And again some of this history seems to have been retconned away but it’s not clear either way. Danny is not possessed by Zarathos either, but by his ancestor Noble Kale who was actually the first Ghost Rider centuries earlier. Their mother, who neither of them really knew, had the motorcycle, but how it ended up in that junk yard was never explained. As often happens with comics continuity over time, both Ghost Riders were eventually revealed (or retconned?) as brothers. Why is there a mystical symbol on a random motorcycle you ask? Well, that wasn’t explained at all for a long while. Barbara (the sister) is already shot and bleeding out, but Danny feels called to touch a mystical seal on the gas cap of a random motorcycle and boom, Ghost Rider #2. At this time Danny Ketch and his sister are caught in a battle between two rival gangs and run into a junkyard to hide. Lots of nominative determinism in the Marvel Universe, just saying. Skip forward almost two decades and Johnny Blaze has lost the powers of Ghost Rider, possibly because someone finally noticed his name was a little on the nose. This makes him into a flaming skeleton in a leather jacket who rides his flaming motorcycle around protecting the innocent, or at least avenging them. The devil, in this case, is Mephisto (there are a lot of Marvel Comics devils and it’s complicated) who made Blaze into “The Spirit Of Vengeance” by bonding the demon Zarathos to him. Then his father died in a motorcycle stunt anyway. Blaze sold his soul to the devil to save his father-figure from dying from cancer. The first rider was Johnny Blaze, Nic Cage’s movie character. Skipping right past the 60’s cowboy character, Ghost Rider as we saw him on screen in S.H.I.E.L.D. Let’s learn! WHO THE -HELL- IS GHOST RIDER? For example, what does this have to do with the Nicolas Cage movies? Is Nicolas Cage going to show up? What is Nicolas Cage doing now? Ok… maybe you had some actual character questions, but I’ll try and answer a little of both. You also probably have a lot of questions. For an idea of what we mean, keep reading to learn the untold truth of Ghost Rider's Hellfire Chain.If you watched the premiere of this season’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, you were probably psyched to see Ghost Rider burning his way into the Marvel TV universe. The chain is capable of a variety of different tasks and abilities, and is mysterious in the sense that it doesn't always follow the same kinds of rules you would expect from such mystical weapons. In other words, there are a lot of different versions of Ghost Rider, and many (though not all) of them share a common tool - the Hellfire Chain. In a world within the Soul Stone, we've seen the hero Ghost Panther - an amalgalm of Ghost Rider and Black Panther - and the 19th century Native American Ghost Rider, Kushala, popped up in the miniseries War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery. ![]() ![]() has been appearing regularly in Avengers. The Cosmic Ghost Rider has shown up in a variety of comics. At the same time, the Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider - the newer comics incarnation who also appeared on TV in the fourth season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ![]() Marvel's latest Ghost Rider series regularly features two different Ghost Riders - Johnny Blaze, who first appeared in the '70s Ghost Rider series and was played by Nicolas Cage in two live-action movies, and Danny Ketch, who took on the Spirit of Vengeance in the '90s. Whether you like Marvel's Ghost Rider or hate him, you have to admit at least one thing - he'd make for a killer tattoo.
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