Vos (G1)

This article is about the member of the Decepticon Justice Division. For the Decepticon city, see Vos.

Vos is a Decepticon from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Optimus Prime's worst nightmare.

There's been at least one previous Vos in the Decepticon Justice Division, the five-strong group of torturers and fanatics employed by Megatron to hunt down and deal with traitors. The current one is a scientist and a so-called "linguistic purist": he speaks only the Primal Vernacular and has failed to learn more than a few words of the modern Transformer tongue, Neocybex. As such, his contributions to the conversation are usually interpreted by his squad leader Tarn.

Vos transforms into a sniper rifle to be wielded by another member of the D.J.D. or even Megatron himself on occasion. His favored method of torture is removing his face, the inside of which is lined with numerous spikes, drills, and hooks, and forcing his target to wear it. This provides perhaps a rather visceral counterpoint to the old corrupt Senate's favored punishment of empurata, ritual disfigurement.

Wear my faaace.Vos to Krok, Who's Afraid of the DJD?

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

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The previous Vos had hooks for hands and feet. Some of Gripper's friends were murdered by him. Words Hang in the Air Sometime later, this Vos was killed and he was replaced by the "linguistic purist" one.

When the Decepticon Black Shadow was caught for getting bribed to destroy a fleet of Warworlds, Vos enjoyed watching the other members slowly torture and kill him. Afterwards, Vos and the other members were then ordered by Tarn to move on to their next target, Fulcrum. Rules of Disengagement On arrival at Clemency, they were attacked by Fulcrum's new friends, the Scavengers, and responded in kind. During the course of battle, Vos got a chance to ram his face on Krok, who unfortunately survived the treatment. Once Fulcrum ended up seemingly killing himself, the D.J.D. left the planet, ignoring the surviving Scavengers in favor of hunting down a more high-profile target: Overlord. Who's Afraid of the DJD?

Notes

• The D.J.D. renamed themselved after the first cities the Decepticons conquered (in this case Vos). James Roberts has elaborated that when a D.J.D. member dies, his replacement takes his codename.