Religion and Characters in
GLA #2 (July 2005):
“Dismembership Drive”
by Dan Slott, Paul Pelletier, Rick Magyar

54 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.
Batroc the Leaper (Georges Batroc)		Masters of Evil; Batroc's Brigade  Thunderbolts Army; Initiative [France]		129
Zaran (Maximillian Zaran)		MI-6; Batroc's Brigade  Thunderbolts Army; Initiative [England]		61
Machete (Mariano Lopez)		Thunderbolts Army		6
Squirrel Girl (Doreen Green)		Great Lakes Avengers		33
Mister Immortal (Craig Hollis)		Great Lakes Avengers		36
Flatman (Val Ventura)	LGBT	Great Lakes Avengers		38
Doorman (DeMarr Davis)		Great Lakes Avengers		34
Big Bertha (Ashley Crawford)		Great Lakes Avengers		35
Roxxon Oil		Roxxon		36
Grasshopper (Doug Taggert)		Roxxon; Great Lakes Avengers		3
Monkey Joe	N.A.	Great Lakes Avengers [squirrel; Squirrel Girl's sidekick]		5
Deathurge	cosmic entity	Maelstrom's Minions [Herald of Oblivion; angel of death]		4
Maelstrom	cosmic entity; Inhuman-Deviant hybrid	Maelstrom's Minions (leader); The Weird Sisters (leader) [embodiment of abstract principal of anormaly]		4
Paolo		[1st app: GLA #2 (July 2005)]		2
Cindy Shelton	Jewish	Roxxon [long-lost sister of superhero Grasshopper]		2
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (cameo)	Protestant	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Secret Defenders  Avengers; New Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		9,358
Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (cameo)	Catholic	Marvel Knights; Weapon X (Exiles)		1,801
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan) (cameo)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	First Flight; Weapon Plus  Weapon X; Team X; Alpha Flight; X-Men; Secret Defenders; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; New Avengers; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; X-Force [Canada]		8,823
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (cameo)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	X-Men; Excalibur  X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Neyaphem [Germany]		3,788
Wonder Man (Simon Williams) (cameo)	religious	Avengers; West Coast Avengers  Force Works; Guardians of the Galaxy; Galactic Guardians; Mighty Avengers; Thunder Guard		788
Falcon (Sam Wilson) (cameo)	Baptist (lapsed)	Avengers; SHIELD Super-Agents		531
Tigra (Greer Grant) (cameo)	mystically empowered	Avengers; West Coast Avengers  Lady Liberators; Counter Force		310
Photon (Monica Rambeau) (cameo)		Avengers; Nextwave		256
Moon Knight (Marc Spector) (cameo)	Egyptian classical religion (raised Jewish)	U.S. Marines; CIA  West Coast Avengers; Marvel Knights		423
Luke Cage (cameo)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Heroes for Hire; Defenders  Marvel Knights; New Avengers [formerly owned a bar and theater]		951
Iron Fist (Danny Rand) (cameo)	Tibetan (K'un L'un) Buddhism	Heroes for Hire; Secret Defenders  New Avengers		672
Hercules (cameo)	Greco-Roman classical religion	Avengers; Champions (of Los Angeles)  Heroes for Hire; Renegades; Mighty Avengers [Greece]		1,029
Cloak (Tyrone Johnson) (cameo)	Catholic	Dark X-Men; X-Men [partner of Dagger]		216
Dagger (Tandy Bowen) (cameo)	Catholic	Secret Defenders; Marvel Knights  League of Losers; New Warriors; Secret Avengers; Dark X-Men; X-Men [partner of Cloak]		219
A.I.M. (cameo)	Scientism	A.I.M.		390
Swordsman (Andreas von Strucker) (cameo)	Nazi / white supremacist	Upstarts; Assembly of Evil  Thunderbolts; Initiative		128
Paladin (cameo)		Heroes for Hire; Wild Pack  Intruders; Outlaws; Thunderbolts		136
Firestar (Angelica Jones) (cameo)	Catholic	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Hellions  New Warriors; Avengers; X-Strike; Weapon X (Exiles)		338
Justice (Vance Astrovik) (cameo)	Jewish (half)	New Warriors; Initiative: Camp Hammond (staff)  Counter Force		291
Brother Voodoo (Jericho Drumm) (cameo)	Vodoun houngan	Heroes for Hire; Howling Commandos [Haiti]		110
Shang-Chi (cameo)	Taoist monk	Heroes for Hire; Marvel Knights  MI-6; Secret Avengers; Avengers		313
Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) (cameo)	Inhuman religion	Inhuman Royal Family; Inhumans  Illuminati [Attilan]		505
Araña (Anya Corazon) (cameo)	Catholic	WebCorps; Spider Society  League of Losers; Initiative; Operation: Lightning Storm [Spider Society initiate]		41
Living Lightning (Miguel Santos) (cameo)	Catholic; LGBT	West Coast Avengers; Pacific Overlords  Rangers		118
Captain Ultra (Griffin Gogol) (cameo)		Defenders; Initiative: Nebraska team		30
El Aguila (Alejandro Montoya) (cameo)	Catholic	[Spain]		16
Ursa Major (Mikhail Uriokovitch Ursus) (cameo)	Communist (former)	Winter Guard; People's Protectorate  Soviet Super-Soldiers; Siberforce; Exiles (Russian) [USSR; Russia]		45
Prodigy (Ritchie Gilmore) (cameo)		Slingers; Initiative: Heavy Hitters		51
Sleepwalker (cameo)	Sleepwalker religion	Secret Defenders; League of Losers  Operation: Lightning Storm		98
Energizer (Katie Power) (cameo)	Latter-day Saint	Power Pack; Avengers (MC2)		170
Awesome Andy (cameo)	N.A.	Heavy Metal; Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway		87
Marvel (Kal-AOL) (cameo)		[came from thousands of years in the future]		7
Thor (Donald Blake) (only on cover)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Avengers; Thor Corps  Ultimates; Cosmic Avengers [Norway]		4,362
Rogue (Anna Marie) (only on cover)	Southern Baptist	Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men  Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy		3,526
The Wasp (Janet van Dyne) (only on cover)	Dutch Reformed (nominal); atheist	Avengers; Lady Liberators  West Coast Avengers; Ultimates; Mighty Avengers		1,339
Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (only on cover)	Zenn-La religion	Heralds of Galactus; Defenders  The Order; Star Masters; Secret Defenders		826
Sasquatch (Dr. Walter Langkowski) (only on cover)	Jewish	Alpha Flight; Omega Flight [Canada]		327
Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) (only on cover)	Catholic	Heroes for Hire		374
Dinah Soar (mentioned)	obscure Savage Land religion (Nhu'gari?)	Great Lakes Avengers		20

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