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Jebediah Christoff
Jeb's iconic appearance as seen in Madness Combat 7. Jebediah in Madness Combat 1-3. Jebediah in Madness Combat 4. Jebediah in Madness Combat 5. Jebediah in Madness Combat 6.5. Jebediah in Madness Combat 6. Jebediah in Madness Combat 8. Dr. Christoff in MADNESS: Project Nexus (Classic). Dr. Christoff with the halo in MADNESS: Project Nexus (Classic). 1/9
Jebediah as he appears across the series.
Debut:	Madness Combat 1
Appearances:	19 · 13 (canon) · 2 (games) · 4 (non-canon)
Last appearance:	Ded Jeb
Role(s):	Antagonist Protagonist (MC8, MPN)
Kills:	249 · 86 (canon) · 163 (non-canon)
Deaths:	8 · 5 (canon) · 3 (non-canon)
Status:	Deceased
Allies:	Nexus Core (formerly) Dr. Crackpot (formerly) Sheriff Sheriff's Organisation A.A.H.W. (formerly) Sanford (M:PN) Doc (M:PN) Deimos (M:PN) Hank (M:PN, until The Rush) MERC Club M faction
Enemies:	Hank Tricky A.A.H.W Auditor Phobos Dr. Crackpot Nexus Core

"I purge the wicked. The impious madness must end. It has gotten out of hand. I shall be the instrument of armageddon. The end has begun." - Jeb in Madness Combat 8: Inundation.

Dr. Jebediah Christoff, also known as the Savior, Jebus and Jeb, is one of the primary antagonists of the Madness Combat series. Unlike most antagonists, he has also prominently featured as a protagonist, including Madness Combat 8: Inundation, Incident: 110A, Incident: 111A, a segment of Incident: 1000A, and the upcoming Ded Jeb. Jeb has been killed 5 times in the canon (3 times by Hank, once by Tricky, and for the last time during the upstart of the Normality Restoration-this time seemingly permanently). Jeb has a total of 86 kills in the series, a total of 163 kills in non-canon animations, and higher kills in MADNESS: Project Nexus series.

Jeb has prominently starred in several Madness Combat games, including an appearance as a boss in Madness Interactive, a playable character in Episode 1.5 of Madness: Project Nexus (Classic), and one of the main characters in MADNESS: Project Nexus.

Personality

Jeb has a savior and messiah complex, as he mentions that "He purges the wicked", and "He shall be the instrument of Armageddon" in the beginning of Madness Combat 8: Inundation. Jeb's character traits include being holier than thou, pompous, egotistical, arrogant, narcissistic, self-absorbed, self-righteous, and self-appointed leader, as well as being a liar and manipulative.

Jeb is a "bigger picture" kind of guy, obsessed with the future and how he can prevent Nevada's collapse, even if his methods are questionable. He's judgmental and will deem people as lessers or evil for things he has done or will do.

He's a hypocrite who lacks of true morals and will excuse his own actions or justify them when he would damn another for doing the same thing in his shoes. He’s a pretty violent guy and doesn’t strike as a touchy-feely type. He believes that no matter what he does, he is always in the right because the goals outweigh any means.

Despite claiming to want to save Nevada, it's likely he aims to make Nevada fit his own vision and seemingly isn't truly concerned with its residents' fates. He doesn't show any guilt and remorse and tries to act as someone who has a higher moral ground than anyone else. Jeb is notably prideful. He is so confident in his status and power that he often looks down on others (both figuratively and literally, as he can levitate). Krinkels once joked that Jeb is so prideful that he is the type of person who would refuse to look both ways before crossing the street because he feels the world should stop for him.^[1]

His personality was further expanded by games, in which he appears to speak with a polite, affable, and intelligent but also conceited and self-imposed manner to people.

He seems to dislike the constant violence going on in Nevada, but will inflict it as necessary to achieve his objectives. However, he has shown himself to be occasionally sadistic to a degree, but not as much compared to others, such as Hank or Tricky.

A recurring character trait of Jeb is his preference for high-caliber firearms, such as his Desert Eagle, which he later replaced with an S&W 500. For a long-range weapon, he settles on a TAC-50, which he uses in Inundation and Incident: 111A. Most likely because these guns do quick kills.

Jeb possibly appears to have an honor system of sorts; he allows his Zeds to attack Hank first. In Madness Combat 5, he stops one of his Zeds from shooting Hank and jumps down to face him. However, he'll drop it whenever his allies are in danger as we see this when Hank tries to shoot The Sheriff, not once, but twice in both Redeemer and Avenger. Both clips show Jeb attacking Hank from behind, showing he'll drop his "face-to-face" honor and goes straight for the kill. He even kills Hank in Madness 7 by sneak attacking on him when he was completely powerless and vulnerable.

It also can be seen in another way: Jebediah intentionally prevented Zeds from attacking Hank and gave a weapon to him because he wanted to flaunt ego and prove his superiority by showing that he can fight and defeat Hank while acting "fairly". It is also worthy of mentioning that the only time he acted somewhat honorably was when he had an entire army of zeds behind him, which likely gave to him confidence in his own capabilities and goaded into willingly risking and trying to fight Hank on relatively equal terms while believing that zeds would protect his back in the case he will begin losing (which is exactly what happens once Hank successfully shoots Jebediah into his chest, though they failed).

Nevertheless, he will do whatever he deems necessary, as seen in flashbacks in MADNESS: Project Nexus, when he is willing to let Nexus City fall to prevent Phobos from causing worse damage to Nevada. Before that, he was once a brilliant scientist who took pride and joy in his life's work. Originally, he wanted to use Project Nexus to prevent Nevada from collapsing, for good, for something that could help or even save Nevada. To make the world a better place. However, when he realized that Director Phobos had weaponized his life's work for his own selfish desires and godhood, it filled Jeb with deep resentment.

He viewed Project Nexus as a misleading project, believing he should eventually overthrow Phobos, during this period he began conspiring with The Sheriff and Hofnarr on this matter. But when Director Phobos discovered his intentions, Phobos decided to fire him from his post of scientist and ordered him to leave the Science Tower, this act prompted Jeb to opt to unleash zeds on Nexus City and personally slain Phobos himself.

However, it was revealed by Krinkels himself that underneath that logic was a wounded pride, a need not just to defeat Phobos, but to prove him wrong after he was fired from his job. He doesn’t just want to be right; he needs Phobos to be wrong. His pursuit of being right overshadowed his compassion, leading to apathy once his goal was achieved. In On The Wall.mp4, Jeb avoids every opportunity to shoot the Zeds. Instead, he shoots the Nexus Core that is protecting civilians, and they get overrun, which has been noted by TheSwain.

He did this to spite Phobos and the Nexus Core. This paired with him leaving Hofnarr behind to watch over the city while he's gone, simply because the latter outlived his usefulness, demonstrates how lowly does Jebediah look on people, seemingly only valuing them based on how conventionally useful they are to him and is otherwise completely dismissive towards their well-being despite claiming to "save Nevada". Jeb's actions changed from trying to help the city to causing a lot of damage. Even though he originally said he wanted to manage resources for the "greater good," his later choices led to many injuries and chaos. This suggests that his decisions became more about his own feelings than about his original plan or keeping people safe. In MADNESS: Project Nexus, letters addressed to The Sheriff reveal Jeb gaslighting himself into believing his plan to take down Director Phobos and the Nexus Core was a good idea, despite the devastating consequences. While he acknowledges the damage it will cause, he justifies it as necessary for the greater good.

His relationship with Doc is complicated. They appear to have a history of sorts, likely collaborators or rivals. After his death in Madness Combat 4, it's been stated that Doc recovered his remains and stitched him up, while Jeb hates it when Doc revives him. Krinkels has stated that Jeb is jealous of Doc because Doc does his job better than he does. In MADNESS: Project Nexus, during a flashback, when Doc brought Jeb to his base, he was initially calm as he headed there until he saw Hank. He was upset that Hank was here since Hank had killed him before. Doc then told him that Project Nexus was still alive and running, so he needed his help. Jeb refused to believe Project Nexus had survived and could not accept that his work was unfinished; he stated that Doc wanted to use the project to advance his research and experiments on death and rebirth, calling his experiments ghoulish. Doc calls out Jeb, saying he didn't complain when he stitched him up, but he doesn't care. He forbids them from entering Nexus City, telling them they'll not be the ones to save Nevada, and threatens them. Once Hank told him that he was here to destroy Project Nexus, Jeb's mood shifted, and he joined Hank. According to TheSwain, after Jeb sees Hank is going to the city anyhow, he only goes back there because he thinks Doc/Hank are going to finish what he started. That is unacceptable to him; only he is qualified to thwart Phobos, and no one else is allowed.

What's also interesting is that, despite causing a mass-scale massacre in Nexus City under guise of "saving Nevada", Jebediah didn't actually properly finish off Nexus Core and their activities. As such, Director Phobos still was able to recover from Jeb's coup and eventually planned to end the world in which he likely would've succeeded if it wasn't for Status Quo coming here and stopping him. Moreso, Jeb even went on his way trying to prevent S.Q from reaching Nexus City out of sheer envy of them protecting Nevada, desisting only once he has lost to Hank and learning that Sanford and Deimos already entered the city. This shows that not only Jeb is extremely harmful and destructive when "saving Nevada", but he isn't even competent at his endeavors and causes far more damage than good. Similarly, in Madness 3 he allows Sheriff to activate Improbability Drive and shows no concern over evoked by this act of chaos - all in an attempt to stop Hank. Not to mention it is heavily implied that he was the reason behind Sheriff obtaining The Drive in the first place, considering his past as Nexus Core scientist and the fact that Divergence Engine (which was developed by Tricky inside Nexus Core) was confirmed to be the same as Improbability Drive. It is very likely that he and Tricky were responsible for creation of this drive and later delegated it to Sheriff. Additionally, he even demonstrates a great interest in seizing control over Improbability Drive/Divergence Engine as shown in Madness 8 and ending of Madness Project Nexus. In spite of all aforementioned wrongdoings, Jebediah persistently refuses to take any accountability for it and admitting being wrong, much less reevaluating his priorities and ways. Even his betrayal of Nexus Core was primarily motivated by personal dislike of Nexus Core ways' and not some form of guilt, he didn't truly feel remorse for anything he himself did there (including his horrible Sleepwalker Program), shifting blame on others.

There are also implications of Jeb being motivated by his lust for power as opposed to craving to help people, since when he has a dialogue with Doc where he forbade him and Status Quo to enter Nexus City, he refers to the city as "my city" despite the fact that he previously had damned the city. Krinkels at one point even called both Jeb and Phobos a "power-seeking person who is dangerous to Nevada" on CuriousCat.

According to co-creator TheSwain, MsScarletWings accurately identified Jeb as a figure whose personality was fundamentally molded by his years serving under Director Phobos. We learn that Phobos plucked him from Nevada and made him the head of Project Nexus. With years of guidance under Phobos' mentorship, Jeb becomes a reflection of Phobos, albeit with differences. He gained Phobos' arrogance, theatricality, speeches, ego, pride, and obsession with control. The only meaningful difference between them was that Phobos was a snake, while Jeb was a genuine believer in the cause. Their similarities otherwise led to the clash they experienced in Madness Project Nexus Classic. Despite his crusade against tyranny, Jeb retains the "grossly inflated ego," penchant for dramatic oratory, and utilitarian "eggs-for-an-omelet" morality of the very leaders he seeks to overthrow. His primary character flaw is a lack of self-awareness; he is an effective "lone wolf" and researcher, yet he is a socially incompetent leader who repeatedly abandons his allies or defers to new masters like the Employers. He recruited a mattress salesman, aka The Sheriff, because he knew he lacked the charisma to lead a rebel group himself, he left the Nexus City in the hands of Dr. Hofnarr (who later became the insane clown Tricky) without a second thought, stating he'll thwart the agents of Madness elsewhere and leaves him, showing a cold disregard for his old friend’s deteriorating mental state.

Jeb is dealing with a significant amount of cognitive dissonance (not to be confused with the actual Dissonance); he has a distorted understanding of good and evil, and he isn’t nearly the hero he makes himself out to be. Krinkels said that he has a skewed vision of good and evil, stating that he’s not evil and that his ego had clouded his judgment, preventing him from re-evaluating his priorities.

When he was killed by Tricky, he quit being a member of the AAHW, and presumably briefly quit participating in violence altogether in Madness Combat 6: Antipathy, as his only appearance was him peacefully raking leaves, possibly because he was tired of violence all the time, returning only in Madness Combat 7: Consternation and Madness Combat 8: Inundation to try and end the violence altogether by killing Tricky, Hank, and then attempting to stop The Auditor and initiate Normality Restoration, which he only succeeded in with the latter of two objectives.

In short; as befitting of the trope "Tautological Templar", Jebediah, in his vain effort to emulate the savior figure, is a self-righteous narcissist who believes in a twisted image of order and justice, where he will excuse his own misdeeds in the name of preserving order, where Nevada will bow to his own ideals. To him, no sin is too great if it means that he gets to usher in a new Nevadean order where he plays the messiah, and its citizens bow to his own image of it.

Powers and abilities

Jeb is a master of gunfire and swordsmanship, and while seemingly less agile than Hank, he has a number of supernatural abilities that make him an especially dangerous opponent. Many of these supernatural powers seems to come from the halo on the top of his head.

His most infamous power in the series is the ability to resurrect the dead. Up until Madness Combat 5: Depredation, he would often resurrect Hank's victims into zombies, in order to fight Hank. Although they do not possess better fighting skills, they are much more resistant to bullets than normal people.

In the first episode, he has the ability to spawn a cross-shaped magic shield that can block bullets. In Madness Combat 5: Depredation, it is more of a transparent, smaller circular shield generated from his hand. In Madness Combat 8: Inundation, he uses a different type of magic shield: a circular red energy field that can capture incoming projectiles, allowing him to push wherever he wants. The poison the Auditor put in Christoff made his shields become smaller over time, which made the shields go from about the size of his body to slightly smaller than his head. The poisoning also made the shields increasingly opaque. In Incident: 110A, bullets would be immediately deflected off the red shield. In Incident: 1000A, he uses his ability to catch and manipulate projectiles, but no shield is shown. In MADNESS: Project Nexus he's able to surround himself with a giant shield (As seen during the Mag Agent: Gestalt boss fight) and can deflect incoming bullets just by extending own hands, similarly to how he stopped bullets in Incident: 1000A.

In the aforementioned game he is capable of sending objects to another dimension and then summoning them back.

Another of his abilities is his ability to seemingly disintegrate his enemies by casting and hitting them with a red beam either from his hands or eyes (which become red when he chooses to shoot it from his eyes). He has shown to be able to kill two people at the same time with this attack, but it is unknown if he can use it against any more. In Episode 1.5 of the Madness: Project Nexus Story Mode, Dr. Christoff gains the ability to fire Nexus bolts, which can disintegrate a weaker opponent. He can also release slam attacks in the same manner, which knock back and injure close-by foes.

He is also shown to have incredible muscular strength. In Madness Combat 8: Inundation, he is able to lift and throw large, heavy crates at enemies without strain. Jeb is the only character who has been seen wielding and firing an assault rifle with one hand without suffering from a bad performance through the high recoil. Krinkels stated himself that Sanford could only properly control a Bren gun because of the bipod, while Jeb probably would have dual wielded them.

Additionally, Jeb has the ability to summon certain weapons. In the first episode, Christoff summoned a cannon from thin air to use against Hank. Since Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis, this power managed to summon his signature Binary Sword, which appeared from behind his back. In both Madness Combat 5: Depredation and Madness Combat 8: Inundation, he summoned his sword from his hand. MADNESS: Project Nexus also proves that he can create variety of firearms, which he had done to assist his allies during their fight against Phobos,

Jeb has the ability to use teleportation, which is shown in Madness Combat 3: Avenger and Madness Combat 5: Depredation, but it is used very rarely.

The last supernatural power he displays is the ability to use telekinesis and levitation. Since Madness Interactive and Madness Combat 3: Avenger, he was shown to be able to float in mid-air. In the earlier episodes, His telekinetic powers were shown to be reliant on a lightning-like beam from his hands. In Madness Combat 5: Depredation, he used these beams to push back Hank and to retrieve his sword from a distance. In Madness Combat 8: Inundation, he continued to display his telekinetic power, only now lacking the lightning-based beam. He used this power to throw crates, rip apart Agents, and smash enemies into walls. In Incident: 110A and Incident: 1000A, he also used it to fire guns without physically holding them, although a little less accurately than if he was holding them normally.

Appearances

Canon appearances

Madness Combat 1

Jeb's first appearance was in the first episode. He had on the typical smock for clothes but he still had his long hair, goatee, and his halo. During Hank's massacre, Jeb confronted him. He was much more formidable than the other people Hank fought earlier. He reanimated 2 corpses to fight Hank, but they were quickly killed again. He then summoned a cannon and fired it at Hank, but was killed by him when he let his guard down for a moment.

Madness Combat 2: Redeemer

Jeb appeared again, this time as the secondary antagonist, and an ally of the Sheriff. When he first encountered Hank, he revived a group of dead Grunts and then retreated. He reappeared at the end of the episode, sneaking up behind Hank, who was cornering the Sheriff. Before Hank was able to kill the Sheriff, Jeb shot him in the head with his Desert Eagle.

Madness Combat 3: Avenger

Jeb appeared once more in Madness Combat 3: Avenger with a slightly modified goatee, and continued his role as the secondary antagonist. He first appeared standing beside the Sheriff, who was activating the Improbability Drive. He confronted Hank halfway into the episode and reanimated several Grunts to fight him. After the Zombies were killed, Jeb summoned a sword to fight Hank, but was shot in the chest. He faded away as a retreat. Once again, he reappeared at the end of the episode and stabbed an unsuspecting Hank with his sword when the Sheriff was cornered. This time, however, Hank didn't die immediately. He shot Jeb in the face with a shotgun before killing the Sheriff and finally dying himself.

Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis

In Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis, Jeb didn't appear until the very end, where he ambushed Hank in the rave at Club M along with a zombified 1337 agent. He now wore sunglasses and had stitches in his head. He reanimated all the ravers that Hank killed. During a brief sword fight, he shot a weakened Hank several times but was blown up by Hank's suicide bomb.

Madness Combat 5: Depredation

He appeared in this episode in a more prominent role as the main antagonist. In this episode, he had more stitches around his head and his whole body was bandaged, covered by a white jacket. After Hank cleared a room full of Agents, the Agents were suddenly resurrected. Jeb suddenly appeared and, with a surge of power, broke off the upper half of the room. He initially fought Hank with his fists, blocking his bullets with his magical shield, before summoning his Binary Sword. Later, he was temporarily incapacitated when Hank shot him in the chest. When Jeb re-engaged Hank, but Tricky suddenly intervened and ripped off the upper half of Jeb's head.

Madness Combat 5.5

Jeb, or at least the top part of his head, briefly appeared halfway through the episode. Tricky was wearing it as a hat in an attempt to gain his powers, only to find out it didn't work, causing him to discard it.

Madness Combat 6.5

Jeb appeared briefly in the middle of the episode to retrieve the top part of his head and reattach it to his still-walking body. He angrily left a note for the Auditor saying, "I QUIT. -J," before leaving.

Madness Combat 6: Antipathy

Jeb only made a cameo in this episode. While Hank and Tricky were fighting on the train, he was seen in front of the "Bridge Out" sign raking leaves while wearing a shirt that said, "I'm Jebus, lol. This is as dressed up as I get." His halo was absent, and his goatee had grown into a full beard. He stopped raking for a moment when he noticed the mysterious train, but shrugged it off and continued.

Madness Combat 7: Consternation

Jeb appeared at the end of Madness Combat 7: Consternation, ambushing three AAHW units with his S&W 500. Seeing Hank on the ground, he impaled him and lifted him up with his Binary Sword before saying "Goodnight Hank," before executing him with his S&W 500. When the demonic Tricky confronted him, Jeb destroyed the Portable Improbability Drive, ridding Tricky of his powers, and repeatedly cut into his head with his Binary Sword until he finally died.

Madness Combat 8: Inundation

Christoff appeared as the protagonist for the first time and was seen firing a TAC-50 at the beginning. His sunglasses were absent, revealing red, bloodshot eyes. He hops down a ledge, where he confronts and kills several A.A.H.W units and then advanced through the building. At one point, the Auditor infected him with a disease, making him vomit blood throughout the episode. Deeper in the building, Jeb enters a room with the bodies of Grunts inside liquid-filled tubes with what is most likely oxygen masks on, apparently controlled by an adjacent machine. After killing the Agents in the room, He picked up an MP7 and destroyed the machine. Later, a Mag Agent: V2 confronted Jeb with a giant Desert Eagle. Using his magical shield, Christoff captured a giant Desert Eagle round and threw it into the Mag Agent V2's body, killing him. When Jeb exited the building, the Auditor fired at him with a minigun from a distant building. Jeb quickly flew across the plain as the Auditor fired at him, dodging every bullet before crashing into the wall of the second building. The impact injured him and cracked his halo, but he resumed slaughtering the Agents within. Christoff was later confronted by the second Mag Agent V2, which he killed with his TAC-50. During a fight with the Auditor, Jeb was able to hold against him until the Auditor spawned two MP5Ks and wounded Jeb before retreating. Finally, Jeb summoned his Binary Sword and reached the room with the Auditor's computer, where he was confronted by the Auditor once more. The Auditor launched Jeb out of the building with an AT4, severely wounding him and accidentally destroying the "Improbability Management" drive, causing a "Normality Restoration", in which a blast of energy struck the building.

Madness Combat 9: Aggregation

Madness Aggregation confirmed that Jeb was killed in the normality restoration of the previous episode, as his corpse was seen next to the remnants of a building. The Auditor, who survived, took the halo from his remains.

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Jeb makes a cameo in the short in his Madness Combat 3 form, in one of the red images that appear after Deimos touches a body outside The Bakery!.

Ded Jeb

Jeb will star in the upcoming animation as it explores what happened after he died in Inundation.

His new appearance, now matching the ragged art direction of Nevada's post apocalypse, showcase a tired-looking, lucid Jeb as he is sent to The Other Place.

Non-Canon appearances

Tricky Madness 2

He appeared in the non-canon episode, Tricky Madness 2. In this episode, he gave a narration before being mauled by Tricky. In the chaos that followed, Jeb, now in a zombie-like state, lowered a civilian onto Tricky’s chainsaw, killing them, before Tricky attacked him with the chainsaw as well, jamming it into his mouth.

Incident: 110A

Christoff was the protagonist of Incident: 110A. In this episode, using the binary sword as his primary weapon, he killed "100 sinners," including various A.A.H.W. units and a Mag Agent: V5. After the credits, he killed an additional horde of agents with a minigun.

Incident: 111A

Jeb once again appeared as the protagonist in Incident: 111A. Throughout the entire animation, He stands on the top of a building, targeting two agents inside another distant building and a third one outside. He kills the two of the agents using a TAC-50 sniper rifle but fails to aim at the last one outside due to certain hallucinations by a demonic face. He is killed at the end of the animation by this unidentified creature.

Incident: 1000A

He returns to kill Hank and the A.A.H.W. in Incident: 1000A. After Jebediah kills three rooms full of l33t and A.T.P. agents, Hank returns and quickly kills him.

Madness Interactive

Jeb appears as a boss in the penultimate room of the Story Mode, wielding an MP9 or MP5K, depending on the game's version. He has the most health of all foes and must be defeated in order for the player to reach the Sheriff.

Game appearances

Dr. Jebediah Christoff appears as the the main protagonist of episode 1.5 in Madness: Project Nexus (Classic), and a protagonist of MADNESS: Project Nexus. He initially opposed Hank because he thought the man had ulterior motives, but after realizing this was untrue, he joined forces with Deimos and Sanford.

Christoff is incredibly strong. Most of his power comes from his Halo, or Keystone Fragment, which can take advantage of Dissonance. He has the ability to fly through the air. Originally serving as the lead scientist for the Nexus Core at first, Christoff attempted to halt the Project when he learned of Phobos' sinister intentions. He completely destroyed the Science Tower while also discovering the Keystone Fragment. After defeating and killing Phobos, he thought the Project was finished, but it later reappeared.

Before M:PNC

Dr. Jebediah Christoff was one of many scientists working under Director Phobos' command, working alongside Dr. Hofnarr and Dr. Crackpot. At some point in time, Christoff created the Sleepwalker Program, a project meant to help people better themselves by quickly reliving another person's life events, but his pacific approach did not go alongside the Director's plans, and required some time until proper approval.

Some time afterwards, Dr. Christoff and Dr. Crackpot had a feud, where they would attempt to redirect the Mining Sector's S-3LF extracting activities, sending emails to the MERC workforce where they would contradict each other and where Christoff would coin Crackpot's Enmeshment Program "Plan Zed". Despite the bickering, S-3LF extracting operations were resumed and Crackpot's Enmeshment Program was continued alongside Christoff's Sleepwalker Program, despite Crackpot's project having horrible results.

Dr. Christoff was plotting the fall of Phobos after learning of how the director weaponized the Sleepwalker Program instead of following the Nexus Charter handed by the Employers. Before taking action against the director, he warned The Sheriff about his plans in a series of emails and meetings with Dr. Hofnarr, and told him that he will need to become the leader of the residents of Nexus City when the Director falls, trusting that the mattress salesman was trustworthy of such responsibility.

Madness: Project Nexus (Classic)

Episode 1.5 is effectively the origin story of Jeb. Dr. Christoff used to be the chief scientist of Nevada's research fifteen years ago. He was in charge of a resurrective cloning project called Project Nexus, but something went horribly wrong with the experiments, and Dr. Christoff realized his research was being weaponized, so he defected from the project. He later enlisted the help of an old friend, the eccentric Dr. Hofnarr, whose high-level access granted Dr. Christoff entry into the Science Tower.

In the Science Tower, Dr. Christoff obtained his halo, an artifact which gave him the power to levitate, fire Nexus bolts that disintegrate weaker opponents and to drop projectiles that deal area damage around Dr. Christoff. In the Solarium, Dr. Christoff fought and killed Phobos, saying his catchphrase, "Goodnight, Phobos." Despite his victory over the Nexus, the narration stated that "The Savior's job is far from over."

This story explains the origin of Jebediah and his powers.

Jeb is unique in that he has different starting loadouts for each level of Episode 1.5. His starter weapons in 1.5-B Quarters are a Glock 20 and a Carbon Sword, his starting weapons in 1.5-C Muto Lab are a Glock 20 and an Iron Sword, his starting weapons in 1.5-D Chapel are an SMG2 and an Iron Sword, his starting weapons in 1.5-E Vaults are an MP5 and a L337 Sword, and his starting weapons in 1.5-F Solarium are a Colt Revolver and an Iron Sword.

In Arena Combat Mode, he can be hired for the player's team. Since the v1.8 update, he has a unique dodge animation identical to the one he uses after obtaining the halo in Story Mode though his halo is absent in Arena Combat Mode, but The-Swain stated that this was unintentional.

MADNESS: Project Nexus

Looking no worse for wear thirty years later, Dr. Christoff is a playable character in MADNESS: Project Nexus.

He plays a lot differently from other characters. Dr. Christoff's dodge is replaced by flying a long distance away, his charge attack is replaced by charging up his dissonance power to unleash a powerful AoE attack, and he can also pick up weapons and items from afar. He fires NEXUS bolts instead of throwing grenades, which seek targets and can dematerialize opponents if the bolt kills them.

Seeking Asylum

After Hank sweeps through Dr. Hofnarr's office and doesn't find anything, Dr. Christoff floats down from an elevated platform above, after which he tells Hank that he won't find anything that will help him here, and then they fight.

After Hank defeats him, Christoff warns him that he won't gain anything from Project Nexus, to which Hank responds by saying that he doesn't want to gain anything from it, he's here to end the Project once and for all. Dr. Christoff then agrees to team up with Hank, and leads him to where Dr. Hofnarr is hiding.

Sleeper Labs

Dr. Christoff and Hank make their way to the Sleeper Labs, finding out that the Sleepwalkers and other experiments within had been set loose and finally encountering Dr. Hofnarr (Now known as Tricky). The duo tries to convince Tricky to help them with shutting down the Divergence Engine, but initially Tricky refuses, and instead he forces them to fight for their lives in a dangerous room full of traps, being antagonized by the asylum's patients, orderlies and Tricky's special honk zeds which fall into the arena.

Mid-way through the killing game, some Nexus Core drones descend into the arena, annoying Tricky and adding to the hazards within the arena. Christoff and Hank survive the onslaught, and Tricky isn't pleased with it, so he activates a laser wall which slowly advances towards Hank and Christoff who have nowhere to run. Tricky talks and taunts the duo, but just before the laser wall kills them, Nexus Core goons break into the facility, so Tricky, Hank and Christoff team up to defeat all the Nexus troops present, and Tricky tells them where to find the Divergence Engine Keys required to operate the Divergence Engine.

Deep Storage

After Tricky leads them to the Nexus facility with the divergence keys, he leaves them, and Hank and Dr. Christoff continue inside the facility. After making their way through lots of Nexus goons, Unfinished Mags and other experiments, they finally reach the room with the two Divergence Keys. Christoff uses his powers to store the keys in some sort of a pocket dimension. With each key they take, an Unfinished Mag comes out of its chamber.

Just as they're about to get out, a third chamber opens, revealing Project Gestalt. Hank thinks he can take him, however Christoff warns him about Gestalt's power, and they decide to run away instead. Moments before they go down the elevator to the Mining Sector, Project Gestalt catches up to them, stopping Christoff and Hank from escaping. They fight Project Gestalt and he falls to the Mining Sector (killing Dr. Crackpot after his fight with Sanford and Deimos in the stage Chasms) after almost being crushed by the elevator's hydraulic press and falling down because the elevator collapsed from his weight.

Science Tower

After acquiring the Divergence keys, Dr. Christoff and Hank meet up with Deimos and Sanford.

While Hank, Deimos and Sanford enter the Science Tower, Dr. Christoff scouts ahead for possible obstacles on their way to the top.

Shakedown

Dr. Christoff and Deimos are tasked with activating the bridge, so Hank and Sanford can progress up the tower and disable its defense systems. On their way there, they encounter Project Gestalt again and are forced to run, until Gestalt starts running too fast and falls out of a big window.

Christoff and Deimos activate the bridge, and then try to regroup with Hank and Sanford on a higher floor, however they're stopped by the Hive and forced to fight it.

Appearance

Dr. Christoff wears a white scientist labcoat with belts and a bandaged-up body. On his head, he has the iconic Nexus Artifact, also known as the Halo. On his face he has a pair of sunglasses. His skin is also darker than that of a normal grunt.

His alternate outfit gives him a metal plate on the torso, similar to the one he has in Madness Combat 7: Consternation and Madness Combat 8: Inundation, but here it's colored brown.

Personality

Christoff is exceptionally egotistical and appears to have a messiah complex, thinking that his research and himself hold the key to saving all of Nevada. He believes that no matter what he does, he is always in the right because the goals outweigh any means, but he is truly motivated solely by his desire to appease his own ego without actually caring about people and Nevada, and not having qualms to jeopardize them whenever it furthers his own ends. He also has a serious demeanor and uses formal language. Hank's impulsive violence, in his opinion, runs directly counter to everything Christoff stands for, so he has a deep mistrust of him.

Abilities

Christoff has supernatural abilities granted by the halo. He is one of the most dangerous individuals in Nevada because he uses this to his advantage.

Christoff has the ability to fire Dissonance bolts from his hands and eyes, causing the target to crumble. However, it appears that the Keystone Fragment contains their S3LFs. His charge attack causes him to levitate into the air before unleashing a powerful dissonance wave that causes everyone in his vicinity to disappear. He is also capable of telekinesis. He can easily pick up and move anything from a distance as seen in Madness Combat and MADNESS: Project Nexus. He has the ability to levitate and rip people apart and smash them against objects or dead bodies.

This ability is not demonstrated in MADNESS: Project Nexus or Madness Project Nexus Classic, but he has the ability to transform people into Zeds. They appear to be partially sentient in Madness Combat and obey Christoff. He can also conjure up the Binary Sword from thin air, as seen in Madness Combat 3.

Dr. Christoff is a playable character in MADNESS: Project Nexus. After an initial misunderstanding with Hank (culminating in a boss fight), Christoff and Hank team up to destroy the Science Tower once and for all. Along the way they also join forces with Dr. Hofnarr, however reluctantly.

Weapons Used

Madness Combat 1

Madness Combat 2: Redeemer

Madness Combat 3: Avenger

Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis

Madness Combat 5: Depredation

Madness Combat 7: Consternation

Madness Combat 8: Inundation

Incident: 110A

Incident: 111A

Incident: 1000A

Tricky Madness 2

Kills

Canon Kills

Episode	Total	Grunts	Agents	Zombie Agent	A.T.P. Engineers	Hank	Tricky	Mag Agent: V2
Madness Combat 2: Redeemer	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Madness Combat 3: Avenger	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Madness Combat 5: Depredation	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Madness Combat 7: Consternation	5	0	1	0	2	1	1	0
Madness Combat 8: Inundation	77	0	42	0	33	0	0	2
Total	86	1	43	1	35	3	1	2

Non-Canon Kills

Episode	Total	Agents	A.T.P. Engineers	A.T.P. Soldats	Hank	Mag Agent: V5	Killed by Nexus Riot Guard
Incident: 110A	122	97*¹	11	13	0	1	0
Incident: 111A	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Incident: 1000A	38	36	1	0	1	0	0
On The Wall.mp4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	163	135	12	13	1	1	1

*¹ The three Agents that are killed off-screen at the end of Incident: 110A are counted.

Deaths

Canon Deaths

1. Madness Combat 1 - Shot by Hank with a M-10.
2. Madness Combat 3: Avenger - A chunk of his head is blown off by Hank with a Mossberg 500.
3. Madness Combat 4: Apotheosis - Blown up by Hank's suicide vest.
4. Madness Combat 5: Depredation - Head ripped in half by Tricky with his bare hands.
5. Madness Combat 8: Inundation - Face partially blown off by rocket, killed by exploding beam of light from normality restoration after all Improbability drives are destroyed.

Non-Canon Deaths

1. Incident: 111A - Impaled by Demon's tentacles.
2. Incident: 1000A - Face destroyed by MAG Hank's lightning punches.
3. Tricky Madness 2 - Gored by Tricky with a chainsaw.

Named Kills

Bold indicates enemy status to Jeb. Italics indicate allies to Jeb. Underlined ones are major characters.

Canon

Madness: Project Nexus (Classic)

• Phobos - Killed by Jeb.

Madness Combat 2: Redeemer

• Hank J. Wimbleton - Shot in the head by Jeb with a Desert Eagle.

Madness Combat 3: Avenger

• Hank J. Wimbleton - Stabbed in the chest by Jeb with his binary sword.

Madness Combat 7: Consternation

• Hank J. Wimbleton - Stabbed in the chest by Jeb with his binary sword, before being shot in the head with a S&W 500.
• Zombified Tricky - Slashed in the head by Jeb with his binary sword.

Madness Combat 8: Inundation

• Mag Agent: V2 - Shot in the abdomen with their own Desert Eagle's bullet when Jeb used his Halo to reflect it.
• Mag Agent: V2 - Shot multiple times by Jeb with an S&W 500 and TAC-50.

Non-Canon

Incident: 110A

• Mag Agent: V5 - Head slashed and shot by Jeb with his binary sword, an M-10, and an Uzi. Jeb then used his Halo to tear his skull and brain out.

Incident: 1000A

• Hank J. Wimbleton - Shot in the head by Jeb with an S&W 500.

Gallery

Episodic appearances

Artworks

Commissioned artworks

Games

Madness: Project Nexus Cinematic Trailer

Trivia

• He and Hank are only characters to have been both antagonist and protagonist in the canon series.
• The main reason why Dr. Christoff is in Madness Combat to begin with is because Krinkels liked the idea of a "turbo pacifist" as a force of violent nature, mentioning Gandhi from the Civilization games.
• According to Krinkels, Jebediah is a pretty violent guy (as we no doubt have seen) and doesn't strike him as a touchy feely type.
• Krinkels has said Christoff is dealing with a significant amount of cognitive dissonance and he isn't nearly the hero he makes himself out to be.
• Jebediah has accumulated the largest number of names and nicknames, including JESUS CHRIST, Jeb, Jebus, El Jesús, The Savior, and Dr. Jebediah Christoff. This is likely to underscore Jeb's role as a parody, rather than an attack on the real Jesus of Nazareth. It is important to note, however, that despite most people calling him as "Jebus", this name is largely incorrect and was used only once in canon series on his own t-shirt in Madness 6. In both Project Nexus 1.5 and Project Nexus on steam he is consistently referred to as Jebediah Christoff without him being called as "Jebus" or "Jesus Christ" even once in any context, considering how said games served to properly introduce and establish the story of Jebediah's character (as well as the series' coherent lore in general) and that all instances of Jebediah not being referred by his actual named happened before either games were released, it is fair to presume that these cases of him not being called as Jebediah Christoff aren't long relevant and don't hold up in the current lore, and were retconned.
• Jebediah and the Sheriff have gone to regular hell when they died, according to Krinkels.
• In MADNESS: Project Nexus, it was mentioned that his face was stitched by Doc, meaning that the two could be allies.
• It is theorized he is delusional and just believes he is a messianic figure while he is not, possibly due to mental illness.
• Jeb's signature melee weapon is the Binary Sword.
• The Project Nexus kickstarter states that Jebediah "chose to adopt" image of Jesus Christ. However, in the game itself it is never mentioned that he tried to change his identity at all, with everyone (including himself) always calling him by his true person as Jebediah Christoff instead. Furthermore, the kickstarter is shown to contradict to information that is present in the actual game at a lot of points, likely due to fact that Project Nexus in the way it is presented on Kickstarter wasn't a finished product yet and since then a lot of ideas about the game itself was either scrapped or just completely changed during release. It is also possibly just referring to him being inspired by Jesus Christ.
• It was never shown or known why Jeb stopped transforming and reanimating fallen victims into Zeds since Madness Inundation. Meaning to say, he would have reanimated dozens of Agents and A.T.P Engineers, even two of the MAG Agent V2s as well.
  • However, due to his previously established ego, one could assume that he’s merely testing or giving himself a power trip.
• Likewise, in Madness Inundation, he subsequently lost the ability to teleport in Madness Inundation since Madness Avenger and Madness Depredation.
• It could be possible for Jeb to potentially and mortally damage the Auditor in Madness Inundation if he had kept his telepathic lightning-like beam from Madness Combat 1 and 5 with him, though it is not yet confirmed.
• Some expected Jeb to be revived back from the dead like how he did in Madness Combat 6.5 after being brutally beheaded by Tricky and with that, may potentially take the halo off the Auditor's head, though it was never shown onward and with Krinkels confirming he won't actually come back.
• It is mentioned through Tricky's dialogue in Sleeper Labs that he and Christoff had teamed up to take on Hank at an unspecified place in time. It is unknown whether this is just a reference to the series, an event after Christoff's assassination of Phobos or an event during his time as a scientist.
  • The "Stalker.mp4" short teaser seems to imply Hank (whose Hand is seen stabbing a photo with Dr. Christoff in it) was hired by an unknown employer to take care of him.

• Under Dr. Christoff's glasses, there's 2 black, empty eyeholes, similar to the ones in Madness Combat 8, except without the red spots in them. They are only visible to the player via modding the game or selecting the "Christoff" skin while using the mirror in the loft after completing Contract 3 of Arena Mode.
  • In the 3D M:PN teaser "On The Wall.mp4", red, glowing eyes can be seen behind Jebediah's glasses.

• Jeb's in-game voice was provided by Joshua Tomar.
• In the live action cinematic trailer, Jeb was played by Matthew Wayne Roberts.