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One-Shot Parody Issue #1 (1986):
“Xmen (pronounced Zhmen -- 1 syllable)”
by Bradd Milke, Charles Truog

One-Shot Parody Issue #1

Title: “Xmen (pronounced Zhmen -- 1 syllable)”

Medium: comic

Cover date: 1986

Publisher: Milky Way Graphic Publications
Written by: Bradd Milke
Art by: Charles Truog


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 Cyclops (Scott Summers)
(details) 
hero
CBR Scale: SCBR Scale: I Protestant; mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  Marvel 8,371
Phoenix Jean Grey
(details) 
hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Metro College; The Twelve...  Marvel 1,905
Professor X Professor X (Charles Xavier)
(details) 
hero scientist
CBR Scale: S religious
Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 4,999
Wolverine Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)
(details) 
hero
CBR Scale: S raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker
Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  Marvel 10,615
Storm Storm (Ororo Munroe)
(details) 
hero
CBR Scale: M Goddess worship
black; Lady Liberators...  Marvel 5,068
Nightcrawler Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
(details) 
hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)
Excalibur; Neyaphem...  Marvel 4,345
Colossus Colossus (Peter Rasputin)
(details) 
hero
CBR Scale: I Communist atheist (former)
Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Marvel 4,122
Kitty Pryde Kitty Pryde
(details) 
hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Excalibur; S.H.I.E.L.D....  Marvel 3,128
Magneto Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)
(details) 
villain hero scientist
CBR Scale: S Jewish; Gypsy/Roma
Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 916
Madelyne Pryor Madelyne Pryor
(details) 
hero
  Berzerkers; The Hellfire Club Marvel 173
Dark Phoenix
(details) 
villain hero
CBR Scale: M cosmic entity
The Hellfire Club; X-Men Marvel 129
The Watcher The Watcher (Uatu)
(details) 
supporting character
CBR Scale: S monotheist / Watcher religion,
focusing on non-interference
and observation
The Watchers Marvel 582
The Hellfire Club The Hellfire Club
(details) 
villain group
  [1st app: The Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) #129 (Jan. 1980)] Marvel 191
Shi'ar Shi'ar
(details) 
supporting character group
CBR Scale: S Shi'ar religion
[alien race] Marvel 106
Morlocks Morlocks
(details) 
supporting character villain group
  [mutants living in tunnels under NYC] Marvel 415
X-Men X-Men
(details) 
hero group
  [1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)] Marvel 9,958
The New Mutants The New Mutants
(details) 
hero group
  [1st app: Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982)] Marvel 1,022
Bones Bones (Dr. Leonard McCoy)
(cameo)
hero
  Starfleet; The Enterprise NBC Paramount Pictures, etc. 362
The Skipper The Skipper (Jonas Grumby)
(cameo)
supporting character
  U.S. Navy
[owner of sailing ship S.S. Minnow]
CBS 119
Jessica Fletcher Jessica Fletcher
(cameo)
hero
  [teacher turned famed mystery writer; solves real murders] CBS 270
Lilandra Neramani Lilandra Neramani
(character based on) 
supporting character clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Shi'ar religion
Starjammers
[Majestrix (empress) of the Shi'ar Emperium]
Marvel 170
Jim Shooter Jim Shooter
(character based on) 
supporting character real/historical person
  [comic book writer; editor] Marvel 2

This publication is also known as: XMen: One-Shot Parody Issue #1 or XMen #1.