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All of the ghouls, ghosts, and goblins are here, listed in alphabetical order. All profiles include a description, past experiences, ways to capture, and known whereabouts.

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Akira

-- Akira is a very powerful Class 6 capable of destroying entire civilizations. She spreads a disease which is more like a planting of eggs within the species she is trying to conquer, causing them great pain on the epidural layer of skin. Eventually, when the offspring are full-grown, they will remove themselves from the skin and join their parent, Akira- ready to take over! She has been captured by the Extreme Ghostbusters on their first mission and is currently residing in the containment unit.

B

Banshee

-- Banshee is a demon, centuries old, who feeds on the youth of human beings. Along with her twin sister, Siren, Banshee can cause destruction on major scales by manipulating her sibling into providing her with the youth that she craves. Banshee was last captured by the Extreme Ghostbusters and currently resides in the containment unit.

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Carpathian, Vigo the

-- His last words, before he died, were "Death is but a door, time is but a window. I'll be back."
-- Also known as Vigo The Carpathian, Vigo The Cruel, Vigo The Torturer, Vigo The Despised, Vigo The Unholy, the Scourge of Carpathia, and the Sorrow of Moldavia.
-- Is a tyrant, sorcerer, psychotic autocrat, lunatic and a genocidal madman.
-- Wants to possess a baby, so he can live again and take over the world.
-- Possessed Janosz Poha and Ray Stantz (twice).
-- Referenced in the Occult Reference Net, and the book "Magicians, Martyrs And Madmen" by Leon Zundinger.
-- Born in 1505, died in 1610.
-- His full name is Prince Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf.
-- Ruled 16th Century Carpathia.
-- He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, and drawn & quartered.
-- He was a skilled painter. The possessed painting of him in the Manhattan Museum of Art was drawn by him. [deleted from GB2]

 

Clowns

-- Clowns are evil demon spirits who feed on laughter. They consume human souls through snake-like tounges which posses the ability to shed human skin like a cheap suit. In order to consume the soul, the Clowns must hear their laughter. If there is no laughter heard, Clowns will try to invoke laughing by tickling, and other comical antics. Unfortunatly, the Clowns are hive based and will work as a group to succeed in whatever mission they choose. One hive was ultimatly destroyed by the Extreme Ghostbusters.

 

College Spirits

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Ghost Gangsters (NOW Comics)

Gollum

Gozer

-- Gozer is based on several things. For one, there's a Gozer Chevrolet dealership in upstate New York. A little more to the point is the fact that Gozer was a name that related to a documented haunting in England -- the one "Poltergeist" (1982) was based on. During this particular haunting, the name Gozer appeared mysteriously throughout the house, written on walls and things.
-- Due to Slavitza Jovan's Slavic accent, the voice of Gozer was dubbed by Paddi Edwards. Bill Murray did a hilarious take of a scene, playing off the fact that the actress had an accent. When Gozer says, "Choose and perish," Bill responded: "Jews and berries? I don't understand."
-- As originally conceived, Gozer was to have been a rather non-descript, kindly looking man.
-- Also known as Gozer The Gozerian, Gozer The Destructor, Gozer The Traveler.
-- Can take any form it chooses.
-- Asked the Ghostbusters to choose the form it should take. Ray chose the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
-- During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, it chose the form of a large and moving Torb.
-- During the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex Supplicants, it chose the form of a giant Sloar.
-- In 1984, it chose the form of a woman.

 

Gremlin (otherwise known as mechanic demon)

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Headless Motorcyclist (RGB)

House Ghosts

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Kalial

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Library Ghost

-- Witnessed by 10 people in the New York Public Library on 5th Ave. at 1:40 PM.
-- Classified as a free floating full torso vaporous apparition.
-- Blew books off shelves from 20 feet away.
-- Made Spengler's P.K.E. Meter readings go right off the scale.
-- It had arms. It tried to grab the librarian.
-- It stacked books symetrically, just like the Philadelphia Mass Turbulance of 1947.

 

Luko

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Mazon

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New Jersey Devil

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Onionhead (See Slimer)

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Piper

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S

Samhain



-- Known as "the spirit of All Hallow's Day," or Halloween, by the ancient Celtics, Samhaine was formerly worshipped as the spirit of the period after the summer equinox, when the nights became longer. Eventually he was imprisioned in stone, and remained dormant for centuries, and forgotten by most of the human race, though not by the supernatural. Samhaine has the powers associated with demi-gods, and the ability to control the supernatural manifestations around him and to slow down and eventually stop time, which would accomplish his goal of making the night of Halloween eternal.

 

Sandman, The



-- An entity with the power to put people to sleep with magic sand. The sand can do more than just put people to sleep however, depending on the Sandman's intentions; it has the ability to cast a century's worth of sleep and make nightmares and dreams manifest themselves. Although, with the proper methods applied, these walking dreams are more or less harmless, he can sense their individual locations when they are destroyed. His goal is to put the world to sleep and let dreams walk the earth for 100 years, thereby cleansing the human race, or at least putting it on hold.

 

Siren

Stay Puft Marshmellow Man



-- Ray's chosen form for Gozer.
-- Originally, the Stay-Puft marshmallow man was to rise up out of the river, right by the Statue of Liberty.
-- A large billboard appears on a building near the Ghostbusters firehouse. Featured on it is a picture of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man and the words "Stay Puft Marshmallows - Stay Puft, Even When Toasted" - an advertising slogan from Dan Aykroyd's original script.
-- An early idea was to have the Marshmallow Man change into a third, large manifestation of Gozer, instead of dying.
-- The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man appears several times in the film because the filmmakers wanted to build a continuity of his presence. He can be glimpsed on a billboard and on a package of Stay-Puft marshmallows that Dana buys.
-- One group within the production crew wanted him to be 100 feet tall, and another wanted him to be 125 feet. Ivan Reitman settled the arguement by making him 112 1/2 feet tall. In the film, he's mentioned at being 100 feet tall.
-- The filmmakers were concerned that Stay-Puft would take the movie into an area of silliness that would just discount everything else. All through the writing process and production, they were trying to come up with an alternative, but they just kept coming back to Stay-Puft.
-- The filmmakers considered either ending or beginning the Ghostbusters commercial with a Stay-Puft spot - complete with a little stop motion Marshmallow Man dancing around the countertop like the Pillsbury doughboy. They disgarded the idea as being a bit of overkill.
-- In the original script, the Marshmallow Man was pretty much a throwaway - just another effect. But it was such a great image that it was decided to use it as the manifestation fo Gozer.

 

Slimer



-- Although never specifically named in the film, the hotel apparition was to become known within the production unit as the Onionhead ghost - so dubbed because of the horrible stench which emanated from it, rather than from any physical resemblance to an onion. Though the malodorous aspect of the creature was dropped when the newlywed scene was cut - primarily because to visually support the notion would have required massive amounts of exacting, handrendered animation during the postproduction effects phase - the name "Onionhead" persisted among members of the crew.
-- In Ghostbusters, was only referred to as "ugly little spud." Became known as "Onionhead" to the film crew. In the cartoon series "The Real Ghostbusters" (and sequel film Ghostbusters II), Onionhead became "Slimer."
-- Made a special reappearance at the end of Ghostbusters, which many misinterpreted as implying a sequel.
-- Classified as a focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasm or a class 5 full roaming vapor.
-- In the five years from "Ghostbusters" to "Ghostbusters II," he got considerably fatter.
-- Ate Louis Tully's lunch.
-- Drove Louis Tully to the Manhattan Museum of Art on a New York City public bus.

 

Squid-like ghost

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Terror Dogs (Vinz Clortho & Zuul)



-- Vinz Clortho And Zuul appear in the form of male and female Terror Dogs.
-- The only difference between the male and female Terror Dogs is that the male has longer horns.
-- Stuart Ziff -- whose shop was responsible for building the Terror Dogs -- was always paranoid whenever his creatures were on the set. He'd had bad experiences on other projects with things being broken and shooting being stopped for repairs, and he was always warning the cast and crew to stay away from them. Once the Terror Dogs were on their pedestals, Stuart was assured that everyone would be kept away. But the first day they were on the set, Bill Murray walked up to one of them -- who's going to tell Bill Murray not to touch the dogs, right? -- and he said, "Gee, this is neat." Then he reached out and petted it on the head -- and almost as if on cue, one of the horns fell off, dropped to the floor and shattered.
-- In early drafts of the script, the Terror Dogs were sympathetic creatures from another dimension, who were terrified of Gozer and were trying to escape him. They took the form of human beings and went to the Ghostbusters seeking help.
-- Vinz Clortho possessed Louis Tully.
-- Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster of Gozer, is also known as Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia.
-- Zuul, the Minion of Gozer, was a demi-god worshipped around 600 BC by the Hittites, Mesopotamians and the Summerians.
-- Zuul is also known as the Gatekeeper.
-- Zuul possessed Dana Barrett.

 

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Vathec

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