Inside Vigo the Carpathian's Mind/Painting Painting

Vigo (originally known as Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf) (also known as Scourge of Carpathia, Sorrow of Moldavia, Vigo the Carpathian, Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, Vigo the Unholy) is an ancient 16th Century medieval tyrant and sorcerer, who later died in the 17th century. He's the main antagonist in Ghostbusters II and is portrayed onscreen by Wilhelm von Homburg, and voiced by Max Von Sydow. He is found again in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, voiced again by Von Sydow. Origins Vigo was born in 1505 in the small Balkan kingdom of Carpathia. He soon rose to power and ruled his home country with an iron fist, and the land itself was in a constant state of spiritual turmoil thanks to his despotic rule, which earned him an infamous name, the "Scourge of Carpathia." Vigo later conquered another land, the country of Moldavia in Romania which its people while still resenting the psychotic autocrat, gave him another notorious alias, the "Sorrow of Moldavia." It was said he was a powerful magician and a genius in many ways, as well as a tyrant, an autocrat, a lunatic and a genocidal madman. Because of his evil ways he wasn't well liked by his subjects and he killed hundreds of them. He was also known as "Vigo the Cruel," "Vigo the Torturer," "Vigo the Despised," and "Vigo the Unholy." Peter Venkman jokingly adds "Vigo the Butch" to the list of aliases. He eventually died at the age of 105 in 1610, but not because of his old age. His people had led a rebellion and they tried and executed him in a manner that they saw fit for his rule. He was poisoned, shot, stabbed, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered (to which Venkman commented "Ouch"). Just before his head died, he uttered this prophetic warning: "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back!” Ghostbusters II True to his word, Vigo returned in modern day New York in 1989 and took up residence in his self-portrait that was created long before the events of his death. Vigo used the river of Psychomagnotheric Slime (also known as Mood Slime), generated by a Sloar, which flowed through abandoned subway tunnels to a location underneath the city's Manhattan Museum of Art, where Vigo resided. The Mood Slime boosted Vigo's powers, and enabled him to channel people's negative emotions needed for the manifestation of an army of angry spirits that soon started terrorizing New York City. Although the slime granted Vigo power enough to manifest, he could not regain a physical form. For this reason, Vigo needed a baby to possess. Vigo used his power and manipulated the museum's curator Janosz Poha into doing his bidding as his pawn. He commanded Janosz to find him a child. Janosz knew the perfect candidate: Dana Barrett's baby, Oscar. Vigo attempted to capture Oscar by sending a wave of Mood Slime into Dana's bathtub when she was about to bathe him, only for Dana to escape and take shelter at Peter's apartment. Peter notified Egon and Ray of the incident. After they checked into Vigo's history, the Ghostbusters went to the museum to investigate and took pictures of Vigo's portrait to analyze. During the analysis, Ray and Egon peered through the illusion of the portrait and saw Vigo's realm, with the Mood Slime flowing behind him. It was then that Vigo attempted to do away with the pair by locking the dark room then setting it ablaze, only for them to be saved by Winston. Egon, Ray, and Winston investigated the sewers and discovered the river of slime that Ray found previously. Winston was pulled in while he tried take measurements. Egon and Ray jumped in after him. They emerged onto the streets and realized the slime was flowing to the museum, and therefore, Vigo. The Ghostbusters tried to alert Mayor Lenny only for his aid, Jack Hardemeyer, to have them committed, temporarily getting them out of Vigo's way. With only 48 hours before the new year (when Vigo's 'Season of Evil' would begin), Vigo ordered Janosz to bring him Oscar, with the promise that Dana would be his wife as a reward. The window in Oscar's temporary bedroom at Peter's was telekinetically opened. Inexplicably, Oscar climbed outside on the ledge. Janosz, in the form of a ghostly nanny thanks to Vigo's powers, snatched Oscar and brought him to the museum. Dana went right after him. After Dana entered the museum, the mood slime covered the exterior of museum and hardened into an near impenetrable shell that kept anyone or anything from getting in or out. At the same time, the mood slime also reached its peak, causing a wide spread appearance of ghosts that rivaled the Containment Unit's explosion. At the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, he would possess Oscar, and be reborn and freely rule the world once again. However, just as he was transferring his spirit into Oscar, the Ghostbusters arrived and disrupted the ritual, having used the Statue of Liberty to generate enough positive energy to penetrate the negative energy of Vigo's slime wall. After the Ghostbusters slimed Janosz to free from Vigo's control, Vigo decided to face the Ghostbusters personally. Having grown strong enough to gain corporeal form, he emerged from the painting, using beams to stun the Ghostbusters before locating where Peter had hid Oscar. As Vigo was preparing to possess the baby, he then grimaced in pain. His weakening was due to throngs of New Yorkers singing "Auld Lang Syne" outside the museum, and their positivity countered the negativity Vigo thrived on. This also released the Ghostbusters from their stasis. Considerably weakened, Vigo was drawn back into his painting as his face became distorted, revealing himself as the monster that he truly was in both life and the afterlife. In a desperate ploy, he took possession of Ray's body (having enchanted him during the Ghostbusters' earlier investigation), both to become human and was under the belief the other Ghostbusters wouldn't fire on their friend. However, the Ghostbusters used positively charged slime to drive him out of Ray's body and their proton streams to drive Vigo back into the painting, completely draining all his powers and causing him to vanish. After that, the painting of Vigo vanished and was replaced with a new one with four men wearing togas surrounding a baby, which symbolized the four Ghostbusters as heavenly saints defending the baby Oscar. Source: Ghostbusters Wiki

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:40 W x 40 H x 1.5 D in

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