Shockwave
Cold logic without any emotion. Held Cybertron for millions of years while the others fought on Earth.
Where he comes from
Cybertron. A scientist who, in several versions, was once a respected senator or researcher.
Story
Shockwave is cold logic incarnate. He does not want a crown or scheme for himself; he does what he believes is rationally correct. That is what makes him so frightening: any sacrifice is justified if the numbers add up.
In the classic story Shockwave holds devastated Cybertron for millions of years while others fight on Earth. In Transformers: Prime he creates new life forms, and in Dark of the Moon he commands a giant drilling worm.
Classifier: traits & abilities
- Faction
- Decepticons
- Role
- Chief scientist, military commander of Cybertron
- Alt-modes
- Laser gun (G1), Cybertronian tank, spacecraft
- Weapons
- Arm cannon; a controlled Driller worm in the film
- Abilities
- Scientific genius, cloning and mutation, strategic planning
- Strengths
- Logic, patience, devotion to the goal
- Weaknesses
- No empathy, blind faith in calculation
- Personality
- Dispassionate, methodical, ruthless
- Key relationships
- Megatron, Starscream
- First appearance
- 1984
- Voice (G1)
- Corey Burton
Filmography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1984–1987 | The Transformers (G1) |
| 1986 | The Transformers: The Movie |
| 2007–2009 | Transformers: Animated |
| 2010–2013 | Transformers: Prime |
| 2011 | Dark of the Moon |
Main screen appearances; not an exhaustive list.
Fan prequel: «An Equation Without Variables»
An original story by this site. Not part of the official canon.
Once Shockwave had a face. And feelings: he laughed during lectures, argued with colleagues, grieved when experiments failed.
Then the Senate gave him a project meant to "optimise" the worker castes. Hundreds died during the trials. The scientist went months without rest, recalculating, and every time the answer was the same: had he not hesitated, there would have been fewer victims.
So he made a decision: remove the variable that got in the way. The next day Shockwave came to the lab with a single optic where his face had been, and never hesitated again. Colleagues said he had changed. He replied that he had become more precise.
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