Bishop (Marvel)

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Bishop is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Bishop the Last X-Man in Uncanny X-Men v1 #288.

Lucas Bishop was a male Mutant who was native to the reality of Earth-1191. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #282)

His mother was pregnant with him when they were in the Alice Springs Region in Australia when his father Burnum took them away as the site was being targeted by a tactical nuclear strike. They managed to escape with Lucas Bishop being born to his family as they left for New York City where they were taken to a immigrant processing facility. A Sentinel was present at the site and arrested the family due to the no Mutant policy in the country at the time leading to his parents arrest. Lucas was born at a Mutant internment camp where his parents marriage began to breakdown. His mother Kadee began to spend more time among the Mutants in the camp whilst his father Burnum cared for the young Lucas. When the young Bishop was three, his parents had a second child which was his younger sister Shard and they were joined by Lucas's grandmother. He had never met his grandmother until that time with her having been in a different camp but she worked to have herself transferred where she spent time with her grandchildren. She told the young Lucas of stories of heroic Mutants with these being the adventures of the X-Men. When he turned five, the camp began a new initiative leading to the branding of Mutants as part of a new experiment. After his mother was branded, Lucas himself was taken for the 'M' tattoo to be placed around his eye with his sister Shard being taken as well. Lucas fought with the camp guards in an effort to stop them from but was unable to stop them from doing it to Shard as well. It was weeks until the headaches stopped which was when he heard around the camp of a red-haired monster that had terrorised the world with his grandmother telling him stories about the Mutant. Afterwards, the camp under attack from Mutants as part of the Summers Rebellion where his father was incinerated with his mother also dying. During the chaos, he attempted to find his sister and his grandmother but was unable to do so as he was targeted by guards who tried to terminate him but Lucas managed to escape to Manhattan. He was seven years old by this point where he was alone, homeless, had no money and was not used to life outside the camp. (X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop v1 #1) Whilst on the streets, he met a Mutant by the name of the Witness who took him under his wing and taught him how to steal on the streets. Over the years, he learnt much from the Witness who told Lucas stories about the X-Men and about the red-haired girl that changed the world. During one of their travels, the Witness disappeared and Bishop travelled to Las Vegas where he was reunited with his grandmother and sister. Sometime afterwards, the government decided to emancipate Mutants which was simply forcing those former detainees of the camps to fend for themselves. Homeless, the Bishop family were forced to travel with Lucas's grandmother falling ill and dying in the night but not before getting a promise from Lucas to care for his sister. Lucas and Shard later found a place to squat as they avoided the fights that erupted around their new home. They were cared for by a blind Mutant named Hancock who was a friend of their grandmothers from the camps and helped look after the pair. Lucas supported them by stealing with Hancock serving as a look-out where on one day the older Mutant was killed by a gang that attempted to murder the Bishops. They were saved when Lucas's powers activated allowing him to stop their attacker but him and his sister were arrested by Xavier's Security Enforcers. The officer determined Lucas's power-set and offered him one choice namely to join them with him agreeing only if his sister was with him. The pair were then placed under the training of Hecate who was a harsh training instructor. (X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop v1 #2)

As a result, Bishop along with his younger sister Shard were given a home from the streets by the X.S.E. with them finding a place where they belonged in the policing organization. (Bishop: Xavier Security Enforcers v1 #2) The kids initially praised a group of mutants known as the Exhumes, a radical anti-human group, who frequently were hounded by the X.S.E., a mutant militia. The Xavier Student Enforcers were created by the remnants of the Summers Rebellion generals. It was a compromise with their human allies, letting mutants have the responsibility of policing their own, but many mutants just saw the X.S.E. as a new form of human-loving Hounds. One day, Trace and Sureshot of the X.S.E. were tracking down an Exhume named Virago, who grabbed Shard to use as a hostage. Bishop jumped on her back, forcing her to drop Shard, and Sureshot blasted her through the chest. At this moment, Bishop decided that, when he grew up, he wanted to be an X.S.E. officer. (XSE v1 #1) One day, a gang leader named Billiboy and his enforcer, Halftrack, attacked Bishop, Shard and Hancock in retribution for their dealings with a rival gang. Hancock struck out at Billiboy but Halftrack, in turn, killed him before Bishop's eyes. Enraged, Bishop used his mutant gift for the first time, unleashing a burst of kinetic energy that leveled both attackers. Then, two X.S.E. officers named Recoil and Amazon appeared and finished the job. They told Bishop that they thought he had a place in the X.S.E., asking him to join. He agreed but only if Shard could come along. (Bishop v1 #3) The siblings joined the X.S.E.'s junior recruits under the tutelage of Hecat'e. As the commanding officer at the training academy, Hecat'e related the creation of the X.S.E. after the Summers Rebellion to the cadets. With the residual feelings of distrust rising back up, sparking to life such radical groups as the Exhumes, there was a need to patrol mutants, so Hecat'e and the others set up the X.S.E., mutants policing mutants for the good of all. After the initial meeting, Hecat'e met with Bishop and Shard, offering her condolences over the death of her old friend Hancock. Shard then rudely asked why she hadn't helped him off the street then, so Hecat'e surrounded them in her null-light field. Bishop got to Shard and faced down Hecat'e's power without flinching, impressing her. While leaving, Bishop encountered another young recruit named Trevor Fitzroy, who could drain lifeforce to open teleportation portals where the two became instant enemies. After their first year in the academy, Bishop, Shard and the rest of the cadets went out on their first scanning patrol with Trace and Sureshot. On the patrol, they were attacked by a pack of Emplates, a group of mutants consigned to draining marrow from other mutants. Trace got out an SOS before both he and Sureshot were disposed of. One Emplate grabbed Shard and began to drain her life away. However, Shard chose that moment to manifest her mutant ability to convert light into concussive discharges, simultaneously blasting the Emplate and charging up Bishop, who took out another Emplate. Together, Bishop and the group's best sharpshooter, Shirley Baylor, held off the Emplates until the X.S.E.'s back-up force arrived. Soon, at a ceremony in their honor, Bishop was invited into the X.S.E. as the youngest cadet ever to become an officer, until Shard beat his record a year later. (XSE v1 #2)

He later came to head Omega Squad of the X.S.E. that consisted of his sister Shard, Randall and Malcolm where they helped keep the peace with humans by policing Mutants and stopping extremists from both sides. (Bishop: Xavier Security Enforcers v1 #1)

X-Men

After serving his year in the Witness' guard, along his former classmate Shirley Baylor, now calling herself Shackle, Bishop returned to the X.S.E. and Omega Squad. Trevor Fitzroy continued to be a thorn in Bishop's side, as he had been released from prison by his influential father. On what would prove to be their last case, Omega Squad tracked Fitzroy to a series of sub-basement chambers in upstate New York. They captured him and accidentally stumbled across the X-Men's long forgotten War Room in the process. Bishop triggered a last rites message from Jean Grey, which provided sketchy details about a traitor who destroyed the X-Men from within. After dropping Fitzroy off at the Pool, a high security prison complex, Bishop paid a visit to the Witness for information. The Witness managed to confirm everything Bishop already knew, while evading all inquiries for further information. Bishop began to form his own suspicions that LeBeau might actually have done more than witness the traitor’s actions. The same day, Fitzroy escaped from his cell in the Pool, using his portals to travel backwards in time several decades. In the present, Fitzroy joined the Upstarts and began a battle with the legendary X-Men. He used the life essence of the modern Hellions to call forth ninety-three Lifers from the Pool in his own time, bringing out an army of criminals to battle the X-Men. Witnessing the portal's materialization during the jailbreak at the Pool, Bishop, Randall and Malcolm leapt through the portal and arrived in the present as well. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #287) Still disoriented from the transportation through space and time, the three X.S.E. officers saw the escaped prisoners killing innocent people and attempted to detain them by any means necessary. Bishop even tried to send them back to the future through Fitzroy’s portal, only to discover that it functioned in only one direction. He and his partners were now stuck in the present. Even worse, they came into conflict with the X-Men, who attempted to stop the Omega Squad's brutal methods, while Bishop could not believe that they were the true legends from his childhood stories. After Fitzroy was spirited away by agents of Shinobi Shaw, Malcolm, Randall and Bishop retreated, vowing to sanction the remaining Lifers. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #283)

Bishop and his team caught up with the Lifers and their leader, Styglut, in a Manhattan night club. Though all the Lifers but Styglut were killed, Malcolm and Randall died as well, shielding Bishop with their own bodies. Bishop was critically wounded anyway, and the X-Men arrived and took Bishop back to the mansion to treat his injuries. When he recovered, Bishop was surprised to be still alive, as in his weakened state the 'X-Men' could have easily killed him. He finally began to realize that these indeed were the real deal. After spending half an hour with Bishop alone in his office, telepathically learning about his future timeline, Professor Xavier himself asked Bishop to join his X-Men. Bishop agreed and began to study his new time period with great interest. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #287) When Bishop was introduced to the X-Men he had not met so far, another surprise was in store for him – Gambit, whose features and Cajun accent made him believe that this was none other than the Witness. Bishop instantly irritated Gambit by shouting out his real name, which LeBeau had kept from the X-Men up until that point. With the immediate enmity between the two, they even started a fight during one of the X-Men’s picnics. Though Bishop was unable to convince the X-Men of Gambit's past/future treachery, Bishop continued to mistrust Gambit and keep a watchful eye on the man's activities. (X-Men v2 #8) Bishop was slow to acclimate to the X-Men's less aggressive tactics. During a trip to Manhattan, he spotted Styglut and started a brawl in the streets. Bishop used one of Storm’s lightning bolts to kill his final target, not caring for any innocent bystanders as he thought the threat of the escaped murderer needed to be dealt with once and for all. Storm, the leader of the Gold team of the X-Men, lectured him about his behavior and Bishop had to admit that in this era he had no authority and lacked the necessary cultural background to correctly respond to threats the X-Men faced on a daily basis. In a symbolic gesture, Bishop handed over his X.S.E. command insignia to Ororo, and vowed that he had much to learn. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #288)

Spiraling through time, Bishop emerged in the present, deep in space. Bishop crashed into a Shi'ar space station, where Professor Charles Xavier and his Cadre K of mutant Skrull students were searching for Deathbird - the Shi'ar criminal who appeared to be Bishop's chronal anchor in the present day. A pan-galactic committee had transformed Earth into a prison planet, and Deathbird held a key to penetrate the panel's maximum-security energy barrier. Bishop almost killed Deathbird before she opened an airlock and was blown into space. He allowed himself to be captured and sent to Earth on a mission, where he reunited with the X-Men. (X-Men Unlimited v1 #29)

X-Treme X-Men

Bishop was one of the few mutants to retain their powers following M-Day. However, with the massive de-powering of mutants, there was no more need for police officers in Mutant Town. In light of O*N*E's occupying the mansion, Bishop talked extensively with Val Cooper, and frequently defended the O*N*E's actions and attitudes, making his fellow X-Men uncomfortable. When the 198 tired of their effective internment and fled, Bishop led a squad consisting of himself, Sabra, and Mammomax after them, eventually finding them in an old bunker. Due to the circumstances, Bishop was forced to utilize his powers at dangerous limits in order to free them. (Civil War: X-Men v1 #4)

Messiah Complex

Now using his bionic arm, he eventually tracked Cable and the newborn mutant to the future. Upon finding them, he shot Cable twice before being hindered by a local gang. With Cable weakened by severe blood loss, he made a risky attack before the gang could find heavier weapons. He later managed to track down Cable, slaying several mutated beasts in the process, and shot the Mutant Messiah.[50] He also found that in the future generated by his choice, Cable would always be revered as a Messianic figure who tried his best to protect the Child, and saved humanity from the very beasts Bishop unwillingly saved Cable from. In his efforts to kill the child Bishop laid out several traps for Cable throughout the timestream, killing millions in the process, though he didn't see them as people who actually exist, but as people who wouldn't exist or come back to life if he were to kill Hope. (Cable v2 #9)

After multiple failures in his quest to kill Hope, Bishop located and enlisted the aid of Stryfe, promising him that he would aid him in killing Apocalypse and Cable. Stryfe and Bishop traveled to a point in the future where Apocalypse was at his weakest and managed to defeat him, though the ancient mutant clung to life unbeknownst to them. (Cable v2 #14) Stryfe built an empire using Celestial technology and Bishop became his right hand man, waiting for Cable and Hope to re-emerge. When they appeared along with X-Force, Hope was kidnapped. Bishop attempted to kill Hope, but was stopped by Stryfe, who intended to groom her as his heir and future vessel. Both Stryfe's and Bishop's plans were foiled by Apocalypse, X-Force, and Cable. Cable managed to rescue Hope and escaped yet again. (X-Force v3 #16)

Bishop realized the he was wrong when he tried to kill Hope and, while on the verge of death, he was saved by a group of humans called The Order. They nursed him back to health, gave him a home, and trained him to be a hunter so he could help them destroy monsters called Revenants that possessed people and turned them into monsters. Bishop would kill one everyday, but when he came across a possessed father and his daughter, he killed the father but couldn't bring himself to kill the girl. She begged him not to kill her as she wasn't completely taken by the Revenants inside her and still human. Bishop spared the girl, Amber, who became his companion and friend. While on a hunt Bishop was lured into a trap by the queen of the Revenants, Ghost Owl. Bishop was attacked and possessed by the Demon Bear and the Ghost Owl who used him to travel back in time. (Uncanny X-Force v2 #5)

House of X

Overview

Personality and attributes

According to Bishop, every time he squinted, blinked or rubbed his eyes, he thought of the time when he got branded at the Mutant internment camp in his native timeline. (X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop v1 #1)

His father Burnum Bishop was a Mutant with power to regenerate low-grade tissue and had enhanced stamina whilst his mother Kadee Bishop could absorb energy then dispel it. After his birth, his parents marriage began to breakdown with his mother resenting Lucas with his father caring for him. Despite his mothers attitude, he still cared for his parents and came to resent the Mutant Messiah as being responsible for their deaths. (X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop v1 #1)

In his native timeline, he was taught how to steal and live on the streets by an old Cajun named LeBeau who went by the name of the Witness. (X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop v1 #2)

Powers and abilities

Bishop redirecting energy in Uncanny X-Men v5 #8.

He could take the kinetic energy from a fall and apply it to energy to slow down his descent. (Astonishing X-Men v4 #4)

Bishop later came into possession of a collection of information that he called his Endtime Database where he could make queries about various disasters that had affected the past and attempt to stop them. (Astonishing X-Men v4 #7)

Notes

• Bishop was created by Whilce Portacio and Jim Lee where he made his first appearance in Uncanny X-Men v1 #282 (November, 1991).
• In an interview on CBR, writer Charles Soule commented on his Astonishing X-Men v5 (2018) run that, "Bishop is crucial here because he has what he calls his Endtime Database, with files on possible apocalypses and their inciting events. He sees some very troubling signs in what’s been happening recently, and might have to take some drastic action."

Alternate Versions

• In X-Men: The End v1 #1 (2004), an alternate version of Bishop appeared in the Marvel: The End reality that was designated as Earth-41001 in the Multiverse. On this world, he and Deathbird had a daughter together who was named Aliyah Bishop who was named after her paternal grandmother.

In other media

Television

• In X-Men, Bishop made a number of appearances in the 1990 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Philip Akin. He was shown as a Mutant alongside his sister Shard with the two being a native of a future where the Sentinels had taken over the world. During this time, he served as a Tracker for the Sentinels where he was sent on missions to apprehend Mutants and bring them to a detention camp where he was paid. Among his assignments was capturing Wolverine and two of his colleagues. Bishop brought them to a detention camp where the Sentinels decided that Tracker Bishop was no longer required and was taken to be terminated. This resulted in him allying with the rebel Mutants against the Sentinels where he aided in Wolverine's escape.
• In Wolverine and the X-Men, Bishop appeared in the animated television series starting in the episode "Future X" where he was voiced by actor Kevin Michael Richardson.

Films

• In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bishop appeared in the live-action film where he was portrayed by French actor Omar Sy.

Video games

• In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, Bishop appeared as a playable character in the video game.
• In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, Bishop appeared as an NPC in the video game where he was voiced by actor Emerson Brooks.
• In Marvel Heroes, Bishop appeared in the MMORPG as an NPC in the story setting.
• In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Bishop appeared as a playable character in the Facebook video game.
• In Marvel: Contest of Champions, Bishop appeared as a playable character in the mobile video game.

Appearances

• Uncanny X-Men v1: (1991)
• X-Men:
• X-Treme X-Men v1:
• Cable v2:
• Uncanny X-Force v2:
• Astonishing X-Men:
• Marauders v1:
• Marauders v2:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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