Janine Melnitz
| Janine Melnitz | |
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| First appearance | Ghostbusters (1984) |
| Last appearance | Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009) |
| Created by | Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis |
| Portrayed by | Annie Potts |
| Voiced by | Annie Potts (Ghostbusters: The Video Game) Laura Summer (The Real Ghostbusters; season 1-2) Kath Soucie (The Real Ghostbusters; season 3-7) Pat Musick (Extreme Ghostbusters) |
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| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation |
Secretary Ghostbuster |
| Nationality | American |
Janine Melnitz is a fictional character in the Ghostbusters series. She is the Ghostbusters' secretary, confidante and occasionally, a ghostbuster herself. Se was played by Annie Potts in both movies, and in The Real Ghostbusters she was voiced initially by Laura Summer, and later on the series by Kath Soucie. In Extreme Ghostbusters she was voiced by Pat Musick. Potts returned to provide her appearance and voice to Janine in the 2009's Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
Throughout most Ghostbusters media, Janine is often displayed as having a romantic attraction to Egon Spengler. This is shown in the first movie and more prominently in the The Real Ghostbusters cartoons. In Ghostbusters II, however, she becomes involved with Louis Tully, who has become the team's financial advisor and lawyer. Despite this, Janine retains her attraction to Egon throughout the entire Real Ghostbusters series and into the Extreme Ghostbusters series.
In "Janine's Genie", in which Janine encounters an evil genie after receiving a possessed lamp (unaware that the genie is evil), one of her wishes was for Egon to fall in love with her, and in one instance when she is driving Ecto-1, Egon comments "Janine, you're beautiful when you drive." Egon and Janine share a handful of tender moments throughout the series, but Egon's somewhat stilted emotions often create a barrier between them.
In Ghostbusters, Janine is hired as the secretary of the Ghostbusters, where she keeps tabs on the clients. She also interviews Winston Zeddemore for the job as the fourth member of the team. Later, she helps Egon interviewing Louis Tully who was possessed by Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster of Gozer. After the battle with Gozer, she is seen outside of 55 Central Park West, hugging Egon, happy to see him alive and well, joinning the rest of the Ghostbusters as they drive off in the Ecto-1.
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