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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:ghost-rider-superhero.jpg\|frame]] ''[['''Ghost Rider]]'' ~~(2007)~~''' is a 2007 supernatural action film based on the [[Ghost Rider\|comic book]] of the same name from [[Marvel Comics]]. Johnny Blaze, the son in a [[Badass Family\|father-son motorcycle stunt team]], is in love with [[Unfortunate Names\|Roxanne]], the daughter of the richest man in town. After planning to run away with her, Johnny discovers his father is terminally ill with little time left. [[Satan\|The Devil]] (in an awesome [[Cameo]] performance by Peter Fonda) shows up and offers Johnny a [[Deal with the Devil]]. Johnny asks the Devil to save his father's life. Miraculously, Barton Blaze is [[Literal Genie\|cured of his cancer]], but dies immediately afterward in an accident because the Devil wants Johnny freed up. Line 15: The rest of the film plays out like a video game. Meet [[Mentors\|a mentor]]. [[Character Development]] (such that it is), [[Boss Fight]] with one of the minibosses. Despite the critical consensus, the film managed to do well at the box office. A not-quite-sequel/not-quite-reboot ~~was released in 2012~~, ~~subtitled~~ ''[[Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance]]'' was released in 2012, which featured [[Idris Elba]] in a supporting role and was helmed by Neveldine/Taylor, the guys behind the ''[[Crank]]'' films and ''[[Gamer]]''. ~~Currently, the~~The sequel was met with the same critical response of the first, if not worse, however worldwide it's ~~becoming a~~had modest financial success. ''[[Ghost Rider]]'' was one of Marvel's February releases, which were by and large B-Movies as compared to their summer blockbuster cash cows, ''[[X-Men]]'' and ''[[Spider-Man (film)\|Spider-Man]]''. To read about the comic book, [[Ghost Rider\|go here]]. For a much later [[Spiritual Licensee]] with different themes, a bigger [[Grindhouse]] theme and less [[Villain Decay]], see ''[[Drive Angry]]''. {{tropelist}} ~~----~~ ~~== ''Ghost Rider'' ==~~ * [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Roxanne seems unaware of the top two buttons of every shirt she wears. * [[Age Cut]]: The film starts with young Johnny and Roxanne, then cuts to the adult Johnny. Line 145 ⟶ 141: * [[You Killed My Father]]: Johnny says this outright to the Devil, and it's his reason for not giving up the Ghost Rider powers after he's fulfilled his end of the bargain. ** ''Possibly'' subverted: there is a chance Mephisto didn't kill Johnny's dad, that he would have died in that accident before the cancer could kill him anyway. That's when Johnny realizes [[What Have I Done\|he sold his soul for no reason.]] However, Mephisto ''did'' stop Johnny from finishing work on the bikes the night before, and there is a chance he did actually directly have a hand in Barton's death, since he was present at the time. ~~== ''Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'' ==~~ * [[Action Mom]]: Nadya packs a knife and gun and isn't afraid to employ a little [[Car Fu]]. * [[Actor Allusion]]: Johnny touches Danny's hair, trying to comfort him, and plays it off by saying there was a [[The Wicker Man\|bee there and he was afraid it was going to sting his face.]] * [[The Alcoholic]]: Moreau. * [[Anti Christ]]: Danny. ** {{spoiler\|[[Anti-Anti-Christ]]}} * [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The Devil's previous human incarnations have included Vlad the Impaler, Idi Amin, Billy the Kid, [[Joseph Stalin]]... and [[Jerry Springer]]. * [[Ascended Demon]]: {{spoiler\|What Johnny Blaze becomes when he becomes Ghost Rider a second time... with blue flames ''and'' a soul to keep.}} * [[Aside Glance]]: Ghost Rider does this when he pees fire. * [[Ax Crazy]]: {{spoiler\|The Angel-turned-demon}} Zarathos is explicitly stated to be insane, and Ghost Rider kills [[Mooks]] aplenty. * [[Badass Abnormal]]: {{spoiler\|Carrigan}} was pretty tough even before he gained powers. * [[Badass Normal]]: Moreau can still hang with demons despite not having any powers. ** Nadya, in spades. * [[Badass Preacher]]: Moreau. * [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Take it away, Johnny: ~~{{quote\|'''Johnny''': This power that we have comes from a dark place, but it's not who we are. And we can use it to help people.}}~~ * [[Big Bad]]: Roarke. ** [[Non-Action Big Bad]]: Roarke is unable to use The Devil's powers without burning out his body, so in a fight he's pretty much just a dude in a suit. He at least seems to be a decent getaway driver, though. * [[Bloodless Carnage]]: People are turned to ash and set on fire. But, as you can guess from its PG-13 rating, there's no blood and gore. Though there is one very quick aerial shot in which a mook is cut in half by the Ghost Rider's chain and you see that his upper half plops on the ground, with what appears to be a puddle of blood. ** A few mooks are also taken down with gunfire with no signs of blood. * [[Body Snatcher]]: {{spoiler\|Roarke's plan for Danny}}. * [[Brought Down to Normal]]/[[He's Back]]: {{spoiler\|Who else?}} * [[Canon Immigrant]]: Moreau. * [[Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames]]: {{spoiler\|Carrigan}} is never called Blackout, the name of his character in the comics. The name Ghost Rider is only spoken once (otherwise, it's "the Rider"). * [[Continuity Nod]]: While in a restaurant, Johnny drinks water straight out of a pitcher. * [[Creator Cameo]]: Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. * [[Darker and Edgier]] * [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Moreau shows up in the first scene and has an extended action sequence before we ever get a glimpse of Ghost Rider or even the title. Additionally, the opening sequence is set up with the possibility that Moreau died, but we quickly learn he survived. * [[Demonic Possession]] * [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Carrigan, a puny human, manages to K.O. Ghost Rider during their first encounter, a feat that ''high-level demons'' couldn't manage in the first film. Also, more literally near the end, where a [[Brought Down to Normal\|de-powered]] Johnny punches s Satan/Roarke right in the face. * [[The Dragon]]: Carrigan. * [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler\|Danny}} * [[Hot Mom]]: Nadya. Dear God, Nadya. * [[Jerkass]]: Carrigan, Even before {{spoiler\|getting turned into [[Walking Wasteland\|Blackout.]]}} * [[Knight Templar]]: The Rider is depicted as having become much more merciless in this film, to the point where Blaze suggests that it would use the Penance Stare on someone simply for [[Digital Piracy Is Evil\|illegally downloading an mp3]]. This explains why Blaze abandoned his original plan from the end of the first movie to use the Rider's powers for good, and is hiding out in a warehouse in Eastern Europe. * [[Large Ham]]: [[Nicolas Cage]] seems to have forgotten to take his anti-crazy pills because he's friggin' insane in this. ~~{{quote\|''It's scraping at the door! '''IT'S SCRAPPIN' AT DA DAAAAAAAWWWWWW!!'''''}}~~ * [[Mood Whiplash]]: Moreau showing up at Johnny's hideout of self-imposed exile, dramatically declaring that his (Moreau's) brothers are dead and so should he be, but for the grace of God... and then a quick flashback to him hanging upside down from a tree. * [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: {{spoiler\|Blackout}} was about two seconds away from killing {{spoiler\|Ghost Rider}}. And then he made the fatal mistake of {{spoiler\|looking into his eyes}}. ** Roarke explaining to Danny that {{spoiler\|they have the same powers}}. * [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Roarke's minions actually chant when they perform The Rite. * [[Power Degeneration]]: The more Roarke uses his powers, the more burned out his host body becomes. {{spoiler\|This actually drives the plot.}} * [[Precision F-Strike]]: {{spoiler\|Johnny Blaze was the "Worst ''fuckin'' deal" Roarke ever made.}} * [[Rewrite]]: While keeping in continuity with the first film for the most part, Mephisto is retconned out in favor of the less ostentatiously named Roarke. To be fair, Moreau does say that "The Devil goes by many names." The real change is that Mephisto was manifesting in the real world himself before, but now can only act through an agent. This one happens to be named Roarke. There's also a retcon in terms of the circumstances about Johnny's father's death. Rather than dying {{spoiler\|in a motorcycle stunt}}, it's implied that he {{spoiler\|dies of some disease}}. Also, there's a change is that Johnny {{spoiler\|wanted to keep his father alive rather than let him die naturally}}. * [[Retcon]]: It's kind of a soft-reboot, ''a la'' [[The Incredible Hulk]]. * [[The Cameo]]: Anthony Head and Christopher Lambert both show up as priests of Moreau's order. * [[Universal Driver's License]]: The Rider can drive ''anything'', and convert it to a hell-born mechanical nightmare while doing so. * [[Walking Wasteland]]: {{spoiler\|Carrigan}} is brought back from the dead by Roarke as Blackout, with the ability to decay anything he touches. * [[What Could Have Been]] - The creators behind [[Drive Angry]] originally presented a treatment of Ghost Rider 2 which would have been a true sequel to the original film instead of the reboot it turned out to be. It was deemed too violent but in any case it is insane. 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