Ghostbusters: Every Cameo Ranked From Worst To Best

5. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Ghostbusters 2016 Cameos
Sony Pictures

Role: Stay Puft Ghost Balloon or something.

I have an absolutely massive problem with the Stay Puft Man's appearance in Ghostbusters: he's a floating plot hole. Not only is it illogical that balloons would have souls (and therefore impossible for there to be such a thing as a ghost balloon), but he's also defeated in a way that makes absolutely no sense within the film's stablished logic.

For the entire film, ghosts are beaten or blasted to bits using proton streams, as we'd expect, but somehow when he incapacitates three of the Ghostbusters, Stay Puft is literally popped using a conventional Swiss Army Knife. How? He's not an actual balloon, so that makes no sense, and ghosts can't be hurt with normal kitchen ware, so that doesn't either. Are we supposed to just accept this? It's criminal.

Still, at least he looks good and offers far more of a threat to the Ghostbusters than any of the other ghouls on show, including Rowan.

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