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Tarn is one of the main antagonists in IDW's The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye. The DJD are dedicated to enforcing Megatron's word, hunting down any Decepticon who inconveniences their cause and killing them as painfully and gruesomely as possible to dissuade any other potential deserters. Tarn's every action is in service to the Decepticon cause, even after Megatron renounced it and defected to the Autobots. For all of Tarn's seeming charm and affability, at heart he is a bureaucratic, spitefully cruel madman, desperate to see himself as far more important than he actually is.
History[]
Early life as Damus[]
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More than Meets the Eye[]
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The Dying of the Light[]
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2019[]
Farm as Damus appears in the rebooted series
Personality/abilities[]
Tarn at first appears affable, often quoting Megatron's political writings as his henchmen torture their victims. However, his mask betrays his zealous loyalty to the Decepticons and his hatred of anyone who even slightly haults their war machine. His loyalty to the Decepticons was so great that when Megatron joined the Autobots he attempted suicide but failed and realised that Megatron's cause was greater than him and that the DJD could remain loyal to it. His double-fusion cannons are deadly but not as eerie as his ability to talk people to death. By modulating his voice's timbre then lowering it he can coax a Cybertronian spark into collapsing, violently killing whoever he targets.
Trivia[]
- Before his identity was revealed, many fans believed Tarn was Optimus's old friend Roller. All Our Parlous Yesterdays dropped several clues to further the theory, that turned out to be red herrings.
- Tarn, in his "Damus" appearance, made a cameo in the "Functionist Universe", where Megatron was never created, as a member of the Anti-Vocationist League.
- Damus also made a cameo as a patron of a den of substance abuse in IDW's 2019 rebooted series. This could be a reference to Tarn's addictive tendencies.
- Tarn's design was used for the Perfect Decepticons in Transformers Cyberverse. Coincidentally, in the show's final episode, one of them would bear his name.