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1	'''[[center: [- [[Characters/{{Ghostbusters}} Main Character Index]] -]]]'''
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3	Page for characters that are specific to or introduced in ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame''.
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5	For the characters who first appeared in the 1980s films, see [[Characters/GhostbustersFilmSeriesGhostbusters Ghostbusters (Film Series)]].
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9	[[folder: Heroes]]
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11	!!The Rookie
12	-->Model: Ryan French
13	[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ray_8820.jpg]]
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15	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.
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17	* 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.
18	* ButtMonkey: He is made to do quite a few dangerous tasks--touching an inter-dimensional portal that could lead ''anywhere'', dangling off a skyscraper by a mere cable with an angry Stay-Puft, go it alone in the huge cemetery that wasn't there yesterday, getting trapped alone in a waterlogged hotel floor with malevolent candelabras... this dude puts up with a lot.
19	* CanonName: Given in the IDW comics, may only be canon to said comics (so far).
20	** '''Realistic:''' Bryan Welsh
21	** '''Stylized:''' Chad Fuller (Male)/Maddie Collins (Female)
22	* 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.
23	* CowardlyLion: Realistic!Rookie can be pretty skittish at times, and is obviously taking quite a bit of time to adjust to being a Ghostbuster. He frequently has a concerned expression on while the rest of the crew are practically unmoved by paranormal happenings, has a look of pure awe and horror when seeing Stay-Puft for the first time in person, and has a very distinctly panicked scream if the player starts sprinting while a large opponent is on their tail, typically a golem while it’s winding up a speedy rampage. That said, he still braves his missions like the rest and accomplishes several impressively dangerous feats by himself.
24	* CreatorCameo: In a manner of speaking. In the [=PS3=] version of the game, associate producer Ryan French served as the base for the Rookie.
25	* 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.
26	* 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.
27	* HeroicMime: Never says a word aside the occasional scream or gasp.
28	* 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...
29	* PunnyName: His name in the IDW version is a punny reference to Ryan French, who he was based on. The first name is a close soundalike (B'''ryan''') and his last name is a different nationality (Welsh instead of French). The uncommon spelling of his first name with a Y seem to point out that it's intentional.
30	* PutOnABus: After the events of the game, he leaves New York in order to expand the franchise.
31	* NaiveNewcomer: His name is ''very'' accurate.
32	* 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.
33	* 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]]
34	* SixthRanger: Joining a previously established team.
35	* SuddenlyVoiced: Though we never get to hear it. He goes from quiet as a mouse in the game, to speaking freely in the comics.
36	* SuperPrototype: As the teams new Experimental Equipment Technician, he gets first dibs on new weaponry and upgrades Egon comes up with and gets to take them into the field to see if they’re safe to use. Once the Rookie proves that his prototype equipment is safe to use without blowing up either himself or all of Manhattan, the rest of the team will follow his lead and equip the upgrades themselves.
37	* 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.
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39	!!Ilyssa Selwyn (Alyssa Milano)
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41	[[quoteright:241:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ilyssa_890.jpg]]
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43	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.
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45	* AllThereInTheManual: Most of her life before the game.
46	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Her parents died in a cave-in when she was 15.
47	* DamselInDistress: She gets kidnapped twice in the game, and both times has to be saved by the Ghostbusters.
48	* 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.
49	* HappilyAdopted: Her adoptive parents used to bring her with them everywhere...till, you know, they died.
50	* [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Great-Granddaughter]]: Ilyssa looks just like her great-grandmother, [[spoiler:Ivo Shandor's mother]].
51	* 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?
52	* 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.]]
53	* {{Irony}}: She hates abrasive or pushy personalities. [[{{Jerkass}} Guess who she falls in love with]]?
54	* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father, Like Daughter]]: She ended up getting into anthropology just like her parents.
55	* LoveInterest: Replaces Dana Barrett as this in the game.
56	* 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.]]
57	* ParentalAbandonment: Twice! Both her biological ''and'' her adopted parents died when she was young. [[AngstWhatAngst She doesn't seem broken up about this]].
58	* {{Tsundere}}: Type B, she seems to be nice normally, unless she's around Venkman. [[{{Jerkass}} Can you really blame her, though?]]
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61	[[folder: Villains]]
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63	!!Ivo Shandor
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65	[[quoteright:219:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ivo_1784.jpg]]
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67	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]].
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69	* BadassBookworm: A Doctor who started an ApocalypseCult and bent an EldritchAbomination to his will.
70	* BigBad: Of the video game.
71	* 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.]]
72	* DeadlyDoctor: He performed quite a few unnecessary surgeries in his time.
73	* 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.
74	* 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.
75	* EvilPlan: To wipe out the bastard humans, of course. Building Dana's apartment, storing energy and everything else works toward this goal.
76	** 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.]]
77	* GhostlyGoals: Definitely Type B.
78	* GodhoodSeeker: [[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.]]
79	* GreaterScopeVillain: The game reveals that it was Shandor who already set into motion the events of the first two films decades prior and is ultimately responsible for any supernatural activity that ever occurred in New York City.
80	* 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 considering what]] ''[[{{Hypocrite}} he]]'' [[{{Hypocrite}} had done to his fellow human beings]] even before he started to bring about the end to life.
81	* MadScientist: An evil one to combat the Ghostbusters two good ones.
82	* 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.]]
83	* MisanthropeSupreme: He deeply hates all human beings, considering them vermin and "too sick to survive."
84	* 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.
85	* 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.
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87	!!Spider Witch
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89	[[quoteright:209:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scream____5345.jpg]]
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91	Another member of the cult of Gozer, this woman would lure men up to her room in the Sedgewick Hotel and murder them.
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93	* 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.
94	* AnimalMotifs: Spiders. Even in life, her spider obsession seemed to be a major characteristic of herself.
95	* 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.
96	* AxCrazy: She didn't need to be paid to kill someone, as she liked it so much she did it anyway.
97	* 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.
98	* TheCollector: She collects men's dead bodies ''and'' their souls, making them her eternal slaves.
99	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: As if being a spider-obsessed BlackWidow wasn't enough for her, she had to be this too.
100	* [[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.
101	* 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.
102	* {{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.
103	* GiantSpider: After her death, if she was ever even alive, she was turned into a giant spider woman.
104	* 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.
105	* 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.
106	* MixAndMatchCritters: In her ghost form, she became [[SpiderPeople part woman and part spider]].
107	* NoNameGiven: Despite the crimes she committed, the authorities never discovered her name, not even a false one. However, Insight Editions' {{defictionalization}} of Tobin's Spirit Guide names her Evelyn Lewis.
108	* PsychoKnifeNut: She has some major BloodLust and enjoys carrying a knife when taking her "husbands" to her suite. You put the picture together.
109	* 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.
110	* PsychoForHire: Worked as a killer for Shandor for free, because she liked killing.
111	* SpidersAreScary: That's basically her level's entire theme.
112	* SpiderPeople
113	* UrbanLegend: She is this to the Sedgewick Hotel staff. They were terrified enough to keep her room locked...till it was opened for remodeling.
114	* TheVamp: She would seduce unknowing men so she could paint her room with their blood and possibly make them her eternal minions.
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116	!!Azetlor (AKA Edmund Hoover)
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118	[[quoteright:255:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scream____3453.jpg]]
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120	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.
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122	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Before being executed, he told everyone that he was going to be reborn as Azetlor. [[OhCrap He was]].
123	* 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.
124	** Taken more literally in some of his other appearances in the series, being a literal spectral worm that devours sources of knowledge.
125	* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:He really shouldn't have killed Eleanor Twitty.]]
126	* CoDragons: He shares this with the Chairman.
127	* TheCollector: He collects the dead bodies of his victims, much like the Spider Witch. He also collects books.
128	* EldritchAbomination: He became a mass of Black Slime and broken furniture with a helmet after his death.
129	* 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]].
130	* 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.]]
131	* 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.
132	* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: After his death, he became a mandala guardian of the Library to continue serving his master Shandor.
133	* SerialKiller: He was known as the "Library Serial Killer."
134	* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Murdered his girlfriend Eleanor Twitty, and many other women after her.]]
135	* WouldHurtAChild: The children's section of the library implies he killed kids as well.
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137	!!The Chairman (AKA Cornelius Wellesly)
138
139	Another high ranking member of Shandor's cult, Cornelius Wellesly was Chairman of the Board of Trustees and head of International Steel in life while secretly devoting his resources to helping Shandor's agenda. In death, he was rewarded with a high ranking position in Shandor's ghostly inner circle.
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141	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Abusing his position as the head of International Steel to help end the world puts him squarely in this category.
142	* FatBastard: The guy is large and thoroughly unpleasant.
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145	[[folder: Others]]
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147	!!Mayor Jock Mulligan (Creator/BrianDoyleMurray)
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149	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jockmulligan.jpg]]
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151	The Mayor of New York City in 1991 after Lenny Clotch.
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153	* CorruptPolitician: It appears he is this but it's ultimately subverted, [[spoiler:he was actually under DemonicPossession. Once he's freed, he turns out to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.]]
154	* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Is the victim of this]].
155	* InkSuitActor: [[https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Jock_Mulligan?file=MayorMulliganStylizedVersion01.jpg The mayor in the stylized version]] looks like a younger version of his voice actor.
156	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Once he's back to normal]].
157	* 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]].
158	* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Is this to Ivo Shandor via DemonicPosession]].
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