Vigo

"I, Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia, command you!"

- Vigo "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back!"

- Vigo last words, before his head died. "On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of EVIL"

- Vigo "No! I, Ray, am Vigo, shall rule the Earth! Begone, you pitiful half-men!"

- Vigo (while temporarily possessing Ray Stanz), before being defeated and destroyed by the Ghostbusters via their positively-charged Mood Slime.

Vigo the Carpathian (real name: Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf) is a 16th/17th century medieval tyrant and an oppressive sorcerer who serves as the main villain of Ghostbusters II.

He was portrayed by the late Wilhelm von Homburg, and was voiced by the veteran actor, Max Von Sydow, in both the film and Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

History
Vigo was born in 1505 within the Balkan kingdom of Carpathia in Hungary near the border of Italy. After rising to power, Vigo ruled his homeland and later the conquered Romanian region of Moldovia with an iron fist, earning him the labels "'Scourge of Carpathia" and "Sorrow of Moldovia". History would remember him as a powerful magician and a genius but also a tyrant, an autocrat, a lunatic, and a genocidal madman. His titles also included Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy. Four centuries later, Peter Venkman would jokingly add "Vigo the Butch" to the list.

Vigo finally died in 1610 at the age of 105 when his subjects rebelled; leading Vigo to be poisoned, shot, stabbed, hung, stretched, disembowled, and finally drawn and quartered (to which Venkman commented, "Ouch."). Following his decapitation, his head issued a final prophesy before dying: "Death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back.".

Ghostbusters II
True to his word, he 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 Slime, generated by Mood Slime, which flowed through abandoned subway tunnels to a location underneath the city's Manhattan Museum of Art, where the Vigo painting along with the dead tyrant's evil spirit (mostly in his floating head form which symbolic representation of his final death in life) resided. The mood slime boosted Vigo's powers and make him available to channel people's negative emotions needed for the manifestation of the 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 manipulated the Museum's Curator Janosz Poha into bringing Dana Barrett's baby, Oscar, to the Museum of Art, so that on the eve of the new millennium, he could possess her child and be reborn and freely rule the world once again. Vigo's plans were halted by the Ghostbusters. They attacked him with positively charged slime and blasted him back into the painting, completely draining all his powers. After that, the painting of Vigo redesigned itself as an image depicting the Ghostbusters as heavenly saints.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game
Vigo appears in the firehouse in his painting near Janine's desk on the right from the firehouse doors in Ghostbusters: The Video Game. In the Wii version, it is in the basement near the Storage facility. If they player interacts with the painting, it will talk to them, with over 100 different line variations. Its reason for existence is unknown, seeing as it was melted at the end of the movie to reveal a painting of the Ghostbusters.

An explanation could be that this is not the original painting, but a replica that Vigo's spirit now inhabits.

Another possibility is that the painting of Ghostbusters (which itself was created by changing Vigo's powers into positive energy) still held what was left of the Scourge of Carpathia after his defeat, and after some time it returned to its normal form (Vigo painting). However, Vigo's spirit is now nearly powerless and unable to act outside the painting, making it unessential to even put him into Containment Unit.

Another theory is that after the shockwave at the beginning of the game could have reverted the painting back to it's original form.

Powers and Abilities
Vigo is an extremely powerful spirit in Ghostbusters II, but this was because he was powered by the River of Slime and its negative energies (people's bad vibes and emotions). Vigo can change matter as well as utilize telekinesis, mind control, and telepathy, but has since lost most of his powers because of the positive energies stirred by the Ghostbusters and the slime-enhanced Statue of Liberty.

Although, technically speaking, Vigo is ranked as a class 4 ghost, the River of Slime boosted his powers to a class 7 - making him almost as strong as Gozer.

Other Ghostbusters Media
The Scourge of Carpathia also faced the animated version of the Ghostbusters, but the encounter was never seen. It was however mentioned by Egon in the episode "Partners in Slime".

The encounter was however chronicled in the comic book adaptation of the second movie by NOW Comics. In this, the live action Ghostbusters were replaced with their animated counterparts. It also contained the first appearance of Louis Tully and the only appearance of Dana Barrett in a RGB continuity.

The Sorrow of Moldovia himself was also the final boss in the video games based on Ghostbusters II.

He was also the main villain in an adventure based on the second movie in a re-issue of the role-playing game. To defeat his defenses in order to approach him, the players had to utilize effigies of The Tinman, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion from Frank Baum's "Oz" series. When Vigo's painting melts, the Oz characters are shown instead of the Ghostbusters.

The Real Ghostbusters (NOW Comics)
"The Sorrow of Moldovia..."

- Vigo aka the Sorrow of Moldovia.

Ghostbusters (IDW Comics)
"Hahahaha! My army grows!"

- Vigo who has amassed his demonic army of spirits.

"Who dares?!"

- Vigo

"Yes! Yes! Free me!"

- Vigo

"Eh?"

- Vigo

"No!"

- Vigo upon defeat.

Part 1
"Psst! Over here."

- Vigo, calling out to whoever is near or senses his dark spiritual presence within his infamous bewitched painting.

"Another thousand failures and I'll have enough negative energy to return to the world of the living. HAhahaha!"

- Vigo about the Mood Slime's power to absorb negative emotions from the world of the living.

"Araghhh...the smell of happiness stings my nose!"

- Vigo

"Bow to your master."

- Lord Vigo

"Call me Vigo the Despised or Vigo the Unholy or...ahh...uh...never mind."

- Vigo, who is also known as Vigo the Despised and Vigo the Unholy.

"Compete for my amusement."

- Vigo

"Congratulate yourself now mortal, while you still have time."

- Vigo

"Congratulations. Come stare into my eyes to claim your reward."

- Vigo

"Death is in the air."

- Vigo

"Distant worlds beckon. Evil spirits howl."

- Vigo

"Don't you know me? I am Prince Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf."

- Prince Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf

"Enough!"

- Vigo

"Find me a child that I may live again."

- Vigo, seeks a very younger human host to possess.

"Foolish Mortal!"

- Vigo

"From the dust of the dead rise the unholy."

- Vigo, aka Vigo the Unholy.

"Hahaha!"

- Vigo laughing evilly.

"Have you ever savored the exquisite anguish of tortured souls?"

- Vigo

"I am Prince Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf!"

- Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, aka Prince Vigo.

"I am Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer."

- Vigo the Cruel, aka Vigo the Torturer.

"I am Vigo the Destroyer!"

- Vigo, now calls himself "Vigo the Destroyer".

"I loathe the living."

- Vigo

"I loathe you from the darkest spume of my craven, boiling bowels!"

- Vigo

"I tire of the pity meanderings of you simpering fools."

- Vigo

"I see the fear in your soul. You're losing the battle you engage in."

- Vigo

"I should've painted myself a bathroom in this thing."

- Vigo about wishing he should have painted a bathroom within his bewitched portrait.

"I was just beginning to savor your burgeoning anger towards one another!"

- Vigo

"If only I could have delivered such humiliation in person."

- Vigo

"If this were my castle, I'd have you strung up for that."

- Vigo

"In my day, we had no time for such trifling amusements."

- Vigo

"In the grand scheme, you all must realize these diversions mean nothing!"

- Vigo

"It is the dawn of another struggle for power!"

- Vigo

"Judgment approaches."

- Vigo

"Just another thousand years, Vigo, hang in there. Hang in."

- Vigo

"Look deep inside yourself and ask if this was a true victory."

- Vigo

"May the hooves of a thousand steeds trample you underfoot."

- Vigo

"Mmmm...not bad for a mortal."

- Vigo

"My dreams are blood-soaked dark things filled with furious vengeance."

- Vigo

"My sword will taste your flesh."

- Vigo

"My veins spurt white hot bile and broken glass as I'm forced to look upon you."

- Vigo

"No heart ever beat as black as my own. Come closer...and I'll let you hear it."

- Vigo

"Nobody ever listens to me."

- Vigo

"Not even these shackles can hold the demon-beast of Romania forever!"

- Vigo who once called himself the "Demon-Beast of Romania".

"Now is the season of evil."

- Vigo going on with his "Season of Evil" rantings.

"On a mountain of skulls, in a castle of pain, I shall sit on a throne of blood once more."

- Vigo

"Oh, such delicious despair."

- Vigo

"Oh! The battle intensifies!"

- Vigo

"Ohhh...this bores me."

- Vigo

"Pay tribute to Lord Vigo, peasant."

- Vigo, aka Lord Vigo.

"Please stop burning the microwave popcorn."

- Vigo

"Prepare yourselves for the inevitable."

- Vigo

"Psst! Shoes are untied."

- Vigo

"Rivers of blood flow beneath us."

- Vigo

"So many mothers have twisted in agony at the horror I visited upon their sons."

- Vigo

"Such a pity victory in the face of the vast pool of chaos rising around you!"

- Vigo

"Sure, my cranium is large, but so is my devastation!"

- Vigo

"That was almost as painful as being stabbed and pulled apart...ermmmmm, but perhaps not."

- Vigo

"The demons in this realm are gathering to conquer. You have not a chance."

- Vigo's "warning" about demons on Earth.

"The end is near."

- Vigo

"The fires of hell feed me."

- Vigo

"The stench of fear permeates this place."

- Vigo

"The time of war is over."

- Vigo

"Time is but a window - and that window is closing."

- Vigo

"Time to end this foolish display!"

- Vigo

"This pitiful makeshift prison will not last forever."

- Vigo about his cursed painting prison.

"Vigo the Carpathian will taste the blood of men, again."

- Vigo, aka Vigo the Carpathian.

"What a miserable pile of weakness."

- Vigo

"What a wretched display of ineptitude."

- Vigo

"What I sense coming is far more horrible than I. Are you prepared?"

- Vigo

"What was will be. What is, will be no more."

- Vigo

"When my vindication comes, you'll wish you'd been born inside-out."

- Vigo

"When the day comes, you will be the first."

- Vigo

"With every passing day, you grow weaker, and I gain power."

- Vigo

"Your inexorable march towards finality begins here, Ghostbusters."

- Vigo

"You call that an accomplishment?"

- Vigo

"You will know the torments of a million babies eaten alive in searing fire."

- Vigo

"You win this round, Ghostbusters!"

- Vigo

"You'll be squirming soon enough."

- Vigo

"Your weaknesses feed me! Please continue to fail!"

- Vigo

Trivia

 * Vigo's surnames, as stated from Egon's research from the Occult Reference Net in Ghostbusters II and the Tobin's Spirit Guide entry found in Stylized Version of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, are Von Homburg Deutschendorf. This is a combination of those of Wilhelm von Homburg, the actor who portrayed him in Ghostbusters II, and William T. Deutschendorf and Henry J. Deutschendorf II, the actors that portrayed Oscar.
 * A painting of Vigo is seen above the shoulder of Artie Lester in What in Samhain Just Happened?! on page 9 as he shows Janine Melnitz inside Tobin's Mansion.