Shockwave (Movie) - Transformers Wiki. The name or term "Shockwave" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Shockwave (disambiguation).

Shockwave is a Decepticon from the live- action moviecontinuity family. Watch Victim Online Hitfix. Shockwave was left to watch Cybertron by Megatron long ago, but he would eventually follow the call of the All.

Spark to Earth. Deadly efficient with a cold devotion to logic, Shockwave is a killing machine like few others, and is one of the very few who could rival Megatron. Shockwave is ready and willing to destroy the Autobots with his arm- mounted Astro. Mag Cannon. Fiction. Movies. Revenge of the Fallen film. At some point during 2.

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Shockwave was caught on film and the event was written up for a newspaper article. A newspaper page with the headline "Mysterious Robot Spotted" was discarded in Egypt, where it was sucked up by a rampaging Devastator. Revenge of the Fallen. Dark of the Moon film. Voice actor: Frank Welker (English), Jirō Saitō (Japanese), Horst Lampe (German), Alessandro Ballico (Italian), Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza (Latin American Spanish)Shockwave and his pet Driller attacked the Autobots when they were summoned to Chernobyl by the Decepticon agent Alexi Voskhod.

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This was done as an act of misdirection to ensure that the Autobots did not realize that the Decepticons actually wanted them to find the fuel cell from the Ark located within the facility. After Optimus retrieved the fuel cell from the Driller, Shockwave emerged from it to reveal himself to Optimus, and the pair quickly retreated underground, leaving Optimus very disturbed to see Shockwave on Earth. Later, Shockwave took part in the invasion of Chicago. He and the Driller emerged from beneath the convoy of Autobots, and the Driller separated Optimus from his trailer.

Shockwave left the Driller and proceeded to track down the Autobots. The Wreckers were sent to distract him, peppering his armor with fire from their machine- guns.

He used a car as a shield and fired at them, and once they drove off, he menacingly began to pursue them down the road, missing the two small Autobots, Wheelie and Brains, who quickly fled. Later, he noticed humans inside a building, and sent his Driller into the fray to topple a building and kill Sam Witwicky, Carly Spencer, Robert Epps, and the other humans inside. However, the beast was killed by Optimus Prime using his flight gear. Enraged by the death of his pet, Shockwave opened fire on the Autobot leader, briefly disabling him and taking him out of the fight. He soon joined Soundwave and Barricade in rounding up the other Autobots. Brains and Wheelie forestalled the Decepticons from further executing their prisoners by taking control of a Decepticon gunship, and dropping fighters onto the battlefield. Shockwave retreated further away with Barricade and some other Decepticons, but the human soldiers had set a trap and fired upon them.

Shockwave's face was obscured by one of their parachutes, and his eye was then shot out by the Wreckers, causing it to dangle by its wires. He then attempted to escape, but Optimus Prime came charging back into the battle, and when Shockwave fired at him, the Autobot dodged the shot, donned a set of knuckle- spikes, and punched Shockwave so hard that part of his abdomen shattered. Even this did not put Shockwave down, but Prime did not give up - he punched Shockwave again, pinned the Decepticon down and tore his dangling eye out through his throat, finally killing the bloodthirsty Decepticon. Optimus then used Shockwave's cannon to shoot out the control pillar set up in the city. Dark of the Moon. Age of Extinction film. Five years after the Battle of Chicago, Shockwave was listed as "deceased" by the CIA taskforce "Cemetery Wind".

Age of Extinction. The Last Knight film. When Viviane Wembly was abducted by Hot Rod, she remarked that her captor had better be a famous Transformer, like Shockwave or Soundwave, perhaps unaware that both Deceptions were deceased. Hot Rod retorted that he was more impressive than either of them. The Last Knight. The Last Knight TRF prisoner bios. Shockwave's death on Earth greatly angered fellow Decepticon Nitro Zeus.

Titan movie comics. While Starscream didn't like or trust Shockwave, he respected his intelligence and, if he had to choose, would give the nod to Shockwave being his successor. Star Screams. IDW movie comics"Your star burns! I require frozen treats."Eons after the Dynasty of Primes were vanquished, Cybertron fell into dark times. The All. Spark had been buried somewhere within Cybertron and been dismissed as a legend, and the planet itself lacked a star to orbit. As energy became more and more scarce, Cybertronians segregated into tribes.

Shockwave chose to rally behind Sentinel Prime, who claimed to be descended from Primus himself. However, he faced opposition from the non- believer Thetacons, and Shockwave joined Megatron, Optimus, and several others in repelling their attacks.

Ultimately, Sentinel Prime won the day, as he and Wheeljack were successful in locating the lost All. Spark and harnessing a new sun to orbit.

This, however, did not please Shockwave. Now that the war was over, he was dissatisfied, and he no longer knew his purpose. This shocked his old friend, Megatron, and Shockwave explained that it was the journey he enjoyed, not the destination.

Plus, well, that new sun was kind of bright. Foundation #1. The next day, Megatron detailed to Shockwave how he had eavesdropped on a conversation between Sentinel and Optimus, where Sentinel had tried to pass on leadership to Optimus, who refused, unable to accept he was also a Prime. At the outskirts of Thetacon, they encountered a Driller, a subterranean lifeform that had been brought to the planet's surface by the new energy flowing through it, which was attacking a group of Hatchlings and their protector Starscream. Shockwave was amazed by the creature and called it "magnificent".

After besting it, he joined the Cybertronian Defense Force that Sentinel placed under Megatron's command, rooting out dissident Transformers. Foundation #2. After the war broke out he joined the Decepticons. Watch Kidnapping Mr. Heineken Putlocker. As Starscream was asking what to do next minutes before the Nemesis went to space, Shockwave told him that they would obey Megatron's orders without any question. Foundation #3 When the Autobots attacked Simfur Temple, Shockwave attempted to apprehend Elita- One, but with no success. When Starscream blew up the ship carrying Sentinel and his secret weapon, Shockwave ordered the annihilation of the retreating Autobots, but Megatron made him stand down, gleefully predicting Optimus would return with a vengeance.

Foundation #4. Shockwave returned with Megatron to his citadel during Optimus's revenge attack. Foundation #1 Shockwave asked Megatron if he could kill Optimus Prime and Ironhide after they had been stuck by the smelting pool, but Megatron was disappointed by Shockwave's lack of vision.

Foundation #3 Optimus got inside to fight Megatron, while Starscream and Shockwave attempted to kill their former comrade Ironhide. Suddenly, the skies darkened: the Autobots had attacked the citadel to distract the Decepticons from their true goal of stealing the All. Spark from the temple. Optimus blasted Starscream and Shockwave, and the two Autobots escaped.

Foundation #4 Some time later, after the Autobots sent the All Spark into space, Starscream left Shockwave in charge of the Decepticons still on Cybertron as he went in search of his prize. During a battle with a team of Autobots, Shockwave heard the scream of the All. Spark when it was found by Sector Seven. Leaving Dreadwing in charge of the Decepticons on Cybertron, Shockwave set out in an impossibly fast ship, swearing not to return without the All. Spark. He crashed in Tunguska, Siberia in 1. He remained buried there in stasis lock, healing until Soviet Russia found him ten years later.

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NOVA - Official Website Hunting the Elements. HUNTING THE ELEMENTSPBS Airdate: April 4, 2. DAVID POGUE (Technology Guru): Why do bombs go boom?

You have created fire! I could feel that puppy! How much gold is in 4. MIKE LASSITER (Refinery Supervisor, Barrick Gold Corporation): There's about a million and a half dollars there. DAVID POGUE: Oh, man!

What's that gorilla doing there? And how come rare earths, the metals that make our gadgets go, aren't that rare at all? Watch out with the hammer. What are you…? LAWRENCE L.

LARRY" JONES (The Ames Laboratory): Oh yeah. Cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium. DAVID POGUE: We live in a world of incredible material variety. Yet everything we know, the stars, the planets and life, itself, comes from about 9. You have a periodic table table.…all right here, on this remarkable chart: the periodic table of the elements. It's a story that begins with the Big Bang and eventually leads to us. Manganese! Go! And we're made, almost entirely, of just a handful of ingredients, including one that burns with secret fire inside us all.

Join me as I explore the basic building blocks of the universe…Oh! LINDSAY BAKER (Gatorade Sports Science Institute): …as hard as you can. You can do it. DAVID POGUE: …from some of the most common, like oxygen,…LINDSAY BAKER: How do you feel at this stage?

DAVID POGUE: …to the least—manmade elements that last only fractions of a second; strange metals with repellant powers; …And you're saying that this will repel the sharks. Oh, my gosh! Uh!…poisonous gases,…Isn't chlorine deadly? THEO GRAY (Chemist and Author): Absolutely.

DAVID POGUE: …in stuff we eat every day. And now, we can even see what they're made of. The dots are actual atoms? If you're like me, you care about the elements and how they go together,…Oh, the humanity!…because, more than ever,…Incoming neutron!…matter, matters. HARRIET HUNNABLE (Managing Director, CME Group): Copper is king.

DAVID POGUE: Commodities! Copper at 8. 0 cents a pound. Can we crack the code to build the world of the future? Join me on my Hunt for the Elements, right now, on NOVA. Far from prying eyes, the ground erupts; heavy equipment moving millions of tons of earth in search of something: a secret, deep underground. I'm David Pogue. I've managed to talk my way into this hidden lair. JOHN TAULE (Miner, Barrick Gold Corporation): …probably almost a mile from where we first came in.

DAVID POGUE: Boy, I hope I can talk my way out. MIKE LASSITER: This area, here, has been backfilled. DAVID POGUE: They tell me that so much money flows out of this place, it's like a gold mine.

Wait a minute. It is a gold mine! But where's the gold?

It turns out that nature has concealed thousands of pounds of the stuff under billions of cubic feet of earth. By digging, these guys are hoping to strike it rich. But that's not why I'm here. I'm on a quest to understand the basic building blocks of everyday matter.

They're called the elements. These symbols represent the atoms that make up every single thing in our universe: 1. It's a journey that dives deep into the metals of civilization, marvels at the mysteries of the extremely reactive, reveals hidden powers and harnesses secrets of life, from hydrogen to uranium and beyond. I'm starting with one of humanity's first elemental loves: gold; symbol Au. Like all elements, gold is an atom that gets its identity from tiny particles: positively charged protons in the nucleus, balanced by negatively charged electrons all around, plus neutrons, which have no charge at all. Gold has been sought since ancient times, yet all the gold ever mined would fit into a single cube about 6.

Gold is unique among the metals. It doesn't rust or tarnish.

It's virtually indestructible, yet also soft and malleable. It was a sacred material to ancient people, and it's never lost its luster. The problem is it's exceedingly rare stuff in the earth's crust, and it's getting harder to find all the time.

Here, at the Cortez Mine, in Nevada, high- tech prospectors are moving mountains, closing in from above and below. This rock face is about a quarter mile below the surface, and, according to John Taule, it's loaded with gold, somewhere. And what would it look like? Like yellow, metallic streaks in the walls? JOHN TAULE: No, it's really hard to tell from the rock, because it's microscopic, you can't see the gold.

DAVID POGUE: The gold is microscopic? JOHN TAULE: Yes, you can't see it with the naked eye.

DAVID POGUE: So, we're way past the days of finding big gold nuggets sticking out of the wall, going "Hey, Bob, I got one here!" We're past that now, huh? JOHN TAULE: That's correct. DAVID POGUE: Which raises a question: if the gold is invisible to the naked eye, how do they even know if they're digging in the right place? That's where Gayle Fitzwater and the assay team come in.

Every day she receives hundreds of samples of earth taken from the mine. Her job is to figure out how much gold is in them there rocks.

To get at the color, it has to be crushed,…Do you want ice cream with this?…shuffled like a deck of cards,…I think I've seen one of these machines at Starbucks.…then pulverized to the consistency of baby powder. I don't see any more rocks in here, but the bad news is, I don't see any gold in here, either. The good news is that we haven't finished; there may be still gold hiding in the mix. The sample, mixed with a lead oxide powder, goes into a furnace heated to 2,0. It's a 5. 00- year- old process called a fire assay. Using extreme heat, gold atoms are gradually coaxed away from the powdered rock.

So, after all that pulverizing and crushing and weighing and firing, what we're left with is this? These little teacups? GAYLE FITZWATER (Laboratory Supervisor, Barrick Gold Corporation): What you're going to be able to see in here is a gold bead that was recovered from that sample that you crushed. DAVID POGUE: Um, no. GAYLE FITZWATER: Okay, come on. DAVID POGUE: This is like the emperor's new teacup. There's nothing in here except that little tiny piece of dust.

GAYLE FITZWATER: That's a piece of gold. That actually weighs about a half a milligram, and…DAVID POGUE: So all that work gave you only a half a milligram of gold?

GAYLE FITZWATER: …it equals out to about one ounce per ton. DAVID POGUE: An ounce of gold for every ton of rock? GAYLE FITZWATER: That's right, and…DAVID POGUE: That's a terrible business. You'll never make any money. GAYLE FITZWATER: …when you went in the mine, and you were able to see the trucks that we had, those are 4. If you had 4. 00 tons of material at one ounce per ton,…DAVID POGUE: …four hundred tons and one ounce of gold for each ton.

At that rate, that's 2. GAYLE FITZWATER: And at $1,8. DAVID POGUE: Eighteen hundred dollars times…7. This is a fantastic business! How do I get in on this? Turns out that an ounce per ton is pretty much optimal for the underground mine.

The surface mine produces less, about half an ounce per ton. To see what it takes to get something bigger than that tiny bead, I visit the processing plant where the ore ends up. Just another day in the gold refinery. Here too, extraction begins with crushing, in these huge tumblers. And that sets the stage for the trickiest step, coaxing the microscopic gold out of the rocky ore. About three quarters of the elements are metals, and gold is one of the most standoffish.

How an atom reacts chemically depends on how willing it is to share electrons with others, and gold is not very social. Like Greta Garbo, it "vants" to be alone. So do other so- called "noble" metals: silver, platinum, palladium, osmium and iridium, all located in the same quiet neighborhood of the periodic table. Using cyanide to react with the gold allows them to gradually reduce 4. But there's not gold in here, is there?

MIKE LASSITER: There's a little bit of carbon that's mixed in with this that's changed the color on it, but I assure you that when we melt it and pour it down, Dave, we're going to have gold. DAVID POGUE: All right, and how much gold, like, how many gold bars will this array make?