Head Canon: Ray Stantz Is Autistic.

Head canon: Ray Stantz is autistic.

No, I'm not saying this because Dan Aykroyd is autistic, I have more to go on than that.

In both the films and comics, Ray is shown to be an easily excited individual, with fixations on things most people wouldn't find interesting, Ray also doesn't really understand social cues, or that most people don't understand the significance of his interests. The strongest piece of evidence for all four of these is the mass sponge migration that came to be in the IDW comics; Ray often times will go on about it or bring it up even when the situation doesn't require the story, and he doesn't get that most of the people he tells will not find such an event all that interesting.

Ray can be easily excited or distracted from more important subjects, such as when he, Egon, and Peter were looking at the firehouse; Ray is ecstatic about the firepole while Egon and Peter are looking at the structural integrity of the building, wanting to buy the building simply for the pole.

One of Ray's hyper fixations is, obviously, ghosts, wanting to know as much about them as possible, even opening a book store specifically for the occult so that he can easily reach whatever information he needs at the moment. And, as the Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer suggests, he still has the store, showing his fixation is stronger than a thirty year ghost drought.

Sometimes Ray can even infodump on subjects that people wouldn't normally understand, using terminology people don't understand, usually when informing random people on the class, history, and importance of a ghost he is currenting hunting.

And it would make sense that Ray, being portrayed by Aykroyd, would be autistic; Aykroyd co-wrote the films, so he would obviously write a character he could easily portray to a believable extent. Similar to Aykroyd's portrayal of Elwood Blues in Blues Brothers, a movie Aykroyd also co-wrote; Elwood has a hyper fixation on getting the band back together, even a fixation on keeping the car in the beginning of the film; he has an odd love of toast, and a manner of speaking that isn't extremely easy for most people to understand, but it's not hard either.

I think Aykroyd just likes to play characters that are more like him.

Why is it every time Hollywood makes an animated film based on a long running game, they never get the original actors to play them; Sonic wasn't played by Roger Craig Smith, and while the I did enjoy the film, Ben Schwartz didn't exactly sound convincing sometimes. and the entire cast of Scoob! (Save Scooby) were replaced by big names who sound nothing like the originals.

Now for the Mario film, we get a casting that makes no sense; Jack Black as Bowser? Really? Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong? Can't see it. Keegan-Michael Key might be a good toad, though, I just hope he actually does the voice. But my biggest concern is Mario and Luigi; Charles Martinet has been voicing the two for nearly thirty years, perfecting the art, and while I do like Chris Pratt (and I'll be honest, I've never heard of Charlie Day), you can't just throw out the guys who have brought so much personality to our favorite characters.

I found an old photo I drew of an old character I called the Patriot, so I redrew it for fun.

I kind of wanted a Captain America character I could use without copyright issues so I made this guy.

I want to know why people under thirty are portrayed as idiots when it comes to driving a stick shift in some movies; gears grinding, starting and stopping ending in someone’s face getting smashed into the dashboard, and then they hop out like “This was nothing of help to our escape but it made for good comedy.” I was born in 2001 when a majority of cars where automatic transmission and I’ve known how to work a standard since I was twelve, and the main reason is because I watch movies, these people have no excuse

Where were you?

Major Jordon Wilkinson and Georgie Burke are at the footprints of the twin towers, looking across the remnants.

“William Construction.” Jordon states quietly.

“What?” Gerogie asks, a bit confused.

“That’s where I was when this happened.” Jordon explained. "We had just loaded up our equipment and supplies when our boss ran out to us; all he had to say was ‘Twin Towers’ and ‘Attack’ and we all piled into the main office to watch his TV and see what happened. We caught the aftermath of the first tower and saw the second come down. It was over an hour away but our boss told us to take our dozers, our cranes, and anything else we had to move rubble and head down there to help with the recovery efforts; he rented out a fleet of Semis and busses to get everything and everyone down there. Two months later I enlisted.”

“I was still a sophomore in high school when it happened; we were just starting second period when the principle came over the speaker to tell the teachers to turn on their TVs. We saw the aftermath of everything. We didn’t do anything for the period as we watched.” Georgie wipes the tears from her eyes.

“I met quite a few folks during my tour who were affected by the attack; a lot of them didn’t make it through the first year.”

He stands at attention and salutes; Georgie sees this and takes off her hat, holding it to her heart.

“May all those affected rest in peace.” Jordon says, eyes tearing up.

Let's have a small controlled civil war in the Sonic fandom. I would like to know who thinks which is better: Archie Sonic or IDW Sonic?

I prefer Archie Sonic, but I do enjoy the IDW series.

If you don't want to give a reason why you prefer one or the other you don't have to.