SUICIDE

Real Name: Chris Daniels

Identity/Class: Human, supernaturally empowered

Occupation: Fatalist; formerly unemployed

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Ghost Rider (Ketch), Mephisto

Enemies: Michael Badilino (Vengeance), Death Ninja, Ghost Rider (Ketch), Heart Attack, Mephisto, Zodiak

Known Relatives: Donna (ex-wife), unnamed children

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Lower East side of Manhattan, New York

First Appearance: Ghost Rider III#19 (November, 1991)

Powers/Abilities: Suicide, through a pact with Mephisto, has the ability to recover from any wound, even fatal ones.  Even if he is completely disintegrated, his body will regenerate.  However, he still feels pain.

Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 225 lbs.

History: (Ghost Rider III#19) - After losing his children in a divorce, the unemployed Chris Daniels attempted suicide via handgun.  However, at the last moment, he couldn't go through with it, and threw the gun.  The gun went off, shooting Chris in the eye.  Wishing for the strength to kill himself, he garnered the attention of Mephisto, who appeared before him.  The demon tricked Chris into trading his soul for the willpower to kill himself.  Mephisto, ever the trickster, actually made Daniels immortal in the process, and told him the only way he could die would be found if he confronted Ghost Rider. Naked now, Chris borrowed some clothes from a neighbor and asked her to give him a ride to Brooklyn, due to some sort of inner sense.  While riding on her motorcycle, Chris realized he needed to follow a group of policecars, but his attention was diverted by an oncoming truck.  Chris set his neighbor off the bike and rode it in front of the truck, but after getting hit and thrown through a building, only had a headache. 

Arriving in Brooklyn, Suicide found Ghost Rider engaged in combat with Zodiak, and attacked the hero, begging Ghost Rider to kill him.  The two fought until Ghost Rider accidentally knocked Suicide off the top of a building, but he soon recovered, relaunching his offense.  Ghost Rider forced Daniels to look at a victim of Zodiak's, but even after the vigilante left, Suicide swore to follow him in order to gain his death.

(Ghost Rider III#20) - Suicide caught up with Ghost Rider, who was again combatting Zodiak.  Deciding that the only way to get the Rider's attention was to take out Zodiak himself, Suicide confronted the serial killer, but was disembowled.  The damage healed quickly, and Suicide, upset that he almost died, but not quite, attacked Zodiak again, before being knocked in front of a train.  His body mangled, he pulled himself from the tracks and slowly healed.  Finding Ghost Rider's motorcycle, Suicide jumped on it, and it returned to its owner.  There, Suicide found himself in the middle of a hostage situation, as Zodiak had taken a pregnant woman captive.  Daniels tried to end it, but the woman was knocked off the side of the bridge.  Clinging for life, she almost fell from the side when Suicide pulled her to safety.  Before Zodiak could attack again, Suicide lunged at him, throwing both of them off the bridge and onto garbage barge.  The two were impaled on items sticking out of the heap.  Daniels pulled himself from the pike, and he and Ghost Rider took Zodiak's body to a crematorium, burning it to ash.  The next day, Suicide made the front page of the newspaper, as a hero for his actions rescuing the woman.

(Ghost Rider III#35) - Some time later, while Ghost Rider was battling the Death Ninja, Suicide reappeared, attacked the demonic creature.  He told Ghost Rider that he was going to follow the hero around until he found the way to die that Mephisto promised.  Ghost Rider, confused and impatient with the two, both of whom wished to die, left them to fight each other.  He returned in time to save Suicide from the Ninja, who was winning their fight.  In the midst of the battle, Heart Attack arrived and attacked all three.  Lieutenant Michael Badilino arrived with an AIM-created laser weapon, and blasted the area.  Heart Attack escaped, and Ghost Rider survived, but Suicide was reduced to a skeleton.  Ghost Rider and his ally Caretaker collected Suicide's remains and left.

(Ghost Rider III#36) - As Caretaker and Dan Ketch, Ghost Rider's human host, watched on, Suicide's skeleton began to regenerate, slowly and painfully.

(Civil War: Battle Damage Report) - Tony Stark considered Suicide as a potential Initiative recruit.

Comments: Created by Howard Mackie and Mark Texeira.

Profile by Madison Carter

Clarifications:

Suicide has no known connections to

• Suicide, (Thomas Smythe), of Earth-New Universe, @Kickers Inc#1
• Suicide King, Rat Pack 2099, @X-Men 2099#2
  
• Suicide Squad, SHIELD agents, @Strange Tales I#165
  
• A boy named Sue.

images:
Ghost Rider III#35, page 8, panel 4 (main image)
                          #20, page 14, panel 5 (without glasses)
                          #36, page 4, panel 1 (skeleton)

Ghost Rider III#19 (November, 1991) - Howard Mackie (writer), Mark Texeira (artist), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Ghost Rider III#20 (December, 1991) - Howard Mackie (writer), Ron Wagner (pecnils), Mark Texeira (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Ghost Rider III#35-36 (March-April, 1993) - Howard Mackie (writer), Bret Blevins (pencils), Al Williamson (#35) & Fred Fredericks (#36) (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Civil War: Battle Damage Report (2007)

Last updated: 06/01/05