Lucina Bishop

*"You're off the hook this once. Now go and sit down"*- The First Day

**Lucina Bishop**, most commonly known as **Ms. Bishop**, is a former teacher at Toad Town High, as well as Carl's former homeroom and science teacher among other things. She used to be a recurring character in *Carl* during the first three seasons of the series, but stopped making appearances in the show, with the episode "Happy Anniversary" having Coach Johnson state that she moved to the Kaktus Kingdom permanently after she was offered a job at a school there, with the character being retired from the series

Throughout the series, she has been shown to be completely apathetic, grumpy and miserable, as well as being dissatisfied with her job. She also didn't sugarcoat anything to her students, and very often would openly insult them while class was in session.

Ms. Bishop returned to the series in the remastered version of the very first episode of the series "The First Day", being aged up significantly among other things. Her characterization had also been slightly changed, as while she is still an apathetic teacher, she is not as cranky or mean-spirited towards her students as she was in the Classic episodes.

## Backstory

Next to nothing is known about Ms. Bishop's backstory, as she is only seen in classes teaching. She is known to hate her job, so it is plausible that she once had bigger life aspirations.

## Appearance

### Classic Episodes

Miss Bishop greatly resembles Ludwig von Koopa from Bowser's Koopalings. Because of these similarities, some people believed that she was Ludwig's biological mother, although FreezeFlame22 later confirmed the two as unrelated. She has long, somewhat untidy, blue hair and blue eyes and a singular fang sticking out of the front of her mouth. Unlike Ludwig, however, she is a standard Koopa rather than a draconic-like Koopa. She has yellow skin and wears red lipstick and purple mascara, as well as a scaled blue shell with no spikes on it.

### Remastered Episodes

In the remasters, almost all of her similarities to Ludwig are now gone. While she still is a standard koopa, she now has grey hair, a pair of glasses, and has a different blue shell from the one she has in the Classic episode.

## Personality

She doesn't have too many outstanding characteristics, even when compared to the other teachers at Toad Town High. From what has been seen of her, though, Ms. Bishop is very strict and follows the "Don't answer me back" policy Principal Steelix has for the school. She is usually miserable, and hates her job, and expresses distaste for the students when they upset her, particularly Gordy, although she doesn't do this as much as Mr. Morris. She also seems to treat herself rather poorly or is possibly trying to find a stable relationship, as she went into a school bathroom with Steelix in "Halloween Party", and in "The School Dance" she went as Boo's date.

## Gallery

Ms. Bishop's original appearance in the Classic episodes.Ms Bishop's previous hairstyleMs. Bishop with a party dressMs. Bishop in a Halloween costume
## Trivia

* Her design heavily resembles Ludwig Von Koopa, as the two were initially intended to be related. FreezeFlame22 later went back on this however, and the two are now confirmed as unrelated.
* The reason she was removed from Carl was mainly because the female voice actors Freeze had weren't able to do a British accent, as well as Freeze himself finding the character uninteresting.