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X-Factor Annual #4 (1989):
“That I Be Bound in a Nutshell”
by Ralph Macchio, John Byrne

X-Factor Annual #4

Title: “That I Be Bound in a Nutshell”

Medium: comic

Cover date: 1989

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Ralph Macchio
Art by: John Byrne


16 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.
Magneto Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)
(lead character)
villain hero scientist
CBR Scale: S Jewish; Gypsy/Roma
Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Marvel 916
Doctor Doom Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom)
(lead character)
villain scientist
CBR Scale: S Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism
Fearsome Four; The Cabal Marvel 1,176
Alexia supporting character
CBR Scale: I N.A.
[robot disguised as young telepathic mutant girl] Marvel 1
The Thing The Thing (Ben Grimm)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  Marvel 5,017
Human Torch Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Fantastic Five; Fantastic Force...  Marvel 4,393
Mr. Fantastic Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)
(cameo)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: SCBR Scale: I humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist
Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  Marvel 4,661
Invisible Woman Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: S Episcopalian
Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  Marvel 4,069
Mephisto Mephisto
(cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: D Devil
Six-Fingered Hand; The Cabal Marvel 381
Magda Magda
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: M Gypsy/Roma
[Magneto's wife; mother of Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch] Marvel 19
Cynthia von Doom Cynthia von Doom
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: M Gypsy/Roma; sorceress
[Doctor Doom's beloved mother] Marvel 14
Werner von Doom
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D Gypsy/Roma
[Doctor Doom's father; noted folk medicine healer] Marvel 7
Anya Lehnsherr
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: S Gypsy/Roma
[daughter of Magneto, Magda; killed by mob-caused fire] Marvel 22
Boris Nachman Boris Nachman
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: U Gypsy/Roma
[servant loyal to Doctor Doom and his father before him] Marvel 18
Monks of Doom
(cameo)
supporting character clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: D Tibetan Buddhism
[served Doctor Doom; constructed his armor] Marvel 5
unnamed assistant
(cameo)
supporting character
  [Doctor Doom's assistant at ESU] Marvel 1
unnamed dean
(cameo)
supporting character
  [ESU dean while Doctor Doom was student there] Marvel 1