Ray Stantz

Raymond Stantz, also known as Ray Stantz, is one of the main characters from the Ghostbusters series.
== Charactah Account ==
"The Heart" of the group, he's a scientist and inventor like Egon but also easily the most fun-loving, most enthusiastic member of the team who likes nothing more than uncovering and battling new ghosts.
Ray's devotion to the company was obvious when he mortgaged the house his parents had left to him to provide the capital to begin Ghostbusters Inc. Ray was also a handy man and largely responsible for the repair and modification of the Ecto-1. He wasn't particularly religious, but did seem to believe in a spiritual realm of sorts.
Ray displays a level of ebullience when it comes to Ghostbusting and paranormal science in general unmatched by any of his colleagues. His mention of an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration shows he's more than eager to go anywhere it takes to study the strange and unusual. 
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Extreme Ghostbusters
* The Real Ghostbusters
* The Real Ghostbusters Season 2
* The Real Ghostbusters Season 3
* The Real Ghostbusters Season 4
* The Real Ghostbusters Season 5
* The Real Ghostbusters Season 6
* The Real Ghostbusters Season 7
=== Comics ===
* 35th Anniversary: Ghostbusters
* Ghostbusters
* Ghostbusters 101
* Ghostbusters Annual 2015
* Ghostbusters Annual 2017
* Ghostbusters Annual 2018
* Ghostbusters Crossing Over
* Ghostbusters Get Real
* Ghostbusters International
* Ghostbusters Year One
* Ghostbusters: Deviations
* Ghostbusters: Funko Universe
* Ghostbusters: Times Scare!
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ghostbusters
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters
* The X-Files: Conspiracy - Ghostbusters
* Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron
=== Manga ===
* Ghost Busted
=== Movies ===
* Ghostbusters
* Ghostbusters II
* Ghostbusters: Afterlife
=== Video Games ===
* Ghostbusters Beeline
* Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
* Ghostbusters: The Video Game
== Trivia ==
* Ray has an aunt named Lois. Two of his uncles passed away while he was a Ghostbuster, Gaylord and a distant uncle named Andrew McMillan.
* Ray's ancestors hail from both Russia and Scotland. Possibly has a Jewish background (Russian Orthodox).
** The Russian part of the Stantz family came to America in the 1860s.
* Ray's humorous personality, as well as physical appearance was based loosely on actor Louie Anderson-including the voice.
* Ray was born in 1959. He also has a fondness for pop culture from the 1950's.
* Ray's second grade teacher was named Mrs. Millikan.
* Ray used to have a Dopey Dog stuffed animal.
* Ray was always told by Aunt Lois to deal with a bad dream by telling himself it's only a dream so he could take control of it.
* Ray still believes in the Easter Bunny and lamented in having to blast a nightmarish version.
* Ray has a birth mark under his chin.
* While living in Morrisville, Ray had the weirdest pets.
* Ray knows sign language. He interpreted Egon when he was signing the Sleeping ghost in Hollywood.
* In "Take Two ", Ray shows some fondness for the Deadly Dr. Crawly films and the movie "Nerds in Space."
* Ray was born in the Bronx.
* Just to annoy Peter, Ray named the green ghost "Slimer."
* During the Doomsday Door incident, Ray had season tickets to the New York Mets.
** In the February 26, 1986 first draft of the "Knock, Knock" script, Ray instead had season tickets to the New York Yankees.
* Ray enjoys a good mystery.
* Ray admired Max Palopolis... until he met him.
* Math was always Ray's weakest subject.
** While making a calculation, Ray misplaced the decimal point.
* Ray took clarinet lessons instead of swimming lessons
* Ray reveals he built three cars in his last year of auto shop class.
* Ray has a tuxedo in pea soup green.
* Ray won a free helicopter lesson in 1976.
* When Ray was a child growing up in the Bronx, he used to borrow books from Mr. Howard.
* Ray moves his lips when he reads.
* Andrew McMillan, Ray Stantz's uncle, is revealed to be Scottish.
* Ray dreamed of going to MJN Studios for a long time.
* Ray hates small planes.
* Ray attributes his ability to understand Slimer from growing up watching Lassie movies.
* Ray went to horror movies during his childhood.
* Ray reveals he read Spooks Illustrated when he was a child.
* Ray learned about Charles Foster Hearse's collection of books on the supernatural after watching an episode of "Haunts of the Rich and Famous," and always wanted to see it.
* In "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis," Ray was still an unlicensed pilot.
* Ray and Winston both like game shows.
* Ray has multiple degrees and hopes to win a Nobel Prize.
* Ray once ate half a cookie slimed by Slimer.
* Ray's favorite comic is Captain Steel.
* Ray Stanz reveals Captain Steel was his hero and one of the reasons he became a Ghostbuster.
* Ray is a member of good standing with the Official Captain Steel Junior Crimestoppers Club.
* Ray once played on a team against the Miskatonic University's football team, the Slugs. He recalls the experience as "slimy."
* "Nerds in Space" is one of Ray's favorite movies.
* Ray is the only person to have a limited edition of a Captain Steel comic.
* Ray used to be a Boy Scout.
* "Muffy and the Meatheads" is Ray's favorite show.
* Ray was once tricked into thinking he was guest speaker at a comic book convention.
* While in the grip of the animated street made by Boogaloo above Times Square, Peter points out he can see Ray's house.
* Ray enrolled in Paranormal Studies at Columbia University. One of his professors attempted to spend the night at Heck House. He survived half the night and was rendered catatonic.
* Ray has seen The Great Strazinski's show a dozen times.
* When Ray was a child, he wanted to be a stage magician performing at the Magic Palace.
* Ray once owed Peter $5.
* Ray owned a sailboat he named the "SS Pollywog."
* Ray was never good with dice.
* "The Sammy K. Ferret Show" was a favorite program of Ray and Slimer.
* Ray has begun teaching himself how to play a tuba as of the events of "Not Now, Slimer!".
* Right before the Apshai incident, Ray received his ant farm in the mail.
* Ray wears contact lens.
* Egon and Ray were kicked out of New York State University in 1982 for trying to reanimate the dead.
* Ray is referenced twice more in "The Sphinx" after Egon's story about being expelled from New York State.
* Pat Fraley filled in as the voice of Ray for two recording sessions of "Back in the Saddle, Part 2" when Frank Welker was unavailable.
* Ray appears on the RI cover of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #8.
* On the subscription cover of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #16, Ray makes a non-canon cameo.
* On page 1 of Ghostbusters 101 #4, in panel 2, Patty Tolan's flight suit is based on the one worn by Ray.
* On page 18 of Ghostbusters Crossing Over Issue #2, Ray wears civies based on those worn by his counterpart in The Real Ghostbuters. He previously wore them in Volume 2 Issue #5.
* On page 21 of Ghostbusters Crossing Over Issue #2, Ray's file photo are from "Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood".
* Ray is mentioned in The Real Ghostbusters' bio on the 33rd Crossing Over Virtual Trading Card, posted on June 12, 2018.
* Ray appears on Cover A of Ghostbusters Crossing Over Issue #6.
* On page 6 of Ghostbusters Crossing Over Issue #7, in panel 4, Ray's hair is miscolored blonde - a nod to the animation errors on The Real Ghostbusters.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Ray Stantz at Ghostbusters Wiki
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