Starscream - IDW

Personality:   Ever the opportunist, Starscream's boundless ambition drew him into the nascent Decepticon movement and catapulted him through the ranks as Cybertron collapsed into endless war. Though an intelligent, capable leader in his own right, Starscream struggled to distinguish himself from the shadow of Megatron–a relationship that ended with Megatron invariably reminding Starscream of his place after several failed coups and bungled stints at leadership. Following the end of the war and the revitalization of Cybertron, Starscream found the burden of leadership placed on his shoulders once more after a wayward Titan declared him Cybertron's "Chosen One", destined to reunite and rebuild their ruined world. A subsequent series of crises saw Starscream leaving the Decepticons forever, establishing himself as the "High Chancellor" of Cybertron's growing neutral population and carving out a new anti-factionalist government in the ruins of Iacon. But even after finally achieving his dream, Starscream still seems to be the same person he's always been: self-serving, prideful, treacherous, and perfectly willing to cheat, lie, and step on other 'bots to get his own way. His stubborn refusal to change his ways for the greater good is a constant thorn in the side of his reluctant allies. Beneath it all, though, Starscream struggles with the ramifications of his morally dubious actions and the growing shadow of his future legacy–a struggle that, in the end, he may not win. Starscream was constructed cold. As with all constructed cold Transformers, Starscream's spark carried genetic instructions for a "natural" shape, but the circumstances of his birth meant that his Spark was simply implanted into one of many identical, pre-constructed bodies. Over the course of his life, Starscream developed a predilection for periodically changing bodies; some would interpret this as a sign that his spark was still trying to find its "true form," while others would simply write it off as a sign of his vanity. In his early life, Starscream studied at the prestigious Nova Point Academy, but eventually moved to the city of Iacon, where he became a street hustler running scams for his personal gain and ran afoul of a young police officer named Orion Pax. Unlike most members of Cybertron's flight class, Starscream took pride in his alternate mode, and, eventually, his silver tongue landed him a handsomely-paying job as a precinct senator in Vos. Disappointed by the lack of fame or respect this job offered, he spent most of his time drinking and reluctantly attending political rallies when he could be dragged away from the bar. Eventually, Starscream grew tired of politics and used his political connections to embezzle a vast sum of money from his constituents before deserting his post. He used his new fortune to recruit a pair of outliers named Skywarp and Thundercracker from the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology. After arranging their release from the school, he convinced the duo to undergo extensive rebuilds so that they'd look like him, a way to confuse any taxpayers who tried to pursue him. Some four million years ago, he became a fan of the gladiatorial games that existed in Cybertron's underworld, and came to idolize the rhetorician-turned-gladiator Megatron for his teachings that Transformers didn't have to accept their lot in life. The trio were eventually approached by Soundwave; seeing Megatron's nascent uprising as good a place as any to lose himself, Starscream and his two lackeys believed that they were joining Megatron's team in the arena, but, after pledging allegiance to the Decepticon leader, learned that their leader had other plans for them: his Decepticon movement required air support as they made the move from activists to insurgents and beyond.

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