blaze saved ghost rider from his deal with mephisto.
blaze saved ghost rider from his deal with mephisto.
who saved ghost rider from his deal with mephisto?
blaze
zarathos is then forced to serve mephisto for many centuries in the netherworld, an extra-dimensional land of the dead sometimes called "hell", though still powerful enough to avoid total confinement. mephisto sends his unruly vassal back to earth on occasion, binding him to human hosts and allowing him to ravage souls (on a smaller scale). in modern times, zarathos is bound to johnny blaze; the combined blaze/zarathos entity manifests as a leather-clad flaming skeleton known as the ghost rider, ultimately serving the side of "good" while still using hellish means, which earns the ghost rider a reputation of fear and johnny blaze a never-ending sense of guilt. as time progresses, zarathos would occasionally from time to time assert his control over johnny blaze's body. zarathos was temporarily separated from john blaze by the crimson mage. zarathos gained additional control over the ghost rider, becoming more violent. as the ghost rider, he re-encountered centurious. john blaze had grown stronger, causing an eventual clash over blaze's physical body, as mephisto temporarily frees zarathos to compete with john blaze for his freedom. before it can reach that point, centurious (mephisto's champion who defeated zarathos thousands of years before) returns and has his pawn sin-eater use his soul crystal to suck blaze's soul from his body. this greatly weakens zarathos who, without blaze's soul, finds himself dying, for as a demon, and thus truly not of the earth as mortals are, zarathos cannot maintain himself upon the earthly plane unless he possesses the physical body of a mortal. using the last of his strength, zarathos splits the crystal in half, freeing not only blaze's soul, but innumerable souls that had been consumed in the past. before the crystal merges back into one piece, it sucks centurious inside as well. zarathos feels cheated out of his revenge against centurious, but with the help of the now-dying sin-eater, the demon manages to transfer his essence into the crystal. johnny blaze is now free from the curse that mephisto placed on him many years before and the first existence of the ghost rider comes to an end.
zarathos
during the "damnation" storyline, mephisto finds out that doctor strange has restored the lives of the las vegas citizens that were killed during the hydra bombing back during the "secret empire" storyline. he orchestrates events that causes his demons to bring doctor strange to his recently-created hotel inferno. mephisto claims that the remnants of las vegas were in his realm before it was restored. hotel inferno starts to have an effect on the people of las vegas. it also had an effect on black panther, captain marvel, falcon, hawkeye, and jane foster's thor form where they were all turned into ghost rider-like creatures. as hotel inferno starts to affect the people of las vegas, doctor strange fought mephisto in a game of blackjack. the deal is that mephisto had to return the souls to las vegas if doctor strange won and that doctor strange's soul would be claimed if mephisto won. though doctor strange won by cheating, mephisto found out and had doctor strange tortured. then mephisto turns doctor strange into a ghost rider-like creature. after mephisto removes the ghost rider spell from johnny blaze, he throws blaze from the roof. mephisto appeared on the battlefield and gloated on them sending johnny blaze to attack him. just then, the possessed avengers attack mephisto as wong revealed that mephisto rendering his throne vacant has enabled ghost rider to become the new ruler of mephisto's realm. after doctor strange returned from the realm between, he assisted the midnight sons and the avengers into preventing mephisto from returning to his realm to reclaim his throne. though doctor strange defeated him, mephisto fled back to his realm where he was defeated by johnny blaze and the different ghost riders from across the multiverse. after johnny blaze sent mephisto back to earth, he was kept at the top of hotel inferno in countless restraints as hotel inferno remained on earth. as doctor strange, the avengers, and the midnight sons left upon las vegas returning to normal, wong remained behind to keep an eye on hotel inferno's casino.
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