Shadowplay

Shadowplay is a horrible thing from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Shadowplay is the process by which the personality of a Cybertronian is altered. This has been used as both a political move and punishment.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

During the days of The Insitute, Pious Maximus, a noted anti-ratioist, was spotted by Prowl and Chromedome undergoing Shadowplay. Patternism

After his capture by the senate, Senator Shockwave was submitted to a form of Shadowplay so strong it completely suppressed all emotion, turning the energetic and well meaning senator into a cold, detached scientist driven purely by logic and self-interest. In an unusual move added in purely out of spite, Shockwave also underwent empurata. An Intimate Beheading