Fracture (Movie)
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- Fracture is a Decepticon from the Transformers portion of the movie continuity family.
Fracture is utterly loyal to Lord High Protector Megatron and the Decepticon cause. This is generally considered a good thing, as she's got more than a few screws loose and a destructive streak you could drive a space cruiser through. She can be counted on to charge into any engagement, regardless of the odds, often cackling madly. Though she can bring significant firepower to bear with her hand-held negative energy blaster, she far prefers to use the seismic energy dischargers built into her giant stompy boots to cause localized earthquakes.[1]
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Fiction
Titan movie comics
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In a divergent timeline, the Decepticons succeeded at Mission City and conquered the United States. Fracture was one of Stockade's "new Decepticons": a group of Decepticons who remained on the dying Cybertron and survived by feeding on Nucleon. Return to Cybertron: Part 1 She was not loyal to Megatron, as he was the git who caused Cybertron to start dying in the first place.
She helped Stockade summon an alien entity related to the AllSpark to Cybertron, and then opened up a "dock" for it to enter, thus rebirthing the world. She was then dispatched to chase down and recapture fleeing Autobots, which is probably good as then she didn't get to notice she had helped to summon Unicron. Return to Cybertron: Part 2 The chaos caused her to lose the Autobots, and she returned to base to see what was happening; Stockade declared an end to hostilities against the Autobots so they could focus on Unicron. Return to Cybertron: Part 3
Fracture got to tell Stockade how daft it was to have them fight Unicron conventionally, and later got to help fight Unicron unconventionally by shooting up his insides. Return to Cybertron: Part 4
When the New Decepticons went to Earth to protect it from Starscream in the Autobots' absence, Fracture's job was to hit the lead drones with a frequency that would brainwash every other drone linked to them into switching sides. Revolution Part Two Thanks to her, by the early morning of the next day, the New Decepticons had won the Decepticon Civil War and only the Decepticon Heartland remained.
Fracture, doing recon, found nobody was home at the Heartland base, and believed Starscream must have fled. This turned out to be wrong though, as a revived Megatron began blitzing them! She showed some concern for Storm Surge, yelling at him to move as the laser-fire rained down, before getting stuck into the battle and trading shots with a jet-mode Starscream.
Unfortunately for her and her mates, the Autobots decided to teleport the New Decepticons to Cybertron along with Megatron's to ensure they didn't hold onto Earth. Fracture's now back on her homeworld, and trapped. See where good deeds get you? Revolution Part Three
IDW movie comics
In the utopia before the war, Fracture was a warrior in Megatron's Cybertronian Defense Force. However, malcontents dissatisfied with the social order rose up, and Fracture was among Megatron's CDF when they sought them out and destroyed them. Foundation #2 She was also present when Megatron rallied the Defense Force into combat against an alien race bent on taking their AllSpark. Defiance #2
When Megatron launched the Nemesis to search the galaxy for a Star Harvester, Fracture was a member of its crew, serving as leader of Soundwave's tactical combat unit. She mistook the energy readings of the Ark for a second AllSpark and was almost sucked out into space when the ship warped into the Nemesis and ripped a hole in it. Soundwave's orders to follow the Ark confused her, but questioning them got her nowhere and so the crew tracked the warping ship Earth thousands of years into the future. Convergence chapter 1
Years later, Fracture came with Soundwave as he returned to the damaged Nemesis and consulted The Fallen. To the crew's dismay, they then had to go back to Earth right away, where Soundwave ordered Fracture's team to reinforce Starscream's Decepticons and locate the Star Harvester they now knew was on Earth. Convergence chapter 4
Fracture made her landing in Italy with her subordinates Gunbarrel and Reverb, who she led in a raid of a military base. After the latter scanned suitable Earth forms, she ordered Swindle and Dead End in San Francisco to provide a distraction for the Autobots and their human friends while the rest of their forces located their master. Alliance #3
The human-Autobot alliance evidently turned out to be more capable than the Decepticons realized. After the destruction of Reverb and Gunbarrel, Fracture was chased by the soldiers on a cliff-hugging road in the Italian Alps, running right into Ironhide, who rammed her right off the road and into the valley below. Her remains were retrieved by the military and presumably disposed of. Alliance #4
Ask Vector Prime
Vector Prime believed Fracture to have originated in the Gargent Cluster, as the GoBot named Crasher, but the volatile nature of Tyran realities combined with her unusual physiology resulted in her being duplicated across many realities, sometimes as purely Cybertronian beings. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/17
When Sideways and Gong merged universal streams from the Primax and Gargent clusters, Crasher was thrown out of Astrotrain by Zero, and reformatted into Fracture by Unicron. In the subsequent version of the Unicron War, Fracture served the role that Cyclonus normally would, until Vec-Tor managed to reverse Sideways and Gong's meddling. Echoes and Fragments
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- 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.[2] 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 toy was also sold exclusively at The Warehouse in New Zealand, and was eventually repurposed as the "Cataclysm universe" incarnation of GoBots Crasher, and doubles as "Generation 1" Crasher in My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise! issue #4.
- This mold was also used to make the 2008 Universe version of Drag Strip.
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Notes
- According to the Hasbro designer panel at BotCon 2008, Fracture is not merely an homage to GoBots Crasher, but was intended to actually be the character, presumably having traveled from her home universe into the Transformers world, like certain other members of her race. This makes a lot of sense, given the figure was originally designed for the 2008 Universe line.
- Hasbro wanted to actually call her Crasher, but couldn't get the name. They then tried Catalyst but couldn't get that either.
- The entire situation with GoBots rights is complicated enough that Hasbro was reluctant to produce this toy at all. According to deco artist Joe Kyde, it took finding a real F-1 style racer in that black-and-white-with-red deco (namely, the Midland M16) to seal the deal with a bit of plausible deniability. Stupid cross-dimensional legal issues.
- Presumably she would've travelled with her fellow GoBots to a Generation 1 continuity had the original plan gone through. Ask Vector Prime would later try to explain what actually happened.
- In Titan's comics, Fracture appears to have the natural ability to hack lead drones.
See also
References
- ↑ Transformers Deluxe Class Decepticon Fracture packaging bio
- ↑ Hasbro.com announcement of the Walmart-exclusive Deluxe figures
