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[[File:SinsOfTheWreckers2-positivereinforcementprison.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Then Prowl left his son to die in Kandor's crater.]] | [[File:SinsOfTheWreckers2-positivereinforcementprison.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Then Prowl left his son to die in Kandor's crater.]] | ||
The '''positive reinforcement prison''' is a subtle yet effective means of incapacitating captured enemies: a device designed to keep its target docile by continually feeding them a simulation of their greatest desires. | The '''positive reinforcement prison''' is a subtle yet effective means of incapacitating captured enemies: a device designed to keep its target docile by continually feeding them a simulation of their greatest desires. | ||
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Millions of years later, Mesothulas—now calling himself [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]—briefly imprisoned Prowl in a positive reinforcement prison while he webbed up his old colleague. In his artificially-induced simulation, Prowl experienced a dream of a utopian postwar [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] personally thanked him for his pragmatism and told Prowl that he was right all along. The dream was cut short when Tarantulas disconnected Prowl from the prison, and teased him for questioning its effectiveness. {{storylink|Sins of the Wreckers issue 2|Sins of the Wreckers #2}} | Millions of years later, Mesothulas—now calling himself [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]—briefly imprisoned Prowl in a positive reinforcement prison while he webbed up his old colleague. In his artificially-induced simulation, Prowl experienced a dream of a utopian postwar [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] personally thanked him for his pragmatism and told Prowl that he was right all along. The dream was cut short when Tarantulas disconnected Prowl from the prison, and teased him for questioning its effectiveness. {{storylink|Sins of the Wreckers issue 2|Sins of the Wreckers #2}} | ||
[[Category:IDW | [[Category:IDW (2005) technology]] | ||
[[Category:Restraining devices]] | [[Category:Restraining devices]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:46, 3 May 2019
The positive reinforcement prison is a subtle yet effective means of incapacitating captured enemies: a device designed to keep its target docile by continually feeding them a simulation of their greatest desires.
Fiction
[edit]2005 IDW continuity
[edit]Positive reinforcement prisons were among the many wartime innovations developed by Prowl and Mesothulas in the early days of the Great War. It never got off the ground; Prowl believed that by giving its prisoners exactly what they wanted, the device wasn't much of a punishment. Instead, the two went on to develop spark extraction, which became the primary method by which the Autobots detained criminals and prisoners of war.
Millions of years later, Mesothulas—now calling himself Tarantulas—briefly imprisoned Prowl in a positive reinforcement prison while he webbed up his old colleague. In his artificially-induced simulation, Prowl experienced a dream of a utopian postwar Cybertron where Optimus Prime personally thanked him for his pragmatism and told Prowl that he was right all along. The dream was cut short when Tarantulas disconnected Prowl from the prison, and teased him for questioning its effectiveness. Sins of the Wreckers #2
