His new motorcycle resembled a futuristic machine and the front of it could lower to serve as a battering ram. This Ghost Rider was nearly identical to the previous, although his costume was now a black leather biker jacket with spiked shoulder-pads, grey leather pants, and a mystic chain he wore across his chest, which responded to his mental commands and served as his primary melee weapon. The next Ghost Rider, a young man named Daniel " Danny" Ketch (Johnny Blaze's long-lost younger brother), debuted in Ghost Rider (vol.
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Gabriel Luna and Tom McComas portray the Robbie Reyes and Johnny Blaze incarnations in the fourth season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with Henry Simmons and Clark Gregg portraying original incarnations Mack MacKenzie and Phil Coulson.įictional character biography Johnny Blaze Nicolas Cage starred as the Johnny Blaze incarnation of the character in the 2007 film Ghost Rider and its 2012 sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. In May 2011, Ghost Rider placed 90th on IGN's "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes" list. In 2014, Robbie Reyes becomes Ghost Rider as part of the Marvel NOW! initiative.
In 2000s comics, Blaze succeeds Ketch, becoming Ghost Rider again. Blaze reappears in this 1990s series as a supporting character, and it is later revealed that Danny and his sister were Johnny Blaze's long-lost siblings. After his sister was injured by ninja gangsters, Ketch comes in contact with a motorcycle that contains the essence of a Spirit of Vengeance. The subsequent Ghost Rider series (1990–1998) features Danny Ketch as a new Ghost Rider. Blaze is featured in the series Ghost Rider (vol. He eventually learns he has been bonded with the demon Zarathos.
He rides a fiery motorcycle and wields blasts of hellfire from his body, usually from his skeletal hands.
At night and when around evil, Blaze finds his flesh consumed by hellfire, causing his head to become a flaming skull. The first supernatural Ghost Rider is stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze, who, to save the life of his father, agrees to give his soul to " Satan" (later revealed to be an arch-demon named Mephisto). Marvel had previously used the name for a Western character whose name was later changed to Phantom Rider. Ghost Rider is the name of multiple superheroes or antiheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Highly skilled motorcyclist and stuntman.God-like strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes, endurance, and durability.To generalize, there is an idea represented which I would express as something like "the line between good and evil is blurry," or "sometimes the things which repulse/horrify us are necessary/used for good. Furthermore, though he works for the Devil, and so is associated with evil, there is a sense in which his victims "deserve" what comes to them, since they are vile sinners and are being given payment for the actions they chose to commit. Ghost Rider was originally a human being, and not always a demon. There is one aspect of the Ghost Rider character, however, which I have not been able to connect to the wild hunt, and it is the aspect about which I am most curious. Thus, I think that I can conclude pretty surely that Marvel's Ghost Rider can be considered a modern link in the chain of wild hunt myths, regardless of whether his creators intended this consciously. I also found that the folklore surrounding western legends about ghost riders (as in "ghost riders in the sky," Stampede Mesa, etc.) is descended from/connected to the wild hunt myths, and I'm pretty sure that these legends are the origin of the superhero's name. These themes are pretty clearly shared by Marvel's Ghost Rider. I also found that in many wild hunt myths the riders are demonic in nature and their prey are the souls of sinners. However, I did find that the tale of the headless horseman is related to older wild hunt myths. After doing research I was not able to find an explicit link, as all searches for "Ghost Rider origins" or similar queries returned results related to the hero's origin story within the Marvel universe. Marvel's Ghost Rider character always reminded me of tales of the headless horseman for intuitive reasons I was not able to explain, so I always wondered whether there is a connection between this modern superhero and the old North American legend.
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