Bishop (Lucas Bishop) [Earth-1191]

[atxbomber]

Bishop II

Real Name: Lucas Bishop
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #282 (cameo), Uncanny X-Men #283 (full)
Known Relatives: Shard (sister), Gateway (great-grandfather), Unnamed parents (deceased), Unnamed grandmother
Group Affiliation: O*N*E, formerly X.S.E. II (X-Treme Sanctions Executive), X-Treme X-Men, X-Men, M-Faces (leader), Xavier Security Enforcers (X.S.E. I)
Known Allies: Witness, formerly Michael, Nom, Scorch, Link, Jinx, Deathbird
Major Enemies: Mountjoy, Sabretooth, formerly Chronomancer (Trevor Fitzroy), Deathbird
Powers: Energy channelling and redirecting
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 275 lbs.
Eyes: Brown, Red when using powers
Hair: Black
Other Distinguishing Features: "M" tattoo over right eye

Bishop hails from a dark and desolate world roughly 70 years into one of Earth's alternate futures in which he was a member of the mutant militia known as the Xavier Security Enforcers - a self-policing peacekeeping agency adhering to Professor Charles Xavier's dream for peaceful coexistence between Homo sapiens and Homo superior. Bishop and his sister, Shard, were born in a mutant relocation camp in Brooklyn, New York, before the humans and mutants joined forces against the Sentinels during the Summers Rebellion. In pursuit of the time-manipulating mutant criminal Trevor Fitzroy, Bishop and his X.S.E. lieutenants travelled back in time to the present day.

Stranded in the past, they tracked their mark into the midst of a fray between the X-Men and the mutant-hunting robot Sentinels. Confronted with the legends of his youth, Bishop's first reaction was disbelief. He and his compatriots battled the X-Men ferociously, seeking to expose what they thought to be an uncanny deception. Bishop was wounded and his companions - Randall and Malcolm - were killed.

Finally coming to terms with his time-tossed condition, Bishop was honored when Professor Xavier invited him to join the team whose members he had idolized since childhood. Bishop found new purpose with the X-Men, but his teammates were initially uneasy with his presence. Soon, the X-Men soon came to realize he was a devoted disciple of Xavier's philosophy, albeit an over-zealous one.

After the time-twisting mutant known as Legion inadvertantly caused the death of his father, Professor X, in the past, resulting in the Age of Apocalypse, Bishop was instrumental in returning the timeline to normal by convincing the X-Men of this reality that something was awry.

Bishop had discovered that there was a traitor in the ranks of the X-Men before his travel to the present, and for a while he believed it to be Gambit, but it was revealed that the traitor was none other than Professor X himself, albeit as Onslaught.

After the X-Men were separated whilst returning to Earth after the Phalanx assault on the Shi'ar, Bishop was severely injured. He was cared for by Deathbird, who wished to use Bishop in an attempt to claim the throne of the Shi'ar Empire from her sister, Lilandra. After a few interstellar adventures, including one to an alternate Earth ruled by the Shi'ar, Bishop managed to return to Earth and the X-Men.

Plagued by reoccurring nightmares of Fitzroy, Bishop resigned from the X-Men to dedicate himself once more to the pursuit of his arch-nemesis. Drawn by the villain into a possible apocalyptic future, Bishop learned that his failure to act against Fitzroy had resulted in the criminal taking over this future world, wherein he had rechristened himself as the all-powerful Chronomancer. Fitzroy planned to ascend to godhood by becoming one with the temporal energies that control all time. Bishop - aided by a young boy named Michael who had been drawn to the future with him - gathered a small group of mutants and focused them on a single goal: quashing Fitzroy's mad plan.

During the epic battle that followed a trek across the strange new world, Bishop defeated Fitzroy moments before he could complete his mad quest. However, the price of victory was high: Bishop's sister, Shard, sacrificed her life so that her brother could put an end to Fitzroy. Mere moments after the war had been won, Bishop - filled with chronal energy - was ripped back through time. Young Michael remained in the future, seemingly with no hope of returning home.

Spiraling through time, Bishop emerged back in the present as he crashed into a Shi'ar space station in deep space. As it happens, Professor Charles Xavier and his team of mutant Skrull students named Cadre K were searching the same station for Deathbird - the Shi'ar criminal who was apparently Bishop's chronal anchor in the present day. A pan-galactic committee had transformed Earth into a prison planet during the event known as Maximum Security, and Deathbird held a key to penetrate the energy barrier that surrounded Earth. Bishop almost killed Deathbird before she opened an airlock and blew herself into the vacuum of space unprotected.

After forming a plan with Professor X, Bishop allowed himself to be captured by the galactic committee and sent to Earth where he was quickly reunited with the X-Men. Then, alongside Goliath and Warbird of the Avengers, the X-Men helped liberate Earth by defeating Ronan the Accuser.

Later, Bishop and five other X-Men formed a splinter group of X-Men, cutting all ties with the rest of the team whilst searching for Destiny's Diaries. After their search was over Bishop and the others of this group decide on a new purpose. They are given official documentation by the President of the United States, and become the "X-treme Sanctions Executive", or X.S.E. (II) for short. Joining yet another 'X.S.E.', Bishop wonders if this current world could still be traveling the same path which led to his dark future. The team subsequently rejoined the core X-Men teams and Bishop also helped N.Y.P.D. in Mutant Town, a borough of New York.

Bishop has since supported the Superhuman Registration Act and helped the pro-registration side in confronting the Secret Avengers resisting the law.

Bishop worked for the Office of National Emergency. He helped provide security when Professor X, representatives from each of the three X-Men teams and X-Factor, and two of the students attended the funeral of a mutant boy who had been killed in a traffic accident. There, Cannonball asked Bishop why he didn't warn them about M-Day and the Decimation. Bishop explained about the loss of records and the legends. There was something they had called "the Winnowing" and "the Time of the Edge," but it hadn't made sense.

When the first mutant baby since M-Day was born, Bishop had a secret agenda: kill the baby. He believed that this baby was the reason for the mutant relocation camps in his future. His chance came when Cable, who believed that the baby was was mutankind's hope for the future, came to the mutant builder, Forge, to get a time machine. While Cable was examining Forge, whom he found unconcious, Bishop shot Cable in the back. Bishop hesitated to kill the baby, which gave Sinister's Marauders time to jump him.
Gambit, Sunfire, and Vertigo attacked him while Malice picked up the baby. Gambit prevented Bishop from being killed after he lost consciousness. The X-Men arrived shortly after Bishop woke up. He lied and told them that Cable was the one who hurt Forge and that he and Cable had fought. Bishop joined with Wolverine's X-Force to get the baby back from the Marauders.
Bishop caught up with Cable after Gambit had given the baby to Professor X, who had given her to Cable while X-Men, X-Factor, X-Force, faced other Marauders. The New X-Men teleported in with the mutant-eating creature known as Predator X, which had been attacking them. While Bishop was trying to shoot the baby, Predator X attacked him and bit off Bishop's right arm. Bishop managed to find the gathered heroes again and pick up a dropped gun just as Cable and the baby were using Forge's temporal circuitry to flee into the future. Bishop shot at them repeatedly, but they were already too far gone. Professor X had been standing behind Cable, so Bishop's bullets blew his brains out. Bishop got away while his former allies were staring down at Xavier's body.

Bishop's mutant power enables him to absorb energy and project that energy as concussive blasts, sometimes channeled through his X.S.E. guns. Bishop can store absorbed energy to increase his strength and recuperative abilities and use it to gain a measure of invulnerability. Bishop is a trained police officer, a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and a superb marksman. During boot camp in his future timeline, he was also inoculated against nannites.

Bishop II should not be confused with Bishop I (Iron Man villain) or Bishop III (X-Babies)

APPEARANCES:
Avengers (1963) #368-369, 401
Avengers West Coast #101
Bishop #1-4
Bishop: The Last X-Man #1-16
Bishop: XSE #1-3
Cable (1993) #15-16, 41, 76
Cable (2008) #1
Civil War #3, 6-7
Civil War Files (profile only)
Civil War: X-Men #1-4
Decimation: House of M - The Day After #1
District X #1-14
Excalibur (1988) #83
Fantastic Four (1961) #415-416
Gambit & Bishop Alpha
Gambit & Bishop #1-6
Generation X #13-14
House of M #2
Infinity Crusade #4
Madrox #3-4
Marvel Holiday Special 1996
Maximum Security #3
Mutopia X: #1-5
New X-Men (2001) #140-141
New X-Men (2005) #46
Onslaught: Marvel Universe
Onslaught: X-Men
Silver Surfer (3rd series) #123
Team X 2000 #1
Uncanny X-Men #282-285, 287-296, 298-308, 310-314, 318, 320-322, 325, 328, 331, 333-337, 339, 341-345, , 353-354, 357-358, 372, 377, 388, 444-461, 469, 494
Uncanny X-Men Annual #16-18
Uncanny X-Men '95 #1
Uncanny X-Men '96
What if...? (2nd Series) #60
Wolverine (1988) #75, 91, 93, 111
X-Factor (1986) #84-86, 140
X-Force (1991) #16-18, 51
X-Man #5, 23
X-Men (1991) #8, 14-16, 25-26, 30, 38, 40-41, 43-44, 46-52, 54-55, 57-59, 92, 97, 107-109, 157, 165, 174, 202 [back-up story], 205-208
X-Men (2nd Series) Annual #3, '96 Annual, '97 Annual
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #6
X-Men: Endangered Species #1
X-Men: Omega
X-Men: Prime
X-Men: The 198 Files (threat level rating: "high")
X-Men: The Wedding Album
X-Men Unlimited (1993) #1, 3, 13, 15, 29
X-Men Unlimited (2004) #1
X-Treme X-Men #1-23, 25-36, 40-46
X-Treme X-Men 2001
X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #1-4
X.S.E. #1-4

Out of Continuity Appearances:
DC/Marvel: All Access #3-4
What If? X-Men Deadly Genesis
X-Men Fairy Tales #4

[Tom 2TUM Toner]

X-Men III? Is that what we're calling the X-Treme team?

[atxbomber]

Originally posted by 2TUM
X-Men III? Is that what we're calling the X-Treme team?

Yes,

X-Men I being the one founded by Xavier, and X-Men II being the ones created by Cerebro.

[Tom 2TUM Toner]

if ya count Cerebro's X-Men as X-Men II, then i think XTreme should be X-Men IV. X-Men III should be teh Astonishing X-Men.

[Mesran]

Also X-Men Gold Team and X.S.E. Omega Squad.

I agree with Trav's numbering of the X-Men teams, it's confusing when the teams are called 'X-Treme X-Men' or 'Astonishing X-Men'.

[M.O. Frisch]

Originally posted by 2TUM
if ya count Cerebro's X-Men as X-Men II, then i think XTreme should be X-Men IV. X-Men III should be teh Astonishing X-Men.

I don't have the issues handy right now, but I don't think the "Astonishing" team was referred to as "X-Men".

--Marc

[jimcomics]

Originally posted by SMASH!
Also X-Men Gold Team and X.S.E. Omega Squad.

I agree with Trav's numbering of the X-Men teams, it's confusing when the teams are called 'X-Treme X-Men' or 'Astonishing X-Men'.

were they actually called "Gold & Blue team" at a certain point? These would be placed under X-Men

[Mesran]

They were called X-Men Blue and Gold in X-Men #8. Also on the X-Men '94 trading cards.

[Mesran]

Also he should be Bishop II.

The first Bishop appearing in Iron Man was one of the Chess Men.

[harlekein]

Shouldn't there be a mention that he was part of the 12?

[Mesran]

Thats something I've been meaning to bring up.

I don't think the Twelve should count as an affiliation. It should be mentioned in the bio text though not under affiliations.

[BoomBot]

When did Cerebro form a group of X-Men? I don't remember that. Who was the group? I'm assuming it's the "All New, All Different" team. Can someone please explain the X-Men team numbering for me?

[Mesran]

X-Men I - Original 5 (Cyclops, Marvel Girl, etc), along with the second Generation (Storm, Wolverine, etc).

X-Men II - Cerebro's X-Men, (Grey King, Rapture, Crux, etc.)

X-Men III - X-Treme X-Men, (Slipstream, Lifeguard, Bishop, etc)

[BoomBot]

When did X-Men II occur? I don't even recognize the members.

[Jim Learning]

It happened in Uncanny X-Men #360 and X-Men #80.

[Mesran]

Cerebro's X-Men appeared around New X-Men #80 and Uncanny X-Men #360.

The members were: Grey King, Crux, Rapture, Landslide, Chaos, and Mercury.

For more detailed info you can find their bio's in the "Cerebro Files" found here at X-Fan. Just type their names into the search box.

[Dr. Noh]

Hi there;

Some of Bishop's other allies were Malcolm, Randall and Hancock.

Bishop was also in WHAT IF? Minus #1, and the X-Men/Star Trek crossover.

Bishop's power should be listed as the ability to channel and rechannel projected energy. I agree that another one of his affiliations should be with the Twelve, and perhaps with the AoA X-Men as well.

Bishop's affiliation as the leader of the "alternate X-Men" in BISHOP: THE LAST X-MAN should get listed.

Bishop was either the commander of the entire XSE, the Omega Squad, or just all of the XSE soldiers in NY (re. UXM #288, where Styglut states that Bishop had the power of the whole XSE behind him).

There's "off the record" information in MARVEL VISIONS #9 stating that Bishop taught hand-to-hand combat in the XSE. Perhaps Bishop's comments in UXM #318 about commanding XSE field operatives alluded to this role of his.

Sorry if some of this has been written already!

-- Dr. Noh

[Mesran]

Bishop became field leader of the XSE's Omega Squad when his sister Shard died and he took command. He doesn't lead the XSE itself.

[Dino Pollard]

What about the team on Muir Island that consisted of Forge, Polaris, Banshee, Legion, etc.? Shouldn't they count as a seperate X-Men team as well? Also, the Astonishing X-Men and AoA X-Men should probably count as well as seperate teams.

Some more notes on Bishop I thought I'd toss in - he was raised in a mutant internment camp (similar to the Japanese internment camps during WW2), and it's rumored that his grandmother is possibly Storm.

[Monolith]

Originally posted by SMASH!
Bishop became field leader of the XSE's Omega Squad when his sister Shard died and he took command. He doesn't lead the XSE itself.

Bishop was the field leader of the Omega Squad from beginning to end. Shard was promoted from field duty to lieutenant at one point--and so became a superior officer--but she was never the squad's leader.

[Tom 2TUM Toner]

Originally posted by Dino Pollard
and it's rumored that his grandmother is possibly Storm.

i always thought it was M that was rumored to be his grandma.

And it can't be Storm. Remember, Gateway is his great grandpa. And last i checked, Storm wasn't related to Gateway.

[Jim Learning]

M was rumored to be Bishop's mother.

[Monolith]

Originally posted by 2TUM
i always thought it was M that was rumored to be his grandma.

And it can't be Storm. Remember, Gateway is his great grandpa. And last i checked, Storm wasn't related to Gateway.

All she would have to do is marry Gateway's son, Bishop's grandfather. Of course that might screw up the full-blooded Aborigine thing....oh, darn.

[Dino Pollard]

i always thought it was M that was rumored to be his grandma.

No. When Bishop guest-starred in Generation X, he saw a blurry vision of M and mistook her for his mother. He corrected himself of the mistake, though.

And it can't be Storm. Remember, Gateway is his great grandpa. And last i checked, Storm wasn't related to Gateway.

Don't get me started on that Gateway crap. Claremont basically ignored everything about Bishop when he brought it up. In the XSE limited series, it was strongly implied that Storm was Bishop's grandmother.

[Tom 2TUM Toner]

Originally posted by Dino Pollard
it was strongly implied that Storm was Bishop's grandmother.

Strongly implied, unfortunantly, doesn't cut it.