Religion and Characters in
Joker: Last Laugh #4 (Dec. 2001):
“Everyone Knows This is Nowhere”
by Chuck Dixon, Scott Beatty, Andy Kuhn

50 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.
Batman (Bruce Wayne)	Episcopalian / Catholic (lapsed)	Justice League; Batman family  Mystery Analysts of Gotham City; Super Friends; Outsiders; Quinntets		10,183
Black Canary (Dinah Lance)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Justice League; Birds of Prey		1,406
The Joker	anarchist; obsessed with being Batman's arch-enemy	Injustice Gang; Injustice League		1,679
Lex Luthor	Episcopalian (lapsed); Nietzschean atheist	Legion of Doom; LexCorp  Injustice Gang; Injustice League; Secret Six; Secret Society of Super Villains [Foe of: Superman (arch-enemy)]		1,508
Scarecrow (Jonathan Crane)	Freudian	Legion of Doom; Injustice Gang  Secret Society of Super Villains		267
Killer Croc (Waylon Jones)		Secret Society of Super Villains		202
Doctor Light (Arthur Light)		Injustice League; Injustice Gang  Suicide Squad; Fearsome Five (founder); Secret Society of Super Villains		127
Man-Bat (Kirk Langstrom)		Secret Society of Super Villains		134
Deadshot (Floyd Lawton)		Suicide Squad; Secret Six  Killer Elite; Checkmate [was a freelance operative for Checkmate]		213
Doctor Sivana	manifestly non-religious	Fearsome Five (leader)		162
Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Quinzel)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Six; Justice League of Anarchy  Secret Society of Super Villains		206
Copperhead	demonolatry (temporary)	Suicide Squad; Secret Society of Super Villains [sold his soul to demon Neron]		52
Matter Master (Mark Mandrill)	alchemist	Injustice Society; Secret Society of Super Villains		21
The Floronic Man (Jason Woodrue)	fundamentalist Environmentalist	Injustice Gang; New Guardians  Secret Society of Super Villains		118
Ventriloquist and Scarface (Arnold Wesker)		Secret Society of Super Villains		145
Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blake)		Blackhawks; Birds of Prey		116
Mister Miracle (Shilo Norman)		New Gods; Seven Soldiers of Victory		51
Multi-Man (Duncan Pramble)		League of Challenger-Haters; Injustice League  Justice League Antarctica; Suicide Squad; Color Queens		34
Father Time	quasi-cosmic entity w/ personal obsession	Elders of the Universe		1
Silver Ghost (Raphael Van Zandt)	Nazi	Crusaders; Secret Society of Super Villains [Foe of: Freedom Fighters (arch-enemy)]		7
Bolt (Larry Bolatinsky)		Suicide Squad		63
Apeface		[simian villain; associate of Joker]		9
Merlyn (Arthur King)		Injustice League; League of Assassins  Killer Elite; Secret Society of Super Villains; The 100		51
Black Mass (Geoffrey Thibodeux)		Cadre; Secret Society of Super Villains		20
Ocean Master (Orm Marius)	occult; half-Atlantean	Injustice Gang; Secret Society of Super Villains		69
Dr. H. Clyde		[lied and told Joker he had an inoperable brain tumor]		2
Stormfront				1
General Crisp	indeterminate	[led U.S. military response to Joker-led prison riot a Slab]		2
Militia (Mace Gardner)		[Guy Gardner's brother]		13
Meathead (Buckley Mellon)				3
Barrage (Karnowsky)		[ 1st app: "Love's Labors..." in Superman Annual (vol. 2) #2 (1988) ]		17
Frag				6
Dina Bell	Catholic	U.S. Marshals		9
Captain Nazi (Albrecht Krieger)	Nazi	Fourth Reich		22
Cerberus		[ 1st app: Superman: The Man of Steel #1 (July 1991) ]		10
Deadline		Killer Elite		20
Hellgrammite (Roderick Rose)	demonolatry	Intergang		22
Joe Gardner		[evil alien clone of Guy Gardner (a hero)]		26
Kilg%re	N.A.	[powerful sentient computer virus]		14
King Shark (Nanaue)	Polynesian shark demigod	Secret Six; Secret Society of Super Villains [child of a shark god and a Hawaiian woman]		27
Mister 104 (John Dubrovny)	alchemist	[named for number of known chemical elements]		10
Mister Mind	alien	[worm-like alien]		15
Phobia (Angela Hawkins III)		Brotherhood of Evil [England]		35
Rancor (Todd Francis Oszechorski)	white supremacist; neo-Nazi			9
Terra-Man (Toby Manning)	Fundamentalist Environmentalist	[raised by an alien]		9
Warjack		[part-tank cyborg]		1
White Dragon (William Heller)	Aryan Nations/White Supremacist	Suicide Squad; Fourth Reich		16
Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) (mentioned)	Greco-Roman classical religion / Protestant	Marvel Family; Shazam's Squadron of Justice  Justice League		756
Typhoon (David Drake) (mentioned)		[Foe of: Martin Stein (Firestorm)]		18
Lee Harvey Oswald (mentioned)	Lutheran (raised); Communist	U.S. Marines [USA; USSR. shot Pres. John F. Kennedy?]		84

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