Religion and Characters in
Heroes for Hire (vol. 1) #3 (Sep. 1997):
“Give & Take”
by John Ostrander, Pascual Ferry, Jaime Mendoza

25 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.
Black Knight (Dane Whitman)	Christian (medieval)	Avengers; Excalibur  Heroes for Hire		430
Luke Cage	Christian (denomination unknown)	Heroes for Hire; Defenders  Marvel Knights; New Avengers [formerly owned a bar and theater]		951
Iron Fist (Danny Rand)	Tibetan (K'un L'un) Buddhism	Heroes for Hire; Secret Defenders  New Avengers		672
Hercules	Greco-Roman classical religion	Avengers; Champions (of Los Angeles)  Heroes for Hire; Renegades; Mighty Avengers [Greece]		1,029
White Tiger	uplifted animal	New Men; Heroes for Hire		22
Nitro (Robert Hunter)		Lunatic Legion; Untouchables  Hood's Army		37
The Master of the World (Eshu)	primal-indigenous; fundamentalist environmentalist	[Asia]		35
Strider (cover & 4-panel cameo)	N.A.	[flying white horse Lady of Lake gave Black Knight]		18
Human Torch (Jim Hammond) (4-panel cameo)	N.A.	Invaders; All-Winners Squad  V-Battalion; West Coast Avengers; Heroes for Hire; Penance Council	, etc.	497
The Sub-Mariner (Namor) (1-panel cameo)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Invaders; All-Winners Squad  Defenders; Avengers; The Order; Illuminati; Dark X-Men; X-Men [Atlantis]		1,864
Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards) (1-panel cameo)	Episcopalian	Avengers; Lady Liberators		4,069
Ironclad (Mike Steel) (1-panel cameo)		U-Foes; Thunderbolts Army  Initiative; Hood's Army		33
Lady of the Lake (Niamh) (1-panel cameo)	Celtic goddess	[of Arthurian legend; empowered Black Knight]		11
unnamed bartender (1-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[mad when Hercules threw yet another ruffian through window]		1
Thor (Donald Blake) (mentioned)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Avengers; Thor Corps  Ultimates; Cosmic Avengers [Norway]		4,362
Zeus (mentioned)	Greco-Roman deity	Council of Godheads [supreme monarch of the Olympian gods]		283
Vector (Simon Utrecht) (mentioned)		U-Foes; Thunderbolts Army  Initiative; Hood's Army		61
X-Ray (Jimmy Darnell) (mentioned)		U-Foes; Thunderbolts Army  Initiative; Hood's Army		59
Vapor (Ann Darnell) (mentioned)		U-Foes; Femizons  Thunderbolts Army; Hood's Army		57
High Evolutionary (Herbert Edgar Wyndham) (mentioned)	Transhumanist	Knights of Wundagore (founder); New Men (founder)  New Immortals (founder); Godpack (founder); Animutants (founder); Sensors (founder) [England]		108
Onslaught (mentioned)		[dark side of Xavier and Magneto]		56
Controller (Basil Sandhurst) (mentioned)		Crossfire's Mind Control Gang; New Enforcers  Skeleton Crew; Hood's Army		69
Black Knight (Nathan Garrett) (mentioned)		Masters of Evil [England]		32
Black Knight (Sir Percy of Scandia) (mentioned)	Christian (medieval) and Druidism	Knights of the Round Table [England. served in King Arthur's army]		37
Alcmena (mentioned)	Greco-Roman classical religion	[Greece. mother of Hercules (with Zeus)]		4

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