History Characters / Ghostbusters

--> "''who'' are you going to call?"

* [[spoiler:{{Woobie}} / WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: Her boyfriend used her to get at her rare book collection. When this is discovered, she dumps him and revokes his pass to her collection. He then kills her, trapping her in the library she tried to protect. It is soon shown, despite her circumstances, she isn't going to mope about. Instead she'll spend her afterlife plotting the downfall of her ex-boyfriend. She succeeds, with the help of the Ghostbusters.]]

* CompleteMonster: Most definitely. Besides being the root cause for the first movie and the video game, he performed many unnecessary surgeries, [[spoiler:attempted to sacrifice his granddaughter to himself so he could become a god, and kidnapped and tortured a juvenile sloar]].

* {{AntiVillain}}: Type II

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Tropes associated with Peter:

* CasanovaWannabe: He is still not capable of winning over everyone. At least it seems that way till they start going out with him...

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though you have to look ''really'' hard to find the heart of gold in the first film. It's much more evident in ''Ghostbusters II''. In the Ghostbusters video game he seems to have lost the heart and all that is left is the Jerk. A funny jerk, but a [[{{Jerkass}} Jerk]] none the less.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Perhaps if he hadn't antagonized Peck so much and just showed him around Peck wouldn't of gone and shut down the power grid.
* PowerTrio: Ego.

* PunchClockHero
* TheSlacker: He certainly tries to be this. In the first movie he only goes to help Dana because he wanted to get into a relationship with her. Also in the game he was busy getting coffee while the Rookie and Ray are being attacked by Stay Puft and his minions. He's basicly reluctant to do anything unless some kind of personal gain is involved.

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Tropes associated with Egon:
* AmbiguouslyJewish[=/=]JewishAndNerdy

* CollectorOfTheStrange Molds, and fungus mostly. He may even possibly find the scent of them attractive.
* ForScience: Let's just say he can get rather disturbing with how far he'll go for the sake of science. Tricking people into thinking they're going to counseling, when in fact, he just wanted to test if slowly increasing the heat would alter their moods. Then there was that drill thing...
* GadgeteerGenius: He makes all of the equipment the Busters use. In fact, he works on so many gadgets the other characters actually [[LampshadeHanging asked him how he can produce so much.]] He tells them he's been doing an experiment where he sleeps for an average of fourteen minutes a day.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He is already shown to be a bit odd, but nothing too serious. Just a bit of a nerd. The whole mold, fungus and spore thing were certainly strange but nothing horrifying. Then we get a glimpse into his life before the Ghostbusters: He used to be a coroner. This isn't too bad though. Then he says that he does it as a hobby now. Oooookay...

* NotSoStoic: The scene where he flips out when Peck accuses him of causing a massive explosion, that Peck himself actually caused. Also, in the video game, as he and the rookie are going up the elevator, suddenly they are treated to a phantom image of the Spider Witch and one of her victims. Suffice it to say Egon was quite shaken at seeing this. In fact, he seems quite nervous throughout the Spider Witch's level.
* PowerTrio: Superego.

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Tropes associated with Ray:

* LeeroyJenkins: “GET HER!”
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He unwittingly chose the form of the destructor, though possibly subverted since Gozer likely wasn't just going to wait until one of them thought of something.

* PowerTrio: Id.

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Tropes associated with Winston:

* GeniusBruiser: He is a very competent member of the Ghostbusters team. In the video game, while the others were chasing after the Grey Lady, he was actually looking through the newspaper archives for info on her, though he pretended he was looking up a baseball game. In the novelization of the Ghostbusters, it is shown he was once in the Marines and has experience with different kinds of technology, which helped him get into the busting more easily than one would think a new hire would.

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Tropes associated with Slimer:

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Tropes associated with The Rookie:
* ButtMonkey: He is made to do quite a few dangerous tasks like touching an inter-dimensional portal that could lead anywhere, he also has to go it alone in the huge cemetery that wasn't there yesterday. He is also trapped alone in a waterlogged hotel floor with malevolent candelabras. This dude puts up with a lot.

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Tropes associated with Walter:

* JerkAss: Where to begin? He harasses the Ghostbusters based solely on rumors. He orders the containment grid to be turned off despite the warnings of the Ghostbusters and a Con Ed technician's reticence against doing so, resulting in the release of all the ghosts therein. ''Then'' he has the nerve to have the Busters arrested for the disaster ''he himself caused!''
* NotSoHarmless: Subverted.

--> Well, that's what I ''heard!''

!!Eleanor Twitty AKA Gray Lady(Ruth Oliver)
* AncientKeeper: [[spoiler: She's spent decades keeping the Gozerian Codex in her last resting place.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Or the silent ones at least.[[spoiler: Despite seeming to be just a normal ghost, she ends up having the power to control the entire library, as well as ghosts that are not known to work together. Hurt her and you'll regret it, even if it takes nearly a century.]]
* [[spoiler:ChessMaster: In the game, she purposely lured the Ghostbusters to her library by taking control of some ghosts and making them cause a ruckus. All this to get them to go after her murderer/ex boyfriend so as to finally get her revenge.]]

* NotsoHarmless: Oh look, its a sweet old librarian ghost! Why would anyone-OH GOD! Stop! NO! I promise I'll never bring a late book again!

* SpookySilentLibrary: Her chosen domain, [[CaptainObvious obviously.]]
* RevengeAgainstMen: [[spoiler: Her EX-boyfriend]], not the Ghostbusters.
* UnfinishedBusiness: [[spoiler:(subverted) After thinking they had helped her pass on by taking her book, she suddenly reappears and laughs maniacally as she transforms into her angry mode.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She has a disturbing tendency to shift between a quiet plain librarian, [[OneWingedAngel to a raging grotesque ghoul.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Woobie}}/WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: Her boyfriend used her to get at her rare book collection. When this is discovered, she dumps him and revokes his pass to her collection. He then kills her, trapping her in the library she tried to protect. It is soon shown, despite her circumstances, she isn't going to mope about. Instead she'll spend her afterlife plotting the downfall of her ex-boyfriend. She succeeds, with the help of the Ghostbusters.]]

!!Gozer the Gozerian (humanoid form: Slavita Jovan)(humanoid form: voiced by Paddi Edwards)
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Tropes associated with Gozer:

* CombatStilettos: In it's humanoid form.

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Tropes associated with Zuul and Vinz:

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Tropes associated with Prince Vigo:

** Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?

-->'''Ray''': "He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered... Just before his head died, his last words were 'Death is but a door, time is but a window: I'll be back.'"

!! Ivo Shandor
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* 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!]]
* CompleteMonster: Most definitely: besides being the root cause for the first movie and the video game, he performed many unnecessary surgeries, [[spoiler:attempted to sacrifice his granddaughter to himself so he could become a god, and kidnapped and tortured a juvenile sloar.]]
* DeadlyDoctor: He preformed quite a few, questionable, surgeries in his time.

* [[spoiler: AGodAmI: 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.]]

* MalevolentArchitecture: Dana's apartment building which Ivo designed specifically for causing horrors to come upon the world.[[spoiler: Ivo also worked on the Sedgwick Hotel, Library, the Natural History Museum, and his own personal island.]]
* XanatosGambit: How he built Dana's apartment to call Gozer after decades of storing energy.[[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 set into motion.]]

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Tropes associated with Dana:

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Tropes associated with Janine:

* BeleagueredAssistant: Poor Janine, she is in charge of every single secretarial thing that goes on in the Firehouse. Despite being so swamped she's able to keep everything going smoothly. Despite all she does her boss, Peter Venkman, continues to refuse to hirer more help around the Firehouse to ease her workload. He also expects her to come in even if there is a mass exodus of the city. Her sassy demeanor makes a lot of sense once you consider all of the work and abuse she has to deal with.

--> "Dropping off or picking up?" in response to a policeman arriving at the door.

--> (under breath)"I quit better jobs than this."
--> "Ghostbusters, whaddaya want?!"

!!Louis Tully (Rick Moranis)
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Tropes associated with Louis:

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Tropes associated with Janosz:

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Chillingly realized when he visits Dana during the blackout scene. After a somewhat unnerving discussion, Dana tells him to leave. Once he is now alone in the dark his eyes suddenly start to glow like flashlights in the dark hallway. A lot more disturbing than it sounds.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Well DemonicPossession but still counts.

!!Ilyssa Selwyn (Allyssa Milano)
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Tropes associated with Ilyssa:

* 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 facts 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 is the granddaughter of 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]]

* ParentalAbandonment: Twice! Both her biological ''and'' her adopted parents died when she was young. [[AngstWhatAngst She doesn't actually seem broken up about this though.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, she's seems to be nice normally, unless she's with Venkman. [[{{Jerkass}} Can you really blame her though.]]

* AllThereintheManual: Most of her life before the game actually.

* ButtMonkey: He is made to do quite a few dangerous tasks like touching an inter-dimensional portal that could lead anywhere, he also to go it alone in the huge cemetery that wasn't there yesterday. He is also trapped alone in a waterlogged hotel floor with malevolent candelabras. This dude puts up with a lot.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally his human form supposed to emulate his main worshiper Ivo Shandor, played by Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Ruebens.

* BadassGrandpa: [[spoiler: He captured an eldrich being from another world, granted it was a baby. It's still impressive that he could do that.]] He was the head of the cult of Gozer, [[spoiler: and he made himself a god!]]
* CompleteMonster: Most definitely, besides being the root cause for the first movie and the video game, he had done many unnecessary surgeries, [[spoiler:attempted to sacrifice his granddaughter to himself so he could become a god, and kidnapped and tortured a juvenile sloar.]]

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He kept a painting of his mother in his church to Gozor. Despite most everything else in the church being run down his mother's painting is the only thing that is 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 Gozor as well as making buildings that would bring about the end of the world. Apparently he thinks mankind is too sick to survive.
* [[spoiler: AGodAmI: Ivo was upset that Gozor was beaten not once, but twice. So he decided he would take the energy he was original going to give to Gozor. He goes into it with the big speeches and everything.]]

* MalevolentArchitecture: Dana's apartment building which Ivo designed specifically for causing horrors to come upon the world.[[spoiler: Ivo also worked on the Sedgwick Hotel, Library,the Natural History Museum, and his own personal island.]]
* XanatosGambit: How he built Dana's apartment to call Gozor after decades of storing energy.[[spoiler: He and his cult made sure this would happen even after their deaths. Also they had an alternate plan in case Gozor had issues the first time, and already had it set into motion.]]

--> "Dropping off or picking up?" in response to a Policeman arriving at the door.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Chillingly realized when he visits Dana during the blackout scene. After a somewhat unnerving discussion Dana tells him to leave. Once he is now alone in the dark his eyes suddenly start to glow like flashlights in the dark hallway. A lot more disturbing than it sounds.
* HarmlessVillain: [[spoiler:At one point he becomes NotSoHarmless after kidnapping Oscar.]]

* 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 shes at the museum.

* InformedAttribute: Her facts 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 is the granddaughter of Shandor for most of the game, but she has a strange fascination with Gozarian mythology. Shandor was a big believer in Gozer back in his living days.]]

* [[spoiler:LukeIAmYourFather: Ilyssa finds out she is a direct descendant of Ivo Shandor. How is this revealed to her? He tries to Sacrifice her of course.]]

* GeniusBruiser: He is a very competent member to Ghostbusters team. In the video game, while the others were chasing after the Grey Lady, he was actually looking through the newspaper archives for info on her, though he pretended he was looking up a baseball game. In the novelization of the Ghostbusters, it is shown he was once in the marines and has experience with different kinds of technology, which helped him get into the busting more easily than one would think a new hire would.

!Others

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!!Dana Barrett (SigourneyWeaver)

* DeadpanSnarker

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* ForScience Let's just say he can get rather disturbing with how far he'll go for the sake of science. Tricking people into thinking their going to counseling when in fact he just wanted to test whether slowly increasing the heat would alter their moods. Than there was that drill thing...
* GadgeteerGenius: He makes all of the equipment the busters use. In fact he works on so many gadgets the other characters actually asked him how he can produce so much. He tells them he's been doing an experiment where he sleep for only ten minutes a day.
* MadScientist: A heroic version. Though he still can get a bit disturbing
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He is already shown to be a bit odd, but nothing too serious. Just a bit of a nerd. The whole mold, fungus and spore thing were certainly strange but nothing horrifying. Than we get a glimpse into his life before the ghostbusters. He used to be a coroner. This isn't too bad though, until he says that he does it as a hobby now. Oooookay...

* NotSoStoic: The scene where he flips out when Peck accuses him of causing a massive explosion, that Peck himself actually caused. Also, in the video game, as he and the rookie are going up the elevator suddenly they are treated to a phantom image of the spider witch and one of her victims. Suffice it to say Egon was quite shaken at seeing this. In fact he seems quite nervous throughout the spider witches level.

* DemonicPossession: This has happened to him far more than any other character in the series. It has come to the point where the other characters lampshade it after having to deal with it.

* TheHeart: Has been considered this by the rest of the Ghostbusting team.
* HotBlooded: Out of everyone he is the most passionate when it comes to ghosts and the supernatural.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He choose the form of the destructor, though possibly subverted since Gozer likely wasn't just going to wait till one of them thought of something.

* CulturedBadass: He is shown to be a fan of Opera, and seems to be the most civil minded of the Ghostbusters.
* GeniusBruiser He is a very competent member to Ghostbusters team. While the others were chasing after the Grey lady he was actually looking through the newspaper archives for info on her, though he pretended he was looking up a baseball game. In the novelization of the Ghostbusters it is shown he was once in the marines and has experiences with different kinds of technology which helped him get into the busting more easily than one would think a new hire would.

* TeamPet

Appeared as the player character in the 2009 video game, served as the team's prototype weapons tester (i.e. field-testing the weapons which explode at any moment).

* ButtMonkey: He is made to do quite a few dangerous tasks like touching an inter-dimensional portal that could lead anywhere, he is also made to go it alone in the little cemetery that wasn't there yesterday. He is also trapped alone in a water logged hotel floor with malevolent candelabra's. This dude puts up with a lot.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Since the player character can collect some special items you can turn the Rookie into this. One of the items he can collect is a possessed toilet, that's just one of the strange things he can collect.

* PutOnABus: After the events of the game, it's hinted he leaves New York in order to expand the franchise.

* NoNameGiven: Done on purpose by the rest of team in order to not feel too attached to him due to the HighTurnoverRate of the team's other rookies.

A representative of the Environmental Protection Agency. He is a skeptic; therefore, doesn't believe in the supernatural.

* JerkAss: Where to begin? He harasses the Ghostbusters based solely on rumors, never bothering to do any actual research. He orders the containment grid to be turned off despite the warnings of the Ghostbusters and a Con Ed technician's reticence against doing so, resulting in the release of all the ghosts therein. Then he has the nerve to have the Busters arrested for the disaster he himself caused!

* RedHerringMole: In the video game, the Ghostbusters think he's the BigBad, [[spoiler:but they're wrong]].

* {{AntiVillain}}: type II
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Or the silent ones at least.[[spoiler: Despite seeming to be just a normal ghost, she ends up having the power to control the entire library as well as ghost that are not known to work together. Hurt her and you'll regret it, even if it takes nearly a century.]]
* [[spoiler:ChessMaster:In the game it is shown she purposely lured the Ghostbusters to her library by taking control of some ghost and making them cause a ruckus. All this to get them to go after her murderer/ex boyfriend so as to finally get her revenge.]]

* NotsoHarmless: Oh look its a sweet old librarian ghost. Why would anyone, OH GOD! Stop! NO! I promise I'll never bring a late book again!

* SnubByOmission: Her initial response to the Ghostbusters when she first met them.
* SpookySilentLibrary: Her main dominion.
* RevengeAgainstMen: [[spoiler: Her EX-boyfriend]], not the Ghostbusters

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She has a disturbing tendency to shift between a quiet plain librarian, to a raging grotesque ghoul.

* [[spoiler:{{Woobie}}/WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: Her boyfriend ends up having used her to get at her rare book collection. When this is discovered she dumps him and revokes his pass to her collection. He than kills her, trapping her to a afterlife of wandering the library she tried to protect. It is soon shown despite her circumstances she isn't going to mope about. Instead she'll spend her afterlife plotting the downfall of her ex boyfriend. She succeeds, good for her.]]

* CombatStilettos: In its humanoid form.

* IHaveManyNames: Also known as Gozer the Traveller, the Destructor and Volguus Zildrohar.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally his human form supposed to emulate his main worshiper Ivo Shandor, and it would be incarnated by Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Ruebens.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He choose the form of the destructor Though possibly subverted since Gozer likely wasn't just going to wait till one of them thought of something.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He is already shown to be a bit odd, but nothing too serious. Just a bit of nerd. The whole mold, fungus and spore thing were certainly strange but nothing horrifying. Than we get a glimpse into his life before the ghostbusters. He used to be a coroner. This isn't too bad though, until he says that he does it as a hobby now. Oooookay...

* CasanovaWannabe

* PunchClockHero

* ForScience
* GadgeteerGenius
* MadScientist: A heroic version.

* ForScience
* NightmareFetishist

* GeniusBruiser

* [[spoiler: CreepyCrossdresser: When he dressed up like a demon nanny to kidnap Oscar [[{{Beat}} ...]] you'd have to be there.]]

* HarmlessVillain: [[spoiler: At one point he becomes NotSoHarmless after kidnapping Oscar.]]

* InTheBlood: Sorta,[[spoiler: Ilyssa doesn't realize she's is the granddaughter of Shandor for most of the game, but she has a strange fascination with Gozarian mythology. Shandor was a big believer in Gozer back in his living days.]]

* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather: Ilyssa finds out she is a direct descendant of Ivo Shandor. How is this revealed to her? He tries to Sacrifice her of course.]]

!!The Rookie

!!Gozer the Gozerian

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* Bewaretheniceones: Or the silent ones at least.[[spoiler: Despite seeming to be just a normal ghost, she ends up having the power to control the entire library as well as ghost that are not known to work together. Hurt her and you'll regret it, even if it takes nearly a century.]]

* HarmlessVillain: [[spoiler: At on point he becomes NotSoHarmless after kidnapping Oscar.]]

* [[spoiler: CreepyCrossdresser: When he dressed up like a demon nanny to kidnap Oscar ... you'd have to be there.]]