They didn't just maim his body, they butchered his mind and soul. The result of this process? Shockwave, the coldly ruthless logical monster we all know now. The one who gave the order did so soley out of spite after finding out he was helping Pax in his movement to change Cybertron's government. The most prolific victim of this process, however, is a senator who prided himself on looking good, could scarecely keep a single paintjob, and was a good friend of Orion Pax. The questionably sane Autobot Whirl is one to have suffered this fate, and occasionally thinks back to a time he looked normal. Their hands replaced with unwieldy clamps or other job-appropriate appendages, their outer chassis swapped around quite a bit, and their face rendered a single, mostly unemotive optic.
Those found guilty of heinous-enough crimes are modified extensively to remove most forms of their outward identity.
The later parts of the story add a bit of a forlorn horror to it, as it turns out Springer was sending Autobots in hazard gear that made them look like zombies to the addled mind of Kup in an effort to rescue him, and in the end it takes Trailblazer's forcefield ability to get Kup out of that brown hellhole, at the cost of Kup nearly busting his Spark chamber's containment field in a fashion akin to a stress-induced cardiac arrest! Initially it seems like he's merely surviving a rash of zombified Cybertronians alongside Outback after having crash-landed on a strange planet, but then the true horror element shines through: Kup has actually been driven insane by the radiation coming off the exotic variants of Energon Crystals glowing on the planet, and Outback is actually dead - Kup does not notice this fact as he brags to Outback's own corpse while using his arm as a crude club! The way the art style takes on a surreal, dreamlike approach when the narrative is in Kup's point of view makes it even creepier. The story begins innocently enough with Kup fighting off zombie-like Cybertronians, before retreating to his rough hut/shelter. From IDW's Spotlight mini-series comes the Kup issue.Made worse as we see Scrounge, a character we'd gotten to know in the previous issue reduced to a torso, then melt to nothingness, while his friend Blaster tried to save him. A place where Decepticons toss captured Autobots, and they melt and dissolve to death slowly over several days. From the original comics in the 80's comes the Smelting Pit.
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