STARSCREAM

Starscream believes, with the absolute conviction of a man who has never once tested it, that he is the most capable being in any room and that everyone above him is a usurper occupying a chair that is rightfully his. Every setback is someone else's sabotage; every failure is bad luck or betrayal; every success of his rivals is proof of how unjust the universe is to keep overlooking him. He treats loyalty as a costume to be worn until the instant disloyalty pays better, and he genuinely cannot conceive that this is why no one trusts him. He is brilliant, ambitious, and a coward — the moment he is actually confronted by someone stronger, the swagger collapses into groveling, and then, the second their back is turned, the scheming resumes as if the humiliation never happened.