And a deal with Thanos made him…dead?! Not to worry, Castle doesn’t die easy. Then Frank Castle made a deal with the devil that made him the Ghost Rider. It's a choice that took the combined efforts of Ghost Rider and Punisher to make, yet, surprisingly saved his soul from the punishment of two lifetimes.Collects Cosmic Ghost Rider #1-5. However, when Frank Castle returns Thanos to his crib, the tragic hero walks away redeemed by the fact that he himself made a different choice. Eventually, Frank is faced with the hard truth that regardless of what kind of alternate path he offers baby Thanos, a life with the current Ghost Rider and former Punisher as a surrogate father isn't going to teach him anything more than how to kill. The idea of destiny versus choice is what ultimately fuels Ghost Rider's actions with the baby and sets both on a tricky path. Nevertheless, in Cosmic Ghost Rider #1-5 (by Donny Cates and Dylan Burnett), Castle gets the idea that if he travels back in time and kills Thanos as a baby, he could preemptively stop the titan from causing such massive death and destruction.īut when confronted with the act of killing a baby, Castle instead chooses to rehabilitate the child by offering a different way of life. When Frank became the Spirit of Vengeance, he also lost his mind, and over time he simply forgot what his mission was. However, Cosmic Ghost Rider is also indestructible, and the only thing keeping Castle from following through with his initial plan of killing Thanos is himself. In the future, Thanos's quest for Death leads to near total annihilation of all life in the universe. RELATED: Marvel's Ghost Rider Takes On an All-New Form And Cosmic Ghost Rider became the Black Right Hand of the Mad King Thanos. Then later, during an encounter with Galactus, he was made a Herald of the planet eater as the two joined forces to continue the hunt for Thanos and finally rid the universe of his evil. The origin of how Frank Castle became Ghost Rider is explained in "Thanos Wins." He was initially made the host of the Spirit of Vengeance by Mephisto to be powerful enough to kill Thanos. But, although Ghost Rider and Punisher are anti-heroes, they have often struggled with their choices. This etymology shows a closer connection between the two. However, it was easy to simply view their similarities in action only until Cosmic Ghost Rider connected "penance (a keyword in the Ghost Rider mythos) to "punish". They both operate from a moral foundation that stands to defend the helpless and punish the wicked. They both dish out retribution to criminals and evil-doers and usually do so with the grimy street-level villains of the Marvel Universe's underbelly. The Punisher and Ghost Rider have many common traits. Ghost Rider and the Punisher Are Two Sides of the Same Coin RELATED: Marvel's Cosmic-Powered Punisher Metes Out Justice in His First Ongoing Series However, the new Spirit of Vengeance turned out to be Frank Castle, aka the Punisher. It would have been fair to assume that Deadpool had died and made a deal with the devil to come back to life. When Cosmic Ghost Rider is first introduced, he's spouting witty one-liners and cracking jokes. However, in one of the most bizarre and surprising reveals in Marvel Comics history, the Ghost Rider of the future turned out to be someone that made perfect sense - and at the same time no sense at all. There have been many Ghost Riders in the past, but every host for the Spirit of Vengeance has been chosen with a certain amount of predictability - almost as if they were part of a supernatural equation that made sense in the grand scheme of things. In the story "Thanos Wins" by Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw (appearing in Thanos #13-18), an all-new version of the Spirit of Vengeance emerges from the cosmic ashes of Hell.
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