Janosz Poha

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Janosz Poha: 1980 - 1989

Janosz was born in the township of Poha, in the Teznia region of Markovia. He grew up as the son of married bakers and was raised along with an older sister, Nastya.

### Janosz Poha: 1989 - 1991

At age nine, Janosz had his first encounter with art during a trip to the Royal Markovian Museum. It would change his life from that point on. That trip marked the beginning of the end of his parents' marriage. As a coping mechanism, Janosz filled his time with three things to weather the aftermath: Developing a skill for painting, studying art in general, and exhaustively studying Vigo the Carpathian. Janosz's mother was concerned about her son's sudden interest in a tyrant warlord and acclaimed dark occultist from Markovia's dark history, but she dismissed it as a harmless eccentricity that fueled his artistic passion which she encouraged, seeing its potential to allow her son to attain greatness.

### Janosz Poha: 1991 - 2013

By the time Janosz was eleven, his parents were divorced and his father had moved to America with his mistress, taking Janosz's sister with him. Meanwhile, Janosz stayed with his mother as she began a new life in the capital city, eventually finding work as a cleaning lady at the museum, which allowed Janosz free admittance to the museum where he would spend much of the remainder of his childhood, becoming a young expert in art history and quite the connoisseur of artistic expression.

When he graduated secondary school, Janosz had developed quite the portfolio and was accepted to the Royal University of Markovia where he studied art, history and art history. By twenty-three, Janosz was a junior curator at the Royal Museum of Markovia and an acclaimed artist in his own right.

While working on his doctorate, Janosz and his mother were caught up in the 2005 riots. Janosz's mother was trampled by a mob shortly after they broke into the museum, intent on destroying the royal artwork. Janosz fled into the old catacombs below the museum. Janosz kept running and eventually escaped the country. Tucked under his arm as he fled was a massive rolled-up painting he had saved from certain destruction by cutting it out of its frame. Janosz found work for several years in Vlatava until he secured passage to America.

### Janosz Poha: 2013 - Present

Janosz's painting was seized by customs. Albert Davis agreed to help Janosz get the painting cleared from customs and got Janosz a job as the new curator at the Star City Museum of Art. Janosz was told to repay his debt to Davis by keeping an eye on one of the museum's art restoration experts, a woman named Dana Barrett, keeping her in Star City.

As curator, Janosz began to restore his cherished painting of Vigo. He became even more devoted to the artwork. When the occult painting decided to enact its own nefarious plan, Janosz was chosen as its chief minion until the Ghostbusters blasted Dr. Poha with positively charged psychomagnotheric slime, truly freeing Janosz's mind for the first time in decades. As the slime wore off, Janosz felt shame for what he'd done.

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Operator*) It is interesting to note that in 1989, the painting of Vigo the Carpathian was removed from storage and it was put on display. That same year civil unrest began to ferment against the Royal Family of Markovia. The unrest reached its highest levels in 1995, 1999, and 2005. These dates also align with when the painting was removed from storage and on display.
* (*Submitted by Four-Eyes*) When Janosz was nine, his mother took Janosz and his sister to a museum. It was here that Janosz discovered his immense love of art, and also became introduced to the now infamous portrait of Vigo the Carpathian which was on display at the Markovian capital's museum. The painting had recently been rediscovered in storage at Castle Markovia and had obvious signs of neglect and minor damage, but something about it still spoke to young Janosz. He was very fascinated by the portrait and had to be dragged away from the exhibit by his mother to continue on with the remainder of the exhibits. While the mother and two children were leaving the museum, Jozef Poha showed up and confronted Marta. Jozef had been having an affair and Marta had used the excuse of a museum trip to get her children to join her in starting a new life in the city. While the parents argued, Janosz and Nastya returned to the museum and while Nastya tried to comfort Janosz, it was the nearby portrait that proved the greatest distraction.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* World-Class Artist
* Master Art Historian
* Master Markovian Historian
* Multilingual
	+ *Markovian, Vlatavan, Russian, Greek, Italian, French, Latin, and Egyptian*
* Residual Occult Endowment
	+ *Capable Ritualist*
	+ *Supernatural Senses*

### Weaknesses

* Criminal Record: Child Predator
* Mentally Unstable
* Plagued by Telepathic Whispers
* Prone to Possession
* Residual Familiarity to Vigo the Carpathian
* Weak-Willed
* Questionable Grasp on English

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 1 — Paltry / Below-Average
* **Expertise:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Range:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Strategy:** 1 — Paltry / Below-Average
	+ **TOTAL:** 21
	+ **RANKING:** Minimal Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* He often screams in a foreign language at his coworkers.
* He personally restored the portrait of Vigo the Carpathian.
* He has a crush on Dana Barrett.

### Notes

* Janosz Poha is a character from the *Ghostbusters II* movie and its related media.
* His address is a nod to Peter MacNicol, who portrayed him in the *Ghostbusters 2* movie. The number 89 is the year of the movie's release.

## Network Files

Network Files Janosz Poha.pngNetwork Files: Janosz Poha

## Links and References

* Appearances of Janosz Poha

1. ↑ Network Files: Janosz Poha
2. ↑ VOX Box: Who You Gonna Call? 17