primo-alexis-terii4-gotlostALEXIS PRIMO
<Some of the stories are from MAX series, which are more violent and sexually explicit; use discretion when viewing>

Real Name: Presumably Alexis Primo

Identity/Class: Human

Occupation: Professional assistant to Terror (she pretty much does anything that needs to be done; see abilities)

Group Membership: MTR Imports, Terror, Inc.

Affiliations: Assistant/virtual partner of Terror (Shreck) and directly affiliated with Boneyard, Brunnhilda and Rekrab;
    at least temporary alliances with
Luke Cage (Carl Lucas), Hafifa, Hellfire (Mikal Drakonmegas), Mahboobullah Karzahellian, Geoff Pfiffer, Silver Sable (Silver Sablinova), Mr. Weinstein, an unidentified prison pathologist;
    various beings who hired Terror via her (including
Bud "Buddy" Henry, Ray "Piranha" Jones, David Meyer; a consortium of representative of third world countries allied against Roger Barbatos; formerly Maximillian Braniff, Roger Harper)
    various unidentified...guests on her yacht;
    indirectly Oliver "Ollie" and Suzie Henry;

Enemies: Aban, Death's Reign (including Roger Harper), Priapus, Talita (aka Angel de la Muerte, Death Angel), Zahhak (aka the Dragon King), unidentified husband;
    formerly Luke Cage (Carl Lucas), Silver Sable (Silver Sablinova)
    at least indirectly most people/being against whom she acquired contracts for Terror (including
Roger Barbatos, Ray "Piranha" Jones, Roy Montgomery);
    indirectly
Vita "the Headcutter" Buchetto, "Babyface" Ann Reppucci, and "Cruella" Cortese (set up for a frame by Piranha Jones via the contract on his own life), Mr. Servido

Known Relatives: Unidentified husband (last name possibly Primo; deceased)

Aliases: To those besides Terror, she is generally known as "Ms. Primo" or "Mrs. Primo";
    in his latter appearances, he exclusively called her "Mrs. Primo"

Base of Operations: Various across the Unites States of America, at least;
    MTR Goods-and-Imports, downtown Los Angeles, California;
    unspecified safehouse in the vicinity of Los Angeles, California;
    at least formerly a yacht, via which she traveled to along the America's East Coast, notably the waters off Boston, Massachusetts; Manhattan, New York

First Appearance: Terror Inc. I#1 (July, 1992)primo-alexis-terii2-full-run

Powers/Abilities: Ms. Primo is skilled and experienced in many fields.

    She managed Terror Inc. (which was presumably DBA (Doing Business As) MTR Imports (I'd speculate MTR was some abbreviation of "Mr. Terror"), both procuring clients for Terror as well as financially managing the business and helping to generate profit (she likely handled investments and other ways to build finances). She managed the business' taxes, as well.

    She is experienced at riding motorcycles and bicycles, and at driving sportcars, All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) and possibly piloting a helicopter. She can procure international transportation for both herself and Terror.

    She is capable of hiking through arid and hot desert mountains, rappelling down caverns, and using bio-hazard suits to function in a plague-infested region.

    She also can procure various forms of advanced weaponry, including automatic weapons and rocket launchers, at least. She is also apparently experienced in using handguns and automatic weapons.

    She was willing and able to investigate sources of information and/or concern, regardless of potential danger involved. She could uncover information on secret government and/or terrorist operations unknown to the public.

    She can negotiate with and obtain the cooperation of government officials, sometimes via encouraging flirtation. She is willing to pay prison guards to perform illegal acts, such as delivering her body parts from an executed criminal.

    Ms. Primo is largely unflappable. Maintaining calm composure in hostile situations, she was prone to replying to shocking information, danger, etc. with a mere "Oh, my."

    Further, she was not only accepting of Terror's macabre, organ- and body-harvesting/absorbing powers, but she frequently facilitated these abilities. While Boneyard was his go-to person for procuring specialized persons with certain abilities/histories, Alexis frequently procured and/or transported corpses in various conditions.

    When necessary, Alexis demonstrated both the intuition and the fortitude to stab Terror in the neck and even to tie him down and crack open his chest and abdomen, eviscerate him and tear his internal organs apart to help restore his mind when his was subhumed by his host body's mind.

    She was willing to sacrifice her own life (and allow him to use her own body parts) if not only to save Terror's life and/or restore his mind at least to grant him the physical and mental power to stop a worldwide threat. However, she was also willing to use a gun to defend herself from Terror when he had been separated from Talita's arm and was being overwhelmed by his host body's personalities.

    She was also willing to incinerate his diseased/incapacitated tissue and supply him with corpses to allow him to regenerate.

    While clearly bothered by the odor of his decaying form, she had a genuine affection for Terror, putting a friendly hand on his shoulders and crying when she thought he had been destroyed.
    But, would she sleep with him? Not on his life...

    She apparently has a fetish for leather and has been known to be rather kinky and flirtacious with other men under some circumstances.

    She enjoys fine wine and fine tea.

    Particularly in her more recent appearance, she liked to call everyone "Darling."

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'6")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 125 lbs.)
Eyes: Sometimes blue, sometimes green (possibly via colored contact lenses, artistic license/error, my poor color vision and/or magic or something)
Hair: Unrevealed (she has been seen with brown, red, and black hair, but it is unrevealed which hair color is natural)

History:

primo-alexis-ter1-face(Terror Inc. I#13 (fb) - BTS) - Alexis Primo's husband hired Terror to kill his wife. Although the specific circumstances are unrevealed, Terror did not carry out the contract (and most likely killed the husband instead).

(Terror Inc.#13) - At a restaurant in a small village in Mexico, which only opened once every 12 months, Terror annually met Alexis Primo for champagne and a dance to celebrate the one contract he never carried out.

(Terror, Inc II#1 (fb) - BTS) - At some point (and likely on multiple occasions), Terror told Alexis of his origins.primo-alexis-ter1-swimsuit-prof

(Terror Inc. I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Alexis had a strange assortment of sleepover...friends...on her yacht.

(Terror Inc. I#1 (fb) - BTS) - A consortium of representatives of various third world countries who grew sick of Roger Barbaros supplying their enemies had Alexis hire Terror to slay Roger Barbatos. When she greeted Terror, she noted "Time is money," indicating the consortium's impatience for Barbatos' demise.

(Terror Inc. I#1) - Aboard her yacht outside Manhattan, as Ms. Primo read a newspaper ("Daily" something), she encouraged Terror to think about all of the opportunities in that city, with its eight million people and eight million grudge matchers just waiting to fork over their money to someone willing to take care of twisting the knife. When Terror noted the heroes and the concentrated level of altruism there was not conducive the "grey areas" he frequented, Alexis started to suggest, "Well, if you change your mind..." and then she was distracted by the subject, wondering if he could literally change his brain, as he could replace other parts of his body. 

    Though disgusted by watching him replacing his eye and ear with those of one of Barbatos' men, she was interested as Terror learned from this how Barbatos had made a deal with the demon Beelzeboul, gaining protection of his body from harm. She was impressed as he used an artist's hand to sketch the symbol used in Beelzeboul's pact, after which he told her that he now realized that he needed to break that contract.

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(Terror Inc. I#1 - BTS) - From his associate Rekrab in Westminster, London, Terror learned of Beelzeboul's son, Mikal Drakonmegas, whom he might use to gain passage to Beelzeboul's realm.

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(Terror Inc. I#3 - BTS) - After Terror had enlisted the aid of Mikal Dragonmegas (whose demonic "darksoul" powers Terror had brought forth via the fangs of the Hellfire serpent), the two visted Alexis' yacht, off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts. With Darkonmegas having literally lost his shirt, Alexis offered him to re-outfit himself via her guest wardrobe.

(Terror Inc. I#3) - Alexis asked about Terror telling "Hellfire" the rest of his life story, and when Terror noted that "Hellfire" was just a descriptive term rather than a nom de plume, Alexis countered that it was certainly easier on the lips than that "Drakon-tongue-twister!" She further questioned Terror going to all of this trouble, as favors didn't suit him, but Terror countered that he did not do favors but rather accumulated debts..

    When Mikal appeared in his outfit and noted that Alexis had strange tastes in fashion, she explained that she had a strange assortment of sleepover...friends, and Mikal replied that that was more than he wanted to know.

    Replying, "About that, anyway. For now," she questioned if "Horror for Hire" didn't have things for him to discover. Terror ignored her mocking, and he departed with Mikal to dig up his mother's corpse.
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(Terror Inc. I#6 (fb) - BTS) - Alexis accepted a contract to murder Ray "Piranha" Jones via a dummy account from a contracteee who was willing to pay triple the price to guarantee anonymity.

(Terror Inc. I#7 (fb) - BTS) - Jones had actually been the one to anonymously hire Terror to kill him, intending to frame Vita "the Headcutter" Buchetto, "Babyface" Ann Reppucci, and "Cruella" Cortese, who had initially defended him and helped him escape criminal charges but had then began making demands of him and launching their own brutal crime syndicate.

(Terror Inc. I#6) - Aboard her yacht, Alexis met with Terror and Brunnhilda. Terror complained that accepting an anonymous job had left them ill-informed and that unforeseen complications had caused his job performance to suffer. She noted that when he suffered, they all suffered, which he considered appropriate. When Alexi pointed out how much the client had paid, Terror countered that they were in a better position to "put in an honest day's work for an honest day's exorbitant pay when we know the 'why' as well as the 'who.'"

    When Alexis asked Brunnhilda is she had anything in leather, Terror told her to cater to her intimate apparel later and to focus on giving him an opionion on the principals involved in this case.

    From information he had obtained at a library, she discussed how the criminal Jones had been cleared of any indictments in a grand jury hearing and that not long after, his former defenders -- Vita Buchetto, Ann Reppucci, and "Cruella" Cortese -- were being grilled for similar and worse. Terror considered that there may be more going on than a simple hit, and Alexis added that that may allow them to charge more.

(Terror Inc. I#7 - BTS) - Terror discovered the truth about Jones and seemingly slew him.

(Power Man and Iron Fist III#7 - BTS) - Piranha Jones turned up alive.




primo-alexis-ter8-upper(Terror Inc. I#8 - BTS) - Preparing for his prison execution -- after being framed for murder because he had stolen from his Maggia boss, Mr. Servido -- Bud "Buddy" Henry gave Terror the money he stole to give his family one last Christmas with him.primo-alexis-ter8-upper-hat2

(Terror Inc. I#8) - After Bud's execution, Alexis paid a prison morgue pathologist to cut off Budd's right hand, an eye and lips so Terror could use them for Bud's family. She had prison guard Weinstein obtain the parts from the pathologist and deliver them to her, but when he flirted -- commenting on how she straddled her motorcyle and offering her something harder to ride -- she reminded him for whom she worked, noting that he owed her a few freebies.

     Alexis subsequently met with Terror in a limousine, and he advised her to file this under "gift causa mortis" so that they could write it off for tax purposes.

     As Terror claimed (and placed some of) the body parts, he thanked Alexis, and she advised him that Mr. Henry's mob friends had revenge planned that could make his job a royal pain in the backside...whomever's backside it was that he was using.

(Terror Inc. I#8 - BTS) - After taking out Mr. Servido and delivering on his promise to Bud Henry, providing comforting touches to his sleeping family, Terror left them with $150,000 of Bud's money.

     While he considered that Alexis would accuse him of catering to eleemosynary (charity), Terror planned to point out to her that he kept 70% and that the rest was to pay for the Chistmas cookie they had left out for Santa that he had eaten.

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primo-alexis-ter9-ATV(Terror Inc.#9 (fb) - BTS) - Hired by Maximillian Braniff to investigate the murder/assassination of his alleged daughter, "Kristin Braniff," whose cadaver had been seized by S.H.I.E.L.D. for reasons of "international security," Terror arranged for Alexis to meet him for assistance.

(Terror Inc.#9) - After Terror took down S.H.I.E.L.D. forces carrying Kristin's corpse, Ms. Primo -- arriving via some ATV with a trailer -- met him with the arm of a skilled lockpicker that gained him entrance into the vault containing the corpse.

     She then drove him to a chopper to airlift them to her yacht where she had arranged for the autopsy to take place.

    After she told him she had a problem with his driving, he advised her that many would hesitate to criticize him so openly, but she assured him that she was not worried as she knew he had a good heart..."I took an EKG of it before you put it in this afternoon." (see comments)

    On her yacht, Alexis delivered Terror the hand, nose and something else (it doesn't look like an eye, although that would be logical) from a medical examiner to perform an autopsy on Kristin.

(Terror Inc.#9 (fb) - BTS) - Terror determined that the girl had died as a result of multiple stab wounds inflicted with at least a pair of tri-bladed weapon, which he suspected to be Wolverine's claws.

(Terror Inc.#9) - Terror and Ms. Primo Primo met with Maximillian Branoff.

     After she had confirmed that Braniff had brought all of the promised money, Ms. Primo encouraged Terror to fulfil his promise of bringing Kristin's killer to justice despite his reservations.

(Terror Inc.#9 - BTS) - Primo subsequently directed Terror to meet with Boneyard, who supplied him with the arm that possessed claws like Wolverine, which Terror used to engage Wolverine.

    Allowing Wolverine to slash his chest with his claws, Terror realized that the spacing between Wolverine's claws did not match those of Kristin's wounds.

    During the battle, Terror stole some sort of semi truck cab, and he considered that Ms. Primo would not approve of his getting behind the wheel.
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(Terror Inc.#10) -  Accompanied by her seamstress associate, Brunnhilda, Ms. Primo investigated Max Braniff's apparent residence, which turned out to be a warehouse that was empty beyond the corpse of Kristin Braniff, still in the container in which Terror had delivered her to Max.

    Alexis contacted Terror and informed him, "We've got a problem..."


(Terror Inc.#10 - BTS) - Explaining the apparent frame, Terror convinced Wolverine to join his efforts to  uncover the truth. They did this by confronting Braniff who committed suicide after revealing his motivations.

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primo-alexis-ter12-weapon(Terror Inc.#11) - As Terror sought to recover the artifact known as Vatsayana's Tryst (of which he had already obtained one part), he met with Ms. Primo on her yacht in the Mediterranean Sea, instructing her to credit Rekrab a bonus for is information on the artifact but to also dock him a month for not knowing about the other two parts of the Tryst.

     He further instructed Alexis to search the databases for others of a similar mercenary bent who may be after the artifact.

    She questioned why he didn't just ask Brother Randi (who had recruited Hellfire to employ Terror), but Terror noted that Randi had died and been cremated, and that he could gain much from ashes beyond a rash.
     When Alexis asked how he could even tell, an annoyed Terror told her to just type.
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(Terror Inc.#11 (fb) - BTS) - From Alexis, Terror learned that Luke Cage and Silver Sable had also been employed to gather the artifacts.

(Terror Inc.#11 - BTS) - Terror ambushed Cage and obtained his artifact and then ambushed Sable as well.

(Terror Inc.#12) - After Terror, Cage & Sable had joined forces against Priapus, Alexis joined them, Boneyard and Rekrab aboard a private jet paid for (or owned by) Terror.

    Alexis approached Cage, telling him that she liked a man with muscles, and that she also liked to cover them with dessert toppings. When Cage tried to ease her off, starting with "Listen, Ms. Primo..." she interrupted with, "Alexis! Though you can call me anytime."

    Terror interrupted, noting he had been calling her for "anytime" for the last 5 minutes and asking if she would like to borrow an ear. While Alexis angrily told him that she would tell him where to shove his ear, if it even were his ear, Cage, happy for the reprieve, quietly told Terror that he may start to like him.

    Noting that Boneyard had earned her fee, Terror asked Alexis about more traditional arms, and she produced an automatic weapon. Cage told her that their target was big, and she coyly replied, "And you would know, hmm, Luke? Yum-yum!"

    Nonetheless, she produced something more like a rocket launcher and tossed it to Terror, who approved, noting that with Priapus, there was only one strategem: "Negotiation. By way of large caliber."

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(Terror Inc.#13) - Terror and Alexis had their annual meeting for champagne and a dance. He toasted Alexis as the business manager responsible for his wealth.

    When he noted how he had recently been feeling the pain of  having lost his love so many centuries ago, Alexis reminded him of the one contract he had never carried out and told him she forgave him for that.

    They then shared a dance.




primo-alexis-terii1-blackcocktail-seatedprimo-alexis-terii1-blackcocktail-upper(Terror, Inc II#1 (fb) - BTS) - Four months passed between jobs for Terror Inc.

(Terror, Inc II#1) - At a bar in Los Angeles, Terror recounted his origins to Alexis. She told him that that was the most romantic story she had ever heard, but when he asked if she would sleep with him, she also reminded him that he had told it to her before, with significantly different numbers of those attacking him and Talita.

    Regardless, she suggested he get some sleep, as tomorrow he had the first big meeting in six months and that Terror Incorporated had bills to pay.

    As they departed, she reminded him of the details, that the client was Roger Harper, who worked for Homeland Security

(Terror, Inc II#1 - BTS) - Harper told Terror of the mission to kill Roy Montgomery, Homeland Security's top man and director before he could meet with the Death's Reign terrorist organization.

(Terror, Inc II#2 (fb) - BTS) - Neither Mrs. Primo nor Terror were aware that Harper secretly worked for Mother, which was actually the Death's Reign organization, which was under the control of Talita, Terror's former lover.

(Terror, Inc II#1) - Alexis subsequently met with Terror in Beverly Wilshire Hotel, but she refused to head home at his recommendation, as she considered things too thrilling.

     She was present when Terror was crippled by an explosion.

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primo-alexis-terii2-face(Terror, Inc II#2 (fb) - BTS) - Alexis believed Terror to have perished.

(Terror, Inc II#2 - BTS) - Despite having been dissolved by acid and dumped into the sewage treatment plant, Terror took over a series of animals before possessing the abusive Craig.

(Terror, Inc II#2) - At her offices in the MTR Goods-and-Imports in downtown Los Angeles, Mrs. Primo wept over her picture of herself and Terror dancing, Terror entered and announced his survival. When she rushed over and hugged him, and asked if she would sleep with him, but she told him "Not on your life."

    After detailing his recovering and relating that his having lost Talita's arm made his curse/power harder to control and would soon be fatal, he demonstrated this by briefly losing his mind to Craig's. When he grabbed and threatened her, she quietly pulled her handgun out of her purse while saying, "Darling, please..." Nonetheless, Alexis resolved that they would use Boneyard to arrange for some fresh body parts to keep him going as a temporarly measure. As she called, however, Terror led her to flee as a Death Reign helicopter approached their window and began firing at them. They used an escape hatch to reach her car. En route, he told her that Talita was the only good part about him; when she asked about his own soul, he told her that the last time he had followed his own soul, he had raped 16 women, burned down a Goth village and butchered 140 men, women and children.

    When they arrived at Boneyard's place, she helped his weakened form out of the car. He told her to go, but she advised him that he was a mess without her.

(Terror, Inc II#2 - BTS) - Terror found Boneyard dead, and he used his powers to learn who had killed her seconds before they fired a rocket to blow up the building.

(Terror, Inc II#3) - As Terror slew his attackers, Ms. Primo fled in her car. Realizing she was being followed, she briefly ditched them and fled into an area inhabited by a group of apparent drug addicts.

(Terror, Inc II#3 - BTS) - Alexis abandoned her car to the group and allowed them to lead her pursuers away while she escaped on bicycle. Stopping off at "the archives," she acquired a large amount of information on Death's Reign.

(Terror, Inc II#3) - Ms. Primo reached their safehouse to find Terror waiting for her. She shared what she had learned about Death's Reign, including their leader, Angel de la Muerte, aka Death Angel, who was trapped in an iron lung. The two surmised that she had Talita's arm and sought to kill Terror to usurp his curse/power and form a new body. After Terror noted that he could survive about another day without Talita's arm, she accompanied him as he used one of Death's Reign's agents' hands to lead them to Death Angel's base in East Los Angeles. After they arrived, he sent her back to the safehouse, assuring her that he had brought plenty of back-up parts from the Death's Reign agents he had slain to keep him supplied with fresh body parts.

(Terror, Inc II#3 - BTS) - Terror fought his way to Death Angel, only to learn that she was Talita before her machines dug into him and drained his power into her.




primo-alexis-terii4-orgy(Terror, Inc II#4 (fb) - BTS) - Alexis did not leave, and Death's Reign agents discovered and captured her.

(Terror, Inc II#4) - After Talita had had her arm re-attached, she had Ms. Primo brought to her, and Alexis apologized to Terror, noting that she had gotten lost. As Talita noted that Terror loved Ms. Primo and that he might love her again after she ravaged the Primo's body for spare parts, Alexis told Talita that it might do her some good and further stated that she had heard plenty about Talita but that it seemed that none of it was true.

    However, having been bonded to Talita's arm for some 800 years, much longer than Talita had possessed it during her lifetime, Terror re-established control over the arm and forced Talita to assault her agents; Alexis mockingly noted that rudeness to the help was the first sign of classless behavior. She fled in the subsequent chaos, during which they severed the arm from Talita and incapacitated Terror.

    Stripping off her gown, Alexis posed as an unconscious or sleeping woman at an orgy (designed to facilitate the cooperation of those who would sacrifice themselves for the cause), where she heard Roger Harper discuss Death's Reign's further terrorist/nihilic plans. She was disturbed when she regained her Chanel gown, only to find that one of them men had vomited all over it.

    She subsequently discovered Terror's head kept in a cage and, while posing as a Death's Reign agent, opened the cage, letting him out and allowing him to take over Harper's body. After leading Alexis to the exit, Terror, influenced by Harper's mind, still sought to aid Talita despite knowing they plotted to kill billions. She stabbed Harper's body and ran outside while the pain helped Terror's mind regained dominance. The scantily-dressed Ms. Primo was oggled by Death's Reign agents, but they all backed off when Terror (in Harper's body) revealed their plans for a massive orgy that night before the next day's massive slaughters.

    After they reached a hotel room and Terror noted his imminent doom, which would allow Talita to control the arm, Alexis asked Terror if he trusted her, and when he confirmed this, she stabbed him in the throat and then called the police.




primo-alexis-terii5-eviscerate(Terror, Inc II#5 (fb) - BTS) - Ms. Primo chained Harper's form to the bed, cut open his chest and abdomen and began to eviscerate him. Nonetheless, Harper retained enough control to force Terror to release his hold on Talita's arm.

(Terror, Inc II#5) - As Death's Reign forces blew up a power source and all power went out on that section of the city, Primo's torture finally submerged Harper's mind, and Terror regained control of his form, although he remained unable to retake control of Talita's arm.

    When Terror insisted that he was too weak, Alexis said she would be his rock and raised a blade to her neck. primo-alexis-terii5-slitthroat

(Terror, Inc II#5 (fb) - BTS) - Ms. Primo sliced her throat, intending for Terror to use her fresh body parts and her persona (which was not loyal to Talita/Death's Reign). However, the sight of this was enough sacrifice to allow Terror to regain his will and control of his body.

(Terror, Inc II#5 (fb) - BTS) - Terror rebuilt his body with Death's Reign corpses that Alexis had brought to him.

    He apparently brought her to a hospital, where she was stabilized.

(Terror, Inc II#5 - BTS) - Terror's long-term possession of Talita's arm ultimately caused it to regenerate him when an explosion destroyed both of their forms.

(Terror, Inc II#5) - Terror visited the recovered Ms. Primo, delivering her roses.

    When she noted that she had not expected for him to see her again, he explained that the image of her sticking the knife into her throat was more than enough sacrifice to pull her through, and that he did not need to take her parts.

    Speaking uncharacteristically (and hoarsely), she asked, "Did you get the bitch?" and Terror assured her that all that remained of Talita was her arm.

    Noting that she had been willing to give up quite a lot for his sake, Terror asked if she was ready to sleep with him, and she replied, "While you're attached to another woman? Not on your life."


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primo-alexis-teran1-faceprimo-alexis-teran1-wine(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4 (fb) - BTS) - On an unspecified job just before the trip to Istanbul, Mrs. Primo noticed as Terror grossly overestimated the land speed of Rottweilers.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#1 (fb) - BTS) - Having apparently sold Israeli agents on Terror's efficiency and discretion, Mrs. Primo joined Terror in Istanbul, Turkey to recover a deadly deadly virus for the Israelis.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#3 (fb) - BTS) - Mrs. Primo was impressed with the sweet young boy who brought her coffee in Istanbul.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#1) - After listening to Terror's tale of his encounters with the Duque and Duquesa of Cordoba, Spain circa 1348 A.D., she hoped that he had found the Duque and tore his scrotum off.

    Briefly mentioning that it took him four years and into the land of the Dragon King, Terror appreciated the time and his mission to to kill terrorists for his Israeli employers. She reminded him that the mission was for him to recover a sample of the virus in the bag provided and to then incinerate the lab with the device provided by the Israelis.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#1 - BTS) - Afflicted by the virus, Terror recovered a sample and slaughtered many of the workers present and found hundreds of corpses. Finding a youth named Aban trapped in a plastic chamber, Terror freed him before blowing up the facility.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#1) - Waiting at their planned dinner date restaurant, Alexis received a call from Terror, who told her he had one thing to take care of and then he would join her for "steak, story and hot tub til dawn."

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#1 - BTS) - After taking Aban to an ER, Terror realized too late that the youth was spreading the virus as he was infected and those around him swiftly died.


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primo-alexis-teran3-full-prof-gun(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#2 (fb)) <12 hours before the main story> - Wearing a protective suit, Mrs. Primo was present as part of a containment team she had apparently infiltrated to recover Terror, who had apparently gone on a maddened rampage before being blown apart by rockets launched from a helicopter.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#2 (fb) - BTS) - Aban was abducted by a group believed to be part of an Afghan-based Mujahideen

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#2 (fb)) - Pressuring (U.S.?) Agent Geoff Pfiffer to let her see Terror, Mrs. Primo apparently also paid other agents to bring body bags to replace Terror's infected parts. She was disappointed in the five cadavers, but she was told that the hospital was closed and they had to raid the medical college. primo-alexis-teran3-rapel

    Considering that Terror was going to be unhappy and that perhaps the zoo would have been better, she used matches and a gas can to burn the infected tissue and leave only Talita's arm in its armored containment, after which she instructed the agents to bring in the "slim pickings."

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#2) - The re-formed Terror complained about the small size of his new body, and Mrs. Primo apologized, noting the shortage but suggested the positive that he neither killed nor infected anyone during his shooting rampage. Pfiffer informed them that Meyer and the Israelis had denied everything as well as sealing the borders and shutting down all flights and that they needed "Kid A" (Aban, whom they reasoned had been taken somewhere in Afghanistan) to try to figure out a cure. Pfiffer gave them papers to get them across the border and a watch with a GPS that they could use to summon him and his people once they had found Aban. 

    As they drove to the Syrian border, Terror told her first that his being infected had made him realize that the current plague was the same as the black plague that had ravaged Europe back during his encounter with the Duque, which led him to tell her of his encounter with the the Dragon King, Zahhak, who had cured the Duque for a price before Terror had captured and imprisoned his immortal form in a cave. After he told her that he had eventually ripped off the Duque's scrotum and left him to bleed out, she replied, "Bravo."

    Before traveling to the location in which he left Zahhak (with the goal of recovering the cure), they stopped in Tel Aviv and confronted David Meyer, who revealed that they had learned how the Mujahideen had found Aban in a cave in Afghanistan's mountain and that he had failed to relate that the virus was a teenager. After Alexis instructed Meyer to take them to the cave where they had found the boy, Meyer -- blaming himself for what he thought would be the end of the world -- fatally shot himself through the head.

    Mrs. Primo expressed her disappointment in Terror's having missed this second gun, but Terror noted that Meyer still had two legs he could use.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#3) - Mrs. Primo urged Terror to keep going, as, although Meyer's legs knew where to go, they were not built for climbing up and down mountain in the desert. When they finally pitched a tent, she told him that she could not get into the tent with him due to his rotting odor, but they both ended up laughing when he noted that he did alright before they invented roll-on deodorant. 

    When Mrs. Primo considered that the boy she had met in Istanbul was probably sick now, she and Terror continued their search, eventually coming upon a town full of corpses, shot through the head by unrevealed parties. When she smelled an overpowering odor, they found a massive pile of similarly shot corpses in a nearby mountain cave. When a pair of Arabian men fired at them, Terror overpowered them and then made a loose alliance with their leader, Mahboobullah Karzahellian, who revealed that after they had found Aban they had tried fruitlessly to kill him.

    Mahboobullah further revealed that after Aban's release, Mahboobullah's brother had taken Aban to Istanbul where a Frenchman was supposed to be able to destroy the virus and or the youth. And, they had subsequently attempted to bring the youth back to where they had found him and blow the place up; however, his greater power had allowed him to infect and kill his captors despite the quarantine box.

    With Aban's location unknown to them, Terror told Mahboobullah about Zahhak, who had previously cured such a plague, and who was trapped in a cave in the Zagros range, just over the Iraq border, and Mahboobullah agreed to take them there in the hope of saving the rest of his family.

    Two days later, Mahboobullah's men's jeeps (with Alex and Terror's driven by Hafifa) brought the group to Esfahan, where they were fired upon by the local military, ultimately escaping, although Mahboobullah's other jeep and passengers were blown up.

    Four days later, while Mrs. Primo slept alone in her tent, Mahboobullah advised Terror that they would reach their location the next day but that he was lucky to have found a woman who would tolerate him and his ever-increasing odor. Terror replied that she tolerated a lot more than that. primo-alexis-teran3-full

    Seven hours later, Alexis told Terror that he was lost, but Terror assured her that he didn't want just anyone finding Zahhak, and they soon after found the location. Within it were VX nerve gas cannisters, believed to be Saddam Hussein's long-hidden/lost weapons of mass destruction. Although Mahboobullah's men briefly held Alexis and Terror at gunpoint and planned to claim the gas, Terror convinced them to continue on to find the man who might cure his sons. 

    They ultimately found Zahhak still in chains, and when he called Terror "Ferrydun," Terror had to explain to Mrs. Primo that it was an alias he had used. Zahhak told Terror to bring "the virgin" over to him (intending for his serpents to feed on her brain), but Terror advised him that she was no virgin; Zahhak then agreed, noting that she smelled like a spoiled goat. Mrs. Primo did not appreciate either comment.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4 (fb) - BTS) - Wishing to be able to let Zahhak lead them to his cure, Terror put the transponder from Pfiffer's GPS watch in his own head, figuring that Zahhak's serpents would devour his skull. Mrs. Primo brought a new head (gathered from the  corpses in the cave in Afghanistancontained within a bag) to replace the one Terror would lose, and she had Hafifa keep the bag in his jeep.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#3) - Terror offered Zahhak freedom from his mystic bonds and the promise of a truce for one day, during which time Zahhak revealed that Aban was his son. However, after Terror had released him, Zahhak had his serpents feed on Terror's brain.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Mrs. Primo sent Hafifa back up to his jeep for her bag.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4) - As Zahhak's serpents tore Terror into pieces, Mrs. Primo led Mahboobullah and his men back up to the surface, assuring him this was all part of the plan. He called her a madwoman, and she suggested he not be so dramatic. As they fled, Zahhak's serpents tore apart Mahboobullah's men, and then Terror's body, mindlessly trying to reform itself, also appeared to threaten them with its writhing tentacles. Zahhak tried to delay or destroy Terror via the VX nerve gas to prevent his mindless form from harming them.

    After Hafifa arrived, Mrs. Primo threw the head from her bag down the cave.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4 (fb) - BTS) - Attaching that head to his form, Terror was able to regain his intelligence.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4) - Mrs. Primo, Mahboobullah and Hafifa were then confronted at gunpoint by Agent Pfiffer (who had been following the GPS signal and whose other agents had been decapitated by Zahhak), who noted Mahboobullah to be a wanted man. Alexis updated him with the current situation, and when he became distraught at the mention of VX, she advised him to catch up or go with the flow. The re-formed Terror, twitchy from the nerve gas, then exited the cave, and they all headed out after Zahhak. 

    With herself, Mahboobullah and Pfiffer in biohazard suits and with Terror regularly replacing his head as the one he was using began to succumb to the plague (or just decay because they had been long dead), Mrs. Primo accompanied Terror to the Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran, where they found Zahhak nearly dead from the plague at the hands of Aban.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4 - BTS) - When Terror rapidly succumbed to Aban's plague powers, Mahbooballuah sacrificed himself to give Terror a fresh head to allow him enough time to punch out and incapacitate Aban.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4 (fb) - BTS) - After acquiring sufficient quantities of Aban's urine to cure himself and others (including Mahbooballuah's people) from the plague, Terror had both Aban and Zahhak trapped in that subterranean caverns in the Zagros Mountains.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4) - A week after Aban's defeat, at a hotel in Hollywood, California, Mrs. Primo tried to console the freshly returned Terror with other medicinal uses for urine, but he asked that they not talk about it during their "romantic victory celebration." Noting that miracle cures could be found in the most unlikely of places, she told Terror that she had discovered a cure for his problem, and she gave him a bag containing deodorant.

(Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4 (ff) - BTS) - 500 years in the future, Aban and Zahhak remained trapped there (we'll never know if this is Earth-616's future or not, until/unless it diverges by having them released at some point in Reality-616).

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Comments: Created by D.G. Chichester and Jorge Zaffino.

    If Ms. Primo did an EKG on the heart before Terror put it in, it must have been in a still-living being...I guess we'll assume it was a bad person who deserved it...

    When Terror and Alexis were shown dancing in the black and white image, it seemed as if it might represent a flashback to an earlier time, perhaps the first time they danced after he had spared her...which may have been multiple decades before. She did look younger, but she also looked younger in the panels before (like she was in her 30's, as opposed to looking more like she was in her 60's in other issues). It was also a different artist...

    Alexis was much different in the series by David Lapham than those by D.G. Chichester. The original version seemed to be a highly-sexed and kinky (although her appearance markedly varied, in some cases looking younger and more attractive; in others she looked more like a middle-aged to older woman). However, the Lapham issues version (despite some mild variation between the artists) looked to be early 30's or younger, very attactrive, more proper and less flirty; the latter version clearly loved Terror, but as a friend, and she constantly rebuffed his romantic advances (which he did not do in the Chichester issues).
    I wonder if she was indeed an older woman who was magically de-aged at some point.
    Regardless, she was a much more enjoyable character in the MAX/Lapham series.

    In the original Terror series, he called her Alexis a lot, but he also called her Ms. Primo, and when she specifically introduced herself to a stranger, it was specifically "Ms. Primo."
    In the MAX/Lapham issues, Terror and other consistently called her "Mrs. Primo."
    Presumably Primo was her married name, which she kept even after she was widowed by Terror, and at some point, she chose to be called Mrs. rather than Ms....

    Mahboobullah sounds like "My Bubbalah" to me, with "Bubbalah" (bubbale) being a Yiddish word meaning sweetie or darling.   

   This profile was completed 04/26/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Alexis Primo
should be distinguished from:


yacht

primo-alexis-ter1-yacht

(Terror Inc. I#3 (fb) - BTS) - Alexis had a strange assortment of sleepover...friends...on her yacht.

(Terror Inc. I#1) - Aboard her yacht outside Manhattan, Ms. Primo and Terror plotted to assassinate the magically-protected Roger Barbatos.

(Terror Inc. I#3 - BTS) - After Terror had enlisted the aid of Mikal Dragonmegas (whose demonic "darksoul" powers Terror had brought forth via the fangs of the Hellfire serpent), the two visted Alexis' yacht, off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts. With Darkonmegas having literally lost his shirt, Alexis offered him to re-outfit himself via her guest wardrobe.

(Terror Inc. I#3) - Alexis asked about Terror telling "Hellfire" the rest of his life story, and when Terror noted that "Hellfire" was just a descriptive term rather than a nom de plume, Alexis countered that it was certainly easier on the lips than that "Drakon-tongue-twister!" She further questioned Terror going to all of this trouble, as favors didn't suit him, but Terror countered that he did not do favors but rather accumulated debts..

    When Mikal appeared in his outfit and noted that Alexis had strange tastes in fashion, she explained that she had a strange assortment of sleepover...friends, and Mikal replied that that was more than he wanted to know.

(Terror Inc. I#6) - Aboard her yacht, Alexis met with Terror and Brunnhilda to discuss and prepare for the contract to kill Ray "Piranha" Jones.

(Terror Inc.#9 (fb) - BTS) - Via a helicopter, Ms. Primo traveled with Terror and the corpse of "Kristin Braniff" to her yacht where she had arranged for the autopsy to take place.

(Terror Inc.#9) - On her yacht, Alexis delivered Terror the hand, nose and something else (it doesn't look like an eye, although that would be logical) from a medical examiner to perform an autopsy on Kristin.

(Terror Inc.#9 (fb) - BTS) - Terror determined that the girl had died as a result of multiple stab wounds inflicted with at least a pair of tri-bladed weapon, which he suspected to be Wolverine's claws.

(Terror Inc.#11) - As Terror sought to recover the artifact known as Vatsayana's Tryst (of which he had already obtained one part), he met with Ms. Primo on her yacht in the Mediterranean Sea, instructing her to credit Rekrab a bonus for is information on the artifact but to also dock him a month for not knowing about the other two parts of the Tryst.

(Terror Inc.#11 (fb) - BTS) - On board the yacht, she also learned that mercenaries Luke Cage and Silver Sable were also searching for the Tryst's components.

--Terror, Inc. I#1


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Terror Inc. I#1, pg. 13, panel 1 (yacht);
          panel 6 (face);
       pg. 16, panel 1 (swimsuit, upper profile);
    #3, pg. 15, panel 1 (sun dress and hat);
    #6, pg. , panel 5 (upper, blue blouse);
    #8, pg. 8, panel 3 (upper, seated);
          panel 5 (face, hat);
    #9, pg. 6, panel 2 (knees up, red hair);
          panel 5 (jumping on ATV);
    #10, pg. 9, panel 4 (full, post view);
    #12, pg. 13, panel 5 (flirting with Cage);
       pg. 14, panel 5 (with automatic weapon);
    #13, pg. 20, panel 6 (face);
        last page, panel 3 (dancing with Terror);
Terror Inc. II#1, pg. 10, panel 4 (black cocktail dress, seated);
          panel 6 (face);
    #2, pg. 10, panel 5 (face);
       pg. 13, panel 1 (running, full);
    #4, pg. 5, panel 5 (upper, got lost);
       pg. 13, panel 4 (hiding out in orgy);
    #5, pg. 4 (eviscerating Terror);
       pg. 8, panel 6 (slitting throat);
Terror Inc. - Apocalypse Soon#1, pg. 8, panel 2 (face, with tea);
       pg. 10, panel 2 (seated with wine glass);
    #3, story pg. 1, panel 2 (geared up for desert, mountain hiking; full profile w/ gun);
       pg. 6, panel 3 (rappelling into cavern of corpses);
       pg. 10, panel 5 (mostly full);


Appearances:
Terror Inc. I#1 (July, 1992) - D.G. Chichester (writer), Jorge Zaffino (artist), Marcus McLaren (editor)
Terror Inc. I#3 (September, 1992) - D.G. Chichester (writer), Jorge Zaffino (artist), Marcus McLaren (editor)
Terror Inc. I#6 (December, 1992) - D.G. Chichester (writer), Jorge Zaffino (artist), Marcus McLarin (editor)
Terror Inc. I#8 (February, 1993) -
D.G. Chichester (writer), Horacio Ottolini (artist), Marcus McLarin (editor)
Terror Inc. I#9-11 (March-May, 1993) - D.G. Chichester (writer), Richard Pace (penciler), Temujin (inker), Marcus McLarin (editor)
Terror Inc I#12 (June, 1993) - D.G. Chichester (writer), Kirk van Wormer (penciler), Temujin, Bud LaRosa & Steve George (inkers),
Marcus McLarin (editor)
Terror Inc. I#13 (July, 1993) - D.G. Chichester (writer), Richard Pace (penciler), Temujin (inker), Marcus McLarin (editor)
Terror II#1-5 (October, 2007 - April, 2008) - David Lapham (writer), Patrick Zircher (art), Alejandro Arbona (assistant editor), Warren Simons (editor)
Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#1 (July, 2009) - David Lapham (writer), Koi Turnbull (penciler), Scott Hanna (inker), Alejandro Arbona (editor), Warren Simons (consulting editor)
Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#2 (July, 2009) - David Lapham (writer), Koi Turnbull (penciler), Scott Hanna & Mark Pennington (inker), Alejandro Arbona (editor), Warren Simons (consulting editor)
Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#3 (August, 2009) - David Lapham (writer), Koi Turnbull & Xurxo G. Penalto (pencilers), Scott Hanna & Tom Palmer (inkers), Alejandro Arbona (editor), Warren Simons (consulting editor)
Terror Inc - Apocalypse Soon#4 (September, 2009) - David Lapham (writer), Koi Turnbull (penciler), Scott Hanna & Mark Pennington (inker), Alejandro Arbona (editor), Warren Simons (consulting editor)


First posted09/04/2026
Last updated: 08/26/2026

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