Dana Barrett
Background
Dana Barrett is a cello player for the orchestra in New York City, New York.
During the events of Ghostbusters (1984) played by Sigourney Weaver
As Dana is walking to her apartment, Louis Tully invites her to his apartment to have some low sodium mineral water. She goes into her apartment and sees a commercial for the Ghostbusters. As she is putting her groceries away, her egg carton lid pops open and the eggs start to cook on the counter. She hears a growling noise from her fridge and opens it up and a large dog like creature says Zuul. Dana walks into the Ghostbusters' office and Dr. Peter Venkman interviews her about the incident at her apartment while Dr. Egon Spengler and Dr. Raymond Stantz scan her with machines. Raymond offers to go to the Hall of Records to check on construction plans for the building, Egon offers to look up the name Zuul in Tobin's Spirit Guide, while Peter offers to take Dana to her apartment to check it out. Peter and Dana go to her apartment and he uses a portable sniffer as they walk around the apartment. They go into the kitchen, but the fridge is normal. Peter tries to ask Dana out on a date, but she rejects him.
Dana walks out of the orchestra building with Violinist and sees Peter standing outside. Dana asks Peter if he has any information about her case and he gives her background information on Zuul. He invites her out on a date to provide her with more information and she accepts. Dana goes into her apartment and as she sits down, she is grabbed by demonic arms that come out of the couch and she is pulled towards the fridge and an incarnation of Zuul as the dog statue. Peter goes to Dana's apartment and notices her exhibiting odd behavior. Dana wakes up as a massive cloud and ray of light breaks through the Ghostbusters headquarters and goes into the sky. Louis opens Dana's door and they kiss and walks towards the roof of their building. Dana and Louis are transformed into the dog like forms of Zuul and Vinz Clortho. Gozer walks out from a sky temple/portal and Raymond approaches it and asks it to return to its own realm. Gozer asks if Raymond is a god, and when Raymond responds in the negative, Gozer tries to kills the Ghostbusters. The Ghostbusters turn on their proton weapons and fire at Gozer, but she easily jumps away. They fire at her again and she disappears. Gozer's voice calls out that Volguus Zildrohar the Traveler has come and they must choose their form of the destructor. Raymond imagines the image of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man appears and starts to destroy the city. The Ghostbusters fire their weapons at it and catches it on fire, but continues to walk towards them. Egon suggests to cross the streams and fire them at the dimensional portal and after they do, the portal disappears and the Stay Puft Marshamallow Man explodes, covering everyone in marshmallow. Peter initially thinks Dana is dead, but discovers the dog form was only a shell and they free her and Louis. The Ghostbusters, Dana and Louis walk out of the building and are cheered by the crowd.
