Heatwave (Timelines)
- Heatwave is a heroic Decepticon from the Shattered Glass continuity family.
Heatwave has a unique affinity for machinery. His strange powers allow him to converse—literally—with non-sentient devices, as if they were a fellow 'bot. He can learn their status, make requests of them, and possibly even effect repairs, all with a simple touch of his hands. The strangeness of this gift doesn't quite register with the quirky, cheerful Heatwave, who casually talks to and about unliving machines as if they were his drinking buddies. Amid the strangeness that is the Shattered Glass universe, this bizarre talent hardly seems out of place, and his heroic Decepticon allies just shake their heads at his oddities.
Heatwave's gifts are but a hint of a greater destiny that he is likely unaware of—he is the torso piece of Nexus Maximus, created by Primus at the dawn of time to guard the multiverse's Rarified Energon.
Fiction
Shattered Glass
Heatwave was a member of Megatron's forces when they attacked the Ark, a ship the Autobots built to help them conquer other worlds. Shattered Glass
Later, when the Ark was launched for a second time, Heatwave was among the Decepticons who joined the crew of the Nemesis to pursue and intercept it. Cliffjumper ended up being confused by the fact that he didn't remember ever seeing a double of Heatwave in his home universe.
When the Nemesis was shot down over Earth, Heatwave made use of his abilities to "talk" to the ship's computer, mentally assessing the ship's damage and rerouting some of the systems to gain enough functionality to help Starscream evacuate the crew safely. He and Soundwave were then the last of the crew to leave in escape pods while Starscream and Cliffjumper remained behind to ensure the ship didn't crash in an occupied area. Do Over
After arriving on Earth, Heatwave tracked Soundwave's stasis pod to a human tourist attraction, where he had to dispatch some dangerous "lifeforms" and rescue Soundwave from being one of the attractions. After telling the stasis pod to repair and reformat his comrade, the two set out to gather Soundwave's cassettes that had landed nearby, find the Nemesis, and reunite with the other Decepticons. The Desert Heat!
The two eventually ended up coming across Professor Arkeville, Sephie, Will, and Rick busy investigating the Nemesis's crash site. After Ravage frightened and chased the humans for a bit, Heatwave and Soundwave finally transformed and revealed their true identities. Heatwave convinced the humans that they meant no harm, while Frenzy explained their situation. They then all boarded the Nemesis to meet up with Starscream and Cliffjumper.
Heatwave went along to help out as they worked on locating and reactivating the other Decepticons that had landed on Earth in the pods. When they eventually found out that Rodimus and the other Autobots had survived their own landing and seized control of the planet's Global Orbital Defense Satellites, Heatwave was tapped to locate which military base they were sequestered in. He spoke with various military computers over the infoweb until he found one that didn't respond, and thus was likely to have been rendered offline by the Autobots.
While the humans and other Decepticons infiltrated the main part of the base, Heatwave made his way to the satellite transmitter on the base's roof. Once there, he convinced the transmitter to tell the base computer to reopen the base and evacuate everyone, ripping the transmitter from the roof to get clear himself. He then had the controller turn one of the GODSes on the base to destroy it. Finally he reluctantly used his hands to crush the controller itself — mournfully lamenting that it was a "brave transmitter that knew what had to be done" — which caused the primary GODS to self-destruct. Eye in the Sky
Toys
Timelines
- Heatwave (club freebie, 2009)
- Heatwave is a retool of Energon Barricade with a new combiner robot head. Heatwave transforms into an eight-wheeled multiple launch rocket system with a rear-mounted (non-firing) missile rack that turns and elevates. He also forms the torso to Nexus Maximus along with Skyfall, Landquake, Breakaway, and Topspin. He is also capable of combining with any "Powerlinx Combiner" limb-robot combination thanks to the universal connector points used for the Air Team, Destruction Team and Construction Team toys.
- Heatwave has a minor flaw in that the new combiner head is slightly too tall for the space it is supposed to occupy in Heatwave's robot mode. Due to this, the back chunk no longer pegs securely in place. Thankfully, the hinges are strong enough to hold it up anyway.
- This mold, pre-retool, was also used to make Universe Onslaught and Revenge of the Fallen Onslaught.
- As a club freebie, Heatwave came with a membership card with a lenticular image on the front showing an illustration by Tom Whalen of Heatwave from "Eye in the Sky"), and Heatwave's bio on the back.
