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However, Roarke transformed Carrigan into Blackout, allowing him to decay whatever thing he touches. He sent a drug dealer named Ray Carrigan to capture Danny for him, but Carrigan was mortally wounded by Johnny. As Mephisto put it, it's a pain to stay in human form, as his various bodies throughout the centuries were never made to do the things he could do, but since Danny is a hybrid of demon and human, entering his body will allow him to use his powers on Earth. This transfer would make him powerful, since Danny is literally the spawn of all evil. He attempted to transfer his soul into the body of a boy named Danny, whose mother made a deal with him to save her life. It is revealed that while he walks the earth in human form, he is weak and must send people to do his bidding by using what Johnny calls his greatest power the power of "the Deal", where he takes a mortal's soul away and enters their body, or has them become his Ghost Rider minions. In the sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Mephisto is now going by the name " Roarke" and is the main antagonist. Mephisto yells out "NO!!!" and turns into smoke, taking Blackheart's body back to Hell with him. Mephisto proclaims that he will make Johnny pay for this, then is given the response "You can't live in fear". Johnny refuses, claiming that he shall "own" this curse and use it against the lord of evil that deceived him. Mephisto offers to give Johnny his soul back and let someone else be the Ghost Rider. In happiness, the Devil appears at the church in San Venganza, where Blackheart's body laid and where Johnny stood. Johnny succeeded in defeating Blackheart and destroying the thousand evil souls of San Venganza that Blackheart consumed. He ordered Johnny as an adult (now as Ghost Rider) to hunt his reluctant son Blackheart and destroy him before he finds the Contract of San Venganza that will give him the power to even overthrow his own father. In the film's actual events, Mephistopheles appears before Johnny Blaze whom he tricked into giving up his soul in return for saving his father from cancer, yet have him killed in a motorcycle accident. So he runs off with it and does what no other Rider before had done he outran the Devil himself.

However, Slade discovered how powerful it was and he couldn't let the Devil get it. In Spirit of Vengeance, he was portrayed by Ciarán Hinds, who also played Steppenwolf in the 2017 Justice League film, Bill Maplewood in Life During Wartime, Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones, Jonathan Reiss in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life, Botticelli Remorso in The Tale of Despereaux and Henry Burke in Race to Witch Mountain.ĭuring Wild West times, he had a Ghost Rider named Carter Slade ride to the town of San Venganza and retrieve a supernatural contract that contains 1,000 mortal souls, supposedly to bring them to Hell. In the 2007 film, he was portrayed by the late Peter Fonda. He is also the archenemy of Johnny Blaze, the current Ghost Rider who rebels and becomes the one being stopping him from taking over the Earth. He is the Devil who corrupted the Angel of Justice Zarathos so he could create the Ghost Rider, a human possessed by Zarathos' vengeful spirit and contracted to carry out his deeds on Earth. Mephistopheles, also known as Mephisto and Roarke, is the main antagonist of the Ghost Rider film duology, appearing as the overarching antagonist of the 2007 film Ghost Rider and the main antagonist of its 2011 sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

~ Mephistopheles/Roarke's last words to Ghost Rider in Spirit of Vengeance before his ultimate defeat. ~ Mephistopheles trying to take back the curse of the Rider.
