Froid

Froid is a Transformer from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Froid is a psychologist and the Senate's chief psychopathologist in the pre-war era. He and Rung, who is of equal status, don't agree on anything.

“	We grieve for the murdered word.	”
—Froid on revisionism, "Towards Peace"

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

One of his great claims to fame is the Froidian Classification System of personality types. The Sensuous Frame

At one time Froid and Rung were considered rivals Signal to Noise and they clashed over the proper use of personality adjustment treatment. Births, Deaths, and Interventions Rung may have ghostwritten some of Froid's texts or so he implied millions of yeas later. The Sensuous Frame

Shortly before the war, Froid decreed (without even meeting him) that the inconvenient rabble-rouser Megatron definitely needed personality adjustment and brought Trepan to 'help' him. However, a sudden change in the law meant a P.A. decision needed two signatures to reduce the risk of abuse. Rung arrived to tell him and offered to countersign if he agreed with the findings. Froid knew Rung wouldn't do it and could only despair that he was going to suffer for this. Births, Deaths, and Interventions

In later years, Rung would privately lament that Froid and other rivals had inflicted irreparable damage on his reputation. Signal to Noise

Froid died during the war. Signal to Noise

Rung would later quote Froid aboard the Lost Light when discussing an edit made to Towards Peace during a session with Megatron. Towards Peace

Notes

• Froid's name is an obvious pun.
• The character was designed by Alex Milne, who loosely patterned him after Transformers Prime Soundwave. The full character model can be seen on Milne's Twitter account.