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SOUNDWAVE
Allegiance: Decepticon "Cries and Screams are First Cartoon Appearance:
First Appearance:
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| Profile: It's said
that Soundwave can hear a fly sneeze. It's also said that beneath his
smooth-talking, affable surface beats the generator coil of a blackmailer. Those who know these
facts about him are careful about what they say within
earshot of him. Soundwave is the ultimate opportunist &
will use anything he can
to advance his status in the eyes of Megatron. He doesn't
worry about what others think of him because he knows he's nearly indispensable. Although they all despise him, other Decepticons pretend to like him rather than get
on his bad side. As Rumble explains, "Soundwave always has the last
laugh."
Abilities: Soundwave's sensors can detect radio transmissions of the lowest energy levels. He can even "read minds" by monitoring the electrical impulses inside someone's brain circuitry, if he's standing nearby. He serves as the Decepticons' communications relay station -he can keep them all in radio contact with each other within a radius of 100 miles. His photographic memory is due to the immense information storage capacity of the magnetic disks in his chest. He carries a high amplification directional radio-wave sensor and a concussion blaster gun. He also has great physical strength. Weaknesses: Soundwave sometimes gets overconfident about his value to the others. At times his hateful personality has resulted in retaliation from them, or worse yet, his abandonment during battle with the Autobots. So far, Soundwave has not only survived these incidents, but has seen to it that his betrayers pay for their actions. |
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| Other Appearances: Soundwave returned in Action Master form in 1990. He also took form in the Machine Wars toy line of 1997. And apparently, will also return in 2004 part of the TF: Universe toy line. In his original form, it was hard to miss seeing Soundwave as Transmetal (1) Megatron flew over him before enacting his Agenda in the season 2 finale episode! What a great scene and moment of Transformers history! |  |
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| There is also a Beast
Wars Mutant, part of the Beast Machines 2000 toy line named
Soundwave. But based on the personality described in the tech spec, he seems
like a different individual to me.
TF trivia: Who is Soundwave shaking his fist at? in this scene shown to the right? Did you know that Frank Welker, the voice of Megatron, also was responsible for the voice of Soundwave! Cool, huh! |
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Buzzsaw, shown to the left.
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| Buzzsaw Abilities:
Buzzsaw Weaknesses: ...coming soon... |
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Another piece of Soundwave trivia: Did you ever notice that his guns collapse to foms that are intended to look just like batteries?? "WHY?" you ask! Well, one cool thing never explained in the toy's instructions, is that in casette-player mode, you can take the cover panel off the back and store his gun/batteries there (yes, even w/ cover on)! Just like a real tape player. Cool, huh! I never knew this until years later someone showed me this trick at Botcon...! |
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You can also get a great idea of what he might have looked like if further
animated in Beast Wars/Machines thanks to the 3D renderings by 3D artists:
glmatrix@unicron.com. provides these pics: PIC
1/ (smaller) PIC2.
And Defiant@unicron.com provides these sweet pictures! |
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