New Mutants (vol. 3) #1 (July 2009):
“Return of the Legion, Part 1: We Were Many, Once”
by Zeb Wells, Diogenes Neves, Cam Smith, Edgar E. Tadeo

New Mutants (vol. 3) #1

Title: “Return of the Legion, Part 1: We Were Many, Once”

Medium: comic

Cover date: July 2009

Publisher:
Written by: Zeb Wells
Art by: Diogenes Neves, Cam Smith, Edgar E. Tadeo

35 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.
Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)	Baptist	Academy of Tomorrow; The Avengers...  The New Mutants; X-Corporation; X-Force; X-Men; X-Treme Sanctions Executive		831
Sunspot (Roberto Dacosta)	Catholic	Academy of Tomorrow; black...  Fallen Angels; Mutant Liberation Front; The Avengers; The Hellfire Club; The New Mutants; X-Corporation; X-Force; X-Ternals; Young X-Men (teacher)		574
Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh)	Catholic; LGBT	Academy of Tomorrow; Asian...  The 198; The New Mutants; X-Men		260
Magma (Amara Aquilla)	Greco-Roman classical religion	Hellions; New Hellions...  The 198; The New Mutants; X-Corporation		269
Magik (Illyana Rasputin)	occult/magick; demonolatry; raised Communist	The Exiles; The New Mutants		450
Anole (Victor Borkowski)	LGBT	Alpha Squadron; Young X-Men		60
Marci Sabol	indeterminate	[young girl New Mutants rescued from Legion]		4
Noah	indeterminate	[surly; didn't help New Mutants much in their search]		2
Chuck	indeterminate	[bar patron; lost fight with Cannonball, Sunspot]		2
Legion (David Haller) (cover & 3-panel cameo)	Jewish; part Muslim	X-Men		59
Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) (cover & 1-panel cameo)	Native American religion (Cheyenne) / Teutonic paganism	Mutant Liberation Front; Native American...  The New Mutants; X-Force; X-Men; Young X-Men (teacher)		470
Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) (cover & 1-panel cameo)	Presbyterian	Excalibur; The New Mutants...  X-Factor; X-Force		576
Warlock (cover & 1-panel cameo)	Technarchy religion (worships The Maker)	Excalibur; Fallen Angels...  Technarch; The New Mutants		241
Cypher (Doug Ramsey) (cover & 1-panel cameo)	Latter-day Saint	Academy of Tomorrow; The New Mutants		113
Brett Sabol (8-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[father of missing girl Marci Sabol]		2
Mel Sabol (8-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[mother of missing girl Marci Sabol]		2
Cyclops (Scott Summers) (7-panel cameo)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
unnamed brown-haired bar patron (6-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[bar patron; lost fight with Cannonball, Sunspot]		2
unnamed blonde bar patron (6-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[bar patron; lost fight with Cannonball, Sunspot]		1
unnamed red-haired bar patron (6-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[bar patron; lost fight with Cannonball, Sunspot]		2
Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro) (5-panel cameo)	Catholic	Hispanic; New X-Men...  X-Men; Xavier Institute: Hellions squad; Young X-Men		82
Empath (Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha) (5-panel cameo)	Catholic	Hellions; The 198...  X-Corporation		70
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (4-panel cameo)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) (4-panel cameo)		New X-Men; X-Men...  Xavier Institute: Hellions squad		121
Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi) (4-panel cameo)	African primal-indigenous religion: Wakandan Black Panther Cult	black; Xavier Institute [member of Storm's squad]		42
Trance (Hope Abbott) (4-panel cameo)		Xavier Institute: Paragons squad		50
Loa (Alani Ryan) (4-panel cameo)	Polynesian traditional religion	Alpha Squadron; Polynesian		50
Indra (Paras Gavaskar) (3-panel cameo)	Jain	Alpha Squadron; South Asian		54
Pixie (Megan Gwynn) (1-panel cameo)		X-Men; Xavier Institute: Paragons squad		50
Maynard (1-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[went into convulsions when tried to tie up Karma]		4
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (art)	Protestant	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		10,664
Elvis Presley (toy)	Assemblies of God	[singer]		444
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (mentioned)	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (mentioned)	Communist atheist (former)	Excalibur; The Acolytes...  Weapon X (Exiles); X-Men		4,122
Madison Jeffries (mentioned)		Alpha Flight; Gamma Flight...  Weapon X; X-Club; Zodiac (Ecliptic)		74

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