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Father Pike is the main antagonist in the 2023 crossover comic book, Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance and the overarching antagonist of Hellverine.
He is the administrator and first leading-figure of Project Hellfire, a program created by Weapon Plus that involves weaponizing potential subjects through having demons take over their bodies to become mass-killing machines on behalf of Mephisto's will. Pike once gained the cooperation of an evil demon named Bagra-Ghul, who once possessed a young child named Bram Straub since birth, and later set eyes on having the demon grafted and possess Wolverine, turning him into "Hellverine" to become a mutant-killing weapon on behalf of Mephisto.
Personality[]
Father Pike is fanatically devoted and loyal to his master, living to serve on his every behalf and go through several lengths to achieve just that. Callously apathetic, Pike shows zero hesitation on experimenting on other fellow demons and their corpses, followed by being a rather persuasive negotiator at every opportunity he offers and insists that to him, it is a literal "blessing" in disguise. Coming off as controlling and demanding full obedience, Pike does not tolerate any sign of refusal or disobedience against his every order and through his judgment, only he knows how to convert into the ideal killing machine based on this alone.
Biography[]
Much about Father Pike is unknown and how long he has been serving Mephisto, though it's said that he has been approached by Orchis - another Mutant hate group - in their best interests of recruiting him and in return, Pike developed interests on the weaponization of biology and technology altogether for a rather long time within Hell. Upon becoming their negotiator for their funding from CIA and FBI agencies and bases, Pike was promoted sometime and left in charge of handling administration over Project Hellfire, using the bodies and corpses of past demons in order to conduct the process of weaponization at hand.
Father Pike would eventually get in contact with a grown-up Bram Straub, who was possessed by the macabre-artist Demon and creation of Mephisto, Bagra-Ghul, with the interest of having the latter demon serve Pike with the promise of giving it the freedom to kill mutants at his stead, all while to demonstrate its capabilities, Pike had Bagra-Ghul kills one of his men and later Ada, Bram's adoptive mother, right in front of him. For the time being, he kept Bram with him inside his lab until he began searching for the perfect vessel for Bagra-Ghul to assimilate and have possession over.
In the present, Father Pike is seen negotiating with a member from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. for more funds and exchange of data files to reimburse Orchis' future project, especially the funds needed to initiate Project Hellfire as he proposed to him. Upon making a deal with him, Father Pike seals it upon "blessing" the government while Orchis handles giving him the paperwork needed to assign. On the day Ghost Rider and Wolverine raided a secret lab base in Pennsylvania where Project Hellfire took place, Father Pike is seen monitoring the arrival of the two vigilantes upon crashing out, ordering his men to find them but only take in Wolverine. As the duo stormed inside the base as they stumble upon the lab, Father Pike manages to capture them both via mind-numbing helmets, electrocuting both.
Having Ghost Rider locked up in containment and setting up Wolverine for the ritual, Father Pike informs Bram that the ritual sequence is prepare as he has him get into the vat where Wolverine is forcibly restrained onto, given the opportunity to be rid of his "curse" and beginning the exchanging possession as Bagra-Ghul transfers and takes full control over Wolverine through the helmets, thus came the birth of Hellverine. With the transfer being a success, Hellverine awakens with killing off two of Pike's men and descending into a form akin to Ghost Rider's, soon urging and endorsing him to begin massacring mutants based on Pike's coordinates and sensory alone, having killed five mutants so far with possible more to follow, even turning them into macabre statues.
Hellverine would make his latest spree against a criminal mutant couple and turned them into a macabre statue, all while their baby is left in the car, as Father Pike ordered him to kill it, only for Hellverine to gain reluctance in the act due to Wolverine himself still being alive inside but unable to do anything but watch, if not for an awakened Johnny Blaze intervening at the second punching him. Pike restrains him once more and has him torturously subdued. Once Bram awakened from his vat, he sees Father Pike and pleaded him to return Bagra-Ghul into him, believing he feels empty and nothing without him, only for Pike to insist on giving him a glimpse of Hellverine himself in action, though still willingly refusing to go along with killing the baby mutant. Angered, Pike furiously demands to go along with it again, this time he orders him to attack and kill 97 mutants hidden up the mountains as Hellverine rides to their location.
Once Talia Warroad and Jeff Bannister broke into the labs to find Johnny and break him free from his containment, Father Pike teleports to where Hellverine stopped his tracks and deems Wolverine unworthy to carry out his every demand and prioritizing his forced program, reconsidering to have Bagra-Ghul transferred back into Bram, whom he instantly agrees out of desperation before recounting the times they've killed and how he couldn't continue on without it. Though unexpectedly, Ghost Rider comes out from a portal and gets into a fight with Hellverine, trying to break him free from Bagra-Ghul's control before Father Pike tries further encouraging him to finish off Ghost Rider. Refusing for the last time, Father Pike has it return to Bram in the attempt, though with Wolvering harnessing Bagra-Ghul to his will, tosses Pike into the portal to hell, never to be seen again.
With Talia and Jeff destroying the base of Project Hellfire and Ghost Rider finishing off both Bram and Bagra-Ghul with his Penance Stare, even with Father Pike gone, he would later be succeeded by General Harms and the Bagra-Ghul would resurface, but now becoming more understanding of its actions, as it revived Akihiro into becoming the second Hellverine afterwards.
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