Shockwave

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**Shockwave** is a Cybertronian Transformer, and member of the Decepticons.

## Biography

600,000 years ago, Shockwave foresaw the end of Cybertron, exhausted of its natural resources and decided to do something. Initiating a program he called Regenesis, Shockwave began to stockpile raw energon then refined and distilled it into an elemental catalyst. Loaded into warheads, they were launched into space, targeted at planets with a specific geological profile and then seeded. Shockwave told no one of his plans, knowing they would be ignored while Cybertron was in the midst of civil war. The seeded energon had to be regulated to ensure that the reaction did not spiral out of control. Shockwave knew that Megatron would accuse him of being a traitor, but such notions did not concern him. He knew that control of resources would be paramount in the war to come.

Shockwave was dispatched to tidy up after the Dynobots raided an energon silo in Sub-Sector-Nine. Analyzing the situation logically, he decided that the best course of action was to destroy the energon cache, which resulted in serious injuries to the Dynobots.

One of the planets that Shockwave seeded with energon was Earth. 10,000 years ago, Shockwave visited the planet to deploy global dampers to regulate the geological reaction and settle the new ore streams into an inert state. With his task down, Shockwave attempted to signal his ship, only to find out it was not responding. As he calculated what had happened to the ship, he was attacked by the Dynobots who had reformatted themselves to have beast modes covered in synthetic flesh in order to avoid stasis lock on the energon-rich planet.

The ensuing battle went badly for Shockwave until he realized that the Dynobot's assault was purely out of revenge for the humiliation they had suffered in his attack. With his logic centers threatening to break, Shockwave shut down his higher functions and allowed a primal subroutine that replicated rage to take over. Under this new directive, Shockwave brutually beat the Dynobots into submission, stripping away the protection afforded to them by their synthetic flesh. Restoring his status quo, Shockwave allowed himself to feel satisfaction as the Dynobots succumbed to stasis lock.

Shockwave planned to take the Dynobot's ship to leave the planet, but was unprepared for Grimlock's final gambit. He had set the Dynobot's ship to automatically fire on the planet which triggered a volcano. The resulting lava flow buried Shockwave and the Dynobots.

Shockwave's absence was noted by Megatron, who assigned Bludgeon to look into the scientist's projects to find out what he was working on.

In 2006 in Eureka, Nevada, Shockwave was excavated by an archaeological team led by Professor Goring.

## Appearances

* *The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye 9* (In flashback(s))
* *The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye 10* (In flashback(s))
* *The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye 11* (In flashback(s))
* *The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye 14* (In flashback(s))
* *The Transformers: Spotlight – Shockwave* (First appearance)

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 *The Transformers: Spotlight – Shockwave*
2. ↑ *Revolutionaries #1* dates the events of Shockwave seeding Regenesis across the galaxy at 600,000 years ago.
3. ↑ *Revolutionaries #1* dates the events of Shockwave battling the Dynobots on Earth at 10,000 years ago.