Religion and Characters in
New Mutants (vol. 3) #1 (July 2009):
“Return of the Legion, Part 1: We Were Many, Once”
by Zeb Wells, Diogenes Neves, Cam Smith, Edgar E. Tadeo

35 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.
Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)	Baptist	New Mutants; X-Force  X-Men; X-Corporation; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Academy of Tomorrow; X-Strike; Avengers		831
Sunspot (Roberto Dacosta)	Catholic	New Mutants; Fallen Angels  X-Force; Mutant Liberation Front; X-Corporation; Hellfire Club; X-Ternals; Academy of Tomorrow; X-Strike; Young X-Men (teacher); Avengers [Brazil]		574
Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh)	Catholic; LGBT	New Mutants; 198  Academy of Tomorrow; X-Men [Vietnam]		260
Magma (Amara Aquilla)	Greco-Roman classical religion	New Mutants; Hellions  New Hellions; X-Corporation; 198		269
Magik (Illyana Rasputin)	occult/magick; demonolatry; raised Communist	New Mutants; Exiles [Russia]		450
Anole (Victor Borkowski)	LGBT	Xavier Institute: Alpha squad; Young X-Men		60
Marci Sabol	indeterminate	[young girl New Mutants rescued from Legion]		4
Noah	indeterminate	[surly; didn't help New Mutants much in their search]		2
Chuck	indeterminate	[bar patron; lost fight with Cannonball, Sunspot]		2
Legion (David Haller) (cover & 3-panel cameo)	Jewish; part Muslim	X-Men [Israel]		59
Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) (cover & 1-panel cameo)	Native American religion (Cheyenne) / Teutonic paganism	New Mutants; Mutant Liberation Front  X-Force; X-Men; Young X-Men (teacher)		470
Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) (cover & 1-panel cameo)	Presbyterian	New Mutants; X-Factor  Excalibur; X-Factor Investigations; X-Force [Scotland]		576
Warlock (cover & 1-panel cameo)	Technarchy religion (worships The Maker)	New Mutants; Fallen Angels  Excalibur		241
Cypher (Doug Ramsey) (cover & 1-panel cameo)	Latter-day Saint	New Mutants; Academy of Tomorrow		113
Brett Sabol (8-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[father of missing girl Marci Sabol]		2
Mel Sabol (8-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[mother of missing girl Marci Sabol]		2
Cyclops (Scott Summers) (7-panel cameo)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	X-Men; X-Factor  Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; The Twelve (mutants); Summers Rebellion		2,604
unnamed brown-haired bar patron (6-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[bar patron; lost fight with Cannonball, Sunspot]		2
unnamed blonde bar patron (6-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[bar patron; lost fight with Cannonball, Sunspot]		1
unnamed red-haired bar patron (6-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[bar patron; lost fight with Cannonball, Sunspot]		2
Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro) (5-panel cameo)	Catholic	Xavier Institute: Hellions squad; New X-Men  Young X-Men		82
Empath (Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha) (5-panel cameo)	Catholic	Hellions; X-Corporation  198 [Spain]		70
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (4-panel cameo)	Episcopalian	X-Men; Brotherhood of Mutants  Defenders; Avengers; X-Factor; Academy of Tomorrow; X-Club		5,233
Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) (4-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Hellions squad; New X-Men		121
Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi) (4-panel cameo)	African primal-indigenous religion: Wakandan Black Panther Cult	Xavier Institute; X-Strike [member of Storm's squad]		42
Trance (Hope Abbott) (4-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Paragons squad		50
Loa (Alani Ryan) (4-panel cameo)	Polynesian traditional religion	Xavier Institute: Alpha squad		50
Indra (Paras Gavaskar) (3-panel cameo)	Jain	Xavier Institute: Alpha squad		54
Pixie (Megan Gwynn) (1-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Paragons squad; X-Men		50
Maynard (1-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[went into convulsions when tried to tie up Karma]		4
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (art)	Protestant	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Secret Defenders  Avengers; New Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		9,358
Elvis Presley (toy)	Assemblies of God	[singer]		444
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (mentioned)	religious	X-Men (founder); Brotherhood of Mutants  The Twelve (mutants); Genoshan Excalibur (founder); Illuminati		4,318
Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (mentioned)	Communist atheist (former)	X-Men; Acolytes  Excalibur; Weapon X (Exiles) [Russia; USSR]		4,122
Madison Jeffries (mentioned)		Gamma Flight; Alpha Flight  Zodiac (Ecliptic); Weapon X; X-Club [Canada]		74

An alternative form of this story's title is: “Return of the Legion: Part 1”. Webpage for New Mutants #1 (July 2009) created 7 May 2009. Last modified 11 December 2009.
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