POWERS &
ABILITIES

Mystical flame that burns the soul rather than the flesh. A Rider can project it as bolts, coat weapons and vehicles in it, or unleash it as a wide area blast. It can be directed to harm only the guilty, and it does not consume the host. Robbie Reyes's flame runs blue-white; Cosmic Ghost Rider's is laced with the Power Cosmic.

Eye contact plus an intent to judge. The target relives every pain they have inflicted on others, all at once. It leaves the guilty catatonic or broken and does nothing to the innocent. Introduced with Danny Ketch in 1990 and later adopted by Johnny Blaze. Known failures: beings without souls (Centurious), those who feel no remorse or have already accepted their guilt, and, famously, the Punisher, who was unmoved.

Riders routinely lift tens of tons, wrestle demons and shrug off gunfire. Strength rises when the Spirit takes more control, which is exactly when the host wants it least.

A Ghost Rider is a skeleton wrapped in fire; conventional weapons pass through or are shrugged off, and damage to the bones regenerates rapidly. Weapons forged in Heaven or Hell, and the hellfire of another Rider, can still hurt them.

A length of chain that answers the Rider's will: it lengthens, ignites, whips, binds and can shatter into shrapnel then reform. Ketch wore it around his torso; Reyes pulled it from the Charger; Blaze's is often summoned from nowhere.

The vehicle is part of the power set. Ketch's Hell Cycle appeared on its own and rode up walls; Blaze's bike could cross water and ride on hellfire; Reyes can teleport through the Charger and see through it from any distance.

Riders can sense evil intent and innocent blood on a person, sometimes at a distance, and can track the guilty across a city. It is the reason the Spirit appears where and when it does.

Riding hellfire, a Rider can open portals to Hell or travel between realms. Johnny Blaze used this extensively as King of Hell; Cosmic Ghost Rider does it at will across time.