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Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
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ImpAtom posted:

The mere existence of Ghosts should be a tremendous world-shattering thing. It confirms the existence of an afterlife in some form. If the ghosts are truly the spirits of those who died, and at least some are capable of communicating, that means the end of the question of life and death because these spirits can presumably answer the question. Yet at the same time they appear largely violent and dangerous, with several situations leading to potentially catastrophic incidents.

It's not a hard sci-fi series with any sort of strict rules, but conceptually the 'ghosts" in ghostbusters are just like, a strong psychic emotion taking form in ectoplasm instead of being the actual soul of a dead person. That is why so many ghosts are just abstract concepts or weird beasts.

I think the two electrocuted brothers are the only really clear 1:1 of guy directly becoming ghost and even that is made ambiguous from it being a particular moment and being mediated by negative emotion goo. You could still write it off as the imprint of the negative emotion at their moment of death, it's not clear they are actually the guys more generally.

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Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
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Kingdom hearts 3 makes up some lore for toy story. (It also concludes that in monsters inc that fear and laughter generate power and suggest sadness would be the ultimate power source from children as both fear and laughter are transient but if you make someone sad enough they can be sad forever and that is dark as gently caress)

Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
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the toys hang out with buster apparently for an entire decade and buster seems to treat woody like a dog treats a human more than anything. Like woody orders buster to do things but like a person who had trained a dog would.

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