Terrified by his powers, everyone but his girlfriend Juliana ran away – and then she later sacrificed her life to save him when mutant-haters lured him into a trap. Roberto “Sunspot” Da Costa is a rich Brazilian kid whose mutant powers first appeared in the middle of a heated adolescent football game when a rival player dabbled in racist abuse. While Bishop has been an X-Men antagonist at times, we’re guessing he’s on the side of the angels here, and also that – as one of the more popular characters of the ‘90s era – he will get to unwrap some whoop-ass and spread it liberally around any Sentinels that threaten. It makes sense that, in the film, they ditch the alternate timeline and time-travel stuff and just introduce Bishop in a post-apocalyptic future very similar to the one where he grew up. Notable features include a tattooed 'M' for 'Mutant' above his right eye, which you can see has been carried over here, and he has also had a massive prosthetic arm on occasion. Like Jack Reacher, he always knows exactly what time it is, and also like Reacher he’s physically big and imposing. His granny had cool role models.īishop’s mutation allows him to absorb virtually any form of energy, store it for use and release it as blasts of “biokinetic” energy. It was in pursuit of one of these, a guy named Fitzroy, that he originally came back in time to the modern-day, main X-timeline and met the X-Men, heroes his grandmother had told him about. Bishop’s family escaped Oz just in time, and he grew up in a concentration camp before joining Xavier’s Security Enforcers, where he tracked down mutant criminals. In the comics, Lucas Bishop comes from an alternate future, a time where Sentinels rule the world and Australia’s been devastated by a nuclear attack.
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