>>11204120>Machine Wars StarscreamI've lost all his missiles, sadly, and one of his little plane wheels is broken. Still he is in fact my first Starscream toy. I still remember being a kid at KB Toys and spotting him and my jaw dropping. Sure, he's wasn't the G2 one with the soundbox that I really wanted, but he was still STARSCREAM.
G1 Starscream has always been my favorite Transformer, no contest. And I do specifically mean the one from the cartoon. Cowardly, arrogant, uncharsimatic...and yet also ambitious, driven, an idiot genius, and I've noticed in the original G1 cartoon that as his available resources go down, his threat level goes up:
- "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court": bereft of his normal Decepticon support structure, he's quickly able to build a working power generator and gunpowder for his new human slaves
- "Starscream's Brigade": Kicked out of the Decepticons and banished to a random desert island, he finds some old human wrecks, restores them, sneaks to Cybertron for personality cores, returns and creates the Combaticons, while smart enough to not give them a means of recharging themselves without his help, proceeds to not play favorites among the Combaticons, leads them to multiple victories, and even kejiggered them to now be a combiner so as to deal with Devastator. Basically within 48 hours he went from having nothing to ruling the Decepticons...even if only for a few minutes.
- "The Revenge of Bruticus": Also, Starscream was smart enough to build a non-obvious yet easily exploitable weakness into Bruticus, just in case he ever needed to keep him in line
- "Starscream's Ghost": The dude is literally dead and yet manages to convince ROBOT SATAN to restore him to life, and then manages to screw over said robot Satan.
