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Dark Wolverine #78 (Nov. 2009):
“My Hero: Part One”
by Daniel Way, Marjorie Liu, Stephen Segovia

Dark Wolverine #78

Title: “My Hero: Part One”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Nov. 2009

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Daniel Way, Marjorie Liu
Art by: Stephen Segovia


21 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.
Daken Wolverine (Daken Akihiro)
(lead character)
villain
CBR Scale: S Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"
Asian; Dark Avengers... 
[son of Wolverine]
Marvel 72
Norman Osborn Norman Osborn villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Marvel 417
H.A.M.M.E.R. H.A.M.M.E.R. supporting character group
  [government agency] Marvel 207
Aryan villain clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Nazi; leader of the Skulls
(Red Skull worshippers)
[1st app: Wolverine (vol. 2) #164 (July 2001)] Marvel 4
Cutthroat Cutthroat (Danny Leighton) villain
  Hood's Army; Skeleton Crew
[Diamondback's brother; was in "Savage Crims" gang]
Marvel 44
The Inquisitor The Inquisitor villain
  [torturer] Marvel 12
Bunny Brennan Bunny Brennan villain
  [1st app: Dark Wolverine #78 (Nov. 2009)] Marvel 1
Emmy Doolin Emmy Doolin villain
  [Wolverine and Sabretooth knew her father in RCMP] Marvel 4
Moses Magnum Moses Magnum villain
  black Marvel 19
Judge Jones
(8-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [dog lover tortured by the Inquisitor to change a decision] Marvel 1
Moonstone Ms. Marvel (Karla Sofen)
(5-panel cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U Buddhist
Dark Avengers; Femizons...  Marvel 235
unnamed store manager
(5-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [sexually harrassed his employee Emmy Doolin] Marvel 1
Ares Ares
(1-panel cameo)
villain hero deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Dark Avengers; Olympian... 
[god of war; Gods of Olympus]
Marvel DC 440
Sentry Sentry (Bob Reynolds)
(1-panel cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: S angel
Dark Avengers; The Avengers Marvel 260
The Scorpion Spider-Man (Mac Gargan)
(1-panel cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Marvel 315
Bullseye Hawkeye (Benjamin Poindexter)
(1-panel cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: I Catholic (nominal); nihilist
Dark Avengers; The Thunderbolts
[former baseball pitcher]
Marvel 243
Captain Marvel Captain Marvel (Noh-Varr)
(1-panel cameo)
hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Kree religion (former
missionary)
Dark Avengers; Kree
[was operative of 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt]
Marvel 100
Spider-Man Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
(photo/picture/video)
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
Itsu Akihiro Itsu Akihiro
(mentioned)
supporting character
CBR Scale: S Shinto
[Wolverine's late wife; mother of his son Daken] Marvel 2
Robert Devon
(mentioned)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [Daken tricked his girlfriend into helping upload video] Marvel 1