USA Today Article on Shockwave

It seems we know have an explanation on why Linkin Park's Iridescent music video was pulled. USA Today has posted an article that "reveals" the villain of Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Shockwave. While this is common knowledge to most Transformers fan, keep in mind it isn't to the average movie goer, press, or reader of USA Today. The key thing of note is the posted image is identical to the segment that LP used in their music video. I suspect that USA Today was given the "exclusive" on Shockwave and the posting of the video violated that promise from Paramount forcing it to be pulled down until this article went life and had time to circulate. As far as the article goes, one paragraph below could be a spoiler. Thanks to Brendan for the link.

SPOILER WARNING

"He's always been a mean, mean guy, but he's even more menacing and more dangerous," says producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. "He's bigger, badder, with a greater arsenal."

"It's crazy spectacular," Di Bonaventura says. "Shockwave is just a ball of destruction, pulling whole skyscrapers down. He's a messy guy to have in our world."

"It's a huge escalation in the amount of damage that one Decepticon can wreak," he adds. "He's capable of wholesale destruction…that' really bad for humans."

Shockwave has been given "a facelift" to add to his menace. But more impressive is his new skill which the world saw briefly in the Super Bowl trailer for Transformers -- Shockwave is capable of morphing into a snake-like exoskeleton that rips down buildings like butter.

Shockwave is working with Megatron, the leader of the evil Decepticons, on a plan that will not bode well for humanity. But, even working together, there is tension between the two bad boys.

"Decepticons have a united plan, but as usual they don't get along," Di Bonaventura says. "The inter-distrust between the villains is even stronger than before."

Update: Added larger version of the Shockwave picture.