![]() Mephistopheles also gives Johnny the 'Penance Stare', an ability to sear the pain felt by all whom a person has harmed into the wrongdoer's soul. While in Ghost Rider form, his head is a skull with fire round it, and his motorcycle is transformed into a fire-emitting shape fuelled not by earthly gasoline but by hellfire, going far faster than any natural motorcycle, and never crashing: in one shot a policeman's handheld radar speed gun aimed at him reads 198 mph and still increasing where it goes, it leaves a burnt trail of damage in the road it can go up and down vertical sides of buildings, and on and under water it can come back to him on command when day comes, it and he revert to their natural forms. In response, Mephistopheles makes Johnny the new Ghost Rider, offering Johnny his soul in return for defeating Blackheart. ![]() To ensure himself allies, he enlists the fallen angels known as the Hidden, a trio of demon spirits who represent three of the four elements - the water-demon Wallow, the earth-demon Gressil, and the air-demon Abigor. During the same time, Blackheart, Mephistopheles' son, comes to Earth to find the lost contract and use its power to overcome his father. ![]() Years later, Johnny has become a stunt rider famous for surviving disastrous feats.īefore a particularly dangerous new stunt, Johnny meets his childhood sweetheart Roxanne Simpson, now a journalist, and makes a dinner date with her that evening. Johnny accuses Mephistopheles of causing his father's death, but Mephistopheles considers their contract fulfilled. The next morning Johnny awakes to discover that his father's cancer is cured, but his father dies that same day in a motorcycle crash. ![]() Johnny inadvertently 'signs' the contract when a drop of his blood lands on it after it was pricked by Mephistopheles before Johnny could refuse. Because such a large amount of souls would cause Hell on Earth, the Rider refuses to give the contract and escapes Mephistopheles, later to hide the contract and himself.Ī century and a half later, Mephistopheles reaches out to seventeen-year-old stunt motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze, offering to cure his father's lung cancer in exchange for Johnny's soul. In the American Old West, Mephistopheles sends his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve a contract for a thousand corrupt souls from the town of San Venganza. ![]()
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