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Dark Avengers #3 (May 2009)
by Brian Michael Bendis, Mike Deodato Jr.

Dark Avengers #3

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 2009

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Brian Michael Bendis
Art by: Mike Deodato Jr.


23 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.
Doctor Doom Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) villain scientist
CBR Scale: S Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism
Fearsome Four; The Cabal Marvel 1,176
Norman Osborn Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Marvel 417
Ares Ares villain hero deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Dark Avengers; Olympian... 
[god of war; Gods of Olympus]
Marvel DC 440
Sentry Sentry (Bob Reynolds) villain hero
CBR Scale: S angel
Dark Avengers; The Avengers Marvel 260
Moonstone Ms. Marvel (Karla Sofen) villain hero
CBR Scale: U Buddhist
Dark Avengers; Femizons...  Marvel 235
The Scorpion Venom (Mac Gargan) villain hero
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Marvel 315
Bullseye Bullseye (Benjamin Poindexter) villain
CBR Scale: I Catholic (nominal); nihilist
Dark Avengers; The Thunderbolts
[former baseball pitcher]
Marvel 243
Daken Daken (Daken Akihiro) villain
CBR Scale: S Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"
Asian; Dark Avengers... 
[son of Wolverine]
Marvel 72
Captain Marvel Captain Marvel (Noh-Varr) hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Kree religion (former
missionary)
Dark Avengers; Kree
[was operative of 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt]
Marvel 100
Morgan Le Fay Morgan Le Fay villain clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Celtic
goddess-worship/Druidism
(former priestess); half
faerie; Darkholders cult
(leader)
[1st app: Black Knight (vol. 1) #1 (May 1955)] Marvel 157
Lindy Reynolds Lindy Reynolds supporting character
  [The Sentry's wife; old friend of Invisible Woman] Marvel 39
Spider-Man Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
(1-panel cameo)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 10,664
Wolverine Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)
(1-panel cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: S raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker
Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  Marvel 10,615
Citizen V Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo)
(1-panel cameo)
villain hero
  Redeemers; The Masters of Evil...  Marvel 142
Elektra Elektra (Elektra Natchios)
(1-panel cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: I Greek Orthodox; Ninjutsu
Code Red; The Hand Marvel 331
Captain America Captain America (Steve Rogers)
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  Marvel Timely 5,992
Iron Man Iron Man (Tony Stark)
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: I futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous
Force Works; Illuminati...  Marvel 5,673
Nick Fury Nick Fury
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: U secular
black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  Marvel 1,898
Hawkeye Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: U Christian (denomination
unknown)
Chain Gang; The Avengers...  Marvel 1,515
Captain Marvel Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers)
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Operation: Lightning Storm (leader); Starjammers...  Marvel 784
Victoria Hand Victoria Hand
(mentioned)
supporting character
CBR Scale: S LGBT; Humanist
Dark Avengers (staff); H.A.M.M.E.R.
[2nd in command under Osborn in H.A.M.M.E.R.]
Marvel 108
Zeus Zeus
(mentioned)
supporting character deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Council of Godheads
[supreme monarch of the Olympian gods]
DC Marvel 283
Captain Marvel Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
(mentioned)
hero
CBR Scale: S Kree religion
Kree
[former captain of Kree star fleet]
Marvel 142