Jawbreaker (BW)

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Jawbreaker is a Maximal from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
"What do you get when you cross a hyena with a deadly futuristic cyborg?"
"I don't know, but if he laughs, you better laugh with him."

Jawbreaker (aka Cackle)[note] has a twisted sense of humor and a dark view of the future. He is convinced he will meet a grisly end on the battlefield. It may be that all his off-putting jokes and antisocial behavior are intended to keep others safely away from this ultimate defeat; Jawbreaker is never quiet about his preference for working and fighting alone. Nevertheless, the older Noctorro has attempted to form a bond with the young Maximal, though his efforts at counseling often meet with lackluster results.<ref>Jawbreaker profile in Beast Wars Sourcebook #2</ref>

Fiction

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Beast Wars: Uprising

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Look, I'm in fiction! It only took fifteen years!

Jawbreaker believed in his own inevitable demise, dying alone in a pool of his own mech fluid. He long ago chose to live life as jovially as possible. At the Maximal Academy, he was frequently disciplined for pranking his fellow students. His final prank on headmaster Lionhead got him expelled. Out on the streets, he found a new home with Botanica and her rebel agitators against the Maximal Autocracy. The media frenzy caused by his flurry of leaflets distributed over Cybertropolis Square ensured Jawbreaker's role in the movement. Jawbreaker's profile in Club magazine #57

Jawbreaker was part of a cell of Maximals who rebelled against the status quo imposed by their Autobot masters. He joined a nighttime raid on Ferromax Detention Center to free Dynobot, and spent much of the time pasting up Dynobot posters all over the prison. After rendezvousing with Rattrap, the team managed to liberate Dynobot and headed for the exit, with Jawbreaker just flinging the leftover posters into the air as they fled. Prologue

2005 IDW continuity

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Jawbreaker was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals. When this bestial horde invaded Cybertron, he was one of the many warriors who wound up battling Arcee. Endless Forever

Toys

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Beast Wars

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Mufassaaah!
  • Jawbreaker (Deluxe Transmetal 2, 1999)
Part of the third and final wave of fourth-year Beast Wars Deluxes, Jawbreaker transforms into a blue, black, and red Transmetal 2 hyena. The back of his beast mode neck has a spinning saw-blade, and the entire assembly becomes his right robot mode arm; his spark crystal is embedded in this assembly, and unlike more Transmetal 2 toys, is not hidden behind any sort of flip-up panel. His tail detaches to form a really vicious-looking sword. His beast-head arm features a clicking ratchet joint at the elbow rather than a ball joint; a feature which wouldn't see a prominent release until the end of the Beast Machines toyline.
The hyena jaws were designed to swing down and away from the rest of the head, forming a more distinct grasping hand for the robot mode. This feature is shown on the packaging photographs, but on the final toy it was "neutered" by the addition of rigid plastic pegs locking the jaws into the skull. It is possible to carefully break these pegs in order to restore the feature.
This toy was sold in Japan as an "import", in Hasbro packaging with a Japanese sticker for legal information, exclusive to Toys"R"Us.
This mold was later used to make Universe Frostbite, and was the basis of the fiction-only character Untite.

Notes

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Cackle, who barely exists.

Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Jawbreaker (ジョーブレイカー Jōbureikā)
  • Dutch: Cackle
  • French: Brisefer (Canada, "Iron-Breaker" or "Klutz"), Cackle (Europe)
  • German: Cackle
  • Italian: Cackle
  • Spanish: Rompemandíbula (America, "Jawbreaker"), Cackle (Europe)
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  • Beast Wars: Uprising
    Beast Wars: Uprising

References

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