#7. Soundwave
Transforms into: A cassette player
Why is he useless? 
Soundwave looks like he should be 100 percent badass, until you get to know him. He can read minds, intercept and block radio transmissions and is one of the strongest Transformers around; no easy task when all of your peers are enormous robots.
You stop liking/fearing/respecting Soundwave, however, when you realize that he uses all of his robot powers for the sole purpose of spying on his fellow Decepticons to detect mutiny. Seriously, he quietly hangs around his evil pals, waits for them to take issue with one of Megatron's orders and then records the shit out of it.
The other downside to Soundwave is that, when he's not out being a giant robo-narc, he's a motherfucking cassette player. We stopped needing a cassette player in like the early '90s. Can you even name a single person who owns a cassette tape anymore? If we want some tunes, we can just use the mp3 player on our niece's camera phone.
Did you hear that, Soundwave? Our 7-year-old niece's camera phone is a more impressive Transformer than you.
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While I disagree with the author on the uselessness of Soundwave, people forget that he was the one who could create Energon cubes which were filled with the earth's energy. He also had a a puma and falcon which were transforming cassette tapes (Rumble and Lazerbeak). His transforming power just wasn't great, I mean a cassette player? really? Soundwave gives the illusion of being cool because he's almost like a DJ and the closest thing to hiphop, he even looks like he's wearing headphones. While Soundwave isn't in the new Transformers Movie, I bet he will be in Transformers 2. Most Likely he'll come back as a massive transforming iPod or something.
Oh I found a hilarious preview, enjoy.
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