OK I flat out HATE Bishop now.  I get what they are doing and i get that we are not really supposed to like him but what about when its over? Bishop was a respected X-man, police officer, Agent of O.N.E....he really had a lot going for him and he was still a noble likeable character.  So they had to turn him into sort of a monster to for this story (fake arm and leg to add to the visual) but when Hope and Cable are done running from him and the dust settles are we still gonna be left with this disfigured shell of a former X-man?  I miss the Bishop who worshipped the X-men as legends, who made it his personal mission to protect Xavier when he first got here, and who joined a legitimate police force to help the state of mutant affairs.  When all is said and done i kinda hope that pull some crap and revert him to the way he was before Messiah Complex.  My suggestion is that Cable (or anyone who can time jump) go to the point before he tried to kill the baby and pluck him out of the timestream and bring him to our current present.  Everyone else will still remember what he did but he will be the old character AND all those continents he destroyed never will have happened.

The guy has got to be close to Cable's age by now. I think they should just kill him off when the whole Hope story is over and be done with it. 

why pluck an old Bishop out?
he will still be the man he was hiding the whole
time from everyone and eventually do it all over again?

A Bishop fan will write the X-Men eventually and retcon it with that Bishop being a clone or something.

" A Bishop fan will write the X-Men eventually and retcon it with that Bishop being a clone or something. "

" why pluck an old Bishop out? he will still be the man he was hiding the whole time from everyone and eventually do it all over again? "

" @crimsonspider89 said:

" A Bishop fan will write the X-Men eventually and retcon it with that Bishop being a clone or something. "

I can see that happening. "

yep. got to agree. Bishop is a goner. he may or may not do something heroic and pull an Ares though.
but if he shows up gunning for Hope on Utopia with his usual "thermal detonators" in tow he's getting taken out.

He still is a baby killer lol

" why pluck an old Bishop out? he will still be the man he was hiding the whole time from everyone and eventually do it all over again? "

I don't agree with your theory though. This is Bishop's plan since the beginning. He wants to prevent his future from coming to. I think that it needs to be a clone of Bishop or something of that caliber. Maybe do a new Apocalypse story arc where they have to fight a young Bishop and eventually talk him into joining? Or something of that type.

" @CATMANEXE:  like if there WAS a way to absolve him legitimately of all these crimes, wouldnt you want the old bishop back if they could make it work? "

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

" @Gold Dust Boi said:

" @CATMANEXE:  like if there WAS a way to absolve him legitimately of all these crimes, wouldnt you want the old bishop back if they could make it work? "

well, no. i kind of just explained why twice. he never was anything other than what he was. he finally just showed his hand. "

IMO the best way to make him back is once the second coming ends, and knowing it will create new timelines, make a new bishop from a timeline where the mutant baby was a messiah and not a destroyer (or where she was a destroyer but was stopped before she could do anything big, as I doubt in the main comics it is going to be any holocaust that keep them under prison forever, and remember that next astonishing x-men arc is called xenogenesis, so it is probable that new mutants will born again, and even it is possible that the messiah would revert the effects of M-Day) and make this Bihop time travel to present or something for any reason: 
 
For example: This new Bishop in his now not apocaliptic timeline, learns about an alternate bishop that nearly killed prof-X and the heroes he worships, and decides to travel back in time to clean the sins of his alternate counterpart and try to make the name of lucas bishop be a part of the future legends (hey, it wasn't too hard to make a good scenario for his return that would allow him to join the team without any "clone" or "possession" case, maybe we could see him again as a hero :P) 
 
Do you guys think it could work somehow?

The AoA Bishop should go to the 616?

" The AoA Bishop should go to the 616? "

Alternate Realities

Earth-616

Earth-295

I always disliked him.  goodbye