Starscream Change!!!


I'm sure this has been brought up before but why did they change Starscream in the sequels? In the first movie he was a badass that whopped 2 auto-bots including Ironhide at the same time and took out several fighter jets without any trouble. His voice was also metallic and intimating.

I never watched the old cartoons so I didn't know much about transformers until the Bay movies. I guess in the cartoons this character was a sniveling, backstabbing, coward and some fans complained his character didn't match. But come-on was the outcry that bad that they would purposefully devolve a character they started so well? How did this change make the movies better? I could be alone but they did this character so well in the first movie he stood out to me among dozens of other robots I couldn't even name.

Here's a video comp of all his scenes showing how this character went way down hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kv-V32qIC0&t=35s

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