Empurata

This article is about the ritualized punishment involving the removal of a Cybertronian's face. For the casual hobby of removing a Cybertronian's face, see Optimus Prime (Movie).

Empurata is a horrible thing from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Empurata is an old tradition on pre-war Cybertron. A tradition of removing the damn heads and hands of criminals and replacing them with faceless, fingerless replacements so everyone knows to shun them.

Fiction

IDW comics continuity

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When Whirl's combat prowess caught the attention of the Senate, he was pushed into joining theRodion police force. When the 'bot tried to resist his orders, they used empurata to... persuade him otherwise. Interiors This is part of the reason why he's such a bitter mess: when he sold out the Senate to Orion Pax, the reason he gave was "I want my hands back".

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During the Clampdown, amputee support groups called on the Senate to ban the practice but the Senate responded that it was only used on criminals who deserve it. At the same time they were saying that, the Institute was 'working' on the crusading Senator Shockwave and performed empurata on him solely out of spite.

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