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Name: activists

Classification: supporting characters supporting characters   group group   real/historical group real/historical group  

Type of Organization/Group: occupation

Number of group members listed below: 47

Character
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Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Acculturation Resistance Movement Acculturation Resistance Movement supporting character group
CBR Scale: D anti-mutant
[1st app: Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #402 (Feb. 2002)] Marvel 2
ACLU ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) group real/historical person
CBR Scale: D civil liberties activists
  Marvel 20
Roberto Alonzo supporting character
CBR Scale: D Original Gothamite activist
[spokesperson for militant Original Gothamites] DC 1
Joan Baez Joan Baez real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Quaker
  Marvel 97
Ken Barlow Ken Barlow supporting character
CBR Scale: S Anglican (lapsed); anti-religious
[1st app: Coronation Street - Season 1, Episode 1 (9 Dec. 1960)] ITV 889
Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir real/historical person
CBR Scale: M Catholic (raised); Atheist; Existentialism; Feminist; Marxist; LGBT
[1st app: Disorder (1949)] G.M.F. Productions 20
CAREFIST supporting character group
CBR Scale: D anti-globalization
[organized retreat Thor planned to attend] Marvel Pocket Star Books 1
Adrian Castorp supporting character
CBR Scale: M mutant rights activist
Fontane College; M.O.N.S.T.E.R. (founder)
[six-fingered mutant who had epileptic seizures]
Marvel 3
Edward supporting character
CBR Scale: M Fundamentalist Environmentalist; eco-terrorist
[1st appears and dies in same story] Marvel New Universe 1
gay rights activists gay rights activists supporting character group
CBR Scale: D LGBT
[1st app: Static #19 (Jan. 1995)] DC Milestone Media 2
Gideon's Cord villain group
CBR Scale: D radically pro-life
[backed pro-life terrorists Society of the Cross] DC Milestone Media 1
Mrs. Goren Mrs. Goren supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[mother of Static's girlfriend Frieda] DC Milestone Media 2
Arthur Goren Arthur Goren supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[father of Static's girlfriend Frieda] DC Milestone Media 2
Granddad Granddad (Robert Jebediah Freeman) supporting character comic strip character
  black; Tuskegee Airmen... 
[was active in Civil Rights movement]
Universal Press Syndicate; Rebel Base Productions, etc.
Jim Grant Jim Grant non-feature lead character
CBR Scale: M Weather Underground (former)
[former militant wanted for murder; hid from FBI for 30 yrs.] Viking Press 2
Green Arrow Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) hero
CBR Scale: M agnostic; Liberal Marxist
Green Arrows of the World; Justice League Elite...  DC 2,507
John Holt John Holt real/historical person
  [homeschooling, unschooling pioneer; youth rights theorist] Ohio State University Press 2
Humanity Now! Humanity Now! supporting character group
CBR Scale: D anti-mutant
[led by Simon Trask] Marvel 6
Humans for Genetic Equality supporting character group
CBR Scale: D mutophile
[opposed government extermination of mutants] Marvel 3
Helen Keller real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Swedenborgian
  Marvel 24
Robert Kennedy Robert Kennedy real/historical person
CBR Scale: M Catholic
  Marvel 253
Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. supporting character clergy/religious leader real/historical person
CBR Scale: M Baptist preacher
black DC 252
Malcolm X supporting character clergy/religious leader real/historical person
CBR Scale: M Nation of Islam (convert/leader); Muslim (convert)
black DC 75
Ali MacGraw real/historical person
CBR Scale: M Jewish (ethnic only); Animal Rights
[star of "Love Story"] Marvel 42
Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Methodist
[1st post-apartheid president of South Africa] Marvel 133
Drew McIntosh hero
CBR Scale: M Rastafarian
black ZOOLOOK 3
Denise Metcalf Denise Metcalf supporting character
  black
[Hardware's mother; community activist]
DC Milestone Media 4
Rafe Michel Rafe Michel villain
CBR Scale: D black supremacist
black
[led a militant Black Power group Silver Skulls]
Marvel 9
Kate Millett Kate Millett real/historical person
CBR Scale: M LGBT Feminist; Catholic (raised)
[wrote book Sexual Politics (1970)] Marvel 8
The Mutant Underground supporting character group
CBR Scale: D mutophile
[covert group w/ safehouses; dedicated to protecting mutants] Marvel 6
Willie Nelson real/historical person
CBR Scale: I Methodist
[1st app: A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)] Marvel 269
The New York Three supporting character group
CBR Scale: D hippie
[framed for murder by The Tribune] Marvel 2
Solomon Northup Solomon Northup non-feature lead character real/historical person
  black
[free black man captured and sold into slavery]
Derby and Miller Derby, Orton and Mulligan, etc. 3
The People's Militia villain group
CBR Scale: D black supremacist
black
[organized by Red Skull]
Marvel 1
Phantom Jungle Girl Phantom Jungle Girl (Donna Black) hero
CBR Scale: S Vodoun
The Megatropolis Quartet Kitchen Sink Press Image 3
Pussyfoot Johnson Pussyfoot Johnson (William E. Johnson) real/historical person
  [Prohibition advocate] Fleming H. Revell Company 2
Redpath supporting character
CBR Scale: M Fundamentalist Environmentalist; eco-terrorist
Native American
[1st appears and dies in same story]
Marvel New Universe 1
Lazaro Rivera supporting character
CBR Scale: D mutophile
[leader of Humans for Genetic Equality] Marvel 3
Save the Planet supporting character group
CBR Scale: D Environmentalism
[1st app: Daredevil (vol. 1) #250 (Jan. 1988)] Marvel 5
Karen Silkwood Karen Silkwood real/historical person
CBR Scale: S environmentalist
[1st app: The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 1) #601 (Oct. 2009)] Marvel 3
Johnson Stroman supporting character
CBR Scale: D racial justice activist
black
[killed by hitman Reprise; wrote about racial justice]
DC Milestone Media 1
Kelsohn Styvens villain
  [race baiter; accused Icon of being racist] DC Milestone Media 1
Balu Sutra supporting character
CBR Scale: D radical pacifist; Buddhist
Asian
[behaved insanely due to an Oriental idol]
DC 1
Telesthene Telesthene (Tina Kalkstein) villain
CBR Scale: D fundamentalist Environmentalist; Animal Rights
Arcadian League (leader); The Shadow Cabinet...  DC Milestone Media 2
Simon Trask Simon Trask villain
CBR Scale: M anti-mutant: Humanity Now (leader)
Humanity's Last Stand
[brother of Sentinel inventor Bolivar Trask]
Marvel 15
Wiley supporting character
CBR Scale: M Fundamentalist Environmentalist; eco-terrorist
[1st appears and dies in same story] Marvel New Universe 1
Jody Williams Jody Williams real/historical person
  [won Nobel Peace Prize for work against land mines] Marvel 7