Variable voltage harness

The Genevatron Convention doesn't apply to unlawful enemy combatants.

An energy-sucking torture/restraint device, the variable voltage harness makes sure a prisoner is kept in maximum discomfort.

It's not nearly as comfy as it looks.{{#if:|{{{quote2}}}}}{{#if:Blaster"Totaled!"|Blaster{{#if:"Totaled!"|, "Totaled!"|}}|}}

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Galvatron and his cronies captured Jazz when he and Hound came spying on them. With reports of Ultra Magnus dwelling around, Galvatron wanted to see any possible Autobot interference dealt with before they might become a real problem. So, in order to provoke the Autobots into a hasty, easy-to-deal-with attack, he had Jazz hooked up to a torture device and sent images of the proceedings to Autobot headquarters. Target: 2006<ref>The machine shown in "Target: 2006" is never actually called a variable voltage harness and in fact was written about by Simon Furman a year before Bob Budiansky did. Still, the machine looks and functions a lot like the variable voltage harness and has no name of its own to distinguish it, so it's included in the article.</ref>

When the Protectobots captured the "renegade" Blaster and prepared to bring him back to the Ark, Autobot commander Grimlock had a variable voltage harness prepared as punishment for the deserter. Beachcomber, who along with Wheeljack and Cosmos was helping to prepare the device, wondered if it was not a little bit excessive. Child's Play

I knew Blaster was a Decepticon! I knew it!!

When Blaster surrendered to the Dinobots, Grimlock hooked him up to the harness, and essentially threw away the key. Goldbug, after his own surrender to Grimlock, found Blaster still clamped to the device in the Ark's brig. The time spent in isolation had dulled Blaster's sense of purpose. Totaled!

Grimlock and Dreadwind would threaten to use the VVH on the writers and artists of the comics (known collectively as Stubbies) for making mistakes.<ref>Grim Grams, issue 153; Dread Tidings, issue 184</ref> It worked by attaching "nasty looking electrodes" to highly sensitive areas of the human nervous system.<ref>Dread Tidings, issue 259</ref> Blaster eventually abolished the practice in favour of bombarding the stubbies with high volume, cringeworthy music, like [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Cliff Richard|{{#if:||Cliff Richard}}]], [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Church (band)|{{#if:The Church|The Church|The Church (band)}}]],<ref>Darn 'n' Blast, issue 308</ref> and [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Dannii Minogue|{{#if:Danni Minogue|Danni Minogue|Dannii Minogue}}]].<ref>Darn 'n' Blast, issue 316</ref>

2005 IDW continuity

Megatron was placed in a variable voltage harness inside Omega Supreme after surrendering to the Autobots. Optimus Prime activated it after losing his patience and being taunted one time too many, electrocuting Megatron so hard it probably would've killed him if Omega Supreme hadn't immediately cut the power. Chaos Theory #1

Later, on the displaced Luna 1, Chief Justice Tyrest's enforcer Star Saber kept Getaway smouldering in a variable voltage harness. The Divided Self

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