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:
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 (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
Jean Grey	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Professor X (Charles Xavier)	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Rogue (Anna Marie)	Southern Baptist	Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men		3,526
Joseph		The Acolytes; X-Men		57
Captain America (Steve Rogers)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
Giant-Man (Hank Pym)	atheist	Commission on Superhuman Activities; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Defenders; The Liberators		1,543
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)	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)	Episcopalian	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four		4,069
Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom)	Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism	Fearsome Four; The Cabal		1,176
Sentinels	anti-mutant robots	[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #14 (Nov. 1965)]		245
X-Man (Nate Grey)		Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men		155
Franklin Richards	Episcopalian	Daydreamers; Fantastic Five...  Fantastic Force; Generation X; Power Pack; The Fantastic Four		650
Onslaught		[dark side of Xavier and Magneto]		56
Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (cameo)	Communist atheist (former)	Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men		4,122
Havok (Alex Summers) (cameo)	Catholic (lapsed)	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Dark Descendants; Magistrates; Old Landon College; Starjammers; X-Factor; X-Men [Cyclops' brother]		592
Sabretooth (Victor Creed) (cameo)	manifestly non-religious; future: Evangelical "born-again Christian"	Brotherhood of Mutants; Team X...  The Horsemen of Apocalypse; The Marauders; Weapon Plus; Weapon X; X-Factor; X-Men		610
Random (Marshall Evan Stone III) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants...  The Acolytes; The Marauders; X-Factor (ally)		56
Dark Beast (Henry McCoy) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants...  Dark X-Men; Gene Nation; Genoshan Excalibur [Henry McCoy from the Age of Apocalypse]		116
Morph (Kevin Sydney) (cameo)		The Avengers; The Exiles...  The New Mutants; X-Men		182
Fatale (Pamela Greenwood) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	black; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Dark Descendants; X-Cell		38
Holocaust (Nemesis) (cameo)		The Exiles; The Horsemen of Apocalypse [was caretaker of a quarter of Apocalypse's nation]		29
Post (Kevin Tremain) (cameo)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants		13
Blink (Clarice Ferguson) (cameo)		The Exiles; X-Men [member of X-Men in Age of Apocalypse timeline]		110

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