Venom (vol. 2) #13.3 (Apr. 2012):
“Circle of Four: Part Four”
by Jeff Parker, Julian Tedesco

Venom (vol. 2) #13.3

Title: “Circle of Four: Part Four”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 2012

Publisher:
Written by: Jeff Parker
Art by: Julian Tedesco

37 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.
Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross) (lead character)	Catholic; atheist	Code Red; Control...  Hulkbusters (U.S. Military); The Avengers; The Offenders; U.S. Air Force		350
X-23 (Laura Kinney)	religiously untrained	League of Losers; New X-Men...  X-Force; X-Men		190
Mephisto	Devil	Six-Fingered Hand; The Cabal		381
Ghost Rider (Alejandra Blaze)	Spirig of Vengeance; demonically empowered	Hispanic		31
Blackheart (details)  Real Blackheart appears. He is also seen in Mephisto-created vision as Johnny Blaze's friend "Adam."	demon	The Cabal; The Hellfire Club [Mephisto's son]		85
demons	demon	[generic unnamed demons]		2,000
Encephalon (corpse)	demon	The Antitheses [demon created by Blackheart as antithesis of Red Hulk]		5
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (vision)	Protestant	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		10,664
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (vision)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
The Hulk (Bruce Banner) (vision)	Catholic (lapsed)	Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order; The Ultimates; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Saviours		4,551
Iron Man (Tony Stark) (vision)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Force Works; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Thor (Donald Blake) (vision)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Asgardian; Cosmic Avengers...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Thor Corps		4,362
Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Strange) (vision)	occult	Illuminati; Midnight Sons...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order		1,687
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan) (vision)	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
Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (vision)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Chain Gang; The Avengers...  The Great Lakes Avengers; The Thunderbolts; The Ultimates		1,515
Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) (vision)	Protestant	Operation: Lightning Storm (leader); Starjammers...  The Avengers; U.S. Air Force; Weapon X (Exiles)		784
She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) (vision)	Christian (denomination unknown) - nominal	Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg-ampersand-Holliway; Heroes for Hire...  Hulkbusters (S.H.I.E.L.D.); Lady Liberators (leader); S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers; The Fantastic Four; Weapon X (Exiles)		952
Venom (Flash Thompson) (vision)	Alcoholics Anonymous	U.S. Army		718
Red She-Hulk (Betty Ross) (vision)	Catholic (former novitiate)	Code Red; Home Base...  Team [girlfriend (later wife) of Dr. Bruce Banner (the Hulk)]		463
A-Bomb (Rick Jones) (vision)		Loners (founder); The Avengers (honorary member)...  The Teen Brigade (leader)		572
Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) (vision)	manifestly non-religious	Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Dark X-Men (leader); H.A.M.M.E.R. (leader); Sinister Twelve (leader); The Cabal (leader); The Thunderbolts (leader)		417
A.I.M. (vision)	Scientism	[terrorist]		390
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) (vision)	Wundagorian Transhumanism (raised); HYDRA (former)	Heroes for Hire; HYDRA...  Lady Liberators; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Secret Defenders; The Avengers		353
Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse) (vision)		S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers...  The Great Lakes Avengers [was Hawkeye's wife]		293
Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius) (vision)		Sinister Six; The Masters of Evil...  Thunderbolts Army		1,006
M.O.D.O.K. Superior (George Tarleton) (vision)	Scientism	A.I.M. (leader)		199
Betty Brant (vision)	Students of Love (temporary)	[former girlfriend of Peter Parker (Spider-Man)]		612
The Symbiote (vision)	alien; vengeance	[sentient black costume Spider-Man obtained on Battleworld]		16
She-Hulk (Lyra) (vision)	female supremacist (Femizonian)	A.R.M.O.R. [daughter of Hulk, Thundra; raised in dystopic future]		16
The Avengers (vision)		[1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		100
Weapon X (vision)		[1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #72 (Mar. 1991)]		270
New Avengers (vision)
The Symbiote Warriors (vision)	N.A.	[made by Blackheart from X-23's blood and Toxin symbiote]		3
Ghost Rider's mother (vision)	religious	Hispanic [raised daughter (Ghost Rider) in a Nicaraguan temple]		1
General Reginald Fortean (vision)		black; U.S. Air Force		32
U.S. Army (mentioned)  In an illusion Mephisto creates, Captain America makes a live television announcement revealing Red Hulk's identity as Thunderbolt Ross and welcomes him back into the army.		[military unit]		1,801
The Antitheses (mentioned)	demons	[demons created by Blackheart as opposite of heroes]		5

Lots of characters appear in this issue. The four main characters are the heroes Red Hulk, Venom (Flash Thompson), Ghost Rider (Alejandra) and X-23. The devil Mephisto creates personalized "paradises" for each of them in which their hearts desires are granted, just so he can torture them by taking away those paradises and twisting their stories so that they are personal hells.

All of this is essentially an elaborate illusion created within Hell by Mephisto. Other than the four main heroes, Mephisto, and Blackheart all of the character "appearances" in this issue can be classified as illusions or hallucinations, and all or nearly all are "cameo" appearances.

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