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Dana Barrett
Dana Barrett
Played by: Sigourney Weaver
Dubbed by: Frédérique Tirmont (European French)
Appears in: Ghostbusters | Ghostbusters II | Ghostbusters: Afterlife
"Well, that's just great. Either I have a monster in my kitchen or I'm completely crazy."
A musician who alerts the Ghostbusters to Gozer's presence before getting possessed by Zuul in the first film. Between the two movies she got married, had a son, and got divorced, and started working at the Manhattan Museum of Art as a restorer before getting caught up in the Ghostbusters' problems again. Has an on-again-off-again relationship with Peter Venkman, who loves her, but has commitment issues.
- Action Mom: She progresses to this in the second movie, having to rescue her son (and fend off Janosz) multiple times.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: As the first film progresses, she drops the hauteur and stars to believe in and befriend the guys.
- Demonic Possession: She’s possessed by Zuul during the second half of the first film, after Gozer selects her to be “The Gatekeeper”.
- Dude Magnet: She’s caught the eye of a good few admirers other than Peter, including Louis, a fellow musician (dubbed “the stiff” by Peter), her ex-husband, and course, Janosz.
- Elegant Classical Musician: Dana is a sophisticated, elegant Manhattanite, and plays cello in the City Orchestra.
- Love Interest: To Peter — and they’re still together thirty two years later.
- Mama Bear: She doesn't need a Proton Pack to be an Action Mom! In the sequel, she sprints down the streets of New York trying to stop her baby’s runaway carriage, literally hurling herself at it to try to stop it barreling into busy traffic.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: Goes from being an orchestral performer in the first movie to retouching paintings in the second, with the explanation being that she's taking a break from the orchestra while raising Oscar.
- One of the Boys: Even after she breaks up with Peter, she still gets along with all the Ghostbusters and vice versa.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: She's a professional cellist, although we don't see her playing cello onscreen. In Ghostbusters II, we hear her practicing, but the camera cuts to her setting her cello down, and they handwave it with saying she's taking a break from performing till Oscar's old enough.
- The Reliable One: You can always count on her. One of the reasons she and Peter broke-up, temporarily, was due to him becoming complacent with Dana’s dutiful nature.
- Sequel Non-Entity: Frozen Empire is the first film in the franchise where Dana does not appear, nor is she mentioned by any of the other characters. According to director Gil Kenan, they simply didn't have anything for Dana to do, though there is a Freeze-Frame Bonus advertising an upcoming concert performance by "Cellist Dana Barrett".
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Had a lot of trouble finding one for a while, until she finally finds love with Peter.
- Statuesque Stunner: Especially when possessed in the first film — she’s goddess-like in her Gozer gown — helped by the fact that Ms. Weaver is a shade under 6 foot.
- Weirdness Magnet: In a deleted scene, retained in the script and novelisation of Ghostbusters II, she wonders if she may have some genetic susceptibility to spectral interference. While Peter dismisses the idea, Ray and Egon aren't so sure...
Oscar Barrett
Oscar Barrett
Played by: William T Deutschendorf and Henry J Deutschendorf
Appears in: Ghostbusters II
Dana's baby son. He is targeted by Vigo the Carpathian to be his host body to get back in the mortals' world.
- Ambiguously Related: Ivan Reitman said in an interview with Rolling Stone in July 2016 that Oscar is probably Venkman's son.
- Demonic Possession: Oscar is targeted by demonic overlord Vigo the Carpathian, who wants to reincarnate in the physical world using him as host.
- Living MacGuffin: Vigo wanting him as host so he can reincarnate in the physical world drives a good part of the plot of Ghostbusters II.
- Sequel Non-Entity: Though Peter and Dana are Happily Married by the time of Afterlife, Oscar's whereabouts are never mentioned in either that film or Frozen Empire.
- Spin-Offspring: Sigourney Weaver and Ivan Reitman have said an unused idea for a third movie would have had an adult Oscar leading a team of Ghostbusters.
- Straying Baby: To his mother's horror, Oscar gets lured outside his room's window and stands up over the building's ledge... then gets snatched away by a ghostly Janosz Poha sporting creepy nanny attire.
Walter Peck
Walter Peck
Played by: William Atherton
Dubbed by: Hervé Bellon (European French)
Appears in: Ghostbusters | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
"Forget it, Venkman! You had your chance to cooperate, but you thought it would be more fun to insult me. Well, now it is my turn, wiseass."
A representative of the Environmental Protection Agency, or so he claimed. He's highly skeptical and cynical, especially toward Peter. In the 2009 video game he is appointed as liaison between the Ghostbusters and the city of New York under the newly formed Paranormal Contracts Oversight Commission, to his great annoyance. In the IDW comic he is still head of P.C.O.C., but has grown into the role. By the time of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, he has become the Mayor of New York City and still trying to shut down the Ghostbusters after their return.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the IDW comics, Walter Peck comes to regret his actions and pulls a Heel–Face Turn for the most part (he doesn't like the Ghostbusters and does keep their feet to the fire, but he doesn't stop them from doing their jobs), while every other adaptation he retains his antagonistic persona.
- Aesop Amnesia: Frozen Empire shows that even 40 years later, he's learned nothing from his mistakes and is still the same Obstructive Bureaucrat as before. Peter even lampshades it.Peter: Peck, you clown! You're never gonna get it, are you?
- All for Nothing: In Frozen Empire, he tries to shut down the Ghostbusters for good and has them arrested; however, after the Ghostbusters save New York and Phoebe becomes a hero, he is forced to back down, leave Phoebe alone, and also forced to support them due to the people backing the Ghostbusters more than him and the Ghostbusters becoming heroes, much to his dismay and humilation.
- Amoral Attorney: He only aims to sue the Ghostbusters out of spite for their cause, but in reality, is just a money-grubbing agent.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Surrounded by news articles and TV interviews about the ghosts the Ghostbusters have caught yet insists it's all an elaborate scam.
- Artistic License – Law: Without a search warrant, or any sort of legal document, never mind actually showing Peter any credentials to back up his claims, Peck walks into the Ghostbusters' building, "asking" to be shown very sensitive and rightfully classified technology (and specifically chemical tanks that they don't actually have) for no good reason. When a suspicious Peter refuses, he retaliates by forcing his way back into the building without notice, accompanied by a police officer and some guy in a hard-hat, waving around a piece of paper that neither the Ghostbusters nor their lawyers have had a chance to review. This is a major breach of proper protocol for any kind of government facility. How Peck didn't wind up in jail himself is a major case of Karma Houdini. Though there are stories of actual government officials and bureaucrats doing that and worse in New York and getting away with it.
- The Atoner: In the comics, he privately admits to Janine during the "Crossing Over" event that everything that happened in the first film after that first meeting with Peter was essentially on him, and despite his Mean Boss and Obstructive Bureaucrat behavior towards the Ghostbusters, he's done quite a bit of fighting for them out of a desire to avoid having that kind of thing happen again.
- The Bus Came Back: Returns (in live-action) to the franchise in Frozen Empire, a good forty years after he first appeared in the original Ghostbusters.
- Character Development: Probably goes through the most out of any of the cast over the course of the movies, games, and comics, going from an inept bureaucrat who hates the Ghostbusters to an abrasive bureaucrat who hates the Ghostbusters (but not as much).
- Covered in Gunge: But hey, at least it was marshmallow.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Ends up banking on this to keep the Ghostbusters running and their gear from being seized in the IDW comics: Yes, they've got suspicious and dangerous technology, and yes, it does get used in unprofessional manners. But the Ghostbusters are also frequently the only ones who know how to maintain and (more importantly) stabilize said tech. It helps that, by his own admission, nobody wants "to press the point with the idiot who forcibly turned off the containment grid".
- Embarrassing Nickname: Ray calls him "Dickless", which Peter then mockingly corroborates (to Peck's fury) by saying, "It's true, this man has no dick." In Frozen Empire, a random citizen calls Peck "dickless" when he tries to have the Ghostbusters arrested again.
- Grumpy Old Man: He's seventy years old in Frozen Empire and as that film makes clear his advanced age hasn't made him any less of a colossal chode.
- Harmless Villain: Mostly; the containment unit gets blown up because of him in the first film but Peck generally doesn't do anything truly lethal to the Ghostbusters directly. He acts as an independent Disc-One Final Boss who manages to either restrain or delay the Ghostbusters, which gives the real villains more time or freedom to act.
- Hate Sink:
- Peck with his imperious self-righteousness, skepticism, and his Jerkass Never My Fault belligerency is clearly designed to inspire a burning hatred in the audience. When he has the Ghostbusters arrested for the explosion when it is clearly his own fault, the whole audience wants to punch his lights out. He's arguably even worse in Frozen Empire, where he acts far more petty and smugly bullies the teenage Phoebe.
- In the DVD commentary, William Atherton complained that the movie ruined his life; Peck's character was so despised that people would speak to Atherton as though they were giving him a piece of their mind, and people started bar fights with him on several occasions.
- Heel–Face Turn: In the comics, following the events of the game. He's still a dick, but a dick who recognizes the need for the Ghostbusters and will defend their behavior to the mayor and the press.
- Hypocrite: He has the gall to complain about Peter insulting him during their first encounter despite Peck being the one who insulted Peter first.
- Jerkass: Where to begin? He harasses the Ghostbusters based solely on rumors. He orders the containment grid to be turned off despite the warnings of the Ghostbusters and a Con Ed technician's reticence against doing so, resulting in the release of all the ghosts therein. Then he has the nerve to have the Busters arrested for the disaster he himself caused!
- Jerkass Has a Point: What makes Peck so insufferable is that he's often technically in the right but is such a colossal jackass that no one respects or listens to him.
- While Peck may be a dick about it (if he had one) and makes his point in all the wrong ways, he's right to be suspicious of the guys working with highly experimental technology with nuclear capabilities in the middle of a densely populated city like New York with no permits.
- In Frozen Empire, while motivated by personal spite for the Ghostbusters, he is right in that it's ethically and legally murky to have Phoebe, a minor, work a job for no pay that requires her to operate highly dangerous and sensitive equipment.
- Karma Houdini: Frozen Empire shows that Peck's career managed to survive unscathed as despite his role in the Gozer incident, he's now the Mayor of New York City. Fortunately, he gets some much-deserved Karma Houdini Warranty at the end of the movie — see All for Nothing and Slave to PR.
- Kick the Dog:
- He continually refers to Peter as "Mr. Venkman" even after Peter politely informs him that his proper title is "Dr." and shows him his doctorates to prove it.
- One easily-missed line also reveals a very nasty elitist streak in his attitude:"Don't patronize me! I'm not grotesquely stupid, like the people you bilk!"
- Laser-Guided Karma: Becoming the head of a brand-new government organization with an implied pay hike doesn't sound like a punishment, until it's made clear to him (in the same scene as that reveal) that his organization's continued existence now depends entirely on the Ghostbusters he hates so much to operate.
- Malicious Slander: After he causes the explosion with his careless shutdown of the containment unit, he tells the mayor, and anyone who will listen, that the Ghostbusters were causing hallucinations of ghosts by deliberately exposing their clients to massive amounts of noxious chemicals without any evidence whatsoever. Barring the sheer implausibility of the Ghostbusters actually being able to pull this off, such a reckless accusation does open Peck to any number of lawsuits, which any competent lawyer could easily use to bring massive consequences upon the accuser if he doesn't have iron-clad evidence, which Peck did not.
- Mean Boss: As head of P.C.O.C. he at first deliberately interferes with the Ghostbusters' investigation out of spite. Even after Peck's Heel–Face Turn he still enjoys forcing the Ghostbusters to do unpleasant things, especially Peter.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: Because Gozer the Gozerian is too alien to hate within the first film, Peck is made especially obnoxious and slimy so that his entirely reasonable request to check the Ghostbusters' equipment quickly escalates into him rashly shutting down their containment grid and unleashing a literal hell on earth. Granted, Peck is absolutely right about the inadequacy of the containment procedures, but he proves it by breaking them. The fact that his first reaction to a disaster, which he is clearly responsible for bringing about in front of multiple witnesses, is to have the Ghostbusters arrested while totally ignoring his own culpability with such Smug Snake self-righteousness seals the deal securing the audience's hate for him.
- My Greatest Failure: His main goal is the shut the Ghostbusters down. No matter how hard his tries, but he keeps failing. Every time he gets them to back down; however, it was only temporary and the Ghostbusters continue to stay in business. Even as the mayor and now old, he tries to shut them down out of spite; however, after the Ghostbusters save New York yet again and everyone praises and supports the team even more, he's forced to back down and let the Ghostbusters continue their work, much to his dismay and humiliation.
- Never My Fault:
- Peck loudly and blatantly blames the Ghostbusters for causing an explosion when it is clearly obvious in front of multiple witnesses that he himself is personally responsible for the disaster, having ordered the containment grid to be turned off.
- In Frozen Empire, he threatens to have Phoebe arrested for slander when she brings up the containment grid fiasco.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: A government bureaucrat who, in his quest to obstruct one business, obstructs the business of the entire world. Also, during the game and early comics, where he rarely passes up the opportunity to inflict some misery on the team.
- The Peter Principle: He has absolutely zero understanding of the Ghostbusters' technology, yet legally has the right to screw with both it and them (to a point; Peter actually threatens to sue him for the degree he's abusing his authority even before he shuts down the equipment illegally). Hilarity does not ensue. He's just a petty tyrant who thinks being a federal regulator means he can do anything. The IDW comics see him admit to Janine that he's effectively weaponized this against the rest of the P.C.O.C., forcing them to leave the Ghostbusters and their tech alone instead of a repeat performance of this trope.
- Red Herring Mole: In the video game, the Ghostbusters think he's the Big Bad, but it turns out he's an Unwitting Pawn.
- Shared Mass Hallucination: He thinks that the Ghostbusters were using nerve gas to make their clients hallucinate ghosts.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Peter in the IDW continuity, who he never misses an opportunity to needle.
- Slave to PR: At the end of Frozen Empire, when a reporter asks him his opinion on the Ghostbusters, he realizes that they're being hailed as the saviors of the city, so, despite the fact that he clearly still hates them, he responds that they have his full support, even publicly rescinding his concerns about Phoebe when Winston points out how instrumental she was in resolving the situation.
- Smug Snake: Insufferably arrogant, petty, and spiteful as a man who works as a humorless and rigid bureaucrat with antagonistic and mutual hatred for the Ghostbusters.
- Stealth Insult:
- The astute viewer will notice that Peck continues to refer to Venkman as "Mister" even after pointedly looking over Venkman's two doctorates hanging on the walls of his office. He then makes it a little clearer. "What are you a doctor of, Dr. Venkman?"
- He himself is subjected to one with the name of the organization he winds up getting Kicked Upstairs into: P.C.O.C.; "Peacock" is slang for an arrogant person who thinks they're far more important than they actually are. It also doubles as a reference to the infamous "no dick" insult Venkman slung at him.
- Straw Character: Peck is the quintessential Reagan-era caricature of a government inspector. His main purpose is to draw attention away from the fact that people from the appropriate agencies haven't shown up and shut the team down legitimately.
- Too Dumb to Live: Let's see; he believes that mass numbers of average people can be induced to see Shared Mass Hallucinations. He knows absolutely nothing about chemicals, radiation, or any of the other things he claims to be harassing the Ghostbusters about, and worst of all, grabs what appears to be a random city worker to shut down equipment he doesn't even begin to understand. He's lucky something really unpleasant didn't grab him and make him into a snack. He's even luckier he was wrong; if it had been storage for dangerous chemicals he would have endangered or killed thousands of people.
- Unusual Euphemism: "This man has no dick.""Well, that's what I heard!"
Mayor Clotch
Mayor Lenny Clotch
Played by: David Margulies
Dubbed by: Marc de Georgi (European French)
Appears in: Ghostbusters | Ghostbusters II
"Somebody get me the Ghostbusters."
The Mayor of New York City in the first two movies who assists the Ghostbusters to save the city.
- Ascended Extra: He had only one scene in the first film, then got a larger role in the second.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has his snarky moments, especially when rattled, including snarking “what am I supposed to do, tell people to start praying??” when his religious counsel notes that the spooks in Manhattan are a “sign from God”.
- First-Name Basis: The Ghostbusters eventually get to know him on this by the second film.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Seems rather acerbic at first but is a respected man who'll do whatever it takes to keep New York safe.
- Joisey: Sports an accent of this type.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: In contrast to Peck and Hardemeyer, he is much more willing to accept the Ghostbusters' help.
- Small Role, Big Impact: In both the first and second film, it's his intervention that gets the team sprung from a jail cell and a psychiatric facility, respectively, and it becomes clear he's more than willing to help the team with whatever they need, even staging a police convoy to help clear traffic to get them to Dana's apartment building in the first film.
Janosz Poha
Janosz Poha
Played by: Peter MacNicol
Dubbed by: Vincent Violette (European French)
Appears in: Ghostbusters II
A curator at the Manhattan Museum of Art who is forced by mind control to do Vigo's bidding and act as his agent in the mortal realm.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear exactly how much mind control he's under, as while he serves Vigo, he still has his own personality and wants. It comes off less as direct brainwashing and more just Janosz deciding Vigo is simply the best person to back until he's defeated.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Controlled by Vigo to do his bidding.
- Commonality Connection: Janosz ostensibly originates from Eastern Europe (Moldavia / Moldova specifically in the comics), which solidifies his deference and link to Vigo, who describes himself as “the Sorrow of Moldavia”.
- Creepy Crossdresser: When his ghostly form dresses up like a demon nanny to kidnap Oscar... you'd have to be there.
- Demonic Possession: Vigo forces his will upon Janosz, making him do his bidding.
- Deprogram: Thanks to the good version of the mood slime, he's freed from Vigo's influence. And he and Ray are turned into a pair of Love Freaks.
- The Dragon: After he’s enthralled, he becomes the main enforcer of Vigo’s will.
- Funny Foreigner: Of some kind... He speaks with a thick, vaguely Eastern European-sounding accent.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Chillingly realized when he visits Dana during the blackout scene. After a somewhat unnerving discussion, Dana tells him to leave. Once he is now alone in the dark, his eyes suddenly start to glow like flashlights in the dark hallway. A lot more disturbing than it sounds.
- Harmless Villain: He becomes a Not-So-Harmless Villain after kidnapping Oscar.
- Heel–Face Turn: Thanks to the positively-charged mood slime.
- Hopeless Suitor: Where Dana is concerned — she finds him annoying at best and utterly repellent at worst.
- Love Makes You Evil: Well, Demonic Possession, but still counts.
- Love Redeems: Mood-Slime Redeems.
- More than Mind Control: Despite being brainwashed to be Vigo's loyal minion, Janosz's personality more or less stays the same aside from getting a bit creepier. As such, Dana and the other Ghostbusters don't realize he's under thrall for a good portion of the film. However, this ends up biting Vigo in the ass because Janosz's obsession with Dana is what makes them decide to take Oscar, which sets the Ghostbusters on their case much faster than it otherwise would have been.
- Powers via Possession: Being subject to Demonic Possession by Vigo gives him some exclusive abilities. Curiously, one of which is to manifest in a ghost form despite not being dead, an ability he uses to kidnap Oscar.
- The Renfield: Peter MacNicol played the Renfield here before playing the Renfield in Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
- Ruritania: Just where on Earth is he supposed to be originally from? "The Upper Vest Side," of course. According to the comics, he's originally from Moldova — a nation situated near the Carpathian region Vigo once inhabited.Venkman: You'll never get a green card with that attitude, pal.
- Servile Snarker: Even though he's Brainwashed and Crazy to be loyal to Vigo, that doesn't stop him from indirectly telling Vigo to get on with it the second time he starts going through all his titles.
- Stalker with a Crush: For Dana, though it only truly started getting creepy after being put under Vigo's thrall.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Louis Tully, another awkward guy obsessing with Dana and who also fell under the control of a spiritual entity.
- Vampire Vords: Speaks with a stereotypical Eastern-European accent, substituting W for V.
- Unwitting Pawn: He’s used as an Igor-esque minion in the real world by Vigo whilst he remains trapped within a painting.
Judge Wexler
Judge Stephen "The Hammer" Wexler
Played by: Harris Yulin
Dubbed by: Yves Barsacq (European French)
Appears in: Ghostbusters II
A notorious New York judge who nearly put the Ghostbusters permanently out of commission. It was he who also tried and convicted the Scoleri Brothers for murder, sentencing them to electrocution.
- Adaptation Name Change: The Novelization identifies him as Judge Roy Beane, presumably as a Shout-Out to the famous judge
from The Wild West. - Agent Scully: Brusquely warns against mention in his courtroom of any supernatural "malarkey". On finding the 'Busters guilty, he rages against the supernaturalism by which they "prey on the gullibility of innocent people," and expresses a bilious wish to see them "burned at the stake!"
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Despite his tough exterior, he has no qualms about begging the Ghostbusters to save his sorry ass when he is proved wrong that ghosts definitely exist.
- Break the Haughty: His vicious rant against the supernatural trade of the Ghostbusters immediately causes a small explosion from the exhibited jar of Mood Slime, from which fly the looming, crackling, electric chair-bound apparitions of two men he had executed for murder.
- Dirty Coward: Wexler may be a harsh and imposing judge, but he gets a big fright when he sees the ghosts of the Scholeri Brothers, men he sentenced to death, appear in his courtroom. He hides under a table and tries to leave the court as quickly as possible, not bothering to help the prosecutor who is being terrorized by the ghosts of the Scholeri Brothers. Wexler also has the cheek to beg the Ghostbusters, whom he had just sentenced to prison, fined heavily, and are still under a judicial order, for help. Plus, he grudgingly rescinds said order and then orders the Ghostbusters to put things right.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: The Nostalgia Critic wondered how he could charge the Ghostbusters for damages that happened while fighting a ghost while denying ghosts exist at the same time.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Angry seems to be his default mood.
- Hanging Judge: Has a rep for giving defendants harsh sentences. Tellingly, the ghosts awoken from his ranting are two crooks he sentenced to death.
- Jerkass: In addition to acting like an asshole toward everyone in his courtroom, he uses the sentencing statement as a chance to bellow about how much he hates the Ghostbusters and how much he wishes he could give them harsher, more draconian punishments. His anger and hatred are so extreme it spawns ghosts from the Hate Slime, something not seen in anyone else in the movie up to that point.
- Large Ham: Especially during his "BURNED AT THE STAKE!" rant.
- Oh, Crap!: "Oh my God, THE SCOLERI BROTHERS!"
- Skeptic No Longer: During the Ghostbusters' trial, the ghostly spirits of the Scoleri Brothers, some of his previous executed trial defendants, manifest out of the mood slime jar and raise mayhem in the courtroom. Pressured by their lawyer, Louis Tully, Judge Wexler rescinds the judicial restraining order on the Ghostbusters, allowing them to get to work busting the Scoleri Brothers with all their gear conveniently laid out as evidence for their trial for them. Egon prods Wexler a bit over it when he dives for cover under their table as well.
Jack Hardemeyer
Jack Hardemeyer
Played by: Kurt Fuller
Dubbed by: Michel Derain (European French)
Appears in: Ghostbusters II
Mayor Lenny's assistant who views the Ghostbusters with disdain.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Walter Peck. Whereas Peck was a Windmill Crusader and a genuine cynic, Hardemeyer is a Sleazy Politician who would rather keep the city's supernatural problem under wraps. This arguably makes him even worse than Peck as he's even willing to falsify insanity charges against the Ghostbusters to keep them out of his way.
- Jerkass: Hardemeyer is an arrogant Amoral Attorney who abuses his position of working with the mayor and gets the Ghostbusters committed out of spite.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Despite the fact that paranormal activity is happening throughout the city due to Vigo’s influence, Hardemeyer adamantly believes the Ghostbusters are not needed. The mayor thinks otherwise and promptly fires him as his ego almost destroyed the city.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Mayor Clotch angrily fires Hardemeyer and has him roughly thrown out of his building after Hardemeyer reveals he had the Ghostbusters locked up in an asylum in Clotch's name without his knowledge or consent at the worst possible time.
- In a deleted scene, he would have arrived at the Museum just after the Ghostbusters (accompanying the Mayor), and would rail at them for creating a "projection" of slime around the building. When he attempts to press against it, however, he gets sucked into it instantly and gets trapped.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Like Peck before him, he goes out of his way to make things miserable for the Ghostbusters.
- Pet the Dog: He's seen during the ending credits joining in with the rest of the citizens singing around the museum, looking not particularly unhappy even after getting fired.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's just the Mayor's assistant, yet he acts like he has more power than his boss.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He takes Walter Peck's role as the jackass close to the Mayor who antagonizes the Ghostbusters, though arguably he's even worse. Naturally, they briefly work together in the IDW comics.
- Too Dumb to Live: Even with the city being overrun by ghosts and other paranormal activity, Jack insists the Ghostbusters aren't needed. It gets him fired.
- Villainous Friendship: He thought he had this with Peck in the comics. However, as Peck points out, all they have in common is a shared hatred of Peter Venkman.
- Villain Team-Up: Of a sort, in the comics. Peck brings him in as the group's liaison when the original team goes missing, making the replacement team's lives very difficult and focusing solely on the marketing end of the business.
Ghostbusters Allies
Nadeem Razmaadi
Nadeem Razmaadi
Played by: Kumail Nanjiani
Appears in: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
A descendant of a group of guardians tasked with safeguarding Garraka's prison, and re-sealing him if need be.
- The Chosen Zero: The reveal that he is the last of the ancient Firemasters and for that the one wielding the power to defeat Garraka doesn't make the Ghostbusters too happy, given he proved to be a lazy, creedy sell-out before.
- Commonality Connection: He bonds with Trevor over being the Book Dumb slacker brother compared to their more intelligent sibling.
- Covert Pervert: One of the few things left to him that he couldn't bear to sell off was a picture that looks like something out of the Kama Sutra.
- Emotional Powers: Somewhat, mostly in how the Ghostbusters discover that he has them. When Peter gets him angry by throwing pens at him, Nadeem unwittingly increases the intensity of a nearby bunsen burner.
- Fearless Fool: To some extent, in that Nadeem is extremely overconfident when he confronts Garraka, considering he had only just figured out how to use his powers (which he had only just discovered he even had not much earlier), and his weapon was a lighter than he was not yet aware had run out of fuel. To his credit, he's able to back up his boasts once Melody lights her match, giving him some fire to work with.
- Playing with Fire: Nadeem has the power to manipulate fire as part of his heritage. As it turns out, this power extends to proton beams.
- The Slacker: Very much so:
- At one point, he proudly notes that he lacks any higher education or job prospects, and he seems to be content to hang out in his late grandmother's apartment, selling off her amassed artifacts for spending money.
- When Ray guesses that his grandmother either didn't trust him with the family's Heroic Lineage and thus never told him about it, or she tried to tell him and he simply wasn't paying attention, Nadeem sheepishly admits that both possibilities were equally likely.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Nadeem found the orb containing Garraka and decided to sell it to Ray, unaware of the danger he was unleashing.
Dr. Lars Pinfield
Dr. Lars Pinfield
Played by: James Acaster
Appears in: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Head scientist working at the Paranormal Research Center.
- Good Is Not Nice: A bit standoffish and grumpy, but still a good man who is firmly loyal to Winston and the Ghostbusters team.
- Mythology Gag: His appearance is based heavily off Egon's from The Real Ghostbusters.
- Non-Lethal K.O.: Implied to have suffered one via Pukey as he comes back after the climax, covered in slime, wondering if they won.
- The Smart Guy: Helps manage the Paranormal Research Center, developing tech, doing experiments with ghosts, and basically running a ghostly zoo.
