Functionary

Functionaries are Transformers from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Negotiation's over.

The Functionaries are the enforcers of the Functionist Council's laws.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

A moderate Functionary gave Whirl permission to quit the Aerial Corps and become a watchmaker. When the Council found out, they dispatched the Heavies to destroy Whirl's workshop. Stet

The Functionist Universe

In an alternate timeline, the Functionist Council were the sole rulers of Cybertron. Upon his return to the planet after two million years of service in the Primal Vanguard, Minimus Ambus was questioned by a Functionary who demanded to see his alt mode and who forcibly examined his transformation cog. This inspection was interrupted by a Lunabot trying to escape the latest mass recall and so the Functionary joined one of his colleagues in gunning down the rogue Transformer, rendering him obsolescent the old-fashioned way.

Later, Ambus and Rewind watched a broadcast of Functionaries brutally suppressing a protest and killing a female protester who tore out her own transformation cog. The Custom-Made Now

Notes

• The Functionaries are designed after the Judges from long-running British sci-fi comic 2000 AD.
• They wear their own variant of the Functionist Council insignia.