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Warning : Contains SPOILERS for Ghost Rider : concluding Vengeance # 3!The Spirit of Vengeance late abandoned Johnny Blaze in stead of another host more consent of theGhost Rider ’s demonic influence , though that should n’t imply that Blaze is now powerless . In fact , Ghost Rider just gave Johnny the raise of a lifetime , something that ’s proven true with Blaze ’s new design and powers . And , interestingly enough , this is n’t the first time Blaze has been a genuine badass without Ghost Rider , giving sports fan cause to consider that his new form is far from the extent of his recent upgrade .
InGhost Rider : Final Vengeance#3 by Benjamin Percy and Danny Kim , Ghost Rider ’s novel boniface , the Hood , is using the power of the Spirit of Vengeance to dismantle every offense pool in Chicago . However , he ’s not doing so to make them pay for their sins , but rather to take over the metropolis ’s felonious underworld himself . Meanwhile , Johnny Blaze is recovering from the perilous situation Ghost Rider left him in when the feeling exited his body , one he only survived thanks to the aid of his supporter , the Night Magician Zeb .
In the first egress of this series , Blaze ( when he was still bonded to Ghost Rider ) was depend upon toward a giant wanderer - demon . However , the Spirit of Vengeance leave Blaze ’s bodyright as he challenge the fauna , leaving him to croak . Thankfully , Zeb salve his living - though their problem were n’t over just yet . When Ghost Rider leave Johnny , orders came from Mephisto himself to kill Blaze , and every demon on Earth was obliged to follow that bidding . However , even though Ghost Rider was function , a piece of its essence rest inside Johnny , which Blaze had just instruct how to tap into .
From ' mashup ' variants and Spirit of Vengeance - adjacent characters to traditional knowledge - heavy mainstay , here are the 30 versions of Ghost Rider , rank by power !
Johnny Blaze Wields Hellfire Without Ghost Rider in Epic Marvel Comics Upgrade
This effigy teasing the next topic , Ghost Rider : Final Vengeance#4 , depicts Johnny Blaze in a way that ’s reminiscent ( if not delimitation identical ) to his delineation inGhost Rider / Blaze : Spirits of Vengeance !
As Blaze and Zeb were surrounded by demon - possessed wolves in the South Dakota wilderness , Zeb let loose the full might of his magical abilities while Johnny was all but incapacitated . While amply find from his encounter with the demon - spider thanks to Zeb ’s elixir , Johnny was still just a human . However , right before the Hugo Wolf attack , Zeb tells blaze away that Ghost Rider left a residue inside Johnny ’s body which could grant him access to hellfire . After these wolves aggress , Blaze was able to unlock that power given the stress of the place , formally take this badass rise .
Blaze channeled the red region that surged within his body through the shotgun he keep on his motorcycle , kill every wolf with a single slam each . Once the wolves were taken care of , the issuing cease with tease a final confrontation between Blaze and the Hood , which will tolerate Blaze to not only try his own retribution against Ghost Rider for leaving him to die , but also prove that he does n’t involve the Spirit of Vengeance to be a powerful zep in his own right .
While the succeeding conflict between Blaze and Ghost Rider is an exciting aspect of Johnny ’s red region rising slope , perhaps the cool part of it is the most obvious : Blaze has accession to hellfire without Ghost Rider . Johnny always had to relinquish control of his consistence to the Spirit of Vengeance to become the antihero Ghost Rider , but now , Johnny ’s in full control condition . Only time will tell if Blaze ’s upgrade will pair the power of his former twin , but even if he comes up short , the visual of Johnny Blaze wield red region is awesome enough on its own .
Final Vengeance Isn’t the First Time Blaze Manipulates Hellfire Without Ghost Rider
Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeanceby Howard Mackie and Adam Kubert
WhileFinal Vengeancedoes tag the first clip Blaze is able to conspire hellfire without Ghost Rider , it ’s not the first time he ’s been able to manipulate it solo ( specially with a ‘ red region shotgun ’ ) . The first time readers saw Blaze acting as a badass antihero separate from Ghost Rider was inGhost Rider / Blaze : Spirits of Vengeance . In that ‘ 90 storyline , Ghost Rider had a body of his own , which allow the two to squad - up and fight evil , as opposed to Johnny forever hold to give the Rider control of his body to do so .
so as to keep up with Ghost Rider and be an effective partner , Johnny was given a shotgun capable of shoot hellfire which Ghost Rider would reload for him whenever he want it . This fall in - line utterly with what readers are envision from Johnny ’s upgrade inGhost Rider : Final Vengeance , with the only departure being the cardinal aspect that make Johnny ’s current shift right smart better than his characterization inSpirits of Vengeance : both version have red region shotgun , butFinal Vengeancesees Blaze lodge it with hellfire himself .
Not only is Blaze capable of powering his own hellfire shotgun without Ghost Rider in the current canon , but this storyline is craft a narrative that could lead to Blaze really using it against Ghost Rider , as oppose to using it to have his back during any given mission in disembodied spirit of Vengeance . The difference between these two storylines highlights howFinal Vengeance ’s Johnny Blaze is more self - sufficient than his Spirits of Vengeance counterpart , though the similarities could reveal what will happen next in the current plot line .
Spirits of Vengeance May Have Spoiled Blaze’s Next Ghost Rider Upgrade: Cyborg Form
Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance#15 by Howard Mackie, Mike Manley, and Tom Palmer
Johnny Blaze ’s current narration arc is resonant ofGhost Rider / Blaze : Spirits of Vengeance , which means Blaze may be on the same trajectory as his ‘ 90 counterpart . If that ’s the guinea pig , then fans may be seeing Blaze getting another major ascent in the near hereafter : his cyborg form . InGhost Rider / Blaze : Spirits of Vengeance#15 , Blaze is convert to a cyborgwhile combat Lilith ’s army of demons , which allowed him to be a safe spouse to Ghost Rider , as he could do more than fire blasts of hellfire through his enchanted shotgun , but actually had superhuman enhancements himself .
Perhaps the hellfire residuals Ghost Rider left within Johnny Blaze ’s body wo n’t be enough to overcome the Hood , making it necessary for Blaze to seek other forms of strong-arm sweetening through a cybernetic upgrade . This would n’t be the first timeGhost Riderlore has merged infernal sorcery with high-pitched technologyin recent old age ( as shown by Danny Ketch inGhost Rider#12 ) , so the idea is n’t ludicrous . Plus , since a similar translation of Blaze had already made that shift in the ‘ 90s , the stage has been set for the lineament to do the same thing again in the current canon .
While Johnny Blaze ’s newfangled upgrade is like to the variant of the type fromSpirits of Vengeance , there are enough difference to keep fans guessing as to where the Final Vengeance storyline will go next ( with the prospect of Blaze becoming a bionic woman admittedly unbelievable ) . And that anticipation is exactly what ’s so exciting aboutGhost Rider ’s current era , though arguably not as exciting as the perfect awesomeness that hail with simply see Johnny Blaze wield this epic ascent - complete with his badass hellfire form - on - gore for the first time .
Ghost Rider : last Vengeance # 3by Marvel Comics is usable now .
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Mark Steven Johnson ’s Ghost Rider precedes the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by one yr . star Nicolas Cage as the titular Marvel anti - hoagy , the 2007 movie conduct Johnny Blaze ’s origin chronicle to the big screen with a supporting cast compile of the likes of Eva Mendes as Ghost Rider ’s love interest Roxanne Simpson , Peter Fonda as the demon Mephistopheles , Wes Bentley as the villain Blackheart , and Sam Elliot as the previous wielder of the Spirit of Vengeance .
Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider precedes the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by one year. Starring Nicolas Cage as the titular Marvel anti-hero, the 2007 movie takes Johnny Blaze’s origin story to the big screen with a supporting cast composed of the likes of Eva Mendes as Ghost Rider’s love interest Roxanne Simpson, Peter Fonda as the demon Mephistopheles, Wes Bentley as the villain Blackheart, and Sam Elliot as the previous wielder of the Spirit of Vengeance.
