Helex (G1)
| This article is about the member of the Decepticon Justice Division. For the Decepticon city, see Helex. |
- Helex is a Decepticon from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Helex is a member of the Decepticon Justice Division, the group of torturers and fanatics employed by Megatron to hunt down and deal with traitors. His bizarre and enormous form sports two pairs of arms - a big pair and a smaller one at waist level - and a cavernous torso which can be opened when he assumes his alternate mode, interring an unfortunate prisoner within. Claustrophobia is the least of their worries, as his internal heating elements engage and the dissident is treated to the exquisite pain of their internal components melting down in his own personal smelting pool. To top it all, he has a liking for removing a victim's brain module and placing it into their mouths.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
When the Decepticon Black Shadow was caught for getting bribed to destroy a fleet of War Worlds, Helex partially melted him and left him to get talked to death by Tarn after the other members got a turn to torture Black Shadow. Afterwards, Helex and the other members were ordered by Tarn to move on to their next target. Rules of Disengagement
Discovering their target's energy signature on the planet Clemency, the D.J.D. threatened the occupants of a P-6 Worldsweeper symbol ship until they gave him up, left sealed outside in a stasis pod. However, instead of Fulcrum—wanted by the D.J.D. for cowardice after failing to detonate himself as part of a K-Squad—the Scavengers had handed over Grimlock, spiked with circuit speeders. The D.J.D. battled Grimlock and the Scavengers; Helex gave a good stomping to Crankcase while shrugging off fire from Spinister. After Tesarus killed Flywheels, he and Helex were blasted to the ground by Crankcase in a Cybernought. With Fulcrum's apparent death and the discovery by Kaon of their next target's location, the D.J.D. left the surviving Scavengers with a warning that they were all now on The List and took off in the Peaceful Tyranny in pursuit of Overlord. Who's Afraid of the DJD?
The D.J.D. eventually caught up with Overlord on board a quantum duplicate of the Lost Light, and proceed to massacre the Autobot crew. Upon discovering Overlord captive in a slow cell hidden aboard, Helex smirked as Tarn prepared to behead their quarry. During the slaughter, Helex killed Ratchet, Drift and Hound, and his habit of placing his victims' brain modules in their mouths later helped Megatron, from the "main" Lost Light, to identify the D.J.D. as the attackers. slaughterhouse
After slaughtering Overlord, the DJD turned their attention to the Autobot crew. During the rather one-sided battle, Helex used his gigantic upper arms to rip Pipes in half, while simultaneously firing a pair of pistols with his smaller arms - taking out Red Alert with a head shot. The Road Not Taken
