The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise , who sometimes appears as a giant , lumbering, and paranormal fluffy monster with a big cute but also creepy looking smile on his face. He first appears in the Ghostbusters film as a logo on a bag of marshmallows in Dana Barrett 's apartment , on an advertisement on a building near the Ghostbusters ' headquarters , and finally as the physical manifestation and form of the apocalyptic Sumerian deity Gozer.
Gozer returns in this form multiple times. Subsequently, he has been incorporated into many other types of Ghostbusters media , including the animated series The Real Ghostbusters , comic books , a stage show , and several video games. Stay-Puft is a large obese white humanoid -like figure made of conjoined marshmallows.
He wears a white sailor cap with a red ribbon attached on top, and a blue hatband. Around his neck is a traditional blue sailor's collar and a red neckerchief. After images of him are seen on an advertisement and a bag of the marshmallows earlier in the film, he is then seen in the climax of Ghostbusters as one of the physical manifestations and forms of Gozer , a god who is defeated when Stay-Puft is destroyed. Stay-Puft's exact to-scale height in the movie is He is then resurrected and subsequently captured a number of different times by the Ghostbusters.
Although mean and destructive at first, he later befriends Slimer and the Ghostbusters in the animated series The Real Ghostbusters , and helps them out with various problems.
He created the character to show that "it seems harmless and puffy and cuteβbut given the right circumstances, everything can be turned black and become evil". Stay-Puft is seen only briefly in the movie. He is "conjured up" [ 5 ] as a new form for the Sumerian god Gozer, who previously arrives atop an apartment building at 55 Central Park West in New York City in the form of an androgynous woman with metallic skin and blood red eyes.
