
Īfter Johnny Blaze became the King of Hell, he recalled the Spirits of Vengeance possessing his allies and summoned every Ghost Rider that had the Hell-Lord had ever created to take revenge. When Mephisto brought Hell to Las Vegas via the Hotel Inferno, he bonded Doctor Strange, Falcon, Captain Marvel, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Panther, and Kaine to Spirits of Vengeance, turning them into Ghost Riders under his control. After the walls were felled, the Spirits rained down from the sky and were returned to their rightful hosts. The Last Stand of the Spirits of Vengeance ĭuring this event, most of the Spirits of Vengeance population disappeared due to the corrupted motive brought by Danny Ketch, which was given to him by Zadkiel, whose plan was to collect all of the Spirits' power to break down the walls of New Jerusalem and wage war on Heaven. Regardless of their origins, there have been dozens - if not hundreds - of Spirits of Vengeance throughout the centuries, many of them found in what became the United States of America. The archangel Zadkiel was put in charge of monitoring the Spirits of Vengeance and keeping the truth of their origins a secret throughout the millennia with one purportedly false origin story being that they were an order of benevolent demons opposing by the devil Zarathos - who is often counted among them due to his similar powers and appearance connected to the Ketch and Blaze bloodlines through the Medallion of Power. Over the generations, the Spirits pursued their cause to purge the unrighteous.

The Spirits of Vengeance, vestiges of God's power bonded to human hosts, were designed to fight off the thriving supernatural and satanic threats, as well as purify sin and wreak havoc on the guilty for their mistreatment towards the innocent and undeserving. However, he continued to witness mankind committing countless misdeeds and ungodly actions, which eventually infuriated him. Purported Origins Īccording to Sister Sara, following the Great Flood that wiped out almost the entire human population ended, God created a rainbow signifying his promise to humanity that he would never smite his wrath upon the face of the Earth. Following this, the Rider and his allies opposed Mephisto and other threats to the nascent humanity, such as time-travelling conquerors. When the First Host arrived, the Rider fought alongside his allies to repel them.

At some point afterwards, the Rider joined the Stone Age Avengers and defeated Zgreb the Sorrower, a corrupted Celestial. The earliest known occurrence of a Spirit of Vengeance indwelling a human occurred in 1,000,000 BC, when a young boy belonging to a mammoth-riding tribe of early humans bargained with Mephisto to obtain revenge against a Wendigo who had slaughtered his people.
