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The Metamorph is a large, grotesque, shape-shifting entity that could change into just about anything.

History[]

A week before encountering Drool, the goblin in the Poconos sideshow, the Ghostbusters had a run-in with a spirit which Ray Stantz called a Free-Floating Miasmic Phantom, whom at first was a phantom and then changed into a carnivorous vacuum cleaner, who according to Peter Venkman, gave him some nasty scars that still linger. The Ghostbusters failed to capture him.[2][3][4][5]

After their first run-in with Drool and then being sent away by Madame Lefarge, they are attacked by an electrical wire that snaps loose from a telephone pole. The Ghostbusters are convinced more or less by Venkman that Drool was behind the attack. After getting into a town to fix the Ecto-1, several incidents happen to the Ghostbusters until they are finally confronted with the true enemy. Later on, it is confirmed to be the same miasmic phantom that escaped the Ghostbusters a week earlier. Drool sacrificed himself to distract this phantom and allow the Ghostbusters to trap it. In doing so, Drool saved the lives of the sideshow people whom had given him a home.

Classification[]

During the Poconos encounter, Ray Stantz called it a Free-Floating Miasmic Phantom and Egon Spengler referred to it as a Non-Amalgamated Shape-Changer.[6]

In November 1997, Egon referred to it as a Class 4 Shape Shifter.[7]

Description[]

  • The Metamorph took on numerous forms in the episode but it is unknown what it really looks like.
    • In the Metamorph's first appearance in the episode it appeared as a shadowy figure zooming by.
    • A small white cat which barked
    • A giant white and brown dog that meowed
    • What appeared to be a Werewolf.
    • A hail storm where the hail changed into hominy grits
    • A large floating ghoulish head with long shaggy hair sharp teeth red eyes curved horns and 4 smaller heads attached to it by tentacles one head with yellow eyes and 2 tentacles on its face one head with multiple red eyes one head that looks like the bigger head but without the curved horns and one head with large red eyes without pupils.
    • A tall cloaked ghoulish creature with round red eyes without pupils light gray skin and large fangs.
    • A giant cockroach.
    • A giant floating fish/slug like creature with 3 faces one on top of the other and six large tentacles.

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Appearances[]

The Real Ghostbusters

Extreme Ghostbusters

References[]

  1. Marsha Goodman (1986). Episode Call Sheet and SAG Report - "Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin" (1986).
  2. Ray Stantz (2009). The Real Ghostbusters- Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin (1987) (DVD ts. 16:29-16:32). Time Life Entertainment. Ray says: "It's kinda like that Free Floating Miasmic Phantom we never could catch."
  3. Peter Venkman (2009). The Real Ghostbusters- Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin (1987) (DVD ts. 16:36-16:40). Time Life Entertainment. Peter says: "First, he was a phantom. Then, he was a carnivorous vacuum cleaner. I still got the scars."
  4. Ray Stantz (2009). The Real Ghostbusters- Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin (1987) (DVD ts. 16:45-16:46). Time Life Entertainment. Ray says: "Too bad he got away."
  5. Winston Zeddemore (2009). The Real Ghostbusters- Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin (1987) (DVD ts. 19:07-19:10). Time Life Entertainment. Winston says: "The Shape-Changer that got away last week!"
  6. Egon Spengler (2009). The Real Ghostbusters- Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin (1987) (DVD ts. 13:56-14:02). Time Life Entertainment. Egon says: "What we're dealing with here is a Non-Amalgamated Shape-Changer. It can attack in any form"
  7. Egon Spengler (1997). Extreme Ghostbusters- Back in the Saddle, Part 1 (1997) (DVD ts. 07:16-07:19). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Egon says: "Reminiscent of the time we busted that Class 4 Shape Shifter in the Poconos."

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