Cartoon Vault: Extreme Ghostbusters

Everyone is probably sick of the fallout from the Ghostbusters reboot so I'll keep that commentary to a minimum if I can, in the meantime lets look at the first attempt at a reboot, Extreme Ghostbusters.

Following on from the Real Ghostbusters Cartoon, the team have gone their separate ways since the work has dried up leaving only Egon to keep an eye on the containment unit while teaching a college class on the paranormal to further his understanding of the subject, however when ghosts start returning, Egon decides to form a new team of misfits, and these are our main characters.
Role Call
Eduardo Rivera
A Latino slacker full of wisecracks, jokes and the occasional pop culture reference, he's a bit of a woman chaser but is intelligent enough to back up some of his short falls.
Roland Jackson
The level headed African American mechanic, he helps improve much of the machinery used by the team.
Garrett Miller
A Jock paraplegic stuck in a wheelchair his entire life yet he's into sports and doesn't seem phased by the whole disabled label, in fact he mocks his condition constantly.
and finally Kylie Griffin
A Goth styled girl with a high degree of knowledge in the field of paranormal, a very complex character with tons of hidden depths and a worthy backstory to go with the show's tone and is often portrayed as the leader.
Tone is an important factor in this sequel to the original cartoon as much of the comedy is mixed with dark, grittier and more older audience themes and it really works well. It's living proof that you can have a different team of Ghostbusters and still do the name justice even if it goes in a darker direction, in fact I'd rather have the reboot with this team over the all female team any day.
I don't hate the new film, I'm just disappointed by it; it was always going to be judged unfairly due to it being a remake of what was a cult classic that really influenced the interests of geeks of my generation, this cartoon got the same treatment yet it succeeded enough to be judged as it's own product because it didn't try to imitate Ghostbusters, it just approached it with a new perspective and that's what the reboot film should've done to begin with and not appear as a gender swap Ghostbusters made to please corporates who think they can make tons of money making more of Frozen's Elsa rather than respecting the franchise they have and realizing that there was already a strong female Ghostbuster they could've used instead of what we got and to top it off, Kylie Griffin is in the extended comicbook universe which would be more canon than any other Ghostbusters media outside the films.

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