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NOTE: This page is only about his stylized video game incarnation as the movie and realistic video game incarnations of Ivo Shandor were not voted Pure Evil, and thus only the stylized video game version of Ivo Shandor's info and crimes should be put here.

Anyway, I said to myself, "Why worship a god when you can actually become one?"
~ Ivo Shandor's most famous quote.
I have chosen! I am the Destructor! I am the Architect! I will pave over your fields to start anew! I will fill your seas with concrete and stone! I will pierce your world with girders of steel and panes of glass! I will crush your world under the weight of my cities! I will smother your creation under my own!
~ The world Ivo wishes to build.

Ivo Shandor is the main antagonist of both the realistic and stylized versions of Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

According to the Ghostbusters, he was the designer of 55 Central Park West, using unusual materials such as cold-riveted beams with cores of pure selenium, magnesium-tungsten alloys, and gold-plated bolts. Shandor designed the building in a fashion similar to the telescopes NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space. After his death, he became a traveling ghostly being that, after the failure of his god's attempt to take over the material realm, he decides to take action himself. He takes possession of Mayor Jock Mulligan in a plot to become a god himself. The Ghostbusters end up in a great battle with him which he then was defeated and forced back into his realm.

He was voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray.

What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]

  • After World War I, he considered that society was too sick to survive so he decided to bring the End of the World by summoning Gozer to Earth.
  • Designed the 55 Central Park West as an antenna, so that Gozer can also be summoned to the Earth.
  • After Gozer failed to destroy the world twice thanks to the Ghostbusters, Shandor possessed the mayor Jock Mulligan and kidnapped one of his descendants Ilyssa, tried to use her blood with his blood to become the new god of the world. He also uses Walter Peck as his pawn in his plans.
  • The ghosts released by Shandor are responsible for destroying a great majority of New York and possibly killing countless people.
  • He had the Ghostbusters stripped of their funds and shunned by the city to keep them out of his plans before later attempting to have them killed.

Trivia[]

  • Only the video game version of Ivo Shandor counts as Pure Evil, while his canon version doesn't due to being genuinely loyal to Gozer.
  • There are two possible mitigating factors that may stop Ivo Shandor from being Pure Evil:
    • He kept a painting of his mother in his church of Gozer. Despite most everything else in the church being run-down, his mother's painting is the only thing that is oddly still pristine, even after being underwater for who knows how long. However, since Shandor never explicitly stated that if he loved his mother, it is rather unlikely.
    • The other factor for him is that in the realistic version of Ghostbusters, Egon said that Shandor wants to bring the End of the World because he decided that after World War I, society is too sick to survive and trying to make it better, not to mention in the realistic version, his extra crimes are rather offscreen. However, in the stylized video game, Shandor is not truly a Well-Intentioned Extremist as he tried to remake the world in his own image, so it is rather false as well.

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