Transformers soundwave minions names2/9/2024 ![]() ![]() Soundwave was neither of those things, instead very much marching to his own tune, no doubt played on himself. It's fair to say that the majority of Decepticons in most fiction fall into one of two categories: Loyal (and usually dumb) or self serving and out to overthrow the leader. ![]() However, it was in the British stories he really came into his own, with one of the most complicated and interesting personalities of any Decepticon, one that took full advantage of all the interesting details in his profile that other media wound up ignoring. Even if sadly he does suffer at the hands of that greatest of all Transformers nemeses, Bomber Bill. His American highlight was early on with The Next Best Thing to Being There!, which actually managed to be the basis of the bulk of his British appearances by showing him as the no-nonsense practical leader of his own small team that achieves its goal with a minimum of fuss. And god forbid you should get in his way, or he'll throw an angry robot chicken with cannons at your face." Soundwave manipulates the HELL out of everyone whilst carrying a bunch of minions in his chest and pretending to be loyal to Megatron. G1 Soundwave's here for three specific stories and them alone: Spotlight Soundwave, Spotlight Megatron and that one Earthforce comic with Wildrider. "Oh, sure, he does look cool, but that's not really much of a criteria to get here. In the American stories he was generally always sort of there, providing solid background support and muscle without doing very much, but still managing to be there from first issue to last (helped that by the time Bob Budiasnky finally wrote him out with a horrible death he was soon after replaced by Simon Furman who basically seemed to have not noticed Soundwave being killed off and just carried on featuring him in his support role). Over in the Marvel comics, Soundwave's qualities as a character varied depending on which side of the Atlantic you were on. So other than acknowledging how awesome his voice is, I now have to rather shiftily move on from the version of the character most of you probably voted for. It's impossible to deliver more than a couple of lines of dialogue in one go without it becoming monotonous and irritating, so the sacrifice Soundwave makes for sounding cool is him having no personality at all, unless you really start to reach (taciturn, possibly loyal as he never really objects to anything Megatron says, keeps to himself.). The problem is however, the voice works against any creation of a character. "Because his synthesized voice makes Arcee's robo-panties DROP" Easy to impersonate when in the playground and never equalled- even when they got Welker back for the films- it's easily the one thing everyone remembers about Soundwave after his toy. Cartoon Soundwave had, in a series with a generally fantastic soundscape anyway, a hugely memorable voice, easily the best fusion between voice actor and electronic processing since the original Dalek voices. One strange thing about Soundwave is that his most iconic (told you) and best remembered fictional portrayal is also the one there's the least to write about. That's why anyone who tries to take the piss out of Soundwave for having an anachronistic disguise should be told to jog on. Still, before we get into the nitty gritty on the original we should at least acknowledge there's a good reason he's so well remembered that has nothing to do with his character: His toy is awesome, iconic (that word will be coming up a lot) looking with a fantastic interactive gimmick that's hugely engaging for kids of all ages. To be honest, it's only the real fans who noticed Satellite Guy and Threatened That Jason Whatsists Girlfriend With His Tentacles guy were actually the same character in different forms. Whilst there is a Soundwave in the films him minimal role and drastically different alt modes mean people don't really associate him with Tape Guy from their childhoods. This says a lot as Megatron and Prime have had substantial roles in the films to refresh people's memories of them. cassettes hey, remember them? He'd probably be an MP3 player now wouldn't he lol" will usually be the third one they come up with behind Optimus Prime and Megatron. The word that comes up over and over again in the comments we received on this character, and with good reason, ask anyone who is at least vaguely aware of the original Transformers to name some characters from it and "That one who turned into a tape deck. ![]() I believe some good honest blackmail is in order." Percentage of vote: While scanning my fellows I discovered some juicy secrets. "Some further good has come from all this. ![]()
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