Roxanne Simpson - Fictional Character Biography

Fictional Character Biography

With his mother having abandoned him and his father dead, Johnny Blaze was taken in by Crash Simpson and his family. As a child, he was friends with Roxanne Simpson, Crash's daughter. She eventually became his girlfriend. After Blaze made a deal with the Devil to cure Crash Simpson's cancer, Satan/Mephisto came to claim Blaze's soul. Roxanne arrived on the scene, and using a combination of her pure soul and some mystic incantations she had learned by reading Blaze's occult books behind his back, she was able to drive the devil away for a time. Much of Ghost Rider's early adventures were centered around the devil attempting to get Roxanne to rescind her protection of Blaze. Eventually, the devil did manage to trick Roxanne into renouncing her protection of the Ghost Rider, causing him to lose a great deal of his supernatural power and abilities. Despite the devil's failure to defeat Blaze, Roxanne realized that a great deal of her "innocence" was naivete and that she had to go away until she had matured emotionally.

Eventually, Roxanne had temporary amnesia and forgot who Blaze was. Blaze, convinced Roxanne had abandoned him, went off on his own. After several adventures, Roxanne and Blaze were reunited, and after Blaze was cured of being the Ghost Rider the two married and had two children. The family became deeply involved in the circus Blaze came to run; this itself would become the focus of many supernatural incidents.

While Roxanne and Blaze were visiting Blaze's long lost brother Dan Ketch, a villain named Hellgate supposedly killed Roxanne and her two children (though the children later turned out to be alive and working with the Wendigo).

Roxanne was revived as a demonic servant of Blackheart's, bearing the name Black Rose. Black Rose helped unleash the Olympian goddesses of vengeance known as the Furies to destroy the Ghost Rider and his accursed bloodline. The Furies' fiendish onslaught was expunged from the mortal plane by the Forces of Light, and she found herself cornered by the trio Noble Kale, Blaze, and the young sorceress Jennifer Kale. Black Rose was too weak to defend herself and was about to meet her death at the hands of Blaze and his hellfire shotgun, but Blackheart intervened and revealed via a cryptic message to the trio that Black Rose was Roxanne Simpson.

Black Rose later married the Ghost Rider, Noble Kale. Though she had no memory of her past self initially, Noble Kale restored her memories during his time as Ruler of Hell. Apparently feeling that John had moved on, Roxanne decided to let John continue believing that she was dead. It was recently revealed that she and her children have died and are in Heaven.