Tidal Wave

Evil-doer
Full Name	Tidal Wave
Alias	Shock Wave Shock Fleet (in Japan) Mirage
Origin	Transformers
Occupation	Decepticon
Powers / Skills	Unbelievably large stature grants his near immortality and strength, battleship related weaponry such as missile launchers
Goals	Serve Megatron and crush the Autobots under his foot
Crimes	Aiding and abetting Attempted murders
Type of Villain	Dimwitted Giant Robot

“	Tidal Wave...Tidal Wave...	„
	~ The battleship's only quote

Tidal Wave is a gargantuan Decepticon officer from the Transformers franchise who transforms into a battleship. Fueled by utter rage, loyalty, and low intelligence, Tidal Wave serves as a major antagonist in the Transformers Armada cartoon, the PS2 game of the same name, and Transformers: Energon.

History

Tidal Wave was in charge of a Decepticon platoon on Dabola which included Shockblast and Six Shot. After successfully eliminating the Autobots on the planet, Shockblast and Six Shot grew bored and started lashing out at their fellow Decepticons. Tidal Wave eventually managed to drive them away and was left hating Shockblast.

Transformers: Armada

Soon after the Dabola campaign, in Detection, Tidal Wave was summoned to Earth by Thrust to bolster Megatron's forces, and he passed Neptune on his way to Earth. In Awakening, Tidal Wave arrived at a beachfront battle between the Autobots and Decepticons. Tidal Wave opened fire on the Autobots, and quickly outclassed them. However, Tidal Wave was capsized by Hot Shot and Blurr, and was sent to the bottom of the deep. However, Tidal Wave quickly recovered by transforming into his massively powerful robot mode and quickly sent the Autobots scrambling for cover.

Pounding the Autobots with firepower in Desperate, Thrust called out to Tidal Wave to initiate his party piece. Tidal Wave transformed and split into three component vehicle sections, and Powerlinxed with Megatron. Megatron set off in pursuit of Jet Optimus. Tidal Wave gave Megatron flight capability and an overwhelming amount of firepower which kept Jet Optimus at bay long enough for Megatron to slice the connection point between Optimus Prime and Jetfire with the Star Saber. However, Optimus Prime managed to obtain the Requiem Blaster and used it to injure both Tidal Wave and Megatron, forcing the Decepticons to retreat to the Moon for repairs.

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Transformers (PS2)

This occurs in an alternate version of Armada On Megatron's never ending conquest for power, he placed Tidal Wave in charge of a large army of Decepticlones when he arrived at Earth in search of power-granting mini-cons. Once the Autobots arrived to put a stop to Megatron's destructive tread, Tidal Wave transformed into a battle ready war barge with his loyal Decepticlone troops littering his platform. A single Autobot agent, whether it be Optimus Prime, Hot-Shot, or Red Alert (player dependent), arrives at site, witnessing an island sized Tidal Wave sit in the middle of the Mid-Atlantic during a stormy night. After intercepting the ship and gunning down all Decepticlones, the Autobot jumped out at the last second as Tidal Wave transformed into an enormous robot. A long battle ensued, ending with the violent death of the huge Decepticon.

Transformers: Energon

Tidal Wave loyally followed Galvatron's last request: that the Decepticons remain at peace. He's assigned to an energon mine in Solar System's asteroid field. One day, the Terrorcons attacked the mine. Tidal Wave fought against but was captured by them. Alpha Q recruited the giant Decepticon with the promise of reviving Megatron by acquiring more energon. Tidal Wave and Scorponok attacked a facility in Desert City but were driven to retreat by Autobots. He led the Terrorcons attack Mars City and successfully stole its energon. Tidal Wave and Scorponok go to attack Plains City and fought against Cyclonus. Eventually the helicopter Decepticon join them when he learned that Megatron can be revived. Tidal Wave would continue to join the decepticons in the quest to rebuild Unicron, even having a feud with Shockblast a former decepticon lunatic gunner who was imprisoned by was freed during a breakout and served under Megatron's wing until he died. Megatron would later become Galvatron with Unicron within him and plunged himself into the energon sun. Tidal Wave unable to cope life without his leader turned his battlecruisher mode and flew into the sun, ending his life, and due to this would not return in Transformers Cybertron.

Gallery

Megatron's Sword in Tidal Wave's hand

Tidal Wave with Cyclonus

Tidal Wave in the Armada videogame

Trivia

• Tidal Wave's backstory with Shockblast and Six Shot did not appear in the English version of Energon.
• Tidal Wave is shown to three different color schemes in the unicron trilogy, two for Transformers armada and one for Energon.
• While Tidal Wave is called Shockwave in the Japanese Dub, his devotion to Megatron/Galvatron resembles that of Soundwave, considered the two both speak their names like in the third person.
• Tidal Wave in the Armada Game adaptation has various secrets to the character:
  • If you were to fly to one of the mountain islands in the mid atlantic during his boss battle, he will ram his fist sending you falling.
  • If he was shot countless times in the face, he will cover said face to prevent any attacks.
  • While Optimus Prime/Red Alert mention Tidal Wave's head is his weak point, that is not entirely true, his torso turrets can be actually damaged, thereby causing his health to decrease, also health packets can be seen spilling out if you shoot his turrets.
  • Once the turrets are damaged enough to where he starts to showcase smoke, he starts ejecting Jet Laser Decepticlones to keep the pressure on the player, they will spawn endlessly.
  • Tidal Wave's head shoots out beams of red lasers, if you stay on the shores of the mid atlantic.
  • In his aircraft carrier form, there are some cases you can actually see Tidal Wave's head, a youtuber around 2008 discovered a way to glitch into the warship and get on top of his head, but to do this you would need to use cheat codes.
• Hasbro treated Mirage as a separate character from Tidal Wave, as with the other toys that Takara considered upgraded versions of characters.
• Tidal Wave's upgraded form would get a repaint called Dreadwing who was a seperate character as well.