Ghostbusters Every Apocalypse In Afterlife Explained (Were They Real)

Ghostbusters: Every Apocalypse In Afterlife Explained (Were They Real?)

The second Gozerian temple in Ghostbusters: Afterlife had a couple of dates carved, and some of them coincide with real-life tragedies.

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife expanded more on what Gozer’s plans and purpose are, and revealed some dates related to apocalyptic events – and here’s what truly happened in each one of them. In the era of reboots, not even classics like the Ghostbusters universe were safe, and following the failure of Paul Feig’s 2016 movie of the same name, the franchise got a new chance with Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a direct sequel to Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.

Set 30 years after the second movie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife follows single mother Callie (Carrie Coon) and her children Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), who after being evicted from their home, are forced to move to a farm located in Summerville, Oklahoma, which Callie inherited from her late father: Harold Ramis’ Egon Spengler. When the town experiences a series of unexplained earthquakes and other unusual activities, Trevor and Phoebe discover their family’s link to the original Ghostbusters team and decide to continue their legacy by taking care of what’s messing with Summerville, and with the help of some of the old Ghostbusters’ equipment, Phoebe’s new friend Podcast (Logan Kim), Trevor’s love interest Lucky (Celeste O’Connor), and Mr. Grooberson (Paul Rudd), a local seismologist, they discover a huge threat that is also connected to the original team: Gozer the Gozerian.

Following the line of recent reboots, Ghostbusters: Afterlife relied a lot on nostalgia and brought the original movie’s villain, Gozer (now played by Olivia Wilde and Emma Portner), back. As it turns out, Egon stole the Ecto-1 and the team’s weapons and left in order to study Gozer’s plans and stop it once and for all as he found out that Ivo Shandor built a secondary Gozerian temple in Summerville. Gozer can travel between dimensions and is the most powerful and dangerous entity the Ghostbusters have encountered, and its mere entering and presence within Earth’s dimension causes increases in paranormal activity and the disruption of natural forces. Egon (and later his grandchildren) found out a couple of dates related to catastrophic and “apocalyptic” events at the Gozerian temple, of which some actually happened in real life – and here’s what happened on each apocalypse date in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa

The first date is 1883, which as pointed out by Podcast, was the year of the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano. Located in the Krakatoa archipelago in the Sunda Strait, the eruption of the volcano began on May 19, 1883, when steam venting began to occur regularly from Perboewatan, the northernmost of the island’s three cones. The eruption peaked on May 27, when four enormous explosions occurred (the third one considered the loudest sound heard in historic times), each one accompanied by tsunamis. Of course, the eruption of the Krakatoa had major geographical effects, such as some land in Banten never repopulating and reverting to jungle, the disappearance of Krakatoa almost entirely, and the alteration of the surrounding ocean floor.

1908 – The Tunguska Event

The second date on the walls of the Gozerian temple and on the walls of Egon’s farmhouse is 1908, the year the Tunguska event took place. This was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai) in Russia in June 1908, and is attributed to a meteor airburst. The explosion flattened millions of trees and the shock wave knocked people off their feet (and at least three people are believed to have died in the event), and witnesses described it as the sky being as bright as a second sun, the appearance of a big cloud emitting flames, and loud thunders and strong winds that knocked people over. The Tunguska event is actually briefly mentioned by Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) in the final act of Ghostbusters and refers to it as a “big interdimensional cross rip”, though he wrongly says it took place in 1909.

1945 – World War II events

As Lucky said in Ghostbusters: Afterlife: “what didn’t happen in 1945?”. That was the year that saw the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the suicides of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, but it also saw many more wars, conflicts, explosions, and deaths. 1945 was also the year of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the former resulting in between 90,000 and 146,000 deaths and the latter in between 39,000 and 80,000 deaths, and the effects of all these events can still be felt in different ways as they all marked human history as some of the most brutal and cruel events.

1984 – The Manhattan Crossrip

The next date is 1984, which is the year of the events of the first Ghostbusters movie. In it, the team learned that the building where Dana (Sigourney Weaver) and Tully (Rick Moranis) lived was designed by Ivo Shandor, the leader of a cult that worshipped Gozer the Gozerian, with the purpose of using it as an antenna to attract and concentrate spiritual energy to summon Gozer and trigger the apocalypse. The gate between dimensions was eventually opened at the top of the Shandor Building, allowing Gozer to cross to this dimension and appear in the form of a woman, who then confronted the Ghostbusters. Gozer then took the form of a gigantic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man that was destroyed when the team crossed their proton energy streams at the gate, making Gozer’s avatar explode, banishing it back to its dimension, and closing the gate.

2020/2021 – Gozer’s Return in Summerville

As mentioned above, Egon learned about the second Gozerian temple in Summerville and moved there to stop this apocalyptic entity for good. Egon built a proton barrier to contain the ghosts from the Shandor Mines, including Gozer itself, and those escape attempts were causing the seemingly inexplicable earthquakes in Summerville. The Keymaster, taking over Mr. Grooberson’s body, destroyed the containment system, allowing Gozer to cross over again. Phoebe, Trevor, Podcast, and Lucky then realized that the only way to stop Gozer was with Egon’s original plan, as he actually built the farmhouse as a huge trap. Unfortunately, things got more complicated when the trap failed, but the surviving members of the original Ghostbusters team arrived to help Phoebe restrain and capture Gozer and its minions.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/ghostbusters-afterlife-dates-gozer-apocalypse-real-explained/

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