Bishop

Civil War In the Civil War: X-Men miniseries, Bishop sides with the O*N*E* to bring in the X-Men and the 198 . He even argued with Cyclops over letting them go. Val Cooper and Tony Stark let Bishop lead Micromax and Sabra into action against Domino , Shatterstar , and the 198. Bishop led them to the base where the 198 were hiding and told the X-Men to stand down. However, General Demetrius Lazer betrayed him by ensuring that Cyclops attacked Bishop. Though at first he simply absorbed it, the power was too much for him to control as he was overwhelmed, and he was forced to direct the energy he had absorbed upwards in a powerful blast that would easily destroy a O*N*E* Sentinel. He later teamed up with the X-Men to save the 198 from a bomb explosion, and then went his own way, leaving the X-Men. Bishop is among Iron Man's pro-registration forces that guard the Negative Zone prison. When Captain America's team breaks in, a fight ensues, putting Bishop at odds with his former teammate, Storm .   Messiah Complex

Messiah Complex

In Messiah Complex , the precipitating event causing Bishop's future is finally revealed, i.e., the birth of the first mutant child since M-Day . As the Marauders , on Mr. Sinister's orders, try to gather anyone and anything with knowledge of the future, he is the only target they were unable to locate and terminate. It is revealed that he betrayed the X-Men and attempted to kill the baby, however before he could kill the baby he was thwarted by the Marauders who escape with the baby. As X-Men arrive on the scene, Bishop pretends to have attempted to retrieve the baby. As Multiple Man ’s dupe and Layla Miller find out in their mission to one of the possible futures (80 years in the future) that the birth of the child created, the child apparently kills a million people in an event dubbed the Six-Second War, and the U.S. government incarcerates all the mutants into concentration camps, where Bishop is born, grows up, and sees his parents killed. As Multiple Man's dupe and Layla find out, Bishop wishes at a young age to have had the opportunity to kill the baby so that , while he would not be born, he would also not have to see his parents die and to endure the horrors of life in the concentration camps. Layla kills the dupe so that the information conveyed to them by young Bishop can return to the present to the Multiple Man prime who conveys Bishop's treachery to the X-Men. The X-Men then attempt to alert X-Force to Bishop's betrayal, but he manages to block out all of their channels of communication. After arriving on Muir Isle and fighting past the Marauders, Bishop finds Cable attempting to escape with the baby and begins to attack when both mutants are attacked by Predator X, who viciously rips off Bishop's right arm. The wound does not kill him though and in an attempt to shoot down a teleporting Cable, he misses and hits Professor X instead.

After the Messiah Complex Bishop managed to escape the X-Men after he seemingly killed their mentor, and makes several time jumps in an attempt to find his newest enemy and the mutant messiah. Now using a bionic arm he eventually tracks Cable and the newborn mutant. Upon finding them, he shoots Cable twice before being hindered by a local gang. With Cable severely weakened by severe blood loss, he makes a risky attack before the gang can find heavier weapons.

Characteristics

Gender -  Male 

Height - 6'6" 

Weight - 285

Eyes - Brown 

Hair - Black

Bishop is a mutant who can absorb most types of energy directed toward him. He can then re-channel it through his body for concussive blasts or in the same form that was absorbed, including Storm 's weather effects. This re-channeled energy is apparently able to damage beings normally immune to their own powers. The nature of his powers makes it difficult to damage him with energy-based attacks, while also enabling him to work well with any energy-using teammates. 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. However s ome energy types are more difficult to absorb than others. Bishop can be overloaded by trying to absorb too much energy.

Cybernetic Arm: After the events of "Messiah Complex" in which Bishop loses an arm, he resorts to breaking into Forge's laboratory to find a replacement. According to the sign which identified the cybernetic arm that was stolen by Bishop, it is a "nuclear-powered battle-ready arm". All of the capabilities have not yet been revealed at this time, however Bishop has been shown to be able to release two clawed tendrils from the arm which he used to ensnare and strangle Cable. The arm was also revealed to have been modified to include Forge's time travel technology allowing Bishop to time-jump. Judging from the nature of the arm, not to mention its nuclear power source it is likely to have a considerable amount of superhuman strength, as well as, perhaps, abilities not yet revealed.

Bishop has no counterpart in the Age of Apocalypse either. The Bishop that appears is the main Bishop from Earth-1191.

Earth-1610/Earth-2107

The Ultimate universes Bishop came back from a future timeline to stop Cable from killing Charles Xavier. He became trapped on Earth-1610 and since the X-Men disbanded after failing to prevent Xavier's death, Bishop began to assemble his own group of X-Men with base in Australia. Because this version of Bishop came from a future timeline his own reality wouldn't be Earth-1610 but has been designated Earth-2107. X-Men: The End
In this reality Bishop had a daughter with Deathbird. The daughters name was Aliyah Bishop

Bishop travels back in time to stop the assassination of Senator Kelly as he blames Gambit as the suspect not knowing that it was really Mystique taking a disguise as Gambit. After the issue was cleared, he went back to his hometown reality and found out that his time line is experiencing a deadly plague. He then attempted to warn everyone and stop Apocalypse's Techno-Organic Virus. Bishop then met Cable and discovered that the virus will manifest antibodies necessary to the stabilization of the mutant genetic code. In later events, he also traveled back to time to stop Fitzroy from killing a young Professor X in the past. As the X-Men was able to save Professor X even beyond the issues that came up after his death in that time line like a war in the original time line, Bishop was trapped into the Axis of Time as Apocalypse attempted to manipulate all time lines. But he was able to be freed after Apocalypse have been defeated.

Bishop was one of the mutant prisoners of the Sentinels in a future time line. Professor X then appeared and introduced his plan of creating a Future X-men. While some mutants had doubt on him, Bishop introduced him and stated that he have met him in another time line. As Professor X and Hellion's powers  were about to be absorbed by the Sentinels, Bishop then attacked them and stopped them. After saving both of them, the other Future X-Men were able to take down the Sentinels and free themselves. However, the Sentinels still chases them. Along with his team mates, he also encountered a mentally unstable Polaris of that reality.

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• X-Men: Next Dimension

• He is a playable character in this video game .