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Dark X-Men: The Beginning #2 (Sep. 2009):
“I Am Daken”
by Rob Williams, Paco Diaz

Dark X-Men: The Beginning #2

Title: “I Am Daken”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Sep. 2009

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Rob Williams
Art by: Paco Diaz


11 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.
Norman Osborn Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
 Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Marvel 417
Daken Wolverine (Daken Akihiro) villain
CBR Scale: S Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"
 Asian; Dark Avengers... 
[son of Wolverine]		 Marvel 72
Bullseye Hawkeye (Benjamin Poindexter)
(2-panel cameo)		 villain
CBR Scale: I Catholic (nominal); nihilist
 Dark Avengers; The Thunderbolts
[former baseball pitcher]		 Marvel 243
Wolverine Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)
(1-panel cameo)		 hero
CBR Scale: S raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker
 Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  Marvel 10,615
The Scorpion Spider-Man (Mac Gargan)
(1-panel cameo)		 villain hero
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
 Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Marvel 315
Sophocles Sophocles
(mentioned)		 real/historical person
CBR Scale: U Greco-Roman classical religion
 [playwright] Marvel 6
Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky
(mentioned)		 real/historical person
CBR Scale: M Russian Orthodox
 [devoutly religious throughout his life] Marvel 20
Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau
(mentioned)		 real/historical person
   [artist; filmmaker...] Marvel 52
Oedipus Oedipus
(mentioned)		 non-feature lead character
CBR Scale: M Greco-Roman classical religion
 [king] Marvel 1
Jocasta Jocasta
(mentioned)		 supporting character
CBR Scale: M Greco-Roman classical religion
 [mother of Oedipus] Marvel 1
Laius
(mentioned)		 supporting character
CBR Scale: M Greco-Roman classical religion
 [father of Oedipus] Marvel 1

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