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Very well, Michelangelo. When you scream my name, pleading to make the pain stop, begging for mercy, you may call me... Bishop.
~ Bishop to Michelangelo.

Agent John Bishop is a major antagonist in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.

He is a secret agent of the U.S. government and the ruthless leader of the Earth Protection Force who has a disdain for alien kind.

He was also mentioned in the Mirage comics and appears in the IDW comics as a major antagonist as well as being mentioned off-panel in the Mirage Comics.

He was voiced by David Zen Mansley.

Personality[]

For too long, our world, our history, has been influenced by extra-terrestrial threats. I know this all too well. My purpose has always been clear. Defend against the threat. Rebuild humanity to resist invasion. It hasn’t always been easy. There are tough choices that need to be made. Someone has to stop this alien plague. It was a vow I made long ago. And I intend to keep it.
~ Bishop stating his vow to protect Earth from aliens and his willingness to do it by any means necessary.

Agent John Bishop possesses an excessive hatred for aliens due to his abduction and torture by them early in his life. He is normally very calm and likes to be in control, gathering as much facts about his enemies and victims as he can before meeting them, as shown with the aid of the fact that he knew all of the turtle's names during their first meeting. He possesses a cunning and cold mind and rarely loses his temper. Bishop is manipulative but hates it if he is the one being manipulated as proven by his restrained but visible anger when he realized that the Foot Mystics had tricked him into securing their freedom. This is one of the very few instances where Bishop was shown to no longer be in control of a situation.

Bishop is very sadistic, gleefully anticipating the fun he would have to dissect the turtles and torturing Leatherhead ruthlessly. Despite his sadistic nature, however, Bishop's foremost motivation is to protect the world so that the torture he went through at the hands of the aliens may not happen to others. Bishop's sadistic treatment of aliens and mutants is partially a way of dealing with the trauma Bishop himself suffered at an alien's hands. Due to his devotion to the security of the planet he is, by his own admission "a bigger image kind of guy" who believes that the ends justify the means, so even if people are hurt or even killed he believes that it is well worth it if it ensures the safety of the planet.

Although Bishop is considered a devil with the aid of Leonardo, he is not a truly evil man and during the Fast Forward season, he indicates that he is not beyond redemption. After an alien saved his life, despite the painful experiments Bishop had carried out on the creature, Bishop felt indebted to it and decided to change his ways. He also regarded Baxter Stockman to be a friend and saved his life before supplying him a chance to continue working alongside him, as they had many years earlier.

Despite his problems with the Turtles, Bishop is inclined to side with them against a common threat, such as the mutant outbreak and later the Tengu Shredder's army.

Biography[]

Past[]

In 1815 New Orleans (Seemingly during the Battle of New Orleans), Bishop was abducted by a group of Aliens. The Aliens experimented on Bishop and returned him to Earth, seemingly physically unaffected. From then on, Bishop developed a great hatred towards aliens and vowed to protect Earth from extraterrestrial threats.

In 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, Bishop and a group of army soldiers shoot down an alien space ship. Bishop personally confronted the captured Alien with a grin on his face.

Modern day[]

Bishop first appeared during the Triceratons invasion of Earth, being present for a meeting of the United Nations after thier nuclear missiles didn't make it past the planetary force field. He is seen making a call to a mysterious benefactor and told him to start making preparations.

Later, after the Triceratrons withdrew after they realized Professor Honeycutt was not on Earth due to his posotronic energy signature not being present, he was authorized by the UN to do whatever it took to deal with the invaders.

He orders his men to capture the Turtles and Professor Honeycutt alive. They are taken to his lab where Bishop says he knows about them, including their names. It turns out he made an alliance with General Blanque of the Federation (his afore-mentioned secret benefactor) into handing over Honeycutt in exchange for the Turtles, With them on his side, Bishop plans on dissecting them for mutant DNA so he could mutate soldiers into mutants to create an army to defend the . He battles the Turtles, Splinter, Leatherhead, April, and Casey, and gets the upper hand on them. After they turned the tables, he realized that he was heavily outnumbered so escapes with the DNA samples through a secret door, but not before declaring that they will meet again.

Next, he kidnaps Karai, and threatens Oroku Saki, aka the Shredder, into giving him his work in exchange for her safety. However, instead of surrendering, Saki sends Hun to retrieve Karai. Bishop fights the Turtles with Hun and Karai, and appears to get the upper hand again. He escapes again.

Bishop kidnaps Splinter, the Turtles' master, for his rat DNA to be part of his slayers. While in the fight, Bishop is thrown by the explosion and impaled by a hook. However, when the Turtles look back, he is gone and has gray liquid on him, suggesting he is not human.

He then leads an assault on Saki's mansion. At that time, he has Baxter Stockman working by his side. Here, he defeats several of his henchmen, including Hun but ends up failing to complete his goal.

When the EPF is threatened of getting its funding cut due to the attack at Oroku Saki's mansion and failure to capture Finn, Bishop faked an alien invasion in order to prove to the President, the one who plans on cutting his organizations funding, of how useful the organization is. His plan worked as the President agrees to give him money to fund the EPF.

However, it gets worst when the aliens that Bishop used for his false invasion had their mutagenic goo go into the sewers. This resulted in some animals and a citizen of New York to be mutated. Because of this, he tries to warn Stockman to postpone his attempt to get a new human body. But his head scientist was too focused on creating his own body. But it proved to be a failure after a series of hallucinations and decomposition's. When Stockman is presumed dead in the river, Bishop picks his body up and resurrected him to fix the outbreak.

The Turtles (excluding Donatello who was infected) demanded they give a cure. Bishop agreed, having Stockman work with Leatherhead, while he had them retrieve the Heart of Tengu, which he heard from a mysterious contact that it was an archive of alien technologies. Once they got it to him, he had Area 51 self-destruct to cover its existence (though they all left before that) and had the cure spread everyplace in New York. But when they use lasers to try to crack the Heart, it shattered, as the entity cut off communications. What Bishop didn't known was that the entity was the Water Foot Mystic, who was manipulating everyone so that Karai's control over them will be broken.

Stockman recovered a number of nanobots from a Triceraton wreck at Coney Island, which they presumed to be a new alien technology, not knowing it is a government project. Stockman places a microchip on one of the nanobots, activating them to serve Bishop's commands. Unfortunately, they found out that the nanos were intelligent and that its original programming was fighting with Stockmans and gathered all advanced technologies as it escaped, underlining Stockman's overconfidence once more to Bishop. Later he joins forces with the Turtles and other heroes and villains in fighting against the Tengu Shredder.

A Century of Change[]

Bishop eventually hired Stockman back to use alien DNA as part of his Earth defense project. This lead to creation of Organic Mousers. However, a lab fire broke out one day and Bishop got pinned by rumble while trying to save Stockman. To Bishop's surprise, a captive alien that got free decided to save him despite being subjected to DNA tests. It was this action that showed Bishop that aliens were just people who lived on other worlds; they were capable of mercy and war just like humans.

Bishop decided that to protect Earth, the plan had to change; rather than repel aliens from Earth, he should reach out to peaceful races to create a cooperative between worlds to help against the real criminals. Thus Bisbop spent the entirely of the 21st century evolving the Earth Defense Force into the Pan Galactic Alliance. Thanks to his Immortality, Bishop remained the president of the organization and always ensured fair and impartial law for everyone on Earth, which now included aliens.

Fast Forward[]

When the Turtles travel to the year 2105, they are surprised to find Bishop is the president of the Pan Galactic Alliance - essentially, the leader of the entire planet Earth, and the ambassador to other planets.

In other media[]

IDW comics[]

Bishop appears in the IDW comics where is origins are different. He was born a deformed human with intelligence and that his father worked in the Government. As an adult he is dwarf sized so his father created a suit to help him fit in society better. Like his 2003 incarnation, Bishop is xenophobic towards all mutants and aliens, but is more unhinged than his 2003 incarnation and prone to emotional outbursts.

Powers and abilities[]

Agent Bishop is educated as a war veteran and a secret agent with two hundred years of experience in all relevant fields of the army and espionage and also has basic, yet extensive scientific coaching in the field of genetics. Physically, Bishop is the prime example of a man at the top - and even beyond - his physical capacities.

While the source of his bodily prowess is debatable, Bishop possesses speed and agility that borders on inhuman, allowing him to avoid most assaults to his person. He is an finished martial artist, which makes him a very dangerous opponent: In the episode "Hun on the Run" he shows himself able to single-handedly maintain his own and gain the upper hand (with no weapons) whilst fighting all four of the turtles simultaneously, as well as Hun and Karai effortlessly. He has additionally proven to be able to defeat the Shredder's Elite Guard with ease, in the episode Exodus, Part 1. In "Bishop's Gambit", he even proved able to combat on par with Splinter. In battle, his unique fighting style is basically defensive, allowing him to adapt to seemingly any situation and use any object on the very battlefield to his advantage. By mixing DNA genomes he also possesses a high degree of bodily strength and superhuman endurance and recovery, as evidenced in "Bishop's Gambit", when he was impaled on a hook, but survived with no permanent damage. Bishop is able to fend off multiple opponents, due to his DNA being altered, which he has been extracting from all different alien species, which he has captured for his super soldier project to assist in preventing any alien invasion that the Earth could experience.

Despite his physical abilities, his body seems to go through from an unknown condition that causes it to gradually destroy down. He has survived throughout the centuries thanks in part to a succession of one or two clone bodies. It is known that Bishop at least as soon as had to do a complete transfer of his personality into a cloned body, how many instances total and at what intervals, in the series, however, remains unclear. His most recent body, which was created with Baxter Stockman's aid, seems to have freed Bishop of his body breakdown problem. Whether or not his clone our bodies are the reason for his continued survival is, as of yet, unknown. He also managed to unify Earth, thanks to espionage discrediting allying sabotage and others and made the EPF the Earth army by doing counter-terrorism work, as well as mystical defense and distinctive operations with others.

As head of the Earth Protection Force, Bishop has a wide range of high-tech terrestrial and extraterrestrial technology to help him in battle. For heavy combat missions, Bishop likes to use a special fight suit equipped with laser weapons.

Quotes[]

Well Donatello, I'm the man the government relies upon for certain projects... The kind of projects they'd rather not dirty their own hands with.
~ Bishop to Donatello.
I know all your names, Raphael, and much, much more.
~ Bishop to Raphael.
Federation, Triceratons, it makes little difference to me. I helped one destroy the other, and they promised to give me what I need and leave the Earth alone. But enough talk. Time for your dissection.
~ Bishop to Raphael.
Finding the exact source of your mutation is going to accelerate my ability to create an army of super soldiers by at least two decades! Pity you won't survive the next two minutes.
~ Bishop to Michelangelo.
I'm beginning to see why your previous employer kept relieving you of body parts.
~ An irate Bishop, about Stockman screwing up taking control of Nano
Not only are these future members of the Earth Protection Force, but they are the new humanity. These clones are awaiting final DNA sequencing. By cellular acceleration, I can give birth to an army within six hours fully trained thanks to my advances in bio data transference and your DNA. I've uploaded complex survival tactics into this prototype.
~ Agent Bishop
(Splinter: You are outnumbered!) Perhaps. But never outclassed.
~ Bishop to Splinter.
I see the odds have changed. But I never play the odds.
~ Bishop.
I work for the Earth Protection Force, a secret organization assembled to face a mounting crisis. A crisis dating back to 1870 when President Grant created the EPF after the first extraterrestrials crashed here on Earth. Extraterrestrials, a crisis that continues to this day, as we’ve seen with the recent invasion of the savage Triceratons. I guarantee you, similar invasions will follow, and someone has to be there to stop them. That is the purpose of the EPF, my purpose, to create a new humanity, a new superior race, born of enhanced DNA. DNA acquired from genetic manipulation, alien autopsies, and even stolen from your sons.
~ Agent Bishop to Splinter.
I am taking the necessary steps to defend the world. It is my duty!
~ Bishop.
For more years than I can remember, I have stood watch. Preparing for a day I've long known was inevitable. The alien threat is real, and the world has suffered at the hands of these invaders. The world must be prepared, it must always be vigilant. And I will make sure it is, no matter what the cost.
~ Bishop's ultimate goal to protect Earth.
The job of the Earth Protection Force is to defend this planet from invasion. But in the absence of a current alien threat, we are going to create one.
~ Bishop's plan to get the President to continue funding the EPF.
Doctor. My life’s work is to defend humanity from extraterrestrial threat, and now you’re telling me that I’ve unleashed this.. this plague? This is unacceptable, doctor. This cannot happen. This outbreak must be neutralized before it spreads, before anyone realizes its true nature and tracks it back to my work.
~ Bishop to Stockman regarding the consequences of the staged alien invasion and its aftermath.

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Trivia[]

  • Agent Bishop is perhaps the least villainous of the villains in the series besides Karai. Although Bishop is an ideological psychopath, his ultimate goal is just to defend Earth from future invasions although his methods to do so were sketchy at best. Incidentally, both of them are darker characters in their comic book incarnation, namely the IDW Comics.
  • He and Karai are the only main antagonists of the series not to die. Both are also the main antagonists of Season 4.
  • Agent Bishop debuted in the Season 3 finale of the TMNT 2012 series. Unlike his TMNT 2003 incarnation he was a protagonist instead of a villain/anti-hero (though he did redeem himself in Fast Forward). He is also a Utrom in a Norman suit and is joined with the Fugitoid. However, his standard appearance is like his 2003 incarnation.
  • Bishop's appearance in the IDW comics has traits from both his previous incarnations. Personality wise he is similar to his 2003 incarnation, but is more psychotic, lacking the honor his 2003 incarnation possessed. He is also a deformed human with intelligence wearing a robotic suit similar to the 2012 incarnation.
  • Agent Bishop is based on and is also the parodies of Agent Smith from the Matrix.

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