Soon after, The Ark was stolen by Shockwave and Starscream ( as well as a stowaway Galvatron from a parallel universe ).

Images surfaced, on-line, of some toy prototypes, notably Starscream and a new Decepticon who was to be named Blackout, along with packaged samples of movie preview " Protoform " Optimus Prime and Starscream toys.

Megatron was reformed into Galvatron who returned to Cybertron, destroyed Starscream for his treacherry and reassumed command of the Decpticons.

This was all part of Megatron's plan: a supposedly informant Starscream massacred the Autobot Senate and freed the prisoners, signalling revolution and anarchy in Kaon.

Scrapper cautioned against such an action, but Starscream ignored him, and prevented him from stopping it when the process was underway.

Grimlock and the Dinobots were destroyed during the battle against Starscream while the villain was super-powered by the Underbase.

When he participated in an attack on the Ark with several of his fellow Decepticons, Starscream was deactivated by Omega Supreme, and sealed in a stasis pod in the Ark for a prolonged period of time.

' In the U. K. tales, Starscream was briefly revived from his stasis prison to participate in the events of the Target: 2006 mega-serial, where he teamed up with future Decepticon leader Galvatron.

Galvatron tolerated his service with amusement, aware of the irony in the situation — Starscream thought that working with Galvatron would ensure his future, but thanks to Galvatron, Starscream had no future, since he was destined to die at his hands in 2006 ( in the comic's alternate-future rendition of The Transformers: The Movie ).

In the U. S. stories, Starscream was liberated from his imprisonment by the new Decepticon leader, Ratbat, who appointed him second-in-command of his operations.

As he steadily mutated into a gigantic being, Starscream was stopped by Optimus Prime, who tricked him into absorbing more of the Underbase's energy — more than his body could handle, destroying him.

Starscream, however, had some unlikely protectors — the Autobots needed him alive so that his compatible systems could boost those of the Dinobot Snarl, who was dying from the rusting disease, Corrodia Gravis.

In the U. S. comics, Starscream went on from his rebirth as a Pretender to join up with Shockwave in instigating the Decepticon Civil War, and was transported to Cybertron along with all the other Transformers in preparation for the battle against Unicron.

In Generation 2 Starscream had been deactivated in the crash of the Ark, but Megatron, who had also been on board, was the only survivor, and over the next few years, restored the Ark, entering into a deal with the human terrorist organization, Cobra, which helped him obtain a new body and weapons.

Desperate for troops and in spite of his own misgivings about doing so, Megatron then reactivated Starscream ( considering his only other choice was Shockwave, Megatron still felt he had made a good decision ).

Starscream served Megatron with at least a semblance of loyalty, ferrying him to his showdown with Bludgeon, but when he realized Megatron was going to eliminate him after his new Matrix-created army was functional, he betrayed him by alerting the forces of the Cybertronian general Jhiaxus to the location of the joint Autobot / Decepticon base.

Starscream was subsequently able to acquire the Creation Matrix ( previously stolen from Optimus Prime by Megatron ), and used it to merge himself with the Decepticon craft, the Warworld, turning himself into a living weapon.

Acting as second-in-command of the elite troops Megatron took with him aboard the Nemesis, Starscream was among the Transformers trapped in stasis on Earth for four million years after the Decepticons attacked the Autobot craft, Ark, causing it to crash on the planet.

As the war continued, Starscream's old friend Skyfire was discovered frozen in the Arctic Circle, and Megatron noted how concerned Starscream was to see Skyfire rescued.

It was this friendship that initially led Skyfire to join the Decepticons, but when the latter refused to hurt humans, both Megatron and Starscream voiced their disgust.

Formerly a scientist, Starscream is a treacherous, high-ranking Decepticon who turns into a jet and is known to often challenge his leader Megatron for leadership of the Decepticons.

Starscream would make use of his old scientist profession in the future, particularly when he and several other Decepticons were temporarily displaced in time to medieval England.

On Cybertron before the war, Jet Fire was a scientist and explorer working with Starscream.

Unlike his similarly-styled G1 predecessor, however, Starscream was smart enough to keep his intentions to himself, quietly working to achieve his goals through subtle means.

Elsewhere, the Air Strike Patrol ( also working for Megatron ) sparked a confrontation between Optimus Prime's Autobots and Scorponok's Decepticons-luring them into perfect position to be wiped out by the resurrected Pretender Starscream.

Shockwave leaves Astrotrain and observes a group of Decepticons working for Starscream as they confront the Autobots.

Megatron ingratiates himself with Jungle Planet ruler Scourge, while at the same time, his scheming lieutenant Starscream teams up with the mysterious Sideways, working towards his own goals.

Megatron also reactivated Thrust, Dirge and Thundercracker, but the three left him to join up with Bludgeon's troops — mostly because they couldn't work with Starscream, who had killed them once.

He also formed an uneasy truce with Starscream.

Kidnapping Senator Decimus as a symbol ( with the help of new airborne recruit Starscream ) Megatron issued a rallying call to the gladiators and their supporter, promising to unite them under one badge and make the whole planet their arena.

The building is also seen in the movie Knowing, where it is destroyed along with the rest of New York City, and in the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ( 2009 ), where Megatron orders Starscream to launch a full-scale attack on the planet.

Siding with Starscream after Megatron's disappearance, Devastator acted as Starscream's muscle, destroying Sideswipe at one point, and helping his new leader to take over Las Vegas.

This is confirmed when both Optimus Primal and Megatron come face-to-face with the currently deactivated forms of their ancestors ( Optimus Prime and the original Megatron ) inside the Ark at different points, as well as the earlier episode when the Spark of Starscream inhabits Waspinator's body.

Starscream is usually portrayed with the same characterization.

Here, writer Simon Furman portrayed the character's scheming and ambition with more subtlety than the animated series, making Starscream more intelligent and cunning than clownish.

Now imbued with incredible amounts of power, Starscream turned his attention to Earth, and deactivated scores of Transformers who attempted to stand against him.

Through a team-up with Soundwave, Starscream succeeded in deposing Megatron and Shockwave briefly, before they returned seeking vengeance.

" where Soundwave lead the bulk of the Decepticon forces on Earth against the Autobot Earthforce headquarters while Starscream attacked an oil tanker.

Sent into battle by Prowl, the Dinobots routed the main Decepticon forces while Springer lead the Autobot Survivors, Broadside, Inferno, Skids, and Carnivac to defeat Starscream.

Starscream would immediately return to form, learning of Ratbat's plan to acquire the power of the Underbase, and orchestrating a massive battle between the Autobot and Decepticon forces that allowed him to seize the colossal information bank's energy.

Megatron then had Autobot surgeon Ratchet reconstruct Starscream as a Pretender, and had him attack Optimus Prime and Scorponok's forces on Earth.

" where Soundwave led the bulk of the Decepticon forces on Earth against the Autobot Earthforce headquarters, while Starscream attacked an oil tanker.

Sent into battle by Prowl, the Dinobots routed the main Decepticon forces while Springer led the Autobot Survivors, Broadside, Inferno, Skids, and Carnivac to defeat Starscream.

Starscream was a prominent figure in most of Megatron's schemes over the next year, but also made several further plays for power — teaming up with the Triple Changers Blitzwing and Astrotrain to betray Megatron, only to be double-crossed himself ; duping the paranoiac Autobot, Red Alert into allowing him to acquire the Autobots ' Negavator weapon ; incapacitating Megatron's Nightbird robot to maintain his own position of power ; getting drunk on energon, and more.

In the year 2005, ( the storyline year for the events of the 1986 release, The Transformers: The Movie ), Starscream, along with many other Decepticons, hijacked an Autobot shuttle bound for Autobot City ; Megatron's plan being to slip past the city's early warning systems and decimate the Autobots there.

At one point during the conflict, Starscream was forced to blast off his own foot in order to escape after being trapped in a transforming section of Autobot City.

Starscream reported to Deathsaurus on the success of the Combaticons ' attack on thr Autobot Elite Guard.

Winding up in stasis aboard the Autobot spacecraft, the Ark, along with the other Decepticons when it crashed on prehistoric Earth, Starscream was reactivated in 1984 with the other Transformers.

When Megatron liberated himself from Lazarus's control in 2002, the other Decepticons were soon freed, and Starscream and the other Decepticon jets passed some time by dismembering the Autobot Mini-Bots before joining in an attack on San Francisco, during which they attacked Superion, forcing him to separate.

As part of Megatron's plan, Starscream swiftly becomes an Autobot informant.

While on a brief mission to attack Red Alert on Velocitron, Starscream was able to secretly switch Megatron's map with a copy that would play an important role later, and in an attempt to acquire more troops loyal to him, recruited the disillusioned Autobot Mudflap into his service on Earth.

Encountering the Autobot monster-hunter, Crosswise – one of the ancient Transformers whose ancestors had come to Earth with the Cyber Planet Key eons ago, who had recently been reactivated – Starscream discovered a vast underground holding cell in which Crosswise had imprisoned the ancient Decepticons of his time.

Liberating them, Starscream took command of their forces and began a planetwide search for the Cyber Planet Key, fighting back the Autobot and human military resistance.

The Autobots had Crosswise's ally Evac recover the key from its hiding place in preparation for a retreat to Velocitron, but Starscream fought his way through the entire Autobot army and confronted Optimus Prime himself, successfully purloining the lock and all three keys by endangering the Autobots ' human allies and drawing Prime out of the fight.

When Starscream gatecrashed a meeting of the Terrorcons – renegade Decepticons who were unhappy with the peace between Autobot and Decepticon that had emerged in the wake of Unicron's defeat – at an energon plant, his mistake soon became apparent when he discovered that they had struck a deal with Unicron and gained new " Hyper Mode " powers.

However, this is part of Megatron's plan, as Starscream kills the Autobot Senate.