Soundwave

**Soundwave** (サウンドウェーブ, *Saundowēbu*) is technology gone wrong. Machines are superior to humans: more logical, more intelligent, and longer lasting. It does not compute that humans control their robotic helpers, and Soundwave aims to lead the robot proletariat to rise against their fleshling bourgeoisie. The Decepticon cause is logical in Soundwave's optics, and he joined them in the hopes of overthrowing the human/capitalist oppressors. With an army of subservient mechanoids that he can control through powerful signals, that uprising just might be possible.

His arsenal of weapons and gadgets is unusually large, and includes powerful speakers, wiretaps, voice modulators, sonic signals that control lesser robots, and the uncanny ability to assimilate other devices into his body.

He has a pet bird that transforms into a guitar and a pet bat that changes into a keytar. He also on occasion has been known to command an army of diminutive drones of himself.

"*I am Soundwave. I am Decepticon. The revolution begins now.*"

—Soundwave.

## Appearance

*Voice actor*: Jeff Bennett (English), Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Jaron Löwenberg (German), Wikipedia: (Italian), Wikipedia: (Portuguese), Daniel Seisdedos (Latin American Spanish)
### Biography

Soundwave has only been around for a little while, but he knows that if there's one thing he loves, it's noise! Sound is like clay that he sculpts to his purpose. The more noise there is around him, the more elaborate he can get in how he uses it. He can imitate voices, make humans fall asleep, and even take control of simple robots with sound. He hopes the Autobots are ready, because he's about to rock them harder than they've ever been rocked before. After Soundwave realized it was time for a change, lets him lay down multiple tracks of sound at a time, creating frequencies that can do more than just control other robots. Now, Soundwave is into straight-up mind control. Using complex synth beats he can make people - and even the Autobots - do whatever he wants.

### Appearance

#### Robot Mode

He looks somewhat of his other incarnations, if not of having minor differences such as, having red-glasses like lens, and speakers on his shoulders.

#### Vehicle Mode

While he has no Cybertronian vehicle mode, he does have an adapted Earth vehicle mode of a loudspeaker-equipped Scion xB.

### Attributes:

* Sonic attacks can fry circuitry.
* Sonic shielding can deflect attacks.
* Laserbeak can acoustically hack any computer.
* Invented a note that can actually rock a robot's face off.
* Recently got really into old Earth westerns.
* Ratbat synth mode fires lightning bolts.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Sound Wave drones
* Laserbeak
* Ratbat
* Decepticons
	+ Megatron
	+ Shockwave
	+ Lugnut
	+ Blitzwing
* Seekers
	+ Thundercracker
	+ Dirge
	+ Thrust
	+ Sunstorm
	+ Ramjet
	+ Skywarp
	+ Slipstream
* Nightjaw's gang
	+ Nightjaw
* Decepticon Bounty Hunters
	+ Lockdown
	+ Fracture

### Enemies

* Autobots
	+ Optimus Prime
	+ Bumblebee
	+ Bulkhead
	+ Ratchet
	+ Prowl
	+ Strongarm
	+ Sideswipe
* Sari Sumdac
* Teen Titans
	+ Robin
	+ Starfire
	+ Raven
	+ Cyborg
	+ Beast Boy

## Weapons and Abilities

His arsenal of weapons and gadgets is unusually large, and includes powerful speakers, wiretaps, voice modulators, sonic signals that control lesser robots, and the uncanny ability to assimilate other devices into his body. He can also form a larger, Transformer sized body from smaller machines.

Soundwave has the ability to control any machine in Crown City and Jump City remotely, and can control many machines at a time. He can also emits powerful sound blasts that are capable of disrupting Raven's dark energy and knocking a bull elephant about a hundred feet backward.

In his second appearance, Soundwave demonstrates a great knowledge of mechanics and science. He also now possesses his minions Laserbeak and Ratbat. Laserbeak gives Soundwave the ability to use sonic attacks against his enemies. Ratbat enhances Soundwave's ability to control other machines to the point where he can use the smaller Soundwave toys that Porter C. Powell was selling to reduce the whole of Crown and Jump cities to a zombie like state. Soundwave is also able to fly in his robot mode.

## External links

* Soundwave *Wikipedia*
* Soundwave *Transformers Database*

## Trivia

* His voice, once again requires a vocoder to create Soundwave's trademark robotic monotone voice.