Ello! Theres many irredeemable awful megatron AUs and I got curious: do you have any ideas for an irredeemable starscream?
Megatron can be normal or more evil than usual if you want, I'm just wondering on how would you do a starscream who's worse!
Do you mean almost every single canon Starscream? My guy has gotten redeemed twice in the franchise’s 40 years of existence, and sacrificed himself both times lol. Which, I have no problems with Starscream not being redeemable. Understandable, you know, not every villain need to be “good”, sometimes you just love a problematic queen. But I feel like fanon had to make up for his unused potential of a redemption arc where he doesn’t immediately die, that’s why there are so many redeemed Starscream fics or AUs, we needed something.
In my opinion, what often makes Starscream truly irredeemable is his trait of only thinking about himself. That need and drive he has to always make things better for himself, no matter who or what he has to screw over for it, an irredeemable Starscream has no limits over what he would to do get more power. I mean, think of the canon “reedemed” Starscreams, they sacrificed themselves for others, finally putting someone else before themselves.
What I mostly got issues with is how Starscream is used a lot of the time, one of his core traits is that he’s smart, he didn’t survive this long or get to where he is by being stupid, and yet that’s what he’s treated as being a lot of the time. Just an annoyance to the good guys. Idk, I feel like he’s almost never on the same level of “terrifying threat” that Megatron, Soundwave or Shockwave are, or if he is, he’s treated as a joke. What I mean is, if a Starscream is already an irredeemable, completely evil, no morals villain, why not go all in?