Religion and Characters in
The Avengers and the Thunderbolts (1998)
by Pierce Askegren, Mark Bagley, Jeff Albrecht

53 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.
Captain America (Steve Rogers)	Protestant	Weapon Plus; Invaders  Avengers; Secret Defenders; Redeemers; Ultimates; New Avengers		5,992
Iron Man (Tony Stark)	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)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Avengers; Thor Corps  Ultimates; Cosmic Avengers [Norway]		4,362
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)	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
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Avengers; West Coast Avengers  Great Lakes Avengers; Thunderbolts; Ultimates; New Avengers		1,515
Black Panther (T'Challa)	African primal-indigenous religion; Black Panther Cult (leader)	Avengers; Fantastic Force		786
Wonder Man (Simon Williams)	religious	Avengers; West Coast Avengers  Force Works; Guardians of the Galaxy; Galactic Guardians; Mighty Avengers; Thunder Guard		788
Vision	Catholic (temporary); synthezoid	Avengers; West Coast Avengers  Young Avengers; Avengers (MC2); Mighty Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		1,393
Edwin Jarvis	Anglican	Avengers (staff) [England]		669
Moonstone (Karla Sofen)	Buddhist	Masters of Evil; Femizons  Thunderbolts; Dark Avengers		235
S.H.I.E.L.D.		S.H.I.E.L.D.		1,188
HYDRA	HYDRA	HYDRA [largest worldwide subversive organization]		283
Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo)		Masters of Evil; Thunderbolts  Redeemers; Thunderbolts (Counter-Earth) [Germany]		142
Atlas (Erik Josten)		Emissaries of Evil (Egghead); Lethal Legion  Masters of Evil; Thunderbolts; Initiative; Defenders		197
MACH-IV (Abner Jenkins)		Masters of Evil; Sinister Six  Sinister Syndicate; Thunderbolts; Initiative		152
Songbird (Melissa Joan Gold)	Jewish	Femizons; Masters of Evil  Grapplers; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation; Thunderbolts		229
Techno (Norbert Ebersol)		HYDRA; Masters of Evil  New Enforcers; Redeemers; Thunderbolts; Initiative		136
Jolt (Hallie Takahama)		Thunderbolts; Young Allies (Counter Earth)  Redeemers		83
Firestar (Angelica Jones)	Catholic	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Hellions  New Warriors; Avengers; X-Strike; Weapon X (Exiles)		338
Justice (Vance Astrovik)	Jewish (half)	New Warriors; Initiative: Camp Hammond (staff)  Counter Force		291
Baron Strucker (Wolfgang von Strucker)	Nazi; HYDRA (founder)	Blitzkrieg Squad (founder); HYDRA (leader) [Germany]		130
Baron Zemo (imposter) (Franz Gruber)	Nazi	[Germany]		5
Eins	Nazi	Blitzkrieg Squad		1
Svei	Nazi	Blitzkrieg Squad		1
S.A.F.E.		S.A.F.E.		11
Colonel Sean Morgan		S.A.F.E. (leader)		4
Agent Joshua Ballard		S.A.F.E.		4
Agent Doug Deeley		U.S. Air Force; S.A.F.E.		4
David Erskine		[security guard; business owner]		2
Drei	Nazi	Blitzkrieg Squad		1
Jasper Sitwell (cameo)	Latter-day Saint	[ 1st app: Strange Tales (vol. 1) #144 (May 1966) ]		114
Corben (cameo)	HYDRA	HYDRA [named after cartoonist Richard Corben]		1
Veitch (cameo)	HYDRA	HYDRA [named after cartoonist Rick Veitch]		1
Hopkins (cameo)	HYDRA	HYDRA		1
The Fabulous Duff Beer Babes (cameo)	prob. indeterminate	[model]		11
Mr. Oglodytes (cameo)		[chef]		1
Archibald Nathan (cameo)		[named after author Nathan Archer]		1
Fred McDowell (cameo)				1
Burton Hildebrandt (cameo)				2
R.B. Hayes (cameo)		FBI; S.A.F.E.		3
Dreadnought (someone disguised as)	N.A.	HYDRA; Maggia  A.I.M. [robotic combat instrument]		20
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (mentioned, pg. 161)	Protestant	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; Secret Defenders  Avengers; New Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		9,358
Nick Fury (mentioned, pg. 89, 93)  Baron Strucker: "American sergeant and his doltish underlings "lifelong foe"	secular	Howling Commandos; S.H.I.E.L.D.  Ultimates		1,898
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (mentioned, pg. 85)	humanist; believes in God	Avengers; Illuminati  Fantastic Five		4,661
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) (mentioned, pg. 33)  Quote: "heir to one of the world's most infamous bloodlines"	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
Hercules (mentioned, pg. 198)	Greco-Roman classical religion	Avengers; Champions (of Los Angeles)  Heroes for Hire; Renegades; Mighty Avengers [Greece]		1,029
Norman Osborn (mentioned, pg. 109)  Quote: "Osborn Chemical"	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
A.I.M. (mentioned)	Scientism	A.I.M.		390
Secret Empire (mentioned)		Secret Empire		120
Chthon (mentioned, pg. 33)  Quote: "ancient Earth deity"	Elder God	Elder Gods; Gods of Pre-Cataclysmic Era		13
URSA (mentioned)	Communist	[Russia. neo-Leninist organization; wants to restore Soviet Union]		3
Robby the Robot (mentioned, pg. 32)	N.A.			46
Frederick I Barbarossa (mentioned, pg. 201)	Catholic	[Germany]		3

The publication date for this novel was December 1998. The official release date was January 1999.

This is a prose novel, but it features chapter heading illustrations by Mark Bagley, Jeff Albrecht. So there is some artwork in this novel, but it is definitely not a comic book.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for The Avengers and the Thunderbolts (1998) created 21 December 2009. Last modified 25 April 2013.
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