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Bishop 341-B, portrayed by Lance Henriksen, is a character from the science fiction films Aliens (1986) and Alien 3 (1992). Bishop is an android created by the Weyland-Yutani corporation. In Alien 3, Henriksen also plays a character named Bishop II who claims to be the android's designer. In Alien vs. Predator (2004), which serves as a prequel to the Alien series, Henriksen plays Weyland Industries chief executive officer Charles Bishop Weyland.

Aliens
Bishop is executive officer of the Colonial Marine vessel Sulaco, which is ordered to investigate the loss of contact with a terraforming colony on LV-426, with Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) serving as an adviser on the mission. In the previous film, Alien (1979), Ripley is attacked by her android crewmate, Ash (Ian Holm); Ripley is at first disturbed by Bishop's presence, but comes to accept and trust him.

The Marines from the Sulaco &mdash; along with Ripley, Bishop, and company executive Burke (Paul Reiser) &mdash; set down on LV-426 and discover that Aliens have killed almost all of the colonists. The Aliens then kill Burke and most of the Marine contingent. Bishop does not engage in combat, however, instead acting as a medic and tending to other support functions. Bishop saves Ripley, Newt (Carrie Henn), and Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) by piloting their dropship out of the exploding atmosphere processing station. However, upon landing on the Sulaco, Bishop is ripped in half by the Alien queen that had attached itself to the dropship. When Ripley opens the airlock to expel the Alien queen into space, Bishop saves himself and Newt. Afterward, he is placed in hypersleep with Ripley, Newt, and Hicks.

Alien 3
In the opening scene of Alien 3, a fire aboard the Sulaco causes the four survivors from Aliens to be launched in an Emergency Escape Vehicle (EEV) while still in hypersleep. Ripley is the only survivor when the EEV crashes on Fiorina "Fury" 161, the site of a penal colony. The prisoners indicate that Bishop was smashed beyond repair, but Ripley partially repairs his speech and memory functions. He reveals the events that followed the conclusion of Aliens, including that an Alien facehugger was aboard the Sulaco and that a fire was the cause of the passengers' ejection. He then asks Ripley to disconnect him permanently, saying, "I can be reworked, but I'll never be top of the line again. I'd rather be nothing." Ripley complies with his request.

However, in the novelization by Alan Dean Foster, Ripley desires to keep him functional, musing "Sorry, Bishop, but you're like an old calculator. Friendly and comfortable. If you can be repaired, I'm going to see that it comes to pass... "

Bishop II
In the final scene, a squad of Weyland-Yutani soldiers arrives to retrieve Ripley. With them is a man identical to the android Bishop, also played by Lance Henriksen and listed in the film's credits as "Bishop II". Ripley believes him to be another android; Bishop II claims to be the man who designed the Bishop series, sent by the company to show Ripley "a friendly face." Mr. Aaron (Ralph Brown) attacks Bishop II with a monkey wrench, calling him a "fucking android". The "Assembly Cut" released with the Alien Quadrilogy boxed set in 2003 shows Bishop II bleeding and groaning, with additional footage of the flap of ear and skin hanging from his face. He reasserts that he is human by screaming, "I'm not a droid!" to Ripley. This portion, however, was cut from the film's theatrical release. In Alan Dean Foster's Alien 3 novelization, the character is named "Michael Bishop" and indicated to be a human. According to Henriksen, the studio at the time kept the issue open as to whether Bishop II was human or android because they did not yet know what they would do with his character in the future. Henriksen believes Bishop II was an "advanced model" android.

Charles Bishop Weyland
Henriksen plays Weyland Industries chief executive officer Charles Bishop Weyland in Alien vs. Predator. He and his team search an ancient pyramid under the ice of Bouvet Island. Terminally ill, Weyland views the discovery of the pyramid as his last chance to make his mark on history. When Aliens attack, he refuses to abandon the high-tech guns the team acquired earlier because he feels that "too much has been lost to leave with nothing". He is killed by a Predator while distracting the creature from pursuing the rest of the team.

Karl Bishop Weyland
In the 2010 videogame Aliens versus Predator, Henriksen returns to play a Weyland-Yutani Industries chief director, Karl Bishop Weyland, a descendent of Charles Bishop Weyland bearing a striking resemblance to his ancestor. Four months prior to the events of the game, Weyland closes the Weyland-Yutani owned and run colony Freya's Prospect, located on the jungle planet BG-386, for undisclosed reasons. As the game unfolds, Weyland is revealed to have discovered an ancient pyramid on the planet similar to that found in Antarctica centuries earlier by his predecessor containing ancient yet perfectly functional Predator technology and a dormant Alien hive. Weyland uses the eggs found therein to secretly impregnate select colonists with Alien embryos, holding the resulting Alien newborns and their Queen prisoner within colony. Upon later activating a mysterious entrance to the pyramid, Weyland unwittingly frees the prisoner Aliens, the Aliens proceeding to wipe out most of the colonists and the incident eventually invoking the destruction of the colony by an elite Predator sent first to investigate the deaths of young members of his species before acting to prevent the humans from further discovering Predator technology.

During the Marine campaign finale, he is revealed to be an android, fighting to retain a datapad with information discovered within the pyramid of some importance to both him and a rebel colony administrative android named Katya, both for undisclosed reasons. Despite being destroyed by the unnamed 'rookie' Marine main character, who successfully obtains his datapad at the request of Katya, another Karl Bishop Weyland identical to the last seems to resume his predecessor's role from an undisclosed location. This latest iteration of Weyland instructs the pilots of the dropship carrying the cryogenically frozen survivors of the Freya's Prospect incident - the rookie, Katya and Corporal Tequila, the latter of whom is carrying an Alien embryo - to utilize the data within the datapad to set their next course. The data is then revealed by the 'new' Weyland to be long-sought coordinates for the Alien homeworld.

In academia
Bishop has been the subject of literary and philosophical analysis as a high-profile android character conforming to science fiction author Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and as a model of a compliant, potentially self-aware machine. The portrayal of androids in the Alien series &mdash; Ash in Alien, Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3, and Call (Winona Ryder) in Alien Resurrection (1997) &mdash; has been studied for its implications relating to how humans deal with the presence of an "Other", as Ripley treats them with fear and suspicion, and a form of "hi-tech racism and android apartheid" is present throughout the series. This is seen as part of a larger trend of technophobia in films prior to the 1990s, with Bishop's role being particularly significant as he redeems himself at the end of Aliens, thus confounding Ripley's expectations.