X-Men (vol. 1) #96 (Dec. 1975):
“Night of the Demon!”
by Bill Mantlo, Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, Sam Grainger

X-Men (vol. 1) #96

Title: “Night of the Demon!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1975

Publisher:
Written by: Bill Mantlo, Chris Claremont
Art by: Dave Cockrum, Sam Grainger

34 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 (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
Professor X (Charles Xavier)	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)	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
Storm (Ororo Munroe)	Goddess worship	black; Lady Liberators...  Morlocks (leader); The Fantastic Four; The Twelve; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men; X-Saviours; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		5,068
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	Excalibur; Neyaphem...  X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		4,345
Colossus (Peter Rasputin)	Communist atheist (former)	Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men		4,122
Banshee (Sean Cassidy)	Catholic	Factor Three; Generation X (teacher)...  X-Corps (leader); X-Men		1,340
Moira MacTaggert		[Charles Xavier's colleague, girlfriend]		243
U.S. Air Force		[military unit; pilot]		197
Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters		[high school]		373
Michael Rossi		U.S. Air Force [O.S.I. officer]		14
Kierrok	demon	N'Garai [demonic entity]		6
Steven Lang	anti-mutant	Phalanx; Project Armageddon (leader) [designed Mark III Sentinels]		26
N'Garai	demons	[alien race]		17
X-Men		[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		9,958
Project Armageddon	anti-mutant	[Stephen Lang's govt.-sponsored anti-mutant effort]		2
Sentinels (cameo)	anti-mutant robots	[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #14 (Nov. 1965)]		245
Thunderbird (John Proudstar) (flashback cameo)	Native American spirituality (Apache)	Apache; Native American...  X-Men		40
Count Nefaria (Luchino Nefaria) (flashback cameo)		Ani-Men (leader); Lethal Legion (leader)...  Maggia (leader)		61
police (cameo)  Firefighters and police respond to the scene outside Red Hook, New York where Col. Michael Rossi's plane crashed (due to Steven Lang's meddling).		[generic listing]		28
N'Dare Munroe (flashback cameo)	African primal-indigenous religion (priestess)	[Storm's mother]		17
firefighters (cameo)  Firefighters and police respond to the scene outside Red Hook, New York where Col. Michael Rossi's plane crashed (due to Steven Lang's meddling).		[occupation]		1
Sentinels Mk III (cameo)	anti-mutant robots	Sentinels		12
unnamed guard (cameo)		[guard]		1
unnamed major (Major) (cameo)		U.S. Air Force [at scene where his friend Col. Rossi "died" in plane crash]		1
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (photo/picture/video)  Seen on poster.	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) (photo/picture/video)  Seen on poster.	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Bolivar Trask (mentioned)  Trying to convince Col. Rossi of threat mutants pose, Steven Lang says Bolivar Trask knew, and pointed the way to eliminating mutants, but they (mutants) killed him and his son.	anti-mutant	Control [inventor of Sentinels]		5
Larry Trask (mentioned)  Trying to convince Col. Rossi of threat mutants pose, Steven Lang says Bolivar Trask knew, and pointed the way to eliminating mutants, but they (mutants) killed him and his son.	anti-mutant	Federal Council on Mutant Activities [mutant son of anti-mutant Sentinel inventor]		46
The Council of the Chosen (mentioned)  Col. Rossi reviews Dr. Lang's Project Armageddon, learning that Lang intends for it to destroy all mutants. Rossi decides to advise his superiors, the Council of the Chosen, to shut the project down.		The Hellfire Club		3
Elder Gods (mentioned)  Battling the X-Men, Kierrok muses to himself, wondering if they think he is so easily defeated, he who is a child of the N'Garai, a child of the Elder Gods, who once ruled this Earth!
Neanderthals (mentioned)  Col. Rossi tells Steven Lang he is wrong about mutants. Lang says Rossie is wrong, they are the ancient Neanderthals facing the mutant Cro-Magnon, it is them or the mutants, kill or be killed.		[race/ethnicity]
Apache (mentioned)  Before dying while trying to stop Count Nefaria, Thunderbird communicated with Prof. Xavier, telling him that he's a man, a warrior of the Apache, and today he's going to prove it!	Native American religion (Apache)	[race/ethnicity]		1
The Scots Guards (mentioned)  After Xavier tells Banshee that a widow named Moira MacTaggert is coming to serve as housekeeper, Banshee imagines she is probably 80 years old, ugly as sin, with 40 years service in the Scots Guards.		British Armed Forces

This publication is also known as: The All-New, All-Different X-Men #96 or The X-Men (vol. 1) #96.

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