After being imbued with the power of vengeance from the depths of hell, Ghost Rider became one of Marvel Comics’ most powerful heroes, but even he isn’t immune to Marvel’s version of Xenomorphs. The Xenomorph made its blood-splattering debut in Ridley Scott’s film Alien and has struck fear in the hearts of fans from that point on. Before Alien comics fell under the Marvel Comics banner, Marvel had its own version of the cosmic monster that is so strong, not even Ghost Rider is immune to its reproductive power.
In Ghost Rider #26 by Howard Mackie and Ron Wagner, Ghost Rider is tracking a member of the Assassins Guild after they slaughtered members of the Thieves Guild, the famous criminal organization X-Men’s Gambit used to be a part of. When pursuing the murderer he is after, Ghost Rider finds himself caught in a trap set by a horde of intergalactic monsters known as the Brood. As fate would have it, the X-Men are also alerted to the many murders suffered by the Thieves Guild and they track the murderer down to the same location as Ghost Rider previously had. When they arrive, the X-Men discover that not only was the Assassins Guild overrun with the Brood, but Ghost Rider had become one himself.
The Brood are much like Alien’s Xenomorphs in both appearance and in manner of reproduction except instead of laying eggs inside of their victims to reproduce, they transform the victim’s DNA and turn them into one of the Brood. When Ghost Rider takes on that cosmic transformation, he doesn’t fully morph into one of the Brood but rather takes on Brood-like features while retaining his overall normal look. Basically, Ghost Rider becomes a terrifying monster that looks more hellish than his original form.
Eventually Ghost Rider is able to stop his transfiguration before it takes its full effect with the telepathic help of Psylocke but not before he attacks the X-Men in brutal form. The next issue in this Ghost Rider/X-Men crossover story depicts that battle in detail as the Brood-infused Ghost Rider battles the X-Men while the rest of the Brood attack them from all sides. After the X-Men help Ghost Rider break free from the alien’s grasp, they make their way out of the alien dungeon and escape the cosmic horrors beneath.
While Ghost Rider does break free from the Brood’s control, he may not have been able to have done so without the intervention of the X-Men. If the X-Men never showed up and the Brood transfiguration came to its horrific conclusion, Ghost Rider would have become the most terrifying and powerful source to have ever walked the Earth, and could have led the Brood to a full-planetary takeover. However, since the X-Men did help when Ghost Rider needed them, the Brood were unable to use the demonic entity to conquer the world, but the fact that they came so close proves that not even Ghost Rider is immune to Marvel’s version of Xenomorphs.