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==Fiction== | ==Fiction== | ||
===IDW comics continuity=== | ===IDW comics continuity=== | ||
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When [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]'s combat prowess caught the attention of the [[Senate]], he was pushed into joining the [[Rodion]] police force. When the 'bot tried to resist his orders, they used empurata to... ''persuade'' him otherwise. {{storylink|Interiors}} This is part of the reason why he's such a bitter mess: when he sold out the Senate to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]], the reason he gave was "I want my hands back". | When [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]'s combat prowess caught the attention of the [[Senate]], he was pushed into joining the [[Rodion]] police force. When the 'bot tried to resist his orders, they used empurata to... ''persuade'' him otherwise. {{storylink|Interiors}} This is part of the reason why he's such a bitter mess: when he sold out the Senate to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]], the reason he gave was "I want my hands back". {{storylink|Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism|Patternism}} | ||
During the [[Clampdown]], amputee support groups called on the Senate to ban the practice but the Senate responded that it was only used on criminals who deserve it. At the same time they were saying that, [[the Institute]] was 'working' on the crusading [[Shockwave (G1)|Senator Shockwave]] and performed empurata on him solely out of ''spite''. {{ | During the [[Clampdown]], amputee support groups called on the Senate to ban the practice but the Senate responded that it was only used on criminals who deserve it. At the same time they were saying that, [[the Institute]] was 'working' on the crusading [[Shockwave (G1)|Senator Shockwave]] and performed empurata on him solely out of ''spite''. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}} | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 11:46, 22 November 2012
| This article is about the ritualized punishment involving the removal of a Cybertronian's face. For the casual hobby of removing a Cybertronian's face, see Optimus Prime (Movie). |
- Empurata is a horrible thing from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Empurata is an old tradition on pre-war Cybertron. A tradition of removing the damn heads and hands of criminals and replacing them with faceless, fingerless replacements so everyone knows to shun them.
Fiction
IDW comics continuity
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading follow. |
When Whirl's combat prowess caught the attention of the Senate, he was pushed into joining the Rodion police force. When the 'bot tried to resist his orders, they used empurata to... persuade him otherwise. Interiors This is part of the reason why he's such a bitter mess: when he sold out the Senate to Orion Pax, the reason he gave was "I want my hands back". Patternism
During the Clampdown, amputee support groups called on the Senate to ban the practice but the Senate responded that it was only used on criminals who deserve it. At the same time they were saying that, the Institute was 'working' on the crusading Senator Shockwave and performed empurata on him solely out of spite. An Intimate Beheading
Notes
- "Empurata" is an anagram of the Latin word "amputare", meaning "to cut away". Rather than be used in a surgical context, as the descended word "amputation" is today, "amputare" was a punishment inflicted upon criminals to mark them as such, as it is in the world of More than Meets the Eye.
