Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-31079951-20170118192820/@comment-13895380-20170122032018

Honestlycynical wrote:
 * "I speculated that it gave him the ability to be immune to the weapons of the Ghost Riders -- that they can't erase him (hence, why he didn't vanish from the whip lash)."

That wouldn't make sense, since we saw Chris take hits from the whip without vanishing.


 * "They never said it was the physical strength of a Ghost Rider that he obtained"

They didn't need to spell it out. You have to consider everything we've seen thus far. Melissa questioned ( aloud, since she didn't know Douglas was there) why Douglas needed to eat the gland. Douglas comes right out and says he needed to eat it so he could do "this," and he used the whip. He needed the gland to actually use their power. So, we can assume that the "power" that Liam speculated about was their strength and not "power."


 * "They don't seem much physically stronger than Liam"

I don't see Liam surviving a barrage of bullets being fired at him.

Let's not forget that we saw a Ghost Rider fighting a squad of Nazi's and singlehandedly "taking" them all and beating Douglas until he retreated.
 * Yep, thought of that, but remember the Oni? Their blade was more magical than physical. when the oni and nogitsune were defeated, their physical wounds magically healed drastically (e.g no more bleeding, victims feeling a lot better). I thought the whip was something along those lines, where the cut was enhanced through magic and Douglas could catch it because he was immune to it. I thought this explained why the GR succumbed to Douglas so easily, as that was its only chance to win. Else, why exactly did the GR not even try to fist fight him, as they do with everyone else? 0_o

If that's not the case, then it'd just be a normal whip, which any werewolf should be able to catch with good accuracy. -_- Like, what's significant about a werewolf grabbing a whip? Nothing. Nothing at all. This led me to believe he had to have some immunity to their power. To back that up, actually, Scott was being squeezed enough to be erased but he wasn't, because the Ghost Riders wanted to kill him, thus proving that its erasing property is more magical than physical.


 * Dude, I get why he eated the Ghost Riders peneal gland. That's pretty obvious. It allowed Douglas to use the magical powers of the whip, else it'd just be a normal whip. In no way am I arguing that the GR didn't make him physically stronger. The show clearly says that's what the DD bath + GR poison did to him. I'm not even arguing that your point is wrong -- that the GR strength is all he initially got from them.

I'm arguing that it's pretty redundant/unnecessary to say Douglas has the power (strength) of a wolf + lowenmensch + ghost rider after Theo already said the DD bath + GR poison made Doulas stronger. In other words, Douglas didn't gain any new power from the Ghost Rider but rather his own powers were made stronger''' because of them. Thus, I'm simply pointing out that the statement was pointless, unless Douglas gained attributes distinct '''to the Ghost Riders (e.g. when he ate the GR peneal gland and thus could erase people). Else, Douglas didn't gain any powers; his original powers just got enhanced by them and the DD.


 * As Nervous pointed out, that's endurance (more specifically, durability). Liam at one point was holding one whip in each arm in a tug-of-war match with two Ghost Riders, so yeah, I'd say they're not that much stronger than him.

Again, that's another example of durability. Douglas retreated because their magical bullets and whip would f him up and because they're so durable, not because he wasn't physically stronger. If Liam could ragdoll them, Douglas (an Alpha) could have too. But again, they're too durable and have supernatural weapons. So yeah. :P

Also,  want to explain why he was eating the peneal gland of humans? No really, I don't recall them explaining this. This is a question directed to anyone  who can ans wer it looool.