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Yakitori
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BIG ANSWER:
He's entirely pitiable. We watch the ambitious little shit getting smacked around, abandoned, blasted, kicked, etc, and part way through, we start feeling sorry for him. Sure, he deserves around 90% of the abuse that he receives because he doesn't know when to shut his mouth, but after a while, we can't help but feel sorry for him.
Feeling sorry for him makes us focus a generous amount of attention on him, and we start... Noticing things that we like.
The voice, for starters. It ranges from sounding bratty and whiny to low, cunning, dare I say sexy. And depending on the situation, he can sound quite cute.
Like here, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYe8JRVzAE
Or here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce_VOlRTT_8
Even though the art in the G1 cartoon is lacking, Starscream is actually fairly expressive. In the episode "Countdown to Extinction", this fucker almost succeeds in blowing up Earth with the Decepticons AND the Autobots still on it. The device he was planning to use, however, was disabled by Prime and Megs at the last second, and upon discovering this, Starscream gets REALLY frustrated. You'd have to see it (I'm not on my home computer so I can't upload the pic), but really, it strikes me as a "lol D'AAAAAAAW" moment.
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