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Dark X-Men: The Beginning #2 (Sep. 2009):
“The Temptation of Cloak and Dagger”
by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk

Dark X-Men: The Beginning #2

Title: “The Temptation of Cloak and Dagger”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Sep. 2009

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Paul Cornell
Art by: Leonard Kirk


17 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Cloak Cloak (Tyrone Johnson) hero
CBR Scale: U Catholic
black; Dark X-Men
[partner of Dagger]
Marvel 216
Dagger Dagger (Tandy Bowen) hero
CBR Scale: S Catholic
Dark X-Men; League of Losers... 
[partner of Cloak]
Marvel 219
Norman Osborn Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Marvel 417
Barack Obama Barack Obama
(3-panel cameo)
supporting character real/historical person
CBR Scale: S United Church of Christ (formerly Trinity UCC); eclectic upbringing (incl. Muslim/atheist/Marxist/Catholic/United Church of Christ)
[politician; attorney...] IDW Publishing Marvel, etc. 352
unnamed crooked diplomat
(3-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [bribed by drug lords] Marvel 1
Daken Wolverine (Daken Akihiro)
(photo/video (2 panels))
villain
CBR Scale: S Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"
Asian; Dark Avengers... 
[son of Wolverine]
Marvel 72
Mimic Mimic (Calvin Rankin)
(photo/video (2 panels))
villain hero
  Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark X-Men...  Marvel 169
The Sub-Mariner The Sub-Mariner (Namor)
(photo/picture/video)
hero
CBR Scale: S Atlantean Greco-Roman
classical religion
Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  Marvel 1,864
White Queen Black Queen (Emma Frost)
(photo/picture/video)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U Episcopalian (nominal); mutant supremacist
Academy of Tomorrow; Dark X-Men...  Marvel 3,409
Ares Ares
(photo/picture/video)
villain hero deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Dark Avengers; Olympian... 
[god of war; Gods of Olympus]
Marvel DC 440
Sentry Sentry (Bob Reynolds)
(photo/picture/video)
villain hero
CBR Scale: S angel
Dark Avengers; The Avengers Marvel 260
Moonstone Ms. Marvel (Karla Sofen)
(photo/picture/video)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U Buddhist
Dark Avengers; Femizons...  Marvel 235
The Scorpion Spider-Man (Mac Gargan)
(photo/picture/video)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Marvel 315
Bullseye Hawkeye (Benjamin Poindexter)
(photo/picture/video)
villain
CBR Scale: I Catholic (nominal); nihilist
Dark Avengers; The Thunderbolts
[former baseball pitcher]
Marvel 243
Captain Marvel Captain Marvel (Noh-Varr)
(photo/picture/video)
hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Kree religion (former
missionary)
Dark Avengers; Kree
[was operative of 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt]
Marvel 100
Omega Weapon Omega (Michael Pointer)
(photo/picture/video)
hero
  Dark X-Men; Omega Flight Marvel 41
H.A.M.M.E.R. H.A.M.M.E.R.
(mentioned)
supporting character group
  [government agency] Marvel 207