History Characters / GhostbustersFilmSeriesGhostbusters

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: The original team consisted of four males, with Winston being the lone minority. The new team consists of two males and two females, with one of the males (Podcast) Asian and one of the females (Lucky) Black.

* {{Kid Hero}}es: They range from 12 to around 17, and the oldest, Lucky, is at most a high school senior.

* BrilliantButLazy: He is a fairly smart guy. If only he cared enough to do anything with his smarts. He has [=PhD's=] in both psychology and parapsychology, but uses mostly the psychology one to help him get together with girls.

* EleventhHourRanger: In ''Frozen Empire'', he arrives before the final battle to provide aid to the other Ghostbusters. Amusingly, he doesn't appear to have been contacted to help out, but decided he wouldn't be kept out of the fight and dropped in on his comrades for old time's sake.
* EveryoneHasStandards:

* AnonymousBenefactor: ''Afterlife's'' second {{Stinger}} reveals that he is the one who keeps paying the rent for Ray's Occult Bookstore, jokingly saying to Janine that "it's bound to turn in a profit someday". He also bought back the original Ghostbusters Firehouse [=HQ=], and is planning to restore the (really beat-up) [=ECTO-1=], in its original state. This results in him being TheTeamBenefactor in ''VideoGame/GhostbustersSpiritsUnleashed'', which is set after the movie and features players as a new team under his purview.
* AudienceSurrogate: Lends a drily lay perspective to the unorthodox academia of the first three 'Busters.

* DeadpanSnarker: Easily the biggest snarker in the series next to Venkman. For example, in response to a policeman arriving at the door;
--> "Dropping off or picking up?"

* KickedUpstairs: In the [=IDW=] comics, after a fashion. Peck offers Janine the role of liaison for the Paranormal Contract Oversight Commission, specifically citing her role as TeamMom (the Ghostbusters respect her authority already) and SassySecretary (Peck knows she won't take flak from either the Ghostbuster or the P.C.O.C. and will be vocal about it). Janine accepts.
* OnlySaneWoman: Until Winston shows up. After that, they trade off on the "babysitting the mad scientists" duty.

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* GenerationXerox: Is the new Ghostbusters version of Winston, being the last member to join.

* DemonicPossession: She gets possessed by Zuul midway through the film, prompting her children to step up and rescue her.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She spends a majority of the film not knowing of her father's role as a Ghostbuster, something both her children had already find out, likely due to her disdain toward Egon. She only finds out in the second half of the film, right before being possessed by Zuul.
* RememberTheNewGuy: According to Egon's notes on a note card seen at the 1:26:37 mark, Callie celebrated her second birthday in 1984. Therefore, she was born in 1982. Which means she was born before the first two movies despite Egon mentioning no partner or children.

* HiddenDepths: Fully admits that he wants to be more of a dad than a buddy to Phoebe but is afraid to get strict since he doesn't want to oversteps his bounds. It's only when Callie gives him full permission that he allows himself to be strict when Phoebe insults her mother in a rather cruel manner.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Grooberson opens the ghost trap Phoebe found, causing the release of a Terror-Dog, and signalling the return of Gozer.

!!Ecto-1 / The Ectomobile

* TheAllegedCar: In the first movie, when Ray purchases it he mentions that it needs ''[[{{Understatement}} a lot]]'' of work and parts to get it into a decent working condition. By the time of the second movie, it ends up breaking down completely and by ''Afterlife'' its been stuck in a barn in the middle of Oklahoma for about 30 years. When Trevor first finds it, he has to do extensive work just to get it running again. In ''Frozen Empire'' Winston pays to have it fully restored but there's still some issues: the air conditioning doesn't work, the windows in the back don't roll down, and occasionally the power to the sirens (and presumably other systems) fails needing someone to physically mess with some wiring to get it working again.

* AscendedFanboy: He was a big fan of the original Ghostbusters when he was a child. ''Frozen Empire'' reveals he's moved to New York with the Spenglers and become a full-fledged member of the team.

* TrueCompanions: In spite of not having spoken to each other for decades, when Gozer returns and Ray comes calling, Peter and Winston immediately agree to follow him to Oklahoma within a day, proving just how strong their bond truly is even after so many years spent drifting apart. In ''Frozen Empire'', when Garraka threatens to tear apart the old Fire House and release every ghost they captured over the last 40 years they along with Janine ''immediately'' band together to stop the mad god from destroying the old home that bound them together in laughter and friendship as a '''family.''

* TrueCompanions: In spite of not having spoken to each other for decades, when Gozer returns and Ray comes calling, Peter and Winston immediately agree to follow him to Oklahoma within a day, proving just how strong their bond truly is even after so many years spent drifting apart. In ''Frozen Empire'', when Garraka threatens to tear apart the old Fire House and release every ghost they captured over the last 40 years they along with Janine ''immediately'' band together to stop the mad god from destroying the closest thing they have to a "home", because they are now the closest thing to a "family" to each other.

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: In the cartoon series, most of these occur either while Egon is formulating strategy or when he does something that helps the rest of the group succeed.