Bishop traveled into the past and eventually became part of the X-Men, the very team whose legacy helped shape his world in the future. His mutant ability allows him to absorb different forms of energy and redirect that stored power through devastating energy blasts. Bishop has also jumped into mainstream media, appearing in the old X-Men cartoon series as well as the new X-Men 97 before making his live-action film appearance in X-Men: Days of Future Past, portrayed by Omar Sy. Whether fighting beside the X-Men in the present or trying to prevent another disastrous future, Bishop has always been a character caught between two different worlds.

Bishop, Cable and Forge are the trio that the X-Men utilizes in the area of time travel. Bishop is similar to Max Walker, pursuing criminals through time. Cable is the son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor. His character is similar to that of Kyle Reese, jumping to the past to change the outcome of the future. The threat for Kyle Reese was Skynet and the Terminators, while the threat for Cable was Stryfe and Apocalypse. Forge is the mutant version of Tony Stark. The time it takes Tony to complete a build, Forge can have it done in a fraction of that time because his mutant ability grants him that. Forge has worked with both Cable and Bishop on many occasions when needed most.

Bishop’s mutant ability is to absorb, store and redistribute energy. His abilities will cost him his life if exploited and overloaded with too much energy. But what if Bishop used Wakandan technology? Bishop knows that the Sentinels are being built deadlier by the day. Bishop is finding himself overexerting his mutant abilities to the edge. What if he travels back in time and visits Wakanda? Shuri would discover that his mutant abilities and Vibranium share the same behavior: absorb, store and disperse energy. She builds Bishop a suit that protects him from potentially fatal energy overload while allowing him to produce maximum discharges whenever needed. With this suit, Bishop could become virtually invincible against energy-based attacks. But as Shuri studies Bishop’s DNA, she makes an even greater discovery. What if Bishop’s abilities aren’t actually a mutant power, as everyone on Earth has always believed, but instead part of a physiology inherited from somewhere beyond Earth? What if Bishop’s ancestry somehow traces back to the same extraterrestrial source as Vibranium—much like Kryptonite came from Krypton, the home world of Superman...?

Comic Multiverse fan-favorite artwork of Bishop goes to the DeviantArt artist: BigBentoArt