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Number of characters in this sub-list: 41 (out of a total of 36,945 in the database).

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and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Noruma Abaki Noruma Abaki hero
CBR Scale: M Zulu
The Force Valiant 3
Percy Boraine villain
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #14 (Early Mar. 1989)] Marvel 3
Miriam Chikane supporting character
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #16 (Early Apr. 1989)] Marvel 2
Zanti Chikane supporting character
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #16 (Early Apr. 1989)] Marvel 17
Comrades villain group
CBR Scale: D black supremacist: Comrades
[1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #26 (Late Aug. 1989)] Marvel 4
Cynthia supporting character
  [Percy Boraine's girlfriend] Marvel 1
Da supporting character
CBR Scale: S Christian (denomination
unknown)
[Maggott's father] Marvel 1
Daniel supporting character
CBR Scale: S Christian (denomination
unknown)
[Maggott's youngest brother] Marvel 1
The Fathers villain group
CBR Scale: D black supremacist: The Fathers
[1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #27 (Early Sep. 1989)] Marvel 3
Fusion (Christa Van Der Merwe and Kwazii m'Bphuto) hero group
  U.N. Force Caliber Press Gauntlet 7
Elmer Gore villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
[leads a band of mercenaries] Marvel 7
The Green Terror villain
CBR Scale: U African primal-indigenous
religion
[kidnapped people; drained their blood to retain his youth] Marvel Timely 1
The Host villain
CBR Scale: U mutant supremacist? uplifted pathogen?
virus
[sentient pathogen?]
Marvel 4
Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan villain group
CBR Scale: D White Supremacist
[1st app: The Leopard's Spots (1902) - book 1 in Ku Klux Klan series] DC 4
Lot supporting character
CBR Scale: S Christian (denomination
unknown)
[Maggott's eldest brother] Marvel 1
Ma supporting character
CBR Scale: M Christian (denomination
unknown)
[Maggott's mother; prayed to God to take her son] Marvel 1
Maggott Maggott (Japheth) hero
  black; X-Men Marvel 35
Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Methodist
[1st post-apartheid president of South Africa] Marvel 133
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Quaker
[1st app: Thunderbolts (vol. 1) #137 (Dec. 2009)] Marvel 71
Mighty Man hero
  [1st app: Mighty Man, the Human Law Enforcing Dynamo #1 (1975)] Afri-Comics 2
Miyo Moshigo Miyo Moshigo villain
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #24 (Late July 1989)] Marvel 6
Nkosi villain
CBR Scale: M black supremacist: Comrades
[1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #26 (Late Aug. 1989)] Marvel 4
Mrs. Olebogeng supporting character
  [mother of Walter and Theodore Olebogeng] Marvel 2
Theodore Olebogeng supporting character
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #20 (Late May 1989)] Marvel 7
Walter Olebogeng supporting character
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #26 (Late Aug. 1989)] Marvel 3
Anton Pretorius villain
  [magistrate of communication] Marvel 9
Queen Mother Queen Mother (Ramonda) supporting character
CBR Scale: U African primal-indigenous
religion
[Black Panther's surrogate mother] Marvel 38
Basil Rathbone Basil Rathbone real/historical person
  [1st app: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #32 (Late June 1992)] DC 55
Doeke Riebeeck supporting character
CBR Scale: M White Supremacist
[Minister of Security of South Africa] Marvel 8
Patrick Slade supporting character
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #13 (Late Feb. 1989)] Marvel 5
Sara Slade supporting character
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #19 (Mid-May 1989)] Marvel 3
Swarm Swarm (Fritz von Meyer) villain scientist
CBR Scale: M Nazi
[1st app: The Champions (vol. 1) #14 (July 1977)] Marvel 48
Harrison Taylor supporting character scientist
  [developed bioweapons Bigpox, sentient pathogen "The Host"] Marvel 2
J. R. R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien real/historical person
CBR Scale: M Catholic
[wrote "Lord of the Rings"] Sirena Film; PBS 15
Bishop Tumutuu supporting character clergy/religious leader based on a real person
CBR Scale: D Anglican bishop
black DC 1
two unnamed brothers supporting character
CBR Scale: S Christian (denomination
unknown)
[brothers of Maggot, Daniel, Lot] Marvel 1
unnamed live-in nurse supporting character
  [Harrison Taylor's live-in nurse and lover] Marvel 1
unnamed mysterious tribe supporting character group
CBR Scale: M African primal-indigenous
religion
[Green Terror obtained secret of immortality from them] Marvel Timely 1
unnamed taxi driver supporting character
CBR Scale: M anti-mutant
[racist against blacks as well as mutants] Marvel 1
Eugene Van der Merwe villain
  [1st app: Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #20 (Late May 1989)] Marvel 10
Waku hero
CBR Scale: M African primal-indigenous
religion
black
[Bantu African chieftain]
Marvel Atlas 1

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