Shockwave (Cyberverse)

Shockwave was a reccuring antagonist in the Marvel Transformers Comic strip.

History
An adherent of his twisted version of logic, Shockwave was Military Commander of the Decepticons, conceiving the original plan to assault the Ark. However, when the Ark crashed onto Earth, Shockwave followed in the Decepticon ship, but the planet's magnetic fields caused that ship to crash in the Savage Land. There, he was confronted by the Dinobots and their battle brought them to a tar pit that held them in stasis for millions of years. When Shockwave was reawakened in 1984, he immediately set out to disable the Autobots and take Decepticon leadership away from Megatron. Using Earth's infrastructure and resources, Shockwave sought to create powerful Decepticon soldiers, but was foiled by Optimus Prime hiding the life-giving Creation Matrix in the human boy Buster Witwicky. At the end of this caper, Shockwave ended up in a swamp.

What followed was a struggle for Decepticon leadership between Shockwave and Megatron that finally reached a climax when both leaders were defeated in battle by the Autobots. Megatron argued that his aggressive leadership was superior to Shockwave's hesitant and slow action. Conceding to his logic, Shockwave gave him full command of the Decepticon troops on Earth. However, when Optimus Prime seemingly died, Megatron lost his sanity and, with some help from Shockwave, apparently killed himself in a space bridge explosion. With his rival completely out of the way, Shockwave took up leadership again. He would soon collude with Decepticon fuel auditor Ratbat, who was leading the Decepticons on Cybertron. Together, they conceived of the Club Con plot, but a battle with Fortress Maximus in space sent Shockwave plunging through the atmosphere.

''In one chain of events, Shockwave would quickly get back on his feet, and fight against Decepticons from the future whose apparent successes against him in the present and the future would make Shockwave lose his mind. He regained his sanity enough to help seal the time rift that threatened all of reality.''

He would soon fully resurface and act against Scorponok and Zarak's leadership of the Decepticons. The coup was interrupted when Unicronthreatened all Transformers. After Unicron was defeated and Primus destroyed, Shockwave and Starscream hijacked the Ark to escape the quickly decomposing Cybertron. Unknown to him, Megatron was in stasis aboard the ship and Galvatron boarded it. Both fought against Shockwave while Ratchet, who also emerged from stasis, crashed the ship onto Earth.

Regeneration One
In yet another timeline, Shockwave again joined forces with Starscream after being jury-rigged into the Ark to serve as its operating system. Once restored, Shockwave was witness to a great upheaval in Cybertron's population that left Transformers an endangered species. With the Decepticon faction functionally extinct, Shockwave converted to the ways of peace, serving as emissaries along with Starscream and Ravage.