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"Starscream Heckles Megatron"
Airdate	December 23,2008 (Y! Video)
Written by	Marty Isenberg
Directed by	Matt Youngberg
Animation studio	Studio 4°C

Starscream is not impressed by Megatron's oratory skills.

Synopsis

Deep within their hidden base,Megatron makes a speech to his fellowDecepticons, withStarscream at his side. However, Starscream begins to make faces behind Megatron's back, giving him "rabbit ears" and the like, silently mocking their leader, and managing to knock it off every time Megatron turns and wonders just what's going on. The other Decepticons remain silent, unwilling to incur Megatron's wrath.

Starscream takes it too far when he turns around and shakes his can at the group, as Megatron rises in the middle of his speech and gives the unaware Starscream a cannon-blast to the derrière.

"Much better." says Megatron.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"And woe betide any who would seek toundermine my authority."

—Megatron, seconds before blasting Starscream a new exhaust port.

Notes

Continuity errors

• This short cannot take place within the normal cartoon continuity. It is set in the Decepticons' base in the old mine outside ofDetroit, which was established at the beginning of the second season, yet has Starscream among Megatron's crew. Starscream was killed by Megatron in season one, and throughout season two was openly and repeatedly trying to kill Megatron as an outside agitator, having been reanimated by a fragment of the shatteredAllSpark.
• Blackarachnia is also there for the speech. This isless of a continuity kerfuffle than Starscream's appearance, but still worth noting since she hadn't been seen among the core Decepticon crew since before they came to Earth.
• Lugnut stays awfully quiet with Starscream openly ridiculing Megatron behind his back, despite numerous past examples of Lugnut flying off the handle at every perceived slight to Megatron's greatness.
• None of this really matters because it's a funny short.

Animation errors

Dull surprise?

• Blackarachnia, Blitzwing and Lugnut are all drawn at about the same height. Blitzwing should tower over Blackarachnia, and Lugnut is even taller than Blitzwing.

• Blackarachnia's upper chest area (just below her gold collar) is colored gold instead of "light black" as it should be.

Trivia

• This short was officially posted to Yahoo's "Y! Video" site as "Mocking Megatron", a special preview for the DVD set.
• The title used on this wiki is the in-house production title of the short, as supplied byDerrick Wyatt.
• Starscream proves that Transformers havetongues andteeth when he makes faces.

Home video releases

DVD

2009 —Transformers Animated — Season Two (Paramount) — English and Spanish audio.