Shockwave

Shockwave (ショックウェーブ, Shokkuwēbu) was a member of the scientist caste in the industrial city of Kaon. In a reversal of the usual order, he was swayed by the ambitions of the former mining caste member turned gladiator Megatron. Serving as Megatron's "pet mad scientist" and second-in-command, he saw to the fighter's armament during his rise to prominence, all the while fantasizing on the prospect of mass producing such warriors. Thankfully, Megatron's more practical nature reined in Shockwave as the movement which became the Decepticons finally moved out of the shadows.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice actor: David Sobolov (English), Not Known (Japanese), Not Known (Spain-Spanish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (German), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese)

Shockwave is emotionless and detached from others, which allows him to use pure logic in order to further his own plans. Experimenting with Spacebridge technology, Shockwave is able to open portals to other worlds and extract images of native lifeforms. He's known for using his scientific knowledge to reformat prisoners of war into hideous abominations.

Shockwave does not have an earth alt mode, preferring his cybertronian tank mode

Friends/Allies

 * Megatron
 * Soundwave

Neutral

 * Airachnid
 * Starscream

Rivals

 * Optimus Prime
 * Arcee
 * Cliffjumper

Enemies

 * Autobots
 * Optimus Prime

Weapons & Abilites
Shockwave uses a blaster cannon that was attached to his left arm.

History
While most of the population left Cybertron during the Great Exodus, Shockwave stayed behind. He spent his time building and scavenging technology, and managed to reverse-engineering space bridge technology. His efforts had come to fruition when Starscream, while delivering Energon to power the bridge, brought him an encrypted Autobot transmission along with two prisoners, Arcee and Cliffjumper. By using his own invention, the cortical psychic patch, on Arcee, Shockwave gained the codes to decrypt the transmission, revealing it to be a message from Optimus Prime calling the Autobots to Earth. He later found the two Autobots sabotaging the space bridge, and was buried in rubble during the ensuing fight. After he dug himself out, he followed them into the space bridge and was only stopped when Arcee hit his optical sensor. Not knowing what happened to Shockwave since he was still inside the space bridge when it exploded, Cliffjumper hoped he survived, as he wanted a rematch.