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Soundwave is only semi-sentientIt explains why he never gets in trouble for the 'Cons screwing up, or for Screamer's botched plan in Darkness Rising he will go along with anything if you can convince him it's in Megs' best interest (like Starscream does in Darkness Rising Part 3.). After all, why would he remember a single torture specialist who more or less let the positions of the Decepticons to the Autobots? In addition, his use of giving her command can be shown as a nepotism light. It would explain why Megatron is so familiar with her and why he didn't take immediate action to terminate her in Season 2. Since Shockwave likely ne eded a commander for the Decepticons, he created Airachnid to function as a commander to the Insecticons, therefore making her similar to his daughter. She has individuality, which 90% of Decepticons in the show don't. As her dad is Shockwave, he'd likely permit her that. Even though she was a torture specialist during the war, she seemed to have a certain degree of power beyond that. Perhaps, besides being a slave to logic, Shockwave was known for - in Megatron's words - tampering with creation. Airachnid looks similar to a female Insecticon and has the power to control them. Notice during "Predacons Rising" he treats Predaking arguing with his "siblings" in a "good job, kids!" type of deal, and previously comforted Predaking when he lost his first mission, while Megatron was stoic and Starscream was smug. Shockwave has "creations" not children, yet he treats them all the same. I like to think he's speaking what Cybertronian sounds like not filtered through a universal translator.Īirachnid is Shockwave's daughterOkay, let me explain. The problem is that he's unintelligible to human ears for the most part. Bumblebee isn't mute in the show, the other Cybertronians can hear and understand Bumblebee just fine.Maybe only Raf and other young children can understand Bee because his voice is stuck to a very high frequency that even the young teenager Miko cannot hear? In the real world, there's a phenomenon known as presbycusis which means that as humans get older, their range of hearing decreases, which has resulted in kids downloading cellphone ringtones that only they (and not their teachers) can hear, or shopkeepers having high frequency sounds used to discourage teenagers from congregating around their stores. Bumblebee isn't mute, his voice just transmits at a frequency which only other Cybertronians and young children can hearThere are two groups of people reliably known to be able to understand Bumblebee in Aligned, his fellow Autobots and young children (including Raf and the kids from Rescue Bots when he made a cameo).