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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 9460888" data-attributes="member: 7025997">As a kid I always liked Thundercracker, because jets were cool and blue was my favorite color and he was the blue jet. I also liked the way he wasn't totally in with the Deceps--independence appealed to me.Looking back, though, I have to say Chris Latta wound up creating an enduring character with Starscream. That high-voiced, backstabbing, not-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is Decepticon wound up in every later version of the series, and while some of it is the dramatic tension of the dissension within the bad guys, you have to give some of the credit to his characterization. I'm sorry he died young, because I would have liked to see him get some recommendation for being the smartass in all of our memories as the kids who grew up with the show became adults and were able to talk about how Optimus Prime's death was the first encounter with that for a lot of us with more sheltered lives, or how Unicron was the first encounter with the Burkean sublime.</blockquote>