Shockwave Origins - The Calculative Evil Decepticon Scientist Is Megatron's Most Ruthless Assassin!

model aren't you maybe it's time to retire shockwave origins it's all about the deadly decepticon scientists there have been many exciting and notable decepticons in the transformers movies over the years but shockwave is definitely one who stands out among the others in japan he is also known as laser aware he is a decepticon distinguished by two characteristics cognitivity he wields the pure logic that can be assumed of a machine devoid of feelings and articulates all of his strategies through his calculations physiologically the only facial structure he possesses is an eye across the front of his face with no nose or mouth shockwave has no earth machine form but instead morphs into a cybertronian gun before we go into our explanation we have a very small request if you like our content please support us by subscribing to our channel this is a small click for you but for us it means a lot thank you let's begin transformers dark of the moon the true evil of shockwave unraveled shockwave was a brilliant decepticon scientist with lethal efficiency and one of the transformers dark of the moon's three secondary adversaries he was coldly devoted to logic he was also one of the toughest decepticon assassins megatron possessed some said he was the only decepticon capable of defeating megatron in a fight shockwave is a fighting machine like no other one of the few who can compete with megatron and is well liked among the decepticons some revere him enough to work with him gladly while others revere him to the extent of exacting revenge for his death shockwave and his companion driller ambushed the autobots when they were called to the channel nuclear power plant by the general council for the ukraine department of energy alexey voskard this was a deception to keep the autobots from realizing that the decepticons intended them to find the ark's fuel cell within chernobyl shockwave emerged from the fuel cell after optimus had recovered it from the driller before he and his pet driller disappeared below later shockwave took part in the decepticon assault of chicago shockwave and his driller appeared from beneath the caravan of waterbots as optimus prime along with the other autobots and invaded the decepticon occupied city and the driller severed optimus from his trailer shockwave abandoned the driller and went in search of the autobots the wreckers a bunch of autobots that can morph into battle cars were ordered to distract him by pelting his armor with machine gun fire he fired at them while using a car as a shield and as they drove away he menacingly proceeded to chase them down the street missing wheelie and brains two little autobots that escaped swiftly after shockwave afterwards ordered his driller to destroy the building and murder sam our protagonist epps a chief master sergeant in the united states air force and their entire group after noticing people within due to a falling desk that almost missed him however optimus prime killed the driller with his flight equipment and shockwave outraged by the murder of his pet unleashed fire on optimus temporarily paralyzing him and putting him out of action he then proceeded to unite with shockwave and barricade two other decepticons in rounding up the remaining autobots by taking possession of a decepticon gunship and deploying fighters onto the battlefield brains and wheelie prevented the decepticons from further slaughtering their victims shockwave barricade and other decepticons fled further away however the human troops had prepared a trap for shockwave and while shooting at them one of the parachutes crashed on him his vision was then blasted out dangling by its cords optimus prime immediately charged back into the fight and as shockwave shot at him the autobot commander evaded the shot and hit shockwave in the abdomen smashing it even this did not stop shockwave but prime would not relent punching him again pinning the decepticon down and ripping his hanging wires out from his throat killing shockwave optimus then chuck wave's gun to destroy the city's control pillar eventually eliminating in an autobot win shockwave in other transformers movies before the events that occurred in the dark of the moon movie shockwave was captured on film in transformers revenge of the fallen sometime during 2009 and the occurrence was written up for a newspaper story a newspaper sheet with a heading mysterious robot spotted was thrown away in egypt and swallowed up by a rampaging devastator shockwave was designated as dead by the cia task group cemetery wind five years after the events of chicago in transformers age of extinction in this latest installment we can also see that its design was discovered in chicago and was used by ksi to produce the two head prototype as evident from the name with two heads instead of one he had also obtained a new alt mode a chevrolet tracks this was duplicated three times by ksi it is later employed by galvatron a resurrection of megatron to combat the autobots the first is murdered by the hound the next by optimus prime who used the lockdown explosive in hong kong and the location of the third is unknown he is said to have fled and gone into hiding in transformers the last knight it is revealed that shockwave participated in a war in the 1560s and his adventures were documented in a painting he later fought in world war one in about 1917 and his silly rat was featured on a war banner the order of the whitwe cans kept both of these incidents hidden quaithe presumably did not know of megatron's entry on earth in 1883 or that megatron had discovered the whereabouts of the old spark or that megatron had fallen into the snow and frozen there while searching for the old spark as a result following world war one shockwave opted to stay on earth and not look for megatron and all spark at all until he received any new instructions when hotrod also known as rodimus prime abducted vivian wembley she said that her kidnapper would be better off as a renowned transformer such as shockwave or soundwave presumably ignorant of how both decepticons had died hotrod responded by claiming he was more remarkable than all of them although shockwave was presumed dead a twin of him emerges as nitro zeus a fighter jet in the grf's captivity along with many other decepticons until he is freed by megatron to look for cade yeager and the autobots they tracked them down to an empty city where they received some unanticipated opposition from the autobots the bumblebee drift and crosshairs kade had also packed up the town with bombs that harmed only the decepticons unbeknownst to them while most other decepticons were killed in the ensuing violence nitrazius was one of the survivors but kade still managed to flee nitro zeus followed kate to england accompanied by megatron and barricade megatron soon betrayed trf and began collaborating with quintessa to destroy the earth and restore cybertron completing what sentinel prime had started nitro zeus was on megatron's team when he assumed control of a prime's crew after a twisted optimus prime broke loose from quintessa's grip rather than avenging shockwave nitro teased the frail autobot with his gun for squandering his opportunity to defeat unicron he then followed their captain to stonehenge and joined his colleagues in observing as the celestial bodies collided but fled when they were attacked he subsequently accompanied megatron to cybertron to sequentessa and fight with the autobots in the ultimate battle shockwave appeared in the bumblebee spin-off with a look that was much more reminiscent of the gi the character was criminally underused in the movies shockwave was utilized sparingly in the transformers film appearing in only a few sequences and speaking only three lines shockwave's role in the story is either as a contrast to starscream or as megatron's truly capable lieutenant whether he follows megatron's precise commands or seeks to replace him this would probably not be the case if the movies had the time to reveal the internal workings of the decepticon military structure and he would serve as a terrific main character then but unfortunately a film lacks the time and space that a series has to allow characters like shockwave to develop unless they are the main protagonist and not one of the villains lieutenants so what makes shockwave tick probably just doesn't qualify as something interesting enough to warrant extra time in a movie shockwave was initially intended to play a more significant part and also have some lines as shown in the dark of the moon comic book adaptation which is based on an early draft but this was later modified this might be because actor david warner who had been asked to play the role declined it shockwave's original voice actor corey burton modeled the character's voice after david warner on the other hand burton refused the job because he did not want to be in a big budget film [Music] shockwave in the animated universe shockwave belongs to the animated continuity family of decepticons he is an undercover operative working for megatron his alias long arm prime is the chief of cybertron intelligence and reports directly to ultra magnus the covert decepticon is the ideal agent for this job since he can change his voice looks and also his energy signature this places shockwave in a perfect position to weaken and deceive the autobots while providing strategic intelligence to his actual master longarm went to autobot bootcamp with bumblebee and bulkhead to demonstrate his trustworthiness he rose through the ranks of the otterbot hierarchy over the years eventually becoming the leader of the intelligence division himself shockwave is exceedingly covert and frightened of being discovered as befits a double agent as befits a cartoonish villain he will boldly reveal secrets if he believes he is winning when he believes his cover is being exposed he resorts to desperate measures he is mainly voiced by corey burton and john bailey in botcon 2015 megatron enlisted shockwave because his mass shifting powers allowed him to imitate a broad range of forms and dimensions finding it challenging for autobots to follow him during infiltration and sabotage operations these characteristics led megatron to send him to join the autobot military forces in order to ascend the hierarchy and eventually bring the unit down from within shockwave was aided by black arachnia another decepticon in creating an autobot identity and form for himself from old historical documents he enlisted in autobot bootcamp where his drill instructor sentinel miner nicknamed him longarm for his ability to extend his limbs to incredible lengths which was actually a limited use of his ability to alter shape and size however in the initial days of training he made a mistake and was observed communicating with megatron by bumblebee who was actually recruited as a black sheep although shockwave escaped detection straight away bumblebee was alerted to the existence of a spy in the facility and assumed it was another recruit named wasp who he saw exiting the facility shortly after bumblebee sought assistance from the espionage savvy long arm and shockwave took advantage of the chance to draw all eyes away from himself he advised bumblebee not to inform their leader sentinel minor because then the young autobot could claim full responsibility unfortunately bumblebee's efforts just led him into further difficulty and his other recruits began to mistreat him with long arms standing up for him after multiple failures by bumblebee shockwave decided that something had to be done and so during a training session he converted the training equipment to live bullets in a bid to take bumblebee offline and keep the entire traitor thing a secret bulkhead fortunately for bumblebee derailed this plot shockwave eventually discovered that sentinel miner planned to perform a full inspection and he devised a plan for wasp to take the blame onto himself shockwave as long arm alerted bumblebee about the approaching inspection warned him that it was his final opportunity to locate the proof he needed after installing a decepticon communication device in wasp's locker shockwave tripped wasp allowing bumblebee to pocket wasp's storage key as bumblebee assisted him up enabling him to discover the communicator and present it to sentinel wasp was eventually carried away to jail and long arm praised bumblebee for his analytical work shockwave afterward graduated from boot camp and rose to become the leader of cybertron intelligence he stayed on this role known now as long arm prime lurking in plain sight for the 50 galactic cycles in which megatron was stranded on earth to get the position he assassinated intel director highbrow longarm urged sentinel to pursue the hunt for the crew of the ship the old spark and megatron when optimus prime spacecraft was lost his appeals were ignored after regenerating himself and then the decepticons on earth megatron re-established communication with shockwave at cybertron and launched a plot to build a space link that would enable the decepticons to take the world from inside wasp now criminally mad escaped from prison and megatron began receiving communications from his cybertronian double agent bumblebee suspected wasp again when megatron's hostage isaac somdak sought to notify the autobots of the whereabouts of the double operative by relaying a signal to the headquarters he sent the information to long arm prime at cybertron but it had little effect when the finished spaceship bridge struggled to operate megatron called shockwave and told him to seek cybertron's finest space bridge specialist to assist in resolving the issue shockwave was taken aback when he discovered that the specialist had already arrived upon earth it was an autobot named bulkhead megatron later abducted bulkhead and forced him to complete the space bridge the other autobots took too long to stop him they were then beaten by all the decepticons and hung up to watch the bridge open shockwave exposed long arm prime his alter identity to the autobots revealing that he had previously provided megatron an adequate access code and forced bumblebee to suffer the humiliation of imprisonment as an innocent wasp when megatron attempted to put the space bridge to test by transporting optimus prime over it shockwave promised his master that the test subject would be waiting on the other side unfortunately megatron's attempt to increase power let the space link to overcharge increasing the access token and resetting the space link to arbitrary coordinates shockwave now long arm told ultra magnus that now the decepticons will not be capable of reaching the cybertron spacelink nexus shockwave then called team char a team that had effectively gained control of a space link and was preparing to utilize it to enter cybertron striker megatron's general of destruction requested authorization to launch the assault but shockwave denied her request she was supposed to stay with the crew and wait for megatron even if it would be mega cycles until he would appear not long after that the whole space bridge nexus went dark longarm inquired about the cybertron command and it is then that cliff jumper an autobot told him that ultra magnus had commanded the shutdown to stop the decepticons from gaining access to cybertron agent blur and otterbot of action came just then and very swiftly notified longarm that he had detected a communication between megatron and the double operative on cybertron shockwave while on earth furthermore blur noticed that shockwave's intonation did not match that of the accused wasp but a fast scan of the cybertron intel archive could reveal the traitor's actual identity long arm taken aback inquired whether blur had communicated this knowledge with anyone else when blur answered that he hadn't shockwave decided it was time to put a stop to him for good blur evaded his first efforts and fled into the passageway surrounding the nexus command center rather than pursue shockwave have the security hatches in the passageways crash close and lock in on blur confining and crushing him long arm presented blurs remnants to cliff jumper at the metroplex referring to the little cube as sensitive materials in his private office he got an incoming signal from lord megatron they exchanged details of their separate setbacks but megatron informed shockwave that he knew of a plan to keep the earth autobots from revealing shockwave's cover long arm prime then went to an autobot high council gathering which is where ultra magnus determined that the decepticon attacks were too well planned to be spontaneous acts of sabotage instead indicators pointed at a double operative among the autobots longarm cautiously noted that the decepticon protests began following wasp's escape revealing the source ultra magnus approved and sent jazz with sentinel prime to form an elite guard unit to track down the fugitive he then asked that the autobots on earth be contacted long arm more concerned announced that all communications without exception shall be rooted via him first for the purpose of security and cybertron safety of course unfortunately long long-arm's fixation on blaming wasp was his undoing when wasp was on his way to earth ultra magnus chose not to tell him till the elite guard spacecraft was within sight of the planet shockwave attempted to call negatron knowing he was about to be revealed but received no answer shockwave decided to do something about the situation because he had no other directions on how to proceed he attacked and gravely injured ultra magnus seizing his magnus hammer in the process in an attempt to inflict one last blow on the autobots shockwave seemed to invade an assault earth when the autobots were locked in sound waves virtual world however he didn't really seem to accomplish anything other than set fire to an apartment building shockwave lurked in an underground passage after fleeing undetected until megatron called the decepticon commander who was locked within omega supreme alongside starscream and lugnut called shockwave who disclosed the technique to get omega supreme's entry credentials shockwave on the other hand was quickly found by ratchet as well as captain fanzone he quickly overpowered them and proceeded in search of rc a female intelligence operative to do so he asked rattletrap an informant bot for directions he evidently got lost and had to hide and wait for fanzone as well as ratchet to locate her he fought ratchet and seriously endured the ageing otterbot during the combat he discovered ultra magnus who was still injured ratchet fired his emp device across shockwave as well as ultra magnus's hammers thereby killing him ratchet was then sidetracked by the temporary presence of magnus sentinel prime shockwave abducted rc and fled to omega supreme utilizing the access passcodes to travel into earth's atmosphere he then embraced his freedom to publicly serve megatron by switching into more appropriate colors while lugnut muttered angrily at megatron's designation of him as his most devoted follower shockwave began working on the captive rc using an old data tracks from her days as a teacher prior to the great war megatron informed his ever-loyal shockwave that if any robot could gain access to the correct data tracks it was only him this along with starscream's teasing threw lugnut into a furious rage and he flung shockwave out across the room as he pleaded megatron's favor in turn shockwave remarked that when lugnut was fawning at megatron's feet he'd put spark and servo in danger as a double agent this did not go well and the two purple decepticons were fighting pretty shortly later with both assigned to turn material from the shattered decepticon flagship into omega supreme clones shockwave could be observed pointing and laughing at his rival's plight shockwave resumed working on rc and effectively repaired her to the point where her memory was erased he did all this after dumping a piece of broken ship material and almost crushing a spying bumblebee returning briefly to his elias long arm state he checked that she contained the activation credentials so he removed the cables that kept her alive from her brain forcing her back into hibernation he restarted rc outdoors with the replicas ready for activation despite long arms persuasion she declined to give megatron the activation codes freely instead shockwave had to put her back into hibernation and manually remove the codes making no remark when they wound up in lugnut and megatron declared lugnut his most faithful lieutenant however the codes shockwave had taken from rc had lost a critical security upgrade patch forcing him to build together a clumsy bypass involving lugnut physically controlling the clones until he could collect the remainder of the code from rc as shockwave searched for the fix in rc circuitry megatron became frustrated with lugnut's lengthy lecture on the grandeur of his beloved leader before doing anything with the replicas and furiously inquired of shockwave whether he was finished yet shockwave said laughing that he was still thinking about it and that megatron would have to transmit any commands by a lug nut for the present he apparently gave up on removing the patch instead he set rc's data tracks back to her instructional days on the surface of the moon as a trap whilst he waited to attack any autobot who went for her as well as the omega supreme ratchet led the gang that transwarped there straight into the bait forcing ratchet to leave with rc as well as sauri samdak as bumblebee and bulkhead faced their old classmates while shockwave originally had little trouble attacking from a distance he couldn't cope with bulkhead's power bot to con and was left splayed on the moon's surface his canon flung out of reach he turned to long arm mode in a desperate bid to gain time neglecting to activate his synthetic coat of paint but the duo of autobots just weren't pleased and bulkhead destroyed the cannon he was displayed before a vast crowd on cybertron as an autobot prisoner shockwave would be imprisoned in triptycon prison beside his overlord the stunticon job while his creme zeke virus wreaked havoc on cybertron shockwave humbly revealed that the goal was for kremzik to be released while the decepticons were not on cybertron [Music] shockwave as observed in the comic books in the comic book series by idw publishing cybertron plunged into a dark rage when the empire of primes was defeated the old spark had been lost and discarded as a myth deep within cybertron and the planet desperately needed a star to orbit as energy grew increasingly limited cybertronians divided into tribes shockwave opted to support sentinel prime who proclaimed to be a descendant of primus himself however he was met with resistance from the non-believing feticons and shockwave assisted megatron optimus and others in forting their onslaught sentinel prime ultimately triumphed as he along with wheeljack were victorious in recovering the missing old spark and finding a new star to orbit this unfortunately did not sit well with shockwave he was unsatisfied now that the conflict was passed and had lost sight of his mission he surprised his old buddy megatron so shockwave remarked to him that it was the adventure not the goal that he liked plus the new sun was very brilliant the following day megatron told shockwave about listening in on the meeting between sentinel and optimus during which sentinel attempted to cede control to optimus he rejected him unwilling to acknowledge he was also a prime they stumbled across a driller a subsurface life-form pushed into the planet's exterior by the brand new energy pouring through it who was battling a bunch of hatchlings and the guardian starscream shockwave was astounded by the species and described it as magnificent after defeating it he entered the sabotonian defense force which sentinel put under megatron's leadership to hunt down and eliminate dissenting transformers after the autobots launched the old spark in the cosmos starscream entrusted shockwave with command of the remaining decepticons on cybertron while he went in quest of his prize shockwave heard the old sparks cry when it was discovered by sector 7 during a confrontation with a group of autobots shockwave sailed away in an extraordinarily fast spacecraft pledging not to return alone without all spark leaving dreadwing in control of the remaining decepticons on cybertron near 1908 he landed in dunguska siberia he was buried in a stasis lock for five years mending until soviet russia discovered him the russians reversed engineered megatron's technology to create nuclear power reactors using stolen knowledge from the united states which had found megatron in the same way there were no digital traces of shockwaves presence and his physical paperwork was lost destroyed shredded or stolen in the aftermath of the soviet union's demise the siberian site was closed down and shockwave was forgotten shockwave uncovered the satirical piece and its accompanying photos and concluded that it was founded on stolen soviet papers chapter 4 of convergence megatron liberated shockwave in 2010 and took him to his haven in namibia as he was anxious to resume slaughtering autobots as early as possible shockwave and astrotrain appeared on earth at dalian china at which point they promptly dispatched to the two autobots longarm and salvage and took materials for an unidentified construction project shockwave began observing the actions of earth's trapped transformers from a distance and after witnessing a conflict in california he mocked its warriors as stupid he traced dive bombs radioactive trail leading to starscream's current center of the action in a wasteland on the borders of mexico city after phoning astrotrain for a status on their projects shockwave informed to the deceitful air command that megatron had asked for his assistance while blazing his way through all the decepticons foolish enough to try to defend starscream before they could continue astrotrain contacted shockwave with terrible news the brain unit junk drone containing the software that controlled the contraption he was building had fled shockwave assigned the task of retrieving the drone to starscream and his crew shockwave phoned an enraged starstream who had been told that the autobots would have been preoccupied shockwave answered that they were distracted but with starscream which enabled shockwave to convey a message to optimus prime who was at the nest command center in diego garcia shockwave met the frightened humans left to defend themselves after murdering knockout dune runner as well as other autobots that stood in his path when shockwave inquired as to who was in charge theodore galloway said that he was shockwave destroyed galloway as well as the other humans but one and he repeated his inquiry after murdering jolt an autobot he and fear swoop a decepticon army member fled to philadelphia where he killed elita one and gunned down both wheeljack and mirage but both ultimately survived the encounter enraged by the other autobots who had been injured or destroyed by shockwave soon optimus prime confronted him swiftly defeating him and severely pummeling the evil decepticon prime was ready to murder shockwave when his pet appeared to save his leader along with starscream and soundwave the gravely injured shockwave returned to namibia when optimus prime ratchet and lennox arrived in the abandoned city of chernobyl in 2012 they examined a dig site at which construction personnel wearing special suits had discovered a cybertronian artifact that looked like a fuel cell they were suddenly assaulted by the massive decepticon driller controlled by shockwave the decepticons made an effort to recover the fuel cell as optimus told ratchet as well as the humans to evacuate while he confronted the decepticons several of the construction personnel was slain shockwave injured optimus but he succeeded in collecting the pillar the decepticons retreated leaving the cell behind later shockwave took part in the battle for chicago attempting to destroy the autobots with his pet driller however optimus destroyed driller and was able to exact revenge on shockwave for the deaths of elite 1 and jolt as well as the rest of the dying autobots in diego garcia the last utterances that shockwave was told were it's over shockwave prime then thrust the blade into his chest before you came back here to find your little friend [Music] what makes him so powerful shockwave is a brilliant engineer whose advancements and research have resulted in formidable weaponry and technology for the decepticon calls as well as indirectly for the autobots as well as cybertron itself project pridecon the synthetic energon equation the cortical psychic patch the invention of cyber matter and the repair of omega lock are among them though his primary role is as megatron's chief commander in scientific projects shockwave can hold his own in combat his left arm has a formidable energy cannon from the forearm down and his vehicular form is a cybertronian battleship he has been shown to stand up against bulkhead and wheeljack as well as ultra magnus when it came to hand-to-hand battle ultra magnus appeared to be a match for shockwave shockwave's steadfast dedication to rationality is one of his flaws shockwave will accede to a reasoning that is sufficiently rational notwithstanding whatever emotional reservations he may have and this is how starscream avoided shockwave's fury twice when confronted with a scenario or an adversary that throws his calculations off shockwave is severely disadvantaged damage to his one visual sensor can fully blind him he finds it challenging to participate in close combat because he only has one hand as a consequence of a war injury it also impairs his ability to accomplish jobs requiring a high level of manual dexterity i gave chase but failed to accurately calculate the outcome conclusion shockwave was an exciting but very much underutilized transformer in michael bay's universe while the avid transformer fans must be extremely well versed with this character it is unfortunate that he was turned into a secondary unimportant character in the films and his role was not given the rightful justice that it deserves shockwave is very complex and his backstory origins and history definitely require a deep dive that we hope the future movies will be able to justly give him nevertheless anyone interested in this character can always enjoy him through the animations and comic books and hopefully wait for a larger-than-life version of him on the big screen just like the rest of shockwaves fans we are hoping to see shockwave develop into a fully fleshed out character in the future films and if you like that content don't forget to leave a like and subscribe to us if you haven't already have a good one and be safe thanks everyone you just saved me the effort of searching for her myself you

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