In addition to the classic movies, and the widely successful cartoon and comic book series The Real Ghostbusters, The Extreme Ghostbusters helped the Ghostbusters attract a diverse fanbase almost equally split between men and women, and boys and girls, and is recognized alongside Star Wars and Star Trek for the diversity within its fanbase.Īn example of when diversity has been used negatively would be Paul Feig's 2016 Ghostbusters reboot. Although The Extreme Ghostbusters only ran for one season, consisting of forty episodes the animated serial is recognized for the representation seen in the new team of teenage Ghostbusters which was composed of a team of mixed gender, ethnicity and ability - Kylie Griffin was the first female Ghostbuster (unless one counts Janine Melnitz in The Real Ghostbusters cartoon/comics), Eduardo Riveria was the first Hispanic Ghostbuster, Roland Jackson was the second ever African American Ghostbuster, and Garrett Miller, who although being white caucasian was the first Ghostbuster bound to a wheelchair. A relevant example of a positive representation of diversity would be that seen in the 1997 animated series The Extreme Ghostbusters, AKA Ghostbusters Dark. In principle, diversity allows for all genders, creeds, beliefs and sexual orientations to have a voice among what is arguably a primarily white-male led industry. This word is one that is all-too-often being used to justify the overabundance of socially/politically correct representation that has been flooding the small and the big screen in recent years.
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