Voice box

2019-08-10T19:52:59Z

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A '''voice box''', (interchangeably called a '''voicebox''', '''voice capacitor''', '''voice chip''', '''vocoder''', '''voice synthesizer''', or a '''speech synthesizer''') is a biomechanism that allows [[Transformer]]s to speak in the spoken word. Without the aid of a voice box, a Transformer can usually only communicate via electronic noises which can be interpreted by others of their kind but not generally by [[human]]s—unless you are [[Raf Esquivel]]...

Or [[Cody Burns]].

Or [[Izabella]]

==Fiction==
===Live-action film series===
====IDW Movie comics====
When the [[AllSpark]] was due to be launched off [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] distracted [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] long enough for the sacred relic to plunge into a wormhole and out of the tyrant's immediate grasp. Before he launched off after it, in act of utterly petty revenge, Megatron crushed the scout's voice capacitor beyond repair. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} After the battle in [[Mission City]], Bumblebee regained his voice {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}} but lost it soon thereafter when he threw himself in front of one of [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s attacks, saving [[Salani]] and [[Robert Epps]]. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}}

====''The Last Knight''====
[[Daytrader]] provided Bumblebee with a new voice box that he'd managed to pick up on his travels. Upon installation however, Bumblebee was quite miffed to find it wasn't his voice. He reacted to this by willingly tearing out the voice box and discarded it. He inexplicably regained his speech when duelling [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Nemesis Prime]]. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

====''Bumblebee'' film====
When scout B-127 arrived on [[Earth]], he was quickly targeted by the Decepticon [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]] and interrogated for the location of Optimus Prime. When the scout refused to speak, Blitzwing decided to "make it official" and ripped out his speech synthesis chip. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

===''Animated'' cartoon continuity===
As part of his revenge against [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], [[Wasp]] usurped the [[Autobot]]'s identity, even swapping their voice synthesizers, something the rest of Bumblebee's team was unwilling to believe at first. When he was exposed, Wasp swapped their voices back. {{storylink|Where Is Thy Sting?}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====''Fall of Cybertron''====
When the ''Ark'' was boarded, [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] was briefly knocked into [[stasis lock]]. When he came to, [[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] gave him a once over, noting the scout was fine, minus the still crushed voice chip. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
During the [[Great War (Prime)|Great War]], [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] tortured Bumblebee for information at [[Tyger Pax]]. His life was saved by Ratchet, but his voice box was not. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}}

Megatron said the first [[Decepticon]] on his crew to address [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Orion Pax]] as "Optimus Prime" would have their voice box torn out. {{storylink|Orion Pax, Part 1}}

Ratchet regretted his inability to repair Bumblebee's voice box and doubted he'd be able to repair Bee's [[Transformation cog|T-cog]] as well. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

While Bumblebee was able to adjust to his limited form of speech, bringing up the topic of his voice box was still a sore subject for him. He was particularly offended by [[Smokescreen (Prime)|Smokescreen]]'s saying that his substitute voice box was his signature and he shouldn't want to replace it. {{storylink|Minus One}}

Ratchet mentioned Megatron destroying Bumblebee's voice box as one of the reasons for refusing to help perfect the [[Synthetic Energon]] formula for him before the tyrant's promise of Cybertronian technology and a reborn Cybertron won the Autobot over. {{storylink|Persuasion}}

When Bumblebee's lifeless body fell into the [[Omega Lock]]'s energy field, the [[Living metal#Aligned continuity|cyber-matter]] not only restored his [[spark]], but his voice box as well. {{storylink|Deadlock}}

====''Rescue Bots'' cartoon====
When Bumblebee first stopped by at [[Griffin Rock]], [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] explained Bumblebee's lack of speech to the Burns family. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (RB)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}} They were quite surprised to see he'd regained his vocal ability some years later. {{storylink|Uninvited Guest}}

====''Robots in Disguise'' 2015====
Upon realizing that [[Blastwave]] was unable to speak except through grunting and [[Cybertronian Sign Language]], Bumblebee thought that the bounty hunter's voice box was also damaged like his had originally been. {{storylink|Guilty As Charged}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
During the horrific event known as the [[Rending]], [[Throttlebot]] commander [[Goldbug (IDW)|Goldbug]]'s vocoder was shredded, leaving him unable to speak. He instead communicated by text dispatch for orders requiring clarity, and snippets of old [[Earth]] songs when emotion or urgency was required. {{storylink|Derailment}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
In the latter stages of the [[Great War (Cyberverse)|Great War]], [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] discovered that the Decepticons had captured [[Vector Sigma]] only to be discovered during his mission. Brought before [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]], the tyrant revealed he would use Vector Sigma to have the AllSpark birth a new generation of Decepticons. In an act of pure sadism, the warlord tore then tore out Bumblebee's voice box to prevent him from speaking about what he'd seen. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
As [[Rubble]] eager bounced around the wilderness outside [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], the ignored [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] sarcastically asked if his voice-box was malfunctioning. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part One}}

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