Bishop (Marvel Comics)

## Powers & Abilities

* **Energy Absorption:** Bishop can absorb the vast majority of types of energy, including magic, sounds, light, psionic, psychic, 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. 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. 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.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Bishop's speed reaches incredibly high levels the more energy he absorbs, allowing him to run much faster than the best athletes.
	+ **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.
	+ **Enhanced Reflexes & Senses:** All of Bishop's senses and reflexes are increased as he absorbs energy.
	+ **Superhuman Endurance:** His powers reduce the need for sleep, food, drinking, body evacuations, and oxygen.
	+ **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.
	+ **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. 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.
	+ **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.
	+ **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.
* **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.
* **Multilingual:** Bishop is fluent in Mandarin, as well as French and Arabic.

## Equipment

* **Sunglasses:** Sunglasses that display information and allow communication with the rest of the X-Men.
* **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 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.
* **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.
* **X.S.E Guns:** X.S.E. gunsthat fire laser beams and plasma charges. He is able to recharge them with his own stored energy.
* **Other Weapons:** 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:
	+ **Napalms:** Napalm that burns over water.
	+ **Tactical Nukes:**
	+ **Water Taints:**
	+ **Biological & Chemical Weaponry:**
	+ **etc**
* **Time Travel Devices:** Bishop has several time travel devices, allowing instant travel to any time or place. This practically allows him the ability to teleport.

## 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 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.