Starscream Clones: A Genius Reinvention Of The Seekers - Transformers Animated 

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Sunstorm- “Optimus Prime, may I just say how much I admire your courage for walking into certain doom!” Love that line

Things like this are why I love Animated. The way they introduced certain characters was so creative. I love how they handled Wasp, Blackarachnia, Dinobots, Comstructicons, just so unique. Just love it

While I prefer the seekers to be their own independent characters, I actually liked the seekers being clones in Animated. I think it was a good take on the seekers

It's definitely a fun interpretation, and I wished we could've seen how the characters would of developed through the show.

I love how Transformers: Animated handled Thundercracker, Skywarp, Sunstorm, Ramjet, and Slipstream being clones of Starscream. Wish Dirge and Thrust could have made it.

Ngl I felt a little weird about Thundercracker but I remember this one scene from G1 where he basically says "you screwed up" to Megatrons face who couldn't even say anything back to him, dudes got ball bearings so him being the arrogant one makes a bit of sense

I love how they took the different personalities of Starscream and put them into the different Seekers. Sure they were all the same character but they were different enough where you saw them as individuals.

I also think Slipstream was the backstabber of the Seekers or had Starscream's drive, that's why she said "Don't ask." So Starscream wouldn't deactivate her

Slipstream is (In my opinion) his drive, his motivation It explains her intelligence Her leadership skill And her looks

I read that Slipstream was going to lead her own group of Decepticons in season four.

*Ramjet:* “What’re you talking about?! It was in *NO* way a genius reinvention! I could have done *SO* much better myself!”

Someone made a fan concept of Acid Storm with crazy sharp, jagged teeth and it would have been cool to see Acid Storm represent Starscreams crazy/insane side and then make him obsessed with melting everyone

The best thing the Starscream clones gave us was slipstream.

So what basically, slipstream is attitude and strategic commander with sass. Makes sense.

Slipstream was very unique character to me then and now. I like how her origins was just being a female clone of Starscream, and throughout the years, she's become an iconic transformer in her own right.

If youve never done it, i highly recommend the TF wikis articles on all the Starscream clones. Hilarious is an understatement

Animated and the 2007 movie was my main introduction to Transformers when I was a teenager. Among those episodes this was my favorite cause I love the concepts of the seekers. I even try customizing my animated Sarscream for the first time, cause Ramjet was my favorite, and you cant display Sunstorm without a Ramjet its ashamed I bought the wrong paint though XD.

What each clone thinks of this video: Skywarp is afraid of the popularity he may get from it. Sunstorm is honored to be in this amazing video. Thundercracker thinks he deserves his own video. Thrust thinks he deserves more time in this video. Dirge thinks he deserves the monetization from this video. Ramjet didn't see this video. He wasn't even in this video!

I feel that the seekers would have slowly grown personalities, gained more individuality. Slipstream did so pretty quickly.

*still doesn't know what part of Starscream's personality Slipstream is*

I love the idea of the Seekers being designed specifically to resemble Starscream. Although I would like if they had personalities separate from Starscream. They can have similarities to Starscream, but have them have distinct personalities

I Like to think of Starscream, Slipstream, Skywarp and Thundercracker as Quadruplet siblings with the cone heads and Rainmakers being two sets of Triplets.

The Seekers being based on negative qualities OF Starscream himself is a step-up in characterization compared to what we are used to seeing in most other Decepticons. With the exception of Megatron & Starscream being more dynamic & multidimensional, most Decepticons are intentionally designed to have one-dimensional "negative" traits that make them the bad guys In general, Decepticons are Fanatical (Lugnut), Embittered (Black-Arachnia), Crazy (Waspinator), Sneaky (Shockwave), Rude (Constructions), Cold-blooded (Soundwave), Hot-headed (Slipstream), Cowardly (Skywarp), Arrogant (Thundercracker), Lying (Ramjet), Ass-kissing (Sunstorm), NAZIS!!! (Blitzwing)... In each new Generation of Transformers, some of these negative qualities may be consistent with certain characters across different Generations, and some are cycled around the new roster of bad guys. I like this version of the Seekers

I like to imagine that Starscream did actually clone Dirge and Thrust. But they're just rejects so he never activated them

I always thought of the Seekers as the elite strike troops of the Decepticons but the clone idea was fun.

As it was 2007, Slipstream being female was probably meant to represent Starscream’s “feminine” (read: gay) traits, without being obvious about it given the time the show was written/released, and for the intended audience at the time.

Skywarp: Cowardice Thundercracker: Ego/Narcissism Sunstorm: Sycophantic Ramjet: Deception Slipstream: H O R N Y

I hope that Animated returns and we'll see more of the Clones.

To this day I still don't understand what part of Starscream that Slipstream came from.

Comodin cam:“He was birthed on earth” Bay verse Lockdown:”you think we were born? No. We were built!”

It's interesting and quite an fun idea, I wish we could get more slipstream tho, how they did her in cyberverse was dirty and we haven't gotten figure of her for mass retail yet

It's a brilliant idea and all. And I have to say, I really like their 3rd original character (Slipstream), and Animated has my personal favorite incarnation of Starscream, I love his design, and he really proves to be a huge threat, and the voice provided by Tom Kenny just makes this character so iconic. I mean, I will always have Chris Latta as my number 1 Starscream, but Tom Kenny comes REALLY close to be my favorite Starscream voice actor Season 4 was gonna have Slipstream revive Starscream, and I wanted that to happen so bad. I did come up with the idea of having all the clones be voiced by other actors who voiced Starscream in other shows/films. Such as; Steve Blum as Thundercracker, Charlie Adler as Skywarp, Bill Bob Thompson as Sunstorm, and Sam Riegel as Ramjet I also heard about Season 4 having Greedy Dirge and Jealousy Thrust (I prefer Armada Thrust much more)

Starscream clones personalities: Thundercracker: Egotistical Skywarp: Coward Sunstorm: Suck-up Ramjet: Liar Slipstream: **Redacted** Redwing (Red one): Negotiation Hotlink (Purple one): Genuine Fear Dirge: Greed Thrust: Jealousy

If Acid Storm was in Animated, what personality from Starscream do you think he would inherit?

The Starscream clones reminded me a little about the Dinobot clones in Beast Wars.

Slipstream I think is the survivalist aspect. She knows when the fight isn’t going well, she knew to follow Megs first of any of the clones, etc

I personally think that the idea of the Seekers being direct clones of Starscream was a pretty good idea too. I mean, even today I'd say that many of the Seekers still don't have too much character outside of certain continuities (As Cam said in the video, Thundercracker and Skywarp didn't really have too much character until the IDW comics came along) and in my opinion, this still continues today for many of the Seekers. (Just look at Ramjet's recent appearances in Cyberverse and Earthrise: nothing more than glorified cameos). Additionally, if a future show ever wants to revisit this concept, they could also add other elements: For example, maybe he just starts with a few clones (Thundercracker, Skywarp and Sunstorm) that have the exact same body and jet mode as him but later down the line he has some clone modified such as different heads/helmets and different wings in jet mode, creating the Coneheads (Ramjet, Thrust and Dirge).

I love the idea of using clones for redecoes of existing characters like the Starscream clones. I too wished the given them their individual powers like Skywarp's teleportation, Thundercracker's ability to create sonic booms, and so on. Another good idea would be giving them new unique vehicle modes to signify their decision to break away from being Starscream's clones.

While it doesn't make sense that Starscream clones have their own unique color scheme that makes them visually distinct from Starscream, I really do like the idea and execution as they can really exaggerate "Starscream" without sounding like a fanfic cringy version of themselbes that you find in like Tumblr or comments

This also makes me wonder about Animated Nacelle and Hotlink

I do like the concept of the Seekers being Starscream's clones in Animated, but the gimmick of them having one personality trait did kind of wear thin after a bit (with all the male Seekers being voiced by Tom Kenny kinda not helping). Slipstream stood out because she did have more of a back and forth with Starscream, and that made her more fleshed out. Animated did try and differenciate them when Swindle gave them new helmets, but that was near the end of the series and it was kind of too little too late. I feel like it would have been cool if in a 4th season they branched out and became more of their own bots not linked to Starscream (as I _think_ Starscream dies for real at the end of Animated, but I haven't seen the finale in a long time)

3:18 Ramjet: I am not!

Cam: "Slipstream represents Starscream's combat strategist" Me, since 2018: "Slipstream represents Starscream's gender dysphoria🤔"

Since Slipstream has a lot of Starscream's wit, drive, and femininity, could we assume that this means that she is Starscream's girlboss aspect?

Ideas for Seekers Hotlink-Ambitious. AcidStorm-Cruel. BitStream-Schemer. Nacelle-Corrupt Leader. NovaStorm-Complainer. IonStorm-Competitive.

I'm 22 and I still don't know.......What does Slipstream represent?

I always thought Slipstream was his sass

Ok it has been way to long since i saw animated so i actually can't remember what they implied wat slipstream represented

Coul be an easy way of making multiple infernos and the inferno lookalikes

It's funny they did the clone thing immediately again in Prime. But really this storyline is facsimile of the Combaticon storyline. Starscreams misfit minions

At least we had a sexy Slipstream in animated

Tbh said episode where I even found out about the character of slipstream in the first place, idk but I be feeling that the show is underappreciated sometimes which I may not have gotten to see it as a kid when it originally aired on CN but it's also my 2nd favorite transformers continuity ever aside from prime

the Coneheads may be similar to Starscream, Skywarp & Thundercracker, but the main difference (aside from their heads) is where their wings are placed on their robot mode (all the Coneheads have their wings placed on their legs instead of on their back)(just thought I should bring that up); Slipstream was probably one of the most standout characters to come from Animated (& i think we all know why that is); I agree that it would have been nice to see how Thrust (jealousy) & Dirge (greed) could be incorporated into the show, especially since Sunstorm & Ramjet were the only Seeker clones to appear more than the others (Slipstream was missing throughout s3, and Skywarp & Thundercracker were lost in space after fighting Blurr)

one thing i liked about the allspark in TFA is that they didn’t just become evil, the constructicons were confused on what they were supposed to do

I am so glad that i am not the only one who still remembers transformers animated!

Yeah I agree. This idea of the skeekers of being clones of Starscream is brilliant take which should brought into future transformers media. You know how toys and the characters in transformers that have the same body style, they're either portrayed them as siblings or clones.

I will address this with Season 4 of Animated. I had the idea of making a Seeker episode, by just replacing "This is Why I hate Organics", we knew Slipstream was gonna revive Starscream. I had the idea where Starscream becomes the main villain against the Autobot cast, with Jazz replacing Prowl, meanwhile Ironhide would only join the cast and not replace Bulkhead, with Arcee, Jetfire and Jetstorm joining in as well. Swindle created Jealousy Thrust, Greedy Dirge, and Psychotic Acid Storm (I have no plans for the other members of the rainmakers). Meanwhile, Megatron sends the 4 other Seekers to investigate what Starscream is up to, and they all teamed up (along with Slipstream) to attack the Autobots and steal the Allspark Matrix. And in the end, all were defeated. Only Starscream lives, alongside Slipstream, Thundercracker and Skywarp, who all decide to retreat with Starscream, before they decide to reunite with Megatron (I really miss the point of having Starscream being together with him, Lugnut and Blitzwing). That was my take of an unofficial episode for Season 4, and why I have that instead of "This is Why I hate Organics". The rest seem way more official.

I loved the way how all these clones of Starscream embodied an aspect of his personality. I wasn't a fan of how Slipstream's personality wasn't explained, but I think she's as treacherous as him, if only he was a woman.

Yeah, I remember when Swindle (voiced by Fred Willard) gave Sunstorm and Ramjet their helmets.

Everyone be sleeping on animated but its. High key one of the best things too come out of the franchise

Also some nice details in the names and am sure they would have gotten powers if they lasted long like slipstream getting turbines. But the personality's really fit. So skywarp could teleport in g1 so him being a coward trying to get away from everything fits. Thundercracker being loud and proud making more noise than everyone makes sense Sliptream got the turbines that let her slip into the multiverse she's smart and jumped ship when the autobots got win in her universe. Ramjet lying causing everyone to hate him makeing every but heads with him like a Ram/goat. The greed of dirge having gold wings and a green body you know the colour of envy really cool. Thrust thrusting himself into situation to make himself look better than everyone because he's jealous of everyone. Sunstorm being a suck up kinda like how the sun sucks everyone around it towards it. And kinda like a yes man you want him around you all the time kinda like he's orbiting you or you him because you like the praise.

I wasn't aware of the seekers and characters spawned off from Starscream and recolored to sell more toys when I watched this. These were just the Starscream clones. Like Cybertron's legions of fodder from a brief arc, but made interesting with distinct colors, limited numbers, and personality fragments of Starscream. I didn't even reallize these clones HAD names. Animated had a lot of characters, so trying to introduce several new decpticons would have been harder than splintering off fragments of an existing character as clones. They're clones. There is no way for them to have distinct abilities unless they were to find new equipment, and I doubt that Starscream would be cool with one of his clones having a teleporter instead of him having it. Best place to load up would be Swindle (or Lockdown), but I don't see either of them having a personal teleporter for sale unless they already had one for personal use, and the price would be steep. How's a broke clone supposed to get that? They could have grown more distinctive in other ways though. More of them adding cosmetic changes or smaller upgrades... I think the best explanation I had for Slipstream was Starscream's intelligence or cunning. The one who kept her hand hidden when labeling her brothers, leaving options for herself, and who lacked an obvious flaw from being a one note piece of a personality. Her laying low also speaks to this. She saw that she didn't have good cards to play, so she'd wait and see. Laying low unless an obvious threat neared her personal airspace. They could have done more with the clones, but there were more important stories to tell.

Original Seekers - Starscream (leader) - Skywarp - Thundercracker Original Conehead - Dirge - Ramjet - Thrust More Than Meets The Eyes Seekers - Bitstream - Hotlink - Nacelle - Sunstorm Rainmakers - Acid Storm - Ion Storm - Sunstorm Other Coneheads - Blast - Cloudstorm - Sandstorm Other Seekers - Avia - Blackout - Blazewake - Red Wing - Slipstream - Wheezing Arrow

I tried writing a letter to hasbro saying to make a albino seeker who is a insane but loyal demolitions expert who loves explosians I can’t decide between wipe out or white out as his name

You're not supposed to know who Slipstream is. If you were, she's probably just his cunning side.

I'll be honest I always hated animated sunstorm. He's annoying. But I have had a long theory about their personality differences. When starscream had the Allspark shard was probably his personality chip and pieces go in the spark and spark chamber like a life long personality literally.

SKYWARP IS HIS OWN CHARACTER IN HIS OWN RIGHT

slipstream is just slay aspect of starscream

I like to think that the red and white Starscream on e23 was a reference to Armada Starscream.

Ok for real though what part of Starscream did Slipstream come from?

There’s this book series called the Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor where a human man named BOB is made into a super computer and placed into an exploration ship a hundred years after his “Death” in 2016. During the series he has to make copies of himself to explore more of the galaxy but each clone is slightly different in personality so when in the latest book Heaven’s River at the 20th generation and after 10k+ BOBs many bobs are barely Bob!

I really liked the concept, but I was disappointed that we didn't get to see much of them in the show.

Skywarp and thundercracker should've done more in the show

I really like that they are clones, though I feel that if they were treated more like clone troopers in that they could all have their own unique personalities while still being loyal elite warriors. Having all the seekers be built specifically to be the decepticon army and then having some like Starscream really come to question their purpose and place in the wider world would be extremely interesting. Also I prefer the cone heads to just be recolours of Starscream don’t @ me

I still don’t understand what aspect of Starscream personality slipstream is supposed to be.

I still haven't figured out what aspect slipstream is

If you read the allspark almanac you will see skywarp has done that off screen, Slipstream complained about it.

I always thought that Slipstream was Starscream’s brain.

The yellow white and red starscream is sunstorm

So you wanna see slipstream lead her own team well guess what in cyberverse she does exactly that

There's two more seekers hotlink and sandstorm

Wait... So what personality is Slipstream supposed to be?🤣

I wish these personalities stuck with the seekers. Ramjet was at his best in this show

1000 likes but youtube says one is enough

So I’m guessing female starscream is his feminine side and that’s why she said you don’t want to know 😂

It's good for the show but the clones idea often gets mixed up with other media and as a result the rest of the seekers get kind of overlooked

Wait so is slipstream is hornines?

Do you know would be cool if someone figures our personalities for the other seekers like the rain makers and the welcoming committee I mean those characters haven’t given names since animated ended imagine what I could do with the other characters like making hotlink star Scream crazy side

I still can't get which aspect of Starscream was the base of Slipstream

Wait, someone figured out what part Slipstream was!? I never figured it out. Am I missing something here?

I'm not innocent I think I'm stupid, what's slipstream supposed to be ☠

I'm 16, but i get Slipstream, of course on surface level, She represents Starecream's sass, but then, Starscream's ummmm, ғᴇᴍᴇɴɪɴᴇ traits, and I do actually love this version of the seekers, more than most, it re-invented the seekers and gave them all characterizations, like, what was Skywarp, he had 0 character except like, the typical i hate humans, And what was Thundercracker, Arrogant, sassy, dim witted? but i do have my own take on the seekers in the story i made, while there were original seekers, in my story Starscream made an army based on the colors of his seeker army (and a jetfire clone with his movie colors since at the time Screamer was still hurt by Jetfire's betrayel) and gave them their names, of course he butted heads with them all) but they were more like the tfa seekers based on Screamers personality

So starscream is a trans icon with slipstream

Who wants to see more Slipstream?

My opinion is that slipstream is starscream vanity

Wait. What part of Starscream does Slipstream represent then?

slipstream was gonna appear in endgame part 2

Just like in the show I don't like it so much. I don't like it what they done with them. Like my favorite characters Skywarp and Thundercracker like have personality from Starscream is bad. I only like Skywarp as himself and Thundercracker as himself. Sunstorm ok but I am fine him as a Rainmaker and Slipstream she is perfect the smart and think and mad she have Starscream's G1 personality but not throw Megatron but Starscream does. That why she got in Cyberverse. Remjet is cool but I fine him as a cone head so yeah they should have there own personality not Starscream's because is bad to have them I hope they give it back. Thank you for the video.

I'm the opposite. The idea is great, it was just executed very very poorly. They were nothing but to be cannon fodder