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X-Men (vol. 2) #56 (Sep. 1996):
“The Beginning of the End: Twilight of the Gods”
by Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid, Andy Kubert, Art Thibert

X-Men (vol. 2) #56

Title: “The Beginning of the End: Twilight of the Gods”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Sep. 1996

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid
Art by: Andy Kubert, Art Thibert


24 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 Cyclops (Scott Summers) hero
CBR Scale: SCBR Scale: I Protestant; mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  Marvel 8,371
Phoenix Jean Grey hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Metro College; The Twelve...  Marvel 1,905
Professor X Professor X (Charles Xavier) hero scientist
CBR Scale: S religious
Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 4,999
Rogue Rogue (Anna Marie) hero
CBR Scale: S Southern Baptist
Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men Marvel 3,526
Joseph Joseph hero
  The Acolytes; X-Men Marvel 57
Captain America Captain America (Steve Rogers) hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  Marvel Timely 5,992
Giant-Man Giant-Man (Hank Pym) hero scientist
CBR Scale: U atheist
Commission on Superhuman Activities; Secret Defenders...  Marvel 1,543
Mr. Fantastic Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) hero scientist
CBR Scale: SCBR Scale: I humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist
Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  Marvel 4,661
Invisible Woman Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards) hero
CBR Scale: S Episcopalian
Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  Marvel 4,069
Doctor Doom Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) villain scientist
CBR Scale: S Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism
Fearsome Four; The Cabal Marvel 1,176
Sentinels Sentinels villain group
CBR Scale: D anti-mutant robots
[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #14 (Nov. 1965)] Marvel 245
X-Man X-Man (Nate Grey) hero
  Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men Marvel 155
Franklin Richards Franklin Richards hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Daydreamers; Fantastic Five...  Marvel 650
Onslaught villain
  [dark side of Xavier and Magneto] Marvel 56
Colossus Colossus (Peter Rasputin)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Communist atheist (former)
Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Marvel 4,122
Havok Havok (Alex Summers)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed)
Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants... 
[Cyclops' brother]
Marvel 592
Sabretooth Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
(cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious; future: Evangelical "born-again Christian"
Brotherhood of Mutants; Team X...  Marvel 610
Random Random (Marshall Evan Stone III)
(cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants...  Marvel 56
Dark Beast Dark Beast (Henry McCoy)
(cameo)
villain scientist
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants... 
[Henry McCoy from the Age of Apocalypse]
Marvel 116
Morph Morph (Kevin Sydney)
(cameo)
hero
  The Avengers; The Exiles...  Marvel 182
Fatale Fatale (Pamela Greenwood)
(cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
black; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Marvel 38
Holocaust Holocaust (Nemesis)
(cameo)
villain
  The Exiles; The Horsemen of Apocalypse
[was caretaker of a quarter of Apocalypse's nation]
Marvel 29
Post Post (Kevin Tremain)
(cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants Marvel 13
Blink Blink (Clarice Ferguson)
(cameo)
hero
  The Exiles; X-Men
[member of X-Men in Age of Apocalypse timeline]
Marvel 110