21 Facts About Egon Spengler

Egon Spengler, PhD is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise.

Character of Egon Spengler was named after Oswald Spengler and a classmate of Ramis at Senn High School, Egon Donsbach, a Hungarian refugee.

Egon Spengler was very interested in paranormal phenomena, even while working with Ray Stantz and Peter Venkman at Columbia University.

Egon Spengler was particularly critical of Walter Peck's actions, and his attitude that the Ghostbusters were responsible for the explosion of the containment unit that occurred when Peck ordered a utility worker to shut the unit down.

Egon Spengler once tried to drill a hole in his own head, which he says "would have worked" if Peter had not stopped him.

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Five years after the events of the first film Egon Spengler was working at the Institute for Advanced Theoretical Research and was conducting experiments on human emotions, during which he invented the Giga Meter, a device similar to the PKE Meter designed to detect and measure psychomagnotheric energy in gigaelectron volts.

Egon Spengler recommended bringing in Ray, and they both performed a physical exam on Dana's son Oscar.

Egon Spengler had a dry sense of humor, of which he used on Peter to bewilder him, and smirked at his friend's cluelessness on what the word "epididymis" was.

Egon Spengler primarily worked with Ray, both of whom were still living at the Firehouse, conducting research on the pink slime, eventually they developed "slime blowers", consisting of large metal tanks and handheld nozzles that fire positively charged substance.

Still very scientifically minded, Egon Spengler seems to have loosened up a little bit, letting his sense of humor show and even giving Dana a smile and Peter, a knowing smile.

Sony President and CEO Kazuo Hirai commented 'The perfection of the Proton Pack™, long a dream of the world's greatest engineers since first pioneered by Dr Egon Spengler of Columbia University, is an example of Sony's relentless pursuit of innovation.

Ten years after the Manhattan Crossrip, Egon Spengler stole equipment and the Ecto-1 and moved to Summerville, Oklahoma, where Ivo Shandor had mined the selenium used to build the Shandor Apartments building in New York City.

Shandor had built another gateway for Gozer in his mine, and Egon Spengler spent years preparing to stop Gozer's eventual return, building automated energy cannons with the components of the proton packs and PKE meter to barricade the portal with crossed streams and setting a ghost trap field with an array of 198 traps for Gozer on his property.

In June 2021, Egon Spengler captured one of Gozer's minions, needed by it to successfully manifest on Earth, and used the creature in an attempt to lure Gozer into the trap field.

Outside of archived audio clips, Egon Spengler has no speaking lines throughout the film and his face was obscured in present day shots until his return as a ghost.

Egon Spengler's hair was changed from brown in the films to a blond pompadour in the animated series .

Egon Spengler sometimes appears to be unaware of Janine's romantic interest in him, but at times he displays having similar feelings for her, such as when he gave her a geranium as a gift when she expressed an interest in plants and when he rushed to her rescue in "Janine, You've Changed"; he embraces her in "Ghost Busted" after she was kidnapped and held for ransom by a gangster, and became jealous when she was briefly involved with a slimy businessman named Paul Smart.

Egon Spengler is the only original Ghostbuster to return for the Extreme Ghostbusters series as a regular, acting as a mentor to the new Ghostbusters, monitoring and sustaining the Containment Unit and taking care of Slimer while working as a paranormal studies professor at a university.

Age is the largest factor causing Egon Spengler to having transition from active ghost hunting to a mentorship role; in one episode where the original Ghostbusters guest starred on an episode the audience clearly sees middle adulthood has affected the speed and weakened the stamina of the original Ghostbusters.

Egon Spengler appears in Beeline's Ghostbusters game for iOS alongside his niece, Michelle Ying.

Egon Spengler appears in Lego Dimensions, with archival audio of Harold Ramis being used to represent his character.