Talk:Ghost Rider VS Lobo/@comment-97641-20190802210945/@comment-29742618-20190803053140

^^^ Having your Mind under attack isn't the same as being attacked in your soul. Lobo also doesn't have divine protection. Being barred from entering Heaven or Hell isn't divine protection. Divine protection is basically being protected by heavenly items or by God. Lobo has the opposite of Divine protection in that God doesn't want anything to do with Lobo what with him causing mayhem in Heaven. There's also very little cases in which the Penance Stare fails to take affect. The Captain Marvel one was with Robbie Reyes who has a different Spirit of Vengeance.

The Penance Stare acts a lot like a psychic intrusion/attack but instead of it being in your mind, it attacks the soul directly. It's an empathy-based attack that doesn't care if you're guilty of a crime or not, if the Ghost Rider deems you guilty, than you're guilty in his eyes and you're done for.