Was Viggo stronger than Gozer?

Viggo was a ghost, but Gozer was a god.

Looking at both films, I think he was.

Vigo wasn't a true God like Gozer, but he was a stronger match for the Ghostbusters, unless Gozer showed very little of his/her powers in the first movie. He/She managed to knock them down with those electricity bolts, and Gozer turns into the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man, but it killed quite brutally when he/she is blasted with the proton packs and the gateway explodes.

Vigo was only hurt by the proton pack shots. Gozer probably would've died from the fire eventually, even if the gateway wasn't destroyed. He also stunned them and they weren't able to get up until the power of goodness weakened him.


http://www.freewebs.com/demonictoys/

I think Viggo is stronger too. Definitely more sinister.

RIP
Jeff Hanneman
1964-2013

A VERY tough call.

Gozer was an evil deity and the proton packs they initially fired went right through it. The only reason they did damage was because of Gozer's arrogance. Remember, the team was given the choice to choose the form of their perish/destructor. Only then did Gozer manifest into a physical form which could be combatted through conventional means. If Gozer had remained in the original form shooting lightning and finished the job, I could see him/her/it controlling New York (likely the world) as the influence spread.

Viggo was exceptionally powerful and held many dark secrets and abilities. He was a match for the team even in his own weakened form. Assuming he had a fully grown human body to control, he would give it one hell of a fight to Gozer. Look at what it took to kill him even when he was well over 100 his first time around. He can take some punishment and it was likely a large contingent that finally brought him down.

Playing with the premise that Gozer has already taken over but the spirit of Viggo fed off the negative energy and returns to life during Gozer's dark reign, I could see the people supporting the new evil just to be rid of the first. I am sure Viggo would gather what people could tell him of Gozer as he long predated their cult. He would eventually square off but would lack the mobility and versatility of Gozer. He would get in some powerful magical hits but they would at best buy time and Gozer would eventually either kill Viggo....or force him to be a second in command to help rule in the postion with an iron first.

Sorry..got carried away there :)


"Mankind cannot solve the world's problems. Mankind is the problem."

Gozer. While Vigo is powerful Gozer is a god. The problem with what happened with Gozer was that he had to choose a form to destroy the wiorld and because of Ray he chose a form whose sole offensive capability is really size

While Vigo had telekinesis, supreme strength and was being energized with the slime fed on negative energy. He had more parlor tricks.

But also look on how they were destroyed. They destroyed Vigo while he was in the painting which seems to be his link to this dimensional plane, the attacked it with Protong guns and attack Vigo with what seems like a counter agent to his negative slime. It probably broke the connection, destroyed or banished Vigo and a bit of psycho manipulation made a poster of Oscar and the saviors, why and how, who knows. Maybe a psychic link, or a response to killing Gozer, maybe their presence and the energy they exuded fighting him left an impression on the painting or whatever psychokinetic stuff that allowed Vigo to live and inhabit the painting?

To defeat Gozer, they had to get almost blown up and use a risky procedure to close the doors on his temple and basically blow up his destructor form, almost destroying them in the process. Gozer required a bit more work in destroying and more risk. And in the end if Ray or some picked a better form for Gozer then he would be impossible to beat

It would be a good fight, but my money is on Vigo. What you said about him taking the full force of the proton beams and throwing them back, He was much stronger than Gozer.

[deleted]

Gozer was a huge bad guy. Look at everything he threw at the GB in the finale: earthquakes, turned 2 people into devil dogs, Mr. Stay Puft the Destroyer, took the form of an evil "Ziggy Stardust" on top of the high rise, opened up a plane to another dimension, almost killed the GBs a few times. Gozer brought on the apocalypse and rose all of these malicious spirits from the dead.

Viggo was trapped in a painting and had a nerdy guy do his bidding. He covered a museum in slime and tried to kidnap a baby. The GB defeated him in about 10 mins once they got inside the museum, haha!