10 Biggest Things To Come Out Of Marvel Legacy #1

9. Ghost Rider Is Going Through Some Changes

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Some potential changes to Robbie Reyes' connection to the Ghost Rider legacy seem to be coming.

In the course of Marvel Legacy #1's major fight sequence between the newest Ghost Rider, Robbie Reyes, and the newest (and drastically out of character) Starbrand, Kevin Connor, Reyes is shown to have links to a Ghost Rider from 1,000,000 BC and even later uses the Penance Stare, a staple move of past Ghost Riders possessed of the Spirit of Vengeance.

This is unusual because up until now, Robbie Reyes has been a Ghost Rider in name only, due to the obvious similarity of appearance. Reyes was not possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance after all, but rather his Satanic serial killer uncle, Eli Morrow, who possessed him hoping to cheat death and take control of him, and now resides within his nephew. As such, Reyes' Rider has been much more about controlling the murderous spirit inside of him then playing host to a Spirit of Vengeance, and would never have had the Penance Stare nor, presumably, the connection to the ancient Ghost Rider.

However, this does tie in the origins of Robbie Reyes as he appeared on the ABC TV show, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel also have past form of retconning a character to match their TV appearance, as Quake/Daisy Johnson was retconned in the comics to be an Inhuman, as she is in the TV show.

So could this be suggesting a similar path for the latest Ghost Rider?

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.