Double Knockout: His battle with the Dan Ketch/Noble Kale Ghost Rider seemed to be a Mutual Kill but vengeance spirits and angels are hard to kill, even for each other.
Nineties Antihero: 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.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: When Zarathos came back, was retconned into a good at heart angel and started making Blaze's Ghost Rider more like his, Dan's dropped Noble Kale and got a new spirit with blue flames so the two could be told apart more easily.
Mistaken Identity: Blaze attacks him because he think 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.
Mode Lock: Blackout tried to kill him by ripping his throat out. All that did was force him to become the Ghost Rider permanently and thus give him more incentive to kick Blackout's ass.
Revenge: Why he accepted being a Ghost Rider so quickly.
Curse: As a result of both Uriel and Mephisto claiming his soul he's forced to wander between the worlds a spirit. He typically possess the first born of a certain family to turn them into Ghost Riders, becoming a kind of curse to them too.
Our Angels Are Different: He becomes one in realms like Mephisto's hell, specifically an angel of death. He was originally intended to be made into one by Uriel before Mephisto got in the way.
Our Spirits Are Different: He was once a man, now he is a spirit of vengeance. Dan Ketch is his most recent host.
It Runs in the Family:The mother of John Blaze and Dan Ketch. A descendent of Noble Kale, as well as his last host before Dan Ketch.
Out Gambitted: She manages to make Mephisto swear to end "The Curse of Noble Kale". Mephisto instead sticks Zarathos in John. Naomi tried to fight Mephito but he kills her and lets Nobel 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.
Spanner in the Works:After death her spirit continues to subtly mess with Mephisto and Blackheart's plans.
Unwitting Pawn: 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.
Our Angels Are Different: 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 where Noble Kale's story was going. It makes even more since with later retcons, what doesn't is why the angles introduced after him are standard winged humanoids.
Buried Alive: There are apparently many evil beings trapped beneath his cemetery, the man eating people of dust are confirmed to be down there because they temporarily escaped and tried to eat the Night Stalkers.
Really 700 Years Old: 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 Dan Ketch.
Satan:He's not the Satan, there are many wannabees who have equal claim to that title(equally invalid claims) but Mephisto is generally the most used stand in with only one or two people introduced so far who are maybe more legit.
The Chess Master: He will often allow himself to be beaten if he can use the event to give a greater enemy more grief down the line.
Villain Override: Not usually, but he did resort to it once when he felt a witch had failed him badly enough.
Dark Is Not Evil:Blackheart unquestionably is rotten to the core, but the dark force he often taps into is just that, a force. Many creatures, good and evil, have made use of it.
Evil Counterpart:He's fond of creating or setting up people to act as these.
Made of Evil: 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 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.
Manipulative Bastard: He spends surprising little time getting his own hands dirty, despite saying that Mephisto is too passive.
Hired Guns: He works as an assassin, muscle or whatever else you pay for.
Name's the Same: Blackout also what an insane Nova villain is called. That one manipulates the dark force dimension but like this one also had an Unexplained Recovery after civil war.
Scars Are Forever: 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).
Starter Villain: For Dan Ketch, introduced in issue #2 of his book. Blackout really wasn't a big threat to the Ghost Rider then and Ghost Rider only got stronger as his story went on through the midnight sons arc while Blackout's been stagnant.
Deathwatch
And Your Little Dog Too:Tries to kill Dan Ketch and his already hospitalized sister because of their connection to the Ghost Rider.
Evil Tastes Good:If anybody ever deserved to die by the penance stare, it was him. He feeds off of other people's pain though so Ghost 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.
First Law of Resurrection: 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.
Ghost Memory: He can see another person's memories by drinking their blood.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: 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 Dan Ketch and Kale weren't too familiar with vampire weaknesses.
Misanthrope Supreme: He didn't choose to become a vampire, but this is why Steppin Razor decided to turn him.
Not Quite Flight: 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 things that really shouldn't support his weight.
Rogues Gallery Transplant: He started out as a foe of Ghost Rider but he became more important in Blade's stories, where he was finally finished off.
Atlantis:She hung around there long ago but was banished long before its sinking.
Summon Bigger Fish: This was accomplished by calling on Tiamat(or the Leviathan, depending on whose penciling the story) and having her(or it) eat Lilith.
Big Bad: She is what drove the midnight sons together.
Divide and Conquer: She hires the Night Stalkers, who would have been helpful in taking her down, to take down John Blaze and Dan Ketch.
Dream Weaver: She can projector herself into the dreams of other people at the very least. She's done it to Dan Ketch.
Eats Babies: 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.
I Have Many Names: Kiskillilla is popular too but there are many to choose from.
Monster Progenitor: 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.
One Steve Limit: 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.
Totally Not a Werewolf: 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.
Our Vampires Are Different: 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).
First Law of Resurrection: 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.
Totally Not a Werewolf: His followers are known for drinking blood and are sometimes granted special powers, but are not vampires.
Lucifer
Back from the Dead: 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.
Batman Gambit: 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.
Mother of a Thousand Young: 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.
Name's the Same: The X-men fought an alien who happened to be named Lucifer, in fact that alien is responsible for putting Charles Xavier in a wheelchair. He is a dangerous villain in his own right but not to be mistaken for the angel that started a war in heaven and is now bound in hell.
Number of the Beast: 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.
Satan: He claims to be but many other lords of hell dispute it, some have apparently been at it longer than him. The fact that many religious scholars(even in real life) argue that Lucifer and Satan are not the same entity doesn't help.
Ironic Hell: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.
Dark Is Not Evil: 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.
Our Angels Are Different: 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.
Fallen Angel: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.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves:He rebelled against heaven along with Lucifer but betrayed him and sided back with heaven. His peers were not impressed and demoted him from Arch Angel.
