Break (BW)

Break is a Maximal from the Beast Era of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Penguin Power!

The Maximal new recruit Break (ブレイク Bureiku) wants to be the best. Absolutely overflowing with infectious enthusiasm, there is no adventure too perilous and no challenge too daunting to quench his hot-blooded burning heart. Being a new recruit, he currently resides at the bottom of the food chain, but his ambitions lay at the very top and he's determined to be Hokage Supreme Commander someday.

Of course, his gung-ho personality and inability to accept anything less than identical pep from his peers makes him more than a little obnoxious. With designs on being a leader, he tends to presumptuously act like a leader, which stifles the sub-commander Longrack and can even irritate the Supreme Commander Big Convoy. While skittish cowards such as Stampy and lazy do-nothings such as Heinrad are resentfully bullied into following him, arrogant rebels such as Cohrada and free spirits such as Mach Kick are less likely to acknowledge his "authority". So basically, Break gets on everybody's nerves.

Believe it!

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 Chase the Mysterious Capsule 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 Hang in There, Stampy Mirage of the Sand Dinosaur Combiner Magmatron Duel in the Labyrinth The Black Hole Crisis Sub-Commander Longrack Waa! They Got Eaten Planet of Time Lonely Hydra Break Is a Predacon? Ship's Log Mach Kick Voluntarily Enlists!? Planet of the Ultimate Weapon Troubled DNAVI Attack! Randy Bump the Physicist Hardhead Is Hardheaded Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!! The Stolen Gung Ho Survive the Hot-Blooded Instructor Assemble! New Warriors Mysterious Beast Warriors!? The Stolen Capsules Pursue the Blendtrons! Angry Magmatron Illusion? Lio Convoy Unicron Revived!? Unicron's Ambition Fight! Maximals End of the Maximals!? The Final Battle Graduation Ceremony!!

Bom Bom manga continuity

Beast Wars Neo comic

The 5 Rookies There Are 7 Capsules 100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!! Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky A Battle Fought Alone Double CrossBreak Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist! To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy BladeThe Great Escape! Graviton Prison! Return to Zero What Became of the Five....

IDW Beast Wars comics

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

Real helpful there, guys.

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

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

Transformers Legends comic

Break was among the passengers on a train who were weirded out by Rattrap's new robot body. Legends Comic: Business Trip Edition Vol. 1

Toys

Beast Wars Neo

March of the Shellformers.

• 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 has 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.
• IDW's Beast Wars 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.

Foreign names

• Korean: Break (브레익 Beureik)