So if this guy is a ghost... why does he look like this? What the fuck did he look like when he was alive?
So if this guy is a ghost... why does he look like this? What the fuck did he look like when he was alive?
Andrew Butler
Logan Roberts
yo momma
Hudson Smith
An American
Brayden Robinson
Go to bed, Akmed.
Dominic Myers
Kek
Ryan Walker
Probably a regular fat guy. I bet the ghosts turn more cartoony the longer their dead.
Kevin Ramirez
>Steve Johnson worked on hundreds of Slimer variations over a period of six months. At first, they asked for a "smile with arms" then started nitpicking, asking for ears, then no ears, less pathos, more pathos, a bigger nose, a smaller nose, more cartoony, and less cartoony. It wasn't until the day before the deadline for the design, in July 1983, that Johnson was told they wanted Slimer to look like John Belushi. With less than 24 hours, Johnson pulled out a stack of headshots of Belushi, did some cocaine, and went to work. During a bout of delusional paranoia that night, he thought Belushi's ghost came to help him finish the design by giving him words of encouragement and modeling. The ghost parted ways with him, warning that cocaine will kill him. The next day, the submitted design was approved
Landon Morris
Because it looks pretty cool
Cooper Turner
explain the librainian and vigo
Austin Gray
it's not like the train GB2 came out with a giant thomas the tank engine face. It was a normal train with normal dead people. I think even the two dead inmates in the beginning looked normal if not a little fat and a little skinny
Slimmer is just a monster.
Elijah Hernandez
SPBP
Thomas Murphy
Isn't it obvious who he's based on?
Sebastian Martinez
In Ghostbusters, "ghosts" don't have to have been alive. They're just entities that live on another plane of existence. It's probably most implied that only the humanoid ghosts were once alive.
Jaxon Williams
Where did they say that? I mean sure Zuul and Vigo were gods but they only raised the dead.
Charles Diaz
It doesn't specifically say that, but Gozer, The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and even in the cartoon there's entities like the Boogeyman that are made up of the same stuff as ghosts are, but they are clearly not deceased humans. They're specifically extradimensional entities so it's possible that other "ghosts" you see are just lesser extradimensional entities that are able to interact with the human world.
Christopher Ramirez
Gozer is a sumerian god.
Librarian was once a librarian.
Vigo was a cultist serial killer
Jack Evans
Many of the ghosts have a twisted form. I like to think that they slowly mutate as their sense of self image changes and they forget what they used to look like.
Gozer was very old and powerful and could change form at will.
Chase Reed
tell me how ghosts work and I'll tell you the rest
actually nvm, lorefags should get the rope, let
some things just remain weird and unexplained ffs
Charles Diaz
>Gozer
>Zuul
>Vigo
>Boogeyman
Gods with superpowers
>Janosh
>Keymaster
>Gatekeeper
Vessels
>Stay Puft
created by Gozer to destroy new york could have literally been ANYTHING but it was the marshmallow man
ALL of them have humanoid shapes nonetheless
>slimer
A disembodied head of a fat guy??
Gabriel Mitchell
Think of GB ghosts as Warhammer 40k daemons.
Slimer is a psychic echo, probably resulting from some senseless batshit crazy act of gluttony performed in the Segway hotel.
Seriously, Dan Abnett even ripped off the movie while conceiving one of Ravenor's books plot. Namely the whole "someone built a building (a whole town in the novels) to focus psychic energy, open a warp rift and yank some warp horrors out of it.
Colton Lee
You may be on to something because the Librarian has a more normal looking form before she turns into this.
I think the main thing behind Ghostbusters is that there's little distinction between disembodied human spirits that we call ghosts, and all this weird extradimensional stuff going up to what we would call "gods". It's all a matter of their power levels. Vigo for instance was once a human, but gain extraordinary paranormal powers.
Isaiah Bennett
I AM THE GATEKEEPER
ARE YOU THE KEYMASTER?
Landon Richardson
Forgot the picture
Andrew Gonzalez
According to the comics he looked like that
Hudson Smith
Yeah but Vigo was sucking in that ectoslime from the beneath the subway to get more power. He was a spirit for sure but the slime powered him up and the the emotions of the new yorkers powered the slime
Chase Hill
I see the weird extradimensional stuff as an extension of ghosts.
The ghosts are like masses of psychic energy leftover from the will of the person who died. But they can also be transformed by the beliefs of others. So religion or legend can grant a ghost more psychic energy and twist it into something powerful like Gozer or Vigo. And these ghostly entities can also feed on each other to gain power over many centuries.