Wait what? Is that an actual line? Please say it is

Wait fr? Where does he have that tattoo lol

Yeah like the others said. Where?

Looks like a grey Shockwave with a red eye, he’s like the live action “Shack”wave

It is I saw it first on Trans theories

Bringing gun to a gun fight

It's only... logical.

Why have 1 when you could go Akimbo?

It’s more surprising as now they both turn into tanks or jets

I’ll add to that: Shockwave was part of Jetfire and Starscream’s friend group, but they all grew apart due to Starscream’s treachery, Jetfire joining the Autobots, and Shockwave himself becoming more and more mechanical and emotionless.

@@benc.delacruz1813 interesting idea, I imagine that when unicron begins his goal of devouring the universe, shockwave defects to unicron along with other characters, joining his evil army before finally being defeated by jetfire

That fool Jetfire! His intellect and power can not be compared to SHOCKWAVE!!

Shockwave and Prowl were played up as logic rivals in one continuity though that’s about as far Shockwave rivalries that I’m aware of went.

@@YeldellGW Ooh, I like that idea.

Honestly I think that would be a really interesting story

Another take I think would be interesting would be a flip of the Animated depiction. Have him act as a Decepticon but, in a big reveal, he was an Autobot all along.

@@emeraldeelentertainment8988 like armada scavenger

IDW did this he became One of the Primes from time travel and played all sides:) He was a senator once and optimus is close friend.

A sort of doctor strange, where he took the time to consider every possible outcome of the war and realized he needed to take action!

And what he did in the comics was legendary

Probably also helps that he looks like a Dalek on steroids.

Bayverse Shockwave looks fucking cool as well. Pity he only served as cannonfodder for Bay Prime.

You could’ve just said the Marvel or IDW Shockwave was your favorite Any comics Shockwave really. They all mostly act the same

​@@TheUncivilizedNation prime too. My favorute

Comic Shockwave is awesome. I wish we see an adaptation of comic book Shockwave in TV or film instead of the boring "loyal" decepticon version of the character..Megatron already has Soundwave as his loyal minion.

@@zemox2534 i would like to see shockwave as a less loyal decepticon and logical scientist who is the guardian of cybertron in the absent of both the autobots and decepticons

The funny part is that thus was the outcome in "prime" where he re-created the omega lock! A thing only solus prime's forget abe to do

Just can't go wrong with the Waves, huh?

​@@Green24152 I often take them as a duo, so you really can't. I think the "most loyal lieutenant" Soundwave pairs especially nicely with "emotionless, loyal only to logic" Shockwave.

i would consider prime shockwave as cold and logical, only showing brief signs of any anger or emotion if you can call it that.

I also prefer Prime’s version of shockwave. I like everything about that version. From his physical appearance and his vehicle mode, to his relationship with the other Decepticons.

Tf prime has been known to destroy personalities of beloved characters. I.E wheel Jack

@@nightbling8905 Oh really? Who else was changed a bunch I really only remember the TF prime show and I mostly liked all their personalities.

@@nightbling8905 Wheel Jack was a badass in Prime.

Which one wasthis?

Omg! I didn't know that. Wait until I tell my cousin. He loves Kingdom Hearts and Transformers.

I have absolutely no idea what either of you are talking about but it sounds cool and I'm gonna tell the next person I see. Zark was Scopinock am I right? Just so I don't look like a total tit.

@@joshoshea3194 They mean Sark, one of the villains in the movie Tron, which has a level in Kingdom Hearts 2. Sark was who Corey Burton based his Shockwave voice on (the video says it was the Master Control Program, but that's incorrect), so it's cool to see it come full circle like that.

Corey Burton also played animated Megatron's voice, so cool.

No wonder why he sounded similar

Mostly because the second time IDW did it, it came completely out of left field and made no sense

@@Cdr2002 It wasn't a _complete_ ass-pull, but it definitely could've been handled better.

@@SirBroccolingtonIII to me it absolutely was. Once we get into “Shockwave created Cybertronian society through time travel” I’m kinda done being able to take a storyline seriously

@@Cdr2002 It was certainly ridiculous and convoluted, but something being an ass-pull or not isn't subjective. It simply wasn't.

@@SirBroccolingtonIII and I have to adhere to your specific standards why? I thought it came from nowhere, I don’t need to fit your pretentious film school kid rubric

I second that.

Yes, please.

Good idea

It’s an excellent idea. But Chris Mcfeely may worry that the non english speakers transformer’s fans may not care much about such a series. It may reduce the potential audience.

I second that as well.

I respectfully disagree. The voice perfectly suited his ‘logical’ disposition. That his lack of emotive emphasis in his speech showed the mechanical indifference of logic that runs behind that red eye. And it means so much more on the occasion that he lets it slip just that little bit. Like when he threatened to gouge out Starscream’s eye or witnessing Unicron reanimate a colossal graveyard of predacon fossils.

@@rustkarl As great of an actor Corey Butron is, I can't recall ever feeling terrified by any of his versions of Shockwave. David Sobolov's shockwave is unironically extremely intimidating, which combined with his design makes him my favorite incarnation of Shockwave.

James Roberts, writer of More than Meets the Eye and Lost Light, also was horrified as a kid when Shockwave was killed by Death's Head.

Thanks for the support, Hellcat! 😁

Even in G1 I've always thought Shockwave was loyal for his own benefit like: "As loyal I can do whatever I want, like evil experiments, create my own army etc..." Infact in Transformers Tataki(the G1 Japan exclusive game for PS2) at the end he get hungry with power and begin to alterate space and time, and both the Aurobots and Decepticons must stop him.

I liked cybertron starscream because he was not only smart enough to plot in secret but was also a very capable fighter

I believe the entire reason Shockwave couldn't be sold in the UK back in the day was because of the Galactic Man toy. Which is unfortunate, given how heavily he was featured in the UK comic.

@@battleupsaber462 we got screwed when it came to transformers releases here in the UK

@@That_Guy- We are still being screwed. Damn you hasbro and your exclusives

That’s really cool!

IDW is one to jump the shark and mess up all of their comics. Same with the TMNT comics everything past issue 100 is hot garbage.

I believe Shockwave and Omega Supreme's toys weren't released because their toy molds were already licensed by other companies prior. Shockwave by Radioshack, and Omega by Granstand Convertors. Swoop wasn't released due to fragility issues with that toy meaning it didn't pass UK safety standards. Have no clue why the others weren't though. According to the comic's editorial page, it was due to lack of retailer interest (which sounded like a weak excuse to me). I recall reading scans of the UK comic where fustrated kids would often write in to Grimlock's letters asking why those toys weren't available.

@@battleupsaber462 Thanks for the reply. I was more-or-less aware of the Omega Supreme and Shockwave licensing issues from Tandy and Grandstand and heard mention of the Swoop fragility issue from bits and pieces I'd seen in various forums over the years. The lack of Constructicons over here always mystifies me though, especially as they we're the first combiner, so had that unique selling point, plus what self respecting kid doesn't love diggers and dumper trucks? Makes it even weirder when they eventually did make it to these shores in their yellow non-combining form for G2. I think (possibly) Fort Max might've prompted safety concerns too, just based purely on his size and whether if he toppled over on a small kid he might injure them.

Yes, that and him always keeping the company of dumb robot drones, which maybe he had to maintain if not invent.

Yeah too sad. ´84 Secrets & Lies was awesome.

the way he was killed in Legacy Of Unicron was downright chilling. He was executed so efficiently and mercilessly by Death's Head, the only character in the comic colder than Shockwave himself.

Not Dweller In The Depths (a great episode) but Five Faces Of Darkness. Agreed, Blitzwing never seemed that perceptive, and it would have been great for that role to have been Shockwave's swansong in the original series. Hey, after that maybe he slunk off into the bowels of Cybertron, had a hand in various secret and ancient things, and would almost certainly have known about the Trans-Organics from Dweller In The Depths. :)

One of my favourite Autobots 💙