Anatoli Knyazev (New Earth-One)

Project: Beast
Anatoli Knyazev was born during the early years of the Cold War in the Soviet Union and was picked as a candidate for a secret government program started by the newly formed KGB known as Project: Beast, shortly after his birth. Anatoli would give the designation of Candidate #81 during his time in the Project and was one of 150 other candidates.

Through his entire childhood he would be trained in almost all forms of fighting known to the KGB and would be pitted against his fellow candidates, during the yearly culling, which started when he turned five and was set up to weed out the "weak" in an effort to find the top candidate for the program.

The final stage of the project involved the 10 last remaining candidates being put through a process that involved surgically adding cybernetic enchantments to the candidates to make them the perfect soldier and assassin. After the process was finished only 4 candidates survived the cybernetic enchantment surgery, which including Anatoli. One candidate would kill himself after surviving the surgery and the two other candidates beside Anatoli would try to escape the Soviet Union, but would later be hunted down and killed by Anatoli, who was given the code-name KGBeast.