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admonition : mollycoddler for Ghost Rider : Final Vengeance ( 2024 ) # 1 ahead!TheGhost Riderhas always been a weapon torn between two masters : the hellish patron , Mephisto , and Johnny Blaze , its chief and comparatively more selfless boniface . Taking a rarified bit to express its thought to reader directly , the Spirit of Vengeance explains what it looks for in a server and why the Grim Reaper ’s classic tool is far more fitting for its purpose than mere string .
Benjamin Percy , Danny Kim , Bryan Valenza , and Travis Lanham’sGhost Rider : Final Vengeance ( 2024)#1 sees Mephisto sever Zarathos from Johnny Blaze , leaving the Spirit of Vengeancescouring the planet for a new server . Briefly possess the AI Danger , it abandons her shortly after she sends dozens of possess humans leaping to their end .
" I am not a blight to the crops - I am a scythe . My reaping is as focused as a brand to the stalk,“the Spirit reflects , clarifying thatits intent is not to cause mass destruction , but rather to claim person desirable of damnation .
A former Avengers baddie and Infinity Stone wielder has been announced as Marvel ’s new Ghost Rider , taking over from the master copy .
The Spirit of Vengeance Clarifies Its Deadly Purpose
While the Spirit of Vengeance is a terrifying , homicidal force out , its intent has always been to punish the guilty . This has pass to noticeable problems between the Spirit and its horde , such as when the Spirit attempts to take over while the host is unwilling ( with the Spirit being rouse by a minor crime or slight ) ; other time , the Spirit and emcee can not agree on the severity required to unleash it . As one celebrated example , Danny Ketch has struggled to call upon the Ghost Riderunless innocent pedigree has explicitly been spilled .
Ghost Rider ’s chains are appropriate for hosts like Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch , who seek to temper the Spirit ’s power into a force for penalty ( while being flayed by flare chains is not inherently lethal , it is objectively a brutal form of worrying ) . By contrast , Alejandra Jones - having been take by a rage to become a suited vas for the Spirit of Vengeance - immediately brandishes a hand scythe upon her transformation into the Ghost Rider , symbolize an intellect between emcee and Spirit . The scythe declare thatthey are not just a terror upon the guilty ; rather , they are explicitly sent to reap them .
line up out more about Alejandra ’s origins in Rob Williams , Matthew Clark , Sean Parsons , Robert Schwager , and Clayon Cowles’Ghost Rider ( 2011 ) .
Ghost Rider Exists To Send Evil Souls To Mephisto
As the Spirit of Vengeance in the end chooses The Hood as its raw host , it expresses ministration at having get hold someone with " no common sense of moral scope , no compunction about the slaughtering harvest to follow . " This serves to spotlight the tension that has always existed between Johnny Blaze and the Spirit of Vengeance , how a tool for reaping the immorality of the man has been season into a force for punishment and justice . Chains are well and good for penalisation , but the inner monologue of the Spirit of Vengeance emphasizes howGhost Rider’sproper dick will always be a scythe : direct , precise , deadly .
Ghost Rider : Final Vengeance ( 2024 ) # 1is available now from Marvel Comics .
Ghost Rider : Final Vengeance#1 ( 2024 )
