D-Void

The D-Void is a cosmic force from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

When you proceed on your way to oblivion.

The D-Void is a mysterious dark entity that resides within the shadows of the Dead Universe and is the personification of it. A mass of eyes and black tentacles, this creature seeks to devour the life of entire worlds in order to satiate its hunger, but is unable to leave the Dead Universe without outside help. It is described as being an unbelievably powerful being with the capacity to return the spark to a deceased Transformer, control the minds of robotic beings and drain energy from Cybertronians to feed on them.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

One of Shockwave's Regenesis ores, Ore-2, was seeded on a planet called Gorlam Prime, where it formed a portal to the Dead Universe. Once it formed, the D-Void used a lure that drew the cybernetic inhabitants of Gorlam Prime into the pool, where it devoured the entirety of the planetary robotic population's sparks of life in order to awaken it. Following that moment, the lake transformed into a sphere that served as a portal directly to the creature's realm as it began its plan to enter into the normal universe. Galvatron, after being empowered by the Heart of Darkness, journeyed through the portal, where his unique energy caused the D-Void to hunger for his spark. This caused a shaken Galvatron to flee back to the Gorlam Prime portal, where he decided to rally an army of Autobots and Decepticons to fight the emerging threat of the D-Void, as it now intended to feast on Cybertron. Heart of Darkness #2 Unknown to Galvatron, the Heart of Darkness and the D-Void were in fact one and the same, with the entity using it as a means of getting purchase to the normal universe. Genesis

"I feel the warp overtaking me... It is a good pain!"

The D-Void later returned Nemesis Prime's spark to his body, remaking him with the intent of sending him back as his vessel to reclaim the Heart of Darkness from Galvatron. Nemesis was ejected from a portal on Dykayra, where he took down Galvatron's makeshift army by draining their energy with a shockwave technique. Declaring that the universe would be his prey, he attacked Galvatron himself, but was driven back to the portal. Nemesis/D-Void believed that Galvatron intended to use the portal to empower himself, but Galvatron smugly revealed that he was only distracting Nemesis while his full army arrived with the strength to throw the D-Void back into the Dead Universe. After the portal was destroyed, Galvatron quieted Cyclonus's claims of victory by explaining that Nemesis was only the D-Void's harbinger. To prepare for the D-Void's return, Galvatron attempted to recruit Optimus Prime to his side, but was rebuffed, and instead decided to make his first line of defense at Cybertron, where he knew the D-Void would strike first. Heart of Darkness #4

"Decepticons are obsessed with combining. Put two of 'em in a room and within seconds one will be standing on the other's shoulders. Fact".

Both Hardhead and Arcee revealed the truth about the D-Void's intentions and its plan to trick Galvatron into bringing the Heart of Darkness to Cybertron. Galvatron was under the mistaken belief that the Heart of Darkness would help destroy Cybertron, thus preventing the Expansion of the Dead Universe into the normal one. In actuality, the fact that Cybertron was a dead world would allow the Darkness to turn the whole planet into a giant portal connecting to the Dead Universe, from which the D-Void could enter into the normal universe to fuse with everything and kill all life. Thus, while the oblivious Galvatron thought he was saving the universe, he was in fact unwittingly aiding in its destruction. Genesis When the Autobots interfered, the D-Void reached out through the Heart of Darkness and took control of Galvatron's army along with the Decepticons present, who due to their unity of purpose under Megatron were the most susceptible to its mind control. Shockpoint It combined the soldiers into a massive creature and attacked the Autobots to prevent them from stopping Galvatron. Kings When Megatron resisted the D-Void's control and destroyed the Deceptigod, Galvatron felt its injury through the Heart of Darkness. Optimus Prime moved after Galvatron as he headed towards Vector Sigma with the aim in throwing the Heart of Darkness into the primal wellspring, but arrived too late to stop him from turning Vector Sigma into a portal, through which the D-Void began to emerge. Optimus Prime dove into Vector Sigma and opened the Matrix of Leadership, consuming all its stored wisdom to purge the Darkness from Vector Sigma and defeat the D-Void. Genesis

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime speculated that the Dark Spark could have been a fragment of the D-Void, among other explanations. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/18

Notes

• The D-Void is referred to as simply "D-Void" in Heart of Darkness, but "the D-Void" in Chaos.
• Since the Darkness is an aspect of the D-Void, the entity was likely also responsible for manipulating Nemesis Prime behind the scenes during the Expansion.

Foreign names

• Japanese: D-Void (ディボイド Diboido)