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You can help Transformers Wiki by expanding it. This article on a faction, government, organization or subgroup, is a stub and is missing information. While Ramjet, Thrust, and Dirge are named and Skywarp is identifiable, there are numerous unnamed Seekers including a second individual with Thrust-style wings. Each features a solid grey body with solid color wings and tail wings: one red, one yellow. In addition to Starscream, Skywarp, and numerous identical copies of both of them, this construct-it-yourself battle scene features two distinct color schemes. As it flies upwards, the wings appear to be white, though this seems to be an animation error.Ī sheet of Transformer puffy stickers featured a rare generic with a Starscream-based color scheme. Seconds later, an all-black Decepticon jet similar to Thrust's alt mode is seen. One season 1-style Seeker with Dirge's colors appears in jet mode in the attack on Autobot City in the movie, and next to the actual Dirge in the episode.ĭuring the flashback of the 'Fourth Great War', an all-black Autobot jet similar to Ramjet's alt mode is briefly seen before exploding. ' The Transformers: The Movie' & ' Dark Awakening'.

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Soon afterward, the Dreamwave Generation One comic series introduced an army of similarly colored Seeker drones. These unsung Seekers would be recognized years later in Heroes of Cybertron toy form as the Air Warriors (all using the common lavender/white color scheme). (Extra Reflector units and alternate color cassettes were also used along with these Seekers, early on, to fill out the comparatively thin Decepticon ranks.) or the cartoon's production team becoming more careful, or more-likely having more 'actual' Decepticons to work with as the toy line expanded. They gradually became less common, perhaps as a result of casualties. They seem to have formed the bulk of the Decepticon forces on Cybertron, as well as among Megatron's initial troops on Earth. They came in a wide variety of colors, from extra duplicates of Starscream or one of the other named guys, to original and distinct looks all their own. In the Generation 1 cartoon there were large numbers of generic, unnamed Seekers in addition to the named characters. Generation 1 Seekers List of named SeekersĪw, not ' When Continents Collide' again.

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It has subsequently appeared in many other places such as on toy packaging, books, and in other stories. (See below.) In 2002, the term appeared in dialog from the first issue of The War Within from Dreamwave Productions, making it truly official after years of controversy. It seems to have originated in extremely obscure official or semi-official writing, but somehow became widely used among fans. The word 'Seeker' hovered a long time in a strange gray area between official and fan-coined terms. This is most clearly and commonly known from Generation 1, but any franchise with a Starscream is almost inevitably going to feature a similar 'family' of redecoed jet-formers. The term Seeker refers to Decepticon jet troopers who share Starscream's body-type but with different colors or minor variations in wing and head shapes. (Generic Seekers from, clockwise: (1) 'More than Meets the Eye, Part 3', (2) sticker sheet, (3,5,6 and 7) 'Five Faces of Darkness', (4 and 8) 'More than Meets the Eye, Part 1'. Well, they keep the toy-repainting fans off the streets, at least.

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