History Characters / Ghostbusters

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* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Hard to tell, but he smiles considerably more in the second film.

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The Brains of the Ghostbusters who designed all the Ghostbusters equipment and normally comes up with the plan to trap the ghosts. Overly analytical, Egon comes off as more cold and distant than he actually is.

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* ''[[Characters/GhostbustersIDWComics Ghostbusters (Comics)]]'' [[note]]Canon with the non-reboot films.[[/note]]

* WhoYouGonnaCall: They're the {{Trope Namer}}s, as it's their CatchPhrase when advertising their activity, that is investigating paranormal activities and capturing/neutralizing ectoplasmic entities.

* [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil In A Painting]]: When first encountered.

Character page for ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'' and ''Film/Ghostbusters3''.
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!Separate pages

!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/IvanReitman (voice of Zuul)

* CreatorCameo: Director Ivan Reitman provides the voice for Zuul.

!Film Series

[[folder: Villains]]

!!Gozer (portrayed by Slavitza Jovan (humanoid form), voiced by Paddi Edwards)

!!Zuul and Vinz Clortho (Creator/SigourneyWeaver and Creator/RickMoranis when possessed, respectively; Zuul voiced by Ivan Reitman)

!!Prince Vigo the Carpathian (portrayed by Wilhelm von Homburg, voiced by Creator/MaxVonSydow)

[[folder: Ghosts]]

A pudgy, gluttonous, free-floating apparition of unknown origin comprised of a viscous green ectoplasm, "Slimer" is the first ghost the Ghostbusters ever caught when the Sedgewick Hotel hires them to get rid of him. Depending on the continuity he's treated as an ally, an antagonist, a test subject, or a pet.

!!Eleanor Twitty a.k.a. "The Gray Lady" or "The Library Ghost" (Ruth Oliver)

!!Tony and Nunzio Scoleri (Jim Fye and Tim Lawrence, respectively)

* ''Characters/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'' [[note]]Canon with the original two films[[/note]]
* ''[[Characters/GhostbustersIDWComics Ghostbusters (Comics)]]''

Character page for ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''Film/Ghostbusters3'' and the ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' comic book published by Creator/IDWPublishing, which are all roughly set in the same continuity.

!IDW Comic Book Characters

[[folder: Heroes]]

!!Kylie Griffin

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Kylie is an employee at Ray's Occult Books that Ray hired to manage the store while he's off doing Ghostbusters stuff. She helps Ray over the phone with research into the occult using the store's books. Later when the Ghostbusters go missing Janine hires her to sub for the boys, and she acts as backup several times after.

* BadassBookworm: She spends her free time going through Ray's books, and can kick ass along with everyone else.
* CanonImmigrant: Kylie is originally from ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'', though here she has a completely different backstory and hair design.
* DeadpanSnarker: Which is why she gets along with Peter so well.
* PerkyGoth: Dresses in dark and somewhat antiquated clothes, but is positive and upbeat.

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!!Melanie Ortiz

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Special Agent Melanie Ortiz was an FBI agent that ran into the Ghostbusters while they were investigating the ghosts of aliens in Roswell, New Mexico. Later when she's on vacation in New York Ortiz joins the Ghostbusters to fill in for the missing team. After they return Ortiz stays on the team as a liaison between the Ghostbusters and the FBI.

* CoolBigSis: Has moments of this with Kylie.
* {{Expy}}: In her original appearance Ortiz was basically [[Series/TheXFiles Dana Scully]], and her partner was [[InkSuitActor Mulder]]. However she is not TheScully, she believes in the ghosts just fine.
* UnfazedEveryman: Among the newer Ghostbusters at least.

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!!Ron Alexander

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Ron Alexander stole the schematics for the Ghostbusters equipment, built his own gear, and started his own rival company, The Ghost Smashers. The Ghost Smashers quickly became more popular since their packs disintegrated the ghosts instead of merely stunning them. Of course, [[CheatersNeverProsper this corner cutting backfires horribly]], leading to a massive build-up of spectral energy that almost destroys Manhattan. Afterwards Ron is arrested, but gets released when the New Ghostbusters need someone to repair the packs.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Ron is based, visually, on 1980s Creator/ChevyChase.
* GadgeteerGenius: Ron may be an amoral con man, but he still built his own proton packs, and more impressively modified the design.
* {{Jerkass}}: Arguably the biggest dick of the cast, at least on par with original Peck. Absolutely no one gets along with him.
* TokenEvilTeammate: The only Ghostbuster than could be considered evil. Even Peter has a shred of decency.

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!!Jenny Moran

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One of three ladies Ron Alexander hired to staff his Ghost Smashers. Despite that enterprise going south in a hurry, Jenny managed to strike up a relationship with Ray Stantz that quickly developed into a romance. She subsequently appeared as a backup Ghostbuster, and landed a job as the PCOC (Paranormal Contracts Oversight Commission) liaison to the Ghostbusters...

Then she died. [[spoiler:She got better, sort of.]]

* BadassBureaucrat: Was this during her time with PCOC, doing her best to help the Ghostbusters from within the government apparatus, while ensuring the good taxpayers of New York got the most bang for their buck. Case in point: during an international paranormal emergency she used $400k of government cash to charter-fly the Ghostbusters around the world, and saved $30k by pooling the trips with those of some honeymooners from Long Island.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's Ray's girlfriend and a sweet and helpful person who helps out on busts and keeps Peck off the team's backs... who's also unafraid of strapping on a proton pack and openly defying the Big Bad. [[spoiler:Becoming a Class 4 entity has only amplified this by giving her access to paranormal powers.]]
* CuteGhostGirl: [[spoiler: Ray certainly seems to think so. Of course, being a spirit in the Ghostbusters universe, she's not limited to 'cute' forms.]]
* FriendlyGhost: [[spoiler: Is currently this. As mentioned already, she's friendly because she's that kind of person. Piss her off and you get the...]]
* [[GlowingEyesofDoom Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: [[spoiler: Can turn these on and off at will. Surprisingly intimidating. She can also break out the...]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Being a ghost does come with perks. She seems to have mastered a degree of shapeshifting, at one point terrifying the ever-living snot out of some students by morphing into a screaming banshee with the head of a gigantic naked mole rat.]]
* ShoutOut: Given her relationship with Ray, the fact that her appearance is based on Donna Dixon, retired actress and Dan Akroyd's real life spouse, is actually rather sweet. Bonus points for a dream sequence of Ray's that saw him and Jenny take on the roles played by Ayrkoyd and Dixon in ''SpiesLikeUs''. Of course [[Film/TheBluesBrothers Jake]] then had to spoil the whole dream...
* SummonBiggerFish: Tried this and failed: when the Ghostbusters were outlcassed by the spirit of a powerful sorceror, Jenny decided the best solution was to read a spell from the very tome said sorceror needed for his evil plot, one she understood might summon an even more powerful entity. It didn't work... in fact it sent her and the rest of the team (bar the spiritually immune Winston) [[ToHellAndBack straight to Hell]].
* [[ThePowerofLove The Power of Love]]: Seems to be why she hasn't crossed over to the other side: not even death will keep her apart from Ray.
* [[ThrillSeeker Thrill Seeker]]: During her introductory arc, Jenny ended up flying shotgun with Ray on a tiny autogyro, soaring over New York, which was slowly being consumned by a giant ghost. Her only reaction? "I love this plan!"
* [[VoiceoftheLegion Voice of the Legion]]: [[spoiler: Seems to be the only part of her 'ghostly' nature she can't hide when in corporeal human form: all of her dialog is rendered in the jagged white-on-black typeface that is used for ghosts within the comics.]]

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!!Tiamat

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-->''"When I first came back to this plane of existence, it was mostly curiosity. The same worms that once worshiped us could suddenly rip holes in the fabric of the universe... and beat you soundly. I wanted to play with them."''

Tiamat is the sister of Gozer and the one to originally banish him from Earth. When Gozer is defeated by the Ghostbsters, Tiamat takes an interest in the planet and the Ghostbusters and invades Earth for fun.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To Gozer. Not only was she able to fight him head on and '''win''', she was ''toying with him the whole time''.
* BigBad: Of the second story arc of the IDW comic.
* CruelMercy: Rather than simply destroying her victims, she likes to watch them live with their suffering. [[spoiler:When Winston offers himself as a sacrifice to save Ray, Tiamat accepts, but then changes her mind when she realizes his HeroicSacrifice would send him to Heaven, so she decides to take Winston's fiance as the sacrifice instead. However, instead of killing her, Tiamat removes all memories of their relationship from Winston's fiance AND EVERYBODY ELSE, so Winston is the ONLY person who remembers.]]
-->'''Winston''': Giving up my friends, my family, [[spoiler:my WIFE?]] That's a sacrifice, all right.\\
'''Tiamat''': But it's not yours. If you want to banish me, you must live to face the consequences. I insist you choose another sacrifice.
* ForTheEvulz: Tiamat doesn't have any real motive, she just wants to ruin the Ghostbusters' lives and mess with reality for fun.
* HopeSpot: Gives one ''to Gozer''. [[spoiler:When Gozer possessed Ray, he thought he could beat Tiamat by opening the containment grid and using the ghosts inside to increase his power. However, Tiamat had manipulated Ray's memories so Gozer wouldn't realize the containment grid had security measures that could detect if a Ghostbuster was possessed and deny them access. Tiamat did this just so Gozer could have a brief hope of winning, then complete despair in the face of defeat.]]
-->''I do truly love the feeling you people get when hope is snatched away. It's like nothing else.''
* ItAmusedMe: About the only consistent motivation for anything she does.
* MadGod: Which works somewhat in the Ghostbusters' favor, since simply destroying the Earth would end any way of causing more chaos.
* ManipulativeBastard: For such a chaotic god Tiamat is good at messing with people's emotions, especially her brother's.
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Her humanoid form is a snake woman wearing nothing but her scales, but she has no visible nipples or genitals.
* SnakePeople: She's basically a cluster of snakes in humanoid form.
* TheBadGuyWins: Fortunately for the Earth, it was never her intention to destroy it. She just wanted to mess with Gozer for a bit. Once she's had her fun, she leaves.
* VillainRespect: The Ghostbusters cross ''''NINE'''' proton streams fighting against her in her home dimension. Although she survives, she's still surprised and calls it "an attack worthy of a Goddess".

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[[folder: Others]]

!!Roger Baugh

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Janine's boyfriend in the IDW comic, who looks suspiciously like [[WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters Egon with a blond ponytail]].

* CanonImmigrant: A very interesting possible example, given that he looks exactly like Egon in ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''.
* NiceGuy: To contrast Egon, Roger is friendly and sociable.
* IdenticalStranger: He doesn't look exactly like Egon, but he looks enough like Egon. In fact, he looks like Egon in ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''. This is even referenced when Janine mistakes [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters a parallel version of Egon]] [[note]]who is effectively the same Egon as Roger is based on...[[/note]] FOR Roger!
* PutOnABus: Accepted a teaching job in San Francisco and asked Janine to go with him, but Janine wouldn't leave... New York.
* ReplacementLoveInterest: It's painfully obvious to everyone that Janine is dating Roger because she can't date Egon.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Only exists as a boyfriend to Janine.
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Character page for ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''Film/Ghostbusters3'' and the ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' comic book published by Creator/IDWPublishing, which are all roughly in the same continuity.

Character page for ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''Film/Ghostbusters3'' and the ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' comic book published by Creator/IDWPublishing, which are all roughly in the same continuity.

[[folder: Others]]

!!Dana Barrett (Creator/SigourneyWeaver)

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-->''"Well, that's just great. Either I have a monster in my kitchen or I'm completely crazy."''

A musician who alerts the Ghostbusters to Gozer's presence before getting possessed by Zuul. Between the two movies she got married, had a son, and got divorced, and started working Manhattan Museum of Art as a restorer before getting caught up in the Ghostbusters' problems again. Has an on-again-off-again relationship with Peter, who loves her, but has commitment issues.

* ActionMom: She becomes one in the second movie.
* DefrostingIceQueen: As the first film progresses.
* DemonicPossession: Victim of this for half of the first film.
* LoveInterest: To Peter.
* MamaBear: She doesn't need a Proton Pack to be a ActionMom!
* NeutralFemale: Averted. She tries to keep away from the trouble so as not to get in the guy's way, but when it comes to her, she fights back.
* OneOfTheBoys: Even after she breaks up with Peter, she still gets along with all the Ghostbusters and vice versa.
* TheReliableOne: You can always count on her. One of the reasons she and Peter broke-up, temporarily.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Had a ''lot'' of trouble finding one for a while.
* StatuesqueStunner: Especially when possessed in the first film.
* [[WhatExactlyIsHisJob What, Exactly, Is Her Job?]]: Goes from being an orchestral performer in the first movie to retouching paintings in the second, with no explanation for the jump.

!!Louis Tully (Creator/RickMoranis)

!!Walter Peck (Creator/WilliamAtherton)

!!Mayor Lenny Clotch (David Margulies)

!!Janosz Poha (Creator/PeterMacNicol)

!!Judge Stephen "The Hammer" Wexler (Harris Yulin)

!!Jack Hardemeyer (Kurt Fuller)

Character page for ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'', and the ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' comic book published by Creator/IDWPublishing, which are all roughly in the same continuity.

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!!IDW comic characters

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Separate pages:

This is the cast page for ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'', and the ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' comic book published by Creator/IDWPublishing, which are all roughly in the same continuity. For tropes relating to the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' go [[Characters/TheRealGhostbusters here]], for tropes relating to the cast of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' go [[Characters/ExtremeGhostbusters here]], and for tropes relating to the cast of the 2016 reboot film go [[Characters/Ghostbusters2016 here]].

This is the cast page for ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', and the ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' comic book published by Creator/IDWPublishing, which are all roughly in the same continuity. For tropes relating to the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' go [[Characters/TheRealGhostbusters here]], for tropes relating to the cast of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' go [[Characters/ExtremeGhostbusters here]], and for tropes relating to the cast of the 2016 reboot film go [[Characters/Ghostbusters2016 here]].

!!Video Game characters

!!The Rookie (model Ryan French)

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Appeared as the player character in the 2009 video game, serving as the team's prototype weapons tester (i.e. field-testing the weapons and upgrades that could explode at any moment and emit an alarmingly high amount of radiation and exotic particles regardless). In the IDW continuity he goes off to form the UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} branch of the Ghostbusters after the events of the game.

* {{Adorkable}}: One of his most remarkable traits is his clumsiness. He fell off a roof, fell down a trap and accidentally zapped a tree with his pack.
* ButtMonkey: He is made to do quite a few dangerous tasks--touching an inter-dimensional portal that could lead ''anywhere'', go it alone in the huge cemetery that wasn't there yesterday, get trapped alone in a waterlogged hotel floor with malevolent candelabras... this dude puts up with a lot.
* CanonName: Given in the IDW comics, may only be canon to said comics (so far).
** '''Realistic:''' Bryan Welsh
** '''Stylized:''' Chad Fuller (Male)/Maddie Collins (Female)
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Since the player can collect some special items, you can turn the Rookie into this. One of the items he can collect is a possessed toilet.
* CowardlyLion: Realistic!Rookie can be pretty skittish at times. That said, he still braves his missions like the rest.
* CreatorCameo: In a manner of speaking. In the [=PS3=] version of the game, associate producer Ryan French served as the base for the Rookie.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When he accidentally blasted a tree with his proton pack, and when he was left hanging with a high five. Also he goes plummeting down a trapdoor.
* GoodLuckCharm: In the IDW comics series, he's kept his uniform with the "Rookie" nametag, even after setting up his own Ghostbusters franchise in Chicago. It comes in handy when dealing with irate customers, since they'll usually end up trying to go over his head to his (nonexistent) supervisor.
* HeroicMime: Never says a word aside the occasional scream or gasp.
* MauveShirt: His name tag just says "Rookie", since it's more convenient. Peter doesn't want to remember his name so they don't get attached, since he's testing out prototype equipment...
* PutOnABus: After the events of the game, he leaves New York in order to expand the franchise.
** TheBusCameBack: In the IDW comics series, he makes several appearances after setting up a franchise team in Chicago. It's also revealed that his real name is Bryan Welsh.
* NaiveNewcomer: His name is ''very'' accurate.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His attempt to recapture Slimer at the beginning of the game leads to the containment vault accidentally being damaged and several ghosts being unleashed.
* NoNameGiven: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]; the other Busters don't want to feel too attached to him due to the HighTurnoverRate of the team's other rookies.[[note]]According to the IDW comics series, it's Bryan Welsh.[[/note]]
* SixthRanger: Joining a previously established team.
* TheVoiceless: See HeroicMime, the Rookie is mute aside from gasping or screaming once or twice. Given a speaking role in the comics after he's sent to Chicago.

!!Ilyssa Selwyn (Alyssa Milano)

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A curator at the Museum of Natural History and an expert of Sumerian culture. She was to be the curator at an exhibit on Gozerian artifacts, but naturally said exhibit causes a whole bunch of supernatural trouble.

* AllThereInTheManual: Most of her life before the game.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Her parents died in a cave-in when she was 15.
* DistressedDamsel: She gets kidnapped twice in the game, and both times has to be saved by the Ghostbusters.
* DemonicPossession: In the start of the game, she is possessed and brought to the Sedgewick Hotel 12th floor. Later, she is possessed momentarily while she's at the museum.
* HappilyAdopted: Her adoptive parents used to bring her with them everywhere...till, you know, they died.
* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Great-Granddaughter]]: Ilyssa looks just like her great-grandmother, [[spoiler:Ivo Shandor's mother]].
* InformedAttribute: Her fact sheets says Ilyssa enjoys traveling, modern painting, French New Wave cinema, is fluent in six languages (two of which haven't been spoken in over 4000 years), plays violin proficiently and is learning the cello. Well, she's quite well-rounded, ain't she?
* InTheBlood: Sorta. [[spoiler:Ilyssa doesn't realize she's the granddaughter of Ivo Shandor for most of the game, but she has a strange fascination with Gozerian mythology. Shandor was a big believer in Gozer back in his living days.]]
* {{Irony}}: She hates abrasive or pushy personalities. [[{{Jerkass}} Guess who she falls in love with]]?
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father, Like Daughter]]: She ended up getting into anthropology just like her parents.
* LoveInterest: Replaces Dana Barrett as this in the game.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Ilyssa finds out she is a direct descendant of Ivo Shandor. How is this revealed to her? He tries to sacrifice her, of course.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Twice! Both her biological ''and'' her adopted parents died when she was young. [[AngstWhatAngst She doesn't seem broken up about this]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, she seems to be nice normally, unless she's around Venkman. [[{{Jerkass}} Can you really blame her, though?]]

!!Ivo Shandor

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A genocidal, sociopathic, New York architect and doctor as well as the founder of the Cult of Gozer in the 1920s. Shandor built the 55 Central Park West apartment building a.k.a. "Spook Central" as a conduit to help bring Gozer to our dimension, since he believed humanity deserved to be destroyed. He reappears as a major antagonist in the [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideogame 2009 video game]].

* AscendedExtra
* BadassGrandpa: [[spoiler:He captured an EldritchAbomination from another world. Granted, it was only a baby; still impressive]]. He was the head of the Cult of Gozer, [[spoiler:and he made himself a god!]]
* BigBad: Of the video game.
* BodySurf: [[spoiler:For most of the game, unknown to the Ghostbusters, Ivo has been possessing the mayor of New York since before the game even started.]]
* DeadlyDoctor: He performed quite a few unnecessary surgeries in his time.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He kept a painting of his mother in his church to Gozer. Despite most everything else in the church being run-down, his mother's painting is the only thing that is oddly still pristine. Even after being underwater for who knows how long.
* EvilOldFolks: He is a cult leader who was involved with quite a few bloody sacrifices to Gozer as well as making buildings that would bring about the end of the world. Apparently he thinks mankind is too sick to survive.
* EvilPlan: To wipe out the bastard humans, of course. Building Dana's apartment, storing energy and everything else works toward this goal.
** MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:He and his cult made sure this would happen even after their deaths. Also they had an alternate plan in case Gozer had issues the first time, and already had it in play.]]
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Ivo was upset that Gozer was beaten not once, but twice. So he decided he would take the energy he was originally going to give to Gozer and empower himself with it. He goes into it with the big speeches and everything.]]
* GhostlyGoals: Definitely Type B.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The game reveals that it was Shandor who already set into motion the events of the first two films roughly 60 years prior and is ultimately responsible for New York City experiencing any supernatural activity.
* HumansAreBastards: Apparently this was his reason for trying to bring about the end of the world. After UsefulNotes/WW1, he felt mankind was far too sick to survive. [[{{Hypocrite}} Kind of ironic]] [[{{Hypocrite}} considering what ''he'' had done]] [[{{Hypocrite}} to his fellow human beings]] even before he started to bring about the end to life.
* MadDoctor: See below.
* MadScientist: An evil one to combat the Ghostbusters two good ones.
* MalevolentArchitecture: Dana's apartment building which Ivo designed specifically for Gozer to access and cause horrors to come upon the world. [[spoiler:Ivo also worked on the Sedgwick Hotel, Library, the Natural History Museum and his own personal island.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: He deeply hates all human beings, considering them vermin and "too sick to survive."
* OneWingedAngel: Shandor obtains his own destructor form for the climatic battle. Namely, he transforms into a gigantic, demonic monstrosity resembling a satanic mockery of Jesus Christ.
* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead by the time his work pays off in the first movie, and it wasn't until the video game that we see him.

!!Spider Witch

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Another member of the cult of Gozer, this woman would lure men up to her room in the Sedgewick Hotel and murder them.

* AllWebbedUp: Kind of goes without saying. Her entire realm is covered in spider webs and hanging human bodies, and the boss arena in the 360 and [=PS3=] versions of the game is all of this.
* AnimalMotifs: Spiders, [[CaptainObvious obviously]]. Even in life, her spider obsession seemed to be a major characteristic of herself.
* AxCrazy: She didn't need to be paid to kill someone, as she liked it so much she did it anyway.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Possibly. We are not too sure if she was human or not. If she ''was'' human then, after her death, she became a demigod-level spirit being.
* BloodLust: Her suite, after she disappeared, was found to be painted in blood. Her victims hung on the ceiling drained of said blood, after she dragged them around to smear it on the floor.
* TheCollector: She collects men's dead bodies ''and'' their souls, making them her eternal slaves.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: As if being a spider-obsessed BlackWidow wasn't enough for her, she had to be this too.
* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Her Spider Witch]]: She was a professional BlackWidow who brutally murdered her victims not for money but for a twisted hidden reason. She became known as the Spider Witch.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Her minions, not herself. It is heavily implied the spider minions are the souls of the men she murdered. Now dead, they are forced to serve her as spiders for all time.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her presence in the Sedgewick Hotel was hinted at early in the game. On one of the doors in the first level, you can see a ghost spider with the PKE meter. This door leads to the Spider Witch's old suite.
* GiantSpider: After her death, if she was ever even alive, she was turned into a giant spider woman.
* HealingFactor: While the Busters battle her, she can feed off...something to heal herself from damage. Depending on whether you can find her or not will define whether your battle with her will be fast or long.
* HumanoidAbomination: Besides her spider humanoid form, she was this in life. She fashioned her suite to her bizarre tastes. Furniture was all heaped in a corner chewed up, and she painted blood everywhere in the room. Let's not forget her hanging men collection.
* KnifeNut: She has some major BloodLust and enjoys carrying a knife when taking her "husbands" to her suite. You put the picture together.
* MixAndMatchCritters: In her ghost form, she became [[SpiderPeople part woman and part spider]].
* NoNameGiven: Despite the crimes she committed, the authorities never discovered her name, not even a false one.
* ProfessionalKiller: She worked for Shandor and is implied to have killed many men for Shandor's cult. Not really paid to do this, she just really likes to kill.
* SpidersAreScary: That's basically her level's entire theme.
* SpiderPeople
* UrbanLegend: She is this to the Sedgewick Hotel staff. They were terrified enough to keep her room locked...till it was opened for remodeling.
* TheVamp: She would seduce unknowing men so she could paint her room with their blood and possibly make them her eternal minions.

!!Azetlor AKA Edmund Hoover

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Another member of the cult of Gozer, Edmund Hoover was a serial killer and rare book collector. When he was captured and executed Hoover merged with the Sumerian god Azeltor.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Before being executed, he told everyone that he was going to be reborn as Azetlor. [[OhCrap He was]].
* BadassBookworm: He ''loves'' books a lot. To the point he will kill for them. Though we don't know what he looked like in life, Ray suggested that he was a sniveling little bookworm.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:He really shouldn't have killed Eleanor Twitty.]]
* CoDragons: He shares this with the Chairman.
* TheCollector: He collects the dead bodies of his victims, much like the Spider Witch. He also collects books.
* EldritchAbomination: He became a mass of Black Slime and broken furniture with a helmet after his death.
* IHaveManyNames: Edmund Hoover, Edmund Hoover the Collector, The Library Serial Killer, Azetlor, Keeper of Knowledge, Azetlor the Finder, Azetlor the Collector, Azetlor the Returner, Azetlor the Lost, Azetlor the Destroyer, and Azetlor the Bookworm. Basically the opposite of the [[NoNameGiven Spider Witch]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:When he seduced Eleanor Twitty to get at her library's rare book collection. When she figured out what he was doing, he murdered her and damned her to an eternity in her beloved library.]]
* MeaningfulRename: He changed his name from Edmund Hoover to Azetlor. Azetlor was a Sumerian demigod that ruled over the lost. Originally he collected all that was lost, but grew greedy and began to collect what he shouldn't. Much like what Hoover did with the librarians he killed and his books.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: After his death, he became a mandala guardian of the Library to continue serving his master Shandor.
* SerialKiller: He was known as the "Library Serial Killer."
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Murdered his girlfriend Eleanor Twitty, and many other women after her.]]

!!Mayor Jock Mulligan (Creator/BrianDoyleMurray)

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The Mayor of New York City in 1991 after Lenny Clotch.

* CorruptPolitician: Ultimately subverted.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Once he's back to normal]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He's been under DemonicPossession by the ghost of Ivo Shandor the whole time right up until the ghostbusters save him in the FinalBattle]].
* UnwittingPawn
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!!IDW comic characters

[[folder: Heroes]]

!!Kylie Griffin

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Kylie is an employee at Ray's Occult Books that Ray hired to manage the store while he's off doing Ghostbusters stuff. She helps Ray over the phone with research into the occult using the store's books. Later when the Ghostbusters go missing Janine hires her to sub for the boys, and she acts as backup several times after.

* BadassBookworm: She spends her free time going through Ray's books, and can kick ass along with everyone else.
* CanonImmigrant: Kylie is originally from ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'', though here she has a completely different backstory and hair design.
* DeadpanSnarker: Which is why she gets along with Peter so well.
* PerkyGoth: Dresses in dark and somewhat antiquated clothes, but is positive and upbeat.

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!!Melanie Ortiz

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Special Agent Melanie Ortiz was an FBI agent that ran into the Ghostbusters while they were investigating the ghosts of aliens in Roswell, New Mexico. Later when she's on vacation in New York Ortiz joins the Ghostbusters to fill in for the missing team. After they return Ortiz stays on the team as a liaison between the Ghostbusters and the FBI.

* CoolBigSis: Has moments of this with Kylie.
* {{Expy}}: In her original appearance Ortiz was basically [[Series/TheXFiles Dana Scully]], and her partner was [[InkSuitActor Mulder]]. However she is not TheScully, she believes in the ghosts just fine.
* UnfazedEveryman: Among the newer Ghostbusters at least.

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!!Ron Alexander

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Ron Alexander stole the schematics for the Ghostbusters equipment, built his own gear, and started his own rival company, The Ghost Smashers. The Ghost Smashers quickly became more popular since their packs disintegrated the ghosts instead of merely stunning them. Of course, [[CheatersNeverProsper this corner cutting backfires horribly]], leading to a massive build-up of spectral energy that almost destroys Manhattan. Afterwards Ron is arrested, but gets released when the New Ghostbusters need someone to repair the packs.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Ron is based, visually, on 1980s Creator/ChevyChase.
* GadgeteerGenius: Ron may be an amoral con man, but he still built his own proton packs, and more impressively modified the design.
* {{Jerkass}}: Arguably the biggest dick of the cast, at least on par with original Peck. Absolutely no one gets along with him.
* TokenEvilTeammate: The only Ghostbuster than could be considered evil. Even Peter has a shred of decency.

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!!Jenny Moran

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One of three ladies Ron Alexander hired to staff his Ghost Smashers. Despite that enterprise going south in a hurry, Jenny managed to strike up a relationship with Ray Stantz that quickly developed into a romance. She subsequently appeared as a backup Ghostbuster, and landed a job as the PCOC (Paranormal Contracts Oversight Commission) liaison to the Ghostbusters...

Then she died. [[spoiler:She got better, sort of.]]

* BadassBureaucrat: Was this during her time with PCOC, doing her best to help the Ghostbusters from within the government apparatus, while ensuring the good taxpayers of New York got the most bang for their buck. Case in point: during an international paranormal emergency she used $400k of government cash to charter-fly the Ghostbusters around the world, and saved $30k by pooling the trips with those of some honeymooners from Long Island.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's Ray's girlfriend and a sweet and helpful person who helps out on busts and keeps Peck off the team's backs... who's also unafraid of strapping on a proton pack and openly defying the Big Bad. [[spoiler:Becoming a Class 4 entity has only amplified this by giving her access to paranormal powers.]]
* CuteGhostGirl: [[spoiler: Ray certainly seems to think so. Of course, being a spirit in the Ghostbusters universe, she's not limited to 'cute' forms.]]
* FriendlyGhost: [[spoiler: Is currently this. As mentioned already, she's friendly because she's that kind of person. Piss her off and you get the...]]
* [[GlowingEyesofDoom Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: [[spoiler: Can turn these on and off at will. Surprisingly intimidating. She can also break out the...]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Being a ghost does come with perks. She seems to have mastered a degree of shapeshifting, at one point terrifying the ever-living snot out of some students by morphing into a screaming banshee with the head of a gigantic naked mole rat.]]
* ShoutOut: Given her relationship with Ray, the fact that her appearance is based on Donna Dixon, retired actress and Dan Akroyd's real life spouse, is actually rather sweet. Bonus points for a dream sequence of Ray's that saw him and Jenny take on the roles played by Ayrkoyd and Dixon in ''SpiesLikeUs''. Of course [[Film/TheBluesBrothers Jake]] then had to spoil the whole dream...
* SummonBiggerFish: Tried this and failed: when the Ghostbusters were outlcassed by the spirit of a powerful sorceror, Jenny decided the best solution was to read a spell from the very tome said sorceror needed for his evil plot, one she understood might summon an even more powerful entity. It didn't work... in fact it sent her and the rest of the team (bar the spiritually immune Winston) [[ToHellAndBack straight to Hell]].
* [[ThePowerofLove The Power of Love]]: Seems to be why she hasn't crossed over to the other side: not even death will keep her apart from Ray.
* [[ThrillSeeker Thrill Seeker]]: During her introductory arc, Jenny ended up flying shotgun with Ray on a tiny autogyro, soaring over New York, which was slowly being consumned by a giant ghost. Her only reaction? "I love this plan!"
* [[VoiceoftheLegion Voice of the Legion]]: [[spoiler: Seems to be the only part of her 'ghostly' nature she can't hide when in corporeal human form: all of her dialog is rendered in the jagged white-on-black typeface that is used for ghosts within the comics.]]

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[[folder: Villains]]

!!Tiamat

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-->''"When I first came back to this plane of existence, it was mostly curiosity. The same worms that once worshiped us could suddenly rip holes in the fabric of the universe... and beat you soundly. I wanted to play with them."''

Tiamat is the sister of Gozer and the one to originally banish him from Earth. When Gozer is defeated by the Ghostbsters, Tiamat takes an interest in the planet and the Ghostbusters and invades Earth for fun.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To Gozer. Not only was she able to fight him head on and '''win''', she was ''toying with him the whole time''.
* BigBad: Of the second story arc of the IDW comic.
* CruelMercy: Rather than simply destroying her victims, she likes to watch them live with their suffering. [[spoiler:When Winston offers himself as a sacrifice to save Ray, Tiamat accepts, but then changes her mind when she realizes his HeroicSacrifice would send him to Heaven, so she decides to take Winston's fiance as the sacrifice instead. However, instead of killing her, Tiamat removes all memories of their relationship from Winston's fiance AND EVERYBODY ELSE, so Winston is the ONLY person who remembers.]]
-->'''Winston''': Giving up my friends, my family, [[spoiler:my WIFE?]] That's a sacrifice, all right.\\
'''Tiamat''': But it's not yours. If you want to banish me, you must live to face the consequences. I insist you choose another sacrifice.
* ForTheEvulz: Tiamat doesn't have any real motive, she just wants to ruin the Ghostbusters' lives and mess with reality for fun.
* HopeSpot: Gives one ''to Gozer''. [[spoiler:When Gozer possessed Ray, he thought he could beat Tiamat by opening the containment grid and using the ghosts inside to increase his power. However, Tiamat had manipulated Ray's memories so Gozer wouldn't realize the containment grid had security measures that could detect if a Ghostbuster was possessed and deny them access. Tiamat did this just so Gozer could have a brief hope of winning, then complete despair in the face of defeat.]]
-->''I do truly love the feeling you people get when hope is snatched away. It's like nothing else.''
* ItAmusedMe: About the only consistent motivation for anything she does.
* MadGod: Which works somewhat in the Ghostbusters' favor, since simply destroying the Earth would end any way of causing more chaos.
* ManipulativeBastard: For such a chaotic god Tiamat is good at messing with people's emotions, especially her brother's.
* NonhumansLackAttributes: Her humanoid form is a snake woman wearing nothing but her scales, but she has no visible nipples or genitals.
* SnakePeople: She's basically a cluster of snakes in humanoid form.
* TheBadGuyWins: Fortunately for the Earth, it was never her intention to destroy it. She just wanted to mess with Gozer for a bit. Once she's had her fun, she leaves.
* VillainRespect: The Ghostbusters cross ''''NINE'''' proton streams fighting against her in her home dimension. Although she survives, she's still surprised and calls it "an attack worthy of a Goddess".

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[[folder: Others]]

* WhoYouGonnaCall: They're the {{Trope Namer}}s, as it's their CatchPhrase when advertising their adctivity, that is, investigating paranormal activities and capturing ectoplasmic entities.

!!Movie characters

[[folder:The Ghostbusters]]

!!Peter Venkman, [=PhD=] (Creator/BillMurray)

!!Raymond "Ray" Stantz, [=PhD=] (Creator/DanAykroyd)

!!Egon Spengler, [=PhD=] (Creator/HaroldRamis)

!!Winston Zeddemore (Creator/ErnieHudson)

!!Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts)

* {{Expy}}: Possibly of Vlad the Impaler aka [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Count Dracula]].