Wildbreak

2017-10-08T18:58:24Z

Thegaycar: Added summaries of Wildbreak's involvement in the RID2015 episodes Disordered Personalities, The Golden Knight, Railroad Rage, Combine and Conquer, and Moon Breaker.

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:''Wildbreak is a [[Decepticon]] [[Stunticon (Prime)|Stunticon]] from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].

[[File:TRID E 51 Wildbreak RM.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Has [[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]]'s colors and complains about having a [[Knock Out (Prime)|delicate constitution]]. We've found Knock Out and Breakdown's kid at last!]]

There are leaders and followers, and '''Wildbreak''' most definitely fits into the latter category. Wildbreak is not the brightest sparkplug in the engine, and mostly just goes along with his frequent partner-in-crime [[Dragstrip (WFC)|Drag Strip]], whose grandiose schemes and bluster more than make up for Wildbreak's skittishness and lack of initiative. Even though Drag Strip sometimes gets frustrated with his lunkheaded partner, Wildbreak makes himself useful by projecting a field that can throw enemies right off their feet.

When the heat's on, the two of them can combine into [[Dragbreak]]; unsurprisingly, Wildbreak lets his partner do most of the talking when they're united. The two of them can combine further with their fellow [[Stunticon (Prime)|Stunticon]]s to form [[Menasor (RID)|Menasor]].

{{quote|Sounds like you got a plan, Drag Strip. Y-you got a plan?|Wildbreak|"[[Bee Cool]]"}}

==Fiction==
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Dave Wittenberg]] (English), TBA (Japanese)}}

[[File:TRID E 55 Wildbreak VM.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Drag Strip! Remember your blood pressure, remember your cholesterol, remember the Alamo!"]]

Wildbreak joined Drag Strip in trying to track down some Cybertronian tech so they could get themselves into [[Motormaster (WFC)|Motormaster]]'s good graces. They were led to the human city of [[West Rock]] where they broke into a cache of Cybertronian loot. They were packing up the loot to leave when [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]'s team turned up and on hearing they had a [[Dinobot (RID)|Dinobot]], Wildbreak immediately fled. The two Cons eventually managed to give the Autobots the slip, but discovered that [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] had shut off the only bridge accessing the city. The pair merged into Dragbreak to fight the Autobots atop a parking building — though initially successful, they were ultimately defeated when Bumblebee dropped the roof on them. When the damaged parking structure partially collapsed, they were able to make good their escape. {{storylink|Bee Cool}}

Wildbreak was hanging out at the abandoned base Motormaster was using as a hideout when Drag Strip returned with a pilfered [[Gravitic Adjuster]]. His overly-gleeful teammate used the weapon on him as a demonstration of its power, until Motormaster called him off. {{storylink|The Great Divide}}

Wildbreak, along with the other Stunticons (minus Motormaster), entered the Crown City Grand Prix, aiming for one of them to win and be crowned “Ruler of the Roads,” as part of their campaign to conquer Earth’s highways. Drag Strip and Wildbreak worked together for the majority of the race, and were forced to fend off Strongarm (who was stuck in Bumblebee’s body). However, Drag Strip’s ambitions of winning the race with Wildbreak as his backup were thwarted when the Autobots redirected two of [[Heatseeker]]’s missiles back at the Stunticons, allowing [[Casey (RID)|Crasher Casey]] to remain undefeated. {{storylink|Disordered Personalities}}

After having some fun chasing off a human police car, Wildbreak and the other Stunticons were confronted by Motormaster, who accused them of taking too long to conquer Earth’s roads. {{storylink|The Golden Knight}}

Wildbreak was with the other Stunticons, pushing human cars off the highway, when they were passed by a maglev train. Wildbreak described the train as “beautiful,” but Motormaster was outraged that a vehicle existed that was faster than him, and ordered the Stunticons to steal its power source. They broke into the trainyard to follow his orders, but while they were trying to remove the engine from one of the maglev trains, Grimlock accidentally ran into the control tower, causing the train to start moving at high speed with the Stunticons, [[Drift (RID)|Drift]] and [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] along for the ride. During the ensuing battle, Wildbreak was eventually shoved overboard. Later, he tried to explain to Motormaster that they “gave it their best shot,” earning him a hit from Drag Strip. {{storylink|Railroad Rage}}

Wildbreak and the other Stunticons were on the receiving end of an angry monologue from Motormaster on their team’s failure to defeat the Autobots. After they ran a tanker truck off the road to bait the Autobots to their location, Wildbreak joined the Stunticons in combining into Menasor, taking his spot as the combiner’s left arm. Knocking the Autobots off a cliff, Menasor went to attack a human military base, intending to turn its meteor deflection system on the Autobots. However, his plan was thwarted when the Autobots managed to form [[Ultra Bee|their own combiner]], turning the meteor deflection dish on him instead and sending him flying into the distance. {{storylink|Combine and Conquer}}

Wildbreak went with [[Slashmark]] to search for Cybertronian technology, and ended up stumbling upon the Autobots’ base. The two of them observed the Autobots departing into space, and reported this to Motormaster, who decided the Stunticons should follow them up there. After a brief space battle, the Stunticons’ tech detector led them to the same cache the Autobots were after, on the surface of the moon. Once there, Motormaster ordered Wildbreak and the other Stunticons to finish off the Autobots while he investigated the cache, but they were too curious to find out what was in it and followed him instead. They promptly combined into Menasor, broke into the cache, and claimed the plasma thermal accelerator module therein. With the help of this upgrade, Menasor knocked the Autobots back and attempted to destroy their ship, but they combined into Ultra Bee and destroyed the plasma module, allowing them to defeat him. Wildbreak and his fellow Stunticons were then put into stasis pods and taken by [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Moon Breaker}}

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==Toys==
===Robots in Disguise (2015)===
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[[File:RIDWildbreaktoy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|He loved to do the Wildbreak.]]
* '''Menasor''' (Team Combiner, 2017)

:Released as part of the Team Combiner set along with Motormaster, Dragstrip, Heatseeker, and Slashmark, Wildbreak is a Scout-sized figure that transforms from vehicle to robot in just a few simple steps. In robot mode, he has very limited articulation. He can convert into an arm for any Team Combiner set, although he usually forms Menasor's left arm.

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[[File:TF-RID2015-Crash-Combiner-Wildbreak.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Watch me trick Dragstrip out of his Pebbles!"]]
* '''Drag Strip & Wildbreak''' (Crash Combiners, 2017)

:Part of wave 3 of Crash Combiner sets, Wildbreak comes in a two-pack with [[Dragstrip (WFC)|Dragstrip]]. He changes from robot to F1 race car in a few simple steps. He features a spring-loaded transformation to torso mode when Dragstrip (or any leg figure) combines with him to form [[Dragbreak]].

:There appears to have been an error at some point in the development of this two-pack wherein Dragstrip and Wildbreak's colors have been swapped, giving Wildbreak not only Dragstrip's body and show-innacurate role of torso in their combined form, but also the more 'traditional' Dragstrip vehicle mode (which is ''still'' inaccurate to Dragstrip's vehicle mode in the show).

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==Notes==
*With Drag Strip being a broad spoof of {{w|Jackie Gleason}}'s Ralph Kramden character from ''[[The Honeymooners]]'', Wildbreak's characterization is inspired by Ralph Kramden's friend Ed Norton. If that doesn't mean anything to you, then the two sitcom characters were also the inspiration for Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble from ''{{w|The Flintstones}}.''
*Wildbreak's name makes him seem like a stand-in for classic [[Stunticon (G1)|Generation 1 Stunticon]] [[Wildrider (G1)|Wildrider]], given the way it amalgamates Wildrider's original moniker with his [[trademark]]-mandated alternate name "Brake-Neck." In all other respects, though, he's really more of an expy for [[Breakdown (G1)|Generation 1 Breakdown]] (whose name has already been taken by [[Breakdown (WFC)|another "Aligned" continuity]] character), sharing his skittish personality, and his power to generate disruptive vibrational fields.

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