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Sequelizers: Ghostbusters - Afterlife

To begin with, we'll set the prologue concretely somewhere in the late 1990s, like 1998-ish. Then, throughout the movie itself we will establish two very important plot points, which are these:

Callie and her two kids, Phoebe and Trevor are no relation to Egon Spengler whatsoever.

The actual farmer that owned the land in Summerville, OK was Callie's father, and his recent death in the summer of 2021 is what kicks off the plot.

Until his death in 1998, Egon was technically squatting on the farmer's land which the old man either didn't know about, or particularly care. Someone who did care, however, is one of the young students involved in Doctor Spengler's "unofficial", "illicit" and just for the sake of argument, let's call it "bat-shit crazy" work ever since following him from the Institute For Advanced Theoretical Research. That young student is a self-confessed Ghostbusters fan-boy named Gary Grooberson.

Gary has worked side-by-side with Egon since Doctor Spengler first arrived in Summerville, which was actually 100% official Ghostbusters business. The whole team packed into ECTO-1A to investigate the town on Ray's urging. He'd picked up some rumblings going down in the deep paranormal and occultic parts of Usenet, and dragged along the team's newest Experimental Equipment Technician.

THAT'S RIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS, THE 2009 VIDEO GAME HAPPENED MORE-OR-LESS, AND ONE OF THE MANY POSSIBLE VERSIONS OF "ROOKIE" WAS GARY FUCKIN' GROOBERSON

Mind-blowing, I know, right? Anyway, there was sort of a post-script to the events of the video game with the Ghostbusters chasing the lingering shreds of Ivo Shandor's ghost merged with the supernatural power of Gozer, finding the preserved physical body of the man buried deep in the mines. The instant Shandor's ghostly form touches his former corporeal shell, it causes a massive implosion that collapses that section of the mine tunnels. The Ghostbusters are toast. History. Vitally-challenged. Living-negative. Phoebe looks, utterly aghast, at Gary until Trevor blinks a couple of times and shouts, "They're fucking DEAD!?" Grooberson tells the kids to go, take the car and equipment that was left behind and do whatever they want with it (which they do, as in the movie as it was made) while he tries to get his head together.

All this time, the lingering presence of Egon's ghost has been leading Phoebe to discover the secrets of the old barn, Trevor to find ECTO-1A and all that stuff. Now, that ghost actually speaks to Gary directly (utilizing the vocal talents of the wonderful Maurice La Marche, the OTHER Egon Spengler) to let him in on a terrible secret. He's managed to escape from Hell once before, back to the plane of the living which is what we saw in 1998, in the prologue. With a strong enough pulse of psychomagnetheric energy from the positively-charged side, directed through Shandor's gate in the temple at the deepest part of the mine, they can release the other three Ghostbusters. The only catch is Egon's died too many times for him to stay on this side of the door. For Peter, Ray and Winston to live, he has to remain behind...

Down in the bowels of the mine, the Gozerian temple rises and our heroes are introduced, by the ghostly Egon, to the semi-living Ivo Shandor (JK Simmons) who actually gets to do more, say more to threaten and generally demoralize the good guys. Phoebe and "Podcast" notice a line of X-marks scratched into the walls and the floor, which Shandor demonstrates the purpose of, purely to freak out the living and amuse himself. As soon as he steps beyond this demarcation, his living flesh and impeccable clothing begin to putrefy as he becomes a slime-dripping walking corpse. "Not a pretty sight, is it, kids? Yeah, drink it all in! This is what'll happen to your Ghostbuster buddies the minute they cross beyond that line, did you know that?", Ivo begins to explain as he steps back over the demarcation, slowly returning to his living aspect. A voice from behind him rings out suddenly, "Sure! But Spengler and I had a few theories on why that happens, don't we?" The first OG Ghostbuster to crawl his way back to the land of the living for a legacy cameo emerges!

Ray's presence in the flesh (so to speak) for the first time in years gives a tremendous boost to his long-time colleague Egon, and this positive shift in the emotional aura of the group kick-starts the old 1989-vintage mood slime-blowers to activate themselves. Gary figures it out, directing the four kids to aim the slime-blowers around the demarcation lines. Egon steps into their line of fire as he and Ray excitedly bounce a jumble of classic Ghostbusters psycho-techno-mystico-babble back and forth until Phoebe (who has been listening intently to their stream of impenetrable exposition) cuts them off with a shout of "Yes! Yes, of course, I get it now..." From the gate, Winston Zeddemore emerges with quite a full beard, his spectral hand crackling and buzzing with energy as he reaches out to touch the thin film of mood slime that dribbles down from where Trevor and Lucky have been blasting away with the slime-blower. Winston pushes that hand forward, and it emerges on the living side of the demarcation completely none the worse for wear. Ray and Egon both nod towards Phoebe with satisfied little smiles and she explains. To keep himself semi-alive as far out of the gate as the demarcation, Ivo Shandor has been feeding off the potential lives of not only the trapped Ghostbusters (directly), but in an indirect way he's also been picking at little bits of every soul in Summerville. Eating away at the life of the town itself... Pushing their way through the mood slime gate, Winston and Ray quite literally burst into life again to take up their old proton packs, giving Shandor a blast of nutronas, positrons, bosons, all that kind of stuff. As they blast him back, Egon (still incredibly charged with the psychomagnetheric energy of the slime) has been fighting his way through the barrier as the final figure's voice echoes from the other side of the triangular gate. "Hey! Now, you kids weren't gonna seriously do this without me, were you?" Roughly man-handling the weakened form of Shandor further through the gates of Hell itself, pausing only to slap Egon playfully on the back (and "one for luck" on the buttocks) is the contractually-mandated final legacy cameo of the Ghostbusters. Doctor Peter Venkman.

Egon gives a withering look to this man, the absolute bane of his fucking existence for most of his life and his dearest, closest friend and Peter replies, "He's all yours now, Spengler. Give 'im... Well, you know what." before stopping at the demarcation to experimentally poke his fingers through, the toe of his left foot... "Naaaahh... You know what? I'm fine with staying on this side." Ray roots through his jumpsuit pockets for a stick of gum, visibly rolling his eyes toward the ceiling and mouthing "Every damn time..." right as Peter stumbles through the shower of mood slime. "Ray Stantz, you old dog, you... I see you finally took my advice, started to lay off the smokes, huh?"

"Well, you know as well as I do, Pete. Those things'll kill ya!" is Ray's final line as he, Winston and Peter head out of the temple, away from the mine and back up into the world they haven't been living in since that fateful day in the early 1990s. We don't hear what he, Grooberson and "Podcast" talk about, though it's obviously a very heated, animated discussion on the state of paranormal discourse on the internet. Trevor and Lucky, Callie and Grooberson are supporting Peter and Winston, their restored bodies being suddenly hit with the effects of decades of aging all at once (obviously, Ray is too absorbed in his discussion to notice these effects to his own body.) We see Phoebe absolutely smiling from ear to ear, absolutely bursting into great wracking sobs and hysterical laughter as she catches up to her mother and Gary. She has finally decided what she wants to do for the rest of her life, and the familiar theme song blares into life as the picture fades out into the blackness of the end credits.

Ghostbusters! If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood... Who ya gonna call?

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The Beast that Bothers

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Knowledge Revenge.

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Some little friends joined the team!!!!!!!!!!!!

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In honor of my original meme hitting over 99k notes on tumblr dot com, I’ve made a sequel nearly 4 years later!

(original below)

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lovey-dovey feelings

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Okami Sequel - Project Teaser

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OKAMI SEQUEL Project Teaser Trailer The Game Awards 2024

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a shared gift

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How much of this shit do I have to learn from tumblr dot com what do you MEAN Love Händel is just??? Coming back?

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Op casually leaving out that the entire thing has been organized by Lindana’s children

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HUH?

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Just to clarify you mean like. THE Lindana. As in the pop star from the 80s.

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I do! Bobbi (who has been running a hair salon since the band’s breakup) updated the website saying he’ll be out for a reunion concert. And that he was convinced after speaking with two kids—Phineas and Ferb Flynn-Fletcher, who want them to come back to perform at their mother, Linda’s anniversary.

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Ohhh so nepotism 🙄

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No, not nepotism. You guys don’t get to hate on these kids, they’re super cool. They came into my shop & asked me to perform for their parents. They made no mention of their mom being Lindana. We’re literally prepping for the concert right now and I just learned this from tumblr. Had to fact check it with Bobbi. Point is, at no point did they try to leverage their mom’s fame. They genuinely just wanted to do something sweet for their parents. I doubt they even thought to try and use their mother’s status. They simply explained how passionate their parents were about the band.

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DANNY?

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Ok so tonight we have learned:

Love Handel is coming back

Lindana’s children asked them to come back

Lindana’s kids apparently don’t even realize the implications of their mom having previously been famous

Danny of Love Handël uses tumblr

Danny ALSO is getting his news from tumblr

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#also I did some digging #and like #her kids also wrote gitchee gitchee goo??!! #but then just #never did music again #and again did Not mention their mom

HELLO??

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The FNAF Vanessas meet their younger selves..

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don bluth films occupy a weird space because he's both inarguably an auteur who directs very strange, earnest, often "ugly" films but also a guy who near exclusively made movies for 8 year olds in the home video era. so basically everything he's ever done is a grimy, dreamy rumination on death and spirituality and has a direct to video sequel called something like secret of nimh 2: mrs. brisby's holiday adventure

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more ford and mabel bonding because i said so :)

bonus ford under the cut:

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OKAMI SEQUEL?!?

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If Twilight Sparkle had whatsapp 🤣🤣🤣