Institute

The Institute is (or is not) an institution from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Nobody seems quite sure if The Institute really exists or not. You probably don't want to get sent there.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 comics

Before the war, an acquaintance of Orion Pax within the Senate feared that Orion could get sent to The Institute as punishment for interrupting a Senate session. Chaos Theory Part 2 Around the same time, Chromedome was fascinated by the idea of The Institute, regardless of whether or not it was real. Shadowplay, Part 1: Post Hoc Rung, meanwhile, regarded Red Alert's mentions of The Institute as a sure sign of paranoia. Interiors

After examining the exploded remains of Skids' gun, Brainstorm offered his opinion that the familiar engineering may have been the work of The Institute. Rules of Disengagement