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 traitor loyal servant of Lord Megatron) from his battle against Landmine, 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)

Soundwave hacks into a government satellite by releasing metal tendrils from his body into it. He then acquires all the frequencies and signals from the satellite, thus discovering the location of the last Allspark 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. He isn't seen throughout the rest of the movie.

Toys



 * Soundwave (Deluxe, 2009)
 * Soundwave has two alt modes in addition to his humanoid mode: cybertronian jet and cybertronian sattellite, which makes him a triple changer. He has a firing projectile known as the "Ravage Missile". Much like his Animated counterpart he's quite short for even a deluxe class figure. Perhaps because of his role in the whole movie, he is becoming a benchwarmer.


 * Soundwave (Legends, 2010)
 * A Legends class version of the Deluxe Soundwave toy. It should be noted that it is not a triple changer, according to Hasbro.

Behind the scenes

 * 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.
 * Evidently, he was renamed Frenzy because they wanted to wait until they could "do him right" in the sequel. Because pale grey, non-transforming satellites just scream G1 Soundwave, as opposed to music players. Argh.

Trivia

 * No vocoder is used to simulate the Classic Soundwave voice for the movie, thus making him sound like Dr. Claw. This is corrected in the videogames.
 * Soundwave stays in orbit above Earth, in satellite mode, for the whole movie. 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 is not seen again for the rest of the movie after his scene, nor is he present in the battle. But both his leader and his peer survived, implying a greater possible future role.
 * 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.
 * 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. The fact that he is talking in the depths of space is questionable, but he is either A) broadcasting or B) loves the sound of his own voice. And wouldn't you?
 * To hack into the satellite, he deploys numerous mechanical tentacles, which eject what looks like white gooey gelly inside the machine, um, very disturbing.