It's been rumoured for what feels like forever, but the fact that Ghost Rider is coming to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was finally made official at the show's Comic-Con panel in San Diego this evening. Gabriel Luna (True Detective) will roar into the lives of Agent Coulson and the team as Robbie Reyes, a character the press release describes as, "the unstoppable Ghost Rider" (he's also the least popular).
"Season 4 will unquestionably be the series’ biggest, most ambitious story yet, and it all begins with the introduction of one of our greatest legacy characters in Ghost Rider," said Head of Marvel Television, Jeph Loeb. "When the Spirit of Vengeance rides into S.H.I.E.L.D., it’ll change everything."
I'm sure it will, but it's fair to say that the vast majority of fans were hoping to see Johnny Blaze brought to Netflix in a supernatural series which could have tied into the world of The Defenders. Instead, it's going to be the version who starred in a cancelled comic book in a show on the edge of cancellation. However, the door is at least probably open to another version appearing elsewhere.
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