Soundwave (BW)

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:''Soundwave is a [[Mutant (BW)|Mutant]] from the [[Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Soundwavemutantcardart.jpg|right|200px|thumb|He's a wild sheila!]]

'''Soundwave''' is a brooder, like his fellow Mutants, with a tendency towards the dramatic. He has ultra-sensitive internal radar, and his tail can send seismic shock waves through the ground.

==Fiction==
===''Universe: Featuring the Wreckers''===
[[Image:Wreckers Mutants.jpg|left|200px|thumb|If only they DID have hands, my woman. If only... they DID have hands.]]
Soundwave and the other three Mutants were discarded offspring of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s experiments. Despite their "tortured existence", they were given a mission from the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] itself: Travel to the [[Outer Orion cluster]], where they would find a way to restore their true forms and heal their fractured [[Spark|Sparks]]. {{storylink|Departure}}

Arriving at [[New Quintessa|their destination]], Soundwave was increasingly cynical about the nature of their mission. His pessimism seemed justified, as he and the other Mutants were herded into a [[Quintesson]] courtroom and sentenced to death, despite their pleas. Though it appeared that all four were devoured by [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] {{storylink|Betrayal}}, only Soundwave and [[Razor Claw]] met their gruesome end. [[Poison Bite]] and [[Icebird]] survived, revealing the Mutants' role as avatars of [[Primus]] as the remaining two extinguished the lives of their would-be executors. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}
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===IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics===
[[Image:Bw soundwave.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Place lame Crocodile Dundee joke here.]]
Soundwave was one of the many [[protoform]]s from the remaining ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' [[Stasis pod|stasis pods]] to be reactivated by [[Razorbeast]]. He and his fellow Mutants took up residence in a swamp. When a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] scouting party intruded on their home, the Mutants defended their home vigorously—in the course of the slaughter, Soundwave bit [[Powerpinch]]'s leg off. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 3|The Gathering #3}}
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==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
* '''Soundwave''' (Mutant, 2000)

: Soundwave is a [[deluxe]]-sized toy and can transform between bat and alligator forms. He has a panel on the chest of his bat mode that can be lifted to reveal mechanical parts. His robot face can be revealed within the bat's mouth by pressing a spine on the back of the bat head.

: His alligator mode has Reed Richards' arms and looks damned strange.

: This mold was to be used to make [[Leatherhide]], but that toy was ultimately canceled.
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==Notes==
* The four Mutants were originally developed as toys for the ''[[Animorphs]]'' line. But with that line's cancellation, the molds were [[retool]]ed to replace the human parts with robotic bits, as well as change the Animorphs logo with the new "Mutant" [[faction symbol]].
* Early pictures of Soundwave showed him with green plastic rather than brown, presumably on the whole "alligator=green" thing... leading to not only a damn strange-looking bat mode, but some color redundancy with Razor Claw.
* Although this redundancy may have been preferrable to the inevitable [[Gold Plastic Syndrome|Gold Plastic Syndrome]] instead.
Also that soundwave´s beast modes are the same animals as the first primal and megatron figures ever released from beast wars

==External links==
* [http://tfu.info/2000/Mutant/Soundwave/soundwave.htm Soundwave at TFU.info]

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