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Religion and Characters in
X-Factor (vol. 1) #138 (Oct. 1997):
“Fear Walks Amongst Us”
by Howard Mackie, Melvin Rubi, Rob Hunter, Steve Moncuse, Allen Martinez, Hackshack Studios

X-Factor (vol. 1) #138

Title: “Fear Walks Amongst Us”

Medium: comic book

Publication date: Oct 1997

Publisher: Marvel

Written by: Howard Mackie

Art by: Melvin Rubi, Rob Hunter, Steve Moncuse, Allen Martinez, Hackshack Studios


14 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.
Colossus Colossus (Peter Rasputin) hero
CBR Scale: I Communist atheist (former)
X-Men; Acolytes 
[Russia; USSR]
Marvel 4,122
Havok Havok (Alex Summers) hero
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed)
X-Men; X-Factor 
[studied geophysics in college]
Marvel 592
Polaris Polaris (Lorna Dane) hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish Catholic
X-Men; X-Factor 
[studied geophysics in college]
Marvel 464
Sabretooth Sabretooth (Victor Creed) villain hero
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious;
future: Evangelical
"born-again Christian"
Weapon Plus; Weapon X  Marvel 610
Forge Forge (Jonathon Silvercloud) hero
CBR Scale: M Native American shamanism
(Cheyenne)
X-Factor; X-Men  Marvel 394
Wild Child Wild Child (Kyle Gibney) villain hero
  Gamma Flight; Weapon X 
[Canada]
Marvel 172
Dark Beast Dark Beast (Henry McCoy) villain scientist
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
X-Men; Genoshan Excalibur 
[Henry McCoy from the Age of Apocalypse]
Marvel 116
Fatale Fatale (Pamela Greenwood) villain
CBR Scale: S mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Cell  Marvel 38
Omega Red Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich) villain
CBR Scale: S Communist
KGB; Upstarts 
[Russia]
Marvel 98
Father Vincent Bloch supporting character clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D Catholic priest
[mutant, escaped slaughter at the hands of Sabretooth] Marvel 1
Miles Brickman Miles Brickman supporting character
  [U.S. Representative; U.S. Senator] Marvel 16
Stone supporting character
CBR Scale: S religious/ethical
[one of the Hounds; betrayed programming, saved mutant] Marvel 2
Madame Marlene (Marlena Petrokova) supporting character
CBR Scale: S palm reader
[Russia. low-level telepath] Marvel 1
Gloria Brickman supporting character
  [Mystique's daughter; adopted daughter of Senator Brickman] Marvel 2