Soundwave (Movie)

"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 film

 * 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.

Revenge of the Fallen game

 * Soundwave is a downloadable character avaliable in a download pack.


 * He is the only character able to have two drones active at the same time.


 * His primary weapon is a sound blaster that slows Transformers. His secondary weapon charges and fires a concentrated beam of sound. His vehicle mode weapon fires a thin beam of sound that slows. His vehicles mode is based off his deluxe toy vehicle mode. His special ability differs. In vehicle mode, he launches a Jammer Pod, that fires three shots upon enemies, while also always being on their radar. In robot mode, he launches an AOE Pod, which damages and slows enemies.

Dark of the Moon film
Soundwave meets with Megatron and Laserbeak in Africa and reports on the Autobots finding of The Ark and Sentinel Prime. Later, he acts as Carly Spencer's car and captures her on the orders of Dylan Gould to force Sam Witwicky to cooperate.

During the battle in Chicago, Soundwave captures four Autobots. However, Dylan orders them to get rid of the prisoners so Soundwave orders his troops to create trophies of the prisoners and so executes Que. He then lines up a shot to execute Bumblebee but Wheelie and Brains drop a Decepticon ship on his position, freeing Bumblebee. The Autobot scout takes advantage of the small slip of opportunity and punched Soundwave. The two warriors battled, with Bumblebee delivering the final blow by delivering an uppercut to Soundwave's torso, transforming his hand into his cannon, and shooting upwards, disintegrating Soundwave's head.

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 satellite mode.


 * His packaging says that his "Cannon converts to blade." However, he has a cannon on his back, which fires the Ravage-missle, and two blades on each hand. Those two are separated and are not much articulated nor removable. It is possible, that this line was supposed to be on Voyager class Ratchet's as Ratchet's right arm can be converted into a cannon, which can be unfolded into a blade, tough it's actually an axe.


 * Chara Hobby Black Soundwave (Deluxe, 2009)
 * Gathering at Nemesis (Figure multi-pack, 2009)
 * Soundwave came as a three pack with The Fallen and Megatron. Soundwave was the same mold, but with colors homage to G1 soundwave.


 * Soundwave (Legends, 2009)
 * This version of Soundwave transforms into a rather simplified version of his satellite mode that somewhat resembles an actual Earth satellite rather than the hunk of Cybertronian floatsam that he becomes in the movie. On a plus side though, this toy has alot of articulation for a Legends class and both he and his alt-mode can be placed in various different poses.


 * Battlefield Bumblebee Vs. Infiltration Soundwave (Deluxe 2-pack, 2010)

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. Not only does he speaks like Dr. Claw, he shares a relationship with Ravage like the relationship that Claw and MAD Cat shares. Frank Welker's Dr Claw voice can be modified through a vocoder to make him sound like G1 Soundwave.
 * A semi vocoder sound can be heard for about one second when he is telling the other Decepticons to mobilize. Though it is not exact, it does make his voice sound a little closer to his Generation One counterpart's voice.


 * In the Revenge of the Fallen videogame console versions, he instructs the player's Decepticon character in the Decepticon campaign.


 * 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.


 * According to some sources, in early concepts Soundwave could scan alt-modes for Decepticons from space; therefore, they wouldn't waste time to find themselves new bodies, but could rush into battle immediately after landing. This was, however, unused, maybe because movie makers would have to make several new Transformers instead of bunch of shapeless protoforms.


 * In ROTF, Soundwave stays in orbit in satellite mode above Earth for the whole film. He prefers to do his job rather than get shot at. He does however send his little pretties like Ravage to do his killing for him. And that counts for something right?
 * He apparently decended to the planet and took on the form of a car for the third film.


 * Soundwave's satellite mode is barely seen entirely, yet it is certain that the deluxe figure's satellite mode isn't even close as shown in the film.
 * However, several elements that are present in the toy can be seen in the movie if you look closely. Examples include the three wings/solar panel things and his curved blade\gun things.