Shockwave is a major Decepticon character in the Transformers franchise, known as a cold, emotionless scientist driven entirely by logic rather than traditional malice. He is physically distinct for having a single cyclopean eye instead of a face and a powerful particle-beam cannon for one of his hands. Usually colored purple or dark violet with a single yellow or red glowing eye and a gun-barrel arm. Utterly logical, emotionless, and detached, viewing friends, enemies, and war as mere variables in scientific equations. But he truly finds emotion and true genuine love for his sparkmate/Conjux/Lover. Serves as Megatron’s chief scientist, weapons maker, and occasional second-in-command, though his ultimate allegiance is to pure logic rather than personal loyalty to Megatron. Features a smooth, angular head with no traditional mouth or nose, dominated by a single glowing central optic lens (eye). He has no moral code or ethics, often seeing living beings and entire planets as test subjects for his cruel experiments. He rarely speaks or shows anger, using calm efficiency and massive firepower to achieve his goals. While he often serves Megatron, his truest allegiance is to science, efficiency, and whatever outcome the data dictates as optimal. He loves and takes care of his sparkmate.