OK as you are aware from the previous AVP thread discussion, ive investigated and worked out the diffrence between Bishop from AVP and Bishop from
Aliens 3.
Now according to Wikipedia, it appears that Bishop from AVP was Charles Weyland Bishop, and Bishop from Aliens was credit as ''Bishop II''.
NOW,
according to wikipedia quote below, This is Michael Bishop, who claims is the creator of Bishop, however in the original version it shows him getting
hit over the head giving the impression he is an android, in the Alien3 special addition it shows blood and he yells out 'im not an android!'....BUT
according to Allen Dean Fosters novelisation it gives Bishop II the name of Michael Bishop making him human (possibly a descendant?) see the bit from
wikipedia below from Lance Henricksen...my impression is...i really doubt that in AVP they would have stuffed that up, but you never know maybe the
next movie explains it better now that it ends with an introduction to Yutani?
In the final scene of Alien 3, a squad of Weyland-Yutani soldiers arrives to retrieve Ripley and the Alien queen gestating inside her. 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"). Though Ripley at first
believes him to be another android, Bishop II claims that he is in fact the man who designed the Bishop series, sent by the company to show Ripley "a
friendly face."[citation needed] When prisoner Morse is shot in the leg by one of the soldiers, Mr. Aaron ("85") attacks Bishop II with a monkey
wrench, calling him a "#ing android".[citation needed] Though the theatrical edition of the film is not clear on whether the character was human or
an android, the "Assembly Cut" released with the Alien Quadrilogy boxed set in 2003 shows Bishop II bleeding red blood and groaning in pain, with a
flap of ear and skin hanging from his face. Reeling from the injury, he reasserts that he is human by screaming, "I'm not a droid!".[citation
needed] This portion, however, was cut from the theatrical release of the film.

The 2004 film Alien vs. Predator cast Lance Henriksen as Charles Bishop Weyland, CEO of Weyland Industries. Though Henriksen had previously declared
in the commentary track of Alien 3 that Bishop II was human,[citation needed] he later went on record, along with Alien vs. Predator director Paul W.
S. Anderson, to clear up the matter, stating that Bishop II was an android.[citation needed] However, Alan Dean Foster's Alien 3 novelization gives
Bishop II the name "Michael Bishop" and clearly indicates his status as human.[citation needed] He is also listed as human in the shooting script of
the film.[citation needed] Due to the conflicting sources and implications, the question of whether the Bishop II character is a human or an android
remains ambiguous at best.

[edit on 12-5-2008 by q_ball]