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Warning : Contains SPOILERS for Midnight Sons : lineage HuntTheGhost Rider , an inauspicious soul oblige to a Spirit of Vengeance and anathemize to wander in search of evildoer to burn with revengeful Erinyes , is a form of address that most fear to be give . Marvel ’s most famous Ghost Rider , Johnny Blaze , has had a long account of battle against his demonic Spirit , Zarathos , for restraint over their shared organic structure . However , not every host is so afraid of their abilities .
In theBlood Hunttie - in miniseries , Midnight Sons : Blood Huntby Brian Hill and Germán Peralta , a classic Ghost Rider just as famous as Blaze himself has bring back to the comics with his original panache and powers in tow -Danny Ketch , the brother of Johnny Blaze .
Unlike Johnny , Ketch has developed a more symbiotic kinship with his Spirits of Vengeance over the years , embracing his business leader more than he rejects them . Also , unlike his brother , Ketch has bonded with multiple disembodied spirit , which seem to have recently instilled in him a new sense of role for both himself and the Rider .
A Modern Ghost Rider variant , the All - Rider , challenges the iconic character reference ’s other interlingual rendition for the most hefty look of vengeance .
The Spirit of Vengeance Embraces a New Destiny
Vengeance Doesn’t Have to be the Answer
Midnight Sons : Blood Hunt # 3recently debuted a version of Danny Ketch and the Rider that divvy up a importantly near and more trusting relationship than most hosts have with their Spirits of Vengeance . Danny has attain a sense of peacefulness with his powers , officially fall apart down the roadblock that separate the two . This version of the Ghost Rider can well transition from one material body to the other and does so ofttimes whenever the Rider has something to say . Danny ’s connexion with the Rider is so secure that the two can even maintain and share controller of the consistence simultaneously .
To be clear , it is n’t Danny in the pilot ’s seat when the Rider comes out , meaning that the Spirit of Vengeance is the one choosing restraint and kindness .
More imposingly , the Rider seems to have adopted a kinder , more benevolent , personality than most Spirits ordinarily do . Canon lore fight to define what a Spirit of Vengeance is ; some are demons , some are vindictive mortal feeling , and some are slivers of God ’s will . disregardless , spirit crave vengeanceand the suffering of sinful someone . Danny ’s Rider , however , advocates patience over hostility and is seen comforting the victims of the damned they trace . To be clear , it is n’t Danny in the pilot ’s ass when the Rider derive out , intend thatthe Spirit of Vengeance is the one choosing restraint and kindness .
Ghost Rider is a roughshod cat’s-paw of requital , but Danny Ketch seems determined to curb the cycle of fury - and do more than avenge .
Danny Ketch Was Born to Become the Ghost Rider
Ketch’s “Curse” is 20,000 Years in the Making
Danny Ketch is a unique vitrine among his fellow Ghost Riders . Johnny Blaze made a raft with the Devil that land him his Spirit of Vengeance . Robbie Reyes was possess by the spirit of his satanic uncle when Robbie was shot and killed protect his brother . Ghost , the first Ghost Rider , was give his spirit by the Devil to reap vengeance upon a homicidal Wendigo . Most hosts are jump to Spirits of Vengeance when they at their lowest , their most heroic , or at their most hateful . However , Danny Ketch ’s Spirit was n’t a curse , it was a ghostlike pedigree proper .
Thousands of years before Danny ’s first transformation , a holy war between the original Spirits of Vengeance — trace of God ’s will — and the fiend Zarathos — Johnny Blaze ’s Spirit — led to the creative activity of the Medallion of Power . The ribbon carried the collective powerfulness of the Spirits and was entrusted to two families who would fall out the right hand to transmit the ribbon down the bloodline . Eventually , the artefact , now bind to the valorous soul of Noble Kale , the crony ’ root , find its style to Danny Ketch . Soon , Danny was converted asa new Ghost Rider .
Danny Ketch ’s Ghost Rider shows off a young mastery of the Spirit of Vengeance as the two become one . Blade and his vampire army will know vengeance .
From Ghost Rider to the Avatar of all Spirits of Vengeance
Danny Ketch’s Betrayal Created a New Being Altogether
Ketch ’s unique relationship with his Rider does n’t just come from birthright , but from having been bonded with multiple Spirits of Vengeance . Eventually , Danny , like most hosts , sought to have the Rider take out and successfully exorcised Noble Kale ’s soul from his organic structure . Ketch quickly teach that , without a Rider , his mortal was left with a cindering hole where the Spirit once filled . Danny was later manipulated by the fallen holy person Zadkiel to move around the humans and consume the tone of Vengeance of other Ghost Riders in an cause to overthrowthe powers of Heaven .
Danny Ketch has been bound to rafts of Spirits of Vengeance , each leaving a sherd of their soul behind .
Zadkiel was after defeated and all but one of the Spirits of Vengeance were released from Ketch to drop the relief ofeternity in Hell . Years later , Danny once again had his Spirit stolen and , left with another pit in his soul , found a new power in the manus of Belasco , the King of Limbo . By now , Danny Ketch has been bound to dozens of Spirits of Vengeance , each bequeath a fragment of their psyche behind . Danny is n’t just a host any longer , but an incarnation for the hard liquor whenever the world postulate a Ghost Rider .
The Ghost Rider Craves Justice, Not Vengeance
The Spirit of Vengeance Draws Closer to its Divine Ancestry
The unity thatDanny Ketch and his Spirit of Vengeancehave reach has elevate the two beyond the traditional limit of the Ghost Riders . It ’s been established that the only limitation a Spirit of Vengeance has is the will of the deadly it possess . So , what bechance when a host and Rider swear each other so implicitly that there is no want for limitation ? look at his experience , his blood line destiny , and the symbiotic kinship he has recrudesce with the Rider , Danny Ketch may soon become something more than what any otherGhost Riderhas ever been .
Midnight son : ancestry Hunt # 3is now usable from Marvel Comics .
