History Characters / Ghostrider

* Characters/GhostRider2099

!Character pages for the ''ComicBook/GhostRider''.

This page refers to characters from the ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' comic book series.

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'''WARNING:''' There are unmarked spoilers on these pages for all but the most recent comics.

* Characters/GhostRider2099

!!Film Versions [[note]]Earth-121347/Nicholas Cage Ghost Rider universe, Earth-199999/Marvel Cinematic Universe[[/note]]
* Characters/GhostRiderDuology
* [[Characters/MCUGhostRider MCU Ghost Rider]]
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* [[Characters/GhostRiderCentralRoguesGallery Central Rogues Gallery]]
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* [[Characters/MCUGhostRider MCU Ghost Rider]]

* [[Characters/MCUOtherSuperheroes MCU Ghost Rider]]

* [[Characters/GhostRiderAllies Allies]]
* [[Characters/GhostRiderNeutral Neutral]]
* [[Characters/GhostRiderEnemies Villains]]
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!!! ''Film/GhostRider'' / ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance''
[[folder:Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/NicolasCage | Creator/MattLong (age 17)
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* CompositeCharacter: Ghost Rider is Johnny Blaze, but the different appearance of Ghost Rider (chain wrapped around the torso, and the spikey one) is the comic book costume of Danny Ketch (Ghost Rider II). Originally, the chain was ''exclusive'' to Danny, who had the spike-bearing costume. When Johnny was brought back for the new comics, he inherited the look. Johnny originally wore stylized black leathers with a high collar and that was ''it''. Also, Johnny's version of Ghost Rider fired blasts of flames while Danny had the Penance Stare. This version has both powers, though the Penance Stare is given more importance by the plot.
* LaughingMad: While turning into the Ghost Rider for the first time.
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[[folder:Roxanne Simpson]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EvaMendes | Creator/RaquelAlessi (teenager)
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* LoveInterest
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[[folder:Mephistopheles / Roarke]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/PeterFonda (''Ghost Rider'') | Creator/CiaranHinds (as Roarke, ''Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'')
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[[folder:Carter Slade / Caretaker / Previous Ghost Rider]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SamElliot
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* ButNowIMustGo
* CompositeCharacter: The Caretaker is really Carter Slade (the original Ghost Rider, later renamed Phantom Rider).
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[[folder:Blackheart]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WesBentley
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* IAmLegion: He calls himself Legion upon gaining possession of Contract of San Venganza, a binding note of 1,000 damned souls.
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[[folder:Danny Ketch]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/FergusRiordan
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[[folder:Mephistopheles/ Roarke]]

* [[Characters/GhostRiders Ghost Riders]]

* [[Characters/Marvel2099 Ghost Rider 2099]]

* [[Characters/GhostRiderNeutral Neutral]]

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!Ghost Riders

[[folder: Ghost Rider I (Johnny Blaze)]]
!!Johnny Blaze
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-> ''"Dreams here don't come true. Nightmares do. So I stuck a hand out to mine, embraced my nightmare, and all the fun things that came with it."''
-->--Johnny, perfectly summing up the mindset of a seasoned wielder of the Spirit of Vengeance.

* AntiHero: Of the UnscrupulousHero and PayEvilUntoEvil variety. He actually started off as a ClassicalAntiHero back in the 70s, with [[DemonicPossession Zarathos]] being solely responsible for the Ghost Rider's crueler acts. When he returned as a depowered, shotgun-wielding BadassNormal in the 90s, Johnny was re-imagined as a jaded, more cynical demon hunter, utilizing harsher methods to dispose of his enemies, sometimes with sadistic glee. These traits would persevere in most of his modern-day portrayals, to the point where it's sometimes hard to distinguish who is currently on the driver's seat, him or Zarathos. Taken to a new level in the 2019 series, which sees Johnny adopting an unforgiving, cruel attitude as the King of Hell. It's heavily implied that the more he spends time in Hell, the more evil he grows, thanks to the throne's demonic influence over him.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: [[LongRunner By accident]], mostly.
* BadassNormal: Became one for awhile after ditching Zarathos. During that time, Johnny only had his veteran combat prowess and hellfire shotgun to see him through the worst situations. Usually, that was all he needed.
* BashBrothers: With Daimon Hellstrom. While they've had their disagreements in the past, Johnny has a great working relationship with the infamous Son of Satan, teaming up with him more times than any other Marvel hero to great effect. He actually tends to get along with Hellstrom more than he does his own younger brother, Danny...
* BigBrotherMentor: To Ketch during times when they're on good terms with each other, specifically the early days of Danny's stint as GR.
* BloodKnight: Johnny feels the most alive when he's in the middle of carving through enemies, and he knows it. Zarathos even admits that it's the primary reason he's glad to just sit back and watch Johnny take full control of the Ghost Rider most of the time. The sheer sadistic creativity that Mr. Blaze can unleash upon his foes is a sight to behold!
* BroughtDownToBadass: Whenever he's split up from Zarathos. It never lasts long, but during those times, Johnny still proves he can be a fearsome warrior if the situation calls for it. This is best demonstrated in the ''Damnation'' crossover saga, which sees the separated Blaze and Zarathos managing to form an effective two-man fighting team against the onslaught of hell's denizens before they eventually fuse back together.
* ChainPain: His signature weapon. All Riders carry one as part of their innate arsenal, and Johnny uses his to great effect. Taken UpToEleven during his reign as the King of Hell, which sees Johnny now capable of summoning multiple chains from the ground up to ensnare and torture his foes with.
* CircusBrat: And his dad was the star attraction.
* CombatPragmatist: For all the great powers at his disposal, Johnny's not above resorting to cheap shots whenever it comes in handy, such as planting his boot on a (possessed) Black Panther's [[GroinAttack royal family jewels]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Yes, he has a flaming skull. Yes, he made a deal with Mephisto. Yes, he has SpikesOfVillainy. But make no mistake - he's a '''good''' guy.
* DeadpanSnarker: It's pretty easy to tell which personality is in control just by listening to the way GR talks. When he's all threats and business-like, it's Zarathos. When he's mixing the threats with a good dosage of verbal smackdown, it's Johnny Blaze.
* DealWithTheDevil: What started his mess, though in later dealings he's managed to get the better of Mephisto.
* DeathGlare: Almost literally. The Penance Stare burns your very soul with varying intensity depending on your crimes. The ''King of Hell'' storyline also introduces the even more powerful Damnation Stare as part of Johnny's arsenal, used exclusively on demons. Unlike the Penance Stare, however, this version has the added side effect of [[PowerCorrupts corrupting his mind the more he uses it]], pushing him towards anger and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming more evil]] because of it.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Innocents have nothing to worry about. But if you're a bad guy? You are in for a whole new world of ''hurt''.
* MorphWeapon: Johnny can transform his chains (and sometimes even his bike!) into whatever alternate form he wishes by melting and remolding the metal with the power of hellfire.
* MultiMeleeMaster: Aside from his signature chains, he has also brandished the occasional [[FlamingSword flaming sword]], a [[SinisterScythe scythe]], and a [[DropTheHammer war hammer]] among others by channeling his hellfire's morphing abilities. His Hell Hammer in particular is shown to rival Mjolnir itself.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: He doesn't relish in the carnage as much as Zarathos does, but Johnny isn't afraid to admit that he, too, gets a kick out of sadistically inflicting pain upon murderers, serial killers, and other sorts of nasty individuals that cross his path. Take for example, that time he, in his human form, casually ripped apart a guy's arms with a [[PsychoticSmirk soft smile]] on his face.
* PostModernMagik: His hellfire shotgun -- a common modern day weapon that fires mystical bullets made of brimstone.
* PropheticName: Yes, the man named blaze ''would'' get fire powers.
* SeenItAll: Throughout his existence, Blaze has endured one type of nightmarish ordeal after another, so much that by the time he's fully settled into the role of a Ghost Rider, practically ''nothing'' fazes him anymore. As he puts it best in the ''Damnation'' crossover arc:
--->'''Johnny Blaze:''' I'd died before. Been to hell before. There's nothing--this world or the next--I'm afraid of anymore. I'm the kid of a hick carny who wound up tied to the saddle of a monster. Gone up against the worst anything ever threw at me. What the hell do I got to be afraid of anymore?
* StuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler:With the exception of his brother, his entire immediate family! Even his wife, daughter and son!]]
* SuperEmpowering: Apart from being able to transform any inanimate object or vehicle he touches into flaming tools of destruction, Johnny has also demonstrated the ability to grant other living beings temporary increased strength and durability by engulfing them in his own hellfire, so long as they have the body to endure it. In one story, for example, he made Mammomax powerful enough to bulldoze a colossal train demon with a single, hellfire-imbued charge.
* TookALevelInJerkass: See AntiHero above.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: To save his life. It was more like a cast than making him a permanent cyborg. He's long since ditched it after regaining his hellfire powers.
* VitriolicBestBuds: This is Johnny and Zarathos' modern day relationship, more or less. Best exemplified in 2018's one-shot title, ''Damnation: Johnny Blaze - Ghost Rider''. Zarathos disapproves of Johnny constantly involving himself in more [[ChronicHeroSyndrome heroic pursuits]] and lets his host know it every chance he gets with disdainful scorn. Still, he also admits to find great enjoyment in their adventures together, especially in watching the many creative ways that Johnny kills their enemies with.
-->'''Zarathos:''' I never said there wasn't enjoyment to be had from your little games. I only disagree with how often you throw yourself into other people's wars and how little you pay attention to ours. Never with your methods.
** Johnny, for his part, has grown to accept Zarathos as but an extension of his own [[BloodKnight inner bloodlust]], one that grants him the power to cut loose whenever necessary. At the end of the day, both entities agree that they're at their strongest when united as one.
--> '''Johnny Blaze (Ghost Rider mode):''' Slipping back into the saddle was like going home again. The walls might be bleeding and it might be on fire, but it's all mine. The two of us were trapped in hell, but together we were faster, stronger, terrifying.
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[[folder: Zarathos]]
!!Zarathos
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-> ''"You play with the Wind - and use it to toss Toys at me? I AM NOT IMPRESSED!"''
Zarathos fought the ancient Spirits of Vengeance and corrupted a number of their overseers, the Blood into his "Fallen". Although he promised them increased power, in actuality Zarathos was using their powers to further augment himself. After gaining power and worshippers, Zarathos then challenged Mephisto for ownership of his realm. Mephisto tricked Zarathos by having Centurious. Centurious' lack of a soul rendered him immune to many of Zarathos' power. With his followers abandoning him, Zarathos was easily defeated.
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* ArchEnemy: Centurious, the man without a soul.
* BaldOfEvil: He does not have skin for hair follicles to grow from
* DoubleKnockout: His battle with the Danny Ketch/Noble Kale Ghost Rider seemed to be a MutualKill but vengeance spirits and angels are hard to kill, even for each other.
* FallenAngel: After the retcon he became an angel corrupted by Hell.
* NinetiesAntihero: Has become one because of retroactive continuity; though almost all his major enemies being worse than he was makes it a little easier to swallow, there are still some really questionable things he did in older comics.
* NominalHero: That's what happens when you decide to turn a villain into a hero without justifying or having them atone for any of their past actions.
* RedBaron: He's called the Spirit of Vengeance for a reason.
* {{Retcon}}: From an evil demon to a misguided angel (he was fighting demons and such, just [[HeWhoFightsMonsters doing it wrong]]).
* TheRival: To Mephisto, who after he defeated him had fun watching him struggle for control of human hosts who didn't want anything to do with him.
** RivalTurnedEvil: More like rival turned good, though this took awhile.
* SkullForAHead: His head is a skull wreathed in flames.
* TechnicolorFire: Blue fire when free, orange when he has a human host.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: After he stops being evil, this is his relationship with Johnny Blaze as Ghost Rider.
* VillainTeamup: With Lilith.
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[[folder: Ghost Rider II (Danny Ketch)]]
!!Danny Ketch
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-> ''"I am'' '''''Ghost Rider, The Spirit of Vengeance!'''"''
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* TheAlcoholic:
** Under Jason Aaron and Si Spurrier, Danny's use of the Ghost Rider powers is a very obvious metaphor for substance abuse.
** Under Ed Brisson, Danny is also an alcoholic outright. He drinks to distract himself from being Ghost Rider and numb the pain of the transformation.
* AntiHero: PragmaticHero, IDidWhatIHadToDo type.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: When Zarathos came back, was retconned into a good at heart angel and started making Blaze's Ghost Rider more like Danny's, Danny's dropped Noble Kale and got a new spirit with blue flames so the two could be told apart more easily. This was removed at the end of the storyline and Danny has since gone back to regular flames.
* DeathGlare: The first to use the penance stare.
* FaceHeelTurn: Spent quite a bit acting as Zadkiel's [[TheDragon Lieutenant and Chief Enforcer]] during the 'Heaven's on Fire' story arc. During which Danny hunted down the other Ghost Riders ether killing or [[DePower Depowering]] them till only he & Johnny were left.
* FlechetteStorm: The chain was initially unique to him and he still possess a greater control over it than the other riders, even to the point of breaking it into its individual links and launching them as a cutting barrage. He could also make it into a makeshift [[BladeOnAStick [=spear=]]] as well as a dagger and sword.
* MistakenIdentity: Blaze attacks him because he thinks he is Zarathos, the demon that Mephisto put in him, then helped Dan with his situation to make up for it. Dr. Strange and Nightmare also attacked him for the same reason. Vengeance comes after him thinking he is John Blaze.
* ModeLock: Blackout tried to kill him by ripping his throat out. All that did was force Noble Kale to take over in the Ghost Rider form permanently for about a year, and thus give him more incentive to kick Blackout's ass. Danny was eventually brought back thanks to the aid of Dr. Strange.
* PlayingWithFire: He was the first to gain the ability to manipulate natural flames, allowing him to burn that which hellfire cannot.
* {{Revenge}}: Why he accepted being a Ghost Rider so quickly.
* UnwittingPawn: To Zadkiel and Anton Satan.
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[[folder: Noble Kale]]
!!Noble Kale
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A distant ancestor of Blaze and Ketch, Noble Kale was the original Ghost Rider, from the 18th century. He became the Ghost Rider in order to defend his hometown from the Furies, but killed himself when his son was offered to him as a sacrifice.
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* {{Curse}}: As a result of both Uri-El and Mephisto claiming his soul, he's forced to wander between the worlds a spirit. He typically possesses the first born of a certain family to turn them into Ghost Riders, becoming a kind of curse to them too.
* DealWithTheDevil: His soul was offered to Mephisto by his own father!
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He becomes one in realms like Mephisto's hell, specifically an angel of death. He was originally intended to be made into one by Uri-El before Mephisto got in the way.
* OurSpiritsAreDifferent: He was once a man, now he is a spirit of vengeance. Danny Ketch is his most recent host.
* PowerIncontinence: When on Earth without a host.
* PutOnABus: During the Zadkiel mess.
* ReroutedFromHeaven: Thanks a ''lot'', dad.
* SatanIsGood: When he took over hell, until the demons rebelled and kicked him out.
* YankTheDogsChain: Anything good that happens to him will be overturned or have unintended negative consequences without fail.
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[[folder: Ghost Rider III (Naomi Kale)]]
!!Naomi Kale
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* BikerBabe: Every Ghost Rider up to this point had been a rider, so why would she be any different?
* {{Good Smoking| Evil Smoking}}: Still not good for her but her rider form didn't have to worry about cardio.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: The mother of Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch. A descendant of Noble Kale, as well as his last host before Danny Ketch.
* OutGambitted: She manages to make Mephisto swear to end "The Curse of Noble Kale". Mephisto instead sticks Zarathos in John. Naomi tried to fight Mephisto but he kills her and lets Noble find his way into her younger son Daniel, since Noble's "curse" was to enter the first born of the generation it technically had ended.
* SpannerInTheWorks: After death her spirit continues to subtly mess with Mephisto and Blackheart's plans.
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[[folder: Vengeance (Michael Badilino)]]
!!Michael Badilino
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* AntiheroSubstitute: He even got to team up with another example of this trope, during Venom's orginal run as the Lethal Protector.
* BadWithTheBone: His chain was made of bones.
* KilledOffForReal: So it seems. A spirit of vengeance that looks suspiciously similar to his shows up overseas but doesn't act like him, suggesting Michael is still dead and it has found a new host.
* NinetiesAntiHero: Meant to be the "edgier" counterpart to Danny Ketch/Noble Kale, a walking skeleton wearing a spiky jacket on fire who caused the worst imaginable pain in people just be looking at them... yeah it was only a little plausible because 90s Ghost Rider ''was'' a little nicer than the Blaze version and thus apparently not hardcore enough for the 90s.
* ShapedLikeItself: As a spirit of vengeance he went by the creative moniker of Vengeance.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Bigger where Ghost Rider already had spikes and also spikes coming out of his head.
* UnwittingPawn: As caretaker explained, he sold his soul to Mephisto for power he was already going to get anyway. Blackheart also mocks him for being easy to manipulate. The Lilin also had him going for awhile.
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[[folder:Vengeance (Kowalski)]]
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%%* BadassBiker
%%* HookHand
* PlayingWithFire: Has [[BreathWeapon flaming breath]] and a [[FlamingSkulls flaming head]]
* PostModernMagik: Used the Caretaker's Hellfire Gun.
* {{Revenge}}: Against Comicbook/GhostRider for ruining his life.
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[[folder: Ghost Rider IV (Alejandra Jones)]]
!!Alejandra Jones
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: A mixed-race Caucasian/Mexican woman.
* BackForTheDead: Wasn't seen since being deformed by hellfire at the end of Rob Williams' run, but was brought back to die in the ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'' event.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: In contrast to her original incarnation, Alejandra's transformation in Ghost Racers is rather subdued as she just grows a skull-print mask that covers the lower half of her face. This is in stark contrast to her fellow (and chiefly male) Spirits of Ignition who all look like demonic skeletons of varying make.
* BoringButPractical: Her main strategy in Ghost Racers is to hang back as her rivals duke it out, wait for a prime opening, and activate all her NitroBoost charges at once to get ahead. This makes her one of the least popular of the racers, but it is a valid tactic given that the point of the competition is to place first, not blow up the other indestructible contestants.
* CurbstompBattle: John and Dan, for different reasons, were not as powerful as Ghost Riders when they started out as they were later in their careers. Alejandra was at full power from day one and had a habit mowing through their old enemies and people they wouldn't have been able to beat head on. She nearly kills Skadi, which would have ended the ''Fear Itself'' crossover before it began. This stops once she runs into Blackheart though.
* DistaffCounterpart: Well more like one to Danny Ketch than John Blaze, relishing the chance to take vengeance on the guilty but she spent her time playing off John Blaze.
* PassingTheTorch: She got the torch from John Blaze, who quickly regretted it when Mephisto informed him.
* SinisterScythe: Introduced when she cuts Deathwatch and Blackout with it.
* UnwittingPawn: To Adam, who wanted to use her powers to take over the world, for admittedly philanthropic reasons.
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[[folder: Ghost Rider V (Robbie Reyes)]]
!!Robbie Reyes
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: Latino-American.
** Neither he nor Eli know what or who the Ghost Rider is at first though, until Johnny Blaze explains it to them.
* AntiHero: Of the NominalHero variety.
* BackFromTheDead: [[FirstEpisodeTwist He gets shot to death and set on fire in his first issue]], but immediately comes back as the new Ghost Rider.
* BadassDriver: He wasn't the first Rider not to be a rider by this point though, just the first to be a main character.
* BadassNormal: Subverted - before getting powers he tries to protect his brother from some bullies with his bare hands, [[RealityEnsues but is unable to do anything once they pull out a gun]] and gets beaten up.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Nearly everything he does is motivated by his desire to protect his brother.
* CivvieSpandex: His racing jumpsuit coincidentally looks like Johnny Blaze's original outfit.
* CoolCar: 1969 Dodge Charger.
* DeathGlare: Manifests the Penance Stare in ''Marvel Legacy'' #1, much to his surprise, as it hadn't been a part of his powerset before.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: His plan to get Gabe and himself out of East LA? Steal a racing car and win an incredibly large prize in an underground street race. Once the cops start chasing him, he suddenly realizes that if he gets arrested, Gabe will be left completely alone, with nobody to take care of him.
** FreakOut: Result of above realization.
* HiddenDepths: Seems to be a quiet, antisocial tough guy at first, but it quickly becomes apparent he cannot take the conditions he and his brother must live in and probably had to quickly grow up. Also, early advertising emphasized "cool underground street racer". Turns out it's not something he does for fun, but a desperate way to earn money to give him and his brother a better life.
* ImplacableMan: He can teleport wherever his car is. The vehicle itself can explode and transport itself elsewhere, and it is inexplicably capable of ambushing opponents during fights since it can drive itself.
* ParentalAbandonment: If Eli is to be believed, Robbie and Gabe were abandoned by their parents.
* PrettyBoy: Both males and females in-universe have made comments on how Robbie is really easy on the eyes. Two biker thugs even called him this before trying to mug him. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown You can imagine how that turned out for them.]]
* PromotionToParent: He's taking care of his twelve year old brother.
* RedOniBlueOni: Eli might say harsher things, but it's Robbie who has the flaring hot temper.
* SkunkStripe: Looks a bit like a flame.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Cold and aloof with most people, anything but when it comes to his brother.
* ThouShaltNotKill: He's highly against killing, even refusing to kill criminals. At the end of his first book, he agrees to kill only the worst of the worst, and only to satisfy Eli and keep him from going after Gabe again.
* TrashTalk: Deconstructed. His status as TheQuietOne among the Ghost Riders makes him remarkably bad at this when he tries.
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[[folder: Eli Morrow]]
!!Eli Morrow
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Ghost of a person who was killed in a 1969 Dodge Charger, the same one Robbie drives; they merge to become Ghost Rider.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: He originally presents himself as an ally and mentor to Robbie. In reality, he's just using the boy to get revenge on his killer, take over his body and satisfy his own bloodlust.
* [[spoiler: EvilUncle: Turns out he's Robbie's uncle Elias, and directly responsible for Gabe's disabilities.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: He's violent and depraved, but prefers to vent his fury on the wicked.
* HollywoodSatanism: His brand of Satanism is a ReligionOfEvil.
* HumansAreBastards: With very few exceptions, in his opinion.
* MilesGloriosus: Tries to promote himself as a powerful and diabolical entity that can fulfill Robbie's desires, but transforming him into a Ghost Rider is arguably the only thing he hasn't been haplessly incompetent at doing.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Manifests to Robbie as a reflection of his Ghost Rider form, while he's human.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's made several derogatory comments about Gabe's disabilities.
* {{Revenge}}: Plays this card a lot, while tempting Robbie.
* WouldHurtAChild: Has possessed Robbie's brother, manipulated him, and even used him to fight. It's also implied that he caused Gabe's disabilities in the first place, when he pushed his mother down the stairs when she was pregnant with him.
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[[folder: Cosmic Ghost Rider (Frank Castle)]]
!!Frank Castle
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Formerly the Punisher of a universe where Thanos killed literally every other living being. Upon his death, he made a deal with Mephisto, becoming the Spirit of Vengeance, then received the Power Cosmic on top of that from Galactus, although he and Galactus were defeated by the Mad Titan. He then became the Black Hand of Thanos before being killed by Norrin Radd. He was then 'escorted' out of Valhalla by Odin and sent back in time. It's a lot, we know.
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* TheAtoner: Frank's made A LOT of mistakes from the time he made a deal with Mephisto onwards. So he gets Odin to send him back in time, so that he could fix his mistakes and find a measure of redemption (Death says that it's hopeless for him, but Frank just tells her off).
* AxCrazy: While Frank is not very sane in most universes, this one is completely off his freaking gourd as a result of first wandering the barren Earth as Ghost Rider for several centuries with no one to punish, then spending millions of years with Thanos, who enjoyed his Penance Stare. (Per ''Cosmic Ghost Rider'' #1, some of it is also down to the fact mortal minds - even those as skewed as Frank's - [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity aren't meant to handle those powers]]. Indeed, Frank refuses having the powers back when he decides to leave Valhalla... but Odin returns them to him regardless.)
* BackFromTheDead: In ''Cosmic Ghost Rider'' #1, thanks to Odin, who basically kicks him out of Valhalla.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: His first series suggests he's part of a StableTimeLoop set up by Death to ensure Thanos becomes who he is. Then in his second series, ''Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys the Marvel Universe'', it's shown that he's done ''a lot'' more time traveling and has become involved in multiple critical moments in superhero history. This has the unfortunate effect of making him incapable of doing what he really wants and averting the death of his family because then he'd be unraveling his now highly intertwined history in the Marvel Universe.
* {{BFG}}: Frank seemed to have rubbed off on ol' Galactus, because when they were a team, Galactus would wear a raggedy olive cape a la [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen Hope Summers]] and wield a gun the size of a skyscraper.
* BreakoutCharacter: Of the 2016 ''Thanos'' series. He ended up getting two solo miniseries out of it and went on to temporarily join the Guardians of the Galaxy.
* ChainPain: This version of the Rider carries a chain made from the Crimson Bones of Cyttorak. It's so tough that not even Thanos can break out of them.
* CloudCuckooLander: Out of his mind and hilariously so. By far the oddest version of Frank Castle you'll ever see.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Odin pulls him to Valhalla out of respect for him as a warrior when the Surfer kills him. Castle is pissed that he gets a peaceful afterlife when his family didn’t and calls Odin out on this.
* DealWithTheDevil: Actually made three of these. First it was Mephisto - a dying Frank gets to be the Spirit of Vengeance and has the power to kill Thanos in return for Frank sending evil people to Hell in mass quantities. Next he makes a deal with Galactus - become a Herald and gain the Power Cosmic in return for handing over the Earth. Finally he makes a deal with Thanos the Final King - he serves as Thanos's Black Hand and he'll have an opportunity to kill more evil-doers than Frank had ever imagined.
* DeathIsCheap: In a short time since his debut, he's already died and come back twice. And that's not including his death as the Punisher, which started his new career.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Along with the aforementioned SanitySlippage, this Frank Castle's decision making skills have greatly suffered, as shown when he goes back in time to kill a baby Thanos but instead kidnaps him with the ultimate decision to raise him. He's called out by both Galactus and Uatu the Watcher who point out that a timeline where the Punisher raises Thanos is not a good one. This produces hilarious results as Frank faces the immediate consequences of his actions due to TimeTravel shenanigans.
* TheDragon: To King Thanos, although Thanos didn't really need him. Frank serves more as a recording of Thanos's greatest hits and a glorified butler.
* TheDreaded: The other Ghost Riders fear him for being the most powerful of them... and for being totally insane.
* FailureHero: He's almost a posterboy for this because of his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} insanity, lack of judgement, bad luck and poor use of his powers. Johnny Blaze calls him out on this when he recruited Frank to do some wetwork for him and failed: "You're totally useless! The only thing you're good at is getting your family killed!" Frank then fails to hunt down Blaze after that cheapshot.
* FightsLikeANormal: He's a cosmic, supernatural powerhouse but he has an overwhelming tendency to default to shooting, stabbing and chain-smacking. Such as when Thanos was getting jumped by the Surfer's Annihilation Wave, and had to tell Frank to stop shooting them and do something hellish. Frank unloaded a hellfire storm that wiped the bugs out and mentioned he keeps forgetting he could do that.
* GadgeteerGenius: Downplayed. Frank is no genius and may even be dumber than the average person now, but all those eons of hanging around Galactus and Thanos seem to have taught him a few things about technology. In a fight against Captain Marvel, Frank was able to make a RayGun with parts that Iron Man left around, using only one hand.
* TheJuggernaut: Frank may have [[TookALevelInDumbass gotten stupider]] but if he's not up against an upper-echelon Thanos and above, he's practically unstoppable. As he mentions to baby Thanos, he's got cosmic hellfire powers, of course he can kill every alternate-universe superhero out to get him. And he does. He also easily slaughters an alternate version of Thanos who hadn't been empowered by Death or a Cosmic Cube. In an offscreen fight, he decapitates and carries off the head of Eli Morrow, who was possessing the body of a [[CosmicEntity Celestial]] at the time.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: He reacts this way upon meeting Wraith, idolizing him for the exact same reasons that readers mocked the character back in Annihilation Conquest.
* KryptoniteFactor: Brute force doesn't work that well on him as Hulk and Thor found out, but Frank is vulnerable to some supernatural attacks especially if they affect the dead.
* IHatePastMe: Inverted. The Punisher hates Cosmic Ghost Rider and tried to kill him, once he found out that future Frank went back in time and failed to save their family. For his part, future Frank is merely disappointed at how miserable and misguided his past self was.
* LastOfTheirKind: He was the last living thing on Earth and after that he became the sole survivor of his timeline's universe.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Pretty much the basic concept: an elderly Punisher as Ghost Rider wielding the Power Cosmic.
* OddFriendship: He considers Galactus one of his closest friends, is fond of the Phoenix Force and has friendly relations with Thanos the Final King (but not the 616 Thanos).
* PapaWolf: He was very protective of baby Thanos.
* PhysicalGod: Demonic powers from Mephisto plus the Power Cosmic from Galactus. It took a greatly aged Silver Surfer with the Annihilation Wave and Thor's hammer to kill him. He's so powerful that he can possess and animate the dead Celestial that's the Avengers's current base, then immediately after he fought and was winning against the Avengers which included powerhouses like Thor, Hulk (Jennifer Walters version) and Captain Marvel as well as Captain America and Black Panther who were both infused with Celestial power. When something does manage to hurt him, like Moondragon did when he was briefly on the Guardians of the Galaxy, he gets genuinely shocked and impressed.
* TheStoic: Averted; his days as the Punisher are long over and he's become very emotional (he's far more capable of expressing happiness and sorrow) after living so long and through so much.
* TimeAbyss: By the time we meet him he's spent millions of years with Thanos, and that's after his years as the Ghost Rider and as Galactus' Herald.
* TookALevelInKindness: A far cry from the glowering Punisher he previously was. All those millennia of being alone on a dead Earth have made him a MUCH friendlier person and a lot less contemptuous of superheroes.
* UnwittingPawn: Turns out to have ultimately been manipulated by Death to help make Thanos into the person he is.
* WorfEffect: He jobs a lot of fights - including having a draw against a pre-Punisher Frank Castle (and actually took a pummeling from his past self), getting another draw but against the Punisher (this Frank Castle was ready for his future self - he had hellfire rounds in a submachine gun and a knife made of an adamantium-vibranium alloy) and if the events from his time travel adventures were even a little bit true - then he actually lost and was captured by Moloids.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Ghost Riders]]
!!Bai Gu Jing
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* ActionGirl: She's a female Ghost Rider, so it comes with the territory

!!Baron Skullfire and Marinette Bwa Chech

!!Caleb
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* UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica: He was a self-freed black man living in the Antebellum South during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. After the war, his family is hounded by a lynch gang who are styled after the proto KKK of the time.
* AntiHero: Borderline VillainProtagonist at points; he doesn't care how many innocents die, as long as he gets the men he's after.
* BloodKnight: A particularly notable case, even amongst the other Ghost Riders. The only thing making him a hero is that the men he's hunting are even worse.
* ColdBloodedTorture: If he has the luxury, he prefers to make his enemies suffer before they die.
* DealWithTheDevil: Like all Ghost Riders, though his was made with spirits from his ancestors' homeland in order to protect his family. Unfortunately for him, this Spirit of Vengeance doesn't protect, it can [[ExactWords only take revenge]]. As such, Caleb is given the power only after he is dead, so that he can hunt down his family's killers.
* ForcedToWatch: He's forced to watch as his sons are nailed to a tree and shot to death, all the while taunted as to how he couldn't save them. While this is going on he can hear his wife being raped just a few feet away from him, before she too is killed with a knife. Only then do his captors kill him.
* KillEmAll: All but one person who ever came into contact with him died a gruesome death. Not always by his hands.
* NominalHero: He is only concerned with his own personal vengeance. If innocents get in the way, [[KillEmAll so be it.]]

!!Cowboy Ghost Rider

!!Devil Rig and Hell Driver

!!G-Man and Knuckles O'Shaughnessy

!!Ghost Flyer
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World War I pilot who became a Spirit of Vengeance.
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!!Kenshiro "Zero" Cochrane
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The Ghost Rider of the year 2099. See [[Comicbook/GhostRider2099 here]] for more info.
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* ApocalypseAnarchy: Thanks to 2099 being a CrapsackWorld.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: A chainsaw.
* CatchPhrase: Along with the rest of 2099's FutureSlang, Zero gets extensive mileage out of calling people "pusbags".
* ChainsawGood: Has a chainsaw for a hand.
* CyberPunk: Just take one look at him.
* {{Cyberspace}}: Where most of his adventures take place.
* EyeBeams
* FlamingSword: In this case, it's a hellfire chainsaw hand.
* HauntedTechnology: What he is in the original and 2019 edition. For the 2019 edition, the Hotwire Martyrs were trying to jack power cells from a SHIELD transport, there were no batteries. Instead there was a combat robot that's going to D/Monix corporation from streetsweeping the homeless. When the Hotwire Martyrs were blown up along with Kenshiro, Johnny Blaze the King of Ghostworks (the Hell of this timeline) puts Kenshiro's spirit inside of the robot.
* HollywoodHacking: Was a member of the Hotwire Martyrs, a street gang who, in the future world of 2099, use hacking to commit most of their crimes.
* HolographicDisguise: His robotic body has a hologram projector that could make him look like anyone, including his old flesh-and-blood body.
* Comicbook/Marvel2099: Was the Ghost Rider of the year 2099.
* MyHeroZero: His nickname in the Hotwire Martyrs. The others' nicknames were appropriately "90's".
* NinetiesAntiHero: [[IncrediblyLamePun 2090's!]]
* ShapeShifter: Due to his cybernetic nature, he could reshape his body at will. This includes changing his fingers into blades SharpenedToASingleAtom.
* Skelebot9000: His robotic body looks like a T-800 from Franchise/TheTerminator.
* TooManyBelts: See pic.

!!Kowalski (Vengeance)

!!Molek
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A middle-eastern Ghost Rider.
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!!Native American Ghost Rider (Hellhawk)
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: When he was a member of the 1000s Avengers, instead of a horse, he rode a skeletal bison.

!!Nima
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* HellishHorse: His horse has a necklace of skulls.
* WarriorMonk: He's a tibetan monk with the powers of the Spirit of Vengeance.

!!Prehistoric Ghost Rider
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* DreadlockWarrior: Before he was a Ghost Rider, he had hair in dreadlocks.
* MammothsMeanIceAge: Fitting for an inhabitant of the Ice Age, he rides a mammoth that's ''on fire''.
* NoNameGiven: His true name wasn't known by neither Odin nor Lady Phoenix.
* WarElephants: Just like Shoba Mirza thousands of years later, he rides a wooly mammoth instead of an elephant.

!!Shoba Mirza
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Shoba Mirza is the Indian Ghost Rider
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Based on the mythical Asura, when in Ghost Rider mode she has four arms.
* WarElephants: She rides a skeletal ''flaming elephant''.

!!Yoshio Kanabe
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The Japanese version of Ghost Rider, his appearance was that of an oni demon with a flaming skull. He wielded an oni kanabō (metal club) made of hellfire.
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* {{Oni}}: His Ghost Rider form looks like a flaming Oni-head.
[[/folder]]

!Supporting Characters

[[folder: Roxanne Simpson]]
!!Roxanne Simpson
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* TheCavalry: She is the one who saved Johnny Blaze's soul from Mephisto, even though she couldn't stop him from turning him into the Ghost Rider.
* DistressedDamsel: For John Blaze periodically, until they eventually just killed her off, along with the rest of his family not named Danny Ketch (actually, he just got better).
* GreenThumb:When under Blackheart's control.
* HappilyMarried: To John Blaze eventually.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Crash Simpson]]
!!Crash Simpson
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Uri-El]]
!!Uri-El
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* BaldOfAwesome: No hair whatsoever.
* BatmanGambit: He indirectly kills Blackheart and almost brings about Mephisto's defeat without even lifting a finger. This gambit took 200 years before its final payoff and he was not actively involved beyond a general nudging and then letting Mephisto be Mephisto.
* TheCavalry: He gives a then powerless John Blaze his sword so he can kill some supernatural nasty things.
* EnemyMine: Undead MC, a vampire motorcycle gang and Shelob, a gigantic demonic spider, teamed up to kill him but failed.
* FlamingSword: It kind of looks like one but obviously isn't a natural flame.
* HolyBacklight: He is an angel, if a someone demonic looking one.
* MonochromaticEyes: Which is more eye detail than Ghost Rider is usually give, to be fair.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He looks less like any popular depiction of an angel or the way they were described in scripture and more like a bigger, stronger, more complete version of the Ghost Rider, which made sense with [[{{Foreshadowing}} where Noble Kale's story was going]]. It makes even more since with later {{retcon}}s, what doesn't is why the angels introduced after him are standard winged humanoids.
* PowerGlows: He is very shiny.
* PublicDomainCharacter[=/=]ArchangelUriel: Though he is not considered "canon" by most Christians, Uriel is an Angel from religious texts and Christian folklore.
* RedBaron: The Angel Of Redemption.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Barbara Ketch]]
!!Barbara Ketch
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* MissedTheCall: She was meant to inherit the Ghost Rider powers, but they went to Danny instead and she died.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Stacy Dolan]]
!!Stacy Dolan
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Was friends with Danny for years before they started dating sometime before he became Ghost Rider.
* FairCop: A very attractive women and one of New York's finest.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Caretaker]]
!!Caretaker
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* BuriedAlive: There are apparently many evil beings trapped beneath his cemetery, the [[ToServeMan man eating]] people of dust are confirmed to be down there because they temporarily escaped and tried to eat the Night Stalkers.
* CoolBike: His "ancient motorcycle".
* CoolOldGuy: He doesn't look ''that'' old but he is.
** CrustyCaretaker: He certainly acts his age though.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When calling upon his reserves of super strength his eyes glow red.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: He is killed by one of Danny Ketch's enemies.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: A member of the blood tasked with keeping an eye on the vengeance spirit that came for a certain medallion. The one that happened to bond with Danny Ketch.
* CoolGuns/{{Rifle|s}}: His secondary weapon. He usually does not need it, as he has class 25 strength, that is, he can lift and hold ''25 tons'' over his head with minimal strain.
* SecretUndergroundPassage: He has several.
* ShovelStrike: His main fighting style.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mary Le Bow]]
!!Mary [=LeBow=]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She has feelings for Danny, but he doesn't seem to reciprocate.
* CassandraTruth: She knew that Elevenus was working for Zadkiel and Zadkiel's true intent with Danny. Unfortunately, he's too caught up in chasing his "fix" to listen.
* CharacterDeath: Elevenus stabs her and she's sent to a sort of limbo. However, he says he's working on finding her a body, since he's not a dick.
* FashionableAsymmetry: One side of her head has a short haircut with black hair, the other is shaven and white.
* {{Technopath}}: Uses a form of magic called "technomancy" that uses technology as a medium.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Sister Sara]]
!!Sister Sara
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* BadassPreacher: Though not her first choice usually, Sara can kick a lot of ass.
* BikerBabe: Surprised? Well she was not exactly this trope at first but now that she has the Caretaker's knowledge, this was only expected to follow.
* FieryRedhead: Though a naive and sheltered one.
* ForegoneConclusion: She's seen spirits of vengeance from the future, who ensured her Zadkiel (who had taken over heaven at the time) would be defeated, eventually.
* GoodIsNotSoft: As we learn when someone tries to take advantage of this kind, sheltered thing.
* KatanasAreBetter: Her main weapon.
* LegacyCharacter: Becomes the Caretaker after her grandfather.
* MissionFromGod: She sought out Caretaker, believing she had dreams of a "grand father" God wanted her to meet. It turns out God actually meant [[ExactWords her grandfather]].
* {{Revenge}}: Against the Deacon who murdered her convent and the gun nuns. She did not kill him though, just kicked his ass and let the police take him to prison.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Anton Satan used her to access Heaven and send an army of demons at it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Phantom Rider]]
!!Phantom Rider I (Carter Slade)
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[[/folder]]

!Villains

[[folder: Asmodeus]]
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Anton Hellgate]]
!!Anton Hellgate
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A ruthless businessman and crimelord whom was an enemy to Ghost Rider.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Ba'al]]
!!Ba'al
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He's green.
* BeardOfEvil[=/=]BaldOfEvil:The amount of hair he has varies from very little to none at all.
* CompositeCharacter: Of the various Ba'als, Ba'al Hadad is where his powers come from, the blood spilling of his followers comes from Ba'al Hammon, the association with the Gehenna refuse dump is probably from Ba'al Berith or Ba'al Peor and the degeneration into a demon is of course from medieval demonology.
* DemonicPossession:Not often, he only did so out of necessity when most of his body was destroyed.
* ElementalPowers: Worshiped as a storm god, it is to be expected.
** BlowYouAway: Which can help him move around, too.
** MakingASplash: Not that it would be much use against Ghost Rider but great for his crop growing followers when he was less of an evil bastard than he is now.
** ShockAndAwe: ''Green'' electricity sometimes to match the rest of him.
* EvilerThanThou: The tetrarchs of entropy, old foes of the Avengers, briefly show up while he is trapped in the same dimension they are and try to escape at the same time he does but Ba'al shoves them back in. This did not turn out so well for him later when a Windigo sided with John Blaze against him. Ba'al would not have had any trouble defeating Blaze if he was alone, since Blaze could not become a Ghost Rider at the time.
* FirstLawOfResurrection: {{God}} gave mankind the ability to kill him and the deed was done. Then he showed up again because an author still wanted to use him.
* {{Hell}}: Just for pun, the actual valley of Gehenna was where the Hand Of God beat him down. Gehenna being a garbage dump site that was metaphorically compared to hell.
* IHaveManyNames: Hadad is among the most popular of them.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Yeah, he is bad news.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Originally an enemy of Wolverine.
* TotallyNotAWerewolf: The Ba'alim, his followers, are known for drinking blood and are sometimes granted special powers but they are not vampires.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Blackheart]]
!!Blackheart
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* AbusiveParents: When you are the son of Mephisto, this is a given (though it should be stressed that Blackheart was born evil, so this isn't a FreudianExcuse at all). His first story ends with Mephisto squishing him- literally, and more than once- then depowering him when Blackheart still kept annoying him. His next two ended with Mephisto actually ''eating'' him. In the latter two cases, Mephisto regarded it as ToughLove.
* AntagonisticOffspring / ArchnemesisDad: Most of his plots are schemes to usurp Mephisto. He got steadily better at it until eventually, he succeeded... and then [[StatusQuoIsGod he lost it again.]]
* AntiMagic: Ghost Rider's Penance Stare does not work on him. Weak magic spells aren't going to fare much better.
* BlackMagic: Being a demon, he knows this stuff instinctively.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Several times. Mephisto never listens.
* TheChessmaster: Not quite as good as he would like to be, but he plays a mean game.
* TheCorrupter: He often tries to turn heroes into his minions to use against Mephisto.
* CurbStompBattle: Blackheart supposedly beat Toxin (the "son" of Carnage) to death "in a gutter". Considering how powerful Toxin is, that's quite a feat.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Blackheart unquestionably is rotten to the core, but the Darkforce power he often taps into (and is partially made out of) is just that, a force. Many creatures, good and evil, have made use of it. Then again, the Darkforce has always been portrayed as AmbiguouslyEvil itself.
* DimensionLord: Temporarily succeeded in overthrowing his father and reigned in Hell. He is also able to tap into the power of the Darkforce dimension; within it, he is actually TheOmnipotent.
* EvilCounterpart: He's fond of creating or setting up people to act as these.
* EvilSmellsBad: He has an unpleasant odour about him, with Daredevil describing it as burning roses.
* FirstLawOfResurrection: He's actually died a couple of times only to return with no explanation.
** He died several times in his first few appearances. He kept coming back because [[ResurrectiveImmortality like his father, that is actually one of his powers.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: A scary, philosophical villain who utilized a great deal of PsychologicalHorror in his first couple of appearances, he is nowadays often written as a bit of a LargeHam and CardCarryingVillain- almost the opposite of the [[TheStoic quiet, stoical]], WhatIsEvil approach he adopted originally.
* HellOnEarth: He's tried to cause it at least once.
* HumansAreSpecial: Villainous, condescending example. He very much considers humans to be his inferiors; at the same time, he admires our capacity for independence and free will, and believes he understands our moral complexities better than Mephisto does. He once freely admitted that he envies us, though only because we had more free will than he (ie. his father kept him on a tight leash).
* MadeOfEvil: Centuries worth of sins collected from the "Christ's Crown" area were used by Mephisto to bring him to life. This is what makes him immune to the penance stare, experiencing all the evil he's caused doesn't really bother him since he's made of the stuff. He can still be hurt by simpler, more direct methods though.
* ManipulativeBastard: He spends surprising little time getting his own hands dirty, despite saying that Mephisto is too passive. But he is a bit more interactive and personal about it.
* NighInvulnerability: He has been crushed, squished, eaten, cut, stabbed, sliced, machine-gunned... you name it. He always recovers. Even if you do somehow kill him, all you will do is send him back to Hell so he will come back anyway. If he dies ''in'' Hell, he just recovers even faster.
** [[spoiler: He is apparently heavily affected by ComicBook/MilesMorales' [[ElectricBlackGuy Venom blast]], [[SignatureMove as is common of people who face him]].]]
* OverlordJr: He's not Mephisto's biological son, technically, but still takes after his father's oppressive, expansionist ways.
* ThePhilosopher: He used to do a lot of musing on the nature of things like free will and evil. He quickly concluded that he knew more about it than his dad did.
* PsychicPowers: A power he has but most demons do not, including his father. It gives him a bit of an edge, but its not brought up much and he can't use it to force somebody to sign over their soul without crossing some metaphysical lines.
** MasterOfIllusion: He can conjure nightmarish images to torment others or trick them into evil actions (eg. he once made Daredevil beat up an innocent man by pretending that he, Blackheart, was that man in disguise).
** MindControl: He can both spread a HatePlague or outright enslave any mind he chooses.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Most of the time, sometimes they are blue but really, take warning.
** Originally, he had ''no'' eyes.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Just like his dad Mephisto, Blackheart initially was a villain from another Marvel superhero. In his case, Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}.
** He was introduced in Daredevil, but Comicbook/{{Spiderman}} showed up to help Murdock out. He was only really a Daredevil villain for one StoryArc; he has crossed paths with pretty much every Marvel hero since then. In his second appearance he's already moved on from the Man Without Fear and chose instead to target {{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/ThePunisher and Danny Ketch Ghost Rider. He's only really a Ghost Rider villain by virtue of crossing paths with them a little bit more than everyone else.
* SelfDuplication: In his second story he tried to make three separate [[DealWithTheDevil deals]] with Punisher, Danny Ketch and Wolverine. When all three rejected him, it was revealed he was talking to each of them all at the same time in three different locations.
* TheStarscream: To his father.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Although always depicted as powerful, Blackheart has been depicted as anything in between just giving Daredevil an uphill fight and taking on several cosmically powerful foes at once.
* TookALevelInBadass: At one point he managed to finally defeat Mephisto and ruled as prince of his domain; consequently, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking his powers increased dramatically.]] Of course, [[StatusQuoIsGod it didn't last]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Though he rarely takes the form of anything that is not black and spiny.
** In one of his first appearances, he took the form of an angel. He can certainly appear however he wishes to.
* WhatIsEvil: He was initially written as interested in the nature of evil and sometimes resorted to appeals to morally grey arguments.
* YouAreGrounded: Mephisto once banished him to Earth to humble him.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Several characters have pointed out that he is more like Mephisto than he likes to admit.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: He starred as the FIRST starring villain in ComicBook/MilesMorales' Spider-Man, and he looked absolutely nothing like he looked before [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/1fd549f7803a8286bb63c335827973a3/tumblr_o1zbn4cS1A1sbe86eo1_1280.jpg]]. Additionally, he was somehow [[spoiler: beaten as Miles was able to shock him with his spider sting, meaning a powerful demon that moments before beat an entire roster of Avengers was beat with a single attack from a teenage superhero]].
* YoureInsane: In his second appearance Danny Ketch thought he was crazy; he wasn't the last.
* YourSoulIsMine: He will sometimes try to forcibly extract a soul, rather than make a deal for it like Mephisto.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Blackout]]
!!Blackout
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: Because he can't actually beat Ghost Rider, he targets people associated with him.
* CastingAShadow: He has the power to suppress light sources, but isn't powerful enough to shut off the Ghost Rider's fire.
* EatsBabies: This is what causes Vengeance to turn on him when he and some other Lilin tried to buy him off.
* FirstLawOfResurrection: He is burnt to death by the Ghost Rider yet shows up during civil war with no explanation.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half Lilin.
* HiredGuns: He works as an assassin, muscle or whatever else you pay for.
* ScarsAreForever: Averted but he did hold a grudge against Ghost Rider for burning his face (because he was dumb enough to try and bite a flaming skeleton).
* StarterVillain: For Danny Ketch, introduced in issue #2 of his book. Blackout really wasn't a big threat to Ghost Rider then and Ghost Rider only got stronger as his story went on through the midnight sons arc while Blackout's been stagnant.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Centurious]]
!!Centurious
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* TheAgeless: He has white hair though.
* ArchEnemy: To Zarathos.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Later on.
* EmotionlessBoy: Perhaps a side effect of his lacking a soul.
* EvilSorcerer: He has to have magic or something similar to be able to fight Zarathos and, well, he is evil.
* LifeDrain: To keep his lifespan going, though he does not need to do it extensively. Just every now and then.
** YourSoulIsMine: As if the above wasn't enough. The life energy is for food, the soul is for his magic powers, or something like that.
* TheSoulless: So no penance stare here. This was supposed to be his gimmick, not Blackheart's.
* WalkingWasteland: His presence withers plants.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Crimson Mage]]
!!Azaziah Hornsby
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* ColorCharacter: ''Crimson'' Mage
* WizardBeard: A thick and classical beard.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Cerber]]
!!Cerber
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cerber_earth_616_from_ghost_rider_vol_3_49_0001.jpg]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Choam]]
!!Choam
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Choam is a powerful killer hired by Anton Hellgate to eliminate Ghost Rider.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Deacon]]
!!Deacon
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* ArchEnemy: To Sister Sara, the second Caretaker.
* BadassPreacher: SubvertedTrope. He's not really a deacon, just a HolyHitman.
* CruelMercy: Sara refuses to kill him, instead leaving him with total paralysis when he is taken in by the police.
* HolyHitman: Claims to be following the path of angels (and technically, [[FallenAngel he isn't wrong]]), but is a mass murderer.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Very misogynist.
* TattooedCrook: Has many tattoos on his [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] body.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Never wears a shirt.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Deathwatch]]
!!Deathwatch
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* AndYourLittleDogToo: Tries to kill Danny Ketch and his already hospitalized sister because of their connection to the Ghost Rider.
* CoolMask: More literal than most as, Deathwatch has little reason to hide his identity.
* CorporateConspiracy: Most people know that Contracts Unlimited is a somewhat shady mercenary company. What very few realize is that it is actually an ApocalypseCult run by Deathwatch, who wants to kill everything in the world while he watches, then die himself.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Having fun with organized crime is pretty much his entire reason for being on Earth.
* EvilTastesGood: If anybody ever deserved to die by the penance stare, it was him. He feeds off of other people's pain though so Ghost Rider decides to just kill him in a more simplistic manner. Alejandra later shows the penance stare is capable of hurting him but also ends up settling on a more simplistic finish.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When the Hood complains about him taking a cellphone into a meeting, Deathwatch responds by whining, "Dude, I got kids."
* FirstLawOfResurrection: Ghost Rider kills him, yet he shows up again after Civil War. Two of his minions did want to resurrect him but didn't know how and since they haven't showed up since it is doubtless the writers even remember.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Ghost Rider does this with his chain to kill him.
* TheMusketeer: In line with his love of ninjas he still uses a sword in the modern era. Of course he really needs guns more.
* NotEvenHuman: He looks like us but he aint us. This is revealed pretty early however and not needed as justification for killing him. His actions would have eventually caused Ghost Rider to take him out regardless of species.
* VillainTeamup: With The Hood, a fan of super villains despite living in a world where super villains and their crimes are very real. Perfect partner for Deatwatch when you see the other tropes that apply to him though.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: D'Kay]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/871903_legionofvengeancegrif2.jpg]]
A demon from the Pit who tried to destroy humanity.
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* BigRedDevil: Looks like a typical red devil.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Darklove]]
!!Oscuram
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oscuram_earth_616_from_marvel_comics_presents_vol_1_135_0001.jpg]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Dwarf]]
!!Darkhold Dwarf
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* DepravedDwarf: Just look at him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Death Ninja]]
!!Death Ninja
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An undead ninja who was an enemy of Ghost Rider.
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* BackForTheDead: After not being seen since the nineties, he and Doghead were killed by the Ghost Rider finally during ''Ghost Rider'' #26 in 2008.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: An undead ''ninja''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Dread]]
!!Dread
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Dread was an individual that died and was brought back to life by Anton Hellgate to serve as one of his assassins. Hellgate gave Dread augmented powers, limited psychic abilities and an energy sword. Dread would come into conflict with Vengeance, Spider-Man and Ghost Rider.
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* SecondaryColorNemesis: His outfit is purple.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Erus]]
!!Erus
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erus_earth_616_from_ghost_rider_vol_3_49_0001.jpg]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Highwayman]]
!!Highwayman
[[quoteright:187:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1783676_hwy8.jpg]]

* KillItWithFire: Seems to be the only way to truly put him down. And even that's only temporary.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Started out as a villain in the obscure ''U.S. 1'' trucker comic from TheSeventies. Due to the close proximity between trucker and biker culture, his transition to Ghost Rider villain was quite appropriate.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Hag]]
!!Hag
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hag_earth_616_from_ghost_rider_vol_3_23_0001.jpg]]
* IronicName: She doesn't look very hag-like.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Dresses in purple and green.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair appears to be pale blue.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Kazann]]
!!Kazann (Micah)
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Former angel and now demon of Hell.
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* DivinelyAppearingDemons: He still appears as an angel despite having fallen. His manifested physical is fittingly far more demonic.
* TheFaceless: His face is always enveloped in light.
* FallenAngel

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lilith]]
!!Lilith
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* {{Atlantis}}: She hung around there long ago but was banished long before its sinking.
** SummonBiggerFish: This was accomplished by calling on Tiamat (or the Leviathan, depending on who's penciling the story) and having her (or it) eat Lilith.
* BigBad: She is what brought the Midnight Sons together.
* CompositeCharacter: The primary source seems to be the Akkadian Kisikillillake but she also draws from various Sumerian Lilitu and depictions of Lilith in [[WordOfDante Judo-Christian apocrypha]], including not being the only one.
* DeflectorShields: To the point she can cover the moon and isolate entire nations from the rest of the Earth!
* DivideAndConquer: She hires the [[VampireDetective Night Stalkers]], who would have been helpful in taking her down, to take down John Blaze and Danny Ketch.
* DreamWeaver: She can projector herself into the dreams of other people at the very least. She's done it to Danny Ketch.
* EatsBabies: A rumor used to get people to baptize their children, but considering the source, there was probably some truth in it-she's eaten her own babies to restore her vitality.
* IHaveManyNames: Kiskillilla is popular too but there are many to choose from.
* MonsterProgenitor: What she currently is, even though her kids, the Lilin, aren't identical; they usually get killed off before they get too abnormal or large in number.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: She aims to be one anyway.
* OneSteveLimit: Dracula's daughter has the same name and has encountered many of the same characters. There is rarely any confusion because the other Lilith is much more pleasant.
* RedBaron: Mother of Demons.
* TotallyNotAWerewolf: She has pale skin and drinks like a vampire so some have mistaken her for one. She is also known for attempting seduce people in their dreams, which leads some to mistake her for a succubus. She's worse than both.
** OurVampiresAreDifferent: She was also accused of being involved in the creation of the vampires belonging to Varne's line (more commonly known as Dracula's line).
* VillainousWidowsPeak: You'll be forgiven for thinking she has horns at first glance.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Lucifer]]
!!Lucifer
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* BackFromTheDead: Does this for people in mass when he gets out of hell. He does this just to have bodies though, he does not have as much use as one would think for their identities or anything.
* BatmanGambit: He tortures those in his hell even more than just being there already does to give them more incentive to escape, figuring maybe if someone else manages to get out, he can follow them. It finally works when he snares a Ghost Rider.
** DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:Who later drags him back, kicking and screaming.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Besides having demons tear apart John Blaze every day, he also forced [[PokeThePoodle Greexix to deepen a pit for the rest of eternity]]. When an accident causes Greexix to go blind though, Lucifer decided to torture him for real. After Zadkiel's attempt to take over heaven gets him sent to hell, Lucifer takes joy in torturing him too.
* DemonicPossession: Most hell lords are not that into it but he is.
* TheDevilIsALoser: Unlike other hell-lords or fallen angels he is stuck in hell unless he can trick someone to release him. In his few appearances, he lacks the cunning or sophistication of Mephisto making him vulgar. He has no grander scheme then mass destruction. Worst of all, he is outsmarted repeatedly by Johnny Blaze.
* EvilIsPetty: A number of his actions were rather juvenile such as threatening to blow up a building to drive insurance rates up after being outsmarted by Blaze (before being outsmarted again.)
* FallenAngel: He was once a champion for good, though it is unclear if he was the one who chased the N'Garai away when [[ElderGods Chthon]] launched them at heaven or if it was Marduk Curios (worked together?). Since Marduk is the villain of a different comic, [[DependingOnTheWriter Lucifer will get all the credit if you're reading a Ghost Rider story.]]
** [[ContinuitySnarl And some comics]], such as Damnation (2018), say he ''is'' Marduk Curios, even though that character has (or at least claims) a completely different origin story and can exit his realm without help.
* GreenEyedMonster: The real reason he rebelled against heaven is because he was sick of all the love God was giving to the puny, sinful humans.
* HornedHumanoid: Sometimes, he does not need to have them but likes to look it can be assumed
* ICannotSelfTerminate: When Lucifer escapes Hell and is fractured into over six hundred fragments possessing those who died around the time he escaped, an angelic being informs Ghost Rider that the Lucifers will become stronger as each of them are killed and the power of the remaining fragments becomes greater, but they cannot simply kill ''themselves'' as that would just send Lucifer back to Hell.
* KillAllHumans: An idea he's been tempted to try but hasn't gone through with yet.
* LegionsOfHell: Not nearly enough to usually accomplish his goals though.
* LightIsNotGood: Contractually obligated.
* ManipulativeBastard: Tries to be, but not nearly as good at it as other hell-lords like Mephisto, Dormammu or Zadikel considering Blaze outsmarted him several times in a row.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Possibly a father, he's supposedly created numerous demons but it can be reasoned he's not the source of all of them, maybe not even the original source of them but who knows.
* NotSoDifferent: Tries this on Ghost Rider after they end up in the spot where Blaze made his deal with Mephisto.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Since his re-entry to Earth split him into six hundred and sixty six different fragments, which is just fine with him, as he isn't omnipresent. The Ghost Rider sets about destroying all the fragments but each time one is killed, all the others get stronger, Lucifer figuring he will eventually be powerful enough to defeat whoever targets him. If the fragments aren't killed off, he gets to cover more ground.
** MesACrowd: They even joke and scheme amongst themselves.
* {{Pride}}: Also pretty much required, although he is not the worst in this area.
* PublicDomainCharacter[=/=]CompositeCharacter: He is based both on Christian (though the name Lucifer is the result of a mistranslation) and Islamic ([[WordOfDante Sufi specifically]]) texts.
* {{Satan}}: He claims to be but many other lords of hell dispute it, some have apparently been at it longer than he has. The fact that many religious scholars (even in real life) argue that Lucifer and Satan are not the same entity doesn't help.
** IronicHell: After getting kicked out of heaven he wanted to become the lord of hell but unlike everyone else competing for that title he can't escape his own realm without help. Even when he gets out, he's effectively trapped as soon as someone sticks him back in. Even his former subordinate and fellow fallen angel Asmodeus had more freedom than him in this regard, despite being much weaker.
* StupidEvil: Engages in murder and mayhem to try and get Ghost Rider to kill his splintered selves to form one full-powered Lucifer, but when outmaneuvered prone to engaging in evil acts to try and get back at Ghost Rider even if doing so damns that part or all of him back to Hell.
* VoluntaryShapeShifting: Combine this with demonic possession and the ability to have multiple bodies out in the world at once and you have a real source of paranoia.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mephisto]]
!!Mephisto

He has [[ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} his own page]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Meatmarket]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/87280_198876_meatmarket.jpg]]
A murderous Meatmarket was one of the many Lilin that aided Lilith.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Night Terror]]
!!Night Terror (Carl Blake)
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* FashionableAsymmetry: One side of his head is shaved, the other is in dreadlocks.
* GhostMemory: He can see another person's memories by drinking their blood.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When Ghost Rider finally catches him. It doesn't kill him but slows him down enough to be caught in an explosion that took out the building they were in. Unfortunately for Ghost Rider, that didn't kill him either. Seems Danny Ketch and Kale weren't too familiar with vampire weaknesses.
* MisanthropeSupreme: He didn't choose to become a vampire, but this is why Steppin Razor decided to turn him.
* MuggingTheMonster: How he first meets Ghost Rider.
* NotQuiteFlight: As a member of the Varnae/Dracula line of vampires, he can turn into mist but he also has a nonstandard ability to levitate. Not enough to really fly but enough to stand on and jump off things that really shouldn't support his weight.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: He started out as a foe of Ghost Rider but he became more important in Comicbook/{{Blade}}'s stories, where he was finally finished off.
* ScaryBlackMan: Though he has to prove it first, as the goofy haircut is kind of disarming.
* SunglassesAtNight: He might need to, since Blade does too. Or maybe he just likes to, as Steppin Razor did not need them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Null the Living Darkness]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3259661_null.jpg]]
Null is a horrible monster born from the despair of an extinct race.
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* EldritchAbomination: A black mass of tentacles with red eyes on the center.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Nakota]]
!!Nakota
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Nakota is one of the younger members of the Lilin. Her services to the group was that her eyes would view the whereabouts of victims that were miles away or she could tap into a precognitive state.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Nightmare]]
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: While Nightmare is a well known enemy of Dr. Strange, he has also antagonized the Ghost Rider on several occasions.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Orb]]
!!Orb I
[[quoteright:141:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/848750_orb1.jpg]]

* EvilFormerFriend: Used to be Crash Thompson's friend before his face was disfigured.
* EyeBeams: Unlike the second Orb, he can fire these.
* [[FacelessGoons Face Concealing Helmet]]: His giant eye is really just a large helmet to cover his disfigured face.
* IWasQuiteTheLooker: Used to be quite handsome before an accident horribly mutilated his face, hence why he wears a mask.

!!Orb II
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* EyesDoNotBelongThere: His head is a giant eyeball. [[PlayedForLaughs He's very self conscious about it]]. Later on the Watcher's eye embeds itself in his chest.
* JokeCharacter: Every one of his appearances. Sometimes, however, like during Comicbook/OriginalSin he can shift into [[NotSoHarmlessVillain something else]].
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In one story, while robbing a bank, he has his henchmen remove all of the eyes from the hostages. [[EyeScream And they do]], handing him a bag full of eyes as they're about to leave.
** And [[PlayedForLaughs subverted]] two seconds later as he loudly proclaims he will use the eyes to get revenge on Ghost Rider. How does he plan to do this? [[DidNotThinkThisThrough He hasn't thought that far ahead.]] Cue face palm from his goons and the reader.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the Comicbook/OriginalSin crossover, he serves as one of the primary antagonists.
* WalkingTheEarth: He becomes compelled by the Watcher's eye in his chest to seek out events to witness.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Pilgrim]]
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pilgrim_earth_616.jpg]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Rigor Mortis]]
[[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rigor_mortis_earth_616_from_ghost_rider_annual_vol_3_1_0001.jpg]]
Ghost Rider villainess who controls gigantic worm-like creatures. She was buried beneath Cypress Hill cemetery.
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* BareYourMidriff: Her outfit exposes her midsection, including part of her ribcage.
* TwoFaced: Half her face seems to be a skull.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Rzh'arr]]
[[quoteright:227:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rzharr_earth_616_from_ghost_rider_vol_2_64_0001.jpg]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Rak]]
!!Rak
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rak_earth_616.jpg]]
Experiment and agent of Anton Hellgate.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Scarecrow]]
!!Scarecrow (Ebenezer Laughton)
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A deranged circus contortionist who turned to a life of crime and gained powers over fear through dark magics.
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* AxCrazy: He has a poor grasp on reality, is horrifically violent and does not need much reason to try and kill anyone. He does not use an axe though.
* {{Contortionist}}: Started out as a mere rag doll practitioner who used his skill to appear to be inanimate and thus deflect suspicion from his crimes.
* DependingOnTheWriter: He schizophrenically zig-zags between being a monster and a borderline joke.
* EmotionEater: He feeds off people's fear.
* FreudianExcuse: Was abused by his mother as a child.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A pitch fork.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Started off as a goofy ComicBook/IronMan villain in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, but becomes a serial killer when he becomes a ''Ghost Rider'' villain in the 1990s.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: As noted above, he originally started out as an Iron Man villain. Later, he switched to becoming a ComicBook/CaptainAmerica villain for a while. When he went on a killing spree to try and attract Cap's attention, he ended up getting Ghost Rider's instead.
* ScaryScarecrows: Not to be confused with Batman's Scarecrow, though some Spider-Man comics had him using "fear pheromones", which suggests some writers and editors at Marvel did.
* SerialKiller: Though one who chooses victims that draw attention to himself. If not for his being a (sort of)super powered being with no regard for victim's suffering he would probably be a pretty unsuccessful serial killer.
* WouldHurtAChild: Kills both children and adults.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Skin Bender]]
!!Skin Bender
[[quoteright:316:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1046587_skin_bender_6.jpg]]
A Japanese demon Johnny Blaze encountered while in Japan. She has the ability to turn whatever she touches into anything.
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* AffectionateParody: Of anime character designs, specifically MagicalGirl series.
** The works of Creator/JunjiIto as well. The story is littered with background references to Manga/{{Uzumaki}} and Manga/{{Gyo}} to name a few. As well, Skin Bender's powers allow her to basically create all of the BodyHorror that his works are most famous for.
* BodyHorror: Her power. She is able to "bend" the flesh of others into anything she desires. Some examples include combining peoples bodies with those of fish, twisting people into spirals, and combining groups of people together into Cronenberg-esque masses of flesh.
** She herself also qualifies, with her giant translucent eyes, long spindly fingers, giant head, thigh-length hair, GagBoobs, and elongated skeleton.
* DeconstructiveParody: She looks like a character from [[Anime/SailorMoonCrystal Sailor Moon]] if they really existed, with all of the inhuman proportions kept in.
* {{Grimmification}}: In appearance, at least, she is a grimmified version of [[Manga/SailorMoon Sailor Venus]].
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Upon seeing the Ghost Rider, she instantly wants to [[IncrediblyLamePun jump his bones]].
* NightmareFetishist: Judging by her facial expressions throughout, there is most likely something sexual to her about her "skin bending". When she is unable to bend Johnny's flesh, she get's very upset, and the way she [[DoubleEntendre phrases it]] makes it sound like Johnny just turned her down for sex.
** When Johnny finally becomes the Ghost Rider, she falls to her knees in tears: he's the [[InLoveWithYourCarnage most beautiful creature she's ever seen]]. She crawls over to him, kneels before him [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnyThing in a submissive position]], and begs for his "touch". He proceeds to burn her to death, with her exclaiming all the while [[TooKinkyToTorture how good it feels]].
* NotQuiteDead: After being incinerated to hell by Johnny, it's later revealed that she yet survives, albeit reduced to a smoldering chunk of flesh. The issue ends with her attacking a random victim in order to begin regenerating her old form.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Johnny burns her alive so she'll die slow and in agony. Her [[ImmodestOrgasm screams]] aren't the kind he was expecting.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Skinner]]
!!Skinner
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Skinner was one of the most deadliest of the Lilin. Retired after Lilith fell but came out of retirement when Lilith came back. Has a strong hate towards Johnny Blaze.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: Steel Wind]]
!!Steel Wind
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/159084_141232_steel_wind.jpg]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Succubus]]
!!Succubus
[[quoteright:285:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/succubusgr.jpg]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Snowblind]]
!!Snowblind
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Snowblind was one of Deathwatch's many deadly assistants.
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* DisabilitySuperpower: Snowblind has the power to generate a very bright light that nobody can see through except Snowblind.
* HandicappedBadass: He's blind but also a skilled martial artist.
* YouHaveFailedMe: After losing a fight with Ghost Rider, he was later killed by Deathwatch, Hag and Troll right before Deathwatch's death.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Sin Eater]]
!!Ethan Domblue
[[quoteright:282:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ethan_domblue_earth_616_ghost_rider_vol_2_80.jpg]]
A servant of Centurious.
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* OneSteveLimit: He doesn't have anything to do with either Emil Gregg or Stan Carter, who also went by Sin-Eater.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Slaughter Boy]]
!!Slaughter Boy
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slaughter_boy_earth_616.jpg]]
Psychotic Ex-wrestler for the Unlimited Class Wrestler federation. He went on a rampage through NY until he was stopped by Ghost Rider
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* BackForTheDead: After not being seen since his initial defeat at the hands of Ghost Rider in the nineties, he would be used as cannon fodder by the Shadow Initiative against Blastaar's hordes.
* CListFodder: He was one of the many D-List villains used as cannon fodder by Norman Osborn to attack the 42 prison that had fallen under Blastaar's control.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name isn't mentioned.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Steel Vengeance]]
!!Steel Vengeance (Sadae Tsumura)
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Steel Vengeance is the sister of Steel Wind. She gave up her soul to Centurious to revive Steel Wind and in return lost her soul and was made into a cyborg, gaining new powers and abilities.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Sirens of Kronos]]

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[[folder: Troll]]
!!Troll
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* SecondaryColorNemesis: Much like Hag, he dresses in green and purple.
* SinisterShades: Wears a pair.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Like Hag his hair is pale blue.
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[[folder: Verminus Rex]]
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Undead humanoid rat creature, one of the spirits of Vengeance.
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* FlamingSkulls: After becoming a Spirit of Vengeance, his head is now a flaming horned rat skull.
* RatMan: He's a humanoid rat.
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[[folder: V'Zarr-Than]]
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V'Zarr-Than was a demon who was an agent of Asmodeus. When Asmodeus was forcing Johnny Blaze to transform back and forth into the Ghost Rider to gain control of his soul, V'Zarr-Than and others were sent to complete the task. A short battle ensued between the demons and Tabicantra who sacrificed herself to kill them.
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[[folder: Wallow]]
!!Max Pressman
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[[folder: Wind Witch]]
!!Wind Witch (Clothilde)
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[[folder: Zadkiel]]
!!Zadkiel
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* AGodAmI: He had more pride than Lucifer!
* CessationOfExistence: He goes about wiping people on Earth out of existence to prove his godhood to other people.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He leads a squad of Black Hosts, large dark and intimidating figures who look like many depictions of fallen angels. But only the ones he leads are bad, most of them are good guys despite their appearance.
* InfernalParadise: With Zadkiel in charge heaven is worse than any hell anyone else had managed to come up with.
* ManipulativeBastard: By way of retroactive continuity he could be argued to behind Lilith's release and the Midnight Sons story arc, as well as the cause of the depression that allowed him to manipulate Dan in his own story arc.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He isn't as odd looking as Zarathos or Uri-El but not as pretty as the angels introduced between them and him like Ruth.
** FallenAngel: He may be evil, he may want to take over heaven for himself, but he's still dedicated to slaying demons and the forces of hell.
* PublicDomainCharacter: Mythological Zadkiel is not a villain or even mean at all. Even less so for the Zadkiel who is a figure in religions still being practiced today. He might have just been chosen for being obscure.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He rebelled against heaven along with Lucifer but then betrayed Lucifer and sided back with heaven. His peers were not impressed and demoted him from the rank of Arch Angel.
* TheCaptain: He used to be in charge of the spirits of vengeance as well as a black host.
* WingedHumanoid: White birds wings.
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[[folder: Zodiak]]
!!Zodiak (Norman Harrison)
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!Neutral Characters

[[folder: Anton Satan]]
!!Anton Satan / Kid Blackheart
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Anton Satan was born as part of Project Blackheart, a breeding program organized by a church of Satanists using the worst human beings; murderers, rapists, cannibals, and CEO's, all for the purpose of creating the Anti-Christ.
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* AntiChrist: One of Satan's many children, Anton is the only one so far to be directly referred to as the Anti-Christ. This has more to do with the fact that (aside from Hellstrom) he is the only one of those children still alive more than anything. Still, he ''is'' the son of Satan, which makes him an all around dick.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Well, he ''is'' the Anti-Christ. Goes so far as to threaten to sell his employees children's organs if they don't stop slacking off.
* DirtyKid: Openly gropes Sara and calls her a "feisty Catholic" when she forces him to stop.
* EnemyMine: Because Zadkiel had taken over Heaven, the Ghost Rider's needed allies in all the places they could get. Seeing as Zadkiel's agents were gunning for him too, he begrudgingly agrees to go along with them.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Suh-tan. It's Czechoslovakian.
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[[folder: Hoss]]
!!Hoss
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Hoss was a demon from Hell in service of Lucifer. He made the grandiose claim that he was sent to Hell after committing suicide in life out of sheer embarrassment. He is one of Hell's best bounty hunters and trackers, rivaling only the Ghost Rider himself. He travels the Earth looking for rogue demons and souls to drag back to Hell. Whilst driving through the state of Texas, he was assaulted by a gang of bikers; in retaliation, Hoss killed them all and revived them as a single terrible amalgamation which he named Buttview, who now served him as his assistant.
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* AffablyEvil: To a certain degree. He loves John Wayne and singing along to country songs while [[GoodOlBoy driving with the top down]]. When Johnny's bike is stolen by Ruth, Hoss not only gives him a lift, but offers him a beer too. Subverted, however, in that he ''is'' a demon, and will [[FateWorseThanDeath shove your head up your ass]] if you scratch his car.
* AteHisGun: How he claims to have died originally, shooting himself as a young man out of embarrassment after being caught [[ADateWithRosiePalms getting intimate with his mother's undergarments]].
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: Uses a giant tentacle as a weapon. Said tentacle also happens to be his... [[GagPenis well, you know.]]
* CountryMusic: He carries a wide selection in his glove compartment, and sings along to all of them.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Subverted: While he may come off as kind and jovial, he's evil, he knows he's evil, he loves being evil, and any demon who doesn't feel the same is a liar.
* FatBastard: Just look at him.
* GoodOlBoy: A dark parody version, seeing as he is a demon.
* MotorMouth: He never shut's up, though considering he's surrounded by a cast of [[TheStoic stoics]], who can blame him?
* OedipusComplex: Possibly. He claims to have shot himself after being caught with his mother's [[PantyThief underwear.]]
* OrderVsChaos: He explains that while Hell and demons may seem chaotic at a glance, and many of their ways don't seem to make sense, there is a fine order to it. He specifically sites how people like [[spoiler: Kazaan]] are dangerous because they want to shake things up, and while to an outside observer like Johnny it may seem as simple as trading one Hell for another, in reality it means the total collapse of the afterlife.
* PunchClockVillain: As he explains to Johnny after the latter attacks him, he may be one of Hell's bounty hunter's, but that doesn't mean he's after Johnny. He has a job to do, and as long as Johnny isn't working for [[spoiler: Kazaan]] then there's no reason they can't get along.
* StatusQuo: Wants things just the way they are.
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[[folder: Malachi]]
!!Malachi
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[[folder: Ruth]]
!!Ruth
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* TheDreaded: So much so that Malachi, a fellow angel, is so terrified of her that he is willing to bust Johnny Blaze out of Hell under the slim chance that the Ghost Rider ''might'' be fast enough to catch [[spoiler: Kazaan]] before she does. When he is notified that Hoss is also on the trail and that he and Johnny have teamed up, he says it doesn't matter so long as they succeed before Ruth does.
** His fears end up being justified, as once the truth comes out about [[spoiler: Kazaan, she tears his wings off and leaves him trapped in Hell to suffer for all eternity.]] It's left ambiguous if she was being [[CruelAndUnusualDeath merciful]] or not.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We first meet her sitting in a bus stop diner next to a young boy and his mother. The boy, having "the sight" tells his mother that the woman next to them is an angel. The mother tells her son not to make up stories and apologizes to Ruth. Ruth then locks eyes with the boy and, making a sign with her hand, gets up to leave. The boy, with a look of terror on his face, tells his mother that he is a sinner while [[EyeScream pointing a pencil at his eyes]]. The mother's screams of terror can be heard as Ruth exits the diner.
* GoodIsNotNice: See above.
* ImplacableMan: No matter what gets thrown at her, she doesn't even slow down.
* InvincibleVillain: To those who stand in her way.
* LightIsNotGood: Despite being an angel, she mercilessly and emotionlessly slaughters dozens of people all so she can get to her target.
* MookHorrorShow: Bullets, grenades, rockets; nothing works against this un-killable woman, as the local security forces learn the hard way. It gets even worse when she starts killing them [[GrievousHarmWithABody with each other]].
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Ruth and Hoss, an angel and a demon, end up forming a working partnership that suits both of their interests and grants them likely promotions in their ranks, despite Kazaan and Malachi, the ones who they were sent to capture, both doing the exact same thing.]] The irony isn't lost on them, but as Hoss points out, it [[LifeIsntFair doesn't really matter in the end]].
* TheStoic: Doesn't say a word and rarely smiles.
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[[folder: Travis Parham]]
!!Travis Parham
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[[folder: Witch Woman]]
!!Linda Littletrees
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Linda became Empowered by Mephisto and became Witch Woman.
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* AlliterativeName: Both her real name and alias are alliterative.
* HotWitch: An attractive witch woman.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: She's a native american woman given supernatural powers against her will.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Walks around in what can be assumed is a red bikini.
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!!Mary Le Bow

* BackForTheDead: After not being seen since the nineties, he and Doghead were killed by the Ghost Rider finally.

!!Native American Ghost Rider

[[folder: Kazaan]]
!!Kazaan (Micah)

* DivinelyAppearingDemons: He still appears as an angel despite having fallen. His real

!!Night Terror

* ScaryScarecrows: Not to be confused with Batman's Scarecrow, though some Spider-man comics had him using "fear pheromones", which suggests some writers and editors at Marvel did.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Walks around in what assumes is a red bikini.
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