- August 27th, 2016, 9:30 pm#4878802
I've heard the cartoons referred to as "secondary canon." Now, Im not sure what that means but I would think that it would mean that stuff that happens in the cartoons as long as its not contradicted by the movies really did happen in the Ghostbusters universe. But the thing is, just about everything in the cartoon is contradicted by the movies. The cartoon picks up right after the events of the first movie and has the Ghostbusters resuming their work as Ghostbusters and going on all sorts of ghost busting adventures. With the movies, however, after the events of the first movie the Ghostbusters are shut down. They face all sorts of major lawsuits which puts an end to their career as Ghostbusters and they don't resume their roles as Ghostbusters until the events of the second movie which takes place five years after the first movie. So, with just about everything in the cartoons being contradicted by the movies Im not sure exactly what they mean when they say its secondary canon.