u/AlarmEmergency3464

When marvel announced midnight I was so excited for this because I had just made a post saying ghost rider feels like a character that exists in a spawn comic that sometimes crosses over to the main universe. I was expecting a universe predominantly based on horror, mythological fear , cosmic dread but what I was hoping for is a place where the supernatural characters, can have there story re written and be the main face of this universe.

Like in this world, the hydra was a Cthulhu cult and the US made monsters instead of super soldiers to combat the monster Nazi’s, or ghost rider was sent from heaven but got corrupted and became this universes Thor adjacent. Same with other characters, maybe mutants being a genetic experimentation or a disease released from the plague. And the telepathic ones created Charles Xavier as shared telepathic consciousness for mutants to connect to ( this was my personal idea for ultimate x men)

Only to find myself looking at a re skin story for all the characters we know, vampire x men , we literally have that ongoing currently, man spider ? Done that like 10 different times . F4 returning to be weird looking… okay . Look I don’t hate , I am intrigued to see how these stories would change but it just feels like this is a ploy to copy the absolute universe. Which wasn’t needed if they just properly planned the new ultimate universe, but they made it short . I don’t like to diss marvel editorial but this needs to be fixed or else public audience will only read comics with Spiderman and x men in it.

Sometimes when I hear about ghost rider , i genuinely keep forgetting he’s in the marvel universe. He feels Like a character from hellboy or spawn. He enters any comic and you immediately forget it’s about super heroes. Even a lot of superheroes treat him like a natural disaster rather than a person unless it’s a specific team up The vibe , the grotesque darkness and the spiritual evil of the comics in relation to the Christian mythos makes it stand out with its own special lore and rules and marvel needs to market him like that.

The way DC does vertigo with the endless and the connective tissue being that sometimes Constantine finds his way into that realm works wonders and the same should be done with ghost rider, making it in such a way that he is in the marvel universe but his paths rarely crosses with the other heroes. And his world has its own lore . Marvel announced a midnight branch for thier universe , i think this should be the exact move for them. And i also think if they run with that. Aesthetic he can easily be the 4th face of marvel Mount Rushmore