!!The Comic:
* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Many fans of previous Ghost Riders seemed to be turned-off by Robbie Reyes's design, him being a teenager, driving a car instead of a bike, and listening to electronic music (Ghost Rider is usually associated with rock and metal). People who were excited about his book fear it might have had a negative impact on the sales, and even Marvel editor Tom Brevoort, the series's biggest cheerleader, expressed worry that Robbie might become a ReplacementScrappy.
* BrokenBase:
** Ketch or Blaze. Ketch fans consider the original Blaze comics to be absurdly dated and hackneyed while the Ketch run slightly more evergreen, at least, in its first 25 issues. Blaze fans meanwhile hate Ketch's run for being too 90s extreme, Danny himself being a bland DecoyProtagonist with little to no agency besides serving as host body of the second GR (the actual protagonist), plots that largely consist of mystery hooks surrounding the identity of Ketch's Spirit of Vengeance (most of which led to nowhere), and Howard Mackie's poor writing in general. There's also a third group who view the first two eras as both flawed and badly outdated in their own ways, and that a truly "timeless" GR series is yet to be produced.
** Jason Aaron's take on the character in the 00s. Besides furthering Garth Ennis's transplanting of Danny Ketch's visual onto Johnny Blaze, it jetisoned pretty much all existing lore from Blaze, Ketch, Zarathos, and the franchise in general and replacing it with the Black Ops Angels, conspiracies and counter conspiracies and deep cover Angels pretending to be demons and pretty much made the Ghost Rider mythos overly complicated and convoluted. Others, however, like the more complicated take balanced by the grounded characterisation.
** Robbie Reyes' series. Some like his series for its grounded look at urban gangs that is different from usual Ghost Rider fair and has a likeable supporting cast. Others dislike how it barely focuses on the supernatural and feels disconnected from the ''Ghost Rider'' mythos.
* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/GhostRider here]].
* CreepyAwesome: A flaming skeleton biker with a chain that can burn the souls of evil doers? Hell YES!!!
* CrossingTheLineTwice: Black humor is quite common for Spirits of Vengeance. Jason Aaron's series was basically oozing with it. For example, Johnny meets a witch called Skinbender, who submits everything around her to incredible amounts of BodyHorror. Horrifying, right? She also looks like [[Franchise/SailorMoon Sailor Venus]]? Hilarious.
* FriendlyFandoms: Ghost Rider fans were always on good terms with fans of more horror-oriented Marvel characters, like ComicBook/{{Blade}} or ComicBook/ManThing and, to a lesser extent, ComicBook/DoctorStrange. Robbie meanwhile was embraced by teen Marvel fandom, with fans of ''[[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]]'', ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' and ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' seeming to be especially fond of him.
* HilariousInHindsight: The name Noble Kale. "Boy, those sure are some virtuous leafy greens!"
* JerkassWoobie: Caleb may be a jerk and a killer, but given what happened to him, it's a bit understandable.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Robbie - people started pairing him with [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Nico Minoru]] and the ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' new DarkActionGirl, Water Snake, before the first issue of his series was even published. And once it was, it only strengthened these ideas. Later ships with [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Agent Venom's]] sidekick Mania, ComicBook/{{X23}} and the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'s daughter Lyra, showed up.
* MemeticLoser: The Penance Stare has failed (in admittedly kind of humiliating and nonsensical ways) a few times, but from the way people talk about it you get the impression that it ''only'' ever fails and is little more than a FakeSpecialAttack that only ever gets trotted out when writers want to showcase how badass a character is by subjecting Ghost Rider to TheWorfEffect. The fandom perception got so bad that Marvel eventually introduced the more potent and powerful Damnation Stare variant (starting with the ''King of Hell'' story arc), which retains its effectiveness even against enemies that the Penance Stare has failed at, albeit at the cost of [[CastFromHitPoints damaging Ghost Rider's mind as well]] and thus limiting its usage for emergency situations.
* NeverLiveItDown: Mephisto is Ghost Rider's ArchNemesis... but if you ask your average comic reader, all they'll know him for is taking Peter Parker's marriage in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', to the point that you'd think that's all he does.
* ObviousJudas: Anton Satan was initially portrayed as an ally of sorts. He also happened to be a self-proclaimed Anti-Christ. Of course he was going to be a treacherous scumbag!
* OlderThanTheyThink: The idea of a Ghost Rider driving a car isn't as new as you might think. When establishing Spirits of Vengeance as a part of an ancient legacy, Jason Aaron included a duo of Ghost Riders riding a car and truck, as an AffectionateParody of ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit''.
* ReplacementScrappy: Alejandra Jones from the ''very'' short lived 2011 series became widely reviled almost immediately after her debut issue, thanks in no small part to her obnoxious and thoroughly unpleasant characterization, on top of being an IdiotHero who brought more trouble than help. Readers turned away in droves, and her comic never even made it to the double digits before getting unceremoniously cancelled after nine issues, with Alejandra herself fading into obscurity as a result.
* {{Squick}}: More recent series are filled with it. As was the miniseries ''Trail of Tears''. It featured a pair of outlaws that the Ghost Rider killed by ''smashing them together so hard they fused together.'' They came back as minions of Hell, ''still fused together.''