Break (BW)

Break is a Maximal from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Penguin Power!

For a little guy, Break (ブレイク Bureiku) is full of endless and infective enthusiasm. Eager to prove himself and loving to fight, when he first heard that Big Convoy was selected to lead him and his teammates, his first action was to test Big Convoy’s power. He found out the hard way. Though a little rowdy, most of the time his heart is in the right place and he tends to be a big morale booster for his comrades. Break cares about his fellow Maximals and will risk his own existence to keep them safe. He fights with an intense drive for victory as well as a competitive drive against fellow teammate, Cohrada. The two Maximals argue constantly over who’s the stronger soldier.

Break functions best in cold "arctic" environments. He has a secondary Targetmaster gun mode that can be used by other Maximals.

Fiction

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Voice actor: Junko Takeuchi (Japanese)

Break, along with Star Upper, was one of many beast-mode Maximals waiting to receive their mission assignments while Big Convoy was being chewed out by the upper brass. Big Convoy, Move Out Break and the rest of the Maximals later located an Angolmois capsule on the planet Solid. NAVI described the planet as warm and tropical, but much to Break's pleasure, it turned out instead to be a cold, frozen wasteland. He was sent out to scout alone and encountered a large creature named Gōmya, who had an Angolmois capsule stuck to his tail. During a fight between Break and Dead End over possession of the capsule, Gōmya was knocked into the water, and Break had to choose between saving his friend or the capsule. He chose Gōmya, who had not only learned to swim, but had opened up his cold heart. With this change in attitude and Gōmya's separation from the capsule, the planet thawed out, freeing the creature's brother Dōmya. It also freed up the rest of the Maximals, who recaptured the capsule from a fleeing Dead End before sending him flying. Back on the Gung Ho, Longrack berated Break for nearly letting the capsule go, but Vector Sigma, speaking through Big Convoy, assured that Break did the right thing. Burning Heart Below Freezing

IDW Beast Wars comics

Break was part of the Gung Ho crew under Big Convoy's leadership that defeated Magmatron. Beast Wars Sourcebook 1

Break serves as a member of the elite Maximal unit known as the Pack. After Razorbeast had prevented Magmatron from raising an army of Predacons using the protoforms of Earth's past The Pack were able to pick up his transwarp distress signal and Lio Convoy ordered them to man the ship and find Razorbeast. It appears Break is the navigator of the ship, and also enjoys trading verbal barbs with fellow Pack member Apache. The Ascending #2

Real helpful there, guys.

Upon arriving on prehistoric Earth, the rest of the Pack engaged the Predacons while Break apparently landed the ship. He later was seen, along with Stampy, to be heckling the Maximals that were trying to restrain the Angolmois-infected Razorbeast. The Ascending #3

In the battle with Shokaract, Break engaged his gun mode to give Mach Kick some extra firepower. The Ascending #4

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

March of the Shellformers. Narrated by Morgan Freeman.

• Break (Basic, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: C-32
  • Accessories: Missile

Break transforms into an emperor penguin, and is probably the ultimate shellformer; you can remove every piece of penguin from him (the parts on his arms require a screwdriver, admittedly) and still have a fully-functional, four-limbed robot. He has a spring-loaded missile launcher attached to his right arm. He also his a third (highly questionable) "Buster Mode" cannon-form that can be held by larger Transformers, though it tends to fall apart due to mere gravity. Some fans have affectionately called this the "super-mega-poop-attack!", as the missile fires from the penguin's rear.

• More information on Break at TFU.info

Duel of the Shellformers

• Showdown in the Ocean: Break VS Dead End (Basic vs pack, 1999)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-32
  • Accessories: Missile

Break was available both as an individual and in a versus-pack with Dead End, another shellformer. The toys are identical to their individual-box releases.

Notes

• Break sounds exactly like Naruto. While some similarity is to be expected since Junko Takeuchi provides the voice for both characters, Break's intonation, accent, and attitude are notably identical to the later character.

• The IDW comics depict Break's penguin mode as a rockhopper penguin, not an emperor. This is not an error per se, since in-continuity this is Break's second beast mode. His teammate Stampy mentions that his new beast mode is "revamped", having held a vehicle mode between the events of IDW's version of Beast Wars Neo and the IDW comics.

• Break has a spark crystal in his gun.