| Bishop | |||||||||||||
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| Real Name | Lucas Bishop | ||||||||||||
| Powers and Abilities | Energy Absorption and Redirection | ||||||||||||
| Team Affiliations | X-Men | ||||||||||||
| Allies | Cable Wolverine Forge Forge Wolverine Storm | ||||||||||||
| Family and Friends | Shard (Younger Sister) | ||||||||||||
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Bishop is a mutant from the future of New York in 2055 AD. He became a time traveller in order to make his present a better place. He later became a member of the original X-Men.
Biography[]
Season 1[]
Bishop in his future
Bishop and his younger sister Shard grew up in a future that had been taken over by Sentinels which captured and terminated humans and mutants alike including the vast majority of the X-Men. Bishop then became a bounty hunter seeking out whomever was rebelling against them.
He subsequently came across an aged Wolverine, the last surviving member of the original X-Men, along with Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, captured them and took them to a termination centre.
Despite Wolverine's warnings that the Sentinels want to terminate all mutants, Bishop was confident that they only attacked the rebels and that a bounty hunter like him is treated right and safe. However, he was shortly proven wrong when the two Sentinels destroyed his ID and ordered him terminated too, upon reaching the gates of a termination camp with Wolverine, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch.
Wolverine, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch then attacked the Sentinels and were eventually helped by Bishop who turned on their side as a rebel, witnessing the Sentinels' destructive power and the fact that Wolverine was right. The four managed to escape but a new, more deadlier and powerful Sentinel named Nimrod appeared. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch fought it whilst Wolverine and Bishop went to see a mutant inventor named Forge for a special mission.
Bishop was amazed to see that Forge had invented a fully functioning time portal with the intention of travelling back to 1993 to stop an assassination that altered history. Without the respective assassination taking place, the future would be changed for the better.
Bishop volunteered to go and stop the assassination himself as he saw Wolverine as too old for the task despite his adamantium skeleton and healing factor.
After receiving a time transceiver armband (which would send him back to the future if anything were to happen to it) and a laser rifle from Forge, Bishop leapt into the portal, just as Nimrod appeared and started attacking.
The time travel to the 20th century was a bumpy ride for Bishop and, when he arrived, its effects had given him amnesia of where he was and why he was there.
After retrieving information from the transceiver and overhearing some kids chatting about a video game cartridge called Assassin starring the Punisher, Bishop suddenly remembered his mission to wipeout one of the X-Men who was responsible for the assassination that altered his future, though he still didn't remember which one.
He then charged into Xavier's school and opened fire on the X-Men but was eventually restrained. Bishop explained his mission and Professor X looked into Bishop's mind and saw his gloomy future, which filled him with shock and regret.
The X-Men then agreed to help Bishop, though the present-day Wolverine was reluctant at first. They managed to defeat Nimrod who had found a way to follow Bishop in time and send it back to the future. The X-Men were now convinced that Bishop was from the future but they still had questions on who was the actual assassin among them.
Bishop still couldn't remember but when Rogue walked in along with Gambit, his appearance jogged Bishop's memory. He flew into a rage, and opened fire on the Cajun, declaring him a traitor and vowing to end his life.
He was once again restrained by the X-Men and after Xavier explained to both Rogue and Gambit who Bishop was, Bishop explained how Gambit's assassination of a senator (more specifically Senator Robert Kelly) in Washington DC, made both mutants and humans suffer and made his future a miserable place to live.
The X-Men then decided to stop the assassination themselves but told both Gambit and Bishop to stay behind along with Wolverine.
During a game of cards, Gambit used his mutant powers to escape and attempt to stop the assassination himself.
It was later on revealed that a mutant shapeshifter known as Mystique was posing as Gambit to assassinate Senator Kelly, who held the key to helping mutants and humans alike and framing/impersonating the Cajun to make the X-Men seem like traitors to humanity. Gambit found his double and managed to overpower her.
After fighting his way through Mystique's gang of renegade mutants, Bishop found both Gambit and his double. Though surprised to find two Gambits with one of them explaining that the other was actually the real assassin, Bishop decided to kill them both just to be sure. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Rogue appeared, disarmed him and destroyed his time transceiver, thereby sending him back to his own time.
Bishop arrived back to 2055 outside of Forge's lab and found nothing had changed, despite the fact the assassination had been prevented.
Though Bishop hadn't failed his mission, some other event had still made the future the way it was.
Season 2[]
He traveled back again to stop a virus from destroying mutants, fighting off Apocalypse in the process along with the help of Cable, another time traveller, and the X-Men.
Season 3[]
He and his sister Shard went back in time to save Professor X (then a young university student in 1959) from an assassination attempted by time travelling traitor mutant Fitzroy (along with his sidekick Bantam) at an order issued by the version of Master Mold from Bishop's dystopian future (Fitzroy thinking he had cashed in a lot of money if the assassination would be successful). Because of a glitch in the time travelling process, he and Shard team up with alternate timeline versions of Storm and Wolverine (who, in their alternate time, fight under the leadership of Magneto) and prevent the assassination of the younger university student Charles Xavier.
Powers and Abilities[]
Bishop's mutant power is that he can absorb energy from any substance and re-channel it back through his body.
He is an expert fighter and also an expert in high tech futuristic equipment and weaponry with his time transceiver armband, plasma rifle, and grenades.
Relationships[]
He has a sister called Shard.
Alternate Versions[]
In an alternate timeline, Bishop stopped Apocalypse but the virus was not cured by Wolverine because Cable did not go back in time yet. This meant that the human race did not develop necessary antibodies and other various diseases killed off much of the population. This timeline was erased when Cable travelled back and used Wolverine to cure the virus.
Background[]
Bishop was voiced by Philip Akin on X-Men and by Isaac Robinson-Smith on X-Men '97.
First adapted version of the character.
Replaced Kitty Pryde as the one who traveled back in time to stop the assassination.
In the Comics[]
The "M" tattoo on his face stands for "Mutant." He and Shard received the tattoo as an identification at a Mutant Relocation camp.
He could also release the energy he absorbed in different forms and use it for personal reserves such as increasing his strength and recuperative abilities as well as near invulnerability.
He is from a different alternate future called Forever Yesterday, which is similar to the Days of Future Past.
He is a member of a group called the Xavier Security Enforcers.
He was following Trevor Fitzroy when he first went into the past.
He also joined the New York City Police Department.
External Links[]
- Marvel
- Wikipedia
- Lucas Bishop (Earth-31393) at Marvel Database
- Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191) at Marvel Database