Prophet

Prophet is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by Image Comics. Created by Rob Liefeld, he first appeared in Youngblood #2 (July 1992). Prophet has starred in three ongoing series bearing his name; these monthlies debuted in 1993, 1995, and 2012, respectively. A fourth series, named Prophet: Earth War, began in January 2016. Fictional character biography John Prophet, a poor and homeless man living in the World War II era, volunteers to participate in the medical experiments of Dr. Horatio Wells, a time-traveling scientist from the future. He uses DNA-enhancing methods to transform Prophet into a supersoldier. Prophet is engineered to serve the evil Phillip Omen and programmed with murderous instincts. Wells has a change of heart, though, and changes Prophet's programming from evil to a strong belief in God. Wells plans for Prophet to be placed into stasis for many years and then re-emerge in the future to help Wells' people fight the evil Disciples. Eventually found by Youngblood, Prophet awakens disoriented in a world he does not recognize, mistakes Youngblood for the Disciples and attacks. It is later discovered that Prophet was not always in stasis after World War II, and was used as "a mindless weapon of war" in Vietnam. Stephen Platt, Prophet artist from 1994 to 1996, explained that the character "feel[s] responsible for the things that people forced him to do, even though he can't remember them. He's always thought of himself as a good person, and now he's discovering that the things he did were hideous by all standards of human decency. He's going to [...] take a spiritual journey to discover who he really is."