Bishop (Marvel Comics) Character Review
Bishop (Lucas Bishop) is a fictional (Character) comic book superhero, appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, in particular the X-Men family of books.
Bishop was a member of Xavier's Security Enforcers (initially called the Xavier School Enforcers), a mutant police force from a dystopian future of the Marvel Universe. He traveled to the 20th century and joined the X-Men, a team he knew only as legends. A brash antihero,
he had difficulty adjusting to the norms of the time period. After a
decade and a half of acting as a member of the team, Bishop was instead
portrayed as one of the X-Men's main antagonists. More about Bishop (Marvel Comics) Character Review - keep reading !!
Bishop made frequent appearances in the X-Men animated series of the 1990s.
Fictional Character Biography
Early life - Born about 80 years in the future of the Marvel Universe, Bishop was the son of Aborigine
mutant refugees who fled Australia for America a day before it was
devastated in a nuclear attack. He was raised in a mutant concentration
camp in the aftermath of the Summers Rebellion, an uprising in which
mutants and humans joined forces to destroy the Sentinels. Bishop has a distinctive M brand over his right eye, used to identify mutants in his era. After his parents were killed, Bishop was taken in by a man named LeBeau, also called Witness, who was reportedly the last man to see the legendary X-Men alive. According to LeBeau (in XSE), Bishop's adoptive grandmother took Bishop away from him. Bishop and his younger sister, Shard, were then subsequently raised by his grandmother within the same mutant concentration camp in Brooklyn.
Bishop's grandmother taught him many legends of the X-Men, who were
old allies of hers. Depowered by unknown means, she had entered the
camps in secret to raise her grandchildren. Upon her deathbed, she made
Bishop swear to protect Shard. After the Rebellion, the mutants were
"emancipated" and sent out of the camps to fend for themselves. Bishop
and Shard, who were only children, were left alone. They lived on the
streets, stealing in order to survive until coming under the care of a
family friend, a war veteran named Hancock. Slightly blind, Hancock
nevertheless took on the task of raising the two.
One day, Bishop encountered an anti-human group of mutants called the Exhumes, who took Shard hostage just before the XSE
arrived. Until that time Bishop had admired the Exhumes, attributing to
them his proud, idealized notion of the legendary X-Men. It wasn't
until the XSE defeated the Exhume and saved his sister, however, that
Bishop knew he wanted to join the XSE, and when at the age of fifteen
Hancock was murdered by criminals who were promptly arrested by the XSE
he and Shard enlisted in their ranks. Shard soon surpassed Bishop to
become the youngest XSE officer.
During a training class, Bishop's instructors and some of his fellow
students were attacked and killed. Bishop rallied the survivors and led
the struggle against the assailants until reinforcements arrived. Bishop
gradually climbs the ranks of the XSE until finally becoming their
commander.
While on a mission to wipe out a nest of Emplates, mutant vampires that feed on bone marrow,
Shard was critically injured. Bishop went to Witness for help. Witness,
then imprisoned at the New York Stark Fujikawa building, agreed to
transfer Shard's essence into a holographic matrix if Bishop would work
for him for one year. Bishop agreed, leaving the XSE for a time. The
details of Bishop's work during this period are unknown; Bishop appears
reticent on the subject, later refusing to tell Shard of his actions.
Immediately upon his re-installment as a commander in the XSE, Bishop and his XSE group the "Omega Squad" captured Trevor Fitzroy, a murderous ex-XSE trainee in the ruins of the Xavier Institute War Room. While there, Bishop discovered a damaged recording of Jean Grey,
in which she spoke of a traitor destroying the X-Men from inside.
Haunted by his discovery, Bishop confronts Witness for details, but
receives only a vague, ambiguous response, leaving Bishop to suspect his
former master of being more than simply a witness to the downfall of
the X-Men.
Powers and Abilities (Bishop)
Bishop's mutant
ability enables him to absorb all forms of radiant or conductive energy
that are directed towards him and to release that energy from his body.
This power is passive, allowing Bishop to absorb energy at all times.
When he releases the energy, he can release it in many different
forms, usually as concussive blasts of biokinetic energy, even amplified
compared to the absorbed amount. Bishop can also store absorbed energy within his personal reserves,
whereupon the energy increases his strength and recuperative abilities,
as well as affording him a measure of invulnerability. He is also able to absorb magic energy (as seen when fighting "growing men" in Limbo) and the psychic energies of psionics as easily as all the other kinds. However, this does not prevent him from being read or manipulated by a
telepath but only sustains him and helps him to slow them down. It has
been clearly stated that Bishop is also able to absorb and process
kinetic energy similarly to Sebastian Shaw, but in a much less effective way.
His powers make it difficult to harm him with energy-based attacks;
however, he can become overloaded from absorbing too much energy, though
his upper limits are unknown, even to himself. He is, however,
partially vulnerable to non-energy weapon attacks. If he were to be shot
by a projectile weapon or hit with a crowbar, it could harm him. He
carries guns that fire laser beams and plasma charges, and through which
he can channel his personal energies.
He can "let his spirit go" as seen in X-Treme X-Men Annual #1. It's unknown if this is a mutant talent, or an ability taught to Bishop sometime in his life.
He has also demonstrated the ability of instinctively knowing where
he is and the present hour and date even if asleep, first mentioned in X-Treme X-Men #1. Although being the great-grandson of Gateway,
a mutant possessing extensive dealings with time travel, this aspect is
not one of Bishop's mutant powers. Bishop's explanation is that due to
training, he knows where he is at all times.
Bishop is a highly athletic man, an excellent hand-to-hand combatant
with many years of armed and unarmed combat training, and a superb
marksman with firearms. When he first came to the modern era, Bishop
carried XSE guns from his time that fired laser beams and plasma
charges. He also wore his XSE uniform, modeled after X-Men uniforms,
which contained body armor.
His current right arm is a prosthetic, stolen from Forge.
A nuclear powered battle ready arm, incorporates in its design a
time-travel device, the ability to channel his energy blasts through,
and enhanced strength and resilience. It has since been destroyed after Bishop tried to use it to time travel
from 6700 A.D. to 2010 to kill Cable and Hope Summers due to Cable
tampering with the time travelling device within it..
In Other Media (Film/Movie)
- According to a photo on Twitter from Bryan Singer, Bishop will be appearing in the upcoming film X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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