TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on BREAKDOWN

Don't let this episode's subject know I've made a video about him - he wouldn't like the idea of being watched by so many people! It's The Basics on the paranoid Stunticon, BREAKDOWN!

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[SmashBrosAssemble]

It’s annoying that they killed off Breakdown in TF Prime considering they originally planned to give him a redemption arc & would’ve joined the Autobots, but because of the shows budget being slashed they couldn’t afford Adam Baldwin anymore.

But it did lead to one of the best episodes of TF Prime, the zombie outbreak on the Nemesis.

[neptuneplaneptune]

I like to imagine it was his friendship with Knockout that helped Breakdown out of being nervous and paranoid.

[DarthShadow]

“Before Transformers: Prime, I was a wimp! Now I’m a jerk and everyone loves me!”

[DanGamingFan]

Prime Breakdown is one of my favorite characters in the show. I liked how he and Bulkhead had a sort of begrudging respect for each other while still wanting to destroy each other. It's a shame he was killed off so unceremoniously. And then they just couldn't let the poor guy rest in peace.

[Crescent]

I also remember that TFP Breakdown is pretty chill with the Vehicons. The scene where he was having a normal chat with a Vehicon about how he was somewhat attracted to Airachnid and the part where he praise the Vehicons for a good job.

"I know it's thankless down there, keep up the good job, yeah."

*-Breakdown to Fowler pretending to be a Vehicon*

[adamshafeeq]

Random background characters: has about 2 seconds of screen time along with little to no personality or depth

Transformers fans: they're my favourite

[melvinshine]

I always liked how the desecration of Breakdown's corpse was one of only two things that genuinely pissed off Knockout. It still bugs me that they hinted at Breakdown possibly joining the Autobots, then killed him off, only for them to do the same damn thing with Dreadwing later on.

[cylasbreakdown]

I got the Cylas Breakdown toy as a kid. For whatever reason, I chose it as my online name.

[shreyashagrahari]

I still remember Bumblebee's saying "Breakdown, you reckless fool!" from Earthspark.

[SWDude]

I liked how, despite his varying different designs, he kept design aspects like his blue head with his orange face and shoulder wheels so we knew who he'd be based on.

Plus, him being voiced by Adam Baldwin in TFP, who voice Green Lantern in Injustice 1 and Superman/evil Superman clone in Superman: Doomsday is pretty neat too.

[BoisegangGaming]

Breakdown having friendships with Knockout and Bumblebee is definitely something that I feel future iterations of the character can play around with. It just adds a lot more depth to him, as a lot of decepticons are pretty one-note characters that don't really seem like they have a reason to be around each other.

[abraveastronaut]

I like how Earthspark Breakdown has a transformation that's not far off from how a lot of versions of Bumblebee transform. It suggests that maybe at some point they shared a body-type and they've just had different upgrades.

[WelshGiraffa]

Prime Breakdown is the best in terms of his design and rivalry with Bulkhead but Earthsparks is my favourite with how different he is and is almost like a brother to Bee instead of Cliffjumper despite being on opposite sides

[ananonymousnerd.]

Note: If memory serves, during a call with Agent Fowler (who was posing as a Vehicon), it's shown that Prime Breakdown does care for the rank and file Vehicons and returns Fowler's "How are you?".

[mattr]

I still regret I didn't get the Prime Breakdown toy when it was reissued

[Lukusprime]

All these years, and I never knew that Breakdown was paranoid. I’ve had the WFC Nintendo DS games since they came out, and I’ve always wondered about Breakdown’s character voice clips: “Hope no-one recognizes me!”, “I’m gonna stick out like a sore thumb!”, “Anyone looks at me and they’re done for!”, etc. Now I know what they were in reference to!

[keybae]

prime and earthspark breakdown are my fave depictions of the guy cus in earthspark i can just see him and bee hanging out even during the war when everything was quiet

[TheOvervoid]

TFP Breakdown with G1 Breakdown's personality is a recipe for comedy gold!

[darrenheideman]

The TFP version's narrative certainly was disappointing on two counts. The most obvious is that there was no final clash between him and Bulkhead. The second being the tease for a divided loyalty between Megatron and Starscream.

[vegastrypes]

Australian here. The Stunticons were one of my first packs of toys I got. Mum wouldn't let me have the parts to combine them until I'd proved I could put them together. Well I shut her up a few seconds later. XD