Decepticon Justice Division

The Decepticon Justice Division is a group from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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The Decepticon Justice Division is a division that handles justice. And by justice, we mean "unmarked graves". Traitors and deserters to the Decepticon cause are targeted by these feared enforcers of Megatron's will. If the rumors are to be believed they always find their quarry and execute them in the messiest fashion possible to make an example of them. Some Decepticons would rather go offline than end up on their hit list. Their usual killing fields are in the proximity of the planet Messatine, and they pursue targets in their spaceship the Peaceful Tyranny. The group's lineup changes, but its five members always use the same five code-names: those of the the first five cities to fall to the Decepticons. Many members are known to have altmodes which incorporate torture devices.

Known members include:

• Helex
• Kaon
• Tarn (leader)
• Tesarus
• Vos

A free-roaming kill squad: five professional sadists who like nothing more than to hack, stab and shoot Decepticons who step out of line. But hey, don't worry, because they just love to kill Autobots too.Riptide on the Decepticon Justice Division, "slaughterhouse"

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

The late and unlamented Crosscut was often mistaken for a Justice Division man, which he used to his advantage. Crosscut's Squadron X profile

Swerve once saw the Justice Division doing its dirty work. The shock rendered him speechless for six months, which was quite a feat for him. Life After the Big Bang

One of the previous members of the D.J.D. had hooks for hands and feet. Words Hang in the Air

Unknown to the Decepticons, the Autobots had a mole within the Justice Division who leaked information to them. Usually this information would be the turncoats and traitors that the Division was hunting down, whom the Autobots could protect from justice in return for information. It was this agent that informed Springer and the Wreckers that any attempt to get near Garrus-9 was blown out of the sky with extreme prejudice. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1 Bullets

In order to ensure the safety of the Autobot medical facility of Delphi on the planet Messatine, deep within D.J.D. territory, the facility's chief medical officer Pharma entered into a deal with the Division's leader. In return for their leaving Delphi be, Pharma would provide the leader with a constant supply of fresh transformation cogs from Delphi's dead, in order to feed his addiction to changing shape that caused him to constantly burn through cogs. With the monthly quota of cogs constantly rising, Pharma was forced into drastic action, seeking to escape the deal by shutting down the facility without implicating himself. To this end, he hired Decepticon nobodies Sonic and Boom to pose as Monoformers and seek asylum at Delphi, professing to be on the run from the D.J.D. Once inside, they detonated a viral soundbomb that infected Delphi with a corrosive plague that would be blamed on D.J.D. chemical warfare. Life After the Big Bang How Ratchet Got His Hands Back

The D.J.D. caught up with Black Shadow and brutally tortured him to death after he sold his services to the Autobots. Despite popular conceptions, Tarn declared the war wasn't over until Megatron personally said it was over. Kaon then alerted Tarn to a signal on the planet Clemency from the undetonated K-Class named Fulcrum. When they arrived Tarn gave Fulcrum's companions fifteen minutes to give him up and watch him die, or be killed themselves. Rules of Disengagement

The so-called Scavengers chose to fight, turning an incidental captive Grimlock against Tarn and the others. The initial surprise wore off, though, and the Scavengers got brutalized. Tesarus ground up Flywheels in his chest compartment, while Vos made Krok "wear his face". Even a Cybernought barely helped improve their odds. The remaining hapless Decepticons only survived because Kaon detected Overlord's spark signature. Tarn ordered the D.J.D. off to hunt for bigger fish, but not before warning the surviving Scavengers that their names had all been added to the List. Who's Afraid of the DJD?

Spoiler warning: Plot details for slaughterhouse follow. Spoilers expire in 119 days

The D.J.D. would later catch up with an alternate Lost Light in their search for Overlord and made short work of the crew before reaching the rogue Phase Sixer in his slow cell beneath the ship and sawing off his head. The group, however, failed to kill one member of the crew — Rewind. slaughterhouse

Trivia

• In an early plan for "Chaos Theory", the D.J.D. were going to attack.
• James Roberts elaborated that when a D.J.D. member dies, his replacement takes his name.