Jawbreaker (BW)

This article is about the Beast Wars Maximal. For the Generation 1 Seacon, see Overbite (G1).

Jawbreaker is a Maximal from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family. He is also known as Cackle.

Jawbreaker, who has no fiction.

Jawbreaker 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.

Toys

Beast Wars

• Jawbreaker (Deluxe Transmetal 2, 1999)
  • Accessories: Tail-blade

Jawbreaker transforms into a blue, black, and red Transmetal 2 hyena. 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.

This mold was later used to make Universe Frostbite.

• More information on Jawbreaker at TFU.info

Notes

Cackle, who barely exists.

• 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.
• Jawbreaker's pre-release name, "Cackle", was retained on some versions of the European packaging.
• Speaking of pre-release information, Jawbreaker showed up in Walmart's computer systems as "kangaroo". Crikey!

Foreign names

• French: Brise-Fer (Steel-Breaker)
• Spanish: Rompemandibula