Tarn (G1)
| This article is about the leader of the Decepticon Justice Division. For the Cybertronian city, see Tarn (polity). |
- Tarn is a Decepticon from the IDW continuity portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Tarn is an eloquent Decepticon. He enjoys nothing more than playing beautiful music as he waxes poetic quoting "Towards Peace" and other philosophical works by Megatron. He tends to indulge these pleasures at the same time he's using his specially modulated vocal processor to cause the Decepticon Justice Division's latest transgressor's spark to self-destruct. The current leader of the DJD, Tarn epitomises the mentality of the team. He is beyond zealous in his devotion to Megatron's cause, going so far as to emboss the Decepticon insignia onto his own faceplate. No traitor, no coward is capable of escaping his team. But like many leaders, the pressures of his job have led him to fallback on addiction. Developing an obsession with transformation, he changes form constantly, to the point where he burnt through his original transformation cog long ago. Now he uses either those of the victims of the D.J.D. or cogs acquired through less direct means to acquire replacements, feeding his addiction and ensuring he can continue putting the fear into those who would dare abandon the path of the Decepticons.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 comics
Tarn brokered a deal with Pharma for an ever-increasing supply of transformation cogs from the deceased patients of Delphi, in exchange for the hospital being unmolested by the Justice Division. As his demands grew greater, Pharma looked into rather unorthodox means of escaping this arrangement. How Ratchet Got His Hands Back
After Black Shadow was captured by the D.J.D. Tarn mused on the tendency of "phase sixers" to rebel. He paused when he realised Black Shadow was still alive. Playing his music, he discussed his views on the so-called end of the war, noting that as far as he was concerned, the war would end only when Megatron said so. He then began modulating his voice to Black Shadow's spark frequency, causing him to explode. He then ordered the D.J.D. to move onto their next target. He contacted said target on Clemency, warning his comrades that if they handed him over, they could live to watch him die. Rules of Disengagement
Sheltering in a crashed P-6 Worldsweeper, the Scavengers had other ideas and on discovering an unconscious Grimlock in a stasis tube decided to spike him with circuit speeders and use him to distract the Justice Division. Well aware that it was a trap Tarn mused how he could never resist a closed coffin and approached it anyway, but while Grimlock initially fared well against the D.J.D. Tesarus and Tarn soon subdued him and Helex prevented the Scavengers from escaping. In the ensuing battle Tarn was crushed beneath the foot of Crankcase's Cybernought but recovered quickly enough to hear Fulcrum—the D.J.D.'s intended target—deliver a speech about Decepticon ideals before apparently committing suicide. With Kaon's discovery of Overlord's energy signature nearby Tarn ordered the D.J.D. to disengage in pursuit, warning the surviving Scavengers that their names had now made it onto The List. Who's Afraid of the DJD?
