This leprechaun appeared in the Extreme Ghostbusters tv series.
The series was produced in 1997 in an attempt of revive the franchise of the previous and succesful TV series "The real gosthbusters".
This series presented a more darker tone in comparison with "The real ghostbusters" and the previous ghostbusters, too old for continue their fight against the ghosts, were replaced by a new group of students.
This Leprechaun appeared in one of the episodes called "luck of the irish" and I wanted to draw him as the episode was very ice and anyway I always liked Irish folklore and stories.

Character story:
At the turn of the 20th century, a Leprechaun was inadvertently brought over from Ireland to New York. Unlike most Leprechauns, who are benign Class 2 magnitude apparitions, this one was a Malignant Leprechaun. In other words, it was pure evil. He terrorized much of the city's Irish population bringing about hardship and a state of bad luck. The officers of the Sons of Erin Club trapped the Leprechaun in a Celtic mystic circle, traditionally used to imprison supernatural creatures forever unless the circle was broken, and sealed it with a fragment of the Blarney Stone. After the Leprechaun was sealed off in a secret chamber behind an office in the Sons of Erin Society Building, the officers used its gold to feed hungry immigrant children. On March 16, 1997, the day before Saint Patrick's Day, the two foot tall Irish elf was accidentally released by a construction worker named Murphy, a descendant of one of officers from the Sons of Erin Club. He wanted to hunt down all of the descendants of the Sons of Erin for revenge and to reclaim his gold. Despite the descendants not knowing about the gold, the Leprechaun believed them to be lying and imprisoned them one by one in a small urn. The Extreme Ghostbusters had to hunt him down before he found Mayor McShane, the last descendant. He cursed Garrett Miller with bad luck when he foolishly encouraged him to do so. He abducted the mayor in a death coach and went to the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown. Garrett was able to save the day after overcoming his bad luck. The Blarney Stone fragment appeared to have psychokinetic properties that could affect causality specific to the Leprechaun, and emit synthetic good luck. Egon Spengler isolated an ionic particle from the fragment that he believed would have a detrimental effect on the Leprechaun by adversely affecting his causality matrix and modified a Proton Pack. Garrett defeated the Leprechaun by blasting him with a modified proton stream, giving him bad luck and making him easy to trap. The descendants were then released from the urn.

Powers and abilities:
In the Ghostbusters universe leprechauns are normally weak entities who at worst are simply mischievous. This Leprechaun however was a malignant Leprechaun and apparently he was much more powerful than the rest of his kind.
In the show he demonstrated this abilities:
-super strength: despite his small size the Leprechaun proved to be quite strong, being able to lift a full grown human and toss him away with ease.
-extreme agility: he also showed a high degree of agility and speed
-teleport: like the legends says the Leprechaun was unable to escape while someone was staring at him directly but it's sufficient that the person looking at the elf blinks or looks away even for a small istant for allowing the creature to teleport away.
-The Leprechaun possesses a shillelagh that fires magic beams. These beams are used to enchant objects or capture his victims into a tiny pot of gold he carries around. The enchanted objects are ecto-animated, not ecto-based, and are classified as Class 4 Emanations
-he is able to curse people with bad luck

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