Star Trek’s Spock is easily one of the most influential science fiction characters of all time. Even actor Leonard Nimoy could not escape the Balkan shadow, despite having a long and fulfilling career outside of it. In fact, before his death in 2015, Nimoy played the voice of a villain in two separate “Transformers” movies.
In the 1986 animated film “Transformers,” Nimoy played Galvatron, the reincarnation of Decepticon leader Megatron. galvanized By the power of the dark god Unicron. Nimoy then voiced Sentinel Prime, the mentor of Autobot leader Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen), in Michael Bay’s 2011 live-action film Transformers: Dark of the Moon. played. The Sentinels, who started the “Transformers” tradition, turn out to be villains who ally with the Decepticons to conquer Earth and restore the Transformers’ war-torn world of Cybertron.
Aside from his two voice-over roles, Nimoy also inspired Transformers. another An important method via Spock. Marvel Comics writer Bob Budiansky wrote most of the original Transformers character biographies and comics. Decepticon Shockwave is modeled after Spock. Spock’s defining character traits were his obsession with logic and suppression of emotion, so Shockwave was written as an evil version of that. He is ruthless, brutally competent, and willing to usurp Megatron if he feels he is underperforming as a leader.
Shockwave transformed into a gun like the leader, but sci fi laser pistol Unlike the realistic Walter P-38 handgun. Megatron became like this. (Both were toys imported from Japan and rebranded by Hasbro. Megatron started out as Takara’s “Gun Robo” and Shockwave started out as Toyko’s “4 Changeable Astro Magnum.”) The Shockwave toys were It debuted on the US market in 1985, the second year of “Transformers.” ” However, because he has appeared since the beginning of the manga, he is often remembered as a first-grade character. The animated Shockwave is played by the prolific Corey Burton, and his voice is modeled after David Warner’s performance in Tron.
Shockwave disappeared from the comics after season 2 – a deleted scene from the movie resulted in Shockwave being killed by Unicron. An unfulfilled plan in Season 3 led him to defect to the Autobot side. But while “Transformers” forgot about Shockwave, most of the subsequent reboots forgot about him. He is one of the most frequently appearing characters in the series, and is a member of the “Big Four” Decepticons along with Megatron, Starscream, and Soundwave. Shockwave has a consistent design (purple color scheme, cannon on his left arm, square Cyclops head), but in later “Transformers” projects, his Spock-like features are mixed in logical and illogical ways. reinterpreted.
