Breakdown is a Decepticon brute in Transformers: Prime. His weapons include two built in hammers.
He was voiced by Adam Baldwin.
He is best friends and partners with Knock Out.
He is also Bulkhead's rival due to an unknown event.
In the episode Operation Breakdown he was captured by a human terrorist organization called M.E.C.H. Wishing to learn from his parts they began to dismantle him starting with his eye. Before they could do anything else Bulkhead came to rescue him. Starcream arrived later on and ordered him to attack Bulkhead. He was hesitant but eventually attacked.
His eye could not be replaced apparently and he was given a patch to cover his socket. This would force him to become the subject of humiliation and permanent defeat.
In the episode, Crossfire, Breakdown was sent by Megatron with Dreadwing on a mission to terminate Airachnid. Despite admitting earlier that he was "intrigued" by her, Breakdown was the first to attack Airachnid. She managed to lure him into a trap where she sliced into his body and decapitated him. This presumably killed him and his remains were captured by M.E.C.H.
Afterwards in "The Human Factor", M.E.C.H used his body to create a shell and life support system for their mortally injured leader, Silas. Silas tried to convince Megatron to allow him to take Breakdown's place "at the table", to which Megatron tested his usefulness by sending him to go kill the Autobots' human child allies, starting with Raf who was a critical intellectual ally to the Autobots. Once Silas failed after Bulkhead and Smokescreen intervened, Megatron put Silas on a table, but clarified it was Knockout's dissection table to be precise. Knockout and Starscream then tortured Silas out of both revenge and to discover further knowledge of Cybertronian biology until they used a mix of Dark and synthetic energon to bring Breakdown back to life as a zombie.
Victims
- Possibly numerous counts of unnamed Autobots
- MECH soldiers
Gallery
Trivia
- Breakdown was originally intended to be Lugnut before being dropped and replaced by the said Decepticon due to the show creators wanted a land-based Decepticon instead.
