They are pretty much the only ones he respects in the Arena who show strenght by deeds not like Talk star scream

In this universe, Soundwave, Shockwave, and a handful of others are the gladiators that rose up in the ranks alongside Megatron, so it makes sense Plus Soundwave and Shockwave don’t try to betray Megatron at every opportunity-cough cough Starscream-so Megs has no reason to distrust them.

In the original Comics, Shockwave was the military ruler of the city Tarn, Megatron was their champion gladiator, Soundwave was Megatron's close confidant, and Starscream was the figurehead ruler of Vos. Vos sought to incite war between Tarn and Iacon so they could take over the planet in the aftermath by sabotaging Tarn. This failed as the saboteurs were caught, resulting in Tarn and Vos destroying each other. Out of the ashes, Megatron used his charisma to rally both sides together and turn their fury on Iacon for not intervening, creating the Decepticons. Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave went along with this but regularly took whatever opportunity they could to betray Megatron and seize power. Soundwave served both Megatron and Shockwave in secret and Starscream was the least successful of them all as a rival. Shockwave was actually more like Megatron's equal for this reason. He has defeated him in combat. But they also respect each other even if begrudgingly. Unfortunately this level of nuanced writing is rarely seen in Transformers adaptations.

Soundwave is his most loyal servant, and Shockwave, despite being loyal, can also be more intimidating than Megatron himself

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I mean the designs of the characters are based on the G1 designs so it was kinda obvious for me. Just me tho.

G1 movie reference

For this universe, he was a gladiator

​@@moderateexistence377he's a gladiator in other canons too

@NobleBot10 I didn't see anything that suggested he was a miner in WFC/FOC, where does it say he is a miner

@NobleBot10 I didn't know there was a prequel comic, thankyou for the information.

The files are buried somewhere in Activision's vaults.

Because in a straight up duel, Megatron would send that poser to the big scrap-heap in the sky.

He knows in a straight up fight he can never beat megatron.

Except for that time he knocked Megatron on his ass with one punch after Megs cheated on him with a Ninja She-Bot.

@monsterzero way to take an event massively out of context

@@LegendXD00I want the context now

They already had that earlier at the warp cannon “SILENCE!”

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Yes... yes, well noticed and it was wonderful.

@@oldgamesinvestigator7852 It's very fitting and a nice little reference to a classic Transformers Movie

@@kylecochrane4450 There's also another scene where Slag (the triceratops dinobot) knocks over a giant door on a decepticon and looks down at him while still crushing him to say "excuse me" which also happened in the old animated movie

@@oldgamesinvestigator7852 I don't recall seeing that one but than again I no longer have access to that game which is a shame was a great game

It was…. Shocking

The gun we got was probably endgame gun since we just got it, good aoe, enough damage, not to mention meg's alt mode cannon was op, one problem to counter the power, ammo economy

Sam Reigel (probably misspelling the name). Donatello from 4Kids TMNT. Jude Mathis in the Tales of Xillia games. Amazing Spider-Man in the movie tie-in games of the same name. Phoenix Wright in Marvel vs Capcom 3. And Steve in Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles.

@@Ars-Nova258 Thanks for Refreshing my Brain!