Starscream clone (Animated)
Starscream's clones are abominations from the Animated continuity family
Starscream's clones are an army of physically identical copies of Starscream. They have all of his abilities, with the added bonus of being extremely disposable. While there seem to be a large number of mass produced clones, a handful have appeared which carry AllSpark energy signatures, different colour schemes and seem to embody various elements of Starscream's personality. How these clones were created is a mystery, all that is known is that an army of Starscreams cannot lead to anything good.
Individual clones
Purple and Gray clone
A clone with a mainly purple body, with gray extremities. This Starscream embodies the originals more cowardly nature, although it seems to have been greatly enhanced. He had a bomb implanted in his spark chamber, and was used as bait to draw all of Starscream's enemies to one spot.
Orange/Light Red and White clone
A clone with a body scheme that seems oddly familiar, he is also Starscream's scheming, manipulative nature incarnate. It even went so far as making a rather grandiose speech about taking Megatron out...for the good of peace.
Fiction
Animated Cartoon
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for A Fistful of Energon follow. of the next episode/issue in the series or 30 days after release, whichever is sooner |
After Prowl and Lockdown captured, and lost, the original Starscream on the moon, his manipulative clone destroyed Prowl's shuttle and headed for earth. The two bots followed him, but bumped into the cowardly clone first. After capturing him, Lockdown double crossed Prowl, and dragged the clone away. As the Autobots gave chase, the manipulative clone appeared and offered to deal. Prowl wasn't having any of it, and after a brief skirmish, managed to get the stasis cuffs on him. Both Lockdown and the Autobots took the clones to an abandoned warehouse, where the Decepticons were waiting. As every was, understandably shocked, some sort of program deactivated the clones higher functions, and opened their spark chambers, which were empty...expect for a pair of powerful bombs. As Lockdown and the Decepticons made a break for it, Prowl welded his borrowed mods to the pair and launched them into the sky, where they exploded. The Decepticons were caught in the blast wave, but the city was saved. In the wreckage of the Nemesis, a disappointed but pragmatic Starscream consoled himself with the fact he still had plenty left. A Fistful of Energon
Toys
Skywarp(Voyager?)
Thundercracker(Voyager?)
Trivia
- The clones are a reference to the common practice of redecoing Starscream as new characters, specifically the Seekers
- At BotCon 2008, Animated series creators Derrick Wyatt and Marty Isenberg repeatedly emphasized that there would be "no clone army... definitely no clone army... absolutely no clone army in this show." Obviously, this was just a red herring.
