The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #134 (June 1980):
“Too Late, the Heroes!”
by John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Terry Austin

The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #134

Title: “Too Late, the Heroes!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: June 1980

Publisher:
Written by: John Byrne, Chris Claremont
Art by: John Byrne, Terry Austin

22 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)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
Black Queen (Jean Grey) (details)  Jean Grey appears throughout most of this story as the Hellfire Club's Black Queen. On last page, she appears in the Dark Phoenix costume, declaring: "I am Phoenix!"	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)	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)	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)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	Excalibur; Neyaphem...  X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		4,345
Colossus (Peter Rasputin)	Communist atheist (former)	Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men		4,122
White Bishop (Donald Pierce)	anti-mutant	The Hellfire Club; The Reavers (leader)		86
Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three...  Secret Empire		140
Phoenix (details)  Jean Grey shows Phoenix Force (including as Phoenix bird claw-style TK power), calls herself Phoenix. Phoenix bird is on cover. Also, according to X-Factor retcon, Jean Grey IS Phoenix Force.	cosmic entity	The Hellfire Club; X-Men		129
Black King (Sebastian Shaw)		The Council of the Chosen; The Inner Circle		122
Black Bishop (Harry Leland)		The Inner Circle		22
The Hellfire Club		[1st app: The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #129 (Jan. 1980)]		191
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (6-panel cameo, pg. 8, panels 1-6)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Hellfire Club soldiers (2-panel cameo, pg. 3-4)  Hellfire Club soldiers do not appear in standard blue-and-red uniforms. But some soldiers wearing colonial-style uniforms in keeping with a society party they were guarding appear fighting Wolverine.		The Hellfire Club		97
Senator Robert Kelly (2-panel cameo, pg. 7, panels 1, 3)	anti-mutant activist; (AoA) mutant-human peace activist	Project: Wideawake		84
Angel (Warren Worthington III) (mentioned, pg. 16, panel 2)  Cyclops (thinking): "I think the sooner I get Jean to Professor X, the better. We left him in New Mexico, at Angel's mountain-top chalet."	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
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (mentioned, pg. 8, 12, 16)  (pg. 8) Beast (Hank McCoy, reading a book by Julian Jaynes): "Interesting theory, too-- though it's more up Professor Xavier's alley than mine. I ought to pay him and the X-Men a visit."	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
White Queen (Emma Frost) (mentioned, pg. 13, panel 3)  Jean Grey: "But first, I want to know how you reached into my mind. You're an illusionist, not a telepath." Mastermind: "M- Mindtap Mechanism-- White Queen's design. Allowed me to project illusions directly into your mind..." Jean Grey: "Use a telepath to ensnare a telepath- ingenious..."	Episcopalian (nominal); mutant supremacist	Academy of Tomorrow; Dark X-Men...  Generation X (teacher); The Cabal; The Council of the Chosen; The Inner Circle; X-Men		3,409
George Washington (mentioned, pg. 2, panel 3)  Quote: "But, thanks to Mastermind's power of illusion, they [the X-Men Colosus, Nightcrawler and Cyclops] look like three soldiers in George Washington's Continental Army and [Storm] a turncoat slave."	Anglican / Episcopalian	[farmer; general...]		204
NYPD (mentioned, pg. 8, 16, panels -2)  Pg. 8: Beast (Hank McCoy, thinking while on Avengers Mansion monitor duty): "The alarm! It's our hookup to the N.Y.P.D." Pg. 16: 3 NYPD cars pull up to Hellfire Club. Beast hears alarm and lokos at sceen, seeing NYPD police APB about the X-Men reportedly attacking the Hellfire Club.		[police department]		1,396
The Avengers (mentioned, pg. 8, panel 2)  Beast (Hank McCoy, thinking): "It's funny-- after al this time, there's still no one as close to me as the X-Men. I have lots of pals, but no... friends. I belong here with the Avengers, and yet..." (more) Page 8 features Beast on monitor duty in the Avengers Mansion.		[1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		100
Julian Jaynes (mentioned, pg. 8, panels 1-2)  (panel 2) Beast (Hank McCoy, thinking while reading a book by Julian Jaynes): "Interesting theory, too-- though it's more up Professor Xavier's alley than mine. I ought to pay him and the X-Men a visit." panel 1: Beast is shown reading a book by Julian Jaynes (whose author appears on book cover): The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.	Unitarian	[argued that ancient peoples were not conscious]		1

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