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Fracture : good boss or bad boss toward his minicons? (love your analysis posts)

Adequate imo, especially by Decepticon standards.

While Fracture doesn’t seem to care if his aggressive outbursts hurt the Minicons, neither Airazor nor Divebomb fear their boss so I guess the audience has no reason to take this seriously? He also talks to them like a normal person, without threat.

I’m mentioning the lack of threatening demeanor because of how it compares to, among others: Megatron when he’s not talking to Soundwave or Shockwave, Starscream with his hired team in RiD, Motormaster with his team of Stunticons, and even Drag Strip with Wildbreak. Fracutre doesn’t try to intimidate his underlings or make them fear him.

Airazor and Divebomb both show admiration and appreciation towards Fracture – fantastic boss, does all the walking, most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy, sometimes he smiles! – and they care when he’s in trouble, they always worry and rush to assist him.

So, I’d say Fracture passes for an adequate boss because his Minicons love him and I’m assuming he earned their loyalty. But if he was an Autobot, he’d require some sensitivity training. lol

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Do you think Steeljaw, Thunderhoof and Fracture have redeemable qualities? If so, which ones?

Regarding the Aligned continuity in general, I think Megatron set the bar so low with his “redemption” that it’s buried deeper than Unicron inside Earth’s core. So yeah, Steeljaw, Thunderhoof, and Fracture definitely have redeemable qualities simply by not being worse than Megatron…

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I see. So you don’t view Divebomb and Airazor as evil? By the way, do you think they both cared for each other just like the way Jetstorm and Slipstream did to each other?

I can’t take them seriously enough to consider them actually evil, especially
compared to villains that do harm or state evil plans. They’re also too adorable so I’m biased.

As for caring, well they show great adoration for their boss without any jealousy towards one another so I’d assume they’re on friendly terms, and they’re pretty synchronized like it’s the most natural thing in the world so there’s that little teammate bond going on.

Like, I recently rewatched some of the shorts and these two don’t just finish each other’s sentences, they speak sentences together part by part.

Speaking of the shorts, there’s a moment when the two are told by Slipstream and Jetstorm that they’ll be arrested. Divebomb keeps looking at Airazor during this exchange and then takes a step forward and stretches out his arm to put himself between Drift’s Minicons and Airazor – either to protect him from being dumb and starting another fight or to protect him from the others.

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But this show isn’t exactly known for giving Decepticons screen time, character, character development, or meaningful relationships. So insert shrug emoji here, hell if I know.

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anjian:

This cipher for Primal Vernacular actually works! Sort of. In the first panel of Vos, he’s saying “So tired me go night XTO.” I don’t know if a XTO is anything like an XO, or if it’s some sort of Cybertronian emoticon. Cyclonus and Tailgate are singing “I’ve got my own.”

The second panel with Vos is more confusing. First of all, the sigil for “!” is used, but we see that punctuation is written regularly otherwise; there’s an apostrophe in Cyclonus’ song and a question mark in Vos’ own phrase. This makes me think it’s some sort of Caesar cipher. Could be interesting to work out.

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spockandawe:

Now, you guys know all about Knock Out and Breakdown and how they’re all married in the comics, right? And how on Velocitron, speed is everything?

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So that sucks for Breakdown from a societal point of view. But from a practical point of view, speed is important to the Velocitronians for other reasons.

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And why was that a big deal again?

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Right, that.

So if you aren’t super hella fast, you run a significant risk of burning to death in the intense heat of the Velocitronian sun. Now in the comic, the only two Velocitronian bots we ever see chilling outside their city period are Moonracer and Knock Out.

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And by virtue of the things we see them talking about, and their high social standing, we can probably assume they’re two of the fastest bots on the planet.

Now… the holiday special issue. We only get a tiny bit of Knock Out and Breakdown, but what do we see them doing?

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Awww, they went on a honeymoon out in the Acid Wastes! That’s adorable!

But also, consider. Leaving the city on Velocitron is dangerous. If you’re not naturally fast, you stand a very good chance of dying a fiery death. Moonracer is the first bot to race outside the city in seventy years, and keeping pace with Navitas for a day was an impressive enough feat to get her a position as an interplanetary diplomat.

Breakdown… is not a fast bot. He’s so very not-fast that some people treat him “like a cripple.” Has he ever driven outside? Has he ever even had his wheels on natural ground? From what we hear about Velocitron, it doesn’t seem that likely.

And Knock Out took him to the Acid Wastes. Undeveloped land, stretching for miles and miles, no buildings even in sight, no reason to rush back or worry, no natural hazards that come anywhere near the danger of suddenly burning to death because you couldn’t outrun the sun. Just wide open spaces, and all the time in the world to drive it. I’m pretty sure Knock Out just gave his husband the most romantic present he could ever have imagined.

Different continuity but in Robots in Disguise (2015), Grimlock says the sunsets
in the Acid Wastes

are amazing, which possibly makes KOBD’s vacation even better.