My ghost rider tv show outline:
For this to work agents of shields ghost rider, Robbie Reyes will have had to meet Blaze at a certain time post season 4. Blaze would have offered him training to control the ghost rider if he ever needs it. Robbie will be able to find him if needed because those who contain a spirit of vengeance have a special bond
Some backstory: in my version of the ghost rider mythos( which I came up with for this) there are many around the world who are bonded to a spirit of vengeance. I know what the AOS show runners said, but retcon that. Things change. Johnny Blaze is the most prominent because he is destined to help Blackheart kill Mephisto.
S1E1: Robbie Reyes is trying and failing to control the rider within him and decides to go to Blaze and take him up on his offer. Blaze is currently in Kansas, drawn to a small farming town by a series of gruesome murders. Robbie and Blaze must now work together to hunt down the serial murderer: Ebenezer Laughton.
This episode begins with a flashback to Blaze and Robbie meeting for the first time and fighting.
Blaze tried to give up his life as a rider and transfer his rider to Robbie, but Mephisto felt the need to screw him over once again.
S1E2: Robbie and Blaze prepare to leave the town after Laughton's death at the hands of the ghost riders when the murders begin once more. Laughton has returned for revenge as the scarecrow after a deal with Mephisto, the one who gave Blaze his powers.
S1E3: Robbie and Blaze stumbleupon a murder scene while driving through Texas and begin a hunt for the satanists biker gang that stalk the back roads.
In episode 3 Johnny Blaze will learn from one of the bikers that Blackheart is preparing to kill his father Mephisto and begin the apocalypse.
S1E4 Blaze and Johnny sense a great evil and are drawn to the Quentin Carnival, where Johnny grew up. Robbie learns how Blaze became the ghost rider, and how the truth about how the spirits of vengeance were unleashed. Meanwhile, Johnny reunites with his ex, Roxanne, and must protect his home from a disfigured ex stuntman who has gained mystical powers from a cursed motorcycle helmet.
This episode reveals that Johnny made a deal with Mephisto to cure his father's cancer, but when Mephisto came to take his soul, Roxanne's love forced him away,but Mephisto tried to curse Johnny with a spirit of Vengance,, accidently releasing hundreds of spirits of Vengeance from the hell dimension.
At the end of this episode Robbie decides to return home, angry that Johnny is the cause of all of his problems with the rider.
The comic book villain “The Orb” appears in this episode. In this version, he has a mystical helmet once owned by a Kamar-Taj monk who went rogue and joined a biker gang in the 70s
S1E5: 2 months later, Johnny has traveled to a small New England town where the rider senses evil. Johnny discovers the town is under siege by vampires, and must defend the survivors from the unholy monsters.
S1E6: Blaze is drawn to an cursed Indian reservation by strange dreams. On the cursed lands he discovers the truth about the spirits of vengeance and how they came to be. Meanwhile, Blackheart, vanished to the Pine Barrens, possesses a man and begins his search for Johnny Blaze.
In this episode Blaze meets Centaurious, an immortal Native American who sold his his soul to Mephisto. Centaurious’s tribe worshiped Zarathos, an ancient entity known as the Angel of Vengeance. Zarathos promised Immortality in exchange for the sacrifice of sinners, but to save his wife from being sacrificed to Zarathos, he made a deal with the devil. Mephisto was not strong enough to kill Zarathos, so he tore him into hundreds of pieces, and banished him to the hell dimension. Mephisto would occasionally bond a piece of Zarathos to a mortal form to torture it.
In this episode Blackheart is revealed when he kills a monster quest style reality tv show crew searching for the jersey devil. Blackheart has been trapped in the Pine Barrens since the 1800s when he got into an argument with his father, Mephisto about how tempting people to the dark side doesn't work and they should just kill them and take the souls. He forces a survivor to allow him to possess him and travels to the reservation where he kills Centurious and shuts off the rider, than kidnaps Blaze to return to the barrens.
Before Blaze is knocked unconscious he sends a distress signal to Reyes with his mind.
S1E7: Robbie travels across the country after receiving a cry for help from Johnny and after a fight with Blackheart is left comatose and without the power of the rider. Blackheart, now free, begins his quest to destroy the riders and rebuilt Zarathos, as the last of the riders make a final stand in New York
Ghost riders that appear in this episode include Johnny Blaze, Robbie Reyes(loses powers) Danny Ketch(an old friend of Johnny’s who lives in New York), and a ghost rider named Alejandra
Danny Ketch where's a leather trenchcoat while ghost rider
Blackheart can steal souls, and teleport. He resembles his comic counterpart but more streamlined. Each ghost rider contains a piece of the soul of Zarathos, transformed into a spirit of vengeance, so Blackheart can take ghost riders powers. With robbie's piece of Zarathos he was able to break free from the pine barrens and teleport to battle riders around the world.
This episode ends with Blackheart containing every piece of Zarathos, and the last of the riders defeated on the ground, when Mephisto appears.
Mephisto looks like his comic counterpart but in a nice tuxedo. He hates humanity. He loves dark humor.
S1E8: The last of the riders have fallen and Blackheart prepares to unleash Zarathos on the world, killing his father and beginning the Apocalypse.
In this episode Mephisto will come to his son to attempt a heartfelt family reunion and learn to love, trying to apologize for what he's done in order to avoid being killed. He fails at that and Blackheart releases Zarathos, who after a battle rips Mephisto into 666 pieces. Than he kills Blackheart.
Zarathos looks like a ghost rider in Black armor covered in chains. He also has metallic wings. The now released Zarathos attempts to destroy humanity for their sins but is defeated when Blaze enters him and takes back his spirit of vengeance, and willfully taking on the curse. The soul of Zarathos breaks apart and returns to the riders around the world.
This season ends with riders around the world hearing the voice of an entity named Zedkiel who claims to be an angel and the ghost riders new boss.
That's my season one idea. Now Season 2:
season two will deal with the riders around the world dealing with pieces of Mephisto possessing the recently deceased who had sold their soul to him in life. Every time someone who made a deal with the devil dies, A piece of Mephisto’s soul enters the now soulless body. A single piece of Mephisto is so strong it's safer for ghost riders to team up to defeat them instead of working alone. Villains include a mercenary named Mad Jack who is buried in his home town, sleepy hollow, and the returning from season one Ebenezer Laughton.
Also appearing is Vengeance, an FBI agent obsessed with finding the truth about the ghost riders, who will eventually become one, and later on, become merged with Mephisto's soul as well. Vengeance becomes insane from the two souls fighting for power and becomes a rogue ghost rider who kills indiscriminately.
S2E1: Under the orders of Zedkiel, the riders continue to find and destroy evil, while at the same time searching the country for those possessed by pieces of Mephisto. Blaze senses evil deep in the Florida Everglades, but discovers not Mephisto, but… THE MAN-THING
Man-Thing isn't the evil Johnny sensed, it was a brutal mass murderer who had escaped from prison hiding in the swamp: Joseph Timms
Ghost Riders have continued to search for evil and destroy it, but are now working under the command of Zadkiel, a voice claiming to be an angel that has caused various miracles in front of the ghost riders to prove his existence.
S2E2: In LA, Robbie Reyes battles the criminal underbelly as Ghost Rider, trying to remain separate from the larger events and protect his home and brother, but when FBI agent Badilino ties him to the ghost riders murders, he must go on the run.
drug running gangs feature as antagonists in this episode.
In this episode type FBI hunt down Robbie Reyes. He will manage to escape, but lose contact with his brother and be run out of LA. He will then decide to work for Zadkiel.
Agent Kowalski is obsessed with the ghost rider. He has spent years searching for the truth to the supernatural serial killer, at every turn stopped from finding the truth by SHIELD cover ups.
S2E3: The mysterious Zadkiel sends Robbie and Johnny to the site of their first team up to deal with the return of Ebenezer Laughton, now returned to life by a piece of Mephisto, and on a killing spree more deadly than ever before.
In S1E1 Scarecrow was a human serial killer, in S1E2 he returned with supernatural strength and healing. Now, he can tap into the power of the hell dimension. The powers gained from this vary(different aspects of Mephisto, plus different effects on different people, Laughton can scare you to death and turn into a flock of crows)
When a body is possessed by Mephisto, it is compelled to commit great acts of violence in his name. Mephisto is not conscious as he is split into many pieces, but his presence manipulates.
S2E4: Reyes and Blaze are partners once more, battling the forces of evil. They are sent by Zadkiel to Louisiana, where a Jazz musician who sold his soul to Mephisto is now forcing others to do the same then killing them in an attempt to earn back his own soul before he dies from Mephisto. Meanwhile, Badilino returns to hunt Robbie down.
By the end of the episode Badilino’s backstory is revealed, his father(a petty criminal) was killed by Blaze in his early days as a ghost rider, and has discovered the truth that their are in fact many ghost riders, not just one and there is an ongoing supernatural war.
The Ghost Riders discover destroying bodies before they are possessed can keep Mephisto from entering them.
S2E5: The 2 riders must travel back to LA to save Robbie’s brother Gabriel, who has been kidnapped from child protective services by Badilino and placed in an elaborate death trap, now demanding Blaze transfer his Spirit of Vengeance to him.
It is revealed to the audience that Badilino has been receiving information on the nature of Ghost Riders from Zadkiel post episode 4
Blaze will lose his powers and Badilino will become the villainous VENGEANCE.
S2E6: Vengeance travels to the Quentin Carnival in Utah to kill those Blaze loves most and Robbie must stop him before it is too late.
At the end of the episode Zadkiel sends a group of riders to capture Vengeance for them, promising to imprison him.
Blaze’s spirit of vengeance cannot be torn from Badilino, unless he allows it. Blaze will be left powerless, but get a seemingly happy ending, returning to the Quentin Carnival and rekindling his romance with Roxanne
S2E7: After the loss of Blaze, Reyes must travel to the small town of sleepy hollow to attempt to prevent the awakening of a new Mephisto host. He fails and must now fight the most powerful host yet.
In this episode a supervillain mercenary who sold his soul and got killed by The Punisher is set to be buried but returns possessed with the powers of flight, fireballs, and eventually raising a zombie army. It is revealed that every time a Mephisto soul is driven out of its host, it travels to the next host, giving that one two pieces or more. The more hosts killed, the closer we get to Mephisto being fully formed.
Robbie is now traveling with his brother.
By the episode's end Robbie suspects the truth has been hidden by Zadkiel, and travels to nearby New York to try and find Danny Ketch for help
S2E8: Robbie searches for help from Danny Ketch as Zadkiels master plan is revealed. Danny attempts to capture him, believing he’s gone rogue, but when the truth is revealed they must work together along with Alejandra to stop Zedkiel.
We learn more about Danny Ketch in this episode. He’s not nearly as dysfunctional as other riders. He's a genuinely nice guy, he’s religious. He’s also partners with Alejandra now the way Robbie and Blaze worked together. Robbie learns he’s Zadkiel’s #1 rider when they meet and has blue flames.
In this episode the 3 ghost riders try to find Zadkiel, because he told Danny he was going to come to Earth soon. They end up at a Amish-esque village where Zadkiel is worshipped and the townspeople sacrifice kidnapped travelers to him all the time.
Zadkiel is revealed to not be an angel, but a mysterious entity, maybe a fallen angel, maybe something else, that wants to be worshipped as a god. He can see everything and communicate with people on Earth, but is powerless in this dimension. His master plan is to have the ghost riders kill off all except one who has sold their soul, have that person's body destroyed before he can come back as Mephisto, have the man known as Deacon, the head religious figure in the town that worships him complete a ritual that allows him to possess him, than sell the deacons soul to Mephisto, and with another being already in the body, Mephisto will be unable to do anything, but Zadkiel will have the full power of the hell dimension at his disposal.
Vengeance, returns, having been transformed from an average ghost rider to a much more powerful and monstrous rider by members of the Zadkiel cult, whose role is to guard Zadkiel’s town from other riders who may learn the truth and try to interfere.
At the end of the season Zadkiel is destroyed by maybe possibly literal but it's unknown deus ex machina from his dimension. Both he and Mephisto are seemingly gone forever. There's no longer any supernatural powerful forces, no ancient entity's, it's just the riders. They go their superset ways to find and fight evil wherever it may be.
Blaze gets to keep his happy ending for now.
season 3 will be smaller story wise and involve Robbie fighting drug dealers and a hit man who eventually becomes Blackout. Vengeance will return. Robbie’s story will involve him, inspired by Danny Ketch, attempting to become a more heroic character and less of a vigilante. This is his journey to superhero.
S3E1: A new drug is unleashed on LA based off of a super steroid stolen from SHIELD. Robbie must deal with the aftermath as the city is torn apart.
Calvin Zabo’s formula is introduced to this show after it is stolen by the gang: Deathwatch from a government convoy.
S3E2: The Deathwatch gang attempts to use the Zabo formula to crush their rivals and take control of L A.
S3E3: Johnny Blaze is living at the Quentin carnival, free of the ghost rider and working as a motorcycle stunts man. But now he must defend his home while powerless as Vengeance returns.
Roxanne is killed by Vengeance, who's rider leaves him because he killed a true innocent, not even a little worthy of vengeance, and rejoins with Blaze, who kills Badilino.
It is revealed Roxanne’s soul was traded to Mephisto for Johnny’s in the origin, and the power of love thing was just a lie. We end the episode with Blaze teleporting to Mephisto's hell with his chain to try and get her back.
S3E4: The Deathwatcher’s hire a psychotic murderer inhuman: Blackout to kill the ghost rider. Now, Reyes must battle a man who destroys everything he touches.
S3E5: Blaze must battle his way through the hell dimension, fighting off zombified souls and demons alike to find and make a deal with the world's new ruler: the resurrected BlackHeart, also fighting off every soul he’s ever sent to this place.
Blackheart explains that beings like him and his father never die permanently and unless their souls are separated into many pieces will always eventually return
Badilino, Scarecrow, and The Orb, along with dozens of zombie criminals defend Blackhearts castle from Ghost Rider
Blackheart agrees to return Roxanne if Blaze promises not to interfere with Blackheart’s upcoming plan to start the apocalypse and destroy humanity. If he does try to stop Blackheart, Roxanne will be returned to the hell dimension.
Mephisto’s world is a barren, rocky desert of fire, lava, and ash, populated by demons and zombies, the only real landmark a castle in the center of a sea of flaming souls(Blackhearts home)
S3E6: Blackout has gone rogue and killed the Death Watchers, and taken control of all the gangs of LA, using his own powers and Zabo formula powered henchmen. Now Robbie must face Blackout in a final battle. At the same time, Blaze leaves the Quentin Carnival as he is once again forced to hunt evil by the rider, discovering a ghostly car crash victim now forcing cross country drivers to suffer the same fate as her.
Blackout is defeated using the penance stare, which drives him insane due to seeing all the pain he has ever caused.
S3E7: Blackout has been defeated, the government has stepped in to confiscate every copy of the Zabo formula and arrest those involved. LA is safe. Meanwhile, Blaze is in South Carolina, as demonic clowns have begun attacking people in a small town where a murderous circus clown was once executed, at the same time though, teenagers have used the killer clown craze for their own benefit, making the situation more complicated.
Sometimes when a soul is strong enough, it can survive death in the astral plane as an astral projection.
S3E8: Blaze decides to stop fighting and return to Roxanne, hoping he can have a life and be a rider. But after his return he begins to realize Roxanne has changed, and the demonic Lilith was attached to Roxanne by Blackheart and sent to Earth inside of her.
While Blackheart is more rash and straightforward, he still knows how to make deals where you lose no matter what just like his father. Ghost Rider can either allow Roxanne to become consumed by the demon Lilith, standing by as Blackhearts plan is fulfilled, or kill Roxanne to save the world from Lilith, breaking his deal, which will send Roxanne to Blackhearts realm. Ghost Rider is forced to kill Roxanne to destroy the evil of Lilith, but twist, Lilith can't be killed and destroying Roxanne has only freed her to walk the earth once more! Blackheart wins every way!
Season 4 will deal with the fallout of the finale, and Blackheart and his forces manipulating the world to begin the apocalypse. Lilith working with him, and also attempting to seduce Blaze or Robbie to the darkside. Robbie and Johnny will reunite after last season doing their own thing. Blaze has become suicidal, and wants to die killing Blackheart and Lilith. As the possible final season, this will be 12 episodes instead of the usual 8.
S4E1: Blaze searches the country for Lilith, trying to find and destroy her. When he learns her identity, the ancient Sumerian priestess who may have been the first demon, and the creator of the first vampire, he calls an associate for help. The vampire hunter is dead though, so Ghost Rider must unite with his protege: BLADE THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Ties in to inevitable blade Netflix series we all know is coming.
Lilith appears human in public but in private and in more villainous settings is an albino demon woman creature.
S4E2: Blade and Ghost Rider search the vampire underworld for information on Lilith, which leads them to an offshoot of the vampire house of Cython, a cult that now worships Lilith as the savior of the vampire race.
Lilith attempts to corrupt Blaze, and turn him to her side, offering to allow him to kill Blackheart(who she thinks of as a rebellious teen) and in return for the location of the darkhold. She will learn Blaze was never told where the Darkhold is, and only Robbie knows.
S4E3: Blaze and Blade travel to LA to stop Lilith from getting to Robbie. They are too late, as Lilith has already attempted to turn Robbie to the dark side, and failing to do this has sent the vampire cult of Lilith to kidnap Gabe for leverage. Blaze, Rayes, and Blade must defend Gabe and get him out of LA while hunted by vampires.
Gabe is temporarily given the spirit of Vengeance as a trap for Lilith. Yes, there is a flaming wheelchair involved.
S4E4: Lilith has summoned the Lilin, her partly demonic descendants, to help her find the location of the darkhold. Blaze and Robbie are hiding out in a Texas safe house with Gabe. Blade is elsewhere searching for information.
The safe house is the same one Blaze hid the darkhold in many years ago.
Lilith, before being banished to another dimension by Agamoto, had many children. Her descendants exist to today as immortals, but many have been killed by monster hunters. Many of them were well known serial killers and dictators throughout history. The Lilin she summons are Pilgrim, a teleporting cult leader, “the meatmarket serial killer,” Sister Nil, an immortal preteen girl who has tried and failed to be human, always reverting to being a murderous monster every time she tries, and Skinner, a mercenary who has committed atrocities throughout every war in history.
Skinner managed to kill a Native American Ghost Rider in the old west using blessed gold bullets in his past. He reveals this method to the Lilin, which they use to attack the ghost riders and get the info they need in this episode.
The location of the Darkhold is revealed to be in a dark, lovecraftian dimension ruled by CYTHON THE OTHER. An ancient elder-god entity from a primal earth, older than Mephisto, his species was the first to populate the Earth, but he is the sole survivor of his kind. His dimension resembles a barren rocky landscape of decay covered in snow and ash and populated by tentacle monsters( cgi, it won't be that hard, they're mostly gelatinous,)
Lilith is surprisingly kind and motherly to Sister Nil
S4E5: Blaze volunteers to travel to the lovecraft dimension to stop the Lilin, but becomes trapped on this world when Lilith makes a deal with Cython. Robbie must find a way to free him from that world.
Pilgrim is killed in this episode battling Blaze.
Johnny is left trapped in Chthon’s dimension, but is released by Lilith who plans to torture/brainwash him.
Those with demonic or ghostly DNA cannot read the darkhold, so the Lilin kidnap scientist: Michael Morbius to read it and complete their plan.
No Spider Man movie is ever gonna use f-Ing Morbius.
S4E6: Robbie and Gabe travel to the East Coast to ask Danny Ketch for help getting Blaze out of Chthon’s realm. They arrive to find Ketch searching for the truth behind New Yorkers disappearing on the 13th floors of buildings without a thirteenth floor, which he believes to be a sign of a powerful demonic presence. Meanwhile, Sister Nil tries to make friends, it ends up killing them all, as is the fate of all her friends.
It's a demon trapping people's souls. It's one of many that have come to Earth, sent by Blackheart to cause destruction and death.
Ketch uses a magic medallion he gained years ago(he keeps some of the supernatural stuff he finds in a storage locker on Long Island in case being a ghost rider isn't enough) to get to Chthon's world, which has been blocked off from Ghost Rider teleportation. They discover Blaze is no longer there and Chthon has been promised control over a portion of Earth after Blackheart takes over.
Tony Starks cameo, but shhh… it's a very secret cameo. It's just the back of a guy with Black hair’s head in a crowd, you could say it's not even Tony Stark. ;0P
S4E7: Blaze, after weeks of torture, has become distorted and has become the new Vengeance. Lilith has released him on the hell world to kill Blackheart, and give her control of that world, and all the power gained from its corrupted souls, just in time for her to take over the earth. On Earth in Boston, the scientist Michael Morbius accidentally transforms himself into a super vampire while working with the darkhold, and manages to escape from the Lilin.
Blackheart is nearly killed, but is saved by Roxxanne, whom he has turned into a demon( comic book villain Blackrose) Blackheart also reveals to Blaze Roxanne was pregnant when she died. The truth that Lilith siked Blaze on Blackheart is hidden by Lilith. She will kill him later.
S4E8: Blade returns from his mission with a magic spell that could send Lilith back to Blackhearts demension, and heads to Boston, the last known location of Ghost Rider. There, he discovers signs of a lone wolf vampire killing muggers. He discovers Morbius, who is consumed by the thirst for blood but trying to only eat the guilty to avoid fully losing his humanity. Blade will fight Meatmarket, who is trying to get Morbius back, and Blade will try to kill Morbius , but is stopped by Ketch, who wants to keep Morbius alive and believes he has valuable information, leading to a day walker vs ghost rider battle.
S4E9: Robbie and Blade interrogate Morbius, and learn Lilith and Blackheart plan to build a machine that will turn everyone on Earth into vampires, all subservient to the creator of vampires, and the effective god of vampires: Lilith. Humans will be created through cloning and turned into food(around the world demonically possessed scientist have already begun genetically engineering humans), and Blackheart and Lilith will divide up the planet between them and Chthon. Lilith sends the corrupted Blaze and the remaining Lilin to kill his former allies and get Morbius back.
Robbie attempts to use the penance stare on Meatmarket, but as he is a demon hybrid, it has no effect. Blade and Reyes work together to kill Meatmarket.
Attempts to sway Blaze result in him brutally beating Robbie and sucking out his rider.
S4E10: Morbius has escaped with Blade, but other scientists have been found to work on the machine, as with the information revealed, Morbius is no longer valuable. Meanwhile, Robbie is in the hospital, shot by blessed golden bullets and his spirit of vengeance sucked out of him by Blaze. Blaze travels the world, attacking and taking the spirits of vengeance from various ghost riders to increase his power at Lilith's command, who has been appearing to him as Roxxanne to keep him from beginning to question. Robbie must try to stop Blaze before the riders are all gone, and the world is left defenseless from what is coming.
Blaze is brought back to the light side. Despite all the pain he’s caused throughout the years, he isn't a bad person, he's done more good than bad, and he vows to end the cycle. Riders are returned to respective hosts.
S4E11: Blaze calls on other riders to join him in storming Blackhearts castle. Ketch, Blaze, Robbie, Alejandra, Cowboy Ghost Rider, and Devil Rig the phantom trucker attack. On earth Blade and Morbius attack the cult of Lilith compound in Boston, battling their way through vampire cultists and the most deadly Lilin: Skinner and Sister Nil, to destroy the machine that will turn everyone on earth into vampires. Blaze must battle Blackrose.
The world is saved, Morbius and Blade leave as a team after starting as enemies. Lilith is banished back to the hell world. Blackheart is killed by the riders working together plus powerful artifacts from Ketch. Blaze devours the evil out of Roxanne, but she still cannot leave, as her soul is still owned by the Mephisto family. Before Blackheart was destroyed, he revealed that there was one more chance for Blaze to free Roxanne somewhere in the world.
S4E12: Mephisto is gone, Blackheart is dead, Lilith is imprisoned, but one last being remains who could rule over the hell dimension. The occult investigator Damian Hellstrom, a man who never knew his father, has just discovered he is the offspring of a mortal woman and Mephisto, and the last ditch plan C for Mephisto to return. Now that Mephisto's dimension is ruler-less, a supernatural alarm goes off and Damien begins to become more and more like his father as Mephisto slowly returns through him. The Riders Blaze and Reyes come to him to try and save him, and exorcise Mephisto's influence.
Mephisto is defeated. Hellstrom is able to release Roxanne using his power. Blaze and Roxanne reunite stronger after their ordeal. Blaze has the opportunity to quit as a ghost rider with Damien's help but refuses, ghost rider isn't a curse, it's his duty. He saved the world many times and someday, may have to again. Robbie heads back to LA.