Why do they call me StarScream? I'm StarSmile, you see...

10: Try to overthrow Megatron
20: Fail
30: GOTO 10

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Chris Latta (English), Hirotaka Suzuoki (Japanese), Frank Todaro (English, "Transformers 40th Anniversary Event"), Li Danqing (Chinese), Jean-Louis Millette (Canadian French), Jacques Ferrière (European French, 1st season and part of 2nd season), Albert Augier (European French, "The Autobot Run", "The Core" & "Microbots", then regular voice from "Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1" onwards), Georges Atlas (European French, "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court", "The God Gambit", "Cosmic Rust" & "Starscream's Ghost"), Unknown (European French, "Autobot Spike" & "The Immobilizer"), Michel Bedetti (European French, "Countdown to Extinction"), Frédéric Cerdal (European French, "Child's Play"), François Leccia (European French, "Hoist goes Hollywood"), Marie Vergracht (French, The Movie), José Sant'anna (Portuguese), Alfredo Martins (Portuguese, "Changing Gears"), César Marchetti (Portuguese, DVD dub), Luiz Carlos de Moraes (Portuguese, "The Movie" Fox Kids dub), Bernd Simon (German), Claus Brockmeyer (German, Generation 2 Part of Season 2), Robin Brosch (German, "Transformers 40th Anniversary Event"), Vadim Gushchin (Russian), Claudio De Davide (Italian, first dub, season 1 and part of season 2), Leo Valeriano (Italian, first dub, remainder of season 2 and season 3), Massimo Corizza (Italian, first dub, The Movie and "Ghost in the Machine"), Marco Mori (Italian, second dub, The Movie), Alberto Bognanni (Italian, second dub, seasons 1-2), Mirko Rizzi (Italian, second dub, season 3), Raffaele Palmieri (Italian, 40th Anniversary Event dub), Lucas Cisneros (Spain-Spanish, TV series), Dani Albiac (Spain-Spanish, The Movie), Carlos Nieto (Latin American Spanish), Ljubiša Bačić (Serbian), Dick Eriksson (Swedish, Generation 2), Gyula Szersén (Hungarian, "The Movie" 1st dub (most lines)), Ladislav Běhůnek (Czech)

"Look at me when I'm threatening you!"

Shortly before the outbreak of the Autobot-Decepticon war nine million years ago, Starscream was not a warrior, but rather a scientist. He and his colleague and friend Skyfire were exploring an unnamed planet—the ancient Earth—when severe atmospheric conditions separated the two friends. Starscream circled the globe looking for Skyfire, but never found him. Upon his return to Cybertron, Starscream mostly abandoned his scientific pursuits, deciding that a career as a warrior would be much more exciting, Fire in the Sky and instead enrolled in the Cybertron War Academy, of which he would later profess to be the pride. A Prime Problem

Starscream rose through the ranks of Megatron's Decepticons until he reached the position of second-in-command, but even this was not enough: Starscream saw Megatron as old and soft, and after five million years of war drained Cybertron of all its energy, Starscream came to believe that the Decepticons would have won the conflict eons beforehand if he had been in charge. Starscream was never afraid to let Megatron know this, but Megatron was always ready with a disparaging comeback, and the constant belief that while Starscream had the ambition, he did not have the ability to lead.

Starscream was among Megatron's forces aboard the space cruiser that pursued the Autobots' ship when it departed Cybertron to search for new energy sources on other planets. The Decepticons boarded the Autobot craft, and it subsequently crashed on Earth, entombing its occupants in stasis for four million years. When a volcanic eruption reawakened the ship's computer, Teletraan I, in 1984, it indiscriminately brought the Decepticons back online, rebuilding their bodies to transform into contemporary Earth machines. Now outfitted with an F-15 alternate mode, Starscream's first act on Earth was one of spitefulness, as he delivered a parting laser blast to the buried Autobot ship. The blast caused a tremor that inadvertently knocked Optimus Prime into the path of Teletraan I's restoration beam, and before long, all the Autobots were operational once more and ready to continue the war on Earth. Four million years of sleep hadn't improved Starscream's disposition any, as his thoughts immediately turned to leadership once more, and he discussed them with Rumble when he and Soundwave accompanied him on a mission to find materials to construct a temporary base. More than Meets the Eye, Part 1

"Umm, Megatron? I think there's something wrong with my leg."

The Decepticons quickly began gathering energy to build and fuel a new space cruiser that could return them to Cybertron. The work proceeded apace with the Autobots unable to do much to stop the villains, but Starscream wound up costing them time when he decided to test a clutch of energon cubes by powering a laser turret with them, thereby using them up and necessitating another energy raid. More than Meets the Eye, Part 2 A little later, when Megatron subjected Starscream to another bout of berating, the Air Commander decided he had had enough, and tried to shoot Megatron in the back. At Soundwave's warning, Megatron blocked the beam and returned fire with his fusion cannon, bringing Starscream to his knees, quite literally begging for mercy. Luckily for him, he got it, but he didn't learn his lesson, since the first thing he did once the space cruiser was completed and airborne was to try for another coup. As it turned out, he only wound up distracting all the other Decepticons, allowing Autobot stowaway Mirage to cripple the cruiser and send it crashing back to Earth. More than Meets the Eye, Part 3

Now stranded on Earth and using the crashed hulk of their spaceship as headquarters, the Decepticons created a space bridge to transport energy back to Cybertron. When Megatron was apparently lost in an early test of the device, Transport to Oblivion Starscream leapt at the chance to take leadership, and led Thundercracker and Soundwave in an attack on a munitions plant. Unfortunately for Starscream, it soon transpired that Megatron had survived the space bridge journey, when he contacted Starscream from Cybertron and re-established his leadership. Roll for It Starscream was demoted to grunt work for his next mission, shipping energon cubes over the space bridge, but his merciless selection of a hapless warrior to pilot the craft on the dangerous journey proved to be a good one. Divide and Conquer

The fire is in the sky... but the heat is down here, baby.

When the Decepticons began drilling in the North Pole in order to tap the energy of the Earth's core, the excavation wound up unearthing the frozen body of Starscream's old friend, Skyfire. Starscream talked his friend into joining the Decepticons, but Skyfire could not put aside his peaceful scientific ways aside like Starscream had, and their friendship ended when he defected to the Autobots. Fire in the Sky After a battle with the Autobots' newest warriors, the Dinobots, including yet another failed attempt and taking leadership when Megatron fell (fell down, that is). S.O.S. Dinobots

My nipples explode with delight!

Starscream met up with Skyfire again when the Autobot returned to stop a Decepticon plot in Peru. In the process, Starscream found himself on the other side of treachery, when he overheard Thundercracker contemplating letting Skyfire destroy the Decepticons' new weapon, in the hope that Megatron would blame Starscream himself. Starscream tried to shoot Thundercracker but missed and took out Skyfire, then blackmailed Thundercracker into obeying his every command with the threat of revealing his treachery to Megatron. Unsurprisingly, the whole scheme didn't really work. Fire on the Mountain

Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, Starscream.

Not long after that Starscream proved he did still have some scientific leanings, as he was the only Decepticon who urged caution when Megatron pillaged energy from an unstable meteor. Starscream was ultimately correct about the volatile nature of the energy, and the resulting explosion nearly killed a number of Transformers, including Optimus Prime and Grimlock. War of the Dinobots

"Look at me when I'm threatening -- Oh God! I learned it at home! I learned it at hooome!"

After the Decepticons used a colossal space bridge to pull Cybertron into Earth's orbit in order to generate vast amounts of energy, The Ultimate Doom, Part 1 Starscream took every opportunity he could to try and make it seem like the plan wasn't working. The Ultimate Doom, Part 2 When the Decepticons' human ally Doctor Arkeville was abandoned by Megatron, Starscream abducted the scientist and made the rather outlandish attempt to create energon cubes by drawing on his mental energy. When Megatron caught him in the act, Starscream fled with Arkeville The Ultimate Doom, Part 3 back to the human's secret laboratory. There, Starscream discovered an Exponential Generator and destabilized it with the intent of creating an explosion powerful enough to destroy the Earth. Starscream withdrew to Cybertron to watch the cosmic fireworks, but unbeknownst to him, Megatron and Optimus Prime had joined forces to launch the exponential generator into space. When the Earth failed to explode on schedule, Starscream headed back to the planet to investigate, but was knocked out of the sky by the passage of the exponential generator and crashed, right at the feet of a vengeful Megatron. Jazz then wagered the Autobots had seen the last of Starscream for a while, Countdown to Extinction and he was right: Starscream was indeed nowhere to be seen during the Decepticons' next villainous escapade. A Plague of Insecticons

Whatever revenge Megatron may have reaped on Starscream, the Air Commander survived the experience, and was seen again when he and the other Decepticons bestowed their power chip rectifiers upon Megatron. This process gave Megatron access to all the Decepticons' special powers, including Starscream's null-rays and cluster bombs, so he could easily defeat Optimus Prime in a one-on-one battle. Starscream pointed out the sheer illegality of this scheme, but Megatron was above caring. As it turned out, Starscream was right again: although Megatron defeated Prime, when the Autobots discovered his breach of the rules, their revenge was swift. Heavy Metal War

Apparently, the invisibility spray doesn't get into those hard-to-reach cracks and crevices.

Starscream eagerly took to action in the Decepticons' next battle, Autobot Spike but was somewhat more reserved in regards to Megatron' new Solar Needle weapon, fearing that it would destabilize the Earth. Told by Megatron not to concern himself with matters he did not understand, he instead passed the time threatening and bossing around the captive Gears. Changing Gears Later, when Megatron had the Decepticons transform New York into New Cybertron, Starscream had to admit that he was impressed by the scheme despite himself. City of Steel

Starscream helped Megatron implant a Personality destabilizer device in the Autobots' recharging chambers by using invisibility spray, Attack of the Autobots and then joined in the theft of electro-cells from a human laboratory, only to wind up embarrassing himself by rushing to use them to create energon cubes, which exploded due to the cells' instability. Traitor Starscream was later part of the Decepticon team that stole the Autobots' Immobilizer weapon, and briefly tried to seize leadership when Megatron was felled by Optimus Prime during the Autobots' attempt to reclaim the device. The Immobilizer

"So....I'm guessing you DIDN'T have fun on your vacation in Chernobyl..."

After serving as Megatron's unwilling guinea pig in the first test of the transformation-freezing Transfixatron, The Autobot Run Starscream's cautious side came to the fore again when the Decepticons allied themselves with the fish-people of Sub-Atlantica. Starscream did not trust the sub-aquatic kingdom's boastful leader Nergill, and his suspicions were proven correct when Nergill shot him with an anti-Transformer disruptor ray. Starscream recovered in time to save Megatron from a blast of the ray, but Megatron did not believe Starscream's accusation of treachery until the fish-king went off the deep end and tried to destroy the Transformers, Sub-Atlantica and himself by detonating the city's energy stockpile. Atlantis, Arise!

Starscream was less than impressed with Megatron's decision to steal the Earth-made robot ninja Nightbird, but when Megatron threatened to replace the Air Commander with the femme-bot, Starscream helped the Autobots take her down with a blast of his null ray. Enter the Nightbird Soon after, when Megatron sought to dupe the Autobots with a clone of Optimus Prime, his plan necessitated the creation of a Starscream clone, so that the Prime copy could convince the Autobots that it was the genuine article by destroying it. A Prime Problem

The scientist in Starscream saw danger in Megatron's plan to drill to the Earth's core, but Megatron placated him by revealing an emergency space bridge that could whisk them off to Cybertron if things went wrong. They never got the chance, though, as the Autobots destroyed the bridge, forcing the Decepticons to work with them to halt the drill and save the planet. The Core

Following a brief stint as a mind-controlled minion of Bombshell, The Insecticon Syndrome Starscream accompanied the Decepticons to the mysterious Dinobot Island, where the strange waves of chronal energy surrounding the prehistoric paradise gave him cause for concern. Dinobot Island, Part 1 Starscream theorized that draining the delicate energies of the island could disrupt the fabric of time, and he was right: time warps began appearing all across the world, and the Autobots sprang into action to stop the Decepticons' scheme. Dinobot Island, Part 2

"Uh, what's with the eyeliner?" "Inferno says it brings out my eyes." "...uh huh...just press the button".

After shooting down Powerglide and accusing the Constructicons of treachery, The Master Builders Starscream proved just how much of a case of the pot calling the kettle black that was when he tricked the mentally-addled Autobot Red Alert into giving him access to the Autobots' new Negavator tank. Starscream planned to use the weapon to take control of the Decepticons, but when Megatron rumbled his scheme, he claimed that he had only been stealing the weapon for his leader. Realizing that Starscream meant to take the Negavator from him, Red Alert turned on him, and Starscream shot him with his null rays, which wound up stabilizing his logic circuits. Auto Berserk

Starscream has had it with this motherf@!king snake on him.

Starscream had a nasty encounter with a snake in the jungles of South America when the Decepticons were searching for their lost original space cruiser and its power core, the Heart of Cybertron, but his spirits were put right by a good bout of over-energizing with the other Decepticons that evening. Microbots

Starscream learned the true meaning of Halloween that night - sweets, and plenty of them.

Later, Starscream donned an Optimus Prime costume as part of a plan to frame the Autobots for energy theft, which successfully resulted in the heroic robots being forced off Earth by humankind. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1 In the Autobots' absence, the Decepticons conquered Central City, and Starscream led the Decepticon jets in easily fending off attempted human military intervention, before the Autobots returned to clear their names and put things right. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2

Seeking to sabotage the creation of Professor Greene's Ultra Plane, Starscream suggested blasting the new device out of the sky. Megatron advocated discretion, and instead had Starscream perform a fly-over and surreptitiously drop a small explosive on the Ultra Plane. Starscream, Megatron and Soundwave then attempted to steal the plans for the Ultra Plane, but Starscream and Soundwave were tricked into retreating when Mirage projected a hologram of Megatron fleeing. Soon after, cybertonium degradation began to impair the Decepticons' functionality, and before he succumbed to it, Starscream took another grab for leadership when Megatron's vocal circuits were scrambled by the condition. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1 After the Decepticons recovered, Starscream helped steal the Voltronic Galaxer. Blaster Blues

"Who put that caption down there?!"

While on a mission in Great Britain, Starscream found himself low on energy and with Autobots on all sides. Retreating into a cave with Rumble, Ravage and Ramjet at his side, Starscream discovered that the cave was, in fact, a mystical time travel device, which thrust them back through the ages to 543 AD, with Autobots Hoist and Warpath hot on their heels. Seeing a primitive world that he could easily conquer laid out before him, Starscream allied himself with local ne'er-do-well Sir Wigend of Blackthorn, but soon double-crossed him and took control of his castle and army. Starscream dismissed the chivalry of the age and abducted Nimue, daughter of neighboring ruler Sir Aetheling the Red, demanding that he surrender his kingdom in return for his progeny's safety. All the Transformers were low on energy, so Starscream put his scientific skills to use creating gunpowder and primitive electric dynamo, giving the Decepticons the ability to fight back against the Autobots and Sir Aetheling's armies when they marshalled against him. With aid from the wizard Beorht, Hoist and Warpath overpowered Starscream and hauled him back to the present, where Starscream gleefully greeted Megatron by pouncing on top of him, ruining the shot he had lined up. A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court

Sadly, Starscream had never heard of Gold Plastic Syndrome...

Starscream was the first Decepticon to test out a mysterious golden lagoon of electrum discovered on Earth, and was made invulnerable by the powerful alloy. The Decepticons were easily able to defeat the Autobots in battle thanks to their new invincible coating, but Megatron was not impressed when Starscream had captives Seaspray and Beachcomber fight gladiator-style. As punishment, he had Starscream lead an attack on the giant Autobot Omega Supreme—a task Starscream was terrified at the prospect of, even with his newfound invulnerability. The attack succeeded, but when Starscream was left in charge of the prisoners, they escaped, and in the battle that resulted, the electrum effect wore off the Decepticons, and they were defeated. The Golden Lagoon

When Starscream, Thrust and Astrotrain pursued Cosmos to Saturn's moon of Titan, Starscream was less than impressed when the natives began worshipping Astrotrain as their supreme god. The God Gambit Starscream later encountered Cosmos again, along with Powerglide, in New York, inadvertently revealing the location of the Decepticons' new base in the New Jersey Pine Barrens to the Autobots. Make Tracks

Aron always wanted a Revoltech...but this one won't shut its mouth.

Starscream was among a small group of Autobots and Decepticons who were transported to an alien world of giants by a malfunctioning space bridge. Starscream was nearly dissected for study by the authorities of this planet, and when Autobot scientist Perceptor cobbled together a makeshift space bridge to send them home, he and the Decepticons were only too happy to make the trip back to Earth. Child's Play After returning, Starscream was caught up in the menace of the morphobots Quest for Survival, a plot to mine energy rich ore from an asteroid (which accidentally unleashed a monster) The Secret of Omega Supreme, then helped operate the Decepticons' new "energy magnet". Kremzeek!

Conspiring with Astrotrain and Blitzwing to overthrow Megatron by freezing him in a subterranean chamber full of absolute zero degree molecules, Starscream found himself betrayed by the two Triple Changers and frozen in the chamber along with Megatron. Blitzwing and Astrotrain's subsequent rampage caused a tidal wave (among many other things) that freed the two frozen Decepticons, and Starscream pleaded ignorance of the betrayal. Triple Takeover Later, when eccentric big game hunter Lord Chumley began targeting the Autobots, Starscream smirkingly pointed out that he had achieved more in two days than Megatron had in two years. Prime Target

The name's Mix Master Festus, fool!

Using the Dancitron dance club, Starscream and Soundwave used hypnotic music signals to brainwash human beings into helping them build a new Decepticon headquarters in the heart of New York, but they were stopped by Tracks, Blaster and the Bop Crew. Auto-Bop Later, he returned to Cybertron to aid Shockwave in the capture of Autobot resistance leader Elita One, holding her to ransom to lure Optimus Prime into Decepticon clutches. The plan succeeded, but when Starscream attempted to melt Optimus Prime down, Elita used her time-freezing powers to save the Autobot leader. When time unfroze, Starscream believed that Prime had been destroyed, so when the Autobot leader return to aid his troops in battle, Starscream was badly thrown and called retreat right away. The Search for Alpha Trion

Hands! HANDS!!!

When Dirge crashed in a movie studio back lot while returning to the Decepticon base with a secret cargo, Starscream was charged with recovering footage of the secret cargo that the filmmakers on-site had captured. Unfortunately for Starscream, Megatron was not in a forgiving mood that day, so when he neglected to steal the negatives as well, the Decepticon leader seized him, held him above his head, slammed him off a wall and tore a handful of wires out of his chest, knocking Starscream offline. Hoist Goes Hollywood

When Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker's aerial skills wowed the impressionable new Autobots, the Aerialbots, Starscream used their naivete to lure them into a trap set by Megatron that temporarily sent them nine million years back in time. War Dawn Later, Starscream accompanied Megatron, Astrotrain and Rumble on a mission to the planet Antilla, during which Megatron was struck by a small asteroid that lodged itself in his armor. Starscream yanked the asteroid out of Megatron's shoulder, but too late: the Decepticon leader was already infected by Cosmic Rust, necessitating the capture of Perceptor to find a cure. Cosmic Rust

To infinity... and beyond!

Starscream's next attempt at a coup was the last straw for Megatron. After Starscream attempted to shoot him in the back yet again, Megatron downed the Air Commander with a blast of his fusion cannon and banished him from the Decepticons, instructing Laserbeak to drop him on the island of Guadalcanal. Discovering the ruined hulks of several World War II vehicles on the island, Starscream was struck with the idea to create troops for himself. Overpowering Thundercracker and Skywarp, he hijacked the space bridge and liberated the personality components of a group of dissident "Renegade Decepticons" from the detention center on Cybertron, which he placed into the war vehicles, creating the Combaticons. Starscream ensured the loyalty of the Combaticons by neglecting to install energy absorbers in their new bodies, meaning that they had to help him capture several Transformers so they could take theirs for their own. In a showdown with the Decepticon forces, Starscream's Combaticons combined into Bruticus to overpower Devastator, and the giant robot then seized Megatron, as Starscream forced him to hand leadership over to him. Suddenly, Bruticus was ambushed by Menasor and defeated, leaving Starscream without troops and at Megatron's mercy. Megatron had Astrotrain dump Starscream and the Combaticons on an asteroid, declaring them exiled from Earth forever. Starscream's Brigade

What did I do to deserve this?!... Oh yeah, the whole "kill leader to take his place" thing.

Unable to stand his imprisonment, Starscream eventually transformed to jet mode and flew off into space, despite not having enough power to make it back to Earth. The Combaticons, meanwhile, towed the asteroid to Cybertron, where they promptly overthrew Shockwave and took control of the planet. Shockwave was sent tumbling off into space and collided with Starscream, tipping the Seeker off to the fact that he was close to Cybertron. The pair returned to Cybertron, where they attempted to fool the Combaticons with holograms, but were ultimately captured and imprisoned. It took the team-up of Megatron and Optimus Prime's forces to save them and stop Bruticus. Starscream used the hologram projector to deceive the Autobots into thinking that Megatron had destroyed Bruticus, but in reality, the combiner survived and was reprogrammed by Megatron to serve him. For supplying him with this mighty new soldier, Megatron welcomed Starscream back into the Decepticon ranks. The Revenge of Bruticus

In his last recorded adventures in the 1980s, Starscream was his old snarky self, pouring doubt and scorn on Megatron's plans to have the Stunticons steal the components to create a powerful laser weapon, Masquerade and to use a gravity-alerting device to blast the moon out of orbit. B.O.T.

"I look expensive!"

Over the next twenty years, the Decepticons focused their efforts on conquering Cybertron entirely, driving the Autobots off the planet. In 2005, learning that the Autobots were readying for a major strike to take back the planet, Starscream accompanied Megatron and the Decepticons on a raid on Autobot City on Earth (although Starscream himself advocated hitting the Autobots' bases on Cybertron's moons first). During the battle, Starscream narrowly avoided being crushed by the transforming city, and was the one to call retreat when Optimus Prime grievously wounded Megatron in a one-on-one duel. On the return flight to Cybertron, the Decepticons found it necessary to reduce their mass so that Astrotrain could successfully make it back to the planet, and they chose to jettison the damaged passengers. Starscream, of course, wasted no time in setting Megatron adrift, grinning victoriously as his former leader screamed his name as he was swept off on the solar winds.

My fellow Decepticons, it is with a heavy heart that I must declare that you are all idiots!

Fighting immediately broke out amongst the Decepticons over who would become leader now, but Starscream eventually won out. Upon reaching Cybertron, he quickly arranged for a prodigious coronation ceremony complete with trumpeters and a crown. Starscream could not have known, of course, that Megatron would be found and reshaped by the godlike planet Transformer Unicron, who recreated him as Galvatron.

And then he died, and Megatron lived happily ever after. OR DID HE?

The reborn Megatron arrived on Cybertron in the midst of Starscream's coronation, declaring the whole affair "bad comedy". Starscream had barely a moment to realize that the being in front of him was Megatron before Galvatron transformed to cannon mode and killed him with a single blast. Frozen for a moment as his body crackled, blackened and fractured, Starscream crumbled to ash, and was seemingly no more. The Transformers: The Movie

"Starscream?! I thought Megatron killed you?" "Me? No, that was my....twin brother, Screamstar. Yeah. The sparkles are because I'm super-powerful now."

In truth, however, this was not the end for Starscream. When the turncoat Decepticon Octane was pursued by the revenge-seeking Cyclonus, Scourge and the Sweeps, he took refuge in the Decepticon Crypt in the lower levels of Cybertron, where Starscream was apparently honored by a statue that was only a set of legs. In the Crypt, Octane was confronted by the spectral form of Starscream, who had transcended death as a shimmering, ethereal "ghost". Starscream's ghost possessed Cyclonus, and he and Octane conspired to hand Galvatron over to Autobot leader Rodimus Prime. Galvatron was able to escape the trap, and returned to the Decepticon base on Chaar in a state of unadulterated fury. He shot his second-in-command, not realizing Cyclonus had not been himself, but Starscream silently leapt into the body of a nearby Sweep, and began planning for the future. Starscream's Ghost

In space, no one can hear you, 'scream.

Seeking to reactivate Unicron in the hope that the omnipotent being could restore his body, Starscream possessed Scourge and had him open fire on Galvatron, so that he would be branded a traitor and would have no option but to help him. Scourge was successfully able to bring Unicron's disembodied head back online, and the chaos-bringer gave Starscream three tasks he would have to complete in order to obtain his desire. Starscream was ordered by Unicron to steal the eyes of Metroplex and the transformation cog of Trypticon. Due to a mishap with one of Metroplex's eyes he ended up having to substitute one of Trypticon's eyes in its place. After he completed the task with the aid of Scourge, Scourge fled and Starscream was directed to connect Unicron's head to Cybertron itself so the planet could become his new body. Left without any hosts to possess, Starscream demanded that Unicron give him back his body so that he could complete the necessary connections... but as soon as the dark god complied, Starscream double-crossed him and tossed the cables to the ground, telling Unicron to do it himself! Just then, a payload of explosives planted by the Autobots went off, hurling both Starscream and Unicron's head off into space. Starscream was last seen soaring off through the cosmic void, out of control, as Galvatron fired upon him, and Cyclonus wondered how a ghost could tumble through space like that. Ghost in the Machine

Japanese cartoon continuity

Beast Wars Metals cartoon

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages

Starscream was one of the Decepticons who attacked New York City early in their conflict with the Autobots on Earth. Broadcasting on TV! Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

Scramble City: Mobilization

Voice actor: Hirotaka Suzuoki (Japanese)

Somehow I feel like we've seen this before...

When the Decepticons succeeded in locating the construction site of the Autobots' Scramble City project, Starscream stepped forward to lead Thundercracker, Skywarp and the Constructicons in an attack on the hidden facility. They were met by an Autobot contingent led by Optimus Prime and a firefight ensued, at which point Starscream instructed the Constructicons to combine. The Aerialbots soon arrived to back up Prime's team, and a barrage of fire from them sent Starscream tumbling from his perch atop a cliff. Although Starscream tried to continue the fight, the Decepticons were badly outnumbered, and he eventually called retreat. Scramble City: Mobilization

Legends comic

At some point in the early days of the Transformers' war on Earth, Starscream was alongside Megatron and Soundwave taking part in a battle against the Autobots. Bonus Edition Vol. 6 During an attack on the Autobot base, Starscream was annoyed that Megatron considered appointing Slugslinger the new Air Commander and protested that he was superior, but this only got him blasted in the back by Slugslinger. Following a failed attempt by Slugslinger at overthrowing Megatron, Starscream took his revenge by ordering the Decepticons to hunt down and punish the traitor. Slugslinger's Ambition He was part of a group of Decepticons who fell in a pitfall trap prepared by Twin Twist, but being Decepticons, they simply flew back out. Operation: Destroy the Decepticons

The Battle of the Star Gate

Me and my shadow.

In the late 1990s, Starscream was among the Decepticons who attacked the human-built interstellar teleport system known as the Trigger. The sole survivor of their attack on the space station, Makoto, was able to activate the teleport system and send the Decepticons hurtling towards the portal, but Megatron blasted the portal and knocked it offline just as Starscream was about to fly through it. The Autobots soon arrived to stop the Decepticons, First Contact but Megatron still had his sights set on the Trigger, and was content to wait until it was repaired so that he could make another play for it. Starscream advocated destroying the Trigger completely to stop the Autobots from using it, but Megatron dismissed the idea, mockingly suggesting that Starscream's passage through the Trigger had devolved him to its primitive level. Starscream stalked away, infuriated, and stared angrily at his own reflection... but while Megatron's assessment may not have been accurate, something clearly had happened, since Starscream's reflection was talking to him... Divided Views

Soon after, Starscream concocted a plan of his own to gather more energy, establishing a protection-racket style scam with the Prime Minister of Japan, promising no attacks against his country in return for free reign to gather energy. Of course, Starscream had a double-cross in play, as Rumble and Frenzy were secretly creating earthquakes in Japan that the Decepticon could tap for energy, while the Japanese government was left to believe they were simply natural disasters. The Autobots soon got wise to the villain's schemes and headed for Japan to stop the Decepticons, but when a team of flying Autobots pursued the fleeing Starscream out over the ocean, none of them could have suspected that the Trigger's warp gate would suddenly burst out of the sea below them, accompanied by a mysterious second Starscream! Activation

Starscream auditions for the final boss of Final Fantasy XIII.

This second Starscream spirited the original, along with the energy he had gathered from Japan, back to the Trigger out in space, where the original Starscream demanded to know the identity of the strange, phantasmal doppelganger. The second Starscream revealed that he was, in fact, the ghost of Starscream's own future self, who had inadvertently been transported back in time by the Trigger after he was destroyed in the future. Both the Decepticons and Autobots soon tracked down the Starscreams to the Trigger, but before they could act, Starscream's ghost, determined to alter history and ensure his own survival, used the purloined energy to fuse both present and future Starscreams together with the Trigger. The space station transformed into a monstrous, misshapen robot of mammoth proportions, which tore through the Autobot and Decepticon ranks, until the Trigger's human staff—including Makoto—activated a system purge, disconnecting most of the armored hull from Starscream's new Trigger-body. Megatron exploited this vulnerability to cripple Starscream with a point-blank cannon blast, but Starscream had one last trick up his sleeve, twisting the remains of his body into a giant warp gate and threatening to suck all the Transformers into a black hole in the depths of space. It took the combination of Optimus Prime and Megatron's power to finally destroy Starscream. The Trigger was obliterated, and the fate of Starscream's ghost was unrevealed, but the present-day Starscream survived. The Battle of the Star Gate

Story of Binaltech

In 2004, while the majority of the Decepticon forces under Megatron's command were focusing their attention on finally taking over all of Cybertron, Starscream was appointed leader of the small remaining Decepticon force operating within Earth's solar system. Exploiting the Autobots' lowered guard, the Decepticons struck with a plague of Cosmic Rust, disabling many of their foes and leaving Earth open to attack. However, with the aid of the Earth Defense Command and many of Earth's automotive companies, the Autobots were saved and rebuilt with powerful new "Binaltech" bodies. Binaltech Is... With the strength of these new forms, the Autobots forced Starscream's Decepticons off Earth, Binaltech Is... but Starscream did not take the defeat lying down, and got back in touch with his old ally, Doctor Arkeville. Bribing Arkeville with the offer of access to Bombshell's mind-controlling cerebro-shell technology, Starscream had the doctor combine his old hypno-chip designs with the shells, which were then used to take control of several of the Binaltech Project's human workers. With these humans under their sway, Starscream and Arkeville began co-opting Binaltech technology to rebuild the Decepticons into Binaltech forms. Arise! Evil Binaltechs

BT World

Now fighting the Autobots on more even footing, the Decepticons were nonetheless thrown into disarray when the time-tossed Decepticon Ravage used the Kronosphere time machine to alter the flow of history by teleporting Megatron and most of the Decepticons outside of time. Changing Lanes Spared of this fate, Starscream initiated a rebellion against Shockwave's Earthbound forces. The fighting, however, was quelled by the two Autobot Binaltech units hijacked by Unicron for Blackarachnia and Decepticharge. The servants of Unicron informed the Decepticons that Unicron was displeased with their infighting and commanded the Decepticons to destroy Optimus Prime and the Matrix of Leadership. Widow's Edge

The Decepticons were mostly defeated when the Autobots activated the Quintessons' kill switch, and Nemesis Prime took leadership of those that remained. Kill Switch However, Starscream was able to avoid the deactivation effect of the switch, and was among the Decepticons present when Nemesis Prime tried to create a synthetic Matrix using the human population of an Australian town. When the Autobots stopped Nemesis Prime's plan and destroyed him, Starscream led the retreat as he and all the remaining flying Decepticons made good their escape. Unfinished Business, Part 4

Robotmasters comic

Double, double, toil and trouble...

In the year 2004, Megatron had vanished and the Autobots joined with the United Nations to initiate the Scramble City project. In the confusion, Beast Megatron traveled back in time via the Blastizone and seized command of the Decepticons. The New Battle Begins! When Starscream dared to challenge Beast Megatron's bid for leadership, he was promptly blasted through a wall. Change in Command: The Usurper Decepticon

Seeking a means to dethrone this new leader, Starscream turned his attention to manipulating solitarium, and forged four weapons from the new mineral, which could be combined to create the "Arsenal Force" super-weapon. Starscream combined the weapons and unleashed the power of the Arsenal Force on Megatron... which, despite some impressive pyrotechnics, completely failed to injure him. Starscream had his right arm blown off in retribution. Starscream Grins 3 Times...

During a later battle, when Victory Leo was attempting to go to the aid of Star Saber, Starscream appeared with Air Hunter and Wingstun to block his way. Fortunately, Optimus Primal and Bound Rogue leapt into the fray to keep the Decepticons busy while Leo carried on with his mission. Bonds Stronger than Steel

From his secret base in darkest Idaho, Starscream used Buzzsaw to spy on the Autobots as they developed the new black body technology. Using is scientific skills, Starscream replaced their data with a flawed formula of his own design. With the data switched, Optimus Prime became infected and was forced to go into quarantine in a remote cave.

At Decepticon HQ, Starscream tried to repeat his success on his new leader, Beast Megatron, only for his plan to backfire. Beast Megatron's Predacon physiology accepted the tainted data and gave him a true black body. Frustrated, Starscream returned to his base and applied the complete black body data to himself. He launched an attack on Optimus Prime, but an earthquake buried him in the canyon where Prime was quarantined. Meanwhile, Beast Megatron attacked the Ark all while mumbling that Starscream finally did something useful. Hearing this, and realizing Starscream would never willingly help a Megatron, Optimus Primal applied the tainted black body data to himself. He then located Prime with a Sky Spy and used his complete black body data to "cure" Prime. The two then returned to the Ark and defeated Beast Megatron, damaging his black body chip and returning their enemy to normal.

Infuriated, and having built up a tolerance to the black body data leaving him unable to assume it a second time, Beast Megatron tracked down Starscream's secret base and destroyed his black body data. Starscream dug himself out (his black body upgrade having worn off) and returned to his base to only find one black body chip left. He inserted the chip, unaware that it was actually the tainted black body data of his own design... Black Body

Starscream, Wingstun, and new recruit X-Gunner later approached Optimus Primal, R-Blade and Delta Seeker while they were on patrol, and challenged them to a test of air-speed. The Decepticons took the lead, but R-Blade soon got ahead and blinded them with a smokescreen, allowing Delta Seeker to knock Starscream and the others out of the sky. Through Sea and Sky: The World's Fastest Race

The original Megatron returned soon after, in the guise of "Reverse Convoy", Strategic Meeting: The Mysterious New Warrior and joined back up with the Decepticons. The Dark Emperor of Destruction, Reborn Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and the two Megatrons then engaged Optimus Prime, Optimus Primal, Victory Saber, and Lio Convoy in a mighty battle, but the heroes ultimately prevailed. And Then

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These Marvel Zombies variant covers are getting out of hand.

Immediately after being killed by Galvatron at his own coronation in 2005, Starscream's spark found its way to the twilight realm of Limbo, somewhere on the edge of life and death. He soon discovered that he was not alone: the sparks of many deceased Starscreams from all across the multiverse were also there. Sharing the stories of their deaths with one another, they formulated a plan to restore themselves to life, each one all the while secretly willing to sacrifice the others if it would benefit him. The scientific skills of several of the Starscreams were used to create a kind of crystal they termed a "flip-soul" that would enable their spirits to retake physical form in the real world—but predictably enough, all the Starscreams then began fighting for possession of the crystal. The primary Starscream was able to triumph over the others and took off with the crystal in hand, but was then seized about the legs by the other Starscreams before he could get away.

The victorious Starscream ingested the crystal, and in a flash, all the Starscreams disappeared from Limbo, and he reappeared in the material realm. However, he now found himself in the future, somewhere beyond the year 2025, floating in space near Earth. But where there had once been many Starscreams, now there was only one, giant Starscream, a fusion of all the different versions of the duplicitous Air Commander from throughout time and space. The fusion was not a complete one, however; each Starscream had left small fragments of themselves in Limbo, resulting in a giant Starscream who was not quite "complete", but more of a towering transparent "ghost". As Starscream ruminated on this, he spotted a team of Autobot warriors cruising the ocean waves nearby, and promptly launched an attack. MP-3G Destron Air Commander / Starscream Ghost Ver.

How that battle wound up going, we may never know. Starscream's ghost eventually returned to the present or thereabouts and became aware of the dark thoughts forming in the mind of the new Autobot Supreme Commander Rodimus Prime. Starscream's ghost influenced Rodimus into finding an old Decepticon base on Earth and activating the clone synthesizer within. The darkness within Rodimus Prime gave life to the clone now known as Black Rodimus Convoy. Destron Doppelgänger Black Rodimus Convoy

Beast Wars cartoon

Main article: Starscream (G1)#Beast Wars cartoon

15 Go! Go!

"I'm Starscream's girlfriend. Seriously."
I'll kill 'er!

Dispatched on a mission through time and space to discover the identity of a mysterious saboteur who damaged Teletraan I, the humanoid robot Teletraan 15 was possessed by Starscream's ghost when the spectral Decepticon invaded her Transwarp cruiser in 2006. Starscream crashed the cruiser into the artificial satellite Nana, where 15's superiors Teletraan 10 and Black Panther Man were stationed, and emerged from the wreckage to seize 10 around the throat. He introduced himself as the Decepticon Air Commander, prompting a shocked Black Panther Man to realize the true identity of the force possessing Teletraan 15. Starscream? Volume Teletraan 10 tried fighting back in true slapstick anime style, but Starscream just blasted her with eyebeams. As it happened, Starscream didn't hang around for long; learning of the super-powered Kiss Players that were currently operating on Earth, Starscream left Teletraan 15's body, and departed for Earth Defense Command Headquarters on Earth. Starscream? Volume 2

Not his finest moment, but possibly his most fabulous.

The first Kiss Player Starscream discovered in the EDC headquarters was the young Atari Hitotonari, who was using the ladies' room at the time. Starscream promptly possessed the girl, turning her EDC uniform black, but he couldn't understand why the giggling Kiss Players wouldn't take "Atari-scream"'s demands and threats seriously, even after he pulled a gun on them and fired into the air. The reason soon became apparent: unfortunately for the Air Commander, he had neglected to pull Atari's underwear back up when leaving the bathroom. Starscream? Volume 3

Kiss Players radio drama

Still possessing Atari, Starscream found himself unable to possess other Transformers that possessed sparks, and forced her to seek out his old ally, the cybernetic scientist Doctor Arkeville. Arkeville built a new body for Starscream converted from a stolen fighter jet, into which Atari transferred his spirit with a kiss. Starscream was reborn... for a couple of minutes, until a squad of Autoroopers arrived to blow up his new body and send his ghost flying back into space. Kiss Players radio drama #27

Henkei! Henkei! Generations comic

I think I'll possess that sword guy next...

His errant spark still wandering throughout time and space, Starscream's ghost found his way into a parallel universe, where he immediately began sowing his usual brand of terror. Possessing this new world's native Octane, he attacked Ironhide, but was taken down by Mirage. Undeterred, Starscream's ghost simply departed the fallen Decepticon's body and contemplated which Autobot to possess next. Mirage's Activity

After defeating Mirage, however, Starscream discarded the notion of possessing an Autobot, and decided to turn his attention to taking out this world's Megatron instead. Pulling his old coronation cape and crown out of nowhere, he took off for the Decepticon base, but was immediately blasted through the chest by Megatron as soon as he arrived. Naturally, the blast had no effect on his ghostly form, greatly intriguing Megatron. Starscream's Ambition

Megatron quickly deduced that this was not his world's Starscream, and sent Astrotrain and Onslaught against him, but Starscream's ghost simply possessed Onslaught and began rampaging. Mirage and Ironhide arrived in the middle of the battle to try and help take out Starscream, but then, while Starscream was in the midst of ranting about possessing the body of this world's Starscream, a portal opened above the combatants and disgorged Skids and Screech, a pair of dimension-hopping "Quantum Operatives" from Starscream's home universe, who had come to take him back there. While these two newcomers were keeping Starscream distracted, Mirage used his illusion-casting powers to create a hologram of Galvatron, terrifying the spectral Decepticon and causing him to flee the universe. Starscream's New Body

The Headmasters cartoon

In a flashback to the good ol' days of Megatron, Starscream joined the other Decepticons in an assault on the Ark and the Autobots defending it. Four Warriors Come out of the Sky

Legends/Unite Warriors

Upon meeting Armada Starscream in the Legends World, G1 Megatron was shocked at his presence, explaining to Armada Megatron about how his Starscream was a devious traitor. The Autumn Megatron Festival Chapter

After a long series of adventures as a ghost, Starscream concluded that the best body he'd ever possessed was Waspinator's. He followed the Predacon to the Legends World and possessed him again, using his body to try to take over Metroplex. Bonus Edition EX Waspinator Starscream defeated Ultra Magnus and the two Rattraps defending the city-bot, but was in turn exorcised and defeated by the similarly ghostly Rhinox. Reduced to the form of a spark, Starscream fled, swearing revenge. Bonus Edition EX Rhinox

In 2021, Starscream's ghost stumbled upon Cyclonus and Galvatron striking a deal with the crippled Unicron within the Triple Z Point. Unicron had agreed to summon Transformers from throughout the multiverse to combine them into a new "Grand Galvatron" body for the Decepticon leader. In exchange, the Decepticons would leave Unicron's own body untouched. After Breakdown, Roller, and Thrust had been summoned forth to combine with Cyclonus, Starscream made his presence known, and asked for a new body to join them in their gestalt form. Unicron partially granted his wish, bestowing onto Starscream a semi-corporeal body. Starscream was miffed, but Unicron explained that he knew that Starscream was too treacherous to be given any more in the way of a body. Unicron further stated that Starscream should be grateful, as his new form allowed him to retain all of the abilities he had access to as a ghost. The Transformers then combined into Grand Galvatron, who took off towards Cybertron while plotting to conquer it for himself. Grand Galvatron Chapter

Cyclonus had the group undergo training by exposing them to the lava pools of Thrull, which Starscream didn't enjoy one bit. He tried to sneak away, only to be caught in the attempt by Doctor Arkeville, who'd been charged with keeping an eye on him. Special Training in the Lava Baths of Planet Thrull!

When Grand Galvatron attacked Cybertron, Starscream and the other limb components were removed from Cyclonus by Trailbreaker. As they continued the battle on foot, Starscream was confident that Wheeljack's Immobilizer V2 wouldn't affect his semi-corporeal body, only to be quickly proven wrong when the weapon froze him regardless. After he'd recovered, the team re-combined into Grand Galvatron to fight Sky Reign. Sky Reign Chapter Upon the arrival of Megaempress and her 4 Guards, Grand Galvatron's components quickly scrambled in fear of the powerful Decepticon empress. Starscream was tackled by his old fan Lunaclub, who immediately begged him to possess her body and become the new Decepticon leader. Irritated, Starscream explained that in his current half-ghost body, he could only jump dimensions and not possess people, which prompted Lunaclub to strangle him in an attempt to make him dead again. Megatronia Chapter He was still stuck in Lunaclub's embrace when Unicron himself showed up to make Cybertron his new body. Ruination Chapter, Part One Though Galvatron's spirit had left his body, Cyclonus convinced Starscream and the others to combine with him one last time for the sake of defeating Unicron. Once the battle was won, Starscream flew into space to get far, far away from Lunaclub. Ruination Chapter, Part Two

Lunaclub would catch up with Starscream in 2022, decapitating the half-ghost and letting the body be destroyed by a meteoroid. Uninterested in Lunaclub's affection, Starscream sought to get back to the Legends World so that he could become a Headmaster, a desire which Moonheart offered her assistance for. Once there, Moonheart and Lunaclub attacked Octane's transtector, while the now-Headmaster Starscream snuck aboard and took control. With the transtector, Starscream boasted that he would take over from Mayor Megatron, but it turned out that Octane had built a device within the transtector for situations such as this and activated it, shocking and expelling Starscream from the body. True to self, the defeated Starscream begged Megatron for mercy; he was punished by being forced to appear in one of Octane's videos with Lunaclub, but its sales proved to be dismal. Bonus Edition Vol. 57

Starscream then began working under Megatron at his mayor's office. Bonus Edition Vol. 59 When Beast Megatron attacked them, he was shocked by Megatron's insistence on settling things peacefully rather than just killing the intruder. Bonus Edition Vol. 63 Starscream was allowed to borrow Octane's transtector to help defend the city from Majin Zarak's attack, Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One and was hugged by Lunaclub during the victory celebrations. He then returned to his own dimension alongside everyone else when the Legends World was destroyed. Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two He reemerged as a ghost in 2035, prompting the Powered Masters to discuss any possible relation between him and Violengiguar's ghostly origins. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2

Hero Set

It's all fun and games until Starscream screws everything up.

In the year 2025, Starscream, in his new corporeal body, battled Bumblebee, Grimlock, and Jazz in the far reaches of space.^[1] Kiss Players timeline

Ask Vector Prime

Starscream's Pretender battles against Jazz, Grimlock, and Bumblebee went very poorly and continued to soil his image in the eyes of the revived (and now peace-hungry) Megatron. Hoping to shatter the Cybertron Alliance, Starscream tricked one of Megatron's oldest friends, the peaceful Kiloton, into visiting the unfriendly territory of Moscow on Earth. Kiloton, who thought he would be anticipated as a diplomat, was instead seen as an invader and killed by Soviet soldiers. Enraged, Megatron dissolved the Alliance in retaliation; all according to Starscream's plans. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/29

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Starscream adopted a new black chassis in the wake of the Machine Wars. Starscream Black Version bio

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In the Precursor World, Primus remarked upon the power of Angolmois Energy and how it could even resurrect the dead, such as Starscream. God Neptune comic 1

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers comic

Ow, don't punch a man in the chest!

In the late 1980s, Megatron began focusing the Decepticons' attacks on Japan, rather than America. Starscream led the Decepticon jets' first attack on the country, although he wasn't happy about the fact that Megatron was commanding from afar while they did all the actual work. When the Autobots arrived to confront them, Starscream summoned up the Stunticons, who combined into Menasor. With the aid of a local boy named Kenji, the Autobots were able to use a broken freeway ramp to launch themselves into the air and take the Decepticon down. Smokescreen scored the hit that brought down Starscream. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1

Starscream later joined in an attack on Autobot Headquarters, Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2 then teamed up with Megatron and Blitzwing to terrorize Tokyo, only to be defeated by a "Prime-Magnus Double Cross Kick" from Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #4

Starscream was among the Decepticons who witnessed the test launch of Trypticon on a peaceful island. When the Autobots arrived and defeated Trypticon with a Metroplex hologram, Starscream was first to retreat, suggesting the other Decepticons follow his lead. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6

When Megatron instructed the Combaticons to hunt down a seemingly harmless dog, Starscream inquired why the animal was so important. Megatron explained that the dog had been augmented through Decepticon experimentation, and they couldn't allow its power to be used against them. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #8

The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers

Th-That's obvious!

In 2010, Starscream's ghost teamed up with the Quintessons, who built him a powerful new body. This new body, equipped with attacks such as "Right Arm Decepticon Gun" and the "Revolver Laser", was created using a combination of Optimus Prime's and Megatron's designs. The result was Gilthor.

Gilthor joined the Decepticons and quickly became Galvatron's right-hand man (literally—in, like, 5 seconds). Galvatron tricked Rodimus Prime into engaging him in a one-on-one battle in which Gilthor faked defeat. When Rodimus least suspected it, Gilthor attacked and laid the smackdown. Galvatron complimented Gilthor on his power and loyalty, and instinctively, Gilthor beat the crap out of Galvatron and declared his ambition to take over the Decepticons. Rodimus Prime and Galvatron called a truce and joined forces to defeat Gilthor. They wrecked him something fierce, destroying his body and forcing out Starscream's ghost. They then ended the truce and went about their business. The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #4

Super-God Masterforce comic

Out of the blue, Starscream appeared alongside numerous "legendary Decepticons" (including Galvatron) to menace Ginrai and the Autobots! In the end, it turned out that it wasn't the real Starscream at all, but a hologram projected by Turtler to confuse and intimidate the Autobots. Burn, Chokon! New Commander Super Ginrai!

Full Throttle Scramble Power!

One wouldn't normally assume solid metal to be suitable for cuddling, but what do we know?

To counter Megatron's latest evil scheme, a giant death-ray called the Omega Wave Cannon, the Autobots dispatched Hound, Tōru and Jenny to search for the Decepticons' hidden base. They found it, but were immediately captured by Starscream. Trapped within an energy cage, they were forced to watch as Megatron prepared to send his Decepticons out to plunder Earth's energy... some more.

Jenny hatched a clever plan and disassembled her communicator. This caught Starscream's attention and he plucked her out of the cage, violently threatening her. Turning on her feminine charms, Jenny begged for Starscream's mercy, giving him a big snuggly hug. As Starscream gleefully accepted, Jenny slyly slapped a device she had fashioned from her communicator onto Starscream's back. Content with a good hug, Starscream returned Jenny to her cage.

Jenny immediately activated the device, an override machine which she used to control Starscream's motor functions. Unloading Starscream's chest missiles, Jenny destroyed the Omega Wave Cannon and most of the Decepticon base. Starscream quickly recovered, unaware of what he'd just done, and was yelled at by Megatron. Almost immediately afterward, Starscream and all the other Decepticons fled when Metroplex arrived alongside the entire Autobot army. Full Throttle Scramble Power!

Robotmasters cartoon

Voice actor: Kunihiro Kawamoto (Japanese)

How Galaxy Force-esque.

Starscream attacked Star Saber when the Autobot ventured out on a solo mission to investigate a mysterious explosion, striking him with a sneak attack from behind and easily avoiding his return fire. Even when Star Saber summoned Victory Leo and the pair combined into Victory Saber, Starscream reigned supreme in the fight, until Optimus Prime arrived and blasted him out of the sky. As Starscream plummeted towards the ground, he was snatched out of the air by Megatron, who arrived riding atop Gigant Bomb. Megatron dismissed Starscream as useless, and tossed him away before turning his attention to Prime. Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!

Later, Beast Megatron discovered a large deposit of solitarium beneath a human city and ordered the Decepticons to tear the place apart. Starscream, Smokesniper, Gigant Bomb, and Wingstun did just that, blowing up buildings and razing a good portion of the city. Starscream was then shot out of the sky by another time-displaced Autobot, Reverse Convoy. Reverse Convoy quickly gained the trust of the other Autobots after being seen blasting Starscream, only to reveal that he was, in fact, the original Megatron in disguise. Lio Convoy Storms In

Robotmasters 3D diorama manga

Starscream was building a Decepticon base in the Congo, but was foiled by Optimus Primal. Robotmasters Vol. 2

Later, Starscream chased after Reverse Convoy, who had intelligence on a secret Decepticon base. The Autobots came to Reverse Convoy's rescue, and it was Reverse Convoy himself who got the last shot in, sending Starscream fleeing. Robotmasters Vol. 9 This turned out to be a pretense to get the Autobots to trust Reverse Convoy, who was in actuality the original Megatron reborn. The secret base turned out to be a trap that drained the Autobots of energy, and Starscream gloated along with Reverse Convoy and other Decepticons. But the Autobots were rescued by Lio Convoy and a new Optimus Prime. Starscream found himself blasted away along with the other Decepticons by the combined energies of the Autobot commanders. Robotmasters Vol. 11

Transformers Legends anthology

After a particularly harrowing fight with Megatron, Starscream went mountain climbing, and accidentally fell on his head. In this injured state, he was found by Hound, Bumblebee and Spike Witwicky, who took him back to the Ark. Ratchet and Wheeljack made repairs, having persuaded Prime to let them fiddle with Starscream's logic circuits if they found anything wrong. Starscream woke with amnesia.

As he slowly learned about the war and experienced the welcoming and forgiving nature of the Autobots, he found himself siding with his former foes. When Megatron turned up to reclaim his former lieutenant, Starscream refused to go, and was surprised when Optimus and Ironhide moved to protect him. Despite all this, the sight of Laserbeak finally restored his memory, and he returned to the Decepticons, claiming that he had been faking amnesia as a ruse to gain access to the Autobot base. He later reflected that he had learned something from the Autobots—that a leader like Prime who could pull together the Decepticons as a team could lead more effectively than Megatron had, and Starscream could be that leader. Redemption Center

Wings Universe

Starscream originally studied at Cybertron's Science and Exploration Academy. There, he rose at the top of his class by sabotaging his colleagues' works and conspiring against them. Upon graduating, he became friends with Skyfire and traveled off-world, finding adventure on their scientific investigations. Starscream's career as a scientist was promptly abandoned when the war broke out on Cybertron. He enlisted in Deathsaurus's army hoping to attain fame and recognition. Starscream's Wings of Honor profile

Starscream was the captain of Deathsaurus's Skyraider-Seeker Brigade until Deathsaurus used Falcon to assassinate most of the other Warlords by suicide bomb. With the new opening, Starscream was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. A Team Effort He led Deathsaurus's forces in a strike against the Elite Guard, along with the newly recruited Combaticons. The Coming Storm: Part 5

Starscream was happy to report the success of the Combaticons' success against the Elite Guard with their new form of Bruticus. He warned Deathsaurus that the five ex-Autobots were likely stab him in the back, but Deathsaurus told Starscream that it was ambition that made them the perfect Decepticons, and instructed him to tell Lyzack to ready the medibay for their return. Starscream passed on the message, and noted that Lyzack seemed overly formal, suggesting he would be able to get her out of her timid shell. Battle Lines, Part 1

As that repairs on the Combaticons proceeded, Starscream admired Deathsaurus's foresight in adding an override control to Bruticus, but admitted he bore bad news: Elite Guard forces were closing in on their base. Deathsaurus instructed him to deploy the troops. All of the troops. Battle Lines, Part 2 Starscream led the initial wave of defenders, shooting Ricochet out of the sky. While he was still ranting at the barrage of missiles unleashed by Flak, he was cut off mid-sentence by a missile strike which struck him square on. Battle Lines, Part 3 When more Autobot reinforcements showed up, one of Starscream's subordinates asked if they should retreat, and Starscream's response was an emphatic order to counterattack. After belting Ironfist, he was distracted by the sight of Lyzack savagely dealing to Magnum with a huge sword and could only stare open-mouthed. Starscream came to his senses after she was belted by Thunderclash, but he was too late to avoid being blasted by Side Burn. Battle Lines, Part 4

When Starscream arrived back at base to find Megatron had taken over, he readily switched allegiances, though he vowed under his breath that he would someday take his place as rightful heir to Deathsaurus. Megatron sent him with Soundwave to retrieve the data on the Combiner process that Deathsaurus had perfected. A week later, Starscream was part of the Decepticon forces who broke through Iacon's outer walls, thanks to Devastator. Battle Lines, Part 5 He was still by Megatron's side when Devastator fell and took part in the subsequent retreat. Battle Lines, Part 6

Circa 2013, Cybertronian leader Jhiaxus cloned Starscream to create a clone commander and clone drones of him. Termination

I'm just going to hijack your body and you can't do anything about it. That alright with you? Great!

Some time before 2984, Starscream's immortal disembodied spark ended up in a prison on a planetoid surrounded by black holes near former Quintesson space. Also with Starscream's immortal spark was a Quintesson who Starscream apparently had dealings with and had died by 2984. Breaking out of custody after their capture by the Cybertronian Knights, the pirate crew known as the Star Seekers sought Starscream's immortal spark as their next prize, following a map drawn by Waspinator. When Captain Cannonball's crew got inside Starscream's prison, they only found the Quintesson, whose corpse Starscream possessed to use as a Trojan horse. The apparent Quintesson negotiated passage off the planetoid in exchange for supposedly telling all that he knew of Starscream's last location. Once aboard the Tidal Wave, Starscream abandoned the Quintesson body and went around possessing various crew members, searching for a suitable host. While in Lockpick's body, Starscream forged an alliance with the female Decepticon Flamewar, whose life goal was to restore the Decepticon Empire. Together, they entered the Tidal Wave's bridge and executed a coup. Starscream's spark knocked out all of the bridge crew members except Tornado and after Flamewar threw a vial of forestonite at Cannonball, Starscream's spark entered the pirate captain's chassis. With the added edge of the forestonite, Starscream expelled Cannonball's spark and then remade the captain's chassis into a body resembling his old one. Flamewar and Starscream then gathered the remaining Star Seekers and gave them three choices: join Flamewar's Decepticon cause, remain marooned with Cannonball's spark on the planetoid, or die. A third of the crew remained loyal to Cannonball to the end. Afterwards, the Tidal Wave, its engines supercharged with forestonite by Ferak, escaped the planetoid. Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur After entreating Captain Flamewar to his presence for a short time, Legacy Starscream flew off the parts unknown, promising to repay his debt to her. Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur

Mars Attacks: The Transformers

*girly scream* NOT THE FACE, NOT THE FACE!

After a particularly harrowing defeat at the hands of the Autobots, the Decepticons found themselves in the middle of a Martian invasion. They attempted to team up with the invaders, only to be double crossed and trapped in a force field with the Autobots. After the Martians shrunk Megatron to the size of a toy, Starscream saw his opportunity to become the new Decepticon leader, however Megatron launched himself at Starscream's face and Starscream could only run around in panic. Things went back to normal once the Martians were repelled. Mars Attacks: The Transformers

Cloud

Starscream and his fellow Decepticons were reluctantly forced to side with the Autobots in a battle against "Cloud Megatron". This alternate reality Megatron proved too powerful to overcome, but luckily SARA was able to teleport him away, leaving Starscream and his teammates dazed and confused. Rampage

Ask Vector Prime

In Primax 1185.04 Alpha, Starscream was part of Megatron's forces who awoke in 1984 on a Cobra-controlled Earth. After repeatedly being foiled by Cobra in plundering Earth, Megatron was defeated and captured. Starscream took this opportunity to seize control of the Decepticons. Realizing that Cobra completely outmatched them, Starscream gathered what little energon Megatron's schemes had produced and withdrew his forces to Cybertron, self-destructing the space bridge behind them. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/13

In Primax 903.0-M Lambda, the ghost of Starscream possessed the corpse of Skyquake to get revenge on Galvatron during the New Golden Age, initiating the Machine Wars. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/27

In one particularly weird universe that incorporated the GoBots, Starscream killed Ace, Royal-T, and Spy-Eye when the Decepticons besieged Guardian City, retreating after Megatron suffered critical injuries. After history blipped again, Starscream was replaced by Zero as the usurper lieutenant of Megatron. Echoes and Fragments

Deviations

"and tell him, 'Who's laughing now?'"

In an alternate timeline where Optimus Prime survived the Battle of Autobot City and killed Megatron, Starscream recovered his former leader's fusion cannon as proof that Megatron had finally fallen. Predictably, Starscream nominated himself as leader, and after returning to Cybertron Starscream held a coronation for himself. Unfortunately, Unicron crashed the ceremony. Soundwave suggested that Starscream make first contact with the entity; Starscream agreed to serve Unicron and destroy the Matrix in exchange for his own life. In return, however, the Air Commander requested an upgrade for himself and his cohorts.

Now calling himself Megascream, the Decepticon leader took Thundercracker, Sunstorm, and Acid Storm to Earth, where he led the Decepticons in an attack on Optimus Prime's convoy of shuttles. Although the Seekers succeeded in crippling the ships, they had to abandon the assault early after Soundwave reported that Unicron had attacked Moonbase One. Megascream confronted Unicron over this apparent betrayal, but Unicron, tired of his whiny underling, ignored Megascream and began his final assault on Cybertron. Optimus spearheaded the attack on Unicron's surface... only to be met by Megascream, who demanded that Prime turn over the Matrix so that Megascream could destroy Unicron himself. Another battle ensued; Megascream revealed the full extent of his upgrades by combining with Soundwave, Astrotrain, Dirge, and Thrust to form a gigantic warrior. Megascream easily crushed and injured Optimus beneath his fist before seizing the Matrix. At the last moment, the stowaway Hot Rod intervened, snatching the Matrix away from the Decepticon leader and opening it. The ensuing explosion destroyed Unicron, with Megascream, his underlings, and Hot Rod all lost in the blast. Transformers: Deviations

Notes

• In the French dub of The Transformers: The Movie, Starscream (along with Shrapnel) inexplicably became a female. This change, however, was only for the movie, as it used a different dubbing team from the television show. Most likely, the movie's French dubbing team mistook Starscream's rather high-pitched voice for a woman's voice.
• The Generation 1 executive script consultant, Flint Dille, has claimed in personal interviews that Chris Latta frequently had to be bailed out of "the Hollywood jail" by members of the production staff. This apparently caused so much annoyance that it was a major factor in phasing Starscream out of the series.
• In the Japanese dub of Transformers, Starscream's voice (originally provided by Hirotaka Suzuoki) lacks Chris Latta's raspy, outrageous tone. Rather, he has a smoother, foppish pretty-boy demeanor. All subsequent performances of the character in those territories borrow from these respective portrayals.

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