Just stick 'em in the back of the shelf and pretend they're crowd fillers and animation errors.
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Starscream is famous for painting up generics in his own colorscheme while they sleep to draw fire away from himself in battle.
And none of the Starscreams are G2 Starscream, but there are three other G2 uses of the mold.
But let's have a Sunstorm already.
Hasbro doesn't seem interested in doing any more Seeker repaints unless it's the Ramjet mold.
Car Robots if you count that.
Makes me disappointed that the Devastation Seeker is just a recolor of him. The wings and lower legs are wrong.
It's a pretty neat look overall, but for some reason I'm not into "Bluestreak jet".
The English version, RID 2001, is definitely it's own continuity that has no Starscream.
But you are correct. Other than that, he's been in pretty much everything.
And while part of a continuity that did have some Starscreams in it, several Japanese cartoons didn't have a Starscream as part of their main cast, such as The Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, and Beast Wars Neo.
Beast Machines also didn't have its own Starscream, though we know the original was still out there somewhere in the greater world of its continuity. Other cartoons that didn't feature Starscream but did still take place in a continuity where one existed offscreen include Rescue Bots, Rescue Bots Academy, Go!, and Portal.
Oh! Both the Playskool Go-Bots cartoon and the BotBots cartoon had no Starscream, by virtue of having no Cybertronians in them at all.
Also the best thing to come out of Age of Extinction, the three-part "How to Ride Your Dinobot" series of animated shorts, had no Starscream or any Decepticons at all (Lockdown was in one of them, but he's an unaligned mercenary).
Rescue Bots may not have had Starscream in the cartoon, but there WAS a Starscream toy. But yes, you are definitely correct, a lot of continuities that have a Starscream in them don't necessarily have one on the associated show/toyline.
The only Starscream toy I can find, is a Mr. Potato in Cosplay so I don't think that counts.
This one:
I guess, technically, it doesn't say "Rescue Bots" on the package anywhere, so take that as you will.
That's fair, I didn't follow those lines at all, so I'm not familiar with the ins-and-outs of them, I was just going by the aesthetic.
I guess my point wasn't that Starscream was in EVERYTHING, just that he was in most things, so it makes sense that he gets a lot of representation over other Seekers.
Even when multiple Seekers are around, Starscream is the one most likely to actually DO anything.
Even if sometimes "anything" includes running away.
It's an 80s cartoon franchise. "Running away" is like 70% of what all bad guys do.
"I'll get you next time, Gadget! Next time!"
I really just want a G2 Starscream and Sunstorm out of the ER Seeker mould.
There are others I'd like but those are my must have's
There are others I'd like but those are my must have's
"Doom must flee!"