As much as I love Shockwave, the best part of his character for me, is that nobody likes him.
I don’t mean that everyone explicitly hates this mad scientist, just ones in a while cons show some sort of care for each other: Megatron worrying about Soundwave, when he was captured; Soundwave monitoring Starscream, while he was on his own; Soundwave exposing traitors to Megs; KnockOut and Breakdown having a good dynamic etc. But no one even checked if Shockwave was really dead after his encounter with Arcee and Cliff (for instance, Soundwave monitored Earth orbit constantly to detect Megs life signal, but no work was done for this guy). Moreover, despite his close work with Megatron, warlord actually despises him in private. And we are not talking about Autobots, who clearly hate him, and have felt like this long before the war.
Him being an outcast, but longing for someone to accompany and like him someday. Just AHHHHHHHHH!
There is an amazing essay on him btw! I definitely recommend checking it out 👏
I feel like this scene is often overlooked in terms of Dreadwing’s realizations. In that moment he just sees how much less honorable his leader has become. It is just so unsettling…
Dreadwing’s face kills me here. And not in a comedic way. I mean, it actually shatters me.
I’m certain he thought of how corrupt his cause had become several times, even before Skyquake’s “resurrection” was the final straw.
Part of me wants to see Soundwave resurrecting Megatron as a beautiful act of his love/devotion to him.
And there is the other part, that views it as a way for Soundwave to piss Shockwave off with his abilities. I mean, can you imagine being a lead scientist on your team and then have a spy outplaying you by coming up with some kind of resurrection technology! He must be livid 🧨
I always thought that aligned/tfp soundwave had a decent bit of medical knowledge from his time as a gladiator because I'm sure that there wasn't much medical care available. He probably learned how to patch himself up out of necessity.
YES, it would be totally wise to do so! I think despite gladiator fights being popular, medical personnel would not be all fair other then being just completely absent. I mean they could steal body parts and sell them without problems. So it would make sense for Sounds to learn how to patch himself up a little, to not to get in any situations 🤔