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X-Factor (vol. 1) #4 (May 1986):
“Trials and Errors”
by Bob Layton, Keith Pollard, Joe Rubinstein

X-Factor (vol. 1) #4

Title: “Trials and Errors”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 1986

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Bob Layton
Art by: Keith Pollard, Joe Rubinstein


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.
Cyclops Cyclops (Scott Summers) hero
CBR Scale: SCBR Scale: I Protestant; mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  Marvel 8,371
The Beast The Beast (Hank McCoy) hero scientist
CBR Scale: ICBR Scale: S Episcopalian; agnostic
Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Marvel 5,233
Phoenix Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Metro College; The Twelve...  Marvel 1,905
Iceman Iceman (Bobby Drake) hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish Catholic
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 1,752
Angel Angel (Warren Worthington III) hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Marvel 1,741
Artie Maddicks Artie Maddicks hero
  Daydreamers; Generation X...  Marvel 96
Firefist Firefist (Rusty Collins) villain hero
CBR Scale: I mutant supremacist; Acolyte
(Magneto worship)
Mutant Liberation Front; The Acolytes...  Marvel 89
Cameron Hodge Cameron Hodge villain
CBR Scale: M anti-mutant
The Right (leader); X-Factor (staff) Marvel 71
Candy Southern Candy Southern hero
  Archer College; The Defenders (leader) Marvel 66
Frenzy Frenzy (Joanna Cargill) villain hero
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist worshipper
of Magneto
black; Femizons...  Marvel 44
Tower Tower (Edward Pasternak) villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
The Alliance of Evil Marvel 10
Martin Davis supporting character
 prob. indeterminate  [student suspected of being a mutant] Marvel 1
Headmaster Wooley supporting character
 prob. indeterminate  [thought (incorrectly) that a student was a mutant] Marvel 1
Professor X Professor X (Charles Xavier)
(cameo)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: S religious
Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 4,999
Scarlet Witch Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: M Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sorceress
A-Next; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Marvel 1,624
Quicksilver Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)
(cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: I Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; The Avengers...  Marvel 944
Magneto Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)
(cameo)
villain hero scientist
CBR Scale: S Jewish; Gypsy/Roma
Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 916
Toad Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)
(cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; Misfits...  Marvel 310
Mastermind Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde)
(cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three...  Marvel 140
Madelyne Pryor Madelyne Pryor
(cameo)
hero
  Berzerkers; The Hellfire Club Marvel 173
Timeshadow Timeshadow
(only on cover) 
villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
The Alliance of Evil Marvel 6