“I mean, c’mon, gangsters stealing a kid’s wheelchair? That seems a little cartoonishly evil, no? If you need to prove someone is evil, you could probably do it in SOME way other than having them knock a kid out of his wheelchair in an alley and taking the chair for…riding around in?
There was a kid in my old neighborhood who had an electric wheelchair, and his friend (or brother or cousin, who knows?) would always hop on the back and ride on it. They’d cruise around in the bike lane pretty fast. On one hand, I was like, “Lil’ dudes, that’s not a ride!” On the other, I was like, “Hey, if you’ve figured out a way to do wheelchair shit that’s fun, who am I to judge?”
This version of Ghost Rider drives a car instead of a motorcycle, and I never thought of myself as a comics traditionalist before, but I guess this is where I draw the line. Because I’m sorry, flaming motorcycle is cooler than flaming car. It just is. We ALL know this to be true.
Which is why the best thing in the Ghost Rider movies will always be Sam Eliot riding a flaming skeleton horse, horses being the motorcycles of their time (I know what you’re thinking: Pete, horses were the cars of their time? Oh, really? Then what about carriages, asshole!? Can you imagine Ghost Rider on a carriage? Wouldn’t that be stupid?).
Would Ghost Rider in an arctic environment drive a snowplow? No, he’d drive a snowmobile.
Would ghost rider, if he took to the skies, fly a 747? No, he’d fly a fighter jet.
Now, I WOULD be open to the idea of Ghost Rider driving a minivan in a pinch. Wouldn’t that be grand? Ghost Rider and some Avengers or something are stuck in a supermarket parking lot, they need to get somewhere fast to stop…I don’t know Kang, and they all look at Ghost Rider, who quickly scans the parking lot and sees one lone minivan? “