Anyone notice the similarities between how movie starscream was animated and the way southpark portrays Paris Hilton? Yeah... I went the right way thanks for the billion dollar turd.

 

Tie between Prime and Animated, but since Prime just started, I'll go with Animated, love 'em both though. Movie-verse is awesome too, I s'pose.

 

I feel Starscream is one of the few instances where the G1 Animated Series is the strongest and best version of a character. Everything that is iconic about that character, the finest points in terms of voice and attitude, stem from that version. There have been a bunch of fantastic starscreams since, but for almost all of them, they're at their finest when drawing on the ideas of the original series and emulating that performance to some degree. It's not to say some of the different directions haven't been great (such as Armada), or that some of the other performances haven't been stellar (Animated), but I think at the end of the day with Starscream, it all goes back to the G1 cartoon.

 

Chris Latta's G1 is the perfect Starscream. That voice is great!

 

I went with Animated, because he wasn't just Megatron's cowardly, somewhat treasonous lacky, but a competent warrior who was a threat to the Autobots and also caused trouble for Megatron.

I'd rank Armada Starscream second; although I didn't think his character arc was as awesome as a lot of people do, it was an interesting direction. Haven't watched Energon or Cybertron, so can't comment on those.

G1 Starscream was interesting for occasionally being the only Decepticon in the room with any common sense, but he didn't seem to be all that competent otherwise.

Movieverse Starscream hasn't had enough screen time to get a feel of what his character is like, although his

Spoiler

death scene

in DotM wasn't a shining moment.

Prime Starscream, I haven't seen him do anything the least bit interesting yet and he seems to be the most incompetent of all the iterations of the character. He seemingly accomplished nothing until Megatron showed up in the premiere and, while he did manage to take advantage of Megatron's injuries, he was unable to cement his status as Decepticon leader and wasn't taken seriously by his troops...probably because he spent most of his time afraid of Soundwave. Plus, while Megatron was injured, he didn't seem to accomplish much of anything either. He also hasn't shown very much skill as a warrior and seems to either get defeated or run away a lot. It's like the writers took all the flaws of G1 Starscream (cowardly, incompetent), amplified them and kept none of the strengths of other versions of the character.

 

I'm totally, proudly biased here. Tho I do like Armada and Animated, only G1 does it for me.

--Moony

 

Tough choice, but I'd have to go with Prime Starscream.

 

I'd honestly have to say Animated. Unlike his G1 counterpart, he was actually pretty successful in his backstabbing.

But Prime Screamer is set to usurp even him.

 

tie between animated and prime
animated looked like he could handle his own against megatron, like he actually had a good chance of defeating him in battle, however he always underestimated things and that's why he kept losing
prime looked like the weakest starscream ever but his personality for me defines starscream, his personality and voice is the perfect fit for a starscream

 

I'm going with Animated one. He was waaaaay too much fun to watch  

Althougth I liked Armada Stascream also even if he did sound like if Vegeta smoked 50 cigarettes a day for 10 years...

 

I say Prime, because we all know Starscream longs to be the leader of the Cons and Prime just showed it all, including the fact that he fulfilled that dream for a short time and tried to make it permanent. It's obvious that that just showed the best of Starscream.

 

Though it wasn't a cartoon, I feel the portrayal of Starscream in the WFC game was the most spot on representation of the character IMO...since that wasn't an option I kept it old school and voted for G1.

 

I prefer the G1 version. Most of the others seem to be based off of the g1 version in certain ways.

 

I can't believe Prime is beating out G1.

 

Yeah, G1 for the most part established his character. I voted for G1.

 

To be fair, Megs did in no uncertain terms tell Starscream during his second-greatest coup attempt* (the one that got him dumped on Guadalcanal) that he straight up can't be killed. Given that neither Megatron nor Galvatron is ever shown to actually cease functioning in that continuity, it's hard to argue with him. Hard to measure Screamer's worth against that. Homeboy slagged Prime.


(*second greatest in terms of hilarious consequences)

G1 Starscream is, I think, my favorite TF of all time, but my familiarity with continuities besides G1 is incomplete. The remarkable votes of support for Prime Starscream suggest maybe I should give that show another shot.

 

I loved the War for Cybertron version of Starscream also. Seemed to hit all the right notes in all the right places for me.

That said, I ended up voting for Prime. Admittedly I've only encountered Prime's, G1's and movie-verse's Starscreams, but there's just something about Prime's that makes him stand out. Between his voicing, design, and personality, everything about him screams perfection. (No pun intended).

At first I was dubious about his re-design, but now it's without a doubt my favourite. A really ingenious portrayal, that the designers/animators should be proud of and deserve a lot of recognition for.

Although I'm still trying to get used to the high heels  

 

Whilst I believe that Primescream is far and away best Scream, I'm still surprised how he's managed to surpass even the nostalgia of G1 Scream.

Guess it goes to show just how damn awesome the dude is.

 

Prime.

First of all, he didn't start off as a treacherous bastard - he seems much more irritated by megatron's (to him) incompetant command and insanity. He's also not an idiot, or a one trick pony. He's cunning, resourceful and smart. He also, arguably, did better in his stint as commander than Megatron has since his second return. Megatron in Prime is a terrible commander - insane and uncaring of his troops. Starscream seems appalled at this, and is being much more cunning about his plots.

G1 is the worst. Annoying, useless and stupid - his only redeeming feature being his distinctive voice and design, and being the role model for all future starscreams.

 

I was tied between G1 and Prime.

I picked Prime because how they are portraying him as this treacherous but with a goal personality. He despises Megatron because of his hypocritical thinking which he isn't honest about. Starscream wants him to be truthful of his lus for power(like he is.)

This verison of Prime is way more sinister and has a lower voice(His voice is so....smexy? XDD Cool I guess. Steve Blum does an excellent job.), showing his quiet planning and his fake loyalty to Megatron.