Description
Starscream is the treacherous Decepticon Sky Commander and the deadliest of the Seekers, Cybertron's finest air warriors. The self-proclaimed pride of the Cybertron War Academy, he's famous not only for his incredible skill, but also for his limitless (and troublesome) ambition. Starscream believes that he is more suited for command than Decepticon leader Megatron. Thankfully for Megatron, Starscream's mutinous, power-grabbing plots are almost always transparent, and he can never muster up enough patience to complete a grandiose power play.
A patient and polite schemer, Starscream used to wish Megatron would drop the heroic anti-caste charade and be more honest about his lust for power.These days, he alternatively wishes Megatron would stop being obsessed with his lust for power and chafes under having to work for such a madman. While he serves as Megatron's right-hand man, he constantly looks for a way to become the commander himself and Megatron knows it: Starscream's extremely volatile personality means he is not adept at hiding his true intent. Fortunately for Megatron, Starscream is prone to panic, cowardice and bombastic gestures, meaning that it'd take exceptional circumstances for Starscream to actually manage to get behind him to shove the knife in.
Starscream was among Megatron's forces aboard the Nemesis space cruiser that pursued the Autobots' ship, the Ark when it departed Cybertron to search for the missing Allspark. The Decepticons were boarding the Autobot craft, when it subsequently crashed on Earth, the Nemesis itself on the Moon, entombing its occupants in stasis for four million years. When a shockwave of Energon from a disturbed Allspark fragment struck the wrecked Decepticon Ship in 2027, he and his brothers Thundercracker & Skywarp were the first to be woken from Stasis Lock. He later joined Megatron and Demolisher in warping to the planet. While his leader was busy battling Optimus Prime, who had been woken before them there, Demolishor and Starscream took an interest in the nearby human children who had had been responsible for touching the fragment, but were prevented from grabbing them by the appearance of the Autobots Ironhide & B-127 (Bumblebee). The Decepticons withdrew to their base of operations within the wreck of the Nemesis to regroup, whilst the other cons were slowly reactivating as well...
Scanning a nearby Military Fighter Squadron over the Pacific Ocean later on, Starscream and his seekers now have Earthly vehicle modes that Thundercracker remarked were shapes that could do some Damage!
Whilst seeking out Allspark fragments though, Starscream is for now just biding his time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to truly overthrow Megatron and use the Allspark (So he believed) to become the true Emperor of Destruction! His fierce rivalry with Bumblebee however will be a major thorn in his side!
(Of the many incarnations of Starscream over the entire franchise of the Transformers, it was always the Unicron Trilogy, Aligned & G1 versions that I often found great, the former two mostly despite some fan's criticisms. So I sought to merge all of what I think were the best bits of G1, Armada & Energon into this design, giving him more detail and vibrancy compared to others... The same can also be said for the other Seekers in Body-Type too.)
Starscream (c) Hasbro