Kaon (G1)

Kaon is aDecepticonfrom the2005 IDW portionof theGeneration 1continuity family.

"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."

Kaonis the communications officer of theDecepticon Justice Divisionand the one responsible for maintaining itshit list.A veritable dynamo, his frame crackles with electricity from the generator in his chest, arcing out from his hands and the twinTeslacoils mounted on his shoulders. In hisalternate modeof an electric chair he pitilessly tortures any wretch who deviates from Decepticon orthodoxy. Thousands of watts of electricity are discharged directly into thecranial chambersof those who would defyMegatron.Unlike inhumans,this procedure is notalwaysfatal.

Despite his chilly demeanor and his cold, bottomless black eyes, he can become almost giddy in the execution of his duties, whether it's excitedly tracking down the D.J.D.'s next target or gleefully ripping an Autobot to shreds.

Kaon also owns a partially domesticatedturbofoxknown only as "the Pet."He's surprisingly quite emotionally-attached to it.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

First appearance:More than Meets the Eye#7

Not... THE COMFY CHAIR!!!

The robot who would eventually become Kaon wasconstructed cold.Arm the Lonely

In 2009, following theSurge,Kaon and the other members of the D.J.D. arrived overGarrus-9to eliminateShockwave.They discovered that Shockwave had planned for this contingency by making sure his crewmembers were also on the D.J.D'slistof targets;Tarnopted to ignore Shockwave's barter and take out Shockwave, who was target number one on their list. The gambit failed and the D.J.D. were forced to retreat when backup arrived in the form ofBludgeonand theMonstructor Six.The Ties That Bind

When the DecepticonBlack Shadowwas caught for getting bribed to destroy a fleet ofWar Worldsafter the war's end, Kaon electrocuted him and left him to get talked to death byTarn.Kaon and the other members were then ordered by Tarn to move on to their next target,Fulcrum.Rules of Disengagement

On arrival atClemency,they met with resistance from Fulcrum's new friends, theScavengers,which automatically got them all put on The List. After pinningKrokdown so thatVoscould impale his face, Kaon went on to introduceMisfireto the Pet and use his electric powers to crippleCrankcase'sCybernoughtlong enough for Tarn to destroy it. Following the apparent death of Fulcrum, Kaon detected theenergy signatureofOverlordand informed Tarn, who immediately ordered the D.J.D. to leave in search of this new target.Who's Afraid of the DJD?Aboard thePeaceful Tyranny,Tarn showed concern as Kaon spontaneously beganwrithing in agonyright in front of him.Arm the LonelyKaon was comforted by the Pet when the pain ceased.This Calamitous Life

ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE GIGAWATTS

Arriving at Overlord's location, theLost Light(in reality, one of two created by a malfunction of the ship'squantum engines), near the planetOfsted XVII,the D.J.D. set about murdering the ship's crew of Autobots. Kaon personally killedDipstickby shocking him to death before reaching the still-restrained Overlord. Tarn chopped his head off with a chainsaw while Kaon smirked, and the D.J.D. left the wrecked ship.slaughterhouseThe Road Not Taken

When the D.J.D. returned to the murder site 17 months later to steal theLost Light's quantum engines, they found that theGalactic Counciland theBlack Block Consortiawere fighting over the same prize over Ofsted. The two sides joined forces to attack the D.J.D. Kaon and Vos pursued a Council squad to the planet's surface when reinforcements arrived, forcing thePeaceful Tyrannyto retreat with out them. As a result, Kaon and Vos were left near-dead in a wrecked campus. The kindness ofTrailcuttersaw Vos brought back from the brink... at which point he attacked the Autobot, forcing him to raise a forcefield. Kaon was inside the field in alt-mode: the forcefield charged him up and he gleefully tore Trailcutter to pieces. When the Autobots protested that Megatron had declared the war over, Kaon took Trailcutter's post-war copy ofTowards Peaceto checkbut smashed Trailcutter's brain first anyway.Vos and himself were then teleported back onto thePeaceful Tyrannyby Helex.Births, Deaths, and Interventions

Kaon got a little ahead of himself.

In the D.J.D. headquarters on Clemency, Kaon explained the unique properties ofNuketoNickel.He later accompanied Tarn to a rendezvous withDeathsaurus,tapping into and hijacking the inter-Decepticon radio of the renegade's stolenWarworldfor Tarn's use. He became concerned when Tarn and Deathsaurus came to blows, but Vos convinced him not to intervene.

After the brawl, the Decepticons formed one big happy family out to get MegatronThe Permanent Revolutionand finally ambushed him and his closest allies at theNecrobot's planet.How Bright Their Frail DeedsA siege commenced. WhenTenwas caught outside of it, a gleeful Kaon and his chums ripped the mech to pieces beforeRatchetandDriftshowed up.The Sun in FlightThis wouldn't have mattered a damn except that Drift noticed Kaon got upset when the Pet was hurt and duly took the critter hostage. Kaon freaked out and demanded everyone let the Autobots retreat, much toHelex's anger.

Kaon rushed to a strategy powwow, distressed by the loss of the Pet and begging Tarn that they had to get him back. Realizing just how much Kaon had truly cared for the turbofox, Tarn embraced his comrade...

...and, to Nickel's horror, ripped Kaon's head off because this sentiment was a weakness that he wouldn't allow his personnel to feel.

Unwittingly ironic, Tarn smashed Kaon's head and brain module flat againstthe nearest surface.Your Fierce Tears

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Ha!

Kaon participated in an attack led byMegatronto conquerAutobot City.Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!

Beast Wars: Uprising

Kaon was a member of the DJD during theGreat War,operating out of theMandalainIaconunder the supervision ofSoundwave.Three centuries after thearmistice,a statue of Kaon stood in the Mandala.Trigger Warnings

Games

Transformers Legends

Kaon and the rest of the D.J.D. hunted downBlack Shadowto the planetClemency.Finding their target holed up with Decepticonscavengers,the D.J.D. destroyed the lot of them before moving on to their next assignment.Rules of Disengagement

Notes

• According toAlex Milne,Kaon was the most difficult member of the Decepticon Justice Division to design.^[1]
• Kreon Kaon wears a repaintedRatchethelmet and some sort of drill setup on his back.
• While his horrible black eyes certainly suggested it, a later Q&A byJames Robertsconfirmed that Kaon has no optics and sees by way of echolocation.^[2]
• Kaon is the only member of the Decepticon Justice Division whose real name is not revealed by the end ofMore than Meets the Eye,as he was killed before Megatron's expository massacre. James Roberts eventually revealed on Twitter that his real name isAmp.^[3]

Foreign names

• Japanese:Kaon(ケイオンKeion)

References