Religion and Characters in
X-Men: Alpha #1 (Feb. 1995):
“Beginnings...”
by Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid, Roger Cruz, Steve Epting, Tim Townsend, Dan Panosian

42 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)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	X-Men; X-Factor  Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; The Twelve (mutants); Summers Rebellion		2,604
Jean Grey	Episcopalian	X-Men; X-Factor  The Twelve (mutants)		1,905
Iceman (Bobby Drake)	Jewish Catholic	X-Men; Champions (of Los Angeles)  Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; X-Factor; The Twelve (mutants); Secret Defenders		1,752
Angel (Warren Worthington III)	Episcopalian	X-Men; Defenders  Champions (of Los Angeles); X-Factor; Horsemen of Apocalypse; Secret Defenders; X-Saviours; Academy of Tomorrow; Renegades; X-Force; X-Club		1,741
Professor X (Charles Xavier)	religious	X-Men (founder); Brotherhood of Mutants  The Twelve (mutants); Genoshan Excalibur (founder); Illuminati		4,318
Wolverine (James Howlett / Logan)	raised Protestant; sometimes atheist; has practiced Buddhism; skeptical seeker	First Flight; Weapon Plus  Weapon X; Team X; Alpha Flight; X-Men; Secret Defenders; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; New Avengers; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; X-Force [Canada]		8,823
Storm (Ororo Munroe)	Goddess worship	X-Men; Morlocks  The Twelve (mutants); X-Saviours; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Lady Liberators; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,068
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)	Catholic (raised Gypsy/Roma)	X-Men; Excalibur  X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Neyaphem [Germany]		3,788
Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde)	Jewish	X-Men; Excalibur  S.H.I.E.L.D.; Exiles		3,128
Rogue (Anna Marie)	Southern Baptist	Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Men  Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy		3,526
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
Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Avengers  X-Factor; West Coast Avengers; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Ultimates; Mighty Avengers [Transia]		944
Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh)	Catholic; LGBT	New Mutants; 198  Academy of Tomorrow; X-Men [Vietnam]		260
Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)	Anglican (nominal); mystical	Excalibur [England]		365
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)	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
Gambit (Remy LeBeau)	Cajun Catholic	X-Men; X-Ternals  Marauders; X-Treme Sanctions Executive; Horsemen of Apocalypse; Weapon X (Exiles)		954
Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur)	Clan Akkaba; Transhumanist / Social Darwinist	Horsemen of Apocalypse (founder); Alliance of Evil  Dark Riders (leader) [Egypt]		315
White Queen (Emma Frost)	Episcopalian (nominal); mutant supremacist	Council of the Chosen; Hellfire Club Inner Circle  Generation X (teacher); X-Men; Academy of Tomorrow; Dark X-Men (leader)		3,409
Havok (Alex Summers)	Catholic (lapsed)	X-Men; X-Factor  Magistrates; Dark Descendants; Brotherhood of Mutants; Academy of Tomorrow; Starjammers [studied geophysics in college]		592
Sentinels	anti-mutant robots			245
Bishop (Lucas Bishop)	X-Men veneration (lapsed)	Xavier's Security Enforcers; X-Men  The Twelve (mutants); X-Treme Sanctions Executive; NYPD		548
Sabretooth (Victor Creed)	manifestly non-religious; future: Evangelical "born-again Christian"	Weapon Plus; Weapon X  Team X; Marauders; Brotherhood of Mutants; X-Factor; X-Men; Horsemen of Apocalypse (Age of Apocalypse); Exiles; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy		610
Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)		Gamma Flight; Weapon X  Alpha Flight; X-Factor; Omega Flight [Canada]		172
Dark Beast (Henry McCoy)	mutant supremacist	X-Men; Genoshan Excalibur  Gene Nation; Brotherhood of Mutants; Dark Descendants; Dark X-Men [Henry McCoy from the Age of Apocalypse]		116
Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)	Social Darwinist	Marauders; Nasty Boys  Horsemen of Apocalypse (Age of Apocalypse); Weapon X [England]		255
Blob (Fred J. Dukes)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three  Freedom Force; X-Corps; X-Cell; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy		403
Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Misfits  198; Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy [England]		310
Unus the Untouchable (Angelo Unuscione)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Factor Three  Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy [Italy]		69
Mariko Yashida	Shinto	[Japan. Wolverine's late fiancee]		31
Moira MacTaggert		[Scotland. Charles Xavier's colleague, girlfriend]		243
Morph (Kevin Sydney)		X-Men; Avengers  New Mutants; Exiles		182
Black King (Sebastian Shaw)		Council of the Chosen; Hellfire Club Inner Circle		122
Holocaust (Nemesis)		Horsemen of Apocalypse (Age of Apocalypse); Exiles [was caretaker of a quarter of Apocalypse's nation]		29
Abyss (Nils Styger)	Nihilist	Neyaphem; Horsemen of Apocalypse (Age of Apocalypse)  X-Cell [son of Azazel (Satan-like mutant)]		17
Fabian Cortez	mutant supremacist worshipper of Magneto	Acolytes; Upstarts		70
Javitz (Isaac Javitz)	mutant supremacist worshipper of Magneto	Acolytes		18
Scanner (Sarah Ryall)	mutant supremacist worshipper of Magneto	Acolytes		45
Nanny		The Right		10
Bolivar Trask	anti-mutant	[inventor of Sentinels]		5
Quark (Scarlett McKenzie)		[former lover of Havok]		6
Blink (Clarice Ferguson)		X-Men; Exiles [member of X-Men in Age of Apocalypse timeline]		110
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (character based on)	Episcopalian	X-Men; Brotherhood of Mutants  Defenders; Avengers; X-Factor; Academy of Tomorrow; X-Club		5,233

This issue is also known as X-Men Alpha #1.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. An alternative form of this story's title is: “A Beginning”. Webpage for X-Men: Alpha #1 (Feb. 1995) created 10 November 2010. Last modified 25 April 2013.
All characters, images, comics and source material © by their respective copyright holders. This page (including original commentary, organization, lists, markup, page layout, etc.) © 2013 by ComicBookReligion.com. All rights reserved.