The executive producer promises that Robbie Reyes, the unstoppable Ghost Rider, will be a natural extension of that.
Agents of SHIELD season 4 premieres September 20th, 2016 in its new timeslot, 10:00pm EST on ABC.
Just how the normally-supernatural anti-hero will be merged into the mostly grounded SHIELD has already become a huge subject of fan conversation, and, now, co-creators/co-showrunners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen have weighed in on the subject.
Just as the Inhumans have been systematically worked into the show’s entire backstory, having a somewhat-mechanical Robbie Reyes would do much to solidify this particular thematic motif. But there’s one last possible way for the showrunners to debut and then incorporate Ghost Rider into its mythology.