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Young X-Men #5 (Oct. 2008):
“Fall of the Mutants”
by Marc Guggenheim, Yanick Paquette, Ray Snyder

Young X-Men #5

Title: “Fall of the Mutants”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 2008

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Marc Guggenheim
Art by: Yanick Paquette, Ray Snyder


29 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 Cannonball (Sam Guthrie) hero
CBR Scale: S Baptist
Academy of Tomorrow; The Avengers...  Marvel 831
Mirage Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) hero
CBR Scale: M Native American religion (Cheyenne) / Teutonic paganism
Mutant Liberation Front; Native American...  Marvel 470
Sunspot Sunspot (Roberto Dacosta) hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic
Academy of Tomorrow; black...  Marvel 574
Magma Magma (Amara Aquilla) hero
CBR Scale: M Greco-Roman classical religion
Hellions; New Hellions...  Marvel 269
Dust Dust (Sooraya Qadir) hero
CBR Scale: M Sunni Muslim
Arab; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Marvel 102
Rockslide Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro) hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic
Hispanic; New X-Men...  Marvel 82
Blindfold Blindfold (Ruth Aldine) hero
  Xavier Institute; Young X-Men Marvel 66
Wolf Cub Wolf Cub (Nicholas Gleason) hero based on a real person
  Xavier Institute: Paragons squad; Young X-Men Marvel 34
Ink Ink (Eric Gitter) hero
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Young X-Men Marvel 12
Greymalkin Greymalkin (Jonas Greymalkin) hero
CBR Scale: S LGBT
Young X-Men
[ancestor of Charles Xavier]
Marvel 37
White Bishop White Bishop (Donald Pierce) villain
CBR Scale: M anti-mutant
The Hellfire Club; The Reavers (leader) Marvel 86
Cyclops Cyclops (Scott Summers)
(cover & 3-panel cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: SCBR Scale: I Protestant; mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  Marvel 8,371
Phoenix Phoenix (Jean Grey)
(3-panel cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Metro College; The Twelve...  Marvel 1,905
Iceman Iceman (Bobby Drake)
(2-panel cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish Catholic
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 1,752
Storm Storm (Ororo Munroe)
(2-panel cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: M Goddess worship
black; Lady Liberators...  Marvel 5,068
Magneto Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)
(2-panel cameo)
villain hero scientist
CBR Scale: S Jewish; Gypsy/Roma
Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 916
Leon Nunez Leon Nunez
(1-panel cameo)
supporting character
  [mutant; can make tattoos that grant super powers] Marvel 6
Nightcrawler Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
(photo/picture/video)
hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)
Excalibur; Neyaphem...  Marvel 4,345
Banshee Banshee (Sean Cassidy)
(photo/picture/video)
hero
CBR Scale: S Catholic
Factor Three; Generation X (teacher)...  Marvel 1,340
Polaris Polaris (Lorna Dane)
(photo/picture/video)
hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish Catholic
Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse... 
[studied geophysics in college]
Marvel 464
Sunfire Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida)
(photo/picture/video)
villain hero
CBR Scale: U Shinto
Asian; Big Hero 6...  Marvel 259
Callisto Callisto
(photo/picture/video)
villain hero
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
Gene Nation; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 164
Moira MacTaggert Moira MacTaggert
(photo/picture/video)
supporting character scientist
  [Charles Xavier's colleague, girlfriend] Marvel 243
Sharon Friedlander Sharon Friedlander
(photo/picture/video)
supporting character
CBR Scale: U religious
[nurse] Marvel 19
Sauron Sauron (Karl Lykos)
(photo/picture/video)
villain
  Brotherhood of Mutants; Savage Land Mutates...  Marvel 100
Starbolt Starbolt
(photo/picture/video)
hero
  Imperial Guard Marvel 61
Krakoa Krakoa
(photo/picture/video)
villain
CBR Scale: I N.A.
[island made alive by radiation] Marvel 6
Cipher Cipher (Alisa Tager)
(behind the scenes)
hero
  black; Young X-Men Marvel 5
Mole Man Mole Man (Harvey Elder)
(mentioned)
villain scientist
  [ruler of much of Subterranea] Marvel 297