History Film / GhostbustersFrozenEmpire

** [[BigBad Garraka]] is trapped in an ancient brass orb and is using what few powers it ''can'' exert to try and escape.

* PrecursorHeroes: When recounting the legend of Garraka, it's said that Fire Masters where roaming spirit trappers that forged the sphere with copper and brass to contain him. Phoebe comments that it sounds awfully similar to what the Ghostbusters do. Further parallels are drawn when Nadeem's power over fire is shown to work equally well on proton streams, and his use of fire to lasso Garraka works exactly like them.

* NoEndorHolocaust: Possibly. Garakka instant-freezing all of New York with extreme sub-zero temperatures in the middle of a very hot summer where people would be dressing lightly, along with countless deadly ice spikes erupting everywhere, apparently no one was killed in the several hours it took to undo it, (possibly justified, see HarmlessFreezing).

* NoEndorHolocaust: Despite Garakka instant-freezing all of New York with extreme sub-zero temperatures in the middle of a very hot summer where people would be dressing lightly, along with countless deadly ice spikes erupting everywhere, apparently no one was killed or hurt in the several hours it took to undo it.

''Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire'' is a 2024 sci-fi/horror/comedy film, the fourth film in the main ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' film continuity, and the sequel to ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife''. It is once more written by Creator/JasonReitman and Gil Kenan (''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse''), with Kenan taking Reitman's place as director. It stars Creator/MckennaGrace, Creator/FinnWolfhard, Creator/CarrieCoon, Creator/PaulRudd, Celeste O'Connor, Logan Kim, Creator/KumailNanjiani, Creator/PattonOswalt, Creator/EmilyAlynLind, James Acaster, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/ErnieHudson, Creator/AnniePotts, Creator/WilliamAtherton, and Creator/BillMurray. It is notably the first film in the franchise to not involve original director/producer Creator/IvanReitman in any capacity, following his passing in 2022.

* HarmlessFreezing: Being frozen by Garraka's power is only shown to be harmful when the victim is either [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]] or only partially frozen. Lars gets his hand frozen over by the orb containing him and is shown for the next few scenes with his arm in a sling and hand wrapped up, though he appears fine later. The entire team sans Nadeem gets frozen at the climax, but once Nadeem fights back with his fire powers, [[NoOntologicalInertia their freezing is undone]] and they're immediately ready to keep fighting back. Though considering he was about to rip a frozen Phoebe spirit out of her body, one can certainly read it as him making sure that [[FateWorseThanDeath his victims can't escape him via there soul leaving for the other side]].

* HarmlessFreezing: Being frozen by Garraka's power is only shown to be harmful when the victim is either [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]] or only partially frozen. Lars gets his hand frozen over by the orb containing him and is shown for the next few scenes with his arm in a sling and hand wrapped up, though he appears fine later. The entire team sans Nadeem gets frozen at the climax, but once Nadeem fights back with his fire powers, [[NoOntologicalInertia their freezing is undone]] and they're immediately ready to keep fighting back.

* PrecursorHeroes: When recounting the legend of Garraka, it's said that Fire Masters where roaming spirit trappers that forged the sphere with copper and brass to contain him. Phoebe comments that it sounds awfully similar to what the Ghostbusters do. Further parallels are drawn when Nadeem's power over fire is shown to work equally well on proton streams.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: When recounting the legend of Garraka, it's said that Fire Masters forged the sphere with copper and brass to contain it. Phoebe comments that it sounds awfully similar to what the Ghostbusters do.

* PrecursorHeroes: The Fire Masters were a group of [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] mystics who, using brass and fire, thwarted and imprisoned Garraka before he could wipe out mankind in an EndlessWinter.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: The ''second'' the sphere containing [[spoiler: Garraka]] is brought to Winston's Aquarium (repurposed as ghost prison); ''every'' last one of the usually rowdy ghost inmates banging against their cells ''immediately'' quiet down. Even the mini Stay-Puft kids, fragments of Gozer ''the Babylonian God of Destruction itself'', are frightened into submissive attention by the [[KillingIntent rage]] and sheer ''power'' of the horror trapped within it.

* TailorMadePrison: The orb containing Garraka is kept in a room lined with that's also constructed to be anechoic so the influence of his voice can't reach any other spirits.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Ghosts who "finish their business" and move on do this. What that entails is up for debate between Melody and Phoebe. Phoebe thinks they join with the "fabric of the universe".

* SealedEvilInACan: [[BigBad Garraka]] is trapped in an ancient brass orb and is using what few powers it ''can'' exert to try and escape.

* SlaveToPR: [[spoiler:This is how Winston outmaneuvers Peck after the climax when he tries to arrest them all. Winston deftly twists Peck's sarcasm and condemnation of the team into a confident endorsement in full view of the New York press and public. With New Yorkers overwhelmingly supporting the team thanks to the resolution of the Death Chill Crisis, Peck's political instincts quickly kick in. To his dismay, Peck realizes he ''has'' to play along and continue publicly supporting the team from hereon out, or risk overwhelming public backlash that could tank his Mayoralty.]]

** When Peck turns up at the firehouse after the climax, it's made very clear that his intention is [[spoiler:to use the damage caused to the city by Garraka as an excuse to shut the Ghostbusters down. However, he quickly realises that this move is going to back fire due to the general public's gratitude towards the Ghostbusters saving the world again and stops short of doing so, and seeing an opportunity, Winston then twists Peck's words of condemnation into an official public endorsement and support from the Mayor's Office]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Peck is an asshole with a grudge, he's not wrong about the legal and ethical issues of the Ghostbusters employing a minor.

** Also, after Garraka killed the tobacconist (thinking it was the latest Fire Starter since the store shares its name with the title), it entered [[spoiler: Nadeem]]'s grandmother's hidden room to reclaim its horns. While there, it passed a picture of [[spoiler: Nadeem and his grandmother]], not piecing together that's what [[spoiler: the latest Fire Starters look like]].

** [[https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/ghostbusters-frozen-empire-original-cast-who-you-gonna-call-exclusive/?fbclid=IwAR1l25ozDVPfZhmh6Tp1I3cic8eruTpe0NJE5F7CbT4bAQgYQSA2aWgkNGc Photos]] from ''Empire Magazine'' show the Ghost Traps are now moored on the side of the Proton Packs rather than hanging from the utility belts (much like they were in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''). The same photos also show Janine has suited up as a Ghostbuster, which likewise happened in the series and toyline. The final Trailers also show that Slimer is now living at (and haunting) the Firehouse, much like his animated counterpart -- although, granted, he had by implication already moved in during ''Ghostbusters II'' (though this was admittedly more evident and implied in the deleted Louis v. Slimer subplot). The icicles bursting from the ground are reminiscent of the pop-up gravestones from ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'''s cemetery sequence.

*** The Trevor v. Slimer subplot also evokes the similar deleted subplot from ''Ghostbusters II'' when Louis Tully likewise kept trying and failing to capture Slimer.

** With the original team having gone out of business by the early 1990s, the Firehouse was for all intents abandoned. Unsurprisingly, vagrants easily broke in and stripped the building of anything valuable like copper wiring (thus aligning with its dilapidated state by the time Winston brought the Ecto-1 home in the ''Afterlife'' post-credits Stinger). [[spoiler:This briefly comes back to haunt everyone when Phoebe has her Copper Weakness idea, only for Janine to inform her of the theft thus forcing them to melt down one of the Firehouse's brass poles as an alternative.]]

** Downplayed, but during the final battle, [[spoiler:Nadeem's lighter runs out, depriving him of an ignition for his abilities and leaving the team at Garraka's mercy. If this were the old days, Ray (a prolific smoker during the original films), could easily toss Nadeem his own lighter and they'd be back in business. Unfortunately, as Ray laments, he quit smoking after ''Ghostbusters II'' (and thus hasn't carried a lighter on his person for the better part of 30 years). Ooops.]]

* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:Peck's fatal mistake in the final scene. He's intent on using the citywide damage from the Garraka Crisis to finally shut down the Ghostbusters and arrest them all. He's so fixated on this goal that it doesn't immediately register with him that New Yorkers and the Press are overwhelmingly rallying in favor of the Ghostusters. By the time Peck finally realizes public opinion's ''not'' on his side and tries to back off, it's too late (as Winston is able to twist Peck's words of condemnation into words of political endorsement and support).]]

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* HorrifyingTheHorror: The ''second'' the sphere containing [[spoiler: Garraka]] is brought to Winston's Aquarium repurposed as ghost prison; ''every'' last one ofthe usually rowdy ghosts inmates banging against their cells ''immedieately'' quiet down. Even the mini Stay-Puft kids, fragments of Gozer ''the Babylonian God of Destruction itself'', are frightened into submissive attention by the [[KillingIntent rage]] and sheer ''power'' of the horror trapped within it.

* TimeSkip: ''Frozen Empire'' picks up the Ghostbusters saga two years after the events of ''Afterlife''.