Hexadeathimal

The name or term "Killswitch" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Killswitch (disambiguation).

Hexadeathimal is a Decepticon Six Changer from the Of Masters and Mayhem portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Fear my name!

Once, he was known as Killswitch, but that was before this vicious Decepticon mastered all five of his terrifying alternate modes. Now, the Clan of Six has blessed him with a new name fitting for a mighty Six Changer like himself. The Autobots shall tremble before the wrath of Hexadeathimal!

Or rather, they would if it wasn't impossible to take him seriously with that name.

“	First of all, buddy, that doesn’t really roll off the ol’ vocal processors. Second, shouldn’t you save that for your 16th mode?	”
—Counterpunch, "The Truth We Make"

Fiction

Of Masters and Mayhem

Hexadeathimal joined a squad of Decepticons in liberating Counterpunch from the Autobot outpost at Gargoid. When Counterpunch fell to his Punch personality and turned against them, however, the Decepticons blew him away. The Truth We Make

Notes

• Killswitch is based on an unused Decepticon deco for Quickswitch that was first revealed to exist in Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging. His name was picked out for being similar to Quickswitch's in the same way that Greatshot's is similar to Sixshot's. As written, he wasn't intended to be the Decepticon Killswitch, who debuted in Ask Vector Prime, but the creator of that Killswitch thinks of it as a valid take on the same "archetype", so whether or not they can be considered the same "character" is down to whose authorial intent you give precedence.
• His Six Changer name is hilarious. It's also a pun on "hexadecimal"... which represents numbers based on a radix of 16, not 6. Oops.