Jeff Terrell (Extreme)

Shaft
Name	Jeffrey Terrell
Current Alias	Shaft
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Youngblood Formerly FBI
Relatives	Nathan Terrell (father)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	6′ (1.83 m)
Weight	210 lbs (95.25 kg).
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Red
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Alive
Alignment	Good
Reality	Extreme Universe
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	USA
Occupation	Government Agent
Education	Post-graduate degree
Base of Operations	Washington, D.C.
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Rob Liefeld
First	Youngblood Vol 1 1
First	Youngblood Vol 1 1

 No arrows. This pen will have to do. 

—Jeff Terrell

History

Origin

As a catholic child, Jeff Terrell was never without his trusty slingshot. Shooting at and hitting things was his greatest joy. He used to hustle at darts during college to make beer money.

After graduating college, Jeff Terrell joined the FBI, where he became a decorated field agent. In 1989, the US government yanked Terrell out of the FBI to join the Youngblood strike force, replacing Battlestone as a leader. Shaft's initial team was made up by Chapel, Diehard, Bedrock, Vogue, Link and Combat. As the only member to not have super powers, Shaft felt insecure, but he tried to fight for the American Ideal with his super team.

1992

In 1992, Shaft started dating Shelly Price, an Assistant District Attorney, but their busy schedules caused their dates to be constantly interrupted. One March morning, they managed to go shopping, but Shaft spotted a thief grabbing a handbag from someone nearby. Tackling the man, he was about to be shot by an assassin on a nearby rooftop, but when Shelly shouted a warning, Shaft grabbed a pen from his pocket and threw it at the assassin, hitting him in the neck. Checking the assassin, Shaft could find no ID. He got swarmed by media crew from channel SNN, who had been following him all day. A reporter, Michael Gibson, asked him to confirm Youngblood's involvement in Israel, but Shaft got a call from Youngblood headquarters, and had to run off. Joining his teammates, they stopped supervillains Strongarm and Gage from breaking out the other half of their supervillain team, The Four, composed of Deadlock and Starbright. After Shaft shot five arrows into Strongarm's arm, The Four were imprisoned in The Pentagon.

A week later, Shaft was briefed in The Pentagon alongside Bedrock by Roland Thymer, their manager. When Thymer mentioned the amount of variant action figures they were making out of Youngblood, Shaft felt it was exploiting the customer. That afternoon, Shaft and Bedrock threw a press conference where they denied the involvement of Youngblood's International Task Force in the death of Hassan Kussein. They were asked about Spawn, Shadowhawk and the Savage Dragon. Later, they were alerted to a jailbreak at the Pentagon. Shaft, Bedrock, and Chapel arrived to find The Four being freed by a villain named Showdown and a group of ninjas. The Four tried to teleport away, but Chapel was able to shoot Gage clear of teleport range. Afterwards, Diehard appeared with the news that there was an incident with the Away Team, and they needed to go to Germany to provide support immediately. For this mission, Shaft and the Home Team were joined by Photon.

After flying for ten hours, Shaft and the Home Team found the Away Team knocked out in a G.A.T.E. International laboratory where the they had been called to supervise the transport of a super-soldier named Jonathan Taylor Prophet. Prophet was the only remaining combatant against an army of robotic soldiers called Disciples of Doom, who were arriving through a portal from the planet D'khay. Sentinel, leader of the Youngblood Away Team, informed Shaft they needed to close the portal, so Shaft sent Bedrock and Diehard to do that. However, when Bedrock returned, he was accompanied by the tyrant ruler of D'Khay, Darkthornn, who had brainwashed Bedrock to do his bidding. Shaft decided they needed to take out Bedrock first, since they knew what he was capable of. The Berzerkers, a group of freedom fighters from D'Khay, were also present, and Wildmane, one of its members, distracted Bedrock under Shaft's orders while fellow Berzerker Grey and Youngblood Away Team member Brahma got into position and hit Bedrock hard enough to break his hypnosis. Afterwards, Darkthornn took down Prophet and opened his portals to let through an army of winged demon soldiers. Shaft could barely keep his head above water during the struggle, and Darkthornn proceeded to take down Photon, the Berzerkers and Youngblood Away Team members Cougar, Brahma and Sentinel, until Away Team member Psi-Fire used his psychic powers to force Darkthornn to retreat.

On August 9, Shaft and his team guarded vice-president Dan Quayle at Strategic Defense Initiative Astronomics along with two mercenaries named Pike and Hestia. There, the VP was assaulted by a rogue Covert Action Team. Despite Shaft's orders to bring them alive, Chapel shot the terrorist named Spartan to kill. When the terrorist called Maul began growing in size to the point of almost bringing the building down on everybody, his teammate Voodoo put him to sleep psychically. Seeing she had saved them, Combat was willing to entertain the possibility that there was more going on there than met the eye. When the Vice-President tried to execute Voodoo, Shaft told him to let them handle the terrorists, but the Vice President, outraged at being touched and questioned, shot at Shaft and grazed his skull. With Youngblood turning against him, Voodoo extracted an alien named B'lial from inside the Vice President, exposing the being who had been controlling his actions. Shortly after, Youngblood received an energy blast from the alien in charge, named Lord Helspont. As the Wild C.A.T. left to take care of him, Youngblood directed its attention to his cronies, Pike and Hestia. Shortly after, the facility started self destructing, and Youngblood was forced to run with the Vice-President, praying the C.A.T. could make it out on their own. After the explosion, there was no sign of any of the involved parties, except for the C.A.T.'s cyborg, who sacrificed himself to stop Helspont. Shaft commented the C.A.T. seemed like a resourceful bunch, and that he wouldn't be surprised if their paths crossed again.

In December, Shaft and Diehard had to fly to Chicago to bail Bedrock out of jail after he started a fight with Police Officer Dragon to see if he was strong enough to join Youngblood.

1993

In 1993, Shaft travelled to another reality stuck in the year 1963 and intruded in the base of one of their superhero teams, Mystery Incorporated. There, he kidnapped one of its members, Tommy Baker, by sucking him into a digital-audial transfer device which digitalized him. Shaft referred to Tommy as "the first pawn to be captured in the great and final war of the worlds." Travelling back to the Extreme Universe, Shaft referred to his device as "the means to sunder worlds" and watched the movement of various teams from the 1963 Earth and the 1993 Earth on screens. The resolution of these events was never recorded.

Later that year, Shaft was present when the World War II heroine Glory arrived at the Pentagon to request Youngblood to rescue Superpatriot, who had been kidnapped by Cyberdata. Diehard took care of the mission, and brought Superpatriot to The Pentagon.

Attributes

Abilities

• Leadership
• Marksmanship: While his favorite weapon is a specially crafted bow he is also proficient with various firearms and can throw knives and any object at hand with incredible accuracy. Terrell had extremely good aim, almost superhumanly good.
  • Throwing
• Swordmanship
• Martial Arts
• Investigation

Paraphernalia

Weapons

Shaft carries a bow based on Katellan anti-gravity technology and specialty arrows.

Notes

Shaft is an Ares.

See Also

• 75 appearance(s) of Jeff Terrell (Extreme)
• 7 image(s) of Jeff Terrell (Extreme)
• 1 quotation(s) by or about Jeff Terrell (Extreme)

See also

• Image Comics
• List of current Image Comics publications