History Film / GhostbustersFrozenEmpire

* RhymingTitle: The french translation of the film's name is ''SOS Fantômes: La Men'''ace''' de gl'''ace'''''.

*** [[spoiler:The Trevor v. Slimer subplot also evokes the similar deleted subplot from ''Ghostbusters II'' when Louis Tully likewise kept trying and failing to capture Slimer.]]

** Walter Peck scoffs at the Gozer Incident, stating that original team ''claimed'' to have saved the world, yet there were no eyewitnesses. This coming from the guy who helped precipitate said crisis, who was there at ground zero when Gozer-as-Stay-Puft stepped on a church (let alone ascended 550 Central Park West whilst aflame), and who ''literally'' got about a metric ton worth of (melted) evidence dropped on him.

* CosmicKeystone: The Ghostbusters' Firehouse has become this, after being central to a number of big paranormal events over the course of decades.

* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:Peck's fatal mistake in the final scene. He's intent on using the citywide damage from the Garraka Crisis to finally shut down the Ghostbusters and arrest them all. He's so fixated on this goal that it doesn't immediately register with him that New Yorkers and the Press are overwhelmingly rallying in favor of the Ghostbusters. By the time Peck finally realizes public opinion's ''not'' on his side and tries to back off, it's too late (as Winston is able to twist Peck's words of condemnation into words of political endorsement and support).]]
** Also, after Garraka killed the tobacconist (thinking it was the latest Fire Master since the store shares its name with the title), he entered [[spoiler: Nadeem]]'s grandmother's hidden room to reclaim his horns. While there, he passed a picture of [[spoiler: Nadeem and his grandmother]], not piecing together that's what [[spoiler: the latest Fire Masters look like]].

* HollywoodLaw: Peck has Phoebe arrested for slander. Criminal libel hasn't been an arrestable offense in New York for over 200 years.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Peck is an asshole with a petty grudge, he's not wrong about the legal and ethical issues of the Ghostbusters employing a minor.

*** Similarly, Louis Tully's status as this during ''Afterlife'' continues here. In that same interview, Kenan stated they had no plans to use Louis at all (and even if they had, Creator/RickMoranis has previously declined to come out of retirement and return to the franchise for the 2016 reboot or ''Afterlife'').
** Similarly, with [[spoiler:Walter Peck now the current Mayor of NYC, Lenny Clotch's post-''Ghostbusters II'' fate is left unrevealed and unmentioned (something that was previously unnecessary to address in ''Afterlife'' given the film left NYC and took place in the American Southwest). Since Lenny was pursuing a run as New York's Governor during the first sequel, it's possible he was able to ride the successful resolution of the Vigo Crisis to a higher office. Alternately, the electoral run failed and he left politics or remained NYC's Mayor until his term of office expired. Regardless, the real life reason for Lenny's absence, of course, is because his actor Creator/DavidMargulies died in 2016]]. It's unknown if in-universe [[CharacterOutlivesActor Lenny is still alive]] or if [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim he has passed away since his last appearance]].

** With the original team having gone out of business by the early 1990s, the Firehouse was for all intents abandoned. Unsurprisingly, vagrants easily broke in and stripped the building of anything valuable like copper wiring (thus accounting for its dilapidated state by the time Winston brought the Ecto-1 home in the ''Afterlife'' post-credits Stinger). [[spoiler:This briefly comes back to haunt everyone when Phoebe has her Copper Weakness idea, only for Janine to inform her of the theft thus forcing them to melt down one of the Firehouse's brass poles as an alternative.]]
*** Perhaps unsurprisingly, one of these vagrants decided to move on in and essentially claimed squatter's rights. That vagrant, of course and perhaps unsurprisingly, is [[spoiler:Slimer (or alternately he stuck around after the events of ''Ghostbusters II'']].

*** Speaking of the Library, after the debacle of the original team's investigation in the first film, Ray has been banned by the Library Administrator and isn't allowed within 50 feet of the building. Presumably this ban also extends to Peter (and to Egon while he was still alive).

* NotNowKiddo: Going into the climax, Lucky tries to warn everyone that the Proton Streams had no effect on Garraka when she tussled with him. [[spoiler:But with the chaos of the impending siege of the Firehouse, nobody except for Phoebe pays her warnings any heed until it's too late.]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Two movies in, and there is still no hint of Podcast's real name.

** Similarly, with [[spoiler:Walter Peck now the current Mayor of NYC, Lenny Clotch's post-''Ghostbusters II'' fate is left unrevealed and unmentioned (something that was previously unnecessary to address in ''Afterlife'' given the film left NYC and took place in the American Midwest). Since Lenny was pursuing a run as New York's Governor during the first sequel, it's possible he was able to ride the successful resolution of the Vigo Crisis to a higher office. Alternately, the electoral run failed and he left politics or remained NYC's Mayor until his term of office expired. Regardless, the real life reason for Lenny's absence, of course, is because his actor Creator/DavidMargulies died in 2016]].

* ActorAllusion: Nadeem's apartment has a picture on the wall that looks like something out of the Kama Sutra - Kumail Nanjiani actually appeared in ''Series/HistoryOfTheWorldPartII'' as the author of the Kama Sutra.

* RevisitingTheRoots: This features the Firehouse, Janine Melnitz and Slimer's TeamPet status, which were only touched upon in Film/GhostbustersAfterlife and VideoGame/GhostbustersSpiritsUnleashed.

** [[BigBad Garraka]] is trapped in an ancient brass orb and is using what few powers it ''can'' exert to try and escape. The orb itself was sealed in a specially built room whose brass walls could suppress Garraka's powers even further, most notably by muffling his voice and ability to command ghosts.

** Similarly, with [[spoiler:Walter Peck now the current Mayor of NYC, Lenny Clotch's post-''Ghostbusters II'' fate is left unrevealed and unmentioned (something that was previously unnecessary to address in ''Afterlife'' given the film left NYC and took place in the American Midwest). Since Lenny was pursuing a run as New York's Governor during the first sequel, it's possible he was able to ride the successful resolution of the Vigo Crisis to a higher office. Alternately, the electoral run failed and he left politics or remained NYC's Mayor until his term of office expired. Regardless, the real life reason for Lenny's absence, of course, is because his actor Creator/DavidMargulies died in 2016.]]

** [[spoiler:Nadeem]] finally masters manipulating fire by extending two fingers from both hands, which is actually [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender a firebending technique.]] Unfortunately he can't just make his own fire, which would make it accurate to [[Film/TheLastAirbender the movie version.]]

* SneakingOutAtNight: After getting in trouble for disobeying her parents and the Mayor, Phoebe sneaks out of the Firehouse to hang out with her friend.

* SoLastSeason: Garraka predates anything the Ghostbusters have faced before, such that the proton streams have no effect on it. [[spoiler: Since the ancient Fire Masters used copper and brass to contain it thousands of years ago, Phoebe reasons that lacing the cyclotron in the proton packs with copper might give them a new quality that can actually harm them. Janine informs her that, unfortunately, the copper had been stripped from the building in the 90s by vagrants, so Phoebe decides to employ brass from one of the (lesser used?) fireman poles instead.]].

* SpikesOfDoom: When Garraka is freed a sudden winter storm falls on New York, causing spears of ice to erupt everywhere from the sea to beaches and throughout the city.

*** Perhaps unsurprisingly, one of these vagrants decided to move on in and essentially claimed squatter's rights. That vagrant, of course and perhaps unsurprisingly, is [[spoiler:Slimer (or alternately he stuck around after the events of ''Ghostbusters II''.]]

** Downplayed, but the posters outside the New York Library reveal Dana has resumed her Cellist career in the interim since '' Ghostbusters II''. The first sequel, after all, had established Dana's sabbatical was only so she could take care of the then-infant Oscar. With Oscar having long since grown up, obviously Dana's resumed her career.

** Also, after Garraka killed the tobacconist (thinking it was the latest Fire Master since the store shares its name with the title), it entered [[spoiler: Nadeem]]'s grandmother's hidden room to reclaim its horns. While there, it passed a picture of [[spoiler: Nadeem and his grandmother]], not piecing together that's what [[spoiler: the latest Fire Masters look like]].

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Phoebe's status as a minor does make it understandable that her Mother and [[ParentalSubstitute sort-of Stepfather]] want her to go and be a normal teenager for a while. However given that in Film/GhostbustersAfterlife they spent a lot of their time possessed while she, her brother and their friends did most of the actual Ghostbusting she does kind of have a point that this is her calling and they joined the family business mostly by chance.

-->'''Winston:''' ...the world is clean.