Yeah, they had better not. Bishop is like the one black male X-Man of importance, and he's only barely come back into the fold after many years of completely out of left-field villainy for Hope of all people... It would be a very cheap, very foolish move to bring him back only to kill him.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
As much as I like Sunspot, he's barely ever been an X-Man proper, and half the time they act like he isn't even Afro-Brazilian. Who else did you have in mind? They killed my lovely Synch ages ago. The Bedlam brothers never got play in the central title. Gentle, Prodigy? lol. As for your second idea, certainly, I wouldn't put it past these guys, but it would be stupid. I raised hell about Bloodstorm, even if she was an inferior shell compared to the Mutant X version, but my protestations fell on largely deaf ears here amongst the X-fandom. The writers do these things because they can get away with it.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
I know you hate the New X-Men for whatever reason, Gentle and Prodigy are still important to the X-Men mythos. And Ewing perfectly set up Sunspot (Citizen X) to be one of the most influential X-Men ever yet editorial effed that up too. They just ignore it like they ignore all non-X-Book character development.
The fact that we don't see Bishop in the 'Age of X-Man' is veeerrrrry concerning. And if they kill off Bishop, they are gonna get a huge backlash.
We don't see moses of the main cast of uncanny in age of Xmen. If I'm right and this is a knockoff of age of apocalypse either a he the key to solving everyting, or b he'll be resurrected when the ending retcons a good chunk of there past. We don't know what this pseudo relaunch even is yet when we have information they we can do something.
His being missing from the Age of X-Man promo is when it dawned on me too.
I don't think there would be. This is the character they had trying to kill a white baby and he was just as much the sole black male X-Man back then as he is now. Absolute zero regard for optics and nobody cared.
Well, I wouldn't say "nobody cared" but I'm hoping that the X-Fans learned a thing or two about how black characters should vs shouldn't be treated after ten years.
But the teaser does show most of the cast that will probably be important. Mags, Jean, Ororo, Lin Li (who the creative team love), Piotr, Kurt, and Nate. Just the fact that Bishop is being hyped up so much for Disassembled, only to turn around and not have him in the very next event/relaunch/whatever teaser is sus.
Prodigy had potential, but to say he or Gentle are in any way comparable to Bishop is silly. I'm with you on Sunspot, but as you said, that development happened in the Avengers line, not the X-Men.
As for Bishop in the Age of X-Men, remember, Bishop was instrumental in undoing the original AoA; it could well be that he will serve a similar role in this story, but they are just keeping him off to the side so as to not telegraph this beat at the onset.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!