Welcome to Trans Theory, the show where we talk about everything Transformers I'm Jason and we're going to be talking about the various minions of Soundwave. So in the original Transformers G1 cartoon show, Soundwave had many minions. Most famously, ravaged laser-be-grapat rumble and frenzy. Not all these guys made it into Bay formers, but they got replaced by some amazing bots. So in the first Transformers movie, the first minion that we saw was frenzy. Now a lot of new goers of the series and even myself at one point thought that frenzy was barricades minion because Soundwave was nowhere to be seen. But actually frenzy belongs to Soundwave and fun fact, Soundwave was planned to be in the Transformers 1 movie but they did not know how to execute his character properly, so he wants to add a distant cousin of his into the film. Unlike the other minions that are going to be on this list, frenzy had the most screen time and to me he had the most character. His main weapons of choice were his blasters, his blades that he used to download data from Air Force 1 and his CD discs that he could shoot out of his chest and he most likely acquired these weapons when he scanned his alternate mode, a GPX boom box. And frenzy's main point of the film was to help Barricade locate the Allspark Shard and Megatron with it. Also at one point the film frenzy got to capitate and he could still live while later in the film frenzy found himself face to face with the Allspark cube. Even if meeting the Allspark, the Allspark gave frenzy his body back, but later when frenzy was trying to kill some humans, he overshadowed one of his CDs which caused the ricochet back at his face killing him, with led to a fun cameo and revenge of the phone. The next minion that we see is in Transformers of End of the Fallen and it's ravage. Now ravage was a very interesting character because he was a vessel for two different characters but we'll get to that later. So ravage into film was sent by Soundwave to retrieve the Allspark Shard and I was ravage his main point of the film. Even once he retrieved the Allspark Shard, he won't have some of the constructa cons or a rather leader. Ravage's weapons of choice were his blasters that were on his hips, which resemble a lot of his G1 counterpart. Also besides trying to get the Allspark Shard, he also tried to help Skip Jack take down Bombi and when he was killed by B, he left his green gawk behind, which I like to call Nickelodeon Gak. Now we really know where Nick gets their gak from. And sadly ravage's carcass was used as a whip to slap Skip Jack. And while riding this script, they watched the full scene of Bombi vs Skip Jack and ravage. And Sam says something very odd. I hope you guys get to explain it for me. Now next minion that we see is also an Avenger to phone and it's the micro cons. Now it's not stated that the micro cons are Soundwave's minions but because they came out of ravage and ravage came out of Soundwave, we can say that they are most likely Soundwave's minions. Not just known about these little guys, but what we do know is they all share the same body type and their alternate mode is a ball bearing. But the main thing we know about these guys is that they can all combine to form the intimidating readman. Now readman may not have any weapons but he can angle himself in such a way that can make him transparent. And he can slice through a full human in military armor with ease. And basically after a few more shots of ravage, he was never seen again. He didn't even get killed. He's probably right behind you as you watch this exact video. Next minion that we see is also an Avenger to phone and it's Scapple. Or what a lot of fans like to call him, the doctor. Now he's a very interesting character because like the micro cons, he also came out of ravage which means he's related to Soundwave. Also, Scapple had a very distinct design because he looked like a spider. And for you guys who care about alternate modes, his alternate mode is, and, Ayo, 603 lens meter. And this will be important later. Now Scapple does not have any weapons that would hurt Autobots but he does have a few that would hurt humans. One, his legs of course because they are like sharp little knives. And two, what looks like to be a little saw blade that comes out from his back. But besides these weapons, Scapple had some counter parts that could be also Soundwave's minions. And if you know the names of these guys, please tell me. But for now, the placeholder name is going to be Incepticon. Now on our last note, you may have seen Scapple in Darkethamune, but there was definitely more than just one Scapple. In a quoted TF-Wiki, all these Scapples are called lens meter drones. And he all shared the exact same robot mode and alternate mode as Scapple. But it's unclear if the main Scapple was among them. Now moving on to our next minion that was featured in Darkethamune, and by far the most creepiest, laser beak. Now laser beak can be connected to Soundwave because he is seen on Soundwave in the African scene and not to mention he's on his arm. Now in my book, laser beak by far is the best out of the bunch. And he was also like a spy. His weapons of choice were two blasters like his G1 counterpart, but they're under his wings. While the G1 has him, over his wings. Now what's very interesting about laser beak is he's the first quadruple changer I've ever seen in the Transformers cinematic universe. He can transform into a total television, a canon color image class, MF244DW, wireless laser printer, a wonder why to have laser in the name, a bang and oafusion, VO soundboard 900, and lastly somehow he transforms into a pink bonebeam. And of him turning into all these things that have different colors, is where in the world does he get all this pink from, because all the scenes that we see him in, he is gray. And it does not make no sense that how he can transform into pink and even turn into a bonebeam of tires on his back. And sadly by the end of the film, laser beak was somehow killed by Sam out of all people. Well that's all for this video. I hope you learned something new about the Transformers cinematic universe. As always if you need a Trans-Series, don't forget to subscribe to join the theorist nation. Welp, this has been Trans-Series, signing off.