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* RealSongThemeTune: "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is heard when Johnny and the Caretaker go off to help defeat Blackrider, and is also the end credits theme.
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* ConvectionSchmonvection: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since it's magical fire.

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* ConvectionSchmonvection: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since it's magical supernatural fire.
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* ElementalPowers: Ghost Rider is [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]. He's pitted against three demons based on [[BlowYouAway wind]], [[MakingASplash water]], and [[DishingOutDirt earth]].

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* ElementalPowers: Ghost Rider is [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]. He's pitted against three demons based on demons, each with power over another; [[BlowYouAway wind]], Abigor]], [[MakingASplash water]], Wallow]], and [[DishingOutDirt earth]].Gressil]].
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* VillainsWantMercy: Gressil the earth elemental
-->'''Gressil:''' Have mercy.\\
'''Ghost Rider:''' Sorry, all out of mercy.
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* {{Troll}}: The Rider is clearly enjoying (nonlethally) fucking with the cops trying to stop him, at one point just outright cackling at the look of shock on a jerk detective's face when the Rider's able to evade a roadblock by just driving onto the water.
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* ActorAllusion: Mephisto (played by Creator/PeterFonda) calls Johnny's ride a "nice bike" while eyeing it up and down. The Ghost Rider's motorcycle in this film is a tweaked version of the exact same model Fonda's character rode in the seminal classic Film/EasyRider.
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* InPrisonWithTheRogues: Johnny gets wrongly accused of murders committed by Blackheart and gets thrown into a shared cell full of multiple thugs. After ganging up on him and beating him up together, Johnny transforms into Ghost Rider and blasts all of them away, steals one guy's jacket, then burns through the bars of the cell to escape prison.
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** "[[Franchise/MortalKombat GET OVER HERE!]]". This one is funny for being a recursive ShoutOut. Scorpion's FlamingSkull and [[BuffySpeak spear-chain-whip-thing]] were confirmed to be shout-outs to Ghost Rider. So we have Ghost Rider making a ShoutOut to character who is a ShoutOut to Ghost Rider.

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** "[[Franchise/MortalKombat GET OVER HERE!]]". This one is funny for being a recursive ShoutOut. Scorpion's FlamingSkull and [[BuffySpeak spear-chain-whip-thing]] [[StockNinjaWeaponry chainblade]] were confirmed to be shout-outs to Ghost Rider. So we have Ghost Rider making a ShoutOut to character who is a ShoutOut to Ghost Rider.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A good description of [[spoiler:Blackheart's fate; he set out to acquire the power of the contract of San Venganza, but only realised after he got it that this made him vulnerable to the Penance Stare]].


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* OhCrap: Blackheart essentially has one when [[spoiler:Ghost Rider manifests before him and observes that Blackheart now has "a thousand souls to burn", prompting Blackheart to briefly panic before he's subjected to the Stare]].
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* RealityEnsues: Ghost Rider's Hell Cycle [[BurningRubber creates flame on the road it travels]], resulting in one long trail of melted tar.
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** "[[MortalKombat GET OVER HERE!]]". This one is funny for being a recursive ShoutOut. Scorpion's FlamingSkull and [[BuffySpeak spear-chain-whip-thing]] were confirmed to be shout-outs to Ghost Rider. So we have Ghost Rider making a ShoutOut to character who is a ShoutOut to Ghost Rider.

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** "[[MortalKombat "[[Franchise/MortalKombat GET OVER HERE!]]". This one is funny for being a recursive ShoutOut. Scorpion's FlamingSkull and [[BuffySpeak spear-chain-whip-thing]] were confirmed to be shout-outs to Ghost Rider. So we have Ghost Rider making a ShoutOut to character who is a ShoutOut to Ghost Rider.

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* DramaticFingerPointing: Ghost Rider does this a few times before declaring judgement on someone.


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* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Ghost Rider does this a few times before declaring judgement on someone.
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Remembered it after seeing that a scene from said cartoon is the page image for Xylophones For Walking Bones

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** That cartoon that Johnny watches in his apartment near the beginning of the film? [[WesternAnimation/TheSkeletonDance That's a real thing]].
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Texas, but shot in Australia (hence explaining the presence of Creator/RebelWilson.
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*CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Texas, but shot in Australia (hence explaining the presence of Creator/RebelWilson.
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* BookEnds: Both of Sam Elliot's monologues at the start and end of the movie begin with "Some say the west was built on legends."

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* BookEnds: Both of Sam Elliot's monologues at the start and end of the movie begin with "Some say "It's said that the west West was built on legends."
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* BookEnds: Both of Sam Elliot's monologues at the start and end of the movie begin with "Some say the west was built on legends."

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Meanwhile, Blackheart, son of the Devil, shows up and has decided it's time for the old man to step aside for a new Lord of Hell. He summons [[QuirkyMinibossSquad three elemental demons]] to serve him, promising that if they help him defeat the Devil, he'll give them nobility in Hell.

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Meanwhile, Blackheart, Blackheart (Creator/WesBentley), son of the Devil, shows up and has decided it's time for the old man to step aside for a new Lord of Hell. He summons [[QuirkyMinibossSquad three elemental demons]] to serve him, promising that if they help him defeat the Devil, he'll give them nobility in Hell.


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* AllThereInTheManual: The novelization ended with an explanation of how Johnny Blaze got off the murder charges, having "some hotshot New York lawyer" make a mockery of the prosecutor's case. Said lawyer was supposed to be [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]]. Which is almost certainly a ShoutOut to the original Ghost Rider concept. He was intended to be a Daredevil villain, but it was just too good of an idea.
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Johnny Blaze, the son in a [[BadassFamily father-son motorcycle stunt team]], is in love with [[UnfortunateNames Roxanne]], the daughter of the richest man in town. After planning to run away with her, Johnny discovers his father is terminally ill with little time left. [[{{Satan}} The Devil]] (in a {{Cameo}} performance by Peter Fonda) shows up and offers Johnny a DealWithTheDevil. Johnny asks the Devil to save his father's life. Miraculously, Barton Blaze is [[LiteralGenie cured of his cancer]], but dies immediately afterward in an accident because the Devil wants Johnny freed up.

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Johnny Blaze, the son in a [[BadassFamily father-son motorcycle stunt team]], is in love with [[UnfortunateNames Roxanne]], the daughter of the richest man in town. After planning to run away with her, Johnny discovers his father is terminally ill with little time left. [[{{Satan}} The Devil]] (in a {{Cameo}} performance by Peter Fonda) Creator/PeterFonda) shows up and offers Johnny a DealWithTheDevil. Johnny asks the Devil to save his father's life. Miraculously, Barton Blaze is [[LiteralGenie cured of his cancer]], but dies immediately afterward in an accident because the Devil wants Johnny freed up.
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* ConfusedBystanderInterview: This scene happens with a goth girl who is not so much confused as ''impressed''.

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* ConfusedBystanderInterview: This scene happens with a goth girl (Creator/RebelWilson) who is not so much confused as ''impressed''.
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Followed by a 2012 sequel, Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance.

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Followed by a 2012 sequel, Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance.
''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance''.
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* LogoJoke: The Marvel logo features comic-book images of the Ghost Rider in its pages; after it fully forms it blazes briefly, then turns metallic and grows spikes, replicating the Ghost Rider's transformation. Seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp3lquJlXbI here]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: The punk who wants to beat up Johnny Blaze, because he always bets for him to be killed by his stunts and loses every time.

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* {{Jerkass}}: The punk who wants to beat up Johnny Blaze, Blaze in jail, because he always bets for him Johnny to be killed by his stunts and stunts. The punk loses every time.time, of course.
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Followed by a 2011 sequel, Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance.

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Followed by a 2011 2012 sequel, Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance.
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Followed by a 2011 sequel, Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance.

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* LaughingMad: Johnny while turning into the Ghost Rider for the first time.



* LaughingMad: Johnny while turning into the Ghost Rider for the first time.



* MundaneUtility: Johnny Blaze uses his NighInvulnerability to... be a great stunt driver.



* MundaneUtility: Johnny Blaze uses his NighInvulnerability to... be a great stunt driver.

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* CallItKarma: The Penance Stare. If you look into GR's eyes while he's within an arm's reach of you, he can force you to experience every iota of pain you've ever inflicted on others without cause in your life. Your average hood just realizes he should go home and rethink his life. A villain will be reduced to a vegetable - unless they [[OurSoulsAreDifferent don't have a soul]].



* CallItKarma: The Penance Stare. If you look into GR's eyes while he's within an arm's reach of you, he can force you to experience every iota of pain you've ever inflicted on others without cause in your life. Your average hood just realizes he should go home and rethink his life. A villain will be reduced to a vegetable - unless they [[OurSoulsAreDifferent don't have a soul]].

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* CoolBike: The Ghost Rider's flaming bike.
* CoolHorse: The previous Ghost Rider's flaming [[StealthPun metal-banded horse]].


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* CoolBike: The Ghost Rider's flaming bike.
* CoolHorse: The previous Ghost Rider's flaming [[StealthPun metal-banded horse]].
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** The RunningGag of Johnny eating jellybeans from a margarita glass could be a nod to VanHalen having a rider in their contract that stipulates that they be provided with a brandy glass full of [=M&Ms=] (minus the brown ones) before every concert. [[http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp They use it as a test to determine that the venue has read their contract carefully.]] Considering that Johnny is an uber-UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel stunt biker who thinks nothing of '''jumping six Blackhawk helicopters on a whim''', any screw-up at all could turn him into LudicrousGibs. So, yeah - specific jelly beans in a specific distribution or he '''''WALKS!'''''

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** The RunningGag of Johnny eating jellybeans from a margarita glass could be a nod to VanHalen Music/VanHalen having a rider in their contract that stipulates that they be provided with a brandy glass full of [=M&Ms=] (minus the brown ones) before every concert. [[http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp They use it as a test to determine that the venue has read their contract carefully.]] Considering that Johnny is an uber-UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel stunt biker who thinks nothing of '''jumping six Blackhawk helicopters on a whim''', any screw-up at all could turn him into LudicrousGibs. So, yeah - specific jelly beans in a specific distribution or he '''''WALKS!'''''

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* JerkAss: The punk who wants to beat up Johnny Blaze, because he always bets for him to be killed by his stunts and loses every time.

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* JerkAss: {{Jerkass}}: The punk who wants to beat up Johnny Blaze, because he always bets for him to be killed by his stunts and loses every time.


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* RealSongThemeTune: "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is heard when Johnny and the Caretaker go off to help defeat Blackrider, and is also the end credits theme.

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