However, he showed distress when one of his cassettes were hurt in battle, and he always came across as extremely loyal to Megatron, even going so far as to recover his body after being beaten close to death by Optimus Prime at the battle of Autobot City in 2005 ( The Transformers: The Movie). Soundwave rarely displayed much emotion, infrequently exhibiting any traits that could be considered to be in line with his tech spec. One of Soundwave's most notable misadventures came in season 2 when, operating a plan conceived by Starscream, he brainwashed humans with ultrasonic vibrations, leading to a confrontation with his Autobot Communications Officer counterpart, Blaster, and to a lasting rivalry between the two. He and his cassette minions were often on spying missions against the Autobots. Later, he used his mind-reading talents to acquire an antimatter formula for the Decepticons from the brain of Chip Chase. After awakening on Earth in 1984, Soundwave played a crucial part in generating energon cubes and devising strategies to construct a new spacecraft for the Decepticons to journey back to Cybertron. Soundwave participated in Megatron's assault on the Autobots' spacecraft, the Ark, and met the same fate as the other occupants when the ship crashed on prehistoric Earth, leaving everyone trapped in stasis. On Cybertron, he used his ability to transform into a lamp-post to spy on the Autobot city of Iacon, learning of the Autobots' plan to search for energy on other worlds. In the original Transformers cartoon, Soundwave was Megatron's most reliable aide, frequently sent on important reconnaissance missions with his cassettes, and often playing a key role in many schemes against the Autobots. When the time came for him and Starscream to massacre the Senate, he enslaved Ratbat by bestowing the smaller, weaker cassette body upon him.Īccording to X-Entertainment, Soundwave was one of the top Transformers figures of all time. In the IDW comics, on pre-war Cybertron, Soundwave functioned as a personal assistant to Ratbat, who was a Senator at the time, however, Soundwave's true loyalty was with Megatron. In the Dreamwave comics, Ratbat led the Ultracons faction, while Soundwave remained with the Decepticons led by Shockwave, although within that continuity these events occurred before Ratbat took up a cassette form. However, when his cassette Ratbat became leader of the Decepticons in the Marvel Comics series, Soundwave fully shifted his trademark loyalty from Megatron to him. Soundwave's cassettes are quick to serve and defend Soundwave in a crisis, and generally relate to him as servants or even pets. Squawktalk and Beastbox were additional cassette characters under Soundwave's control within the US toyline, who never appeared in the cartoon.

These spy characters include Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ratbat, Rumble, Frenzy, Slugfest, Wingthing, Autoscout and Overkill, all of whom are under Soundwave's command in the original television series. Within the tape compartment, which becomes his chest in robot mode, he stores a variety of Decepticon spies, all of which take the alternative form of a microcassette. His alternative form is that of an Earthly microcassette deck. Soundwave is physically strong compared to most Transformers. Additionally, he has a photographic memory on account of the data storage capacity of the magnetic disks in his chest compartment, and he is armed with a shoulder-mounted laser cannon and hand-held concussion blaster. Soundwave is able to detect and jam transmissions across the entire energy spectrum, a talent that makes him suited to his position as a Decepticon Communications Officer.

His alternate mode is a microcassette recorder and he has a distinctive monotone, computerized voice. Soundwave is one of the characters from the original Transformers line. He is commonly depicted as Megatron's communications officer and in some interpretations, only speaks when mocking the Autobots.

Throughout most of his incarnations, he is an underlying loyal lieutenant of the Decepticon leader Megatron. His most well-known disguise is that of a micro cassette recorder. Soundwave is a fictional robot character appearing in various Transformers continuity lines within the Transformers franchises. Megatron, Buzzsaw, Laserbeak, Ratbat, Ravage, Frenzy, Rumble, Space Case, Wingthing, ShockwaveĬybertronian Jet, Microcassette deck, Cybertronian tank, General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Cybertronian Satellite, Blue SUV, Cassette tape, reconnaissance vehicle, stealth bomber, stealth aircraft Lieutenant, Communications Commander and Warrior Itaru Yamamoto ( Transformers: EarthSpark)Īction Master, Communications, Go-Bot, Targetmaster, spy bot, council member.Nobuhiko Okamoto ( Q Transformers: Mystery of Convoy).

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