Editing Squawkbox

:''Squawkbox is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Squawkbox.jpg|thumb|250px|Squawkbox's ''Hearts of Steel'' body.  Many high schools will send you home if you show up wearing a skirt this short.]]

'''Squawkbox''' &mdash; the combined form of the Decepticons [[Beastbox]] and [[Squawktalk]] &mdash; is a passionate musician.  He loves playing with sound, using the combined powers of his components.  Listening to, creating, and manipulating sound is his life.  The results of his compositions have been called "unnervingly cacophonous", but his Decepticon commanders came up with a way to put them to good use.

Squawkbox has been assigned the function of "Battlefield Dissonance" and set free to distract and disorient the [[Autobot]]s with his latest works.  Squawkbox is thrilled to have both a captive audience and access to all the terrible sounds of a battlefield for future use.  Unfortunately for him, his work can prove just as detrimental to his teammates as his opponents if he's not careful, and at that point it's anyone's guess as to which side will be the first to try and shut him up via photon blaster.

==Fiction==
===IDW comics continuity===
At the beginning of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict, Squawkbox and a number of [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]'s other minions watched [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] massacre the [[Kaon Council]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin, part 4}}

Much later, and much to Squawkbox's discomfort, [[Sixshot]] asked him to locate the missing [[Terrorcon (G1)|Terrorcons]].  Squawkbox fearfully complied and directed Sixshot to the planet [[Mumu-Obscura]] to find his comrades. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sixshot}}

===IDW ''[[Hearts of Steel]]'' continuity===
[[Image:Sb hos.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Telegraphic Communication.  Hh.]]
Squawkbox served as [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream's]] communications officer while [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] was in stasis lock.  When Starscream learned the [[Autobots]] were active, he ordered Squawkbox to alert the other Decepticon forces by telegraph.  Squawkbox gets one line in the story: "Yes, ''Starscream!''"  (As ''Hearts of Steel'' was published before his appearance in the main IDW continuity, this may be his first line of dialogue in canon fiction, ever.)  His component parts are not specifically named, but the concept art shows that they turn into a mechanical gorilla and a mechanical eagle.  {{Storylink|Hearts of Steel, Part 3}}

''Squawkbox's appearance on the B cover of this issue, and his appearance inside, are slightly different (color scheme, location of his Decepticon logo), but are within the bounds of normal artistic variation.''

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
*'''Squawktalk & Beastbox''' (Micro Cassettes 2-pack, 1988)
: The Decepticon cassettes [[Squawktalk]] and [[Beastbox]] were packaged together, and combined to form the humanoid robot Squawkbox. Though they had separate bios, the combined form lacked one. They were the last Decepticon cassettes ever released in the United States, years after Soundwave himself stopped being available.

: In Japan, Squawkbox was only available as a mail-away [[exclusive]] during ''[[Masterforce]]''.

==Trivia==
* Squawkbox got his first ever official profile/bio in the [[Dreamwave]] "More Than Meets The Eye" Guide, 15 years after the toy was released.
* In IDW continuity Squawkbox exists before [[combiner]] technology has become available to either faction. This means that either Squawkbox is the core being and he's later split into Squawktalk and Beastbox or um . . . some dumb stubby screwed up.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Squawkbox/squawkbox.htm Squawkbox at TFU.info]

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