Ghost Rider loses control (Comics Explained)

what's going on guys this is Rob I have a cold so you're gonna have to bear with me but we are back with Ghost Rider now we're gonna get the most powerful Ghost Rider that you've ever seen at the end of this comic and it is amazing so what this does is this initially picks up in the aftermath of the fight between Ghost Rider and Wolverine you'll always find that video down in the description but basically some poor guy at the bar his legs were chopped off and so he ends up being possessed by a demon and he goes forward as a new villain called exhaust it's not really important pops up here and there but you don't need to worry about him too much the big caveat to all this is that Johnny Blaze is finally caught up to by Talia Warroad now remember Talia War Road is basically working with the FBI and that's one of the things to know about the Ghost Rider comics that in a lot of ways they're kind of in their own world right Ghost Rider doctor strange things like that the magic and Mystic part of Marvel is just kind of his own little world over there but Talia Warroad has been tracking Johnny Blaze down to try to understand why all this crazy demonic stuff has been taking place across the world now we as the reader know that everything's kind of gone into chaos because the demons got a hold of Johnny Blaze and basically kept the Ghost Rider at Bay meaning that the Ghost Rider never manifested which allowed all these demons just kind of permeate the country and do pretty much whatever they wanted to do but now that Wolverine cut the demon out of Johnny Blaze's head in one of the most gruesome displays ever the Ghost Riders back in full form and he is literally on a war path and so once Talia Warroad starts to realize what's going on she comes to the realization that the person that's seemingly behind this giant orchestration of events right where all these demons are popping up is Blackheart right now Blackheart is basically the son of Mephisto in Marvel Comics what's so funny about this is that Mephisto is always off doing his own thing and by and large doesn't really care about what it is that Blackheart does mostly because if things get too far off track Mephisto can just snatch him back to his own realm and effectively call it a day but once Johnny Blaze wakes up and he realizes that tally is there her question for him is do you want to help the FBI now there reality about all this is that they're operating under the radar right like the FBI does not know that Talia is working with Ghost Rider who's the very person she's supposed to be going after but once she starts to realize there's a much bigger game afoot than simply just Ghost Rider running around doing stuff it's one of those things where it's I need to Ally myself with this guy in order to save the day otherwise it's going to be game over for basically everybody now here's where things get a little bit murky because while that's going on we're still dealing with the death of alabaster and basically Zep now for those of you guys who don't know who they are that's fine we don't really know either they were introduced relatively recently in Marvel Comics they're part of the Council of night magicians they're super ambiguous we know nothing about these guys so we're kind of learning about them as we go through so I'm sorry I can't really provide you any answers there because there are none now eventually Talia and Johnny Blaze end up reaching their destination which is Chicago and as soon as they get there the Ghost Rider starts freaking out it doesn't immediately take over but one of the things we remember is that Johnny Blaze has been disconnected with the Ghost Rider for so long with the two of them being reconnected again there's still a kind of Harmony that has to be achieved there in the sense that the Ghost Rider is almost kind of like a demonic barometer right so whenever there's just like demons within a reasonable vicinity the Ghost Rider will basically start to manifest kind of alerting Johnny Blaze to what's going on and then punishment ensues and then the Ghost Rider goes away and Johnny Blaze comes back and that's usually it but with Johnny Blaze somewhat being out of phase with the Ghost Rider while it doesn't full on manifest it does allow him to see what is basically the spiritual World things that he wouldn't normally be able to see with his own eyes the other part of this is he says this place right Chicago this place is sick which we know right because it's Chicago a perfect example of this is that they basically make their way towards a church because as the Ghost Rider starts to manifest and things start to pop off that Talia tries to reason with it and for the most part she's successful which is actually kind of an achievement in an event self anybody who knows anything about the Ghost Rider in Marvel Comics knows when the Ghost Rider manifests and comes for you there's no bargaining with this thing right you get the Penance there you get to be tortured and then your soul gets sent to hell and that's basically it right there's no bargaining with this guy but Talia actually makes this great case where she says I get that you're here because of sins and Punishment and all that kind of stuff but there's something much bigger going on here let me work with Johnny and we will get this problem solved and we will send you after whoever it is and you can have all the punishment and all that kind of stuff that you want and the Ghost Rider ultimately just kind of recedes and lets Johnny Blaze come back it agrees with Talia Warroad unless the two of them continue on but this whole thing brings them to a church which really makes you ask the question what could possibly be going on in a place of worship that the Ghost Rider would manifest outside of the fact that like there's so much sin right it's the Catholic church so I guess it makes perfect sense but the thing here is once they get inside this place is a massive occur people have just been sacrificed inside this place I mean it's gruesome so no wonder the Ghost Rider LED them here because it really is just all demons who are engaging in all this stuff and so as they make their way down into the catacombs of this building there's just like this crazed homeless man who keeps babbling on about how they have to pay and then he dumps out a cup full of teeth and starts swatting at him with a knife right so pretty typical for an evening in Chicago but they end up basically overcoming this guy and then like he gets hit by a subway train but when they see this train what they realize is the train is filled with people right like all throughout the city of Chicago folks have just come up missing and there really isn't any Rhyme or Reason right it's not as though it's only vagrants who have been taken right homeless people that is basically people from all walks of life the ultra Rich the guy who's a single father of four right just all kinds of things all kinds of folks and so when this happens the Ghost Rider manifest throws his chain onto the subway train and hitches a ride now what you're going to see here in a second is going to be one of the most epic things ever that I think I've ever seen in a Ghost Rider comic because it's pretty dope now exhaust shows up and then he basically kind of torments totally a war Road for a little bit we'll talk about them here in a minute because it's not really important right now what is important is once the subway train gets to his final destination you basically have all these demons here who are just feeding on people quite literally right like just eating these folks and that's the thing to understand about what's going on in the Ghost Rider comics right now that with the Ghost Rider being gone and effectively never dealing with any demons who had escaped hell there was no one to keep this kind of thing from happening but demons operate underground they operate under the radar so that nobody is the wiser to the fact that they exist and by people just kind of going missing casually and back roads and things like that there's no reason for The Avengers to get involved the X-Men wouldn't care because it's not mutants who are being attacked so that would basically be it it all comes down to the Ghost Rider to figure it out and so this dude just this comes riding up on the scene and it's not just like Ghost Rider with like a flaming chain it's Ghost Rider with a flaming chainsaw right and literally just starts attacking all these guys and then he takes the chainsaw he attaches it to his chain so he's literally got this flaming chainsaw and he's just spinning it around and circles over his head it's one of the most epic things that I think I've ever seen it's so cool it's one of the reasons why I love the current Ghost Rider run because it's a return to form so like the old Ghost Rider stories but some of these demons decide they want to take a shot at the champ right come running up on this guy and he helps them finish with all their living and that's basically it I mean just spinning a chainsaw there's flaming around his head right I mean you think you know just Ward people off and make them believe they don't want to have anything to do with anything but the bigger part of what's going on here this is what's so cool what's really big about what's going on here is the full on scheme that Blackheart has one of the things to know is that blackheart's motivations are not that dissimilar from Mephisto Mephisto is a ridiculously powerful being in Marvel Comics he is almost unrivaled in his own realm to the point that you'd be a fool regardless of your power level minus Franklin Richards to show up there and try to fight him within the realm of hell but the idea behind me fist though is he always makes Bargains with people there's always a catch but whenever you make a bargain with Mephisto once that bargain is satisfied your soul Goes to Hell a good example of this is Dr Doom's mom Blackheart is not that dissimilar but what he's been doing here is his mindset is basically nafiso can have hell he can have hell all you know for however long he wants that's his thing what I want to do is I want to conquer the world because of what use is that realm if there's nobody to go there right like all their souls belong to me and so what he's doing is literally spreading this kind of demonic plague throughout the entirety of the United States with a sight set on the rest of the world starting at people in the political level and so on and so forth working its way down from there and the reason why is because as with people who have positions of power they create laws they decide moral compasses and so on so if they create this circumstance where it's just kind of do whatever you want to there's no limits right just have fun and engage in whatever actions you want to people will bend to their base desires and that will lead to them becoming sinful so that's why people like Cardinals are being targeted and so on and so forth it's one of the things to keep in mind about Marvel is that there isn't really a judeo-christian philosophy here you find that in DC there isn't really like a Jesus who's watching all this stuff I mean technically Jesus does exist but there is not really a Jesus watching all this stuff and it's like Harker to last let's get involved because this is a problem right like that doesn't really exist there but it's one of those cool things where even those individuals who wouldn't normally partake in this would be infected by a demonic presence because what's happening is that some of these Farmers out there for example are kidnapping people chopping them up and then feeding them to their pigs and their pigs in turn are being slaughtered and then fed to people to say nothing of the human remains that are being ground up and being fed to people as well it's pretty gruesome it's pretty dark but it's also an incredibly efficient way to come out on top and so referencing back to Zeb and the Council of night magicians while they are still incredibly ambiguous we know they do stand against Blackhearts We don't know if they really Ally themselves with Johnny Blaze per se but this is enough of a concern that they ultimately get involved now Zeb is able to challenge Blackheart to a degree but this guy's power is immense he's not an easily defeatable foe is he as powerful as Mephisto no not a chance but he is still incredibly capable in his own right so the best that Zeb can really do here is keep this guy at Bay right hold this guy off until such a time that the Ghost Rider can sense the presence of Blackheart arrive on the scene and then effectively send them back to hell and that's exactly what happens that what takes place here is that with Talia Warroad having been attacked by exhaust she's overtaken by him for a moment kind of turned into a servant of sorts Johnny Blaze to not put to find a point on it is able to basically use the power of friendship to bring her back and I'm not even joking that's really what this is he's like you're my partner you're my friend and then she snaps back to normal and then they're able to overcome exhaustion and that's kind of it so one of the weak points in the story that I'm not overly fond of but it does allow them the time they need for the Ghost Rider to sense the presence of Blackheart through the assistance of Zeb and then ride onto the scene now the funny thing about this and this is one of the things a lot of people get wrong when it comes to Ghost Rider is they usually expect this kind of like great big huge massive fight between Ghost Rider and some kind of like demonic entity and that has happened it has been cool when it did happen but it doesn't happen often in the case of Blackheart there's no need for all that literally the Ghost Rider shows up here and it's just like game over right like dunzo and basically opens a portal to hell and sends them back and that's effectively it now it's easy to scoff at that and it's easy to see that as you just what's basically a giant waste but it's not because if you see it for what it is it shows you how powerful the Ghost Rider is right that for the most part barring someone like Mephisto and even then it's still possible there aren't very many people that can withstand the power of the Ghost Rider and this is him just teleporting a guy back to hell just saying nothing of the Penance there which has been used on Cosmic entities like Galactus I believe headcanon so don't take that as an absolute truth but I want to say that's happened right but it's just that thing where his character is just on a whole new level and so where it looks like the day is effectively saved this is where we get to the portion where I tell you that we end up getting the most powerful Ghost Rider to ever exist because what happens is behind the scenes and all of this we transition to what's basically a kind of experiment that's being conducted out there by these folks influenced by this demonic presence and what they're doing is they're trying to harness demonic energy specifically the power of the Ghost Rider and the way they're doing this is they have a test subject named Danny catch now for anybody who knows anything about the Ghost Rider Mythos they'll tell you right now man when you think of Ghost Rider you're not thinking of Johnny Blaze you're thinking of Danny catch and this guy is on a whole nother level of overpowered I mean this guy is nuts this guy's healing factor is next level this guy's pinned stairs Next Level this guy in a reasonable comic this guy would dominate Johnny Blaze and it wouldn't even be funny with that being said guys we're gonna bring this to an end make sure you guys click this link so you can get caught up on all the Ghost Rider videos we've done so far and I will catch peace

Channel: Comics Explained

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Keywords: marvel, comics, comics explained, ghost rider, marvel comics, comic books, superheroes, marvel characters, superhero, comic breakdown, mephisto, comic, ghostrider, comic book

Id: 9HI92jd4gc4

Length: 13min 39sec (819 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 21 2023