Do you think they'll think of pulling a "EBENIZER SCROOOOGE!!", or will the future writers leave him to rust? It's kinda silly as an idea, frankly, I hope that a human organization with evil disposition (like Dylan) will somehow revive them (I don't really want the Unicron card) or something. I really liked the idea of Cons working with humans. We're not all goody doody as a race ... in fact, quite the contrary, IMHO.
Actually, I'd probably have somebody try to hack into Starscream's lifeless brain trying to gather data out of it and end up accidentally creating a virus that infects some of the Autobots and drives them murderously insane. In other words, combine the "Starscream's ghost" concept and the "Hate Plague" concept into one element.
Not big on the hate plague part, but the hacking into his mind I like. Maybe they go in there, to try to learn more about Decepticon tactics, then Starscream's "ghost" is able to possess machinery (or at least computerized ones) and can switch bodies as long as he is connected to a new host. Like Tarantulas in Blackarachnias head or Megatron in Bumblebee's head, Starscream would be skipping about sabotaging projects or trying to secretly create a new body for himself.
To be fair the "Well of All Sparks" (where Sam and the six Primes were) is a concept that has existed since at LEAST Beast Wars.
Yeah but some thing are waaaaaay to silly to put into a live-acton movie, even a Transformers one. Why do you think we didn't get Tom Bombadil in LOTR?
I had assumed time. I am also a fan of seeing the Well of All Sparks in the movie...if only they mentioned WHAT it was IN the film. Or Wigger 'Bots who collectively turn into an ice cream truck (I like both the Twins and the Ice Cream Truck ideas, mind you).
That would be interesting. Starscream possesing an Autobot and making them get them a new body? Or Screamer will posses Mikaela for a brief moment to feel her- I mean, see what it's like to be a human.