BISHOP

Friday, November 6, 2026Earth-616 canonUncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #282 (1991)
Today's Fact
Lucas Bishop followed Trevor Fitzroy through a one-way time portal knowing there was no ride home, and his Omega Squad did not survive its first campaign in the present.
BISHOP’S TWO BEST FRIENDS DIED WITHIN DAYS OF REACHING THE PAST — ON THE HUNT THEY CAME FOR!
The Featured Fact

In Bishop’s future, the criminal Trevor Fitzroy broke out of prison and burned the life-force of captive mutants to tear open a portal into the X-Men’s own era, dragging dozens of convicted mutant ‘Lifers’ through with him. Bishop and his fellow Xavier’s Security Enforcers officers, Malcolm and Randall, jumped in after them — knowing perfectly well that the trip only went one direction.

The three officers surfaced in the middle of a Hellfire Club party Fitzroy was tearing apart, and promptly appalled the X-Men by trying to execute the escapees on the spot. Bishop, for his part, refused to believe these could be the real X-Men at all: the legends of his childhood would never have been this gentle with killers.

The hunt finished the job the portal started. The Lifers were run down one crew at a time, but the final firefight — a nightclub full of armed fugitives — killed Malcolm and Randall at Bishop’s side. Alone, wounded, and stranded decades before his own birth, Bishop was carried back to Xavier’s school, and then sworn in as the newest X-Man.

Why It's Obscure
He crossed most of a century to arrest one man; the century kept his two partners as the fare.
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THE BREAKOUT

Fitzroy’s portal ran on stolen lives, which told Bishop everything about the prisoner he was chasing — and why he could not be allowed to land running.
#282 (1991)

THE ONE-WAY TRIP

No extraction plan, no return ticket, no reinforcements: three officers against every criminal a prison could hold, in a century none of them knew.
THE LIFERS

THE HUNT

Dozens of future fugitives scattered across 1990s New York, and the Omega Squad’s orders were the blunt future kind: sanction them all.
THE NIGHTCLUB

TWO EMPTY PLACES

Malcolm and Randall disobeyed a direct order to take cover and stayed at Bishop’s shoulder. It is the last order of his they ever heard.
Sources
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Bullpen Bulletins

  1. Marvel Database — Lucas Bishop (Earth-1191) Character history confirming the pursuit of Fitzroy, the one-way journey with Malcolm and Randall, and their deaths fighting the Lifers.
  2. Wikipedia — Bishop (Marvel Comics) Independent biography confirming Bishop’s arrival chasing Fitzroy in Uncanny X-Men #282 (1991) and the deaths of Malcolm and Randall.
  3. UncannyXMen.net — Bishop in the Present Detailed chronology of Uncanny X-Men #281–287, including the nightclub firefight that left Bishop mourning Randall and Malcolm.