Editing Soundwave (Transformers) (section)

===Films===
In ''Revenge of the Fallen'', Soundwave is only seen in his Cybertronian satellite mode, hovering above Earth in orbit. Like his original counterpart, he functions as a Decepticon espionage agent and communications officer. In the film, he receives a message from [[Wheelie (Transformers)|Wheelie]] on Mikaela Banes possessing a shard of the Allspark and orders him to retrieve it. Soundwave would later hack into a human satellite and discover the location of another Allspark shard, deploying his servant Ravage to retrieve it. Following the death of Optimus Prime, Soundwave would carry out Megatron's orders to prepare the Decepticons for an invasion of Earth. Soundwave would later locate [[Sam Witwicky]]'s parents in [[Paris]], France. Ravage was later killed by [[Bumblebee (Transformers)|Bumblebee]].

Frank Welker returned to reprise his role as Soundwave in this movie, and the film following after, but unlike his G1 counterpart, his voice was not vocoded, which the character was well known for.

In ''Dark of the Moon'', Soundwave was retconned into having been on Earth since the 1970s. He discovered the Autobot spaceship, the ''[[Ark (Transformers)|Ark]]'', on the Moon, and forcibly recruited various human servants from the U.S. and Russian space agencies to prevent further exploration of it following the initial Moon landings, while he ordered an army of Decepticons to steal most of the pillars onboard and hide under the moon's surface. In the modern day, he appears at Megatron's base in [[Africa]], where he and [[Laserbeak]] report the Autobot's recovery of Sentinel Prime and the remaining pillars from the crashed ''Ark''. Megatron praises Soundwave's initiative in the decades-long plan and orders Laserbeak to kill their human allies. The only human ally they don't kill, Dylan Gould, has Soundwave disguise himself as a [[Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG]] that belonged to Sam's girlfriend, Carly, to get close to the Autobots. He reveals himself and captures Carly once the two humans learn of Gould's alliance with the Decepticons, and threatens her to convince Sam to discover the Autobot's plans. During the battle in [[Chicago]], Soundwave and Barricade lead several Decepticons in capturing some of the Autobots. Gould convinces Soundwave not to take prisoners, and Soundwave orders the others to execute their "trophies". Once Que is dead, Soundwave prepares to kill Bumblebee himself, but a Decepticon battle-cruiser hijacked by Wheelie and [[Brains (Transformers)|Brains]] drops fighters near Soundwave, distracting him and allowing the Autobots to fight back. Bumblebee attacks Soundwave who tries to shoot him, but is confused among the crushing ships and shoots the other Decepticons. Bumblebee then kills Soundwave by sticking his cannon into Soundwave's chest and shooting upwards.

In ''Bumblebee'', Soundwave is seen on Cybertron along with [[Shockwave (Transformers)|Shockwave]] and [[Starscream]] commanding the Decepticons in the war against the Autobots. He manages to capture [[Optimus Prime]] with the help of a small army and Ravage, but Prime escapes from them.