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* [[Call It Karma]]: The Penance Stare. If you look into GR's eyes while he's within an arm's reach of you, he can force you to experience every iota of pain you've ever inflicted on others without cause in your entire life. Your average hood just realizes he should go home and rethink his life. A [[Complete Monster]] will be reduced to a vegetable - unless they [[Our Souls Are Different|don't have a soul]].
* [[Civvie Spandex]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that Johnny is a performance motorcyclist so wears biker gear as his street clothes.
* [[Colour
* [[Cool Bike]]: The Ghost Rider's flaming bike.
* [[Cool Horse]]: The previous [[Ghost Rider]]'s flaming [[Stealth Pun|metal-banded horse]].
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* [[Good Cop Bad Cop]]: The police try this on Johnny when he's suspected of murder. It fails because Blaze knows that they are both good guys.
* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Inverted, bigtime. TWICE.
** Blackheart - [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|Way to set yourself up with a fatal weakness]]:
{{quote| '''Ghost Rider:''' Look into my eyes.<br />
'''Blackheart:''' [screams, wails, then laughs] Your Penance Stare won't work on me. I have no soul to burn.<br />
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** Really, Mephistopheles -- you kill the guy's father, force him to abandon his [[Love Interest]], and then make Johnny [[Stood Up|stand her up]] when he reunites with her, and you're ''surprised'' that Johnny can control the power of the Ghost Rider, doesn't have to give it back after fulfilling the terms of the contract, and has sworn to fight your evil influence wherever he finds it?
** Also happens in ''Spirits of Vengeance'' when Roarke gives Danny his power, not realizing Danny will actually use it for good.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: The police try [[Good Cop Bad Cop]] on Johnny and the good cop smokes a cigarette.
* [[Hellfire]]: It burns hotter the more sins the target has. This tends to show up as the Rider's penance stare (or as fireballs he can throw). It sears souls.
* [[Hellish Horse]]: The previous Ghost Rider's horse is a black horse. Nothing special until the Ghost Rider powers up. Then it's a flaming metal skeleton horse which leaves fiery hoofprints.
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* [[Laughing Mad]]: Johnny while turning into the Ghost Rider for the first time.
* [[The Magic Touch]]: Johnny's motorcycle and a shotgun.
* [[Magic
** [[Fridge Brilliance|Though the latter one may be due to him now being free of his contract.]]
*** In the sequel, most of the Rider's transformations occur at night, but the final action sequence occurs in broad daylight. {{spoiler|Although this may possibly be explained by the fact that Blaze's final Ghost Rider form was bestowed to him by Danny instead of the Devil}}.
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** [[Justified]] by adhering to the very earliest comics, where Johnny only became the Rider at night/in the dark.
* [[Mind Rape]]: In addition to being [[Hellfire]], the Penance Stare of the Ghost Rider rips a target's mind open, so as to make them relive the pain they've caused others with every sin they've committed.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Johnny's reaction when he revisits the scene of his rampage the night before.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Johnny Blaze uses his [[Nigh Invulnerability]] to... be a great stunt driver.
* [[Never Say That Again]]: Blackheart, when asked about Mephistopheles by name.
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* [[Power Incontinence]]: Small case, [[Played for Laughs]]. Johnny's mere presence is enough to make a policeman's lighter flame flare up.
** Played straight with Moreau in ''Spirits of Vengeance''.
* [[Pre
{{quote| To the Wind Demon -- "Let's clear the ''air''!"<br />
To the Earth Demon -- "Hey ''dirt'' bag!"<br />
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Moreau.
* [[Anti Christ]]: Danny.
** {{spoiler|[[Anti
* [[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.
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** 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
* [[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.
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* [[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
* [[Hot Mom]]: Nadya. Dear God, Nadya.
* [[Jerkass]]: Carrigan, Even before {{spoiler|getting turned into [[Walking Wasteland|Blackout.]]}}
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{{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
* [[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.
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* [[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
* [[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. [http://wendago.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GHOST_RIDER_2.pdf\]
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