Marvel Comics/Bishop

**Bishop** (Lucas Bishop) is a mutant from *Marvel Comics*.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Energy Absorption:** Bishop can absorb the vast majority of energy types, including magic, sounds, light, and psionic, whether 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. 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 store absorbed energy within his personal reserves, whereupon the energy increases his physical attributes. 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 how to use his energy to temporarily increase his physical attributes in a manner similar to Sebastian Shaw and Agent Zero.

* **Energy Conversion:** Bishop can utilize his absorbed energy in different ways, such as taking it and shifting it into other energy forms. He once demonstrated this by converting ambient energy into psychic energy and utilizing it to hurl a truck with his mind. He can also use this to convert the kinetic energy from falling to break the fall with sound and/or light.
* **Energy Blasts:** Bishop can re-channel the absorbed energy through his body for concussive blasts with twice the force and power. This re-channeling of energy is apparently able to damage beings who are normally immune to their own powers.
* **Enhanced Regeneration:** Bishop can heal at a faster rate than an average human. His regenerative factor increases proportionately to the amount of energy he absorbs, reaching superhuman limits. The limit of his regenerative ability is unknown.
* **Enhanced Strength:** Bishop's strength reaches incredibly high levels when he absorbs energy. His strength limit is linked to how much energy he can absorb.
* **Enhanced Speed:** Bishop's speed reaches incredibly high levels when he absorbs energy, allowing him to run much faster than the world's best athletes.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** Bishop has much greater stamina than a trained human, allowing him to fight for hours without tiring. His stamina increases when he absorbs energy. Additionally, he can reduce his need for sleep, food, water, bodily evacuations, and oxygen with absorbed energy.
* **Enhanced Reflexes:** Bishop's reflexes are similarly increased as he absorbs energy.
* **Enhanced Senses:** Bishop's senses are enhanced as he absorbs energy.
* **Psychic Resistance:** Due to his ability to absorb psionic energy, Bishop is highly resistant to any type of psychic influence.
* **Toxin Resistance:** He is resistant to most poisons.

#### Former Powers

**Bete Noir Empowerment:** Having been host to an entity called Bete Noir, Bishop was host to unlimited cosmic power. Through it, he could strike at those around his host, corrupting them as both it and his powers grew.

**Demon Bear Empowerment:** For a time, Bishop was possessed by the Demon Bear. Through their synergy, he was afforded a host of new powers while under its control. The possessing entity seemingly boosted the natural mutant abilities by providing Bishop with a constant source of energy for him to feed off of, perpetually enhancing and energizing his body to make him stronger and tougher than he usually would be.

* **Summoning:** Bishop could sporadically manifest the Demon Bear as a tangible projection which acted as his behalf.
* **Teleportation**
* **Time Travel**

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Bishop is a trained police officer and has been trained in the homicide branch. He also has many years of armed and unarmed combat training.
	+ **Armed Combat**
* **Marksmanship:** Bishop is a superb marksman with firearms both from modern time and from his own time, some of which he brought with him from the future when he originally arrived in the present. He also has skill in utilizing heavy duty military guns and weapons of modern day.
* **Multilingualism:** He is fluent in English, Mandarin, French, and Arabic.

### Weaknesses

* **Energy Limitations:** Some types of energy are more difficult for Bishop to absorb than others. Additionally, he can overload himself by absorbing too much energy, although the specific limits of his absorption are not known. When overloaded, he releases excess energy in an explosion until his body reaches an amount of energy that it can control.
* **Kinetic Energy (formerly):** Originally, Bishop was unable to absorb energy from inertial impacts, although this does not mean he was incapable of absorbing kinetic energy, as he absorbed energy from an exploding card from Gambit. It would seem that he has recently learned to absorb the energy from inertial impacts, making him near-invulnerable. It is unknown whether it is possible to increase this capacity with time and practice.

## Equipment

* **Communication Sunglasses:** He owns sunglasses that display information and allow him to communicate with the rest of the X-Men.
* **X.S.E. Guns:** He brought X.S.E. guns with him when he arrived in present day from the future. These guns can fire lasers and plasma charges. Bishop can recharge these guns with his own stored energy.
* **Cybernetic Arm (formerly):** After Bishop lost an arm, he resorted to breaking into Forge's laboratory to find a replacement. According to the sign that identified the cybernetic arm, it is a "nuclear-powered battle-ready arm". All of the capabilities have not yet been revealed, but Bishop has been shown to release a four-clawed tendril from it, jump through time, and to shut down electronic and neurological systems with non-lethal nanites.
	+ **Technology Manipulation**
	+ **Time Travel**
	+ **Tentacle Manifestation**
	+ **Electronic Disruption**
	+ **Neurological Disruption**
* **Bionic Eye (formerly):** During the Messiah War, Bishop lost his right eye and had it replaced with a robotic one.