Starscream

Starscream is Megatron's second in command in the Decepticon army.As always, Starscream transforms into a jet, in this case an Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. He has a hatred of Megatron and seeks to be Leader of the Decepticons. He is bulkier than most incarnations, due to the size of the Raptor combined with the lack of mass displacement. He maintains a simian body shape with a large, triangular chest, large shoulders formed by the jet's distinctive twin tails, long arms, and small or bird-like feet. His chest is still formed by the jet's nose. The jet's powerful main engines end up on his back, allowing him to leap great heights into the air and take flight, much like a jetpack. They also allow him to control his descent if he transforms out of his jet form in midair. His movements are a combination of acrobatic and avian, grabbing hold of a bridge's bottom to launch himself up into the air and transforming in mid-flight to swoop down upon his prey. His arms store heavy weaponry, with a missile launcher carrying six missiles in both arms, a saw in his right arm, and a high caliber machine gun (probably the jet's Vulcan cannon). In the movie's video game tie-ins, he is also seen detaching one or both of his wings and using them as short swords (a reference to his depiction in Transformers: Armada). When in Raptor mode he can simulate the appearance of a human pilot, the same holographic model (referred to as "Mustache Man" on-set and in the credits) that "pilots" Blackout and "drives" Barricade. The actor is Air Force Major Brian Reece, a helicopter pilot instructor at Kirtland Air Force Base.

In the film, Starscream rallies the other Decepticons to battle when Frenzy alerts them to the All Spark's location. He destroys the electrical substation that powers Sector 7's base, allowing Megatron to come out of his deep freeze. Upon being reunited with Megatron, however, he is scolded by his leader for letting the All Spark escape in a manner reminiscent of his G1 counterpart: "You've failed me yet again, Starscream." In the first battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, he is the first Decepticon to arrive on the scene thanks to his flight capability, which he also uses to ambush the Autobots when their human allies mistake him for a friendly Air Force pilot. He aids Brawl and Megatron by firing missiles in his Raptor form at Bumblebee and Ironhide, destroying the former's legs and injuring the latter. Later, he stops Sam Witwicky from fleeing by land with the All Spark, easily disabling both Ratchet and Ironhide in the process; however, he does not take the All Spark with him. When Sam is about to hand off the All Spark to a Black Hawk crewman, Starscream shoots down the helicopter. Later, when a full airstrike has been called in on Megatron and Blackout, Starscream conceals himself among the attacking jets in order to ambush them. He destroys three of the jets, but retreats from the battle after the F-22 pilots regroup and engage him, allowing the jets to complete their mission. An interlude during the end credits shows Starscream leaving Earth's atmosphere. He can be heard speaking, though his words are not clear nor subtitled. Starscream is first seen aboard the Nemesis shipwreck and is confronted by a returning Megatron, who is angry because Starscream left him to die on Earth. He reveals that they are nearly running out of energon, the secondary source of life, after a couple of the Cybertronian protoforms in the Nemesis die prematurely. When Grindor brings Sam, Mikaela, and Leo and drops them into an abandoned warehouse, Starscream cuts open the car that they were dropped in in half with his buzzsaw and seemingly spits on Sam several times before letting Megatron confront Sam himself. As Optimus Prime and Bumblebee arrive on the scene, Starscream battles Bumblebee for a short while until he confronts Optimus himself, but is somewhat overwhelmed as he could not fight back and then shot out of a window. He and Grindor arrive at a nearby forest from Megatron's call as he chases after Sam but fails. When Megatron was temporarily out of the battle, Starscream battles Optimus again with some effort this time, but was still no match as he gets kicked in the face, knocking parts of his mouth off. Moments later, he finally gets the better of Optimus; slicing him with his buzzsaw and firing at him with missles and his gatling gun. But he is subdued quickly as he gets his arm chopped off as Optimus kills Grindor before being killed by Megatron. He and Megatron escape after Autobot reinforcements arrive to protect Prime's body. Before reattaching his arm, Starscream is beaten by Megatron on top of the MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, for not being able to catch Sam. Later, he finds Sam and the others as he opens fire onto Bumblebee, Skids, and Mudflap, but fails. He then reports to Megatron that the soldiers had brought Prime's body, with Megatron realizing that Sam has the Matrix, and then ordering the Decepticon assault. He is seen later in Egypt with the other Decepticons who are looking for Sam at the second battle. He finds Sam and Mikaela, but fails to kill them both as he opened fire. He then tells Rampage to spring the trap for Sam when Sam and Mikaela get close, which results in the demise of Rampage and Ravage. When the Fallen is killed, Starscream convinces Megatron that retreating is their only option of survival as they leave Earth. Along with Megatron, and Soundwave, Starscream is one of only three confirmed Decepticons who survived the film. Starscream still continues to serve under Megatron while he recuperates from his injuries at Decepticon High Command in Africa as he comments on Megatron's current state. He is later seen in Washington D.C., along with Megatron and Sentinel Prime. When the Xantium departed Earth, Starscream swooped in and destroyed the ship, and presumably every Autobot on board. He then attacked the Ospreys holding William Lennox's team as they tried to enter Chicago. Although he did take down most of the aircrafts, Lennox and many other soldiers managed to jump to safety. Later on, Starscream took several potshots at Robert Epps' team, which resulted in Sam and Carly being seperated from the soldiers. Starscream cornered them and took his chance to kill Sam. However, Sam had a "boomstick" and a grappling hook from Que and shot the hook into Starscream's right eye, partially and painfully blinding him. Starscream could not hold still as he would constantly flail around and attempted to remove the hook numerous times (i.e banging his own head on the ground and trying to fly on top of a building, but his boosters were malfunctioning). Then when he had the chance, Sam stabbed the boomstick into his other eye as Lennox and his team arrived on the scene. Lennox attempted to free a dangling Sam, but Starscream still continued to flail around as he finally made it to the top of a building, taking both Sam and Lennox with him. Eventually the boomstick went off, fatally blowing off a large portion of his head, and even allowed parts of his body to explode, leaving only his body to fall to the ground, and presumably killing him as Bumblebee saves Sam and Lennox from the fall.

Voice Actor

 * Charles Adler