Religion and Characters in
Dark Avengers #8 (Oct. 2009):
“Utopia, Chapter Five”
by Matt Fraction, Luke Ross, Rick Magyar, Mark Pennington

62 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.
Cyclops (Scott Summers) (lead character)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	X-Men; X-Factor  Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; The Twelve (mutants); Summers Rebellion		2,604
The Sub-Mariner (Namor)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Invaders; All-Winners Squad  Defenders; Avengers; The Order; Illuminati; Dark X-Men; X-Men [Atlantis]		1,864
Archangel (Warren Worthington III)	Episcopalian	X-Men; Defenders  Champions (of Los Angeles); X-Factor; Horsemen of Apocalypse; Secret Defenders; X-Saviours; Academy of Tomorrow; Renegades; X-Force; X-Club		1,741
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	First Flight; Weapon Plus  Weapon X; Team X; Alpha Flight; X-Men; Secret Defenders; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; New Avengers; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; X-Force [Canada]		8,823
Black Queen (Emma Frost)	Episcopalian (nominal); mutant supremacist	Council of the Chosen; Hellfire Club Inner Circle  Generation X (teacher); X-Men; Academy of Tomorrow; Dark X-Men (leader)		3,409
Cloak (Tyrone Johnson)	Catholic	Dark X-Men; X-Men [partner of Dagger]		216
Dagger (Tandy Bowen)	Catholic	Secret Defenders; Marvel Knights  League of Losers; New Warriors; Secret Avengers; Dark X-Men; X-Men [partner of Cloak]		219
Norman Osborn	manifestly non-religious	Sinister Twelve (leader); Cabal of Scrier (leader)  Thunderbolts (leader); Dark Avengers (leader); H.A.M.M.E.R. (leader); Dark X-Men (founder) [Foe of: Spider-Man (arch-enemy)]		417
Wolverine (Daken Akihiro)	Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"	X-Strike; Dark Avengers  Dark X-Men [son of Wolverine]		72
H.A.M.M.E.R.		H.A.M.M.E.R.		207
X-23 (Laura Kinney)	religiously untrained	New X-Men; League of Losers  X-Force		190
Domino (Neena Thurman)	Armajesuits (born into); Catholic (raised)	Six Pack; X-Force  X-Corporation; Cable's Underground [Domino's mother leads the Armajesuits sect]		314
Warpath (James Proudstar)	Native American spirituality (Apache)	Hellions; New Mutants  X-Force; X-Corps; X-Corporation; X-Men		340
Mimic (Calvin Rankin)		X-Men; Brotherhood of Mutants  Excalibur; Exiles; Dark X-Men		169
Dark Beast (Henry McCoy)	mutant supremacist	X-Men; Genoshan Excalibur  Gene Nation; Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants; Dark X-Men [Henry McCoy from the Age of Apocalypse]		116
Weapon Omega (Michael Pointer)		Omega Flight; Dark X-Men		41
Hawkeye (Benjamin Poindexter) (8-panel cameo)	Catholic (nominal); nihilist	Thunderbolts; Dark Avengers [former baseball pitcher]		243
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (7-panel cameo)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	X-Men; Excalibur  X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Neyaphem [Germany]		3,788
Madison Jeffries (7-panel cameo)		Gamma Flight; Alpha Flight  Zodiac (Ecliptic); Weapon X; X-Club [Canada]		74
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (6-panel cameo)	Episcopalian	X-Men; Brotherhood of Mutants  Defenders; Avengers; X-Factor; Academy of Tomorrow; X-Club		5,233
Magik (Illyana Rasputin) (6-panel cameo)	occult/magick; demonolatry; raised Communist	New Mutants; Exiles [Russia]		450
Ares (6-panel cameo)	Greco-Roman deity	Warhawks (leader); Mighty Avengers  Dark Avengers [Greece. god of war; Gods of Olympus]		440
Ms. Marvel (Karla Sofen) (6-panel cameo)	Buddhist	Masters of Evil; Femizons  Thunderbolts; Dark Avengers		235
Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (5-panel cameo)	Communist atheist (former)	X-Men; Acolytes  Excalibur; Weapon X (Exiles) [Russia; USSR]		4,122
Psylocke (Betsy Braddock) (5-panel cameo)	Anglican	S.T.R.I.K.E.; X-Men  Excalibur; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Exiles [England]		772
Spider-Man (Mac Gargan) (4-panel cameo)	manifestly non-religious	Masters of Evil; Sinister Twelve  Spider-Man Revenge League; Thunderbolts; Initiative; Dark Avengers		315
Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier) (4-panel cameo)	Catholic; LGBT; Quebecois separatist terrorist (former)	Alpha Flight; Secret Defenders  X-Men; Academy of Tomorrow [Canada. skier]		284
Pixie (Megan Gwynn) (4-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Paragons squad; X-Men		50
Doctor Nemesis (Dr. James Bradley) (4-panel cameo)	Nazi	Battle-Axis (leader); X-Club [England]	Ace Magazines	21
Simon Trask (4-panel cameo)	anti-mutant: Humanity Now (leader)	Humanity's Last Stand [brother of Sentinel inventor Bolivar Trask]		15
Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) (3-panel cameo)	Native American religion (Cheyenne) / Teutonic paganism	New Mutants; Mutant Liberation Front  X-Force; X-Men; Young X-Men (teacher)		470
Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith) (3-panel cameo)		Fallen Angels; New Mutants  X-Terminators; X-Force; Cable's Underground; Nextwave; X-Men		314
Dazzler (Alison Blaire) (3-panel cameo)	singing	X-Men; Excalibur  Academy of Tomorrow		447
Anole (Victor Borkowski) (3-panel cameo)	LGBT	Xavier Institute: Alpha squad; Young X-Men		60
Dr. Yuriko Takiguchi (3-panel cameo)		X-Club [Japan. creator of Godzilla]		30
Iceman (Bobby Drake) (2-panel cameo)	Jewish Catholic	X-Men; Champions (of Los Angeles)  Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; X-Factor; The Twelve (mutants); Secret Defenders		1,752
Magma (Amara Aquilla) (2-panel cameo)	Greco-Roman classical religion	New Mutants; Hellions  New Hellions; X-Corporation; 198		269
Dust (Sooraya Qadir) (2-panel cameo)	Sunni Muslim	Xavier Institute: Special Class; Xavier Institute: Hellions squad  Brotherhood of Mutants; New X-Men; Young X-Men		102
Greymalkin (Jonas Greymalkin) (2-panel cameo)	LGBT	Young X-Men [ancestor of Charles Xavier]		37
Stepford Cuckoo (Mindee Cuckoo) (2-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Corsairs squad; Weapon Plus		156
Dr. Kavita Rao (2-panel cameo)	Hindu	X-Club [India. developed "cure": medical means to neutralize mutant powers]		62
Onyxx (Sidney Green) (2-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Gambit's squad		14
Hela (2-panel cameo)	Norse/Teutonic deity	[Goddess of death, ruler of Hel and Niffelheim]		169
Sunspot (Roberto Dacosta) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic	New Mutants; Fallen Angels  X-Force; Mutant Liberation Front; X-Corporation; Hellfire Club; X-Ternals; Academy of Tomorrow; X-Strike; Young X-Men (teacher); Avengers [Brazil]		574
Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic; LGBT	New Mutants; 198  Academy of Tomorrow; X-Men [Vietnam]		260
Armor (Hisako Ichiki) (1-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute; X-Men		132
Sentry (Bob Reynolds) (1-panel cameo)	angel	Avengers; New Avengers  Mighty Avengers; Dark Avengers		260
Elixir (Josh Foley) (1-panel cameo)	anti-mutant (former)	Reavers; Xavier Institute: New Mutants squad  New X-Men; X-Force [discovered powers while trying to join anti-mutant Reavers]		118
Surge (Nori Ashida) (1-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: New Mutants squad; New X-Men [Japan]		151
Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic	Xavier Institute: Hellions squad; New X-Men  Young X-Men		82
Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) (1-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Hellions squad; New X-Men		121
Mystique (Raven Darkholme) (1-panel cameo)	mutant supremacist; manifestly non-religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Freedom Force  X-Factor; X-Corps; Xavier Institute: Gambit's squad; X-Men; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Marauders; Dark X-Men		451
Stepford Cuckoos (Celeste, Esme, Mindee, Phoebe, Sophie) (1-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Corsairs squad; Weapon Plus  X-Men (future)		147
X-Treme (Adam Neramani) (1-panel cameo)	Shi'ar religion	[half brother of Cyclops and Havok?]		11
Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi) (1-panel cameo)	African primal-indigenous religion: Wakandan Black Panther Cult	Xavier Institute; X-Strike [member of Storm's squad]		42
Trance (Hope Abbott) (1-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Paragons squad		50
Loa (Alani Ryan) (1-panel cameo)	Polynesian traditional religion	Xavier Institute: Alpha squad		50
Nekra (Nekra Sinclair) (1-panel cameo)	former priestess of Black Spectre; Kali worshipper/Thugee; Dry Academy	Black Spectre; Lethal Legion		49
Sadie Sinclair (1-panel cameo)		[San Francisco mayor who invited X-Men to live there]		3
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (someone disguised as)	religious	X-Men (founder); Brotherhood of Mutants  The Twelve (mutants); Genoshan Excalibur (founder); Illuminati		4,318
Jehovah (mentioned)	God	[ 1st app: (Timely/Marvel) [9354]; (DC: as "The Voice", e.g. "The Presence", DC) [9342] ]	, etc.	313
Biosentinels (mentioned)	anti-mutant	[Foe of: Dark X-Men. humans mutated into purely mechanical soldiers]		2

An alternative form of this story's title is: “Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Utopia, Part 5”. Webpage for Dark Avengers #8 (Oct. 2009) created 28 August 2009. Last modified 11 December 2009.
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