Splitface

"I put the right bribes into the right hands, and the ones who matter look the other way when I need to 'borrow' something."
― Splitface, Legion of Darkness

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Splitface
Villain
Employer	Black Phantom (formerly)
Weapons	Shredding Claw Poison Plasma Gun
Status	Functional
Set number	6218 SPLITFACE (instructions)

Splitface is a two-faced schizophrenic villain who was a former member of the Legion of Darkness. He was later among many villains who escaped during the Breakout, but is recaptured.

Biography

At some point, Splitface was created. His life before he became a villain and how he did so are unknown. He later developed extreme schizophrenia with two personalities, "organic" and mechanical, that fought for control.

Splitface sometimes partnered with a fellow villain named Voltix in his villainous activities. While in a city on planet Epsilon Gamma IV at one night, where they were doing a robbery on upgrades, the villains were pursued by Preston Stormer, a Hero of the Hero Factory and who the villains easily saw through the dark. They fought and tried to defeat him, but Stormer was able to subdue them with the help of his commanding officer, Thresher. The Heroes detained Voltix while Splitface fled quickly. Splitface met Jawblade at a refueling station and told his story to him, but Jawblade told him that it is nothing to worry about. However, when Jawblade encountered two more Heroes, Jimi Stringer and Dunkan Bulk, Jawblade went to tell Splitface about it. Eventually, the Alpha 1 Team's exploits became legendary, and Splitface, Jawblade, Thornraxx and Speeda Demon were scared by their presence.

Legion of Darkness

The four villains were thinking about finding a way to stop the Hero Factory or finding another line of work when the villain Black Phantom eventually arrived and offered them a position in the Legion of Darkness. They accepted, and Splitface and Speeda Demon accompanied Black Phantom to a Makuro Industries plant. Splitface, Speeda Demon, and Black Phantom set their optic sensors to night vision to see through the darkness in the plant in past midnight. They witnessed Thornraxx hijacking a hover vehicle containing a shipment of 24 XT4 robots. After Black Phantom stole the XT4 robots, Splitface and Speeda Demon destroyed the ship to make it look like it crashed. Black Phantom reprogrammed 23 of the industrial robots to scatter themselves around the area and the last one to be his personal servant, XT4.

Splitface and Speeda Demon ditched a crew from an old ore mining space freighter from the Aird Mining Company on an asteroid and hijacked the freighter. XT4 infiltrated Hero Factory where Splitface flew by Makuhero City in the freighter, activating XT4's secondary programming layer. Black Phantom ordered Splitface to help XT4 if XT4 needs it. Speeda Demon and Splitface piloted the freighter to Asteroid J-54 for XT4 to escape with Voltix and Toxic Reapa. However, they set the engines on the ship to blow and made it slowly go to Stormer and Jimi Stringer's Drop Ship to try to destroy them because they believed Black Phantom's plan was too slow and they wanted to destroy the Heroes. After the two villains escaped to Black Phantom's scout ship, he scolded at them for directing the freighter to the Drop Ship, but Black Phantom used this to fight Stormer and Stringer. The three escaped before the freighter exploded.

The disaster at Asteroid J-54 led to Akiyama Makuro to shut down the Hero Factory corporation, causing Splitface to embark with the Legion to take Hero Factory's headquarters as their base. After using their two scout ships to crash into the Hero Factory's Mission Control Room, Splitface wanted to destroy the factory directly, but Black Phantom stopped him and let XT4 hack into one of the room's main consoles first in order for the Legion to get ready to do so. However, XT4 was stopped and attacked by Stormer, but Splitface and Black Phantom in his scout ship helped XT4 fight Stormer. Stormer activated a trap in the room, causing the floor to open under Splitface, where he fell down a pipe into the bowels of Hero Factory, a sub-basement. Black Phantom was going to use Splitface as a tool and let him get captured. Splitface was recovered and imprisoned on Asteroid J-54.^[SM2]

At some point, Splitface escaped from prison, but the Legion was disbanded during the time.^{[SM2, p. 136]} Splitface was later imprisoned by Hero Factory in their new prison inside their building called the Villain Storage Unit. At some point, Splitface was told by Speeda Demon that Speeda Demon bought a map for the Doom Box and passed it off to Core Hunter seven years ago. Splitface also learned the name of the world the Doom Box was forged on from Speeda Demon.^[SM1]

Breakout

Splitface in the Sigma Sigma system

Voltix later instigated a mass breakout of the Hero Factory jail, and Splitface was one of the many escapees. Stringer tried to stop Splitface from escaping. However, Fire Lord and Jetbug flew to try to attack Stringer, but Daniel Rocka protected Stringer from the two villains. Splitface got free from Stringer's grip along the way, so he was able to continue escaping. Splitface then traveled to the Sigma Sigma system, where he began attacking a communications satellite vital to the Hero Factory called the Sigma Sigma Communications Satellite. He planned to use a large asteroid to penetrate the satellite's shield and then the satellite itself, disrupting communications, so he would attack anywhere and no one would be ready for him. However, the Hero Mark Surge found and fought Splitface. Though he often argued with himself, Splitface was able to temporarily beat back Surge by using his Infecticide to paralyze him and then throw him to an asteroid to push it toward the satellite.^{[Episode 8]} Surge managed to fracture the asteroid, but was assaulted by Splitface, who began to defeat Surge. However, Splitface was electrified by Surge's Electricity Shooter and thrown by him at the asteroid, shattering it and saving the satellite from it and Splitface. This weakened Splitface. Surge used his new Hero Cuffs to capture him, picked him up, and delivered him back to Hero Factory.^{[Episode 9]}

The Doom Box

Until Hero Factory's prison was repaired, Splitface was interred on Asteroid J-54 again while Villain Storage was getting repaired. He was talking about escaping from the prison since his capture. Daniel Rocka came to question Splitface about Speeda Demon, and Splitface told him that Speeda Demon had bought a map for the Doom Box and passed it off to Core Hunter. He told the name of the world the Doom Box was forged on under heavy questioning by Rocka, and was told the promise of a bigger cell at the Hero Factory by Rocka.^[SM1]

After Villain Storage was repaired, Splitface and the other prisoners were transferred back there.^[SM5]

Alternate Universes

Reality 11275.6

Along with the other Legion of Darkness members, Splitface was recruited to the inner circle of the Citadel, run by Von Nebula. After the Citadel took control, Splitface usually committed heists. Splitface had a gang of henchbots, and they rode Jet-Cycles.

Recently, Splitface robbed a ticket window of a security pouch of money from a split ticket event at the Von Nebula Stadium, but he and his henchbots were stopped by the prime reality Alpha 1 Team, posing as a new gang, as Stormer knocked over the Jet Cycles in a domino effect, him and Dunkan Bulk surrounded Splitface, and William Furno and Natalie Breez defeated the henchbots. The Alpha 1 Team stole the pouch from Splitface, angering him. When the Brains invaded Von Nebula City, while Splitface was setting up a barricade with Thornraxx to try to repel the invasion, he at first believed that the alert about the Brains made by Voltix was a fake just to make Voltix and his Jolters look better than others. However, Splitface saw the Brains personally. He and Thornraxx continued to set up the barricade, but when the two argued, they were overwhelmed and knocked unconscious by the Brains. Splitface was later killed by the Brains in another battle when Von Nebula betrayed the Brains.^[SM5]

Abilities and Traits

Splitface is a schizophrenic disassociative with two distinct personalities. These two different identities are constantly at war with one another, although the confusion between the two leads to an unpredictability in fighting. One of them is very rough and crude, and the other is colder and crueler. He is also capable of using both identities simultaneously in his attacks, when the one particular identity cannot remain dominant or dormant. The different personalities stem from the two different halves of his body: one gray mechanical side, and one red mutated "organic" side, each with their own related weapon and fighting preferences. The gray side is the right half of his body while the red side is the left half. His two personalities make him twice as dangerous as most villains. The gray side speaks in a voice like gravel being ground to dust while the red side speaks in a much smoother voice.^{[Episode 8][Episode 9][SM1]} He was a powerful enforcer, usually forcing Business-Bots to pay him for "protection", and if they do not pay, he destroyed their business.^[FO:MSG]

Splitface is taller than Rocka, William Furno, Natalie Breez, and Dunkan Bulk's Breakout forms, Voltix, Speeda Demon, and Core Hunter. Despite being tall, he is fast. He can see very well in the dark night, and can set his optic sensors to night vision.^[SM2]

Weapons

Each of Splitface's personalities prefers using a different weapon. The mechanical side prefers using a Shredding Claw, which has the power to slice through steel with ease, and is also armed with an infectious spike. Splitface also has an infectious spike on his right shin armor. The "organic" personality prefers using a Poison Plasma Gun (with a precision laser attached that can accurately target over 20 miles) to shoot the deadly and mutagenic substance called Infecticide. Both of his weapons are confiscated when he is jailed. Splitface has a green tube that connected the precision laser to his back armor. Splitface also has another infectious spike on his right shin armor.

Set Information

6218 Splitface

Set 6218 SPLITFACE was released in the first half of 2012 as part of the Breakout wave. The set has 50 pieces including a sphere shooter and a Hero Core. However, the Hero Core is not used in the construction of the set, but provides a 300-point code for an online game called Breakout. The helmet pieces of Splitface are reversible. Parts of set can be combined with parts from set 6217 SURGE to make a non-canon combination model using building instructions from HeroFactory.com.

Trivia

• Splitface was voiced by Maurice LaMarche in Episode 8: Breakout Part 1 and Episode 9: Breakout Part 2.
• While many media say that Splitface is half-mechanical and half-mutated organic, he is shown to be completely mechanical in the television episodes and the Secret Mission chapter books.
• In some early story documents, Splitface is called "Brute Force".^{[BZPower - Rocka is Fortis and other reveals (October 5, 2024)]}

Appearances

• Secret Mission 2: Legion of Darkness (In a Flashback)
• Episode 8: Breakout Part 1 (First Appearance)
• Episode 9: Breakout Part 2
• Breakout Animations
• Secret Mission 1: The Doom Box
• Secret Mission 5: Mirror World (Alternate Universe)
• Face Off: Makuro's Secret Guidebook
• Breakout! (Non-canonical Appearance)
• Breakout (Game) (Non-canonical Appearance)

See also

• Gallery:Villains § Splitface

External links

• Splitface's Bio on HeroFactory.com (archived)