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*According to some sources, in early concepts Soundwave could [[scanning|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.{{fact|August, 2009}}
 
*According to some sources, in early concepts Soundwave could [[scanning|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.{{fact|August, 2009}}
   
*In ''Revenge of the Fallen'', Soundwave stays in orbit in satellite mode above Earth for the whole film. He does [[Image:rotf-soundwave-face.jpg|thumb|150px]]however send his minions, such as Ravage, to do killing for him.
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*In ''Revenge of the Fallen'', Soundwave stays in orbit in satellite mode above Earth for the whole film. He does [[File:375px-Rotf_soundwave_satellite_mode.jpg|195px]]however send his minions, such as Ravage, to do killing for him.
   
 
* 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.<!-- Well, guess, that TFA's Megs knows how Soundwave feels.-->
 
* 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.<!-- Well, guess, that TFA's Megs knows how Soundwave feels.-->

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The name or term Soundwave refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Soundwave (disambiguation).



"Decepticons, mobilize. It is time."
―Soundwave above Earth's atmosphere, mobilizing the Decepticons[[Revenge of the Fallen| [src]]]


"No prisoners, only trophies."
―Soundwave orders the execution of the captive Autobots.[[Dark of the Moon| [src]]]


Fiction

Alliance

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Not the same guy, we swear.

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)
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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 sends 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

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 disguises himself as Carly Spencer's car and captures her on the orders of Dylan Gould to force Sam Witwicky to cooperate.

Soundwave

the closet you will ever get to a picture of his face from the movie.... at least for now.

During the battle in Chicago, Soundwave captures four Autobots.

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Soundwave and Laserbeak concept art

However, Dylan appeals to Soundwave's violent side, persuading the Decepticons to get kill the prisoners so Soundwave orders one of 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 the largest Decepticon ship into a river, freeing Bumblebee. The Autobot scout takes advantage of the small slip of opportunity and punched Soundwave. The two warriors battled. Soundwave was unable to get ahold of Bumblebee, who was swifter and faster, but managed to grab him from behind and throw him down, giving him time to line up a shot. His attack missed, and the battle fell out of his favor, with Bumblebee giving the Decepticon punk a blast to the leg. Soundwave lunged forward and struck the Autobot, but Bumblebee retaliated with a fatal blow, by delivering an uppercut to Soundwave's torso, transforming his hand into his cannon, and shooting upwards, disintegrating Soundwave's head. Soundwave died immediately... Bet he wishes he was still a satellite. Dark of the Moon

Dark of the Moon game

Chapter 4

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After an order from Megatron, Soundwave descends to planet Earth and takes the disguise of a white 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

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Where are my other minions?

  • 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)
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Soundwave didn't go on the diet like the rest of the Deceptions did.

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 (MechTech, 2011)
This is an all new Deluxe mould of Soundwave, he now turns into the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG sports car.
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.

Notes

  • 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.[1]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.[2][3] 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.[August, 2009]
  • 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.
    • His satellite mode is more easily seen in the Dark of the Moon game. There it is revealed that, despite being smaller and less advanced, the legends class toy is able to assume a closer approximation to the film satellite than the deluxe toy. However, it requires you to place the toy in a different formation than the instructions indicate.
  • In the Dark of the Moon game, Soundwave turns into a supped up SUV instead of the Mercedes in the film. How he got his game form is unknown.
  • In Dark of the Moon, Soundwave has a mouth, and teeth.
  • Soundwave is one of the few Decepticon troops capable of sustained flight that chooses to remain a landlocked car. Megatron opted to do the same with his truck form. This was likely to avoid detection.
  • Soundwave was an abysmal fighter. While Bumblebee was in motion he was unable to accurately shoot him, and he was killed despite having a three on one advantage over the Autobot scout. He should have spent less time in orbit and more time on a firing range.
    • However, his lack of accuracy could be due to the fact that he was blind shooting as Bumble had previously punched him directly in the face. Also his numerical advantage is canceled out as the other Autobots free themselves.

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