Final Round: Darth Vader vs. Ghost Rider

This recent surge of popularity for Ghost Rider confuses me. This popular belief that Ghost Rider is somehow super capable and a warrior with few peers confuses me even more so. Having been a somewhat avid Marvel fan for years, I've never seen Ghost Rider as much of a character. He's an iconic look, and little else. Writers have literally been throwing shit at a wall with him for years and seemingly nothing ever stuck. For the most part, he seemed to do best as a side character; someone to pop up with Wolverine or Spider-Man whenever a writer felt like making a "spooky" angle or issue.

Some may say my push for Spawn was done so out of revenge for Ghost Rider having knocked out Kirby, but they'd be only 1/3 correct. My push for Spawn came for three different reasons:

1: He knocked out Kirby. Fuck you guys.

2: Spawn, on paper, looked to me like the undisputed winner of that fight, and really no one came close to being able to debate me about that. This tourney is not all about the debate, so I'm not calling foul about that. I'm just saying that really, NO ONE could touch me on that.

3: There is just no fucking way Ghost Rider could go over Vader. On paper, Ghost Rider is the ultimate support character, a gimmick with little else than a "cool" look. Vader is fucking Vader. He changed the way we look at villains, he's far more iconic and relevant to pop culture than fucking Ghost Rider, and he's been described as insanely powerful across all media he is a part of. At least Spawn had a chance here.

Penance Stare, I hear a lot about this ability. I wonder how useful it is to someone wearing a fucking visor. I also wonder how useful it is when he'd NEVER GET THE FUCKING CHANCE to be in Vader's face seeing as how he'd just be force pushed into the nearest wall. Or he'd have his head lopped off with a saber strike. His bike could be force crushed into so much junk. His projectiles deflected with force shields or whatever. Even a logical analysis of the two shows Vader as the only true winner.

Vader went over an opponent this tourney who could just turn off someone's mind and be done with it. I fail to see how anyone could argue Ghost Rider as somehow being more capable than that. So really, let's just call this what it is, shall we? Marvel fanboys vs Star Wars nerds, GO!