Chapel (comics)
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| Chapel | |
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| Publisher | Image Comics |
| Created by | Rob Liefeld |
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| Alter ego | Bruce Stinson |
| Team affiliations | Youngblood US government agent |
| Notable aliases | Lord Chapel |
Chapel (real name Bruce Stinson) is a fictional African-American 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.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
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. Al Simmons would be later murdered by Chapel. However, Al Simmons was resurrected to become the dark vigilante Spawn. Bruce would be instilled with several chemicals which in turn would give him various superhuman abilities. Unbeknownst to Chapel, he was also injected with a type of HIV which at the will of his superiors could be injected to him. One of Chapel's bosses, Jason Wynn, who had frequent feuds with Al Simmons, commissioned Chapel to kill Spawn. Chapel gained a skull tattoo on his face courtesy of Spawn during one of their encounters.
Shortly after, Chapel would join the government-sponsored funded team Youngblood.
Prior to Spawn coming after him, Chapel decided to kill himself, but rather than become a hellspawn, he became Lord Chapel, a horseman of apocalypse in service to his master Lucifer.
When he was separated from this creature, Chapel returned to Earth as a woman only to be turned back to a man again and left feeling empty.
His most recent appearance was outside of Youngblood; he teamed-up with Spawn to face his other half, Lord Chapel.
[edit] Character origin
Like many Youngblood characters, Chapel was based on an original concept by Liefeld for a new Teen Titans series. Which of the Titans he was based on remains undisclosed.
[edit] Publishing history
Chapel mostly appeared in the titles Spawn and Youngblood. However, he was also given a couple of short-lived, self-titled series. The second Chapel series, published in 1995, was written by Brian Witten and Eric Stephenson and featured the art of Calvin Irving.
[edit] Other media
Although absent from the live action Spawn film, Chapel (called Jess Chapel) made appearances on HBO's Todd McFarlane's Spawn. In here, he had the same backstory as the comics version.
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