Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!
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| "Soundwave's Trap? Stop Operation Brainwash Humanity!" サウンドウェーブの罠? 人類洗脳作戦を止めろ!
(Soundwave no Wana? Jinrui Sennō Sakusen o Tomero!) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | TakaraTomy | ||||||||||||
| First published | April 5, 2014 | ||||||||||||
| By | Makoto Wakabayashi | ||||||||||||
The Decepticons have a plan to use music for evil.
Synopsis
[edit]A new portable music player is trending among the humans of the city, who are unaware that the devices are in fact clones of Soundwave, created as a Decepticon plot to brainwash them into slaves using hypnotic music. As always, the Decepticons find themselves opposed by the Autobots, in particular Jazz, who won't forgive those who use music for evil.
Soundwave and his many clones unleash a musical sound attack upon the Autobots, but Jazz and the others counter with a session of their own. The music that fills the air soothes Megatron's mind, and he realizes that spring has come and the cherry trees are blossoming around them. He declares a ceasefire so that everyone can sing, drink and view the flowers together, and as a party ensues, Jazz reflects that in the end, the purpose of music is to make people have fun and be at peace.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
[edit]- The Soundwave music players, as well as Blaster's altmode, are based on a Soundwave-based accessory included with the Kre-O Stealth Bumblebee set.
- Blaster now wears a helmet based on Jazz's instead of the Bumblebee helmet he wore in #10.
Transformers references
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- Several references are made to the Transformers Music Label toyline: the Decepticon plot is the same as Soundwave's plan from the relevant storyline, the copies of Optimus Prime and one of the Soundwaves are colored like Music Label toys, and the giant speakers the Primes stand on are based on the Convoy iPod speakers.
- The other Soundwave copies are based on Soundblaster, Mutant Beast Wars Soundwave, and Universe Soundwave.
- Basso, Zebop, and Allegra hail from the music-themed Generation 1 cartoon episode "Carnage in C-Minor".
- Lio Convoy and Heinrad get together under the cherry blossoms in reference to the Beast Wars Neo episode "Graduation Ceremony!!", where the original characters did the same thing. Meanwhile, Raiden, DaiKenzan, and Drift are just there because of how Japanese they are.
- Hardhead gets drunk and sings, like his Generation 1 counterpart did in the Headmasters episode "The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok".
- In the final panel, Blaster is colored in his Twincast color scheme from The Headmasters.
