Religion and Characters in
The New Avengers (vol. 1) #54 (Aug. 2009)
by Brian Michael Bendis, Billy Tan, Batt

39 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.
Spider-Man (Peter Parker)	Protestant	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Secret Defenders  Avengers; New Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		9,358
Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Strange)	occult	Defenders; Midnight Sons  The Order; Illuminati; Secret Defenders; New Avengers		1,687
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	First Flight; Weapon Plus  Weapon X; Team X; Alpha Flight; X-Men; Secret Defenders; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; New Avengers; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; X-Force [Canada]		8,823
Ronin (Clint Barton)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Avengers; West Coast Avengers  Great Lakes Avengers; Thunderbolts; Ultimates; New Avengers		1,515
Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers)	Protestant	U.S. Air Force; NASA  Avengers; Starjammers; Operation: Lightning Storm (leader); Mighty Avengers; New Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		784
Luke Cage	Christian (denomination unknown)	Heroes for Hire; Defenders  Marvel Knights; New Avengers [formerly owned a bar and theater]		951
Captain America (Bucky Barnes)	Protestant (nominal)	Liberty Legion; Kid Commandos  All-Winners Squad; Invaders; Young Allies (Marvel); New Avengers		395
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)	Wundagorian Transhumanism (raised); HYDRA (former)	HYDRA; S.H.I.E.L.D.  Avengers; Heroes for Hire; Secret Defenders; New Avengers; Lady Liberators [England]		353
Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse)		S.H.I.E.L.D.; West Coast Avengers  Great Lakes Avengers; New Avengers [Hawkeye's wife]		293
The Hood (Parker Robbins)	demonolatry	Hood's Army (leader); The Cabal		159
Brother Voodoo (Jericho Drumm)	Vodoun houngan	Heroes for Hire; Howling Commandos [Haiti]		110
Brother Voodoo (Daniel Drumm)	Vodoun houngan; spirit	[Haiti. Brother Voodoo's twin brother, now spirit who talks to him]		7
Son of Satan (Daimon Hellstrom)	Catholic (former priest)	Defenders; Howling Commandos		207
Dormammu	Faltine energy being; extra-dimensional mystic entity/powerful magic user	[Foe of: Dr. Strange (arch-enemy)]		170
Madame Masque (Whitney Frost)		Maggia (leader); Hood's Army [Italy]		146
unnamed New Orleans woman (6-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[was in Brother Voodoo's bed when he became Sorcerer Supreme]		1
The Ancient One (bTsaan Saa) (5-panel cameo)	Tibetan Buddhism; Order of the Ancient Ones; occult; spirit	[Tibet. belonged to an unnamed order of sorcerers]		93
Loki (3-panel cameo)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Liberators; Mighty Avengers (founder)		696
Norman Osborn (2-panel cameo)	manifestly non-religious	Sinister Twelve (leader); Cabal of Scrier (leader)  Thunderbolts (leader); Dark Avengers (leader); H.A.M.M.E.R. (leader); Dark X-Men (founder) [Foe of: Spider-Man (arch-enemy)]		417
Clea (2-panel cameo)	occult	Defenders [disciple/former girlfriend of Doctor Strange]		222
The Hulk (Bruce Banner) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic (lapsed)	Avengers; Defenders  Hulkbusters; Pantheon; The Order; Ultimates; Secret Defenders; X-Saviours; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles)		4,551
Magik (Illyana Rasputin) (1-panel cameo)	occult/magick; demonolatry; raised Communist	New Mutants; Exiles [Russia]		450
Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) (1-panel cameo)	Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism	Fearsome Four [Latveria. Foe of: Fantastic Four (arch-enemy)]		1,176
Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) (1-panel cameo)	Reform Judaism	Young Avengers		106
The Black Queen (Selene) (1-panel cameo)	Greco-Roman classical religion (nominal); Cult of Fire (high priestess); sorceress	Externals; Hellfire Club Inner Circle  Upstarts (founder)		67
Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) (1-panel cameo)	Baptist (nominal); eclectic	Champions (of Los Angeles); Midnight Sons		306
Baron Mordo (Karl Amadeus Mordo) (1-panel cameo)	sorcerer	Offenders [Romania. Ancient One's former disciple; minion of Dormammu]		106
Wong (1-panel cameo)	Tibetan Buddhism; occult	[Tibet. house servant of Doctor Strange]		333
Topaz (1-panel cameo)	occult; Native American spirituality	Witches		82
Soulfire (Jason Maldonado) (1-panel cameo)	bonded to a demon	[unwilling pawn in battle between Heaven and Hell]		7
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (photo/picture/video)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sorceress	Brotherhood of Mutants; Avengers  West Coast Avengers; Force Works; Secret Defenders; Avengers (MC2); Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Ultimates		1,624
Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (photo/picture/video)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Avengers  X-Factor; West Coast Avengers; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Ultimates; Mighty Avengers [Transia]		944
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (mentioned)	Protestant	Weapon Plus; Invaders  Avengers; Secret Defenders; Redeemers; Ultimates; New Avengers		5,992
Iron Man (Tony Stark) (mentioned)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Avengers; West Coast Avengers  Force Works; Illuminati; Ultimates; New Avengers; Mighty Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Thor (Donald Blake) (mentioned)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Avengers; Thor Corps  Ultimates; Cosmic Avengers [Norway]		4,362
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) (mentioned)	Jewish; Gypsy/Roma	Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men  Acolytes; The Twelve (mutants); Genoshan Excalibur; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy [Foe of: X-Men (arch-enemy)]		916
H.A.M.M.E.R. (mentioned)		H.A.M.M.E.R.		207
Odin (mentioned)	Norse/Teutonic deity	[Thor's father]		307
Agamotto (mentioned)	mystic deity	Vishanti		15

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