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Warning! This article contains spoilers about Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
Summary
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire expands the original team, ensuring a ghostbuster is always ready to answer the call.
- Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore have key roles in the Ghostbusters legacy.
- Phoebe Spengler, Trevor Spengler, and Callie Spengler join the team, continuing Egon’s legacy.
The Ghostbusters team just got bigger with the release of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Ghostbusters quickly became a beloved movie, which became a part of the culture through the release of video games, animated TV shows, and merchandise that became wildly popular in the 80s, and 90s. At the heart of the series is the team of brave and intelligent men who helped to shed light on the incredibly prolific ghost issues that seemed to appear rampant in New York.
The first Ghostbusters movie was released in 1984, starring the original team of Ghostbusters. Since then, the series and the team have expanded with multiple sequel films and a reboot. Each movie expanded the roster of people who officially joined the Ghostbusters team, donning a uniform and picking up a proton pack to hunt down some ghosts. With so many people now a part of the team, there will always be a ghostbuster ready to answer the call.
16 Dr. Peter Venkman
Played By Bill Murray
Dr. Peter Venkman is the goofy and wild leader of the Ghostbusters in the original movies. While Bill Murray appears in every film, he only remains an official Ghostbuster in the first two movies. His appearances in the later films are in more of a support role, but despite his playful and non-serious nature, Venkman is an incredibly intelligent man, having earned doctorates in both psychology and parapsychology.
15 Dr. Raymond Stantz
Played By Dan Akroyd
Ray Stantz was also a member of the original team, and viewed by Venkman as the “heart of the Ghostbusters.” Ray was incredibly dedicated to the study of ghosts and paranormal activity, and even in his retirement, he continued to be closely involved with studying and discussing possessed objects. Ray is also highly optimistic, and one of the most easily persuaded members of the team to go anywhere in an effort to hunt down ghosts.
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14 Dr. Egon Spengler
Played By Harold Ramis
Egon Spengler was a professor at Columbia University who specialized in paranormal studies before his extracurricular ghost hunting with friends Ray and Peter got him fired from his position. Egon was the brightest of the original Ghostbusters bunch, and singlehandedly designed and built most of their technologies. He is also the only original Ghostbuster who is known to have had children and great-grandchildren, and he passed away when his grandkids were still teenagers. However, even after his death, he continued to communicate and help his family to defeat Zuul.
13 Winston Zeddemore
Played By Ernie Hudson
Winston Zeddemore was the fourth member of the Ghostbusters, joining in response to an ad he saw in the newspaper. Winston is the most down-to-earth, and conventional member of the team, with no major background in the study or hunting of ghosts. However, he is by far the most dependable, and reliable Ghostbuster in the original team. After the team went their separate ways, Winston became an incredibly successful businessman, which led to him having enough money to invest in major research and containment of ghosts.
12 Phoebe Spengler
Played By Mckenna Grace
Phoebe Spengler is the granddaughter of Egon Spengler, and the most similar to her deceased grandparent both in terms of physical looks, intelligence, and dedication to ghostbusting. Phoebe is also the youngest member of the team, which leads to some disputes about how much she should be involved. However, due to her stubbornness and extraordinary skills, she continues to be an essential member of the team, finding new and innovative ways to deal with ghosts, no matter how powerful they may be.
11 Trevor Spengler
Played By Finn Wolfhard
Trevor is the older brother of Phoebe, and while he may not have a great deal of book smarts like his sister, he is an incredibly gifted engineer. As a teenager, he was capable of fixing up cars, and he continued to refine these skills as he grew up. He may appear incredibly laid back and relaxed, but he is also passionate about his work as a Ghostbuster, and incredibly loyal to his family.
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10 Callie Spengler
Played By Carrie Coon
Callie Spengler is the mother of Trevor and Phoebe and the estranged daughter of Egon Spengler. Callie grew up not knowing her father, and never got to know him, but he did continue to keep track of her throughout her life without her knowing. Callie is a strong, independent, and talented woman who excelled in school and athletics, but developed a disdain for science due to its connections to her father. Callie raised both Phoebe and Trevor on her own for most of their lives, before moving into her father’s old house and forming a romantic connection with Gary Grooberson.
9 Gary Grooberson
Played By Paul Rudd
Gary Grooberson was a science teacher who was working at a summer camp that both Phoebe and Podcast attended together in Summerville. He is an enthusiastic, excitable, and funny guy who forms a romantic relationship with Callie Spengler. Gary became a Ghostbuster along with the other Spenglers when they chose to continue Egon’s legacy. He now lives with the other Spenglers in the old firehouse and has taken on the role of step-dad to Phoebe and Trevor.
8 Janine Melnitz
Played By Annie Potts
Janine Melnitz was the receptionist to the original Ghostbusters team who was often sarcastic and short with the boys. She did have a crush on Egon Spengler, however, by Ghostbusters II, she was dating Louis Tully, one of the first people the Ghostbusters helped who went on to be their accountant. Janine returned in the modern sequels, informing the Spenglers when Egon passed away, and in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, she dons a suit to help stop the ancient and evil god Garraka with the rest of the team.
7 Podcast
Played By Logan Kim
Podcast is the only known name of the young man who attended summer classes with Phoebe and became her friend. So named because he runs his own online show about supernatural events, Podcast is an enthusiastic believer in ghosts who firmly believes in the Ghostbusters and all that they do. In Frozen Empire, Podcast teams up with his only subscriber, Ray Stantz and helps him to expand his online show. He also officially gets his own suit in the film just before fighting Garraka.
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6 Lucky Domingo
Played By Celeste O’Connor
Lucky and Trevor became close after Trevor moved to Summerville. Lucky was a waitress in the local roller rink, before moving to the city and pursuing an internship for Zeddemore as part of his Ghostbusters facility. Lucky worked on experimental technologies to research ghosts, before joining the rest of the team to face Garraka.
5 Lars Pinfield
Played By James Acaster
James Acaster is a popular British comedian breaking into the world of film. Acaster plays Lars Pinfield, an inventor and engineer who possesses several paranormal degrees and works for Winston Zeddemore. Lars is the genius behind many of the inventions created to further study ghosts and keep them contained in a way that allows researchers like him to keep a close watch on them. However, while Lars joins the gang to fight Garraka, he is quickly indisposed by one of the escaped ghosts, and ends up missing all of the action.
4 Dr. Abigail L. Yates
Played By Melissa McCarthy
Abby Yates is one of the four Ghostbusters in the 2016 reboot film featuring a female-led cast. Abby and Erin co-wrote a novel about ghosts, and she is the practical joker of their group. Abby is highly educated, and one of the most quirky members of the team, but she is an invaluable member of the 2016 Ghostbusters team. She was also one of the three founding members along with Erin and Holtz.
3 Dr. Erin Gilbert
Played By Kristen Wiig
Erin is one of the more self-conscious members of the 2016 Ghostbusters team, with greater concern about how others view and perceive her. She co-wrote the novel, Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal, with Abby, although, her main focus of study was in particle physics. At times, due to her insecurities, she can appear goofy and lose her words when trying to impress other intellectuals.
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2 Dr. Jillian Holtzmann
Played By Kate McKinnon
Jillian “Holtz” Holtzmann is one of the core founders of the 2016 Ghostbusters team, and while Erin is extremely self-conscious, Holtz is in many ways the opposite. Holtz is very self-assured and confident when it comes to being herself. Like Abby, she can be a bit of a prankster, but she is also one of the most gifted inventors who designs and creates the proton packs and all the equipment the team uses.
1 Patricia Tolan
Played By Leslie Jones
Patty Tolan was a Metropolitan Transport Authority worker who frequently met odd characters while at work. However, when she came in contact with a ghost, she bumped into Abby and shared her story. She went on to become a member of their Ghostbusters team, thanks to her considerable knowledge of New York history, and her overall common sense, which the rest of her team appear to lack. Patty is also the bravest member of the Ghostbusters in the 2016 movie, and potentially the most likely to make it onto the team in the mainline Ghostbusters movies.
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a multimedia franchise created by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The first two films were released in the ’80s, but Ghostbusters III got stuck in development hell for years. Nearly 30 years after Ghostbusters II hit theaters, a reboot starring female Ghostbusters was released, followed by another reboot/sequel in 2021 titled Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The popular characters have also appeared in several video games and animated TV shows since the franchise’s creation in 1984.
- Cast
- Dan Aykroyd , Bill Murray , Ernie Hudson , Harold Ramis , Sigourney Weaver , Annie Potts , Rick Moranis , Melissa McCarthy , Kristen Wiig , Kate McKinnon , Leslie Jones , Chris Hemsworth , Mckenna Grace , Paul Rudd , Finn Wolfhard , Carrie Coon
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