for all the hay that is made of this detail, it would be wise to remember that, with the exception of the titular team and the mayor, the original 1984 film didn't exactly treat its own male characters all that much better. For context, Mr. Delacorte from the library is a weedy milquetoast who only exists to get scared by one of the ghosts, Dean Yeager is a prissy jackass who takes sadistic delight in getting Peter, Ray, and Egon kicked off the premises of his school, Lewis's natural charm and charisma is quite frankly the only reason he hasn't already gotten into some serious trouble, and Walter Peck is a deliberate HateSink. But this detail wasn't as big of an issue for the original film since it was a carryover from similarly styled contemporary films such as ''Film/AnimalHouse'', ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'', and ''Film/{{Stripes}}'', among others. However, this same detail became a lot more conspicuous and difficult to ignore when the emphasis is on "girl power" as opposed to SlobsVersusSnobs. And it didn't help that, while the mayor in the original Ghostbusters film was openly supportive of the titular team, the mayor in the reboot was forced by circumstance to publicly pretend to slam the all-girl team while privately supporting them, which encouraged the bumbling attitudes in most of the other male characters.
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* TearJerker: When Harold Ramis passed away, TheCharacterDiedWithHim. Originally fanon, it was confirmed to be the case with ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', where Egon is confirmed to be Trevor and Phoebe's deceased grandfather, and his death and mysterious circumstances around it forms the heart of the story.
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* TearJerker: When Harold Ramis passed away, TheCharacterDiedWithHim. Originally fanon, it was confirmed to be the case with ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', where Egon is confirmed to be Trevor and Phoebe's deceased grandfather, and his Egon's death and mysterious circumstances around it forms the heart of the story.
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* TearJerker: While it's never been confirmed in canon, fanon seems to hold that when Harold Ramis passed away, TheCharacterDiedWithHim. The implications of the Ghostbusters without Egon, arguably the most popular character besides maybe Venkman, are heartbreaking. This was later confirmed to be the case when the trailer dropped for ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', where Egon is confirmed to be Trevor and Phoebe's deceased grandfather, making this AscendedFanon as well.
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* TearJerker: While it's never been confirmed in canon, fanon seems to hold that when When Harold Ramis passed away, TheCharacterDiedWithHim. The implications of the Ghostbusters without Egon, arguably the most popular character besides maybe Venkman, are heartbreaking. This Originally fanon, it was later confirmed to be the case when the trailer dropped for with ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', where Egon is confirmed to be Trevor and Phoebe's deceased grandfather, making this AscendedFanon as well.and his death and mysterious circumstances around it forms the heart of the story.
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* PeripheryDemographic: When Ramis and Aykroyd wrote the first film, they obviously intended it to be for an adult audience like ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'' and ''Film/{{Stripes}}''. However, when the film became a smash hit, everyone noticed that kids were going nuts for it. After all, it is the ultimate NightmareRetardant story about ScienceHero characters facing the scary supernatural threats, and shooting them with AwesomeBackpack weapons. From that realization came the long running ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' cartoon series and a slightly softened sequel with less innuendo, swearing, and casual smoking (though Ray can still be seen chewing on or holding unlit pipes and cigars, never a cigarette).
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* PeripheryDemographic: When Ramis and Aykroyd wrote the first film, they obviously intended it to be for an adult audience like ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'' and ''Film/{{Stripes}}''. However, when the film became a smash hit, everyone noticed that kids were going nuts for it. After all, it is the ultimate NightmareRetardant story about ScienceHero characters facing the scary supernatural threats, and shooting them with AwesomeBackpack weapons. From that realization came the long running ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' cartoon series and series, a slightly softened sequel with less innuendo, swearing, and casual smoking (though Ray can still be seen chewing on or holding unlit pipes and cigars, never a cigarette).cigarette), and culminating in ''Afterlife'' outright passing the mantle to a team of kid Ghostbusters.
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* OneSceneWonder: Mr. Stay Puft has about three minutes of screentime at the very end of the first film, but is probably second only to Slimer as the face of the franchise. Nearly ''every'' spin-off, from the 80's cartoon to the 1990 and 2009 video games to the 2016 film, has featured Stay Puft in some way, shape, or form.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: In the IDW comic, it can be more than a little frustrating watching [[{{Jerkass}} Walter Peck]] being put in a position of authority over the Ghostbusters and [[ObstructiveBureaucrat continuously harassing and browbeating]] them with [[KarmaHoudini little consequence]]. The same goes for other city officials and organizations, who regularly present a sea of red tape the Ghostbusters have to cut through just to do their jobs. It's almost enough to make you want to see the Ghostbusters hang up their proton packs for a while and let the city deal with ghosts on their own.
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** Of the two NES adaptations of the second film, ''New Ghostbusters II'' is by far the better of the two. Allowing the player to chose two Ghostbusters (including adding Lewis as a playable character), it actually follows the film's plot fairly closely and is quite fun to boot.
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** Of the two NES adaptations of the second film, ''New Ghostbusters II'' is by far the better of the two. Allowing the player to chose two Ghostbusters (including adding Lewis Louis as a playable character), it actually follows the film's plot fairly closely and is quite fun to boot.
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** In the ''[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 Answer The Call]]'' comic, Dr. Kruger ("Schreckgespenst") was a MadScientist active in the 1900s who was obsessed with fear. He would kidnap innocent people and [[MindRape experiment on them]], [[IKnowWhatYouFear torturing them with their fears]], often resulting in their deaths. After Kruger died, the city sealed the building he was living in, [[SealedEvilInACan trapping his spirit there]]. Decades later, when the city decided to develop Kruger's building, Kruger used the ghost of a young boy he killed to lure the Ghostbusters to his building. The Ghostbusters deal with the problem, but Kruger possesses Dr. Yates and manages to escape his building. Kruger escapes from the Ghostbusters and takes over the Empire State Building. The Ghostbusters confront Kruger, but he uses his powers to expose them to their worst nightmares. Kruger exposes more citizens of New York to their nightmares to gain more power. Ultimately, Dr. Kruger plans to merge the world with his personal nightmare realm, wanting to torment humanity with its fears and rule this new world as [[AGodAmI a god]].
** See [[YMMV/TheRealGhostbusters here]] and [[YMMV/ExtremeGhostbusters here]] for the animated examples, and [[YMMV/GhostbustersTheVideoGame here]] for the video game examples.
** In the ''[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 Answer The Call]]'' comic, Dr. Kruger ("Schreckgespenst") was a MadScientist active in the 1900s who was obsessed with fear. He would kidnap innocent people and [[MindRape experiment on them]], [[IKnowWhatYouFear torturing them with their fears]], often resulting in their deaths. After Kruger died, the city sealed the building he was living in, [[SealedEvilInACan trapping his spirit there]]. Decades later, when the city decided to develop Kruger's building, Kruger used the ghost of a young boy he killed to lure the Ghostbusters to his building. The Ghostbusters deal with the problem, but Kruger possesses Dr. Yates and manages to escape his building. Kruger escapes from the Ghostbusters and takes over the Empire State Building. The Ghostbusters confront Kruger, but he uses his powers to expose them to their worst nightmares. Kruger exposes more citizens of New York to their nightmares to gain more power. Ultimately, Dr. Kruger plans to merge the world with his personal nightmare realm, wanting to torment humanity with its fears and rule this new world as [[AGodAmI a god]].
** See [[YMMV/TheRealGhostbusters here]] and [[YMMV/ExtremeGhostbusters here]] for the animated examples, and [[YMMV/GhostbustersTheVideoGame here]] for the video game examples.
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** In the ''[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 Answer The Call]]'' comic, Dr. Kruger ("Schreckgespenst") was a MadScientist active in the 1900s who was obsessed with fear. He would kidnap innocent people and [[MindRape experiment on them]], [[IKnowWhatYouFear torturing them with their fears]], often resulting in their deaths. After Kruger died, the city sealed the building he was living in, [[SealedEvilInACan trapping his spirit there]]. Decades later, when the city decided to develop Kruger's building, Kruger used the ghost of a young boy he killed to lure the Ghostbusters to his building. The Ghostbusters deal with the problem, but Kruger possesses Dr. Yates and manages to escape his building. Kruger escapes from the Ghostbusters and takes over the Empire State Building. The Ghostbusters confront Kruger, but he uses his powers to expose them to their worst nightmares. Kruger exposes more citizens of New York to their nightmares to gain more power. Ultimately, Dr. Kruger plans to merge the world with his personal nightmare realm, wanting to torment humanity with its fears and rule this new world as [[AGodAmI a god]].
**CompleteMonster: See [[YMMV/TheRealGhostbusters here]] and [[YMMV/ExtremeGhostbusters here]] for the animated examples, and [[YMMV/GhostbustersTheVideoGame here]] for the video game examples.[[{{Monster/Ghostbusters}} here]].
** In the ''[[Film/Ghostbusters2016 Answer The Call]]'' comic, Dr. Kruger ("Schreckgespenst") was a MadScientist active in the 1900s who was obsessed with fear. He would kidnap innocent people and [[MindRape experiment on them]], [[IKnowWhatYouFear torturing them with their fears]], often resulting in their deaths. After Kruger died, the city sealed the building he was living in, [[SealedEvilInACan trapping his spirit there]]. Decades later, when the city decided to develop Kruger's building, Kruger used the ghost of a young boy he killed to lure the Ghostbusters to his building. The Ghostbusters deal with the problem, but Kruger possesses Dr. Yates and manages to escape his building. Kruger escapes from the Ghostbusters and takes over the Empire State Building. The Ghostbusters confront Kruger, but he uses his powers to expose them to their worst nightmares. Kruger exposes more citizens of New York to their nightmares to gain more power. Ultimately, Dr. Kruger plans to merge the world with his personal nightmare realm, wanting to torment humanity with its fears and rule this new world as [[AGodAmI a god]].
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** [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame The 2009 game]] was well-received by critics thanks to solid gameplay and full participation from the core four (even picky project selector Bill Murray) along with some returning supporting actors like Annie Potts and William Atherton. Dan Aykroyd himself said it may as well be the original series' canonical third film, a statement the majority of fans agree with.
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** [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame The 2009 game]] was well-received by critics thanks to solid gameplay and full participation from the core four (even picky project selector Bill Murray) along with some returning supporting actors like Annie Potts Creator/AnniePotts and William Atherton. Dan Aykroyd himself said it may as well be the original series' canonical third film, a statement the majority of fans agree with.
