The green ghost known as Slimer has always been an oddity in Ghostbusters lore, but Ghostbusters: Afterlife's Muncher looks set to change that. Director Ivan Reitman's original 1984 Ghostbusters film is of course a certified all-time classic, even being part of the select group of movies preserved at the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry. 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2 didn't measure up to the original, although it does have its passionate defenders.  Many fans have spent decades waiting for a real Ghostbusters 3, and due to Harold Ramis' passing, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the closest they'll ever get to that.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife has had a surprisingly rocky road to theaters, thanks to the Coronavirus, although it's certainly been far from alone in that. By the time director Jason Reitman's sequel arrives in November, the film will have been delayed for over a year from its originally planned July 2020 launch. Fans still don't know much about what Afterlife will add to the Ghostbusters mythology, outside of the story centering on Egon's grandchildren as they discover his long-forgotten past.

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It's thanks to these delays that fans recently got to meet Ghostbusters: Afterlife's first new ghost, named Muncher, as a promotional tie-in episode of MasterChef Junior revealed the creature. Muncher is pretty odd looking, but he does almost look like a blue version of Slimer. With that in mind, it looks like Slimer might not be as unique as he previously seemed.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Muncher Hints Slimer Isn't A One-Off Ghost

Old Slimer vs New Slimer

In the first two Ghostbusters films, Slimer was a clear anomaly, at least compared to what else was shown onscreen. The other ghosts who terrorize New York City all either used to be living humans, or used to be living animals. Except for Slimer, the Ghostbusters' eventual odd mascot. Slimer resembles a potato, and is basically just a blob of ectoplasm with arms and a face. Instead of being an undead person or animal, Slimer is just Slimer, his own entity. Expanded universe materials have attempted to give Slimer a backstory, but the films themselves have never weighed in on his origins.

Slimer appeared to be one of a kind, a unique creature even within the world of the 2016 Paul Feig reboot. However, that may all now be turned upside down. Muncher's design clearly evokes Slimer, albeit a blue version, and the resemblance has been noted by just about everyone who encounters his blob-like visage. If Slimer and Muncher are indeed the same ghost species, for lack of a better term, the question then becomes, are they the only members of this species, or is there an entire society of brightly colored blob ghosts out there somewhere? Hopefully Ghostbusters: Afterlife will answer that question, and not just leave fans wondering.

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