Oh. believe me, you're preaching to the choir. A good number of the more active TFCC members belong to the SQUEE FEMBOTS camp. One of them has Blackarachnia tattoos. I kid you not. Another has about twenty Energon Arcees and commissions fan-artists to draw him pervy pictures. I'd be more worried if the former wasn't gay, and the latter wasn't married.I am not just annoyed by Fracture being another homage, but I am sic k of fan-service female characters. Ah well, as long as it does not ape Override GTS's box art.....
So my stance is usually one of "Enough already!" We've had the excessive Energon Arcee repaints, plus Airazor, and that's quite enough worthless fembot characters for me. A case could be made for Flamewar, mind.
Fracture, however, has a cool deco and is a neat homage to a good character. Crasher's anything but fan-service to 'that' camp. I like Blackarachnia as a character (Animated's version..not so much), sure, it's the characters who're defined by their gender and nothing else that I take offense to (Airazor, Arcee, Elita-1 et al). Given that Crasher was neither, it's a welcome nod in my book.