Ghost Rider

Origin

Johnny Blaze

Johnny Blaze was the son of a motorcycle stunt rider named Barton Blaze.  Working for a man by the name of Crash Simpson, Barton Blaze and his son Johnny became accustomed to the life of a carnival.  When Barton Blaze suddenly died, Johnny's world was turned upside down as he lost the last of his family.  Not long after the stunt accident that killed his father, Johnny Blaze was adopted by Crash Simpson.  Upon his adoption, Johnny lived with Crash, his wife Mona, and his daughter Roxanne.

Johnny Blaze

Keeping his promise to Mona, Johnny never rode in a motorcycle show.  However he continued to practice and improve his riding, despite the promise he had made.  He kept his riding a secret. One day as Johnny was practicing, Roxanne stumbled into the tent where he was.  Upon doing so, she discovered that Johnny knew how to ride. While practicing continuously, the Crash Simpson stunt show continued and prospered.  Not long after the Crash Simpson Stunt Show had gained in popularity, Crash Simpson discovered that he had cancer and was going to die soon.  Johnny felt as though her were not able to bear the loss of another fatherly figure in his life.  Therefore, he decided the he would do whatever was needed to save Crash Simpson's life - no matter the cost.

Making a pact with the devil, Johnny Blaze sold his soul in order to save Crash Simpson from the disease that was killing him. The Devil, who was later revealed to be the arch-demon Mephisto, agreed to make the pact.  However, there was one condition: One day he would return to collect his fee for curing Crash.  Life continued on and nobody knew of the pact Johnny had made.  Crash Simpson, on the other hand, felt as if he had nothing to loose.  He did not know of the pact that Johnny had made in order to save his life.  Therefore, he decided to make an attempt to perform a breath-taking stunt: a giant jump over twenty-two cars.  However, Crash did not make it.  Instead, he and his vehicle crashed upon the ground and he died.

After Johnny Blaze saw Crash die, his world had crumbled down, he did not think that life could get any worse. Just as he thought that the Devil appeared. Johnny began yelling at the Devil and telling him that he double crossed him, the Devil stated that he had cured Crash Simpson’s disease and that he wanted to claim his reward. With that statement heard he declared that Johnny Blaze would become his Emissary in the dark hours and in the light he would join him in Hades. The pact was made, by day Johnny Blaze would walk among the living, but by night he became the Ghost Rider. During the day Johnny Blaze performed in his traveling stunt show along with Roxanne Simpson after the death of Crash.

During this time Johnny Blaze became the stunt man for his friend The Stunt Master on his TV show in Los Angeles. At this time he discovered that he could not only turn into Ghost Rider at night but whenever there was evil around. Whilst in Los Angeles Ghost Rider also joined forces with The Champions of Los Angeles to battle the evil forces in the city. However after a few months of fighting alongside The Champions he discovered he was much too much of a loner to battle with them, so he left The Champions forever.

Soon after, the demonic half of Ghost Rider was exerting more and more control over his actions and personality and Johnny found dealing with his normal life harder and harder. He later joined the Quentin Carnival to perform his motorcycle stunts with fellow rider Red Fowler. Whilst traveling with the carnival Ghost Rider battled Centurious who managed to stir the memories that Johnny had wanted to forget. It was later revealed by the demon Nightmare that the demon who'd bonded with the soul of Johnny Blaze was called Zarathos.

Zarathos

Return of Johnny Blaze

Vicious Cycle

After weeks in hell, Johnny continues to try to escape hell but to no effect, tormenting Ghost Rider became Lucifer’s favourite pass time. Lucifer taunts Ghost Rider by letting him have a free run at the exit from Hell while being chased by demons, for weeks Ghost Rider would race towards the gates of hell only for Lucifer to snatch it away from him at the last second.
It was one time to many for Ghost Rider who proceeds to pound the ground, hidden under the ground a small, short sighted demon called Greexix. Ghost Rider is about to kill the demon but Greexix tells him there is away out of hell but before anything else could be said Lucifer’s men capture Greexix and take him to their master. Ghost Rider decides to rescue Greexix for him to show him the way out but Ghost Rider planed on leaving Greexix behind because frankly he hates demons.

Ghost Rider finds Greexix being escorted back to the pits, Ghost Rider save Greexix and makes a break for the pit, Ghost Rider out runs the demons and then does the impossible, he jumps the pit of hell and lands on the other side safely. Greexix leads Ghost Rider to a cave but this cave had water in it [water in hell] this was the way out of hell, Johnny had planed leave Greexix in

johnny rides again

Luckily for him a trucker woman named Dixie who spotted him and tried to help him but Johnny thought that she was Lucifer in disguise and started to attack her but when he did not transform into Ghost Rider automatically he released he was wrong but before he can retreat Dixie pulls a gun on him and kicks him in the balls but she feels that she can’t just leave him in the middle of nowhere so she says she will give him a lift to the nearest gas station but Johnny can’t bring his bike because there is no room so Johnny is forced to leave his bike.
At the gas station Ghost Rider comes face to face with his first shard of Lucifer [Ghost Rider does not yet know about the shards] . The shard had possessed a recently dead granddad, who had kidnapped his family and planned to blow them up, Johnny sensed his presence and transformed into Ghost Rider, Ghost Rider takes advantage of Lucifer’s weaken state and beat’s him and unknowing to Ghost Rider Lucifer had pored gasoline all over the van and had planned to blow it up but the woman inside the van tries to start up the van which causes the van to explode killing the family and the shard of Lucifer but before Ghost Rider could react he is teleported to a grave yard.

It is reviled that it was Doctor Strange that had teleported Ghost Rider so that Doctor Strange could tell Ghost Rider to stop his path of vengeance against Lucifer but Ghost Rider thinks that it’s Lucifer in disguise and the two begin to fight. Ghost Rider quickly gains the upper hand with his powerful attacks but out of anger Doctor Strange unleashes one of his most powerful spell on Ghost Rider smilingly killing him but unknown to everyone including Johnny himself, Ghost Rider had obtained some new powerful abilities and had become extremely powerful, Doctor Strange thought he killed Ghost Rider but little did he know that Ghost Rider can’t die, Ghost Rider rose up out of the crater, chains coming out of his chest he caught Doctor Strange with the chains and pulled Ghost Rider closer and unleashed his brother’s [Danny Ketch] signature and the most powerful of all the Ghost Rider’s attacks, the Penance Stare.

Ghost Rider realised that he had the wrong man but before he could stop the Penance Stare killed Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider tried to bring Doctor Strange back to live but he couldn’t but luckily for Ghost Rider and Strange, the angle known as Numecet was watching the fight, she was also Doctor Strange’s friend and managed to bring him back to life she also told Ghost Rider of Lucifer’s plan and that Ghost Rider he used Ghost Rider to get to Earth because he’s only being in existence who can travel between Earth to Hell and that Lucifer clinged on to the back of Ghost Rider’s bike and when they entered are dimension Lucifer spilt into 666 shards of himself and fell to earth and now he wants to be complete again and Ghost Rider must stop him.

Ghost Rider calls his motor cycle and begins to hunt the remaining shards down. Ghost Rider catches up with four shards of Lucifer riding motorbikes causing trouble with the police, Ghost Rider be-heads three of them with his chain but the last one says it has something to show him. Ghost Rider follows the shard. The shard leads Johnny to where Johnny was born and raised, the Quentin Carnival. Johnny has mixed feelings about this and is lead to his trailer where he and Roxanne lived with their children, Craig and Emma lived all those years ago. The Shard wants to talk to Ghost Rider but Ghost Rider refuses and unleashes a massive hell fire blast destroying the Shard and the Carnival only leafing a old bible with was Roxanne’s, Ghost Rider leaves in search for more Shards. 

The legend of Sleepy Hollow

Johnny finds himself in Sleepy Hollow tracking a powerful shard of Lucifer, who was on a killing spree of decapitated children. It turned out that the murderer is Jack O'Lantern, who was killed by Punisher before while he was attacking Spider-Man during Civil War story arc, but now was possessed by one of the Lucifer Shard. The local sheriff had thought that Ghost Rider was responsible for the killings but later realized that it was the demon-possessed super villain. The two fought Jack O'Lantern. Jack O’Lantern was no match for Ghost Rider,   and Ghost Rider was able to rip out the essence of Lucifer out of his heart and smash’s his pumpkin head to kill him.

Ghost Rider Vs the Hulk

Ghost Rider takes on Hulk

Johnny wakes up on the high way the next day, on the embankment of a high way, he and Zarathos start talking about how Johnny should not interfere, Johnny agrees with Ghost Rider [Johnny and Ghost Rider now work together very well and accept that they share a body  and now say refer to themselves as “we”], Johnny notices a lot of cars coming out of New York and at while at near by café he find out why, the Hulk and his war bound, Johnny wants to go and stop the Hulk but Ghost Rider says it’s not their affair but Johnny wants to go and forces the Ghost Rider to transform but because Johnny was in control not the Ghost Rider there was limited power.
Johnny arrives in New York and confronts the Hulk, Johnny doesn’t have the skill or full knowledge of their power to defeat the Hulk, Ghost Rider offers to take over so they can access to all of the power and destroy the Hulk but Johnny wants to prove himself and declines the offer, the Hulk jumps off a skyscraper on to Ghost Rider and lands on Johnny making a massive crater with Johnny at the bottom.

Over looking the battle was Doctor Strange and Mr Fantastic [Reed Richards], Reed asks if Ghost Rider can beat the Hulk in replies that Ghost Rider is a wonder of mystic design and that Ghost Rider’s powers are boundless and Godlike but because Johnny is fighting the Hulk not Zarathos the Ghost Rider’s powers are limited [When Zarathos is in control the power is boundless and Godlike] and Johnny is kind of a safety switch, but before he can finish his sentence he senses that Zarathos has taken control “The safety is off Reed, Johnny Blaze controls the Ghost Rider no more!!!”.  As the Hulk looks down the crater, Zarathos take control and unleashes a massive hellfire explosion, the Hulk is in the middle of this blast and is in a great deal of pain then Ghost Rider comes up out of the crater on his bike but he does not fight the Hulk he rides away, this comes as a surprise to every watching except Doctor Strange “The Ghost Rider avenges the innocent , which we, all of us are not [referring to the Illuminati]”. Many believe if Zarathos would of fought the Hulk not Johnny, the Ghost Rider would have destroyed the Hulk.
 
Revelations and Johnny’s revenge    

Johnny has an idea that fool’s the Devil himself, he discovers shocking revelations about Ghost Rider’s origin and the nature of his Godlike powers!!! But first he gets it on with Dixie, Ghost Rider cranks up the heat on his mission to destroy every shard of Lucifer he could find, he also comes up with a plan to reduce the devil’s power for their finale battle because every time Ghost Rider destroys a shard of Lucifer the power that shard possessed it was passed on to the remaining shards. His idea was that he would try to find a avatar that was brain dead but alive but because its brain dead the other avatars can’t sense it and because it alive it still possesses its power and will still gain power when other avatars are killed. Johnny find the perfect scapegoat for his plan when an avatar and he have a collision and the avatar is impaled through the brain by the gear stick. Ghost Rider took the avatar back to the motel that he and Dixie where staying and put it in the back of her truck but the plan relied on Dixie killing the avatar around the same time Ghost Rider killed the other last remaining avatar.

While this is happening the avatar that escaped the plane crash [see above “Ghost Rider Vs the Hulk] had some how become the owner of an American Football team and was going by the name of Jack Daniels. Mean while in out side heaven two brothers [they are angels] where planning to get back into heaven and back on Gods good side by destroying the rest of the shards of Lucifer themselves but needed the help of the Ghost Rider, the two angels called Emmael and Vraniel, they needed to a woman to bring them into the world as their mother so they picked a woman called Darlene,  they come to her in a dream telling her that she has been chosen for a great privilege. Jack [the avatar] revels his plan to blow up a full stadium of people, he asks is there any way around the legal drinking age so that even the children go to hell. Ghost Rider finds the avatar and starts beating him up but before he can destroy him, the avatar tells him about another shard that has possession of a baseball coach that has his held hostage in a barn house.

Ghost Rider makes the decision to go and save the innocent children first, by now and Darlene has given birth to the angels and they are nearly fully grown and are now near Ghost Rider, they say good bye to Darlene and go and to find Ghost Rider, they find Ghost Rider fighting two more shards of Lucifer disguised as an old couple, the angels watch on as Ghost Rider destroys one of them with a hellfire blast but the other shard tries to make a deal with Ghost Rider, if he lets it be the last shard to be alive [the shard did not know about the brain dead shard Dixie was keeping] and it will tell  him where the children are , Ghost Rider agrees and learns where the children are but in stead of letting it roam round freely Ghost Rider ties it up to a bridge in hopes it will still be there after he’s finished with the other shards.
 
Listening in on this convention where the two angels, hoping to get on Ghost Rider’s good side they try to beat Ghost Rider to the barn where the children are being held but Ghost Rider is already there fighting the shard of Lucifer, Ghost Rider accentually set the barn on fire with the children still inside, Ghost Rider has the shard of Lucifer tied down and states that he never run’s out of chains, the shard points out the burning barn to Ghost Rider, but before any thing can be done the angels reveal themselves and say they have saved the children, The shard recognizes the angels but before he can say anything one of the angels throws his energy spire and destroys the shard. Ghost Rider is uneasy about the angels joining him.
 
Ghost Rider travels back to the Football ground to destroy Jack Daniels [A shard of Lucifer], Jack is about to blow up the stadium but before he can the stadium is evacuated due to a fire alarm get off by Ghost Rider entering the building. Ghost Rider finds Jack after a brief talk Jack threatens to blow up the building but Ghost Rider points out that if he blows up the building that he would kill himself and he would go to back to hell [this would end all of his plans], Ghost Rider gets the bomb remote and is about to blow up the stadium himself [the explosion would not effect GR] but the angels arrives and try to fight Jake but they one of them collapses.

The Angels and the Shard start to argue, the Shard offers to tell Ghost Rider a secret but the angel tries to stop him, Ghost Rider gets frustrated and ties them both up in his chain. Ghost Rider uses his Penance Stare on the Angel and finds out a differentiating secret, it is revelled that Ghost Rider is not a demon but in fact an Angel, a piece of God’s wrath. The Shard also tell Ghost Rider that he could never had kept Ghost Rider in Hell for long but he used him to get out of Hell, he also tells Johnny that it was not him who bound to the Ghost Rider it was a renegade angle Zadkiel. Ghost Rider kills the Angels and the Shard.

Now there are only two Shards of Lucifer left, one was laying brain dead in Dixie’s motel room but there was a problem the owner had called the police and they where out side her door waiting to storm the room, meanwhile Johnny is travelling to face the other Shard which he had left tied under a bridge but the shard [now ever powerful] has broke free, Ghost Rider and the shard begin to fight, Johnny revels that the Shard is only half as powerful as it thinks it is due to the other Shard is still alive, Johnny finishes the fight with a massive hell fire ball, at the same time the police have stormed the room and are about arrest Dixie but then the Shard quickly wakes up and the police start shooting at it, they eventually kill the Shard nut they also hit and kill Dixie. Ghost Rider takes it in his stride and starts his hunt for Zadkiel.

Powers and abilities

Johnny has a piece of the medallion of power , when the piece is activated it unlocks the power of the Ghost Rider [Zarathos] inside him but with Johnny's mother cast spells to stop him being bond to Noble, so Zarathos was bonded to him instead . This gives the Johnny the ability to transform into a mystic being which appears as a flaming skeleton dressed as a motorcyclist, and provides him with superhuman strength, speed, stamina, and durability. As the Ghost Rider. Recently  Johnny  has gained powers that are similar if not the same as Danny Ketch, but probably his most notable is the use of the "Penance Stare" — the ability to cause others to experience a level of emotional pain equivalent to that which they have caused others as a result of illegal or immoral activities. When in close combat, he locks eyes with his victim and makes them feel all the pain that person has ever inflicted on anyone in their lifetime. This, of course, has several weaknesses. If high on drugs like cocaine, or if the person is blind, or if he cannot make eye contact due to the victim having more than two eyes, Ghost Rider's Penance Stare cannot function. An attempt to use the Penance Stare on the symbiotic being, Venom, resulted in Ghost Rider being knocked unconscious.

He can control and project hellfire in limitless amounts

The common theme of the Ghost Rider is  When riding their bikes, the vehicles can travel faster than conventional motorcycles and can maneuver impossible feats such as riding straight up a vertical surface or across water.

When empowered, the host  undergoes a more radical transformation. It changes from a conventional looking motorcycle to one that appears both powerful and high-tech. Along with flaming wheels, the bike includes a shield-like battering ram on the front. Like the Blaze/Zarathos version, this Ghost Rider's bike was capable of incredible stunts, such as driving up sheer walls, across water, and in at least two known instances, through the very air itself. Ghost Rider also created two other bikes that he could utilize in the same manner as the one he normally rode, one out of necessity when Blackheart stole the original in a crossover graphic novel that brought together Ghost Rider, Wolverine, and the Punisher, and again in the regular series as a spare in case something made him unable to get to his regular cycle. The latter would wind up in the hands of Johnny Blaze

He possessed  complete control over Hellfire and normal fire, he can generate and project hellfire in massive amounts and manipulate it in anyway he likes, an good example of this is when Danny raises a wall of hellfire.Ghost Rider also had the ability to destroy the undead, and Noble Kale is Marvel's incarnation of the Angel of Death/Judgment, which detailed the supposed origins of the Noble Kale version of the Ghost Rider

 Blaze and Zarathos often battle for dominance and control over their shared body. Kale had a compassionate side and while there were times that he seemed tempted to simply take over completely, he refused to do so, though he felt anger at condemning Daniel to only being able to live his life out half the time, while he dominated the other half. Kale and Ketch, like Blaze and Zarathos, could sometimes communicate through dreams, and in at least one issue communicated via messages written on a mirror in lipstick.

Johnny can also travel between Earth and Hell at will. Johnny also has a massive knowledge of both normal and dark magic, he can also sense any type of magic and demons.

Gender - Male

Height - 5' 10", Ghost Rider- 6'2"

Weight - 180 lbs (82 kg), Ghost Rider- 220 lbs

Eyes - Blue, Ghost Rider- Flaming Red

Hair - Reddish Blonde, Ghost Rider- none

Place of Birth - Waukegan, Illinois

Citizenship - U.S.A

Danny Ketch

Enter Daniel Ketch

Danny was killed twice. First, when he was with the Midnight Sons, he was killed by Blade who was possessed by the The Darkhold, but was later resurrected by the Darkhold Redeemers, along with others that was killed by Blade. and Lastly, when he fought Zarathos, but was again revived.

It was later revealed that Danny Ketch and Johnny Blaze are brothers and are inheritors of the curse of the Spirit of Vengeance. Eventually, Danny seemed to die, but the Spirit of Vengeance within him lives on. But in another issue, Danny is shown to be alive and is bonded with the Noble Kale Ghost Rider.

His last adventure would draw him into Hell and confront its ruler, Blackheart to make a deal. Danny would marry two demonesses of Blackheart's choosing and Blackheart will break the curse in Danny's family bloodline. When one of the succubus tried to kill Danny with a bone knife made from Zarathos, but failed. Blackheart appeared and explain to Danny that he planned this all along to rid himself of the Noble Kale bloodline and also destroy his soul. Danny would later fight and kill Blackheart and he would eventually become the King of Hell. [for more info see Danny Ketch page]

Return

Dan is back

Characteristics

Gender - Male

Height - 5' 10",Ghost Rider-6'2"

Weight - 180 lbs (82 kg),Ghost Rider-220 lbs

Eyes - Green,Ghost Rider - Flaming red

Hair - Brown,Ghost Rider- none

Citizenship - U.S.A

Powers and Abilities

Ghost Rider