Timewise, this would mean that he had a kid during the events of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2. The son in GB Afterlife is 16, meaning he was born in 2004. Unless she got pregnant at age 12 or so, she was born before GB2. Judging by the look of Egon's daughter, the mother of the film, she would have been born in the early 80s or late 70s. Just interesting that it was never mentioned in the films that he was a father.
shareRamis was from 1944. 40 years to sire children unbeknownst way before Ghostbusters (1984).
shareYeah...my point is that it's strange that it's never mentioned in any of the films that he has a kid. First, he lived on campus at Columbia, then he moved in with the guys at the firehouse and continued to live there. Never once did he get a call or anything about having a kid. He didn't act like he was comfortable around Oscar as normal father would. That would have been an ideal time to mention something. He only brings up his strange childhood.
shareWell obviously his daughter wasn't mentioned in the films because at the time they didn't know he needed one for a 2020 sequel. 😎
If we speculate that Egon was divorced and/or estranged from the mother, it would account for her absence though. Presumably the backstory of that relationship will be laid out for us.
Egon Spengler was the rare kind of guy who might not talk much about his ex-wife, or a kid he didn't have custody of.
Normal people complain constantly about their exes and divorces and the burden of childhood support payments (from either side) and how they're really wonderful parents and devoted to their kids in spite of the appearances, etc. But Spengler, he doesn't want to talk about anything but science!
I was thinking similarly. And does it matter? Obviously when the filmed the originals they weren't thinking about a sequel 36 years later, let alone Egon's grandchildren. It could very easily be explained that he had a child when he was younger, he and the mother split up and she kept custody, and he was indifferent. His life was about science, not family, and like many such men, he had no interest in his offspring.
shareHe collects spores, molds, and fungi!
shareMaybe he had the girl two weekends a month. That wouldn't necessarily have been mentioned, or affected the movies at all. You're right. A lot of highly technical people aren't comfortable discussing personal feelings or problems with co-workers. And those who are immersed in their work to the exclusion of almost everything else often make terrible parents (or for that matter partners/spouses). It would come as no great shock that Spengler was estranged from the mother of his child.
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it is weird. he was flirting with janeane in the first film "print is dead" and so forth, he slept with slime in the second film, also he was having toy conversations with ray in part 2 "slinky stretching" that probably would have came up at the baby shower.
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