Extreme ghostbusters killjoys
The real Cohila is far more charming than his disguise, however, resembling a cross between an earwig and a thorny katydid with soulful little eyes nobody could turn down if he'd just learn to ask. Why, take the form of a dashing foreign gentleman and sweep Janine Melnitz off her feet until he can cocoon her and transform her into his moth-bride, of course. The obligatory insect-monster episode features an ancient arthropod god, Cohila, who comes to New York City to raise a family of several thousand scuttling, baby-faced grubs unfortunately in need of a mother. Tenebraug is defeated, as you might have possibly wondered, by simply being shown its own artifact, forcing it to forfeit its own sight and therefore every eyeball it has ever stolen.though an awful lot of them had nowhere to return to, so what exactly happened to them? We see eyes fly right back to his still-living victims, but did the rest just nestle themselves in ancient corpses across the globe? What about people who left no intact remains? Are their ghostly, flying eyeballs still wandering? Can I just have them? My favorite feature, however, is Tenebraug's pale, peachy "face," with a toothless, vertical mouth and ironically no eyes of its own. What we can see of the creature is crowned by a writhing anemone of eyestalks, with a single "collective" eye in what might be called its stomach, a collection of everal thousand eyes from millenia worth of past victims. Like Deadliners, everybody gets their eyes back once Tenebraug is defeated, but that does little to dilute the nightmare fuel.ĭesignwise, Tenebraug is killer from top to presumably bottom, its lower body shrouded in a crimson fog. This towering horror exists entirely to steal people's eyeballs right out of their heads, and yes, we get to see the aftermath of this in the episode itself.
EXTREME GHOSTBUSTERS KILLJOYS SERIES
One person's nightmare fuel is another person's newly discovered kink.Īnother of my favorites since I first saw this series as a kid, Tenebraug is the guardian of an ancient artifact so sacred, anyone who wished to see it with their own eyes was never permitted to see anything again. Any more internet fetishes you wanna pile on there while we're at it? No? It's another inevitability of a show like this, of course.
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Okay, we've got scary clowns, transformation, absorbtion, live ingestion, tentacles and tickling all in one episode. This one doesn't even rely on goofy antics to make its victims laugh, but uses its tentacles to.uh.tickle people. The clowns can also infect humans, transforming Eduardo into one of their own through the toxic bite of a maniacal Jack-in-the-box, which curiously doesn't seem to be a "ghost" in its own right, but a sort of haunted weapon of the clown's creation.īest of all is the "leader," or perhaps even "mother" of the clowns, a tentacled megaworm using an old circus booth as its outer body. Victims which, subsequently, add to the tiny, giggling faces under the clown's own flesh. These beings can somehow only feed on someone who's currently laughing, revealing a slimy, fanged esophagus they use to pull human victims right out of their clothes and swallow them whole.
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That beaked mask implies a much, much older definition of "clown," and these things have probably been around long enough that our clowns were more likely modeled after them. The "killjoys" obviously take a page from Killer Klowns from Outer Space, but add a number of disturbing twists all their own, and I especially love the "lead" clown who looks more like some middle ground between a human and a chicken. The creative team behind Extreme Ghostbusters has said that their goal was to scare the shit out of every child viewer at least once, and a creepy clown episode was an inevitability. Extreme Ghostbusters Ghosts: Part II Last time, we had a little introduction to Extreme Ghostbusters, to the character designer who pushed its monsters so far and basked in the glory of such monsters as Corpuscle and Fear Itself.