Fracture (Movie)
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| This article is about the movie-universe Decepticon. For the Tonka GoBot, see Crasher (G1). |
- Fracture is a Decepticon from the 2007 movie franchise portion of the live-action film series continuity family.
Fracture is utterly loyal to Lord High Protector Megatron and the Decepticon cause. This is generally considered a good thing, as she's got more than a few screws loose and a destructive streak you could drive a space cruiser through. She can be counted on to charge into any engagement, regardless of the odds, often cackling madly. Though she can bring significant firepower to bear with her hand-held negative energy blaster, she far prefers to use the seismic energy dischargers built into her giant stompy boots to cause localized earthquakes.
Fiction
Titan Magazines Transformers movie comics
Fracture was one of Stockade's "new Decepticons": a group of Decepticons who remained on the dying Cybertron and survived by feeding on Nucleon. Return to Cybertron: Part 1 She was not loyal to Megatron, as he was the git who caused Cybertron to start dying in the first place.
She helped Stockade summon an alien entity related to the All Spark to Cybertron, and then opened up a "dock" for it to enter, thus rebirthing the world. She was then dispatched to chase down and recapture fleeing Autobots, which is probably good as then she didn't get to notice she'd helped to summon Unicron. Return to Cybertron: Part 2 The chaos caused her to lose the Autobots, and she returned to base to see what was happening; Stockade declared an end to hostilities against the Autobots so they could focus on Unicron. Return to Cybertron: Part 3
Fracture got to tell Stockade how daft it was to have them fight Unicron conventionally, and later got to help fight Unicron unconventionally by shooting up his insides. Return to Cybertron: Part 4
IDW Transformers movie comics
Fracture was one of the reinforcements sent to Earth by Soundwave, making her landing in Italy. She was in command of Gunbarrel and Reverb, who she led in a raid of a military base.
She has some sort of plan that requires a distraction. Alliance issue 3
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Decepticon Fracture (Deluxe, 2008)
- Accessories: "Negative-energy blaster"
- A Wal-Mart exclusive redeco of Classics Mirage, extensively painted to resemble the animation model of the Tonka Go-Bots character Crasher, right down to her pink face and black "domino mask", Fracture transforms into a closed-canopy Formula racer concept car. The front aerofoil detaches to become a (non-firing) handheld weapon. The original light-piping features of the mold have been disabled by the paint applications on the figure's eyes. The tampographed Decepticon insignia on the figure features the original design, rather than the slightly streamlined look of the movie faction insignia.
- This mold was also used to make the 2008 Universe version of Drag Strip.
Trivia
- According to the Hasbro's designer panel at BotCon 2008, Fracture is not merely an homage to Crasher, but was intended to actually be the character, presumably having traveled from her home universe into the Transformers world, like certain other members of her race. This makes a lot of sense, given the original intention for the figure: Fracture was originally designed to be part of the 2008 Universe series (along with wavemates Breakaway and Crankcase), Universe having been the specific timeline into which her fellow GoBots traveled. With her subsequent move into the movie toyline, however, and her appearance in an alternate version of the movie continuity in Titan Magazines, it's hard to know if the original intent for the character still holds true. We fully expect some club fiction to sort this out in the future.
- In keeping with Hasbro original plans for her, they wanted to actually call her Crasher, but couldn't get the name. They then tried "Catalyst" but couldn't get that either. Stupid cross-dimensional legal issues.
- According to deco artist Joe Kyde, it took finding a real F-1 style racer in that black-and-white-with-red deco to seal the deal and get the toy made.
