Peter Venkman (Flashpoint)

Dr. Peter Venkman is one of the original Ghostbusters, but quit the Ghostbusters in 2011, and moved from New York to Metropolis, where he would stay in an apartment building working on new inventions. He often helped different heroes in times of need, including Cyborg, Spider-Man and Magneto. He would eventually jump over to Dimension-6144 to avoid the erasure of his home universe.
== History ==
=== Helping Cyborg ===
Sometime in 2019, right after the first attack by Doctor Haxx, Superman had the idea to from a team of heroes, to help prevent further attacks from villains. Superman began to recruit people, and one of those people was Cyborg. When Cyborg agreed to join, he knew he was in needing of an upgrade to his robotic body, so he contacted Venkman, who was able to give the suit the upgrades it needed.
=== Lending the Time Machine ===
Sometime during 2020, Batman was doing his regular patrolling throughout Metropolis, when news got around that a man with an enlarged head, who goes by the name Doctor Haxx, was terrorizing the citizens. Batman sped to the scene of the crime, and began his duel with the Doctor. He did what he could, and even got help from Spider-Man, and his good friend Magneto. Despite Batman and Magneto's best efforts, they were no match for Doctor Haxx, who ultimately killed Batman. Destroyed by this, Magneto went on fighting Haxx, while also running into a couple of the people who lived in the area, such as Bruce Wayne. Wayne and Magento hid out in Wayne Enterprises for a while, which ended in Bruce being killed. But before he died Wayne knew of a way to help, and guided Magneto to Venkman. Venkman was a friend of Batman and Bruce Wayne, and was able to provide his Time Machine to Magento, who then used it to go back in time to warn Batman about his impending doom.
=== Joining the Illuminati ===
Sometime before the destruction of Earth Prime, Venkman came to the realization that his universe would soon be destroyed by the Cosmic Train. Knowing this, Venkman crossed dimensions to avoid being killed along with the rest of his world. He ended up in New Earth, where he would go onto meet Reed Richards. Together, the two were approached by Doctor Strange and the rest of the Illuminati, to which both Venkman and Reed would join.
When Barry and Erik showed up from their timeline, they were brought in front of the Illuminati, while they waited for Strange to hear the news. When Barry asked who they all were, Venkman told him that it wasn't his business.
== Abilities ==
=== Abilities ===
* Genius-Level Intellect
* Multilingualism
== Trivia ==
* Venkman was added onto the Illuminati at the last minute, and wasn't in the original script.
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