Vos (G1)
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[removes face]
...same as the old Vos.
YEAHHHHH!!
- Vos is a Decepticon from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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 lined with numerous spikes, drills, and hooks that deploy at the flick of a switch, 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.
Shockingly, he may be a neoprimalist: when near death, he started to mutter "Primus spare my spark".
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
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.
Vos was used as a weapon by Megatron at least once during the war, seemingly during some pivotal moment worthy of future recollection. Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things
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?
Arriving at Overlord's location, the Lost Light (in reality, one of two created by a malfunction of the ship's quantum engines), near the planet Ofsted XVII, the D.J.D. set about murdering the ship's crew of Autobots before killing the still-restrained Overlord's head with a chainsaw. slaughterhouse After slaughtering Overlord, the DJD turned their attention to the Autobot crew. In his weapon mode, Vos was used by Tarn to kill Cyclonus with a single head shot. He later held Rewind captive, forcing him to film the grisly proceedings, and then killed Chromedome with his own mnemosurgery needles. The Road Not Taken
Unfortunately for the DJD, when they left they got caught in a three-way battle with the Galactic Council and the Black Block Consortia. Vos was left severely wounded at an Offsted campus, so wounded that the Autobots who found him didn't know who he was until Trailcutter translated his dying babble as the Division's motto. First Aid instantly went from wanting to save even a Decepticon to wanting this mass-murdering to die but Trailcutter, not wanting any death on his conscience, continued to donate energon. Vos rewarded him with violence and gleefully watched as Kaon ripped him to pieces, before they both departed. Births, Deaths, and Interventions
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.[1]
