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He claimed he would rectify this after having taken Iacon, and then sent his soldiers for the final push against the Autobots. The War Within 4 In this penultimate attack, Shockwave personally destroyed two guardian robots with one blast in his alternate mode. With the Autobots' last defenses now felled, Shockwave had his troops penetrate the Autobots' stronghold, where he gunned down Prowl upon entry.

The War Within 5 Unfortunately for Shockwave, at that point, a planetary engine activated under Starscream's orders caused Iacon's destruction. Shockwave ordered a hasty retreat back to Kolkular in order to avoid annihilation. The War Within 6.

During this period he was contacted by Jetfire. The Autobot had uncovered behavioral patterns in each faction, indicating that they were all being manipulated by an outside force. Shockwave's penchant for logic allowed him to put aside his differences with Jetfire, and he agreed to meet up with his fellow scientist in a neutral zone to further discuss the matter.

Devastation During their conference, the two of them were attacked by the Chaos Trinity , and Shockwave was taken down. Revelation He rebooted shortly after the three mystics and The Fallen left with both Grimlock and Jetfire in hand.

Confrontation Recovered by the newly built Trypticon , Shockwave organized a counter strike against the three mystics that included Trypticon, Soundwave , Ravage , the Insecticons , and the Seekers. Exactly how logic dictated that Shockwave bring an entire army to deal with three rogue Decepticons is unknown.

Grimlock's Lightning Strike Coalition arrived, saying that they had a stake in this, and Shockwave agreed to a temporary ceasefire. They were to remain in place until Cybertron was united. Or, as Shockwave put it, until all are one. At some point, Ultra Magnus took command of the Autobots, and reunited them into a single faction.

Under his leadership, the Autobots gained a significant hold over Cybertron's resources and territories. No longer able to hold his own against the Autobots, Shockwave was forced to sign a peace treaty, and put an end to hostilities between his own faction, the Ultracons, and the Autobots. Despite this being the most logical course of action, Shockwave made no attempt to hide his contempt for Ultra Magnus, making it clear he was only ceding to his forces out of necessity.

The ceremony was interrupted by a bombing engineered by Starscream and his forces, though Shockwave was spared any harm thanks to the defensive measures put into place by the Autobots. This act of aggression only served to further unite the Autobots, Ultracons, and Decepticons The Age of Wrath Megatron easily subdued Ultra Magnus while Shockwave and Ratbat looked on, and all of the splintered Decepticon factions united under the rule of their returned ruler.

Afterwards, Shockwave was tasked with reverse engineering these Quintesson -created clones Megatron had brought back to the planet with him. He ran into difficulties accomplishing this due to Megatron's refusal to divulge their origin, though he was greatly intrigued by the warrior units nonetheless. The Age of Wrath 2 Progress wasn't helped by Rumble and Frenzy , who seemingly thrashed his whole lab after he stepped out of it for a few moments.

Shockwave cooly informed the two diminutive Decepticons that Megatron would not be pleased now that his project couldn't be completed on schedule, and dismissed them. The Age of Wrath 3. Shockwave nonetheless managed to modify some drones in his possession to Megatron's requirements; they would now only obey the Decepticon leader, and not their original creators.

After sharing his find with Megatron, Shockwave was assaulted by one of the drones, though it had become horribly mutated The Age of Wrath Pt. Shockwave was left behind on Cybertron while Megatron's forces pursued Optimus Prime and were subsequently lost on Earth for four million years, and became Decepticon leader on the planet. He began experimenting with cloning, and through studies of Astrotrain and Blitzwing , began to conceive the idea of a Transformer with multiple alternate modes.

Cybertron, however, was steadily growing lower and lower on energy, and in an attempt to create new energy-conservative Transformers, Shockwave allied with the Autobots for a pooling of resources that created the Micromasters. One of the Decepticon Micromasters working for Shockwave, Skystalker , transmitted back to Cybertron news that the Autobot Countdown had appropriated an important artifact while on an interstellar mission.

After receiving this message, Shockwave set about manipulating Micromasters on both sides to acquire the artifact for himself. Recipe for Hate After one of the Decepticons' Micromaster patrols returned from an Energon-gathering mission, Barricade approached Shockwave, complaining that he and the other Decepticons of his size weren't getting their fair share of fuel.

Instead of taking their appeal in consideration, Shockwave dismissively shooed the Micromasters away and partook in a conference with Scorponok and Ratbat.

Destined for Nothing Barricade and his comrades then opted to desert the Decepticon army, and headed out for Little Iacon. Shockwave caught up with the group partway there, after the diminutive robots had narrowly avoided being devoured by some vampiric Insecticons. Shockwave informed them that he had taken it upon himself to check up on them as a "show of good faith," but they were otherwise free to continue on their own path if so they chose.

The Gray Race At this time, Shockwave planted a transmitter on one of smaller 'bots, as he knew that the group had already been contacted by Countdown. Recipe for Hate All of the Micromasters left, save for Flanker , who was convinced to return to the Decepticon army by Shockwave's gesture. With no witnesses around, Shockwave tossed Flanker to the Insecticons as a snack. In return, he asked the cannibals to complete a mission for him: invade Little Iacon. The Gray Race.

Shortly thereafter, Skystalker and Skyhopper returned to Cybertron. Shockwave welcomed them back to the Decepticons' base, updating them on the progressing retrieval of the Golden Disk they coveted. Shockwave then overlooked Blitzwing, and upon his analysis, found that internal mutation in his fellow Decepticon were making him stronger.

But Shockwave was unaware to what extent Skystalker had come to resent him in his absence As he and Blitzwing were discussing the changes happening inside the latter, they were ambushed by the Skystalker, who managed to overpower both of the guzzlers. Recipe for Hate Skystalker overthrew Shockwave's command, knocking him offline and decapitating him to use in a grotesque puppet show, giving orders to the other Decepticons by holding Shockwave's severed noggin up to a video screen. Victims of the Revolution When Skystalker was defeated, Shockwave was repaired, but eventually, he and all the other Transformers on Cybertron succumbed to stasis as the planet's energy ran out, and it entered a hibernation phase known as the " Great Shutdown ".

Generation 1 0 However, when Shockwave was attacked by a swarm of Sharkticons , Scourge intervened and saved him, Cold War only to be shot in the back by the Decepticon and captured. Dissecting and studying Scourge, Shockwave learned many secrets about the function and purpose of Transformers and Cybertron from the secrets hidden within him.

Using that knowledge, Shockwave steadily worked to restore Cybertron, reactivating its population and solving their energy needs, ending the war and unifying the planet. He also continued his experiments into multiple transformations, yielding the unstable Duocons , and then successfully mastering the process with Triple Changers. Capturing Alpha Trion , Shockwave sought to unlock the full secrets of Vector Sigma , having already learned of the mysterious significance of Earth to the Transformer race.

Revelation In preparation for the invasion of the planet, Shockwave subliminally influenced the population of Cybertron to become more violent, Passive Aggression and prevented the return of Optimus Prime and Megatron aboard the Ark II by having a human agent blow it up.

In , Shockwave made his move, heading to Earth with his Triple Changer troops and capturing Megatron and Optimus's forces, planning to try the two leaders as war criminals. After making it clear he would not tolerate further insubordination, Shockwave presented his new recruits to a unified Iacon, cementing his claims that Cybertron was finally at peace.

To better assimilate the Decepticons into his new society, Shockwave told them of a new device he had devised to render them more energy-efficient, but his presentation was interrupted by a report from Perceptor. Shockwave dismissed his audience to speak with Perceptor in private. Afterwards, he approached Soundwave, claiming that his plans for Cybertron was moving at a faster pace than anticipated, and offered him a position as his lieutenant. He left Soundwave to ruminate on his options, and next contacted Ultra Magnus, ordering to deactivate the Autobots in his custody, Optimus among them, once they made planet-fall.

Brothers' Burden But Ultra Magnus refused the order outright. Shockwave's plans were now meeting resistance on multiple fronts, with Ultra Magnus's insubordination and the captive Alpha Trion's continued resistance to his probing. In a bid to deal with at least one of these problems, Shockwave had Rumble and Frenzy free the Stunticons from prison, hoping the chaos they'd generate would be distraction enough for Ultra Magnus to be out of the picture while Optimus was dealt with.

Shockwave also broadcasted footage of the Autobots' battles on Earth all around Cybertron, to turn public opinion against Optimus Prime's troops. But more unforeseen interference propped up; between the Dinobots arriving to sow their own brand of havoc, and Sandstorm and Broadside turning traitor, Prime managed escape from Shockwave's clutches and fell in with a rebel group. Cold War Shockwave was next forced to deal with Grimlock personally, but even with the help of Blitzwing , found himself being overpowered by his opponent.

Ultra Magnus's timely arrival helped tip the scales in Shockwave's favor, and Shockwave then unleashed the Omega Sentinels to quell further insurrections. Passive Aggression. Mobilizing the planet's Autobots, Prime led an attack on Shockwave's Tower. As news of the insurrection reached Shockwave, he finished supercharging himself in anticipation to an inevitable confrontation against the rebels. He was first met by Ultra Magnus in his throne room, but after declaring that he no longer had a use for him, shot Magnus in the back.

Shockwave was next confronted Shockwave by Optimus himself, whom he defeated with ease. He then proceeded to rip the Matrix free from Optimus's chest compartment. Countdown to Extinction Using the Matrix to activate Vector Sigma, Shockwave downloaded the compressed contents of the mega-computer into his network, but before he had an opportunity to view the data, he was pulled into a battle with the returned Ultra Magnus. In the course of the fight, the fuel line to his cannon was severed, and the resulting explosion destroyed his citadel and knocked him into a chasm.

While the rest of Cybertron believed Shockwave to be deceased, he had actually survived the explosion and gone underground in the wastelands of Cybertron. Lost and Found In addition to re-establishing communications with the Insecticons on Earth who had been operating there as an advance squad preparing the way for his invasion , Extermination Shockwave continued his experimentation, resulting in the creation of Sixshot.

Soon after, however, Megatron returned to Cybertron and bested Shockwave, crippled his offensive capabilities, and took control of his troops. But now, the three players were assembled, each knowing certain dark secrets of Cybertron's past The Route of All Evil. During his reign over Cybertron, Shockwave had discovered the Well of All Sparks, and broken the Seal of Primus itself to siphon from within it the power needed to create life. Little did he know that he had loosened the essence of The Fallen in the process, a consciousness which had gone on to take root inside Sunstorm.

The Enemy Within. As one of the Decepticons who crashed to Earth in the Ark millions of years ago, Shockwave was retrieved by Cobra and pressed into service, taking on the alternate form of a massive artillery cannon. Chafing under the leadership of Cobra Commander , he was ordered to transform and destroy the Autobot Superion. Although he did so, he was forced to fire sixteen consecutive times, despite needing to repair himself after every shot.

The resulting strain on his structure irrevocably damaged him, and Cobra Commander refused to allow Megatron to use the power of the Matrix to restore him. The Iron Fist. Shockwave participated in a savage all-out Decepticon offensive against the Autobots. With the Decepticons maintaining the advantage throughout the battle, Shockwave was amongst those who approached a crippled Optimus Prime, ready to dispatch the Autobot leader.

The Beast Within. In the absence of Megatron, Shockwave had assumed command of the Decepticons on Cybertron, and had successfully driven the Autobots into an underground resistance movement. When a number of G. Joe and Cobra troops, along with the captive Starscream, accidentally arrived on Cybertron via an overloaded wormhole gate, Shockwave and his troops immediately surrounded them.

The same wormhole malfunction blasted a number of Transformers away from Cybertron and into random points of Earth's past, a temporal anomaly that threatened to scour the Earth's face with fire if the Transformers were not brought back.

Ultra Magnus and Perceptor arrived and were able to hold off the Decepticons for a time with a force field, while teams of humans were time-ported away to retrieve the missing Transformers and end the anomaly. Joe vs. He took personal pleasure in blasting Ratchet when he was returned through the gate. Revealing that he had intended all along for the humans to discover the wormhole gate technology, Shockwave set the gate to continue operating but blocked the last remaining group from returning—thus condemning Earth to destruction, easy pickings for conquest.

Joe team were able to reactivate the gate, allowing the newly created Dinobots to return to Cybertron. The Dinobots' power quickly drove Shockwave's Decepticons into retreat. Regrouping on the other side of the planet, Shockwave had the long-missing Starscream brought before him.

As Starscream attempted to explain his way out of being seen as a traitor, a recording of Cobra Commander's voice suddenly began to play, explaining that he had lined Starscream's hull with explosives. Shockwave leapt to try and stop the process, but the entire building exploded, apparently taking the two Decepticons with it. With Shockwave's defeat, peace returned to Cybertron, and the Decepticons were driven back to a region known as the Gladiator Zone.

The Art of War 1 One of the mish-mash of robot parts known as the cannibalizers was seen with Shockwave's blaster hand grafted onto its arm. The Art of War 3. In an erased future , Shockwave would've led a Decepticon conquest of Earth. In one reality, Shockwave fought under the command of Megatron in the war over control of the Mini-Cons.

Lonesome Diesel. During a gladiatorial match in the depths of Cybertron, Shockwave detected incoming security forces and raised the alarm. When Megatron mused that perhaps it was time to start their rebellion by destroying the incoming forces, Shockwave suggested they wait and build up their numbers.

Megatron agreed and the pair departed. This character article is a stub and is missing information on their fictional appearances. You can help Transformers Wiki by expanding it. Once a right-hearted senator of the corrupt pre- Great War Cybertron , Shockwave ran the Academy of Advanced Technology , protecting " outliers " from the functionists who held sway and secretly retrofitting several 'Bots who he felt were of good character, including Orion Pax , to carry Matrix chambers.

Chaos Theory With his influence waning and the ruling caste unhappy with such activities, he was sent to the Institute to undergo Empurata and a " total personality inversion ", leaving him a faceless, handless, and emotionless mech.

Shadowplay Later, he became a Decepticon and helped Megatron to overthrow the corrupt government. Knowing that control of resources would be crucial, he initiated a project he called Regenesis to "seed" several planets with potent Energon distillates, generating "crops" for him to harvest.

Deserting when the time came to stabilise the planets, he was stymied on Earth by the Dynobots —out for revenge on an unrelated matter—and fell into stasis-lock, Spotlight: Shockwave but not before reconditioning a crew of lost Maximals into re-enacting the Great War in miniature.

Strange Visitors. Forming an alliance with Soundwave to disable the bomb they placed in his head, he fought Scorponok , and Grimlock until the blue Decepticon managed to disable it, but was stopped from leaving by the Dynobot leader's bomb. Subsequently, they were taken to Garrus-9 by Ultra Magnus.

The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots. Freed from the prison by Overlord , Shockwave ultimately chose to rejoin his fellow Decepticons and returned to Earth. During D-Void war, he was summoned to Cybertron by Megatron. Once Galvatron was defeated, the weakened Shockwave was captured by Autobots along with other Decepticons.

Forming a surreptitious alliance with his old master Jhiaxus and their student Bludgeon to aid them in a quest for the remains of his Regenesis program while remaining on Cybertron himself, he was convinced to act on the planet by Swindle , but was illegally rendered into Prowl 's custody by Arcee. The End of the Beginning of the World His capture was part of a charade, however, as Prowl was being controlled by Bombshell at the behest of Megatron, who would use the Autobot strategist as a component in a newly recreated Devastator.

The Verge Before the Dawn. Shockwave ultimately opted out of Megatron's latest insurrection, however, and retreated to the site of the previously-destroyed Crystal City.

Shockwave found that the city had been restored by the Energon ore he had seeded there long before, which he now dubbed Ore Shockwave successfully tested Ore's restorative properties on Dreadwing. Shockwaves In light of recent events, Soundwave confronted Shockwave over the latter's abandonment of Megatron and betrayal of the Decepticon leader's ideals, but to no avail.

Shockpoint Soundwaves. Shockwave's endgame was now in motion. Gathering the various Ores together would give him the power to manipulate reality itself.

With the aid of Jhiaxus' chronal drive , and harnessing the energy of the Dead Universe itself, Shockwave intended to collapse all of reality into a singularity, save for Cybertron itself, which would be eternally powered by the singularity.

Shockwave nearly succeeded, thanks in part to the distractions of his Necrotitan and the Ammonite legions he set loose upon Cybertron, but there was one thing he did not anticipate: Megatron having a change of heart, and befriending Bumblebee in the process. After Shockwave killed Bumblebee, Megatron took the fallen Autobot's insignia for himself, renouncing the Decepticon cause; this distraction allowed Optimus Prime to reach Shockwave and cause the former Senator to recall his pre-Shadowplay self.

Horrified at what he had become, but unable to shut down the drive himself, Shockwave allowed Optimus and Megatron to save reality by destroying the drive, and him along with it.

Dark Cybertron. Or so it was believed. In truth, the Ore-1 within the drive allowed the singularity to manipulate time as well as space, the gravity dragging Shockwave's broken body to twelve million years in the past, in the era following the departure of the Knights of Cybertron.

Aimlessly wandering the Sea of Rust for years, Shockwave chanced upon the shepherd Onyx, slaying him and taking on the identity of " Onyx Prime " so as to engineer a perpetual Decepticon Empire. Masterminding a war to bring together the Thirteen Primes, then using the failed conquest on Antilla to trigger the First Cybertronian Civil War that tore them apart, Shockwave fled Cybertron and returned to the dead Antilla with his Maximal army.

There, Shockwave found that the planet had been refashioned into a dormant anti-Cybertronian superweapon, making plans to use it. Recovering the core of the transmutation device, Shockwave dubbed it the " Talisman " and sent it to Earth while he and the majority remained on Antilla. In late , Antilla was activated, dubbed Unicron by the Talisman. Putting the final phases of his plan into motion, Shockwave reunited with Liege Maximo , the two returning to Cybertron atop Nemesis.

After sowing chaos across the planet, Shockwave revealed his true identity to the populace, revealing that the Primes and the Chosen One prophecy were nothing but fictions, as was all of Cybertron's religion. Though taken prisoner, Shockwave was unconcerned as Unicron was already consuming the Cybertronian colonies. When the Chaos Bringer arrived at Cybertron, Shockwave teleported himself to Earth so he could begin building his new empire only for Unicron to follow.

Deducing that the Talisman had been brought to Earth, Shockwave quickly located it, ordering his servants to retrieve and use it against Unicron only to find that his grand plan had shattered their faith in him as well. Taken prisoner by Prowl and Stardrive , Shockwave played a brief role in Optimus's plan to defeat Unicron before his limbs were taken from him and he was chained up in the Lemuria.

Suffering an identity crisis after wearing so many faces, Shockwave confessed to Prowl that he did not know which persona was the "real" him. With little sympathy, Prowl said that they'd all been him. What Shockwave had always failed to realize was that people were judged, and defined, by their actions, not the intentions that they'd set out with.

Optimus Prime Unicron. After awakening in 19th century America, Shockwave took on the form of an ironclad warship and recruited inventor Tobias Muldoon to the Decepticon side by pretending to be a friend to humanity.

Hearts of Steel 1 He took Muldoon to his Decepticon comrades underwater, where he was questioned by Starscream. Hearts of Steel 2. Years later in , the surviving Decepticons came under the influence of the invading Elder Gods. Shockwave was among those who accepted the beings as their new masters and defended Port Cenotaph on their behalf from intruders.

Infestation 2: The Transformers 1 He soon defended the town against an international fleet, but was shot down. Infestation 2: The Transformers 2. Buzzsaw alternatively served the Decepticon cause on Cybertron under Shockwave's command or on Earth during the Great War. BotCon Buzzsaw profile card. Early in the Great War, the nonaligned Cicadacon was gravely wounded.

Shutting off his emotional processes, he was able to successfully self-repair, but he lost much of his memory. Joining the Decepticons, he served as one for centuries until Unicron's attack on Cybertron in reawakened his true self. General Cicadacon profile card. Shockwave participated in an infiltration of BotCon to track down next year's toy designs, and use them to conquer the Autobots once and for all!

Unfortunately, Shockwave forgot to mention to Megatron that their main target, Eric Siebenaler wouldn't be in attendance, and the plot wound up falling apart. After being nominated two years in a row, Shockwave was sure he'd be a shoe-in for 's Hall of Fame. He discussed the topic with Jazz and Grimlock until Erector and Waspinator came along. The trio mistook Erector for Bumblebee, and so spared him any ridicule, but verbally tore into Waspinator.

After insisting that the Predacon would never stand a chance against them, Shockwave and the others walked off in a huff. Mini Mayhem! Shockwave was one of the Decepticons who helped Megatron start trouble on Earth, though he only fought for himself. When they ran into the Autobots, Shockwave was beaten up by Prowl.

I Am Optimus Prime. During a robot dance competition, Shockwave was among the three judges, all of whom were Decepticons. The commentator was skeptical. Bot Stars. He was present in the audience during Optimus, Bumblebee, and Megatron's boxing match.

Shockwave is a playable character in the PSP version of the game. However he only has one alternate mode, which is a rail-cannon tank based on Energon Shockblast. Accompanied by Thundercracker , he tried to find Megatron in the arctic, only to discover that his leader had been moved. However, he also found something worth more than the All Spark : the massive drone army that had followed Megatron to Earth.

To revive the drones, he had to transmit a signal from a high altitude, so he made his way to a missile base, where he used a rocket to transmit it from space. However, Shockwave's control of the giant robot army was short-lived, as the two Autobots Trailbreaker and Hound planted a virus in the signal, shutting the drones down.

This enraged Shockwave, but his day got worse when he learned that Megatron's location was found was no doubt shocked by his message as Megatron regained his strength announced his debut to the modern world.

Luckily Megatron was defeated, while it was unknown what part Shockwave played in the final battle or how he managed to get back to Cybertron since Thundercracker was presumably put down by the autobots regardless he fought Starscream over leadership of the Decepticons back on Cybertron. He was blasted to bits. Shockwave is a very formidable warrior and ally to the decepticons, he has a Shock Cannon and a blade arm that can kill scouts with ease, his eye also a built in telepathic scope laser but this only in the final mission bummer.

Several decades ago prior to the first film, Shockwave landed in Sibera, where the Soviets found and studied him via cryo stasis, similar to Megatron, but for unknown reasons he was abandoned and also came with his Driller. When the autobots invade Megatron's base, he plans to revive Shockwave, who is being held in Cryo-stasis with his Driller in a chamber of an abandoned Soviet military base that now serves as Megatron's base.

Megatron finds it ironic that the Russians froze Shockwave the same way as the Americans froze him. He deactivates the cyro process, but Optimus Prime arrives. The two battle, but Megatron deactivates Optimus' overshield and eventually defeats him. Megatron shoves Optimus into the Cryo-Statis chamber, where Prime discovers that Shockwave is thawing out from his icy prison. Ratchet activates the coolant tubes to keep Shockwave frozen, but the two of the Driller's arms activate, and destroy the tubes.

Shockwave soon reactivates, and jumps off the platform he was frozen on, and attacks Optimus. However, Optimus forces Shockwave to retreat back onto the platform by damaging his weapon cooling tanks on his back. Before leaping to the platform, Shockwave blasts the ice holding the rest of the Driller frozen, reactivating it as well.

Shockwave repeatidly fires at the Autobot, but Optimus manages to defeat the Driller, and Shockwave returns to battle Optimus. Autobot reinforcements arrive, but Shockwave easily kills them. Optimus Prime activates his jetpack and fires a volley of missiles at Shockwave.

Shockwave would have been deactivated but, the Driller shields its master from the attack and retreats. The Decepticons regroup in Nambia, where Megatron orders the Decepticon assassin to recover an artifact in an abandoned nuclear factory located in Chernobyl, leading up to the movie.

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Explore Wikis Community Central. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. Select Installments. Sold Out. Add to Wishlist. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Copy. Shockwave was left to watch Cybertron by Megatron long ago, arriving on Earth to hunt for the AllSpark shortly after Megatron.

A peerless scientist with deadly efficiency and a cold devotion to logic, he is one of the very few who could rival Megatron. Shockwave is ready and willing to destroy the Autobots with his arm-mounted AstroMag Cannon. Most anticipated Decepticons Transformers Statue standing at 37 inches tall.

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