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Dark Avengers #9 (Nov. 2009)
by Brian Michael Bendis, Mike Deodato Jr., Will Conrad

Dark Avengers #9

Medium: comic

Cover date: Nov. 2009

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Brian Michael Bendis
Art by: Mike Deodato Jr., Will Conrad


38 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.
Ares Ares
(lead character)
villain hero deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Dark Avengers; Olympian... 
[god of war; Gods of Olympus]
Marvel DC 440
Nick Fury Nick Fury hero
CBR Scale: U secular
black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  Marvel 1,898
Victoria Hand Victoria Hand supporting character
CBR Scale: S LGBT; Humanist
Dark Avengers (staff); H.A.M.M.E.R.
[2nd in command under Osborn in H.A.M.M.E.R.]
Marvel 108
Quake Quake (Daisy Johnson) hero
  S.H.I.E.L.D.; Secret Warriors...  Marvel 44
Phobos Phobos (Alex Aaron) supporting character hero deity
CBR Scale: M ethnically half Greco-Roman
deity
Secret Warriors
[son of Ares]
Marvel 7
The Druid The Druid (Sebastian Druid) hero
CBR Scale: M Druid
Secret Warriors
[son of Doctor Druid]
Marvel 16
Hellfire Hellfire (J.T. Slade) hero
  Secret Warriors
[grandson of the Phantom Rider]
Marvel 15
Stonewall Stonewall (Jerry Sledge) hero
  Secret Warriors Marvel 19
Manifold Manifold (Eden Fesi) hero
CBR Scale: M Australian Aboriginal religion
Secret Warriors; The Avengers Marvel 35
The Hulk The Hulk (Bruce Banner)
(only on cover)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed)
Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Marvel 4,551
Sentry Sentry (Bob Reynolds)
(8-panel cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: S angel
Dark Avengers; The Avengers Marvel 260
Bullseye Hawkeye (Benjamin Poindexter)
(7-panel cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: I Catholic (nominal); nihilist
Dark Avengers; The Thunderbolts
[former baseball pitcher]
Marvel 243
Moonstone Ms. Marvel (Karla Sofen)
(6-panel cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U Buddhist
Dark Avengers; Femizons...  Marvel 235
Lindy Reynolds Lindy Reynolds
(5-panel cameo)
supporting character
  [The Sentry's wife; old friend of Invisible Woman] Marvel 39
CLOC
(4-panel cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: I N.A.
[Sentry's intelligent computer] Marvel 18
The Scorpion Spider-Man (Mac Gargan)
(3-panel cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Marvel 315
Daken Wolverine (Daken Akihiro)
(3-panel cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: S Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"
Asian; Dark Avengers... 
[son of Wolverine]
Marvel 72
Iron Man Iron Man (Tony Stark)
(mentioned in text & seen in picture (2 panels))
hero
CBR Scale: I futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous
Force Works; Illuminati...  Marvel 5,673
Hawkeye Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
(mentioned in text & seen in picture (2 panels))
hero
CBR Scale: U Christian (denomination
unknown)
Chain Gang; The Avengers...  Marvel 1,515
Quicksilver Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)
(photo/video (2 panels))
villain hero
CBR Scale: I Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; The Avengers...  Marvel 944
Snap Snap
(photo/picture/video)
lead character
CBR Scale: R Elf
[1st app: Rice Krispies breakfast cereal ad (Aug. 1933)] Kellogg's 10
Crackle Crackle
(photo/picture/video)
lead character
CBR Scale: R Elf
[1st app: Rice Krispies breakfast cereal ad (Aug. 1933)] Kellogg's 10
Pop Pop
(photo/picture/video)
lead character
CBR Scale: R Elf
[1st app: Rice Krispies breakfast cereal ad (Aug. 1933)] Kellogg's 10
Secretary of Defense Secretary of Defense (Robert Gates)
(talked to, but not seen or
heard)
supporting character real/historical person
  [politician] Marvel 21
Norman Osborn Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn)
(voice only)
villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Marvel 417
Spider-Man Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
(mentioned)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 10,664
Wolverine Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: S raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker
Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  Marvel 10,615
Captain Marvel Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers)
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Operation: Lightning Storm (leader); Starjammers...  Marvel 784
Captain Marvel Captain Marvel (Noh-Varr)
(mentioned)
hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Kree religion (former
missionary)
Dark Avengers; Kree
[was operative of 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt]
Marvel 100
H.A.M.M.E.R. H.A.M.M.E.R.
(mentioned)
supporting character group
  [government agency] Marvel 207
A.I.M. A.I.M.
(mentioned)
villain group
CBR Scale: S Scientism
[terrorist] Marvel 390
HYDRA
(mentioned)
villain group
CBR Scale: S HYDRA
[largest worldwide subversive organization] Marvel 283
Deadpool Deadpool (Wade Wilson)
(mentioned)
villain hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed); One World
Church (lapsed)
Code Red; Heroes for Hire...  Marvel 1,256
Kree Kree
(mentioned)
supporting character group
CBR Scale: S Kree religion
[alien race] Marvel 238
Zeus Zeus
(mentioned)
supporting character deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Council of Godheads
[supreme monarch of the Olympian gods]
DC Marvel 283
Captain Marvel Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: S Kree religion
Kree
[former captain of Kree star fleet]
Marvel 142
Chronus
(mentioned)
supporting character deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Titans of Olympus
[father of Zeus]
Marvel 3
George Gallup George Gallup
(mentioned)
real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Christian (denomination
unknown)
[pollster] CBS 4