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Name: Anatoli Knyazev

Codename: the Beast, formerly KGBeast

Gender: Male

Age: 57 (looks like late 30s)

Source: Sportsmaster from the Young Justice TV show

Birthplace: Leningrad, Russia. Now Saint Petersburg. 

Affiliation: former KGB. Currently works freelance. 

Occupation: Assassin, independent operative, mercenary

Race: human

Appearance: In battle, he wears black body armor and tactical gear with a black mask that has two red wing-like designs running vertically over the eyes. Some people have likened his face to a Neanderthal; it is rough, defined, and hard as if carved of stone.
[img]http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/00049/1512_sport_49472a.jpg[/img]

Powers: Transhuman. Anatoli's right hand and forearm is cybernetic, and has several functions including a gun and a blade. The KGB's experiments also enhanced his strength and stamina beyond the human peak. This has allowed him to remain in peak condition into his fifties. 

Skills: 
Expert: martial arts, shock tactics
Proficient: heavy weapons, explosives, marksmanship

Equipment: a somewhat dated cybernetic arm from right elbow down, with hand, assault rifle, and blade functions. Flash bangs, gernades and gernade launcher, explosives. 

Weaknesses: his arm can be deactivated by EMPs

Psychological Profile: While Anatoli enjoys his independence from government agencies, he finds many of the jobs of a mercenary to be unimportant: he longs for the geopolitical turmoil he used to instill. While he is not apolitical or amoral, he feels the mission always supersedes his own personal feelings; he even seems to take on a different persona while on mission. He believes that morality varies depending on the situation, but honor and pride are constant.

Biography:
Anatoli Knyazev was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union in 1937. At the age of 17, he was conscripted into the soviet army. Two years later he was recruited into the KGB. After proving himself as an excellent operative for several years, the KGB enrolled him in a special program. Through experimental processes, Anatoli's strength, reflexes, and stamina were enhanced beyond those of a normal human. He was also fitted with a cybernetic arm prototype after he was forced to cut off his own arm on a mission. The KGBeast was born.

Unfortunately, the USSR was dying. After the Soviet collapse, Anatoli was forced to go freelance. He took up the name "the Beast" and began working for the various Russian gangs, with some government wet work on the side. He soon fell out of favor of the Putin administration and had to leave Russia. He spent his time abroad as a mercenary. After many year enjoying his independence, he began to long for the geopolitical conflict he used to instigate. Not many black ops agencies were interested in freelance mercenaries, however, Checkmate saw his potential for Task Force X.
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