#tfa breakdown

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[pastelpaperplanes]

soft body practice (and I guess bit of a scar map too) for a handful of the Thorns and Thrones cast

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Prisoners still get Medical Care

I like to think TFA KOBD's meet cute was Knock Out (being specialized in bodywork, frames changes, and under-the-table custom modifications) "getting hired"/being voluntold to treat the Stunticon's post their botched attack.

Updated Ref Sheets because I figured of a better Knock Out Design (Moony for Size Ref) (old design)

Bonus With Out Text (bc it low key looks better)/Sketch

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KOFI

[klaudia96art]

Mermay kobd family doodle 😘🧜‍♀️✨

[deepfriedhopesanddreams]

The Sparkeater

Wants to give you a cogwheel cookie! 🍪

Oh ok...

[stunticonbreakdown]

Assortment of Breakdown memes for ye 💥💥

[menasors]

Tfa boy for you

AWWW HE LOOKS SO LOVELY THANK YOU SO MUCH

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KOBD is *not* a rarepair, but their TFA selves definitely seem to be. If they show up in fic they're always based on their TFP versions, but hear me out-

Autobot-by-forging Knock Out meets the Stunticons whilst they're posing as Autobot performers (based one of the comics and a live script reading, according to TFWiki). He's absolutely smitten with that one cute stunt driver, and gradually wins him over through natural charm and the fact that he's terrible at being an Autobot. Finding out that Breakdown is actually a Decepticon really doesn't bother him at all.

That’s so cute tho!

[tf-animated-out-of-context]

One last round of trivia:

"The Stunti-Con Job" exists as both a comic and a BotCon script reading; the plots are the same, but the script reading added a subplot featuring Minerva, a medibot determined to meet Ratchet at all costs, who's somehow dragged Warpath along on her quest. (She does also appear in the comic version - see below.)

The script reading also featured a musical interlude - a duet sung by G1 and Animated Grimlocks. I don't think it went according to plan.

Like the story's title, the comic's original cover pays homage to the classic British comedy film "The Italian Job". (As do the picture captions on the relevant TFWiki page.)

Sideswipe and Breakdown share a body-type (first seen on Rodimus Prime) - possibly a callback to the G1 episode "Masquerade", in which that iteration of Sideswipe was disguised as Breakdown. (The same applies to Jazz and Dead End, and, more or less, to Optimus and the Motor Master.) In-universe, all the Stunticons underwent spark transplants into Autobot frames - except Toxitron, who's a clone of Optimus. Not a very successful one.

Cheetor, meanwhile, is a retool of Blurr - a fact Sideswipe remarks on four BotCons later, in "The Return of Blurr". which takes place at about the same time as "The Stunti-Con Job". Hence Blurr's appearance in the latter, in the High Council box alongside Cliffjumper - still cubified, and no doubt still talking twenty-four to the dozen.

Strika's Team Chaar, seen at the very end of this story, has undergone a reshuffle since "Transwarped" - Oil Slick is still there, unfortunately, but Cyclonus, Blackout and Spittor have been replaced by Mindwipe, Sky-Byte, Scalpel and Blot.

As for Autobot cameos, there are too many to list, but most of them are here:

(Botanica is also in this frame, but further up in the High Council box. TFWiki claims that Tap-Out is somewhere in the crowd; I can't see him, though.)

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TFA Breakdown and Knockout

Knockout was both really easy and really difficult (TFP Designs WILL be the death of me WHY ARE THEIR SO MANY MOVING PIECES) but I do love how he turned out. I'll probably shift his wheels back to his back next time though.

I don't say this kind of thing often, but I wish people would use the canonical design for TFA Breakdown, at least as a base for their designs.

Yeah, it's a recolor of Rodimus, but it's still fun to play with

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Some twitter requests pt1

Pt2

[klaudia96art]

Kobd pocky day and knock ou and Prince op 💖🤩

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More Breakdown gifs have been made 🫡

[scaredofstyrofoam]

My Decepticon Designs for my TF AU:

(Long rant about this under cut, haha!)

I'm calling this an AU, but really, it's a little more complicated than that, I think. I've been watching tf g1 and so forth since I was a very little kid and all the while I've been making this "perfect" version of tf in my mind and how I've finally got some fraction of skill to draw out all those ideas and stories I loved to dream up about them. This is my perfect Decepticon team! They are the main antagonists/villains, but the Decepticons have so many in their numbers so don't think ur fav isn't still there! All aspects of their designs have like years of maladaptive daydreaming behind them, so if u want me to rant to u about why smth is the way it is in my redesign, shoot!

[robot-rarepairs-dotcom]

(TFA) KO breaking BD outta jail but none of the other Stunticons.

Breakdown doesn't know who he is and thinks it's some evil scheme. KO thinks he's being super romantic.

Help😭

I’m picturing this in my head lmfao

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This is probably an average Thursday for them