Editing Soundwave (Transformers) (section)

====Dreamwave Productions====
In [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s 21st century re-imagining of the Generation 1 continuity, Soundwave was recruited to the Decepticons 9 million years ago through Megatron's underground gladiatorial games, and made head of communications. When a new Autobot leader, [[Optimus Prime]], was chosen, Soundwave was sent along with Ravage and the [[Insecticons]], to attempt to kill him and recover the [[Matrix of Leadership|Autobot Matrix of Leadership]] for Megatron, but they failed, forcing Megatron to confront Optimus personally.

Even in the face of failures such as this, and later the loss of Megatron in an early space bridge experiment, Soundwave's loyalty to the Decepticon cause never wavered, as he remained true to the faction under [[Shockwave (Transformers)|Shockwave]]'s leadership.

As in most other continuities, the story continues in the traditional manner, with Soundwave a member of the ''[[Nemesis (Transformers)|Nemesis]]'' crew who attacked the ''[[Ark (Transformers)|Ark]]'' and was sent into stasis when the craft crashed on Earth, awakening again in 1984. After years of fighting on Earth, eventually the combined forces of the Autobots and their human allies were able to defeat and capture the Decepticons. The intent was for the Autobots to take their enemies back to Cybertron aboard a new craft named the ''Ark II'', but just as the ship cleared the atmosphere, it exploded, the victim of machinations by Shockwave, who did not want Prime and Megatron to return to Cybertron yet.

Soundwave's body crashed back to Earth in the [[Arctic]], where he remained inactive for several years, until rogue military scientist Adam Rook, calling himself "Lazarus", recovered and reactivated him, putting him under his control with a program he had developed while studying the Transformers before their explosive departure. Several other Autobots and Decepticons fell to the same fate, and were to be sold on the black market. Soundwave himself was put on display by being sent to attack the Smitco Oil Refinery alongside several other Transformers — but when Megatron liberated himself, Soundwave was soon freed by his leader and assumed his position at his side.

When Shockwave arranged for the capture and extradition of Prime and Megatron's forces as [[war crime|war criminal]]s, Soundwave was among the captives, but when Starscream jettisoned Megatron into space on the return trip to Cybertron, Soundwave made the best of a bad lot and teamed with Starscream to return to Earth and conquer it, being reunited with [[Ratbat]] in the process. Heading back to Earth in a kidnapped Sky Lynx and with the [[Combaticons]] now added to their ranks, the Decepticons attacked the ''Ark'' in hopes of acquiring parts to make the ''Nemesis'' spaceworthy again, however Soundwave, [[Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker]] were defeated and thrown in the ''Ark'''s brig. When the Combaticons, combined as [[Bruticus]], laid into the vessel, they were freed.

It was not much later that the surviving Megatron made contact with Soundwave from space, and Soundwave was all too willing to return to his service, setting up Starscream to fall before Megatron when he returned. And return, Megatron did— but the bankruptcy and subsequent closure of [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]' left the rest of the story untold.

Soundwave also appeared in the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]' Transformers/G.I. Joe series as one of the Decepticons uncovered by [[Cobra Command|Cobra]] at the start of [[World War II]]. Transforming into a radio, he was deactivated at the series' end by [[Grimlock]]. Although Dreamwave's collapse precluded the completion of the second series, released art and information revealed that Soundwave would have been involved in the conclusion of that series.<ref>{{cite web|author=Seibertron.com |url=http://www.seibertron.com/comics/view.php?comic_id=774 |title=Transformers/GI Joe Vol 2: Divided Front #5: "Transformers/GI Joe Vol 2: Divided Front" |publisher=Seibertron.com |date=2005-02-01 |access-date=2010-04-27}}</ref>