Jawbreaker (BW)
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- Jawbreaker is a Maximal from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Jawbreaker (aka Cackle, see #Notes) has a twisted sense of humor and a dark view of the future. He is convinced he will meet a grisly end on the battlefield. It may be that all his off-putting jokes and antisocial behavior are intended to keep others safely away from this ultimate defeat; Jawbreaker is never quiet about his preference for working and fighting alone. Nevertheless, the older Noctorro has attempted to form a bond with the young Maximal, though his efforts at counseling often meet with lackluster results.
Fiction
Beast Wars: Uprising
Jawbreaker believed in his own inevitable demise, dying alone in a pool of his own mech fluid. He long ago chose to live life as jovially as possible. At the Maximal Academy, he was frequently disciplined for pranking his fellow students. His final prank on headmaster Lionhead got him expelled. Out on the streets, he found a new home with Botanica and her rebel agitators against the Maximal Autocracy. The media frenzy caused by his flurry of leaflets distributed over Cybertropolis Square ensured Jawbreaker's role in the movement. Jawbreaker's profile in Club magazine #55
Jawbreaker was part of a cell of Maximals who rebelled against the status quo imposed by their Autobot masters. He joined a nighttime raid on Ferromax Detention Center to free Dynobot, and spent much of the time pasting up Dynobot posters all over the prison. After rendezvousing with Rattrap, the team managed to liberate Dynobot and headed for the exit, with Jawbreaker just flinging the leftover posters into the air as they fled. Prologue
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Jawbreaker was one of Onyx Prime's Maximals. When this bestial horde invaded Cybertron, he was one of the many warriors who wound up battling Arcee. Endless Forever
Toys
Beast Wars
- Jawbreaker (Deluxe Transmetal 2, 1999)
- Accessories: Tail-blade
- Jawbreaker transforms into a blue, black, and red Transmetal 2 hyena. Though the yellow spots on his back suggest his beast mode is based on the spotted African hyena, his tail, claws, teeth and ears more closely resemble a larger feline. The back of his beast mode neck has a spinning saw-blade, and the entire assembly becomes his right robot mode arm. His tail detaches to form a really vicious-looking sword.
- The hyena jaws were designed to swing down and away from the rest of the head, forming a more distinct grasping hand for the robot mode. This feature is shown on the packaging photographs, but on the final toy it was "neutered" by the addition of rigid plastic pegs locking the jaws into the skull. It is possible to carefully break these pegs in order to restore the feature.
Notes
- Jawbreaker had the pre-release name of "Cackle". This name was actually retained on European market packaging, including both the English/Spanish/Italian Beast Wars/Biocombat and the French/Dutch/German Beast Wars/Ani Mutants variants.
- Speaking of pre-release information, Jawbreaker showed up in Walmart's computer systems as "kangaroo". Crikey!
- Beast Wars: The Gathering and Beast Wars: The Ascending featured nearly every non-show character from the Hasbro Beast Wars toyline. The exceptions are Jawbreaker, MicroVerse's Orcanoch and Arachnid, the combined Magnaboss and Tripredacus gestalts, the Mutant Razor Claw, and the McDonald's characters (excluding Manta Ray). Jawbreaker was not totally forgotten by IDW, though. He does appear on a Beast Wars poster, which was used (in cropped form) as the cover to The Gathering #1. And, of course, he got a bio in the Beast Wars Sourcebook.
- His appearance in the Alone Together prologue, where nobody has a beast mode, is based on the Prime Beast Hunters version of Ratchet. Monocle-head and all.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Jawbreaker (ジョーブレイカー Jōbureikā)
- Dutch: Cackle
- French: Brise-Fer (Canada, "Steel-Breaker"), Cackle (Europe)
- German: Cackle
- Italian: Cackle
- Spanish: Rompemandibula (America, "Jawbreaker"), Cackle (Europe)
