20 Facts About Peter Venkman

1.

Peter Venkman, PhD is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise.

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2.

Peter Venkman serves as the front man for the group and possesses more social ability than the more academically inclined Ray and Egon.

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3.

Peter Venkman was a professor working with Egon Spengler and Ray Stantz at Columbia University.

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4.

Peter Venkman encouraged and prodded Ray to mortgage his house in order to find the capital needed to purchase the firehouse.

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5.

Peter Venkman soon became the first to meet the company's first client, Dana Barrett, and formed a romantic interest.

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6.

Peter Venkman soon meets an EPA representative named Walter Peck, who becomes angry when Peter Venkman refuses to show him the storage facility.

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7.

Once inside Dana refers to herself as Zuul, "The Gatekeeper" and tells Peter Venkman she is awaiting the coming of Gozer, "The Destructor".

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8.

Peter Venkman tells her she apparently has two people inside of her already.

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9.

Peter Venkman gives Zuul to the count of three to leave Dana's body, to which she responds by turning her eyes white, thrashing her head back and forth on her bed, then growling furiously like a beast, and levitating above her bed.

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10.

Peter Venkman, realizing the seriousness of Dana's condition, sedates her and calls Egon to explain what is going on.

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11.

In court, Peter Venkman implied that two years prior to the film's events, the team secretly had violated the judiciary orders against them and used their proton packs.

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12.

In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, after the closure of the Ghostbusters business following Egon's theft of the Ecto-1 and the majority of their equipment, Peter Venkman returned to teaching at SUNY Cortland, becoming a Professor of Advertising, indicating that he has earned an advanced degree in business education and marketing.

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13.

Peter Venkman has claimed to be a Scorpio, as mentioned in "Mean Green Teen Machine".

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14.

In "Last Train to Oblivion", one of Peter Venkman's favorite hobbies is trains, and he used to dream about driving a big locomotive when he was a child .

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15.

Peter Venkman was voiced by Lorenzo Music during the first season.

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16.

Peter Venkman was featured as a playable character in Ghostbusters II for NES.

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17.

Peter Venkman was featured as a playable character in New Ghostbusters 2 for NES and Game Boy.

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18.

Peter Venkman still maintains the smooth-talking slacker identity from the previous two movies, willing to jump at any chance to get out of doing work or going into a dangerous situation.

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19.

Peter Venkman is still primarily motivated in his own best interests.

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20.

Peter Venkman appears as a playable character in Lego Dimensions, with archival audio of Bill Murray being used to represent his character.

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