Starscream clone (Prime)

The Starscream clones are Decepticons from the Prime cartoon portion of the Aligned continuity family.

A Starscream clone is one of an armada of physically identical copies of Starscream. They have all of his abilities (current and former) with the added bonus of being extremely disposable. They also have all aspects of his personality, including his cunning and ambition. To make matters worse, any damage they sustain is felt by the original Starscream.

Fiction

Prime cartoon

Voice actor: Steve Blum(s) (English)

Searching for energon in the Harbinger, Starscream stumbled on a laboratory containing five protoforms and the necessary equipment for him to clone himself. Before long, he had turned the protoforms into five exact copies of himself, albeit with working T-cogs, thanks to his genetic code. Starscream sent the five clones to eliminate Megatron, and the quintet followed the Harbinger's tracking information to the Nemesis where they split up.

One of the clones ran into Bulkhead, who was merely after a way off the ship but ended up terminating the clone. The other four managed to lure Megatron to the bridge, where they surrounded him. He attempted to interest them in killing Starscream instead, in exchange for becoming second-in-command, but the clones were unable to be swayed from their mission. It wasn't until an attack by Insecticons caused a diversion that Megatron turned the tables, eliminating three of the clones. The fifth got away, escaping the ship and returning to the Harbinger with the intent of eliminating the original Starscream, only for his progenitor to blast him instead. Armada

Starscream took the T-cog of the clone, and began preparations to install it into himself. Starscream declared the procedure postponed when the Harbinger's computers detected the GroundBridge deployment of four different Decepticon detachments on four different continents at once and he decided to investigate. Triangulation He kept the corpse of the clone on the Harbinger and later utilized it as a decoy to allow him to steal the Omega Keys. Inside Job

Notes

• This idea is likely derived from the Animated incarnation of the concept.
• Unlike the original Starscream, the clones lack the facial scar gained in "Partners".