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![]() Badilino however, realizing that his alter ego Vengeance is out of control, kills himself, along with the villain Hellgate, by triggering a massive explosion through his hellfire.īadilino's suicide meant he was damned to Hell for all eternity, where his punishment is eternal stinging by scorpions. Vengeance's actions are brought to the attention of Ghost Rider and Blaze and they immediately set out to show Vengeance the error of his ways or destroy him. Badilino transforms into Vengeance and suffers a mental break, setting out to kill anyone who had done but the smallest of sins. Badilino finds the hostages are all dead. One of their first missions is stop a group of terrorists and rescue their hostages. Upon the return of Ghost Rider, Vengeance leaves New York and re-joins a special governmental task force. The bike finally arrived and the two headed back to America to rescue the hostages, who had been temporarily freed by other means, only to get into more trouble. An unlucky group of drug smugglers were caught in a literal crossfire and were seemingly killed, not that Venom or Vengeance actually cared. The two cooperated, using tricks and teamwork to destroy all but one of the aliens. Vengeance summons his mystical bike but since the two were so far away from where they had been, it would take some time. The two ended up in a South American jungle. In order to save the lives of two hostages (the others were released to facilitate the sport), Vengeance and Venom were forced through a technologically-created portal it was set to a random spot on Earth. The mercs had merged with ancient alien technology and were soon overcome by the alien's desires to hunt for sport. Several of the homeless people had been taken hostage by a group of mercenaries called 'Stalkers'. Vengeance became involved with Eddie Brock/Venom during the latter's involvement with a group of underground homeless in California. This is shortly after the apparent death of Ghost Rider in battle with Zarathos and his acolytes, The Fallen. Vengeance would also take on the role of the Ghost Rider and even semi-seriously referred to himself by the name when confronted by Spider-Man. As part of a plan to combat the forces of Lilith (and in retreating, protect the innocent), Vengeance then teams up with the Nightstalkers, both Ghost Riders, Victoria Montesi and other heroes. Frozen with indecision, Badilino sees a young boy in danger of being killed by Blackout. This is spurred on when three demonic entities, children of the demi-goddess Lilith, attack Badilino's police precinct. Around this time he became involved in a demonic attack on the Quentin Carnival, a battle that left many innocent people dead.Įventually, Vengeance was won over to the side of good when Ghost Rider was proven not to be the demon Zarathos, the one truly responsible for Badilino's hatred. In his superhuman form, Badilino was called Vengeance, and originally attempted to kill Ghost Rider, believing him to be Zarathos. Mephisto made the deal, but unknown to Badilino the power was the dormant portion of the shard of Medallion of Power that was bound to Badilino and only awakened by Mephisto's actions. In frustration, he turned to Mephisto, trading his soul in exchange for the power to destroy the Ghost Rider. He led a task force to destroy Ghost Rider, but failed repeatedly to do so. When Daniel Ketch became the new Ghost Rider, Michael Badilino believed him to be the same demon that had destroyed his family. Eventually, Badilino was promoted to lieutenant. ![]() During his twenties, Badilino joined a special task force in the army but left to join the New York City police force, after the "death" of Anton Hellgate. With his sister's death, Michael inherited both quarters of the "Medallion of Power" that had been entrusted to his family millennia ago by the Blood. ![]() When Zarathos' hellfire (the source of the mystical flames that encompass the bones of both Vengeance and Ghost Rider) caused serious psychological damage to a police officer named Badilino, he went on to kill his wife, daughter and himself, leaving only his young son, Michael Badilino, alive.
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