Agent Bishop BG

Agent Bishop is a trained war veteran and secret agent with almost 200 years of experience in all relevant fields of military and espionage, along with an extensive but basic scientific training in the field of genetics. 

Physically, Bishop is the prime example of a man at his peak, and even beyond it. 

While the source of his physical prowess is debatable, Bishop possesses speed and agility that borders of inhuman, allowing him to avoid most assaults to his person. He is an accomplished martial artist, which makes him a very dangerous opponent; when he kidnaps Karai, he shows himself able to single-handedly hold his own and gain the upper hand(with no weapons) while fighting all four turtles simultaneously, as well as Hun and Karai effortlessly. He is also proven to be able to defeat the Shredder's Elite Guard and even able to fight on par with Splinter.

In battle, his unique fighting style is mostly defensive, allowing him to adapt to seemingly any situation and use any item of the very battlefield to his advantage. By mixing DNA genomes with his own, he possesses a high degree of physical strength and superhuman endurance and recovery, as evidenced when he was impaled on a hook, yet survived with no permanent damage. 

Despite his near superhuman physical abilities, his body seems to suffer from an unknown condition that causes it to gradually breakdown. He has survived through the centuries thanks in part to a succession of one or two clone bodies. It is known that Bishop at least once had to do a complete transfer of his personality into a cloned body, how many times and at what intervals, however, remains unclear. His most recent body, created by Baxter Stockman, seems to have freed Bishop of his cellular degeneration.

Whether or not his clone bodies are the reason for his continued survival is, as of yet, unknown. 

John Bishop was a U.S. Soldier during the early 19th century, but was abducted for unknown reasons by Gray Aliens in the year 1815 while fighting in the Battle of New Orleans. Experimented on for an unknown amount of time, he was later returned to the battlefield. What exactly was done to him is unknown, although it is speculated that the experiments were at least partially responsible for Bishop's longevity and enhanced strength. The abduction traumatized him, and led him to develop a long-lasting paranoia against aliens. Marked by the experience, he has long since dedicated his life to staving off alien invasions.

Little is known about the following 190 years of Bishop's life, except that he was present when the U.S. Army encountered the first aliens who crashed in United States territory and subsequent creation of the black-ops Earth Protection Force during the Grant Administration in 1870. He was also responsible for the Roswell incident of 1947, in reality caused by the covert takedown of a flying saucer belonging to Gray Aliens (who could very well have been the ones that experimented on him as the only surviving subject that was dragged out of the wreckage seemed to recognize him).

In more recent times, Bishop made a deal with the Federation during the Triceraton Invasion, offering the Fugitoid along with his knowledge of the world destroying Teleportal, in exchange for what he needs, as well as a guarantee that the Earth would be left alone. As a bonus, Bishop also captured the Turtles to use as test subjects and took them to his lab where he told them he knew their names and much much more. He took samples of their DNA, along with that of Leatherhead, but the Turtles obviously did not accept such exploitation. Bishop was going to dissect them to collect more samples, but was interrupted when Splinter, Casey Jones, and April O'Neal stormed his lab. He battles the Turtles, Splinter, and Casey, before being surprised by Leatherhead. Bishop escapes with the DNA samples, but nor before declaring they'd meet again.

Bishop also made an enemy of The Shredder and The Foot Clan, having set up a trap for Karai where he captured her and used her as a bargaining chip against her father, Oroku Saki. he demands Saki hand over all the Triceraton tech he'd been salvaging under the cover of rebuilding New York, threatening to kill Karai should he not respond in 45 minutes. Instead, Saki sent his loyal henchman Hun to save Karai, who follows Bishop all over the city. Bishop decides to take down the brute once and for all, only for the Turtles interfere, teaming up with Hun as they 'hate him more than Hun'. Outnumbered, Bishop decides to abandon the train he was on, but not before revealing to the Turtles of his taking of their DNA, which sped up his work by decades.

Bishop then began an elaborate plan to capture Splinter, whose DNA was more complex. He intended to copy that advanced DNA to create an army of super soldiers(all in the image of him) who would act as a combat-ready protection force against alien attacks. Born of enhanced DNA acquired from genetic manipulation, alien autopsies, and DNA stolen form the Turtles, his first creation was the Slayer(a prototype who during the course of the series became this series' version of the Rat King), a cyborg meant to hunt down aliens anywhere, who didn't care if people got hurt in the process. With the help of Leatherhead, the Turtles and Honeycutt stormed the lab and managed to seal the Slayer in a tank. While fighting against Splinter, Bishop was sent slamming against a hook, which he was impaled on, but he survived and escaped the flooding facility while no one was looking. He had gray liquid on him, suggesting he is not exactly human.

At Oroku Saki's "good-bye party", Bishop had a contact on the inside -- Dr. Baxter Stockman, who had grown tired of the Shredder's punishments. Bishop learns that Saki had been constructing a ship to return to the stars. Bishop has his men blow the main launch tunnel, ,forcing Saki to escape through the doors under where the party was being held. He had any surveillance station launch missiles at the ship, determined not to allow the ship to escape. The ship destroyed, which was a relief to Stockman, as Bishop says it's the beginning of a "mutually beneficial partnership".

Unfortunately, the E.P.F. was under fire from the President of the United States for attacking the Oroku estate and failing to stop the Triceraton Invasion. The President warns Bishop should there be anymore failures, he would cut the E.P.F.'s funding. Immediately, Bishop fails to recapture the mutant and assumes that he died in a fire. This further failure was enough for the bureaucrats to cut funding for the E.P.F.

Staging an alien invasion for him to stop, Bishop 'proved' his organization's worth and assuring his funding. With one 'ship' in the sky, remote controlled aliens and a number of holograms, they made it seem like Earth was being invaded again. Bishop "saved" the President, his plan working as the President agreed to give him funding again for the E.P.F., as well as marking the Turtles as fugitives by the government. Unfortunately, the chemical residue from the supposed 'aliens' went into the sewers and accidentally came into contact with local wildlife, mutating them into savage near-sentient lifeforms. Bishop had to focus the E.P.F.'s resources to contain the outbreak, but there was no end to it.

Demanding Stockman clean up his mess, Bishop tries to warn Stockman to postpone his attempts to get a new human body. But his head scientist was too focused on creating his own body to listen. It proved to be a failure after a series of hallucinations and his body decomposing. Stockman seemingly died in the East River, but Bishop simply resurrected him, claiming he needed his brain to clean up the outbreak.

The Turtles(excluding Donatello who was infected by the outbreak) demand the E.P.F. give them a cure. Bishop agrees, 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, Bishop had Area 51 self-destruct to cover its existence(though they all left before it detonated) and had the cure dispersed all over New York City. But when Stockman uses lasers to try and crack the Heart, it shatters, as the entity cut communications. What Bishop didn't know was that the entity was the Water Foot Mystic, who was manipulating everyone so that Karai's control over them would be broken.

Stockman recovered a number of nanobots from a Triceraton wreck at Coney Island, which the presumed was a new alien technology, unaware it was actually a government project. Stockman places a microchip on one of the nanobots, activating them to follow Bishop's commands. Unfortunately for them, they found out that the nanos were intelligent too late, its original programing fighting with Stockman's, and gathered all advanced technology as it escaped, underlining Stockman's overconfidence once more to Bishop.

The Turtles, while reluctant, were forced to work with Bishop due to a common objective, particularly as the threat posed by the Tengu Shredder was too great for the Turtles alone and they had to ask for help from both friends and foes. Bishop, Stockman, and the rest of the E.P.F. troops were part of the final attack on the Tengu Shredder at the Turtles' side.

Although Bishop and the Turtles are usually enemies, he nevertheless developed a certain grudging respect for their abilities.

Fast Forward

Having survived the intervening 100 years between the present and 2105, John Bishop is a changed man the next time the Turtles come to meet him.

After being transported to the future, the Turtles are surprised to discover that Bishop had survived the 100 years, having radically altered his approach to Earth's defense. Now a legally elected, and very popular, President of the Pan-Galactic Alliance(described by Leonardo as an intergalactic version of the United Nations), Bishop now used diplomacy to maintain inter-planetary peace. It's only coincidental that the PGA headquarters is located in New York City.

Now as a public figure and - due to the neutral status of the PGA - incapable of directly taking part in missions(as he must be seen as impartial as possible). Bishop recruited the Turtles due to their special talents to covertly stop famed mercenary Torbin Zixx from completing a sabotage mission on Earth. Although the Turtles distrust him at first because of their past conflicts, they gradually become convinced that people could still change.

Later on, the reasons behind his change of heart were revealed. Roughly 50 years prior to 2105, he and Baxter Stockman, both still working for the E.P.F., finally realized Bishop's ambition of a super-soldier army in the form of what Stockman named "Organic Mousers": biped one eyed dinosaur-like creatures able to withstand heavy damage and controlled by sound. A lab accident seemingly killed Stockman; bishop himself would have died if not for the actions of one of the E.P.F.'s alien test subjects, who saved his life despite the inhumane treatment they had endured, which Bishop didn't expect them to.

Surprised and strangely touched by the fact that an alien which he had imprisoned and experimented on still had the mercy and compassion in it to save him, Bishop's viewpoint on aliens changed radically. He began working for far more peaceful solutions, and turned his efforts into befriending aliens instead, leading to the creation of the Pan-Galactic Alliance.

It was this change of heart that saved him when he was kidnapped by the still-living Baxter Stockman, who, seething at Bishop's abandonment 50 years ago and still incapable of building himself a new body, wished to take Bishop's body as his own. But convinced by Leonardo that the world Bishop helped to create was one where even the Turtles could live a normal life, he abandons his plan. Immediately afterwards, as the abandoned E.P.F. base where Stockman had taken Bishop was destroyed by Stockman's organic mousers, Stockman was once again placed in mortal peril. This time, however, Bishop did not hesitate and managed to save his friend's life.

With Bishop and Stockman safe, Bishop informs the doctor that with the advancement in human technology over the last 100 years, creating a body for him would be easy. Bishop also tells him that the Department of Agriculture expressed and interest in his mousers and he wanted them to meet, which Stockman accepted.

Finally, he informs the Turtles about Sh'Okanabo's takeover of the lunar settlement Moonbase Bishop, and recruited them in an attempt to stop the alien, which with the help of weaponry he provided them, eventually killed Sh'Okanabo, once and for all.