Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Bishop

Bishop (Lucas Bishop) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero who is a member of the X-Men. Created by Whilce Portacio and Jim Lee, the character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #282 (November 1991).

Bishop was a member of Xavier's Security Enforcers (initially called the Xavier School Enforcers), a mutant police force from a dystopian future of the Marvel Universe. He traveled to the 20th century and joined the X-Men, a team he knew only as legends. A brash anti-hero, he had difficulty adjusting to the norms of the time period.

Bishop made frequent appearances on the X-Men animated series of the 1990s. For more information click here.

Mystique

Mystique (Raven Darkhölme)[2] is a fictional character associated with the Marvel Comics' franchise, X-Men. Originally created by artist David Cockrum and writer Chris Claremont, she first appeared in Ms. Marvel #16.[3]

Throughout most of her history, Mystique has been a supervillain, founding her own Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and assassinating several important people involved in mutant affairs. Mystique herself is a mutant, a shapeshifter whose natural appearance includes her blue skin and yellow eyes. At one point, she mentioned she is over 100 years old.[4] Mystique is the mother of the villain Graydon Creed, the X-Men hero Nightcrawler,[5] and foster mother of the hero Rogue.[2] She was forced to abandon Nightcrawler, but raised Rogue for a number of years and the two women have mixed feelings towards one another.[2]

Despite Mystique's history of crime, she was most recently working with the X-Men's Professor X in a short-lived series.[6] She was later voted straight into the X-Men.[7] Actress Rebecca Romijn portrays Mystique in the X-Men films.[8] In 2009, Mystique was ranked as IGN's 18th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. For more information click here!