Soundwave first appeared in the original Transformers series in 1984 as Megatron's loyal Decepticon communications officer, famous for his monotone, electronically processed voice and cassette minions. Fans have long isolated his short system-style lines because they sound like built-in alerts, and this Detected clip spread through soundboards and meme edits in that tradition. Editors reuse it for gaming, anime and movie scenes where a character is found, scanned or exposed, since the voice instantly signals a machine intelligence at work rather than a human reaction, keeping the joke clear even without context.