Avengers (vol. 1) #501 (Oct. 2004):
“Chaos: Part Two of Four”
by Brian Michael Bendis, David Finch, Danny Miki

Avengers (vol. 1) #501

Title: “Chaos: Part Two of Four”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 2004

Publisher:
Written by: Brian Michael Bendis
Art by: David Finch, Danny Miki

52 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.
Captain America (Steve Rogers)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
Iron Man (Tony Stark)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Force Works; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Yellowjacket (Hank Pym)	atheist	Commission on Superhuman Activities; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Defenders; The Liberators		1,543
The Wasp (Janet van Dyne)	Dutch Reformed (nominal); atheist	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Ultimates		1,339
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Chain Gang; The Avengers...  The Great Lakes Avengers; The Thunderbolts; The Ultimates		1,515
Falcon (Sam Wilson)	Baptist	black; SHIELD Super-Agents...  The Avengers		531
She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters)	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
S.H.I.E.L.D.		[government agency; intelligence agency...]		1,188
Agent Maher	indeterminate	S.H.I.E.L.D. [on site when Scarlet Witch caused She-Hulk to attack]		1
Captain Britain (Kelsey Leigh) (4-panel cameo, pg. 3-4, 12)		Captain Britain Corps; The Avengers		26
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Protestant	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		10,664
Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Catholic	Marvel Knights; Weapon X (Exiles)		1,801
The Sub-Mariner (Namor) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)  [Page 15, panel 4:] Hawkeye: "We're all about the short-term... We think Jack of Hearts os dead. We leave him up there in space. What do we know, right? Because now we got Namor to deal with . . . or this or that. But guess what? Jack isn't dead. He comes back and he explodes on us just like he always feared he would..." Seen in double-page spread of many Avengers on pages 21-22.	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  human; Illuminati; The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Cabal; The Defenders; The Invaders; The Order; X-Men		1,864
Nick Fury (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	secular	black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Howling Commandos; The Ultimates		1,898
The Thing (Ben Grimm) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Jewish	Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four; The Yancy Street Gang; U.S. Air Force; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation		5,017
Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Episcopalian	Fantastic Five; Fantastic Force...  Metro College; The Fantastic Four		4,393
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist	Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		4,661
Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Episcopalian	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four		4,069
Black Panther (T'Challa) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	African primal-indigenous religion; Black Panther Cult (leader)	black; Fantastic Force...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		786
Wonder Man (Simon Williams) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	religious	Force Works; Galactic Guardians...  Guardians of the Galaxy; The Avengers; Thunder Guard		788
Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Russian Orthodox Communist (lapsed)	Lady Liberators; Marvel Knights...  The Avengers; The Champions; The Ultimates		1,789
Black Knight (Dane Whitman) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Christian (medieval)	Excalibur; Heroes for Hire...  The Avengers		430
Warbird (Carol Danvers) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Protestant	Operation: Lightning Storm (leader); Starjammers...  The Avengers; U.S. Air Force; Weapon X (Exiles)		784
Tigra (Greer Grant) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	mystically empowered	Cat People; Counter Force...  Lady Liberators; The Avengers		310
Photon (Monica Rambeau) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22-23)		black; Nextwave...  The Avengers		256
Moon Knight (Marc Spector) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Egyptian classical religion (raised Jewish)	CIA; Marvel Knights...  The Avengers; United States Marine Corps		423
Luke Cage (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Christian (denomination unknown)	black; Heroes for Hire...  Marvel Knights; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Fantastic Four [formerly owned a bar and theater]		951
Hercules (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Greco-Roman classical religion	Heroes for Hire; Olympian...  Renegades; The Avengers; The Champions		1,029
Rick Jones (1-panel cameo, pg. 21-22)		Loners (founder); The Avengers (honorary member)...  The Teen Brigade (leader)		572
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Wundagorian Transhumanism (raised); HYDRA (former)	Heroes for Hire; HYDRA...  Lady Liberators; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Secret Defenders; The Avengers		353
Firestar (Angelica Jones) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Catholic	Hellions; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Avengers; The New Warriors; Weapon X (Exiles); Young Allies		338
Justice (Vance Astrovik) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Jewish (half)	Counter Force; Initiative: Camp Hammond (staff)...  The New Warriors		291
Darkhawk (Chris Powell) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)		League of Losers; Loners...  Midtown High School; Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The New Warriors		180
Rage (Elvin Daryl Haliday) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Protestant	black; Counter Force...  Initiative: Camp Hammond; Psionex; The Avengers; The New Warriors		157
Hellcat (Patsy Walker) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)		Lady Liberators; Legion of Unliving...  The Avengers; The Defenders		656
U.S. Agent (John Walker) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Evangelical Protestant	Force Works; Omega Flight...  S.T.A.R.S.; The Avengers; The Invaders; The Jury		333
Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Inhuman religion	Inhuman Royal Family; Inhumans...  Inhuman; The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		531
D-Man (Dennis Dunphy) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Salvation Army	Night People; The Avengers...  Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation		60
Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	atheist	Protectors of the Universe; S.H.I.E.L.D....  SHIELD Super-Agents; Star Masters; The Avengers		317
Jocasta (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	N.A.	Initiative: Mavericks; The Avengers		142
Mantis (Mandy Celestine) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Priests of Pama (pacifistic Kree sect); Celestial Madonna	Guardians of the Galaxy; The Avengers		161
Stingray (Walter Newell) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)		Initiative: Point Men (leader); Initiative...  The Avengers; The Defenders		124
Firebird (Bonita Juarez) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Catholic	Hispanic; The Avengers...  The Rangers		84
Living Lightning (Miguel Santos) (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Catholic; LGBT	Hispanic; Pacific Overlords...  The Avengers; The Rangers		118
Triathlon (Delroy Garrett Jr.) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Triune Understanding (Scientology)	black; The Avengers		101
Silverclaw (Maria de Guadalupe Santiago) (1-panel cameo, pg. 22)	Catholic / Incan/Kamekeri polytheism	Hispanic; Initiative...  The Avengers		44
Sersi (1-panel cameo, pg. 21)	Eternals religion; Hedonist	Eternals; The Avengers		229
Vision (corpse)	synthezoid; Catholic (temporary)	A-Next; Galactic Guardians...  Guardians of the Galaxy; The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles); Young Avengers		1,393
Ant-Man (Scott Lang) (corpse, pg. 12, panels 5-6)  Only the door of the morgue shelf/slab is seen, labelled with Scott Lang's name.	repentant	A-Next; Heroes for Hire...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four; Thunder Guard		120
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (mentioned & on cover)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sorceress	A-Next; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Force Works; Lady Liberators; Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Ultimates		1,624
Ultron (visual reference, pg. 10, panel 3)  Yellowjacket (Hank Pym) sees dismembered Ultron heads on the ground in the wreckage of the Avengers Mansion. These Ultrons were not the actual Ultron, but there constructs conjured by Scarlet Witch.		Lethal Legion; The Masters of Evil		459
Jack of Hearts (Jonathan Hart) (mentioned, pg. 15, panel 4)  Hawkeye: "We're all about the short-term... We think Jack of Hearts os dead. We leave him up there in space. What do we know, right? Because now we got Namor to deal with . . . or this or that. But guess what? Jack isn't dead. He comes back and he explodes on us just like he always feared he would..."		The Avengers; The Defenders		144

In addition to the characters identified above, there may be other characters in the back rows in the two-page spread picture on pages 21-22. The characters I personally identified are listed on this page. Consulting other references, the following characters (most of which I think are mis-identifications) were identified by one reference each: Diamondback, Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Shroud, Jarvis, Paladin, Starfox, James Rhodes.

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