History Characters / GhostbustersFilmSeriesOtherHumanCharacters

* StatuesqueStunner: Especially when possessed in the first film — she’s goddess-like in her Gozer gown — helped by the fact that Ms. Weaver is a share under 6 foot.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: She's perpetually barefoot when possessed by Zuul. This could probably also make her a MagicalBarefooter.

* BreakTheHaughty: His vicious rant against the supernatural trade of the Ghostbusters immediately causes a small explosion from the exhibited jar of Mood Slime, from which fly the looming, crackling, electric chair-bound apparitions of two men he had executed for murder.
* DirtyCoward: Wexler may be a harsh and imposing judge, but he gets a big fright when he sees the ghosts of the Scholeri Brothers, men he sentenced to death, appear in his courtroom. He hides under a table and tries to leave the court as quickly as possible, not bothering to help the prosecutor who is being terrorised by the ghosts of the Scholeri Brothers. Wexler also has the cheek to beg the Ghostbusters, whom he had just sentenced to prison, fined heavily, and are still under a judicial order, for help. Plus, he grudgingly rescinds send order and then orders the Ghostbusters to put things right.

* BrokenBird: It took seeing her childhood photos in her father's basement to break Callie from her cynicism and she can barely hold back her tears. [[spoiler:Right before her Egon moves on, Callie shares a tearful hug with him, finally overcoming her disdain towards him]].
* CallingTheOldManOut: Callie has nothing but disdain towards Egon for being absent for her entire life, and whenever the topic of him is brought up she will negatively comment about him. It isn't until she finds out that Egon has been keeping tabs on her and kept childhood photos of her in his lab that Callie realizes that her father indeed loves her.
* DeceptiveLegacy: She's come to believe that her father went crazy and did not love her. She extended this belief to her children. She is shocked to find out later that Egon had a wall full of photos chronicling her childhood and adolescence in his lab.
* DefrostingIceQueen: After spending the entire film being an IceQueen towards everyone including her own children, Callie becomes more cheerful upon realizing that her father indeed loved her.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:She gets possessed by Zuul midway through the film, prompting her children to step up and rescue her.]]

** Zigzag when Phoebe's curiosity about her grandfather's job causes her, Trevor, and Podcast to be arrested.
* FreudianExcuse: Callie suffers from abandonment issues since she was a child, from both her father and ex-husband, and because of this, is rather aloof towards both her children.
* FinalFirstHug: She gets one [[spoiler:with the spirit form of her father at the ending of ''Afterlife''.]]

* 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 towards Egon. [[spoiler:She only finds out in the second half of the film, right before being possessed by Zuul.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: One of the earlier pictures of her [[spoiler:in Egon's shrine]] is dated 1983, meaning she would have been born before the first two movies despite Egon mentioning no partner or children.
* SpinOffspring: Subverted. She's the daughter of Egon Spengler but the film mostly follows on her children trying to continue their grandfather's legacy instead of her.
* StrugglingSingleMother: She's broke and she and her children have been evicted from their home as a result, which forces them to move into an old farm the children's grandfather (Egon Spengler) owned in Oklahoma.
* TransformationOfThePossessed: [[spoiler:When Zuul possesses her, she changes [[InstantCostumeChange her clothes]] to a gold dress, then later turns her into a Terror Dog.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: During his rant he says there's no place for people like them in decent society, when in fact he is one to talk. His unprofessional, cruel, and sadistic rant, judgement attitude, and rudeness towards the Ghostbusters during the trial, not only make him unfit to serve as a judge, but indecent person himself in general.

!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Vincent Violette (European French)

* FunnyForeigner: Of some kind... He speaks with a thick, vaguely European-sounding accent.

* MamaBear: She doesn't need a Proton Pack to be an ActionMom! In the sequel, she sprints down the streets of New York trying to stop her baby’s runaway carriage, literally hurling herself at it to try to stop it barrelling into busy traffic.

* StatuesqueStunner: Especially when possessed in the first film — she’s goddess-like in her Gozer gown — helped by the fact that Ms Weaver is a share under 6 foot.

* AmoralAttorney: He only aims to sue the Ghostbusters out of spite for their cause, but in reality is just a money grubbing agent.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Surrounded by news articles and tv interviews about the ghosts the Ghostbusters have caught, yet insists it's all an elaborate scam.

* HarmlessVillain: Kinda sorta; the containment unit gets blown up because of him in the first film but Peck generally doesn't do anything truly lethal to the Ghostbusters directly. He acts as an independent DiscOneFinalBoss who manages to either restrain or delay the Ghostbusters, which gives the real villains more time or freedom to act.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Becoming the head of a brand new government organization with an implied pay hike doesn't ''sound'' like a punishment, until it's made clear to him (in the same scene as that reveal) that his organization's continued existence now depends entirely on the Ghostbusters he hates so much to operate.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: A government bureaucrat who, in his quest to obstruct one business, obstructs the business of the entire world. Also during the game and early comics, where he rarely passes up the opportunity to inflict some misery on the team.

* StealthInsult: The astute viewer will notice that Peck continues to refer to Venkman as "Mister" even after pointedly looking over Venkman's two doctorates hanging on the walls of his office. He then makes it a little more clear. "What are you a doctor of, ''Dr.'' Venkman?"

* TooDumbToLive: Let's see; he believes that mass numbers of average people can be induced to see {{Shared Mass Hallucination}}s. He knows ''absolutely nothing'' about chemicals, radiation, or any of the other things he claims to be harassing the Ghostbusters about, and worst of all, grabs what appears to be a random city worker to shut down equipment he doesn't even begin to understand. He's lucky something ''really unpleasant'' didn't grab him and make him into a snack. He's even luckier he was wrong; if it had been storage for dangerous chemicals and failed as spectacularly he would have killed thousands of people.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Seems rather acerbic at first, but is a respected man who'll do whatever it takes to keep New York safe.

** Mayor Clotch angrily fires Hardemeyer and has him roughly thrown out of his building after the latter had told the former he had the Ghostbusters locked up in an asylum in his name without his knowledge or consent at the worst possible time.

* DefrostingIceQueen: After spending the entire film being an IceQueen towards everyone including her own children, Callie becomes more cheerful upon realizing that her father indeed love her.

* TransformationOfThePossessed: [[spoiler:When Zuul possesses her, she changes [[InstantCostumeChange her clothes]] to a gold dress then later turns her into a Terror Dog.]]

* TheAllegedCar: Grooberson owns a Toyota Corolla that ends up losing its windshield during an experiment with a Ghost Trap. [[spoiler:When chased by Vinz Clortho, he tries to escape in it but he fumbles to get his keys in the ignition and its tires decompress once the Terror-Dog sits on the hood.]]

* DefrostingIceQueen: As the first film progresses.
* DemonicPossession: Victim of this for half of the first film.
* DudeMagnet: She has caught the eyes of a lot of admirers other than Peter. There's also Louis, Janosz and her ex-husband.
* LoveInterest: To Peter. [[spoiler:And they are still together thirty years later.]]
* MamaBear: She doesn't need a Proton Pack to be an ActionMom! She ran down the streets of New York trying to stop her baby’s runaway carriage in the beginning.
* NeutralFemale: Averted. She tries to keep away from the trouble so as not to get in the guys' way, but when it comes to her, she fights back.

* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Had a ''lot'' of trouble finding one for a while.
* StatuesqueStunner: Especially when possessed in the first film.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Peck may be a dick about it (if he had one) and goes about it in all the wrong ways, he's right to be suspicious of the guys working with highly experimental technology with with ''nuclear'' capabilities in the middle of a densely populated city like New York with no permits for any of it.

* DumbassHasAPoint:
** Ends up banking on this to keep the Ghostbusters running and their gear from being seized in the IDW comics: Yes, they've got suspicious and dangerous technology, and yes, it ''does'' get used in unprofessional manners. But the Ghostbusters are also frequently the only ones who know how to maintain and (more importantly) ''stabilize'' said tech. It helps that, by his own admission, nobody wants "to press the point with the ''idiot'' who forcibly turned off the containment grid".

* CosmicPlaything: Out of all of the characters in the series, she is most often a target for the supernatural. She is targeted and later possessed by an ancient Sumerian demigod in the first film, and throughout the second, she is terrorized by ghosts, slime monsters, and possessed weirdos who are trying to kidnap her baby. A deleted scene and the novelization of the second movie has her wondering is she has some sort of genetic trait that makes her susceptible to the paranormal.

--->"Don't patronize me! I'm not ''grotesquely'' stupid; like the people you bilk!"

** One easily-missed line also reveals a very nasty elitist steak in his attitude:
--->"Don't patronize me! I'm not ''grotesquely'' stupid; like the people you ''bilk!''"

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Averted. His last appearance in the film is being covered in melted marshmallow glop and shrieking in what sounds like agony, but he was apparently unharmed aside from having his day ruined down to the last hours.

* SharedMassHallucination: He thinks that the Ghostbusters were using hallucinations to make ghosts.

* DisappearedDad: Whether Egon was never in her life or left when she was young is unclear, but she grew up without him and became resentful of his absence.

* CosmicPlaything: Out of all of the characters in the series, she is most often a target for the supernatural. She is targeted and later possessed by an ancient Sumerian demigod in the first film, and throughout the second, she is terrorized by ghosts, slime monsters, and possessed weirdos who are trying to kidnap her baby. A deleted scene in the second movie has her wondering is she has some sort of genetic trait that makes her susceptible to the paranormal.

* MissingMom: There's no mention at all of Callie's mom.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though she can be abrasive to their children and an alcoholic thanks to her abandonment issues, she proves to be a loving person, as evident when she realizes that her father indeed loved her.

* FantasyForbiddingFather: Avoided. While Callie makes no attempt to hide her distaste for science, she allows Phoebe to pursue hobbies related to science and has no problem with Trevor's interest in automotive engineering.

* AdultFear: Usually happens when your child is targeted by a demonic overlord who wants to reincarnate in the physical world [[DemonicPossession using him as host]].

* SpinOffspring: She's the daughter of Egon Spengler.

* StealthInsult: The astute viewer will notice that Peck continues to refer to Venkman as "Mister" even after pointedly looking over Venkman's two doctorates hanging on the walls of his office.

* KickTheDog: He continually refers to Peter as "Mr. Venkman" even after Peter politely informs him that his proper title is "Dr." and shows him his doctorates to prove it.

* RaisedCatholic: Seems probable; he's on very good terms with the Archbishop of New York, even calling him by name and inviting him to his office as a consultant when ghosts start flooding the streets.

[[caption-width-right:300:''"Wow! Killer replica!"'']]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Loius Tully, only without being a StalkerWithACrush when it comes to romance. [[spoiler:Like Louis, Grooberson is also possessed by Vinz Clortho.]]