Bishop’s X-Men: Days of Future Past Look Was Based on Busta Rhymes

Bishop, an X-Men member created in 1991, will make his first appearance in a major motion picture this year with a look based in part on rapper and actor Busta Rhymes.When Bishop makes his big-screen debut in May’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, the character (played by Omar Sy) will sport dreadlocks, arguably much more in keeping with the post-apocalyptic world of the Days of Future Past future than the long, curly-haired look (sometimes called the “Jheri curl Bishop look by fans) that the character sported for years in the comics.Given comics’ tendency to create characters whose basic features are easy to draw and as timeless as they can manage (neither of these is always true, but it’s a general rule), Bishop stands out as a character whose hairstyles have changed a number of times over the years, generally in the hopes of “updating” his look.Part of it is likely that he was created in 1991 and was very much a product of the late ’80s/early ’90s era of the X-Men; part of it is that as a relatively new character, there isn’t as much pushback to making changes to Bishop since he’s not “iconic.” For whatever reason, though, the character woke up one day with dreads, a look that will carry over to X-Men: Days of Future Past.