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Why Starscream Is the Most Dangerous Kind of Broken - Transformers Deep Dive
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Why Starscream Proves You Can Reach the Top… and Still Fall
Starscream’s story isn’t just about betrayal—it’s about longing.
Longing for recognition.
Longing for purpose.
Longing to matter.
In this episode of Disassembled: Heroes & Villains, we peel back the layers of one of Cybertron’s most complex figures. From the ambitious Seeker of G1, to Armada’s conflicted soldier, to IDW’s politician grasping for redemption, Starscream’s tragedy is the same across the multiverse:
He didn’t believe he was worth anything unless he stood above someone else.
We explore:
– Starscream’s origins as scientist, soldier, and usurper
– How insecurity shaped every coup and every collapse
– Why IDW’s Starscream won the throne… but lost himself
– The wound inside him that no amount of power could heal
Because Starscream’s fall wasn’t inevitable.
It was internal.
This is the tragedy of the eternal usurper—
a character who could have been a visionary,
but became a cautionary tale.
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Chapters
1. The Spark That Fears Its Own Ascent (00:00:00)
2. The Genius Nobody Sees (00:00:38)
3. The Insecure Survivor (00:04:57)
4. When Brilliance Becomes Betrayal (00:09:16)
5. G1: The Loop He Can't Escape (00:14:21)
6. Armada: The Warrior Who Wanted to Matter (00:17:58)
7. Coming Up Next (00:20:06)
8. IDW: Prophecy Fulfilled (00:20:57)
9. What Starscream Teaches Us (00:27:35)
10. The Legacy of the Eternal Usurper (00:31:22)
11. The Truth Behind The Fall (00:35:27)
29 episodes
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