Wildbreak

Wildbreak is a Decepticon Stunticon from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Has Breakdown's colors and complains about having a delicate constitution. We've found Knock Out and Breakdown's kid at last!

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

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

Sounds like you got a plan, Drag Strip. Y-you got a plan?Wildbreak, "Bee Cool"

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: Dave Wittenberg (English), TBA (Japanese)

"Drag Strip! Remember your blood pressure, remember your cholesterol, remember the Alamo!"

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

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

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2015)

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He loved to do the Wildbreak.

• Menasor (Team Combiner, 2017)

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

"Huh-huh! Sorry, Drag Strip!"

• Drag Strip & Wildbreak (Crash Combiners, 2017)

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

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

Notes

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