Machine Man & Bastion Annual ‘98 (June 1998):
“Deus X Machina”
by Mike Higgins, Karl Bollers, Martin Egeland, Howard M. Shum

Machine Man & Bastion Annual '98

Title: “Deus X Machina”

Medium: comic

Cover date: June 1998

Publisher:
Written by: Mike Higgins, Karl Bollers
Art by: Martin Egeland, Howard M. Shum

24 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.
Machine Man (Aaron Stack) (lead character)	N.A.	Heavy Metal; Midnight Wreckers...  Nextwave; Operation: Lightning Storm; The Avengers		174
Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti) (lead character)	anti-mutant A.I.	Friends of Humanity; Humanity's Last Stand...  Operation: Zero Tolerance; Purifiers [mystical fusion of Master Mold and Nimrod]		95
Cable (Nathan Christopher Summers)	Askani (leader)	Cable's Underground (leader); Clan Chosen...  Six Pack; The New Mutants (leader); The Twelve; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		666
G. W. Bridge	Muslim	black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  Six Pack; Weapon P.R.I.M.E.		123
Master Mold	anti-mutant robot	[mutant hunter]		41
The Hulk (Bruce Banner) (flashback cameo)	Catholic (lapsed)	Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order; The Ultimates; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Saviours		4,551
Nick Fury (flashback cameo)	secular	black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Howling Commandos; The Ultimates		1,898
Cyclops (Scott Summers) (flashback cameo)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (flashback cameo)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Jean Grey (flashback cameo)	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Iceman (Bobby Drake) (flashback cameo)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Champions; The Defenders; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		1,752
Angel (Warren Worthington III) (flashback cameo)	Episcopalian	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Renegades; Secret Defenders; St. Joe's Preparatory School; The Champions; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		1,741
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan) (flashback cameo)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  First Flight; Secret Defenders; Team X; The Avengers; The Canadian Army; Weapon Plus; Weapon X; X-Force; X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		10,615
Storm (Ororo Munroe) (flashback cameo)	Goddess worship	black; Lady Liberators...  Morlocks (leader); The Fantastic Four; The Twelve; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men; X-Saviours; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		5,068
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (flashback cameo)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	Excalibur; Neyaphem...  X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		4,345
Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (flashback cameo)	Communist atheist (former)	Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men		4,122
Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (flashback cameo)	Catholic	Factor Three; Generation X (teacher)...  X-Corps (leader); X-Men		1,340
Kitty Pryde (flashback cameo)	Jewish	Excalibur; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Exiles; X-Men		3,128
Rogue (Anna Marie) (flashback cameo)	Southern Baptist	Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men		3,526
Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (flashback cameo)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Brotherhood of Mutants; Excalibur...  Exemplars; The Exiles; X-Men		387
Rachel Grey (flashback cameo)	Episcopalian (born); future self: founder of Askani religion	Excalibur; Starjammers...  X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		358
Graydon Creed (flashback cameo)	anti-mutant	Friends of Humanity (leader); Purifiers...  The Upstarts [son of Sabretooth and Mystique]		61
Dr. Abel Stack (flashback cameo)		U.S. Army [created Machine Man]		3
Steven Lang (flashback cameo)	anti-mutant	Phalanx; Project Armageddon (leader) [designed Mark III Sentinels]		26

Machine Man & Bastion Annual '98 is also known as: Machine Man / Bastion '98 or Machine Man / Bastion Annual '98 or Machine Man & Bastion Annual '98. There is no issue number on the cover. The way the logo actually appears on the cover can be read: "1998 Annual Starring Machine Man & Bastion".

The process of listing characters who appeared in this source is not yet complete. This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. An alternative form of this story's title is: “Engines of Destruction, Part 2: Deus X Machina”. Webpage for Machine Man & Bastion Annual '98 (June 1998) created 9 October 2012. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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