"Sometimes I think the universe just waits for me to get cocky."

Voice Actor:
Maurice LaMarche

Egon Spengler is a genius. He got his first degree at ths same age his contemporaries were leaving grade school. Egon devised the theories that make the Ghostbusters proton packs, ghost traps, and Ecto Containment Unit work; he even later devised means of cracking the dimensional barriers, first with a door-like gateway, and later with the transdimensional warp drive mounted in the ECTO-4 (as seen in the Now Comics). He's proficient in ancient languages, including Sumerian and the esoteric script a Ragnarok announcement was written in, one that allegedly only two other people in the world know. In the Now Comics, he seems to be individually recognized by the mystic community.

Egon's curiosity gets the better of him more than once; he is by far the Ghostbuster most prone to getting blasted into alternate dimensions or turned into a werechicken due to being tuned out of reality while conducting his strange experiments.

Egon was born in Ohio, and it appears Egon's looks are the result of genes that run strong in his family--at least two of his ancestors (mostly scientists and scholars) looked just like him. Egon's mother doted on him and gave him the nickname "Spookums"; his paternal uncle, Dr. Cyrus Spengler, runs Spengler Labs back in Ohio, and once had trouble accepting his nephew's vocation. But it was a childhood trauma--the malevalent entity called The Boogeyman living in his closet--that made Egon so driven to investigate the paranormal.

That's not to say Egon is an emotionless robot, however. He manifests a dry sense of humor that comes out when deflating Peter's egotism, and a wonderful sense of understatement that describes the end of the universe simply as "bad". He keeps a cool head during a paranormal crisis, and is usually the one to find the way to solve it.

Still, he has trouble dealing with his emotions, and nowhere does that become more apparent than his relationship with the Ghostbusters' secretary, Janine Melnitz. At the very first, he seemed more annoyed than flattered by her over-stated flirtations (not exactly being proficient in the romantic arts herself), but over time, he grudgingly began to return the feeling. He whispered her name when he thought he was about to die on one occassion. He met Janine's family and went on dates with her that he denied were dates. He oozed jealousy when she dated Paul Smart and Louis Tully (in issue 16 of the Now Comic, they argue about the issue and Janine dismissed Louis as "Sweet but harmless").

It wasn't until the Ghostbusters discovered that she had been warped and manipulated by the Makeoverus Lotsabucks that he finally admitted that he loved her: it was that simple truth, not the proton pack he discarded, that broke the creature's spell over her. They started dating more seriously after that, going to science films.

[Link] [Revise]Egon Spengler In Extreme Ghostbusters

When the Ghostbusters go out of business, Egon is the one who lives in the Firehouse and keeps watch over the Containment Unit. He becomes a college professor, and when ghostly activity returns to New York, his latest class of students become the Extreme Ghostbusters. Together with his longtime love interest Janine Melnitz, Egon serves as the mentor to the newer team.

[History] [Revise]Dr. Egon Spengler

[Link] [Revise]Egon Spengler In Extreme Ghostbusters