Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation

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Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation is comic created by the Marvel Knights team of Marvel Comics. It is a six part story of the superhero Ghost Rider.

[edit] Plot

A demon by the name of Kazaan found a way to bring hell to the world. Ghost Rider has been trapped in hell for two years and rides all night to get out. One night he meets an angel named Malachi. Malachi tells Ghost Rider that if he can stop Kazaan, he will be free from hell. Ghost Rider also has to beat an archangel named Ruth and a demon named Hoss to Kazaan. He eventually teams up with Hoss to beat Ruth. In the end, Kazaan is sent back to hell. Malachi tells Ghost Rider he will not be free from hell. Malachi is then killed by Ruth because Malachi's brother is Kazaan. Ghost Rider is now sent back to hell.

[edit] Detailed plot

Johny Blaze, the Ghost Rider, has been trapped in Hell for two years. While being tortured, two angels, Daniel and Malachi, discuss how to send a demon, Kazaan, back to Hell. Malachi decides to use the Ghost Rider in order to beat Ruth and Hoss, an angel and a demon, to the capture of Kazaan. Malachi goes down to Hell to talk to the Ghost Rider by distracting his tormentors with an illusion. He offers the Ghost Rider the chance to erase his sins and live with a clean slate, if he captures Kazaan. As he breaks out of Hell, Ghost Rider interrupts a KKK meeting. Meanwhile, Earl Gustav, the crippled owner of a Texas-based company, is in league with Kazaan. He sacrifices his board members in order to provide a body for Kazaan, who is somehow in the know about things in both Heaven and Hell. While searching for Kazaan, the Ghost Rider finds the Demon Hoss, and they soon come into confrontation. Ruth soon shows up and throws a bus at the two. Hoss and the Ghost Rider survive, but Ruth steals the Ghost Rider's Hellcycle. The Ghost Rider and Hoss decide to team up. As the Ghost Rider hops into Hoss's car, he asks how he got it. Hoss replies,"Where do you think all the Billionaires go?" Later, A priest, Father Adam, is called upon by Hell to stop the Ghost Rider. Having previously sold his soul in order to cover up what he deems "terrible sins", he willingly complies.

Gustav has had a drill, capable of reaching Hell, created for Kazaan so that he can summon an army of demons. His intent is to create a new Hell. Ruth arrives at Gustav's company, and takes care of the guards. Gustav's enchanted drill is put into action, and quickly reaches Hell. This action unleashes an army of demons straight from Hell. Now Father Adam has arrived with bullets clensed in holy water, ready to kill the Ghost Rider. Hoss and the Ghost Rider arrive knowing that they are too late. The Ghost Rider begins to battle Kazaan, while Father Adam attempts to kill him. Kazaan begins to taunt the Ghost Rider, saying that he will never truly escape from Hell, and that he and Malachi are brothers. Kazaan shows his true form as a fallen angel to the Ghost Rider. While this was going on Miss Catmint, Gustav's secretary, forced Gustav to say an incantation which returns Kazaan and his demons back to Hell. But, Gustav is killed by Ruth. Father Adam wakes up in Heaven after shooting the Ghost Rider. As he walks towards God everything bursts into flames, and he finds to his horror that he is in Hell. After getting shot the Ghost Rider wakes up in Hell. He is greeted by Malachi, and it is confirmed that he and Kazaan are brothers and have been trading secrets.

Suddenly Ruth appears and tears Malachi's wings off, thus expelling him from Heaven. The Ghost Rider had been betrayed by Hoss, who teamed up with Ruth. The Ghost Rider learns that he has been double crossed and is left none the better in Hell. In the end a narrator states that there is a legend about two souls in Hell, being tortured until the end of time, and nothing can stop their screams. Yet "it's hard to tell who screams the loudest". It is seen that the two are none other than the Ghost Rider and Malachi, Malachi being dragged by the Ghost Rider's motorcycle, tortured as much as the Ghost Rider is or more for his part in betraying the Ghost Rider.