Shockwave (02-03-09)
Transformer of the Day for February 3, 2009
SHOCKWAVE
-Faction: Decepticon
-Era: Generation One (1984-1992)
-Function: Military Operations Commander
-Motto: “Clarity of Thought Before Rashness of Action”
-Notable Toy: Alternators (Hasbro, 2005)
Shockwave, a calculating one-eyed, one-laser caretaker of Cybertron who transforms into a flying space gun. And even though you seemed to do a great job of running Cybertron for like four million years in Megatron’s absence, your cartoon persona never made a play for leadership. But your comic self was always a player. So many good figures too but in the end I went with the Alternator. Even if it meant going by your maiden name, Shockblast.
(For more information on Shockwave, check out the Generation One Transformer Bible.)
[...] Whatever the era, Megatron needs a toadie. In G1, it seemed as though Shockwave and Soundwave fought over the title. In Robots in Disguise, Sky-Byte wanted to be in his [...]
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