Starscream

Few characters carry a name as electrically charged in pop culture as Starscream, and this Marvel Comics incarnation — debuting in 1993's G.I. Joe, a Real American Hero #138 under the sharp creative hands of Larry Hama and Andrew Wildman — arrived right at the cusp of the Copper and Modern Ages with serious Cybertronian company to keep. Sharing pages with titans like Megatron, Optimus Prime, Grimlock, Slag, and Jhiaxus, this Starscream is embedded in Marvel's Transformers: Generation 2 corner of the universe, a bold, ambitious chapter of robot-in-disguise storytelling that pushed the mythology into grittier, more complex territory. With appearances stretching across more than three decades into 2025 — including turns in G.I. Joe, a Real American Hero and the Transformers Compendium — the longevity here is real, even if the catalog footprint is select and collectible. For fans who want to trace the full arc of how Marvel handled one of fiction's most iconic names across the Generation 2 era, these twelve appearances are a genuinely rewarding thread to pull.