BISHOP

Lucas Bishop’s younger sister Shard was the better officer: the youngest commanding officer in the history of the Xavier Security Enforcers, a mutant who turned light into concussive blasts. Then her boyfriend, the time-traveling criminal Trevor Fitzroy, lured her into an ambush by the Emplates — psychic vampires who feed on mutant marrow. Turned into one of them, Shard became a monster who had to feed on mutants to live — and Bishop was forced to kill his own sister rather than let her live that way.

But Shard didn’t entirely die. Her essence was transferred into a holographic matrix projector — a device Bishop wore on his wrist. When he chased Fitzroy through a time portal into the present day (stranding himself in the era of the X-Men he’d grown up worshipping), the projector came with him. Bishop later had her matrix programmed into the mansion’s Cerebro computer, so Shard could appear wherever a projector existed.

The hologram insisted she was real — and proved it the hard way. Captured by Operation: Zero Tolerance for the future data in her matrix, Shard destroyed her own projector to keep it from Bastion — and instead of dispersing, she re-formed as a self-sustaining photonic lifeform: a living hologram who needed no machine at all. She refused her big brother’s demand that she join the X-Men and instead served with X-Factor — her own hero, on her own team, after death.