megatronus wrote:Your explanation is interesting; that's probably how it started out. But in modern times I think seekers are a better defined grouping of characters, and new characters who are designated as seekers are often called out as such.
In TF: Prime, Starscream once mentioned he was the leader of a seeker squadron or some such think, and Dreadwing and Skyquake weren't called out in the same way.
But that's just my understanding; I can't say definitively that that's how it works. But my personal criteria is that if you are Starscream or a Starscream repaint (or retool - gotta include the coneheads!), you're a seeker.
Equally interesting
And yes Starscream is a seeker commander, we know it from the blurb on Dreadwing's box:
For too long, DREADWING has lived in the shadow of STARSCREAM, but with the Seeker commander out of favor, he is more than happy to step into his rightful place at the right hand of MEGATRON. His power and intelligence have always been dangerous, but with the DECEPTICON legion at his command, the very survival of the AUTOBOTS is in question.
But that means that if he is under Starscream and Starscream is the seeker commander, then Dreadwing is part of those seeker forces. Which would make sense since he and his brother are the epitome of the old school seeker definition, being the exact same toy/animation model in different colours. I dont know how much merrit you give to this, but he is listed as part of the seeker sub group in his wiki bio sheet.
carytheone wrote:I think that we are just used to seeing seekers as traditionally being Starscream clones.
Yes, which is why I had found it so interesting that in the Prime show, the decepticon flier clones were not the starscream mold but the Skyquake mold instead. It was an interesting twist on an established formula. Kind of like how in Transfomrers Animated,the highest ranked Autobot was not Optimus Prime but Ultra Magnus instead.
