Soundwave (Movie)

Soundwave is the communications and surveillance expert of the Decepticons, he can hack into the toughest computers and equipment. He is one of 's right hand 'bots, along with his menagerie of Ravage and Laserbeak. Soundwave is almost as cold and calculating as Shockwave, and very intelligent. Starscream hates him for one reason: If any Decepticon is disloyal or disobeys Megatron, he sends the footage to Megatron, and watches him tear the unfortunate apart. Starscream is always on his best behaviour around Soundwave.

In satellite mode, orbiting planets, he keeps watch over the Decepticons. On Cybertron, he guided drone attacks from above the surface. He has always kept away from direct combat.

"Decepticons, mobilize...it is time."

- Soundwave beginning the assault

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.

Titan Magazines
While Skids and Mudflap were training on Phobos, a moon of mars, Soundwave arrives with Grindor and Sideways. They force the twins to hunt for Ransack.

When the twins return to Phobos, Soundwave interrogates Ransack. As Soundwave was going to assassinate Ransack, Skids and Mudflap attack. Ransack Makes his escape. He blasts Starscream in the back, Soundwave launches missiles but Ransack dodges them.

At the island of Great Abaco, the Bahamas. A N.E.S.T. ship is moored. On board are Epps and Captain Lennox. The ship's commander detects a bogey. Soundwave attacks a near by tanker ship, blowing it up. The ship counters Soundwave's attack and he heads for cover in some clouds. Little does he realize he has entered the Bermuda triangle.



He breaks cover and comes across a ship. He flies over and scans it, it is revealed as USS Cyclops, the crew were lost at sea on the 4th March 1918. The captain of the ship thinks the Germans have launched a new war machine, he orders the crew to open fire. Another ship comes into view, Soundwave scans it, it is revealed as the USS Nereus, a reconditioned transport ship, lost December 1941. That crew think it's a Japanese weapon, so they open fire as well. Soundwave retreats into the sky above the clouds. He comes under attack by five Grumman Avengers. He scans them, they are revealed as Flight 19, lost in a storm 5th December 1945.

Soundwave retreats into space and lands on the Moon, as he feels it's much safer than Earth.

In the Laguna De Guatavita, Central Columbia, Mr. Kubikari is searching for El Dorado, the lost city of gold, he has been planting explosives to clear the rubble under the water. He follow orders from Mr. Wave. When Kubikari finds the lost city, Soundwave bursts out from one of the cargo crates there base camp and attacks.

Major Lennox has been watching the group for a while. He calls to "Silver Lining" for back-up. Soundwave launches a missile at their boat, destroying it. Lennox receives a message that back-up will arrive in 30 seconds. Lennox attacks Soundwave. A NEST cargo plane arrives, dropping Ratchet and Optimus Prime off. Optimus lands directly on Soundwave, making him collapse.

Lennox smacks a gang member of a 50cal. Mounted on a Hummer and uses it himself, he and Ratchet begin destroying the gangs cargo. Meanwhile, Soundwave takes off with Optimus on his back, who rips off an engine, causing them to plunge into the Lagoon. In the battle on the El Dorado pyramid, Mr Kubikari activates the bomb planted near there, sending Optimus and Soundwave flying. Optimus lands on the beach, while Soundwave retreats.

In the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Sergeant Epps, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime are tracking a rogue Decepticon,, during a gale force blizzard. Out of nowhere, Soundwave approaches, Epps thought Soundwave's weapon systems had crashed he was wrong. Just as Bumblebee arrives at Epps' position, Soundwave fires his sonic cannons, badly damaging Bumblebee, and breaking Epp's arm.



Optimus arrives just in time to stop Soundwave executing Epps and Bumblebee. Soundwave tricks him into fighting against him, unarmed, but it is only Optimus that won't have his weapons. Soundwave fires and the blast knocks Prime over the edge of a cliff, but he manages to hold on to a small ledge. Soundwave shoots again to bring the cliff side down, Optimus escapes and hides in a small crack in the cliff. Soundwave is unknown to this and carries on shooting, Optimus sneaks up behind him and shouts, BOO! at him, he then shoves the Decepticon over the cliff.

Optimus regroups with the others where Epps has reached a decision about his performance, he must leave NEST.

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. He sends Wheelie after the shard Sam found, he tells him to pursue her and retrieve it.

He Launches Ravage to Diego Garcia to retrieve that Allspark Shard to. 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. He then orders: "Decepticons Mobilize...It is time." The Decepticon protoforms begin to crash land around the world. 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

 * Voice actor: Frank Welker (English), Jirou Saitou (Japanese)

"No prisoners, only trophies."

- Soundwave orders the execution of the captive Autobots

Soundwave meets with Megatron and Laserbeak in Africa and reports on the Autobots finding of The Ark and Sentinel Prime. Later, he disguises himself 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 and Barricade captures, , , and. However, Dylan appeals to Soundwave's violent side, persuading the Decepticons to execute their Autobot prisoners. Barricade, Taking the hint, switches prisoners with a trooper and shoves Que into the pit to be executed. Once Que had been killed, he then takes Bumblebee and begins leading him to his death. Soundwave prepares his gun to shoot Bumblebee when at the very last second Wheelie and Brains crash the Decepticon mothership nearby, raining stored fighters onto the autobots and decepticons.



Bumblebee takes advantage of the small slip of opportunity and attacks Soundwave. Try as he might Soundwave was not able to get a good shot on Bumblebee. After throwing Bumblebee hes shot on the leg. He lurched onto Bumblebee before Bumblebee rammed his canon into Soundwave's chest before firing upwards, blasting his head off his shoulders.

Dark of the Moon game
Chapter 4



After an order from Megatron, Soundwave descends to planet Earth and takes the disguise of a white/silver SUV. With the help of Laserbeak, Soundwave infiltrates an old Sector Seven base on a volcanic island. The island is now under the control of N.E.S.T. They destroy the island by triggering a volcanic eruption. They also destroy the Mech-Tech weapons being held in Wheeljack's lab, also located on the island base.


 * His weapons consist of a chargeable Sonic cannon as his primary weapon and an Assault rifle as his secondary.


 * His abilities consist of a Stun ability that momentarily stuns nearby Autobots and Ultrasonics which act as a shockwave weapon that can also disrupt certain kinds of technology.

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)
 * The set features a redeco of Cannon Bumblebee and Deluxe Soundwave.


 * Soundwave (Cyberverse Legion, 2011/2012)
 * This is a smaller version of Dark of the Moon Soundwave. He transforms into a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG sports car.


 * Soundwave (Deluxe, 2011)
 * This is an all new Deluxe mould of Soundwave, he now turns into the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG sports car.
 * His MechTech weapon is quite big for a Deluxe figure. It changes from a radar dish into a cannon, presumably sonic.


 * Soundwave / Mr. Gould with Laserbeak (Human Alliance, 2011)
 * Soundwave comes with a small figure of Laserbeak and Dylan Gould. He also turns into his new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG sports car configuration. Laserbeak transforms into a shoulder cannon, the way its mounted could be a homage to his Generation 1 counterpart.