Hello everyone! Great news! Finally there is confirmation that Tarn/Damus/Glitch is/was a Phase Sixer! I am so glad to put this question to rest(since it appears it still seems to be in question whenever I look at other discussions/threads) I am going to give you proof as well of the source in which I got the information, please tell my your thoughts: https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/1230022928688910338 this is an answer from the writer of the character. If you don't feel like clicking the link to the actual question and answer, here is the answer from Creator/Writer James Roberts himself: @jroberts332 I was wondering if Tarn was a phase sixer? (Sorry if this has already been answered) James Roberts @jroberts332 · Feb 18 He was indeed
Glad you got your answer. Hadn't thought about it but if makes sense when I look back on the issues and all the DJD did.
Thank you! It's truly been something I thought in the back of my mind but always wanted a definitive "yes" for. It certainly paints some of the characters past in a different light.
Agreed. I also think it says something about Tarn's vaunted opinion of himself that actually hid his lack of self confidence.
You are correct, I actually just read something from Alex Milne saying that he believes he started wearing the mask mostly out of insecurities about his face as due to Empurata he has that confidence issue and mental scars from the experience.
That doesn't surprise me, he's addicted to transforming and being a phase sixer gives him a lot more choice.
I think you're mixing phase sixers with a six-changer. He doesn't have six alt-modes, he's just in the same "Phase-six" group that Sixshot, Black Shadow, and Overlord were a part of to wipe out the rest of a population after the Decepticons have destabilized it. The sixth phase in Megatron's infiltration protocol. Tbh it seems almost like a pointless retcon to me. Like it makes sense since most of the members of the Warriors Elite ended up being phase sixers, but it doesn't really add anything imo. It kind of just slots Tarn into a category that doesn't really affect his role in the story too much.
You are quite right, Well it depends on your view of and interest in, the character of Tarn. If you could care less how powerful he is then it's insignificant news to you, if you really like the character then it's significant news to you as it's official that he is in the group of the most powerful Cybertronians. Now, he is not just an Outlier with a powerful ability but also a Point One Percenter who became a Phase Sixer which makes him unique even among other Phase Sixers, he is right now the only recorded Outlier and Point One Percenter and Phase Sixer.
We already knew he was among the most powerful from his status in the Warrior's Elite, though. Heretech and Killmaster were also in that group, alongside Overlord, Sixshot and Blackshadow, so we already had that sense he was one of Megatron's top warriors. That's why I find the decision to make him a phase sixer kind of pointless in general. It just means he did the same job Sixshot and Blackshadow did before he founded the DJD and after he was in charge of Grindcore. I don't know, like I said it just comes off as a means of categorization that doesn't really add that much to the world or the character. We just know now that he fulfilled the same role Sixshot and Blackshadow did during the infiltration phase of the war.
I see your point, though before now it was not known if he had undergone the Ununtrium process, that's mostly what I was wanting to find out, as not all of the Warriors Elite got the Ununtrium upgrades, only the Phase Sixers.
Yes. But like everything else he had in his head, and which he failed to put into the books ( in any way, shape, or form. So all this is great, but it's all head-canon for a dead series, for an author who doesn't write Transformers anymore. The character is awesome, but everything being said now is about a official as fan fiction.
Tarn being a Point One Percenter is in the text of the comics, he talked about his green spark in issue #39. And we already knew his power level was akin to that of a Phase Sixer, as identified by Prowl in #14. But I'm afraid I'd hazard a guess that in answering this question, Roberts is doing what often happens in fandom conversations about this topic, which is, conflating the two, by using the "job title" of "Phase Sixer" to refer simply to an extremely-powerful super warrior. Because a "Phase Sixer" is a JOB - a 'bot who gets called in to raze planets as the sixth and final phase of the infiltration protocol. That wasn't Tarn's job; he already had a very specific job as leader of the DJD.
Yeah, I'm also looking at this tweet cited by TFWiki's Phase Sixer article - "the Warriors Elite consisted of Phase Sixers" seems like a very direct inversion of what we know of both groups.
I see your points but Phase Sixer is not only a job title but also showing who has Ununtrium bonding upgrades. Tarn was apparently doing many things before becoming the leader of the DJD.
Overlord, Black Shadow and Sixshot had the upgrades long before they were Phase Sixers, and before the concept of "Phase Sixers" was invented by Megatron.
