Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3 (Oct. 2009):
“Hidden Depths”
by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk

Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3

Title: “Hidden Depths”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 2009

Publisher:
Written by: Paul Cornell
Art by: Leonard Kirk

40 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.
The Sub-Mariner (Namor) (lead character)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  human; Illuminati; The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Cabal; The Defenders; The Invaders; The Order; X-Men		1,864
Black Queen (Emma Frost) (lead character)	Episcopalian (nominal); mutant supremacist	Academy of Tomorrow; Dark X-Men...  Generation X (teacher); The Cabal; The Council of the Chosen; The Inner Circle; X-Men		3,409
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (2-panel cameo)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
The Thing (Ben Grimm) (2-panel cameo)	Jewish	Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four; The Yancy Street Gang; U.S. Air Force; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation		5,017
Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards) (2-panel cameo)	Episcopalian	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four		4,069
Nazis (2-panel cameo)	Nazi	[generic WWII Nazis]	, etc.	4,222
Atlanteans (2-panel cameo)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	[hidden race]		165
Namora (Aquaria Nautica Neptunia) (2-panel cameo)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Agents of Atlas; Renegades...  The Monster Hunters		163
The Hulk (Bruce Banner) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic (lapsed)	Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order; The Ultimates; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Saviours		4,551
Iron Man (Tony Stark) (1-panel cameo)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Force Works; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Thor (Donald Blake) (1-panel cameo)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Asgardian; Cosmic Avengers...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Thor Corps		4,362
Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Strange) (1-panel cameo)	occult	Illuminati; Midnight Sons...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order		1,687
Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (1-panel cameo)	Episcopalian	Fantastic Five; Fantastic Force...  Metro College; The Fantastic Four		4,393
Cyclops (Scott Summers) (1-panel cameo)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (1-panel cameo)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Phoenix (Jean Grey) (1-panel cameo)	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Iceman (Bobby Drake) (1-panel cameo)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Champions; The Defenders; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		1,752
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (1-panel cameo)	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan) (1-panel cameo)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	Alpha Flight; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy...  First Flight; Secret Defenders; Team X; The Avengers; The Canadian Army; Weapon Plus; Weapon X; X-Force; X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		10,615
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (1-panel cameo)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sorceress	A-Next; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Force Works; Lady Liberators; Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Ultimates		1,624
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) (1-panel cameo)	Jewish; Gypsy/Roma	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Men		916
Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) (1-panel cameo)	Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism	Fearsome Four; The Cabal		1,176
Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (1-panel cameo)	Zenn-La religion	Heralds of Galactus; Secret Defenders...  Star Masters; The Defenders; The Order; Zenn-Lavian		826
Hercules (1-panel cameo)	Greco-Roman classical religion	Heroes for Hire; Olympian...  Renegades; The Avengers; The Champions		1,029
Bucky (Bucky Barnes) (1-panel cameo)	Protestant (nominal)	Kid Commandos; Liberty Legion...  The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Invaders; The Young Allies		395
Cloak (Tyrone Johnson) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic	black; Dark X-Men [partner of Dagger]		216
Dagger (Tandy Bowen) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic	Dark X-Men; League of Losers...  Marvel Knights; Secret Avengers; Secret Defenders; The New Warriors; X-Men [partner of Cloak]		219
Wolverine (Daken Akihiro) (1-panel cameo)	Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"	Asian; Dark Avengers...  Dark X-Men [son of Wolverine]		72
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) (1-panel cameo)	Nazi	Axis Mundi; HYDRA...  The People's Militia; THEM [Captain America's arch-nemy]		298
Mystique (Raven Darkholme) (1-panel cameo)	mutant supremacist; manifestly non-religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark X-Men...  Freedom Force; The Marauders; The Mutant Underground; X-Corps; X-Factor; X-Men; Xavier Institute: Gambit's squad		451
Human Torch (Jim Hammond) (1-panel cameo)	N.A.	Heroes for Hire; Penance Council...  The All-Winners Squad; The Invaders; V-Battalion; West Coast Avengers		497
Mimic (Calvin Rankin) (1-panel cameo)		Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark X-Men...  Excalibur; Metro College; The Exiles; X-Men		169
Weapon Omega (Michael Pointer) (1-panel cameo)		Dark X-Men; Omega Flight		41
Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) (1-panel cameo)	Norse/Teutonic paganism (Asgardian)	The Defenders [former Chooser of the Slain]		325
Nighthawk (Kyle Richmond) (1-panel cameo)		Redeemers (Earth-712); Redeemers...  Secret Avengers; Squadron Sinister; Squadron Supreme; The Defenders; The Thunderbolts		361
Hellcat (Patsy Walker) (1-panel cameo)		Lady Liberators; Legion of Unliving...  The Avengers; The Defenders		656
Triton (1-panel cameo)	Inhuman religion	Inhuman Royal Family; Inhumans...  Inhuman		278
Union Jack (Montgomery Falsworth) (1-panel cameo)		Freedom's Five; The Invaders		37
Attuma (1-panel cameo)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Deep Six (leader)		110
Spitfire (Jacqueline Falsworth) (1-panel cameo)		MI-13; The Hellfire Club...  The Invaders; V-Battalion		127

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