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10 Fantastic Superheroes From The Future

For a genre that continually reboots itself to retain the status quo, superhero comics sure do spend a lot of time wondering what will happen to their characters down the road. Visiting an alternate vision of the timeline or some dark – sometimes it’s good, but mostly not - future is a favourite pastime of many comic books. Naturally, then, a heap of superheroes who are citizens of centuries into the future have been created over the years, usually finding their way back into the past - er, present - to meet up with the original heroes that inspired them.

5) Bishop

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Bishop

After the runaway success of the Days of Future Past storyline, the X-Men comics were repeatedly cluttered with alternate-timeline/dystopian future arcs. Not all of them worked, but one great thing that came from the trend was Bishop.

From another future where Sentinels have enslaved the world, Bishop is a member of Xavier’s Security Enforcers, a kind of mutant police force and successor to the X-Men. He’s accidentally sent back to the past where he joins the original X-Men and works to avoid the terrible future he knows from ever happening.

One of the best examples of the mullet-headed, anti-authoritarian, anti-heroes of the comic books of the 1990s, Bishop’s popularity has lasted into the 21st century. He even recently made an appearance in the movies, albeit in a very limited role, when Omar Sy played him in X-Men: Days of Future Past.