Ghost Rider is the moniker of Spirit of Vengeance, a chain wielding, motorcycle riding, vigilante who is cursed with the power of hell. The said Rider in this most medias primarily Johnny Blaze a former motorcycle stuntman turned demon hunter.
Character History[]
Johnny Blaze was born in Waukegan, Illinois to Barton Blaze and Naomi Kale on August, 5th. He spent his early years in the Quentin Carnival where his parents starred in a stunt show with Craig "Crash" Simpson. Johnny's mother walked out on Barton and Johnny and took the family's remaining two children, Barbara and Danny, with her. Losing his mother caused Johnny to repress many of his memories of her and his siblings. When his father died in a stunt, Johnny was adopted by Crash and Mona Simpson.
The Simpsons helped Johnny by fabricating his past with the hope that it would be less painful than the truth. Now believing that his real mother was Clara Blaze, who had died, Johnny became an enthusiastic member of the Simpson clan, growing closer to their daughter, Roxanne. The two soon became inseparable and, as they grew older, their fondness for one another moved beyond familiarity.
Blaze would eventually join the Simpsons in their own traveling stunt show, the Crash Simpson Stunt Cycle Extravaganza. Crash had become a real father figure in Blaze's eyes and on learning of Crash's life-threatening cancer, Blaze turned to the occult. His studies led him to a spell which supposedly could summon Satan himself. Johnny was unaware that he had, in fact, summoned Mephisto. Desperate to save Crash, Blaze sold his soul to Mephisto in return for Crash's cancer to be cured.
True to his word, Mephisto had ensured that Crash had not died of cancer, but instead had lost his life during the failed jump, which Mephisto quickly pointed out when he came to claim his prize. Blaze, still at the mercy of Mephisto, believed he would lose his soul until he was saved by Roxanne. Roxanne proclaimed her love for Blaze, and drove Mephisto away with the purity of her emotion. Blaze was unaware that Mephisto had bonded him with the demon Zarathos as an act of revenge for not being able to obtain Johnny's soul for himself. Johnny was transformed into a Ghost Rider, a leather-clad skeleton, his head cloaked in a sheath of flame, the night after Crash's death. While Johnny still had his soul, he was forced to punish the wicked and evil upon Mephisto's demands whenever needed.
Ever since the incident, Blaze became a demon hunter and joining supernatural hero teams, such as Marvel Knights' Defenders and Midnight Sons alongside the likes of Doctor Strange, Michael Morbius, Blade and the second modern day Ghost Rider Daniel Ketch, including the original Champions alongside Iceman, Hercules and Black Widow.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance: Story[]
Ghost Rider was informed about Dr. Doom and his Masters of Evil and immediately join The Ultimate Alliance. Following the mission on the Murderworld where they saved Jean Grey and for Nightcrawler's whereabout, Ghost Rider attempt to find the portal to enter Mephisto's Hell Realm, suspecting to be at Latveria where Doom forced to inject Nightcrawler with a Mutant Amplifier. Instead, before entering finding the portal, Mephisto ambushes the Rider and took his body to his realm while separating soul. When the heroes gathered in Mephisto's Hell to find Nightcrawler, yet lost Jean once again, they found the missing Ghost Rider trapped in an Inverted Pentagram that was draining his life force. He was soon freed by Dr. Strange (or any character the player chooses) who decided to take his place in the pentagram. He then aided them in defeating Mephisto and freed Strange, defeat Mephisto with two different outcomes, between one of the captured X-Man who was not saved from falling into Infinity Vortex would sacrifice their life to save the team and Rider from Mephisto; or via unofficial mod where Magneto would be the one who can save both captured X-Men because of his power, with the now former captured X-Men would recover in few minutes before catching up to defeat Mephisto where Jean finish him off. As Doom is involved for his deal with Mephisto, Ghost Rider remains with the team until the quest is over.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3: Story[]
Ghost Rider discover his reality begins to crack in multiple locations. He soon found a portal where the Alliance, including a recently recruited Elsa Bloodstone are fighting off the Mindless Ones at Dark Dimension. Ghost Rider agrees to find the source where the reality cracks come from. Ultimately, he and his teammate learn that Dormammu has the Reality Stone and brainwashes Doctor Strange while using it to merge Earth with Dark Dimension for the dread sorcerer's tyranny. After freeing Doctor Strange while hunting Dormammu for Reality Stone's possession, there was a little interruption by Loki Laufeyson, who then gifted them another shards of ISO-8 after just wanting to test combat against them for his own agenda. Ghost Rider continue his quest on aiding the alliance to secure the Infinity Stones from Thanos and his Black Order until the quest is finished.
When Thane's amends to spare the heroes in exchange for the complete set of retrieved Infinity Stones (the last one, Soul Stone was in possession of MODOK during his war at Wakanda) goes horribly wrong where Black Order leader Proxima Midnight sent him and his fellow heroes to the darkest place of Nine Realms, Hel; Ghost Rider compare differences between Asgardian and Mephisto's Hell Realms.
Sometimes after Thanos and Thane's presumed demises, where Doom begin his movement to steal the Soul Stone from Wakanda, Ghost Rider is being called back by his allies to action once again. Although Doom trapped him and his fellow heroes inside the Negative Zone, they are rescued by Fantastic Four, who was similarly trapped, but while chasing Doom prior to a war against Thanos. With Fantastic Four on their sides, Ghost Rider and his allies defeated the Insectoids' leader Annihilus and taking his Cosmic Control Rod to escape from Negative Zone. Instead, Reed set the location to immediately go to Latveria with no time to stop Doom before he can do anything to destroy the reality including himself. While managing to stop Doom and a Celestial, the heroes learn that Doom's intention meant to save the universe from a new threat awakened from a result of Thanos and Thane's clash, but too dangerous to do it by himself. Once they manage to convince Doom to be part of the alliance, Ghost Rider and his allies are prepared for their next battle.
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