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** Not just innuendo. Dana outright says (though she's possessed by Zuul at the time and therefore Venkman refuses her) "I want you inside me." This is usually cut from TV broadcasts of the movie.

* [[Ghostly Goals]]: Usually of the highly destructive variety.

* [[A Half Dozen Guys in A Basement]]

* [[A Half Dozen Guys in A Basement]]: Except in ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'', where they have a girl member.

* [[Irony]]: The [[Cool Car|Ecto-1]] is a renovated hearse. A team of ghost hunters are ''using a hearse'' as their signature vehicle. Kind of... fitting, really.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: ''Venkman''.

{{quote|'''Venkman''': "Type somethin', will ya? We're payin' ya for this stuff. And don't stare at me, ya got the bug-eyes...." (pauses) "Janine, sorry about the bug-eyes thing, I'll be in my office."}}

* [[Lovable Coward]]: For all his charm and bravado, Peter Venkman is not the bravest of men. With a few exceptions any acts of heroism on his part will usually be very very reluctant ones. That said, he will step up to the plate if necessary; he just won't be very happy about it. Of course, we still like him, because he's Peter Venkman.

* [[Lovecraft Lite]]

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Mostly Egon, but a little bit in Ray as well. Capitalism and a general sense of the good of mankind steers this towards positive and constructive directions.

{{quote|'''Peter''': Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Do you remember that?

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* [[Magic Versus Science]]: Science wins.

* [[The Merch]]: In-universe examples. In the first film's credits, there are kids waving Ghostbuster logo t-shirts. ''Ghostbusters II'' has the gang offer branded thermal mugs and balloons in their commercial.

* [[Muggles Do It Better]]: Never more than mere mortals, able to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punch out Cthulhus as part of a typical work day]], in one case ''literally''.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Ray gets this a lot.

** He chooses Gozer's destructive form as Stay Puft.

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** Vigo is briefly annoyed by the packs and brushes the team away and paralyzes them. He has to be weakened by a [[Care Bear Stare]] / [[Combined Energy Attack]] in the form of happy, singing New Yorkers, which was the only way they were able to enter the building anyway.

** The games introduce three major modifications (complete with a secondary fire mode) to the classic backpack and most of the ghosts have a weakness to one of them: basic particle stream, dark matter generator, slime blower and meson collider. The idea is if one ghost is shrugging off any one of your attacks you can switch them up.

== Ghostbusters ==