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When the Ghostbusters finally figure things out and arrive on scene, the museum is cocooned by the slime they were investigating and maintained as a physical manifestation of the negative emotions of New Yorkers. To counter this, the Ghostbusters animate the Statue of Liberty. Cue final confrontation.
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One of the defining elements of the movies (and the rest of the franchise as a whole) is that the characters examine the paranormal with the scientific method and combat it with technology, rather than other similar stories where the characters have to combat the supernatural with magic. [[Dan Aykroyd]] and Harold Ramis (who
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== Ghostbusters General ==
* [[Always Chaotic Evil]]: Ghosts, except for very specific instances in spinoffs and adaptation. The Busters have to be justified in locking these things up for all eternity, after all.
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** Mentioned in the first film is that time Egon tried to drill a hole in his head. This is an actual procedure, called 'trepanation', which is sometimes claimed to confer psychic powers. "That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me." (Which was allegedly a [[Throw It In]] from Harold Ramis.)
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Justified since this is a franchise about '''ghosts'''. Also notable in the account of Vigo's death.
{{quote|'''Ray Stantz:''' He didn't die of old age, either. [[Rasputinian Death|He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered.]]
'''Peter:''' [[Major Injury Underreaction|Ouch.]]
'''Ray: '''There was a prophecy. Just before his ''head'' died, his last words were "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back." }}
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: The worst kind of non-believers.
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* [[Photoprotoneutron Torpedo]]: Proton packs, which are "positron colliders" (or sometimes "unlicensed nuclear accelerators") that shoot particles from "neutrona wands".
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The Ghostbusters themselves.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Lenny the Mayor fills this role to some extent in the first two movies. He's a rather cynical politician whose public image and chances of re-election
{{quote|'''Ray:''' First of all, Mr. Mayor, it's a great pleasure to see you again. And we'd like to say that [[False Reassurance|almost 50% of us voted for you in the last election.]]
'''Mayor:''' I appreciate that. }}
** By the time of the game, he seems to have been replaced with a more straightforward example of this trope; the current mayor got elected on a pro-Ghostbuster platform, and now has the city [[Hero Insurance|covering their collateral damage]].
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* [[Token Minority]]: Winston.
* [[Vanity License Plate]]: The Ectomobile has ECTO 1 on its tags.
* [[Weapons That Suck]]: Technically speaking, the real weapon the Busters use against the ghosts are their traps, which suck the ghosts in and hold them until deposited in the protection grid. All the proton packs intended for is to snare ghosts in the proton stream and position them above the trap. That's also why the Busters didn't need the proton packs to capture the jogging ghost; all they had to do is place the trap in his path and open it when
* [[Weirdness Censor]]: Despite the rampant evidence to the contrary, Peck insists the Ghostbusters are frauds deluding people with chemicals and "a cheap, electronic light show." (Of course, a city official then asks Peck to explain why "the walls in the 53rd precinct are bleeding") In the second movie, several characters continue this attitude, which makes one wonder what they thought of the very public attack involving the very gigantic Stay
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: "What did you ''do'', Ray?"
▲* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]: The [[Trope Namer]]
* [[The Worf Barrage]]: Basically the major ghosts of the movies prove to be immune to the normal proton pack capture streams, which force the team to resort to different strategies to beat them.
** The proton packs don't do much against Gozer in his/her Stay
** 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.
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== Ghostbusters ==
* [[Above the Influence]]:
▲* [[Above the Influence]]: In the first Ghostbusters, Venkman comes to visit Dana and finds she is possessed by Zuul, which makes her want to sleep with the Keymaster. He refuses, since she isn't in her right mind.
{{quote|'''Zuul/Dana:''' ''I want you inside me.''
'''Venkman:''' *laughs* Go ahead - no, I can't. Sounds like you got at least two people in there already. Might be a little crowded." }}
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* [[Cosmic Horror]]: Gozer ''et al''.
* [[Converging Stream Weapon]]: What you get when you cross the streams (besides a massive life-threatening explosion).
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Venkman proves to have fast access to 300 cc's of Thorazine, which implies that he carries it around with him or can find it offscreen in less than a few minutes. 300 cc's is a ''lot'' (almost ''a third of a quart'', Imperial). The novel clarifies this by implying that he found it in her apartment.
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Director [[Ivan Reitman]] provides the voices for Slimer and Zuul.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]:
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* [[Oh Crap]]: The look on Mr. Stay Puft's face when the Ghostbusters cross the streams.
** Alternatively, the Ghostbusters's reaction to Stay-Puft
{{quote|'''Ray''': [[Big No|No!]] It can't be!
'''Winston''': What is it?!
'''Ray''': [[Department of Redundancy Department|It can't be!]]
'''Winston''': [[What the Hell, Hero?|What did you]] ''[[What the Hell, Hero?|do]]''[[What the Hell, Hero?|, Ray?!]] [[Oh Crap|Aw, Shit!]] }}
*** And again when Stay-Puft turns to face them with its maniacal grin...
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* [[Pillar of Light]]: Rises over the city when the ecto containment unit explodes.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: Venkman gets two of these in rapid succession
{{quote|'''Venkman:''' ''(after having nearly been flung off a building by Gozer's [[Agony Beam|Electrofingers-of-Death]])'' "Alright... this chick is '''toast'''!"
'''Venkman:''' "...let's show this [[Eldritch Abomination|prehistoric]] [[Precision F-Strike|bitch]] how we do things [[Big Applesauce|downtown]]." }}
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: The containment grid's shut down, and ghosts are streaming into the atmosphere in a pillar of blinding light. What drives home how bad the situation isn't the ensuing montage, or that a possessed man escapes in the crowd. It's that what's happening is enough to tip Egon over into angrily insulting Peck's mother.
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