Religion and Characters in
New Thunderbolts #12 (Nov. 2005):
“Purple Reign, Part Three: Living Lies”
by Fabian Nicieza, Tom Grummett, Gary Erskine

30 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.
Captain America (Steve Rogers)	Protestant	Weapon Plus; Invaders  Avengers; Secret Defenders; Redeemers; Ultimates; New Avengers		5,992
The Thing (Ben Grimm)	Jewish	U.S. Air Force; Yancy Street Gang  West Coast Avengers; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation; Fantastic Five		5,017
Human Torch (Johnny Storm)	Episcopalian	Fantastic Force; Fantastic Five		4,393
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)	humanist; believes in God	Avengers; Illuminati  Fantastic Five		4,661
Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards)	Episcopalian	Avengers; Lady Liberators		4,069
Atlas (Erik Josten)		Emissaries of Evil (Egghead); Lethal Legion  Masters of Evil; Thunderbolts; Initiative; Defenders		197
Abner Jenkins		Masters of Evil; Sinister Six  Sinister Syndicate; Thunderbolts; Initiative		152
Songbird (Melissa Joan Gold)	Jewish	Femizons; Masters of Evil  Grapplers; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation; Thunderbolts		229
Blizzard (Donny Gill)		Masters of Evil; Thunderbolts  Initiative		99
Photon (Genis-Vell)	Titanian Eternals religion	Thunderbolts		158
Joystick (Janice Olivia Yanizeski)		Masters of Evil; Thunderbolts		45
Speed Demon (James Saunders)		Squadron Sinister; Sinister Syndicate  Thunderbolts; Hood's Army		86
Radioactive Man (Dr. Chen Lu)	Communist Buddhist	Titanic Three; Masters of Evil  Thunderbolts; The People's Defense Force [China]		187
Namorita (Nita Prentiss)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Defenders; New Warriors  Secret Defenders		305
Justice (Vance Astrovik)	Jewish (half)	New Warriors; Initiative: Camp Hammond (staff)  Counter Force		291
Jessica Jones		New Avengers (ally)		139
Purple Man (Zebediah Killgrave)		Hood's Army [Yugoslavia; Croatia. led own criminal gang; Purple Girl's father]		18
Overmind (Grom)		Defenders; Thunderbolts Army		41
Scalpel	prob. indeterminate	[physician with blades on fingers; treated Mach-4]		3
Doctor Spectrum (Martha Gomes)		[ 1st app: New Thunderbolts #12 (Nov. 2005) ]		3
Iron Man (Tony Stark) (cameo)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Avengers; West Coast Avengers  Force Works; Illuminati; Ultimates; New Avengers; Mighty Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Moonstone (Karla Sofen) (cameo)	Buddhist	Masters of Evil; Femizons  Thunderbolts; Dark Avengers		235
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) (cameo)	Wundagorian Transhumanism (raised); HYDRA (former)	HYDRA; S.H.I.E.L.D.  Avengers; Heroes for Hire; Secret Defenders; New Avengers; Lady Liberators [England]		353
Helmut Zemo (cameo)		Masters of Evil; Thunderbolts  Redeemers; Thunderbolts (Counter-Earth) [Germany]		142
Swordsman (Andreas von Strucker) (cameo)	Nazi / white supremacist	Upstarts; Assembly of Evil  Thunderbolts; Initiative		128
Firestar (Angelica Jones) (cameo)	Catholic	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Hellions  New Warriors; Avengers; X-Strike; Weapon X (Exiles)		338
Nova (Richard Rider) (cameo)		Nova Corps; Champions of Xandar  Defenders; New Warriors; Secret Defenders [attended Harry S. Truman High]		427
Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) (cameo)	Reform Judaism	Young Avengers		106
Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (cameo)		Sinister Six; Sinister Twelve		342
Wizard (Bentley Wittman) (cameo)		Frightful Four (leader); Wizard's Warriors (leader)  Hood's Army		202

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