Dark Avengers #8 (Oct. 2009):
“Utopia, Chapter Five”
by Matt Fraction, Luke Ross, Rick Magyar, Mark Pennington

Dark Avengers #8

Title: “Utopia, Chapter Five”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 2009

Publisher:
Written by: Matt Fraction
Art by: Luke Ross, Rick Magyar, Mark Pennington

62 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.
Cyclops (Scott Summers) (lead character)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
The Sub-Mariner (Namor)	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
Archangel (Warren Worthington III)	Episcopalian	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Renegades; Secret Defenders; St. Joe's Preparatory School; The Champions; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		1,741
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)	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
Black Queen (Emma Frost)	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
Cloak (Tyrone Johnson)	Catholic	black; Dark X-Men [partner of Dagger]		216
Dagger (Tandy Bowen)	Catholic	Dark X-Men; League of Losers...  Marvel Knights; Secret Avengers; Secret Defenders; The New Warriors; X-Men [partner of Cloak]		219
Norman Osborn	manifestly non-religious	Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Dark X-Men (leader); H.A.M.M.E.R. (leader); Sinister Twelve (leader); The Cabal (leader); The Thunderbolts (leader)		417
Wolverine (Daken Akihiro)	Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"	Asian; Dark Avengers...  Dark X-Men [son of Wolverine]		72
H.A.M.M.E.R.		[government agency]		207
X-23 (Laura Kinney)	religiously untrained	League of Losers; New X-Men...  X-Force; X-Men		190
Domino (Neena Thurman)	Armajesuits (born into); Catholic (raised)	Cable's Underground; Six Pack...  X-Corporation; X-Force [Domino's mother leads the Armajesuits sect]		314
Warpath (James Proudstar)	Native American spirituality (Apache)	Apache; Hellions...  Native American; The New Mutants; X-Corporation; X-Corps; X-Force; X-Men		340
Mimic (Calvin Rankin)		Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark X-Men...  Excalibur; Metro College; The Exiles; X-Men		169
Dark Beast (Henry McCoy)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants...  Dark X-Men; Gene Nation; Genoshan Excalibur [Henry McCoy from the Age of Apocalypse]		116
Weapon Omega (Michael Pointer)		Dark X-Men; Omega Flight		41
Hawkeye (Benjamin Poindexter) (8-panel cameo)	Catholic (nominal); nihilist	Dark Avengers; The Thunderbolts [former baseball pitcher]		243
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (7-panel cameo)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	Excalibur; Neyaphem...  X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		4,345
Madison Jeffries (7-panel cameo)		Alpha Flight; Gamma Flight...  Weapon X; X-Club; Zodiac (Ecliptic)		74
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (6-panel cameo)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Magik (Illyana Rasputin) (6-panel cameo)	occult/magick; demonolatry; raised Communist	The Exiles; The New Mutants		450
Ares (6-panel cameo)	Greco-Roman deity	Dark Avengers; Olympian...  The Avengers; Warhawks (leader) [god of war; Gods of Olympus]		440
Ms. Marvel (Karla Sofen) (6-panel cameo)	Buddhist	Dark Avengers; Femizons...  The Masters of Evil; The Thunderbolts		235
Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (5-panel cameo)	Communist atheist (former)	Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men		4,122
Psylocke (Betsy Braddock) (5-panel cameo)	Anglican	Asian; Excalibur...  S.T.R.I.K.E.; The Exiles; X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		772
Spider-Man (Mac Gargan) (4-panel cameo)	manifestly non-religious	Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Sinister Twelve; Spider-Man Revenge League; The Masters of Evil; The Thunderbolts		315
Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier) (4-panel cameo)	Catholic; LGBT; Quebecois separatist terrorist (former)	Academy of Tomorrow; Alpha Flight...  Secret Defenders; X-Men [skier]		284
Pixie (Megan Gwynn) (4-panel cameo)		X-Men; Xavier Institute: Paragons squad		50
Doctor Nemesis (Dr. James Bradley) (4-panel cameo)	Nazi	Battle-Axis (leader); X-Club		21
Simon Trask (4-panel cameo)	anti-mutant: Humanity Now (leader)	Humanity's Last Stand [brother of Sentinel inventor Bolivar Trask]		15
Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) (3-panel cameo)	Native American religion (Cheyenne) / Teutonic paganism	Mutant Liberation Front; Native American...  The New Mutants; X-Force; X-Men; Young X-Men (teacher)		470
Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith) (3-panel cameo)		Cable's Underground; Fallen Angels...  Nextwave; The New Mutants; X-Force; X-Men; X-Terminators		314
Dazzler (Alison Blaire) (3-panel cameo)	singing	Academy of Tomorrow; Excalibur...  X-Men		447
Anole (Victor Borkowski) (3-panel cameo)	LGBT	Alpha Squadron; Young X-Men		60
Dr. Yuriko Takiguchi (3-panel cameo)		Asian; X-Club [creator of Godzilla]		30
Iceman (Bobby Drake) (2-panel cameo)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Champions; The Defenders; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		1,752
Magma (Amara Aquilla) (2-panel cameo)	Greco-Roman classical religion	Hellions; New Hellions...  The 198; The New Mutants; X-Corporation		269
Dust (Sooraya Qadir) (2-panel cameo)	Sunni Muslim	Arab; Brotherhood of Mutants...  New X-Men; X-Men; Xavier Institute: Hellions squad; Xavier Institute: Special Class; Young X-Men		102
Greymalkin (Jonas Greymalkin) (2-panel cameo)	LGBT	Young X-Men [ancestor of Charles Xavier]		37
Stepford Cuckoo (Mindee Cuckoo) (2-panel cameo)		Weapon Plus; Xavier Institute: Corsairs squad		156
Dr. Kavita Rao (2-panel cameo)	Hindu	South Asian; X-Club [developed "cure": medical means to neutralize mutant powers]		62
Onyxx (Sidney Green) (2-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Gambit's squad		14
Hela (2-panel cameo)	Norse/Teutonic deity	The Cabal [Goddess of death, ruler of Hel and Niffelheim]		169
Sunspot (Roberto Dacosta) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic	Academy of Tomorrow; black...  Fallen Angels; Mutant Liberation Front; The Avengers; The Hellfire Club; The New Mutants; X-Corporation; X-Force; X-Ternals; Young X-Men (teacher)		574
Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic; LGBT	Academy of Tomorrow; Asian...  The 198; The New Mutants; X-Men		260
Armor (Hisako Ichiki) (1-panel cameo)		Asian; X-Men...  Xavier Institute		132
Sentry (Bob Reynolds) (1-panel cameo)	angel	Dark Avengers; The Avengers		260
Elixir (Josh Foley) (1-panel cameo)	anti-mutant (former)	The Reavers; X-Force...  X-Men; Xavier Institute: New Mutants squad [discovered powers while trying to join anti-mutant Reavers]		118
Surge (Nori Ashida) (1-panel cameo)		Asian; New X-Men...  X-Men; Xavier Institute: New Mutants squad		151
Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro) (1-panel cameo)	Catholic	Hispanic; New X-Men...  X-Men; Xavier Institute: Hellions squad; Young X-Men		82
Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) (1-panel cameo)		New X-Men; X-Men...  Xavier Institute: Hellions squad		121
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
Stepford Cuckoos (Celeste, Esme, Mindee, Phoebe, Sophie) (1-panel cameo)		Weapon Plus; X-Men (future)...  X-Men; Xavier Institute: Corsairs squad		147
X-Treme (Adam Neramani) (1-panel cameo)	Shi'ar religion	human; Shi'ar [half brother of Cyclops and Havok?]		11
Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi) (1-panel cameo)	African primal-indigenous religion: Wakandan Black Panther Cult	black; Xavier Institute [member of Storm's squad]		42
Trance (Hope Abbott) (1-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Paragons squad		50
Loa (Alani Ryan) (1-panel cameo)	Polynesian traditional religion	Alpha Squadron; Polynesian		50
Nekra (Nekra Sinclair) (1-panel cameo)	former priestess of Black Spectre; Kali worshipper/Thugee; Dry Academy	Black Spectre; black...  Lethal Legion		49
Sadie Sinclair (1-panel cameo)		[San Francisco mayor who invited X-Men to live there]		3
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (someone disguised or dressed as)	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Jehovah (mentioned)	God	[1st app: Old Testament (1402 B.C.)]	various	313
Biosentinels (mentioned)	anti-mutant	[humans mutated into purely mechanical soldiers]		2

An alternative form of this story's title is: “Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Utopia, Part 5”. Webpage for Dark Avengers #8 (Oct. 2009) created 28 August 2009. Last modified 28 October 2013.

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