Religion and Characters in
Moon Knight Saga (Oct. 2009)
by John Rhett Thomas, Dugan Trodglen, Jess Harrold, Laurence Campbell, David Finch, Klaus Janson, Mark Texeira, etc.

91 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.
Moon Knight (Marc Spector) (lead character)	Egyptian classical religion (raised Jewish)	U.S. Marines; Marvel Knights  CIA; The Avengers		423
Khonshu	Egyptian deity	[Egypt. Moon Knight's patron; god of moon and vengeance]		32
Bushman (Raoul Bushman)		[led mercenary/terrorist group; Burunda's ex-president]		3
Black Spectre (Carson Knowles) (cover & 2-panel cameo)	demonolatry (agent of Set)	[politician; criminal]		17
Midnight (Jeff Wilde) (cover & 1-panel cameo)	obsessed with Moon Knight	Secret Empire [Midnight Man's son; tried to be Moon Knight's sidekick]		23
Marlene Alraune (4-panel cameo)		[longtime girlfriend of Moon Knight; taught art history]		98
The Punisher (Frank Castle) (3-panel cameo)	Catholic (former seminarian)	U.S. Marines; Marvel Knights  Code Red; Secret Defenders		1,170
Frenchie (Jean-Paul DuChamp) (3-panel cameo)	LGBT	The Committee [France]		100
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (2-panel cameo)	Protestant	Weapon Plus; Redeemers  Ultimates; The Invaders; The Avengers; Secret Defenders		5,992
Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (2-panel cameo)	Catholic	Marvel Knights; Weapon X (Exiles)		1,801
S.H.I.E.L.D. (2-panel cameo)		[intelligence agent; federal agent...]		1,188
Professor Peter Alraune Sr. (2-panel cameo)		[father of Moon Knight's girlfriend Marlene]		2
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (1-panel cameo)	Protestant	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Weapon X (Exiles)  The Avengers; Secret Defenders		9,358
The Hulk (Bruce Banner) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic (lapsed)	Defenders; Hulkbusters  Pantheon; The Order; Ultimates; X-Saviours; Warbound; Secret Defenders; Weapon X (Exiles); The Avengers		4,551
Iron Man (Tony Stark) (1-panel cameo)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Illuminati; Ultimates  The Avengers; Force Works; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
The Sub-Mariner (Namor) (1-panel cameo)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	All-Winners Squad; Defenders  The Order; Illuminati; The Invaders; The Avengers; Dark X-Men; X-Men [Atlantis]		1,864
Nick Fury (1-panel cameo)	secular	Howling Commandos; Ultimates  S.H.I.E.L.D.		1,898
Yellowjacket (Hank Pym) (1-panel cameo)	atheist	Defenders; Liberators  The Avengers; Secret Defenders; Commission on Superhuman Activities		1,543
The Thing (Ben Grimm) (1-panel cameo)	Jewish	Yancy Street Gang; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation  Fantastic Five; The Avengers; U.S. Air Force; The Fantastic Four		5,017
Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (1-panel cameo)	Episcopalian	Fantastic Five; Fantastic Force  The Fantastic Four		4,393
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (1-panel cameo)	humanist; believes in God	Illuminati; Fantastic Five  The Fantastic Four; The Avengers		4,661
Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards) (1-panel cameo)	Episcopalian	The Avengers; Lady Liberators  The Fantastic Four		4,069
Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (1-panel cameo)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Great Lakes Avengers; Thunderbolts  Ultimates; Chain Gang; The Avengers		1,515
Black Panther (T'Challa) (1-panel cameo)	African primal-indigenous religion; Black Panther Cult (leader)	Fantastic Force; The Fantastic Four  The Avengers		786
Falcon (Sam Wilson) (1-panel cameo)	Baptist (lapsed)	SHIELD Super-Agents; The Avengers		531
Black Knight (Dane Whitman) (1-panel cameo)	Christian (medieval)	Heroes for Hire; Excalibur  The Avengers		430
Warbird (Carol Danvers) (1-panel cameo)	Protestant	NASA; Starjammers  Operation: Lightning Storm (leader); Weapon X (Exiles); U.S. Air Force; The Avengers		784
Tigra (Greer Grant) (1-panel cameo)	mystically empowered	Counter Force; Lady Liberators  The Avengers		310
Photon (Monica Rambeau) (1-panel cameo)		Nextwave; The Avengers		256
Luke Cage (1-panel cameo)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Defenders; Marvel Knights  The Avengers; Heroes for Hire; The Fantastic Four [formerly owned a bar and theater]		951
Iron Fist (Danny Rand) (1-panel cameo)	Tibetan (K'un L'un) Buddhism	Secret Defenders; The Avengers  Heroes for Hire		672
Hercules (1-panel cameo)	Greco-Roman classical religion	Renegades; The Avengers  Heroes for Hire; The Champions [Greece]		1,029
Norman Osborn (1-panel cameo)	manifestly non-religious	Sinister Twelve (leader); Cabal of Scrier (leader)  Dark Avengers (leader); Dark X-Men; H.A.M.M.E.R.; The Thunderbolts [Foe of: Spider-Man (arch-enemy)]		417
Sentry (Bob Reynolds) (1-panel cameo)	angel	Dark Avengers; The Avengers		260
Moonstone (Karla Sofen) (1-panel cameo)	Buddhist	Thunderbolts; Dark Avengers  Femizons; The Masters of Evil		235
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) (1-panel cameo)	Wundagorian Transhumanism (raised); HYDRA (former)	S.H.I.E.L.D.; HYDRA  The Avengers; Heroes for Hire; Secret Defenders; Lady Liberators [England]		353
Taskmaster (1-panel cameo)	manifestly non-religious	Agency X; Thunderbolts  Shadow Initiative; Initiative; HYDRA; The Frightful Four		128
Songbird (Melissa Joan Gold) (1-panel cameo)	Jewish	Grapplers; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation  Thunderbolts; The Masters of Evil; Femizons		229
Radioactive Man (Dr. Chen Lu) (1-panel cameo)	Communist Buddhist	Titanic Three; Thunderbolts  The People's Defense Force; The Masters of Evil [China]		187
Swordsman (Andreas von Strucker) (1-panel cameo)	Nazi / white supremacist	Assembly of Evil; Thunderbolts  Initiative; The Upstarts		128
Firestar (Angelica Jones) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; X-Strike  The New Warriors; Weapon X (Exiles); Hellions; The Avengers; Young Allies		338
Penance (Robbie Baldwin) (1-panel cameo)	Presbyterian	League of Losers; Thunderbolts  The New Warriors		359
Justice (Vance Astrovik) (1-panel cameo)	Jewish (half)	Initiative: Camp Hammond (staff); Counter Force  The New Warriors		291
Darkhawk (Chris Powell) (1-panel cameo)		League of Losers; Loners  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The New Warriors		180
Rage (Elvin Daryl Haliday) (1-panel cameo)	Protestant	Psionex; Initiative: Camp Hammond  Counter Force; The Avengers; The New Warriors		157
Machine Man (Aaron Stack) (1-panel cameo)	N.A.	Heavy Metal; Midnight Wreckers  Nextwave; Operation: Lightning Storm; The Avengers		174
Hellcat (Patsy Walker) (1-panel cameo)		Defenders; Legion of Unliving  The Avengers; Lady Liberators		639
Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff) (1-panel cameo)	Inhuman religion	Inhuman Royal Family; The Fantastic Four  The Avengers; Inhumans [Attilan]		531
D-Man (Dennis Dunphy) (1-panel cameo)	Salvation Army	Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation; The Avengers  Night People		60
Jocasta (1-panel cameo)	N.A.	Initiative: Mavericks; The Avengers		142
Mantis (Mandy Celestine) (1-panel cameo)	Priests of Pama (pacifistic Kree sect); Celestial Madonna	Guardians of the Galaxy; The Avengers [Vietnam]		161
Starfox (Eros) (1-panel cameo)	Titanian religion	Eternals of Titan; The Avengers		207
Stingray (Walter Newell) (1-panel cameo)		Defenders; Initiative  Initiative: Point Men (leader); The Avengers		124
Firebird (Bonita Juarez) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic	The Rangers; The Avengers		84
Living Lightning (Miguel Santos) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic; LGBT	Pacific Overlords; The Avengers  The Rangers		118
Werewolf By Night (Jack Russell) (1-panel cameo)		Night Shift; Howling Commandos [Romania; USA]		273
Jack Norriss (1-panel cameo)	Cult of the Nameless One (lapsed)	Defenders (ally); S.H.I.E.L.D. [husband of Barbara Norriss (Valkyrie)]		41
Toltec (1-panel cameo)	Aztec	[Mexico]		3
Bertrand Crawley (1-panel cameo)		[underworld informant for Moon Knight]		21
Gena Landers (1-panel cameo)		[mother of Moon Knight helpers Ryan and Ricky]		13
Midnight Man (Anton Mogart) (1-panel cameo)		[Jeff Wilde's father]		3
Morpheus (Robert Markham) (1-panel cameo)	agent of Set	[electrical engineer]		5
Seth (1-panel cameo)	Egyptian deity	[god of evil and death; one of the Gods of Heliopolis]		45
The Cobra (James Lardner) (1-panel cameo)		CIA [brother of Moon Knight's old CIA buddy Amos]		1
Mona Lisa (Lisa Gherardini) (art)	Catholic	[Italy. subject of Da Vinci's famed painting]		44
God (mentioned)	God	[ 1st app: (Timely/Marvel) [9354]; (DC: as "The Voice", e.g. "The Presence", DC) [9342] ]	, etc.	313
Venom (Mac Gargan) (mentioned)	manifestly non-religious	Sinister Twelve; Spider-Man Revenge League  Thunderbolts; Initiative; Dark Avengers; The Masters of Evil		315
Bullseye (Benjamin Poindexter) (mentioned)	Catholic (nominal); nihilist	Thunderbolts; Dark Avengers [former baseball pitcher]		243
Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) (mentioned)	Norse/Teutonic paganism (Asgardian)	Defenders [former Chooser of the Slain]		325
Phantom Rider (Lincoln Slade) (mentioned)	spirit	[U.S. Marshall]		14
Taurus (Cornelius van Lunt) (mentioned)	astrology	Zodiac (Cartel) (founder)		19
The Hatchet-Man (Randall Spector) (mentioned)	Jewish	[1st app: The Hulk! Magazine #17]		24
Cactus (mentioned)	N.A.	Desert Dwellers [cactus]		5
Cyclone (André Gerard) (mentioned)		Hood's Army; Maggia [France]		2
Mad Dog (Joe Fasinera) (mentioned)		[son of Stained-Glass Scarlet, who killed him]		1
Ricky Landers (mentioned)		[Moon Knight helper]		6
Ray Landers (mentioned)		[Moon Knight helper]		6
Lupinar (mentioned)	terrorist	[leads own terrorist organization]		3
Samuels (mentioned)		[England]		7
Stained Glass Scarlet (Scarlet Fasinera) (mentioned)	Catholic nun (former)	[vigilante]		4
Arkon (mentioned)	alien	[Imperion of Polemachus]		10
unnamed registration case worker (mentioned)		S.H.I.E.L.D. [case worker who evaluated Moon Knight for Registration]		3
Elias Spector (mentioned)	Jewish rabbi	[Moon Knight's father]		2
Saddam Hussein (mentioned)	Sunni Muslim	[Iraq]		229
Seti II (mentioned)	Egyptian classical religion	[Egypt. Marc Spector became Moon Knight in Tomb of Sety II]		1
Giorgio Armani (mentioned)	LGBT	[Italy]		19
Conquer-Lord (Mr. Quinn) (mentioned)		The Corporation [insane; tried to assassinate NYC mayor]		2
The Committee (mentioned)		[L.A.-based crime syndicate; tried to capture Jack Russell]		12
Amos Lardner (mentioned)		CIA [Moon Knight's old CIA buddy; brother of Cobra]		1
The Company (mentioned)		[shadowy criminal organization]		1
The Profile (mentioned)		The Committee		11

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