Ghostbusters (2016 film): Difference between revisions

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* [[Fog Feet]]: The ghost of Gertrude Aldridge, who plays much the same role as the Library Ghost in the original.

* [[For Science!]]: As the counterpart in many ways to Egon Spengler, this is a big part of Holtzmann's personality.

** In general, this is the motive for the entire group, rather than profit (and fame) as in the original. They catch ghosts in order to study them, instead of being supernatural exterminators. Hence why the film has no extended [[Montage]] of successful missions and why the climax is a battle -- they've never been about catching ghosts for the sake of catching ghosts.

* [[Gender Flip]]

* [[Ghostly Goals]]: Virtually every ghost in the movie is type B: forces of pure, motiveless evil.

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* [[Place Worse Than Death]]: During one of the credits scenes, Holtzmann announces the successful creation of holding facilities for the ghosts they catch. Then she admits she doesn't know where the ghosts go when they are captured but thinks it might be Michigan.

* [[Power Fist]]: One of the pieces of anti-ghost ordnance Holtzmann builds is what amounts to a power glove for ''punching ghosts''.

* [[Reverse Polarity]]: {{spoiler|The Ghostbusters send Ecto-1 and its nuclear reactors into Rowan's gate; it explodes and changes the gate into a giant ghost trap that sucks in all the entities at loose in the city}}.

* [[Reverse Polarity]]: {{spoiler|The Ghostbusters send Ecto-1 and its nuclear reactors into Rowan's gate; it explodes and changes the gate from spewing out ghosts into a giant ghost trap that sucks back in all the entities at loose in the city -- including Rowan himself}}.

* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Patty.

* [[Sinister Subway]]: The station where Patty works is under the former location of a jail where executions took place. Not surprisingly, the ghost of an electrocuted prisoner manifests there.

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* [[Whip It Good]]: The proton packs (and especially Holtzmann's proton handguns) act like energy whips at times.

* [[Whispering Ghosts]]: Referenced several times with various team members listening to tape recordings for [[wikipedia:Electronic voice phenomenon|electronic voice phenomena]].

* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]: While they're in the ghost business [[For Science!]], not money, they'll still come running to help.