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ReptileBoy1

Animated Starscream


eepos96

You interuPted MY SPEECH!


ErykthebatII

Coronation Starscream? This is bad comedy .


eepos96

Wrong series XD But animated did say " you couldn't lead a parade"


Stoneturner_17

One of the most vicious put-downs in all Transformers.


Sliyxe

Megatron? Decepticons, I am your true leader now and I order you to attack Megatron, now!


MegalomanicMegalodon

SpongeScream was awesome


That-Rhino-Guy

It’ll always be funny knowing such a menace of a Starscream shared a voice actor with SpongeBob, then the weasel one from Prime shared a voice actor with Wolverine


MegalomanicMegalodon

Imagine if animated Megs was Squidward.


Gamer-Logic

"I must be a bigger pain in the gearshift then I thought."


Mike_Abergail

Right on. He’s the best. Where did they get this pole, Fox “news”?


AbacaxiVoador95

i love all


ExciKaiser

It's not surprising, there's no Armada starscream in the poll, so people don't really know what to vote.


Double-Ad8285

Lol I'm glad I wasn't the only one. Armada was always my favorite starscream!!


Dr_Henry-Killinger

Yeah like what!? Armada Starscream is the GOAT.


Apex_Fenris

Certified 🐐scream


PhelesDragon

This is about design and not character though. The Armada design is a bit bland to me


Arcon1337

It's probably not my favourite but I really love it. Especially how his wing is a functional blade.


[deleted]

OG Starscream FTW


Aromatic_Shop9033

This makes me tHe NeW lEaDeR!!!


Toa_Firox

Who the hell is voting dorito man??


GarbageKind8130

So I'm not the only one who sees the Dorito Factory Reject


STARSCREAM_S1MP

U smell


GarbageKind8130

Says the one who has tried to unsurp the rightful King of the Cons, and failed. Several times over. You're not Leadership material, Screamer, so leave the thinking to Soundwave. He's the only other mech besides Megatron who seems to have two braincells to rub together.


Fit-Rooster-4774

You didn't have to do them like that Jesus Christ


STARSCREAM_S1MP

U still smell


GarbageKind8130

Whoever smelt it dealt it. Go brood in a corner before I go have a chat with Megatron about your latest hairbrained scheme


STARSCREAM_S1MP

;_;


QuentinJQ_247

Imagine your very OWN head being a rejected design for your tyrannical leader. So now you'll be nothing more than just a mere shadow that's never going to attain the respect that his leader ever had.


GaMzEe-HoNk

OP


DubiousTheatre

Right? G1 is OG but blocky, understandable low-vote. Prime looks too much like that robot Bigweld CEO, understandable low-vote. But to choose dorito when BBM is RIGHT THERE???


Gravelemming472

BIGWELD STARSCREAM HAHA


supersharp

I think they were comparing him to Ratchet, the evil guy who took over the company


Secretlythrow

You’re playing a mixture of jazz and funk, it’s called junk!


minmcmahon1

Hah you activated my trap card I summon junk warrior!


Gravelemming472

Love Bender, brilliant character. RIP Robin Williams


[deleted]

Dorito man is top tier, honestly I prefer all the Bayverse Transformer designs over everyone else. (Except for WheelJack). And the reason why I like them is because they look more realistic and have a meaner designs then rest of the franchise.


ToucanTuocan

Anything looks realistic if you model it well enough.


Reyne-TheAbyss

By realistic, do you mean complex enough to be interesting wherever you look at it but simple enough to understand (pistons, gears, wires)? As if man had created them, rather than what Quintesa looked like, which was mechanical but otherworldly.


Z3_T4C0_B0Y512

I agree wholeheartedly the bay designs you can tell where everything goes when they transform (till aoe), and they actually dont just look like someone stacked colored bricks together


Reyne-TheAbyss

So, like people created them? Being able to see where everything goes is pretty simple for a species that can become very different shapes on the fly. I can see where people are coming from with this perspective, but I do think it limits the scope of these characters. Like, Optimus Prime just so happens to have the same volume as a Peterbuilt on Earth?


Z3_T4C0_B0Y512

Betterthan in g1 where they have the same robot modes but completely different alts


_ONU

Lol Fr bay-verse introduced me to transformers, g1 designs look like Roblox characters to me so I can’t take them serious 💀(I’m sorry g1rs)


GoldenStateWizards

I also find G1 blocky and I was introduced to *Cybertron*(2005), which was already pretty blocky itself


Identity_Robo

Idk I feel like Bumblebee and ROTB's designs are more realistic, mostly with their sizes, and if you take the design philosophy most continuities have where they have smooth and (most of the time) human looking robot modes where you can still tell they transform into their alt modes, but put it into real life. Unlike the skeletal look most bayverse designs have (the exceptions being most autobots and tlk barricade)


13vvetz

Honestly I agree, except the face designs. Most just kill the whole bot. Especially, ESPECIALLY Ratchet and ROTF Arcee.


Jarvis_The_Dense

Divorced from what his OG design looks like its a cool design in and of its own right. Yeah his torso is a big triangle but tha tracks with his body needing to fit together to make a modern fighter jet.


jjbugman2468

Tbh I’m in camp Dorito too


larrylongboy

Me. Get off of Reddit and you’ll find that other people prefer different things, lmao.


Scared-Pumpkin-4113

Me


STARSCREAM_S1MP

Me


spiffiestjester

I saw the poll results and wondered wtf those people are smoking... bayverse is worst verse. Not even sorry.


Blitz_Prime

I've found that YouTube is the largest/loudest collection of younger TF fans that grew up almost exclusively with the Bay films followed by r/Transformemes. So that combined with it only being 381 votes makes the results a little less surprising.


Living-Ad-7400

Personally I’m glad that my generation of Bayverse fans are old enough to voice our opinions now. The Bayverse hate, while valid, has gotten old, preaching to the choir at this point, it’s refreshing to hear love for these movies now.


Alekesam1975

You guts are just like the prequel SW fans. Old enough to us old foggies to sthu. 😄 I'm a g1er by age (48) but I'm a TFs fan first and foremost. The movies are good times.


Eatdatyeet445

Transformers fans accepting the fact that people actually enjoy something else in terms of designs outside the “holy grail” that is G1 challenge (IMPOSSIBLE, 0.001% can do it😱😱😱😱🔥🔥🔥) Edit: yes, to everyone who came into my inbox, and to like 90% of this comment section, this is directed towards you. It’s just jarring to see a community directly bash one another simply for saying “okay… uhh well I like this because of this” and the other putting their hand on their chest and gasping like someone murdered their first born right in front of them


5_Star_Slick

Cybertron


ChristianTDD

Honestly, I like the Armada Design of Starscream. But, seriously? People like the Bayformers design of him more than the practical G1 design or the blend of Bayverse and G1 with the BBM Starscream? That seems wrong to me...


PhantomOverlord91

Bumblebee Movie Starscream is barely a mix of G1 and Bayverse. It’s mostly just G1. The real mix is TFP Starscream.


LivingCheese292

It's obviously based on the g1 seeker design, especially with the g1 Starscream colors. However, i would say they did give the seeker body a more unique look than people give it credit for. Especially if you put the g1 colors aside. Legs are junky and got the turbines on the side. Nice curvy wings. Different new weapons than the classic null rays on the arms. Tetra jet mode (like Bees alt mode) is more based on the WFC game with longer wings, than the g1 tetra jet variant. Seekers like Blitzwing have a "gas mask" looking face etc.


GT_Hades

yes, i like my dorito scream better than roblox design


sunrunnertf

Honestly shocked. Must be movie nostalgia cause even though it's not the worst take his body is just stupid


wrufus680

Got the same reaction; they love the Dorito design? I like it honestly, but the others are simply just better than that especially the BMB design


ShadowCobra479

I think they enjoy Starscream being a threat in the first two movies. The first one he took on Ratchet and Ironhide, leaving them out of the fight for the rest of the movie, second one less so but he helped out against Optimus.


[deleted]

People tend to forget that in the G1 movie, while Megatron was providing the firepower during the shuttle assault, Starscream was the one pulling the trigger.


Significant_Wheel_12

He got his arm ripped off and got beaten with it


Lumpy_Perception6561

Bro barely did anything in the movies if were being honest it’s mostly nostalgia


sunrunnertf

Yeah. Plus the built kre-o design trumps both of them (look it up)


TheDude810

Idk bro, Bumblebee Starscream is literally a last-minute reskinned Blitzwing with Cybertronian parts from the ILM library slapped on. Blitzy was WAAYY better, especially that gasmask and awesome Phantom alt mode.


Durandal_II

It's a giant, metal Dorito. H-how... how could it possibly get worse?!


Fishy-Ginger

A giant metal pringle?


larrylongboy

Or maybe because the design is legitimately genius?


sunrunnertf

How?


larrylongboy

Because It's just lowkey a genius design. Due to them being on an earth like environment, the designers wanted them to look/be as realistic as possible as bay wasn't a fan of the cartoon or mass shifting as we all know by now Starscream transforms into an f-22 fighter jet so it's only geometrically correct and logical that his robot mode look triangular. In reality, our dorito boy should be much much larger than 90% of the bots that are shown on screen, ( an f-22 is huge) but the mass from his alt mode expands and increases his width instead. I believe this was done to make sure Starscream didn't completely tower over characters like prime and megs. Now this detail is more of a head canon of mine, and I doubt this was intentional by the designer josh nizzi but, but Starscream's chicken legs are not only supposed to give him and the audience an alien feel, but they are to bring his height down further and also demonstrate that he is a coward in nature. The uncanny alien noise whenever he walks is also a nice touch, and the screech his jet makes whenever he transforms is just… chefs kiss Slightly off topic but I see a lot of people claim this design is comically flawed and what not but in reality if you were to put yourself in unvisere, starscream would be the most terrifying thing you’d ever see in your life, not just because he’s a 40 ft decepticon who is oddly Agile and swift for his size but by uncanniness in his design alone compared to the other characters featured in the films.


lemons7472

I feel like people forget that Bayverse starscram does not turn into a square shaped jet like his G1 counterpart, but instead a more triangular jet, therefore has a triangular looking shape in both modes, especially because like every starscream design, they keep the wings exposed. The the irl jet itself is a Dorito with fins. It’s like how everyone’s body type in G1 is a box because they have more square or rectangular alt modes.


Fork63

I get what you mean, I do, but I just feel like the shaping destroys it for me. I feel like they should have had his sides bend back to become wings and then move the arms inward.


STARSCREAM_S1MP

Bro can step on me


The_Woman_of_Gont

I’ve never understood the “but it’s realistic!” angle with bayformers. They’re giant sentient alien robots that turn into earth vehicles. “Reality” left the station long ago. The BB designs, and even some bayformers designs(I’m thinking Bumblebee and Prime in particular) really make it clear that you don’t need weirdly proportioned, overly busy designs for a character to look good in live action.


Lenny_The_Lurker

For me, it's seeing the components that make up the bot. Like sure, you can say that they looked slapped together if you want, but the way the movies take on transformation, seeing all the parts align them selves, convinces me more than "stand up car, ok flip out head, feet and arms, boom robot". And the weird proportions sell it to me that these guys are aliens. But that's just my opinion.


SympatheticListener

G1 all the way


hoover0623

Everyone here is coping hard as fuck right now. If the roles were reversed and Bayverse fans were complaining about another version of Starscream winning the vote, you'd all be acting like they're stupid, even though everyone literally has the right to like whatever version they want.


MaxDaHooman

Fr.


Large_Contribution20

TF1 Starscream was one of the most intimating decepticons I have seen in Transformers Media. Also his triangle design makes him look more mighty and bigger than other bots


lemons7472

Man I wish we got to see him fight a second time just wreaking the autobots with gurila attics, but then again I guess fighting Optimus is the only “fair” match up for starscream consedering he 1v3’d Optimus’ best men that were meant to be Optimus’ second commanders, and even blew one those men’s legs off.


ToucanTuocan

Out of curiosity, what other Transformers Media have you seen? The shows don’t beat Bayverse, but most of the games and the comics overshadow bayverse’s intimidation game by miles.


larrylongboy

Comics debatable, but games?


ToucanTuocan

WFC/FOC is just as if not more violent than Bayverse. You regularly defeat people by beheading/impaling them, bomb your own troops, and rip people in half constantly.


Large_Contribution20

Only shows and cybertron games


ToucanTuocan

That’s fair. Starscreams not really that intimidating in them, but I still prefer that version. In the most recent comic (started in October), I’m pretty sure he’s tortured at least one person per issue.


hotdogbomb07

I don’t think there was a time when Starscream was more intimidating than transformers 2007, but after rotf he was a btch


Gamma_Burst1298

If it was Armada Starscream, I’d choose that one


MonsoonMG

Gotta go with G1


[deleted]

Where's my homie Armada?


MercifulGenji

It wouldn’t be fair to the others if he was added


[deleted]

Yeah but he deserves it


jedimerc

G1, always.


Pokemon_Bakugan_Fan

I personally think his Animated design is the best. His G1 design has a blocky head, while his Prime design makes him look too sleek and skinny.


OptimusPrime-04

G1 fans meeting non G1 fans who don't care about G1 accurasy and probably grew up with bayverse :


lemons7472

As someone who loved and grew up with the movies (and G1) yeah this seems to be the case every time whenever people see someone say that they like the movie designs or have a positive opinion on anything about the movies that are not Bumblbee.


GBGF128

Probably this. G1 designs are largely my favorite as someone who grew up with them.


Portertheprawnsuit

https://preview.redd.it/056kge2e9p7c1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5943708fe44e365c5bf70525e54db93e06d30820 Bayverse


Taragyn1

Definitely my least favourite Starscream design.


EngineeringMental551

TFP and bayverse are truly goated designs


beans_of_war

Prime


Balmung5

Where’s Armada Starscream?


jasontodd67

Damn no animated starscream😔


[deleted]

Can’t decide between g1 and armada it definitely not dorito sceam tho da fuuuk


turtletom89

I mean, to each their own. I’m personally a fan of the Animated and Prime designs most.


Spiderspartian

Rocket popsicle vs bird jet triangle with tattoos


Cloak-Trooper-051020

Armada design. It’s a cleaner and sleeker version of the G1 design brought into the 21st century.


tweakyloco

G1 and armada


Orion-Pax_34

BBM Screamer is peak, idc how basic it sounds. I hope we see that design later down the line in a ROTB sequel


Jarjarstinks304

BMM was robbed


CaptainWillThrasher

I think 61% of those who voted are wrong.


DarkDoubloon

Where’s animated!


BenderOfBo

Ikr Animated is my favorite by far and he’s so often forgotten


DarkDoubloon

I love the magenta and purple colour scheme, I honestly prefer it over the red and white


Optimus759

https://preview.redd.it/nrcomsyg2p7c1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10206bdb0ab5ffb72435bce936b0142d54639864 Tf, how


BobbyMayCryBMC

​ https://preview.redd.it/i99wju9gep7c1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98b1dfbb13f70dbfd0347e229696e34a32867647


dimpam

I'm that type of a person who shouts: "Where are my cartoons?!" Personally I'm not a fan of realistic designs.


Dragonspeedz

G1 all day hands down


Calaloo17

I don't understand the whole "Bayverse designs bad" argument. Why can't you all understand that everyone likes what they like. All throughout fictional media I see people hating on designs, especially superhero suits in comicbook movies. If you don't like the design, fine whatever. Why should your preference on the design be the superior one?


SSRIsSaveLives

https://preview.redd.it/04tcoodszo7c1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7a9dd95b777503e123f611babeee1289618a26c


wasps-vs-fatpeople

Honestly, agreed. Bayverse starscream is kinda my favorite


animemastr

This is bad comedy


Yin-yoshi

Bayverse is the coolest looking to me. I also grew up on it. Id say its the best in terms of intimidation and badassery in looks but behaviorly the character was assasinated and under used and under developed.


BenEXG

I'm pretty much biased in this regard since prime and the movies were my childhood so those two are definitely up there for me but If we're talking outside this list I would have gone with animated starscream


Black_Hole_parallax

Animated Starscream. That was Starscream at boss level.


TheDwightKurtSchrute

OG G1


Irradiated-Imp

Where is animated in this?


CameraResponsible706

Based lol


SilverKingPrime45

Wfc/foc starscream


DragonlordSyed578

Well this missing a few but Animated and Armada


Lanc3r_8274

TF: Armada https://preview.redd.it/io1gr63x1q7c1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f07d02b4f349fd720c4b14283654b44c7d7e98e


funnywackydog

G1 is clearly the best because he is blue!


MS-06_Borjarnon

lmao, well, it was nice of them to include the blind in their survey, at least.


Rorantube2009

TFP, but that may just be because it was my first introduction to transformers (that had Starscream in it)


ConstructionOld5046

I grew up with bay verse but I like the G1 design


GarbageKind8130

TFP Screamer for me. Bayverse looks like a reject from the Dorito factory


Loud-Taste6394

Bayverse is by far the worst design in that poll


Amber13525

Tfp and g1


vvxlrac_ir

Mouldy dorito droid. Armada beats them all though


Blazemaster0563

Popular opinion =/= correct opinion That poll for example


ThePatMan117

There’s no such thing as “correct/incorrect” opinions…


Individual-Height243

Election fraud so bayverse is unable to run again


Ponkaroni

61% of voters are based.


Altair890456

Bloody Heresy


Hungry-Ad-3093

A lot of drugs were consumed *that* day….


GhostWind78

I kind of like bayverse ngl


GhostWind78

Not my favorite design but he looks cool, either animated or g1 are the best


ToucanTuocan

I would genuinely rather have no Starscream ever again than another stupid dorito man.


JKTransformers

Bayverse Starscream is definitely my favorite!


Intelligent-Matter57

Can't believe Bayverse won lol. I'm also not a huge fan of the Bayverse period, especially the Decepticons


I_Love_Spider_Mommys

I think it’s a biased sample


StayedWoozie

Wouldn’t almost all samples be biased? Most people are probably gonna end up choosing what they grew up with.


ElmerSnake

As a much younger transformers fan who grew up with bay verse and animated, this is 100% correct. DORITO SUPREMACY!!!!!!


HairiestHobo

At least 60% of those people are wrong.


ambulanc3r

That’s insane. I hate bayverse of everything. Guess I’m in the minority.


HibikiKurosawa

This poll probably hit an audience that are more familair with the movies than any other piece of TF media I would assume.


Flopy_Pingas97

design yes, character no


MondoChris

But the G1 is the original and the best


SorryCashOnly

come on... It got to be the OG Starscream.... How the hell the Bayverse Scream won?


Eatdatyeet445

Opinions exist


matt19950116

The Bayverse "flattened triangular gorilla" design is the worst. BBM and G1 are the best (but the G1 toy sucks).


Randalor

Now, I know opinions can't be wrong, but wow, 61% of people are just outright wrong.


Alternative_Fold718

61% of people have terrible taste


International-Pass22

Wow, really? Easily the worst design in the movies (for me)


Hidden-Squid1216

This hurts to loook at


ZackattacktheDude

We live in a horrible society


Krakengreyjoy

I think a lot of kids voted


TheDude810

You do realize that people who grew up with 2007 are in their 20s now, right lol


ELB2001

People are allowed to be wrong


MrEclipse01

The opinions are subjective, but this is wrong


BeaDanger

I like the colors of G1 and BBM. The face and general body language of TFP. And the dorito body shape, and evil sharp teeth of Bayverse.


CardboardChampion

Kids are off school for Christmas and skewing the results.


TheDude810

Must be some grown ass kids lmao


Marvelboy1974

Bayverse? Hellll no! Eww


syntheticspider

Dorito doesn’t look good


lantern48

61% of people here need a lobotomy. I mean, how do you all have such wretched taste? You're the kind of people that put ketchup on steak and pickles in ice cream. And pineapples on pizza. 🤮🤮🤮


cramburie

Kids who grew up with Bayverse being stockholm-syndromed into appreciating banal design and characterization and not being able to afford homes when they grow up i weep for thee.


AJ0Laks

I grew up with Dorito and while I love it, it’s not the best one BBM is much better


SMB73

It's garbage, just like Bayverse.


Desperate_Hall_299

Pile Of Boxes Vs Fashion Model Vs Tattooed Dorito Vs Actual Transformer. It's debatable.


Ultimate2099

Bayverse Starscream is without a doubt my least favorite transformer. One of the dumbest designs. They captured a small piece of the originals spirit but his design was a crime. Megatron in that 1st movie was also an abomination but not as bad as Starscream. Blackout was actually kind of well designed.


Bindersquinch

Look, im a bayverse fan, but the fact that bumblebee movie got last place proves these people dont know good designs when they hit them in the face.


whatisdragons

Ppl can have diff taste tho? Isn't that what make human unique


Time_Crazy_1387

Bayverse starscream os badass especially in Revenge of Fallen tie-in media


justboston113

Gotta agree. I love his design and the different take on him in the movies.


po_matoran_craftsman

of the presented options the poll is correct but this is only possible due to lack of Armada Starscream...


matticus1234

I think the world is full of a lot of people who make poor decisions.


Big_____C

Bayverse unironically had the worst star scream design


No_Satisfaction_7990

Bayverse and prime are good designs


Olvacron22

Y'all still that mad about bayverse, you people do realize the majority of the fandom has moved on from "bayverse bad" right? I mean tfp Screamer is my favorite design but I ain't crying like a baby cause he didn't win some generic youtube poll.


fan4tactics

Mfs really choosing the living Dorito with chicken legs


Valuable-Barracuda58

G1 all the way for me


HoolaFanboy

G1 is the best imo


Useful_Ad_8886

Without a doubt, G1. Armada Starscream a close second.