![]() One of Soundwave's most notable misadventures came in 1985, 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. Immediately after the Transformers awakened on Earth in 1984, Soundwave played an essential role in the generation of energon cubes and the formation of plans for a new space cruiser to return the Decepticons to Cybertron. Joining in Megatron's attack on the Autobots' craft (known as the Ark in the Marvel comics series at the time), Soundwave fell to the same fate as the rest of the ship's occupants when the craft crashed on prehistoric Earth, entombing everyone within in stasis. On Cybertron, he used his ability to transform into a roadside fixture 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-his most prominent role in Transformers fiction-Soundwave was Megatron's right-hand robot, frequently sent on important reconnaissance missions with his cassettes, and often playing a key role in many schemes against the Autobots. So far, Soundwave has not only survived these incidents, but has seen to it that his betrayers pay for their actions. At times his hateful personality has resulted in retaliation from them, or worse yet, his abandonment during battle with the Autobots. Weaknesses: Soundwave sometimes gets overconfident about his value to the others. He carries a high-amplification directional radiowave sensor and a concussion blaster-gun. His photographic memory is due to the immense information storage capacity of the magnetic disks in his chest. He serves as the Decepticons' communications relay station - he can keep them all in radio contact with each other within a radius of 100 miles. He can even "read minds" by monitoring the electrical impulses inside someone's brain circuitry, if he's standing nearby. As Rumble explains, "Soundwave always has the last laugh."Ībilities: Soundwave's sensors can detect radio transmissions of the lowest energy levels. ![]() Although they all despise him, the other Decepticons pretend to like him rather than get on his bad side. He doesn't worry about what others think of him because he knows he is nearly indispensable. Soundwave is the ultimate opportunist and will use anything he can to advance his status in the eyes of the Decepticon Leader Megatron. Those who know these two facts about him are very careful about what they say within earshot of him. It is also said that beneath his smooth-talking, affable surface beats the generator coil of a blackmailer. Profile: It is said that Soundwave can hear a fly sneeze. 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 the 8th top Transformers figure of all time. In the IDW comics, on pre-war Cybertron Soundwave functioned as personal assistant to Ratbat, who was a Senator at the time, however Soundwave's true loyalty lay 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. When his cassette Ratbat became leader of the Decepticons in the Marvel comics series, Soundwave fully shifted his trademark loyalty from Megatron to him. He had an alternate mode - a microcassette recorder - and possessed a distinctive monotone, computerized voice. ![]() Soundwave is one of the most recognizable characters from the original Transformers line. ![]()
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