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Human

2007-10-13T23:02:40Z

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[[Image:Human.jpg|right|thumb|A typical human.]]

'''Humans''' (also known as: fleshlings, squishies, "puny flesh creatures", "biological blobs", "dumb stubbies", ''Terrans'', "prey", or ''Homo sapiens'' as they prefer) are bipedal and usually tiny [[wikipedia:carbon_based_life|organic]] beings found on [[Earth]] and like planets. Though quite fragile, and technologically backwards, they have at times aided the [[Autobot]]s and thwarted the [[Decepticon]]s once the Transformers' age-old war spilled onto the humans' primitive homeworld.

==Overview==
===Physiology===
Humans are suspiciously familiar creatures. Though they are made of soft, organic materials, they share remarkable physical similarities with Transformers as a species. Most Transformers and humans walk upright on two long legs attached to a tall body, with two limbs attached at the shoulders. At the shoulders is the head, just like a Transformer's, which sports two eyes in the center at equal distance from the olfactory sensor array, above a mouth which opens for speaking and for ingesting energy. Aside from energy, they also ingest raw materials that they use in their self repair systems. This would seem to be a sensible system, as these materials can be stored anywhere in their bodies, to be used later when and if necessary. Like Transformers, they are social creatures, who trade and barter wares and develop emotional attachments to peers. Eerily enough, they possess an emotional spectrum nearly identical to that of Transformers as well, ranging from laughter, joy, and satisfaction to depression, anger, and cruelty. It is not uncommon to find Transformers who have even developed [[Robot-fleshling romance|strong spiritual bonds]] with individual creatures. This is disgusting.

Humans are physically composed of several specialized units or systems called organs. The major organs are internalized, but extremely frail. Damage is hard to repair, and as they have yet to develop a method of replicating these organs, replacement usually requires harvesting from compatible humans. Major systems include the [[wikipedia:brain|brain]] (central processing unit), the heart (primary engine core), and the lungs (which allow intake of essential atmospheric oxygen). Humans are able to ingest other organic matter and internally refine it into a fuel they term [[wikipedia:blood|blood]]. Blood is required by every organ in their body and an elaborate transport system is required to transport it throughout. Though blood is in some sense self-replicating, a tremendous loss will result in permanent deactivation.

[[Image:Humansize.jpg|left|thumb|Humans come in both Tall and Venti.]]

A human's organic tissue will begin failing just one quarter into his or her lifespan, and will spend the next three quarters growing ever less efficient until the human's lifeforce can no longer sustain itself. As a result, humans are saddeningly short-lived creatures. (It is not known how they find the time to accomplish anything, though as a side effect it has made their wars mercifully short.) Interestingly, humans do not build new members of their race. To the contrary, humans are what they have deemed "[[wikipedia:sexual_dimorphism|sexually dimorphic]]," categorized into [[wikipedia:sex|sexes]], wherein members of one subvariant of their species, classified as male, implants structural data, which they call "DNA", in the other classified as female. This process grows a new human (or occasionally more than one, although this is rare) inside the female like a [[wikipedia:gestation|parasite]] until it emerges roughly three quarters of an Earth year later. (If it exits the female too early, the new human risks death.) The new human is very fragile and stupid; it will take years to acclimate itself to their society. Even a young human who stayed inside its female for the appropriate length of time is not capable of operating self-sufficiently without extensive training. Initiating the growth of a new human apparently involves much rubbing, and sometimes also [[kiss]]ing. Humans are reticent to discussing the practice, and several attempts at accumulating further data were met with silence. This is confusing, as humans generally give the impression that they supremely enjoy it, and have refused all suggestions that they learn the technology to build their own from spare parts.

===Technology===
Although Earth is rich with natural resources, Human technology is surprisingly primitive. They had only begun to experiment with outer atmosphere travel at the time the [[Great War]] began on Earth, and they have limited communication methods. Although their locomotive devices, called "cars", are suitable for Transformation, they are incredibly energy inefficient, potentially dangerous, and quite crude. Despite this, the type of car is often seen as a status symbol among humans, apparently the larger the car the more status achieved. Some humans claim that those with large cars are "compensating" for some other sort of size deficiency—unsurprising, considering how tiny humans are compared to the average Transformer.

Human military technology is equally unimpressive. They have yet to develop any form of workable energy weapons, and no shield technology either. Their primary weapons are devices called guns, which shoot small, metallic projectiles called bullets using a crude explosive called gunpowder. These are more than capable of killing other humans, but they are extremely ineffecient when fending off any attacking Decepticons. Their warhead weapons are slightly more efficient, though extremely primitive when compared to Autobot [[photon rifle|photon]] and [[plasma cannon|plasma]] weapons.

===Culture===
[[Image:Humansmall.jpg|right|thumb|The humans of Earth wear hardhats regardless of their profession.]]

Despite their lack of the multi-dimensional transwarp [[Spark]], a great number of humans believe in an analogous concept, the intangible soul. This has been confirmed to be the equivalent of a Transformer's personality program in an odd experiment, when the human [[Spike Witwicky]]'s personality was uploaded to an empty Transformer body cobbled together from spare parts. The human's consciousness was not suitable for digitization, and quickly deteriorated toward psychosis.

Many also believe in supernatural beings, either singular or plural, who have a direct but intangible stake in their lives. Once a week the more religious humans will gather together and sing songs at the ceiling, as the presumed direction of these beings is away from the gravity well of their planet. Unlike the historical [[Covenant of Primus|Covenant]] of [[Primus]], their holy books are not incorruptible encrypted public-key datatracks. Instead, they frequently re-encode the writings of multiple authors in an inefficient and apparently lossy process. Then they fight about which "translation" is correct instead of simply downloading the original encoding algorithm.

Despite having no concrete evidence these beings exist, and despite the records of the [[Beast Wars]] affirming their evolution from bipedal primates, the humans continue to assume these premises are true. This seems like a waste of spent attention, especially with such short lifespans, as no credible sources have substantiated that their alleged creator has ever transformed out of their world into a giant humanoid and fought its eternal enemy before their eyes. While some humans accept that they evolved from bipedal primates, there are others who maintain the divine intervention theory with a zeal that leads one to wonder if they are malfunctioning. Though the two theories are mutually exclusive, many seem to fall in a categorization that somehow accepts both. Many human traditions are puzzling.

The most familiar breed of humans are native to the planet Earth, though they can be found practically anywhere in the galaxy. For example, [[Nebulos]] is such a place, though some reports claim these humans are of green texture rather than various shades of beige. [[Femax]] is populated by humans of Transformer size. [[Pz-Zazz]] is also home to Transformer-sized humans, but it is not known whether they are indigenous to that world. It is possible that the tiny version of humans found on Earth is the exception, rather than the rule.

==Trivia==
* For reasons unknown, a substantial number of human Transformers [[fandom|fans]] appear to have a very drastic, dismissive position when it comes to the inclusion of representatives of their species in Transformers fiction, some even going as far as demanding that Transformers fiction should be devoid of ''any'' flesh creatures whatsoever, unless being depicted as helpless victims/casualties of Decepticon attacks.

==External links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human Humans like to write about themselves. This, too, erupts into war.]

[[Category:Humans| ]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Combaticon (G1)

2007-10-13T22:45:34Z

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:''The Combaticons are a sub-group of [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Combaticons_group.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Dirty Half-Dozen Minus One - from left to right Vortex, Onslaught, Swindle, Blast-Off and Brawl.]]

The '''Combaticons''' are a unit of fierce Decepticon soldiers, operating with (mostly) military precision under the watchful eye of the tactically brilliant Onslaught.

The Combaticons consist of:

*The cunning [[Onslaught]] (leader)
*The destructive [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]
*The aloof [[Blast Off]]
*The opportunistic [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]]
*The unhinged [[Vortex]]

They combine to form [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]].

'''Japanese name:''' ''Combatron''

==Fiction==
===''Generation 1''===
===Animated continuity===
[[Image:Starscreams_brigade_5_letsgo.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Dad's Army]]

When [[Starscream_(G1)|Starscream]] was banished from the Decepticons for Yet Another Failed Coup Against [[Megatron_(G1)|Megatron]], he was deposited on the Guadalcanal, the site of one of the major battles between the [[United_States|United States of America]] and Imperial Japan during World War II. There he found and rebuilt several abandoned US military vehicles to pass the time. After he finished, he decided that if Megatron can have a Decepticon army, then so can he!

After bluffing his way past [[Skywarp_(G1)|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker_(G1)|Thundercracker]] to use the [[Space_bridge|Space Bridge]], he travelled to a detention center on [[Cybertron_(planet)|Cybertron]] and liberated the [[spark|personality components]] of several [[Renegade Decepticon|Decepticon political prisoners]] before destroying the rest. Back on [[Earth]], Starscream installed the sparks into the rusting military vehicles and ordered the to transform.

The reborn Combaticons were less-than pleased with their 'new', primative bodies, nor were they particularly thankful to Starscream for freeing them after millions of years of imprisonment. That is, until the former Decepticon Air Commander revealed that he had neglected to install energy absorber units into their bodies, so they would have no way of refueling. As he was the only one with the knowledge and expertise to install them, he demanded their allegiance in his aim to overthrow Megatron. The Combaticons agreed to obey Starscream, for now.

[[Image:Starscreams_brigade_7_SSrideshoulder.jpg|right|thumb|155px|[[Squawktalk|SQUAWK! ]] Starscream wanna cracker!]]

Under Starscream's leadership, the Combaticons managed to capture several prisoners, then used their energy absorbers to recharge themselves at a power plant. Unfortunately, Megatron and the Decepticons attacked, while the Autobots rescued their comrades. The [[Constructicon]]s formed [[Devastator]], who wss quickly defeated by the Combaticon's much more powerful, but dull-witted combined form, Bruticus. Starscream ordered Bruticus to grab Megatron, forcing his former commander to acknowledge Starscream as the new leader of the Decepticons. Under duress, Megatron did so as the [[Stunticon]]s watched nearby. The latter group, deciding that Starscream would be too dangerous as a leader, quickly formed [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and defeated Bruticus with a single attack.

Starscream and the Combaticons were banished from Earth on a small asteroid, left to wallow in their own misery and blame each other for their failures. {{Storylink|Starscream's Brigade}}

[[Image:Revenge_of_bruticus_4_changing_course.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Lads, we can get the scrambled channels now]]

Starscream and the Combaticons quickly had a falling-out. After Starscream left, the Combaticons attacked Cybertron, easily defeating [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and his drones. Thirsting for revenge, Onslaught reprogrammed the [[Space Bridge]] to pull Earth closer to the [[Sun]], in the hopes of destroying it and every Transformer there. The Autobots and Decepticons temporarily joined forces to retake Cybertron and prevent Earth's destruction, and with Starscream's help, they deactivated the Combaticons once they formed Bruticus through a failsafe device built into the treacherous giant's back. Optimus Prime and Megatron agreed that Bruticus must be destroyed, but the Decepticon leader fooled the Autobots by using Shockwave's holographic simulator to make it appear as though Bruticus was destroyed, when in reality the combiner was reprogrammed to be loyal only to Megatron. {{Storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

[[Image:Revenge_of_bruticus_15_fakeblowup.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Care Bear Stare]]

Soon afterwards, during Megatron's latest scheme on Earth involving the theft of fighter aircraft using Middle-Eastern criminals, the Combaticons were called into service to defend Megatron's [[Giant Purple Griffin]], a large... thing that apparently pumped oil. Or something. Struggling against the [[Aerialbot]]s, the Combaticons formed Bruticus, yet was still knocked over when the Autobot planes twisted a tow cable around his legs. The Decepticon combiner was finally defeated when the Aerialbots ignited the nearby oil wells, causing a massive explosion that sent Megatron, Rumble, Bruticus and gas prices flying away. {{Storylink|Aerial Assault}}

[[Image:Bruticus_punch_planebot.jpg|left|thumb|155px|"Bruticus punch [[Skydive_(G1)|planebot]] so hard, make artist draw all over cel!"]]

While attacking a human city, Bruticus was destroyed in battle with [[Defensor]] (man, this guy can't seem to catch a break). Only Swindle survived, and he sold the remains of his comrades to various mercenaries and [[El Presidente|third-world dictator-types]], only to be forced to locate and rebuild the Combaticons by Megatron. The reformed Bruticus was then defeated when Megatron's disruptor cannon was overloaded by the human-built [[B.O.T. (robot)|B.O.T.]], once again sending the Decepticon flying into the sky. {{Storylink|B.O.T.}}

When the Earth was infected by the Hate plague,The Combaticons(Bruticus) was one of those getting infected.Brawl was last seen droving along the roadway and Vortex was seen attacking a plane on the runway {{Storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}
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===Marvel comics continuity===

==Toys==
===Generation 1===
* '''Onslaught''' (1986)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-64'''

: Onslaught transforms into a dark green mobile anti-aircraft truck of made-up origin, armed with a large double-barrelled cannon mounted on the flatbed of his vehicle mode. He can also assume a base/gun emplacement mode with a ramp that smaller Combaticons can use. In an undocumented feature, this base mode can be connected to the Decepticon city [[Trypticon]].

: In robot mode, Onslaught is armed with a long olive laser rifle and is accessorized by a small chest plate. He forms the central body component of Bruticus, protected by an even larger silver chest plate and Bruticus' head. He also comes with Bruticus' hands and feet.

: This mold was redecoed as ''[[Operation Combination]]'' [[Great Cannon]], ''[[Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Mega-Octane]], and ''[[Universe]]'' Mega-Octane.

* '''Brawl''' (1986)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-67'''
[[Image:G1Brawl_toy.jpg|right|thumb|150px|At least ''I'm'' colored good properly.]]

: Brawl transforms into a green Leopard 1 main battle tank. In vehicle mode his armament is supplemented by a large silver anti-aircraft gun mounted of the back of the tank's hull. In robot mode Brawl is armed with a small silver gun.

: Brawl normally operates as Bruticus' left leg, but as a [[Scramble City]]-style combiner, he can also act as any other limb.

: This mold was redecoed as ''[[Operation Combination]]'' [[Sandstorm (OC)|Sandstorm]], ''[[Generation 2]]'' Brawl, ''[[Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Armorhide (RID)|Armorhide]] and finally ''[[Universe]]'' Armorhide.

*'''Blast Off''' (Combaticon, 1986/1990)
:''Japanese ID number'': '''D-65'''
[[Image:G1Blastoff_toy.jpg|left|thumb|What are you talking about? I see olive green space shuttles driving down the road all the time.]]

: Blast Off transforms into a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle Rockwell International NASA Space Shuttle]. In this mode, he is armed with two laser cannons mounted his engines.

: In robot mode Blast Off is armed with a small laser pistol and his two laser cannons, which are now mounted on his legs. He usually forms Bruticus' right arm, but as a [[Scramble City]] toy, he can be connected with any limb slot on Bruticus.

: This mold was also used to make ''[[Operation Combination]]'' [[Shuttle Gunner]], ''[[Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Movor]] and ''[[Universe]]'' Movor.

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*'''Swindle''' (Combaticon, 1986)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-68'''
[[Image:G1Swindle_toy.jpg|right|thumb|Eh, I'd rather have elbows than shoulders anyway.]]

: Swindle transforms into a tan FMC XR311 combat support vehicle. He features a large, back mounted anti-tank missile launcher with a small laser pistol attached to its side.

: In robot mode, he is armed with both the smaller pistol and the large missile launcher. Swindle normally operates as Bruticus' rightt leg, but as a [[Scramble City]]-style combiner toy, he can also be used in any other available limb slot.

:This mold was later [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Operation Combination]]'' [[Leyland (G1)|Leyland]], ''[[Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Rollbar (RiD)|Rollbar]] and ''[[Universe]]'' Rollbar.

* '''Vortex''' (1985)
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-66'''
[[Image:G1Vortex_toy.jpg|left|thumb|What? The "Lack-of-hands"-look is the latest style.]]

: Vortex transforms into a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UH-60_Black_Hawk Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk] helicopter. He is armed with a small chin-mounted machine gun and two large tri-barrel gattling guns mounted astern on his tail.

: In robot mode Vortex is armed with his helicopter chin gun. Vortex normally becomes the left arm of Bruticus, but as a [[Scramble City]] design, he can also occupy any other limb slot on Bruticus.

: This mold was [[redeco]]ed as ''[[Operation Combination]]'' [[Target Hawk]], ''[[Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Ro-Tor (RID)|Ro-Tor]], and ''[[Universe]]'' Ro-Tor.

'''Combined form'''
*'''Bruticus''' (Multi-pack, 1986)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-69'''
[[Image:Bruticus_toy.jpg|right|thumb|130px|"Rargh... many transform Bruticus wrong... and blame Bruticus design..."]]

: Bruticus is formed from all five Combaticon toys. The four smaller Combaticons attach via sockets in Onslaught's shoulders and the bottom of his feet. Fists and feet pads attach onto the four limbs, and Bruticus is completed with a large chest plate and a helmet covering Onslaught's head. He wields Onslaught's rifle in battle. As with all [[Scramble City]]-style [[combiner]] teams, his limbs can be rearranged into any slot of one's choosing.

: In most markets, only the individual Combaticons were released, and the giftset was only avalible in Japan and Italy.

: This mold was redecoed and later retooled to make ''[[Operation Combination]]'' [[Battle Gaia]]. ''[[Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Ruination]] and ''[[Universe]]'' Ruination.

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==Trivia==
[[Image:G1OddCombat.jpg|right|200px|thumb| [[Floro Dery]] does odd things.]]

*Before the Combaticons were animated, there were apparently two different character model sheets made up for them. The ones we know use the toy heads, but bodies that, for whatever reason, have little resemblance to the actual vehicles or robot modes of the actual Combaticon figures. Another one appears to be based heavily on the toys... but with new heads. These went unused in any media.

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[[Category:Decepticons]]
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Breakdown (G1)

2007-10-13T22:38:51Z

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{{disambig3|Breakdown}}

:''Breakdown is a [[Decepticon]] [[Stunticon]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:MTMTEBreakdown.jpg|right|thumb|300px| Ever since the invention of [[Targetmaster]]s Breakdown has been convinced his pistol is out to kill him...]]

'''Breakdown''' has an acute case of paranoia (what was that!?). He genuinely believes that things, both living and inanimate, are ''watching'' him (they're everywhere!). Breakdown doesn't like to stand out in a crowd (did you hear ''that''!?). He dreads being different and garnering attention (stop staring at me!). At times, he almost wishes he was a [[human]] so he could just disappear and no one would notice (get them off meeeee!). Needless to say, he and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (he's one of THEM!!) would be energon drinking buddies.

Breakdown can combine with his fellow [[Stunticon]]s to form [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]].

''Italian name:'' '''Caimano'''<br>
''French-Canadian name:'' '''Panicon'''<br>
''Hungarian name:'' '''Vibrátor''' (meaning... well, yes, stuff happens)

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===

===Generation 1 cartoon===
:'''Voice actor:''' [[Jack Angel]] ([[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|First appearance only]]); [[Alan Oppenheimer]] (US), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japan)''

While assembling a new weapon capable of destroying any target by creating a chain reaction in its molecules, Megatron found himself short a few key components to finish the device. He sent the Stunticons out to retrieve those components by any means necessary. Breakdown and [[Wildrider]] assaulted a local optics laboratory to gather new focusing lenses for the cannon's beam. On their way to the weapon's construction site, they were intercepted by a troop of Autobots. It was [[Grapple]] who brought down Breakdown, setting him on fire with his arc-welder rifle by using a trail of fuel as a fuse. The Stunticons were imprisoned in the Ark, their radioes and vehicle modes disabled and trapped behind energized bars. The Autobots then used camouflage paint to alter their appearances and mimic the Stunticons, hoping to get close enough to Megatron to catch him unawares. Autobot warrior [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] assumed Breakdown's appearance for the mission. After they left, however, Breakdown managed to use his unique vibratory pulses to disrupt his bars and break free. He caught his Autobot captors by surprise and blasted several of them before they could react, giving him enough time to free his fellow Stunticons and form Menasor. After a brief but memorable conflict, Menasor escaped the Ark and returned to Megatron. The cannon was rendered unusable by the Autobots' intervention, though, and Megatron's plan failed. {{Storylink|Masquerade}}

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===
At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a prison facility. Later, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] arranged for the release of the Stunticons. They formed into Menasor and ran amuck for awhile, until [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived and began insulting them. Unable to reconcile with this, the five Stunticons began to bicker with each other over whose fault it was that they were failing, temporarily stopping Menasor and allowing Ultra Magnus to ram the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his component parts and disabling the Stunticons.

===Devil's Due continuity===

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1986/1987)
: ''Team ID number:'' '''S2'''
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-51'''

[[Image:G1Breakdown_toy.jpg|left|thumb|Wahoo reaction, now a gucci cola sale]]

: The original Breakdown toy transformed into a white Lambourghini Countach. He comes with a blue double-barreled laser cannon that attaches to the back of his vehicle mode.

: In robot mode, Breakdown's legs transform in a manner similar to [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]'s, flipping and inverting. He is armed with a small blue laser pistol. As he was designed with the [[Scramble City]]-style combination, he can form the arm or leg to any similarly-constructed robot combination, though his nominal placement is as the right leg to Menasor.

: The original release featured a red sticker on Breakdown's hood. Later classics range releases in Europe featured a gold sticker instead.

===Generation 2===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1994)
:''Team ID number:'' '''S3'''
: ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was released as an exclusive at [[BotCon 1994]].

==Trivia==
[[Image:G2Breakdown_toy.jpg|right|thumb|100px|So what if he can't transform? He doesn't have to link up to that jerk Motormaster ever again!]]
* An unofficial [[Action Master]] ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2004]], created from bootlegged Action Master [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] parts.
* In the Transformers Decepticon game based on the 2007 Movie, an unlocked alt mode called Scout is a homage to Breakdown.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Breakdown/breakdown.htm Breakdown at TFU.info]

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[[Category: Convention exclusives]]
[[category: Decepticons]]
[[category: Generation 1 characters]]
[[Category: Generation 2 characters]]
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Breakdown (G1)

2007-10-13T22:37:37Z

75.196.188.103:

{{disambig3|Breakdown}}

:''Breakdown is a [[Decepticon]] [[Stunticon]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:MTMTEBreakdown.jpg|right|thumb|300px| Ever since the invention of [[Targetmaster]]s Breakdown has been convinced his pistol is out to kill him...]]

'''Breakdown''' has an acute case of paranoia (what was that!?). He genuinely believes that things, both living and inanimate, are ''watching'' him (they're everywhere!). Breakdown doesn't like to stand out in a crowd (did you hear ''that''!?). He dreads being different and garnering attention (stop staring at me!). At times, he almost wishes he was a [[human]] so he could just disappear and no one would notice (get them off meeeee!). Needless to say, he and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (he's gonna get me!!) would be energon drinking buddies.

Breakdown can combine with his fellow [[Stunticon]]s to form [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]].

''Italian name:'' '''Caimano'''<br>
''French-Canadian name:'' '''Panicon'''<br>
''Hungarian name:'' '''Vibrátor''' (meaning... well, yes, stuff happens)

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===

===Generation 1 cartoon===
:'''Voice actor:''' [[Jack Angel]] ([[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|First appearance only]]); [[Alan Oppenheimer]] (US), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japan)''

While assembling a new weapon capable of destroying any target by creating a chain reaction in its molecules, Megatron found himself short a few key components to finish the device. He sent the Stunticons out to retrieve those components by any means necessary. Breakdown and [[Wildrider]] assaulted a local optics laboratory to gather new focusing lenses for the cannon's beam. On their way to the weapon's construction site, they were intercepted by a troop of Autobots. It was [[Grapple]] who brought down Breakdown, setting him on fire with his arc-welder rifle by using a trail of fuel as a fuse. The Stunticons were imprisoned in the Ark, their radioes and vehicle modes disabled and trapped behind energized bars. The Autobots then used camouflage paint to alter their appearances and mimic the Stunticons, hoping to get close enough to Megatron to catch him unawares. Autobot warrior [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] assumed Breakdown's appearance for the mission. After they left, however, Breakdown managed to use his unique vibratory pulses to disrupt his bars and break free. He caught his Autobot captors by surprise and blasted several of them before they could react, giving him enough time to free his fellow Stunticons and form Menasor. After a brief but memorable conflict, Menasor escaped the Ark and returned to Megatron. The cannon was rendered unusable by the Autobots' intervention, though, and Megatron's plan failed. {{Storylink|Masquerade}}

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===
At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a prison facility. Later, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] arranged for the release of the Stunticons. They formed into Menasor and ran amuck for awhile, until [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived and began insulting them. Unable to reconcile with this, the five Stunticons began to bicker with each other over whose fault it was that they were failing, temporarily stopping Menasor and allowing Ultra Magnus to ram the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his component parts and disabling the Stunticons.

===Devil's Due continuity===

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1986/1987)
: ''Team ID number:'' '''S2'''
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-51'''

[[Image:G1Breakdown_toy.jpg|left|thumb|Wahoo reaction, now a gucci cola sale]]

: The original Breakdown toy transformed into a white Lambourghini Countach. He comes with a blue double-barreled laser cannon that attaches to the back of his vehicle mode.

: In robot mode, Breakdown's legs transform in a manner similar to [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]'s, flipping and inverting. He is armed with a small blue laser pistol. As he was designed with the [[Scramble City]]-style combination, he can form the arm or leg to any similarly-constructed robot combination, though his nominal placement is as the right leg to Menasor.

: The original release featured a red sticker on Breakdown's hood. Later classics range releases in Europe featured a gold sticker instead.

===Generation 2===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1994)
:''Team ID number:'' '''S3'''
: ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was released as an exclusive at [[BotCon 1994]].

==Trivia==
[[Image:G2Breakdown_toy.jpg|right|thumb|100px|So what if he can't transform? He doesn't have to link up to that jerk Motormaster ever again!]]
* An unofficial [[Action Master]] ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2004]], created from bootlegged Action Master [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] parts.
* In the Transformers Decepticon game based on the 2007 Movie, an unlocked alt mode called Scout is a homage to Breakdown.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Breakdown/breakdown.htm Breakdown at TFU.info]

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[[category: Combiners]]
[[Category: Convention exclusives]]
[[category: Decepticons]]
[[category: Generation 1 characters]]
[[Category: Generation 2 characters]]
[[category:Predacons]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Breakdown (G1)

2007-10-13T22:36:52Z

75.196.188.103:

{{disambig3|Breakdown}}

:''Breakdown is a [[Decepticon]] [[Stunticon]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:MTMTEBreakdown.jpg|right|thumb|300px| Ever since the invention of [[Targetmaster]]s Breakdown has been convinced his pistol is out to kill him...]]

'''Breakdown''' has an acute case of paranoia (what was that!?). He genuinely believes that things, both living and inanimate, are ''watching'' him (they're everywhere!). Breakdown doesn't like to stand out in a crowd (did you hear ''that''!?). He dreads being different and garnering attention (stop staring at me!). At times, he almost wishes he was a [[human]] so he could just disappear and no one would notice (get them off meeeee!). Needless to say, he and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert|]] (he's gonna get me!!) would be energon drinking buddies.

Breakdown can combine with his fellow [[Stunticon]]s to form [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]].

''Italian name:'' '''Caimano'''<br>
''French-Canadian name:'' '''Panicon'''<br>
''Hungarian name:'' '''Vibrátor''' (meaning... well, yes, stuff happens)

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===

===Generation 1 cartoon===
:'''Voice actor:''' [[Jack Angel]] ([[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|First appearance only]]); [[Alan Oppenheimer]] (US), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japan)''

While assembling a new weapon capable of destroying any target by creating a chain reaction in its molecules, Megatron found himself short a few key components to finish the device. He sent the Stunticons out to retrieve those components by any means necessary. Breakdown and [[Wildrider]] assaulted a local optics laboratory to gather new focusing lenses for the cannon's beam. On their way to the weapon's construction site, they were intercepted by a troop of Autobots. It was [[Grapple]] who brought down Breakdown, setting him on fire with his arc-welder rifle by using a trail of fuel as a fuse. The Stunticons were imprisoned in the Ark, their radioes and vehicle modes disabled and trapped behind energized bars. The Autobots then used camouflage paint to alter their appearances and mimic the Stunticons, hoping to get close enough to Megatron to catch him unawares. Autobot warrior [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] assumed Breakdown's appearance for the mission. After they left, however, Breakdown managed to use his unique vibratory pulses to disrupt his bars and break free. He caught his Autobot captors by surprise and blasted several of them before they could react, giving him enough time to free his fellow Stunticons and form Menasor. After a brief but memorable conflict, Menasor escaped the Ark and returned to Megatron. The cannon was rendered unusable by the Autobots' intervention, though, and Megatron's plan failed. {{Storylink|Masquerade}}

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===
At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a prison facility. Later, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] arranged for the release of the Stunticons. They formed into Menasor and ran amuck for awhile, until [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived and began insulting them. Unable to reconcile with this, the five Stunticons began to bicker with each other over whose fault it was that they were failing, temporarily stopping Menasor and allowing Ultra Magnus to ram the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his component parts and disabling the Stunticons.

===Devil's Due continuity===

{{-}}
==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1986/1987)
: ''Team ID number:'' '''S2'''
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-51'''

[[Image:G1Breakdown_toy.jpg|left|thumb|Wahoo reaction, now a gucci cola sale]]

: The original Breakdown toy transformed into a white Lambourghini Countach. He comes with a blue double-barreled laser cannon that attaches to the back of his vehicle mode.

: In robot mode, Breakdown's legs transform in a manner similar to [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]'s, flipping and inverting. He is armed with a small blue laser pistol. As he was designed with the [[Scramble City]]-style combination, he can form the arm or leg to any similarly-constructed robot combination, though his nominal placement is as the right leg to Menasor.

: The original release featured a red sticker on Breakdown's hood. Later classics range releases in Europe featured a gold sticker instead.

===Generation 2===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1994)
:''Team ID number:'' '''S3'''
: ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was released as an exclusive at [[BotCon 1994]].

==Trivia==
[[Image:G2Breakdown_toy.jpg|right|thumb|100px|So what if he can't transform? He doesn't have to link up to that jerk Motormaster ever again!]]
* An unofficial [[Action Master]] ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2004]], created from bootlegged Action Master [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] parts.
* In the Transformers Decepticon game based on the 2007 Movie, an unlocked alt mode called Scout is a homage to Breakdown.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Breakdown/breakdown.htm Breakdown at TFU.info]

{{stub}}
[[category: Combiners]]
[[Category: Convention exclusives]]
[[category: Decepticons]]
[[category: Generation 1 characters]]
[[Category: Generation 2 characters]]
[[category:Predacons]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Breakdown (G1)

2007-10-13T22:33:55Z

75.196.188.103:

{{disambig3|Breakdown}}

:''Breakdown is a [[Decepticon]] [[Stunticon]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:MTMTEBreakdown.jpg|right|thumb|300px| Ever since the invention of [[Targetmaster]]s Breakdown has been convinced his pistol is out to kill him...]]

'''Breakdown''' has an acute case of paranoia (what was that!?). He genuinely believes that things, both living and inanimate, are ''watching'' him (they're everywhere!). Breakdown doesn't like to stand out in a crowd (did you hear ''that''!?). He dreads being different and garnering attention (stop staring at me!). At times, he almost wishes he was a [[human]] so he could just disappear and no one would notice (get them off meeeee!). Needless to say, he and [[Red Alert (G1)]] (he's gonna get me!!) would be energon drinking buddies.

Breakdown can combine with his fellow [[Stunticon]]s to form [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]].

''Italian name:'' '''Caimano'''<br>
''French-Canadian name:'' '''Panicon'''<br>
''Hungarian name:'' '''Vibrátor''' (meaning... well, yes, stuff happens)

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===

===Generation 1 cartoon===
:'''Voice actor:''' [[Jack Angel]] ([[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|First appearance only]]); [[Alan Oppenheimer]] (US), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japan)''

While assembling a new weapon capable of destroying any target by creating a chain reaction in its molecules, Megatron found himself short a few key components to finish the device. He sent the Stunticons out to retrieve those components by any means necessary. Breakdown and [[Wildrider]] assaulted a local optics laboratory to gather new focusing lenses for the cannon's beam. On their way to the weapon's construction site, they were intercepted by a troop of Autobots. It was [[Grapple]] who brought down Breakdown, setting him on fire with his arc-welder rifle by using a trail of fuel as a fuse. The Stunticons were imprisoned in the Ark, their radioes and vehicle modes disabled and trapped behind energized bars. The Autobots then used camouflage paint to alter their appearances and mimic the Stunticons, hoping to get close enough to Megatron to catch him unawares. Autobot warrior [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] assumed Breakdown's appearance for the mission. After they left, however, Breakdown managed to use his unique vibratory pulses to disrupt his bars and break free. He caught his Autobot captors by surprise and blasted several of them before they could react, giving him enough time to free his fellow Stunticons and form Menasor. After a brief but memorable conflict, Menasor escaped the Ark and returned to Megatron. The cannon was rendered unusable by the Autobots' intervention, though, and Megatron's plan failed. {{Storylink|Masquerade}}

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===
At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a prison facility. Later, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] arranged for the release of the Stunticons. They formed into Menasor and ran amuck for awhile, until [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived and began insulting them. Unable to reconcile with this, the five Stunticons began to bicker with each other over whose fault it was that they were failing, temporarily stopping Menasor and allowing Ultra Magnus to ram the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his component parts and disabling the Stunticons.

===Devil's Due continuity===

{{-}}
==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1986/1987)
: ''Team ID number:'' '''S2'''
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-51'''

[[Image:G1Breakdown_toy.jpg|left|thumb|Wahoo reaction, now a gucci cola sale]]

: The original Breakdown toy transformed into a white Lambourghini Countach. He comes with a blue double-barreled laser cannon that attaches to the back of his vehicle mode.

: In robot mode, Breakdown's legs transform in a manner similar to [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]'s, flipping and inverting. He is armed with a small blue laser pistol. As he was designed with the [[Scramble City]]-style combination, he can form the arm or leg to any similarly-constructed robot combination, though his nominal placement is as the right leg to Menasor.

: The original release featured a red sticker on Breakdown's hood. Later classics range releases in Europe featured a gold sticker instead.

===Generation 2===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1994)
:''Team ID number:'' '''S3'''
: ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was released as an exclusive at [[BotCon 1994]].

==Trivia==
[[Image:G2Breakdown_toy.jpg|right|thumb|100px|So what if he can't transform? He doesn't have to link up to that jerk Motormaster ever again!]]
* An unofficial [[Action Master]] ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2004]], created from bootlegged Action Master [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] parts.
* In the Transformers Decepticon game based on the 2007 Movie, an unlocked alt mode called Scout is a homage to Breakdown.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Breakdown/breakdown.htm Breakdown at TFU.info]

{{stub}}
[[category: Combiners]]
[[Category: Convention exclusives]]
[[category: Decepticons]]
[[category: Generation 1 characters]]
[[Category: Generation 2 characters]]
[[category:Predacons]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Breakdown (G1)

2007-10-13T22:32:54Z

75.196.188.103:

{{disambig3|Breakdown}}

:''Breakdown is a [[Decepticon]] [[Stunticon]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:MTMTEBreakdown.jpg|right|thumb|300px| Ever since the invention of [[Targetmaster]]s Breakdown has been convinced his pistol is out to kill him...]]

'''Breakdown''' has an acute case of paranoia (what was that!?). He genuinely believes that things, both living and inanimate, are ''watching'' him (they're everywhere!). Breakdown doesn't like to stand out in a crowd (did you hear ''that''!?). He dreads being different and garnering attention (stop staring at me!). At times, he almost wishes he was a [[human]] so he could just disappear and no one would notice (get them off meeeee!). Needless to say, he and [[Red Alert (G1)]] would be energon drinking buddies.

Breakdown can combine with his fellow [[Stunticon]]s to form [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]].

''Italian name:'' '''Caimano'''<br>
''French-Canadian name:'' '''Panicon'''<br>
''Hungarian name:'' '''Vibrátor''' (meaning... well, yes, stuff happens)

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===

===Generation 1 cartoon===
:'''Voice actor:''' [[Jack Angel]] ([[The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1|First appearance only]]); [[Alan Oppenheimer]] (US), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (Japan)''

While assembling a new weapon capable of destroying any target by creating a chain reaction in its molecules, Megatron found himself short a few key components to finish the device. He sent the Stunticons out to retrieve those components by any means necessary. Breakdown and [[Wildrider]] assaulted a local optics laboratory to gather new focusing lenses for the cannon's beam. On their way to the weapon's construction site, they were intercepted by a troop of Autobots. It was [[Grapple]] who brought down Breakdown, setting him on fire with his arc-welder rifle by using a trail of fuel as a fuse. The Stunticons were imprisoned in the Ark, their radioes and vehicle modes disabled and trapped behind energized bars. The Autobots then used camouflage paint to alter their appearances and mimic the Stunticons, hoping to get close enough to Megatron to catch him unawares. Autobot warrior [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] assumed Breakdown's appearance for the mission. After they left, however, Breakdown managed to use his unique vibratory pulses to disrupt his bars and break free. He caught his Autobot captors by surprise and blasted several of them before they could react, giving him enough time to free his fellow Stunticons and form Menasor. After a brief but memorable conflict, Menasor escaped the Ark and returned to Megatron. The cannon was rendered unusable by the Autobots' intervention, though, and Megatron's plan failed. {{Storylink|Masquerade}}

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===
At some point in Cybertron's recent history, the Stunticons were deemed psychotic and too dangerous to function in society, and as a result were placed into perpetual stasis lock inside of a prison facility. Later, in an attempt to create a diversion while he set his final plans in motion, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] arranged for the release of the Stunticons. They formed into Menasor and ran amuck for awhile, until [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] arrived and began insulting them. Unable to reconcile with this, the five Stunticons began to bicker with each other over whose fault it was that they were failing, temporarily stopping Menasor and allowing Ultra Magnus to ram the combiner in the chest, forcing him to separate into his component parts and disabling the Stunticons.

===Devil's Due continuity===

{{-}}
==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1986/1987)
: ''Team ID number:'' '''S2'''
:''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-51'''

[[Image:G1Breakdown_toy.jpg|left|thumb|Wahoo reaction, now a gucci cola sale]]

: The original Breakdown toy transformed into a white Lambourghini Countach. He comes with a blue double-barreled laser cannon that attaches to the back of his vehicle mode.

: In robot mode, Breakdown's legs transform in a manner similar to [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]'s, flipping and inverting. He is armed with a small blue laser pistol. As he was designed with the [[Scramble City]]-style combination, he can form the arm or leg to any similarly-constructed robot combination, though his nominal placement is as the right leg to Menasor.

: The original release featured a red sticker on Breakdown's hood. Later classics range releases in Europe featured a gold sticker instead.

===Generation 2===
*'''Breakdown''' (Stunticon, 1994)
:''Team ID number:'' '''S3'''
: ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was released as an exclusive at [[BotCon 1994]].

==Trivia==
[[Image:G2Breakdown_toy.jpg|right|thumb|100px|So what if he can't transform? He doesn't have to link up to that jerk Motormaster ever again!]]
* An unofficial [[Action Master]] ''Generation 2'' Breakdown was an exclusive at [[BotCon 2004]], created from bootlegged Action Master [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] parts.
* In the Transformers Decepticon game based on the 2007 Movie, an unlocked alt mode called Scout is a homage to Breakdown.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Breakdown/breakdown.htm Breakdown at TFU.info]

{{stub}}
[[category: Combiners]]
[[Category: Convention exclusives]]
[[category: Decepticons]]
[[category: Generation 1 characters]]
[[Category: Generation 2 characters]]
[[category:Predacons]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>