Crasher (GoBots)

Crasher is a Renegade from the GoBots continuity family.

Evil Renegade Crasher is enthusiastic and loves to destroy Guardians. Cy-Kill considers her obsession with Turbo borderline unhealthy. Her vehicle mode is a Porsche 956.

Fiction

Animated cartoon continuity

Crasher was an "oddly-misplaced Cybertronian". The seismic energy dischargers built into Blackout's feet were reverse-engineered from Crasher. Blackout's profile in The Complete AllSpark Almanac

Brain Problem Situation

In Gargent 087.0 Kappa, Crasher was one of Cy-Kill's elite lieutenants. When six strange visitors were detected fighting Guardians, Cy-Kill, assuming the Guardians' enemies to be allies of his, dispatched Cop-Tur, Crasher, Fitor, Tank, and Geeper-Creeper to assist the strangers. The Renegades drove off the Guardians and brought the Autobots back to the Rogue Star, but the Autobots turned on the Renegades after discovering the Renegades' malicious nature. Brain Problem Situation

Ask Vector Prime

Multiversal observer Vector Prime believed that the existence of the Decepticon Fracture across multiple Tyran realities was the result of (a) Gargent Crasher dimension-hopping to Tyran and subsequently being duplicated across the cluster. Ask Vector Prime, 17 June 2015

Echoes and Fragments

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Gong and Sideways combined two universes, creating a world where the Renegades were at war with the heroic Autobots. Under Cy-Kill's command, Crasher and several other Renegades stormed an Autobot shuttle and Crasher took an injured Ironhide prisoner. Reality changed again–in this new timeline, she served under Megatron. In the ensuing battle for Guardian City, she was one of the many Decepticons and Renegades fatally wounded in the fight, and became one of the many casualties jettisoned off Astrotrain. When Megatron bargained with Unicron, he reformatted her into Fracture. Echoes and Fragments

Renegade Rhetoric

Crasher was one of Cy-Kill's most loyal lieutenants, and participated in nearly every one of his schemes. Notably, she refused to play Ruth in the Pirates of Penzance play, raced in the Alienapolis Five Million, Renegade Rhetoric (1), 15 October 2015 flirted with the amnesiac Leader-1, and found herself in a future where the Renegades had seemingly made peace with the Guardians. Renegade Rhetoric (2)

Later, she and Cop-Tur hacked a broadcast of Ask Vector Prime to broadcast information about the Convoy to Axiom Nexus. Ask Vector Prime, 16 January 2016

Go-Bots comic

Crasher was one of several Go-Bots to go rogue and evade deactivation. She lived as an outlaw near Route 66, where she linked up with other rogues to form the Renegades. Crasher personally led a raid on a filling station, where she traumatized and injured an attendant. Later, she and the rest of Cy-Kill's Renegades subdued Leader-1 so Tank could access his military knowledge; afterwards, full-scale rebellion against humanity occurred. Go-Bots #1 With Cop-Tur, she captured the human loyalist Scooter, forcing him to lick her tire treads clean or be handed over to Psycho. Go-Bots #2

Over the years of Go-Bot war that followed, Crasher developed a love/hate rivalry with Turbo until the latter left Leader-1's service. The Renegade also developed into a key lieutenant to Cy-Kill and gave herself a darker color scheme. Crasher exchanged barbs with Turbo when the opposing factions faced off on Gobotron's organic core—in fact the abandoned and devolved Earth. While Leader-1, Turbo and their allies were busy fighting Zod, Cy-Kill and the Renegades took over the Command Center, capturing Scooter. Go-Bots #4

This resulted in Turbo mounting a rescue that saw the Go-Bot take out several Renegades in a brutal fashion, with Crasher opting to take cover instead of fighting. Disgusted with Cy-Kill's cruelty to captured humans, Turbo killed him and rescued Scooter. Crasher initially activated the Command Center's defenses to kill them before Turbo was finally able to persuade her to let the Go-Bots' war die with Leader-1 and Cy-Kill. The pair ended their rivalry and shook hands before returning to the surface of Gobotron together in the Command Center. Once there, they were saved by Road Ranger from Braxis's Vamps. As Road Ranger took charge of the remaining Go-Bots to lead them towards a new future, Crasher remarked on the irony of a new generation taking over just as they were making progress. Go-Bots #5

Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic

A rumored visitor from the Multiverse who had an unexplained feud with Shadowstrip,^[1] Crasher took part in the second week of the Speedia 500 to determine the leader of Velocitron. She attempted to use her earthquake abilities to create a chasm that the other racers couldn't cross, but this plan didn't take into account fliers like Galaxy Shuttle, who went on to win the race. Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3

Toys

Transformers (2007)

This mold makes for an astonishingly good fembot.

• Decepticon Fracture (Deluxe Class, 2008)
  • Accessories: "Negative-energy blaster"

• Known designers: Joe Kyde (deco artist)

A Walmart exclusive redeco of Classics Mirage, Transformers Fracture transforms into a closed-canopy Formula racer concept car. The front aerofoil detaches to become a (non-firing) handheld weapon. The original light-piping features of the mold have been disabled by the paint applications on the figure's eyes.

She is extensively painted to resemble the GoBots character Crasher, right down to the pink face and black "domino mask" she sported in the GoBots cartoon. The tampographed Decepticon insignia on the figure features the original design, rather than the slightly streamlined look of the movie faction insignia, owing to the original intent to have her be a Classics version of Crasher.

This mold was also used to make the 2008 Universe version of Drag Strip.

Anyone looking to buy this figure on the aftermarket be warned, there is a very convincing-looking counterfeit knockoff that's been making the rounds since at least 2010.

• More info on Fracture at TFU.info

Legacy

This is illegal, you know.

• Decepticon Crasher (Deluxe Class, 2022)
  • Accessories: Cannon, shoulder-mounted launcher, missile

• Known designers: Sam Smith (Hasbro)

Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection "Decepticon Crasher" is a redeco of the Kingdom version of Mirage, but uses the head of Siege Holo Mirage. Her deco hybridizes elements of the cartoon model for Crasher and the 2008 Fracture figure. She comes with the accessories that Mirage has.

Notably, despite originating as a GoBots character, the character doesn't display "GoBots Universe" terminology on the packaging, likely due to the weird ownership situation regarding the franchise. Instead, the product description refers to Crasher as having a "G2-inspired design" and that the toy is "inspired by the character's appearance in the Transformers comics."

The Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection was exclusive to Walmart in the US.

• Design notes on Legacy Crasher from Hasbro designer Sam Smith on Instagram

Notes

"Your franchise is better than ours? You must have had so many female toys in the 80s."

• Crasher originates from GoBots, which was later "absorbed" into Transformers lore.
• The IDW comic character Aileron and the Shattered Glass incarnation of Strongarm are colored to resemble Crasher.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Crasher (クラッシャー Kurasshā)

See also

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Versions of Crasher have appeared in other continuity families, including:

• Crasher, the evil black/white/red racecar Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
• Fracture, the evil black/white/red racecar Decepticon from the live-action film series.

For more information, see Crasher (disambiguation).

References

External links

GBwiki has content relating to Crasher. Mighty robots, mighty wiki!

• Crasher at TFU.info