Ghost Rider Fights A Threat Even Superheroes Are Afraid To Face
Robbie Reyes’ Ghost Rider fights a real-world threat that even other superheroes are afraid to face, that of racism, bigotry, and hate speech.
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Warning! This article contains spoilers for Marvel Voices: Comunidades #1
The latest villains Ghost Rider has faced did not come in the form of a demonic entity or cosmic threat, but from the intolerance, bigotry, and racism of the modern world. Highlighted in the latest issue of Marvel Voices highlighting the Hispanic heritage that lies within the Marvel Universe, Robbie Reyes’ Ghost Rider is thrown into a situation that he just couldn’t walk away from, one that many other Marvel heroes are afraid to face.
In the Marvel Voices: Comunidades story “Loco-Motion” by Yehudi Mercado and Mauro Fodra, Robbie Reyes is taking his little brother, Gabe, to a doctor’s appointment, taking the L.A. train as Gabe’s wheelchair can’t fit in the trunk of Robbie’s muscle car. While waiting for a train, a group of people spitting racist and intolerant rhetoric are being increasingly aggressive with multiple people of color near them. In response, Robbie decides to let Ghost Rider have a few words with the hate group.
Ghost Rider doesn’t injure or kill any member of the hate group as their ignorant political stance didn’t need a martyr behind it. Instead, Ghost Rider decided to try to scare them straight, or at the very least just scare them for his own catharsis. Reyes transforms a train into a hell vehicle, taking the hate group members on a ride that was engulfed by hellfire. Ghost Rider did take it too far with the group, however, as he drove the train into a tar pit, putting their lives in danger. Ghost Rider saves them before anyone is injured or killed, then walks away from the hate group hoping to have left his mark on them forever.
While Ghost Rider was quick to stand up against racism and bigotry, other heroes throughout the Marvel Universe have chosen to remove themselves from the fight altogether, the most obvious examples being the X-Men. Like Robbie Reyes being a minority in America because of his Hispanic heritage, the X-Men were persecuted for being mutants. Rather than fight for mutant rights and push for equality among humanity, the X-Men decided to walk away from the situation entirely and form their own mutant-only nation of Krakoa. The X-Men chose separation from the rest of the world rather than standing up to the threat of racism, a relatively recent development that goes against everything the mutant superheroes once stood for when they were originally created by Stan Lee.
Ghost Rider chose to use his powers to give a voice to the voiceless, especially in that particular situation where a gang of people spouting racist rhetoric was increasingly becoming more violent with people who were doing nothing more than existing. While nothing violent happened prior to Ghost Rider showing up, the situation was becoming increasingly more unstable and the demonic antihero did the right thing by intervening and then chose to rise above the antagonistic group’s hate speech by saving them when his scare tactic goes too far. While standing up for his Hispanic heritage, along with that of the people around him, Ghost Rider fights a threat that even other superheroes are too afraid to face.
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