“Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” Season 4: Ghost Rider?

The perpetuated rumor this off-season about Ghost Rider may have picked up steam last week

It started with a light rail in San Diego with a Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD wrap showing fiery chains:

Everyone screamed Ghost Rider. Chains of fire? His signature weapon! There’s no skull on fire, but that would be too much of a giveaway, right?

But I was one of quite a few who rolled their eyes and said, “Guys, what about off-brand Gambit from this season?” AKA James, also known as Hellfire, one of the main Inhumans on Hive’s side of the battle. Because he also happened to use fiery chains in a couple of episodes.

Plus, James is still alive. In the season finale, he took on Lincoln and while he seriously wounded our least-favorite Inhuman, Lincoln got a good electric shot in. And James took a knockout punch from Melinda May. So he’s bound to come back at some point, right?

Then, last week, it was reported that a casting call has gone out for Agents of SHIELD’s fourth season. Specifically, the show is looking for a pair of latino brothers, one being “the most dangerous person in the room” while the other is just paralyzed in a wheelchair. So how does this speak to Ghost Rider?

That would be the 2014 comic book iteration of Ghost Rider, which is a Mexican-American named Robbie Reyes, who has a disabled brother named Gabe. It’s pretty darn fitting, and would leave the more traditional Johnny Blaze version of Ghost Rider open for other versions (hopefully not for more Nicholas Cage movies).

With Agents of SHIELD moving to a 10pm slot on ABC’s Tuesday lineup, it’s possible we might see someone like Ghost Rider pop up. But at this point in time with very little information to go on, it’s a toss-up between it being Ghost Rider or a return of an angrier, Australian-ier Hellfire.

San Diego Comic-Con is right around the corner from July 21st to July 24th. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that we might hear some fun nuggets about what to expect in season four.