- Circuit Breaker (comics)
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Circuit Breaker 
Publication information Publisher Marvel Comics (Transformers imprint) First appearance Transformers #6 (July 1985) Created by Hasbro In-story information Alter ego Josie Beller Species Human, Anti-Robot Team affiliations Neo-Knights Abilities Her suit allows her to disrupt a robot's circuitry, causing it to malfunction and break down.[1] Circuit Breaker is a fictional comic book character in the 1980s Marvel Comics Transformers series.
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Fictional character biography
After being severely injured in a raid for Earth oil by the Decepticon Shockwave,[2] computer genius Josie Beller was left paralyzed in both legs and one arm.[3] She developed cybernetic implants and an outfit[4] that allowed her to not only move, but disrupt a robot's circuitry, causing it to malfunction and break down.[5]
Beachcomber, Blaster, Cosmos, Perceptor, Powerglide, Seaspray and Warpath were part of an Autobot team on Cybertron in the Earth year 1986. They battled the Decepticons led by Straxus over the Space Bridge and the Autobots were stranded on Earth.[6] They were then captured by Circuit Breaker and her Rapid Anti-Robot Attack Team, taken to her lab and then dissected.[7]
Circuit Breaker then captured Autobots Air Raid, Fireflight, Silverbolt, Skids, Skydive and Slingshot. Using the parts from all the captured Autobots she created a giant Autobot with herself in control, striking a deal with them that if they would co-operate she would let them go. She had been injured in an earlier battle with the decepticons and was too weak to fight them again by herself. Circuit Breaker then used them to oppose the Decepticon Battlechargers Runabout and Runamuck who were attacking the Statue of Liberty. After defeating the Decepticons with Circuit Breaker the Autobots were released.[8] Despite defeating the Decepticon threat, by releasing the Autobots she held captive, she went against R.A.A.T.'s directives and was fired as a result.
Circuit Breaker reemerged when news reports came out about a creature called Skullgrin, an entity believed to be a Yeti-Sasquatch-like being who was in fact a Pretender Decepticon (a Decepticon who wears an outer shell making him appear to be a member of another species). Skullgrin, in order to gain oil for the Decepticons, agreed to allow a film producer to use him in a production, in return for oil as payment. Circuit Breaker suspected Skullgrin to be a Cybertronian, going to California to investigate him. She had a glimpse of Skullgrin at a press conference held by the producer, but could not be certain if Skullgrin was a Transformer or not. However, she did run into Carissa Carr, who was to appear in the film with Skullgrin. Circuit Breaker, whom Carr believed to be a harmless physically challenged person, discovered that the filming with Skullgrin would commence in a couple of days at the Grand Canyon. During the making of the film at the Grand Canyon, Skullgrin took off his Pretender shell. Seeing this from nearby, Circuit Breaker finally had irrefutable proof that Skullgrin was a Transformer, and jumped into combat. She took control of Skullgrin's Pretender shell and attacked him with it. During the skirmish between Circuit Breaker and Skullgrin, Carissa Carr was caught on a crumbling cliff, but Skullgrin selflessly rescued her, though it gave Circuit Breaker the chance to press her attack. Before she could totally destroy Skullgrin, the Hollywood producer who had been dealing with Skullgrin called out to Circuit Breaker. He informed her that his workers taped her battle with Skullgrin, and that he would pay her a fortune to slay Skullgrin in front of the camera. Circuit Breaker, disgusted at the producer's greed destroyed the camera and left.[9]
She later joined the Neo-Knights. G. B. Blackrock and the Neo-Knights were accidentally transported to Cybertron along with the Transformers when Primus sought to unite all his children against the chaos bringer Unicron. Upon arriving on the planet, Circuit Breaker fell into a catatonic state as her phobia of a planet full of robots overwhelmed her human mind. However, she did awake as Unicron descended, and attacked him with her own power, weakening and distracting the chaos bringer long enough for Optimus Prime to destroy him with the Matrix of Leadership. She returned to her catatonic state shortly afterwards, and over the course of the "Unicron" and the "Autobot/Decepticon Truce" arcs, she would remain in this state as the title folded. She did not return during the Transformers: Generation 2 comics
Secret Wars
During Marvel's Secret Wars II miniseries, the Beyonder encounters Circuit Breaker.[10] This implies[citation needed]that while the Transformers exist in the regular Marvel Universe they must have left the planet much sooner than in Transformers continuity (in current Marvel canon, the Transformers series is said[citation needed] to have taken place in a separate continuity, Earth-120185, from the Marvel Universe Earth-616 proper).
References
- Furman, Simon (2004). Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. DK Publishing Inc.. p. 40. ISBN 1405304618.
External links
- Circuit Breaker at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
- Circuit Breaker at the Transformers Wiki
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