The Religious Affiliation of
Skids
Sally Blevins

X-Factor #16 (May 1987) provides something of an origin story for Skids, and is one of the best resources for understanding the character's strict religious upbringing prior to the manifestation of her mutant powers and her subsequent attachment to various mutant causes and groups.

Skids was raised in a very religious but in some ways dysfunctional home. Skids' father appears to have been sincerely religious and strongly motivated to teach his daughter to live by righteous principles, but he also had a problem with anger. When her mutant force field powers first manifest, she thought it was a miracle from God.

Skids has apparently not continued active participation in the Christian denomination she was raised in, or in any organized Christian denomination, for that matter. Soon after leaving home when her mutant powers manifest, she joined the Morlocks. She subsequently joined numerous mutant groups, some heroic and some villainous. She has often, of her own free will, been a member of mutant supremacist groups. She was even actively involved in Magneto worship as a member of the Acolytes.

On the other hand, Skids has worked for federal authorities against mutant terrorist groups, such as when she infiltrated Masque's group of highly religious Magneto-worshiping mutant supremacists, on assignment from S.H.I.E.L.D.

Skids has many friends in the mutant community and can be a likable person, but it is difficult to look at her long history without regarding her as a highly malleable personality who is easily persuaded to join extremely questionable causes, including criminal, racist, and mutant supremacist causes. She does not appear to have a strong moral core.

This character is in the following 40 stories which have been indexed by this website:
X-Factor

X-Factor (vol. 1) #7 (Aug. 1986): "Fallout!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #8 (Sep. 1986): "Lost and Found!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #9 (Oct. 1986): "Spots!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #10 (Nov. 1986): "Falling Angel!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #11 (Dec. 1986): "Redemption!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #12 (Jan. 1987): "Boom Boom Boom!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #13 (Feb. 1987): "Ghosts!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #14 (Mar. 1987): "The Mutant Program!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #15 (Apr. 1987): "Whose Death Is It Anyway?"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #16 (May 1987): "Playing with Fire!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #17 (June 1987): "Die, Mutants, Die!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #18 (July 1987): "The Enemy Within"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #19 (Aug. 1987): "All Together Now!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #20 (Sep. 1987): "Children's Crusade"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #21 (Oct. 1987): "For Every Action..."
X-Factor (vol. 1) #22 (Nov. 1987): "If I Should Die..."
X-Factor (vol. 1) #23 (Dec. 1987): "You Say You Want Some Evolution?"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #27 (Apr. 1988): "Gifts!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #28 (May 1988): "Countdown!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #29 (June 1988): "Fame!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #30 (July 1988): "Kiss of Death!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #31 (Aug. 1988): "Kiss Off!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #32 (Sep. 1988): "The Carbon Copy Avengers"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #33 (Oct. 1988): "For All the World to See"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #40 (May 1989): "Dust to Dust"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #41 (June 1989): "Golden Boy!"
X-Factor (vol. 1) #42 (July 1989): "All That Glitters..." (cameo)
X-Factor Annual #3 (1988): "Changes!"
X-Factor Annual #4 (1989): "Happy Summer Vacation"

X-Men

X-Men (vol. 2) #13 (Oct. 1992): "Hazardous Territory"
X-Men (vol. 2) #15 (Dec. 1992): "The Camel's Back"
X-Men (vol. 2) #25 (Oct. 1993): "Fatal Attractions: Dreams Fade"
X-Men (vol. 2) #42 (July 1995): "Heaven Can Wait"
X-Men (vol. 2) #43 (Aug. 1995): "Falling from Grace"
X-Men (vol. 2) #44 (Sep. 1995): "Lost and Found"

X-Treme X-Men

X-Treme X-Men #42 (Apr. 2004): "Prisoner of Fire Part 3: Eyes of Fire"
X-Treme X-Men #43 (May 2004): "Shadows of the Soul"
X-Treme X-Men #44 (May 2004): "Prisoner of Fire Part 5: Liberation"
X-Treme X-Men #45 (June 2004): "Prisoner of Fire Conclusion: Hunting Bogan!"
X-Treme X-Men #46 (June 2004): "One For My Lady... ...One More for the Road"

Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
  - http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Skids.html
  - http://www.comicvine.com/skids/29-3194/
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skids_(comics)
  - http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0086040/
  - http://www.comicboards.com/marvelguide/s3.html
  - http://www.marvunapp.com/master/sjskr.htm
  - http://www.marvunapp.com/master/x0xmxz.htm
  - http://www.marvunapp.com/master/aaac.htm

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