Fracture (Movie)
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- 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
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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 AllSpark 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
When the New Decepticons went to Earth to protect it from Starscream in the Autobots' absence, Fracture's job was to hit the lead drones with a frequency that would brainwash every other drone linked to them into switching sides. Revolution Part Two Thanks to her, by the early morning of the next day, the New Decepticons had won the Decepticon Civil War and only the Decepticon Heartland remained.
Fracture, doing recon, found nobody was home at the Heartland base, and believed Starscream must've fled. This turned out to be wrong though, as a revived Megatron began blitzing them! She showed some concern for Storm Surge, yelling at him to move as the laser-fire rained down, before getting stuck into the battle and trading shots with a jet-mode Starscream.
Unfortunately for her and her mates, the Autobots decided to teleport the New Decepticons to Cybertron along with Megatron's to ensure they didn't hold onto Earth. Fracture's now back on her homeworld, and trapped. See where good deeds get you? Revolution Part Three
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. After the latter scanned suitable Earth forms, she ordered Swindle and Dead End in San Francisco to provide a distraction for the Autobots and their human friends while the rest of their forces located their master. Alliance #3
The human-Autobot alliance evidently turned out to be more capable than the Decepticons realized. After the destruction of Reverb and Gunbarrel, Fracture was chased by the soldiers on a cliff-hugging road in the Italian Alps, running right into Ironhide, who rammed her right off the road and into the valley below. Her remains were retrieved by the military and presumably disposed of. Alliance #4
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Decepticon Fracture (Deluxe, 2008)
- Accessories: "Negative-energy blaster"
- A Wal-Mart exclusive redeco of Classics Mirage, extensively painted to resemble the Tonka Go-Bots character Crasher, right down to the pink face and black "domino mask" she sported in the GoBots cartoon, 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 two different iterations of the movie continuity, 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.
- In Titan, Fracture appears to have the natural ability to hack lead drones.
