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Revision as of 07:05, 22 June 2011
Marduk is the Babylonian god of the city. He once visited New York in an effort to avoid his enemy Tiamat.
History
Throughout the ages, Marduk has traveled from city to city in hopes of settling down permanently. He is known to have been to Babylon, Athens, Rome, Peking, Paris, and London. When Marduk was in ancient China, he thought he had lost Tiamat indefinitely.
In the mid-1980s, Marduk manifested in New York City and traveled around assuming different forms. A pair of police officers managed to take a snapshot of Marduk, in his true form (This was an actual photograph in real life which was rotoscoped into this animated cartoon episode), and showed it to the Ghostbusters. The next day, as a dock worker, Marduk saved the Queen Elizabeth II and a second liner at the Midtown Pier. Through the use of a computer version of Tobin's Spirit Guide, the Ghostbusters eventually identified him as Marduk, but a bigger problem presented itself when Tiamat manifested in Central Park.
They traced Marduk's emanations north to Grand Central Station and attempted to find him with their P.K.E. Meters. He took on many forms but after a long chase they easily found him when he unwittingly assumed the form of Santa Claus when it wasn't Christmas. Marduk had finally agreed to let the Ghostbusters help him to capture his enemy. When Tiamat was finally destroyed, The Ghostbusters believed that Marduk was also destroyed because the two beings couldn't exist without one another, an ecto-symbiosis. This was invalidated when a horse Winston Zeddemore rode during the bust turned into a blonde police officer who broke the fourth wall by waving at the audience, turned and walked away
Powers
Being the god of the city, he can assume the form of any civilian, be it a human or an animal.
When Marduk first appeared, he generated an earthquake and Egon Spengler's line recorders picked up psychic energy readings that went off the scale, confirming a protonic anomaly.
At Grand Central Station, the Ghostbusters set their P.K.E. Meters to "Infinite" to accurately detect Marduk.
Trivia
Marduk assumes 12 forms in the episode. (Author Zecharia Sitchin wrote about a 12th planet called Marduk)
- A dapper gentleman
- A dock worker
- A man asleep on a park bench (This scene taken directly from the opening of the 1937 film "Dead End")
- A sailor
- A night watchman
- A nun
- A child with boom box
- A businessman
- Santa Claus
- A man in a trench coat and fedora
- A horse
- A police officer