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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would ~~used~~ a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.		*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would use a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.
	[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]		[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]
	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.

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	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would have been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would have been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them with text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		**And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.

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	*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would used a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.		*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would used a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.
	[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]		[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]
	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who ~~appeared~~ in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would~~'ve~~ been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would have been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.

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	*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would used a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.		*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would used a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.
	[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]		[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]
	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' ~~doesn~~'t take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who ~~appears~~ in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appeared in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.

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	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.

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	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.

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	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the Neo-Knights for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.

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	{{disambig2\|the Generation 1 character\|the unrelated mobile game event\|Circuit Breaker (Legends)}}		{{disambig2\|the Generation 1 character\|the unrelated mobile game event\|Circuit Breaker (Legends)}}
	:''Circuit Breaker is a [[human]] from the [[Marvel Comics continuity\|Marvel portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''		:''Circuit Breaker is a [[human]] from the [[Marvel Comics continuity\|Marvel portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
	[[File:Circuitbreaker.jpg\|upright=1.4\|thumb\|When giant space robots aren't enough to bring in readers, you throw in some tin-foil-covered T&A.]]		[[File:Circuitbreaker.jpg\|upright=1.66\|thumb\|When giant space robots aren't enough to bring in readers, you throw in some tin-foil-covered T&A.]]
	'''Circuit Breaker''' is a villain whose pathological hatred of robots knows no bounds. She refuses to make the distinction between [[Autobot]] and [[Decepticon]], blaming the Transformer race as a whole for the attack which left her crippled. As such, she is more likely to do harm to the Autobot cause than to be of assistance.		'''Circuit Breaker''' is a villain whose pathological hatred of robots knows no bounds. She refuses to make the distinction between [[Autobot]] and [[Decepticon]], blaming the Transformer race as a whole for the attack which left her crippled. As such, she is more likely to do harm to the Autobot cause than to be of assistance.

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	[[File:AerialbotsoverAmerica-soswearsCircuitBreaker.jpg\|left\|thumb\|upright=1.2\|You're jealous. Admit it.]]		[[File:AerialbotsoverAmerica-soswearsCircuitBreaker.jpg\|left\|thumb\|upright=1.2\|You're jealous. Admit it.]]
	The anti-Transformers military task force, [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team\|RAAT]], hired Circuit Breaker to head their agency. Their first triumph was capturing seven Autobots who had found themselves recently stranded on Earth. {{storylink\|Fallen Angel}} Circuit Breaker ordered their faces mounted on the walls of RAAT headquarters. {{storylink\|Aerialbots over America!}} She analyzed footage of RAAT's victory with [[Walter Barnett (G1)Walter Barnett]], who praised her efficiency, but expressed doubts about the Transformers' intentions. As Barnett handed her a bonus check, Circuit Breaker refused, reminding him that she didn't do this for the money, but for revenge.		The anti-Transformers military task force, [[Rapid Anti-robot Assault Team\|RAAT]], hired Circuit Breaker to head their agency. Their first triumph was capturing seven Autobots who had found themselves recently stranded on Earth. {{storylink\|Fallen Angel}} Circuit Breaker ordered their faces mounted on the walls of RAAT headquarters. {{storylink\|Aerialbots over America!}} She analyzed footage of RAAT's victory with [[Walter Barnett (G1)\|Walter Barnett]], who praised her efficiency, but expressed doubts about the Transformers' intentions. As Barnett handed her a bonus check, Circuit Breaker refused, reminding him that she didn't do this for the money, but for revenge.

	Later, Barnett showed her the news, which was reporting that a robot had lifted power lines off of the road to save humans. He hoped this would impress on her, but she refused to even consider the evidence; all this meant was that there was another robot to hunt. She and a team of RAAT helicopters found the target robot, an Autobot named [[Skids (G1)\|Skids]], on the run from the [[Stunticon (G1)\|Stunticons]]. The Stunticons made short work of the helicopters, but Circuit Breaker was able to divert some of them with her electrical powers. [[Motormaster (G1)\|Motormaster]], however, was able to knock her out of the air by throwing a truck cab at her. Skids' human companion, [[Donny Finkleberg]], ran to see if she was okay, but she pleaded for him to leave the battlefield lest he be hurt. When the [[Aerialbot (G1)\|Aerialbot]]s arrived, and they and the Stunticons battled as the super robots [[Superion (G1)\|Superion]] and [[Menasor (G1)\|Menasor]], Circuit Breaker made her move. Despite Finkleberg's pleas that Superion was one of the good guys, Circuit Breaker fried Superion, putting him out of commission. Skids, Finkleberg, and the Stunticons fled, while RAAT took custody of their prize. {{storylink\|Heavy Traffic!}}		Later, Barnett showed her the news, which was reporting that a robot had lifted power lines off of the road to save humans. He hoped this would impress on her, but she refused to even consider the evidence; all this meant was that there was another robot to hunt. She and a team of RAAT helicopters found the target robot, an Autobot named [[Skids (G1)\|Skids]], on the run from the [[Stunticon (G1)\|Stunticons]]. The Stunticons made short work of the helicopters, but Circuit Breaker was able to divert some of them with her electrical powers. [[Motormaster (G1)\|Motormaster]], however, was able to knock her out of the air by throwing a truck cab at her. Skids' human companion, [[Donny Finkleberg]], ran to see if she was okay, but she pleaded for him to leave the battlefield lest he be hurt. When the [[Aerialbot (G1)\|Aerialbot]]s arrived, and they and the Stunticons battled as the super robots [[Superion (G1)\|Superion]] and [[Menasor (G1)\|Menasor]], Circuit Breaker made her move. Despite Finkleberg's pleas that Superion was one of the good guys, Circuit Breaker fried Superion, putting him out of commission. Skids, Finkleberg, and the Stunticons fled, while RAAT took custody of their prize. {{storylink\|Heavy Traffic!}}

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	As the Neo-Knights tried their best against Unicron, G.B. Blackrock tried to talk Circuit Breaker back into sanity, but instead she cried, whimpering that Unicron was "too big" and there were "too many." Having run out of other options, Blackrock slapped her across her face and told her the robots were ''laughing'' at her, hoping to make her lash out. Thankfully, it worked, and an enraged (more than usual) Circuit Breaker used her powers to ''set Unicron's circuits on fire''. While the Dark God was distracted, Blackrock implored Optimus Prime to use this moment to end their nemesis once and for all: he'd just bought the Autobots a chance with Josie's sanity. As Optimus Prime reclaimed the [[Matrix of Leadership\|Creation Matrix]], Circuit Breaker's sanity and will gave out, and she fell comatose. {{storylink\|On the Edge of Extinction!}}		As the Neo-Knights tried their best against Unicron, G.B. Blackrock tried to talk Circuit Breaker back into sanity, but instead she cried, whimpering that Unicron was "too big" and there were "too many." Having run out of other options, Blackrock slapped her across her face and told her the robots were ''laughing'' at her, hoping to make her lash out. Thankfully, it worked, and an enraged (more than usual) Circuit Breaker used her powers to ''set Unicron's circuits on fire''. While the Dark God was distracted, Blackrock implored Optimus Prime to use this moment to end their nemesis once and for all: he'd just bought the Autobots a chance with Josie's sanity. As Optimus Prime reclaimed the [[Matrix of Leadership\|Creation Matrix]], Circuit Breaker's sanity and will gave out, and she fell comatose. {{storylink\|On the Edge of Extinction!}}

	Though Unicron was destroyed, the damage he inflicted on Cybertron was too great, and the Transformers readied transports to leave the planet. The Neo-Knights were put inside a storage box for shipping back home. Here, Blackrock did his best to apologize to Circuit Breaker for what he had done to her. {{storylink\|Exodus!}} Dynamo temporarily took over looking after Circuit Breaker while Blackrock and Thunderpunch argued whether or not they should seek out "The [[Last Autobot]]," an enigmatic figure their cell-mate, [[Hi-Q]], wouldn't stop ranting about. {{storylink\|A Savage Circle}} The group eventually decided to seek out the Last Autobot, and it fell on Thunderpunch to once more lug about Circuit Breaker as they took on this quest. {{storylink\|The Last Autobot?}} While the Neo-Knights would go on to help in the [[Klo]] battle, Circuit-Breaker remained in a catatonic state.		Though Unicron was destroyed, the damage he inflicted on Cybertron was too great, and the Transformers readied transports to leave the planet. The Neo-Knights were put inside a storage box for shipping back home. Here, Blackrock did his best to apologize to Circuit Breaker for what he had done to her. {{storylink\|Exodus!}} Dynamo temporarily took over looking after Circuit Breaker while Blackrock and Thunderpunch argued whether or not they should seek out "The [[Last Autobot]]," an enigmatic figure their cell-mate, [[Hi-Q]], wouldn't stop ranting about. {{storylink\|A Savage Circle}} The group eventually decided to seek out the Last Autobot, and it fell on Thunderpunch to once more lug about Circuit Breaker as they took on this quest. {{storylink\|The Last Autobot?}} While the Neo-Knights would go on to help in the [[Klo]] battle, Circuit-Breaker remained in a catatonic state. {{storylink\|End of the Road! (US)\|End of the Road!}}

	~~And never recovered. The end!~~ {{storylink\|End of the Road! (US)\|End of the Road!}}

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	*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would used a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.		*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would used a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.
	[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]		[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]
	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who ~~appeared~~ in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would~~'ve~~ been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would have been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.

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	*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would used a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.		*Writer [[Bob Budiansky]] is responsible for designing Circuit Breaker, basing her on Marvel colorist Janet "Jay Jay" Jackson.<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://jimshooter.com/2011/06/few-video-anecdotes.html/#comment-847\|name=Jay Jay Jackson\|quote=Ooo! Now I have an anecdote! I was sitting at my desk in the Marvel bullpen one day when an artist came over and said Bob Budiansky told him to come and draw me. Knowing better than to ask questions, I carried on with my work while the guy sketched me and a month or so later Bob showed me a page of Transformers where they had used me as reference to create a character called Circuit Breaker. But I don't think I influenced Rogue… that I know of. Here's the hairstyle that inspired Circuit Breaker: http://flic.kr/p/9QjBGD\|site=JimShooter.com\|title=A Few Video Anecdotes\|year=2011\|month=06\|day=04}}</ref> His original character design for her is published in [[Titan Books\|Titan]]'s ''[[Transformers: Maximum Force]]'' collection. (The character design's circuitry pattern is very closely copied in the image at the top of this article.) It suggests either 100% red or 100% blue for her circuitry patterns, though the finished comics would used a pale blue instead; likewise, Budiansky proposed either 100% or 50% yellow for her hair, but in practice, colorist [[Nelson Yomtov]] wound up coloring her hair in multiple different hues across the book's life, going from vibrant orange, to pale orange, to platinum blonde, then back to orange! Budiansky's call for her to have blue eyes, though, survived to print.
	[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]		[[File:SecretWarsII-Circuitbreaker.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.66\|"I sense you are a petty human with petty desires!"]]
	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' ~~doesn~~'t take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who ~~appears~~ in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Of course, Marvel later decided that ''Transformers'' didn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appeared in ''Secret Wars II'' is now considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.

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	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|''Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.

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	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.

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	*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.		*At the request of Budiansky, Circuit Breaker made her debut in ''{{w\|Secret Wars II}}'' #3, published a month before her first appearance in ''Transformers'' #9, thereby allowing Marvel to claim ownership of the character.<ref name="bwtf">{{citesocial\|link=http://bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/\|name=Bob Budiansky\|quote=As far as Circuit Breaker appearing in "Secret Wars", one of the indicias of the Transformers book was that everything was copyright of Hasbro. And I felt like Circuit Breaker had enough potential that maybe she could be spun off into something one day and I didn't want Hasbro to own her. She had nothing to do with the toys, she was a human character and so I spoke to Jim Shooter about it and he agreed to feature her briefly in "Secret Wars" before she was printed in Transformers. So that was to keep the copyright under Marvel, not Hasbro.\|year=2004\|month=02\|site=Ben's World of Transformers\|title=Interviews: Bob Budiansky (February 2004)}}</ref> (The uncostumed Josie Beller had already appeared in the series, but "Circuit Breaker" is the [[trademark]], so while this probably makes sense for lawyers, it gives ''us'' a headache). In this appearance, she saves the Earth from the omnipotent Beyonder, when her comments convince him he shouldn't mentally control all life on the planet. Marvel decided that ''Transformers'' doesn't take place in their [[Wikia:Marvel:Earth-616\|main universe]], so the Circuit Breaker who appears in ''Secret Wars II'' is considered a [[Wikia:Marvel:Josephine Beller (Earth-616)\|different incarnation of the character]] native to the Marvel Universe.
	*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the Neo-Knights for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.		*In the early '90s, there were plans to rework Circuit Breaker and the [[Neo-Knights]] for inclusion in the Marvel Universe, in a new series titled ''Techno-X'', by ''Transformers'' team [[Simon Furman]] and [[Andrew Wildman]]. The comic would have redesigned the team with new costumes, and retconned their ''Transformers'' appearances into simply being simulations used to train them to fight real robots.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=The idea was to take them definitively OUT of Transformers and into the mainstream Marvel Universe. Yes, there had been other crossovers between the two but we pretty much decided to ignore those. So, the entirety of their battle against 'giant robots' was a highly sophisticated training program fed directly into their minds via Rapture to prepare them for the coming 'machine war' in the MU.}}</ref> Circuit Breaker's origin would've been tweaked to replace Shockwave with a Marvel-owned robotic baddie, with [[Wikia:Marvel:Ultron (Earth-616)\|Ultron]] being floated as a candidate.<ref>{{citesocial\|name=Simon Furman\|site=''[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 41\|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club'' #41]]\|title=Gone but Not Forgotten Part One\|year=2011\|month=10\|quote=Circuit Breaker's origin would have to be revised, but it would be pretty easy to swap that with some bad mech from the Marvel Universe. We had in mind to use Ultron as a villain in this, so it could have been him.}}</ref> The series fell through, however.
	*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.		*Marvel's ownership of Circuit Breaker made it difficult for subsequent ''Transformers'' stories to feature the character. The first reprints of the Marvel comic, from [[Titan Books]] in the early 2000s, only had to pay a small fee to include the issues featuring Circuit Breaker, as nobody at Marvel was bothered at the time: after all, who'd want to read old ''Transformers'' comics, eh? Years later, Marvel figured out "many people", and the cost involved meant that [[IDW Publishing]] had to omit all the issues featuring Circuit Breaker from the first three volumes of their ''[[Classic Transformers]]'' reprint series, replacing them text summaries. They were able to resolve the situation and include the character in future reprints, but this doesn't extend to her inclusion in new stories; her cameo in ''Regeneration One'' is vaguely-drawn enough to skirt any legal issues, while her [[Sephie Beller\|mirror-universe counterpart]] from [[Fun Publications]]' "[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)\|Shattered Glass]]" series uses a different name for the same reason: instead of Josie Beller, Circuit Breaker, she's Sephie Beller, Emulator.
	*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.		*And to put a cherry on top of the whole confusing mess, Marvel hasn't actually featured the character in '''any''' new media in the decades since that first ''Secret Wars II'' appearance, making all of this seem exceedingly pointless.