Read more about Chapel at: Wikipedia Official Site: Image Comics Chapel (real name Bruce Stinson) is a fictional comic book character in the Image Comics universe. He started out as a supervillain but later became a superhero. He was created in the early 1990s by writer and artist Rob Liefeld specifically for Youngblood, a comic book series about a government-sponsored superhero team. Bruce Stinson was a soldier who upon later in his career took the role of employment in Operation Knightstrike alongside Al Simmons, a fellow soldier-turned-mercenary. At one point Chapel was ordered by his superior to murder Al Simmons. The order was given because Al Simmons was a suspected spy. However, Al Simmons became the dark vigilante Spawn. Throughout his career Bruce was instilled with several chemical which in turn would give him various superhuman abilities. Unbeknownst to Chapel, he was also injected with a type of HIV which could be activated by his superiors by a special serum. One of Chapel's bosses, Jason Wynn, who had frequent feuds with Al Simmons, commissioned Chapel to kill Spawn. A while after Al Simmons death, Chapel became a member of Youngblood. Wynn also, for a time, turned on Chapel, trying to use his old enemy Giger to take him down after Chapel refuses a mission from Wynn. This story also introduces Duke, an old colleague of Chapel and Simmons that was a supposed traitor to the group.
Chapel has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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