Dead End (place)

The slums of Polyhex are known as the Dead End, home to its most wretched citizens, the Empties.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Located in Decepticon-held Polyhex, the Dead End is neutral in the civil war due to the fact that most of its residents are the derelict Empties. The large number of non-Decepticons make it a prime location for Autobots to regroup, hide and seek information for raids upon the Darkmount. The Decepticons in turn use its residents for target practice, and—as the war drags on and as resources grow ever more scarce—as fodder for the Decepticon harvester units to be melted down in the smelting pool and used to create new Decepticons. The Smelting Pool!

On Earth Shockwave manipulated events to bring together Optimus Prime and Megatron in a fight he hoped would leave both dead. Unable to defend himself against Prime, Megatron summoned the space bridge. In an apparent attempt to sacrifice himself to kill Megatron, Prime hurled them both through the unstable portal. Both survived and Megatron sought to get the Autobots to do his dirty work for him by leaking information that Prime was a Decepticon spy. This plan would have worked if not for Outback who rescued Prime and took him to the Dead End to lie low. While on the run from the Wreckers Optimus told Outback about what happened to him while he was in limbo. They were then discovered by Ultra Magnus, who decided Optimus was the real deal. Distant Thunder!

After the two leaders returned to Earth Optimus Prime was apparently killed. Deranged by being unable to confirm if Prime was truly dead, Megatron blasted the space bridge while he was standing on it and was seemingly killed, however the explosion had catapulted him into the Dead End. After his self-repair systems were able to partially revive him, he wandered and lived with the Empties, with no recollection of who he was, until he stumbled upon Sports Car Patrol leader Blackjack being ambushed by two Autobots. Blackjack crying out his name and the sight of the Autobrand returned Megatron to his senses, and he blasted the Micromasters' attackers. The Resurrection Gambit!

2005 IDW continuity

Following the loss of his watch-making business, the destitute Whirl fell in with a bad crowd in the Dead End and started picking fights with other Cybertronians. His combat prowess got him noticed, and he was later gang-pressed into the service of the Senate as a member of the Rodion police force. Interiors Rodion police captain Orion Pax made cleaning up the Dead End one of his major priorities, and had his officers regularly patrol the area.

Springarm and Wheelarch were surprised when they spent a whole day in the area without spotting any criminal activity, but it turned out their superior, Orion Pax, had already done his rounds and taken in several dozens criminals earlier. Chaos Theory Part 2 The down-on-his-luck drug addict Drift made the Dead End his home, causing him to attract the attention of Sonic and Boom, two thugs paid to clean up the area in a more violent fashion than Orion Pax. As they were beating Drift in up the sector designated DE911, Orion showed up and arrested them before taking their victim to Ratchet's clinic in the Dead End. Post Hoc

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Foreign names

• Japanese: The Dead End (ザ・デッドエンド Za Deddo Endo)