Starscream
A brilliant flyer and eternal schemer. Dreams of overthrowing Megatron — and fails at the last moment every time.
Where he comes from
Cybertron, the flying city of Vos. In several versions a scientist and explorer who became a warrior.
Story
Starscream is the Decepticons' best flyer and their eternal traitor. He sincerely believes he would command better than Megatron and seizes every chance to overthrow him, but at the last moment lacks the nerve or the luck.
In the 1986 film Galvatron destroys him precisely for trying to seize power, and in Transformers: Prime Starscream drifts between factions without ever belonging. More in the article "The Complex Villains of Transformers".
Classifier: traits & abilities
- Faction
- Decepticons
- Role
- Second in command, air commander
- Alt-modes
- Jet fighter
- Weapons
- Arm-mounted null rays, missiles
- Abilities
- Supersonic speed, aerial combat; scientific knowledge in some versions
- Strengths
- Intelligence, speed, ambition
- Weaknesses
- Cowardice, treachery, vanity
- Personality
- Scheming, self-obsessed, clever
- Key relationships
- Megatron, Thundercracker and Skywarp, Shockwave
- First appearance
- 1984
- Voice (G1)
- Chris Latta
Filmography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1984–1986 | The Transformers (G1) |
| 1986 | The Transformers: The Movie |
| 2007 | Transformers |
| 2007–2009 | Transformers: Animated |
| 2009 | Revenge of the Fallen |
| 2010–2013 | Transformers: Prime |
| 2011 | Dark of the Moon |
| 2018–2021 | Cyberverse |
| 2024 | Transformers One |
Main screen appearances; not an exhaustive list.
Fan prequel: «The Map That Wasn't His»
An original story by this site. Not part of the official canon.
Before the war, a young scientist from Vos dreamed of being the first to fly through the Storm Ring at the edge of the system. For years he gathered data, plotted trajectories and finally applied to the Academy.
His application was rejected. The flight went to a senator's son, who took the young scientist's calculations and passed them off as his own. When he came back a hero, nobody at the ceremony mentioned the real author.
That evening the scientist said it aloud for the first time: "Those at the top will never give up their place on their own." He would remember that lesson for a long time. The trouble is that Starscream would later apply it to everyone above him — even those who once gave him wings.
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