![]() ![]() Johnny mentors the newest Ghost Rider, Robbie Reyes, by helping Robbie reconcile his dual nature and make sure the good wins over the darkness within. Doctor Strange has assisted the Midnight Sons as well, on occasion. Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch are founding members, and other associates include Morbius, Daimon Hellstrom, Jennifer Kale, Werewolf by Night, Topaz and the Black Cat. The Midnight Sons are a loose-knit group of anti-heroes who fight supernatural forces. Johnny becomes close friends with the members of this short-lived group, including Hercules, Black Widow, Angel, and Iceman. The first super-team that Ghost Rider joins is called the Champions. ![]() Johnny even adopts Danny's use of a hellfire chain and the Penance Stare after seeing his brother use these tools. They team up many times and while they occasionally find themselves on opposing sides, their family ties are strong. Midnight Friendsĭespite Ghost Rider's curse and unrelenting mission, he does find allies and even friends among the darkness.Ĭhief among them is the Ghost Rider that followed Blaze?s first time under the curse, Danny Ketch, who is ultimately revealed to be Blaze's brother. While he manages to hold back Zarathos' worst instincts, Johnny still wishes he was free of the demon.Ī powerful, rival demon named Blackheart has made it his personal mission to snuff out Ghost Rider and his heroic causes. The curse of this vengeance demon prevents Johnny from living a normal life and compels him to always seek out villains to punish. Zarathos is the demon inside Johnny Blaze that causes him to turn into Ghost Rider. For this reason, Johnny and Mephisto are mortal enemies, as this lying demon represents everything Ghost Rider stands against. It is Mephisto's manipulations that led to Johnny Blaze first becoming the Ghost Rider and his stepfather's death, on the heels of demonic trickery. Penance StareĪ mystical being that hates evil is bound to have many enemies among the physical and corporeal world, and Ghost Rider has more than enough for him to handle. It's only the human host that holds the demon back from full power. The demon inside Blaze, Zarathos, is among the upper echelon of demons as far as his power level, meaning Ghost Rider can grapple with the universe?s strongest when necessary. Whichever approach he takes, Ghost Rider lives up to his name.įinally, Ghost Rider is supernaturally strong. Johnny can infuse any motorcycle with hellfire or even conjure up a vehicle from nothing. This stare leaves its victim permanently catatonic.Īnother element Blaze incorporates from Ketch as time goes on is a mystical, metal chain bathed in hellfire which can be used as both a weapon and to bind his enemies. By gazing into the soul of the guilty, Ghost Rider causes the affected party to relive all the harm they?ve done to anyone else over the years. His chief weapon is called the Penance Stare, an ability picked up from his brother, Danny Ketch. Ghost Rider uses numerous mystical abilities to punish the guilty and save innocent lives. ![]() When Mephisto came to collect his soul, it was only the timely intervention of Johnny's love, Roxanne, that temporarily drove Mephisto away.Īs a final act of spite before fleeing, Mephisto cursed Johnny by bonding him with the demon Zarathos, transforming Johnny into the blazing spirit of vengeance, Ghost Rider. Crash was cured, momentarily, but then died shortly after in a stunt gone wrong. The first rule is that the devil always lies. Believing he had summoned the biblical Devil himself, Johnny in fact had summoned the demon lord Mephisto and bargained his soul away in exchange for Crash's life. When Johnny's stepfather was dying of cancer, Johnny turned to the occult to try and cure the illness. Johnny eventually grew to have romantic feelings for his adoptive sister, Roxanne. Barton later died in a stunt, and Johnny was adopted by fellow stunt drivers Crash and Mona Simpson. His father, Barton Blaze, raised Johnny and his siblings alone when Johnny's mother, Naomi, left them. Johnny Blaze grew up in a family of stunt drivers. The human inside of Ghost Rider would like nothing more than to be free of his curse, but in the meantime, he's going to make a lot of bad people suffer. Possessed by a demon named Zarathos, Johnny Blaze constantly craves vengeance against evil and is compelled to seek it out, using his supernatural hellfire and Penance Stare to burn the souls of the wicked. A motorcycle stunt driver turned spirit of vengeance after a fateful deal with the demon lord Mephisto, Ghost Rider defies his benefactor and rides his blazing motorcycle, dispensing vengeance to the souls of all those who would do the world harm. ![]()
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