Soundwave (Movie)






 * Soundwave is a Decepticon from the live-action movie continuity family.

"Decepticons, mobilize. It is time."

- Soundwave above Earth's atmosphere, mobilizing the Decepticons

Alliance


Soundwave arrives on Mars to find Dreadwing the traitor is dead. He calls in Starscream (The other "loyal" servant of Lord Megatron) from his battle against Wreckage, the humans, and Bumblebee. He won. Soundwave's name isn't revealed until the end with unknown Transformers heading towards Earth and saying more are on his ship. The ship crashed on Mars, leaving many Decepticons living there under the will of Starscream.

Revenge of the Fallen

 * Voice actor: Frank Welker (English, Italian)



Soundwave hacks into a satellite by merging with it via tentacles. He acquires all the frequencies and signals from the satellite, thus discovering the location of the last All Spark fragment and Megatron's corpse. Upon finding out, he sends Ravage to retrieve it. Then he uses the satellite to keep track of the Allspark empowered flesh creature and its parental units. He calls Sam's female batch initiator on her cellphone. She answers but cannot understand Soundwave's deep voice, so she calls him a mouth-breathing pervert and hangs up. Later, he locates Sam in Egypt via a security camera which transmitted the face to the satellite and Starscream is sent in pursuit.

Toys



 * Soundwave (Deluxe, 2009)
 * Soundwave has two alt modes in addition to his humanoid mode: Cybertronian jet and satellite, which makes him a triple changer. He has a firing projectile known as the "Ravage Missile". Much like his Transformers Animated counterpart, he's quite short for even a Deluxe class figure. He has two heads.One for humanoid mode and one for satelite mode.


 * Soundwave (Legends, 2009)

Trivia

 * Soundwave was originally supposed to feature in Transformers: he fulfilled both Barricade and Frenzy's roles, hacking into the CIA headquarters as a portable stereo, then morphed into a Humvee to track down Sam Witwicky. Michael Bay's decision to minimalize the amount of morphing in the film resulted in a change to a helicopter who openly attacks the army. Soundwave and Ravage were changed to Blackout and Scorponok as the film's location was changed from a jungle to a desert. Hasbro had also insisted on Soundwave having a musical mode, so he was changed to the character eventually known as Frenzy, to the extent that he had to be renamed.


 * No vocoder is used to simulate his Generation One counterpart voice for the film, thus making him sound like Dr. Claw. This is corrected in the Revenge of the Fallen games.


 * Soundwave's mouth, or at least his faceplate, moves when he speaks and, insect-like mandibles are visible beneath his faceplate, similar to Frenzy's.


 * To hack into the satellite, he deploys numerous mechanical tentacles, which eject what looks like white gooey jelly inside the machine, um, very disturbing.