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Religion and Characters in
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 book

Publication 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: S Protestant; mutant supremacist
X-Men; X-Factor  Marvel 2,604
The Beast The Beast (Hank McCoy) hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
X-Men; Brotherhood of Mutants  Marvel 5,233
Phoenix Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
X-Men; X-Factor  Marvel 1,905
Iceman Iceman (Bobby Drake) hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish Catholic
X-Men; Champions (of Los Angeles)  Marvel 1,752
Angel Angel (Warren Worthington III) hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
X-Men; Defenders  Marvel 1,741
Artie Maddicks Artie Maddicks hero
  X-Terminators; Generation X  Marvel 96
Firefist Firefist (Rusty Collins) villain hero
CBR Scale: I mutant supremacist; Acolyte
(Magneto worship)
U.S. Navy; X-Terminators  Marvel 89
Cameron Hodge Cameron Hodge villain
CBR Scale: M anti-mutant
X-Factor (staff); The Right (leader) Marvel 71
Candy Southern Candy Southern hero
  Defenders (leader) Marvel 66
Frenzy Frenzy (Joanna Cargill) villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist worshipper
of Magneto
Alliance of Evil; Acolytes  Marvel 44
Tower Tower (Edward Pasternak) villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
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
X-Men (founder); Brotherhood of Mutants  Marvel 4,318
Scarlet Witch Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: M Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half
Jewish; sorceress
Brotherhood of Mutants; Avengers  Marvel 1,624
Quicksilver Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)
(cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: I Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half
Jewish; sometimes mutant
supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; Avengers 
[Transia]
Marvel 944
Magneto Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)
(cameo)
villain hero scientist
CBR Scale: S Jewish; Gypsy/Roma
Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men 
[Foe of: X-Men (arch-enemy)]
Marvel 916
Toad Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)
(cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; Misfits 
[England]
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; Hellfire Club Marvel 173
Timeshadow Timeshadow
(only on cover)
villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
Alliance of Evil Marvel 6