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Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)

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Lucas Bishop is a mutant born in a dystopic future who has travelled back in time and has joined the legendary mutants he had only known through bedtime stories, the X-Men . [6] In his original timeline, Bishop served as a member of the X.S.E. mutant police force. [7] Chasing the criminal Fitzroy , Bishop entered an intertemporal portal and arrived decades prior to his own birth. [8] With the X-Men, he reconsidered his authoritarian upbringing and found a family to get support from and rely on. [9] [10]

Bishop's police training has directed him to approach mutant-human relations under a law-enforcement approach, joining the X-Treme X-Men , [11] Storm 's X.S.E. , [12] and O*N*E* , [13] and by acting as a peacekeeper in Mutant Town . [14] In an unexpected turn of events, Bishop betrayed the X-Men following the birth of Hope , the mutant messiah [15] who was claimed to have caused his world to systematically prosecute mutants. [16] After hunting Hope for years, [17] Bishop has eventually met his redemption by regretting his actions. [18] [19]

On the mutant island-nation of Krakoa , Bishop has become one of its Great Captains , the highest officers of its military operations, [20] and has even ascended to the rank of Captain Commander. [21] Intending to provide the young country with militaristic training on the Danger Island , Bishop has volunteered preside over the Krakoan war college. [22] [23] Moreover, he has formed ties with the Hellfire Trading Company , getting a position as the Red Bishop and joining the crew of the Marauders . [24] [25]

• 1.1 Early Life
• 1.2 Arrival in the Present
• 1.3 Age of Apocalypse
• 1.4 Back in the present
• 1.5 X-Treme X-Men & X.S.E
• 1.6 District X
• 1.7 Post-Decimation
• 1.8 Messiah Complex
• 1.9 Chasing the Mutant Messiah
• 1.10 Messiah War
• 1.11 Return to the Present
• 1.12 X-Men Disassembled
• 1.13 Age of X-Man
• 1.14 Krakoa
• 2.2 Abilities
• 2.3 Weaknesses
• 3.1 Equipment
• 3.2 Weapons
• 3.3 Transportation
• 6.1 References

Early Life [ ]

Young Lucas Bishop

Lucas Bishop was born in the 21st Century into a world in which mutantkind had been herded into concentration camps after the mutant messiah killed a million humans. In this timeline, Professor Charles Xavier and most of the members of the mutant team he founded, the X-Men , were killed by the mutant-hunting Sentinels. [26]

Bishop and his sister Shard were both born in one of many American concentration camps, the children of Australian mutants Burnum and Kadee . Like other mutants they were branded with "M" tattoos over their right eyes for identification. Growing up in the camp and watching his mother slowly succumb to bitterness before her death, Lucas became an angry child, blaming the mutant messiah for the state of mutantkind. [27] [28]

Eventually, baseline humans and mutants joined forces and overthrew the Sentinels in the " Summers Rebellion ." However, humanity still resisted coexistence with mutants, and radical terrorist groups of mutants, such as the Exhumes, continued to fight against humanity. [7] Bishops parents were killed during the Summers Rebellion when he was seven. After being separated from his grandmother and sister Bishop made his way into Manhattan where he quickly met the Witness who raised him for a time, teaching him how to be a thief. [29]

Bishop was eventually reunited with his sister and grandmother in Las Vegas . [30] Their grandmother told them stories about the heroism of the X-Men, who had fought for both humans and mutants, and instructed them to follow Xavier's dream of peace between mutants and the rest of humanity. Bishop's grandmother eventually became sick and died, leaving Bishop to care for his sister. [7] [29]

One day, when Bishop and Shard were both still children, two X.S.E members were pursuing Virago , a member of the Exhumes, a radical group of mutants who hated "normal" humans. When Virago took Shard as a hostage, Bishop leaped onto Virago's back, making her release his sister. Infuriated, Virago was about to murder Bishop when Sureshot shot her dead. Until then, Bishop had regarded the X.S.E as his enemies and the Exhumes as heroes, but from then onward he strove to join the X.S.E. [7]

Bishop, Shard, and their grandmother's friend Hancock were attacked by criminal mutants called Billiboy and Halftrak . The two criminals killed Hancock and were about to murder Shard. Bishop tried to save Shard, awakening his mutant powers in the process, [30] but it was two members of the X.S.E, Amazon and Recoil , who stopped Billboy and Halftrack. [31]

Impressed by Bishop, Amazon and Recoil offered Bishop a position in the X.S.E. Bishop accepted on the condition that Shard be accepted in the X.S.E as well. By now Bishop's own superhuman power had manifested itself. Thus Bishop and Shard became cadets at the X.S.E Academy under Hecat'e's supervision. Among the other members of their class was Bishop's future enemy, Trevor Fitzroy . [7]

Eventually, Bishop and Shard became officers of the X.S.E. Shard, however, became Bishop's commanding officer. Bishop contented himself with a lower rank so that he could work the streets alongside his friends and fellow X.S.E officers, Malcolm and Randall . [32]

Some time after taking command of her own squad in the X.S.E., Shard fell victim to an ambush - set up by her criminal ex-boyfriend Trevor Fitzroy - by the creatures known as Emplates. Turned into one of them, Shard was forced to kill mutants to sup their energy to survive. In a subsequent encounter with the X.S.E., Bishop was forced to kill his own sister rather than let her live as the monster she had become. Shard's essence was transferred into a holographic matrix projector that Bishop wore on his wrist. In order to receive this technology, Bishop was forced to leave the X.S.E. and work for the mysterious Witness for a year. [33] [30]

After returning to the XSE, Bishop was hunting Fitzroy again and discovered remnants of the X-Men: A garbled message from Jean Grey warning about a traitor. Bishop confronted the only known survivor who called himself the Witness. Bishop did not trust him and wondered if he was the traitor. [34] [6]

Arrival in the Present [ ]

Fitzroy eventually turned criminal and was imprisoned. He broke free and escaped with other mutant criminals back through a time portal to the X-Men's own time. Bishop, Malcolm, and Randall followed, even though they were aware they had no means to return to their own time. The three eventually found and killed the criminals known as the 'Lifers', but Malcolm and Randall were killed and Bishop himself was severely wounded. He was taken to the Institute to recover. During the fight that followed, Bishop defeated Fitzroy moments before he could complete his quest. [8] [34]

While his methods initially caused conflict with Storm , not to mention his accusations towards Gambit , Bishop joined the X-Men. [35] He tended to act brashly, such as shooting through walls rather than using the door when an intruder alarm sounded. [36]

During the quest to stop Legion from altering history, Bishop acted as a chronal anchor with Psylocke using her psychic knife to link them all. They were unsuccessful, triggering the Age of Apocalypse . [37]

Age of Apocalypse [ ]

During the Age of Apocalypse, Bishop aged and saw the world change, retaining memories of the incident and beforehand. These memories of the 'real' timeline compelled Magneto and his X-Men to set things right. Using the M'kraan Crystal , Destiny and Illyana Rasputin sent the elder Bishop to stop Legion. [38] He briefly confronted his younger self, imploring him to 'remember this day.' The elder Bishop stopped Legion and both appeared to be destroyed by Legion's psionic energy. Bishop retained some of his elder self's memories. [39]

Back in the present [ ]

Bishop managed to prevent the X-Men's death by Onslaught , absorbing an incredible amount of psionic energy. In light of Gambit not being the 'traitor', the two made peace and learned to work together if not always agreeing on each other's methods. [40]

While in space, Bishop was separated from the other X-Men and ended up with Deathbird . She apparently was to bring him to Apocalypse as part of The Twelve . [41]

He remembered being ripped through time by a version of Fitzroy calling himself the Chronomancer. He also met the Witness again, who explained that he was not a future self of Gambit. Chronomancer also found Shard and reverted her to her normal form. The price of victory was high: Shard sacrificed her life for the ultimate good and Bishop found himself filled with chronal energy and hurled through time. [42]

Spiraling through time, Bishop emerged in the present, deep in space. Bishop crashed into a Shi'ar space station, where Professor Charles Xavier and his " Cadre K " of mutant Skrull students were searching for Deathbird - the Shi'ar criminal who appeared to be Bishop's chronal anchor in the present day. A pan-galactic committee had transformed Earth into a prison planet, and Deathbird held a key to penetrate the panel's maximum-security energy barrier. Bishop almost killed Deathbird before she opened an airlock and was blown into space. He allowed himself to be captured and sent to Earth on a mission, where he reunited with the X-Men. [43]

X-Treme X-Men & X.S.E [ ]

X-treme Bishop

Bishop joined Storm's X-Treme X-Men team to search for Destiny 's diaries . [11] Along the way he revealed his first name, Lucas. Bishop agreed to stay on with Storm's new X.S.E team, whose goal was similar to those of the X.S.E of Bishop's own future. [44]

District X [ ]

Bishop also became a consultant in mutant-related matters for the area of New York City known as District X , working with Officer Izzy Ortega . [45]

Post-Decimation [ ]

Bishop was one of the few mutants to retain their powers following M-Day . However, with the massive de-powering of mutants, there was no more need for police officers in Mutant Town. In light of O*N*E 's occupying the mansion, Bishop talked extensively with Val Cooper , and frequently defended the O*N*E's actions and attitudes, making his fellow X-Men uncomfortable. When the 198 tired of their effective internment and fled, Bishop led a squad consisting of himself, Sabra , and Mammomax after them, eventually finding them in an old bunker. Due to the circumstances, Bishop was forced to utilize his powers at dangerous limits in order to free them. [46] After this, Bishop left the X-Men. He was briefly seen assisting pro-superhuman registration forces during the superhero civil war . [47]

Despite this departure, Bishop still remained in contact with the X-Men, attending a funeral of another post M-Day casualty with them. While there Cannonball directly asked him why he'd never warned them about it. Bishop's response was that perhaps records of it just hadn't survived until his time, or that his universe had simply been an alternate rather than Earth-616's future. This would soon turn out to be a complete lie. [48]

Messiah Complex [ ]

When the first new mutant since M-Day was born, Bishop became convinced that she was the mutant messiah, responsible for murdering a million humans and bringing about his future . His first response was to set off Nano-Sentinels inside the O*N*E's Sentinel Squad, killing the pilots, and causing their machines to attack the X-Men, levelling the mansion. The X-Men, unaware of Bishop's involvement, blamed Cable for the act. [49] [28] Bishop's next move was to travel to Dallas and attack Forge , before waiting for Cable to arrive with the mutant baby. When the chance came, Bishop attempted to kill the newborn, but a moment of hesitation allowed the Marauders to get the drop on him and abscond with the baby. [16]

Bishop joined the X-Men on their mission to Muir Island to recover the baby, only for his duplicity to be discovered during the mission. [28] He was set upon by Predator X in the battle, the creature savaging him and removing his arm, though Bishop was able to cauterize the wound using an unconscious Sunfire . He witnessed Cable holding the child, planning to depart via time-travel. Panicking and firing wildly, Bishop missed Cable, instead managing to hit Professor Xavier in the head. [50]

Bishop escaped from the X-Men, attacked Forge in his Dallas headquarters , and stole time travel technology in the form of a cybernetic arm. [51]

Chasing the Mutant Messiah [ ]

Bishop and his Arch Enemy Cable

Now using his bionic arm, he eventually tracked Cable and the newborn mutant to the future. Upon finding them, he shot Cable twice before being hindered by a local gang. With Cable weakened by severe blood loss, he made a risky attack before the gang could find heavier weapons. He later managed to track down Cable, slaying several mutated beasts in the process, and shot the Mutant Messiah. [52] He also found that in the future generated by his choice, Cable would always be revered as a Messianic figure who tried his best to protect the Child, and saved humanity from the very beasts Bishop unwillingly saved Cable from. In his efforts to kill the child Bishop laid out several traps for Cable throughout the timestream, killing millions in the process, though he didn't see them as people who actually exist, but as people who wouldn't exist or come back to life if he were to kill Hope . [53]

Messiah War [ ]

After multiple failures in his quest to kill Hope, Bishop located and enlisted the aid of Stryfe , promising him that he would aid him in killing Apocalypse and Cable. Stryfe and Bishop traveled to a point in the future where Apocalypse was at his weakest and managed to defeat him, though the ancient mutant clung to life unbeknownst to them. [54] Stryfe built an empire using Celestial technology and Bishop became his right hand man, waiting for Cable and Hope to re-emerge. When they appeared along with X-Force , Hope was kidnapped. Bishop attempted to kill Hope, but was stopped by Stryfe, who intended to groom her as his heir and future vessel. Both Stryfe's and Bishop's plans were foiled by Apocalypse, X-Force, and Cable. Cable managed to rescue Hope and escaped yet again. [55] Bishop escaped into the "near future" of the 21st century, with one less eye, reconstructing his arm and vowing to find Hope once again. [56] [57]

After several attempts to kill Hope, Cable tampered with Bishop's cybernetic arm and sent him to the far future of 6700 AD, leaving him no chance to return. As Bishop wandered the wasteland he pondered that he was as much a father to Hope as Cable and that whatever she would become would be because of him, leaving him to ponder if he had done the right thing. [17]

Return to the Present [ ]

Bishop realized the he was wrong when he tried to kill Hope and, while on the verge of death, he was saved by a group of humans called The Order. They nursed him back to health, gave him a home, and trained him to be a hunter so he could help them destroy monsters called Revenants that possessed people and turned them into monsters. Bishop would kill one everyday, but when he came across a possessed father and his daughter, he killed the father but couldn't bring himself to kill the girl. She begged him not to kill her as she wasn't completely taken by the Revenants inside her and still human. Bishop spared the girl, Amber, who became his companion and friend. While on a hunt Bishop was lured into a trap by the queen of the Revenants, Ghost Owl . Bishop was attacked and possessed by the Demon Bear and the Ghost Owl who used him to travel back in time. [18] Bishop found himself back in the present and was overjoyed with his return. However, his mind and body were taken over by the Demon Bear. [58]

He was quickly attacked by the Los Angeles Police Department , whom he easily dispatched. He then attacked Storm and Psylocke in Spiral 's flat, when the three of them and Puck were called upon to fight for the fate of a young telepath, Ginny. Spiral protected and used her to produce TAO, a hive-mind drug. [59]

Bishop kidnapped Ginny and escaped into Los Angeles' sewer system. X-Force and Spiral chased after Bishop. Psylocke entered Bishop's mind and learned of his possession by the Demon Bear. With help from Storm, Psylocke freed Bishop from the Demon Bear's possession. Storm took the opportunity to erase Bishop's memory of his obsession with Hope, hoping to have her friend back. Bishop was left comatose. [60]

It was later revealed that Bishop had returned to the present due to the machinations of the Revenant Queen of Earth-TRN342 . She had hidden away in Bishop's mind when he traveled through time so she could ensure that her future where she ruled the world would come to pass. [18] She planned to use Ginny as a sacrifice and used a possessed Bishop as a distraction to make off with Ginny. [61] After awakening from his coma, Bishop revealed to X-Force what Nova did to him and helped them stop Nova's plan. [62]

Bishop was later targeted by Hope Summers so she could exact revenge for attempting to kill her, but both of them ended up getting held captive by Stryfe. Stryfe attempted to manipulate Hope into killing Bishop, even though Bishop was chained up and was remorseful for his actions, so Stryfe could get back at Bishop for betraying him during the Messiah War . After Cable's X-Force and Storm's X-Force arrived to rescue Bishop and Hope, Hope chose not to give into vengeance and spared Bishop's life as it would have undone all the lessons Cable had taught. Hope, however, did severely injure him. After Stryfe escaped, Bishop and Hope both made peace with one another, though it was an uneasy truce. [63] [64]

Some time later, Bishop joined Psylocke, Archangel, Gambit, Mystique, Fantomex, Old Man Logan , and Rogue in trying to stop the Shadow King from escaping the Astral Plane through the targeting of psychics. During the fight against the Shadow King, Bishop was infected with a psychic infection the Shadow King spread using the energy of the reality-warping mutant Proteus . With help from the spirit of Charles Xavier, the Shadow King's plan was stopped. [65] Bishop was later cured of the Shadow King's psychic infection. [66]

X-Men Disassembled [ ]

Bishop was one of the many mutants that opposed the crazed X-Man from remaking the world in his image. When X-Man realized that his vision of the world would never come about with the X-Men around, X-Man made his enemies vanish in an instant, including Bishop. [67]

Age of X-Man [ ]

Bishop and the other mutants that vanished were transported to a reality created by Nate Grey and a Life Seed , a world where everyone on Earth was a mutant and relationships were strongly discouraged or illegal. The memories of their previous lives were also erased and new ones put in their place. Bishop was a member of that reality's X-Men team. After a successful mission to help a young mutant named Luna , Bishop and teammate, Marvel Girl , relaxed together on a couch at Jean's house before becoming more intimate and spending the night together. Their forbidden love was soon discovered by Department X members Iceman , Moneta , and Psylocke . Jean had her memory wiped again and all traces of Bishop were erased from the X-Men and society. The rest of the X-Men had no idea that Bishop had once been a part of their team, his position and house filled by X-23 . [68]

As it was his "third offense of the guiding principles," Bishop was excommunicated and transported to the Danger Room Prison Complex , a prison for other captured mutants who had "disturbed the status quo multiple times" and violated the guiding principles. [68] [69] Bishop was eventually allowed to return to the real world by X-Man after realizing the flaws in his new world. [70]

Bishop is an Alpha- mutant . [72] [26]

Energy Absorption: Bishop can absorb the vast majority of types of energy, including magic, [ citation needed ] sounds, light, psionic, psychic, [3] etc, either environmental or directed towards him and he can project that energy from his body in different ways, whether in the form of concussive blasts, energy rays, explosions, fire, plasma, etc. In addition, Bishop can release the energy in the same way he received it, but with more force. [26] 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 the absorbed energy within his personal reserves, whereupon the energy increases his strength, speed, stamina and recuperative abilities, as well as affording him a measure of invulnerability. [26] The upper limits of his ability to enhance his own physical abilities with absorbed energy is not exactly known, but is well into the level of being superhuman. He is learning to use his energy to temporarily increase his physical attributes in a manner similar to Sebastian Shaw and Agent Zero . The common powers he absorbed are listed:

• Accelerated Healing: Bishop can heal at a faster rate than an average human; Bishop's regenerative factor increases proportionally to the amount of energy he absorbs, reaching superhuman limits. The limit of its regeneration is not known but the more energy it absorbs, it could increase incredibly.
• Superhuman Strength: Bishop's strength reaches incredibly high levels the more energy he absorbs, his limit of strength is linked to how much energy he can absorb. [26]
• Superhuman Speed: Bishop's speed reaches incredibly high levels the more energy he absorbs, allowing him to run much faster than the best athletes. [26]
• Superhuman Stamina: Bishop has an incredibly higher stamina than a trained human, allowing him to fight for hours without getting tired while he can absorb energy. Stamina increases the more energy Bishop absorbs. [26]
• Enhanced reflexes and Senses: All of Bishop's senses and reflexes are increased as he absorbs energy. [26]
• Superhuman Endurance: His powers reduce the need for sleep, food, drinking, body evacuations, and oxygen. [26]
• Near-Invulnerability: Lately he has demonstrated the ability to absorb most of the energy from the attacks that are launched, regardless of type, making him almost invulnerable to all attacks. [26]
• Psionic Resistance: Due to its ability to absorb psionic energy, Bishop is highly resistant to any type of psychic influence, since his body begins to absorb it, causing it to lose power, speed and efficiency. Bishop was even able to absorb psionic energy from Onslaught.
• Energy Conversion: Bishop can also utilize the absorbed in energy in different ways, such as taking it and shifting it into other energy forms. Having done so once by converting ambient energy into psychic energy, using it to hurl a truck with his mind. [51] Doing so again when he was thrown from a tall building and converted the kinetic energy from his descent into sound and light based energy to break his fall. [73]
• Concussive Blasts: He can re-channel the absorbed energy through his body for bio-kinetic concussive blasts or in the same form that was absorbed but with twice the force/power, including Storm 's weather effects. This re-channeled energy is apparently able to damage beings normally immune to their own powers.
• Energy Resistance: During the Civil War: X-Men story arc, Cyclops was controlled by another mutant to use his powers at their full magnitude to attack Bishop. Bishop attempted to absorb the incredible blast for a short time before he reached his limit and was forced to expel the energy into the air in a blast that would have killed everyone in the area. Other durability feats include Bishop preventing the X-Men's death at the hands of one of the most powerful beings in history, Onslaught, by absorbing a blast of an incredible amount of psionic energy aimed at killing them all. Plus taking and giving back a blast two-fold from the powerful mutant Mr. M .
• Poison Resistance: Bishop is also resistant to most poisons. [26]
• Other skills: He can "let his spirit go" as seen in X-Treme X-Men Annual #1. Bishop also has a kind of meaning that always lets him know where and when in time he is. It's unknown if this is a mutant talent, or an ability taught to Bishop sometime in his life.

Bete Noir: Having been host to an entity similar to the Phoenix Force called Le Bete Noir . Bishop was host to all but unlimited cosmological power, through it Lucas could strike at those around its host, corrupting them as both it and his powers grew. Corrupting/contaminating everything around him until he consumed every being on Earth. [74]

• Absolute Energy Absorption
• Cosmic Manipulation
• Energy Empowerment
• Ontopathogenesis
• Planetary Parasitism

Demon Bear Possession: Bishop was, for a time, possessed by the otherworldly Bull Revenant called the Demon Bear. Through their synergy Bishop is afforded a host of new powers while under its control. The possessing entity seemingly boosted his natural mutant abilities by providing him a constant source of energy for him to feed off of, perpetually enhancing and energizing his body as a result making him far stronger and tougher than he usually would be by imbibing on any outside physical energy. Meaning he could store the ambient forces the bear put out both to make himself physically stronger and tireless while also enabling an almost inexhaustible power supply. [59]

• Teleportation
• Energized Metabolism
• Time Travel
• Mummudrai Manifestation: Bishop could sporadically manifest the astral wraith as a tangible projection which acted on his behalf.

Skilled Combatant: Bishop is a trained police officer and skilled in the homicide branch. Bishop has also had many years of armed and unarmed combat training has made him a devastating unarmed combatant. [26]

Master Marksman: Bishop is a superb marksman with firearms both from his own time, some of which he brought with him from the future when he originally arrived in our present, and also both heavy duty military and conventional guns and weapons of the present time. [26]

Weapons Proficiency: Bishop often uses XSE guns through which he channels energy that he has absorbed. [26]

• Originally unlike Sebastian Shaw and Agent Zero , Bishop was unable to absorb energy from inertial impacts such as hitting walls. This does not mean he was incapable of absorbing kinetic energy. Kinetic effects such as an exploding card from Gambit were able to be absorbed. It would seem that as of late he is learning to absorb inertial impact energy, which makes him almost invulnerable. It is unknown whether it is possible to increase this capacity in time with practice.
• Some types of energy are more difficult to absorb than others. Bishop can overload himself by trying to absorb too much energy, although his upper limits are unknown, even to himself. When it is overloaded, it releases excess energy in an explosion around it until its body reaches an amount of energy that it can control.
• Although he can absorb psionic energy from explosions or telekinetic attacks, Bishop is not completely immune to telepathic attacks, but his power sustains him and helps him reduce their speed and power significantly.
• He is partially vulnerable to non-energy weapon attacks, so if he were to be shot by a projectile weapon or hit with a crowbar, it could harm him.
• Because his ability is passive he cannot actively absorb or control the rate of the amount of energy he takes in, he must get it from an outside source. Though he's seemingly not as good at absorbing ambient energy at the same rate as he would direct energy, like Scott's optic blasts or Ororo's lightning. Needing to rely on an at hand amount of power to fuel his abilities.

Paraphernalia

Sunglasses that display information and allow communication with the rest of the X-Men. [ citation needed ]

Cybernetic Arm: After Bishop lost an arm, he resorted 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 four clawed tendrils from it, two of which he used to ensnare and strangle Cable. The arm had 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 and durability. [26] Bishop also tailored it with a short lived, non-lethal nanite dispersal system which shuts down electronics and neurological systems, he also can draw on its radioactive energy source to fuel his own mutant powers and has been shown to have two clawed tendrils in it, as well as allowing him to time-jump due to built-in time travel technology, the full extent of the technology/abilities of his cybernetic arm are unknown. Bishop's cybernetic grants him Cyberkinesis, allowing him to manipulate technology. ( Possibly Formerly )

Transportation

• The ability of knowing where and when he is, is not one of Bishop's mutant powers. Bishop's explanation is that this ability is due to training. Although being the great-grandson of Gateway, a mutant possessing extensive dealings with time travel, may have something to due with it.
• In X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #3 , Bishop's grandmother and Storm were drawn remarkably similarly. Bishop notes after meeting the X-Men that "some of them looked nothing like I imagined". A close-up of Storm was placed near a panel featuring Gambit with the caption, "and yet some of them were painfully familiar." This was referring to the fact that Bishop had known Gambit in the future. It may have been trying to indicate that Storm and Bishop's grandmother were one and the same. This is not the first time the two were subtly linked. Bishop's grandmother also appears to have a rather intimate knowledge of the X-Men's history, aware of details that are not known to those not closely affiliated with the X-Men.
• 517 appearance(s) of Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)
• 15 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)
• 51 minor appearance(s) of Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)
• 47 mention(s) of Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)
• 9 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)
• 617 image(s) of Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)
• 24 quotation(s) by or about Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)
• 5 victim(s) killed by Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191)

Links and References

• Lucas Bishop on Marvel.com
• Lucas Bishop on Wikipedia.org
• Bishop Comic Books
• uncannyxmen.net Spotlight On... Bishop
• Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191) at X-Peoples Central
• ↑ Uncanny X-Men #283
• ↑ Cable (Vol. 2) #5
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 New X-Men #140
• ↑ Gateway is listed as Bishop's great-grandfather despite some comics stating just "grandfather". X-Men writer Chris Claremont has subsequently clarified that Gateway is indeed Bishop's great-grandfather (as corrected on marvel.com ).
• ↑ Bishop's grandmother may be Storm. This has never been confirmed one way or the other in continuity or the handbooks. See trivia for more details.
• ↑ 6.0 6.1 Uncanny X-Men #287
• ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 XSE #1
• ↑ 8.0 8.1 Uncanny X-Men #282
• ↑ Uncanny X-Men #288
• ↑ Uncanny X-Men #298
• ↑ 11.0 11.1 X-Treme X-Men #1
• ↑ X-Treme X-Men #46
• ↑ Uncanny X-Men #470
• ↑ X-Men Unlimited (Vol. 2) #2
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 2) #206
• ↑ 16.0 16.1 Uncanny X-Men #494
• ↑ 17.0 17.1 Cable (Vol. 2) #24
• ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Uncanny X-Force (Vol. 2) #5
• ↑ Vendetta (Storyline) Vendetta
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 5) #4
• ↑ 21.0 21.1 Inferno (Vol. 2) #1
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 5) #11
• ↑ Marauders (Vol. 2) #1
• ↑ Marauders #2
• ↑ Marauders #4
• ↑ 26.00 26.01 26.02 26.03 26.04 26.05 26.06 26.07 26.08 26.09 26.10 26.11 26.12 26.13 26.14 26.15 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #1
• ↑ X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #1
• ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 X-Factor (Vol. 3) #27
• ↑ 29.0 29.1 X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #1 – 2
• ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #2
• ↑ Bishop #3
• ↑ XSE #2 – 3
• ↑ XSE #3 – 4
• ↑ 34.0 34.1 X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #3
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 2) #8
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 2) #14
• ↑ X-Men: Alpha #1
• ↑ X-Men: Omega #1
• ↑ X-Men: Prime #1
• ↑ Onslaught: X-Men #1
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 2) #91
• ↑ Bishop the Last X-Man #1 – 14
• ↑ X-Men Unlimited #29
• ↑ X-Treme X-Men #4
• ↑ District X #1 – 14
• ↑ Civil War: X-Men #4
• ↑ Civil War #6
• ↑ X-Men: Endangered Species #1
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 2) #205
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 2) #207
• ↑ 51.0 51.1 Cable (Vol. 2) #2
• ↑ 52.0 52.1 King-Size Cable Spectacular #1
• ↑ Cable (Vol. 2) #9
• ↑ Cable (Vol. 2) #14
• ↑ 55.0 55.1 X-Force (Vol. 3) #16
• ↑ X-Force (Vol. 3) #14 – 17
• ↑ Cable (Vol. 2) #12 – 15
• ↑ Uncanny X-Force (Vol. 2) #1
• ↑ 59.0 59.1 Uncanny X-Force (Vol. 2) #2
• ↑ Uncanny X-Force (Vol. 2) #6
• ↑ Uncanny X-Force (Vol. 2) #1 – 4
• ↑ Uncanny X-Force (Vol. 2) #9 – 15
• ↑ Cable and X-Force #18 – 19
• ↑ Uncanny X-Force (Vol. 2) #16 – 17
• ↑ Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #1 – 6
• ↑ Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #7
• ↑ Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 5) #1 – 10
• ↑ 68.0 68.1 Age of X-Man Alpha #1
• ↑ Age of X-Man: Prisoner X #1
• ↑ Age of X-Man Omega #1
• ↑ House of X #6
• ↑ X-Men (Vol. 2) #97
• ↑ Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 4) #4
• ↑ Gambit & Bishop: Alpha #1
• ↑ Marauders #1
• ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #1
• ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z Vol 1 1
• 1 Nathan Summers (Earth-616)
• 2 Madelyne Pryor (Earth-616)
• 3 Mutant Power Level Classification

• Alpha Level Mutant
• X-Force Strike Team
• X-Treme Sanctions Executive
• Male Characters
• Energy Absorption
• View history

• 1 Characteristics
• 2.1 Early life
• 2.3 Age of Apocalypse
• 2.4 X-Treme X-Men
• 2.5 District X
• 2.6 Civil War
• 2.7.1 Chasing the Mutant Messiah
• 2.7.2 Messiah War
• 3.2 Strength level
• 3.3 Weaknesses
• 4.1 Equipment
• 4.2 Transportation
• 4.3 Weapons

Characteristics [ ]

• Height- 6'6
• Weight- 275 lbs
• Eyes- Brown
• Hair- Black

History [ ]

Early life [ ], age of apocalypse [ ].

When Professor Xavier's insane son, Legion , went back in time to assassinate Magneto , Bishop was one of the X-Men sent to stop him. When they failed, and Legion accidentally killed Professor Xavier, Bishop was the only time-traveler to remain when history was altered and became the Age of Apocalypse. He eventually convinced the Magneto of that era that the existence of this reality was wrong, and with a great amount of sacrifice, managed to correct the error and stop Legion. After the timeline reset itself, Bishop received some of his counterpart's unsettling memories of the Age of Apocalypse. The traitor in the X-Men was eventually revealed to be Professor X in the form of Onslaught . Bishop's knowledge of the future was the only thing that stopped Onslaught from killing the X-Men. As Onslaught fired a massive blast of psionic energy at the distracted X-Men, Bishop threw himself in front of them and absorbed the blast that would have killed them. Onslaught, winded from such a massive attack, said that his blast was enough to kill a thousand mutants and "Another time, another place, I would have been proud". Bishop lost consciousness after absorbing the blast, but soon recovered, although it was not enough to prevent Onslaught from nearly destroying all of humanity. He made peace with Gambit, who was not the traitor after all. On a mission in deep space, Bishop became separated from the rest of the X-Men. Despite trickery and base manipulation by Deathbird , he entered into a romantic relationship with her. They had many adventures far out in space, but when she turned on him and the X-Men, he seemingly killed her. Following this, Bishop spent some time in a distant possible future, detailed in the Bishop: The Last X-Man series, where he again faced Trevor Fitzroy. He was temporarily returned to the present by Apocalypse who needed him as one of The Twelve, before finally returning permanently during the Maximum Security crossover.

X-Treme X-Men [ ]

Bishop was a founding member of Storm's splinter team of X-Men, whose mission was to search for the Books of Truth, the diaries of the precognitive mutant Destiny . They left against the will and knowledge of the main team, as the splinter group did not trust in Xavier or the others to use the diaries for the benefit of humanity. He revealed his first name to be "Lucas", using it on a fake police ID. Even though the X-Men came to believe the diaries to be self-fulfilling, the team stayed together for a while before returning to the mansion. His team started believing that the others had grown more mutant-supremacist, and less interested in integration (the original reason that many of them joined the X-Men). While with his splinter team, Bishop was second-in-command. He would participate in solving murder mysteries, and even used false IDs to convince the local authorities he was one of them. With the disbanding of the team, Storm formed her own XSE, the X-Treme Sanctions Executive, which was officially recognized by the government as a mutant police force. Bishop had also begun a friendship with the X-Man Sage . They helped to uncover the killer of the White Queen . Bishop has recently been seen getting close to Angel 's ex-girlfriend, Detective Charlotte Jones.

District X [ ]

Bishop joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and appeared regularly in District X, a police procedural set in a mutant ghetto in New York City. District X, or 'Mutant Town', had a high-population density. It was also a poverty-stricken area with high crime rates. Bishop was assigned to the area in order to resolve mutant-related crimes. The series was canceled after 14 issues. Since the events of House of M, Bishop continued to visit New York, but since a majority of the mutant population of District X was wiped out by the Scarlet Witch , Bishop turned his primary attention back to the X-Men and school. He had been involved with several missions with the team, such as taking down the Shi'ar Death Commandos, helping Psylocke deal with the Foursaken and the First Fallen, as well as helping Storm save Africa, from soldiers who were taking children from villages.

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 argued with Cyclops over allowing their escape, and stated his fear of what the future might hold. Val Cooper and Tony Stark let Bishop lead Micromax and Sabra into action against Domino , Shatterstar , and the rest of the 198. Bishop led them to the base where the 198 were hiding, and told the X-Men to stand down upon their arrival. 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, and he was overwhelmed. Bishop was forced to direct the energy he had absorbed upwards, in a powerful blast that destroyed an 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 was among Iron Man's pro-registration forces, that guarded the Negative Zone prison. When Captain America's team breaks in, a fight ensues, putting Bishop at odds with his former teammates Storm and Cable.

Messiah Complex [ ]

In Messiah Complex , the precipitating event causing Bishop's future is finally revealed: the birth of the first mutant child since M-Day. As the Marauders , on Mister Sinister 's orders, try to gather anyone and anything with knowledge of the future, Bishop is the only target they were unable to locate and terminate. It is revealed that he had betrayed the X-Men, and he attempted to kill the baby. However, before he could succeed, he was thwarted by the Marauders, who escaped with the baby. As X-Men arrive on the scene, Bishop pretends to have attempted to retrieve the baby. As Multiple Man 's duplicate and Layla Miller find out in their mission to one of the planet's 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 attempted to alert X-Force to Bishop's betrayal, but he managed to block all of their communication channels. After arriving on Muir Island and fighting past the Marauders, Bishop found Cable attempting to escape with the baby, and the two fight. Both mutants are then attacked by Predator X , who viciously rips off Bishop's right arm. Bishop cauterizes his torn shoulder on an unconscious Sunfire. The wound did not kill him, though, and in an attempt to shoot down a teleporting Cable, he misses and hits Professor X instead.

Chasing the Mutant Messiah [ ]

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. He later manages to track down Cable, slaying several mutated beasts in the process, and shoot the Mutant Messiah. He also finds that in the future generated by his choice, Cable will be always revered as a Messianic figure who tried his best to protect the Child, and saved humanity from the very beasts Bishop unwillingly saved Cable from. It has been revealed that the Messiah child is still alive and Bishop has been captured by the X-Men. However, in his efforts to kill the child Bishop has laid out several traps for Cable throughout the timestream, killing millions in the process, though he doesn't see them as people who actually exist, but as people who wouldn't exist or come back to life if he kills Hope.

Messiah War [ ]

After multiple failings at killing Hope, Bishop locates and enlists the aid of Stryfe, promising him that he would aid him in killing Apocalypse and Cable. Stryfe and Bishop travel to a point in the future where Apocalypse is at his weakest and manage to defeat him. Stryfe builds an empire using Celestial technology and Bishop becomes his right hand man, waiting for Cable and Hope to re-emerge. When they do appear along with X-Force, Hope is kidnapped. Bishop betrays Stryfe and his plot to kill Hope is foiled by Stryfe, who wants to make her his heir. Both attempts are foiled by Apocalypse, X-Force, and Cable. Cable manages to rescue Hope and escape yet again. Bishop escapes into the "near future" of the 21st century, reconstructing his arm, vowing to find Hope once again.

Powers and Abilities [ ]

Energy Absorption : Bishop can absorb most types of energy, including magic and psychic, either ambient or directed toward him and can project that energy from his body in the form of concussive blasts. 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, speed, stamina and recuperative abilities, as well as affording him a measure of invulnerability. The upper limits of his ability to enhance his own physical abilities with absorbed energy is not exactly known but is well into the level of being superhuman. 

• Accelerated Healing
• Enhanced Strength
• Enhanced Speed
• Enhanced Stamina
• Enhanced Endurance
• Near-Invulnerability
• Energy Conversion : Bishop can also utilize the absorbed in energy in different ways, such as taking it and shifting it into other energy forms. Having done so once by converting ambient energy into psychic energy, using it to hurl a truck with his mind. Doing so again when he was thrown from a tall building and converted the kinetic energy from his decent into sound and light based energy to break his fall.
• Concussive Blasts : He can re-channel the absorbed energy through his body for bio-kinetic concussive blasts or in the same form that was absorbed but with twice the force/power, including Storm's weather effects. This re-channeled energy is apparently able to damage beings normally immune to their own powers.
• Energy Resistance : During the Civil War: X-Men story arc, Cyclops is controlled by another mutant to use his powers at their full magnitude to attack Bishop. Bishop attempted to absorb the incredible blast for a short time before he reached his limit and was forced to expel the energy into the air in a blast that would have killed everyone in the area. Other durability feats include Bishop preventing the X-Men's death at the hands of one of the most powerful beings in history, Onslaught, by absorbing a blast of an incredible amount of psionic energy aimed at killing them all.
• Poison Resistance : Bishop is also resistant to most poisons.
• Skilled Combatant : Bishop is a trained police officer and skilled in the homicide branch. Bishop has also had many years of armed and unarmed combat training has made him a devastating unarmed combatant.
• Master Marksman : Bishop is a superb marksman with firearms both from his own time, some of which he brought with him from the future when he originally arrived in our present, and also both heavy duty military and conventional guns and weapons of the present time.
• Weapons Proficiency : Bishop often uses XSE guns through which he channels energy that he has absorbed.

Strength level [ ]

When not enhanced by his ability to absorb energy Bishop possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. When enhanced he can lift at least twice his bodyweight; 550 lbs

Weaknesses [ ]

• Originally unlike Sebastian Shaw and Agent Zero , Bishop was unable to absorb energy from inertial impacts such as hitting walls. This does not mean he was incapable of absorbing kinetic energy. Kinetic effects such as an exploding card from Gambit were absorbable. It would seem that as of late he is learning to absorb inertial impact energy, however he still cannot do so with anywhere near the efficiency of Shaw or Agent Zero. Whether it is possible to increase this ability in time with practice is unknown.
• Some energy types are more difficult to absorb than others. Bishop can be overloaded by trying to absorb too much energy.
• Although he can absorb psionic energy from blasts or telekinetic attacks, Bishop is not immune to telepathic attacks.

Paraphernalia [ ]

Equipment [ ].

• Cybernetic Arm : After Bishop lost an arm, he resorted 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 four clawed tendrils from it, two of which he used to ensnare and strangle Cable. The arm had 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 and durability. Bishop also tailored it with a short lived, non-lethal nanite dispersal system which shuts down electronics and neurological systems, he also can draw on its radioactive energy source to fuel his own mutant powers.
• Bionic Eye : In the ensuing Messiah War between Stryfe, Cable and X-Force, Bishop lost his right eye during the clash and had it replaced with a robotic one.

Transportation [ ]

Bishop sometimes utilizes time travel devices, allowing for instantaneous travel.

Weapons [ ]

X.S.E guns that fire laser beams and plasma charges. He is able to recharge them with his own stored energy. During his rampage throughout history while searching for Hope, he snagged a host of lethal armaments with which he'd use to corner Cable in the future. Napalm that burns over water, tactical nukes, water taints, biological and chemical weaponry among others. Trivia Bishop's nationality remains a mystery throughout the continuity although some sources report that he was born in Tondo a district in Manila, Philippines. Co-creator Whilce Portacio being half Filipino make's it possible, but it contradicts to his original purpose of being the first black male in the X-Men's team. -In "Comics:X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop Vol 1 3 Bishops grandmother and Storm were drawn remarkably similar. A close up of storm was placed near a panel featuring Gambit with the caption, "and yet some of them were painfully familiar". This was referring to the fact that Bishop had known Gambit in the future. It may have been trying to indicate that Storm and Bishops grandmother were one in the same. This is not the first time the two were subtly linked.

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X-Men 101: Everything You Should Know About Bishop, the Mutant Time Cop

Last month, we saw the first screenshots of Omar Sy as the characters Lucas Bishop in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past , a character described as a time-traveling refugee from a dystopian future. This week, leaked script pages from the film -- and what they might mean for Bishop -- pushed the character back in the headlines. So who is this guy exactly? While the big screen version may not exactly mirror the character's comic book history, we went digging in our longboxes for some critical back (or future) story on the chronologically displaced X-cop. Strap in, because this one's a doozy.

To understand Bishop as he appears in the comics, it's important to have some understanding of the Marvel Multiverse. See, the X-Men are all about time-travel paradoxes, which has resulted in a number of fractured, apocalyptic (and Apocalyptic) timelines that diverge at various critical points from the main "real" continuity, which is known as Earth-616. The horrifying Days of Future Past timeline where mutant are enslaved is another, Earth-811. Bishop's point of origin is different still: the late 21 st century of Earth-1191, or the Forever Yesterday timeline.

Forever Yesterday is a continuity nightmare, but all you really need to know going in is that it's an alternate future in which Sentinels have taken over North America: kind of like Days of Future Past, but instead of jumping straight into the genocide, the Forever Yesterday Sentinels indelibly branded mutants (see: the M over Bishop's eye), then locked them up in the "mutant relocation camps" until they were eventually overthrown by a mutant-led rebellion.

In the line of duty, Bishop chased a dangerous fugitive into the distant past of 1991, and found himself fighting side by side with his heroes, the X-Men -- on the eve of an incident that in his timeline had lead to their destruction at the hands of a traitor. Since the event had been poorly chronicled, however, he wasn't sure who the traitor was.

Since then, Bishop spent a lot of time as a cautionary tale about the dangers of time travel: over and over, he's tried to "fix" the timeline, and over and over, he's been hamstrung by misunderstandings of the past-to-him, future-to-us events that he believes lead to the lousy world in which he was raised. Most recently, this led Bishop to spend over a year chasing Cable -- another chronologically displaced character with an unbelievably complicated backstory -- through time in a dubiously-guided attempt to murder a baby, during which he managed to generate thousands of corpses worth of collateral damage.

There are a few different ways X-Men: Days of Future Past could incorporate Bishop, but based on the images we've seen so far and statements from director Bryan Singer and actor Omar Sy, it seems most likely that they'll be merging the Days of Future Past and Forever Yesterday timelines, a narrative streamlining that also took place in both the original X-Men cartoon from the 1990s and the later *Wolverine and the X-Men *animated series. That, in turn, opens the door to another intriguing possibilities: the event that overthrew the Sentinels in the Forever Yesterday timeline was called the Summers Rebellion, and depending on how much of that chronology makes its way into Days of Future Past , it might provide an avenue for the eventual return of Cyclops. Also known as Scott Summers, the mutant hero seemed to meet his end in X-Men: The Last Stand . But if we've learned anything from superhero comics, it's no one stays dead forever.

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X-Men Theory: Time Travel Brings Mutants To The MCU (But Not The Way You Think)

The X-Man known as Bishop might be the unlikely key to bringing mutants to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the hero's time-traveling prowess potentially being the solution to changing Earth-199999 in a major way.

Lucas Bishop, codenamed Bishop, debuted in "The Uncanny X-Men" #282 as a co-creation of Whilce Portacio and John Byrne. Bishop originally came from a dystopian alternate future that was created when a version of Hope Summers killed millions of humans during what is known as the Six Second War. In the wake of that event, Bishop and the other surviving mutants were housed in concentration camps, while teams such as the X-Men were killed or forced into hiding in a world where mutants were once again viewed as mankind's biggest enemies. The mutants eventually mount a rebellion, with Bishop and others joining the X.S.E. (X-Treme Sanctions Executive), a police force formed in order to prevent mutantdom from going extinct. However, when one of their own, a mutant known as Trevor Fitzroy, turns on them and travels to the present day, Bishop chases him through time, where he will eventually join the X-Men. He quickly becomes a valuable member and even assumes a leadership position on the team.

Considering Bishop is no stranger to finding himself in time-travel quandaries, he has the potential to provide the perfect path for the X-Men's arrival in the present-day MCU, and his time-travel adventures highlight why.

How Bishop has changed the X-Men's timelines

While Bishop's mutant power is energy manipulation and projection, he's also armed with time-travel technology that gives him the ability to change, erase, and add new histories to Marvel's main timeline.

In the classic "Age of Apocalypse" storyline, the mutant Legion travels back in time to murder Magneto to prevent his future actions, but he inadvertently kills his father, Charles Xavier, instead, leading to the birth of a new timeline. Only one mutant realizes this reality, where Apocalypse is in control of the universe, isn't what it's supposed to be: Bishop. The time-traveling mutant manages to convince his fellow mutant heroes that things aren't as they should be, leading him into direct conflict with Apocalypse, who aims to keep his rule intact. Despite Apocalypse's power, Bishop is ultimately successful in restoring the true timeline.

In the "Messiah Complex," Bishop tries to prevent his own timeline from coming to pass after Hope Summers is born in the present day. His quest to change his own history leads him to the future, where he fights Cable and attempts to kill Hope before ultimately failing in his attempts and being sent to a desolate reality, thousands of years in the future. After barely surviving in that timeline, he is eventually brought back to the present day, where he decides killing Hope isn't the right move and opts to end his life's mission. Since then, he's been a vital member of the X-Men and was even named one of the Four Great Captains of Krakoa while helping lead the Marauders before the " Fall of X ."

How Bishop could change the MCU

Both the Fox Marvel Universe and Marvel Cinematic Universe have leaned heavily on time travel as a plot device. In "Deadpool 2," Cable returns to the main timeline to kill Firefist and prevent the death of his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, in "Loki," the Time Variance Authority closely monitors and protects the MCU's sacred timeline. With the time-traveling villain Kang the Conqueror (and his variants) being set up as the big villain for Phase Six of the MCU, Bishop might very well be the means through which the X-Men join Marvel's main film universe.

Using his time-traveling capabilities, the MCU could take cues from some of the mutant's comic book storylines and have his interference lead to mutants arriving on Earth-199999. " Deadpool 3 " is teasing the Merc with a Mouth mowing through the old Fox timeline and its characters, after all, so Bishop's tendency to attempt to rewrite history could help send him (and other mutants) to the main timeline once the old universe is destroyed. If reports that the TVA is involved in the film prove to be true, nothing appears off the table.

Bishop already appeared in "X-Men: Days of Future Past," where he was played by "Lupin" actor Omar Sy. Bringing Sy back doesn't seem like it would be too much of a stretch to make happen, and with Bishop's history of being responsible for both participating in and fixing time variances, he could be the key to the X-Men's sudden existence in the MCU, whether in "Deadpool 3" or another film. While it remains to be seen if Marvel will utilize Bishop's time-traveling potential, having the option to use him to cause a domino effect of change seems like a storyline worth exploring.

Bishop's Complete Marvel History

A mutant from the future helping mutants throughout time learn all about lucas bishop before picking up ‘bishop: war college’ #1 in comic shops now..

Lucas Bishop was born in a desolate future where exterminating mutants was the status quo. He worked as part of a mutant police force called the Xavier’s Security Enforcers , tracking and hunting down fellow mutants. Growing up, he had heard tales of the X-Men , heroes of the past, but he never thought he’d someday be a member of their ranks.

By wielding his energy absorption abilities, Bishop has been an integral part of the X-Men and has left an impact that has actually altered the X-Men’s timeline (at least twice). In BISHOP: WAR COLLEGE (2023) #1 , available in comic shops now, the mutant from the future plans to step up as a leader once more, this time training a new class of young heroes to defend Krakoa and mutantkind.

Before picking up BISHOP: WAR COLLEGE (2023) #1 by J. Holtham and Sean Damien Hill , buckle up and grab your time travel device to revisit Bishop’s complete comics history across pivotal comic stories.

FIRST APPEARANCE: UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #282

Trevor Fitzroy was a megalomaniac fugitive of time. He was determined to steal energy of every mutant he came across, which also included Emma Frost (who, at the time, had the mind of Jean Grey . Long story). During a battle between Fitzroy’s Sentinels and the X-Men, a portal appeared, and who should come out? Bishop! He and other members of Xavier’s Security Enforcers (XSE) had been searching for Fitzroy and left quite the first impression on the X-Men, especially in the following issue.

THE X-MEN WAY: UNCANNY X-MEN (1963) #288

After being officially added to the X-Men team in issue #287 , Bishop was put under Storm’s tutelage, noting that he has “much to learn.” Bishop wanted to acclimate to the present rather than train, as his entire life has been dedicated to fighting. But first, all Bishop wanted was a little travel to New York City, which turned into a group trip. His visit to the Big Apple would be interrupted by another time criminal named Styglut, and it was here Bishop learned his first lesson—“The X-Men do not kill.” He would reiterate to Storm that he has much to learn.

Fun fact: Bishop and Storm would team up again in another pivotal moment (coming up next!) and in X-TREME X-MEN (2001) .

UNDO THE FUTURE: X-MEN (1991) #41

Legion , Professor Xavier’s son, traveled twenty years into the past to destroy Magneto in a perverse attempt to achieve his father’s dream. A “ Legion Quest ,” if you will. A smaller team of X-Men—Bishop, Storm, Iceman , and Psylocke —chased after Legion to stop him. The plan went awry when Professor X of the past took the blast meant for Magneto and died. This single change created a butterfly effect that would lead to the AGE OF APOCALYPSE (1995) . It would take Bishop, and Bishop alone, to restore the X-Men’s timeline in X-MEN: OMEGA (1995) #1 .

ONSLAUGHT VERSUS THE X-MEN: ONSLAUGHT: X-MEN (1996) #1

What do you get when you combine the consciousness of Magneto and the darkest desires of Professor X? A big psionic problem named Onslaught ! After failing to convert the X-Men to assert their will over humans, the extremely powerful mutant tried to kill them with a blast deadly enough “to stop a thousand mutants.” Bishop absorbed the entire attack, which impressed Onslaught to leave the X-Men alone. For the moment.

A LITTLE HOPE: X-MEN (2004) #206-207

Bishop wanted Hope Summers , the first mutant since M-Day to be born into the world, dead. Why? Well, according to X-MEN: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF LUCAS BISHOP (2009) , Hope would be the catalyst for the massive mutant incarceration in Bishop’s future. Cable , however, believed she could save the future. Bishop tried killing Hope, but Cable took himself and Hope out of the present instead; Bishop’s blasts meant for them both killed Professor X instead! Bishop’s obsession with Hope had such a hold on him that he chased Cable and Hope Summers throughout time, not knowing his decisions would leave him stranded in an extremely dystopic future (as seen in CABLE #24).

BACK TO THE PRESENT: UNCANNY X-FORCE (2013) #1

He’s baaack! After spending time stuck in the 68th century, Bishop returned to the present. Something like that can change you and, in Bishop’s case, turn you against your former allies. Readers would later learn in issue #5 that a psychic “revenant” called the Great White Owl influenced him to fight the X-Men and to search for Ginny, a new mutant. Bishop was eventually released from the Owl’s hold and joined Psylocke’s X-Force team.

KRAKOA ERA: MARAUDERS (2019) #1

Bishop became an inaugural member of Kate Pryde’s Marauders, and by the tenth issue of the 2019 run, he added Red Bishop of the Hellfire Trading Company to his resume. He was also one of Krakoa’s Great Captains , established by the Quiet Council of Krakoa . In INFERNO (2021) #1 , Cyclops stepped down from the position of Captain Commander, the leader of all Great Captains (he and Jean Grey reformed the X-Men during X OF SWORDS: DESTRUCTION #1 ), and he selected Bishop to be promoted to his role.

As of MARAUDERS (2022) #5 , he and some of the other Marauders traveled to the past to retrieve a Shi’ar timedrive, which contained remnants of the Threshold, the original mutants. He would later witness their resurrection in issue #7 .

Bishop has proven time and time again that he can adapt to any situation. Will he be ready to teach the next generation of defenders and face the dangers that come with it? You’ll have to check out BISHOP: WAR COLLEGE (2023) #1 and read for yourself! Grab a sneak peek at issue #2 in the carousel below, on sale in comic shops March 15 !

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X-Men: The Times & Life of Lucas Bishop #3

Duane Swierczynski (writer), Larry Stroman (penciler), Mark Farmer and Robert Stull (inker), Thomas Mason (colorist), VC’s Cory Petit (letterer), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor), Axel Alonso (editor), Joe Quesada (editor-in-chief), Dan Buckley (publisher), Alan Fine (executive producer)

Bishop and the X.S.E. track Fitzroy to a system of caves beneath upstate New York. After capturing Fitzroy, Bishop discovers an ancient digital recording left by the X-Men years earlier that recounts the horrors committed by the treacherous Hope. Later, Fitzroy escapes from his prison, incites a riot, and flees to the past with an army of criminals. Bishop, Malcolm and Randall follow. They arrive in New York City in the 1990’s. Malcolm and Randall are slain by Fitzroy’s men, while the X-Men apprehend Bishop before he can get revenge. Professor X invites Bishop to join the team. They become like family to him. Professor X introduces Bishop to Cable, a fellow time-traveler who tells Bishop he must have been drawn to this era for a reason. After spending a significant span of time with the X-Men, M-Day strikes and depowers most of the world’s mutants. When a mutant baby is finally born, Bishop realizes it must be the monster Hope who ruins the future and ruined his past. He betrays the X-Men and Cable and sets out to assassinate the infant.

There was a story Lucas Bishop's grandmother once told him that he found frustrating. He had asked why the X-Men couldn't do anything to stop the Sentinels, the camps, or the miserable lives of mutants in the world. "But they did, Lucas," his grandmother had said. "I know you may find this hard to believe, but things could have been much worse."

She explained how, when she was much younger, the war between mutants and humans had gone on for so long it reached a fever pitch. Everyone was so tense that the tiniest incident could have sparked a full-scale war. Regrettably, there were people on both sides of the conflict who wanted to make this war a reality. She explained that the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants once plotted to kill a politician. Lucas asked why. His grandmother explained that this politician feared mutants and constantly tried to pass laws against them. From the sound of things, Lucas thought the man actually needed to die. "No, Lucas," his grandmother had said. "The X-Men don't kill just because they disagree with someone. And they fought for Kelly, and protected him, because they knew it was the right thing to do."

She asked Lucas to try to imagine the nightmare future that could have come to pass had Senator Kelly been assassinated by mutants. Thanks to the X-Men, however, people saw for the first time that not all mutants were a threat, and could live side-by-side with humans. If that's the case, Lucas asked, then why were they still in camps? His grandmother told him the future can be stubborn, but she had faith that this too would pass. She had hope for the future. Lucas didn't say this to his grandma, but he refused to believe her. The X-Men may have fought for the future—but he didn't think they fought hard enough.

Tunnels beneath Upstate New York... Bishop remembers his grandmother's story while chasing Trevor Fitzroy through the bowels of an old tunnel system. According to some rumors, this area used to serve as a home of the X-Men. Fitzroy came there to obtain something—some kind of information about the past. Although Bishop comes as an officer of the X.S.E., he also comes for vengeance. He wants to make Fitzroy pay for what he did to Bishop's sister, Shard.

During a gunfight with Fitzroy and his cronies, Bishop charges up a burst of energy and directs it straight at Trevor's chest. It sends him crashing through one of the walls of the cave system. Bishop climbs through the hole in search of his target. Fitzroy, however, catches Bishop off-guard and grabs him from behind. He drains Bishop's mutant energy and uses it to open a portal. "Got to go," he says to Bishop, "... but say hi to your sister for me, okay?" Before Fitzroy can escape, however, Bishop regains himself and destroys Fitzroy's portal with an energy shot. He tells Fitzroy he will have the chance to say hi to Shard himself; he should have plenty of time for visitors once in the Pool.

With Fitzroy down, Bishop grabs him by the ankle and begins hauling him out of the caves. He hears something strange during his exit. The words "only we had known what she was capable of..." come from Fitzroy's pants pocket. Bishop turns his unconscious body over and pulls an ancient digital recorder from his pocket. "... supposed to save us, but instead..." the oddly familiar voice in the recorder says.

Bishop takes the recorder back to base and scrutinizes it. It isn't the voice itself he finds familiar, but the way its speaker speaks. She talks like an old-timer, like his grandmother. Her recording is a desperate warning. Bishop deciphers the words "traitor among us... false Hope... Cable wrong about this... massive casualties!" Incidentally, Bishop knows precisely whom the speaker is referring. He remembers his mother and other people in the camps talking about the red-haired monster that killed a million humans and caused all the misery mutants now face.

That was the day everything changed , Bishop later recalls. While sitting at his desk, Bishop's associates Malcolm and Randall enter and tell him they just received word of a massive riot in the Pool; rumor has it prisoners are disappearing into thin air. This can mean only one thing to Bishop: Fitzroy. Bishop, Malcolm and Randall head to the Pool immediately and arrive in the middle of a full-scale riot. A guard greets them and informs them all the high-powered mutants have vanished. Bishop scolds him for letting this happen; Fitzroy was supposed to be kept in complete isolation, away from all forms of life! He was, the guard insists! They have no idea what went wrong.

As soon as Bishop enters Fitzroy's former cell, he understands how the teleporter escaped. In the corner of the room lies the sapped corpse of a small rodent. "That dirty rat," Bishop says. Even a creature of that diminutive size gave Fitzroy enough energy to fuel his escape. Suddenly, Malcolm enters and tells Bishop he found something else he should see. He leads Bishop to a swirling vortex of energy, around which lay several drained human bodies. It seems Fitzroy teleported everyone out of there—almost everyone, that is. Without hesitation, Bishop starts toward the portal. Randall asks if he shouldn't wait; they have no idea where the portal leads. Yes they do, Bishop tells him; the portal leads to Fitzroy. He asks Malcom and Randall if they're coming too. They agree to go with him.

As a boy, Bishop would fantasize about time travel, mainly the chance to go back and get things right. Experiencing it now, he discovers it is nothing like he'd fantasized. It's grueling and painful. Bishop almost thinks he can feel time trying to push him back, telling him in its way that he doesn't belong anywhere else. However, Bishop trusts he and his allies will belong where they end up. Later in his life, he will come to realize they arrived where they did for a reason.

New York City. Early 1990's. Malcolm, Randall and Bishop spill out of Fitzroy's portal onto the streets of Manhattan, feeling confused and sick. Nearby, some of the escaped prisoners from the Pool hijack a van filled with children. Bishop tells his men they don't have time to feel nauseous; they have to stop this mayhem immediately. Bishop has no idea where they are, or even if it's in the United States. At the moment, he doesn't care All he cares about is taking out Fitzroy for good.

Bishop brushes aside a panicked civilian and opens fire on Fitzroy's cronies. He grabs the first fugitive he incapacitates and throws him back toward Fitzroy's portal, intending to send him back to the future. Instead, the man hits the portal, which suddenly seems solid, and bounces back to the ground. He laughs at Bishop's ignorance. Didn't he know? Fitzroy's portal is a one-way trip. Bishop's heart sinks as he realizes they have followed Fitzroy into a blind alley, surrounded by the very mutants they had helped imprison. Fitzroy's men suddenly open fire on Malcolm and Randall, killing them both in cold blood. No, that wasn't right, Bishop later tells himself. I did this. I'd gotten them killed. They were dead because of me...

Enraged, Bishop unleashes a full-scale energy blast at the convicts who killed his men. He hears a voice from behind commanding him to stop what he is doing. Upon hearing this voice, Bishop suddenly realizes exactly where he landed. The X-Men—his heroes—are here. Storm asks who he is, but Bishop is so stunned he can barely eke out a response. He stands in awe of the ones of whom his grandmother always spoke. Unfortunately, he doesn't have time to talk with them, as he still needs to capture Fitzroy.

Cyclops refuses to let him leave. He tells Storm to go after the others while he deals with Bishop, firing an optic blast at his feet. Bishop takes offense at his presumptuousness and counterattacks. He absorbs and rechannels Cyclops's optic blast, sending it back at him in full force. The impact knocks the visor off of Cyclops's head. At this point, Iceman intervenes and encases Bishop in a block of ice.

Paralyzed inside the ice—but still able to hear—Bishop listens to the X-Men try to figure out his identity. If these are truly the X-Men, he wonders why they are worrying about him instead of chasing after Fitzroy and his army. Either way, he can do nothing but listen as they discuss what to do with him. Cyclops volunteers to bring him back to the professor. Storm, meanwhile, notices how similar his uniform looks to the X-Men's, but wonders why he carries a gun.

The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. Westchester, New York. Bishop wakes up in an unfamiliar room. He recalls how some people talk about waking up with a feeling of relief that what they just experienced was a bad dream. Bishop has never felt that. Instead, he usually wakes up and realizes he is back in his own waking nightmare. He often longs to return to his dreams. Now, the feeling is worse than ever; he is stuck in the past, more alone than he has ever been. Everyone he'd ever loved is gone. He pulls out the portable holographic projector containing the essence of his sister, Shard. Her living form is so close, but so distant.

“Nothing is ever truly gone, Lucas, ” a voice says within his head. There, in Bishop's darkest moment, he meets Charles Xavier, the man whom he will come to love as a father. Xavier leads the X-Men, the team of mutant heroes from Lucas remembers from the stories of his youth. These mutants always did the right thing, no matter what, he remembers—even in a world that wanted them dead.

Bishop is honored to hear that Professor X wants him to join the X-Men. However, he doesn't know what to think, or how to even answer him. He meets Storm, Cyclops, Wolverine, Iceman, Colossus and Gambit. Some of these X-Men look nothing like he had imagined. Others, particularly Gambit, look painfully familiar.

Bishop cannot tell if this is reality, or a dream. Later, he asks Professor X if he can leave. Of course, Xavier tells him; the school certainly isn't a prison. He reiterates, however, that he would like Bishop to stay. Bishop needs time to think about it. Professor X encourages him to take all the time he needs.

The more time Bishop spends at the Xavier Institute, the more his past feels immaterial. He begins to think it even belongs to someone else. One day, Professor X informs Bishop he is not the school’s only time-traveler. Nathan Christopher Summers, the mutant known as Cable, later knocks on Bishop’s door and asks if he has a minute to talk. He trudges in and plops down on Bishop’s armchair. Cable tells him he knows how it feels, more than he might think. They aren’t like the rest of the X-Men, he says. The others have no idea how it feels to be perpetually displaced in time. Lucas Bishop’s eyes narrow at the comparison. “But you came here by choice. I didn’t have that luxury,” Bishop says. Cable understands, but thinks both he and Lucas are there for a reason. He doesn’t believe there are any accidents in history.

Bishop would remember Cable’s words much, much later.

In the meantime, he joins the X-Men, throwing himself into the role just as he had done with the X.S.E. They fight against some of his old foes like Fitzroy, and some of the X-Men’s ancient foes like Apocalypse. They fight throughout the timestream, and in the furthest reaches of space. In time, Bishop grows to love the X-Men as he had loved his own family. He comes to think that maybe his nightmare of a future had been prevented. Maybe his presence in this time changed everything and created a new, better future.

Then, M-Day strikes. Bishop suddenly remembers his grandmother’s ominous words: all over the world, most mutants lost their special gifts. There were no more mutant babies. Bishop realizes he has not changed a thing. This is the same future, the same one that would damn millions of mutants. The final sign soon arrives, putting that last nail in his coffin of suspicion.

While using Cerebro, Professor X detects a massive new mutant spike. “That… may have just been the rebirth of hope ,” Xavier says. All the X-Men start talking about it with excitement—a feeling Bishop cannot share. He has seen a future none of the others have. They have no idea what this event truly entails, or what this child will grow up to do. Worse, Bishop cannot share what he knows with anyone, because he has no proof but his memories, and memories, unfortunately, are not proof. He realizes he must take care of this situation on his own.

Sometime later, he meets with Cyclops and Emma Frost and expresses his disappointment over not being asked to join the team sent to Antarctica to confront the Marauders and rescue the baby. If he had wanted to be on the team, he should have been there earlier, Cyclops tells him. Bishop says he was investigating other problems at the time. This, of course, is a lie. He was busy trying to pinpoint the baby’s location on his own.

Emma Frost interjects and tells Bishop he is misinformed. The Purifiers do not have the baby; an X-Man does. He realizes the situation is slipping out of his control. Everything he knows and loves will soon be taken away. This time, however, he can do something about it. At that moment, the O*N*E Sentinels come crashing through the roof of the X-Mansion in full attack mode. Bishop shoots an assaulting Sentinel in the face.

While the X-Men regroup after the battle with the Sentinels, Lucas recalls the words of the Witness: the Son of Askani got to her first. And he hid her away… until it was too late. Bishop knows who has the baby: Cable. He knew long before the X-Men ever did. He also realizes that Cable cannot yet jump into the timestream because his time-travel technology was broken—and he knows the one place he can go to have it repaired.

A calm washes over Bishop as he arrives at Forge’s Aerie in Dallas, Texas. He realizes he is not a mere mutant, but an agent of fate, born to perform a specific function. His life makes little sense otherwise. It doesn’t take much convincing on his part to talk himself into doing what he must. He knocks Forge unconscious and waits for Cable to arrive with the mutant baby, telling himself the act will only be a few seconds of horror, and nothing more. He urges himself to not think about what he will see—the blood, the tiny fragments of skull—after he completes the kill.

Finally, Cable arrives. He immediately rushes over to help the fallen Forge. Bishop emerges from behind and shoots Cable in the back, sending the infant in his arms flying through the air. Think about the million dead humans. The face of your mother. How your father used to hold you tightly to his chest, Bishop tells himself as he maneuvers across the floor. Just pull the trigger and the nightmare will finally be over. For everyone.

With his gun drawn, Bishop approaches the helpless, swaddled infant. His name is Lucas Bishop, he reminds himself. He is a child of the atom, raised in a future that no longer exists. He aims his handgun at the infant’s head. I was born for this, Bishop thinks… wasn’t I?

Lucas Bishop Archangel, Beast, Cable, Colossus, Cyclops, Forge, Emma Frost, Gambit, Jean Grey, Iceman, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Storm, Warpath, Wolverine (X-Men) Magneto Hope Summers II (mutant messiah baby) Malcolm, Randall (X.S.E. officers) Deathbird (Shi’ar) Suffocating redhead

Trevor Fitzroy Various escaped prisoners Various X.S.E. officers

In illustrative flashback images: Lucas Bishop’s grandmother Kadee (Bishop’s mother) Aquatic mutant, three-eyed mutant

In illustrative imaginative images: Katherine Pryde, Wolverine (Days of Future Past X-Men) The Blob, Magneto, Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, Toad (Brotherhood of Evil Mutants) Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Storm, Wolverine (X-Men) Senator Robert Kelly

This issue's cover resembles that of UNCANNY X-MEN #282, only with Cable and Cyclops taking the places of Randall and Malcolm.

The picture of the future Bishop imagines based on his grandmother’s description pays homage to the classic cover of X-MEN (1st series) #141—the first issue of the “Days of Future Past” storyline.

Although it was Mystique’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants team of Avalanche, the Blob, Destiny and Pyro that tried to assassinate Senator Kelly in X-MEN (1st series) #141 and UNCANNY X-MEN #142, Bishop imagines the lineup as consisting of Magneto, the Blob, Toad, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch—one of the Brotherhood’s earlier incarnations.

Senator Robert Kelly made a career of proposing anti-mutant laws, but later changed his mind about mutant affairs and became an ally. Regrettably, this change of heart cost him his life, as he was assassinated by an anti-mutant protestor who felt Kelly had betrayed his cause in X-MEN (2nd series) #108.

A bad lead from Fitzroy led to Shard’s infection by the Emplates, as shown last issue and in X.S.E. #3-4.

According to UNCANNY X-MEN #287, the “Pool” is a maximum security prison located in the floating graveyard known as Manhattan.

It’s interesting that Bishop rechannels the optic blast fired by Cyclops in this issue, as he did something similar to a mutant with a similar power upon arriving in this timeline in UNCANNY X-MEN #283.

Bishop’s memory must once again be playing tricks on him, as Cable, the leader of the renegade mutant militia X-Force, was nowhere near Xavier’s Institute when Bishop arrived. Cable even considered the X-Men an enemy at that point and would not have considered himself a student of Professor X.

The image of all the mutants trapped in floating bubbles comes from the APOCALYPSE: THE TWELVE crossover.

Bishop had a serious romance with the renegade Shi’ar princess Deathbird between UNCANNY X-MEN #341-372.

Bishop confronted Cyclops and Emma about being left out of the mutant-baby recovery team in X-MEN (2nd series) #205. The Sentinels attacked the X-Mansion—because of Bishop’s tampering—in that same issue and in UNCANNY X-MEN #493. Bishop assaulted Forge at his Aerie in Dallas, ambushed Cable and prepared to execute the infant Hope Summers II in X-MEN (2nd series) #206.

Bishop’s story continues in UNCANNY X-MEN #494 and the rest of the MESSIAH COMPLEX crossover. The fallout from that event leads directly into CABLE (2nd series), in which Bishop is the primary antagonist.

The recording in this issue that warns about Hope was originally a video recording of Jean Grey talking about a traitor within the X-Men who slaughtered the team, starting with Professor X. In ONSLAUGHT: X-MEN, this traitor was revealed to be none other than Professor X himself, acting as the psychic entity Onslaught.

In UNCANNY X-MEN #282-283, Bishop, Malcolm and Randall initially arrived at Fitzroy’s hideout near the Arctic Circle, where they found Fitzroy executing the White Queen’s Hellions. The X.S.E. officers were then ambushed by the X-Men. Malcolm and Randall died much later while capturing fugitives in UNCANNY X-MEN #287. After their deaths, Bishop finally reunited with the X-Men and joined the team.

Once again, the events depicted in this issue differ from those shown in the first telling of this story in UNCANNY X-MEN #287, 282 and 283. Some differences, like the force field preventing reentry into Fitzroy’s portal, are minor, while others, like the ancient digital recording Bishop finds, are drastic. Because this entire series is told in the first-person narrative from Bishop’s perspective, the most probable explanation for the discrepancies is that this series recounts events to the best of Bishop’s recollection. It is quite possible he now believes he traveled back in time to stop the rise of Hope Summers instead of the mysterious Onslaught, the notorious X-traitor.

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Why Is Time Traveling Bishop Still Hanging Around In X-Men '97?

T he character of Bishop first appeared in "The Uncanny X-Men" #282 in November 1991. When he gets blasted by a laser beam or radioactive ray, Bishop can absorb the energy into his body and redirect it back at his attacker. He has been a reliable supporting player in X-Men comics ever since 1991. He has also appeared in "X-Men: The Animated Series," and was played by Omar Sy in 2014's "X-Men: Days of Future Past."

Bishop is also, notably, a time traveler. In the lore of "X-Men: The Animated Series," he came to the present (1993) from a dystopian 2055 that had been overrun by mutant-killing Sentinels. Bishop (played by Philip Aiken) aimed to assassinate one of the X-Men, believing that their death will undo the grim future. Luckily, the misunderstanding was cleared up, and a different assassination was prevented. Bishop returned to 2055 after assuming he had repaired the timeline... but nothing had changed. There is a grim sense of fatalism to Bishop's sad life. 

Bishop returned in the show's second season to prevent a virus from breaking out, and in the third season, he went back in time to 1959 to help out a younger version of Professor X. All told, Bishop only appeared in 10 episodes of the series, but he was able to leap around in time using a wrist-mounted time-travel widget. 

In the 2024 revival of "X-Men: The Animated Series," called "X-Men '97," Bishop (now voiced by Isaac Robinson-Smith) is back in the present, now fighting alongside the X-Men as a regular member of the team. Why is he there? Why doesn't he return to his own time? 

Well, apart from the fact that Bishop is a badass that X-Fans likely want to see more of, the explanation is simple: his time-travel widget broke. 

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Beast Can't Fix Everything

In the first three episodes of "X-Men '97," airing on Disney+ on March 20 and March 27, it will be explained that Bishop traveled back in time to 1997 and had to stay there when his ability to return was taken from him. For Bishop, this may have been a positive move, as he seems perfectly at home in the past, fighting alongside other mutants that he easily gets along with. 

It's not explained, however, why he came back to 1997 this time. Perhaps it was just to visit. The X-Men don't always have to have missions, after all. Perhaps Bishop was in the year 1997 for social reasons. He had heard about this awesome ancient movie called "Face/Off," and he wanted to watch it with Jubilee.

Regardless, this last trip was rough on Bishop's time-travel bracelet, as it typically was. Time travel is possible in the X-Men universe, but it's not always the easiest endeavor, and Bishop found himself staggering through portals and stranded in various timelines for certain spells. In "X-Men '97," it is said that Bishop will not be able to return to 2055 until the brilliant Dr. Hank McCoy, aka Beast, can repair it. It's only mentioned in passing, but it's enough to allow Bishop to stay on the show. 

Also, when it comes to adapting superhero teams to film or television, there is a secondary fatalistic notion at play. The X-Men have to be presented with a certain lineup merely because that's the way they previously appeared on the page. "X-Men: The Animated Series" is extrapolated from 1990s X-Men comics, and Bishop was in that mix. Is Bishop cool? Is he a '90s character? Yes to both. That's plenty of reason to let him stick around. 

Read the original article on SlashFilm .

How X-Men: Days Of Future Past's Time Travel Works

The future. It’s a place with infinite possibility, endless paths to follow and an insane number of channels to watch your daily doses of entertainment on. But what if we were to go back to “the good old days?” A time when peace and love was fighting war and hate, government corruption was in weighing heavily on the public consciousness and all you had to watch on TV was “all three networks, and PBS.” That’s exactly what we’re doing today, as X-Men: Days of Future Past depicts a trip to a time very much like that . Not to be outdone, I’ve hired Kitty Pryde to send me into the past, to the day in 2014 when I first saw that very film, in order to describe how the time travel works.

I know, I could just log into my Disney+ subscription and watch the X-Men movie easily enough. But if Wolverine can handle traveling back in time through painful, but powerful means, then don’t I owe it to you all to do the same? Before we take off, now’s a good time to suggest a stroll through our time travel archives here at the CinemaBlend labs. You never know what past lessons on going from here to there in the then and now may be important in the future. Now hang on, folks… this might sting a little.

The Time Travel in X-Men: Days Of Future Past

The future of X-Men: Days of Future Past is, quite frankly, hell on Earth. Mutants, the humans who tried to help them and anyone that was thought to be able to lead to the future procreation of mutants were all rounded up. A resistance is thriving in the shadows, but they’re going to need some time travel to make things right.

Who's Time Traveling

One James “Logan” Howlett will be making the jump through time in X-Men: Days of Future Past , but you would better know him as Wolverine ( Hugh Jackman ). While we did see Bishop travel back in time a smidge at the beginning of the movie, apparently Wolverine's the only mutant who can handle a huge trip into the past due to his regenerative abilities. But let’s face it, there was no way this story was being told without the most famous silver screen mutant before Deadpool came around.

From When To When

Following what took place in The Wolverine 's post-credits sequence , we reunited with Wolverine in “The Future” that X-Men: Days of Future Past takes place in. This apocalypse is set roughly 50 years after 1973, which is where we see most of this film’s events take place. If we go the full five decades, that puts us at 2023. Considering what 2020’s been like, it feels pretty close to accurate.

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The Purpose Of Their Trip

All of X-Men: Days of Future Past’s grim future history hinges on one mission. Wolverine must gather the young versions of Professor X ( James McAvoy ) and Magneto ( Michael Fassbender ) to stop Mystique from killing industrialist Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) at the Paris Peace Accords. His death leads to the U.S. government doubling down against mutants and, through the capture and experimentation on Mystique ( Jennifer Lawrence ), enhancing Trask’s Sentinel program to hunt down and eliminate mutants worldwide.

How Time Travel Happens In X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Time travel in X-Men: Days of Future Past is similar to the method used in the romantic comedy About Time . Wolverine is sent back in time through the phasing abilities of Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page), who can send a person’s consciousness back in time into their previous body. No cupboards are required for this head trip. However, there’s some very specific physical and mental demands required to make the trip.

Clearing your head and staying calm is still necessary, because if you’re not careful, your mind can slip from the past back to the present. As we saw in Kitty’s unfortunate case, Wolverine found his mind slipping in a conflict back in 1973, leaving him to freak out and accidentally injure her in X-Men: Days of Future Past ’s dangerous 2023. As if concentration wasn’t enough of a complication, there’s also the physical side effects to this manner of time travel.

Physically, if you were to travel through time in the manner that X-Men: Days of Future Past presents, you’d need the healing powers of a mutant to survive it. Wolverine is selected because he can “heal as fast as he’s ripped apart,” leaving him the only mutant physically able to survive a trip as expansive as this one. However, the consequences of the trip in X-Men: Days of Future Past are far greater, though well worth the effort.

Can History Be Changed As A Result Of Time Travel In X-Men: Days Of Future Past?

Overall, X-Men: Days of Future Past is an exercise in overwriting the time-space continuum. We follow Wolverine on a linear path from the dystopian near-future back into the past, and ultimately the moments that turned the world into a hellhole are averted. Of course, if your movie goes from having Nicholas Hoult playing Beast to bringing back Kelsey Grammer in your big finale, you sure as hell can change history.

Interestingly enough, we do see Beast himself questioning whether time’s course is immutable or not. Hank McCoy wonders out loud in one pivotal scene if maybe the war between humanity and mutants is always meant to be, and if Mystique is destined to kill Bolivar Trask. But as we see in the long run, history can indeed be altered.

The course of time being diverted is even seen on a smaller scale in the beginning of X-Men: Days of Future Past , as the post-apocalyptic students of Professor Xavier found themselves able to play a long game against the Sentinels. By fighting, losing and transmitting the results of those failed fights to their past selves, they can stay ahead of the game and out of harm’s way. Of course, that can only be played out to a certain extent, and drastic measures must be taken.

That gambit is used with Wolverine across the span of 50 years, and the results are equally effective. Instead of living in a future where mutants are being hunted by vicious adaptive killing machines, the Sentinels no longer exist because the murder of Bolivar Trask, as well as the capture of Mystique by the US government, are prevented.

What Are the Consequences Of Time Travel In X-Men: Days Of Future Past?

The results of X-Men: Days of Future Past’s time travelling results in, quite possibly, the happiest point in Fox’s X-Men timeline. After a horrible show of force at the White House, thanks to Magneto hijacking Bolivar Trask’s Sentinels, the program that instituted their use is halted in 1973. Trask is also arrested for passing intelligence to a foreign government, basically sealing his fate.

In turn, the future war we saw at the beginning never happens, and Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters is allowed to be open for business. But that's not without some major changes to the X-Men timeline, starting with the fact that both Jean Grey ( Famke Janssen ) and Cyclops ( James Marsden ) are still among the living! As X-Men: The Last Stand technically doesn’t happen after preventing X-Men: Days of Future Past , that iconic pair of mutant lovers don't find themselves meeting an untimely, Brett Ratner-directed end. Though that might have been more of an act of selective memory than time tinkering.

This naturally leaves a couple of re-writes in Wolverine’s timeline as well, thanks to some creative re-writes to Hugh Jackman's cinematic legacy. Presumably the events of X-Men and X-2: X-Men United still take place, as well as the eventual storylines of The Wolverine and Logan . However, there's a "missing" installment, thanks to X-Men: Days of Future Past triggering a totally different introduction between Wolverine and Colonel William Stryker, thanks to X-Men Origins: Wolverine not existing. We even see a different account of Logan's escape from government custody, thanks to X-Men: Apocalypse retconning that very moment.

Perhaps the greatest question of all is whether or not “The Westchester Incident” and Professor X’s tragic mental deterioration await six years down the line from this particular film. As Logan’s 2029 timeframe would suggest the answer is "yes," the placement of Wolverine's swan song in the X-Men canon was never truly clarified. At best, this question is left open for fans to answer for themselves; but at worst... this whole timeline will be scrapped by time Marvel reboots the X-Men series, and it doesn't matter.

The Future Is Never Truly Set

Wow. Traveling back to 2014 was… kind of nice. You could sit in movie theaters full of people and popcorn, and the X-Men movies were still good! Though I did end up sitting through The Amazing Spider-Man 2 again before coming back, and yeah, some things really are better in the present. Our next journey’s not going to be so easy, nor is it going to be pleasant, as we’re going to head to a very specific place at a very specific time.

We’re going to Middlesex, Virginia on October, 2, 1988, where a young Donnie Darko learns about time travel the hard way. It’s a very mad world when we pick up our temporal lessons again, so take the time in-between these sessions to take a breather, pet an animal, and get as much joy as you can. But before we go, there’s the usual business to take care of.

If there’s a special adventure throughout time and space you want to see tackled here at the CinemaBlend labs, feel free to drop us a line any time to tell us what you have in mind. And don’t forget that you can always look for our past adventures in time throughout the archives on the site. Everything from Back to the Future to three of the four Star Trek time travel adventures has been on the block, and there’s even a full rundown on The Terminator’s time travelling hijinks .

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Loki is hopping around the multiverse, but from the Guardians to the X-Men, who are the best time travelers in Marvel Comics?

Disney+'s  Loki  is diving into time travel in a big way for the MCU. The Variant Loki is hopping timelines with ease, and it's more or less as easy in Marvel Comics. Time travel has been a critical component of many major storylines of the years and is associated with some of the most important characters in the comic books.

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Comic book fans know The Time Keepers are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of time travelers. From almost the very beginning of the Marvel Universe back in the 1960s to the present day, time travelers have complicated the lives and fortunes of many if not most of Marvel's greatest superheroes.

Kitty Pryde

Kitty Pryde is one of the first time travelers among the X-Men and one of the most important. "Days Of Futures Past," appearing in issues #141–142 of Uncanny X-Men , saw an adult Kate Pryde send her consciousness back in time into her younger self to warn the X-Men of the dark future waiting for them. Sentinels had all but wiped out mutantkind.

Though she succeeds in preventing the inciting incident that precipitates her dark future, the X-Men later discover that it remains intact within the multiverse. Kitty and the story would open the floodgates on time travel for mutants.

Rachel Summers

Kitty Pryde's method of getting back in time was courtesy of Rachel Summers, the future daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey. She later traveled back in time herself to the present day, wondering why Kitty's attempt was unsuccessful. Rachel's arrival was critical for the X-Men in many ways.

Though it's not spelled out, this is an early indicator of the multiverse in the comics, which more or less follows the many-worlds theory from quantum physics. Rachel would become a part of one of the best X-Men rosters ever , and her living example of the persistence of the future would help inform the machinations of Moira MacTaggert in the Dawn Of X era .

Guardians Of The Galaxy

The Guardians of the Galaxy  originally hailed from the distant future in Marvel Comics, in the 31st century. Most of their early adventures took place there, but by the end of the 1970s, the initial roster of Vance Astro, Martinex T'Naga, Captain Charlie-27, and Yondu Udonta had traveled back in time to the 20th century. The Guardians of the Galaxy were pioneers in time travel in Marvel Comics, opening up the doors to both the far future and to the cosmic side of the Marvel Universe which would become so integral in the years to come.

Time travel plays a fairly big role in X-Men stories and Bishop is a major part of that legacy. Bishop played a critical role in "The Onslaught Saga,"  a major mid-90s comic book crossover that is probably best avoided by the MCU . His warning about the X-Men dying at the hands of one of their own finally comes true.

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The event would have major ramifications for the comics, as it led directly to the Avengers and Fantastic Four being shuttled off to a bubble universe for an entire year. The Heroes Reborn event from the '90s is in many ways Marvel's first experiment with an alternate universe in the comics.

Another major mutant time traveler is Cable. The son of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor - a clone of Jean Grey - Nathan Summers was sent to the future to be cured of a techno-organic virus. He returned years later as the grizzled old veteran of war, Cable. His true identity was a mystery for a long time, complicated by the existence of a clone, Stryfe.

Cable has been able to go back and forth into the future in the comics, which has led to varying versions of himself, like the current 'kid' version of Cable. It also broadened out the world of not just the future but the character of Apocalypse, who plays a key role in the past and future.

Doctor Doom

Doctor Doom is one of the most heinous supervillains in Marvel Comics, but he's also one of its most important time travelers. Doctor Doom invented the Time Platform to go back in time for various reasons, like finding Blackbeard's lost treasure, but it quickly became more than just a cavalier invention for him. Most importantly, Doom and the Time Platform play a key role in the origin of Kang The Conqueror by leading the Fantastic Four into their first encounter with him in ancient Egypt.

The Time Keepers

The Time Keepers are a race of temporal beings created by He Who Remains, a mysterious alien figure from a previous universe discovered by Thor. They are a major force in the very fabric of the Marvel Universe and their travels through time have shaped much of its history going back to the beginning. The Time Keepers ostensibly protect time, but they largely do so by fighting against the evil versions of themselves, the Time Twisters. The two groups go back and forth throughout all of time, breaking and fixing timelines as they go.

Immortus is a future version of the comic book villain Kang The Conqueror and one of the most significant time travelers in the comics in his own right. In a storyline that has intriguing implications for the MCU, Immortus once worked with the Time Keepers to hunt down Nexus Beings, including  Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch .

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When he realized the Time Keepers were killing them, he fought back. He generally remains a villainous figure himself though, even fighting against himself as Kang in the Avengers Forever event from the late 90s. Untangling Immortous from the many versions of Kang in the comic books is hard, but he originally hails from the 30th century.

Ravonna Renslayer

While her role in the MCU remains a mystery at the moment, comic book fans know Ravonna Renslayer is a major figure in the story of Kang The Conqueror. She's also a major time traveler in her own right and an important one. It's Ravonna who leads comic fans to the first use of the Ultimate Nullifier in Fantastic Four #341, the greatest weapon in the entire universe. An alternate version of Ravonna has traveled through time and space on several occasions over the years to try and get revenge against Kang.

Kang The Conqueror

Kang The Conqueror might be the most important time traveler in Marvel Comics. A thorn in the side of both the Avengers and Fantastic Four since the very beginning of the Marvel Universe, he has made several bids to change or revise history to his benefit. This has led to numerous alternate timelines and Kangs, eventually swelling to a Council Of Cross-Time Kangs which is a body of Kangs from across the multiverse. Kang's power is such he once manipulated Immortoys into destroying alternate Kangs, leaving him alone in control of his destiny.

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Time Travel Superheroes: 15 Heroes Who Can Travel Through Time

How cool would it be to go back in time and meet your younger self? 

Yes, we know. It’s probably a bad idea. These Superheroes, however, don’t think so. Each of them has traveled through time and has saved the world many times using this ability.

Let’s take a look at these time travelers and their adventures!

#15 Rip Hunter

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:  10+

Rip Hunter is a DC superhero that has come to the aid of many heroes if ever there were any time travel-related issues. He first appeared in the ‘Challengers of the unknown’ and later even got his series during the 1960s. 

Hunter is an ordinary man who uses an invention of his called the Time Sphere, and he travels through time seeking new adventures. Rip Hunter has been instrumental in many Crisis events in the comic books. We also see him playing essential roles in the events of the Arrow-verse. 

In the comics, he is the one who develops the tech that our heroes use to go back in time and fight the Anti-Monitor. This is during the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. The changes that occur because of this event completely alter the DC fictional universe, making way for new and old stories to be told differently.

#14 Spider-Man 2099

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  5+

Miguel O’Hara, or Spider-Man of 2099, comes from one of the dark timelines of the Marvel Universe. He is a brilliant young geneticist who works with the Alchemax School for Gifted Youngsters, which is implied to be the old X-men Headquarters. Here, the young scientists conducted experiments and studies about the original Spider-Man. During one of these experiments, an accident gives O’Hara spider powers. 

Miguel’s powers are superior to the original Spider-Man’s, and the two have shared pages on many occasions.

Spider-Man 2099 is a regular time traveler as well. Upon realizing that Tyler Stone was his actual father and that an issue in the past might get his father erased, Miguel decides to go back in time to stop the temporal shift from happening. He does so through a time machine that his biological father destroys, which traps him in the past. He travels into the future along with the Spider-man army to fight the Inheritors.

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#13 Franklin Richards

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   4+

Franklin Richards is the son of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. Believed to be a mutant, he has vast reality-warping powers and is said to be one of the most powerful beings in the universe. 

The Child of Mr. and Mrs. Fantastic has been riddled by many journeys in time, and most were not at his discretion. There are instances of him being kidnapped into the future and sometimes even being wiped out of existence. 

Time travel is usually mind-bending by itself, but imagine someone who could do it with the snap of his finger. Franklin is said to easily create galaxies in his hand and travel dimensions. In the comics, a young Franklin is trained by a mysterious figure in his play area. The figure is eventually revealed to be an adult, Franklin Richards. Like we said, Mind-bending. 

#12 Wolverine

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  4+

The Wolverine needs no introduction. Weapon X is one of the critical members of the X-men and has been instrumental in saving the day several times. His healing factor makes him a nightmare to go up against, and he can even stand toe-to-toe with the Hulk.

One more should be added among his many persona and titles – Time Traveler. Wolverine has journeyed through time on many occasions, and we also see that in the movie version. It involves Kitty Pryde sending Wolverine’s consciousness back in time to save mutants from annihilation.

In the new series – X Deaths, two Wolverines are sent back in time from two different future timelines. In both timelines, Wolverine is the last mutant alive and must go back in time to change the future.

Time Travel is messy, guys. Please don’t try this at home.

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#11 Kitty Pryde

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   1+

Kitty Pryde is a core member of the X-Men. Her powers allow her to phase through objects, which means she can move through anything. She has used her powers on many occasions and has helped her team save the day. She even uses her abilities to phase out of sync with the earth’s rotation. She can travel at infinite speeds, or at least faster than light. 

In fictional theory, she could use this ability to phase in and out of time. However, Kitty Pryde travels time without achieving this feat as well. Unlike the movie adaptation of the ‘Days of future past’ storyline, Kitty’s consciousness goes back in time to save mutant kind from extinction. Rachel Summers, the daughter of Cyclops and Marvel Girl, can send her back in time. 

She eventually manages to save mutant kind and change their dark future.

#10 Super Boy

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:  5+

Superboy has had many incarnations over the years, with some iterations just being the younger version of the original Superman. As Superboy, Kal El meets the Legion of Superheroes, formed after taking inspiration from the former’s stories. 

The Legion travels back to the 31st century to recruit Superboy to their team and fights threats in the future. The Legion already has time travel tech in the future, and it is using this that Superboy can travel to the future. 

Another character incarnation is Con El, who has the DNA of both Lex Luthor and Superman. This Superboy has died many times but has been revived multiple times as a clone. He is even resurrected in the 31st century by Brainiac. This same Con El travels back in time to live with Jonathan and Martha Kent. 

There are so many origins and stories for this character that it can get confusing at a point.

#9 Dr. Manhattan

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:   Infinite

Dr. Manhattan turned into an energy being after he was exposed to a lab accident. The abilities he acquired manifested over time and slowly grew in power. Eventually, he turned into a being that could be everywhere at once and had the powers of a god. He could change reality to his wishes and create universes out of nothing.

With his omniscience came a significant shift in perspective. He no longer saw time in the same way as others. It was one large picture rather than a string of events, and he could place himself anywhere in that picture with just a thought. This has enabled the Doctor to travel to any moment he wished. 

Since he is a timeless being, he doesn’t precisely need to travel anywhere. He can change realities and change futures instantly. He even destroys the DC universe and restarts it.

What is time to a God?

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#8 Dr. Strange

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  3+

Stephen Strange is no Stranger to time travel. The Sorcerer Supreme is a master of the Mystic Arts and is a core member of the Avengers. He takes the lead on any threat of supernatural origin and is a more powerful practitioner of all things magic. 

We see Dr. Strange using these magical objects to manipulate time on many occasions. The most famous would be the Eye of Agomotto or the Time Stone to see different futures. However, that is not the case in the comics. Dr. Strange discovers that the Book of Cagliostro can be used to travel time and that this method does not align with the scientific techniques in the other versions of time travel fiction. 

Even without tools, Dr. Strange has been shown to simply travel time with her mystic arts.

#7 Superman

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter: 4+

There is seemingly very little that Superman can’t do. He is faster than light, can create a rift in reality just by punching it, and bench press the earth for five days straight. That is some next-level power. With the speeds he can achieve, it has been asked whether the Man of Steel can also travel time.

Superman has traveled time on many occasions. The how’s of this are rather sketchy and used to depend on the writer. The Superboy iteration could simply go back and forth in time with relative ease and could even carry people with him.

Even in one of the earlier Superman movies featuring George Reeves, we see the character go back in time but simply slow and reverse the earth’s rotation. He also uses his speed in the comic ‘Return to Krypton’ to go and visit Krypton before its destruction and meet his parent.

There truly is nothing that this man can’t do, huh?

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#6 Green Lantern

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:   5+

The Lantern’s ring is only limited by its wielder’s imagination. From energy constructs to energy projection, the possibilities seem endless. Within its vast capabilities lies the power to manipulate and travel through time.

Hal Jordan has used the Ring to travel to the 70th century, and another GL Arisia Rrab uses the Ring’s power to send time through her and age quickly. We have to admit that the latter is rather strange.

Hal used his power in the comics to open a portal to the past so that he could send a few pterodactyls through it. 

News Flash – comics books can be bizarre. 

#5 Iron Lad

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   5+

Nathaniel Richards is a 30th-century genius and the younger version of Kang the Conqueror. Kang appeared to his younger self and saved him from a bully, thus giving him a glimpse of his future self and his armor similar to that of Iron Man. Upon seeing what he would turn into, Nathaniel renounced his destiny and decided to use his intellect to never become the evil version of himself. 

The armor given to Nathaniel has neuro-kinetic capabilities and allows him to travel time, the same as Kang.

The most amazing time travel Adventure is when Iron Lad travels back in time to warn the Avengers of the oncoming dangers. Unable to get in touch with them, he helps the Young Avengers and even kills his older version in battle.

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:   10+

Bishop is the great-grandson of the mutant Gateway, who could manipulate and travel through time. Although he does not possess the powers to do so himself. Bishop is a soldier from the future who can passively absorb energy and dispel it however he wants. He is often depicted holding an energy gun that would allow him to shoot his absorbed energy out as blasts.

Bishop uses time travel devices from the future similar to that of Cable to journey to different periods. He is usually seen traveling back in time from a dystopian future to help the X-men rewrite history.

Bishop was sent back in time to stop Legion from killing Magneto, but his failure to do so is what brought about the Age of Apokolips.

The fastest man on the planet has been known to play around a little too much with time. With the ability to run at a million times the speed of light, The Flash can alter the vibrations in his body to travel through time. He can do the same to travel through dimensions as well. 

Not all versions of the Flash can achieve this feat, but Barry Allen and Wally West seem to do so easily. The most famous time-related adventure by a Flash is the Flashpoint paradox.

Due to his selfish needs, the Flash goes back in time and saves his mother, creating a massive rift and modifying the future to a world on the brink of war and destruction. Once in this new reality, Barry Allen realizes his mistake and works toward correcting his actions. He uses his time traveling abilities to go back in time and correct his errors.

This storyline is the most critical example of why the time stream is not to be tampered with.

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#2 Booster Gold

Publisher:  DC Comics Time Travel Meter:  20+

Booster Gold is from the 25th century Gotham, and unlike other future genii who come back in time, he just does so for fame. An underachiever in the future, Booster works as a janitor at the Museum of Superheroes. This is where he discovers much about the legendary heroes and their stories. He manages to steal a flight ring and Brainiac 5’s energy belt. He also takes Rip hunter’s time sphere, and it is with this that he travels back in time. 

All his tools are still high-tech in the 20th century, and he uses them to make people believe that he is a superhero and simply works to become famous. Though initially shown to be a greedy showboat, Booster slowly learns the way of a true hero. He uses his abilities to travel through time and help change histories that lead to dystopian futures.

Booster uses his tech to go back in time and save Blue Beetle from getting murdered just moments before his death.

Publisher:  Marvel Comics Time Travel Meter:  20+

Cable is the most famous time-traveling character in the Marvel Universe. He is the son of Scott Summers and a clone of Jean Grey from the future. He has traveled back in time numerous times to help the X-men with a threat or to prevent a dystopian future from occurring. 

There are many versions of the character and various explanations for how he can travel time. The most common two are – he possesses inherent time travel abilities due to the techno-organic virus in his body, and the other is that he has a time travel device that looks like a watch which helps his travel time.

The best example of this feat is during the events of Ultimate X-men, where he comes back in time to warn and train Professor Xavier for their upcoming battle with Apokolips.

Honorable Mentions

• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Reed Richards

This brings us to the end of our time traveler’s list. If anything, we have learned that messing with time is bad news. However, do you think we could create a timeline where superheroes were real if we mess it up enough?

Interesting. Very interesting.

What Is the Ability to Control Time Called?

Chronokinesis is the ability to alter or control time with your mind. With it, you can travel through time or even stop it.

Which Superhero Can Travel Through Time?

The Flash can travel through time. He can vibrate his body at such speeds that he can phase through time. He can use some power to travel dimensions as well.

Which Marvel Hero Can Time Travel?

Kitty Pryde can time travel. She is the mutant that goes back in tune during the events of Days of Future Past in the comics.

Can Any Marvel Character Time Travel?

Yes, Iron Lad can time travel. He is the younger version of Kang the Conqueror and travels back in time to warn the Avengers of his future self.

What DC Characters Can Time Travel?

Booster Gold can time travel. He does so by making using Rip Hunter’s Time sphere that he stole from the 25th century.

Can Green Lanterns Time Travel?

Yes, Green Lanterns can time travel. Anything is possible as long as there is enough willpower. Hal Jordan once made a jet construct that could travel fast enough to enter the speed force, which means that he can probably travel through time.

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Cable Vs. Bishop: Which X-Men Time Traveler Has the Worst Future?

Cable and Bishop both come from some of the X-Men's darkest futures, but which one of these Marvel dystopias is really more miserable?

The story of the X-Men won't end well. Almost all of the possible futures of the Marvel Universe seem to go wrong for the X-Men at some point or another, with the mutant heroes and the dream they fought for all but forgotten. While the X-Men have done all kinds of things to keep those dark futures from coming to pass, two of the team's more popular members, Cable and Bishop, are gun-toting, muscle-bound soldiers from dystopian futures.

While the timelines that Nathan Summers and Lucas Bishop used to call home are equally apocalyptic, the nature of those two dystopias is drastically different. Now, we're going to take a closer look at these two X-Men and the dark worlds they called home to see which one of these dark, hopeless future is more miserable.

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CABLE AND APOCALYPSE'S WORLD

Even though Nathan Summers was born in the modern Marvel Universe, the Apoalcaypse-controlled world of the 38th century forged him into Cable, the time-traveling commando who debuted in Rob Liefeld and Louise Simonson's New Mutants #88.

After the young telepath was infected by Apocalypse with a techno-organic virus, Nathan was then saved by a sisterhood called the Clan Askani, who offered a safe haven for the child in the 39th century. Officially dubbed Earth-4935, this future is grim for both humans and mutants alike. By the end of the 37th to early 39th century, Apocalypse ruled most of its world, killing anyone openly opposed to his reign. While human and mutant enclaves seeking refuge from Apocalypse's wrathful followers, low-power mutants and humans tried to find a way to survive by any means. Outside of the halls of the elite, death was common in this world, and few had the strength to bare another day in agony. Left to scavenge for food, and resources, this future is not for the faint at heart.

Even after Apocalypse's death at the hands of Cable, this world was still doomed. Stryfe, a clone of Cable who Apocalypse molded in his own dark image, took Apocalypse's place. Stryfe terrorized the future, even killing Cable's wife before he attempts to travel to the past to frame Cable for Professor X's death.

BISHOP AND THE SENTINEL'S DOMAIN

Unlike Cable, Bishop was born in the increasingly close future of the late 21st century. In Bishop's future, most of the X-Men are dead, mutants are imprisoned in camps and Sentinels rule North America after the X-Men's Hope Summers killed one million humans. Prior to their reign, the giant Sentinels only went after mutants, but they soon began targeting other superhumans and humans who have the potential to have mutant offspring. With a significant amount of the population in internment camps. this Terminator-like future was so bleak that all Bishop had to get him by as a child were stories about the great Charles Xavier and his X-Men.

After humans and mutants finally stopped fighting each other and united to overthrow the Sentinels, Bishop joined Xavier's Security Enforcers (X.S.E.) to try to help bring order to this fallen world. However, tensions quickly rose again between human and mutant factions.

While hunting down the serial killer Trevor Fitzroy, Bishop traveled to the present day in his debut in Uncanny X-Men #282, by Whilce Portacio, John Byrne and Art Thibert. Although Bishop did not travel to the present day to ensure that his future would not come to pass, he has worked tirelessly, even manically, in pursuit of that goal since making his home among the X-Men.

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WHICH FUTURE IS WORSE?

In both futures, humans and mutants share unimaginable suffering. While neither Bishop nor Cable really traveled to the past to change their future, it's not hard to see why both of them have tried to keep their worlds from existing. However, one future seems to be a little bit more of a lost cause than the other. Cable's future sees wide-spread famine, sickness, death and violence. While Bishop's future has been ravaged by Sentinels and tragedy, humans and mutants could theoretically make a new lasting alliance that could pave the way for a brighter tomorrow. However, Cable's world can't be saved by a simple political solution.

It seems like the only hope for Cable's world is a miracle. With truly horrid conditions on a worldwide scale and ample numbers of Apocalypse loyalists or would-be tyrants, this timeline is a cruel, unforgiving world. With seemingly no escape from oppression or blight, it would take a miracle to save Cable's adopted home timeline, and the hope for that kind of miracle is the only light in that very dark world.

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The 32 Best TV Shows About Time Travel

Time traveling is a popular topic when it comes to all types of entertainment from books to films. But in recent years time travel has also become a popular theme in TV.

So let’s take a look at this list of the best time traveling TV shows and find out how each of them handles time travel and all the history that comes with it.

Doctor Who, BBC One (1963 – 1989, 2005 – present)

When it comes to time traveling and TV, probably the most notable name in this niche is Doctor Who  because this time travel series has been around for 39 seasons and is still going strong.

Hailing from British television channel BBC One, Doctor Who tells the tale of the Time Lord aka The Doctor, and his companions as they travel to different times and try to prevent evil forces from changing history and hurting innocent lives.

Once the Time Lord gets hurt beyond healing, he can transform into a new body and continue saving the world. Hence why at this point 13 (soon to be 14) different actors have played The Doctor.

Doctor Who is not only a huge part of the fabric of British popular culture but by now this time travel show has found its way into the hearts of many people all over the world.

It has inspired many spin-offs in the form of TV shows, comic books, movies, novels, you name it. But more than that, by now it has become an industry standard both when it comes to science-fiction television series and shows about time travel.

No wonder that Doctor Who continues to be successful after countless actor changes and plot twists.

Where to watch Doctor Who:

Timeless, nbc (2016 – 2018).

Another time travel TV series that has already become a cult classic and is adored by fans all over the world is NBC’s Timeless . And despite the turmoil that this show has gone through, it still is time traveling at its best.

Starring Malcolm Barrett, Matt Lanter, and Abigail Spencer as Rufus, Wyatt, and Lucy, Timeless  details the trio traveling to different times in an effort to stop their adversaries from rewriting history.

But as it later turns out, the conspiracy goes deeper than them just changing history. Since the people who our trio is chasing are traveling through time to take down a dangerous and all-powerful organization. The same one that helped build the time machine that Rufus, Wyatt, and Lucy are using.

And although Timeless went on for just two seasons (and a two-hour wrap-up movie), you should still check out the show because it’s not only entertaining but will make you think and want to know more about the events that each episode is exploring.

Where to watch Timeless:

Dc’s legends of tomorrow, the cw (2016 – present).

If you are a fan of superhero TV shows, then you will probably have heard about DC’s Legends of Tomorrow . It is a show that is a huge part of The CW’s Arrowverse. And has crossed over with shows like Arrow , The Flash , and Supergirl multiple times now.

And even if you don’t like the rest of the superhero series but do enjoy a good old time travel TV show, then I suggest you still give Legends of Tomorrow a watch.

The plot of this show is based around a team of superheroes that are traveling through time in their time machine christened the Waverider to prevent different catastrophes from happening. Both ones made by others and those created by the team’s previous adventures.

At the forefront, there are well-known DC heroes like Rip Hunter, Firestorm, The Atom, Kid Flash, Steel, and Vixen. Joined by some original characters like Caity Lotz’s White Canary among others.

One of the defining characteristics of Legends of Tomorrow is how fun it is. Because adjectives like unapologetic, witty, and entertaining are frequently used to describe this time travel series.

However, more than that, it adds an interesting layer to the whole Arrowverse universe. And above all, it is just a hoot to watch.

Where to watch Legends of Tomorrow:

12 monkeys, syfy (2015 – 2018).

Then there also is SyFy’s 12 Monkeys , which is a little darker take on time traveling. One that comes with mystery, drama, and apocalyptic stakes. But that doesn’t lessen how good this time travel TV series is.

Split between two timelines, 12 Monkeys centers on Aaron Stanford’s James Cole, who is tasked to travel back in time and stop the distribution of a virus that has the ability to end the human race as we know it.

In Cole’s real timeline, the year is 2043 and people are struggling to survive because of the terrible mutations caused by the virus. So Cole travels back to 2015 to find virologist Cassie Railly, played by Amanda Schull, that can help him stop the release of the virus and the organization that is behind it called The Army of the 12 Monkeys.

If you think about it, the post-apocalyptic setting and time travel really do go hand in hand. Because if you can go back in time to stop history from being changed, why not go back to change it if it prevents something terrible from happening?

And that is what this show explores. Beautifully combining elements of mystery, drama, and science fiction, to form a great TV show.

Where to watch 12 Monkeys:

Outlander, starz (2014 – present).

Want another show that mixes time travel with historical events and does it flawlessly? Then you should put Outlander on your must-watch TV show list!

The show starts in the 1940s when a combat nurse Claire Randall visits Inverness, Scotland as part of her second honeymoon with her husband Frank. Claire accidentally happens upon the standing stones at Craigh na Dun which transport her back in time to 1743.

To return to her own time she first has to survive 18th-century Scotland. And she does so by joining a group of rebel Highlanders from Clan MacKenzie and marrying one of the Highlanders, Jamie Fraser. But eventually, she falls in love with her new husband and aids the clan in evading British redcoats that are pursuing them.

Over the five seasons of Outlander that are currently out (with the sixth coming soon), we see Claire jump back and forth between the 20th and 18th centuries and her two families as she faces two pregnancies, wars, and much more. But eventually, Claire finds her way back to Jamie.

Where to watch Outlander:

Travelers, showcase (2016 – 2018).

Then we have Travelers , a joint venture between Netflix and Canada’s Showcase that will tick all of your time travel TV show boxes.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world , this show depicts the adventures of travelers – operatives who go back in time to prevent the collapse of society.

These travelers are transferred into the bodies of our current-day humans, who otherwise would die, to blend in with twenty-first-century people. And with the help of their artificial intelligence boss from the future, travelers carry out missions in order to stop many catastrophic events from happening.

Travelers is a great mix of sci-fi and drama, featuring a great cast and spine-tingling storylines. So if you love all that and love a good time-travel series, then look no further than Travelers .

Where to watch Travelers:

Dark, netflix (2017 – 2020).

Netflix’s first German original series was the science fiction series Dark , which mixes in some mystery drama with sci-fi: time travel, the apocalypse, wormholes, and parallel worlds.

Dark takes place in Winden, a fictional German town, and begins in 2019 after children begin to disappear from the town. As the show progresses, however, timelines jump drastically between as early as 1921 to as late as 2053.

As four families in Winden investigate the disappearances to reunite with their lost loved ones, they discover a wormhole beneath the local powerplant that allows them to travel between timelines, thus uncovering a generations-long conspiracy involving the town and their families.

Where to watch Dark:

The umbrella academy, netflix (2019 – present).

Netflix brings another to the list with The Umbrella Academy .

On October 1, 1989, 43 infants were suddenly born from unsuspecting women despite them not even being pregnant the day before.

7 of them were raised together as the Hargreeve siblings and trained in their respective abilities until their relationship became strained as teenagers and they drifted apart.

Now, as adults, they’re brought back together by the death of their adoptive father – and the threat of the end of the world, of course.

They’re forced to travel back in time but end up in different times and places, and must find each other again to stop the nuclear apocalypse.

Where to watch The Umbrella Academy:

Seven days, upn (1998 – 2001).

We know that the National Security Agency has its share of secrets, but what if one of those secrets was a time-traveling machine?

In UPN’s Seven Days , the plot centers on one such device made from alien technology found at Roswell.

The Chronosphere, as it’s called, can only be used in times when national security is at risk – the limited capacity of the device allows for just one human to go back in time by seven days in order to avert disasters.

Thus, when the White House is attacked, the NSA employs former Navy SEAL and CIA operative Frank Parker to go back and prevent it from happening.

Where to watch Seven Days:

Loki, disney+ (2021 – present).

Yes, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the greatest gifts to the cinema of our time. Now, the MCU has expanded even further into the television medium and we’ve got a few series to accompany it!

One of those is Loki , which of course, centers on the God of Thunder’s mischievous adopted brother.

After the events in Avengers: Endgame , particularly his stealing of the Tesseract, Loki inadvertently creates another timeline that began in 2012, making him a “time variant” version of himself.

When confronted by the authorities, Loki is given two choices: face punishment and cease to exist, or travel through time to fix his own mess and the threat that has emerged.

Where to watch Loki:

Making history, fox (2017).

The thing about traveling back in time is, you have to be very careful that your actions in the past won’t affect the future (which is essentially your actual present).

Most of the time, that’s something you wouldn’t know until you go back to your time. In Making History , however, Dan Chambers travels back in time to right before the American Revolution and sets off a series of events that seriously mess up the future.

Being able to constantly travel between time periods, Dan recruits the help of history professor Chis Parrish to travel with him and ensure that the American Revolution still takes place.

Where to watch Making History:

Quantum leap, nbc (1989 – 1993).

The title of NBC’s sci-fi comedy-drama Quantum Leap is also the name of the time travel machine that accidentally sends its creator, physicist Dr. Sam Beckett, back into the past.

Now, he’s stuck – and not as himself, either!

Sam discovers that he jumped into the body of a stranger and because he’s still himself, doesn’t know all the details of his current identity.

With the help of his friend Al, who appears as a hologram only he can see, he must fix something that went wrong so he can jump in time again and eventually get back to his own body.

Where to watch Quantum Leap:

Quantum leap, nbc (2022 – present).

Speaking of Quantum Leap , in 2022 NBC revived the 1989 series into a more modern take on the cult classic.

In this new Quantum Leap , thirty years have passed since Dr. Sam Beckett vanished into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and the Quantum Leap project was put to rest.

Now the project is restarted with a new team, who tries to puzzle together the mysteries behind Beckett and his time-traveling machine.

So, we follow Ben Song, the lead physicist of the Quantum Leap time travel project, who gets lost in the past after leaping back in time.

As he tries to return to the present he is helped by his fiancée Addison Augustine, who appears to him as a hologram during each leap, and the team back in the present time.

Where to watch Quantum Leap reboot:

The way home, hallmark channel (2023 – present).

Among the newest time travel shows on this list is Hallmark’s The Way Home which has already been renewed for a second season.

The Way Home follows three generations of Landry women who learn that they can time travel after discovering a magic pond on their family’s farm in Port Haven.

When Kat and her daughter Alice return to Port Haven and are forced to move in with Alice’s estranged mother Del, the three women use time travel to uncover their family history, including what really happened to Kat’s little brother Jacob and whether they can prevent his disappearance.

Where to watch The Way Home:

Russian doll, netflix (2019 – 2022).

Netflix’s Russian Doll deviates from the traditional time travel theme of a willing traveler in one specific timeline because Russian Doll’s protagonist Nadia Vulvokov not only has absolutely no choice or control over her so-called time traveling, but hers is also a time loop.

She wakes up every day having to relive the day of her 36th birthday party in New York City; every time, she dies and comes back to the exact same moment.

Every time, Nadia scrambles to figure out what happens to her and tries to prevent her death, leading her to find Alan, a man who is experiencing the same time loop.

Where to watch Russian Doll:

Undone, prime video (2019 – present).

Undone may be an animated series, but it certainly isn’t geared toward younger audiences; though there is a touch of comedy, the series leans more towards the psychological drama genre and “explores the elastic nature of reality”.

The series follows Alma Winograd-Diaz right after she gets into a near-fatal car accident.

Right before the crash, she has a strange vision of her dead father, and right after it, she finds that she now has the ability to manipulate and move through time.

Using this newfound power, she travels between time periods to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding her father’s death.

Where to watch Undone:

Voyagers, nbc (1982 – 1983).

Premiering back in the early 1980s, NBC’s Voyagers! Is set in a world where time travel already exists.

In fact, there’s already a secret society in place that trains its members, called Voyagers, to go back in time and make sure that historical events happen exactly the way they’re supposed to – otherwise it could affect the present in unexpected ways.

One such Voyager is Phineas Bogg, although he isn’t exactly the best at the job.

During an accidental trip to 1982, he meets the young Jeffrey Jones and ends up bringing him along on one of his missions.

Having lost his Guidebook, Phineas now needs to rely on the extremely smart Jeffrey to get history right.

Where to watch Voyagers!:

Fringe, fox (2008 – 2013).

Fox’s Fringe is a series that was well into the science fiction genre, with parallel universes, supernatural abilities, biotechnology, doomsday predictions, and of course, time travel.

The title is taken from fringe science, which is a branch that deals with scientific theories riddled with skepticism or even having been disproven already.

In Fringe , Special Agent Olivia Dunham is assigned to oversee the FBI ’s Fringe Division, which is run by Peter Bishop and his father Walter.

Together, the team uses both fringe science and Olivia’s knowledge in investigative techniques to explore the unexplained.

In the process, they discover a larger mystery involving parallel universes and alternate timelines .

Where to watch Fringe:

Time after time, abc (2017).

ABC’s Time After Time is based on the novel of the same name written by Kevin Williamson in 1979.

In addition to that, each episode takes its title from a line in Cyndi Lauper’s song, which was inspired by the film (and subsequently, the same book!).

In Time After Time , we are taken to H.G. Wells’ home in 1893.

During a dinner party, he reveals his time machine – right before his guest John Stevenson is arrested for actually being Jack the Ripper .

John escapes through the time machine and Wells follows him straight into the present: 2017. Thus begins a cat-and-mouse game as John attempts to gain control of the machine.

Where to watch Time After Time:

11.22.63, hulu (2016).

When you have anything with Stephen King involved, you know it’s going to be great.

Hulu’s eight-episode miniseries 11.22.63 is based on King’s novel 11/22/63 and is a science fiction thriller like no other.

Starring James Franco in the lead role, 11.22.63 follows Jake Epping, an English teacher from Maine .

His best friend Al reveals a time travel machine and asks him to take over the mission he’s been working on: to travel to the 60s and prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Will Jake be successful in changing a past that simply refuses to be changed?

Where to watch 11.22.63:

The 4400, usa network/sky one (2004 – 2007).

The 4400 is yet another slightly different take on the idea of time travel, in that there has been just one (fairly significant) shift forward in time, to the present.

Beginning in 1946, individuals who were easily overlooked or marginalized by society slowly began disappearing through beams of green light.

Now, all 4400 of them (hence the title) have been returned to the present day – without having aged a day and in some cases, even manifesting supernatural abilities like telekinesis, healing, and telepathy.

Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris are assigned to investigate the phenomenon and find out why the 4400 have returned.

NOTE: For a fresher take on the show, you can also check out the reboot of the original series which is currently airing on The CW.

Where to watch The 4400:

Somewhere between, abc (2017).

When tragedy strikes our lives, we always wish there was something we could’ve done to prevent it.

In ABC’s Somewhere Between we meet Laura Price, a successful news producer with a great career, a loving husband who’s a district attorney, and a beautiful daughter named Serena.

However, her life changes when the serial killer she is helping the cops to catch kills Serena.

Distraught with grief , Laura attempts to complete suicide but is unsuccessful, instead waking up having time-traveled to a week before Serena’s death.

She teams up with Nico, a former SFPD detective who experienced the same reset and wants to find the real killer to change his brother’s fate as well.

Where to watch Somewhere Between:

Terra nova, fox (2011).

Terra Nova takes its viewers to both extremes of the time-traveling timeline.

The present-day is 2149, where overpopulation has threatened to deplete the Earth’s resources.

In an attempt to save Earth and mankind, scientists have found a way to travel back in time, sending groups of humans back to the Cretaceous Period to set up colonies.

Terra Nova focuses primarily on Elisabeth and Jim Shannon, and their three children, who have joined the 10th pilgrimage to Terra Nova.

They offer their expertise as a trauma surgeon and former narcotics detective and help those in charge with stopping those whose intentions go against the greater good.

Where to watch Terra Nova:

Frequency, the cw (2016 – 2017).

One concept in time travel is known as “the butterfly effect”, wherein one small change in time may have great effects elsewhere.

Frequency demonstrates this concept perfectly.

Raimy Sullivan is an NYPD detective who, after a strange weather phenomenon, discovers that she can communicate with her dead father through his old ham radio.

Believing he was a corrupt cop, she learns the truth and warns him of his murder, thus saving his life.

However, this has profound effects on the future – Raimy’s present.

Now, they must work together across time to save her father and preserve the present.

Where to watch Frequency:

Life on mars, bbc one (2006).

In many of the shows on the list so far, the protagonists experience a time loop that’s triggered at the point of their death.

It’s no different for Sam Tyler, the main character in the British series Life on Mars .

Sam is a Detective Chief Inspector with the Greater Manchester Police, but one day he accidentally gets hit by a car.

When he awakens, he’s in 1973 and working at one rank lower than he was: Detective Inspector.

The selling point of Life on Mars , however, is that we’re left unsure if Sam’s predicament is due to his actual death, a comatose, or time travel.

Where to watch Life on Mars:

Always a witch, netflix (2019 – 2020).

Always A Witch (or Siempre Bruja in its original Spanish title) is a Colombian series that is set in both present-day Colombia and the 17th century .

The series follows Carmen Eguiliuz, a young 19-year-old witch who, after committing the crime of falling in love with a white man in 1646 colonial Colombia, is scheduled to be burned at the stake.

She gets a chance to escape to a new life when the mysterious wizard Aldemar makes a deal with her: he will save the man she loves if she travels into the future to find the woman who can break his curse.

Where to watch Always a Witch:

Beforeigners, hbo (2019 – present).

HBO’s Beforeigners is a Norwegian sci-fi crime drama series and the first Norwegian original from HBO Europe.

The title is a clever play on words centered on the general plot: a group of “foreigners” has suddenly shown up at a neighborhood in Oslo, and they are all from “before” times, or several different time periods in history.

Whether from the Viking period , the Stone Age, or the more recent 19th century , each of these ‘Beforeigners’ tries to integrate in modern-day Norwegian society.

One of them even partners with a detective to investigate first a murdered Stone Age woman, then a series of murderers tied to Jack the Ripper.

Where to watch Beforeigners:

Alice, sbs tv (2020).

Alice was a South Korean sci-fi series that aired in late 2020.

In the lead-up to the main plot, the show’s background is explained to its viewers.

Set in 2050, time travel is monitored by an agency called Alice, which sends its clients to the past to help find closure with deceased loved ones.

Alice one day sends two agents to 1992 in order to find the Book of Prophecy, but one of them disappears with the book and her unborn child.

In 2020, the child becomes a detective and in his investigation into his mother’s death in 2010, discovers the existence of Alice and time travel.

Where to watch Alice:

Live up to your name, tvn (2017).

Yet another South Korean time travel series , Live Up to Your Name initially takes its viewers some 400 years into the past, right in the middle of the Joseon dynasty.

There we meet Heo Im, a doctor of traditional Korean medicine who also specializes in acupuncture.

On one of his treatments of the king’s migraines, he made a mistake and was charged with treason.

Chased by the king’s soldiers, he’s shot with an arrow and presumed dead when he falls into the river – except he ends up waking up in present-day Seoul instead, where he meets cardiothoracic surgeon Choi Yeon-kyung.

Where to watch Live Up to Your Name:

My only love song, netflix (2017).

Our third South Korean series is Netflix’s My Only Love Song , which aired in 2017.

We start off in modern-day Korea where we meet Soo-jung, a talented and top-level actress.

However, it seems that the fame may have gotten to her head as she’s arrogant, and believes fame and money make the world go round.

When things don’t go her way on her new show, she winds up in a time-traveling van that takes her to the 6th century.

There, she meets a man much like herself in terms of arrogance, but his hidden soft spot and generosity towards the poor changes her perspective on her own life and self.

Where to watch My Only Love Song:

Signal, tvn (2016).

Signal is based on the 2000 American film Frequency , but another thing that sets this South Korean series apart from others is that the cases investigated in the series are also based on real-life crimes in the country.

Signal follows a cold case profiler from 2015 and a detective from 1989 simultaneously; they discover they’re able to communicate with each other through an old walkie-talkie.

Using this unique ability to provide much-needed foresight in investigations, they team up to both solve and in some cases, even prevent these horrific crimes.

Where to watch Signal:

Rooftop prince, sbs (2012).

Last but not least, South Korea brings its last time-traveling series to the table with Rooftop Prince , a comedy-drama filled with intrigue, mixed identities, and possible reincarnations.

Crown Prince Lee Gak from the Joseon dynasty accidentally time travels to 2012 with three others from his entourage, and their lives are thrown into a whirlwind.

He crosses paths with Se-na, who looks exactly like his recently deceased wife.

In the hopes of getting answers about his wife’s mysterious drowning, he assumes the identity of another man who he also looks exactly like and attempts to marry Se-na in this timeline as well.

Where to watch Rooftop Prince:

11 comments.

Tomorrow people cw

You forgot The Time Tunnel, an Irwin Allen sci-fi show (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost In Space, Land of The Giants), all classic 60s sci-fi

Journeyman should also be on this list. It was only half a season on NBC but it wraps up to a satisfying conclusion.

Fantastic acting and interesting characters.

Glad someone else watched Journeyman. I thought I’d was a great spiritual successor to Quantum Leap.

Journeyman is one of the good shows u can watch but qunatum leap i watched and didnt like

Where is The Time Tunnel?????

Another show for your list is “Being Erica” (CBC, 2009-2011). Excellent writing, and very unique.

i was looking for this comment. such an underrated show

I concur. This was definitely a great one. It certainly provides a lot of food for thought.

Some of the information in the Doctor Who one is wrong. It started in 1963, it was only revived in 2005 (you put 2006), and it’s been going for 39 seasons, as of June 2022

Thanks for letting me know! I updated the article accordingly.

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