Does Soundwave have a corrupt form?
Aha! He does! You see the thing was Soundwave was a character I’ve been intending to do a corrupt form of for a while now, I got an ask about it way back. But I kept getting stuck on the design. Seriously, I have like, four different designs for him. Though recently I came up with a design I was actually happy with. And hopefully when I’m less busy at work I’ll be able to polish it and post it up.
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The idea for Soundwave corrupting though would be that after arriving on Earth he puts all of his time and energy into making sure that Megatron doesn’t corrupt, as he slowly becomes more erratic as things keep getting worse for the Decepticons. He keeps using his telekinetic powers to sooth Megatron’s mind and take all the burden of his anger and war war trauma onto himself. And gradually this all starts to take it’s own toll on Soundwave, but he continues to hide and is determined to only serve Megatron.
But it all kicks off when one of Soundwave’s own cassettes is injured and starts to corrupt. Since the standard Decepticon response to either take them to Shockwave for experimentation, or to put them out of their misery, Soundwave can’t bare the idea of that happening to one of his cassettes. And in trying to escape with the corrupted cassette he corrupts as well, gaining new powers (and probably TFP style tentacables) to try and escape with his cassettes. He also tries to hunt down the other cassettes as well, misguidedly believing he’s protecting them in this new form.
List of complete Corrupted Transformers here